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REGISTllUM CARTARUM
ABBACIE TIEONENSIS
DE KELSO
1113—1567
EDINBURGI MDCCCXLVI
BAI.LANTYNE AND HUOHKS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.
PRESENTED TO THE BANNATYNE CLUB
BY THE DUKE OF ROXBURGH E.
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No otlier spot of Scotch ground has witnessed such changes as the river bank where Teviot falls into Tweed. A town once stood there, of such importance as to form one of that remarkable Burgher Parliament, known as *^ the Court of the Four Burghs of Scotland," of which not a house, not a trace, remains. Still earlier, and long before the kin- dred people dwelling on the opposite sides of the Tweed had learned to look on each other as aliens and enemies, the great Princes of Nor- thumberland had built a castle there, which became a favourite dwelling of Earl David, afterwards King David I. Before his accession to the tlirone, while Prince of Cumberland and of a large district of southern Scotland, as well as after he became king, and while he ruled in peace all Northum- bria to the Tees,"" that prince found Roxburgh a central and convenient residence. Even after southern Northumbria had been severed from Scot- land, the castle continued one of the chief royal residences, where courts and councils and parliaments were held, ambassadors and legates were enter- tained, and a royal mint was established, during the reigns of David's grandsons, and down to the end of that long period of prosperity and peace
* The English chroniclers, painting vividly beyond Tees, as enjoying undisturbed peace
the distractions of southern England during and jtrospcrity under the authority of David
Steplien's reign in the niiddlc; of the twelfth of Scotland. — Bromton; W. Nciihr. century, describe the northern region, all
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which terminated for Scotland with the reign of King Alexander III.^ That old importance has left a traditionary and romantic interest about Roxburgh, which has survived its towers and walls, and the very memory
of its actual story and of its share in the disasters of later times ; and the same association which led the unfortunate prince, whose father fell in assaulting the castle, to adopt the name for one of his heralds, and his chivalrous son to blazon it around his shield," still at- taches to the green mound which the Teviotdale pea- sant shows as the site of " the Castle of Marchmound."
While the baronial castle and the gilds of free burghers were each con- tributing their share in the great work of civilization, under princes like David and his successors, the foundations were laid of other institutions still more influential, and destined to be more enduring. As if foreseeing that his favourite valley was to become, in later times, the field of arms for two warlike nations, the wise David had restored ancient, or planted new monasteries thickly over Teviotdale, which were not only to spread the blessings of religion, and in part to tame the rough Borderer, but were destined to aff'ord him sometimes an asylum and support, when war had M-asted all that was not under the protection of the Church.
At length, the abbeys too were swept away, when they had fulfilled their destiny : and the effect produced by the suppression of such houses as
•" David receivofl the Cardinal-Logato John nothing of the matter, it would seem that the
of Crema, at Roxburgh, in 1125, and there chivah'ous styles of our Scotch Heralds and
convened a council of the clergy. " Raul of Pursuivants, — Snowdoun, Albany, Eoss,
Roxburc " was moneyer of much of the Scotch Rothsay, Marchmond, Bay — Carrie, Kintyre,
currency of "William's reign. At least four Ormond, Bute, — were introduced by King
j)arliaments or great national councils were James III. James IV.'s signet has the name
held at Roxburgh during the reigns of Alex- iH«rr6nt0iT'JJ on a scroll over the shield of
ander II. and Alexander III. — Act. Pari. I. the arms of Scotland.
Aithou'di our books of heraldrv tell us
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Kelso, Jedburgli, Melrose, and Dryburgli, after four centuries of power, was more than had been experienced from the razing of the royal castle, and the utter disappearance of the flourishing city.
The period of our Investigation embraces no less remarkable changes in the population of that district. When the light of record first breaks upon it, we can discern dimly, but with sufficient certainty, a native race retreating or sinking into dependency before the influx of predominating strano;ers of Saxon and of Norman llneao-e. These new settlers figure for some centuries as the feudal lords of the soil, rivalling the most muni- ficent sovereigns in their benefactions to the Church. With them, as well as with many of their immediate vassals and of those of the Church, we become acquainted in the transactions recorded in this and other monastic Registers. We find evidence, also, of the early importance of a burgher class, and of the wealth of many merchants, burgesses of Roxburgh and still more of Berwick, a place which, before it became the unhappy subject of contention and war, carried on the most extensive commerce of any port on the eastern coast of the island, always excepting London.*^ Of the con- dition of the peasantry we have. Incidentally, some information, though more of the kindly tenants under the easy rule of the Church than of the husbandmen and villains who tilled the land of the lay lord and followed him to battle. But, long before the end of our period, the great lords who once bore sway on the marches, the Earls of Dunbar, the De Morvilles, Balliols, Ranulphs, De Vescis, Cumins, De Sulis, and Avenels, had, in their turn, died out ; and, for some centuries, the distracted state of the Borders seems to have been adverse to the rise, on firm footing, of any great families in the district. Even the Church could scarcely hold Its OAvn
^ Note to Tytlcr's History, vol. ii. — An ' whose i-iehcs were the soa, and tlio watoi's
old chronicler describes Berwick as " a city its walls.' In those days its citizens being
of such populousness and commerce that it most wealthy and devout, gave noble alms,
might justly be styled a second Alexandria, among which," &c. — Lanaxost, A.D. 120G.
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in a time so stormy, and there was no very dominant aristocracy at all to rival it, in that district, from the period of the war of the succession to the time of its downfall.
In the mean time, however, the disturbed state of the Border had given birth to a population not more remarkable in its early stages, than for the adaptation to varying fortunes through which it has arrived at Its present condition. The lower class of that population has furnished subjects for the old minstrels who created the popular poetry of Scotland ; and our great Minstrel has thrown round them the romantic colouring of his poetry. But though we may not take their picture of the stark moss- trooper of the old Border days without abatement, we have there the marked features of his character, and cannot fail to observe his hardy but plastic nature accommodating itself to better times ; till the Borderer who, in the times they loved to dwell upon, would have been sung as the most daring ' lifter ' of an English drove, is noted only as the hardiest shepherd or the stoutest husbandman among a peasantry and yeomanry that may well bear a comparison with any.
The progress to civilization was still more remarkable In the upper class. The rough leaders of those Border hordes ; * gentle,* undoubtedly, after the style of Scotland, but not in general men of noble family, acquired conse- quence at first by the command of the readiest lances for any expedition that wanted their service. But In process of time, (when the old church- men had gone down, who formerly did the business of envoys and media- tors,) those illiterate captains were forced Into a kind of diplomacy and management of international affairs, from their very contact with their neighbours on the English side. From the same cause, they were of neces- sity employed in the mixed military and judicial office of Wardanc of the Marches ; and in emergencies that often called for a ready hand as much as a cool head, their hardy nurture bore them bravely upwards. They rose through all commotions and all changes of parties. In the troubled times
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that succeeded the Reformation, church lands were ready for rewarding their service ; and when the time of tranquiUity came, it found the children of adventurous leaders of a few troops of border lances, not only among the old nobihty, but taking their place, without effort, among the foremost rank of the nobles of Scotland.
It was in 1113, during the period of the consequence and prosperity of Roxburgh, that Earl David, the heir-presumptive of the crown of Scot- land, brought a little colony of thirteen reformed Benedictine monks from the newly founded abbey of Tiron, in Le Perclie, and planted it beside his forest castle of Selkirk.** He endowed them with large possessions in Scotland, and a valuable territory in his southern earldom of Huntingdon ; but the French monks were dissatisfied with their position on the banks of the Ettrick ; and upon David's accession to the throne of his brother, he removed them from Selkirk — " a place unsuitable for an abbey "^ — and estabhshed the monastery " at the Church of the Blessed Virgin on the bank of the Tweed, beside Roxburgh, in the place called Calkou,"
The abbey was dedicated to the Virgin and St John the Evangelist. The first abbot was Ralph, one of the French monks. The Scotch chronicles record that he succeeded St Bernard, the reformer of the Order, in his abbacy of Tiron, who died in 1116 ; which, however, can scarcely be recon- ciled with the succession of abbots as given by the French writers/
• vSimeon of Durham. — 1113 is most pro- year a statement, not only against probabi-
bably the true date. The Chronicle of Mel- lity, but contrary to his authority, the Cliro-
rose records the foundation of St Bernard's nicle of Melrose, which places the coming of
monastery of Tiron in 1109, and it joins to the Tironensian monks into this country in
that, a memorandum, (but without date,) that 1113. " Anno M.c.xiii. monachi Tyronenses
Ralph was sent from thence, and became the venerunt in patriam istaiu." — Chron.de Mail r.
first abbot of Selkirk. Fordun, who is here Fordun, v. 3G.
following the Chronicle of Melrose, appears ' Quia locus non erat conveniens Abba-
to have mistaken the entry, and asserts that thie. 2.
the Tironensian monks came to Selkirk in that ^ Gallia Chi'istiana, torn. viii.
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William, another of the monks of Tiron, succeeded as abbot of Selkirk, in 1115 or 1116.^ On the death of Ealph, he also ^vas promoted to be abbot of Tiron, in 1118.
Herbert, a monk of the abbey, was the third abbot of Selkirk.* In his time the change of situation took place from Selkirk to Kelso, by the counsel and advice of John bishop of Glasgow, who had been the King's tutor, and who continued, during life, his counsellor in all matters connected with the Church.
This translation, M-ith a considerable increase of the endowment, seems to have taken place in 1126, the year after David's accession; and the monks having been engaged perhaps for two years in the necessary pre- parations, and in erecting dwellings for themselves, the conventual church of the new Abbey of Kelso was founded on the 3d May 1128.^
In 1147, on the death of John bishop of Glasgow, Herbert abbot of Kelso succeeded him in the episcopal chair ; ^ and was succeeded in the abbacy of Kelso by Arnold, who seems, while abbot, to have been much engaged in public affairs, and in attendance on the court ; and in 1160, on the l'3th November, was raised to the episcopal see of St Andrews.*
On the vigil of the feast of St Andrew, 29th November, 1160, John, the
" 111-5 : Chron. Maih. — but as mentioned Govan to the church of Glasgow, Herbert the
above, St Bernard, the first abbot of Tiron, chancellor is one of the witnesses, and Her-
died in 1116. bert abbot of Selkirk another. Ee^. Glasp. 6.
' Successit Herbertus monachus. — Chron. It may be necessary also to distinguish Her-
MaVr. bert the abbot, from the great Chamberlain
J '• Anno M.c.xxviii. fundata est ecclesia de of that name. In another charter of King Da-
Kelchehou v. nonarum Maii." — Chron. Jlailr. vid to the same church, two of the witnesses
" ^Monasterium illuc translatum per regem are Herbert abbot of Roxburgh, and Herbert
Da\-id, anno Domini M.c.xx^^. ; et post duos the chamberlain. — J?t'y. Glasp. 3. annos post translationem conventus, fundaWt ' Chron. Mailr. Arnold or Ernold, whilst
ecclesiam de Kalco." — Fordun, v. .36. abbot, occurs as a frequent witness in the
^ Chron. Mailr. — Crawfurd confounds this charters of Da^•id I. and Malcolm. — Ee^isters
abbot with Herbert, the chancellor of Scot- of Dun/., jSt And., Glas^., Melr., S)C. land. In a charter of David I., errantini?
