Letters narrating that the provost and bailies of Edinburgh, at the instance of Mr. Alexander Guthre, procurator-fiscal of the burgh, had cited parties interested to appear on the date hereof to hear and see the protocol-books of the late Alexander King, 24th July 1556

Letters narrating that the provost and bailies of Edinburgh, at the instance of Mr. Alexander Guthre, procurator-fiscal of the burgh, had cited parties interested to appear on the date hereof to hear and see the protocol-books of the late Alexander King, notary, sometime clerk-depute of the burgh, publicly transumed, or to allege cause against the same; and no one appearing or opposing the production of the protocols, they were inspected by the proper officers and deposited in the custody of Mr. Alexander Guthrie, principal clerk; in the fifth of which protocol-books was contained an instrument of sasine, dated 24th July 1556, narrating that Richard Carmichael, one of the bailies of Edinburgh, passed to the tenement of Alexander Lauder, son and heir of the late William Lauder, burgess of said burgh, on the south side of the High Street, bounded by the tenement of the late William Adamson on the east, and the lands belonging to the altar of St. Mary Magdalen on west; and there Robert Bartane, burgess of said burgh, with consent of Janet, his spouse, resigned an annualrent of ten merks Scots leviable by him over the said tenement. Whereupon the said bailie duly infeft therein William Fowler, son and heir of the late John Fowler, burgess. Witnesses to sasine, Thomas Yong and Paul Donaldson, merchants, and Mr. Alexander Logy, serjeant of burgh. To which instrument thus extracted from the said protocol-book, the provost, etc., interposed their authority, etc., on 20th May 1586. Witnesses, William Fairlie, merchant, Alexander King, Mr. John Crawmond, advocates, and others. Mr. Alexander Guthrie, notary. Burgh seal attached, partly broken.