admission of, 24, 64; surgeons admitted gratis, 42, 152, 169, 303, 327; money spent when officers made, 93, 96; de- privation of freedom of, 113, 203, 317, 337, 385, 402; minister to be admitted honorary burgess, 128; payment on ad- mission of, for magazine and arms, 181; augmentation of fines on admission of, 182, 183; strangers joining levy to be made, gratis, 190; admission of, in favour of Lady Douglas, 216; money got from, for arms to be employed on poor boys, 217; exaction from, of money for arms sus- pended, 224; strangers not to be admitted, till council acquainted, 225; persons enter- ing as, to pay money to buy buckets, 260; admission of outlandmen as, 277; hatter admitted, 313; residence to be made by, 316, 317; liberty to Elspeth Hammilton to brew and sell ale, &c., same as, 318; James Stirling, chamberlain of Muck- dock, admitted gratis, 329; ministers admitted, 400; re-admission of, admitted in Usurpers time, 487; money received from, to buy arms, 492. See Bucket Money.
Burgh mails, town's account of, 268. Burial places. See Kirkyard.
Burials, meetings after, forbidden, 108. Burnside, markets of, 157. Bursaries. See College.
Butter and cheese, weighing of, 32, 338.
Calder bridge, repair of, 417. Cambusnethan. See Teinds. Camlachie, well near, 293; causeway leading to, 449.
Candle, furnishing of, 214, 319, 348; making of, 384. See Prices.
Candle houses, removal of, 181, 300, 311, 337, 348; building of, at town's rig, 401, 436. Candlemakers to observe statutes, 349; out cry against, 475.,
Capitulation. See War, Civil.
Cardross, lime from, 436; sand from, 458. Carrick Castle, removal of writs to, 197; return of writs from, 198.
Carsphairn, bridge in parish of, 400. Carters, prices taken by, 304, 378. Castle, repair of, and placing garrison in, 194; work done in, 287. Causeway, providing stones to, 56; attendance
on laying, 73; cleansing of, 325, 332, 338, 402, 424; layer of, from Rutherglen, 462, 489.
Cess, order by English for payment of, 197,
256; letter from King and State for pay- ment of, 202; uplifting of, 205; collection of, from strangers having lands in burgh, 226; half, abated in consideration of losses by fire, 239; applications for abatement of, 273, 299, 301, 302, 366, 370, 371; charge to town for payment of, 446. Chamber pots, 269.
Chancellor, young men sent with, 484. Chanuel moss, limestones in, 11. See Common Land.
Charity to Andrew Dykes in distress, 18. Charles I. and II. See King.
Charter, town's great, 329; ratification of, 465. Charters. See Writs.
Cheese, weighing of, 32.
Chirurgeons. See Surgeons. Churches. See Kirks. Circuit court, 332. Civil war. See War.
Clayslap, causeway at, 32.
Cleansers, disbursements to, 92, 98, 116, 156; directions to, 119, 125. See Pestilence. Clerk, deposition of, 86; half fees belonging to, to be paid to town council, 88; sum- mons by Hendrie Gibsone against town, 117; decree for payment to Gibson, 121; arrangement with John Spreule, 121, 295; expenses of defending action by Gibson, 122; lease of shop to, 126; warrant to
depute, to give sasine, 130; absence of, at army, 191; office of, declared vacant, 227, 467, 472; action in court by, 295; dues of
sasines payable to, 363. See Elections.
Clerk's chamber, 397.
Clocks, care of, 359.
Close foots, shutting up of, 118.
Clyde, work at new haven of, 6; mending
water of, 8; clearing stones and stobs out of, 60, 229; goods arriving in, 287; stop- page by Dumbarton of boats coming up, 446; boats not to load or disload on, between and Renfrew, 464. See Cus- toms; also Water.
Coal heugh, opening, in common, 155; set of, 177.
Coal pits, filling of, 410.
