Charter by James [Stewart], perpetual commendator of the Priory of St. Andrews and Alexander [Milne], abbot of Cambuskenneth, as coadjutor, granting lands to John Kairns, 19th January 1543

Charter by James [Stewart], perpetual commendator of the Priory of St. Andrews [afterwards the Regent Murray], and Alexander [Milne], abbot of Cambuskenneth, as coadjutor, granting to John Kairns and Katharine Scheves, his spouse, in conjunct fee, and their heirs, etc., the lands or perticate of land now inhabited by John Ramsay, lying between the land of the grantees on the west and south, the lands of the archdeacon of St. Andrews on the north, and the common street adjacent to the lands on the east. To be held in feu-farm for a reddendo (1) payable to 'magistris pettantiarum' 54s. yearly, and (2) to the archdeacon of St. Andrews 6s. yearly, with the burgage due to the archbishop, and that for all exaction, because the houses are wholly ruinous and cannot be repaired without great cost, which repair the grantees have undertaken, and bind themselves to build and keep up the houses to the value of £40 within the four years from this date. Dated at St. Andrews, 19th January 1542-3. Seal of chapter appended.