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Poffles, landward, injury of, 211.
Poland, distressed protestants in, 452, 463.
Pollok, Nether, laird of, 251.
Poor, unlaws distributed to, 40; sustenance

of, 121, 177, 260; money borrowed for,
156; names of, to be extracted, 177;
stranger, to be removed, and town's, not
to beg on streets, 178, 181, 182, 183, 482;
voluntary monthly contribution for, 180,
182, 183, 216, 254, 258, 263, 283, 350, 360,
488, 492; session to account for money
collected for, 223, 226, 259, 490; col-
lection at kirk doors for, 259; allowance
to, for quartering, 267; donations to, 317,
353, 384, 424, 434, 435, 444, 456, 460,
471; merchants and crafts to maintain
their own, 367; agreement with session
as to, 368, 369, 409; drugs and medicines
for, 427.

Poor boys, assistance to, 217; cautioners for,

when sent to crafts, 218; writing inden-
tures to, 243; putting, to crafts, 252.

Poor woman, curing a, 258.
Port, rebuilding of Saltmarket or South, 73,

74; building of Gallowgait, 78, 95, 166,
178; causewaying at Gallowgate, 113;
trees on West, taken to manufactory,
215; bridge at South, 418; causeway at
West, 489.

Porter, James, session-clerk, transported, 458.
Ports, guard to be kept at, 73; building of,

73, 74, 78, 95, 166, 178; persons to take
charge of, 196.

Post, pay and clothing of, 90, 91, 433, 447,
456; horse for, 457.

Preachers, payments to, 1, 9, 14, 19, 53, 58,
64, 70, 71, 171, 477, 489; appointment
of, 63. See Ministers.

Precentor, meeting as to, 91; appointment of,

96, 172; trial of, 133; payments to, 149,
159, 172, 195, 289, 345, 448.
Prentices, joining levy, to be freemen, 190;
fees of, 373.

Presbyteries, application to, as to work at
trench, 93.

Presbytery, supplication to, 100.
President, gift of herring to, 25.
Prices of ale, bear, bread, candle and tallow,

8, 18, 25, 35, 52, 71, 74, SS, 125, 152,
176, 195, 214, 223, 248, 255, 276, 299,
320, 323, 348, 352, 384, 408, 430, 434,
453, 455, 472, 494; mode of fixing, of
bread, 267.

Printer, flitting of, to Edinburgh, 463.
Printers, pensions to, 126, 349, 469; work-

house of, 371, 378; expense of removal

of, to Glasgow, 372.
Printing, payment to Robert Sanders for, 462.
Prison. See Tolbooth; Jailor.

Prisoners put in Castle, 287; furnishings to,

288.

Procurator Fiscal, none to be admitted within
inner bar except, 7. See Election.
Procurators, regulations as to, 7.
Professors, allowance to, for preaching, 171.
Property. See Land.

Provanside, charter of lands in, 398.
Provincial to be asked to stop call to minister,
410.

Provost not to hold office for more than two

years together, 52; persons punished for
disobedience to, and offences against, 203,
204; donation to son of a late, 293;
meeting of, with provost of Edinburgh
and others, 424. See Elections.
Public, annualrent of money and silver plate

lent to, 54; payment to persons who lent
same, 55, 281; persons who have got no
annualrent for silver plate, 61; money
lent to, borrowed from others, 79; obliga-
tion to repay lenders, 117; supplication
for money and silver plate given to, 158;
requests for supplies and money to, 202,
204, 206; supplication for repayment of
money lent to, 264; ratification of acts as
to money lent to, 274.

Quarrelhill. See Common land.
Quarry, procuring stones from Black, 128;
inhabitants to assist in making cast at,
129; stones to be got from, for kirk, 151;
none to get stones from, till kirk be
served, 153; inhabitants to assist at, 168;
working of, 233, 445.
Quartering. See Soldiers.

Quarters, town divided into, 295, 498.

Ratification, town's, expenses of, 15, 465.
Reader, money given to, 26; appointment of,
for service in Blackfriar Kirk, 127.
Renfrew, meeting with folk of, as to herring,

119; wrongs done to, by unfreemen, 302;
repair of bridge of, 315; Shiel bridge,
near, 323; impeding of collection of dues
by, 380. See Customs.

Rental Book, 345.

Rentals, payment for writing, 243.
Rents, collector of, 197.

Restoration of King Charles II., 443, 445,
447.

