mercat weakelie at the Chappell of The Garioch as the most commodious and opportune plaice within the whole bounds of the parochin for suche purpose vntill the terme of Mairtimes nixt to come allanerlie Provyding alwayes and it is heereby expresslie declaired that if the burrowes or anie other personis finding thame selfis interessed by keeping of the said mercat sall compleane to the counsall the saids lords after consideratioun of thair greivance and reasouns of the same will take suche course for dischairging of this warrand or shortning of the tyme thairin conteanit as they sall find the merite of the caus to require And ordanis letteris to be direct to make publicatioun of the halding of the said mercat in forme as effeirs. Extractum de libris actorum secreti consilii S. D. N. Regis per me Jacobum Prymrois clericum ejusdem sub meis signo et subscriptione manualibus.

JACOBUS PRYMROIS.

XII.

THE ERROLL PAPERS.

THE ERROLL PAPERS.

1. The Constabulary.

I.

CHARTER BY KING ROBERT I. TO SIR GILBERT THE HAY OF THE

OFFICE OF THE CONSTABULARY OF SCOTLAND. XII NOVEMBER
MCCCXIV.

officio Consta

ROBERTUS Dei gracia Rex Scotorum Omnibus probis hominibus tocius Carta Gilberti terre sue Salutem. Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta de Haya de nostra confirmasse Gilberto de Haya militi dilecto et fideli nostro pro bularie. homagio et seruicio suo officium Constabularie Scocie cum pertinenciis . Tenendum et habendum dicto Gilberto et heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate cum hostilagiis ad dictum officium pertinentibus. Libere quiete plenarie et honorifice et cum omnibus aliis libertatibus comoditatibus aisiamentis et iustis pertinenciis ad idem officium de iure aut consuetudine spectantibus aut spectare valentibus. Ffaciendo nobis et heredibus nostris dictus Gilbertus et heredes sui seruicium inde debitum et consuetum. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre sigillum nostrum precepimus apponi. Testibus Bernardo abbate de Abirbrothoc cancellario nostro Thoma Ranulphi comite Morauie nepote Alexandro de Meigners et Roberto de Keth apud Cambuskyneth⚫ duodecimo die Nouem

nostro Jacobo de Duglas marescallo nostro militibus bris anno regni nostri nono.

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II.

OBLIGATION FROM THOMAS CUTHBERT DWELLING IN THE CON-
STABLE LAND IN INVERNESS TO WILLIAM FIRST EARL OF
ERROLL. XXIII AUGUST MCCCCLV.

Be it made kend till all men be thir present letters me Thomas Cuthbert burges of Inverness to be obliged and be thir my letters oblige me /

to an high and mighty lord William Earl of Erroll and Constable of Scotland, That for his Constable lands given to me in fee and heritage after the tenor of the charter made therupon I my airs and my assigneys shall find yeirly to the said lord William his airs a sufficient stable upon the said ground for the number of twelve horses for all the tym of their residence in the burgh of Inverness togidder with sex pennies Scots yearly if it be askit be the said lord or his airs. In witness wherof my seal to these letters is to endure perpetually at Inverness the xxiij day of August the year of our Lord jm. cccc and fyve years.

III.

COPY OF AN ACT MADE IN KING JAMES THE SECOND'S TIME
BEING THE LXVII ACT BE HIS GENERAL COUNCIL CONVEENED
AT EDINBURGH XIX OCTOBER ANNO MCCCCLVI.

OF DISTRESSIS FOR CONSTABIL FEIS.

ITEM quhar the Constabill deputis and his ministeris in the tyme of the Sessione and generale consale and parliamentis takis distressis for Constabill feis of all maner of gudis gret and small that cumis to the mercat to sell baith merchandice and vittail. It is sene spedful at that vse be laide done and forborn in tym to cum bot gif the Constabillis feftment beir him till it and at that be schawin to the King and the three estatis at the nixt parliament or generale consale. And at in the meyne tyme the Constabill cess for ther can na lawe be fundyne accordande to that vse.

Ane instru

Erll of Erroll

IV.

INSTRUMENTUM WILLIELMI COMITIS DE ERROLL PRO CIRCUITU
ET AMBITU DICTIS LE BARRAS ETC. XXX JULII MDI.

In Dei nomine Amen. Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum cunctis ment that the pateat euidenter Quod anno incarnationis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo hes the barras primo mensis vero Julii die penultimo Indictione quarta pontificatus of men fechtin sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri Domini Alexandri diuina in singular bat- prouidentia pape Sexti anno nono. In mei notarii publici et testium subscriptorum presentia / Personaliter accesserunt honorabiles viri Alexander

tail.