| Description | "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.) |