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cantor of the abbey, was elected abbot, and on the feast of the Epiphany following was consecrated by Herbert, formerly abbot of Kelso, then bishop of Glasgow." Like his predecessor, he was a frequent attendant on the King's court, and he witnesses many of the charters and public trans- actions, during the reigns of iSIalcohn and William. In 11G5 he obtained from Eome, for himself and his monaster}', the privilege and precedency of a mitred abbey." In 1176 he was engaged in a contention for priority and subjection with the parent abbey of Tiron ; ° and two years later, King WiUiam's great monastery of Arbroath was planted by a colony of monks from Kelso, to whom, and to Henry, then first abbot, previously one of his own monks, John abbot of Kelso gave a charter of exemption from all subjection and allegiance to the parent house.^ Abbot John died in 1180.
He was succeeded by Osbert, prior of the cell of Lesmahago.*^ In 1182, he went to Rome with Joceline bishop of Glasgow, and Arnold abbot of Melrose, on public affairs. He occurs frequently as a witness in charters of the King, and of the Bishops of St Andrews and Glasgow. He was party to the decision of disputes with Melrose, by King William in person, in the Utas of the Epiphany, 1202 ; and he died in 1203.
Geoffrey, the prior, succeeded in the abbacy,' who does not occur in any of the chartularies, and of whom nothing is recorded in the chronicle, except his succession.
" Chron. Mailr. — Fordun, vi. 35. ° Cliron, Mailr.
° Chron. Mailr. "Joannes Abbas Cal- ^ Reg. Aberb., f. 41. "Ita ut abbas de
choensis venit de Roma mitratus ;" expres- Kalkou majorem potestatcm non habeat
sions which would infer a personal visit of the in abbatem vel in predictam ecclesiam Sancti
Abbot to Rome ; but the dates of charters wit- Thome quam abbas Sancti Thome in abbatem
nessed by him in Scotland, render a journey vcl in ecclesiam de Kalchov."
to Rome improbable, and any lengthened *• Chron. Mailr.
stay impossible. The bull conferring the pri- "■ Chron. Mailr. vilege is recorded (467,) but unfortunately without date.
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In 120G, March 29," Ricardus do Cane was chosen abbot. Little is known of the short incumbency of this abbot. The elevation of Bricius of Donj^las, ])rior of the cell of Lesmahago, to the bishoprick of Murray, seems to have been the occasion of the abbot's visiting that remote diocese, where ho witnessed, in the full chapter of the cathedral, the great charter of its constitution.* lie died in the year 1208.
Henry, the prior of the monastery, was chosen abbot in his room, on the 17th June ISOS."" He is said to have assisted at the general council (the fourth Lateran) held at Rome in 1215, to deliberate upon the extir- pation of the heretic Waldenscs. Abbot Henry died on the 5th October 1218.
The succession again fell upon the prior of the house, Richard, who was elected on the 19th October 1218.'' In 1219, Abbot Richard, along with Walter bishop of Glasgow, and the abbot of Melrose, acted as Papal dele- gates in determining a claim of the abbot of Paisley, and affixed their seals to a deed recording their decision. In an instrument taken on that deed in 134(), the notary describes the seal of Abbot Richard thus — " Aliud sigillum habet quandam imaginem ad similitudinem unius abbatis mitrati vestiti (piasi ad celebrandum, cum casula sua, cum libro in manu sinistra et pedo ])astorali in manu dextra; et in circumferentia ipsius sculp- tum erat sigillum Ricardi abbatjs de Calciio ; et retro in dorso ipsius sigilli erat impressio unius parvi sigilli, in quo fculptum erat, ut mihi apparebat, imago unius monachi orantis, genubus flexis, tenentis crucem in manibus ; sculpturam vero circumferentie ejusdem in Uteris legere non potui.'"' Abbot Richard died 2d August 1221.
His successor was Herbert Maunsel, "secretarius ejusdem domus,'" who
' (!hron. Miiilr. There may bo some mis- " Chron. MaiU". " Chron. Mailr.
take in his surname. " lleg. Pass. p. 9.
' Reg. Morav. 3G. « Chron Mailr.
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appears while abbot as witness and arbiter in a few church transactions ; ^ but httle is known of him in the discharge of his ofiice, till we find him anxious to retire from the burden of it. On the day of the nativity of the Virgin, Stli September 123(5, he deposited his crosier and mitre on the great altar of his church, in testimony of his resigning the pastoral cure ; and Hugh, a monk of the convent, m\is elected abbot in his room. He w^as not so at once, however, to escape ; for in 1239 he was compelled by the Papal legate to resume the office which he had resigned "indiscreetly," and it was not till after the arrival of the Legate Otho in Scotland, that Herbert was allowed effectually to relinquish the office of abbot — " full of days, of praiseworthy life and morals-"^
Hugh, formerly elected, then obtained his seat unquestioned. He attended the Parliament of Alexander H. in 1244, and was abbot till 1248, when he died, and was succeeded by
Robert de Smalhame, also a monk of the convent/ who granted a charter, as abbot, in May 1250,^ and whose last recorded transaction Avas holding a court at the bridge of Ettrick, on Monday next after the feast of St Bartholomew the Apostle, in the year 1258, in which John Fitz Hugh of Revedene quit-claimed to the monastery a piece of land in the territory of Revedene, named Floris, which he had held contrary to justice/ He died in the month of September following.
Patrick, a monk of the abbey, was chosen his successor;*^ but in the meantime Henry de Lambeden, the chamberlain, had gone to Rome, and used such means, that, in the year 12G0, he brought back the Papal rescript deposing Patrick, and appointing himself abbot in his room ; and
' 242, and Reg. do Dunfcrm., pp. 131, " Chron. Mailr. 133. " 2d'X ' 218.
■ Chron Mailr. " Chron. Maih-.
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the chronicler records, that the very day of Henry's arrival, armed with the Papal bull, Patrick, without delay, deposited on the high altar his pontificals, which the said Henr}'- immediately assumed. Henry died in 1175,® and the mode of his entry into the abbacy was not forgotten. " Let him see to it," says the chronicler, " how he entered to that pastoral cure ; for — whether by the Divine vengeance, or the good pleasure of God, we know not — he was cut off by sudden death at his own table, at the begin- ning of his early meal, and was buried that same day, after the second refection of the convent, perhaps because they did not choose to watch his body."'
There is no record of the appointment of Henry's successor. In 1281, we find an abbot of Kelso whose name began with J.,^ who was dead before 1285, for
Richard, abbot of Kelso, held a plein cour of regality at Revedene on the 15th of May that year.'' In August 1291, Abbot Richard was one of Balliol's commissioners for examining the claims of the competitors for the crown. On the 28th August 1296, Abbot Richard and his convent took the oaths of fealty to Edward,^ and on the 2d September he had letters ordering restitution of the estates and goods of the monastery. We are Ignorant of the fate of this abbot. The Bishop of St Andrews, whilst the war of the succession was still raging, gives an affecting picture of the ruin heaped upon the abbey, once famous for the splendour of its rites, its numberless works of charity, its unbounded hospitality ; which was exposed by its situation on the marches, and was so destroyed by spoiling, fire, and ravage, that, miserable to relate, its monks and novices went among the other religious houses In Scotland, begging their food and clothing. J
• Fordun, x. 35. ' Chron. Mailr. *" 219. ' Ragman Rolls.
» .343. ■* 309.
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Walran was abbot in November 1307,'' and appears to have been so in 1311.'
Of one person who bore the name of abbot, we hear only in one recorded transaction. On the 5th October 1315, Robert Wishart, bishop of Glas- gow, gave the monks in Lesmahago a remission upon the penalties for 10 chalders of meal which Alexander Folcard claimed as sold to him by Thomas de Durram, an Englishman, while prior of that house, with a penalty in case of non-payment, applicable to the fabric of the church at Glasgow. The Bishop states, that he was certainly informed that the meal had been paid, although the monks, " ex simplicitate sua," were unable to prove the payment ; and, moreover, that the same English Prior was a dilapidator of the goods of the priory of Lesmahago whilst he governed it, as well as of the monastery of Kelso during the time that by usurpation he there bore the name of abbot.™ The acquittance took place a year after the battle of Bannockburn.
William de Alyncrome was abbot of Kelso on the 2d March 131G." In 1323, Abbot William held a court in the burgh of Wester Kelso, concern- ing a complaint against the burgesses for making, of their own authority, new burgesses, stallers, and brewers ; when the burgesses, by their clerk, made the following guarded admission, that as long as their lord the abbot held the town or burgh of Kelso in his own hand, and it was not set in ferme, (ad firmam dimissa,) all the liberties of the burgh, and in particular that of making new burgesses and stallers and granting license of brewing, should belong to the abbot alone, provided that those elected by him were presented in their courts according to the laws of the burghs, and seemed tit and sufficient." Abbot William granted a charter of Auchtlferdalc, on Monday after the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, 1326.
" 42. ' 195, 196. ■" 188. " 310. • 459.
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William dc Dalgornock granted a charter, as abbot of Kelso, on the 19th April 1329.^ He accompanied the young King in his flight into France, and resided with him as his teacher.^ The monastery had letters of pro- tection and restitution of property from Edward III. of England, in 1333 and 1334; and a charter from David IL, the abbey being burned by Eng- land, granting the monks leave to cut wood in Selkirk and Jedwart forests, for its reparation/ William was abbot of Kelso in 1342 and 1354 ;^ but we do not learn whether this was still William de Dalgernock.
On the 17th of July 1370, William de Bolden was abbot, who continued till after the 12th August 1372.*
In June 1398, Patrick was abbot of Kelso, and he occurs in the writs of the abbey till 17th October 1406."* This abbot's name serves to fix the period of some of those remarkable Parliamentary proxies, the styles of which are preserved in this Register.
WiUiam was abbot of Kelso in the ninth year of Pope Martin V., 1426, and was recently dead on the 23d September 1434.''
On that day, appearance was made for the abbot whose name began with S.,'^ and who must have died immediately afterwards.
William was abbot of Kelso on the penult day of May 1435,* and con- tinued to hold the office till 16th September 1444.^
p Eeg. Glasg. 281. Lib. de Kelso, 487.
"^ In a manuscript of Wyntoun, Harl. MSS. 6909, which Macpherson (liis editor) thinks to have been written in the abbey of Kelso, at book viii. chap. 2G, where Wyntoun has written, how in 1332,
" OwTe Kyng Daivy wes send in Frawns,
And nyne yhere he bade thare " — the Kelso scribe has added —
" Dene William of Dalgernow, That tyme abbot of Kel sou, Wes his techor all this tyme, Keepit in a castell fyne. That standis into Normandy, Castell Galliard callit suthly."
"■ Robertson's Index of Charters.
' Registrum de Aberb. Lib. de Kelso.
* 514, 515. " 517, 525. ' 527. ' Ibid.
* 528. ' Lib. de Melr. 575.