Coals, commissioner to Edinburgh as to measure
Coin, passing false, 415; Commonwealth's,
Coinage, commissioners to Edinburgh as to, 2, 7, 8; base copper, 439. College, donation for work of, 13; legacy by
Michael Wilson to, 16; book lent for defence of, 21; contract between town and, as to professor of theology, 48; legacy by William Struthers to, 56; inti- mation to laird of Minto for payment of money to, 117; appointments to place of bibliothecarius in, 123, 310, 329, 398, 403, 434, 471; call to Robert Blair to be principal of, 188; question with, as to removing James Durham, minister, and supplying his place, 198; accounts of, and teinds of Gorbals payable to, 255, 259; regent of, 268; contribution for building of, 316, 329, 454, 463; arrangement with, as to Struthers and Boyd bursaries, 413, 418; questions between town and, as to bibliothecar, 434, 435, 436, 438, 453, 454, 468. See Wilson; Struthers; Boyd.
Commissariot, remit by parliament as to, 114; petition to commissioners at Dalkeith as
to, 223. Commissariot seat, 2.
Commissary house, 489.
Commissioners. See Town's Affairs.
Committee of shire at Hamilton, commissioners to attend, 64, 143, 153, 155. See War. Common good, set of, 4, 11, 15, 21, 27, 57, 71, 78, 94, 118, 133, 166, 177, 188, 206, 229, 266, 289, 315, 338, 367, 398, 422, 446, 465, 488; intimation by tacksmen of, of losses through pest, 108; allowance to tacksmen of, for losses, 117, 127, 131, 148, 149, 156, 243; change of time for rouping, 226; allowance to tacksman of, because petty customs discharged, 245; allowance for want of custom of fuilzie, 367. Common land, grass of, set, 3, 9, 56, 78, 92; allowance to tacksman of, for loss of crops, 255; grass of parts of, not to be set, 315. Common land, offers to be received for, 147, 150, 151; rental book of, 345. Common ways and loans, repair of, 364, 410, 423.
Commonwealth, negotiations with parliament of, for peace, 218, 219; proclamation by, as to elections, 219; offer accepted for incorporating Scotland with England in, 220; election by burgesses and neigh- bours of commissioner to "great meeting" in Edinburgh, 234; coin of, 423. See War. Communality, committee of, letters from Duke of Hamilton and King Charles II. to, 200, 202, 204; accounting with, 226, 228, 234, 243, 252; accounts of, 256. See Town's Debt.
Communion, elements, &c., provided for, 58, 71, 316, 345, 346, 347, 348, 361, 362; observance of, 313, 448, 465.
Constables, election of, 8, 336; base speeches
against, 337; complaint of, as to broken ways and coal pits, 410. Convention of burghs, commissioners appointed
to, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29, 34, 35, 53, 66, 95, 118, 235, 251, 267, 293, 300, 366, 400, 435, 444; assessor ap- pointed to, 22, 95, 118, 400, 447; reports of commissioners to, and expenses at, 5, 8, 15, 23, 39, 292, 301, 400, 436, 446; intimation of an act of, 69; payment for writing missives to burghs, 369; meeting of, in Glasgow, 373; petition of, to Lord Protector, 400; payment for writing acts of, 448; missive dues of, 23. Convention of estates, commissioners appointed
to, 59, 66, 70; report to committee of, on complaint Adam against Neisbit, 75; commissioner to committee of, 449. See Parliament.
Cooper reprimanded, 498.
Coopers, letter of deaconhead and act book to
be produced by, 144; barrels made by, 225; unlaws chargeable by, 411. Cordiner, liberty to exercise trade by a, 318;
donation to a, 351; incarceration of a, 462. Cordiners, deacon of, discharged, and new election to be made, 153, 154; complaint against, 273; letter of deaconhead and act book to be produced by, 318; market place of, 370; act in favour of, 485. Corn, losses by destroying, 274. See War. Corn market. See Markets. Coronation of King Charles II., 462. Correction House, commissioner to apply for,
22; putting forward of, 33; mill to be provided for, 33; servants and material procured for, 33; visitor of, 34; susten- ance of inmates and purchase of wheels, 34; yard at, with laich house and gallery, set, 42; sustenance of inmates of, 43. Council, books and papers of, produced to committee and council of estates, 208, 390; return of, 210, 391.
