Notarial instrument recording appearance, before provost and bailies, of sir Matthew Nicholson, chaplain of the altar of St Peter the apostle in the parish church of St Nicholas, who requested the clerk to read three processes, produced at three previous head courts, anent a claim to a land on the east of the Gallowgate, in default of a payment of an annual rent of 20 s.

{. . .} Accessit ad berram discretus vir dominus matheus nicholaij capellanus altaris beati petri Apostoli infra ecclesiam parochialem beati nicholaij dicti burgi situati et petiit a communi clerico tres processus per ipsum legittime productos in tribus capitalibus curiis precedentibus perlegi super recuperatione possessionis et proprietatis cuiusdam terre Iacentis in vico furcarum ex orientali parte eiusdem vici {. . .} in defectu solutionis vnius annui Redditus viginti solidorum vsualis monete Scotie sibi de eadem terra cum pertinenciis annuatim debiti et a longo tempore non soluti {. . .}