Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Wilson and Gilbert Blair, barbers in the Canongate / [John Wilson].

  • Wilson, John
Date:
1742]
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Credit: Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Wilson and Gilbert Blair, barbers in the Canongate / [John Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jk % \ 4 ■■ m* . \ ^ o •>(, 8 *•**« ■' ‘•'w-' ■ ■ -(A “A , *2 J November 8th, i742* ' . V . ... ., j «. the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council andSeffion-, THE P E I O F John (Vilfm and Gilbert Blair, Barbers in the Canongate, Humbly Sheweth, HAT in ancient Times, when curl'd Tupees were not lo much in Fafhion as in latter Years, fhaving, polling and drefling of Hair was in this Part of the World efteem'd no other wife than as a Branch of Chyrurgery; the Surgeons were Barbers, and the Barbers were Surgeons, lo that thefe were truly but different Branches of the lame Trade. And thus it appears, that, as early as the 1505, the Surgeons and Barbers of the City of Edinburgh were ereded into one Incorporation, under one common Seal of Caufe, by an Ad of the Town-council of Edinburgh, of that Date : From the whole Scope and Tenor of which it is plain, that none A would