Edinburgh the [28] day of [March] 169[4] years. Received from [the laird of Niddrie five pound nynteen shilling ...] as [his] proportion of the money imposed upon the inhabitants of this city ... for cleansing the streets ... from [Whitsunday] 169[2] to [Whitsunday] 169[4] As also [three pound twelve shilling ...] for maintainance of the poor within the said city ... [manuscript], 1694.

[Edinburgh], 28 March 1694.

1 item ; 8 x 21.5 cm

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Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

272251 MS

From dealer's description: "9. [SCOTLAND.] Edinburgh the [28] day of [March] 169[4] years. Received from [the laird of Niddrie five pound nynteen shilling ...] as [his] proportion of the money imposed upon the inhabitants of this city ... for cleansing the streets ... from [Whitsunday] 169[2] to [Whitsunday] 169[4] As also [three pound twelve shilling ...] for maintainance of the poor within the said city ... [Edinburgh, 28 March 1694.] Printed form (21.5 x 8cm) contemporary manuscript completions, signed off by “Wm. Carfrae”, old folds, manuscript docket title to verso, very good. A rare seventeenth century survival, this printed receipt dated 28 March 1694 records payments made by the Laird of Niddrie for an Edinburgh municipal tax imposed by local magistrates for “cleansing the streets”, also noting a payment for “maintainance of the poor within the said city.” This charge seems to relate to An act for cleansing the streets of Edinburgh (1686), passed to address “the many complaints of the nastiness of the streets, wynds, closes and other places of the city.” No similar example traced in ESTC or elsewhere." Ordered from Samuel Gedge, D9589, 2022-05-09, Cat. 32 item 9.

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