Rights, town's, ratification of, 16, 465.
River. See Water.

Robieston, lawburrows of town council to
heritors of, 12; loch of, 19.

Ruinous houses, repair of, 216. See Fire.
Runaway soldiers to be sent back, 143.
Rutherglen, causeway layer in, 462, 489.
Ryals not to be refused, 236, 276, 281; roup.
ing of, 297.

Sabbath, 495.

Sack, duty on, 154.

Sacrament, forms and boards in New Kirk for,
9; wine procured for, 14, 16. See Com-
munion.

Sagie Holm. See Common Land.
St. Andrews, attendance on archbishop of

Glasgow when received at, 14; expenses
to, 91; collection for burgh of, 357, 361. |
See Scotstarvet.

St. Mungo's kirkyard, grass of Little, set, 28;
dyke at, to be built, 113. See Common
Good, Set of.

St. Mungo's Tree, 423.

St. Nicholas Hospital, application for getting,
158, 281; house for poor folk when guards
in, 281.

St. Rokis, or Rolloks, kirkyard, work at, 116,
118.

Salmon, breaking of, 67; duty on cobles for
taking, 157; breaker of, 371, 373; selling
of, 394; act against killing, 415.
Salt, liberty to sell, in houses and shops, 26;
excise of, 358, 425. See Markets.
Saltmarket Street, liberty to build a shop in,
14; houses in, to be rebuilt in straight
line, 233; rubbish to be cleared from,
236, 239. See Fire.

Sand from Cardross, 458.

Sanders, James, supplication by, 277, 281.
Sanders, Robert, printer, 462, 469.

Sasines, extracting of, 363.

School, Grammar, masters of, supplying places
of ministers, 9, 14, 19; visitation of, 43,
73, 92, 361, 485; to be convened, 116,
126; allowance to doctors of, for loss in
time of pest, 127; collection of rental of,
129;
scholars in, to sit in Blackfriar's
Kirk, 156; payment to doctors of, 157,
161, 424; seat for, in High Kirk, 157;
doctor of, appointed, 168, 317; pointing,
226; contraversy between master and
doctor of, 239; doctor of, discharged,
240; master of, to attend children on
Sabbath, 291; taking down of, 329;
building of new, 331, 339, 340, 348, 351;
bairns with covered heads in, 475.
School, music, 96; mathematics, 448.
Schoolmaster, allowance to son of, 3; pen-
sion to, 74; Gorbals, 212; appointment
of, 216; use of session house in Trongait
given to, whose school was burned, 239.
Schools, schoolmasters of Scots, to attend

meeting, 96; report about, required, 159;
trial of teacher for Scots, 167; visitation
of Scots, 284, 286; warrant to school-
masters for keeping, 284, 291, 317, 374,
410, 413, 455; inquiry as to number of
poor taught in, 286; chambers for, in
hospital, 317, 321, 355; discharge of
woman who has taken up school, 391;
inquiry as to Scots, 453.
Scotstarvet, Lord, mortification by, 266, 267,

268, 271, 296, 298, 299, 300, 318, 328,
333, 336, 362, 363, 365, 397, 425, 426,
469, 481.

Seal, new, made, 121.

Searchery, general, commissioner to Edin-

burgh as to, 53; report made by him,

54.

Seed corn, money lent to buy, 225.
Session, kirk, meeting as to clerk of, 91; per-

sons on, to exercise civil power in absence
of magistrates, 166; room for sittings of,
168. See Kirks.

Session-clerk transported, 458.
Sheep Craigs. See Common Land.

Ship, war, provisions supplied to, 73, 74, 75,
76.

Ships, oaths on entry of, 348; dues of, arriv-
ing in Clyde, 396.

Shire. See Committee of Shire.
Shops. See Crames.

Silvercraigs, 477, 488.

Silver plate given for service of public. See
Public.

Silver work, assignment of, in security of loan,
160.

Silvertonhill, laird of, negotiations with, for

water, 11, 13; use of seat in High Kirk
given to, 240; debt due by, 481, 491.
Silvertonhill Loch, 13.

Sinclair, Lady, burial of, 370.
Skellingsmyre, grant of lands near, 329.
Skinners, stent payable by, 26; agreement

between, of town and Gorbals, 366.

