Miscellaneous Transcripts 1513-1770 (336KB PDF) - Dundee City ...

electit be yame bot be ye hail auld Counsale – Qlk ye said provost Baillies & c’sale thocht
reasonable and aggreable wt ye said Decreet & Actis of parliament – And thairfoir procedit to
ye Electioun And Nomonatit and Electit all wt uniforme consent (except ye said Robert
Goldman Willm Hill and Patrick Hodge wha wold na way voit on ye electioun of ye p’sones for
ye Craftis onlie) The p’sones following to be upon ye New C’sale of ye said burt for ye zeir to
cum viz. Johne Findlasone Geo Ramsay Johne Schewan Johne Peirsone for ye C’sale ye
Zeir preceding – Mr Fergusone Alexr Ramsay,Thomas Auchinleck, John Fullerton Skipr and
James Man all M’chandis of ye said burt & John Alasone, Baxter, Willm Pittilock, skyner and
John Renkyne, cordiner – wha all present has givine yr aithes wt all solemnitie requisit for
faythfull Administratioun & discharge of ye offices for ye Zeir to Cum – Attour ye foirsaid
p’sones alsweit of ye Ald C’sale as ye new C’sale All wt ane consent but variance Noiat ye
p’sones under wrieten to be upon the Lites for ye p’vest & baillies of ye sid burt to be electit
for ye Zeir to Cum Viz Sir Jas Scrymzuir of Dudhope knicht Provest
For Baillies
Wm Duncan John Findlaysone
Wm Auchinleck Thomas Mane
John Lowell Patrick Zeaman
William Goldman James Mudye
And ye said William Duncane Alle’t that he aucht nether to be put upon the Lite of ye Baillies
nor to be electit to the Office of Bailliarie of ye said burt because at ye tyme of ye last
Electioun he wis put upon the Lite wt ye provest – Lyck as it is of veritie that a grit pairt of ye
zeir preceeding he usit ye said p’vists office as deputt to him during ye tyme of his remaining
furth of ye Realme in Ingland – And sa can not be burdinit wt any office yis zeir following &
Speciallie wt nae office inferior to ye provestes office accordig to ye custome of ye best
reformit burrowes p’testing for Remid gif he be electit to ye said office of Bailliarie – And Lyck
as the said William Auchinleck declared that he was not ane resident wtin yis burt & yrfoir au’t
not to be noiat to beir any office wtin ye burt Sam & lyck as he had borne offices wtin ye burt
for three zeirs bygone wt intermissioun and yrfoir p’testit for remid gif he be electit and yrupon
askit Actis.-
Here follows an order to Conveen upon Sunday next immidiately after Forenoon Service in
the “Revestree” – as the ordinary place decreed of Old for Electing the Provest Baillies &
council under a penalty of aucheen pundis for the Support of the poor.
Sigisimo Secundo die Mensis Septembris Millimo Seccentesimo Quento 1605
Quhilk day Sir James Scryumzuir Provest of the burt of Dundee, the Baillies and Sundrie
p’sones of ye Auld C’sale – Mr Fergusone Alex Ramsay Thomas Auchinleck John Fullerton
Skipr, Johne Alasone William Pittiloik and John Renkyne p’sones of the New C’sale for the
said burt And ye Dekynis of Craftis – underwreetin Viz.
Johne Alason dekyne of the Baxters
Patrick Gardyne Dn of ye Skyneris
Gabriel Symer dekyne of ye Cordineris
Patrick Ramsay Dekyne of ye hammerman
John Nicoll Dekyne of ye Tailzioris
Alex Kynmond Dekyne of ye Walkeris
James Moudy Dekyne of ye Brabaneris
Patrick Smart Dekyne of ye Flecheoris
Geirge Barclay Dekyne of ye Bonnermakeris
Being all convenit solemly yis Sunday immediatllie preceeding Michaelmis day – In ye
Revestrie of ye said burt for after ye hering of ye word of God for the Lectioun of the Provest,
Baillies, Dine of Gild and The’r of the said burt for ye zeir to Cum conforme to ye Ancient
Custume Abservit wtin ye said burt Accordig to ye Laits Decreet Arbitral pornuncit anent ye
forme to be Kepit in ye Electioun of ye said magistrates – (here follows the Names of the
Elected to the Several offices a part of whom took the Oath of Observance and discharge of
their Several duties). Three of the Number refused to Acept or give their Oaths Vz Wm
Auchinleck – Johne Lowell and William Duncane – Upon which the Electers protested against
them And against three absentees – Thereafter follows a Minute of their having Accepted.
Decimo die Mensis Decembris 1605
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