Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION. 1686.
The Maltmen of Leith v. The Masters of King James's Hospital
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January 21.—At Privy Council, the Maltmen of Leith and the Masters of King James's Hospital there, contending who should have the management of 2000 merks of the Maltmen's stock mortified to that Hospital, who craved it might be primo loco applied to the maintenance of the poor of their own trade in that Hospital; seeing, in all donations, the will of the donor is to be followed, and their own poor to be preferred:
The Privy Council referred this to the Bishop of Edinburgh, in regard it was a mortification within his own diocese, and the case had been formerly before him when he was a Privy Councillor; and he made a report that their poor should have the preference.
Vol. I. Page 397.
February 26.—The Maltmen of Leith's bill, mentioned 21st January 1686, being advised; the Lords ordained their mortified money to go primo loco to the entertainment of their own poor in that Hospital.
