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| 1557, | March | 31. | Money to be expended in bigging the Newhaven, [C.R. Vol. II. fol. 95.] | 1 |
| — | April | 2. | Answer to Queen's letter as to craftsmen, [Ib.] | 1 |
| — | — | 9. | Forms to be provided for Magdalene Chapel, [Ib.] | 1 |
| — | — | 14. | Extent for expenses of Queen's marriage, [Ib.] | 2 |
| — | — | 18. | Landward fleshers to have liberty to sell flesh above Tolbooth, [Ib. fol. 97 Inventory of City Charters, Vol. I. fol. 21.] | 4 |
| — | June | 5. | Act discharging Thomas Makcalyeane, assessor, to be deleted, [C.R. Vol. II. fol. 98.] | 5 |
| — | — | 18. | Proclamation of weaponschawing, [Ib. fol. 98.] | 5 |
| — | — | 25. | Proclamation as to price of flesh; halberts to officers, [Ib. fol. 99.] | 6 |
| — | July | 24. | St Rowkis chapel to be inspected, [Ib.] | 7 |
| — | — | 31. | Newhaven to be inspected, [Ib.] | 7 |
| — | August | 11. | Works at Newhaven and St Rokis chapel, [Ib. fol. 100.] | 7 |
| — | — | 13 | Payment for spears use of inhabitants, [Ib.] | 8 |
| — | — | 14. | Act as to weaponschawing, [Ib.] | 8 |
| — | — | 17. | Locks and keys for clerks' chamber; proclamation of weaponschawing; a bedrelship of St Mary's Wynd granted, [Ib. fol. 101.] | 9 |
| — | September | 17. | Men. furnished to army, conform to Queen's writing, [Ib. fol. 102.] | 9 |
| 1557, | September | 18. | Craftsmen consent to be stented; clerk's expenses to Hamilton for artillery; signet to Queen's letters, [C.R. Vol. II. fol. 103.] | 10 |
| — | — | — | Annual acts as to bread, &c.; acts as to regraters, beggars, and weapons in booths, [Ib. fol. 105–6.] | 11 |
| — | November | 5. | Grant of a benefice of St Andrew's altar; town walls, &c., to be repaired; wine escheat and given to serjeants, [Ib. fol. 109.] | 12 |
| — | — | 12. | Grant of burgesships, [Ib. fol. 110.] | 13 |
| — | — | 23. | Meetings oof council, [Ib. fol. 113.] | 13 |
| — | — | 26. | Taxes of sons of burgesses, [Ib.] | 13 |
| — | December | 10. | Gift to the Queen and her servitors, [Ib. fol. 114.] | 14 |
| — | — | 15. | Absentees from musters unlawed, [Ib.] | 14 |
| — | — | 29. | Town to be fortified, [Ib.] | 15 |
| 1557–8, | January | 19. | President chosen to act in Provost's absence, [Ib.] | 15 |
| — | — | 21. | Licence for obtaining alms for repair of Magdalene bridge, [Ib. fol. 116.] | 16 |
| — | February | 9. | Payment to chirurgeon for mending a leg; clothmarket restored to former site above Tolbooth, [Ib. fol. 117–8] | 16 |
| — | — | 11. | A candlemaker ordered not to melt tallow near lord president's house; market of hides and skins, [Ib. fol. 118.] | 17 |
| — | March | 6. | Lime for town walls; powder and bullets for artillery, [Ib. fol. 119.] | 18 |
| 1558, | April | 16. | Payment of taxes by merchants or free burgesses, [Ib. fol. 121.] | 18 |
| — | May | 9. | Proceedings taken for defence of burgh, [Ib. fol. 122–3.] | 19 |
| — | — | 11. | Concerning extenters and gentlemen heritors, [Ib. fol. 123.] | 20 |
| — | — | 21. | Gunners to be hired; close-foots to be built up; ports; preparations for defence; artillery to be bought, [Ib. fol. 124–5.] | 20 |
| — | — | 27. | Town's evidents and writings and silverwork of St Giles' kirk to be removed to castle; as to men to be furnished by crafts, [Ib. fol. 125.] | 22 |
| 1558, | May | 30. | Ordinance for defence of the town [C.R. Vol. II. fol. 125.] | 22 |
| — | June | 5. | Hiring servants in time of war; merchants and craftsmen to be consulted as to number of men they may furnish; men to be furnished by merchants, [Ib. fol. 126.] | 23 |
| — | — | 10. | Roll of mason craftsmen to be given in; complaint by skinner craft as to unfreemen of St Johnston; men to be furnished by crafts, [Ib. fol. 131–2.] | 24 |
| — | — | 17. | Privileges obtained by Edinburgh against Leith, [Balfour's Practicks, p. 51.] | 25 |
| — | — | 23. | On complaint of bonnet makers, unfreemen not to sell bonnets except on market and fair days, [C.R. Vol. II. fol. 132.] | 25 |
| — | | | Celebration of Queen's marriage, [Ib.] | 26 |
| — | December | 15. | Gift of wine and wax to the Queen, [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 1.] | 26 |
| — | — | 29. | Passage and causeway of Cowgait to be repaired, [Ib. fol. 2.] | 26 |
| 1558–9, | January | 7. | Gift of bedrelship; jewels in kirk of St Giles, [Ib.] | 27 |
| — | February | 3. | Triumph and banquet to the Queen; licence to procurator-fiscal to vent and have wine in his house free of stent [Ib. fol. 4, 5.] | 28 |
| — | — | 12. | Price of wine; letters of Queen giving licence to a merchant of Flanders as to selling his goods, [Ib. fol. 5, 6.] | 29 |
| — | — | 13. | Charge by Queen to liberate merchant from ward, [Ib. fol. 7.] | 29 |
| — | — | 14. | Letter from Queen as to the merchant's goods, [Ib. fol. 7.] | 30 |
| — | March | 8. | Weight of kirk jewels, [Ib. fol. 3.] | 30 |
| — | — | 24. | Persons appointed for attending to matters between the town and Leith, [Ib. fol. 9.] | 30 |
| 1559, | April | 12. | Gifts of chaplainries in St Giles' Kirk, [Ib. fol. 10, 11.] | 31 |
| — | — | 20. | Complaint against Lord Seyton for putting a bailie and the common clerk in ward, [Ib. fol. 11.] | 31 |
| — | — | 22. | Message by Lord Seyton to the bailies, [Ib. fol. 12.] | 33 |
| 1559, | April | 26. | A prisoner set at liberty, [C.R. Vol. III., fol. 12.] | 34 |
| — | — | 28. | At desire of the Queen, actions between the town and Leith to be suspended; proposal to erect three shops at kirk gavil to be rejected, [Ib. fol. 13.] | 34 |
| — | May | 10. | Stents of Inverkeithing and Kinghorn, [Ib.] | 36 |
| — | — | 14. | Letter from Queen as to keeping rule and defending religious places, [Ib. fol. 14.] | 36 |
| — | — | 20. | Artillery to be ready and watch kept; gift of a bedrelship, [Ib.] | 37 |
| — | — | 24. | Imprisonment of bailie; provost to write to Queen thereanent, [Ib. fol. 14, 15.] | 37 |
| — | — | 26. | Against unfreemen occupying the liberty of burgesses, [Ib. fol. 15.] | 39 |
| — | — | 28. | Letter from Queen as to defence of town, [Ib.] | 39 |
| — | June | 3. | Watchman casting stones at Blackfriars and Greyfriars windows, [Ib. fol. 16.] | 40 |
| — | — | 14. | Protest by dean of guild as to safe keeping of jewels and ornaments, [Ib.] | 40 |
| — | — | 16. | Watch and keepers of the ports; commission against Archbishop of St Andrews, [Ib. fol. 17.] | 41 |
| — | — | 21. | Gifts of beadmanships; keepers of St Giles krik; playing "sweis" at weapponschaw; mending canseways; gathering alms through town, [Ib. fol. 17, 18.] | 41 |
| — | — | 27. | Custody of jewelsand vestments; names of persons to whom gear and vestments given in keeping, Ib. fol. 18.] | 42 |
| — | — | 29. | Commission to treat with the congregation; preservation of St Giles' kirk; protest against deacon of hammermen, [Ib. fol. 19.] | 44 |
| — | July | 12. | Removal of stalls of choir; mending of walls and ports; proposition of the lords of the congregation, [Ib. fol. 19, 20.] | 45 |
| — | — | 29. | Negotiations between commissioners for the Queen Regent and brethren of the congregation; protest by provost, [Ib. fol. 20, 21.] | 46 |
| 1559, | August | 2. | Repairing of town wall and ports; payments for watching kirk, etc., [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 21.] | 49 |
| — | — | 4. | Payment of prebendaries; mending ports; acts as to beggars, [Ib. fol. 21, 22.] | 49 |
| — | — | 14. | Nightly watch to be kept, [Ib. fol. 22.] | 50 |
| — | — | 18. | Gifts of a bedrelship; coal and candle furnished to lords of session; act as to beggars and the poor, [Ib.] | 51 |
| — | September | 4. | Repair of wells; removal of skin market, [Ib.] | 51 |
| — | — | 14. | Convening lords of session; answer to Queen's writing to be destroyed, [Ib.] | 52 |
| — | — | 20. | Commissioners to lords of secret council; election of persons to vote for absent members of town council; council summoned to appear before Queen; ratification by provost of proceedings in his absence; protest by crafts as to their privileges; refusal by council to allow crafts to vote in e lection, and protest by them thereanent, [Ib. fol. 22–5.] | 52 |
| — | — | 22. | Crafts not allowed to vote in election; letter by Queen as to election, [Ib. fol. 25.] | 56 |
| — | — | 26. | Payment for playing a "quhissal" at the watch, [Ib.] | 57 |
| — | — | 30. | Repair of tolbooth; preservation of town's evidents; gunners to be hired; keeping of the ports, [Ib. fol. 25, 26.] | 57 |
| — | October | 6. | Preservation of evidents, [Ib. fol. 26.] | 58 |
| — | — | 14. | Artillery to be taken to castle, [Ib.] | 58 |
| — | — | 27. | Extent for raising soldiers, [Ib.] | 58 |
| — | — | 29. | Extent; St Giles' arm; receipt for artillery, [Ib. fol. 27.] | 59 |
| — | November | 13. | Kirk gear, vestments and ornaments to be replaced, [Ib.] | 59 |
| — | — | 21. | Set of customs and tron; protest as to vestments, [Ib. fol. 27, 28.] | 60 |
| — | December | 12. | Gifts to Queen and provost; delivery of vestments, [Ib. fol. 28.] | 60 |
| — | — | 24. | Watch to be kept, [Ib.] | 61 |
| 1559–60, | January | 10. | Ratification of certain statutes; wild adventures; officers and members of council to remain in town, [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 28.] | 61 |
| — | — | 19. | Lodging for lord provost, [Ib.] | 62 |
| — | February | 16. | Payments to probendaries; farmers of customs and tron, [Ib. fol. 31.] | 62 |
| 1560, | April | 16. | Repairs on kirk; appointment of a bailie, [Ib. fol. 33.] | 62 |
| — | — | 30. | Tax for raising soldiers, [Ib.] | 63 |
| — | May | 1. | Repairs on walls, [Ib.] | 63 |
| — | — | 4. | Payment for playing on "swesche and quhissill," [Ib.] | 63 |
| — | — | 6. | Disobedience to a bailie, [Ib. fol. 34.] | 63 |
| — | — | 8. | Furnishings to John Knox; pensions to kirkmen discharged; removal of a bell, [Ib.] | 63 |
| — | — | 10. | Money to be borrowed, [Ib.] | 64 |
| — | — | 15. | Keys to a port and John Knox's loging, [Ib. fol. 35.] | 64 |
| — | — | 26. | Watching prisoners; bell and brasen pillars of kirk to be made into artillery; duties payable to kirkmen, [Ib.] | 64 |
| — | June | 1 | Furnishings to John Willok, [Ib. fol. 36.] | 65 |
| — | — | 10. | Act as to idolaters, whoremasters, and harlots, [Ib. fol. 37.] | 65 |
| — | — | 12. | Stones of kirks not to be removed, [Ib.] | 66 |
| — | — | 19. | Tolbooth, school, and clerks' chamber to be fitted up in kirk; repairing of causeways, wells, and walls; seats for kirk; new keys for ports; collector of annuals, etc., to St Paul's work, [Ib. fol. 37, 38.] | 66 |
| — | — | 26. | Furnishings to ministers, [Ib. fol. 39.] | 68 |
| — | July | 12. | Annuals formerly pertaining to friars, etc.; iron rods and shackles, [Ib.] | 68 |
| — | — | 19. | Prices of bread and ale; acts as to beggars, musicians, and vagabonds, [Ib. fol. 41.] | 68 |
| — | — | 23. | Walls and fortress of Leith, [Ib. fol. 40.] | 69 |
| — | August | 1. | Silver work and repairs on kirk; articles to be given in to parliament; order of procedence in the kirk; repairs on town wall; against unfreemen using privileges, [Ib. fol. 42, 43.] | 70 |
| 1560, | August | 16. | Furnishings to minister; complaint against constable-depute for levying dues; as to courts held by constable, [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 43.] | 72 |
| — | — | 21. | Down casting walls and filling trenches of Leith; obligation by constable as to holding courts, [Ib. fol. 44.] | 74 |
| — | — | 24. | Payment to musicians, [Ib.] | 74 |
| — | — | 30. | Delivery of certain jewels; payment to minister; burgesses' oath, [Ib. fol. 44, 45.] | 74 |
| — | September | 4. | Lodging for John Knox; slander, parson of Pennecuke; delivery of jewels, [Ib. fol. 45.] | 76 |
| — | — | 5. | Parson of Pennecuke; silver work undelivered; maintaining officers in execution of duty; iron house; silver work, [Ib. fol. 46, 47.] | 76 |
| — | — | 6. | Delivery of silver work; masters of Haly Blude and St Anthony's, [Ib. fol. 47.] | 78 |
| — | — | 9. | Laird of Restalrig put in ward; proclamation as to idle men, [Ib.] | 79 |
| — | — | 10. | Watch ordered for sure keeping of the laird of Restalrig; search to be made for his concubine, [Ib. fol. 48.] | 80 |
| — | — | 11. | Laird of Restalrig's writing registered; he to be kept in ward till he find caution; payment for damage in building town hall, [Ib.] | 80 |
| — | — | 16. | Precautions for keeping Laird of Restalrig in prison; admission to Flesher craft, [Ib. fol. 48, 49.] | 81 |
| — | — | 20. | Proclamation as to blasphemers and idolaters; Nether kirk yard; beds furnished to Englishmen, [Ib. fol. 49.] | 82 |
| — | — | 26. | Two craftsmen to be on the council, [Ib. fol. 50.] | 83 |
| — | October | 14. | Acts as to bread, malt and ale, brewsters, poultry, candle, bay, and wine; corn market; stones of the Black and Grey Friars, [Ib. fol. 51–3.] | 84 |
| — | — | 20. | Sale of bell and brazen pillars; slander against minister, [Ib. fol. 54.] | 85 |
| 1560, | October | 30. | Act as to keeping the Sabbath day; against blaspbemers; iniquity of women "taverners"; duty of wine pertaining to fraternity of St Anthony; sundry acts; burgesses to be resident; payments to John Knox; fee to gild officer, [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 55–77.] | 85 |
| — | November | 15. | Payments to provost and council; but at Nether Bow, [Ib. fol. 58.] | 88 |
| — | — | 16. | Building of wall at North Loch side, [Ib.] | 88 |
| — | — | 20. | Market at House of Muir; price of wine; merchants to be burgesses and guild brethren, [Ib. fol. 59, 60.] | 89 |
