Master John Spalding, Dean of Brechin and prebendary of Melek, to the praise and glory of God Almighty, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Blessed Catherine the virgin, as well as all the heavenly court of saints has freely granted to God and all the abovermentioned saints, and to the chaplains in the choir of Brechin cathedral, the two marks of annual ret in Scots money yearly owed to me from the tenement in the burgh of Dundee. The said annual rents are to be held in pure alms, to be rendered to the chaplain yearly for as long as the donor lives, at the altar of Saint Catherine the virgin, on all Thursdays there is to be a sung mass with four chaplains from the office of the health of the people with one collect for the prosperity of the donor, with another collect of Saint Catherine witha third collect for the souls of all the faithful departed.

Magister Johannes Spaldyng Decanus Brechinensis ac prebendarius de Melek [. . .] Sciatis me ad laudem et gloriam omnipotentis Dei et beatissime Marie virginis ac beate Katarine virginis necnon et omnium celestis curie sanctorum libere dedisse . . Deo . . . et omnibus sanctis supradictis et capellanis in choro cathedrali Brechinensi . . et suis successribus imperpetuum pro alute anime mee [etc.] illas duas marcas annui redditus annuales monete Scotie annuatim michi debitas . . . de tenemento [. . .] jacente in burgo de Dunde [. . .] Tenendos dictos annuos redditus in puram elemosinam, reddendo inde annuatim dicti capellani et successores sui quamdiu uixero ad altare Sancte Katerine uirginis antedicta omni feria quinta, unam missam cum nota cum quatuor capellanis de officio salus populi cum una collecta pro prosperitate mea cum alia collecta de Sancta Katerina cum tertia collecta pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum