The candlemakers in Dalkeith routinely entered into one-year contracts with the Society of Fleshers to purchase the tallow from slaughtered cattle. This tallow was provided at a fixed price, and the candlemakers were entitled to examine it and receive a discount for any impurities they found. In 1799, the candlemakers sought, and obtained, a regulation providing for two appointees to search the tallow for impurities before it was transferred to them. The fleshers argued that this regulation should be suspended—or, at minimum, that they should receive a higher price—because the candlemakers were not entitled to receive purified tallow at the established contract price.

Published Reports

William Morison, The Decisions of the Court of Session (1811), pg. 15
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Locations

Session Papers

Petition

Unto the Right Honourable The Lords of Council and Session, the Petition of Messrs Armstrong & Son, David Mathieson, William Wilson Senior, James Alves, and James Thomson, all Candlemakers in Dalkeith

 		19 Jun 1800
Memorial

Memorial for Messrs Armstrong & Son, David Mathieson, William Wilson Senior, James Alves, and James Thomson, all Candlemakers in Dalkeith---Chargers; against Thomas Moffat Deacon, and William Chalmers Boxmaster, of the Society of Fleshers in Dalkeith, for themselves, and in name and behalf of the whole other Members of the said Society; and Alexander Thomson, John M'Millan, and Benjamin Plumber, Fleshers there, for themselves as Individuals---Suspenders

 		1 Jul 1800
Memorial

Memorial for Thomas Moffat Deacon, and William Chalmers Boxmaster of the Society of Fleshers in Dalkeith, for themselves, and in Name and Behalf of the whole other Members of said Society; and for Alexander Thomson, John Macmillan, and Benjamin Plummer, Fleshers there, as Individuals, Suspenders; against Mess. Armstrong and Son, David Mathieson, William Wilson senior, James Alves, and James Thomson, all Candlemakers in Dalkeith and the Neighborhood, Chargers

 		1 Jul 1800