Isle Of Bute In The Olden Time PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...for the space of eight days immediately following the first, for the buying and selling of every kind of goods and merchandise, with every liberty and privilege of a free fair, to receive and raise all kinds of customs, and other duties used and wont in the same, and to receive whatever is usual in other free burghs within the kingdom. And also, with full power to receive and raise off whatever is destined for the foresaid weekly market, as said is. And also, in the said other annual fairs, all customs of goods and corn, and other customs, duties, and profits in use and wont, paying the magistrates, officers, and customers of the said burgh, like any other burgh within our kingdom in times past, with proclamations, statutes, acts, and ordinations, for ruling and governing the foresaid market days, and other fairs, causing to be set forth the meaning of the said customs and other duties used and wont. Moreover, for us and our successors, according to the tenor of our present charter, we give and grant to the magistrates and inhabitants of the said burgh, present and to come, a free port and harbour for ships in the bay and station of the said burgh of Rothesay and Kyles of Bute, the stations of Cumbray, Fairly, and Holy Isle, and all others within the foresaid bounds, with free entrance and exit for ships and boats, for carrying burdens with all kinds of goods and merchandise not prohibited by our laws and acts, with all privileges and liberties of a free port, and recep VOL. II. N tacle for ships, with power for the support of the foresaid port, to receive and raise off goods, merchandise, ships, and boats, carrying and transporting into the market of the same all kinds of lesser customs and other duties received by whatever magistrates, ..