| Description | Council meeting, 5 February 1820
[Sederunt given]
The Lord Provost, Sheriff substitute, magistrates and Town Council, and Conveners and Deacons of the different Incorporations walked in procession from the Town House to the Cross. The Lord Provost and the Sheriff Substitute proclaimed the accession of King George IV to the assembly on the Plainstones, which included the Principals and Professors of the Colleges, the Justices of the Peace, Customs and Excise officers, Burgesses, principal gentlemen of the City and the Eightieth Regiment of Foot, commanded by Major Pitt. [Details of the ceremony given.] (220v - 221r)
The Council qualified themselves to King George IV by swearing and subscribing the oaths of allegiance and abjuration. William Carnegie, Town Clerk of Aberdeen, and Alexander Cadenhead, Procurator Fiscal to the magistrates, also swore and signed the oaths of allegiance and abjuration. (221r - 221v) |