Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
The Town of Edinburgh and Captain Wood v. George Davidson, &c Brewers in Leith.
Date: 23 January 1694
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The Town of Edinburgh, and Captain Wood, their tacksman of the imposition of the two pennies on the pint of ale, against George Davidson, and the other brewers in the Yard-heads of Leith. The Lords found they were bound to depone anent the quantities of ale they vented within the Town's liberties; but where the Leith tapsters had already deponed, that quoad these they should not depone again; and that they may depone in thir terms, that their bygone brewings exceeded not such a quantity, conform to the clause in the act of Privy Council, seeing they could not be positive for bygones: And found, the setting waiters at the ports, or giving them billets, did not so liberate them but that the Town's tacksman might also put them to their oaths.
