The Privileges of Burghs and Burgesses. - Monopolies.
Laird of Polmais v. The Tradesmen of Stirling
Date: 7 July 1671 Case No. No 55.
Found not to be suburbs, at the distance of a mile from the royal burgh.
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The tradesmen of Striveling having charged and troubled the Laird of Polmaises tenants, about St Ninian's kirk, upon the act of Parliament, prohibiting workmen to exercise their trades in the suburbs of royal burghs, Polmaise raised a declarator for freeing of himself and his tenants of the said charges, and that they might freely exercise all their trades, especially about the kirk of St Ninian's, which is about a mile from Striveling; which being disputed, and it condescended upon, that St Ninians being a mile from Striveling, could noways fall under the act of Parliament, and could not be interpreted a suburb, being noways adjacent to the town.
The Lords found the declarator and condescendence relevant, and decerned.
