The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Here poor atdd Rotin joins ihe caller eggs is Roiina foiip-. cry of Gude caUer eggs, the following lines of SempiU inhis Lamentation are interesting :— Allace! we Chapmen may with Creilmen murneThay sillie men that brocht thair butter and eggesTo Edinburgh Croce and did na vther tume/ The milk-cries seem to have given some annoyance inthe time of James vi., for in 1609 the Council forbade the 2c 202 THE EDINBURGH STREET TRADERS crying of milk through the town after eight oclock at night,and also prohibite
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Here poor atdd Rotin joins ihe caller eggs is Roiina foiip-. cry of Gude caUer eggs, the following lines of SempiU inhis Lamentation are interesting :— Allace! we Chapmen may with Creilmen murneThay sillie men that brocht thair butter and eggesTo Edinburgh Croce and did na vther tume/ The milk-cries seem to have given some annoyance inthe time of James vi., for in 1609 the Council forbade the 2c 202 THE EDINBURGH STREET TRADERS crying of milk through the town after eight oclock at night,and also prohibited the vendors from crying at any time onSundays. In 1689 an Act was passed prohibiting the bring-ing of milk into the city on Sundays after , in. Sour mijlc p-ood. Gilbert banla frankK iells it to tKe croyrd- order that the inbringers of the milk may be in reddinessto remove out at the ports at eight of the clock in the morn-ing. Scottish people have for centuries been great con-sumers of butter-milk, or soor-dook, as it was commonlycalled in Scotland, and the soor-dook can was at one timea feature of every Edinburgh household. Towards the end
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