| Description | "Lawburrows obtained at the instance of the Burgesses and Citizens of Old Aberdeen against the Provost, Baillies, Council and Community of New Aberdeen, for an alledged attack made by 800 Inhabitants of New Aberdeen having Banners, trumpets, hagbuts, Pistols, lances, Steelbonnets, Tacks etc upon 30 citizens of Old Aberdeen, with Sir John Carnegie of Kinnaird, Baillie of the Bishoprick of Aberdeen, while peaceably engaged in walking the land Marches of the Forest, and Commonty of Aberdeen, granted to the Bishop of Aberdeen by King Malcolm Canmore, and King David, and confirmed by James IV, anno 1489; which Marches had along through the lands of Sunnyside, up a little galley Moss, east of an under the Foresterhill along to the Stockethead, Whitemyre, Rathhillock, Wanefuird, down Buxburn, from that to the Burn of Auchmull, thence along the high road to the ipper Fauld's of the Cruives, and thence to the Deir (Dira?) Dyke.
Said Lawburrows are of the date 4th June 1594."
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
See also SRO/2/1/A2/44
Lawburrows, letters of, were letters in the monarch's name under the (inevitable) signet seal to the effect that a particular person had shown cause to dread harm from another, and that therefore this other complained of was commanded to find 'sufficient caution and surety' that the complainer would be free from any violence on his part; not so antique as it looks, having been used in Glasgow in the 1980s. |