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Updated: May 15, 2025
Finally, to crown all, the Solemn League and Covenant was publicly burned at the market-cross of Edinburgh; and an aggravated copy of the English Five-mile Act against Non-jurors, known as the Mile Act, was passed, prohibiting all recusant clergymen from residing within twenty miles of their old parishes, within six miles of Edinburgh or any cathedral town, and within three miles of any royal burgh.
She came to him in his dreams, and always under the same form. What he saw was a girl, with downcast eyes and supplicating hands, standing at the foot of the Holmton market-cross, with a halter round her neck. Nor was it only in his dreams that he saw her.
Having thus perambulated the town, he returned to the market-cross, which, as we have said, stood immediately in front of his inn.
The ancient church and equally ancient Moot Hall spread along one side of it; the other three sides were filled with gabled and half-timbered houses; the Market-Cross which stood in the middle of the open space had been erected there in Henry the Seventh's time.
An act was passed referring to the previous one, and stating that 'nevertheless the noblemen such as prelates, earls, lords, barons, and other gentlemen are not served according to the said act, but are constrained to buy the same from merchants at greater prices, contrary to the tenor of the said acts. Hence it is declared that whenever wines have arrived in any town, and the prices have been fixed, the magistrates 'shall incontinent pass to the market-cross of that burgh, and there, by open proclamation, declare none of the goods foresaid as they are made, and that none of the goods foresaid be disposed of for the space of four days. Thus were measures taken to let the privileged persons have the benefit of their preemption.
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