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[^EXTRACTS FROM THE COUNCIL REGISTER OF THE BURGH OF ABERDEEN,  
1398-1570. VOL. I. SPALDING CLUB, 12. ABERDEEN 1844.

SAMPLE 1: PP. 96.4-112.15      
SAMPLE 2: PP. 284.30-297.21^] 

<S SAMPLE 1>      
<P 96>      
[}11TH JANUARY, 1519.}]      
   The said day, the prouest, bailzes, and consaill, with       #
assent and consent      
of the haill comunite being present for the tyme, representant  #
the body of      
the haill tovne, all in ane woce, nane gansawand nor opponnen   #
tham, that      
to for the eking of thair merit, and in honor of God and the    #
glorius matron      
Sanct Anne, gef, grantit, and assignit, and be this wricht      #
gevis, grantis,      
and assignis to thar pure ladiis all and haill that pece grene  #
land of tharis      
liand on the north syd of thar seikhouse; of the quhilk, the    #
marchis efter     
folovis in the letterend of this act; and that at the instance  #
of ane rycht     
venerable and worschipfull clerk, Maister Alexander Galloway,   #
persone of     
Kinkell, quhilk promittit, God willing, to big and vpheid one   #
ane pece of     
grovnd perteining to the said seikhouse, ane chapell and        #
oratour, in honor     
of God and the blisset matrone forseid, Sanct Ane; and the      #
gift, donacioun,     
and patronage of the samyne to remain and abide with the gud    #
toune    
of Abirdene, and with thar successouris perpetualy in all tyme  #
cuming.     
And for the mair securite of the samyn, thai ordanit thar       #
commont seill to     
be affixit to thar said gift, and it to be extendit in the best # 
and souerest     
fassone, can be maid befor this witnes, Master Thomas Chamer,   #
Sir Johne     
Waus, Sir Dauid Waus, Dauid Loremar, and all the haill courte.    

[}18TH NOVEMBER, 1519.}]     
     
   The said day, Johne Alex. Rudirfurd, Willeam Rolland, and    #
Patrik      
Leslie, balzes of this burgh, for this instant yeir in ane woce # 
gaf, grantit,     
and assignit the aschatis, vnlayis, and amerciament for this    #
instant yeir to     
the biging and completing of thar port of the Gallowget, for    #
wile and honour     
of the gud toune.     
     
[}20TH OCTOBER, 1520.}]
     
   The said day, the prouest, bailzeis, and conseill, with      #
consent and assent     
of the haill merchandis and brethir of gilt being present for   #
the tyme, warnit     
personaly be the officiaris, ratifeit, confermit, and approvit  #
he honorable     
and lowable statut maid be thame the auchtene day of Marche,    #
the yer of     
God a thousand fiv hundreth and xviij yeris, tuiching the ij s. # 
gret, to be     
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pait of ilke sek of gudis that sall happine to pass furtht of   #
thar port of     
Abirden to Franche, Flandris, Danskyne, Denmark, or ony vthir   #
part without     
the reaulme, providing all ways that thar be na freman maid     #
brouchter     
of gilde during the space of seven yeiris fra the dait of the   #
said statut, excep     
thai that ar contenit in the samyne, and in likwise that nane   #
vnfreman     
be lecenc to saill him self nor his gudis for na maner of       #
requist, price,     
prayar, nor instance during the said space. And givit sall      #
happine the     
prouest or denuys of gilde to lecenc ony vnfreman himself or    #
his gudis to     
saill, or to mak ony freman except tham contenit in the said    # 
statut, for      
price, prayar, instance, or requist, thane, and in that kaise,  #
thai bind and     
oblegis thame be the vertu of this present act and statut, to   #
content, refund,     
and pay to Sanct Nicholes werk tene pundis greit Flandris money # 
for ilk   
tyme the said statut beis violet be thame, in all or in part.   #
And attour,     
gif it sal happene the said merchandis, or ony ane of thame, be # 
thame salf,     
or be thar factour, to failze in paiment of the said ij s. gret #
of sek, or of thar     
gudis corrisponding tharto, tha being requirit be the tovnis    #
factouris for the     
samyn, thane thai binde and oblegis thame, be the vertu of the  #
said act and     
statut, to content and pay aucht crovnis Scottis money for ilke # 
pund gret, or     
xiiij s. for the franke, or according tharto of the money of    #
the cuntray thai     
pass in. And gif it sall happin ony of the saidis brethir of  
gilt to gouerane     
ony vnfremanis gudis vnder callour of his aune or ony otheris,  #
thai     
bind tham in lik wise to content and pay to the effect forsaid  #
tene pundis gret     
vnforgevin; and this statut to indure, and to be kepit for      # 
sevin yeiris fra     
the dait forsaid, na maner of acceptioun to be proponit in the  #
contrar; and     
quhai that violattis the samyn, in all or in part, to incure    # 
the indignacioun     
of God and our haly patrovne Sanct Nicholes, and pay the soumes # 
abovne     
writing vnforgevin. [^A PASSAGE IN LATIN OMITTED^]     
     
[}13TH JANUARY, 1521.}]     
     
   The said day, Maister Johnne Marschell, maister of the       #
grammer scvyll     
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of Aberdeen, inquirit be the provest quhome of he had the said  #
scoyll of     
Abirden. Grantit in iugment, that he had the samyne of the said # 
guyd 
toun offerand him, reddy to do thame and thair barnys seruice   #
and plesour     
at his power, and ranuersit his compulsatour of the Curt of     #
Royme in all     
poyntis, except that it suld be lesum to him to persew the      #
techaris of     
gramer within the said burgh afor thair iugis ordinar, insafar  # 
as he mycht     
of law. And that the towne kepand to him ald wse and wont, liik #
as thai     
dyd to the maister of the samyn in all tymes bigane.     
     
[}24TH MARCH 1521.}]     
     
   And in likwise the haill toun conducit and feit ane Flemyng, # 
callit Henre     
Deyne, gunner, till clenge, graitht, and decht thair            #
artailzery, and to wse     
the samyn at thair command gif neid for a monetht, contand xxx  #
days for     
ilk monetht, for the quhilk tha sall gef the said gunnour five  #
crownis for     
ilk monetht that he remayns in thair seruice.     
 
[}7TH SEPTEMBER, 1521.}]
     
   The said day, the balzeis chargit all and sindry inhabetaris #
of thar tovne     
of Futy, in generall and in speciall, that thai nor nan of tham # 
tak one     
hand to pull, gader, nor away tak nane of the mussillis nor     #
kokillis now     
begingin to gader one ane now skap at the northt watter, besyd  #
the Cunningar     
hillis, for yeir and day, that the forsaid skap be perfectly    #
growing,     
vndir the pane of banising the tovne for yeir and day           #
oneforgewin.    
     
[}13TH APRIL, 1522.}]     
     
   The said day, the provest, baillies, and counsell, and       #
communite, all in     
ane voce, chesit thir personis vnderwrittin to sit continuale   #
with thair     
provest, quhen thay ar requirit be him to awise on the necessar # 
besynes     
concerning the guyd town, for the defence of the samyn against  #
thair auld     
ennemies of Ingland, that is to say, Schir Johne Rutherfurd,    #
Andro    
Cullane, Iohne Mar, Johne Collisone, Thomas Menzes, Dauid       #
Andersone,     
James Collisone, William Rollane, and Patrik Leslie. And gif it # 
beis     
fundin that thair be sic neidfull bissines that it behuvis the  #
guyd toun to     
sett or formaile ony of thair takis, other of water or land,    #
thai consent     
inlikwise that thair be furtht chosyne, of the nomer aboue      #
writtin, foure     
personis, with thair provest, to sett or formail the said       #
takis, for the commont     
weill of this guyd toun, as thai wul answer afor God, and at    #
thair    
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be a commission maid to thame, to the quhilk thai ordaind thair # 
commont     
seill to be appensit.     
     
[}28TH APRIL, 1522.}]

   The said day, thir personis vnder writtin has tayne on thame # 
to furness     
certane cartis, to the carting of the townis artalzery, that    #
thai may be reddy     
in tyme of neid, eftir the auld rit and constitutioun of the    #
guyd town, that is     
to say, the provest, a cart; the four baillies, a cart; [^A  
LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^] .
   And inlikwise the provest and baillies hes chargit thir      #
craftis vnder     
written, of thair awin consent, to performe and furneiss, as    #
efter followis:     
The litstar craft, a cart; the baxster craft, a cart; the       #
flesseris, a cart;      
the cordinaris, a cart; the tailzeouris, a cart; the hammermen, #
a cart;     
walkaris and wobstaris, a cart; and to mak and performe the     #
samyn within     
viij dayis, under the peyne of xl s. vnforgevin.     
   The said day, it was statut and ordanit, with consent and    #
assent of the     
haill bodie of the toun, that quhome it salhappin to be absent  #
fra thair next     
wapinschawe, to be haldin on Furisday the first day of May next #
to cum,     
to be haldin on the Womanhill, at ix houris in the morning, at  #
thai sal     
pay xl s. vnforgevin; and quhatsumeuer personis that beis fund  # 
in ony     
borrowit geir the said day, othir jak, splent, knapskaw, or ony # 
other geir,     
the samyn to be escheit be the provest, and to pay the baillies # 
vnlaw      
vnforgevin.     
     
