| Description | "Charter by Robert III granting to the Burgesses and Community of Abirdene, his special license for making, constructing and building a house for a Court House with upper and lower apartments, the House to be 80 feet in length, and 30 feet in breadth, to be built anywhere the saids Burgesses please, within the said Burgh, excepting only the middle of the Market place, and to be held in fee and heritage.
Dated at Perth, 20th October 1393."
(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 21, number XV.) |