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broad and narrow, and other goods ; with power and liberty of having and 

 keeping Baxters, Maltsters, Butchers, and Victuallers both of flesh and fish, 

 and the other artificers belonging to the liberty of a Burgh of Barony, or 

 whatsoever manner may belong for the future. We have granted, and by 

 the tenor of this our present charter we do grant, that in the said Burgh 

 there be Burgesses ; and that the same have power in time coming to elect 

 Bailies and other Officers necessary for governing the same Burgh ; and also 

 we have granted, and by the tenor of this our present charter do grant to the 

 Burgesses and Inhabitants of the said Burgh, that in the said Burgh they 

 shall have, hold, and possess continually Cross and Market every week on 

 Wednesday, and a public Fair yearly for ever on the Monday next and im- 

 mediately following the feast of the Holy Trinity after Whitsunday, and 

 that for eight days, with all tolls [or customs] and other liberties belonging 

 to such a fair, or may belong for the future. To be holden and kept the said 

 Town of Duns with the pertinents thereto belonging, constituted into a pure 

 and free Burgh of Barony perpetually for times coming, with the said 

 privileges, liberties, and grants, and all other liberties, incomes, profits, and 

 emoluments, and their just pertinents whatsoever, as well not named as 

 named, belonging to a Burgh of Barony, or justly may belong for the future 

 And so freely, quietly, fully, entirely, honourably, well, and peaceably in all 

 things, and through all things, as any Burgh of Barony in our kingdom in 

 all times past is freely constituted and holden, without reversion whatsoever 

 any manner of way henceforth to be done for the future : Strictly discharging 

 that none presume in any manner of way, to contravene the premises, under 

 all penalty which shall be competent in this part. In Testimony whereof, 

 we order and command this our great seal to be affixed to the present charter. 

 Witnesses : the Reverend Fathers in Christ, Bobert, Bishop of Glasgow ; 

 William, Bishop of Aberdeen ; our beloved Cousins, David, Duke of Mont- 

 rose, Earl of Crawfurd ; Colin, Earl of Ergile, Lord Campbell and Lome, our 

 Chancellor ; Patrick, Earl of Boithvile, Lord Halys, Master of the House- 

 hold ; John, Lord Glammys, John Lord Drummond, our Justiciaries ; Alex- 

 ander Hume of that Ilk, our Great Chamberlain ; the Bev. Father in Christ, 

 John Prior of St. Andrews, keeper of the Priory Seal ; Andrew, Lord Gray ; 

 Laurence, Lord Oliphant ; William, Lord St. John, our Treasurer ; and our 

 beloved Clerks, Mr Bichard Murhede, Dean of Glasgow, CJerk of our Ac- 

 counts, and of Register and of Council ; and Archibald Quhitelaw, Subdean 

 of Glasgow, our Secretary. At Edinburgh, the 23rd day of February, 1489, 

 and of our reign the second year. 



Obs. To this deed the following memorandum is attached : — "When Miss 

 Lorain left Dunse, she gave me a trunk of old papers, which had belonged to 

 Mr Winram and her Father, who had been Sheriff Clerk of Berwickshire, 

 from 1700 to 1785. In this trunk I found the original Charter by King 

 James the Fourth, dated in 1489, in favour of the Humes of Ayton, then 

 proprietors of Dunse ; and I now return it to Mr Hay, to whom it properly 

 belongs. A copy and translation are also sent. — Ja. Watson, Dunse, June 

 1, 1868." 



