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         Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.
      
       
         
           1685
        
      
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             Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers
             Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council.
          
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             1685.
          
           
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           Beggars -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Law and legislation.
           Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
           Landlord and tenant -- Law and legislation -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
           Broadsides -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 17th century
        
      
    
     
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             ACT
             ,
          
           Against
           Land
           lords
           setting
           of
           Houses
           to
           Vn-free
           Persons
           ;
           And
           also
           ,
           an
           Act
           for
           purging
           the
           City
           of
           Vagabonds
           and
           Beggers
           .
        
         
           
             
               EDINBURGH
               ,
            
             
               the
               Twenty
               Eighth
               Day
               of
               
                 October
                 ,
              
               One
               Thousand
               Six
               Hundred
               Eeghty
               Five
               Years
               .
            
          
        
         
           THE
           which
           day
           ,
           the
           Lord
           Provost
           ,
           Bailies
           ,
           Council
           ,
           and
           Deacons
           of
           Crafts
           ,
           being
           conveened
           in
           Council
           ,
           taking
           to
           their
           Consideration
           ,
           that
           notwithstanding
           of
           diverse
           Acts
           of
           Council
           made
           for
           purging
           the
           City
           of
           Vagabonds
           Beggers
           ,
           and
           other
           idle
           Persons
           ,
           who
           daily
           trouble
           the
           Inhabitants
           ,
           and
           others
           His
           Majesties
           Leidges
           resorting
           thereto
           ;
           Yet
           they
           are
           so
           numerous
           ,
           that
           the
           Citizens
           and
           other
           His
           Majesties
           Leidges
           ,
           cannot
           without
           great
           trouble
           walk
           upon
           the
           Streets
           ,
           which
           is
           very
           burdensome
           to
           the
           City
           ,
           and
           disgraceful
           to
           the
           place
           :
           Considering
           that
           by
           the
           15
           Act
           of
           the
           third
           Session
           of
           our
           late
           Soveraign
           Lords
           first
           Parliament
           ,
           it
           is
           Declared
           that
           it
           shall
           be
           leisome
           to
           all
           Persons
           or
           Societies
           ,
           who
           have
           ,
           or
           shall
           set
           up
           any
           Manufactories
           within
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           seize
           upon
           ,
           and
           apprehend
           any
           Vagabonds
           ,
           who
           shall
           be
           sound
           Begging
           ,
           on
           who
           being
           Masterless
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           Service
           ,
           and
           have
           not
           wherewith
           to
           maintain
           themselves
           by
           their
           own
           means
           and
           work
           :
           And
           impowering
           them
           to
           employ
           the
           saids
           Vagabond
           persons
           and
           their
           Bairns
           ,
           in
           their
           common
           work
           ,
           and
           declaring
           they
           shall
           continue
           therein
           during
           their
           life
           ▪
           time
           ,
           and
           shall
           be
           subject
           to
           their
           Masters
           correction
           and
           chaftisement
           ,
           in
           all
           manner
           of
           correction
           ,
           (
           life
           and
           torture
           excepted
           )
           The
           saids
           persons
           being
           always
           employed
           by
           the
           saids
           Manufactories
           with
           advice
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           of
           the
           place
           where
           they
           shall
           be
           seized
           upon
           .
           And
           the
           Council
           being
           now
           resolved
           that
           all
           the
           Vagabonds
           ,
           Beggers
           ,
           and
           other
           idle
           persons
           ,
           and
           their
           Children
           that
           are
           above
           the
           age
           of
           5
           years
           ,
           that
           can
           be
           found
           upon
           the
           Streets
           of
           the
           City
           ,
           or
           in
           any
           part
           of
           the
           samine
           ,
           or
           Suburbs
           thereof
           ,
           shall
           be
           apprehended
           and
           put
           into
           the
           Correction-house
           ,
           and
           set
           at
           work
           to
           Spin
           and
           Card
           ,
           and
           working
           such
           Manufactory
           work
           as
           they
           shall
           be
           employed
           to
           do
           by
           the
           Keeper
           of
           the
           Correction-house
           and
           his
           servants
           ,
           which
           they
           judge
           to
           be
           the
           best
           expedient
           for
           purging
           the
           City
           and
           Suburbs
           of
           the
           saids
           idle
           Persons
           and
           Vagabonds
           ,
           and
           preventing
           the
           increase
           of
           them
           in
           time
           coming
           .
           Therefore
           ,
           they
           hereby
           Command
           and
           Charge
           these
           persons
           who
           shall
           receive
           the
           Magistrates
           Commission
           ,
           to
           take
           and
           apprehend
           all
           such
           Vagabonds
           ,
           idle
           Beggers
           ,
           whores
           ,
           Thieves
           ,
           and
           Masterless
           persons
           ,
           and
           their
           Children
           above
           the
           age
           of
           5
           years
           ,
           who
           shall
           be
           found
           within
           the
           City
           ,
           or
           any
           part
           thereof
           ,
           or
           Suburbs
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           present
           them
           to
           the
           Magistrates
           ,
           that
           thereafter
           they
           may
           be
           Imprisoned
           within
           ,
           the
           said
           House
           of
           Correction
           ,
           to
           be
           set
           at
           work
           by
           the
           said
           Master
           of
           the
           Correction-house
           and
           his
           Servants
           ,
           in
           manner
           foresaid
           ;
           who
           are
           to
           remain
           therein
           during
           all
           the
           days
           of
           their
           life-time
           ,
           conform
           to
           the
           tenor
           of
           the
           said
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           during
           the
           which
           space
           they
           are
           to
           receive
           all
           manner
           of
           punishment
           and
           correction
           ,
           (
           life
           and
           torture
           excepted
           :
           )
           And
           in
           like
           manner
           ,
           the
           Council
           taking
           into
           consideration
           ,
           that
           the
           City
           hath
           been
           ,
           and
           is
           greatly
           abused
           ,
           by
           suffering
           Strangers
           ,
           Vagabonds
           ,
           un-free
           Persons
           ,
           poor
           and
           indigent
           Bodies
           ,
           to
           plant
           and
           have
           their
           Habitations
           within
           this
           City
           ;
           and
           that
           by
           harbouring
           of
           the
           saids
           persons
           (
           and
           such
           as
           they
           resett
           )
           the
           Town
           is
           defiled
           with
           all
           kind
           of
           Vice
           ,
           the
           liberty
           of
           Free-men
           usurped
           ,
           the
           City
           over-burdened
           with
           sustaining
           of
           that
           kind
           of
           people
           ,
           their
           Wives
           ,
           Children
           .
           and
           such
           as
           they
           resett
           ,
           particularly
           in
           the
           time
           of
           Death
           ,
           and
           the
           Monthly
           contribution
           appointed
           for
           their
           own
           poor
           ,
           employed
           and
           consumed
           upon
           them
           :
           and
           that
           for
           remeed
           thereof
           ,
           the
           Magistrates
           and
           Council
           by
           their
           Act
           of
           the
           Date
           the
           22
           
             th
             .
          
           day
           of
           
             December
             ,
          
           1676.
           years
           ,
           did
           Statute
           and
           Ordain
           ,
           that
           no
           persons
           set
           their
           Houses
           or
           Lands
           within
           the
           City
           ,
           or
           Suburbs
           thereof
           ,
           in
           any
           time
           hereafter
           ,
           to
           any
           unfree
           persons
           ,
           that
           are
           not
           Landed
           Gentlemen
           ,
           or
           Members
           of
           the
           Colledge
           of
           Justice
           ,
           without
           a
           special
           Ticket
           from
           the
           Bailie
           of
           the
           Quarter
           in
           Writt
           ,
           within
           whose
           Bounds
           the
           saids
           Lands
           lyes
           ,
           under
           the
           pain
           of
           an
           Un-law
           of
           Twenty
           Pounds
           ,
           to
           be
           taken
           off
           the
           Setters
           or
           Owners
           of
           the
           saids
           Lands
           ,
           or
           Houses
           ,
           ilk
           person
           to
           whom
           their
           Land
           or
           Houses
           was
           to
           be
           set
           ,
           with
           the
           Escheat
           of
           an
           Years
           Mail
           to
           the
           Towns
           use
           :
           And
           where
           any
           Lands
           or
           Houses
           are
           set
           to
           such
           persons
           that
           the
           Owners
           ,
           or
           Setters
           ,
           remove
           the
           saids
           persons
           instantly
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Bailies
           shall
           give
           no
           Ticket
           to
           the
           saids
           unfree
           persons
           ,
           but
           upon
           Caution
           to
           be
           found
           Acted
           in
           the
           Town
           Books
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           keep
           and
           fulfill
           the
           Articles
           following
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           That
           they
           shall
           receive
           no
           Vagabonds
           ,
           Naughty
           or
           Vitious
           Persons
           ,
           nor
           any
           who
           are
           suspect
           of
           Theft
           ,
           or
           Reset
           of
           Theft
           ,
           or
           of
           keeping
           of
           Brothel-houses
           ,
           nor
           Masterless-persons
           within
           their
           Houses
           ,
           under
           the
           pain
           of
           Twenty
           Pounds
           ,
           so
           oft
           as
           they
           failzie
           
