| Description | "Charter by James VI narrating that the Provost, Baillies, Council and Community of his Burgh of Aberdeen intended to join their Parish Church to the rest of the said Burgh with houses and tenements for the "policy" and decoration of the Town, in order to which it was necessary to Feu out the part of the Road between the Western Dyke of the Church yard and the Foir (Low) Croft, sometime belonging to the Black Friars, to the enlargement of the Town..."
(Full precis in Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
Dated 17th March, 1594/1595.
The Road itself is stated as being "now the Back Wynd".
(Spalding Club's "Charters Relating to the Burgh of Aberdeen", page 95, number XXXIX; listed as "letters".) |