[}23D MAY, 1522.}]
     
   The said day, Patrik Leslie, ane of this balzeis of the      #
burght, fand ane     
bort in the handis of Dauid Heroun, officiar of the samyn, for  #
him self and     
the rest of his nychtbouris, quhilkis had gudis in ane schip    #
callit [\blanco\]      
takin and arrestit in Byrowne. That the gudis now being in      #
Abirdene,     
quhilkis [{wer{] inbrocht one ane Hollanderis bodum, and to be  #
ane Franchman     
price, aucht to remain within the said burght, and to be        #
arrestit to the     
said merchandis challance, ay and quhill thai get a souer       #
certification of the     
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lordis quhidder gif the said schip was lauchtfull price or      #
nocht, for and because     
the saidis marchandice gudis of Abirdene was takin and arrestit #
in    
Birown for the said schip and gudis, allegand nocht to be iust  #
price for     
sindry caussis, quhilk the bailzeis chargit the said officiar   #
to do as he wald     
ansuer one the executioun of his office.     
     
[}26TH MAY 1522.}]     
     
   The said day, Eduart Cokbourne, and Johne Bartoun,           #
procuratour, and     
Robert Bartoun, comptroller of Scotland, protestit solemply in  #
jugment     
that quhat skaith the said comptroller and Edwart sustenit      #
throucht the     
arrest laid one the gudis aboune writin be Patrik Leslie, Johne # 
Chene,     
Johne Senzeour, and Johne Stevin, sald cum apone the said       #
arrestatour,     
and for remaid of law, tyme, and place. And the said Patrik     #
offerit the     
said gudis, and the rest maid thar one to be loussit,           #
incontinent thar findand     
souerty, to do to him and his said complessis that law wald.    #
And the said     
Edwart fand Gilbert Menzeis of Findoun and William Rolland      #
cautionar     
to do to the said Patrik and his complices that law wald,       #
tuiching the said      
guidis, and the said Eduart oblegit him to keip tham skathlis   #
thairof.     
     
[}27TH MAY, 1522.}]     
     
   Be it kend till all men be thir present letteris, wss  
provest, baillies, consell,     
and communite of Abirden ... for ane certane soome of numerit    
money, pait to wss at the making of this writ, to the bigging   #
of oure     
blokhouse, bying of pouder, and paing of our gunneris feis, and # 
vther     
sindrie besines the toun hes ado, for the defence of the samin  #
agains our     
auld ennemeis of Ingland, now being in the sey with ane greit   #
army, as     
we are souerlie informit, pait to wss be our louit Johnne       #
Senzeon, burgess     
of the said burgh, for his grissoum and entress siluer, of ane  #
half nettis      
fisching of the furdis on the watter of Dee, of the quhilk      #
grissovme and     
entre siluer we hald wss weill content and pait, and            #
quietclamis and dischargis     
the said Johnne, and Jonat Crag his spouse, thair aireis and      
assignais, and all vtheris quhom it efferis, for wss, our       #
aireis, and successouris,     
for now and for euer. To haue set and to maill lattin, and be    
the tennour of thir present letteris settis and mail lattis, to # 
the said     
Johne Senzeon, and Jonat Crag his spouse, and to the langast    # 
levar of     
thame tua, and to the said Johnes aires and assignais,          #
burgessis and indullaris     
the said burgh, all and haill ane half nettis fisching of the   #
furdis     
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on the watter of Dee, with all and sindrie pendiculis and       #
pertinentis, use     
and wont; quhilk half nettis fisching vmquhill Thomas Leitht,   #
burges of     
the said burgh, had in tak and assidacioun of wss, for the      #
termes of our     
generall assidatioun, instant for all the termes of fiue yeris  #
of our next     
generall assidacioun, and forthir for all the termes that it    #
salhappin the     
samin till indur ... The entre of the said Johne and Jonat,     #
thair    
aires and assignais, salbe, God willing, in and to the said     #
halfnettis fisching,     
vith the pertinence at the vigill of Sanct Androw, in the yeir  #
of God j=m=     
v=c= twenty and five yeris, quhilk salbe the entre of our next  #
generall assedatioun,     
and fra thinfurth to continew in peciable josin and bruikin the   
samin, for all the termes of the said five yeiris, and forthir  #
during the     
termes of our next generall assedatioun, be compleit and        #
fullelie runnin ..     
The said Johne or Jonat, the langest levar of tham tua, his     #
aires or assignaies,     
payand to wss, our successouris or factouris, yeirlie, the      #
soume    
of tua merkis vsual mony of Scotland, at tua termes vsit within # 
burgh,     
allanarlie for all vthir thingis that may be askit or requirit  #
of the said half     
nettis fisching, with the pertinence, during the termes of this # 
our present     
assedatioun. And atour, we the saidis provest, baillies,        #
counsell, and communitie,     
bindis and oblesis wss, our ayres, and successouris, to         #
warrand,    
keip, and defend, all and haill the said half nettis fisching   #
of the furd, with the     
pertinence, to the said Johne and Jonat .... In witnes of the   #
quhilk,     
we haue causit our commond seill to be appensit to this present # 
assedatioun,     
togidder with the subscriptioun manuel of our commissaris       #
handis, at     
Aberden, the xxvii day of Maij, the yeir of God j=m= v=c=       #
twenty and tua     
yeris.     
     
[}20TH JUNE, 1522.}]     
     
   The said day, Johne Tullideff wes in amerciament of the curt #
for the     
cruell strublance of Wat Wod, he beand in the townis seruice,   #
ane of thair     
wachis for the commond weill of the samyn. And the said Wat     #
quit of all     
strublance doyne to him, quhairfor the balzeis chargit thair    #
officiaris that     
thai sald tak sourte of him to compeir befor the prouest and    #

baillies on     
Mononday that nixt cummis till amend to the party, at the       #
command of the     
saidis provest and baillies.     
     
[}7TH JULY, 1522.}]     
     
   The said day, the haill toun, warnit be the handbell, all in #
ane voce,     
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grantit and consentit that thair suld be ane commond tent and   #
palzeon maide     
for the lugeing of the nychtbouris of the samyn now in tyme of  #
weir;     
and quhat guyd way that the provest and counsall may find for   #
the samin     
thai assent thairto all in ane voce.     
     
[}10TH JULY, 1522.}]     
     
