The protocol book of Alexander Cok 1567-1571
2024
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This book is a transcription of the Protocol Book of a Fife Notary Public, Alexander Cok, whose duties included acting as town clerk on behalf of the burgh of Kirkcaldy. The business transacted dealt exclusively with the burgh court and so the survival of this volume is the nearest thing we have to a burgh court book. At a time when perhaps the population was about one and a half thousand, its detailed account of pursuit of debts, pursuit of widows' possessions by grasping relatives, and its establishment of common rule at annual Head Courts, tells a unique everyday story of burgh folk.
Main title:
The protocol book of Alexander Cok 1567-1571 / edited by Iain Flett.
Author:
Flett, Iain, editor
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Scottish Record Society, 2024.
Collation:
xlii, 135 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780902054073
Dewey class:
346.41
Local class:
346.410438KIRK
Language:
English
BRN:
4015445