The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 17 April 2024
[1705/6/152]1
Act for a weekly mercat and two fairs in favors of Sir Robert Dickson of Inneresk
Our sovereign lady and estates of parliament, considering that fairs and mercats in convenient places tend much to the good and advantadge of the inhabitants thereof and of her majesties' other leidges dwelling near thereto, and that it is very fit for these ends to authorize a weekly mercat to be kept on Tuesday at the toun of Inneresk, lying in the shire of Edinburgh, belonging to Sir Robert Dickson of Inneresk, and two yearly fairs to be holden, upon the dayes following, at the said toun, do therefore, by thir presents, appoint a mercat to be kept weekly on Tuesday in all time comeing at the said toun of Inneresk, and also two fairs to be holden yearly thereat, one thereof to begin upon the second Tuesday of July and the other upon the first Wednesday of October, and each of them to continue from the respective dayes of their beginning to the Saturday of that week; and have given and granted and hereby give and grant to the said Sir Robert Dickson, his heirs and successors, the right and priviledge of keeping the said weekly mercat and yearly fairs for all kinds of merchandice, with all the tolls, customes and casualities thereof, and all other liberties, priviledges and advantages used and wont to belong to any haveing the priviledge of keeping fairs and mercats within this kingdom.
- NAS. PA2/39, f.69v-70.