| Date | 1643 |
|---|---|
| Location | Edinburgh |
| Description | Defences by William Castellaw, simple apothecarist, against the chirurgians of Edinburgh, defending his having applied searcloths to dead persons, stating that "both he and other apothecaries have been in use past all memory of man to make searclothes to the persons of dead bodies onlie proper and due to that calling of apothecary" and no apothecarist should be pursued for "contravening thereof, if not being ane printed nor publick act but onlie ane privat act in favour of the chirurgians [permitting them alone to apply searcloths] never comeing legallie to the knowledge of any other of the lieges." Requests that the deacons of craft "may be declyned and not permitted to sitt as judges in the pretendit complaint against him…because they are parties for the contraventing of the priviledge of one craftes rights, concerneth the whole craftes so being parties they can no wayes be Judges". |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Original Index Number | RCSEd 1/2/2/21 |
