INDEX.
(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.
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
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, 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.
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.
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.
Capitulation. See War, Civil.
Cardross, lime from, 436; sand from, 458. Carrick Castle, removal of writs to, 197; return
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
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,
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