# 1614
{Aberdeen Council Register: 24 April 1440, p201}
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{~p201~} *ON SONDAY YE XXIIIJ DAY OF *APRILE YE zERe OF GraCE
&C~ XL {,} *WILLIAME OF {\} *CADIOU FAND LAW-BOROWES TO COMPEIRe
IN YE TOLBUTH~ OF ABerDENE ON YE MORN {\} ON MONOUNDAY AS YE SAID
SONDAY WITHOUTYn FRAUDE OR GILE FOR YE HURTYNG {\} OF *ROBERT
OF *CULLACE {,} YE-QUHILK MONOUNDAY YE {<} COUTE {<} COURTE AFFERMYT
{\} YE SAID *WILL~ COMPERIT {,} AND ANE *NOBLE AND MYCHTI LORD
YE *ERLE OF {\} *AVANDALE AND YE CONSTABLE ON YE BEHALF OF YE
SAID *ROBERT comPERIT {\} AND ASKIT YE LAW {=superscript '+' =}
*AND YAn Ser ALEXandeR OF jRWYNE KNY^T FORSPEKARe {\} TO YE SAID
*WILLIAME PerOFFerIT YAT YE SAID *WILLIAME SULD ACQUITE HIm {\}
BE HIM-SELF AND OTHIRis DIUerSs PerSON~ES YAT HE WIST NOCHT YAT
YE SAID {\} *ROBERT WAS MAN TO YE SAID ERLE NA TO YE SAID CONSTABLE
{,} NA YAT {\} HE COME TO YIS TOUN IN YAIRe {<} CO~PAY {<} COmPANY
*AND ATTOURe FOR YE DEFAUTE {\} YAT YE SAID *WILL~ HAD MADE TO
YE SAIDis LORDis *ERLE & CONSTABLE HE {\} PUT HIM IN YAIRe GRACE
{,} APON YE-QUHILKis YE SAID LORD ERLE & COnSTABLE {\} SEN YE
THING WAS GREUS TUKE TO BE AVISIT APON HIS PerOFFERis {,} AND
{\} WITH~ CONSENT OF PARTIE IT WAS DIFFERRIT BE YE SAIDis LORDis
*ERLE & {\} COUNSTABLE APON FOURe DAYES WARNYNG {,} YE SAID WILLIAME
TO COmPEIRe {\} YAN BEFOR YE ALDerMAn AND BALLzEIS {<} AS {<}
IN LIKE MANer AS HE COmPERIT {\} YIS MONOUNDAY {,} HAVAND YE FORCE
AND EFFECTE YAT DAY AS YIS DAY {\} BUT FRAUDE OR GILE *AND AT
YIS SULD BE FULFILLIT BE YE SAID *WILLIAME AND YE ParTIE SKATHLACE
IN YE MEnTYME Ser ALEXandeR OF jRWYNE {\} IS CUmMYN {<} TO YE
{<} A BORCH~ TO YE ALDerMAN AND BALLzEIS {,} *AND AT YE SAIDis
{\} *WILLIAME AND jOHn OF *CADIOU HIS COSYNE SAL BE SKATHLES OF
YE SAIDis {\} LORD *ERLE AND OF YE SAID CONSTABLE AND OF YE SAID
*ROBERT {,} AND OF YAIRe {\} ParTIE BUT FRAUDE OR GILE YE SAIDis
LORD *ERLE AND CONSTABLE ARRe {\} BECUmMYN BORROWES {,} TO YE
SAIDis ALDerMAN AND BALLzEIS {\} {)jAMYS OF DOUGLAS OF AVAIDALE")}

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