   The said day, the haill toun, gaderit be thair hand bell,    #
and warnit in     
speciall be thair officiaris, convenit within the tolbuitht of  #
the samin, representand     
the body of the toun for the time, all in ane voce, considerand   
the gret expression and cruell displeasure doyne to thame, in   #
the taking of     
thar nichtbour, Thomas Chalmour, burgess of the said burgh,     #
vnder silence     
of nycht, he beand in the kingis seruice, and presoning and     #
withhalding     
of the samyn be James Forbes of Auchintouill, Maister Wilzeame  #
Forbes,     
Maister Alexander Strachin, and Johne of Ruthirfurd, with thar  # 
complesis,     
hes diuisit thair nychtbour, Duncan Mar, to pass to the         #
gouernor and     
lordis of the realme, to impetrat letteris of justice and       # 
aggenis the said     
complaints; and inlikwyse till labour for ane liscience to the  #
toune and     
nychtbouris of the samyne, to remayne at hame for defence of    #
the said     
towne, baitht fra thair auld ennemeis of Ingland and ewill      #
nychtboris of the     
cuntry. And failzeand at the said Duncan can nocht labour ane   #
liscience     
to the hail toun, that he will labour to se and find quhat      #
nomer the said     
toun may furneiss, sua that ane pairt ma remayne at hayme for   #
the defence     
of the said toun, and ane vthir pairt may be providit to pass   #
at the plesour     
of the gouernour and lordis of counsell. And thai ordanit       #
Duncane Colisone,     
bailze, to deliuer x merkis of the rediast mony, beand in his   #
handis,     
to the said Duncan, for his furnessing other of taxt wattir     #
malis, or ony     
vther mony. And inlikwise the haill toun has maid the said      #
Duncan thair     
commissar in that part, to compone for any certaine sovme of    #
mony, for     
thair liscence to remayne at hayme, and ordanit ane commissione #
to be     
maid till him thairapone, vnder the commond seill, gif neid be, # 
promittand     
thame till keip ferme and stable, and to releif the said Duncan #
of the     
soomes promittand be him, to the effect aboue writtin.     
   And inlikwise it wes statut and ordanit be the hail toun     # 
aboue writtin,     
all in one voce, na man opponand nor sayand in the contrar,     #
that na nychtbour     
within this toun duelland, suld house, harbry, nor resett nayne #
of the     
personis aboue writtin, thameselff, thair horsis, nor thair     #
servandis, nor sall     
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sell nor gif to thame meit nor drink, noyther for horse nor     #
man, nor haue     
vther commounicatioun with thame of na maner of kind of         #
merchandice,     
nor with nayne of thair complesis quhilks were at the           #
committing of the     
said cryme. Nor inlikwise with the lard of Abirgeldy, nor his   # 
complesis,     
quhilkis hes maisterfullie spulzeit and away taken the          #
nychtbouris horses     
furth of the fredome of the said burgh, vnto the tyme that thai # 
haue maid     
ane sufficient and conding amendis to the guid toun and         #
nichtbouris of the     
samyn, and at thai be liscence be the provest and counsell of   #
the samyn     
till haue commounicatioun with the nychtbouris of the samyn,    #
vnder the     
payne of tynsell of thair fredome within the said burgh, and    #
all other     
priuileges or proffitis, takis or roomis, that thai haue or may # 
haue within     
the samyn, and to be deprivit of the samyn incontinent efter    #
thai be convikit     
of the said cryme.     
   And inlikwise it was commandit and chargit Normond Leslie    #
and Dauid     
Herroun, officiaris, be the bailzies, at command of the         #
provest, counsell,     
and haill communite, at thai suld pass, forse, and seik John of # 
Ruthirfurd,     
within the boundis of thair fredome, and gif thai culd nocht    #
apprehend him     
thairin, that thai suld pass to his lugeing within the said     #
burgh, afor sufficient     
witnessing, and warne him to compeir afor thame on Fredday the  #
xi  
day of this moneth of July, to heir and see himself declarit to # 
haue tynt his     
fredome within this burgh, and to haue forfaltit all and        #
sindrie his takis     
within the samyn. And inlikwise to [{be{] maid inhable in his   #
persoun to     
bruik euermair, tak or rovme, within the said fredome, for and  #
because he     
wes principall takar of Thomas Chamer, nychtbour of the samyn,  # 
and of     
the presoning and withhalding of him.     
   The said day, it was statut and ordanit be the haill toun,   #
all in ane voce,     
that all maner of man within this towne duelland, baith         #
burgessis of gild     
and vther craftismen, quhilkis his buthis or office houses,     #
that thai remayne     
commondlie in, that thai haue besid thame, in thair said offise # 
howses, ane     
sufficient fensable wapyne, sic as ax, halbert, gedward staf,   #
or siclik, for     
the defence of thair personis, gudes, and commond weill of the  #
said burgh.     
And at the officiaris pas throw the said burgh, and vise and    #
see gif this     
statut be fulfyllit; and quhat that failzies heirin to pay viij #
s. vnforgevin,     
to be applyit be the prowest and bailies at thair wull, to      #
quhat commond     
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operatioun thai think expedient. And to releif to the provest   #
and baillies     
incontinent, efter thai heir ony trubill or debait rysing in    #
the  
said burgh.     
     
[}15TH AUGUST, 1522.}]     
     
   The xv day of August, and yeir afor writtin, the haill toun  #
gadderit be     
thair hand bell, and conuenit for the maist pairt for thair     #
commond weill,     
for the outred of ane somne of money extending to vij lib.      # 
Scottis, for  
ane liscence to be haid to byd at hayme fra this oist now set   #
to conueyne the     
first day of September on Rosling Muyr. The quhilk personis     #
beand circualie     
inquerit be the officiar, all in ane voce that wes present for  #
the tyme,     
accept thir names that efter sall follow, grantit to the        #
paiment of the said     
sovme, gif that thai culd do na bettyr, and inlikwise consentit #
and  
grantit to mak ane commissioun vnder thair commond seill, with  #
power to Johne     
Mar and Maister Dauid Nicholsone, thair commissaris in that     #
part, to pass     
to my lord gouernour, and se quhat thai mycht get downe of the  #
said soume,     
and to compone for the samyn, and als to se quhow lang liscence #
thai suld     
haue for the said mony paying, and gif this oist now sturit     #
zeid nocht     
furhtt to na set fedill, thai to haue thair mony againe, and    # 
this with the     
consent of all thir personis efter following that wes present   #
for the tyme: [^A LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]     
<P 105>     
And thir ar the     
names that refused to pay thair part of the said taxt, but said #
thai wauld     
pass furtht to the said oist: that is to say, Johne Malisone,   #
Johne Craik,     
Robert Smyth, Jo, Wilzeamsone, Patrik Wod, and Dauid Criste.    #
And     
inlikwise the haill toun chesit thir personis efter following   #
to set and extent     
the said taxt efter thair sawll and conscience: that is to say, #
Dauid Andersoun,     
Walter Cullan, Gawan Murra, Johne Arthour, and Andro Stratoun.    
     
[}15TH SEPTEMBER, 1522.}]     
     
    The said day, it was statut and ordanit be the baillies and # 
counsell,     
present for the tyme, that whatsomever nichtbour disobeit the   #
command     
menstrallis in the gevin of them thair meit and wagis, as thar  #
fee to thame,     
efter the forme of the auld lowable wss of this burch, that     #
thai suld pay     
to the bailleis, unlaw viii sh. unforgevin, and tua shillings   #
to the said menstrallis     
for thair dais cost; and gif ther be ony puyr folks at ar not   #
abill     
till gif thame meit, that thai gif thame ii d. to thair fee and #
costis.     
     
[}19TH SEPTEMBER, 1522.}]     
     
    The said day, ane rycht worschipfull clerk, Maister Alex.   # 
Galloway, person     
of Kinkell, exponit to the prouest and bailzeis quhow Gelis     #
Monro and     
his complecis tuk one hand to vphaue the sentrice of the brig   #
to the samyn,     
quhilk the spat haid brocht dovne incontinent, quhow sovne he   #
mycht gudly,     
for ane France crovne of gold promest to him be the said        #
persone; and that,     
in the said Gelis defalt, the said sentrice ar broking, spylt,  #
and away to the     
see haid, in gret skayth and damag of that noble wark; the      #
quhilk skayth     
extendis to ane hundreth pundis, with the mair; quhilk          #
conditioun the said     
Gelis denyit, and the bailzeis assignit Monunday that nixt      #
cumis to the forsaid     
persone to preif his said allegeance, &c.     
<P 106>     
     
[}15TH JANUARY, 1523.}]     
     
   The saide day, the prouest, bailzeis and consaill, being     # 
present for the     
tyme, grantit in jugment that thai haid causit Dauid Andersone, #
thair     
maister of kirkwark and dayne of gild for this instant yeir, to #
cause be     
bocht be the saycht of William Cristell, burges of Deip,        #
factour to this gud     
toun in a pairt, and to the said David of Alex. Nicholsone, and #
Alex.     
Andersone, burges of the said gud toun, ane pece of artellery   #
of brass, of     
xxiiij futt, with fifty irne bowlis, according to the samyn,    #
and ane barrel of     
powder, to be send hame and anentourit one the tounis awentour  #
ham in     
the said Dauid schip, callit the Nicholles; and the said pice   # 
of artillery, with     
the furnesing of the samyn, and the berrell of povder forsaid,  #
to be boucht     
with the radiest siluer that the said maister of kirkwark had   #
in Deip, that is     
to say Sanct Nicholes siluer, and quhar it wanttis that thair   #
is nocht of the     
said siluer to furness the samyn, the said Dauid to cause his   #
said factouris     
William Crystell to furness the samyn of the said Dauid awne    #
propyr gudis;     
for the quhilkis, the saidis prouest, bailzeis, and consaill    #
present for the     
tyme, in name and behalf of this gud tovne, and for the commont #
weill of     
the samyn, bindis and oblegis thame and thair successouris to   #
frie, relief,     
and discharge the said Dauid of samekle as he debursis of Sanct #
Nicholes     
thar patronis money, at the handis of all men havand entres     #
thairto; and     
inlikwise to content and thankfully pay to the said Dauid his   #
ayris, or assignays,     
the sovme that beis debursit of his awne propyr gudis, to the   #
effect     
abovne writtin, within xx dayis efter certificatioun cumis ham  #
in Aberdein     
of the pament and neid of the sammyn.     
     
