View of the Merchants House of Glasgow: Containing Historical Notices of Its Origin, Constitution, and Property, and of the Charitable Foundations which it Administers. Presented to the House by Archibald Orr Ewing, Esquire of Ballikinrain, Lord Dean of the Guild, 1866

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Bell & Bain, 1866 - Charities - 672 pages
 

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Page 636 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Page 638 - Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Page 636 - ... balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds: and take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight.
Page 289 - shall mean the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them; and...
Page 636 - He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him : but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
Page 62 - Thursday at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and oftner, as the necessity of the common affairs committed to their charge shall require, being warned thereto by the Dean of Gild or his officer, and the persons absent the said day weekly, but farder warning at the said hour and at other times (excepting sickness or being necessarily three miles out of the town), shall pay an unlaw of six shilling and eight pennies for the first...
Page 68 - Clerk ; and this no ways shall be extended against Burgesses sons, farther than the old use and wont. But if the apprentice marry his master's daughter, or the daughter of a Freeman Burgess and Gild-brother, and if he be found by the Dean of Gild and his Council, to be worthy of the fore-named sum, Merchant or Craftsman, and be of an honest conversation, and of such a benefit, and being so tried, he may be received Gild-brother at any time by right of his wife, paying only twenty shilling...
Page 60 - Burgesses, anent their privileges, places, ranks, and prerogatives; by the which occasions, not only their trade, traffic, and handling, has been usurped by strangers and unfreemen, as said is, to the great depauperating of the haill inhabitants within this town; but also, all policy and care of the liberties of this Burgh has been overseen and neglected, to the great shame and derogation of the honour of this...
Page 70 - ... house, which they shall have liberty to sell, as they can best; neither buy wool, to sell over again within this liberty, nor to buy any linen yarn to sell over again, or to transport out of the Town, either in great or small parcels, excepting the weavers of the Burgh, who buy yarn to make cloth, and sell the same at pleasure.
Page 289 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term the possession of the British territories in India, together with their exclusive trade, under certain limitations...

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