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Mar. 25.—Tofall to be built at ministers' house; payment to master of works
at College [Ib.], |
329 |
Mar. 27.—Proposal that master of High School renounce office [Ib. fol. 79], |
330 |
Apr. 3.—Retiring pension to master of High School [Ib. fol. 79, 80], |
330 |
Apr. 8.—Town's measure same as that of Stirling [Ib. fol. 80], |
330 |
Apr. 10.—Price of wine; share of tax payable by Kinghorn and Innerkeithing; title to benefice of Kirk of Field [Ib. fol. 80, 81], |
331 |
Apr. 15.—Allowances to the poor; persons to remove from Blackfriar yard;
by ancient custom water bailie entitled to certain duties [Ib. fol. 81, 82], |
331 |
Apr. 17.—Officer at West Port to be more attentive, and apprehend those
laying muck on street; dykes at High School to be built; payment for
torches used at banquet; concealment of pregnancy [Ib. fol. 82], |
332 |
Apr. 21.—Anent 500 neighbours sent to Stirling to assist in repressing
rebellion; £1000 to be advanced for expenses; ammunition to be forwarded to Stirling; extent of £5000 to be set [Ib. fol. 83–5], |
332 |
Apr. 25.—King's jewels delivered to town in pledge for advance of £4000;
bailies chosen in room of those absent on his Majesty's service [Ib. fol. 85], |
336 |
Apr. 28.—Statute anent convening neighbours in armour; town wall to be
repaired [Ib. fol. 85, 86], |
336 |
April 29.—Possessors of lands near well in St. Mary's Wynd to prevent
passage of any person [Ib. fol. 86], |
337 |
May 9.—Charges of neighbours who passed to Stirling [Ib.], |
337 |
May 13.—Payment to shipbroken Englishmen; commissioner to parliament; convoying provost to and from Tolbooth and Abbey [C. R.,
Vol. VII. fol. 88], |
338 |
May 20.—Retiring pension to clerk of kirk and new clerk appointed [Ib.
fol. 89], |
339 |
May. 29.—Abbacy of Paisley to be disponed to town; expenses from Dundee of new master of Grammer School; protest against acts concerning
coinage; grinding at common mills [Ib. fol. 90], |
340 |
June 3.—Commissioners sent to the King [Ib.], |
340 |
June 5.—Letter from King desiring that soldiers may be belted on town
[Ib. fol. 91], |
341 |
June 10.—Provost to collect his own customs at Trinity fair; neighbours to
visit marches [Ib.], |
341 |
June 11.—Letters from the King as to ministers; commissioners sent to
King [Ib. fol. 91, 92], |
341 |
June 17.—Under factor for uplifting rents of benefice of Paisley [Ib. fol. 93], |
342 |
June 24.—Pension to William Robertson, late master of the High School
[Ib. fol. 94], |
342 |
June 26.—Wells to be repaired; windows of High School and dyke to
be repaired and bell hung [Ib.], |
342 |
July 1.—Two barrels powder come back from Stirling [Ib. fol. 95], |
342 |
July 10.—Election of visitors and jadgers of fish [Ib. fol. 96], |
343 |
July 15.—King to be asked for permission to visit John Howesoun, minister,
in ward [Ib.], |
343 |
July 17.—A blasphemer to be put in jogs; lock for Cross door [Ib. fol. 97], |
343 |
July 22.—Pest in Wester Wemyss; commissioners to King as to abbacy of
Paisley, and obtaining liberty of John Howesoun, minister; night
watch appointed at request of the King [Ib.], |
344 |
July. 24.—Goods not to be brought from Flanders to prevent pest [Ib. fol. 98], |
344 |
Aug. 5.—The "mayden" lent to Lord Borthwick; weaponshawing to be
held [Ib. fol. 100], |
345 |
Aug. 7.—Additional sitting of council [Ib. fol. 101], |
345 |
Aug. 12.—Men to be placed on steeple for watching; no person to be found
on street after ringing of bell at ten nightly; wall in Leith Wynd to be
built [Ib.], |
345 |
Aug. 14.—Collection for those sick of pest in Wemyss; acts for repairing
and ordering of the High School [Ib. fol. 102], |
346 |
Aug. 26.—Acts for prevention of pest; liberty of John Howesoun, minister,
craved [Ib. fol. 103, 104], |
347 |
Sept. 4.—Consent to burial of Provost Stewart in High Kirk; eel ark to be
visited [C. R., Vol. VII. fol. 104, 105], |
348 |
Sept. 7.—Commissioners to King as to supplying minister [Ib. fol. 105], |
348 |
Sept. 11.—John Leyis accused of blaspheming magistrates; vacancies of
council supplied [Ib. fol. 105, 106], |
348 |
Sept. 16.—Leet for election of deacons; committee appointed to receive keys
of ministers' lodging and library and inventory contents; punishment
of John Leyis who blasphemed magistrates; report of committee as to
ministers' lodging and library; article to be given to parliament against
craftsmen who remain in suburbs [Ib. fol. 107, 108], |
349 |
Sept. 18.—Deacons chosen out of leets; keys of ministers' lodging delivered;
library to be set up in College; councillors to be chosen from deacons
[Ib. fol. 109], |
350 |
Sept. 19.—Proclamation against repairing to places suspected of pest; payment to poor English timber men [Ib.], |
351 |
Sept. 23.—Order to be kept at shore of Leith; new council elected
[Ib. fol. 110], |
351 |
Sept. 24.—Precautions against importing pest from Fife; King to be asked
to appoint two ministers out of a leet [Ib.], |
351 |
Sept. 25.—Leets for magistrates, dean of guild and treasurer [Ib. fol. 111], |
352 |
Sept. 30.—Schoolmaster to read prayers in absence of minister; inquiry as
to foundation of leper house beside Dingwall [Ib. fol. 112], |
352 |
Oct. 3.—Coffers of a Frenchman, arrested as supposed to contain papist
books, delivered to owner [Ib.], |
352 |
Oct. 6.—Election of provost, bailies, dean of guild, and treasurer [Ib.