[}17TH APRIL, 1523.}]     
     
   The said day, the provest and consaill chargit thair         #
officiaris to pass throcht     
all the said burght, and charge all maner of nychtbouris and    #
fremen of the     
samyn to pass and repair and mend thair pairt of the bastale,   #
and thai that     
hes nocht begit to big thair pairt of new, vnder the pane of    #
tinsell of thair     
fredoum, and that betuix this and the nixt wapinschawingis.     
     
[}31ST OCTOBER, 1523.}]     
     
   The said day, all the toun, warnit be the handbell to        #
convein within the      
tolbuith of the said burghe, for the commont weill of the saim, #
and the     
maist pairt beand convenit for the tyme, and thair it was       #
schavin to thame     
<P 107>     
be ane honorabill man, Johne Collisone, quhow thair provest wes #
trublit     
and chargit to remayne in Edinburgh for the furnessing of thair #
carris,     
horsis, and men, vnder the payne of tynsell lif, land, and      #
guyd; and at     
thair wantit ane great pairt of the said carris, horsis, and    #
the laif inlaikit      
expenssis, the quhilk the said provest behuyid  to furnish the  #
hail nomer     
furtht, and gif thaim expenssis that wantet, to his gret        #
skaitht. Quharfor     
the said Johne producit in jugment our souerane lordis          #
letteris, chargand     
the taxtaris chosyne and suorne afor to convein agane and       #
filfurtht the      
hail nomer of their carris, horsis, and caus euerilk man that   #
had horsis     
thair to send sufficient furnessing and expensis to thaim for   #
the releving     
of thair said provest, vnder the panys contenit in the said     #
letteris. And     
thairefter the said Johne requirit all the foure baillies to    #
cause the said     
taxtaris to convein incontinent to the said effect, as they     #
wald ansuer     
in the execution of their office. And incontinent the bailzeis  #
chargit al     
the said taxtaris to pass incontinent and mak ane end or thai   #
depairtit,     
of thair said taxt, certefeand thame, that and ony skaitht come #
throw the     
want of the said furnessing, that it suld come on thame, and    #
nocht on the     
said baillies, in tyme to cum. And the said Johne requirit the  # 
said baillies     
to indorse the said letteris, and deliuer thame him agane,      #
befor witnes,     
honorable men, Schir Androw Scherar, vicar of Nig; Mr. Gilbert    
Straichin; Schir Dauid Leis; Schir Johne Buchane; and Schir     #
Dauid     
Lorimer, notar public, with vtheris diuerse.     
     
[}27TH NOVEMBER, 1523.}]     
     
   The said day, Master Johne Marschel, master of the gramar    #
skull of 
Abirden, grantit in jugment that he had offendit to his         #
masteris of the  
towne, and besoucht tham to pardone him, and confessit thaim    #
that he 
haid the schoull of thame, and suld hald the samyn lik as his   # 
predicessouris     
haid downe in tyme bigane; and the prouest, in nayme of the     #
haile     
toune, ressauit him thankfully, permittand to be him a gud      #
master in    
tyme cuming, he being than a gud seruand, as accordis him to    #
do.    
     
[}16TH MARCH, 1524.}]     
     
   The xvi of Marche, (\anno quo supra\) , it was thocht        #
expedient be prouest,     
bailzes, and sa mony of the consaill as was present for the     #
time, because     
thai war informit that my lord of Aberdeen was nocht to cum     #
afor the    
sanze, and that thar kirk had stand lang desolet of diuyne
service, and this     
<P 108>     
haly tyme of Pasche quhilk now approchis, to send Thomas        #
Menzeis of    
Petfoddellis, and with him thre horse in company, to my said    #
lord of
Abirden, to gett a commissioun from him to sum vther bischop to #
cum 
and reconseil the said kirk; and requirit the prouest to mak    #
expensis thar     
one, and quhat expensis beis maid thar one, to be allowit to    #
the saide  
prouest in his first comptis, notheles the suspendaris of the   # 
said kirk being     
charply persewit for the said expensis, and the gret iniuris    #
dovne to the     
said  communite, quhow soone and incontinent it be fund quha    #
was the 
cause of the said kirkis suspending.     
     
[}4TH APRIL, 1524.}]     
     
   The said day, the haill toune, all in ane voce, chesit thir  #
five personis:     
that is to say, Gilbert Menzes, provest, Schir Johne            #
Ruthyrfurd, Andro  
Cullane, Johne Collisone, and James Collisone, commissaris to   #
the haill 
toun, to prouid and considder quhar money sall be gotten to     #
outred and    
pay my lord Arskyn of his pentioun, and to outred and pay Patre #
Barroun, 
of the soume taxt on the said toun for wanting of thair         #
carriagis, for the     
quhilk soomis our souerane lordis letteris ar direct, quhilkis  #
hes beyne     
diuerse [\tymes\] present in jugment, to put the provest,       #
baillies, and induellaris     
of the said guyd toun to the horne, gevand to thaim thair powar   
to set and prolong thar takis quhar they can be fund waikand    #
for the  
outred of the samyn. And ordanis ane commissioune to be maid to #
thaim 
thairupone in the largest forme, chargand the keparis of thar   #
commond
seill to seill the samyn in dew forme.     
   The said day, the haill toun, all in one voce, ordanit and   #
commandit
the counsell of the samyn, present for the tyme, to pass and    #
modefy the  
provest and Johne Colisonis expensis maid in their passing to   #
Edinburgh, 
to enter and manteyne their carriagis, horsis, and futmen,      #
furneist to the     
last oist. Quhilkis ryply avisit in the counsall house of the   #
samyn, fand     
and ordand xl pundis to be gevin to thair said provestis        #
expensis, and 
tene pundis to the said Johne Collisonis expensis, quhilk they  #
ordand the     
commissioneris aboue writin to provyd for.     
[^A PASSAGE IN LATIN OMITTED^]     
<P 109>     
     
[}13TH MAY, 1524.}]     
     
   The said day, it was thocht expedient, and commandit and     #
chargit be  
the prouest and conseill present for the time, that ilk bailze  #
pass throcht     
his quarter, and cerse and seik all vnlauchtful nychtbouris,    #
and cause all     
sic be remowit the towne; inlikwise all begaris excep tham that #
ar natif 
borne within this tovne.     
     
[}24TH OCTOBER, 1524.}]     
     
   The said day, the baillies chargit thair officiar to pass    #
and charge all 
the pynouris that vsis till leid fulze to pass and clenge the   # 
kingis get and 
commond myddingis within the said burgh incontinent or euer     # 
thai do    
ony vthyr labour; and failzeing thairof, that thai tak thair    #
horse and cartis, 
and cause the samin be donn on thair awin expensis, and thai to #
pay the 
baillies vnlaw, vnforgevin.     
<P 110>     
     
[}20TH, JUNE, 1525.}]     
     
   The said day, the prowest, baillies, counsell, and           #
communite, present 
for the tyme, consentit to the ewynning of thair Castelhill,    #
and dyking the      
same about.     
   The said day, the prowest, baillies, counsell, and communite # 
of the said 
burgh, present for the tyme, consentit and ordanit Wilzeam,     #
bonatmakar,    
to pass with thair hand bell throicht the toun yerlie, and to   #
haue the samyn     
in office vnder Dauid Colp, for al the dais of his life, but    #
ony impediment. 
     
[}21ST JULY, 1525.}]     
     
   The said day, the haill tovne, being warnit be thar hand     # 
bell, and present      
in the tolbuitht of the samyn, for the mest, and the auld       #
statut maid 
for the ressayt and luging of strangaris, quhilk is contenit at #
lenght in      
thar buk of statuttis, being oppenly red in presens of thame,   #
thai all, in 
ane woice, ratifeit and apprevit the samyn, and the pannis      #
contenit tharin 
requirand the prouest and balzeis to put the samyn to dew       #
executioun, as      
thai wald ansuir to God and to the king thar apone.     
     
