Provost and council assign all debts owing to their patron St Nicholas to be taken up by the kirk masters and spent upon defences for the town.

The said day, the provest and counsale, present for the tyme, assignit all the dettis awand to thair patrovnn, Sanct Nicholace, to be tane oup incontinent be the maisteris of the kirk wark, and varit vpon artailzery, povder, fortalissis, blokhouse, and wther instrumentis requirit for weir, for the defence of the guid tovne, and resisting of our auld ennemies of Ingland; and will and ordinis that all wther the tovnis commond warkis rest quhill that be done; and commandit the said maisteris of kirk wark to be diligent in the ouptaking of the said dettis, with povar to gif acquittance therof to the effect forsaid.