Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
Date: 9 February 1683
The Baxters of Canongate v. The Magistrates of Edinburgh
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The bill of suspension presented by the Baxters of the Canongate against the Magistrates of Edinburgh, for fining each of them in £10 Scots, for importing bad, light, and insufficient bread, on the market-days, to Edinburgh, being reported by Forret; the Lords found the Magistrates had power, not only by the Act of Privy Council in 1609, and their own Act in 1649, but also by the Lords of Session's allowance, and immemorial possession, to cognosce and try the weight and sufficiency of all bread, though imported from the Canongate or elsewhere, (though, in the places where it was baken, they had their own dea-conries, or a different standard of weight,) and found they had done them no wrong: but ordained them to be set at liberty out of prison, on consigning their fines in the Clerk of Session's hands; and ordained four of their number to meet and confer with the Magistrates anent the regulation of the bread-market in time coming, both as to weight, fineness, and price.
