[1662/5/12]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of parliament, taking into their consideration a supplication presented to them by William Cunningham [of Brownhill], provost of Ayr, in name and on behalf of the said burgh, mentioning that by reason of the want of a purpose-built and covered meal-market within the said burgh the people resorting thereto for selling of meal and other victual therein sustain great hurt and prejudice in the time of storm and rain, being necessitated to carry their victual off the streets to houses and under stairs for preserving of the same from rain, and in respect the said burgh, through their present poverty, is not able out of their own common good to build and cover a meal-market without some considerable help; humbly therefore, entreating a warrant for building of the said meal-market and for a supply for effectuating the same. Therefore, the king's majesty and estates of parliament do hereby grant warrant and power to the provost, bailies and council of the said burgh of Ayr to build and cover a meal-market in the most convenient place within the same burgh they shall think fit, without prejudice of any private man's interest in that place; and for the better building and upholding of the same, gives warrant and power to the magistrates and council foresaid to collect and uplift 4s Scots of custom for each sack and load of meal, and 2s Scots for each sack or load of malt or other victual brought to the said market to be sold therein in all time coming, as well from freemen inhabitants of the said burgh as from strangers importers thereof by sea or land, and for that effect to set tacks of the said custom for such time and space as they shall think convenient.
[1662/5/13]*[print] [email] [cite] [preceding] [following]
The estates of parliament, taking into consideration a petition presented to them by Mr Patrick Wemyss, minister at [...], showing that the petitioner has been for many years put from his charge for his loyalty and affection to the king's majesty, and that he, his wife and children were forced all that time to live upon the charity of good people, and albeit in the last session of parliament the petitioner had some competency appointed to him for his present subsistence, yet the same had proved ineffectual and now, understanding that there is one year's stipend for the crop and year 1659 vacant within the parish of Lasswade; therefore, craving that the heritors and others liable in payment of the said year's stipend may be ordained to pay the same to the petitioner. As likewise, considering the report of the lords of the articles upon 5 June last finding the desire of the petition just and reasonable, therefore, our sovereign lord and estates of parliament ordain the heritors, liferenters and others liable in payment of the vacant stipends of the parish of Lasswade, within the shire of Midlothian, for the crop and year 1659 to pay the same to the said Mr Patrick Wemyss, each one of them for their own parts as they were in use to pay for the years preceding, and discharges collectors and subcollectors of the vacant stipends to meddle therewith, and ordain letters of horning to be directed at the said Mr Patrick's instance against the said heritors, liferenters and others liable in payment of the said year's stipend upon a charge of twenty-one days.