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William Bruce, heritable proprietor and udal successor ‘to the booths, houssis and stone aires of Gruitnes’, with consent of Laurence Stewart, his tutor, ‘for certaine caussis, onerous and weighty considerationes’ sets in tack to William Donaldsone for all the days of his lifetime ‘the house and booth ... sometyme possest be the deceast William Donaldsone, his father, and laitly repaired and renewed by umquhill John Donaldsone, his brother, the great neither house and booth buildit by umquhill John Donaldsone, his uncle, and since his deceass hes still bein possessed by his said umquhill father and brother, and the just and equall halfe of the new house and booth opposite to the booth and house possest be Laurance Strang, and laitly build and mead up by the said John Donaldsone and Robert Alisone, with the libertie, freidome and benefite of the stonnes and aire of Gruitnes, at least sua meikle thairof as ever his said deceast father, uncle and brother possest dureing all and aither of ther lyfetymes, for salting, packing, peilling, drying and wining of fisch and uther merchandize, with the freidome of wining and casting of stonne, clay, pond and divat upon the priviladge of the roume of Soundbrugh, for upholding, beitting and repairing and utherwayes renewing and edificating of the saids thrie tenements of houss, as the samen lyes in lenth and breadth, high and laigh, up and doune, under and above’, all which booths and houses ‘stands now built and is upon the ground and priviladge of the said roume of Soundbrough’, in the parish of Dunrossnes’, for which William Donaldsone binds himself to pay each year in August ‘in name of booth and aire mealls dureing his said lyfetyme’ the sum of £40 Scots. At Wilsness in Dunrossness.