| Description | "Charter by King James VI narrating tha the Provost, Baillies, Council and Community of the Burgh of Aberdeen were frequently summoned upon Inquests and Assizes to Edinburgh, and other parts, without their bounds, notwithstanding the exemption granted them by the King, and the Regent Morton, of date 3rd September 1574; that they were farther compelled to attend the King's Lieutenants and Justiciaries to great distances, for the revenge of private quarrels and Controversies, "to the grate hazard of thair lyveis and wrak of the guidis," contracy to the liberty of the burgh, in which they are infeft, requiring them to attend only the King in the Field, in proper person against internal or external enemies..."
(Full precis in Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
Dated 16 May, 1592.
(Spalding Club's "Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen", page 92, number XXXVII; listed as "letters".)
See also SRO/2/1/A2/41 |