The Trade between Dundee and Veere

Testaments of Veere Residents recorded in Edinburgh Commisary Court 1559-1732

Transcription of the Testament of David Porterfield,
son of the late John Porterfield, merchant burgess of Edinburgh and factor in Veere.

Recorded in the registers of Edinburgh Commissary Court, 15 September 1627
(National Archives of Scotland, CC8/8/54, p. 353)

The Testament

The Testament datiue & Inventar of the guidis geir sowmes of money & dettis p[er]tening to vmq[uhi]le dauid porterfeild Lau[fu]ll sone to vmq[uhil]e Johne portefeild merchand burges of ed[inbu]r[gh] and factor in campheir the tyme of his deceis quha deceist in the moneth of aprile 1626 yeiris Faithfullie maid & gevin vp be archibald porterfeild brother lau[fu]ll to the defunct and tutto[u]r Lau[fu]ll to Elizabethe porterfeild minor dochter Lau[fu]ll to the Defunct and exe[cut]rix datiue decernit to hir s[ai]d vmq[uhi]le father be decreit of the com[m]issaris of ed[inbu]r[gh]as the samyne decreit of the dait at ed[inbu]r[gh]the secund day of apryle 1627 yeiris beir[is]

IT[EM] THe First the said vmq[uhi]le Dauid porterfeild had na guid[is] geir sowmes of money & dettis
bot the dettis underwrittine VIZ Item thair was awin to the said vmq[uhi]le Dauid porterfeild be Margaret geddes relict of vmq[uhi]le Johne porterfeild merchand burges of ed[inbu]r[gh] iiij C/ li. ITem be Jonet geddes relict of vmq[uhi]le Thomas Ingillis merchand burges of the said bur[gh]t xxxv li.

Sum[m]a of the Inventar of dett iiij C/ xxxv li.
To be devydit in thrie p[ar]t[is] deid[is] p[ar]t is J C xlv lib.
Quota ponitur propterea vj li.

We Sir Jerome Lindsay Vnderstanding We decernit th[e]rvntill as oure decreit gevin th[e]rvpone beirs Conforme to the q[uhi]lk w[i]t[h] power Ress[e]rvand compt Q[uhai]rvpon edward stuit merchand burges of ed[inbu]r[gh] become cau[tiio]un as ane act beires

Transcribed by Robert H J Urquhart, National Archives of Scotland, May 2004

Iain D. McIntosh, 2021