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Anent the action pursued by the Master of the Hospital in the town of Leith, against the Town of Kinghorn and skippers of their ships, for a certain duty called primiegill, pertaining to the said Hospital, first granted to the bigging of their Kirk, and now annexed to the said Hospital, of all ships, livered and loaded in the haven of Leith, of the which the Kirk Minister and now the Master of the Hospital has been in possession thereof many years bygone, which action was given to the said master of the Hospital's probation, and a day assigned thereto; at the which day the Master of the Hospital, brought as witnesses certain indwellers in the town of Leith. It was alleged by the said Town of Kinghorn, that no indewellers in the town of Leith should be admitted against them, for proving of the said action, because they as indewellers in Leith might report commodity of the said action. It was answered by the said Master of the Hospital, that the said witnesses should be received, because the said witnesses could report no particular profit nor commodity trhough the said action; which allegeance of the said Master of the Hospital was admitted, and the witnesses relevant, notwithstanding the allegeance made in the contrary.
