| Description | Major William Burnett's papers, 17th century. Including: Testament dative and inventory of Jean Kirkwood, daughter of deceased Gilbert Kirkwood of Pilrig, 1662. Com. Edin.
Memo in hand of William Douglas, advocate, headed A platforms for making and keeping clean the houses, streets, wynds and closses of the toun of Edinburgh". A stent to be imposed and the proceeds to be usd to purchase land to be used for "sterculins" [middens] to collect dung in various parts of the town; suggests sites for these; poor people to be employed to keep the town clean, each of them to be issued with a wheelbarrow, rake and shovel, along with a handbell to ring at every stair and turnpike foot; they are to be paid a reasonable salary for this, perhaps £12 per year, with £30 for each horse; suggests that this service would cost annuallt about £3000, and this would be defrayed by sale of the muck and a yearly composition; one of the baillies is to sit once a week to correct abuses and the constables are to oversee the scavengers, undated.
Indenture between John Forrest, chirugian, burgess of Edinburgh, and Adam Lindsay, son of deceased Samuel Lindsay, apothecary in Edinburgh, for three years, 6th November 1662.
Petition to Chancellor and Lords of Treasury of Major William Burnett of Balfour, for aid of soldiers and officers of his regiment, being disbanded at Inverness, 'so fare frome our own homes', 1699. |