Skins to be brought to market, 58, 311; com-
plaint as to injury to, 421.
Slates, purchase of, 3; price of, 254; purchase
of, for use of kirks, 358, 365.
Slavery, relief from, 283. See Turks.
Soldiers, enrolment of, 64, 148, 189, 190, 207,

208, 209, 300; captain chosen for town's
company of, 64; captain of, recalled, 71;
quartering of, 66, 69, 78, 79, 89, 90, 92,
94, 97, 130, 131, 171, 194, 195, 196, 209,
216, 264, 267, 276, 302, 339, 397, 403;
sending out, 12, 68, 69, 70, 94, 147, 148,
161, 168, 189, 191, 196, 283; help to
hurt, at Kilsyth, 93; quartermasters for
quartering, 100, 200, 295; supplication
to parliament as to quartering, 109; or-
dinance of parliament as to regiments
of, quartered in Glasgow, 110; order
of parliament for payment for quar-
tering, 111; money due for service of,
at Philiphaugh, 112; money to be bor-
rowed to pay to, 113; gratuity to, 118;
claim of reparation for injuries done by,
125; commissioners sent to committee of
shire as to quartering, 131; letters from
committee of shire and Duke of Hamilton
as to levy for, 132; answer to committee,
134; summons from parliament for not
supplying, 134; proceedings in parliament
as to levy of, from Glasgow, 135, 136;
officers of town's company of, chosen, 141,
159, 161, 188, 191, 208, 209; runaway, to
be sent back, 143; ribbons furnished to,
144; payments to, 147, 187; half troop
of horse, to be sent out by town, 148,
154, 155; sending out foot, 155, 160, 189,
208; stent for levy of, 189, 192, 196, 210;
encouragement to join levy of, 190; levy
of, for Gorbals, 190; collection from those
who have not put out their part of, 191;
biscuit bread sent to, 193; fitting out
horse, 193; allowance to widows and
families of, 194; order for payment of

cess to English, 197; curing wounded,
197, 212; prisoners in Durham, 201;
requests for supplies and money to, 202,
210; letter from King and Leslie as to
captain, 208; stent for money to be
given for, 206, 208, 210; disbursements
and supplies to garrison of Stirling, 209,
211, 212, 213, 214; baggage horses and
furnishings to, 210, 270, 286, 288, 294,
297, 298, 299, 303, 396, 430; payment
for deficiency of, 211; money given to
wounded, 216; sick, 271; coal and candle
to, 282, 322; accommodation of women
and children left by, 289; garrison of, in
Tolbooth, 290; price of ale and bear to,
323; petition to general as to, 328; mar-
ried officers or, taking houses, 405; rude
speech to, 413; debts of, 454; removal
of regiment of, 455; money given to, 496.
See Troopers; Dragoons; English Soldiers.
Sour milk market, 465.

Spouts, work of, 170.

Stair, Lord, 466.

Statutes, old, proclaimed, 24.
Steeple, chamber of new, 165.
Steeples, repair of, 457.

Stent, imposition of, 63, 78, 79, 201, 208, 217;

collection of, for payment to King, 205,
208; rolls of, produced to committee of
estates, 208, 210. See Taxation; Main-
tenance; Soldiers.

Stentmaster, appointment of, 13, 34, 63, 79,
226.

Stipend, Allan Fergussone's, 216.
Stipends. See Ministers.

Stirling, garrison of. See Soldiers.

Stirling, James, grant of lands to, 329; seat
in High Kirk for, 335.

Stockwell, laying causeway in, 4, 234.
Stokbridge, 152.

Stockholme, merchant in, 490.

Stone, cutting, 460.

Stones, payments for, 56; transporting of, 493.

Stoups, sealing of, 418.

Strangers, against setting houses to, 431, 457.
Straven, town's right to house in, 396.
Streets. See Causeway.

Struthers, William, legacy by, to college, 56,

195, 276, 413, 414. See College.
Subdeanery, suspension against Bishop of
Brechin anent, 43; principal of college
to be spoken to anent, 346.
Sucken. See Thirlage.

Summerhill. See Common Land.

Superiority of lands in burgh, application for
gift of, 187.

Surgeon, admission of, as burgess and guild-

brother, gratis, 42, 152, 303, 327, 420;
agreement with, 169, 326, 390, 420, 460;
payment to, for curing a poor woman,
242; help to, 264. See Pestilence; Bur-
gesses.

Surgeons and barbers, letter of deaconhead
to, 340, 341.