             Item
             ,
          
           They
           shall
           use
           no
           unlawful
           Vocation
           ,
           or
           usurp
           the
           Liberty
           of
           a
           Free-man
           ,
           under
           the
           said
           pain
           -
           
             Item
             ,
          
           That
           neither
           they
           ,
           their
           Servants
           ,
           Wives
           ,
           nor
           Children
           ,
           shall
           be
           burdenable
           to
           the
           good
           Town
           ,
           under
           the
           pain
           of
           an
           Un-law
           of
           an
           hundred
           Merks
           .
           
             Item
             ,
          
           That
           they
           shall
           be
           no
           ways
           disobedient
           to
           the
           Church
           ,
           or
           Magistrates
           ,
           or
           Officers
           of
           the
           said
           Burgh
           ,
           under
           the
           said
           pain
           ,
           and
           their
           Penalties
           to
           be
           paid
           by
           the
           saids
           Cautioners
           .
           The
           Council
           do
           revive
           the
           foresaid
           Act
           ,
           in
           the
           whole
           Heads
           ,
           Articles
           and
           Clauses
           thereof
           ;
           and
           Ordains
           the
           same
           to
           take
           effect
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           put
           to
           due
           Execution
           in
           all
           time
           coming
           .
           And
           further
           ,
           it
           is
           Statute
           and
           Ordained
           ,
           that
           Out-land
           poor
           Beggers
           ,
           and
           other
           poor
           ,
           that
           hath
           been
           Burgess
           Bairns
           in
           this
           Burgh
           ,
           remove
           and
           dispatch
           themselves
           forth
           of
           this
           Burgh
           ,
           Bounds
           and
           Liberties
           thereof
           ,
           and
           to
           retire
           to
           the
           place
           ,
           or
           Paroch
           where
           they
           were
           born
           ,
           or
           formerly
           recided
           ,
           so
           that
           they
           be
           not
           found
           nor
           seen
           within
           the
           samine
           ,
           at
           any
           time
           hereafter
           ,
           under
           the
           pain
           of
           puting
           them
           in
           the
           Thieves-hole
           ,
           48
           hours
           for
           the
           first
           fault
           ,
           and
           Scourging
           of
           them
           thereafter
           ;
           as
           they
           shall
           be
           found
           within
           the
           Bound
           foresaid
           .
           And
           Ordains
           this
           presents
           to
           be
           Printed
           ,
           and
           Published
           through
           the
           City
           and
           Suburbs
           ,
           by
           Tuck
           of
           Drum
           ,
           and
           affixed
           upon
           the
           most
           conspicuous
           places
           of
           this
           City
           ,
           that
           none
           pretend
           ignorance
           .
           Extracted
           by
           me
           ,
        
         
           
             JO.
             RICHARDSONE
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
           
             Edinburgh
             ,
          
           Printed
           by
           the
           Heir
           of
           
             Andrew
             Anderson
             ,
          
           Printer
           to
           His
           most
           sacred
           Majesty
           ,
           City
           and
           Colledge
           ,
           1685
           
             This
             may
             be
             Reprinted
             at
          
           London
           ,
           
             RLS
             .
          
           November
           the
           13
           
             th
             .
          
           by
           
             D.
             Mallet
          
           1685.
           
        
      
    
  

