Sir Robert Spark, chaplain of the altar of St Duthac in the parish church of St Nicholas, compeared before the bailies and requested the clerk to read three processes, produced at three previous head courts, anent the recovery of a waste land belonging to the late John Gow, lying on the south side of the Shiprow, in default of payment of 7 s 11 d, payable to the altar, and long overdue.

{. . .} in plena Curia Accessit ad barram discretus vir dominus Robertus spark capellanus perpetuus Altaris diui duthaci infra ecclesiam parrochialem diui nicolaii dicti burgi Situati Et petiit a communi clerico tres processus per Ipsum legittime deductos in tribus curiis capitalibus precedentibus perlegi de et Super recuperatione proprietatis cuiusdam terre vaste quondam Joannis goue Jacentis infra dictum burgum in vico nauium ex australi parte Eiusdem vici {. . .} in defectu Solutionis vnius annui Redditus Septem solidorum Et vndecim denariorum vsualis monete scotie Sibi et dicto altari debiti et a longo tempore non soluti {. . .}