| Description | "Decreet by the Lords of Council in the Action at the instance of Andro Wod [Andrew Wood] and his Majesty's Advocate, against the Alderman, Baillies, and Community of Aberdeen finding that "for ocht that thai have [y]it sene" the Forest of the Stokket, belonged to the said Alderman, Baillies and Community, the Defenders, by virtue of the Charter of Robert the Bruce in their favour produced in Court by Alexander Rede [Reed], Alderman of Aberdeen, Procurator for the Burgh always "but preiudice of our Souerane Lord's Richt".
Said Decreet is dated at Edinburgh, 20th June 1494."
(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 35, number XXIII; listed as "letters".) |