| Description | "Charter by James II granting his beloved Merchants,Burgesses and Community of the Burgh of Aberdene, on Account of their gratuitous service done him, to be for ever free of all payment of Customs of Salt and Skins, "Skorlings, Skaldings, futefell, lenternwarre", Lamb, Fox, Calf, Rabbit, otter and Foumart [polecat] Skins, and that they shall have full power of Selling, Merchandizing, or exchanging such Merchandize, with extraneous and all others without, as well as within the Kingdom; so that said Goods shall in every case, be free of all Custom except the small Customs due by Extraneans to the said Burgesses and Community.
This Charter is dated at Striuelyne [Stirling]"
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
Given at Stirling, 6th December 1452.
Skorling/Schoirling: The skin of a shorn sheep
Scalding/Skalding: A species of dressed skin formerly exported from Scotland... as if the wool taken off by scalding
Futfaill, Futfell, Fitfeal: A species of dressed skin formerly exported from Scotland... "Footfalls" - the skins of lambs that have died
soon after they were dropped
Lentrenvare: The name of a kind of skin; those of lambs that have died soon after they were dropped; possibly those
who died in Lentron (Lent) or Spring.
(Spalding Club's "Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen", page 25, number XVIII.) |