| Description | "Discharge by James VI on receipt of 700 merks, and a Bond for 200 more, to be paid if the other Burghs pay their full quota sufficient to keep the Army for 40 days, freeing the Inhabitants of the Burgh and Freedom of Aberdeen from attending the Raid upon the Isles;
dated and signed by the Treasurer etc September 1596."
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851) |