Master Thomas Chalmer, curate of the parish church of St Nicholas of Aberdeen and perpetual chaplain of the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary within it, with consent of the provost, bailies and council, and of the patron of the said altar, sets in feu to Henry Marchand, burgess of Aberdeen, a tenement belonging to the altar, on the east of the Gallowgate, for a feu-mail of 20 s. An annual rent of 6 s 8 d is to be paid.

Omnibus hanc cartam visuris . . . magister thomas chalmer curatus ecclesie parrochialis diui nicolaii de aberdene ac capellanus perpetuus altaris beate marie virginis infra eandem ecclesiam situati Eternam in domino salutem Noueritis me vtilitate mea et dicti altaris ac successorum meorum capellanorum eiusdem . . . considerata . . . cum expressis consensu et assensu prepositi balliuorum ac consulum dicti burgi de aberdene ac veri et indubitati patroni eiusdem altaris . . . ad feodifirmam dimisisse . . . henrico marchand burgensi dicti burgi . . . totum et integrum Illud tenementum dicti altaris viz terram anteriorem interiorem ortum et caudam eiusdem cum pertinenciis Jacentes infra dictum burgum ex orientali parte vici furcarum eiusdem {. . .} Et hoc pro vno annuo censu viginti solidorum . . . leuandum . . . de dicto tenemento mihi et successoribus meis capellanis dicti altaris . . . Tenendum . . . de . . . rege Redendo . . . dictum annuum censum . . . Necnon vnum annuum redditum sex solidorum et octo denariorum . . .