1815 - 1817 Scroll Book - Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee

William Neish, James Adam, William Stephen, James Soot, Alexander Whyte, Robert Stirling,
Thomas Neish Jnr., James Duncan Junior, James Stewart, James Duncan, William Chalmers,
Walter Newal, Robt. Farquharson, William Fairweather, John Low Jr., George Nicol Yr., Peter
Couper, James Pullar, Lyon Alexander, Thomas Hood, John Fenton, Gilbert Pirie, David Low
Junior, William Kermack, Charles Rodger, Thomas Webster Jr., John Moir, George Brown,
Alexr. Pirie, John Luke, William Bisset, John Cairncross, Alexander Kay, Geo. Webster,
Thomas Watt, Peter Thomson, William Howie, James Campbell, Robert Mudie, John Watt,
Andrew Hood, John Sturrock, Charles Brown, Peter Crichton, David Smart, David Blair
Junior, Robert Thornton, Geo. Baxter, George L. Baxter, Thos. Smart, John Banks, Peter
Chisholm, H. Clark, John Taylor, Andrew Mount, Archibald Scott, David Stephen.
(137 members)
At a Meeting of the Guildry Incorporation of Dundee held within the Ancient Operative Lodge
there on the 14 th day of July 1817
Robert Jobson Esq in the Chair.
The Preses stated to the Meeting that he had taken the earliest opportunity to call the Guildry
together to receive more detailed information regarding the reception of the Petition in the
Convention of Burghs.
The Clerk of the Committee now detailed the communication which he had received from
Edinburgh on the subject –
Mr John Peter then made these resolutions –
1 st That the Guildry Incorporation of Dundee having taken into consideration the deliverance
of the Honourable the Convention of Royal Burghs, on the Petition lately presented by them
to that respectable body are unanimously if opinion that it would be respectful towards the
Magistrates and Council to present to them another petition founded on the said deliverance
of the Convention praying that they would be pleased to restore to the Guildry its rights and
privileges, as an Incorporation, as the only means of restoring peace and harmony to the
Toun.
2d. That a petition to the Magistrates and Council now read to this Meeting be approved of
and subscribed by all the Members of the Incorporation and thereafter presented to the Toun
Council by the Committee or such of their number as they may appoint for that purpose.
3 rd . That the Guildry are highly grateful at the result of their application to the Convention of
Royal Burghs where an open discussion of their claims was all that they expected or asked,
they feel that their warmest thanks are due to Messers Inglis and Gibson for the readiness and
zeal with which they directed their great talents to the support of the Petition; a support the
more estimable in the Guildry’s eyes because hey know that it was given from the most
disinterested motives and on the most liberal views of public good.
4 th . The Guildry are also happy to perceive among those who supported their cause, and to
whom they owe the tribute of their gratitude the delights of most of the surrounding Burghs,
where the merits of the question may be supposed to be best understood.
In Convener Thomas Miller of Edinburgh they recognise an old friend connected with Dundee
by the ties of family, and whose independent and manly conduce to equal honour to himself
and it.
5 th . That the Committee be therefore instructed to transmit the thanks of the Guildry to these
meritorious individuals.
Mr Robert Stirling seconded the Resolution which was carried unanimously.
Captain Blair moved the following as a sixth resolution.
That the Committee be instructed to communicate an account of these proceedings to the
Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee to congratulate them in being restored by the
Convention of Royal Burghs to the weight and influence which belong to them as well as the
result of the united efforts of the Trades and Guildry, to thank the Trades for their past
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