| Description | "Transumpt from the Books of Council and Session, dated 24th May 1605 of a Charter of Confirmation by David II granting to his beloved Burgesses of Scotland, free power of buying and selling everywhere within the liberty of their respective Burghs; prohibiting any one unless licensed, from buying or selling within the liberty of another, prohibiting also, Bishops, Priests, or Ecclesiastical persons, Earls, Barons or secular persons, buying or selling Wool, Skins, Hides, or other Merchandise on any pretext, unless only from Merchants of the Burghs within whose Limits they reisde, and Commanding them that they present their goods at the Market and Cross of the Burghs, that Merchants may buy and have a preference paying always the King's Custom; and excluding Extranean Merchants coming with Ships or Merchandise from selling any kind of Merchandise to Merchants of the King's Burghs. Said Charter is stated in the Transumpt to be dated at Perth 8th March 1563)
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
Trasumpt dated 24th May, 1605.
(Printed in Gordon's "Description of Both Touns", Spalding Club, page 86.) |