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

the said Burgh Under a penaltie of 13s 8d for is offence 40s the 2d – And ten punds the 3d
Offence.
As to such Actions as are to be brought before the Guild Court.
The Guildry from an Application from the Minister Make Certain inactments in to their Keeping
the Church, under penalties &c.
Act demanding the attending the Gild Brethren at all funerals of Guild Brothers Or any of their
families under a penalty.
In 1601
The debts due to the guildry fund were ordered in to be laid out on heritable Subjects.
1605
From this period the Election of the Dean which had heretofore been Annually Chosen does
not appear in the Guild records.
In 1612
A new Mort cloth is ordered – The dues 3sh Scotts – to Gentlemen dying within Burgh, 10
Merks – and to Strangers Landward 10sh Scotts.
The person in the office of Dean Appoints no less than 28 Members as Assessors.
In the reverse end of this Book of the Toun Records is the following entry takes place
dated the 2 nd March 1680
The said day the Dean of Guild and Assessors Accompanied by several of the Merchants
having seriously considered the several Ancient liberties of the Guild ratified and Confirmed
by His Majesties Royal Ancestors particularlie ane Mortification Made by the Merchands and
Gild Brethren for them and their successors payable out of all commodities exported by them
out of any port of this Kingdom to any foreign Kingdom after the Reformation called the Gild
Silver to be collected and employed for Support of decayed Merchants within this Burgh And
Other proper uses which they have Several times ratified and Confirmed & particularly in the
Year 1592 – complaint being given by Certain Merch’ts and Gild Brethren Anent the oversight
of theCollection – The Provost Baillies dean of Guild – Council Assessors and the whole
bodies of the estaite of Merchands of the Burgh being conveinid Unanimously Consented that
All goods paying Custom to His Majesty’s Customs transported furth of this realm by
whatsomever freeman should pay ane Certain duty to the Guild Pro rato according to the
table insert in the said Act which that the same Might endure And Remain irrevocable for
them and their Successors As a Law they caused insert the Same in the Old Book containing
the Register of the Acts of the Gild and have All Subscribed the same – And it is Ordained by
the Dean of Guild and his Assessors in the year 1612 that whoever refuses to pay the said
dutie to the Collector or Tacksman of the said Gild Silver that he be compelled to make
payment thereof and to pay double the Amount thereof which Custume of rouping and
Collecting the said Gild Silver doth Continue until about the beginning of the Intestine troubles
of the Nation – Neither is there any act rescinding or discharging the Same. Therefore the
said Court Considering that the same dutie cannot in Consequence be detained and that the
same is of Consideration to the estate they therefore do ratify &c &c.
1696
This Ends Mr Homes Abstracts from the Records of Council – the following Book of Records
Amissing up to 1756 and which follows is their book at page 108. The above Indices or
reference are made to point those Entries in the Town record which are not Copied in from
page 1 to 75 here and may be referred to in Mr Homes Extracts in possession of the Guildry –
The Index following in the succeeding page relate to those Extracts taken from the Towns
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