[^A ROYAL LETTER AND AN EXTRACT FROM A PARLIAMENTARY ACT 
OMITTED^]     
<P 111>     
     
[}2D OCTOBER, 1525.}]        
     
   The said day, the prowest, ballies, and counsell, with       #
consent and assent      
of all the haill communite, thei beand circualie inquirit be    # 
the officiaris, na      
maner of person opponand nor sayand in the contrar, maid,       #
creat, and ordanit 
rycht honourable men, that is to say, Thomas Menzes of          # 
Pitfoddellis, 
thar prowest for the tyme, Gilbert Menzes of Fyndoun, Sir       #
Iohnne Rutherford,      
Andro Cullan, and William Rolland, thair verie lauchfull and    #
undoutit 
commissaris, to set and prolong all and syndrie their fischings #
and takis, baitht      
to burgh and to land, now waikind and beand in thair handis, to #
burges and      
induellars the said burgh now actuallie, and to nane uthers,    #
and to nae maner     
of person quhilks wes art or part of the cruell murther,        #
slauchter, mutilatoun, 
and hurting of their nychtbours, prowest, baillies, and         #
officiaris, maid      
on thame under silence of nycht, be Alexr. Setoun of Meldrum,   #
Iohnne  
<P 112>     
Leslie of Wardors, Willzeame Leslie of Bognhane, Alexr. Leslie  #
of that     
ilk, thair sonns and ayris, complecis and pairt takaris, to the #
nomer of iiii=xx=     
speris, or thereby, be solstation of Iohnne Collison eldar, and #
his complesces,     
with power to the saids commissaris to set the said tacks and    
fisching for five years immediat followand the vigill of Sanct  # 
Androw nixt to     
cum, and thair commissioun to be maid under thair commund seill #
to the      
saids commissaris, in the largest forme, to this effect:        #
Promittand thame 
and ilk ane of thame to keip firme and staple be the fathis in  #
thair bodeis.     
Witnes, Mr. Iohnne Merschell, Mr. Wm. Meldrum, Mr. Wm.          #
Philpson,     
and Sir Dauid Lorimar, notar, with utheris and syndrie.     
   The said day, the prowest, ballies, counsell, and communite, # 
ratifeit, apprewit,     
and confermit the statut made be thame the last day of          #
September 
immediat gangand befor the dait heirof, promittand faithfullie  #
to keip the 
samyn ferme and stable and inviolat in all tymes cummyng, be    #
the treutht 
and faitht in thair bodies.     
     
<S SAMPLE 2>     
<P 284>     
     
[}20TH MAY, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, the counsell for the maist pairt, beand        # 
convenit within the     
counselhous, all in ane voce, nemmit, electit, and chesit       #
Thomas Menzes,
prouest, and Dauid Mar, bailzie, thair commissioneris,          #
coniunctly and 
seueralie, to ryid to Edinburght to the next parliament, to be  #
haldin thair 
be our souerane lady Marie, quene drowrear of Scotland, and     #
regent of the 
same, and be the thre estatis therof, in name of our maist      #
gracious quene     
<P 285>     
moderne, to begyne vpoune the xxviij day of May instant, and    #
thair to  
consult, awyse, treat, decerne, and concluid vpoune sic thingis #
as concernis 
the publict welth of this realme, and liberties therof, as      #
salbe thocht ganand     
and convenient be the saidis thre estaitis; and ordinis ane     #
commissioune  
vnder the townis seall to be maid to thame thairwpoune, with    #
power alse 
to the saidis commissioneris to compeir and convene in the said #
toune of
Edinburgh with the remanent commissioneris of the burrowis of   # 
this realme, 
to awyse and consult vpon sic thingis as concernis the commound #
weill of 
the estait of burgessis, and the libertie and priuileges of     #
burrowis, and to     
concluid therwpoune, and to desyir in the said parliament sic   #
wrangis, 
hurtis, and enormiteis, as is done to the saidis burrowis and   # 
inhabitantis 
therof, to be reformit, and ther auld priuileges and liberties  #
to be renewit, 
restoirit, apprewit, and confermit; and specialy anent the      #
hurtis done to 
this burgh of Abirdene, to be reformit, and thair auld          #
infeftmentis and 
priuilegis, grantit and gewin to thame be our souerane ladyis   #
maist noble 
progenitouris, to be ratifiit and confermit, lyk as salbe       
contenit and specifiit     
at mair lynth in the articles to be maid and send with the      #
saidis commissioneris 
thairopon; and gyf neid beis, to consent to gif ane honest and    
decent propyne, gratitud, and contributioune to our said        #
souerane lady and     
regent forsaid, and ratificatioune and confirmatioune of thair  #
auld infeftmentis
and priuileges forsaid, lykas salbe contenit and specifiit in   #
the generall 
articalis to be maid be the saidis haill commissioneris of      #
burrowis, or  
the maist pairt of thame, and presentit in the said parliament  # 
heirvpoune.     
   The said day, the counsell ordanis to be gewin Thomas        #
Menzes, prowest,
the sowme of twenty poundis, and to Dauid Mar tene pound, to    #
mak thair 
expenssis in ryding to Edinburght, as commissioneris for the    # 
toune to this      
nixt parliament; and ordanis the same to be pait to thame with  #
the first 
accedence of the toune that beis gottin in of the compositionis # 
of fremen      
to be maid, escheittis or vnlawis quhatsumeuir that first       #
fallis.     
     
[}14TH JUNE, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, Jonatt Portar and Jonett Bailzert, hir         #
seruand, war convickit 
in judgement, be the depositiones of diuerse famose witnes, for #
the  
defaming and myspersoning of James Andersone and Elspett Baldy, #
his 
spowse, with veray ewill and injurious langaige, vndvordy of    #
heiring.   
Quhairfor thay, and ilkane of thame, war in amerciament of      #
court, and the
<P 286>     
bailzies forsaid ordanit the saidis Portar and Bailzeirt, hir   #
seruand, to cum 
one Sonday nixt cumis, within Sanct Nicholace parroche kirk, in #
tyme of
the hie mess, with ane candill of valx in thair hand, and sit   #
doune on thair 
kneis in the queir, afoir the guid men of the toune, and aske   # 
the said James 
and his spows forgyfnes, and thair to revock the vordis said be #
thame 
vpoune him and his said spowse fals and vntrewe, and requeist   #
the guid 
men of the toune to cause thame be forgewin; and gyf euer the   #
said Jonett 
Bailzert beis foundin in the making of sic offencis in tyme     #
cuming, and beis 
convict thairfor, to be banist of this guid toune.  
     
[}30TH JUNE, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, Gilbert Collisone, Patrik Menzes, and Gilbert  # 
Malysoune, 
baillies, with awyse of the haill counsell, ordanis fourty      #
poundis to 
be gewin to Thomas Menzeis, prouest, and Dauid Mar, bailzie, of #
the 
rediast and first accidentis and casualiteis of the toune that  #
euer first happynnis  
to be gottin, and na man to mell thairwith, nor gett part nor   #
profyt  
thairof, quhill the said fourty poundis be pait compleitly to   #
thame, and that 
to mak thair expenssis in passing to this present rayd till     #
Sanct Johnstoune, 
anent the townis bessenes and commound weill therof, and in     # 
recompensatioune      
of thair expenssis of the last rayd thai maid, at command of    #
the      
counsell, to the last parliament haldin in Edinburght, for the  #
quhilkis as yit
thai gat na recompensatioune nor reward, bot of thair awin      #
guidnes hes 
remittit the same for paiment of the sowme aboue wryttin.     
     
[}8TH JULY, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, anent the complaynt gewin in iugement to the   # 
baillies be 
Gilbert Knowis, Duncan Forbes, Gilbert Kyntoir, Alexr. Hay, and   
Maister Johnne Watsoune, for thame selffis and the remanent     #
heretouris,       
takkismen, tenentis, and occupiaris of the fysching of the      #
cruwis, vpoun      
Maister Johnne Chawmer, duelland in Grandoum, for the wrangouss #
vsing 
and halding of ane cobill vpoun the said watter, within the     #
boundis of thair     
fysching, to thair gryt hurt and skayth, quhar neuer na cobill  #
wes vsit nor      
occupiit obefoir, and tharthrow making new innovatioune by the  #
ald louable 
vse and consuetude, obseruit in all tymes bygane past memor of  #
man, in 
hurt and preiudice of the priuilege of this guid toune, as in   #
the said bill 
of complaynt at mair lyntht is contenit. Quhilk wes remittit    #
and referrit 
to the sensment and ordinans of the counsell, quhilkis being    #
conuenit for      
<P 287>       
the maist pairt within the consalhous, all in ane voce, fand    #
and decernit  
that the said Maister Johnne aucht not to hauld nor vse the     #
said cobill as      
he dois, and that thair aucht bot ane generawll and commond     #
coble to be      
vpoun the said fysching, to serff all the possessouris,         #
tenentis, and occupyaris 
thairof, in tym cumyng, to transport thame selffis, thair       #
seruandis,      
and thair fysche, als oft as thai haf ado, and that the said    #
new cobill aucht      
to be removit, destroyit, and away put, in all tymes to cum.    # 
And attour      
it is provydit be the said consell, with consent and assent of  #
the haill possessours,      
takkismen, and tenentis of the said fysching, that gif the said #
generall      
commound cobill beis haldyn or stopput fra ony ane of thame, or #
thair      
subtenentis, or seruandis, quhen thai haf ado in tyme to cum,   # 
that the  
haldar or stoppar of the said cobill sall refound and pay to    #
the complenar      
samekill as he or his serwand will mak faytht thai ar skaythtit #
at that tyme,
throcht wanting of the vse and service of the said cobill, and  #
siclik to be      
done in all tymes cumyng, without any vder probatioune to be    # 
socht bot      
allanerly the depositioune of the complenar of his serwand.     
     
