TY - CHAP
T1 - Andrew Alanson
T2 - Man of law in the Aberdeen Council Register, c. 1440-c. 1475?
AU - Simpson, Andrew
PY - 2020/11/25
Y1 - 2020/11/25
N2 - This chapter revisits one aspect of an earlier study, which considered the extent to which one can identify ‘men of law’ in medieval Aberdeen. In the preliminary version of the Aberdeen Registers Online which was used, a dispute in which Andrew Alanson acted as a representative was correctly transcribed, but mislabelled as having taken place in 1457; it in fact took place in 1467. Andrew Alanson first appears in the Aberdeen council registers on 5 October 1439. First, on 14 October 1454, Thomas Scot in Bourtie parish, near Inverurie, made Andrew Alanson, John Scroggs the son and William Alanson his procurators ‘in order to pursue Hugh Flesher for a cow’. On 1 October 1470, Andrew Alanson was elected as provost of Aberdeen, to hold office for a year. In the decades following Alanson’s death, the legal world in which he had operated was gradually transformed.
AB - This chapter revisits one aspect of an earlier study, which considered the extent to which one can identify ‘men of law’ in medieval Aberdeen. In the preliminary version of the Aberdeen Registers Online which was used, a dispute in which Andrew Alanson acted as a representative was correctly transcribed, but mislabelled as having taken place in 1457; it in fact took place in 1467. Andrew Alanson first appears in the Aberdeen council registers on 5 October 1439. First, on 14 October 1454, Thomas Scot in Bourtie parish, near Inverurie, made Andrew Alanson, John Scroggs the son and William Alanson his procurators ‘in order to pursue Hugh Flesher for a cow’. On 1 October 1470, Andrew Alanson was elected as provost of Aberdeen, to hold office for a year. In the decades following Alanson’s death, the legal world in which he had operated was gradually transformed.
U2 - 10.4324/9780429262869
DO - 10.4324/9780429262869
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367206802
SN - 9780367206796
T3 - Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
SP - 247
EP - 266
BT - Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe
A2 - Armstrong, Jackson
A2 - Frankot, Edda
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -