The first letter, 1477, is also countersigned by William Schevez, Archbishop of St Andrews, to the sheriff of Edinburgh, ordering him to proclaim that no remissions for murder will in future be granted (folio 3); the second letter, 1479, is to John Haldane of Gleneagles, sheriff of Edinburgh, ordering him to apprehend certain murderers, and endorsed by Haldane as executed (folio 6). With the former letter is a nineteenth-century transcript.