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The Gilds.*
Burgesses of this City , contrary to the Acts of Parliament , Acts of the Royal Burrows , and of this Burgh , keep two or three Shops or Cellars at once : Do therefore expressly Prohibit all such unfree Persons , after the term of Whitsunday next , to keep any such Shops or Cellars ; with Certification , their Shops and others shall be shut up and they
Amerciat at the Discretion of the Dean of Gild and his Council ; As also , That no Burgesses keep more Shops or Cellars than one , after the said Term , under the like certification : But prejudice to the prosecuting of the Burgesses who keep moe Cellars and Shops , or unfree Traders in any sort , either before or after the said Term of
Whitsunday as records , and appoints these presents to be Printed and Published by Tuck of Drum , than none may pretend ignorance . — Extracted furth of the new Locked Gild Book , by Geo . Home . "
" SAME YEAR . ACT OP THE GILD COURT AMENT THE ELNWAND . EDINBURGH , MARCH 19 , 1701 .
The Dean of Gild and his Council considering , That it is reasonable that all Merchants and Shopkeepers within the City should make use of one uniform measure , conform to the said Act of Parliament made thereanent . It is therefore Statute and Ordained That all Merchants and Shopkeepers within this City shall make use of the
Scots Elnwand allennarly , and that they bring their Elnwands to the Laigh Council House , betwixt [ sic ] and the fifteen day of April next to come , to the end that they be Marked with the Dean of Gild's mark , where they shall be attended by two members of the Dean of Gild Court for that effect , each Wednesday and Friday betwixt two and
four afternoon ; Certifying each person who contravenes this present Act , that they shall be lyable in payment of the sum of ten pounds Scots to the Dean of Gild , and hereby Prohibites and Discharges all Merchants and Shopkeepers and others within this City to use the English Yard , or any other measure whatsomever but the Elnwand
aforesaid in measuring of Cloath and others for sale , swa marked by the Dean of Gild , under the penalty aforesaid . And to the end that none may pretend ignorance hereof appoints these presents to be Printed and Published by Tuck of Drum . —Extracted furth of the new Locked Gild Book by Geo . Home . "
" 1728 . ACT APPOINTING ALL MERCHANTS TO USE THE YARD-WAND , AND NO OTHER MEASURE . EDINBURGH , THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER , 1728 .
' The which Day the Dean of Guild and his Council , considering that many abuses have of late been committed by the Sellers and Retailers of Linnen and Woollen Cloths , Silk-Stuffs , & c , by the using
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The Gilds.*
Burgesses of this City , contrary to the Acts of Parliament , Acts of the Royal Burrows , and of this Burgh , keep two or three Shops or Cellars at once : Do therefore expressly Prohibit all such unfree Persons , after the term of Whitsunday next , to keep any such Shops or Cellars ; with Certification , their Shops and others shall be shut up and they
Amerciat at the Discretion of the Dean of Gild and his Council ; As also , That no Burgesses keep more Shops or Cellars than one , after the said Term , under the like certification : But prejudice to the prosecuting of the Burgesses who keep moe Cellars and Shops , or unfree Traders in any sort , either before or after the said Term of
Whitsunday as records , and appoints these presents to be Printed and Published by Tuck of Drum , than none may pretend ignorance . — Extracted furth of the new Locked Gild Book , by Geo . Home . "
" SAME YEAR . ACT OP THE GILD COURT AMENT THE ELNWAND . EDINBURGH , MARCH 19 , 1701 .
The Dean of Gild and his Council considering , That it is reasonable that all Merchants and Shopkeepers within the City should make use of one uniform measure , conform to the said Act of Parliament made thereanent . It is therefore Statute and Ordained That all Merchants and Shopkeepers within this City shall make use of the
Scots Elnwand allennarly , and that they bring their Elnwands to the Laigh Council House , betwixt [ sic ] and the fifteen day of April next to come , to the end that they be Marked with the Dean of Gild's mark , where they shall be attended by two members of the Dean of Gild Court for that effect , each Wednesday and Friday betwixt two and
four afternoon ; Certifying each person who contravenes this present Act , that they shall be lyable in payment of the sum of ten pounds Scots to the Dean of Gild , and hereby Prohibites and Discharges all Merchants and Shopkeepers and others within this City to use the English Yard , or any other measure whatsomever but the Elnwand
aforesaid in measuring of Cloath and others for sale , swa marked by the Dean of Gild , under the penalty aforesaid . And to the end that none may pretend ignorance hereof appoints these presents to be Printed and Published by Tuck of Drum . —Extracted furth of the new Locked Gild Book by Geo . Home . "
" 1728 . ACT APPOINTING ALL MERCHANTS TO USE THE YARD-WAND , AND NO OTHER MEASURE . EDINBURGH , THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER , 1728 .
' The which Day the Dean of Guild and his Council , considering that many abuses have of late been committed by the Sellers and Retailers of Linnen and Woollen Cloths , Silk-Stuffs , & c , by the using