This poser relates to the Council's choosing of Constables for the year 1779 and is an extract from the Dundee Minute Book for this year (Dundee City Archive, DUN - Nov1767/1779). The image is displayed with kind permission of Dundee City Archives.
This is fairly typical in parts of a late eighteenth century hand as seen on the Scottish Handwriting website though not for all letters. The letter f definitely is typical. Occasionally a letter in a word is incomplete due to errors in the graphology. For example, the letter v in the word voting is incomplete. The minims such as m are sometimes incomplete. The letters t in the word Overgate and in the last Constables are not crossed as they should be. The continuations between the letter rs and ms are sometimes not clear.
Question: What were the names and occupations of the chosen Constables?
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