"D. Spencer Hines" <panther@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:Zq60k.1129
Non-parliamentary record: extract from the burgh records of Aberdeen
5 July 1406, the following entry is recorded in the burgh records of
Aberdeen: 'The head court which was meant to have been held on the first
Monday after the Sunday which is called Low Sunday? of the year of this
book
[19 April 1406] was deferred to 5 July of the same year, because in the
mean
time a certain general council was held at Perth, where it was necessary,
among the other things determined there, to see how courts ought to be
established in the kingdom after the death of the most noble prince Lord
Robert [III], illustrious king of Scotland. On which day the court
established, on the part of Lord Robert [Stewart, 1st] duke of Albany,
general governor of the kingdom of Scotland, the provost and bailies of
the
burgh of Aberdeen, etc., the suits called and absences patent in the
rolls.'
Andrew Wyntoun dates the assembly to June, and gives a fuller account of
proceedings (Chron. Wyntoun, vi, 416-7).
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