| Description | "Factory and Commission by the Burgh appointing "Thomas Menzies and Provost Gilbert Menzies of Findone [Findon], Alex[ande]r Stratoun of thet Ilk, Sir John Ruthirfurd [Rutherford] knycht" and other Burgesses, Commissioners to appear before, and obtain Redress from the Arbiters appointed to judge between the Burgh and the Clan Leslie, for "the gret cruell morthouris [murders], Slachtiriss [slaughters], mutillationiss [mutilations], hurttis [hurts], and gret and cruell effutioun [effusion] of blud [blood] and hawy oppressioun doune on us, to our Souerane Lordis [Sovereign Lords], Bail[y]eis, and Officiaris, and ours, and to the nychtbouris [neighbours] of our said Burgh, innocently but ony occasioun" by the said Clan Leslie.
Dated and Signed by the Provost, Baillies, Council "and a gret pairt of the Communite" 15th January 1525
(Text from Shaw's Inventory of the Charters and Papers relating to the City of Aberdeen, of 1851)
(Printed in Gordon's "Description of Both Touns of Aberdeen", Spalding, p. 63.) |