| Description | "Discharge by James Balfour, Fiar of Pitcullo, Factor to Sir Michael Balfour, of Burlie, knight, as having the charge to sell armour to all ranks of the Kingdom subject to the King's Proclamation, acknowledging to have received from the Magistrates of Aberdeen the Sum of £810 as the price of 45 stand of Burgess Armour, consisting of light corslets and Picks, being the number agreed upon to be taken for the said Burgh: -
Said Discharge is dated at Aberdeen 9th June 1603."
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851) |