[1706/10/454]¹

Act in favour of [James Livingstone], earl of Linlithgow and Callander for a toll on the bridge of Larbert for 22 years²

Our sovereign lady the queen's majesty and the estates of parliament, considering that the bridge of Larbert, upon the water of Carron, was built by the earl of Linlithgow's predecessors upon their own charges, and being upon the highway and public road, from the west to Edinburgh and from the north to the south parts of the kingdom, the said bridge and the ways and calsays leading to and from the same, and the calsay of the town of Falkirk belonging also to the said earl, are much damnified and impaired by the continual passing of carts and loaded horse and require a considerable expense to uphold and preserve the same for the common benefit and advantage of the lieges. Therefore, her majesty, with consent of the estates of parliament, appoints and allows 4d Scots for each cart, 2d for each loaded horse and 12d Scots for each score of all droves of cows that shall pass along the said bridge of Larbert or town of Falkirk, to be exacted and uplifted by the said earl of Linlithgow, or those commissioned by him, to be employed for preserving, repairing and upholding of the said bridge, ways, and calsays of Falkirk, and that for the space of twenty-one years after the date hereof.