The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 27 April 2024

[1593/4/76]1

2Act in favour of the burgh of Aberdeen for a market

Our sovereign lord, with advice of the estates of this present parliament, gives and grants licence and liberty to the burgh of Aberdeen to hold a market and public fair within the freedom of the said burgh to begin yearly hereafter upon Monday immediately before Whitsunday [May/June], and thereafter to continue for the space of eight days, with the whole jurisdictions, freedoms, tolls and customs of the same.

  1. NAS, PA2/15, f.26r.
  2. The letter 'P.' written in the margin.