Abstract
May 30, 1793 Reclaiming Petition of Alexander Gardner and David Downie, Goldsmiths in Edinburgh, asking the Court to alter its recent interlocutor
Appendix (from p. 16)
- Minutes of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths regarding exemption from halfpenny per ounce marking money, 22 November 1791
- Oath to be taken by freemen of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths
- Account of the funds of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of Edinburgh
- Entry of Patrick Bruce as apprentice to Michael Rynd, 8 October 1532
- Entry of indentures between Thomas Cleghorne and John Atchefone, 4 November 1646
- Act regulating the method of taking essays, 18 October 1686
- Objection regarding the method of paying the essay master's fee, 12 October 1689
- Admission of James Penman as essay master, 13 September 1697
- Continuation of James Penman as essay master, 16 November 1699
- Act reviving quarterly accounts, 7 October 1690
- Appointment of John Borthwick as essay master, 17 March 1692
- Act appointing boxmaster to purchase quicksilver, 4 September 1704
- Act regulating payment for use of trade's mell and quicksilver, 14 September 1704
- Act regarding consignation for trade's quicksilver, 17 November 1708
- Act augmenting Edward Penman's salary, 8 December 1724
- Appointment of Archibald Ure as assay master, 7 January 1734
- Act augmenting assay master's salary, 16 December 1738
- Entry of James Ure (son of freeman) as apprentice, 1 February 1734
- Entry of James Watt (not son of freeman) as apprentice, 29 May 1734
- Plan to support the poor of the Incorporation, 12 February 1740
- Act regarding manner of taking essays, 13 September 1740
- Act appointing masters to take office of essaying by turns, 19 September 1740
- Appointment of deacon as essay master in room of Archibald Ure, 12 February 1740
- Order for Thomas Leslie to pay arrears for absences, 9 September 1740
- Act incapacitating Thomas Leslie and Kenneth M'Kenzie for voting, 24 August 1741
- Roup of heads of taking essays to James Ker, 12 February 1741
- Act regarding weighing of essay office weights, 6 April 1742
- Act concerning the essay office and penny per essay, 22 November 1743
- Act making laws of the trade binding and permanent, 14 February 1744
- Regulations for assay office and election of assay master, 15 September 1744
- Regulations respecting assay office and marking money, 25 November 1746
- Act regarding essay master attendance and firing allowance, 15 August 1750
- Act augmenting essay master's salary to £36 sterling, 22 November 1763
- Election of Robert Low as essay master, 26 July 1771
- Election of John Clark and George Auld as joint assay masters, 30 July 1781
- Act for additional salary to essay masters for marking country plate, 14 October 1785
- Re-election of John Clark and Archibald Ochiltree with augmented salary, 16 September 1786
- Account of marking money collected from members, August 1790 to August 1791
- List of members of the Incorporation who mark no plate
- Dates of entry of members of the majority who made the regulation
