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: 31 July 1680
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The Lords of Session gave their consent to the new gift of imposition granted by his Majesty to the Town of Edinburgh, for twenty-two years, of twopennies Scots upon every pint of ale sold within the Town; and the advocates (whereof few were present, being the last day of the Session,) being called in, and this being intimated to them, and they not protesting against it, nor opposing it, their silence was reputed for a sufficient consent. The reason why the Town required the assent of the College of Justice was, in respect they had the Town, by contract in 1669, obliged never to seek a renovation or continuation of that gift.