| — | — | 22. | Sentence against to flesher for adultery, [Ib. fol. 60.] | 89 |
| — | — | 23. | Dissent by deacons of craftts against sentence; council refuse to set prisoner at liberty on caution; complaint against craftsmen taking flesher furth of ward. [Ib.] | 90 |
| — | — | 28. | Supplication by deacons, masters, and principal brethren of crafts as to disobedience of craftsmen in setting prisoner at liberty; certain persons to be summoned for their conspiracy, [Ib. fol. 60.] | 90 |
| — | December | 6. | Proclamation as to proceedings of craftsmen; disobedience to magistrates and officers; craftsmen called to the laws; craftsmen's servants to be punished; delivery of vestments; money for repairing kirk; extent for furnishing of ambassadors; bell of St Paul's work; merchants and craftsmen to become freemen; building of the walls, [Ib. fol. 61–3.] | 93 |
| — | — | 20. | Vestments and jewels; down-casting dike at Leith; payment to John Knox, [Ib. fol. 63–4.] | 96 |
| — | — | 26. | Kirk doors to be kept shut, [Ib. fol. 64.] | 97 |
| 1560–1, | January | 3. | Payment of burgess and gildships; down-casting of the Friars; payment to John Cairns, [Ib. fol. 67, 68.] | 97 |
| — | — | 15. | Rent of grammar school, [Ib. fol. 69.] | 98 |
| — | — | 17. | Delivery of jewels and ornaments, [Ib.] | 98 |
| 1560–1 | February | 4. | Delivery of ornaments; payment to provost; beidmen of St Andrew's hospital; mending of causeways, [C.R. Vol. III. fol. 71–2.] | 98 |
| — | — | 7. | Gavil at St Giles' Kirk to be completed; town wall at Blackfriars, [Ib. fol. | 99 |
| — | — | 12. | Payments to John Knox, minister, [Ib. fol. 74.] | 99 |
| — | — | 19. | Repairing of town wall, [Ib.] | 100 |
| — | — | 21. | Delivery of silver chalice; dean of guild to be charged in account with pillars and bells, [Ib.] | 100 |
| — | March | 5. | Money received for bells and pillars, [Ib. fol. 75.] | 100 |
| — | — | 12. | Repair of town wall; stones taken from kirks to be restored; French ambassador, [Ib. fol. 75.] | 100 |
| — | — | 24. | Proclamation as to priests, monks, and friars; donations to poor; fleshers and fleshmarket, [Ib. fol. 75, 76.] | 101 |
| 1561, | April | 2. | Deacons to be convened to advise as to certain statutes; delivery of vestments; distribution of alms to the poor, [Ib. fol. 76, 77.] | 103 |
| — | — | 5. | Delivery and sale of vestments; payment to John Knox; place of fleshmarket, [Ib. fol. 77.] | 104 |
| — | — | 9. | Consent of deacons to removal of fleshmarket; dis-obedience of fleshers; removal of victualmarket; place to be acquired for fleshmarket, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 1–3.] | 104 |
| — | — | 23. | Extent for town walls; articles proposed to council as to rents and annuals payable to papists, deceased persons' goods, duty on wine, burial place, games, swearers and blasphemers, prayers and preaching; town's artillery to be received from castle; proclamation against celebration of play of Robin Hood; proclamation as to duty on wine, [Ib. fol. 3, 4.] | 105 |
| — | — | 24. | Lands to be acquired for fleshmarket; payment to John Cairns, [Ib. fol. 4, 5.] | 105 |
| — | — | 25. | Act as to registering of testaments and making inventory of deceased persons' goods; repairs on Grey
friars yard; duty on wine to be given to the poor; discharge of confraternities, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 4, 5.] | 109 |
| — | May | 10. | Proclamation as to prizes; insurrection of servants and apprentices in celebrating Robin Hood,[Ib. fol. 6.] | 111 |
| — | — | 13. | Answer of deacons of crafts as to punishing offenders, [Ib. fol. 7.] | 113 |
| — | — | 14. | Apprentices to be
apprehended,[Ib.], | 113 |
| — | — | 21. | Precautions for keeping order in time of parliament,[Ib.] | 114 |
| — | — | 23. | Chaplain of St Katherine's altar authorised to feu lands, [Ib.] | 114 |
| — | — | 27. | Vestments and ornaments to be sold; gift to captain of the castle,[Ib. fol. 8.] | 115 |
| — | — | 30. | An advocate accused of receiving the priest's sacrament; quarterly payment to John Knox; artillery to be got back from castle,[Ib. fol.9.] | 115 |
| — | June | 11. | Apprentices imprisoned; as to artillery being brought back from castle,[Ib.] | 116 |
| — | — | 16. | Alexander Skene, advocate, set at liberty; a priest banished; apprentices to be tried, [Ib. fol. 10, 11.] | 117 |
| — | July | 11. | "Suechis" to be taken from players; "crafts childer" to be apprehended, [lb. fol. 12.] | 118 |
| — | — | 18. | A tailor imprisoned for allowing his servants to go forth with armour,[Ib.] | 118 |
| — | — | 25. | An officer discharged; town council besieged; guard to be asked for,[Ib.] | 118 |
| — | — | 30. | James Barroun authorised to pay wages to the guard,[lb.] | 119 |
| — | August | 13. | Payment to James Barroun,[Ib.] | 119 |
| — | — | 22. | Payments to bailies,[Ib.] | 119 |
| — | — | 25. | Reward for services while provost and others were besieged, [Ib. fol. 13] | 119 |
| — | — | 26. | Banquet and triumph to be made on Queen's entry,[Ib.] | 119 |
| — | — | 27. | Preparations for banquet and triumph,[Ib. fol.13.] | 120 |
| 1561, | August | 28. | Farther preparations, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 13, 14.] | 121 |
| — | — | 29. | Proclamation charging persons to give in accounts, [Ib.
fol. 14.] | 122 |
| — | September | 3. | Extent for expenses of banquet, triumph, and gift to
Queen,[Ib.] | 122 |
| — | — | 24. | Leet for election of two craftsmen as councillors, [Ib.
fol. 15.] | 122 |
| — | — | 26. | Payment to "actour" of morning prayers; questions
with crafts as to elections, [Ib.] | 123 |
| — | October | 2. | Proclamation charging priests and other to remove
from town, [Ib.] | 125 |
| — | — | 5. | Order by Queen to deprive provost and bailies of their
offices,[Ib.] | 125 |
| — | — | 8. | Provost and bailies discharged and others elected;
protests thereanent,[Ib. fol.16.] | 126 |
| — | — | 22. | A bailie fined for not accepting office, [Ib.] | 127 |
| — | November | 5. | Prices of bread and candles; a study to be made for
minister,[Ib. fol. 17.] | 128 |
| — | — | 8. | Keeper of kirk; reader of common prayers, [Ib.] | 128 |
| — | — | 21. | Regulation as to markets,[Ib. fol.18.] | 128 |
| — | — | 25. | Election of a treasurer; protest by deacons, [lb.] | 129 |
| — | — | 26. | Banishment of an adultress,[Ib.] | 129 |
| — | — | 27. | Extent for expenses of banquet and triumph, [Ib.] | 129 |
| — | December | 31. | John Knox sent to Angus and Mearns,[Ib.fol.20.] | 129 |
| 1561–2, | January | 30. | Action by bailies of Kinghorn against inhabitants of
Lieth,[Ib.fol. 21.] | 129 |
| — | February | 10. | Letter by queen as to ruinous state of Tolbooth, [Ib.
