Antiquarian Gleanings from Aberdeenshire Records
by Gavin Turreff
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of Scotland, that no tradsman or artisan can bo burges, textit{ot exercise forrayne trad; which hes of ten been the occasione of great stryfl' betuixt the burgesea and tradsmen, and sometymes hes come to bloodshed; the tradsmen seeking in vaine for to be made partakers of that priviledge, and to be endenized, and the burgeses obstinatlie mauteening ther old priviledgo and richt. The armes of the citie are ane escutcheone or a feild gules charged with thrie castells argent, enclosit with a double tressor counter flowred with flower de luces argent, supported with twa leopards tauny, the motto Bonaccord, a French word eignineing concord amongst the citizens. Thes armes wer granted to Aberdeen by David Bruce, King of Scotland, after that they hade regained the Castell from the Englishes, which they hade constautlie keept garrisoned from the tyme of Edward Longshanks, quho is said to have builded it, or repaired it rather. Ther leader in this atchievement wes one Kennedy of Kearmuick; for which service his posteritie wer honored with the title and dignity of Constables of Aberdeen; though that title and dignity be now prescryved. I have now subjoyned the prospect of Aberdeen to the mappe theroff; the lyke quhairoff I did at such tyme as I had occasione to descryve Edinburgh, adding two litle prospects to its mappe: quhairoff I thought it necessar also to admonish the reader; for the cutter of that draught hes both abusit the buyer and me; for having enlargit the two prospects of Edinburgh, thereby to make the draughts sell the deirer, he hes falsiiied both the prospects by that meins, so that nather of thame looks lyke the copyes, and, which is worse, not lyke to the two syds of the citie of Edinburgh, being misshapped according to his owne fancies. OLD ABERDEENE, OR ABEEDONE...
