Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Anent the Town of Edinburgh's Imposition on Ale
Date: 1 February 1679
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I heard that the Lords had found the Town of Edinburgh's imposition of two pennies on the pint of ale extended only to what was brewed, vended, and consumed within the Town of Edinburgh's liberties, taking these words, brewing and vending, conjunctive and not disjunctive. What was brewed therein, but was consumed in the shire, without their liberties, they found the imposition did not reach to that, though the words of their gift from the King be copulative.