Council, unlaws for absence from, or late attendance at, meetings of, 51, 198; far- ther act as to attendance at, 62; a coun- cillor's place declared vacant for non- attendance at, 348; dean of guild and another required to attend, 359; protes- tors in, and deserters of, 373; doorkeeper at meetings of, 389; multitude wanting admission to meeting of, 417; committee of, to attend town's affairs, 430, 443. Councillors. See Elections. Court, agent at, 447.
Cowlairs. See Common Land. Cowpar, Col., meeting with, 287. Crafts, licence to augment dues on entering, 250; act as to persons to be received to, 353; act rescinded, 356; petition of, as to craftsmen in Gorbals, 358, 359, 360; ratification of decreets by, 376; act as to election of deacons of, 405; act as to meetings and convocations of, 411. Crafts, money for entering burgesses sons to, 345, 382.
Crafts' house, rules to be settled by, for poor, 178; act of parliament to be observed by, 183. See Poor; also Gorbals.
Craig, John, contract with, for feuing land, 286.
Craigs, cess of, 366, 370, 371.
Crail, contribution for harbour of, 446, 453,
Crames and stands, places for, 315, 325, 332, 433.
Crops, destruction of, by English, 213. See Teinds; also War.
Cross, removal of market, 432. See Fire. Cursing and banning, inhibition of, 58. Customs, exorbitant, taken by Dumbarton and
Renfrew, 22; expenses in Edinburgh as to, 40; table of, to be made up, 168; set of Fair, 169; table of petty, made, 181, 182, 235; intimating set of petty, 227; articles not liable for petty, 228; collection of,
discharged, 238, 245; table of, at bridge, 366. Cuttrell, Lieutenant-colonel, 269; house for, 296, 297.
Deacon Convener, delay in electing, 407; com- plaint to council of estate as to election of, 407, 408; letters of deaconhead to be called for, 408; leet and protest at elec- tion of, 415, 416; proceedings at election of, 428, 429. See Elections. Dean of Guild, meeting of, with deans of other burghs, 423, 425; request to, to enter on charge, 302. See Elections.
Dean of Guild Court, building to be conform
to order of, 53; sentence of, to be defended by town, 94; ringing bell of, 14, 214, 276; instructions to, as to buildings, 233; pro- cedure in, 414; place of meeting of, 489. Debt. See Town.
Dial to be put up at bridge, 390.
Doits to pass for 2d. Scots, 485. See Coin. Dovecot on Green, 272.
Dragoons, advance of maintenance to, 89;
letter from committee of estates as to outputting, 92.
Driffisdale. See Teinds. Drilling, books on form of, 15. Drugs, purchase of, 427.
Drummer, clothes for, 321; dues payable to,
362; appointment of, 456.
Drummond, assize on two men called, 22; execution of, 23.
Drums, supply of, 90; dressing of, 97. Drygait bridge, repair of, 378.
Drymen, meeting of heritors at, 130; repair of kirk of, 168, 171. See Teinds.
Dumbarton, summons against, 23, 25, 26;
expenses to, 91; tobacco brought on behalf of, and town, 94; letter to, as to goods arriving in, 287; letter to, as to excise of salt, 358; plea between town and, 386, 391; riot in town of, 395, 396, 397; arrangement with, in collecting dues from ships, 396; judges to be solicited anent plea of, 409; overtures anent, 410; stoppage by, of boats, 446. See Customs. Dumbarton Castle, requests for provisions to, 151, 204, 214; request for lead to, 199. Dunglass Castle, request for provisions to, 151. Dutchmen, supply to, despoiled by pirates, 12. Dysart, supply for building harbour at, 12.
Edinburgh, 1, 2; signature to, of merk per
ton, 41; bond by, as to merk per ton, 52; expenses of commissioners sent to, 70; money payable to college of, 117; against repairing to, during pest, 145; contribu tion from, 248; water-works of, 322; fire in, 331, 332; attention to town's business in, 413. See Town's Affairs. Eggs, time for selling, 24. Egilschames Croft, 392.
Eight Whelp. See Ship; also War. Election of clerks, 87, 88, 121, 140, 191, 223, 227, 243, 274, 295; to be made yearly, S8. Election of depute clerks, 53, 58, 63, 71, 101, 118, 191, 208, 295. Election of dean of guild and deacon-convener,
none eligible for, who had treated with James Graham, 83, 84, 85; proceedings in parliament as to, 96, 97, 98, 107, 108, 137, 149; act and protest as to election of deacon-convener, 407; certain persons incapable of bearing office, 449. See Deacon-Convener.
Election of magistrates, act of parliament giving liberty of, 47; provost not to hold office for more than two years together, 52.
Election of provost, bailies, and councillors, 7, 13, 17, 18, 23, 24, 34, 49, 62, 73, 82, 87, 98, 100, 111, 124, 139, 141, 150, 176, 194, 213, 219, 247, 319, 320, 347, 392, 393, 406, 407, 428, 450, 452, 469, 493; bailie chosen in room of another who died after, 7; time of, fixed, 80; prohibition of, by committee of estates, 80; list of names given by committee of estates for, and protests thereanent, 82; liberty to supply vacancies, 87; estates to be petitioned as to manner of, 96; proclamation as to, 97; intimation to Duke of Lennox as to, 98; act of committee of estates as to, 98; matter to be heard publicly in parlia- ment, 107; act of parliament authorising, 108; act proclaimed, 110; act of parlia- ment discharging present magistrates and council, restoring those deposed in 1645, and authorising new, 137; act of com- mittee of estates as to, 149; proclamation by parliament of Commonwealth as to, 219; oath prescribed by Commonwealth taken by, 222; meeting on day of, 298; letter from General Monk as to free, 379; letter from Lord Protector deferring, 381; protest against continuing, 382; letter by S. Desbrowe to Secretary Thurloe as to, 382; arrangement as to next, 388, 389; supplication anent, 391; new, ap- pointed, 391; protest as to, 393; letter to Duke of Lennox as to, 394; commissioner to Lord Protector as to, 399; certain persons incapable of bearing office, 449; | letter from Lord High Chancellor as to, 450; supplication in relation to, 468, 470. See Graham, James, capitulation with; also Town's Affairs.
Election of treasurer, procurator, master of work, water bailie, dean of guild, deacon- convener, visitor and officers, 7, 13, 18, 24, 34, 35, 38, 51, 52, 63, 74, 83, 86, 87, 91, 100, 111, 112, 125, 142, 150, 151, 176,
194, 195, 213, 223, 247, 288, 300, 320, 347, 393, 407, 429, 453, 471, 494. Enemy, compliance with, 80, 83, 86, 95. See War.
England, pest in, 5, 6; negotiations with com- missioners of parliament of, for settling
peace, 218, 219. See Enemy; also Com- monwealth.
English garrison at Hamilton, order for town to pay cess to, 197, 256. English soldiers, against quartering of, 196; allowance for loss to persons taken pri- soner by, 197, 198; ale and other supplies to, 211, 255; losses caused by, 243, 255; money belonging to, 282; horses furnished to, 283; grass of green bestowed on, 417. See War, Civil.
Englishwoman wronged by a Scots soldier, 269. Ensign (ansinyie), purchase of, 66. Estates, money lent to. See Convention; also Public.
Evandale Castle. See Writs. Exchequer, expense of supplications to, 41. Excise, commissioners and surveyors of, chosen,
72; collectors of, appointed, 76; collection of, in mills, 79, 88; provost to attend rouping of, 93, 114; tack of, obtained by town, 142; sublet of landward part of, 143, 327; complaints as to exaction of, 149; supplication as to duty on wine and hot waters, 154; collection of, 204, 206, 212, 214, 365, 374, 411, 413, 434; farming of, 315, 319, 325, 326, 331, 355, 356, 362, 364, 395, 396, 421, 447, 454; letter to Dumbarton as to tacksman of, 358; mul- ture malt free of, 363; additional, 374, 377; order from general as to, 425; ac- counts of, 426; report as to taking of, 446. See Aquavitæ.
Execution, expenses of, 23. Executioner, payments to, 22, 87.
Fair of Glasgow, custom to bailie of regality
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