Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a precept by Ninian Dowglas for infefting James Forrat and Margaret Blak, 19th December 1551

Instrument of Sasine proceeding on a precept, dated 11th December 1551, by Ninian Dowglas, chaplain of the rood altar within the collegiate church of Dalkeith, for infefting James Forrat, burgess of Edinburgh, and Margaret Blak, his wife, for the whole time of their lives, and James Forrat, their sixth son, heritably, in a tenement of land in the burgh of Edinburgh, on the north side of the High Street, between the lands of James Anderson on the east, of Andrew Williamson on the west, of John Lauder on the north, and the High Street on the south. Sasine given 19th December 1551. Witnesses, George Peirson, John Hornar, William Scot, William M'Cartnay, John Johnstoun and Sir John Scott, chaplain, notaries public. Alexander King, notary public by apostolic authority.