The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . along with their croft and arable land situated within theCommon Wall of the Burgh to William Binny and RobertLivingstoun, Maltmen Burgesses, for an annual payment of2000 merks. This lease was assigned in 1622 to William Dick,Merchant Burgess, who in 1632 obtained a renewal of his leasefrom the magistrates. Sir Magnus Prince, then Provost of theBurgh, was lessee under tack dated 7th March 1677, and heand his subtenants were succeeded by Alexander Wood andAndrew Gairdner, Brewers, under a tack dated 3rd September1690.
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . along with their croft and arable land situated within theCommon Wall of the Burgh to William Binny and RobertLivingstoun, Maltmen Burgesses, for an annual payment of2000 merks. This lease was assigned in 1622 to William Dick,Merchant Burgess, who in 1632 obtained a renewal of his leasefrom the magistrates. Sir Magnus Prince, then Provost of theBurgh, was lessee under tack dated 7th March 1677, and heand his subtenants were succeeded by Alexander Wood andAndrew Gairdner, Brewers, under a tack dated 3rd September1690. This tack was granted for a period of eleven years at ayearly tack duty of 3500 merks, and in this writ it is statedthat the magistrates set in lease to them that great workcommonly called the Society with the haill Houses, Barns,Lofts, Kilns, Cobles, Wells, Cellars, Cisterns, Leads, Coppers,Brewing Looms and others, with the Kilns, Stables, Peathousesand other office houses for the use of their brewing, which wereformerly built by Thos. Robertson late treasurer, and then. PLAN OP THE SOCIETIE AND GREYFRIAES PORTfrom Gordons map of 1647. The parts marked 18 represent the Societie, and the gatewaymarked 3 Grey friars Port. BRUNTSFIELD LINKS 239 possest by Sir Magnus Prince, late Lord Provost, and his sub-tenants since the date of his Tack, which is 7th March 1677,with the haill parts within the Gates of the Society, with thehouse sometime possest by John Johnstoun, Piper, in thenorth end of the west work entering without the Gates of theSociety, and opposite to the Grayfriar Yeard Tombs, with themain miln at the South end of the Potterrow commonly calledthe Wind-Mill of the Society, excepting the this tack the voluminous Society Papers in the CityChambers terminate ; and the only echo now left to us of theFellowship and Society of Brewers of Ale and Beer in ourancient burgh is the name, Society, which still adheres to theprincipal scene of its operations—now a
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