The history of Edinburgh : from its foundation to the present time. Containing a faithful relation of the publick transactions of the citizens; accounts of the several parishes; its governments, civil, ecclesiastical, and military; incorporations of trades and manufactures; courts of justice; state of learning; charitable foundations, &c. With the several accounts of the parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other districts within the suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present state of the town of Leith, and a perambulation of divers miles round the city. With an alphabetical index. In nine books / By William Maitland. The whole illustrated with a plan of the town, and a great variety of other fine cuts of the principal buildings within the city and suburbs.
- Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Edinburgh : from its foundation to the present time. Containing a faithful relation of the publick transactions of the citizens; accounts of the several parishes; its governments, civil, ecclesiastical, and military; incorporations of trades and manufactures; courts of justice; state of learning; charitable foundations, &c. With the several accounts of the parishes of the Canongate, St. Cuthbert, and other districts within the suburbs of Edinburgh. Together with the antient and present state of the town of Leith, and a perambulation of divers miles round the city. With an alphabetical index. In nine books / By William Maitland. The whole illustrated with a plan of the town, and a great variety of other fine cuts of the principal buildings within the city and suburbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![1562. Ibid. f. 34. 24th June. Ibid. f. 41. 27th Auguit. Chap. II. of ED IN B UR G H. Time very obnoxious to many devout Ci¬ tizens, the Council, to prevent the Practice thereof, enabled, that all Fornicators fliould be duck’d in a certain Place of the Nordloch, wherein a Pillar was eredled for that Pur- pofe. The Reformation pf Religion in Edin¬ burgh being carried to fuch a Height, the Council not only caufed the Picture of St. Giles (by them called the Idol) to be cut out of the Town’s Standard* and the Thiltle to be infer ted in its Head ; but they ordain¬ ed foon after, that no Perfon fhall be eli¬ gible to be chofen into any Office in this City, but fuch as are of the reformed Reli- gion. The Monks and Nuns, by the Reforma¬ tion of Religion in Scotland, being difpof- felfed of their Monafteries and Lands there¬ unto belonging, which being in the Difpo- fal of the Government, the Common Coun¬ cil of Edinburgh applied to the Queen, to have Part thereof granted to them for cha¬ ritable Ufes, as will appear by the follow- | ing Petition. 44 Madame, Unto zowr Grace humlie 44 menis and lchewis, we zowr Servitors the 44 Proved:, Baillies, Counfale* and Com- 44 montie of the Burgh of Edinburgh, that 44 quhair for Laik of Provifioun to fupporte 44 thame quhilks ar indeid puir, that their « miferabih Eftait being under the Hands u of God, and vefeit be him be Seiknes, cc it u to bring up the Zouth, quhairto, is nocht only requiret Places and Rume, bot als re- fonabill Levings and Stipends; quhilks for u Inhabilitie and Povertie of the Burrow is u cannocht be thame be performit. ” 44 And zoure Heines underftanding, that, to oure laid Toune, reforts ma Puir than to ony other of this Realme. And alfo, that oure Zouth is of lie Nomer, that Pitie it war; feeing God, at this Tyme givis fie pregnant Meynis, the fame “ fuld peras; and therefore, with Support 44 of zoure Grace, we mynd na thing mair “ than to ere£l Hofpitalis and refonabill 44 Scules within oure faid Toun, quhairin the Puir, quhilk ar indeed puir, may be fuf- 44 tenit* and the Zouth nurefit and brocht up in Letters, fua, that refonabill Levings war providit thairto •, quhilk at na tyme 44 before culd better be done, nor now, quhen “ Lands and Annells within oure faid Toun pertening to Preiftis* Freiris and utheris “ ar within zoure HieneS Hands, with the 1 quhilks we doute nocht, but zoure Grace 1 bering fic Favour to Letteris and Science ? and Support of the Puir, will prefentlie “ bellow to the Effedl foirfaid.” 44 Thairfore we befeik zoure gude Grace “ to have Confideratioun heirof, and feeing 44 that Ze are minddit, that Letters and Sci- 44 ence increafe within zoure Realme •, and 44 that the Puir quhais Clamour afeends to 44 Hevin be fuftenit: That zoure Grace CC u 44 Aige, and utherwis* the Nomer of llurdy I will grant and difpone to us the Situatioun _ _ 1 ( _ L ' _ .. 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M «VT ■ W A* l—. ink 44 Beggeris daylie increfeis in fic Sorte; that 44 thay, quhilks baith be the Law of God 44 and Nature, oucht to be helpit, ar nocht 44 unknawin fra thame ; quhilks of all Re- 44 foun and Equitie fuld be compellit to tra 44 veil for thair Leifing and Suftentatioun <l being Hark and potent of Body that tc Way to labour* and nocht Onlie ar the “ llurdy Beggeris thairthrow follerit, bot “ of the Blak Freris, togidder with the “ Zards to beig ane Hofpitale upoun for “ the Puir ; and alfwa, caufs fome Adrefs to “ be maid, that we may have the Place, “ Kirk, Chalmers; and Houfes of the Kirk “ of Field to beig ane Scule, we fatisfiand “ refonablie thairfore.” “ And alfo that zoure Grace will gif and and difpone to us for fultening of the Ho- « als in thair Beggerrie begettis Childrene ; “ fpitale and Scule foirfaid, the Annells of « quhilks, fra their Zouth, ar brought up « beggand, makand thair begging quhairby “ thay prefantlie leif and ar withdrawin fra « Labour to leif idillie, and to be untrull 44 fua, that gif Remeid be nocht had thair- 44 to, the Police fall be havelie hurt, and 44 the Puir alwayis contempnit and negle 6lit, 44 And ficklyke, it is nocht unknawin to zoure Hienes, that the common Ordour quhairby men atteins to ferve the Com¬ mon Weill of their Cuntrie, cumis be Letteris, Lerning and Sciences; quhilks cannocht be obtenit, bot be lerning at cc (C <( cc cc 1562. Chaplanreis and Freiris, being prefentlie zoure Grace’s Hands, and the Rema- 44 nent of the famen, quhen they fall pertento 44 zoure Grace: And becaus oure faid Toun 44 is populous, and the Multitude thairof 44 greit, that zoure Hienes will give to us the 44 Zairdis of the Gray-Frieris and Situatioun 44 thairof, being fum quhat dillant from oure 44 Toun, to make ane Buriale-place of, to 44 burie and eird the Perfonnis deceilfand 44 thairin; fua, that thairthrow, the Airwith- 44 in oure faid Toun may be the mair pure 44 and clene: and we doute nocht, but zoure 44 Grace fall fchortlie fe the Puir within the Scules; quhilks, for ihe maill parte, dois I 44 faid Toun, to be fa fupportit, that Zouth in all Partis decay, fua that na Regarde 44 fall be fa brocht up in Letteris, that the is had thairto ; and the Zouth thairthrow I 44 Polleritie to cum fall have greit Comforte 44 brought to lick barborous Ignorance, that I 44 thairof, to the Praifs of zour Hienes in all 44 lamentable it is to be regratit. The Re- 44 Tymes cuming, and zoure Anlfer humlie 44 meidof baith, the quhilks we doute nocht, 1 44 we befeik.” 44 bot be the erecting of Hofpitalis to fu- I To this Petition, the Queen caufed the 44 ftene the Puir; and by planting of Scules ] following Anfwer to be returned. Apud](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30451644_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