[}12TH AUGUST, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, Alexr. Joffray, Duncane Fraser, Williame       #
Congiltoun,  
Dauid Saidlar, Johnne Fowlis, Charles Dauidsone, Reche Myln,    #
Alexr. 
Kemp elder, Alexr. Kemp youngar, Alexr. Kay, and Duncane Colly, # 
baxteris, and ilkane of thame were conuickit in judgement, and  #
put in amerciament      
of court, for the braking of the commound ordinance and         #
statutis of     
this guid toune in selling of quhyt breid of less mesour and 
price nor wes      
gewin and dewisit be the counsell to thame of befoir to obserf  #
and fulfill;      
quhairfor thai war in amerciament of court to forbeir in tyme   #
cumyng      
and amend as law vill, and that wes gewin for dome, and the     #
baillies continewit      
thair vnlawis to be modifiit be thame eftirwart.     
   The said day, the haill counsell statut and ordanit that the # 
baxteris of      
this guid toune sall baik and sell twenty tua vnce of quhyt     # 
breid, sufficient      
stuf, and weill bakin, for four penneis, and tuenty aucht vnce  #
of ry breid, 
sufficient stuf, and weill bakin, for four d.; and that na      #
breid be sauld be     
thame quhill thai be considderit and vesit be ane of the        #
baillies; and quhowsone
the breid beis takin out of the owne, that ane of the baillies  #
salbe aduertist      
and requirit to do the same; and that na baxter sall baik ony   #
breid      
vpoune Settirday befoir tua eftir none; and quha beis fundin    #
cumand in       
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the contrar heirof, the haill baikin stuf beand fundin and      #
gottin in his possessioune      
to be escheit and delt; and gyf ony baxter hawand stuf beis     
fundin wantand baikin breid, and nocht vsand his craft to serf  
the toune     
and nightbouris therof in contemptioune of this ordinance, the  #
sam beand      
knawin and vnderstand, the haill victuall and stuf beand fundin #
in his possessioune      
to be escheit and delt to the puir folkis. And this statut to   #
induir      
and haf stryntht quhill the fest of Michaelmes nixt cumis, and  #
further       
induiring the counsellis will.     
     
[}26TH AUGUST, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, Alexr. Reid younger, being accusit be the      #
baillies in      
judgement for inobedience of Patrik Menzes, bailzie, in         #
executioune of his      
office, and siclyk for the braking of ward, he being put        #
thairintill be the      
said bailzie, for the quhilkis he put him in the tounis will,   #
and the prouest      
and maist pairt of the counsell ordanit him to cum on Sonday    #
nixt cumis 
within Sanct Nicholace kirk, in the queir therof, with ane      #
candill of ane lib. 
of wax in his hand, in the tyme of the hie mess, and thair sit  #
doune on his      
kneis and ask the said Patrik forgyfnes, and requeist the guid  #
men of the      
toune to cause and solist the said Patrik forgyf him; and gyf   #
euer he beis      
convickit making sic faill and offence in tyme cumyng, to tyne  # 
his fredome      
and be banyst of the toune.     
     
[}3D SEPTEMBER, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, Agnes Lowsoune and Johne Abircromy, hir        #
spows, for his      
interes, beand lauchtfullie warnit to this day for the third    # 
and last dyat of      
proces be Johnne Jenour, officiar, vpoun the quhilkis he maid   #
faith in judgement,      
to haf ansuerit at the instance of ane rycht venerabill mane,   #
Robert,
minister of the Trinite ordour of Faythfurd and Abirdene, anent #
the claim     
of ane chalice of siluer, contening fourtene vnces of wecht,    #
quhilk the said      
Agnes, as is allegit, intromettit with, deliuerit to hir be     #
freir Johne Quhytcors,      
pertening to the Trinite kirk of Abirdene, with intimatioune    #
gif thai      
compeirit nocht, the baillies wald proceid and minister iustice #
in the said      
mater; and the saidis Agnes and Johnne, hir spous, for his      #
interes, beand      
oft tymes callit, compeirit nocht, quhairfor the baillie        #
resauit and admittit       
the said Robertis probatioune; be the quhilk it wes fundin that #
the said      
Agnes intromettit with the said chalice, contening fourtene     #
vnce of siluer,      
and therfor the bailzie forsaid decernit and ordanit the said   #
Agnes and       
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Johnne, hir spous, for his interes, to delyuer and restoir to   #
the said minister      
and kirk forsaid the forsaid chalice of fourtene vnce of siluer #
alse guid as it      
wes quhen scho intromettit thairwith within terme of law; and   #
gyf the same 
be destroyit or brokin, nocht gettabill in the sam forme as it  #
ves, that the 
said Agnes and Johnne, hir spows forsaid, for his interes, sall #
caus mak ane      
wther chalice of new, of the samin vecht of siluer, alse guid   #
as the vther     
wes, and deliuer the same to the said minister and place        #
forsaid. And attour      
the bailzie decernit and ordanit the said Robert, minister      #
aforsaid, of      
his awin confessioune, to pay to the said Agnes the sowme of    #
sax lib. Scottis      
for the said freir Johnne Quhytcors quhilk he wes awand to hir; #
and the      
said Robert attour oblist him of his awin guidnes to delyuer to #
the said      
Agnes fourtie s. mair nor the said sowme of sax lib. at the     #
restitutioun of      
the said chalice in maner aboune writtin, sua the same be       #
deliuerit to him      
with plesour and thankfulnes but ony forthir of cumyr or coist.   
   The said day, Robert Cunynghame, minister of the Trinite     #
freiris of       
Failfurd and Abirdene, maid and constitut Maister Robert        #
Lumisden his      
procuratour and factour, to vptak the mailis, fermes,           #
annuelrentis, profyttis,      
emolumentis, and deuties, pertenyng to the saidis freiris of    #
the ordour      
of the religioune in Abirdene, of all termes bygane and to cum, #
with      
power to substitute procuratouris to persew the same in the     #
law, gyf neid     
beis; with power also to the said Maister Robert to beit, mend, #
and reperell      
the Trinite kirk and place of Abirdene, and quhat he debursis   # 
thairvpoune      
to be thankfully allowit to him; and alse to sustene the        #
brether      
of the said religioune in thair cleuthyng and ordinar           #
expenssis, and vther      
thingis neidfull to thame, takand their acquyttances therof,    #
quhilk salbe      
alse sufficient as it war deliuerit to the said minister        #
himself, conforme to      
his directioune and ordinance gevin to the said Mr. Robert      #
theranent,      
quhilkis siclyke salbe allowit thankfully to the said Mr.       #
Robert,      
promittand faythfullie to hald ferme and stabill quhat the said #
Mr. Robert promittand
faythfullie to hald ferme and stabill quhat the said Mr. Robert   
and his substitutis in the premissis lauchtfullie leidis to be  #
done. And      
this present procuratorie to induir and haf effect ay and       #
quhill the said      
minister renunce and discharge the same.     
     
[}4TH OCTOBER, 1555.}]     
     
