Jedburgh - From the House of Lords Journal Voi 25, April 1738, 11-20. "Marq. Lothian & al. against Haswell & al:
After hearing Counsel, as well on Wednesday and Thursday last as this Day, upon the amended Petition and Appeal of William Marquis of Lothian, alleging to be present Provost of the Borough of Jedburgh, James Davidson, Joseph Thomson, George Martin, and Archibald Douglas, Merchants, present Baillies of the said Borough, John Jerdine Merchant, present Dean of Guild of the said Borough, William Thomson Chirurgeon, present Treasurer of the said Borough, Henry Leck and Thomas Bell Merchants, George Waddell and Adam Robson Glovers, and David King Burgess, Five of the present Counsellors thereof, John Porteous Glover, present Deacon of the Glovers and One of the present Council Deacons and Conveener of the Trades, Gabriel Newtoun Taylor, and present Deacon of the Taylors and Council Deacon, George Lookup Wright, present Deacon of the Wrights and Council Deacon, John Wauch Flesher, present Deacon of the Fleshers and Council Deacon, John Bell Shoemaker, and present Deacon of the Shoemakers, William Ronaldson Weaver; and present Deacon of the Weavers, James Pitillo Smith, and present Deacon of the Smiths, Robert Finlay Mason, and present Deacon of the Masons, John Hall Inn-keeper, John Bennet Tobacconist, Gilbert Turnbull Gardener, John Borthwick Merchant, James Douglas Gardener, John Wilkeison Baxter, and Robert Wood Litster, for themselves, as Magistrates, Office-bearers, Deacons of Crafts, and Members of the Town Council, of the said Borough, and in Name and Behalf of the Town Council, and Whole Burgesses, Inhabitants, and Community thereof, adhering to them; complaining of several Interlocutors of the Lords of Session in Scotland; of the 19th of January, 1st, 8th, and 16th of February, 1737/8, made on the Behalf of John Haswell, alleging to be present Provost of the Borough of Jedburgh, Alexander Waugh, Andrew Frame, Alexander Jerden, and John Young, Merchants, present Baillies of the said Borough, George Riddle Merchant, present Dean of Guild of the said Borough, John Winterup Merchant, present Treasurer thereof, John Smith, James Douglas, William Sleigh, William Young, Robert Winterup, George Scougald, all Six Merchants, John Oliver, and William Brown Tobacconist, Robert Dick Litster, and Thomas Rutherfoord Writer in the said Borough, Ten of the present Counsellors, George Shortred Shoemaker, and present Deacon of the Shoemakers and One of the present Council Deacons there, James Johnson Baxter, Thomas Smaill Tobacconist, James Haswell Writer, John White Merchant, Andrew Rutherfoord Younger, Glover, David Wright Barber, Cornelius Inglis Merchant, George Ballerwell, Richard Hair, and Richard Dick, Shoemakers, William Oliver Smith, Robert Rutherfoord Sadler, John Fiddes and James Scott Glovers, John Common and William Ballantine Weavers, John Porteous, Andrew Borthwick, and Walter Reidford, Taylors, Robert Binyie Mason, Henry Young Glazier, William Coverhill and Robert Donaldson Wrights, and Walter Scott and Robert Henderson Fleshers, all in the said Borough of Jedburgh; for themselves, as Magistrates, Office-bearers, Deacons of Crafts, and Members of the Town Council, of the said Borough, and also as Burgesses, Gild Brethren, Members of Incorporation, and Inhabitants, respectively, of the said Borough, and in Name and Behalf of the Town Council and Whole Burgesses, Inhabitants and Community thereof, adhering to them; and praying, "That the said Interlocutors, so far as they are in the Appeal recited, may be reversed, varied, or amended; and that the Appellants may obtain such Relief as this House shall find just:" As also upon the joint and several Answer of the said John Haswell and the Persons last named put in to the said Appeal; and due Consideration had of what was offered on either Side in this Cause:
Judgement.
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Interlocutor of the Lords of Session, of the 19th of January last, whereby the Elections of the Appellants were reduced at the Suit of the Respondents, be affirmed: And it is Declared, That the Elections of Counsellors and Magistrates for the Borough of Jedburgh, insisted on by the Respondents, were irregular and void: And it is therefore further Ordered and Adjudged, That the same be reduced; and that so much of the other Interlocutors complained of, whereby the Court of Session decerned in the Declarator, at the Instance of the Respondents, and assoilzied from the Reduction at the Instance of the Appellants, with regard to all the Elections thereby quarrelled (excepting those of Robert Winterup and George Scougald), be reversed."
In this extract there is James Douglas a Merchant and it appears that he was also a Baillie. There is also (on the other side) James Douglas a Gardener (he is my ancestor). From his tombstone in the Jedburgh Abbey Graveyard it is written that he was a Gardener and a Burgess.