# 70
{Elgin Burgh Records: Town's Cadget}
3930723
321 862 W

{Facsimile: Spalding Club, <Records of Elgin>, no. I, opp. p.
20; whence transcribed} *M *BE IT KNAWYN TYL AL MEN {.} THRW YIS
PreSENT" LETTReS {looks like LOT-, but E is written as a backward
curling loop} *VS THOMAYSE OF *DUNBARRe {.} *ERYL OF *MURREFFE
{.} FOR\-TYL HAFE GRAUNTYT" AND GYFIN~ *TYL YE ALDIRMAN {.} YE
BAYLIS {.} OF WRE *BURGH~ OF *ELGYNE {.} AND TO YE {\} BURGES
{.} OF Y^T ILKE AL YE WOL {.} YE *CLATHE AND AL VTHIRe THING"
{.} Y^T GAIS BE SCHIPE OWTE OF WRE HAFING {\} OF SPEE {.} VNCUSTOMYT
{.} YE-QWHILKis {.} WE HAFE conSAYVIT {.} HURTIS GRETLY YAIRE
FREDOME YE-QWHYLKE {\} OYSYT {practised} jT WALD *RYN VS TO PreIEDYCE
{.} AND TO YAIRE FREDOME BEFOR+ +NEMn+YT {.} AND YIS AS BEFORE
WYT AL MEN {\} WE WIL NOCHT THOLE {.} jN YE WYTNES OF YE-QWHILKE-THINGe
WE GERT PUT WRE SEEL TO YIS PreSENT LETTReS {\} AT *E[LGY]NE XXIIJ
DAY OF YE MONETH OF jULE {.} In YE YHERE OF *GRACE {.} M^O-C^OC^OC^O

{.} *NYNETY AND THRE {\\}