fol. 112, 113], |
352 |
Oct. 7.—Vacancies in council filled up [Ib. fol. 114], |
354 |
Oct. 9.—Allowance to reader for a gown; bailies of Leith, assessors and
collectors elected; proposal to divide town in four parishes; sustenance of a leper [Ib. fol. 114, 115], |
354 |
Oct. 14.—Bailies to be moderator time about; town to be divided into four
parishes, and each parish to have a kirk; proposal to agree with
Michael Cranstoun as a reader or minister [Ib. fol. 116], |
354 |
Oct. 16.—Trial of ministers; for disobedience, a tailor to furnish coals to
hospital; gift of beidmanship in St. Paul's Work; elders and deacons
of kirk to be elected by council with consent of ministers [Ib.
fol. 116, 117], |
356 |
Oct. 21.—Allowance to Janet Merchell, poor and needy and vexed in
spirit; chimney in over council house; deception practised by turnkeys;
allowance to a poor and naked lunatic; injunctions to officers and
seriands of the burgh [C.R., Vol. VII. fol. 117, 118], |
356 |
Oct. 23.—Box in clerk's chamber to be opened and money given to poor;
inhabitants to be divided in thirties, according to their quarters, and
commanders appointed; relief to inhabitants of Dysart infected with
pest [Ib. fol. 119], |
358 |
Oct. 24.—Election of elders and deacons of the kirk; gallows to be renewed;
masters of hospital appointed; statutes of the town [Ib. fol. 120, 121], |
359 |
Oct. 26.—Meal, butter, and soap sent to inhabitants of Dysart [Ib. fol. 121], |
360 |
Oct. 28.—Unlaws for bloodwyt at shore of Leith belong to town; seal of cause
and common seal of Leith delivered to provost; elders and deacons to
appear and accept [Ib. fol. 122], |
360 |
Oct. 30.—Patrick Kenlwy to be offered place of minister; master of college
to be asked to take up house and table therein; proclamation as to defence and safe guard of the King [Ib. fol. 123, 124], |
361 |
Nov. 4.—Certain members of council to convene and concur with ministers,
elders, and deacons in their conventions [Ib. fol. 125], |
362 |
Nov. 6.—Order of division of the town in thirties approved by King and
secret council; breaking of staple; statute that merchants frequent
no other port in Low Countries except Campheir, the staple port; ferry
boats at Queensferry; expenses of a minister [Ib. fol. 125–27], |
362 |
Nov. 9.—Two ministers asked to give proof of their doctrine [Ib. fol. 127], |
365 |
Nov. 11.—Agreement with ministers; deciding on controversies of neighbourheads; seal of cause of the tailors [Ib. fol. 128–30], |
365 |
Nov. 13.—Proposal to obtain services of John Craig and John Cairns, ministers; millstones from quarries in common muir; statute as to probation of crimes [Ib. fol. 130, 131], |
369 |
Nov. 18.—Convening of council; dam of South Loch to be closed up; committee appointed to revise statutes; minister to be asked to remain for
eight days; provostship of Trinity College [Ib. fol. 131, 132], |
371 |
Nov. 20.—James Hamilton offered place of minister; town wall to be repaired; Nether Bow to be built [Ib. fol. 133], |
371 |
Nov. 24.—Occupiers of shops to repair walls of kirk [Ib. fol. 135], |
372 |
Nov. 25.—Schoolhouse bell to be hung at outer gate [Ib.], |
372 |
Nov. 27.—King's "sumleiris" to be supplied with wine for his Majesty;
commissioners to confer with Robert Pont for provostry of Trinity
College; stipend of reader in the High Kirk; two new mills be built
and damhead made; custom of girnell goods from Aberdeen; act in
favour of websters and walkers; agreement with James Hammiltoun,
minister [Ib. fol. 136–38], |
372 |
Dec. 2.—Homage to be made for lands in France [C.R., Vol. VII. fol. 139], |
377 |
Dec. 4.—Payment to a poor woman with a broken leg; reward for service
in quenching fire [Ib.], |
377 |
Dec. 7.—Heather stacks and other combustibles to be removed to Grayfriar
port, Blackfriars yards, or North Loch [Ib. fol. 139, 140], |
377 |
Dec. 9.—Payment to lockman [Ib. fol. 140], |
378 |
Dec. 11.—Limbs of David Home, lately executed, to be sent to Stirling;
collectors of unlaws to pay for services in quenching fire and certain
sums in charity; no passages to be at the ferries except Leith and
Prettiecur; writs to be got back from Lord Seytoun [Ib. fol. 140, 141], |
378 |
Dec. 16.—Premises of venters of wine, not guild brethren, to be closed;
tenants of Paisley abbacy not to be repledged [Ib. fol. 141, 142], |
378 |
Dec. 18.—Keys and furnishings in house of John Cairns, minister, delivered
to a reader; persons appointed to visit and report on poor in their
quarters; extent of £720; John Prestoun, elder, exempted from watching, warding, &c. [Ib. fol. 142–44], |
379 |
Dec. 23.—Thomas Gordon, uncle of Lord Huntlie, to be buried within kirk;
statutes as to taverners; collection for help and support to Perth; payment for two torches [Ib. fol. 144, 145], |
380 |
Dec. 25.—Allowance for holding beggars furth of High Street [Ib. fol. 145], |
381 |
Dec. 30.—Inhabitants of Leith to be repledged; propine to the provost [Ib.
fol. 146], |
382 |