   The said day, the counsell hawand consideratioune that Sir   #
Robert      
Bynne, cheplane and singar in thair queir, is vesiit be the     #
hand of God      
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with infirmitie in his ene, quhairthrow he is becum blynd, and  #
that he maid     
gude and continuell seruice in tymis bigan, sa lang as he wes   #
habill.   
Thairfor, thai all in ane voce consentis and assentis that he   #
haf his auld       
fee, that is to say, aucht markis wsuaill money of Scotland,    # 
togidder with      
his clerkship, quhilkis he had for his fee and seruice abefor,  #
for all the      
dais of his lif, but ony impediment or gane calling. And        #
forther, that the      
nobill and honest men of the toune support him of thair awin    #
guidnes, at       
thair plesour and discretioune, quhill God restoir him to his   #
sycht and 
habilite.     
   Item, it is statut and ordanit, with consent of the haill    # 
craft of cordonaris,     
that na schone be sauld darrer bot the best dowbill scholit     #
schone      
for men xxxii penneis, mennis singill solit schone tua s.;      #
wemmenis         
dowbill solit schone ii s., thair singill solit schone xviij d. #
and xvj d.;     
barnis schone for xii d., x d., and viij d., efferand to thair  #
quantitie and      
aige, wnder the paine of escheiting of all schone beand in the  # 
possessioune     
of the braker of this present statut.     
   Item, that na man gaddir nor hald ony carnis or stanis to ly #
vpoun the      
calsay, except thame that ar to big allanerly, wnder the pane   # 
of eschaeting      
therof; and gif ony biggar haldis ane carne of stanis one the   #
streit or  
calsay attour ane yeir and ane day, the samin to be escheit     #
inlykwyse.       
    Item, that euerie craft within this guid toune haf ane      #
visitour amang      
thame selfis, chosin euere yeir anis, quha sell accept the      
same, and be      
suorne therto befor the prouest and baillies in judgement, to   # 
se that all      
statutis and ordinans maid one the craftismen of this guid      #
toune be obseruit      
and keipit; and that, in tyme cuming, thair be na craftisman    #
maid      
fre man to vse his craft, except he haf seruit as prentise      #
under ane maister      
thre yeiris, and be found sufficient and qualifeit in his craft #
to be ane     
maister.     
   Item, it is statut and ordanit, with consent of the haill    #
baxteris, beand     
convenit, that nane of thame pass in the contray to by quhit,   #
of darrer      
prices bot as tha ma keip and obserf the statut and ordinance   #
gewin      
thame be the counsale for this present yeir; and alse that nane #
of the      
saidis baxsteris by quhit attour his nychtbouris heyd: that is  # 
to say quhair      
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his nychtbour hes bene to mak ony bying or bergane of quhyt,    #
and bidden      
ony money thairfor, that his nychtbour bid na mair nor is       #
offerit, nor mak      
him to by thair, wnder the pane of fourty s. for the first      #
falt, and tynsell      
of fredome for yeir and day for the secund falt, gif he beis    #
convickit for      
the same.     
   Item, that na tailzeour sell ony clayth bot allanerly maid   #
breikis and      
boxis of tartane or grose claith and lynningis for cleything;   # 
and gif ony      
tailzeour dois in the contrar, to be punist therfor, as         # 
forstallaris and regrataris      
of this guid towne.      
   Item, that all burgessis remanyng in landwart, and all       #
wtheris hawand      
takkis, rowmes, steddingis, and proffeittis of this guid towne, #
cum betwixt      
this and Mertimes nixt to cum, with thair wyffis, barnis, and   # 
howshaldis,      
and duell, remayne, and abyde within this toune, scoit, loit,   #
walk, and ward      
with the samin, and be reddy all houris for the defens thairof, #
and concurring      
and assisting with the superiouris and ministers of justice     #
tharof      
for the tym, wnder the pane of tinsell of thair fredomes,       #
takkis, priuilegis,      
and profyttis that thai haf or ma haf of this guid toune, of    #
the quhilkis      
thair names followis, viz.: [^A LIST OF NAMES OMITTED^]      
and ordanit thir names forsaidis to be proclamit opinlie at the #
mercat croce     
of Aberdene to the effect forsaid.     
   The said day, the counsell grantit to thair seruitour, James #
Nory,      
singar in thair queir, twenty s., to be augmentit tuenty s. of  # 
his fee, makand      
in the haill four poundis, for his guid seruice to be done in   #
their queir;     
and ordanis the den of gild to mak him paiment therof, ay and   #
quhill he 
be dischargit therof.     
   The said day, Alexr. Rattre dischargit the towne of the      #
sowme of twelff      
poundis, allegit awand be thame to him of the rest of ane       #
gritar sowme, for       
his seruice and wagis in passing with the kingis grace to the   #
ilis, at command      
of the counsell, and of sewin lib., allegit awand to him be the #
toune      
for tua monethis wagis, in the tyme that he wes gunnar in thair # 
blokhowse,     
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and of all sowmes of money that he may clame or creif at the    #
toune in      
tymmes bigane; and the counsell remittit and dischargit the     #
said Alexr.      
of his guid sone John Ewynnis compositione of fremanschip, for  #
the quhilk     
he com souertie.    

[}14TH OCTOBER, 1555.}]    

   The said day, the prouest and baillies ordanis Gilbert       #
Colisoun, maister    
of Sanct Nicholace wark, to delyuer to Patrik Menzeis and       #
Alexander    
Chawmer, denis of gild, the grit jrne kirk styile to be applyit #
to the irne    
wark necessar of the tolbuith; and the saidis prouest and       #
baillies oblist     
tham in name of the toune that the denis of gild for the tyme   #
sell rander    
and gyf agane samekill jrne wark to the said maister of kirk    #
wark for the    
tyme to the necessar beitment of the said kirk quhat tyme and   #
quhow sone    
it sell hapin thame to haf ado thairwith, be the sycht of the   #
guid men of the    
toune.    
    
[}25TH OCTOBER, 1555.}]    

   The said day, the maist pairt of the consell ordanis Thomas  #
Menzeis,    
thair prouest, to ryd to Edinburght for defence of the          #
sommondis rasit be    
Dauid Kintor, Gilbert Kintoir, and Patre Gray, aganis the       # 
prouest and   
baillies of this guid toun, and certane vderis nychtbouris      #
thairof, for the reductione    
of thair fewis, and the productione of the townis ald           #
infeftmentis;    
and ordanis the den of gild to deliuer him xx lib. to help to   #
mak his expenssis.    
    
[}6TH NOVEMBER, 1555.}]
   
   The said day, Johnne Chalmer wes accusit in judgement for    #
the myssaying   
and myspersoning of Dauid Mar, ane of the baillies of the said  #
burgh,   
with maist wyile and injurious detractioune, sayand that he had #
takin ane   
hundreth lib. of money furth of his bag, quhilk wes ane         #
commound theyffis   
stik, and that he had gewin ane false testimoniall one him to   # 
the quenis   
grace, wnder the townis seill; quhik actioun wes put to the     #
knawlege of the   
assise aboune writtin, and be the depositiones of diuerse       #
famose witnes, and   
be the said Johnnis awin confessioune, he wes convickit be the  #
said assise   
for the myspersoning of the said Dauid in maner aboun writtin,  #
quhairfor    
he wes put in amerciament of court, and that wes gewin for      #
dome.   
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[}13TH DECEMBER, 1555.}]   

   The said day, the baillies ordanit Maister Thomas Annand,    #
chaiplane   
of Sanctiohnne the Ewangellist alter, situate within thair      #
parroche kirk of   
Abirdene, to the quhilk the toune ar patronis, or his awin      #
grant and consent   
in judgment, to bring and exhibit befor the counsell, in thair  # 
nixt heid   
court, to be haldin the xiij of Januar, ane litill chalice and  #
ane mekill new   
chalice of siluer, pertening to the said chaplanrie, to be      #
vesiit be the consell,   
and to remayne for seruing of the said alter within the said    #
kirk in   
firmance and keipyng, becaus he hes absentit the same thir      
diuerse yeiris   
bygane.   
   
[}16TH DECEMBER, 1555.}]   

   The said day, the haill towne beand conuenit for the maist   #
part, chesit   
and electit Thomas Menzeis, prouest, Maister Robert Lumisden,   #
and   
Gilbert Collisoune, or ony tua of thame coniunctly, thair       # 
commissionaris,    
lauchtfull and irrevocabill, to compeir and conuene with the    #
remanent commissionaris    
of the fre burghis of Scotland in Edinburgh, vpoun the xv day   
of Januar nixt to cum, conforme to ane writting of our souerane #
lady,  
Marie, quene drowrear of Scotland, and regent of the same,      #
directit and  
send to the prouest, baillies, and communite of the said burgh, #
or quhatsumeuer   
vder day or dayis, place or places conuenient, quhen and quhair  
the quenis grace and commissionaris forsaid thinkis expedient,  #
for dressing   
of appountment, stancheyng of all debait and contrauersie       # 
betuix the fre   
marchandis and craftismen of all burrowis of this realme, for   #
vnite and  
concord to be amangis thame perpetualie in tyme cumyng. And     #
alsua to   
consult, awyse, dispute, and ressoune vpoune all sic thingis as # 
concernis   
the fredome, liberte, preuelege, and publict weltht, of all     #
borrowis of the   
realme, and for to do, traitt, determe, and conclud             #
thairupoune, for the   
commond weill of the samin. And forthir, to compleyne and       #
expoyne   
the hurtis, dampnage, and skaith done in tymes bygane by the    # 
burrowis  
forsaid, and specialy to this burght of Abirden, aganis the     #
strynth of thair   
ald priuelegis and infeftmentis, and for to laubour remeid      #
thairin, sa far   
as ma be had; and for to grant to gif ane compositioune,        #
propyne, and  
gratitud to our said souerane lady, as vtheris commissionaris   #
of burrowis   
dois and grantis, for reformatioune, in tyme cumyng, of the     #
hurtis, dampnagis   
and skaithis don to the burrowis in tymes bygane, restitutione  #
of   
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thame to their ald immwniteis and liberteis, and apprewing, and # 
ratefying,   
and confermyng of thair ald priuilegis and infeftmentis; and    #
generaly to   
do all thingis concernyng the premissis that the haill          #
communite forsaid   
mycht do, gif thai war all present in propir personis:          #
promittand faithfullie    
to hald firme and stabill all and quhatsumeuer thingis thair    #
saidis   
thre commissioneris, or ony tua of thame coniunctly, lauchfully #
ledis to be   
done in the premisses; and ordanis ane commission to be maid to #
thame   
vnder the townis commond seill thairupoun.   
   
[}2D JANUARY, 1556.}]   

   The said day, the haill toun, being convenit within the      #
tolbuitht thocht   
neidfull and expedient to big and brig vpoun the Den burne, at  #
the southwast   
entre of the toune, as thai cum thairto fra the brig of Dee;    # 
and ordanis   
Maister Robert Lumisden, maister of vark of the brig of Dee, to   
big the said brig of tua bowis, sufficiently with stane and     #
lyme, with the   
reddiest of the money that he hes of the mailis of Ardlar, and  #
to by stanis,   
lyme, and all materiallis neidfull therto; and quhat he         #
debursis on the  
biging of the said brig to be thankfully allowit to him in his  #
nixt compt;   
vpoun the quhilkis the said Maister Robert desyrit act of       #
court, in presens   
of the haill toun forsaid.   
   
[}27TH JANUARY, 1556.}]   

   The said day, the counsell dewysit and ordanit that Alexr.   # 
Ruderfurd,    
Gilbert Collisoune, Patrik Menzes, Walter Cullane, Gilbert      #
Malisoune,   
and Androw Lowsoune suld pass to Edinburght to the prouest      #
Thomas   
Menzeis, as commissionaris for the haill toune, to defend the   #
actioun and   
pley mowit aganis this toun and communite thairof, be Maister   #
Henry   
Lauder and Maister Johnne Spens, aduocattis to our souerane     #
lady the   
quenis grace, for productioun befoir the lordis of counsell of  # 
the townis   
infeftment and chartour of thair fischingis of the watteris of  #
Dee and  
Doyne, efter the forme and tenour of our souerane ladyis        #
letteris of summondis   
directit aganis thame thairupoune, and thair to consult with    # 
men   
of law, experience, and knawledge, the best way for defence of  #
the said  
actioune, and to constitut procuratouris, ane or ma, to that    #
effect, and to   
mak expensis thairupoune honestly as accordis; and the          #
forsaidis expensis   
to be vptakin of the possessouris of the tounis fyschingis and  #
landis, effering   
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to the valour therof, and gyf neid beis, to exhibit and produce #
the   
said chartour and infeftment. The quhilk ordinance of the       #
covnsell, the  
haill toune, being warnit to this day, and convenit for the     #
maist pairt affermit,   
apprevit, and consentit therto; and siclyke the saidis          #
commissioneris  
grantit to pass to address the said bissenes frelie and         #
glaidly, vpon  
thair awin expenssis, for the weill of the toune, conforme to   #
the townis   
ordinance and power gevin to thame, and the haill toune ordanis #
ane
commissioun to be given to thame vnder thair commond seill, to  #
the effect   
forsaid.   
   The said day, Patrik Leslie, in name and behalf of the       #
nychtbouris and   
puir inhabitantis of this toun, quhilk hes na takkis nor        #
heretagiis of the    
tounis landis, requyrit the baillies in jugement, in presens of #
the haill   
toune, for the copy of the townis commission grantit to the     # 
commissionaris   
to sett the saidis landis in few, allegeand that the saidis     #
puir inhabitantis   
ar hewilie oppressit and hurt be the possessouris of the saidis #
landis,   
quhilkis stoppis and makis impediment to thame to cast, win,    #
and leid   
fewall, faill, and dewatt, vpoun the commounty of the towne,    #
quhar thai  
had wont to cast in tymmes bigane, past memour of man, contrar  # 
the   
tennour and stryncht of the said commissioune, and thair few    # 
chartouris   
grantit and gevin thairvpoun, and express aganis the commoun    #
weill of   
this guid toune, and theirfore protestit solemplie for          #
obseruatioune and   
executioune of the claussis and restrictionis contenit in the   #
saidis few charteris,   
and for remeyd of law, quhen tym and place requyris.   
   
[}19TH MARCH, 1556.}]   

   The said day, Dauid Mar, bailye, with consent, awyise,       #
ordinance, and   
authorite of Thomas Menzeis of Petfoddellis, prouest of the     #
said burght,   
and Gilbert Menzeis his bruder, narrest kynnismen and frendis   #
to Androw   
Menzeis youngar, pupill, sone, and air to vmquhile Androw       #
Menzeis,   
burges of Aberdene, his fader, and als air to vmquhile Thomas   #
Menzeis  
youngar, his bruther, ordanit and decernit Thomas Menzeis,      #
tutour of law   
to the said Androw, to content and pay to Besse Leslie, moder   #
to the said   
Androw, for his burd, and ordinar expenssis, and cleithing,     # 
tene lib. yeirlie,   
sa lang as he is with his said moder, fra the entre of the said #
Dauid to the   
office of tutourie forsaid, and the samin to be allowit to him  #
in his compt.   
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[}27TH MARCH, 1556.}]   

   The said day, the court wardis and schawis for law, and it   #
wes gewin for   
dome, that Andro Forbes, duelland at Keythokis mill, hes prowin # 
sufficiently   
that in the moneth of August or thairby, in the yeir of God     # 
j=m= v=c=  
fyftie and four yeris, Duncane Colle, baxter, at his awin hand, #
without any   
licens of the said Androw, intromettit with ane blak horse      #
pertening to the   
said Androw, worth tene merkis, at the myll forsaid, and put    #
ane heivy   
laid of flour one him to be cariit fra the said myll, and in    #
the careing thairof    
brak his bak wnder Tullidronis hill, throcht weycht and hewynes #
of the     
laid, and ewill gyding of the horse, in the said Duncanis       #
defalt, quharfor   
the baillies decernit the said Duncane to content, refund, and  #
to pay to the   
said Androw the forsaid sowme of tene merkis, ffor the walour   #
and pryce of   
the said horse, for the caussis forsaid, within the terme of    #
law, and condampnis   
the said Duncane in the expenssis of court to be taxit          #
eftirwart.   
   
[}26TH APRIL, 1556.}]   

   The said day, the court wardis and schavis for law, and it   #
wes gewin for   
dome, that Maister Edward Menzeis, cheplane of the ruid alter   #
in the organ   
loft, situat within the parroche kirk of Abirdene, hes provin   # 
sufficientlie   
that he and Schir Johnne Fyff, his predecessour as cheplanis of #
the said   
cheplanrie, war in vse, and possessioun of paiment, and         #
vptaking of ane   
yeirlie annuel rent of xl d. wsuall money of Scotlande off ane  #
land liand in   
the Grene, on the south part therof, merchand with the land of  #
the quyt   
freiris on the eist part, and the land of [^blanco^] one the    # 
west pairt, pertening   
sum tyme to Margaret Low, and now pertening to Johnne Barre,   
quharfor the prouest and baillies forsaid decernit and ordanit  #
the said Johnne   
Barre, as heretour theroff, to refound, content and pay to the  #
said Edward,   
as cheplane forsaid, the said annuel rent of xl d. money        #
forsaid, of the termes   
immediatlie bigane, within viij dayes, and siclyke yeirlie and  #
termelie in all   
tyme cuming, ay and quhile he be lauchtfullie callit and        #
ordourlie put thairfra   
be the law; wpoun the quhilk the said Maister Edward tuik act   #
of court  
and instrument.   
   
[}5TH MAY, 1556.}]   

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<P 297>   
   The said day, compeyrit in jugement Gilbert Kyntour,         #
admiral deput to    
ane nobill lord, James Erle Bothtwall, gryt admirall of         #
Scotland, and exhibit    
ane commissioun gewin and direckit to him be the said           #
principale   
admirall, vnder his seall and subscriptioune manuall, of the    #
dayt at Creychtoune,   
the xx day of Februar, yeir of God j=m= v=c= fyfty and vj       #
yeris, to   
cognoss and decerne in all thingis concerning his office and    # 
jurisdictioun of      
admiralitie in the north partis of Scotland, fra the north      #
watter of Esk to   
Ross inclusive, contening power to the prowest and baillies of  #
Abirdein to   
resaif the aitht of the said Gilbert Kyntoir for trew           #
exercitioun of the said   
office, quhilk aith the baillies forsaid resauit in iugement,   #
conforme to the   
said commissioune.   



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