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Aberdene

  1. Obsolete spelling of Aberdeen.
    • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene[1], Aberdeen, published 1799, page 12:
    • 1635, anonymous [David Lindsay], “Instrument anent Patricke Bishop of Aberdene, His Admission to the Sayd Bishopricke”, in Funerals of a Right Reverend Father in God Patrick Forbes of Corse, Bishop of Aberdene. [], Aberdeen: Imprinted by Edward Raban, →OCLC; reprinted in Charles Farquhar Shand, editor, The Funeral Sermons, Orations, Epitaphs, and other Pieces on the Death of the Right Rev. Patrick Forbes Bishop of Aberdeen. [], Edinburgh: Printed for the Spottiswoode Society, 1845, →OCLC, page 215:
      The which day in presens of us Connotaries publick, and witnesses underwritten, compeared a Reverende Father of God, Patricke Bishop of Aberdene, and presented to us Connotaries underwritten, within the Cathedrall Church of Olde Aberdene, at the pulpit of the same, the act of his Lordship's consecration and admission to the Bishopricke of Aberdene; requyring and commanding the Arch-Deane of the said Cathedrall Church to induce and inthronize the sayd Patrick, by himselfe, or his procurators, sufficientlie appoynted to that effect, in the said Bishopricke, at what tyme it should please his Lordship to requyre the same.
    • 1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1