| Description | Mixed bundle with old label "Untitled papers No. III. Various" consisting of:
1. The beidsmen's horning contra the toune of Aberdeen, Queen Mary's reign, third year [1545]. Summons to the provost, bailies, and collectors of Aberdeen to pay the £100 per year due from the revenues of the town of Aberdeen to Bishop Dunbar's Hospital. Edinburgh, 11 February 1545
2. Charter of George Kyd, chaplain of the Chapel of St Catherine in St Machar's Cathedral to Symon Belwye [?], of a tenement of land in the Chanonry in Old Aberdeen. The Chanonry in Aberdeen, 29 November 1556
3. Letters of horning, Bishop and Dean of Aberdeen on behalf of the Hospital against Euphame Barbourand Robert Innes in Old Aberdeen for payment of 390 merks under an obligation entered into bt them, 6 July 1619
4. Instrument of sasine in favour of Mr John Forbes of a tenement of land in Old Aberdeen, 8 June 1725. Damaged.
5. Memorial for the Magistrates and Town Council of Old Aberdeen in virtue of ane Act of Council for that purpose of this date to the masters or managers of the Poor Hospital there, 31 October 1785.
The Town Council wishes to determine whether certain waste ground adjacent to the Hospital is the property of the Hospital or of the town, and asks the managers to have their writs examined for that purpose. The land in question contained a ruined vault barn formerly part of the manse of Kinkell, and Mer Forbes of Seaton has recently pulled this down and removed stones from it, with the consent of the managers of the Hospital.
(Cf. also the scroll copy of this memorial in bundle MS 3861/4/3/1)
6. Hospital accounts: Accounts betwixt James Jaffray and the Bishop's Hospital, 1 January 1790 and ditto 1791
7. Bond of John Morrison of Auchintoul to the trustees of the Bedehouse on a loan of £200, 21 September 1816 |