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(Pp. 1-498 and 555-67.)

Accounts, 499-552. See Town's Debt; also
Communality.

Acts of Parliament, book containing, 391.
Advocate, town's, appointment of, 92; herring
sent to, 303, 352.

Aikines well, 487.

Ale, liberty to brew and sell, 318. See Prices.
Almanac for the town, 469.

Almshouses, donation to two, 312.

Ammunition, magazine for, 90, 181; inventory

of, in tolbooth, 142.

Anderson, George, printer, 126; Andrew, prin-
ter, 348, 463, 469.

Animals, accident to, 474.
Annualrents. See Feu-duties.
Apothecary, 303. See Surgeons.

Apprentices joining levy, to be freemen, 190.
See Crafts.

Aquavitæ Box, 424.

Aquavitæ, liberty to sell, 318; gift of, to a
friend, 352; excise of, 364, 397, 421, 435.
Archbishop of Glasgow, tack duty payable
to. See Common Good, set of.
Archbishopric, gift of spirituality of, 128.
Argyle, Marquis of, meal sent to, 73; enter-

tainment of troopers that came with, 76;
annualrents due by, 219; sharp letter to
be sent to, 253, 254; summons against,
265; application anent money due by,
352, 442; meeting of creditors of, 494.
Arms, inhabitants to be exercised in, and

ready with, 61, 72; King's proclamation
as to, 62; purchase of, 66, 71, 74, 93, 96,
97, 156, 161, 181, 188, 190, 193; lent, to
be returned, 92; repair and dressing of,
93, 95, 130, 188; inhabitants to assemble
with, 142; money got for sale of, 147;
new magazine for, 181; charge of, 196;
money received from burgesses to buy,
492, 493. See Burgesses.

Arms, Town's, 398.

Army, enrolment of names for town's com-
pany to be sent to, 64; captain appointed,
64; captain replaced during sickness,
75; runaways to be sent back to, 143;
public provision of, 192; money and sup-
plies given for, 210. See Soldiers.
Assembly, General, commissioners appointed

to, 93, 235; report of commissioners to, 237.
Association of forces of shires of Ayr, Lanark,

Galloway, and Renfrew, town willing to
join, 153; commissioners to treat as to,
155, 157, 192; overtures anent, agreed to,
192; relief of young men who were upon,
210.

Avondale Castle. See Writs.

Ayr, letter from, as to pirates, 5; contraversy
between Irvine and, 266, 292; horses sent
to, 286; complaint against, 353.

Bailies, reviling, 339, 385. See Elections;
also Magistrates.

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Borrowstouness, contribution to, 416, 453, 463;
opposing, to be a burgh royal, 494.
Boyd, Margaret Grhame or. See Grhame.
Boyd, Zacharias, accounting with executors
of, 264, 271; as minister of Barony Parish,
see Teinds.

Boyd, Zacharias, mortification by, for two
students in College, 27, 259, 413, 414;
agreement with, as to mortification, 29;
mortification by, for student of Theology,
36; obligation by College as to, 305.
Bread, mode of fixing price of, 267, 431, 433;
complaint of insufficiency of, 323, 330,
337, 352. See Prices.

Brechin, Bishop of. See Subdeanery.
Bridge, Glasgow, payments for work at, 56,

57; overseer to attend work at, 56, 95;
liberty to build smithy at, 58; repair of,
91, 417; visitation of, 120; allowance to
tacksmen of, for loss during pest, 131;
pointing houses beyond, 226; stones fallen
from, 296; feuars of Gorbals to be free of
customs at, 313; dial to be put up at,
390; no carts to cross, on wheels, 404.
See Common Good; also Customs.
Bridge, visitation of Partick, and of mill, 116;
repair of mill bridge, 117.
Bridge-end, work at, 56. See Gorbals.
Bridgegait, merchant hospital in, 412; trees
at dwelling-house in, 437. See Fire.
Broomielaw, quay to be built at, 491.
Bucket money, collection of, 260, 271. See
Burgesses.

Buckets, leather, purchase of, 55, 177, 282,
292, 293; burgesses to pay money to buy,
260. See Fire; also Burgesses.
Builders, license to employ stranger, 233.
Buildings, erection of, after fire, 231, 232, 233,

336; none to be erected till neighbours
acquainted, 349. See Fire.
Burgesses, books on drilling to be given on
admission of, 15; gratis, entering with
maltmen, 20; no mitigation of fine on

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.

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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.
Channel 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.

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,

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,

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