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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 21
overture for explaining and amending such acts, in
order to promote peace and establish a rule whereby
justice may be done both to the tacksmen and the
inhabitants." Doubtless the committee found that the
council had no prescriptive customary right to prevent
the import of meal, but no result of their labours is
recorded.
In February 1761 the council, still in a quandary,
vaguely resolved that, " taking into consideration that
the acts and regulations for levying dues at the milns
and gathering the customs and other branches of the
town's revenue are fallen into confusion by not being
duly transcribed in the dean of guild book," a committee
should "make up a statement of the acts and
regulations, old and new, with power to make what
improvements they shall think most conducive for the
interest of the town and benefit of the inhabitants."
In March, the committee having examined the
said acts " and made some alterations therein," the
whole were adopted and entered in the guild book,
and duly signed by the provost on every page. The
upshot was that " the haill inhabitants within the said
burgh, being astricted and thirled to the milns of Jed-
burgh, now comprehending the barley and walk milns,
conformable to the contract of thirlage of February 5,
1670, shall in all time coming pay and perform the
"
multures and services following
;
the multures being
scheduled as already given.
Three years later the difficult problem at issue was
attempted to be solved by a simple enactment of the
council (March 1764) that, "Whoever of the inhabi-
tants shall grind any corns, whether growing on the
Jedburgh lands or elsewhere, at any other miln than
the Jedburgh milns, shall be lyable in double multure
whether the meal be grinded for their own private use
or be sold by them within the town." But obviously,
JEDBURGH
CORPORA-
TION MILLS.
3. Import
of Meal
prohibited
1754-