Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . James VI., in considera- 264 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Cowgate. tion of the goodwill and thankful service done tous by our servitor, Alexander Crawford, presentdeacon of the said cordiners and his first hear of a kind of strike, in the trade in1768, when the cordiners entered into a combi-nation not to work without an increase of wages,and reduction of hours. The masters prosecutedtheir men, many of whom were fined and im-prisoned, for entering into an unlawful combina-tion, as the sheriff termed their tra
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . James VI., in considera- 264 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Cowgate. tion of the goodwill and thankful service done tous by our servitor, Alexander Crawford, presentdeacon of the said cordiners and his first hear of a kind of strike, in the trade in1768, when the cordiners entered into a combi-nation not to work without an increase of wages,and reduction of hours. The masters prosecutedtheir men, many of whom were fined and im-prisoned, for entering into an unlawful combina-tion, as the sheriff termed their trade union. under the paine of confiscation of the same for HisMajestys use. Edinburgh has always been thechief seat of the leather trade in Scotland, and thetroops raised after the American War were entirelysupplied with shoes from there. In 1475 the Wrights and masons were grantedthe aisle and chapel of St. John in the same church,when their seal of cause was issued. Their charterwas confirmed in 1517 by the Archbishop of , in 1527 by James V., and in 1635 by. THE CHAPEL AND llOblirAL OF ST. .MARY MAGDALENE. i,A/:eran i.:J:i,:,; puMisiied m iii6.) The skinners would seem to have been createdinto a corporation in 1474, but references to thetrade occur in the Burgh Records at an earlierdate. Thus, in 1450, there is recorded an obliga-tion by the skinners, undertaken by William Skyn-ner, in the name of the whole, to support thealtar of St. Crispin in St. Giless Church, in thefourth year of the pontificate of Nicholas the Fifth ;and a seal of cause was issued to the skinnersand furriers conjointly in 1533, wherein they werebound to uphold the shrine of St. Christopher inSt. Giless, and several Acts of Parliament werepassed for their protection. One, in 1592, pro-hibits all transporting and carrying forth therealm, of calves-skinnes, huddrones, and kid-skins, packing and peilling thereof, in time coming, Charles I. In 1703, by decree of the Court ofSession, the bow-makers,
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