| Description | "Charter by David II confirming the whole rights and privileges of his faithful Burgesses and community of Abirden, in which they had been infeft by his predecessors and which they had formerly enjoyed, and that notwithstanding the opression and subversion of their liberties endured by them during the Kings Wars in his absence.
Dated "in pleno consilio nostro tento apud Abirdene" 21st February 1342"
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
(Spalding Club's "Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen", page 17, number XII.) |