| Description | "Remission by James V to the Provost, Baillies, Community, Burgesses paying Scot and Lot, and their Servants, actually residing within the said Burgh, and Inhabitants thereof, within the Lands and limits or burghal Marches of the same, of all enmity and persecution which he had or intended against them for their treason and absence from the King's Armies at Solway and Werk, and all other armies, in contravention of the King's Commands and proclamations, and for all formere treasons, Arsons, Murder, Rape, Theft, Coining, importation and uttering of false Money, and homicides, excepting always the rights of others.
Dated at Abirdene, 7th February 1527."
(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 43, number XXVII; listed as "letters patent".) |