Excerpt from The Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh: With an Introductory Chapter on the Rise Arm Progress of and Government of Municipal In the Introductory Chapter, an attempt has been made to give a brief account of the Rise and Progress of Municipal Govern ment, chiefly with the View of showing the laudable desire which existed among the Crafts Incorporations, to take their own fair share in the civic management and control. Although they did not find much encouragement from either the Crown and Parliament on the one hand, or the Merchant Class on the other, they were always successful in re-asserting from time to time their right to be represented in the Common Council of the Burgh. They believed in popular election and the list they sent up to the Town Council as recommended by. Them was always prepared on this principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.