[27] Manuscript Records of the Town-Council, vol. ix. pp. 9 and 12.

[28] Ibid. vol. ix. p. 123.

[29] Pennecuik’s Historical Account of the Blue Blanket or Craftsmen’s Banner. Edinburgh, 1722, p. 135.

[30] Manuscript Records, vol. xvii. p. 298.

[31] Ibid. vol. xix. p. 210.

[32] Book of Bon Accord, 1839, p. 341.

[33] Book of Bon Accord, 1839, p. 312.

[34] Kennedy’s Annals of Aberdeen, vol. ii. p. 82, and vol. i. p. 168.

[35] Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, Edinb. 1837, pp. 77-78. Sir John G. Dalyell’s Brief Analysis of the Records of the Bishopric of Moray, Edinb. 1826, p. 34.

[36] Rhind’s Sketches of Moray (1840), p. 114.