Many thanks for all your good wishes for Mum. She has an impressive black eye and a badly bruised knee, but otherwise has survived the accident very well and is back home now.

This afternoon I was cataloguing the medieval charters again and came across one with a seal in very good condition.

This is from a "tack by Robert [Stewart], commendator of Holyrood and convent thereof, setting and letting to his servitor, ROBERT ORMISTOUN, their teind­sheaves of the lands of Sauchtounhall, in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, for the term of nineteen years. Reddendo, twelve bolls of wheat, twenty bolls of bear, and two chalders of oats yearly, or 5s. 9d. for each boll of oats. Signed at Holyrood by the commendator and by the following members of the chapter: John Ramsay, prior, Alexander Harcas, Hew Lamb, John Ged, James Abarcrumby, David Gudsone, Steuen Litslar, and Andro Watsone." It's dated 2nd March 1556.

The above quote is from the Revd. Anderson's hand list of the Laing Charters.