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In August 1464 Allan was abbot of Kelso, and he was still abbot on the 22d May 1466/
Robert was abbot of Kelso, and one of the Border Commissioners, in 1473, and he was still abbot on the 18th April 1475.*
George, abbot of Kelso, witnessed a crown charter at Edinburgh, on the 15th day of July 1476.^
A second Robert was abbot of Kelso, and sat as one of the Lords Auditors in Parliament, on the 7th June 1493." He was still abbot on the 8th February 1505.
Andrew Stewart, bishop of Caithness, held the abbeys of Kelso and Fearn in commendam, the former probably from the death of Abbot Robert ; and he held both till his death, which took place in his palace of Skebo, on the l7th June 1517.*^
Though the bishop must have been legally recognised as abbot, the dis- turbed state of the country and the distance of his usual abode may have exposed the abbacy to other competitors. A person styled abbot of Kelso was imprisoned at Dunfermline by the Regent Albany in August 1515 ; ^ and, from his being one of the faction of the Lord Hume, there is reason to believe that this was the same Thomas Ker who certainly was abbot of Kelso in 1519. He was the brother of *' Dande Ker of Farne-
* 529, 531. tatus Rossie et doininii de Ardmanaich, ({ui
* 532. obiit in palacio suo de Skebo, die docinio
" Reg. Glasg. 410. septimo raensis Junii, anuo domiiiice incarna-
" Acta Audit. tionis millesimo quiugentesimo docimo sep-
** Obitus bone memorie reverend! in Cristo tirao, sueque consecracionis quarto decimo, et
patris et domini domini Andree Ste^yard, tumulatur in choro sue ecdesie catliedralis
episcopi Catliauensis, commendatariique mo- Cathancusis de Dornoch. Orate ex caritate
nasteriorum de Calco et Feme perpetui, ac pro anima ejus, — Feme Calendar.
camerarii supreini domini nostri regis, comi- * Harl. MSS. : Calig. B. iii. 133.
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hirste ;" was much employed in public affairs on the Border/ and continued to hold the office on the 7th October 1528.^^
James Stewart, a son of King James V. by Elizabeth Shaw, was made coramcndator of the abbeys of Kelso and Melrose in the fourteenth year of his age, apparently before 31st August 1536, although his appointment was confirmed by the Pope in 1541. The young commendator died in
On the death of James Stewart, the Queen-dowager granted both the abbacies which he had held to her brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine ; but the Reformation prevented his reaping any fruits of his gift.
An abbot of Kelso of the name of Ker was slain by the young laird of Cesford, his own kinsman, in August 1566.'
Sir John Maitland, afterwards Lord Chancellor, the ancestor of the family of Lauderdale, was commendator of Kelso, and exchanged that abbacy, on the 8th March 1565, with Francis Stewart of Bothwell, for the Priory of Coldinghame.
Sir John Maitland was again commendator of Kelso in July 1587 ;^ but in the same year, Stewart, now Lord Bothwell, held both the abbacies of Kelso and Coldinghame.
' The confirmation of peace on the part of borderers, I bid them to be well accompanied,
the Scots -was brought hider by th' abbot of and good chere to be made unto theym. The
Kelsoo, the bedesman of the Carres of Tevi- said abbot being a right sadde and wise man,
daill, well accompanied with honest men to brother to Dande Carre of Farnehirste.
the nomber of xl persons, to whom I made Harl. MSS. : Calig. B. ii. 59.
suche chere as I couth that day at djnier, and « 536 ; — a deed which is dated at Kelso
furthwith after we examined our commissions, the 7th October 1528, but printed by mistake
and made collacioun of other our greater as of date 1508.
'v\Titings. And soe, agenste night we depart- •" Pinkerton, ii. 384.
ed, and kept our lodgings. And bycause the ' Birrell's Diary.
companyons coming with the said abbot were ^ Acta Pari. iii. 454.
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After the attainder and ruin of the Earl of Bothwell, Sir Robert Ker of Cesfurd, who was created Lord Roxburghe about 1599, had grants of the greater part of the abbey lands of Kelso. These still remain with his descendant, the Duke of Roxburghe, avIio inherits the estate and honours of Roxburghe through his great-great-grandmother, Margaret Ker ; and is the representative in the direct male line, of a family which proves its descent, by charters, from the time of Malcolm IV., and had a grant of the lands of Innes from that king, the year following the date of his beautiful charter to Kelso.
The Register of the Charters of the Abbacy of Kelso has been long preserved in the libraiy of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh.'' It is a volume of two hundred and nineteen leaves of vellum, measuring eight inches by five and a half. The leaves are numbered in a modern hand, from the beginning of the volume ; but it may be doubted if the first seven leaves originally formed a part of the chartulary. These are occupied by a very important " Rotulus reddituum," or notice of all the property of the monastery, whether in lands or tithes, written before the year 1300.' The eighth leaf, bearing the title inscribed at the top, —
3Lihtv ^ct Mavit tit Caldjou,
is the proper commencement of the register of charters, which continues in an uniform style of writing, and of nearly the same time, if not by the same scribe, down to the 17 1st leaf.*" It is in a good hand, with plain red initial letters, and rubricated titles to the charters and tops of the pages. From the handwriting, the dates of the charters, and other circumstances, this portion may be ascribed to the reign of Robert I., or the first quarter
■^ The first leaf li.as the library mark, with " The rubricator had not coniplL'ted his
the date 1704. part of the work quite so far. The red titles
' It is here printed at the end of the Chartu- of the charters, and at the tops of the pages, lary, in connexion with other rentals. — P. 45a. stop at fol. 1 04.
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of the fourteenth century. It is arranged under certain heads by the scribe, however inartificially, and, to preserve that arrangement, it has been printed throughout in the order of the original register, Mdth the single exception of placing the charter of erection of Earl David at the beginning, which the chartulary scribe has placed fourth in order."
From the 172d leaf to the end, consists of mixed deeds, generally of a later date, some of them of the fifteenth century, and entered by scribes of that time. In printing these, it has been endeavoured to arrange them nearly in order of time, where any dates could be assigned." A small portion consist- ing of formula3 or styles, which admit of no date, are arranged separately .^
In addition to the whole matter contained in the Register, there are here printed the folloAving illustrative documents : —
1. The charter of Malcolm IV., A.D. 1159, from the original, preserved in the charter-room at Floors. "^
2. The account rendered to the Abbot of the superior house of Kelso, by John Voir, the chamberlain of the dependent cell at Lesmahago, on the 1st day of February 1555, from the original at Floors.''
3. The rental of the Abbacie of Kelso, from the same charter-room. It is without date, but, from certain entries of it, compared with other accounts preserved in the same repository, appears to be of the year 1567.
The Avriting of the register throughout abounds in abbreviations, which are faithfully represented in the print, so as to give it, as nearly as possible, the authority of the original, and to risk nothing on the conjecture of the Editor. Another mode of abbreviating adopted in the Register, is much to be deplored. The scribe of the chartulary, to save time or vellum, has
° From page 1 to p. 362. The rubrics of ^ P. 438 to p. 451.
the pages of the original are given on the "^ Prefixed to the matter of the Chartulary,
margins of this volume. p. I. to p. Vi.
° P. 363 to p. 437. ' P. 475 to p. 485.
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thought proper to omit, in most instances, the arrays of witnesses ^yhich formed the necessary authentication of ancient charters, and frequently the most interesting part to the modern historian and genealogist. Some deeds, where they seemed to the registering scribe merely to confirm former grants, have been still more unsparingly curtailed ; and, in this manner, a few of the most ancient and most important muniments of the Abbey appear in our record only in the shape of memorandums.^
Notwithstanding these defects, the register of Kelso stands very high in rank among those of the regular religious houses of Scotland, Avhether we consider the historical information it contains, or the materials it affords for illustrating the antiquities of our law and of Scotch Parliamentary usages ; the polity of the ancient Church ; pedigrees of Scotch and Northumbrian families ; the early transmission of land over a wide district ; the manner of its cultivation of old ; and the habits and modes of life of the rural popula- tion, and of all classes, from a very early period.
The limits of a preface render it necessary to pass at once over all those minute particulars of local antiquities, which form the chief interest, in a collection like the present, to the intelligent people of the district. The ancient names of places; the boundaries between farms, settled by Saint David in person ;*" the sites of ancient churches, chapels, castles, granges, now ruined and forgotten ; all those marks of the advances of early civilization, must be left for those who have the advantage of local acquaintance, and the opportunity of reading the charter upon the ground to which it bears reference. The time must come, when the gentlemen of Scotland will take an intelligent interest in the antiquities of their own districts ; and scholars will be ashamed to know less of the colonizing and early history of Scotland than they do of Greece or Italy. All that can be attempted here, is to notice a few points of more general interest or curiosity, either illustrated or suggested by the contents of this volume of ancient Scotch charters.
• As 3, 4, 11,24,26. ' 19.
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A charter of Richard Cumyn, the first of that great name in Scotland, re- cords a donation of the Church of Linton-roderick to Kelso, for the weal of the souls of Earl Henry, his lord, and of John, his own son, " quorum corpora apud eos tumulantur."^ The Earl Henry whose place of interment is thus recorded, was the son of David L, who predeceased his father, dying in 1152. By his wife Ada, daughter of William Earl Warenne, he left three sons, Malcolm and William, ayIio in succession filled the throne, and David Earl of Huntingdon, the ancestor of the later sovereigns of Scotland. Lord Hailes has alluded to an unaccountable assertion, which runs through some of the chronicles, that Earl David was older than his brother William.'' The reason assigned for David being set aside is, that he was absent when the succession to the throne opened by the death of his brother Malcolm ; but the report is put upon a different footing by the chartulary of Newbotle, where, upon a charter of King Malcolm IV., witnessed by his brothers William and David, and their mother, it is noted, " hoc est contra eos qui dixerunt, de tribus filiis comitis Henrici, videlicet Malcolmo Willelmo et Davide, ipsum Davidem fuisse primogenitum ; " showing that the report, however groundless, went to raise David to the head of the family.
Some historical interest attaches to the grant by Malcolm IV. of the Church of Innerlethan.'^ Lord Hailes used this charter for refuting the' fable of the chroniclers, of Malcolm's vow and practice of chastity; the King himself giving as a reason of his grant, that his son's body lay in the Church of Innerlethan the first night after his death. The charter is remarkable on another ground. For the cause already mentioned, the King grants to Innerlethan a right of sanctuary, as fully as was enjoyed by Wedale or Tyningham. Much doubt has been expressed regarding the constitution and privileges of the church sanctuaries of Scotland. Without going into the very curious Teutonic antiquities of the subject, or speculating on the times when among our forefathers, as in Judea of old, places of refuge
" 274, " Annals, 11.32, quoting Wyntoun and Foi'dun. " 21.
