The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 28 March 2024
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Act for four fairs and a weekly mercat in favors of Archbald Mackalester of Tarbet
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 four yearly fairs and a weekly mercat, on the dayes following, at the toun of East Tarbet, in the shire of Argyll, belonging to Archbald Mackalester of Tarbet, do therefore, by thir presents, appoint four fairs to be kept and holden yearly, in all time comeing, one thereof to begin upon the tenth day of May, another to begin on the sixteenth day of July, another to begin upon the nineteenth day of August, and the other to begin upon the sixteenth day of October, and each of them to continue two dayes, and a weekly mercat to be holden, in all time comeing, every Tuesday, at the said toun of East Tarbet; and have given and granted and hereby give and grant to the said Archbald Mackalester, his heirs and successors, the right and priviledge of keeping the said yearly fairs and weekly mercat for all kinds of merchandice, with all the tolls, customes and casualities thereof, and all other liberties, priviledges and immunities and advantages used and wont to belong to any haveing the priviledge of keeping fairs and mercats within this kingdom.
- NAS. PA2/39, f.74-74v.