and other industry, their towns made rapid encrease; Edinburgh then, and most others, having little but retail trade. Aberdeen was then poor and smalle, haveing some Dutch and French trade by salmond, and stockings, and serges, and plaiding; had first use of tea, then very scarce, and little used at Edinburgh, supplyd Edinburgh with French wines, where, notwithstanding towns dueties, it sold in retail in and from taverns, at 10d. per choppin or English quart. Few families, except dealers, had it in cask for [ use, haveing it from taverns, which were then much used; and table and body linnen seldom shifted, and but course, except for extraordinary occasions, moveing necks and sleeves of better kinds being then used by best. Many wooden, mud, and thatched houses, within gates at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen; few others without gates there or in other towns. The churches, abbys, castles, and all large stone edifices [ by foreign contributions, or the slavery and want of other employ of the people, and all in friendship aideing each other. Nobles and chiefs were tyrants, and kings according to dispositions, by their means. After union of crowns, before that of nations privy council tyrannicall, and neither fixed property or liberty. All improvements of security, husbandry, manufactures, commerce, or police, are since 1707, with which literature in any extensive degree, except scool jargon, hath keeped pace. THE ARBUTHNOT PAPERS. M.CCCC.LXXXVII-M.DC.LXXXI. I. ROBERT ARBUTHNOT AND MARION SCRIMGOR, HIS WYFFE, THER RECEPCION IN THE FRATERNITIE OF THE ORDOUR OF OBSERVANTIA. 1487. IN Christo sibi carissimis Roberto de Arbuthnot, domino eiusdem, eiusque sponse, ac utriusque sexus prolibus, Deo ac beato Francisco deuotis, Frater Johannes Grohin, reuerendissimi patris Ministri generalis ordinis sacri minorum, super omnes fratres eiusdem ordinis Cismontanarum partium de obseruantia nuncupatos, generalis Vicarius, Salutem in domino ac bonis. perfrui sempiternis. Feruidus vestre deuocionis affectus quem ad nostrum geritis ordinem, exigencia digna requirit, vt quia in temporalibus non possumus vicem vestre caritati respondere, in spiritualibus tamen quantum nobis auctore Deo suppetit, proutque nostris apud Deum seruamus desideriis, et quantum vestra promeretur caritas, vestris beneficiis gratitudinis debito compensemus. Quappropter vos ad nostram confraternitatem recipio in vita pariter et in morte, plenam et specialem participiacionem omnium carismatum et operum meritoriorum, videlicet missarum oracionum, diuinorum officiorum, deuocionum, suffragiorum, jejuniorum, vigiliarum, disciplinarum ceterorumque bonorum spiritualium, tenore presencium vobis graciose, conferendo, que per fratres mihi subditos, sorores Sancte Clare, necnon fratres et sorores de penitencia fieri dederit Auctor Omnium Bonorum Dei Filius, vt multiplici suffragiorum adiuti presidio, et hic augmentum gratie et in futuro mereamini eterne vite praemia possidere. Volens ut dum obitus vester, quem Deus in longum ad bonorum operum lucrosa exercitia protrahere dignetur, in nostris denunciabitur capitulis, pro vobis fiant oraciones eedem, que pro precipuis benefactoribus nostris est in nostro ordine hactenus laudabiliter fieri consuetum. In cuius concessionis testimonium sigillum prefati officii mei cum manu mea duxi presentibus appendendum. Datum in conventuu nostro Sancte Marie de Angelis apud Tholosam prouincie Aquitanie tempore generalis capituli super festo Penthecostes inibi celebrati. Anno domini millesimo ccccmo octuagesimo septimo. J. SMALOYSEL de mandato R. P. vic. gen. II. LIBERTIE GRANTED BE THE POPE TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOTT AND HIS SPOUS, TO CARRY ANE ALTAR AND SUA MESSIS WHER THEY PLEAS, IN ONY PLACE CONVENIENT, IN POPE INOCENT THE AUGHT HIS TIME AND SEVINTH OF HIS PONTIFICAT. Julianus, miseratione diuina Episcopus Ostiensis, dilectis in Christo Nobilibus Roberto de Arbuthnot laico, domino temporali dicti loci, et eius uxori dioceseos Sancti Andree, Salutem in domino. Sincere deuotionis affectus, quem ad Romanam geritis ecclesiam, non indigne meretur ut petitionibus vestris presertim quas ex deuotionis feruore prodire conspicimus, quantum cum Deo possumus fauorabiliter annuamus: Hinc est quod nos deuotis uestris supplicacionibus inclinati, vt liceat uobis et uestrum cuilibet habere altare portatile cum debita reuerentia ; super quo in locis congruentibus et honestis, per proprium uel alium sacerdotem ydoneum, missam et alia diuina officia, sine iuris alieni preiudicio, in uestra et cuiuslibet uestrum ac familiarium uestrorum domesticorum presentia, possitis facere celebrari, auctoritate domini pape, cuius primarie curam gerimus: Et de eius speciali mandato super hoc uiue vocis oraculo nobis facto, deuotione uestre tenore presentium indulgemus. Datum Rome apud Sanctum Marcum sub sigillo offiicii primarie, Nonis Maii Pontificatus domini Innocentii pape viii anno septimo. CARAMELLUS. A. de Calandrinis. R. de Ciminoutinithus. M. de Vultous. Nicolaus Bride, p. Dorso: D. de Marano. D. Valgornora. |