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  <dc:title>Aberdeen Burgh: Commission by James VI appointing George Troup, burgess, commissioner for the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff for carrying out the Acts of Parliament relating to measures and weights</dc:title>
  <dc:description>"Commission... constituting him Trier and Searcher of all Metts, Measures and Weights...giving him power to Stamp and mark all Firlots, Pecks, Pound Weights, Stone Weights, Ellwands, Quart Stoups, Pynts, Choppins, Mutchkins, Cogs and all others of the link kind with a Stamp and mark of Brass, having a lion and Crown engraved thereon..."
(Full precis in Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)

Dated 10th August 1599.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1599</dc:date>
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