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.
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.
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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.