fol. 22.] | 130 |
| — | — | 11. | Roup of mills; extent for building walls; a craftsman
elected to be on the council, [1b.] | 130 |
| — | — | 24. | Order for taking down Tolbooth, [Ib. fol. 23.] | 131 |
| 1562, | April | 8. | Friar Black to be kept in ward; John Craig to bear
with John Knox half charge of preaching; proposal
to remove master of High School; building
of a college and hospitals; gift of annuals and
altarages to be asked; slander against John Knox,
[C.R. Vol. IV. Ib. fol. 26.] | 131 |
| — | — | 11. | Price of wine; rumoured unjust dealings of websters;
an adulteress to be kep in ward; letter by queen
as to Friar Black; master of grammar school required
to produce his right; house for lords of
session, [Ib. fol.26, 27.] | 132 |
| — | — | 30. | Proclamation against play of Robin Hood, [Ib. fol. 29.] | 134 |
| — | May | 3. | Election of deacon of hammermen, [Ib. fol. 30.] | 134 |
| — | — | 22. | Hole in North Loch to be prepared for dipping fornicators,
[Ib. fol. 31.] | 135 |
| — | June | 10. | Defences by master of grammar school.[Ib.fol.32.] | 135 |
| — | — | 19. | Another minister to be elected, [Ib. fol.33.] | 135 |
| — | — | 24. | Answers of deacons of crafts as to sustaining ministers;
danger of tumult at weaponschawing; letter by
Queen as to seditious and rebellious persons; the
town's standard; sustenance of ministers; commissioners
to the kirk,[Ib. fol.33–5.] | 136 |
| — | — | 28. | John Gordon of Fynlater and others put in prison,
[Ib. fol. 35.] | 138 |
| — | — | 29. | Letter from Queen as to variance between Lord Ogilvy
and John Gordon,[Ib.] | 138 |
| — | — | 30. | Proceedings against master of High School, [Ib. fol.36.] | 139 |
| — | July | 3. | Selling of leather,[Ib.] | 140 |
| — | — | 15. | Extent for new tolbooth, [Ib.fol. 37.] | 140 |
| — | — | 17. | Act as to who shall bear office in burgh. act deleted
at command of Queen, [Ib.] | 140 |
| — | July, | 22,24,25, | Proceedings against William Robertoun, master of the
High School, [Ib. fol.38, 39, 40.] | 141–5 |
| — | August | 6,11. |
| — | — | 17. | Town's supplication to the Queen as to the poor, schools,
hospitals, and burial place; grant by Queen of
Greyfriars yard, [Ib. fol.41.] | 145 |
| — | — | 27. | Gift of a gildship; town walls; corns sown in Greyfriars
yard; master of works; works at Greyfriars yard,
[lb. fol. 41, 42.] | 147 |
| 1562, | September | 18. | Complaint by bonnetmakers of others taking away their
servants,[C.R. Vol. IV.fol. 42.] | 148 |
| — | — | 25. | Letter by Queen as to election of provost,[Ib. fol. 43.] | 148 |
| — | October | 3. | Decreet against master of High School, [Ib. fol. 44.] | 149 |
| — | — | 6. | Deacons not to have vote in choosing leet for provost;
delay in answering Queen's letter, [Ib. fol.43,
44.] | 150 |
| — | — | 21. | Convening of council,[Ib.fol.47.] | 151 |
| — | November | 6. | Delivery of keys; act against adulterers and fornicators,
[Ib.fol.47.] | 151 |
| — | — | 9. | Pasturing of common muir and links,[Ib.] | 152 |
| — | — | 11. | Flesh not to be eaten on Friday or Saturday, [Ib. fol.
48.] | 152 |
| — | — | 12. | Baptism of children,[Ib.fol. 48.] | 152 |
| — | — | 18. | Usurpation of privileges by inhabitants of Leith;
assessors and scribe, [Ib. fol. 48, 49.] | 153 |
| — | December | 5. | Prison for adulterers; payment for land on which new
tolbooth is built, [Ib. fol.50.] | 154 |
| — | — | 8. | Prices of tallow, candle, bread, ale, and hay,[Ib. 50, 51.] | 154 |
| — | — | 11. | Payment for necessaries of minister's lodging, [Ib.
fol. 54.] | 154 |
| — | — | 22. | Yule duty to bedrels of St. Mary's Wynd, [Ib.] | 154 |
| 1562–63, | January | 6. | Discharge of extents to Murray of Blackbarony; prices
for work of cordiners, [Lb. fol. 56.] | 154 |
| — | — | 15. | Porters at Queen's gate; sale of hides; sasines in town's
lands,[lb.fol.57, 58.] | 155 |
| — | — | 22. | Surgeons and barbers discharged,[Ib.fol. 58.] | 155 |
| — | — | 27. | Prices of wines and cordiners' work,[Ib.] | 155 |
| — | February | 5. | Ordinance for convening deacons, [Ib.] | 156 |
| — | — | 6. | Mastership of high school,[Ib.] | 157 |
| — | — | 23. | Letter from Queen as to setting a prisoner free, [Ib.
fol. 61.] | 157 |
| — | March | 5. | Chapel in Nether Kirkyard; banquet to commissioners
of burghs; Kirk of Field and buildings thereof,
[Ib. fol. 63,64.] | 157 |
| 1562–63, | March | 10. | Kiln and barns at King's Stables,[C.R. Vol. IV.fol. 64.] | 158 |
| — | — | 11. | Beidmanship in St Paul's Work, [Ib. fol.65.] | 158 |
| 1563, | April | | Causeway opposite Cardinal's lodging, [Ib. fol.67.] | 159 |
| — | — | 23. | Convening inhabitants in time of need; promise of a
burgesship to a mason on marriage,[Ib.] | 159 |
| — | — | 30. | Clerks' chamber in St Giles' Kirk, [Ib. fol.68.] | 160 |
| — | May | 11. | Beidmanship in St Paul's Work, [Ib. fol.69.] | 160 |
| — | — | 17. | Trial of Bishop of St Andrews and other kirkmen,[Ib.] | 160 |
| — | June | 11. | Support of minister and reader,[Ib.] | 161 |
| — | — | 18. | Commissioners to kirk; proposed hospital at the Blackfriars;
accusations against John Knox and other
ministers, and against doctrine now preached, [Ib.
fol.69,70.] | 161 |
| — | — | 21. | Agreement with the parson of Pennycuke as to Kirk
of Field; money borrowed for completing tolbooth,
[Ib. fol. 70,71.] | 163 |
| — | — | 25. | Tower of old tolbooth; slander against John Knox,[Ib.
