| Description | "Charter by James VI ordaining the Members of the Town Council to be elected yearly, but to continue in office to their decease, or till found guilty of any fault or crime.
Dated and sealed with the Privy Seal at Falkland, 20th July 1591."
(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 90, number XXXVI; listed as "letters".) |