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were anxiously provided, " that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person at unawares '* — " that the manslayer die not until he stand before the congregation in judgment"^ — it may be enough here to observe, that by the Canon, and the more ancient ecclesiastical law, all churches were held to afford protection to criminals for a limited period, sufficient to admit of a composition of the offence, or, at any rate, to give time for the first heat of resentment to pass over before the injured party could seek redress/ That this was the Church law among ourselves, we learn from the ancient canons of the Scotican councils ; Avhere, among the list of misdeeds against which the Church enjoined excommunication, after the laying of violent hands upon parents and priests, is denounced " the open taking of thieves out of the protection of the Church."^ But, though all were equally sacred by the Canon, it would seem that the superior sanctity of some
^ Numb. XXXV. 11, 12. with dismay that certain chilch-en of evil had
' Hist. maj. Winton. apiicl Angl. Sacr. I. incurred excommunication by Avithdrawing
182 In several English churches there was a from the Church of the Carmelites of Newcastle,
stone seat beside the altar, where those fleeing some who had fled thither imploring church to the peace of the church were held guarded protection for safety of their Uves ; and after- by all its sanctity. One of these still remains wards, when the guilty person is discovered, at Beverley, another at Hexham. To violate namely, Nicholas le porter — he is sentenced the protection of the frlth-stol, the seat of to appear bareheaded and barefoot, wearing peace, or of the fertre, the shrine of reliques, only a linen robe, at the door of the Church behind the altar, Avas not, like other offences, of St Nicholas of Newcastle, every Sunday to be compensated by a pecuniary penalty : for a whole year, and there to be publicly It was hot-leas, beyond compensation. Spel- scourged (fustigatus) by the curate, in pre- plan— Ric. Hagust. cited in Glos. of Archit. sence of the assembled congregation, and In a volume of " Depositions and other from thence scourged to the Church of the ecclesiastical proceedings," now printing for Carmelites, all the way confessing his fault, the Surtees society, under the charge of !Mr Moreover, he is to have the same penance at Raine,who has done so much for the antiquities the Church of St Nicholas and the cathedral of the patrimony of Saint Cuthbert, there is a Church of Durham, on three days of \^liitsun notice of a breach of sanctuary, and its punish- week. — P. 7.
ment by ecclesiastical authority, in 1312. The '■ Regist. Aberd. II. 31. Scotch canons,
Bishop of Durham states that he had hoard 1210, in the Lainboth MS.
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churches, from the reHcs preserved there, or the popularity of their patron saints, aftbrded a surer asylum, and thus attracted fugitives to their shrines rather than to the altars of common parish churches. We must not be surprised, that in rough times even Holy Mother Church was not always able to afford protection to her suppliants against the avenger of red-hand ;'' and it was to strengthen her authority, and to support what in the circumstances of society was a salutary refuge against rash vengeance, that the Sovereign at times granted his sanction to particular ecclesiastical asylums. We have four of those mentioned in this register.
The most celebrated, and probably the most ancient, was that of the Church of Wedale, a parish which Is now called by the name of its village, ' the Stow.' There is a very ancient tradition, that King Arthur brought with him from Jerusalem an Image of the Virgin, "fragments of which, " says a writer of the eleventh century,^ " are still preserved at Wedale in great veneration." About the beginning of his reign,'' King William Issued a precept to the ministers of the Church of Wedale, and to the guardians of its " peace," enjoining them " not to detain the men of the Abbot of Kelso who had taken refuge there, nor their goods, inasmuch as the Abbot was Avilling to do to them, and for them, all reason and justice."
In the year 1144, David I. granted the Church of Lesmahago as a cell to Kelso, and by the same charter conferred upon it the secular privilege of sanctuary in these terms — " Whoso, for escaping peril of life or limb, flee to the said cell, or come within the four crosses that stand around it ; of reverence to God and Saint Machutus, I grant them * my firm peace.'""' To incur the censure and vengeance of the Church was sufficiently formi- dable ; but to break ' the King's peace,' brought with It something of more
"Homicicla cum laymdanj," as it is " Between 11G5 and 1170. 410. written in an ancient Scotch law MS. ^ 8. — Lesmahago is ecclesia MaclmtL
^ Old marginal annotation on a MS. of Ncnnius.
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definite punishment. It was not the mere mysterious divinity that doth hedge a king : * The King's peace ' was a privilege Avhich attached to the Sovereign's court and castle, but Avliich he could confer on other places and persons, and which at once raised greatly the penalty of misdeeds committed in regard to them. By our most ancient law, the penalty of raising the hand to strike within the King's girth, M-as four cows to the King, and one to him whom the offender Avould have struck ; " and for slaying a man " in the pes of our lord the King," the forfeit was nine score of cows to the King, besides the asythment or composition to the kin of him slain, " after the assize of the land."^
In granting the same privilege to Inverlethan, Malcolm IV. ordains " that the said church, in which my son's body rested the first night after his decease, shall have a right of sanctuary in all its territory, as fully as Wedale or Tyningham ; and that none dare to violate its peace ' and mine,' on pain of forfeiture of life and limb."^ Of the Sanctuary of Tyningham, thus mentioned as of almost equal celebrity with Wedale, we have but little further information.
The Scotch law of sanctuary or girth was early ascertained with much precision, and carefully guarded from the danger of encouraging crime by aftbrding an easy immunity to fugitives.^ In later times, and during a period of intolerable misrule, among other temporary enactments for the suppression of homicide, the Parliament of Scotland enacted, that whoever took the protection of the Church for homicide, should be required to come out and undergo an assize, that it might be found whether it was committed of "forthought fellony," or in " chaudemcllee ; " in case it should be found of cliaudemellee, he was to be restored to the sanctuary ; and the
' Assise. R. David. Act. Pari. I. p. 8. '21.
' Leges inter Brettos et Scotos. Act. *' llailcs, Ann. 1214. — 8tat. Alex. JI. c. 0. Pari. I. p. 300. Act. Pari. I. p. 71.
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Sheriff was directed " to give him security to that eflfect before requiring him to leave it."'
But while our early monarchs were thus ready to aid the Church in mitigating the violence of a rude age, they were prepared to withstand any assumption of jurisdiction that put in peril the entire indepen- dence of the Crown. On occasion of a Papal commission granted to an English and a foreign churchman, for trying an action against the Abbey of Kelso, King Alexander II. promptly interfered, and prohibited the commissioners from proceeding, while he intimated that any thing done by them could have no effect.^ The King conceived he set forth a sufficient ground for that step when he cited the Papal privilege, " that causes originating in our kingdom shall not be drawn before other judges beyond the kingdom." It was not his intention to question the right of appealing to Rome, which was especially reserved in the bull founded upon.'' Still less was it necessary now, as his forefathers had done,' to assert that as an indefeasible right which the Papal commissioners would respect more as a Papal grace.
After the monkish fashion of copying into their register whatever excited their particular interest, whether connected immediately with the affairs of the monastery or no, we have in our chartulary a fine contemporary copy of the famous deed of Edward III. and his council, in Parliament, renoun- cing all claim of superiority over Scotland."* This deed was formerly a
' Act. Eob. II. 1373. Act. Pari. I. p. ' Hailes, 1181-1188, and the Papal bulls
184. The readmg of the last clause is dif- in the chartularies.
ferent from that adopted by Skene. "" 537. It is imperfect. The conclu-
j 396. sion giving the date (1st March, an. reg.
^ The privilege runs against removing 2,) and the authority of the English com- suits, " nisi ad sedem apostolicam, pro hiis missioners to make oath for their king, are duntaxat negotiis qua? in regno commode ter- here wanting. ,
minari non possunt." — Bull of Urban III. Reg. Glasg. 69.
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great subject of dispute, and apparently even of doubt. The Parliament of Scotland directed a transumpt, or authoritative copy of it, to be made for preservation, so lately as 1415. An old English chronicler, who gives the words of the deed faithfully enough, (Avith the exception of the solemn authentication — By the King and Council in Parliament,^ adds, as a palliation, — we fear rather of Edward's granting such a recognition, tlian of his violating it — '' sed notandum quod ha3C notanda acta sunt anno aetatis sure decimo sexto." °
It may surprise some readers to find a charter bearing the style of John, King of Scots, and dated the tenth year of his reign." John Balliol, whose reign dates from his coronation in November 1292, is generally said to have resigned his kingdom to his liege lord, Edward, in July 129G. The Scotch Envoy at Rome in 1300, formally denied that transaction, and asserted that Edward, after sending Balliol into England to prison, used the seals, which he had taken forcibly from the Chancellor, for fabricating the letters of resig- nation.P He maintained that John was still King of Scotland ; and, what- ever may be the truth with regard to Edward's forging Balliol's resignation, it was then the policy of Scotland, in its desperate struggle, to put forward tlie unhappy Jolin as its rightful King. We accordingly find AVallace in 1298, while taking himself the style of " Guardian of Scotland," acting " in the name of an illustrious prince, John, by the grace of God King of Scots; "^ and, in the following year, the Bishop of St Andrews, the Earl of Carrie, and John Comyn, then Guardians, use the name of the King in the same manner." We here find that Sir John de Soulys, the guardian, con-
" Lanercost. The Avords forming the con- ° 397. elusion of the deed in the Parliamentary tran- '' Fordun, XT. 03, quoting the pleading of
script, " per ipsum Kegem et concilium in i)ar- Baldred IJisset, the Scotch Envoy at Home, liamcnto," may have been written apart from '' Act. Tarl. I. p. 1)7. ' Ibid. p. !)S.
the bodv of the deed— ^cf. Pari. I. v. l.'2U.
d
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tinued to set forth the style of the degraded and forgotten King John so late as the year 1302.
Another series of these charters is of some historical interest/ It appears that, under the doubtful sovereignty of David IL, during his English imprisonment, a certain Roger de Auldton founded a chantry in the church of St James of Roxburo;h, which he endowed with the lands of SoftlaAv in Teviotdale ; and, on the same day apparently, granted two several charters regarding it ; the one running — " for the soul's weal of a most excellent prince, my lord David King of Scots;" the other, for the weal of "my lord King Edward of England." These charters seem to have been each presented for confirmation to the sovereign commemorated in each ; and a confirmation, engrossing Roger's charter at length, bears to be granted by David " at Inverkeithin, in our council there held, on the first day of April, the year of our reign the twenty-fourth, and A.D. 1354;"* while Edward's confirmation of the grant is in a charter under the great seal of England, dated " at Berwick on the first day of May, the year of our reign, of England the twenty-eighth, and of France the fifteenth," i. e., May 1, 1354.
These dates, in both instances, occur in duplicate, and we cannot, with- out much violence, presume an error of the record. It would appear, how- ever, that in neither case can the Sovereign have been present at the grant- ing of the charter which passes in his name and under his seal. We have no other evidence, nor any notice by historians, of the imprisoned David having attended a council at Inverkeithing in April 1354 ; and Edward was undoubtedly at Westminster on the 1st of May of that year. But
' 495, 500. short of the truth. These charters show
' It is now well known, that in all docu- that this discrepancy between the years of
ments after his return from England, the his reign and the years of our Lord, existed
regnal years of David 11. are stated one year also some time before his return from captivity.
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at that period, and for long after, the EngUsh practice agreed with that of Scotland;" and, in both countries, the King ^yas believed to be where he attested his charter. The terms of the English confirmations are also remarkable. They set forth Edward's usual style of " King of England and France, and Lord of Ireland," while the subject-matter is wholly Scotch. It would seem as if the English monarch considered Teviotdale, at that time, as part and parcel of England."'
It is scarcely of less than historical interest to endeavour to ascertain the early history of the family of Douglas ; a race which, in two or three gene- rations of remarkable men, rose so high as to send its future chroniclers into the region of romance to seek for a suitable origin.
Later writers, willing to escape from palpable fables, sought for proofs of the Douglas origin in this Chartulary. Mr Chalmers lays it down as demonstrated by him, that the lands of Douglas, the ancient family estate, were first granted to a certain Theobaldus, a Fleming ; and that his son Wilham, in the end of the twelfth century, first took the territorial name of Douglas.'*' In both positions he seems to be mistaken. The lands granted by the abbot to Theobald,'' though on the Douglas water, appear, after the minutest enquiry into their boundaries, not to be a part of the ancient territory of Douglas ;^ and there is no proof, nor any probability, of William of Douglas of the twelfth century, the undoubted ancestor of the
" This presumption ceased after the eight- ^ Caledonia, I. p. 579 ; followed by Wood
eenth of Henry YI. ; subsequent to Avhich, in his Peerage, the place where an English crown charter is ^ 107, 116.
dated affords no proof that the King Avas »' If it shall be thought that the charters,
present. 180, 202, of date 12»j!»-70, convey the same
" It will be observed that one of the wit- lands, granted a century before to Theobal-
nesses, John de Coupland, the hero of dus Flamaticus, it would follow that the
Neville's Cross, is set forth in Edward's char- Douglases were not even then in the heredi-
ter as vicecomes noster de Roxburgh ; as if tary possession of the land of his grant, he considered Koxburghshire actually an English county. 41)9, 50it.
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family, being descended of the Fleming who settled on the opposite side of his native valley.
CROS&FOfiD
LESMAHACOW
LANARK □
CARM/C/ZAEL
^ " De surso de Polnele usque ad aquam de Duglas," though not quite precise, seems to make the burn of Polnele, for its whole course, the southern boundary.
^ " The Hflocchan moss," (Bleau,) perhaps " latum mos" of the charter.
^ " Fauldlio," (Thomson's Atlas,) perhaps " longum fau" of the charter.
^ " Broken croce raoore," (Bleau,) perhaps " Hirdelau."
" Black Hill," (Thomson,) here or near this place, perhaps was " longum nigrum ford" of the charter.
All these conjectures may be wrong, with- out affecting the general accuracy of the l>oundary given by the ascertained points.
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The materials of the early history of the Parliament of Scotland are so scanty, that it was to be expected our constitutional lawyers should not overlook the fragments of Parliamentary styles which' have been preserved on the blank leaves of this register/ These are a series of slightly varying forms of proxies to Parliament, running in the names of Abbots Patrick and William of Kelso, and of a certain J. de H., a lord of that ilk, and, as a free tenant of the crown, bound to give suit and service in Parliament. From the handwriting and the style of these writs, they may be safely ascribed to the time of Patrick and William, successively abbots in the beginning of the fifteenth century ;"" and we maybe allowed to conjecture that one, in which the abbot sets forth sickness as the cause of his own absence, is of date sub- sequent to the Act 1425, which required that no members should appear by proxy, " but gif the procuratour alleage there, and prove, a lauchful caus of absens." It will be observed that all these styles substitute tM'o or more procurators for the absent member ; and we find that more than one sometimes actually attended,^ showing how little the voting was considered, and carrying us back to the times when a seat in Parliament was felt as a burden much more than a privilege.
In the charters of Schottun " and elsewhere, Ave find some references to the marches of the kingdoms, too minute for all but the fortunate enquirer who may trace " the rivulet as it descends by the chapel of Saint Edclrid the virgin, and divides between the kingdoms of England and Scotland, close
' 540-544. The mistake has been long ago pointed out,
* Wight, in his " Enquiry into the rise and and but little detracts from the merit of a
progress of the Parliament of Scotland," has valuable law-book, not making much claim to
mistaken the age of the only one of these record learning or antiquarian research, which he has used. His argument in support '' Thus we find Duncan Waleis mentioned
of its being of the 20th May 1258, loses its in the parliament of l.'U»9, as " one of the
last support, when we ascertain that the ])rocurators of the Earl of Douglas." — Act.
Patrick of that century certainly was not Pari. I. p. 1 73. abbot sooner than September of that year. " 301, et seq. 392, &c.
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beside Homeldun." The attention of historians and antiquaries has not been sufficiently turned to the actual boundaries of the kingdoms, as they existed at different times. Nothing would be more important for the early history of Scotland than to ascertain what was really comprehended in the province of Lothian ; upon which some light might be thrown by an attempt to fix the successive limits of the Bishoprick of St Andrews; and it is by no means impossible that a clue to the geography of the much disputed kingdom of Cumbria might be obtained, by exploring the boundaries vvhich separated the jurisdictions of the Bishops of Durham and those of Glasgow. We have it established on the best evidence the subject admits of, that Edgar of England and his wdtan yielded the province of Lothian to Ken- neth King of Scotland in the latter half of the tenth century, which led to the permanent incorporation of the Scoto-Saxon lowlands with the king- dom of Scotland proper.'^ Now, alopg with the kingdom, of Northumbria, the patrimony of Saint Cuthbert must have suffered curtailment ; and there seem to be more materials for fixing the subsequent limits of the ecclesias- tical than of the civil jurisdictions.®
** A.D. 953-971. Edinburgh had already Thomas Dei gratia Eboracensis archiepis-
been evacuated by the English. See the ad- copus Alg' clerico salutem. Ipse tibi ore ad
mirable translation of Lappenberg's Anglo- os prohibui, cum per te crisma et oleum ad
Saxon history by Thorpe, and the authorities Glasguensem ecclesiam misi, ne crisma vel
cited. oleum illud dares in parochiam Dunelmonsis
" The following very curious mandate, episcopi. Tu vero illud, contra defensionem
recorded in the Registers of Durham, is com- meam, in Teueytedale dedisti, de qua eccle-
municated by the kindness of the Rev. J. siam Dunelmensem saisitam inveni. Mando
Stevenson. It is here printed entire, in the igitur tibi et episcopali autoritate prohibeo et
hope that it may excite the attention of some omnibus presbiteris de Teuoyetedale ne de
zealous Church antiquary, who will perhaps crismate et oleo aliquod ministorium amodo
elucidate the time and circumstances in which faciatis, nisi per octo dies tantum postquam
it has been issued. breve istud videritis, ut interim requirere
Prohibitio T. Archiepiscopi Eboracensis possitis crisma a Dunolmcnsi ecclcsia que
clericis de Teuydale que est de dio- vobis illud dare solita est. Quod si post illos
cesi Dunelmensi. octo dies de crismate quod misi, aliquam
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Of the Church, its dues and its burdens, and of the hfe of the clergy, we have scarcely so much information in this as in most of the other chartu- laries. In a bull, ^yhicll seems to be of Innocent IV,/ is a curious notice of what was perhaps the earliest shape of dues levied by Rome from the monasteries of Scotland, before the era of either of our ancient taxations of benefices. We have very careful and solemn settlements regarding the share of the Abbey benefices allowed to the working clergy : the privileges of the Mother Church in cases where chapels were tolerated r regarding * procurations,* or the visitation dues of the bishop, archdeacon, and rural dean : '' and fixing that extraordinary exactions were to be borne equally by the rector (the abbey) and tlie vicar.' The celibacy of the clergy was effectually established by David L, among his other Roman reforms — a change of vast consequence for good and for evil. Its first and best effect was to save the clergy from becoming a hereditary caste. We do not find, M^thln the period of our Register, acknowledged marriages of priests ; nor, as in other church records, proofs of their sons succeeding to their livings. But we have here abundant occurrences of the sons of clergymen, appearing along with their fathers, and plainly taking their rank and style from them.-" About the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Abbot confirmed to .lohn, the son of the Dean of Stobhou, the land of Corroc, Avhich his father had held of the abbey. The Abbot's words are peculiar — " We receive him as his father's heir.'"'
It may be presumed the convent scribe entered, rather as a model, than
cliristianitatem facere presumpscritis, a divino ' 4G0. The pontificate is gathered partly
officio vos suspendo [donee] dirationatum sit from the enumeration of the Poi)e's prede-
ad quam ecclesiam pertineat. Valetc. cessors, and from the list of the bishops and
Reg. 1, Prior. ^ Capit. Dunelm. fol. 183. kings of Scotland given in the bull.
The old annotator on Nennius quoted above, '^ -30, &c.
(p. xxii.,) speaks of Wedale as "in the pro- '' ^^-, &t'- ' ^1''-
vince of Lothian, but now within the diocese ^ 104, H'.l, lU.'t, HIT, ITS, 208, 3GI), &c.
of the Bishop of St Andrews in Scotland." " " In heredcm ejus rccepimus." 112.
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as having any authority ^Yithin the Abbey territory, the two summonses of the Bishop of Durham against heretics.' No register of Bishop WaUer Skirlaw is preserved at Durham ; and concerning James Notyngham, Robert Roxburgh, and John Withby, " priests, heavily suspected of per- verse and erroneous doctrine, and opposed to the Cathohc faith," we may only conjecture that they were some of the clergy imbued with \Vy cliffs opinions, which were then beginning to spread in the north of England.
Our register affords a great deal of information regarding the occupation of the soil and the manner of its culture ; and we are enabled to form a tolerably complete idea of the state of the population and the whole scheme of rural life, at least as it existed under the kindly shelter of the Church. We have a glimpse even of the mystery of rents and prices, the value of land and of labour, in Teviotdale in the thirteenth century.
At the period of the Rent Roll, or about the year 1290,™ a great part of their ample lands and baronies were held by the monks " in dominico," in their own hands, and cultivated (by their villeins, doubtless,) from their several granges, as at Reveden, Sprouston, Molle, Faudon, Witemer, Witelaw, Bolden. The land so held they measured in ploughlands where arable, and by the number of sheep it maintained where pasture. We must not judge of a plough of the monks by our modern notions, or fiU it in our fancy with a pair of quick-stepphig Tweedside horses. The Scotch plough of the thirteenth century (and for three centuries afterwards) was a ponderous machine drawn by twelve oxen, whether all used at once, or by two relays ; so that for the five ploughs of Reveden they had sixty oxen ; and we do not wonder at finding pasture for those work cattle set down as a con- siderable part of the produce. On their land they reared oats, barley, and
' 538, 539. taken the period of the rent-roll. It certuinly
" P. 455. Lord Hailes, mistaking the date was very near the year mentioned in the text, of Abbot Richard's accession, has sliglitly mis- — Miscel. Occur., 1295.
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\yheat," as their successors do. They made their hill pasture afford them hay, by removing their sheep from a portion of it at one season of the year. They had waggons for their harvest work, and wains of some sort for bringing peats from the moss.° Some time later, the abbot's wains were usually sent for commodities to Berwick, and had a special resting-place allotted them upon ' the bourn bra, south from the vedryng meadow,' in the lands of Simpring ;p but perhaps that road w^as not at the time of the rental passable for wheel carriages.**
The monks had large flocks of sheep — fourteen scores of ewes in Reveden, 500 in Colpinhope ' beyond the march,' with 200 dinmonts; 300 hogs in Sprouston ; 300 dinmonts in Altonburn of Molle ; 700 wedders in Berehope, which were to be removed for a month in summer, when they were to have pasture in Molhope ;'' 1000 ewes in Newton ; 300 lambs at Malcarveston, &c. — more than 6600 enumerated, besides ' two flocks ' of wedders at Witelaw.
It would rather seem that at that period the monks did not rear black cattle in considerable number. The oxen mentioned on their pastures were mostly those used in their ploughs. But at AVitelaw* they had a herd of fourscore cows, and smaller herds in other places ; and they had 60 swine pasturing in Newton.*
So early as the twelfth century, the monks had a grant from Odenel de Umfravil, lord of Prudhoe, of the tithe colts of his haraz, or stud of brood mares ; extended by his descendants to the tenth colt of the mares which pastured in their forest westward of Cotteneshop. The monks put their
° P. 456. '' We find, however, that the venders of fish
° P. 461. The Abbey had from the land and other commodities at Kelso, ;iiul at tlio
of Molle, rods for repairing their waggons, as fairs of Roxburgh, brought them thitlier botli
it would seem, though the word is generally in waggons (qiiciJrii/is) and on horseback, as
used in old Scotch charters for ploughs — early as the time of William the Lion. 13.
virgas pro reparatione carrucanim. — P, 458. "■ 155.
" 550. • P. 461, P. 4(n.
e
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brand on those tithe colts, which were then allowed to follow their dams in the Umfravils' forest till they were two years old."
We have here some indications of the previous existence of a system
which must, in all likelihood, have been the earliest mode of land tenancy
every where ; when the occupier of the ground, not yet possessed of capital
enough of his own, hired, along with his farm from the landlord, the cattle,
seed, and stock, required for cultivating it. This system, which is still
remembered among us by the name of steel-bow, seems, at the time of
the rental, to have felt the effects of a long period of national prosperity,
when the tiller of the ground had risen in circumstances, and was enabled
to cultivate his farm with his own stock. " Formerly," says the rent-roll,
"each husbandman of Reveden took with his land, ^tu^t, namely, two
oxen, a horse, three chalders of oats, six bolls of barley, and three of wheat.
But Avhen Abbot Richard commuted their services into money, they gave up
their ^tuj^t, and each paid for his land yearly eighteen shillings.""
" 325, 326, 331. thus described — On tham si/lfum lande the
" Of the word stuht, which is here plainly theos rceden on-stcent gehure gebyreth that him
equivalent to " steel-bow goods," it is feared man to land-setene sylle 2 oxan ^- \ cu ^ G
no further explanation can be ventured ; and sceap S{ 7 ceceras gesaioene on his gyrde landes.
we must rest satisfied with the account given forthige ofer that year ealle gerihtu the him to-
by Dr Jamieson in the supplement to his gebyrigean, ^ sylle him man tol to his weorce §•
dictionary, who connects it with the Gaelic andlaman to his hiise. Thonne him forth-sith
stuth, ' stuff.' The subject of ' steel-bow gebyrige gyme his hlaford thces he loife. — " On
goods' is interesting to the legal antiquary, that same land where this custom holds, it
Stair describes them as " goods set with lands falls to the boor that thei^ be given to him
upon these terms, that the like number of at the setting of the land two oxen and one
goods shall be restored at the issue of the cow and six sheep and seven acres sown in
tack." An early indication of this custom is his rood of land. (He is to fulfil after that
found in the most curious of Anglo-Saxon year all the obligations which attach to him ;)
law relics, the Eectitudines singidamm per- and there are to be given to him tools for his
sonanim, (Thorpe's Ancient Laws and Inst, work, and furniture to his house. When
of England, I. 434,) where, in the chapter death befalls him, let the lord take what he
of Gebures gerihte — " the boor's rights" — it is may have left."
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But, to come to the period of the ' Rotuhis reddituura ' Itself, avc find the " grange," or farm-stead of the Abbey, the chief house in each barony or estate. In it were gathered the cattle, implements, stores needed for the cultivation of their domain lands or mains, the nativi, serfs or carles who cultivated it, and their women and families. Some monk of the Abbey occasionally looked after the grange, but the proper steward was a lay brother or conversus, who dwelt there, and rendered his accounts to the cellarer of the monastery.
Of the inhabitants of the grange, the lowest in the scale was the nativns, carle, bond, serf, or villein, for by each of these names he was known, who was transferred like the land on which he laboured, and mio-ht be caught and brought back if he attempted to escape, like a stray ox or sheep. Earl Waldev of Dunbar, in a deed of four lines, made over a whole tribe to the Abbey : — " I give and confirm to the Abbot and monks of Kelso, Halden and
Of a custom so ancient and so wide-spread, valeur egale au prix de I'estimation de ceux
it is interesting to observe how remarkably qu'il aura re^us."
it has retained its iron appellation in other The Scotch term steel-how, being tliiiy
languages as well as our own, in reference, plainly efjuivalent to the s*tni)Iinf fciif J), hestia
we must suppose, to the enduring nature of ferri, iXn\)\intn feiib ttiitf s'fj^naffe, of the eon-
the cattle or goods quae non pereunt domino, tinental lawyers ; the last member of the
We find them styled ti^tvn bid), s'tajbltnc phrase is perhaps to be found in the Scotch
bitl), B'tn^ICiTPrr feti]b, " iron, or steel cattle," word boio, which, though now obsolete, seems
in the old German law-books ; bestia ferri, at one time to have been used for a herd of
" bcste de fer," in old law Latin and French, cattle: as tlie lines of Virgil, (/En. Yll.,
(Besold. thesaur. — Ducange, Sfc.;) and the 485.)
tenure still known in French law by the Tyrrheusque pater cui regia parent
name of CJieptel de fer. The Code treatuig Armenia et late custodia credita caiiipi :
"Du cheptel donne par le propridtaire ii son are translated by Douglas —
fermier" uses the ancient phrase — " Ce " Tyrrheus thar fader was fee master and
cheptel, aussi appelc cheptel de fer, est celui gyde
par lequel le proprictaire d'une mctairie la Of studdis, flokkis, bowis, and hcirdis'
donne a ferme, ii la charge qu'a I'expiration wide ; "
du bail, le fermier laissera des bestiaux d'une unless we are satisfied witli the more general
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his brother WiUiam, and all their children, and all their descendants."''' Another and later benefactor of the Abbey, after conveying lands in Gordun, (by a boundary so plain that it must be still easily traced, at the distance of five centuries,) throws into the bargain two crofts, occupied by Adam of the Hog and John the son of Lethe ; " and Adam of the Hog himself, my native, with all his following ; " with pasture in the mains for forty beasts, with all their followers of one year, &c. ; and then he warrants to the Abbey " the said lands, meadows, men^ and pastures."^ In the Register of Dunfermline are " genealogies " or studbooks, for enabling the lord to trace and reclaim his stock of serfs by descent.
Adjoining the grange, was usually a hamlet occupied by the cottariiy sometimes from thirty to forty in number. The ' cottars/ under the monks, were very far above the class now known by that name. Each occu- pied from one to nine acres of land along with his cottage.-'' The rents were
German word iifltt, which may express any in the reign of Edward VI., says, that in his
soi-t of cultivation ; giving as the translation time he never knew a villein in gross through-
of steel-bow, cultus ferreus. out the realm, (Jlargrave^s argument in the
" 128 ; see also 401-3, &c. Negro's case, 1771. St. Tr., 20.) There is
* 124. The former of these grants con- no reason to believe that at that time villen-
veys the subjects of it as absolute serfs, age existed at all in Scotland, (except in
' villeins in gross,' as they were called in colliers and salters.) But in the old laws
England. The latter might seem, by sevc- regarding them, and the numerous convey-
rance from the manor, to have changed the ances of neyfs or serfs, preserved in the
state of the serf from ' villein regardant,' or chartularies of an early date, we can trace no
adscriptus glehce, the bond attached to the admission or claim of right raising any class
soil, and passing with it in conveyance by of them above the rank of absolute serfs or
seisin, but having still certain rights ; to the villeins in gross.
more absolute villenage, where the ?iativus, ^ It might be thought that the word ' cotta-
like the other cattle, could be disposed of at gium' of the roll, expressed a portion of land
pleasure. But it may be doubted whether as Avell as a house ; but in one instance a
this distinction was recognized in Scotland. ' cottagium ' in Witemer is mentioned " sine
It is said there were few ' villeins in gross ' terra." — P. 4G0. in England ; and Sir Thomas Smith, writing
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generally in money, varjang from one to six shillings yearly, accordincr to the size and advantages of the place, together with services, not exceeding nine days' labour in the year. The tenants of twenty-one cottagia at Clarilaw, having each three acres of land, minus a rood, and pasture for two cows, paid each two bolls of meal yearly, and were bound to shear the whole corn of the Abbey grange of Newton.
Beyond the mains and the hamlet, or cottar-town as it was sometimes called, along the outskirts of the barony, were scattered in small groups the farm-steads of the husbandly the next class of the rural popula- tion. Each of these held of the Abbey a definite quantity of land, called a husband-land. It has been already noticed that the Scotch plough required twelve oxen.; and a "' plough -gate * of land was composed of twelve * ox-gangs.' Each tenant of a husband-land kept two oxen ; and six together vmited their oxen to work the common plough. The husband- land thus consisted of tAvo ox-gangs, which might \:\xj according to the soil ; but which was estimated long ago in the Merse, as " twenty-six acres where plow acd scythe may gang."^
As a fair specimen of the rate at which these tenants sat, we may take the rental of the barony of Bolden, which was considered as the model of the Abbey lands in regard to services. The monks had twenty-eight husband-lands there, each of which paid yearly six shillings and eight- pence of rent in money, and the following services : —
Four days' reaping in harvest, the husbandman with his wife and all their family ; and a fifth day, the husbandman with two other men ;
One day, carting peats from Gordon to tlie Pullis, and one cart-load (j)laustruiii) yearly, from the Pullis to the Abbey ;
The service of a man and horse to and from Berwick once a-yoar ; and
* Act. Pari. 1. Notice of the MSS., p. xxiv.
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on this occasion they were to have their food from the monastery. (The husbandmen of Reveden were bound each to give carriage with one horse from Berwick, ^veekly during summer, and a day's work on their return — or, if they did not go to Berwick, two days' tillage.) In these services of carriage, a horse's load was three bolls of corn, or two bolls of salt, or one and a half bolls of coals ; or somewhat less in winter ;
To till an acre and a half, and to give a day's harrowing with one horse yearly ;
To find a man for the sheep-washing and one for the sheep-shearing : these were to be fed from the monastery ;
To serve with a waggon one day yearly, for carrying home the harvest ;
All were bound to carry the abbot's wool from their barony to the Abbey ; and to find carriages across the moor to Lesmahago.^
In such transactions with the labourers of the soil, we perceive the chief opening for escape from viUenage or hereditary servitude, for which * the air of Britain was too pure ; * and which died out among us without exer- tion of the legislature.*" Whether any ceremony or act of emancipation took place, we cannot now perhaps determine ; but it is manifest that both those classes of tenants were virtually and effectually freed from servitude. The covenant of a limited portion of service implies that the rest was free.
It is worthy of observation, that in all this catalogue of services no farm service is imposed on women except harvest work : and a still more decided proof of advancing civilization is, that at the period of the rental the whole services were in process of being commuted for money rent."
* P. 461. known to us, in this country, of proceedings
'' The Church, too, did its part ; and the under a brieve ' de nativo habendo,' was in
free institutions of burghs not only afforded the Sheriff-court of Banff in 1364. Regist.
the machinery, but supplied the spirit and Morav. 143.
motive, for emancipation. The last case " P. 462, 463.
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The next step was to convert the ' kindly tenancy ' of the Abbey rent- allers into a still more permanent right ; to raise the tenant into the yeoman. Such an one was that Hosbernus/ whom the Abbot John styles " our man," and who gets a half plough of land in heritage and perpetuity in Middilham, and becomes the liege vassal of the Abbey, paying a reddendo of eight shillings, and giving certain services in ploughing time and harvest. Of this kind the Abbey had numerous vassals, holding of them by a heredi- tary title, and paying a rent by no means illusory.
Last of all were the great Church vassals, who held a place only second to the baronage and freeholders of the Crown. These were chiefly in the territory of Lesmahago. They had their lands free from all service, and (by license of the Abbot) had courts of Bloodwit and Byrthensak, and petty causes.® They had ' merchet ' for the marriages of their vassals' daughters, and paid to the Abbot * merchet ' for the marriage of their own.
In the very earliest of these charters there are grants concerning mills, showing that the system of thirlage was even then introduced ; and their curiously minute regulations of precedency at the mill, and payment of multures, prove the early ingenuity with which this piece of feudal oppres- sion was enforced against all but the privileged.
At the period of the rental, the mill of Boldcn, with its thirlage, gave eight merks of yearly rent. Four brewing-houses were let for ten shillings each, and were bound to supply ale to the Abbot at the rate of a gallon and a half for a penny. The Abbot had from each house of the barony a hen at Christmas, which was worth a halfpenny.
The land of Abbots Selkirk, which was a plough-gate and a half, used to give ten merks of rent.
•* 117. suis, et nos dc honiinilnis nostris" — so iiu-
• 102 — IIG, &c. But in each case it was portant was tlie revenue derived from escheats
provided — " Si sanguis effusus fuerit in terra and fines of court.
ejus, ipse forisfactum habebit de hominibus
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The Abbey had hostilages and mansions in many burghs, perhaps to enable their Abbot or his representatives to attend the king's court during the royal progresses. It had valuable fishings, and others of so little value, yet so carefully guarded by charters, as almost to lead to the belief that the monks esteemed some sort of fishing for sport.^
We are not informed of what materials the bridge of Ettrick was con- structed, for the support of which King Alexander II. gave the monks a grant of land," and where the Abbot afterwards held his courts of regality ; but we have a very formal transaction recorded, for leave to build a bridge across the rivulet of Blackburn, and to have passage for carts and waggons to and fro ; and we find the bridge was designed to be of stone, in the middle of the thirteenth century — an early instance for Scotland, and marking considerable progress in the arts, if the stream is of any size.*"
All the Abbey tenants and vassals were probably bound to relieve the Abbey of the military and other public services. We find this expressly provided in the case of the husbandmen of Bolden ; ' and with regard to the lands of Prestfield, which in 1327 were found by an assize to be four husband-lands ; to be parcel of the barony of Bolden ; and bound to provide a man-at-arms, who should be the captain of thirty archers, found by the barony.''
Although richer in notices of the rural population, our Chartulary is not devoid of information regarding the class of burghers, such as they existed in those burghs of second rank which enjoyed privileges, under the authority of some of the great lords of the Church. Kelso was one of
' In the first charter to the Abbey, the the angle. It must have been of more con- founder granted the monks the fishing of the sequence, however, when the lower water Selkirk waters — " aquas meas de Selechirehe was less closely fished, communes ad piscandum suis propriis pisca- ^ 219, 395. " 123, 136. toribus ut meis ; " a right that would now ' P. 461. •* 471. be held of little value, save by the lover of
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this class, and there are some amusing instances, as early as the reign of William the Lion, of the jealousy with which the royal burgh of Rox- burgh protected its privileges of fair, and right of trading, against the Abbot's pretty village on the other side of the river.^
The Abbey of Kelso, the first and perhaps the richest of the Sainted David's monasteries, freed from all episcopal jurisdiction and dues,^ itself enjoying the privileges of the mitre and crozier, took precedency among the monasteries of Scotland second only to the Priory of St Andrews. It was not, indeed, until the reign of James I. that priority of place in parliaments and councils, above the Abbot of Kelso and all other prelates (after bishops,) was adjudged to the Prior of St Andrews, not on account of the antiquity of the foundation, but plainly by reason of his connexion with the primal sec.™
Thus foremost in rank and power, the monks of Kelso vindicated their place by their practice of the monastic virtues. We find their charity and hospitality early acknowledged by their diocesans," impartial witnesses, of the opposite faction, and with some cause for jealousy of the independent regulars. We may see them, in the transactions here recorded, as the liberal landlords of a vast domain, stimulating and aiding their people towards emancipation and true independence. Lovers of peace, yet not altogether exempt from the infirmity of small disputes which besets country neighbours even in our own time, the monks
'' 13, &c. Abbey of Scone and the Priory of Cokling-
' " Ab omni subjectione episcopal! et ex- ham, at least, were earlier foundations of
actione libera." — 443, 438, 439. regulars than either St Andrews or Kelso.
™ Fordun, vi. 49 ; where Bower evidently The controversy, therefore, cannot have
misunderstands the arguments he reports, turned upon mere antiquity.
Without reckoning the foundations of Cu\- " 455, &c.
dees, of remote and obscure antiquity, the
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endeavoured to provide a partial remedy. In the middle of the fifteenth century, the four abbots of Teviotdale" judicially declared it to be of an- cient and established usage, " that if any dispute or misunderstanding arose between any two of them, the other two had authority to mediate and settle the difference." Good landlords and good neighbours, hospitable and charitable, when the time of trouble came in the War of Independence, we find them the objects of general sympathy. After peace had been in some measure restored by the vigour of Bruce, John bishop of Glasgow expresses his sorrow that " the Benedictine monastery of Saint Mary of Calchow, which used to show a liberal hospitality to all who crowded thither, and lent a helping hand to the poor and needy, being situated on the confines of the kingdoms, through the hostile incursions and long-continued war of the countries, is now impoverished, spoiled of its goods, and in a sort desolate." ^ The Bishop of St Andrews, Wil- liam of Lamberton, who had himself experienced so many of the mischiefs of the civil war, in the preamble to a grant in their favour, speaks with equal commiseration of our Kelso monks — " Seeing that the Monastery of Saint Mary of Kelclio, on the borders of England and Scotland, is, through the common war and the long depredation and spoiling of goods by fire and rapine, destroyed, and, we speak it with grief, its monks and ' conversi ' wander over Scotland, begging food and clothing at the other religious houses — in which most famous monastery divine service used to be celebrated with multitude of persons, and adorned with innumerable works of charity ; while it sustained the burdens and inconvenience of crowds flocking thither of both kingdoms, and showed hospitality to all in want — whose state we greatly compassionate, &c."*'
" Kelso, Melrose, Jedburgh, Dryburgh. — ^ 477. Liber de Metros, 565, 5G6. " 309.
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Such education as was then known — and it is the fashion now rather to underrate it — the monks of Kelso cultivated and promoted. They had schools in the town of Roxhurgh as early as the reign of William the Lion ;"■ and they furnished instruction within the monastery to a higher class than those who benefited by their burghal schools. In the thirteenth century, the widowed Lady of Molle resigned a part of her dowery lands to the convent, on the condition that they should maintain * her son among the scholars of the best rank in their " poor's house."
That the arts were cultivated within the Abbey walls, we may conclude without much extrinsic evidence. The beautiful and somewhat singular architecture of the ruined church itself, still gives proof of taste and skill and some science in the builders, at a period which the confidence of modern times has proclaimed dark and degraded ; and if we could call up to the fancy the magnificent Abbey and its interior decorations, to corres})ond with what remains of that ruined pile, we should find M^orks of art that might well exercise the talents of high masters. The erection of such a structure often extended over several hundred years. Kelso bears marks of having been a full century in building ; and during all that time at least, perhaps for long afterwards, the carver of wood, the sculptor in stone and marble, the tile-maker and the lead and iron-worker, the painter, whether of scripture stories or of heraldic blazonings, the de- signer and the worker in stained glass for those gorgeous windows which we now vainly try to imitate — must each have been put in requisi- tion, and each, in the exercise of his art, contributed to raise the taste and cultivate the minds of the inmates of the cloister. Of many of these works the monks themselves were the artists and artisans ; and it would be a grievous mistake to su]»pose, that the effect was merely that ol living and
' 409. which has given rise to the academical term
• 173. Exhibebunt in victicalibus — a nhniso o( crlnbitions.
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working in an artist's shop. The interest and honour of the convent ; the honest rivalry with neighbouring houses and other orders ; above all, the zeal for religion which was honoured by their efforts ; the strong desire to render its rites magnificent, and to set forth in a worthy manner the worship of the Deity ; — all these gave to the works of the old monks, a principle and a feeling above what modern art must ever hope to reach.
Among the arts practised in the monastery, was that of caligraphy, which was so often applied in religious houses to service-books, to chron- icles, charters, and the registers of them. It has already been noticed that a copy of Wyntoun's Chronicle is supposed to have been written at Kelso. At an earlier period, the Abbey scribe was usefully employed in recording the muniments of the Abbey, and to his industry we owe the present collec- tion. But long before the date of our Register, the art had been practised in the monastery ; for some of the most elegant of the charters of David I. and his grandsons, issued from the scriptorium of Kelso.*
The most remarkable of these, and as a writing, the most remarkable of Scotch charters, is the great charter of Malcolm IV., granted to the Abbey in 1159, which is still preserved if Kufmuoiq, at Floors. It is carefully and even handsomely written ; but its chief interest is derived from an illuminated initial 00, which gives us a favourable idea of the art of miniature as practised in the monastery, and perpetuates a pair of the earliest Scotch portraits that have come down to us." There is no reason to doubt that the two personages represented with the insignia
' Lord Hailes has noticed the elegance of pression of the sovereign for the time : but
the charters of the reign of William, {An. the former in early times are so rude as to
1153.) Those of his son were much more give a vile imitation of humanity ; and with
elaborate and ornate. During the twelfth regard to seals, there is too much reason to
century we find a witness at Kelso designated suspect, that successive kings of Scotland
as * Stephen the loriter.' — 357. often used the same representation of the
" It might be supposed that we should person of royalty, slightly diflerenced in the
except coins and seals, which bear the im- circumscription or otherwise.
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of royalty in tills remarkable illumination, are King David I., the founder and great benefactor of the Abbey, who had died, full of years and of honour, six years before — and his grandson Malcolm IV., the reigning sovereign, the grantor of the charter, whose youthful and beardless face contrasts with the venerable countenance of his grandfather, and accounts for his soubriquet of * the Maiden,' better than the refuted tradition of his vow of chastity. As a charter, this stands alone in Scotland, and whether we regard these pictures as portraits of two successive sovereigns, or only as specimens of regal costume and of the advancement of ornamental art in Scotland in the middle of the twelfth century, they are manifestly of great interest, and must stand first, and, it is feared, by a long interval, in any catalogue of Scotch works of art.'