fol. 71.] | 164 |
| — | — | 30. | Bonnetmakers not to exercise their crafts in open places
in High Street, [Ib.] | 164 |
| — | July | 2. | Proposed hospital at Blacfriars, [Ib.fol.73.] | 165 |
| — | — | 4. | Markets on Sunday forbidden,[Ib.] | 165 |
| — | — | 6. | Reward to a surgeon for raising a dead woman and
effecting certain cures, [Ib.] | 165 |
| — | — | 12. | Making of causeways and sewers, [Ib. fol.74.] | 166 |
| — | — | 23. | Lodging for King of Sweden's ambassador; gift to
Robert Norvell, of the kirk, yard, and croft of the
Greenside, previously occupied by the friars, on
certain conditions, [Ib. fol.74–75.] | 166 |
| — | August | 15. | Men of Leith and new tolbotth, [Ib. fol. 77.] | 169 |
| — | — | 27. | Corn growing in Blackfairs yard; tack of yard challeged;
price of ale and bread,[Ib.] | 169 |
| — | September | 11. | Action between Edinburgh and Leith as to new tolbooth;
price of malt,[Ib. fol.78,79.] | 169 |
| — | — | 18. | Commissioners sent to Queen at Stirling.[Ib. fol.79.] | 170 |
| 1563, | September | 26. | Printing irons and letters; nothing to be printed with
them without licence, [C.R. Vol. IV.] | 170 |
| — | October | 2. | Building of a wall at Leith Port stopped; burials,
[Ib. 80,81.] | 171 |
| — | — | 8. | Evidents of the Kirk of Field, [Ib. fol.82.] | 171 |
| — | — | 13. | Order of speaking in council house; commissioners
sent to Queen as to writings in favour of Leith, etc.;
benefices to be disponed, [Ib.] | 172 |
| — | — | 15. | Letters against Leith; water bailie of Leith; a bailie
fined for leaving without licence; ordinance as to
office-bearers leaving town; rental of prebendaries;
gift of benetice of Craigcruke,[Ib.fol. 83, 84.] | 172 |
| — | November | 5. | Encroachments on commonty to be removed; space at
High Church to be set for shops, [Ib. fol. 85.] | 173 |
| — | — | 10. | Seat and desk to be put in kirk; imprisonment of
adulterers and fornicators, [Ib.] | 173 |
| — | — | 26. | Sustenance of minister, reader, and others; visitation
of the Greenside; payment to treasurer,[Ib. fol.
86,87.] | 174 |
| — | December | 1. | Evidents concerning port and haven of Leith, [Ib.fol.87.] | 174 |
| — | — | 24. | Gift of a burgess and gildship; no burgesship to be
given free for a year; commissioners to convention
of the kirk,[Ib. fol.88.] | 175 |
| — | — | 29. | Gift to the Queen, [Ib. fol. 89.] | 175 |
| 1563–4. | January | 7. | Money for building of hospital, [Ib. fol.90.] | 175 |
| — | — | 21. | Payment to reader,[Ib. fol. 91.] | 176 |
| — | February | 16. | Timber bought for building hospital.[Ib.fol. 92.] | 176 |
| — | — | 18. | Payment of feu-duty to a sister of the Senys,[Ib.fol. 93] | 176 |
| — | March | 22. | Act as to cloth making, [1b.fol.96.] | 177 |
| 1564, | — | 28. | Extent for furnishing ambassador to Denmark,
[1b.fol. 97.] | 177 |
| — | April | 24. | Sustaining of ministers,[Ib. fol.99.] | 177 |
| — | — | 28. | Extent payable by inverkeithing, [Ib. fol.99.] | 178 |
| — | May | 1. | Gifts to the Queen and her "sumbeleir,"[Ib.fol.100.] | 178 |
| — | — | 3. | Sustaining of Ministers, [Ib. fol.100.] | 178 |
| 1564, | May | 11. | Banquet to ambassador of Denmark,[C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 101.] | 179 |
| — | — | 15. | Payment for banquet, [Ib.] | 179 |
| — | — | 24. | Delivery of town's ammunition to the laird of Wittingham, [Ib. fol. 102.] | 179 |
| — | — | 31. | Gift to ambassador to King of Denmark, [Ib.] | 179 |
| — | June | 2. | Price of bread and mutton; duty on wine,[Ib.fol. 103.] | 180 |
| — | — | 16. | Charge by Queen as to building of tolbooth at Leith, [Ib. fol. 104.] | 180 |
| — | July | 9. | Prices of ale, mutton, and bread; annual payable to a
chaplain, [Ib. fol. 106.] | 181 |
| — | — | 15. | Removal of stones near coal market; lint sown in the
hospital yards; ships suspected of pest, [Ib.] | 181 |
| — | August | 2. | Clearing of haven of Leith, [Ib.] | 182 |
| — | — | 9. | Acquisition of Kirk of Field, [Ib.fol. 107.]. | 182 |
| — | — | 11. | Watch over persons suspected of pest; repair of town
walls, [lb. fol. 107, 108.] | 182 |
| — | — | 18. | Substitute minister during absence of John Knox and
John Craig, [Ib.fol. 108.] | 183 |
| — | — | 25. | Agreement as to Kirk of Field; a person cleansed of the
pest; disladening of ships, [Ib.fol. 109.] | 184 |
| — | September | 1. | Against narrowing of common passages, [Ib.] | 184 |
| — | — | 8. | Payment for minister and of expenses to St. Andrews,[
Ib.fol. 110.] | 185 |
| — | — | 18. | Watch over merchandise taken from a ship, [Ib.] | 185 |
| — | — | 20. | Leet of craftsmen for council, [Ib. fol. 111.] | 185 |
| — | — | 27. | Act as to election, and protest by craftsman, [Ib.] | 186 |
| — | — | 28. | Crafts ordained to present new tickets,[Ib. fol.112.] | 186 |
| — | — | 30. | Other ticket produced by crafts; claim of deacon of candlemakers; as to assessors voting,[Ib.] | 186 |
| — | October | 8. | Price of ale and bread, [Ib. fol. 113.] | 187 |
| — | — | 30. | Act as to working cloth, etc., [Ib. fol. 114.] | 187 |
| — | November | 3. | Obligation by litsters; regulations as to their trade,[Ib. fol. 114.] | 187 |
| — | — | 8. | Admission of burgesses,[Ib. fol.115.] | 188 |
| 1564, | November | 17. | Passage to Kirk of Field port, [C.R. Vol. IV.fol.115.] | 189 |
| — | — | 25. | Kirk and Kirkyard, [Ib. fol. 117.] | 189 |
| — | — | 28. | Place of hide, wool, and skin market, [Ib. fol. 118–9.] | 189 |
| — | — | 29. | Claim by schoolmaster for rent and fee; rent of John
Knox's house; lighting of streets, [Ib.fol. 119.] | 190 |
| — | — | 30. | Collection of ministers' stipend,[Ib.fol. 120.] | 191 |
| — | December | 12 | Price of wine, [Ib. fol. 120.] | 191 |
| — | — | 25. | Sustentation of ministers and poor, [Ib.121–2.] | 191 |
| 1564–5, | January | 2. | Obligation by crafts as to sustaining ministers and poor;
gift to Queen,[Ib.fol. 122–3.] | 192 |
| — | — | 6. | Sustaining of poor and ministers; an arrow maker,
[Ib.fol. 123.] | 193 |
| — | — | 17. | Charge by Queen to pay schoolmaster his annual fee,
[Ib.] | 193 |
| — | — | 24. | Set of house to officer in Leith; eating flesh on Friday
and Saturday; keeping order at kirk door,
[Ib.fol.124.] | 194 |
| — | February | 3. | Sword to be used as heading sword, [Ib. fol. 125.] | 194 |
| — | — | 7. | Order in the council house, [Ib.] | 195 |
| — | — | 21. | Ordinance as to sustaining the poor, [Ib. fol. 126.] | 195 |
| — | March | 2. | Poinding of goods for sustaining the poor,[Ib.] | 195 |
| 1565 | April | 30. | Accusation of assaulting a priest, [Ib. fol. 128.] | 195 |
