| Description | "Charter by Robert I confirming to his Burgesses and community of Abirden all the liberties, Laws and rights in which they were formerly infeft, freeing them of all King's Customs, duties of Carriage, Captions, attachments, impediments or exactions whatever; without burgh, and granting them full power of taking, incarcerating and punishing all those who walk around in the said Burgh against the Statutes of the King and Burghs.
Dated at Geruan in Carrye 6th February 1329)
(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 15, number X; lists it as "letters patent") |