ABSTRACT
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.
