Letters in the form of an instrument, by Alexander Lyndesay, canon of Aberdeen and commissary of Mr. Andrew Liell, treasurer and official of Aberdeen, setting forth that lately a venerable man Sir Alexander Gordon, in name of Alexander Lord of Gordon, petitioned that certain letters concerning the latter's father, George Earl of Huntlie, exhibited before the granter in judgment, might be copied and reduced to the form of a public transumpt, whereupon, after citation affixed on the doors of the Cathedral of Aberdeen to those interested to appear at a certain day and place and see the same done, and no one appearing, the said canon decerned the transumpts to be made, as follows: (1) Letters narrating that Alexander Vaus, canon of Aberdeen and official general of Thomas [Spence], bishop of Aberdeen, sitting in judgment in the cathedral church of Aberdeen on 24th July 1471, in a cause of divorce moved before him by George Gordone, Earl of Huntlie, etc., against Lady Anabella Stewart his pretended spouse, did (having God before his eyes, and the advice of counsel) pronounce a definitive sentence and declare the matrimonial contract between them to be null, because before he contracted matrimony with the said Lady Anabella, he had married a lady Elizabeth of Dunbar, from whom he was lawfully divorced, and who was related to Lady Anabella in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity, and he himself was related to Lady Anabella in the same degrees of affinity, as was proved before the judge, who decerned also that the dowry should be restored, etc. Which decree was read and promulgated and instruments demanded by Mr. William Fratouris, canon of Aberdeen, procurator in the cause for the said George Earl of Huntlie, in presence of Mr. Thomas Vaus, precentor of Moray, Walter Ogilvy of Auchlevin, and Alexander de Camera of Murthslie [also designed Alexander Chamer, burgess of Aberdeen], and attested by John Kemlok, presbyter of Brechin diocese, notary by imperial and royal authority, and by William of Scheills, presbyter of Glasgow diocese, notary by imperial authority; (2) A notarial instrument setting forth that on 18th August 1471, etc., before the notary and witnesses underwritten, an honourable man, Mr. Gilbert of Hay, lord of Ury, protested, as follows; 'Cum secundum sacrorum canonum statuta et ordinaciones cautum sit vt banna de matrimonio contrahendo sine de presenti contracto ante matrimonii solemnizationem, publice notificentur et in ecclesiis proclamentur nouerint igitur vniuersi et singuli presons instrumentum inspecturi quorum interest vel interesse poterit quomodolibet in futurum quod ego notarius publicus subscriptus presens fui in ecclesia parochiali de Fyvy infra missarum solemnia die vero dominica octaua post festum Sancte Trinitatis anno quo supra, quum Dominus Johannes Thome vicarius ecclesie antedicte solemniter edidit et proclamauit banna in prefata ecclesia vt moris est, terminum contradicentibus si qui essent competentem statuens, inter nobilem et potentem dominum, dominum Georgeum comitem de Huntlie ac dominum de Gordone et de Badzhenach, ex vna, et Elisabet de Haya filiam quondam nobilis et potentis domini, domini Willelmi de Haya comitis de Eroll et constabularii Scotie partibus ab altera, et fatebatur se in duobus aliis precedentibus festiuis diebus solemnibus dicta banna inter prelibatas personas in predictam ecclesiam infra missarum solennia edidisse solemniter et proclamasse.' Upon which Mr. Gilbert Hay asked instruments from the notary. These things were done in the parish church of Fyvy at 8 A.M., the day fore-said, in presence of Alexander Liell and John Hay, squires, and Patrick Clerk, clerk of said church of Fyvy. William of Scheills, notary. Which instruments the said Alexander Lyndesay, Commissary, as above requested, ordered to be transumed by the notary and clerk of the consistorial court of Aberdeen and the official's court seal to be appended. These things were done within the cathedral of Aberdeen, at the usual hour of cause, on 4th July 1492, in presence of Messrs. Archibald Lindesay, 'cantor’, Alexander Culane, Alexander Caboll, John Flemyng, and Thomas Strathachtin, canons of Aberdeen, Alexander Chamer in Murchill, Patrick Rede of Colistone, John Forbes, Mr. Alexander Fife, Sir John Guchtin, notaries public, and Sir Andrew Culper. Mathew Pacok, clerk of St. Andrews diocese, by imperial and royal authority notary public, writes the instrument.