Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL.
The Trades of Canongate v. The Earl of Roxburgh
Date: 22 February 1694
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In the debate between the Trades of the Canongate and the Earl of Roxburgh, the Lords declared his house, in the Canongate, free, in the terms of the reservation contained in the tripartite contract betwixt the Earl of Roxburgh, the Town of Edinburgh, and Herriot's Hospital; and found, the Earl might employ wrights, masons, or other artificers, for any work to his own case, whether freemen or not. But, if he could take in unfree tradesmen, and set them houses to work to others than himself, the Lords delayed to give answer till the case should exist.
