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Baxters of Glasgow v The Magistrates. [1696] Mor 1868 (8 July 1696)
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[1696] Mor 1868
Magistrates found entitled to imprison bakers, on account of insufficient bread.
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Lauderdale reported the Baxters of Glasgow against the Magistrates, on a bill of suspension and charge to set at liberty, being incarcerate for bad and insufficient bread, and disconform to the standard of the Edinburgh bread. Their reasons were, that neither their mills could grind flour so well as Edinburgh, nor their servants bake so white.——The Lords considered this was a matter of government proper and competent for the Magistrates; and, therefore would not interpose, but refused their bill till they gave obedience.
Fol. Dic. v. 1. p. 117. Fountainhall, v. 1. p. 726.
