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Act for a weekly mercat and two fairs in favors of Sir Alexander Anstruther of Newwark

Our sovereign lady and estates of parliament, considering that fairs and mercats in convenient places tend much to the good and advantage 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 every Tuesday in all time comeing within the burgh of barony of Saint Mineans and Newwark, in the shire of [...],² and belonging to Sir Alexander Anstruther of Newwark, and that in place of the weekly mercat formerly appointed to be holden there on Friday, and two fairs to be kept within the said burgh on the dayes following, do therefore, by thir presents, appoint a weekly mercat to be kept every Tuesday in all time comeing within the said burgh of barony, in place of the said former weekly mercat, and also two fairs to be kept within the said burgh yearly, in all time comeing, one upon the second Tuesday of July and the other on the second Tuesday of September; and have given and granted and hereby give and grant to the said Sir Alexander Anstruther, 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.