Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Mason Wright Webster Waker } 1 Entrie Upset Brought forward, £12 0 10 13 6 10 10 0 4 8 0 0 Entrie . . . .0 Bonnetmaker f Upset .... 2 Furriour J by their owkly pennies, and dewties of their Bur- £ geships ..... Dean of Gild Burgeship, . . . 5 0 0 by the Dewties foresaids, Wha was na Burgesses prenties, double dewties, 4 by his dewty to gild, quhilk is . ' . 20 0 0 for his Burgesship, and 1 for his Gildrie . . . 40 0 0 Owkly pennies .... Unlaws and sicklike .... Scots money, £84 10 0 And the common good so defined, was expressly constituted ' for * support and relief of the failzeit and decayet burgesses, merchants, ' and craftsmen, their wyves, bairns, and auld servants, and uther 1 poor indwellers of the town.' 8. The Archdeanery of Lothian.—It appears from a charter, dated 29th July 1587, that King James VI. ratified a previous grant ' of the Kirhlands, Trinity College, Provostry of Kirkfield, and Arch- * deanery of Lothian, for the use of the ministers, college, and poob '—and in 1612, a new grant of the said haill Kir Hands for main- ' taining the ministers, college, and poor was given to the Council.' Besides lands, there were certain sums mortified in the hands of the magistrates for behoof of the poor. Among these were— 9. Sir James M'Lurg's mortification^ 10. Mrs Hair, 11. John Riddell of Grange, 12. Thomas Stodhart, 13. Sir Thomas Hope, Accumulated in 1719 into one bond p. 14. John Wightman of Maulsley, £166 13 222 100 44 83 4 4 6 0 0 8 11 6 8 £616 13 500 0 i 0 Accumulated into one bond p. £1116 13 4 15. R. Johnston's mortification, £3000 0 0 16. Paul's Work do. . 215 0 0 Accumulated into one bond p. Forglen's acre, £10 per ann.—say £250 0 0 Feu-duties, £5, lis., per ann.—say 138 15 0 3215 0 0 Carried forward, £388 15 0 £4331 13 4