| Description | "Charter of Confirmation...narrating that the greater part of the old Writs of the Burgh had been destroyed when the Town was burnt by the English, excepting the writs following which are thereby confirmed (lists writs)...of new erecting the said Burgh into a free Royal burgh; granting te whole Lands of the Forest of Stockett, and wood of the same, according to the limits occupied and defined in the Annual Ridings of the Marches, the waters of Dee and Done, and fishings therein... the two Mills within, and the two Mills without...with the multures and sequels thereof, the Castlehill, the green meadow under the City, called Futtie, the Port and Pier of Aberdeen, Anchorages and duties thereof, the Bell and Toll Customs... with Courts, Weights, Measures and all privileges and immunities pertaining to the said Burgh...holding free markets...erecting more grain and wind Mills...feuing out those parts of the Freedom Lands hitherto unfeued... all feuduties, altarages, Chaplainries, lands and fishings, formerly belonging to the Chaplains of St. Nicholas..."
(Full precis in Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
Dated 14th August, 1601.
See SRO/2/1/A2/59
(Spalding Club's "Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen", page 100, number XLII.) |