| — | May | 11. | Writings by Queen as to master of grammar school;
rent and fees to be paid him,[Ib.] | 196 |
| — | — | 12. | Commissioners to Queen as to contribution to the
poor,[Ib.fol. 129.] | 197 |
| — | — | 31. | Commissioners to convention at perth,[1b.] | 198 |
| — | June | 22. | Price of wine, [1b.fol. 130.] | 198 |
| — | — | 30. | Armour and weapons for inhabitants,[1b.] | 198 |
| August | — | 3. | Completion of wall at Leith Wynd,L [Ib.] | 198 |
| — | — | 4. | Extent for furnishing soldiers, [Ib.] | 198 |
| — | — | 23. | Charge by queen to depose provost; his resignation;
commissioners to Queen; discharge of John Knox,
[Ib.fol.130–1] | 199 |
| 1565, | August | 24. | The laird of Craigmillar accepted as provost and admitted
burgess;extent for licence to abide from army;
charge by King and Queen to set a Frenchman at
liberty,[C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 131–2.] | 200 |
| — | — | 25. | Money to be raised for licence to abide from army,
[Ib. fol. 132.] | 201 |
| — | — | 26. | Licence to inhabitants to abide from army; charge to
pay composition; instructions and ordinances by
King and Queen, [Ib. fol. 132–3.] | 202 |
| — | — | 28. | Nightly watch appointed, [Ib. fol. 133.] | 204 |
| — | September | 3. | Instructions by King and Queen as to rebels, etc.,
[Ib. fol.134.] | 204 |
| — | — | 7. | Command by King and Queen as to hanging two
soldiers, [Ib. fol. 135.] | 206 |
| — | — | 12. | Fee to session clerk, [Ib.] | 206 |
| — | — | 17. | Extent for licence to abide from army, [Ib.] | 206 |
| — | — | 26. | Charge by King and Queen as to election of new
council, [Ib.] | 207 |
| — | — | 28. | Money borrowed for loan to King and Queen,
[lb. fol. 136.] | 207 |
| — | October | 12. | Inventory of property formerly belonging to priests, etc.,
act as to convening of council, [Ib.fol.139.] | 208 |
| — | November | 14. | Pudding and sheep head market; delivery of charters,
etc., [Ib. fol. 141.] | 209 |
| — | — | 15. | Stipend to John Knox, [Ib.] | 210 |
| — | December | 4. | Gifts to the Queen and the provost, [Ib.fol. 142] | 210 |
| — | — | 14. | Prices of wild meat; imposition on wines,[Ib.fol. 143.] | 210 |
| — | — | 24. | Commissioners to the Kirk; prices of wines, [Ib.] | 211 |
| 1565–6 | March | 19. | Expenses of two bailies to Dunbar, [Ib. fol.145.] | 211 |
| — | — | 20. | Expenses of officer to Dunbar; payments to musicians,
[Ib.] | 211 |
| 1566, | April | 5. | Gift to David Chalmer of clerkship of burgh,[Ib.] | 212 |
| — | — | 15. | Letter bu Queem as to superiority of Leith; supplication
as to intromission with town of Leith, [Ib.
fol.147.] | 213 |
| 1566 | May | 8. | Gift of a cahplainry; books for Queen's lodging,
[C.R. VOL. IV.fol.148.] | 214 |
| — | — | 17. | Payment for torches used in visiting Queen after
slaughter of David Ricio,[Ib.] | 214 |
| — | — | 29. | Gift of wine to provost,[Ib.fol. 150.] | 215 |
| — | June | 8. | Bedrels of St Mary's wynd, [Ib.] | 215 |
| — | — | 19. | Payments to master of High School, [Ib. fol. 151.]] | 215 |
| — | — | 21. | A papist set at liberty at command of Queen, [lb.] | 215 |
| — | July | 19. | Alms to Trintiy college; price of malt, [ib.fol. 152.] | 216 |
| — | — | 24. | Payments for "convoying" a highlandman, [Ib.] | 216 |
| — | August | 2. | Gift to provost of excheit of a convict; expenses of
scaffold,[1b. fol.152,] | 216 |
| — | September | 13. | Letter by Queen as to punishement of fornicators;
keeping of the Greyfriars yard, [Ib. fol. 154.] | 217 |
| — | — | 18. | Rejoicings at the Prince's birth,[IB.fol.156.] | 219 |
| — | — | 25. | Payment of rent of minister's house,[Ib.] | 219 |
| — | October | 1. | Letter by Queen as to choosing of provost, bailies, and
others, [Ib.] | 219 |
| — | — | 3. | Another letter as to election,[Ib. fol.157] | 220 |
| — | — | 4. | Election of councillors and office-bearers; keepers of
the kirk, [Ib.] | 220 |
| — | — | 9. | Gallows at the Burgh Muir, [Ib. fol. 158.] | 221 |
| — | — | 11. | Persons to be admitted within the bar, [1b.] | 221 |
| — | — | 14. | Sundry annual acts passed; closets; curing skins;
waulkers;adulterers; and fornicators; extent for
expenses of baptism of Prince; payment to trumpeter,
[lb. fol 158–164.] | 222 |
| — | — | 18. | Acts as to neighbourhoods or new buildings,[Ib. fol. 165.] | 22 |
| — | — | 22. | Price of wine. [Ib.] | 224 |
| — | — | 23. | Breaking of common muir, [Ib.fol.166.] | 224 |
| — | — | 30. | Letter by Queen as to superiority of Leith,[Ib.fol. 167.] | 224 |
| — | November | 13. | Repair of a beacom. [1b. fol 170] | 225 |
| — | — | 27. | Weight of mace; repair of sun horologe,[Ib. fol. 17–23.] | 225 |
| — | December | | Regulations as to skinning sheep and bringing skins to
market, [Ib.fol. 175.] | 225 |
| 1566 | December | 16 | Refreshments for extenters, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 177.] | 226 |
| — | — | 20. | Commissioners to general assembly; beadmanship of
St Paul's work; lock for prison; fee to schoolmaster,
[Ib.] | 226 |
| 1566–7, | January | 10. | Request by Queen to delay taking possession of Leith,
[Ib.fol.179.] | 227 |
| — | — | 31. | Provost's ox; against children playing in kirk; yearly
pension to procurator fiscal,[Ib.fol.180] | 227 |
| — | February | 11. | Back door at Kirk of Field to be built up,
[Ib.fol.181] | 228 |
| — | — | 26. | Death of treasurer, and election of another,[Ib.fol.182.] | 228 |
| — | March | 8. | Receipt of money disbursed for superiority of Leith,
[Ib.fol.183] | 228 |
| — | — | 12. | Grant of annuals for sustaining ministers,[Ib.] | 229 |
| — | — | 19. | Provost and bailies desired to get artillery from castle,
[Ib.] | 229 |
| 1567, | April | 4. | Kirk and kirk yard to be kept clean, [Ib.fol.184.] | 229 |
| — | — | 11. | Proclamation against "bickeraris,"[Ib.fol.185.] | 229 |
| — | — | 24. | Repair of a horologe and purchase of another,[Ib.] | 230 |
| — | May | 7. | Building of town wall at the Kirk of Field,
[Ib.fol.186.] | 230 |
| — | — | 12. | Ground at Newhaven to be set to salt makers,[Ib.] | 230 |
| — | — | 16. | Ground desired by salt makers to be visited; gift of
burgess-ship to porter of castle,[Ib.fol.187.] | 230 |
| — | June | 4. | Set to three Englishmen of ground at Newhaven to
make salt on,[Ib.fol.191.] | 231 |
| — | — | 11. | Incoming to town of lords convened in arms for
avenging king's murder,etc.,[Ib.] | 231 |
| — | — | 18. | Act as to making of burgesses,[Ib.] | 231 |
| — | — | 20. | A prisoner set at liberty at Queen's request, [Ib.
