Excerpt from The Burgesses and Guild Brethren of Glasgow, 1573-1750At the end of the sixteenth century and early in the seven teenth the Magistrates and officials of the burgh had the right of nominating a certain number of burgesses, receiving in return the entry monies as a reward for services rendered. In 1599, probably in order to evade the frequent application for free admission to burgess-ship, the Town Council set the admission dues to the highest bidder at public roup, for the period of three years, reserving four nominations to the provost, two to each of the three bailies and one each to the clerk and master of work. On the expiry of the term the experiment does not appear to have been repeated, and, whether by enactment or not is unknown (the records for the period being lost), the practice of nomination ceased. After an interval of about a century and a half, it was revived at Michaelmas 1744, when four burgesses were named by the provost and two each by the three bailies, the Dean of Guild and the Deacon Convener.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.