Aberdeen Burgh: License by King James VI for the provost, baillies, council and community of Aberdeen, to remain at home from the army at Dumfries "License under the hand of James VI exempting the Provost, Baillies, Council and Community of the Burgh of Aberdeen, in consideration of their having paid the sum of £200, as the Taxation laid upon them for the entertainment of the King's Lieutenant and Garrison upon the West Border, from attendance at the Raid and Army assembled at Drumfries; dated 18th March 1597/1598." (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 99, number XLI.) 1598