Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the Petition of Alexander Hislop Efq; Provost, and others, Magistrates and Inhabitants of the Burgh of Haddington, and Hay Donaldson, Town-Clerk and Billet-Master

Answers for John Aitchison, James Nicolson, James Forrest, George Skirven, and Robert Wright, all Bakers in Haddington; William Shiells, James Hoggarth, Mark Proudfoot, Archibald Goodall, Walter Purves, and David Thomson, Brewers there; John Whitehead, Susannah Clark, and George Spiers, Vintners there; James Ramsay, George Hay, John Dawson, John douglas, James Newtown, William Gegg, William Finlayson, Henry Spencer, Andrew Hardie, William Finlayson, Henry Spencer, Andrew Hardie, William Leamen, and Andrew Hunter, Ale-fellers there; David Begbie and Peter Barrie, Grocers there; George Nicolson and William Wilson, Grocers and Spirit-dealers there; James Macwatt, Grocer and Ale-feller there; William Horsburgh, Tailor and Spirit-dealer there; George Cunningham, Toll-keeper there; and for Alexander Nisbet, James Nisbet, John Hutchison, and Alexander Thomson, Butchers there; to the Petition of Alexander Hislop, Efq; Provost, and others, Magistrates and Inhabitants of the Burgh of Haddington, and Hay Donaldson, Town-clerk and Billet-master