Manuscripta juridica

xAccounts : notes about debts owed and paid 1494-1499.

Rough handwriting. This is merely a copy from a register, not an original register, and the scribe soon lost patience copying. Original registers usually show frequent changes in the colour of ink because each entry was written at a different time. Furthermore, they often bear signatures by the keepers of the register. This is not the case here. Furthermore, the leaves were used for many proofs of pen which show that the leaves were no longer deemed important. This fact adds even more probability to my impression that someone had planned to copy texts from a register, but had soon abandoned his plan. The handwriting shows characteristics which were not only fashionable in the years in question (1494-1499) but continued to be used in the first decades of the sixteenth century.

[First item:] Memorandum anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quarto, die vero mensis Augusti vicesimo octavo, in presencia Thome Anderson, Robertus Lauson, et Laurentius Flemyng bl. ballivus in hoc tempore, the auditours of the fermorrars' compts of the zer bypast of befoir [{i}cancelled:{/i} the Lord of Rol.], quhilk is the zer of our Lord m.iiii.c. lxxxx and thre zers; the auditours in pre(sence of?) the Lord of Rollandston John of Hepbourn, John of Ayton elder, Patrick Lausone ... We, the su.[{i}abridged{/i}] auditours, fynds of thes compt and so res[{i}abridged{/i}] the soum awand till Henry Culter ... And we fynds the soum awand till Johne of Kello that tyme xx libras ... [{i}etc. - the accounts end on fol. v. r with the year 1499{/i}]

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No. of pages: Fol. iv-v (wrongly numbered iii-iv):