Notarial Instrument of Sasine by Walter, lord of St. John, preceptor of Torphichen, 31st January 1543

Notarial Instrument of Sasine following upon and narrating a precept, dated at Edinburgh, 31st January 1542-3, by Walter, lord of St. John, preceptor of Torphichen, directed to his templar-bailie ('balliuo templario'), Thomas Ewin, for infefting James Forret , burgess of Edinburgh, his heirs, etc., in an annualrent of five merks Scots, to be uplifted from a templar-land, lying under the wall of the castle on the north side of the High Street, bounded by the lands of William Bay on north, and of James Johnstone on the west, with the common street on south and east, as described, which was resigned in the preceptor's hands by Robert Monypenny, smith, and Mariota Brown, his spouse. Sasine given on same day, 31st January 1542-3. Witnesses, James Skrymegour and John Pattoun. James Collisone, clerk of Aberdeen diocese, notary by apostolic authority.