The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; N.SVol1 (1991)- . under the payneof royal punition of thair persoun, and banesing of this towne.In the course of the following year, only the three ports— theWest Port, the Netherbow, and the Kirk of Field, and na ma —were permitted to be open during daytime. At each ofthese gates were attached two porters, who were to allow noneto pass without a licence. This restriction in the number ofthe ports open during daylight was afterwards removed. On3rd April 1516, the provost, David Mailvill, was convicted ofbuilding a house on the Burgh Mu

The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; N.SVol1 (1991)- . under the payneof royal punition of thair persoun, and banesing of this towne.In the course of the following year, only the three ports— theWest Port, the Netherbow, and the Kirk of Field, and na ma —were permitted to be open during daytime. At each ofthese gates were attached two porters, who were to allow noneto pass without a licence. This restriction in the number ofthe ports open during daylight was afterwards removed. On3rd April 1516, the provost, David Mailvill, was convicted ofbuilding a house on the Burgh Mu

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The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; N.SVol1 (1991)- . under the payneof royal punition of thair persoun, and banesing of this towne.In the course of the following year, only the three ports— theWest Port, the Netherbow, and the Kirk of Field, and na ma —were permitted to be open during daytime. At each ofthese gates were attached two porters, who were to allow noneto pass without a licence. This restriction in the number ofthe ports open during daylight was afterwards removed. On3rd April 1516, the provost, David Mailvill, was convicted ofbuilding a house on the Burgh Muir, and ordained by theCouncil to apply the stuf of the biggit land to the commonwaUing of the town—a favourite expression in the records ofthe time. So, in the years 1516 and 1517, we find certainfines are ordered to be applyit to the commoun waUing ofthe toun ; and in 1518 provision was made for the mainten-ance of a clear space of 12 feet on the inner, and 24 feet on theouter side of the wall. Practically, nothing further was doneuntil the eve of the Reformation.. THE VENlSrEri.THE IWIRD CITY WAXiIi (TEXiFBRS). THE FLODDEN WALL OF EDINBURGH 69 It is believed that the wall of the Black Friars Yardfacing the Pleasance on the east, the south boundary wall ofthe grounds of the Kirk of Fields—including those of theprovosts house and the cemetery—as well as the south andwest boundary walls of the Grey Friars Yard, were all, duringthe years 1513 to 1515, strengthened and heightened so as tocomplete the line and become part of the Flodden Wall. Thestones for the building of the wall were obtained from thequarries in the neighbourhood belonging to the Burgh, theearliest mentioned in the Records being those at Ravelston,and at a spot immediately outside the Grey Friars Port. Thelatter became disused through an influx of water as early asthe year 1530, and it was in this quarry that, by order of themagistrates, several of the wretched women convicted of theftor of concealment