fol.192.] | 232 |
| — | July | 2. | Court of superiority of Leith; general weaponschawing;
bond by nobility for avenging King's murder,
[Ib.fol.192–3] | 233 |
| — | — | 9. | Mounting of artillery,[Ib.fol.194.] | 236 |
| 1567, | July | 23. | Bailie of south-west quarter; defence of the town;
bond to be made betwixt the town and the council;
preventing passage over walls, [C.R. Vol. IV.fol.195–6] | 237 |
| — | — | 25. | Bond between castle and town; commissioners to
attend at coronation of King; night watch, [Ib.fol.197.] | 238 |
| — | — | 30. | Persons unlawed for not setting forth fires at coronation, [ib.] | 238 |
| — | August | 1. | Repair of town wall; contract for building town wall, [Ib.fol.198.] | 239 |
| — | — | 8. | Repairing walls, [Ib.fol.199.] | 240 |
| — | — | 13. | Loan of munition to laird of Grange, [Ib.] | 240 |
| — | — | 20. | Apothecaries to desist from selling spices, [Ib.] | 240 |
| — | — | 27. | Inventory of annuals; collector appointed; payment to trumpeters, [Ib.fol.199, 200.] | 240 |
| — | September | 11. | Appointment of collector of duties and annuals, [Ib.fol.201.] | 241 |
| — | October | 1. | Locks and keys of new well, [Ib.fol.203.] | 242 |
| — | — | 3. | Stones of Blackfriars to be restored for building hospital; penalty for drawing blood in fighting, [Ib.fol.204–5] | 242 |
| — | — | 10. | Visitation of Kirk, [Ib. fol. 205.] | 243 |
| — | November | 7. | Officer of Leith to receive button with town's mark,
[Ib.fol.206.] | 243 |
| — | — | 10. | Gift of Trinity College to Edinburgh; master of work
of hospital appointed, [Ib.] | 243 |
| — | — | 14. | Building of hospital, [Ib.fol.207.] | 244 |
| — | — | 20. | Blackfriars lands feued, [Ib.fol.208.] | 244 |
| — | December | 10. | "Ansenyeis" to be made; players on musical instruments, [Ib.fol.211.] | 244 |
| — | — | 24. | Equipment of burgesses, [Ib.fol.212.] | 244 |
| 1547–8 | February | 18. | Altarage of St. Anthony, [Ib.] | 245 |
| — | — | 20. | John Knox's house rent, [Ib.fol.213,] | 245 |
| — | March | 3. | Feu-duty payable to chaplain of St. James' alter and
the hospital, [Ib.fol.214.] | 245 |
| 1567–8, | March | 19. | Fines payable to hospital; repair of pier, causeways, and
kirk; price of material in Blacksfriars yard, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 215.] | 245 |
| — | — | 24. | Money expended on pier, causeways, and kirk; [Ib] | 246 |
| 1568, | March | 27. | Repairs on kirk, [Ib. fol. 217.] | 247 |
| — | April | 7. | Pension to an aged Black-friar, [Ib.] | 247 |
| — | — | 9. | Commission to Regent as to licences to carry victuals out
of realm, [Ib.] | 247 |
| — | — | 13. | Collector of contributions to hospital, [Ib.] | 247 |
| — | — | 20 | Gift of two beidmanships; gift of a burgess and guildship,
[Ib.] | 248 |
| — | May | 8. | Supplication of the deacon and brethren of the hammermen; extent for defence of town; weaponshawing, [Ib.] | 248 |
| — | — | 12. | Nightly watch to be kept; "sweschis" to pass nightly
through town, [Ib. fol. 218.] | 249 |
| — | — | 19. | Writing to magistrates of Campheir as to Scotchmen
dwelling three; deacon to advise with crafts as to
passing to army, [Ib.] | 249 |
| — | June | 2. | Licence to abide from army to be craved, [Ib. fol 219.] | 249 |
| — | — | 4. | A burgesship gratis; extent for furnishing soldiers, [Ib.] | 249 |
| — | July | 17. | Work at North Loch; repair of wells, [Ib. fol. 220.] | 250 |
| — | — | 28. | Master of High School, [Ib.] | 250 |
| — | August | 6. | Repair of town walls, [Ib.] | 250 |
| — | — | 11. | Crafts to be convened; artillery borrowed; nightly
watch, [Ib. fol. 221.] | 251 |
| — | — | 26. | Appointment of schoolmaster; stent for expenses of
down-getting duty on wine, [Ib. fol. 221–2.] | 251 |
| — | September | 5 | Stones from Dunbar to shore of Leith, [Ib. fol. 222.] | 252 |
| — | October | 5 | Letter from Lord Regent as to election of council, [Ib.] | 252 |
| — | — | 13. | Visitation of sick persons at the Burghmuir, [Ib. fol. 223.] | 253 |
| — | — | 15. | Statutes for the bailies of the muir and ordering of the
pest; a bailie urged to continue in office; statuttes as to the pest; gift of two beadmanships; gift of
a benefice, [Ib. fol. 223–6.] | 253 |
| 1568, | October | 16. | Appointment of bailies depute to judge upon annuals
and duties, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 225.] | 256 |
| — | — | 17. | Payment for pikes, [Ib.] | 256 |
| — | — | 21. | Burgesses required to remain within town, [Ib. fol.226.] | 256 |
| — | November | 10. | People cleansed of pest; extent for sustaining poor; complaint by Lawson of Hierigs against council
for building dike at South Loch, [Ib. fol. 226.] | 257 |
| — | — | 14. | Inhabitants required to repair injury to South Loch by
Lawson of Hierigs, [Ib.] | 257 |
| — | — | 18. | Watch of eighteen persons; houses adjoining town
walls to be demolished; renewing of causeway,
[Ib. fol. 226–7.] | 257 |
| — | — | 19. | Repair of John Knox's dwelling-house; victuals for
poor infected with pest, [Ib. fol. 227.] | 258 |
| — | December | 17. | Nightly Watch, [Ib. fol. 229.] | 258 |
| — | — | 22. | Officers of the muir discharged, pest having abated. [Ib.] | 259 |
| 1568–9, | January | 1. | Threatened attack by lords of west country, [Ib. fol. 229.] | 259 |
| — | — | 7. | Pulpit in over Tolbooth for preaching to papists;
taverns to be closed in time of preaching, [Ib.] | 259 |
| — | February | 11. | Entry of schoolmaster, [Ib. fol. 231.] | 259 |
| — | — | 17. | Extent for furnishing men to the Regent, [Ib.] | 259 |
| — | March | 4. | Rent of house occupied by John Knox, [Ib. fol. 232.] | 260 |
| 1569, | April | 1. | Annuals of the "Senys," [Ib. fol. 235.] | 260 |
| — | — | 6. | Pest St. Andrews; eschaet goods; kirk gear, [Ib.] | 260 |
| — | — | 9. | Money to be clipped, [Ib. fol. 237.] | 261 |
| — | May | 28. | Attendance of cleansers; burial of dead, [Ib. fol. 240.] | 261 |
| — | June | 1. | Stones taken from Kirk of Leith to bulwark, [Ib.] | 262 |
| — | — | 15. | Water gate in Leith Wynd, [Ib. fol. 241.] | 262 |
| — | July | 29. | Stipend of reader, [Ib. fol. 243.] | 262 |
| — | August | 10. | Annuals payable to hospital and minister, [Ib. fol. 224.] | 262 |
| — | — | 12. | Collector for the ministry accepts office, [Ib.] | 262 |
| — | September | 7. | Inquiry as to encroachments on North Loch, [Ib.] | 262 |
| — | — | 16. | Pikes to be gathered and put in munition house, [Ib. fol. 245.] | 263 |
| — | — | 21. | Arrival of ships suspected of pest, [Ib.] | 263 |
| 1569, | September | 23. | As to what craftsmen should be admitted to thecouncil,
[C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 246.] | 263 |
| — | October | 7. | Removal from town of excommunicated persons, [Ib.
