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Senate House Library, University of London

Scottish food prices Act


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 209

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Scottish food prices Act

Date(s): [1688]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 4 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Acts of Sederunt were the ordinances of the Scottish Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. The Court of Session was the supreme Scottish court, instituted in 1532.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing a copy of the Scottish Act of Sederunt for the regulation of the prices of meat and other victuals in Edinburgh, [1688], entitled 'Coppie of the act of sederunt for regulateing the pryces of vivers', and beginning 'The Lords of Councill and Sessione considering the prejudice which his Majesties Leidges repairing to and resideing in this towne doe sustaine through the exorbitant rates exacted for fleshes and other vivers, they ordain that the rates and pryces of butcher fleshes...sold within the towne of Edinburgh, suburbs thereof and Leith shall not exceed these contained in the table underwryten'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript folio. Bound in half-morocco.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Publication note:

The Act was printed in part in Extracts from the records of the burgh of Edinburgh, 1681-1689 ed Marguerite Wood and Helen Armet (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1954).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Food prices | Food supply | Food resources | Natural resources
Prices | Price policy | Economic policy
Public administration | Government

Personal names

Corporate names
Court of Session | Scotland

Places
Edinburgh | Midlothian | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Leith | Midlothian | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe