Note 702 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
20 May, 1699. "Considering the insuportable number of extraneous and vagrant beggers who daylie frequent this burgh" the elders and baillies are to meet "and take ane exact account of the poor belonging to the samen burgh and order badges for them soe as they may be knoune and distinguished from extraneous beggers." Extracts from the Records of Stirling, Vol. II., p. 90.