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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CONSTITUTION OF THE BURGH?MODE OF ELECTION OF MAGISTRATES AND COUNCIL. ' HE grant by King David the First to the Abbacy of Holycross, permitting the erection of the Burgh of Canons- burgh, or Canongate as now termed, was confirmed by succeeding Mon- archs. One of the Charters dated in 1594 is as follows: ? Our Soverane Lorde and Estates of this present Parliament, ratifies, approves, and for hes hiennis and hes successors perpetuallie confirm the erection of the Burgh of Cannogait, with the haill auld privileges, immunities, and liberties granted to the said Burghe, Superioritie, Burgesses, Craftismen, and Inhabitants of the samyn; be hes hiennis and hes predecessours in tyme by-gane befoir the date hereof, in all and sundrie clauses, articles, privileges, and circumstances, quhatsumevir specified and contenit thairin, providing alwees that the Magistrates tak sufficient ordour anent the removin of thecommon and idle beggars, of the gait and street thereof. From the last clause, the Burgh apparently was a favourite resort of the common and idle beggars, attributable in a great measure to its being in the vicinity of the residence of Royalty, and of the nobility of Scotland. Alms-giving was liberally bestowed, and a recognised obligation on the community when under the guidance of the Roman Catholic Church, but at that period, like the present, taken advantage of by the common and idle. Although various acts had been passed, and severe punishments inflicted on the vagabonds, or idle beggars, and those who harboured them in their houses, they had greatly increased both in the City and Canongate, so much so, that citizens could not stand and confer upon the streets, nor under stairs, but they are impeshit by numbers of beggars. The Sett, or Const...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217225625
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217225624
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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