Order: for access to the prisoners in the tolbooth
Ordinance anent those in the tolbooth

The estates of parliament discharge all former warrants granted for liberty or access to speak with those incarcerated within the tolbooth of Edinburgh and who are cited or sentenced in parliament, except only such warrants as are or shall be granted by Sir John Smith [of Grotehill], provost of Edinburgh, for that effect, and order none to have access to speak with the said persons so incarcerated in the tolbooth except by warrant of the said Sir John Smith, provost of Edinburgh.

  1. NAS. PA2/23, f.242r. Back