Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . the other hand, in the Latin charters andregisters, through which it is sometimes possible toobtain a glance of the real meaning of such a namewhen other means fail, the designation always usedis the exact equivalent of the Green-gate. When, in those days, it was intended to refer toan actual green, or grassy space, the writers spoke ofit as viridarium pratum or lie greinepratum andthese are the actual designations of the space familiarlyknown, three centuries ago, as the green meadowthat lay between Castle-hill and But whenit w
Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . the other hand, in the Latin charters andregisters, through which it is sometimes possible toobtain a glance of the real meaning of such a namewhen other means fail, the designation always usedis the exact equivalent of the Green-gate. When, in those days, it was intended to refer toan actual green, or grassy space, the writers spoke ofit as viridarium pratum or lie greinepratum andthese are the actual designations of the space familiarlyknown, three centuries ago, as the green meadowthat lay between Castle-hill and But whenit was intended to designate the street now known asthe Green it was vUus viridis the green road,or in vico viridi? in the green road, that is, in theroad of, or to, the green—or something preciselyequivalent. Thus a very early and notable reference,of date 1277-8, speaks of property belonging to theCarmelite Friars as lying in vico qui dicitur le grene *Chartulary of St. Nicholas, 11., p. 285. t Anderson. Charters and Other Writs, pp. 161, The Fountain in the Green. The Green-Gate 9 — in the street which is called the Green j* and wehave another example, of 1439, showing traces of theold French influence, where certain rents are spokenof as due to the Trinity Friars from ground in vicode la Grene—that is in the Green-gate,t and inyet another, of 1477, we have a similar reference toland in vico de ly GreneP% It is unnecessary tomultiply instances. Throughout these older docu-ments it is the same. The street is never spoken ofin terms equivalent to the Green, but always as11 the way of the Green, or the Green-gate. It neverwas the grassy space, or burgh green, which its presentand long familiar name might lead one to was a main highway, the entry to the burgh, beforeeven the erection of the Bridge of Dee gave a fixeddirection to the southern approach. To the burghersthemselves it was the only means of getting to thegrassy flat near by, with which it was closel
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