[1706/10/453]¹

Act for clearing the passage through the Mary Wynd in the burgh of Stirling

Our sovereign lady, considering that the easiness and patency of high roads to, through and from royal burghs concerns the policy of the kingdom, and that the common passage through the town of Stirling (a place of great frequency and where her majesty has her royal castle and palace) is greatly impeded by several forestairs or outshoots in the street or wynd called Mary Wynd, so as neither coaches nor ladened carts or wains can conveniently pass, therefore, her majesty, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, statute and ordain that the magistrates of Stirling shall, between now and 1 May next, take down the said forestairs or outshoots and build stairs to the said houses so that the street may not be incommoded, and that at the sight and with the approbation of [John Erskine], earl of Mar, Lieutenant Colonel John Erskine, commissioner for the said burgh, and Sir John Erskine of Alva, or any two of them.