Relating to
Jonson
's journey on foot to
Scotland
, a notice that he has been made a guild brother of
Edinburgh
, 25 Sept. 1618 , with a payment, 16 Oct. , for a dinner in his honour. The notice
appears in a bound series of
Town Council Minutes
, 10 Oct. 1617- 26 May 1626.
Eugene Giddens
[fol. 38]
Vigesimo quinto Septembris J m
vj c Decimo Octauo.
[Trans.: 25 Sept. 1618]
[fol. 39]
Precept Gild Jonsoun burges and
gildbrother
Ordanis the Deyne of gild to mak Benjamyn Jonsoun inglisman burges and
gildbrother in communi forma.
[fol. 41v]
Decimo sexto Octobris J m vj
c Decimo Octauo.
[Trans.: 16 Oct. 1618]
[fol. 42]
Precept ainslie Thesaurer
Ordanis the thesaurer to pay to
James
ainslie Laite baillie twa hundreth twentie ane pund sex schillingis four
pennyis debursit be him vpone the denner maid to Benjamin
Jonstoun conforme to the act maid yairanent and compt givin
in of the same
Bibliography
Our weekly gossip, Athenaeum, 26 Feb. 1859, p.
287
David Laing (1858-9), 206-8
Masson (1893), 797-9
H&S, 1.233