• The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk (church).
  • The main feature of the Tolbooth is its impressive Court Room where once the town provosts made proclamations and magistrates made orders that unworthy...
  • The Tolbooth as its name suggests was usually a place at or near a main gate into a town where literally any tolls, or local taxes, and customs were collected.
  • The first archival record referring to the Tolbooth is a proclamation made 1586 and then in 1588 a reference is made to repairs to the building.
  • Throughout the years the Tolbooth served as a point for the collection of customs or charges imposed on all goods brought in to the town for market.
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  • Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tolbooth. Accessed 20 Jun.
  • Those three ancient buildings, the Castle, the Tolbooth, and the Collegiate Church, give an air of antiquity to our town which few places have, and an observing...