fol. 246.] | 264 |
| — | — | 14. | Letter from Regent asking council to depose
the laird of Grange from office of provost, [Ib.
fol. 247.] | 264 |
| — | — | 21. | Prices of ale and bread, [Ib. fol. 248.] | 265 |
| — | — | 26. | Master of "foul muir" to be cleansed and discharged,
[Ib.] | 265 |
| — | November | 16. | Provost's ox at Alhallowmas fair, [Ib.] | 265 |
| — | December | 2. | Desire of candlemakers to choose a deacon, [Ib.
fol. 249.] | 266 |
| — | — | 16. | Inhabitants of Leith to desist from selling wine,
[Ib. fol. 250.] | 266 |
| — | — | 30. | Delivery of town from pest; payment to officers. [Ib.] | 267 |
| 1569–70, | January | 20. | Duty of "clerk male" to be given to reader; privileges
of gratis burgesses, [Ib. fol. 252.] | 267 |
| — | — | 25. | Troubles after murder of Regent; watch appointed;
keeping of ports; proclamation as to weapons,
[Ib.] | 267 |
| — | — | 27. | Commissioners to promise assistance to Lord Morton;
as to removal of lords of session; ports and artillery
to be put in order, [Ib. fol. 252–3.] | 268 |
| — | February | 1. | Commissioners to convene with lords of nobility,
[Ib. fol. 253.] | 269 |
| — | March | 3. | Commission of 27th January ratified,[Ib. fol. 254.] | 269 |
| — | — | 8. | Guard during time of convention; officers to await on
bailies, [Ib.] | 269 |
| — | — | 22. | Watch to be continued; South Loch to be repaired;
keeping of ports, [Ib fol. 254–5.] | 270 |
| — | — | 24. | Rent of grammer school in Friar Wynd, [Ib. fol. 255.] | 270 |
| 1570, | April | 12. | Answer giving welcome to lords of west country, [Ib.] | 271 |
| — | — | 14. | Addition to night watch, [Ib.] | 271 |
| — | — | 19. | Upholding of town clock, [Ib.] | 271 |
| 1570, | May | 11. | Gift to laird of Grange, captain of the castle, [Ib.
fol. 256.] | 271 |
| — | May | 17. | Proclamation of weaponshawing, [C.R. Vol. IV. fol.
256.] | 272 |
| — | — | 26. | Missives to burghs as to Scots ships in France, [Ib.] | 272 |
| — | June | 2. | Surety for a printer not printing books without licence, [Ib.] | 272 |
| — | — | 16. | Writing sent to Earl of Huntly, [Ib. fol. 257.] | 272 |
| — | July | 12. | Commissioners to conventio for electing a Regent;
decreet as to usurping offices of deacons of crafts
in town of Leith and Barony of Restalrig, [Ib.
fol. 259.] | 272 |
| — | — | 14. | Contract between council and Captain Cokburne as to discharge of proclamation against merchandice
with France, [Ib. fol. 258.] | 274 |
| — | — | 19. | Proclamation against buying certain prizes brought in French ships; meeting of commissioners of burghs,[Ib. fol. 260.] | 275 |
| — | August | 5. | Artillery lent to Jedburgh, [Ib.] | 275 |
| — | — | 9. | Watch during Regent's absence, [Ib. fol. 261.] | 276 |
| — | — | 11. | Deacons to bewarned to consult as to common affairs,[Ib.] | 276 |
| — | — | 15. | Regulations as to watch, [Ib.] | 276 |
| — | — | 23. | A carter fined for breaking the Sabbath, [Ib. fol. 262.] | 276 |
| — | — | 24. | Money for support of ministers, [Ib.] | 277 |
| — | September | 8. | Old holes of Muse well to be opened, [Ib. fol. 263.] | 277 |
| — | — | 27. | List of craftsmen for election fo two councillors, [Ib.] | 277 |
| — | October | 18. | Stance for crames; booth doors to be shut up, [Ib. fol. 265] | 277 |
| — | — | 20. | Protest by provost as to his election; extent for expenses of ambassadors to England, [Ib.] | 277 |
| — | — | 25. | Deacons to be convened as to support of ministers; loosing arrestments of ships in France, [Ib.] | 278 |
| — | November | 1. | Answer by deacons as to support of ministers, [Ib. fol. 266.] | 278 |
| 1570, | November | 8. | Commissioner sent to King of France, [Ib.] | 279 |
| — | — | 15. | Collectors of ministers' stipends, [Ib.] | 279 |
| — | — | 18. | Barrier of timber to be built before Regent's gate,
C.R. Vol. IV. fol. 266.] | 279 |
| — | — | 29. | Repair of shore, pier and bulwarks of Leith, [Ib. fol. 267.] | 279 |
| — | December | 1. | Duty granted by master mariners for repair of pier and
havin of Leith, [Ib.] | 280 |
| — | — | 6. | Statute imposing the duty; dicreet against craftsmen
of Leith, [Ib. fol. 267, 269.] | 280 |
| — | — | 8. | Claim by farmers of common muir, it having been
"flayne" by captain of the castle, [Ib. fol. 269] | 281 |
| — | — | 27. | Nightly watch; keeping of ports, [Ib. fol. 270.] | 281 |
| 1570–1, | February | 2. | Captain of castle to be consulted as to defence of town,
[Ib. fol. 271.] | 282 |
| — | — | 3. | Report of captain's answer, [Ib. fol. 271.] | 282 |
| — | — | 7. | Prices of burgesships and gildships, [Ib. fol. 271–2] | 282 |
| — | — | 9. | Proclamation against excommunicated persons; a bailie
and the treasurer sent to the Regent, [Ib. fol. 272.] | 283 |
| — | — | 16. | Liberty to be asked for ships to pass to France, [Ib.] | 283 |
| — | March | 14. | Proclamation against trafficking with ships arrived in
Leith with prizes, [Ib. fol. 273.] | 283 |
| 1571, | — | 30. | Protest against setting a prisoner at liberty; extent for
expenses in getting down duty on wine and in
obtaining liberty for ships, [Ib. fol. 274.] | 284 |
| — | April | 14. | Price of Dutch beer; writings sent to Regent, [Ib. fol.
275.] | 284 |
| — | — | 20. | Thanks to the Earl of Morton, Lord Dunfermline and
the provost for their services. [Ib.] | 285 |
| — | — | 28. | Captain of the castle asked not to suffer inhabitants to
be molested, [Ib.] | 285 |
| — | May | 1. | Writings sent to Regent intimating arrangement
between the town and the captain of the castle,
[Ib.] | 285 |
| Appendix |
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| List of the Aldermen or Provosts, Presidents, Bailies, and other Office-Bearers
of the City, from A.D. 1527 to A.D. 1571, | 287 |