Procedure: declaration

The which day the burghs declared that they were willing to undertake the land fishing within the lochs, isles and land-kenning† from the coast, providing that they be allowed to set down their plantations in such commodious places as are most opportune for following out of the fishing; but regarding the bush fishing, they declared it concerned the whole body of the estates.

  1. NAS, PC1/34, f.18r. Back
  2. Defined in DSL as the distance out to sea at which land can still be seen. Back