| Administrative History | "On the 10th day of August 1691 DrAlexander Adams mortified certain subjects (Croft of Adepingle and other crofts, barns and houses, apparently of land between Gallowgate, Spittal and King Street) to the University of Aberdeen under burden of an annual payment of twenty pounds Scots to the Hospital for the maintenance of a beadsman one of his kindred or of the name Adam, Davidson or Simpson said sum being over and above the beadsman's proper salary." (Bain)
Bain nates that "no bedesman appears to have been appointed for a considerable number of years [prior to 1931] in connection with this mortification". |