Instrument narrating that William Clerk passed to a land or tenement on the north side of the High Street, belonging to the heirs of the late David Gill and to Thomas Haithwy, 8th February 1519

Instrument narrating that William Clerk, one of the bailies of Edinburgh, passed to a land or tenement on the north side of the High Street, belonging to the heirs of the late David Gill, and to Thomas Haithwy, between the land of the late Adam Johnston on the east, the land of the late Patrick Cant on the west, the land of the late David Gill on the north, and the fore land of the said Patrick Cant on the south; and there Robert Lyne, burgess of Edinburgh, resigned the free­hold (' liberum tenementum') of an annualrent of three merks, payable from the one-half of the said land or tenement belonging to William Gill, as heir of the said late David Gill, by delivery of a penny into the hands of the bailie, who then gave sasine of the said annualrent to Elena Lyne, sister of Robert, by the exhibition of the penny to her, delivering to her the said annualrent for life. Done, 8th February 1518-19. Witnesses, Mr. Francis Boithwell, John Reid, Alexander Dundas, William Frost, and William Nesbet, serjeant. Adam Ottirburn, A.M., of St. Andrews diocese, by apostolic authority notary public.