| Description | "Charter by the said Alexander III whereby he declares that he has justly taken under his firm peace and protection his Burgesses of Aberdeen, their lands, Men, all their possessions and all their goods moveable and immoveable, prohibiting any one from inflicting any evil, molestation, injury, or grievance upon them, and grants that no one shall take the Pledges of them, or any of them, or of their men, for the debt, pledge, or forefault, of any one, but only for their own. Dated at Kyncardyn (Kincardine) 27th January 1277."
(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 9, number V.) |