Surgeons, stent payable by, 26; gift to be
produced by, 307; deacon or brethren of,
not to conclude agreement with physicians,
377, 437; book to be produced by, 430;
vitiation of book of, 432, 433; controversy
amongst, 432, 433, 437.
Swine, keeping of, 305.

Tablecloth bought, 351.

Tallow to be brought to market, 58. See
Prices.

Tanners not to burn bark in burgh, 261; act
as to, 303; act in favour of, 485.
Taxation, negotiations for compounding, 18;

treasurer to have warrant for town's part
of, 21; account of, 33. See Stent; Stent-
masters.

Teinds, Lord Blantyre to be conferred with as

to, and negotiations for purchase of par-
sonage and vicarage, 28, 59, 123, 124, 126,
127, 128, 132; recompense for collecting,
54; expenses attending valuation of, 59;

sale of, for a year, 60; set of, 72, 78, 96,
120, 147, 170, 171, 235, 273, 294, 318;
loss through abstraction of, by soldiers,
116; purchase of parsonage, from Lord
Blantyre, 132; collector of, appointed,
133; proposal to let, in foremail, 151,
155; prices to be taken for tack of, 152,
157, 170; payment to Lord Blantyre for,
152, 156; negotiations with Barony heri-
tors as to, 158, 159, 160, 170, 172, 182,
186, 187, 188, 189, 321, 327, 352, 465; |
report by lawyers anent, 158; allocation
of, to ministers, 171, 172, 245; collector
and factor of, 197; loss of, crops being
destroyed by English, 213, 264; writs of,
224; payment to Lord Blantyre of price
of, 325; tack of, of land in Gallowmuir,
351; writs of, sent east, 489. See Ministers.
Teinds, vicarage, collection of, on fish, 169, 294.
Teinds, stipend of Barony minister out of,

168, 169, 170, 176, 186, 200, 215, 253,
255, 261, 264, 271, 308, 330, 338, 345,
361, 376, 394, 402, 406.

Teinds of Cambusnethan, Dryffisdaill and Tra-
quair, 161, 322, 324, 327, 340, 344, 350,
381, 386, 450.

Teinds, Drymen, question with laird of Lauc.
hope as to, 131; summons to be raised
for, 153; meeting with commissioners of,
as to, 160; inhibition to be used at Kirk
of Drymen, and other places, 161; agree-
ment with heritors of Drymen parish as
to, 166; summons against parishioners,
308; collection of, 321, 361, 364, 387;
tack of, 403, 405.

Thieves and louns, 461.

Thirlage to town's mills, 309, 314, 360. See
Mills; also Gorbals.

Timber, buying of, 272.

Tobacco, licence to retailers of, 38; summons
to town's people to Edinburgh as to, 229,
233.

Tolbooth, repair of, 3, 264, 308; iron chim-

neys furnished to, 9; making tables to,
12; work at steeple of, 18; making lion's
mouth at spouts of, 19; food for thieves
in, 22; escape of prisoners from, 248;
keeper of, discharged, and successor ap-
pointed, 249; platform of, cleansed, 263;
life appointment of keeper of, 381; lead
for, 400; payments to keeper of, 424, 432,
461, 477; garrison of soldiers in, 290.
See Soldiers.

Towcors, 321.
Town council, capitulation of, with enemy, 80;
inquiry as to life and conversation of, 388,
458. See Graham, James; Communality.
Town, inquiry as to debts and burdens of,
226, 228, 383, 384, 388; report as to debt
of, 385. See Communality.

Town's affairs, persons sent to Edinburgh on,

101, 108, 117, 126, 151, 157, 158, 216,
240, 263, 265, 328, 366, 387, 388, 389,
390, 394, 396, 409, 413, 431; expenses of
persons sent, 109, 115, 238, 267; commis-
sioners sent on, not to uplift expenses
till return, 235; payment for service in,
330; commissioners to London on, 371;
committee to attend to, 430. See Edin-
burgh; Writs.

Traquair. See Teinds.

Treasurer. See Elections.
Trench round city, supply to people casting,

88; losses by, 90; supply of men or money
for work at, 93; inhabitants to work at,
93; port built to answer cast of, 95;
horses to serve at, 96; casting down, or
meddling with, stopped, 117; payment
for building dyke in furthering, 123;

. casting of, at end of Meikle Green, 228;
in-casting of, 263, 264, 424.

Triplets, 270.

Tron, dues of, 422. See Common Good.
Tron Kirk. See Kirks.

Trongait, causeway of, west of Fleshmarket,

55. See Fire.

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