David, king of Scots, to his chamberlain and justiciar north of the Forth, as well as his sheriffs and baillies of Aberdeen and of Banff, and the grieves and burgesses of those burghs: trustworthy men have related and sworn that the bishop of Aberdeen and his predecessors were in possession of the second teinds of the king's fermes and renders of his thanages, lands, burgh fermes, and escheats within the sheriffdoms of Aberdeen and Banff. He commands them to pay the bishop of Aberdeen the aforesaid second teinds with arrears.