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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

of, 53.

Cobles on water, 360.

Coin, passing false, 415; Commonwealth's,

423; copper, 485.

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.

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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.

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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,

463.

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.

Dantzick, 312.

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.

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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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