The Freedom of the City and Royal Burgh
of Edinburgh
by C. J. Cousland, FRSE, ARPS

The Burgess Roll
by Marguerite Wood, PhD

Honorary Burgesses (1459-1812)

Complete list of recipients of the Freedom
of the City

This presentation is based on Honoured in Scotland's
Capital, compiled by C.J. Cousland, F.R.S.E., A.R.P.S.
and published in Edinburgh in 1946 by C.J. Cousland &
Sons Ltd. Some sections have been updated.

Grateful thanks to Edinburgh City Archive for providing
us with this text.

Every effort has been made to contact the original
author and publisher of this work.