| Description | "Factory and Commission by the Baillies, Council and Community in favor of Thomas Menzes [Menzies] therein Provost, as their Commissioner, to meet in the Town of Dundee, on the 10th day of August then instant, with the Commissioners of Dundee, Montross [Montrose], St. John's and St. Andrews for determining as to the Public good of the Merchants of these Burghs, in regard to the Conventions and Staple at Campfeir [Campvere] in Flanders, and to demand a Hotel there for Merchante, where they might reside free from Assizes and Talliages and for freeing the saids Merchants from being bound to meet in one given place.
Dated 5th August 1541."
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
(Printed in Gordon's "Description of Both Touns of Aberdeen", Spalding, p. 71.) |