The Abbey buildings of Kelso must have suffered severely at several periods of its history. We have seen the melancholy state to which the convent was reduced during the War of Independence ; and subsequent wars with England, which always fell heavy on the Borders, must have rendered necessary more than one refitting of its buildings. But those church walls of massy stone were not easily obliterated. The solidity of their structure was proved when the English forces under the Earl of Hertford made that ferocious foray, in which the Church was no more sacred than the corn and cottage of the unarmed peasant. The leaders of the expedition describe it themselves, in a letter addressed to the King of Eng- land— " From the Campe at Kelso, the 11th of September 154o, at night-""
" Please it youre Royall Majestic to understand that uppon Wcnsdaye at two of the clock at after none, I thErll of Hertford, with youre Highnes
' The charter, which is printed here at the another and more careful representation of
beginning of the volume, is also given in fac- the initial letter is prelixed. simile, after the copper used for the ' Diplo- " State l'ai)ers, vol. v. mata Scotia;,* corrected by the original. But
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armye, did arryve here afore Kelso; and ymediatly iippon our arryvall a certen noinbre of Spanyardes, without myn appoyntment, gave of their owne courage an assauU with their harquebuces to the Abbey ; but when I pereeyved the same to be to lytell purpose for the wynning of yt, I caused them to retyere, and thought best to somen the hous, whiche I did furth- withe ; and such as were within the same, being in nombre about an hun- dred persons, Scottishemen, (whereof twelve of them were monkes,) perswaded with their own foUye and wilfulnes to kepe yt, whiche no man of any consideration of the daungier they were yn, the thing not being tenable, wolde have don, did refuse to rendre and delyver it. Wheruppon I caused the same to be approched out of hande with ordnaunce, and within an hower or lytell more made a grett breche ; and the Spanyardes, whiche had byn at yt before, desyryng the assaulte, which I graunted theym, did enter the churche at the breche, and haundeled yt so sharpely, that the Scottes were by and by dryven into the steple, whiche was of good strenght, and the waye to theym so narrowe and dangerous, that the night being at hand, althoughe they had wonne the clmrche, and all the house in effect saving that steple, yet they were forced, by reason of the night, to leave the assaulte till the next morning, setting a goode watchc all nighte aboute the house ; whiche was not so well kept but that a dosen of the Scottes, in the darke of the night, escaped out of the house by ropes, out at back wyndowes and corners, with no lytell daungier of their lyves. When the daye came, and the steple eftsones assaulted, yt was ymediatly wonne, and as many Scottes slayne as were within ; and som also that fledde in the night were taken abrode. Of the Spanyardes were loste not past three or 4, whiche were kylled with the Scottes hacbutiers, at the first assaulte given afore the breche was made, and one or two Englishe men hurte, whereof Henry Isam, servaunt to me Sir Henry Knyuet, was one.
" Yesterdayc all daye, intending to precede to the makyng of a fortressc of the said Abbey, (as I the saide Erie have before advertysed that I wolde.
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yf uppon tlic viewe of the place the same were fesible,) we devised ther- iippon with the Itahon fortifier that ys here, Archam, and the master mason of Berwik ; and when we had spente all the day thcraboutes, we found the thing so difficulte, that, in our pore opynyons, yt seemeth impossible to be done within the tyme that we can tarrye about ytt, for the causes folowyng ; "
Among the reasons given for not fortifying Kelso, are the following : — " We fynde there, so great and superfluous buildinges of stone, of gret height and circuit, aswell about the churche as the lodgingcs, whiche, to make any convenyent fortrcsse there, must of force be down and avoyded, that the taking downe and advoyding therof only, well axe at the leeste two moneths ; and yf the same shuld be taken downe and not advoyded, the heapes of stone, besides the confusion of the matier, shuld remaine an enemye to the fortresse ; and to make the fortresse so large as shuld con- teyne all those superfluous buildinges, shuld be suche a confused and longe
worke as can not be perfected in a great tyme Also by reason
that the water of Twedc ryseth many tymes sodenly, we cannot have [victuelles] brought unto us when we wolde ; wherof we had a good experyens on the day of our marching hither ; for when the vaunt garde and the moste parte of the battell was passed over Twede, the water rose so sodenly, that the rereward could not passe, and drowned some of their carriages ; by meane wherof the rereward was fayne to marchc on th'other syde of the ryver, till they came agaynst our campe on this side, and so to cncampe theym silfes as strongly as they coulde agaynst us, the ryver being betweene us ; and the next mornyng, the water being fallen, they came over to us. This experyens we had of this ryver ; and yet the wether was as fayre as was possible, and no likelyhod, nor no man wolde have thought
that yt coulde have ryscn so sodenly On th'other side of the
water, even hard by, ys a gret hill called Maxwell hugh(>, whiche may bcate the house, and ys an exccding great enemye to the same. And
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besides all this, the soyle hereaboutes is suche, and so sandye and bryttell earthe, that we can find no turfe any thing nere hand to buylde withall ; and the ground about the house ys suche a hard gravell, that without a countermure of stone, yt woll not serve to make the ditches, whiche woll axe a long tyme."
After weighing all which, the English leaders come to the resolution " to rase and deface the house of Kelso, so as th'enemye shal have lytell commoditie of the same, and to remain encamped here for five or six dayes, and in the meane season to devaste and burne all the country hereabouts as farr as we maye with our horsemen. As to morrowe we intend to send a good bande of horsemen to Melrosse and Dryburghe to burne the same, and all the cornes and villages in their waye, and so daylie to do some exploytes here in the Mershe, and at th'end of the said 5 or 6 dayes to remove our campe, and to marche to Jedworthe, to burne the same, and thus to marche thorough a great part of Tyvydale, to overthrowe their piles and stone houses, and to burne their cornes and villages" — a pious resolution, most faithfully fulfilled.
It is not wonderful that so little remains of the Abbey of Kelso. The storm of the Reformation vented itself on the remaining images of saints, and relics of the old religion ; but found little of the fabric entire- The ' great and superfluous buildings of stone/ which impeded the EngHsh engineers in their plans of fortification, after being * razed and defaced* by them, have disappeared under the gradual but persevering inroads of the neighbours ; and the cloisters and conventual buildings of the convent and its lordly abbot, have passed by a common transmigration into the dwellings of their former dependents, the burghers of the Abbot's burgh of Kelso. The Abbey church, breached and shattered by the English ' ordnaunce,' seems never to have been repaired. After the Reformation, an unsightly fabric was fitted up within its walls, to serve the double purpose of a parish church and a jail, which has now for some time been
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removed; and the church of St Mary at present suffers only under the gradual decay of age, and the encroachment of some villager, whose sturdv Presbyterian heart feels no compunctious visitings while he stalls his cow on the consecrated ground where altars stood of old, and where warriors and princes chose their place of rest.
Reposing on the sunny bank of its own beautiful river, the modern town of Kelso looks a fitting rural capital for " pleasant Teviotdale." It has little the air of an old monastic burgh, and still less calls up any recollection of the heaps of ruins that impeded the plans of the English engineers. There is not much knowledge or tradition of its former state, and but few memo- rials of its old inhabitants. Last year, a worthy burgher m4io had dug up in his garden under the Abbey walls what seemed to him a rare coin of a Scotch King, Avas scarcely well pleased to learn that it was a leaden hiiHa of Pope Alexander III., bronzed with the oxidizing of seven centuries.
In the midst of the modern town, the Abbey Church stands alone, like some antique Titan predominating over the dwarfs of a later world. Its ruins exhibit the progression of architecture that took place over Scotland and England, between the middle of the twelfth and the middle of the thirteenth centuries. What remains of the choir affords a good specimen of the plain Norman style, not of the earliest character, but such as pre- vailed in England before 1150, and in Scotland perhaps a little later.
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The western front Is later Norman, probably of the latter half of the twelfth century ; and the great western doorway, of which but a fragment remains, must have been a fine specimen of the period which produced the richest architecture of the circular arch.
Of the same period nearly, is the arcade of intersecting arches, a form more common in the churches of Normandy than in those of Britain ; and lastly, the tower springs from arches of a transition character, marking the first half of the thirteenth century, when the Norman style was passing into that which is now almost authoritatively stamped with the appellation of Early English.
In adding to the ancient Register of the Abbey the later Rentals of Kelso and its dependent cell of Lesmahago, the object has been to give a continuous view, not merely of the possessions of the Abbey and their value, but of the manner in which the land was occupied, and of the state of the population, down as low as the period of the Reformation, to Avhich even the bare lists of tenants conduce in some degree.
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The Tabic of Contents, prefixed for convenience to this vohimc, which is not in the original chartiilary, is made up almost literally from the rubrics of the charters, divided according to the running titles of the leaves of the Register itself. It is necessary to explain that the dates, (where not found in the original charters,) are supplied conjecturally. In many cases, where charters are completed with numerous witnesses, the date can be approximated with much likelihood ; but where no witnesses are cited, it becomes a much more difficult and more doubtful matter ; and the reader cannot be too earnestly w^arned against receiving for certain, dates assigned always on scanty data, and sometimes approximated on no better founda- tion than, after ascertaining the era of one member of a family, calculating those of the others, whether ascending or descending, by allowing the average length of time for each generation ; as, for example, in the charters showing the descent of the family of Haliburton —
David de Graham.
Amable —
David de Graham.
Faunes.
Richard de
Faunes.
1150-90, (133, 146, 197.)
Adam de Faunes, (134.)
Christian de Faunes.
Tructa or Truita.
I
David c. 1100,(268.)
Walter, c. 1200. (208, 269.)
William de Haliburton, (103, 270.)
Philip de Haliburton, 1261, (271.)
In conclusion it is proper to state, that in the list of the abbots, and elsewhere throughout the preface, frequent use has been made of the
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previous labours of tlie Rev. Mr Morton in his excellent work on the " Monastic Annals of Teviotdale ; " a liberty which his zeal for the subject will lead him to excuse. It is to the plates of that work the Club is indebted for the previous illustrations of the ruins of the abbey, and for this view of the interlacing arches.
C. INJ^ES.
CARTA JOHAJ^NIS TENNENT DE TERRIS DE OVm HOWDAXE ET Is"ETHER IIOWDANE. 1539.
After the whole matter of these volumes was printed, and they had been for some time in the hands of the binder, a charter was purchased at a public sale in Edinburgh, which, though not ancient, nor in itself of much importance, has some peculiarities, and some points of interest as connected with the Abbey of Kelso, which seemed to make it proper to delay the cir- culation of the book to admit of its insertion.
The charter is granted by the youthful Commendator, James Stuart, son of James V. ; the Administrator of his Abbacy, and the convent of Kelso ; and with the consent and authority of King James V., himself the patron of the Abbey : and it is subscribed by the hands of the King, the Com- mendator, the Administrator, and twenty-one monks of the convent.
The person in whose favour it is granted, John Tennent, is well known as the confidential servant of the King. In one charter he is styled halistce gestor Regiy " the king's cross-bow man." In another, he has a grant of the keepership of Holyroodhouse and the King's park.
The deed is here given in abbreviate, and below are represented the subscriptions of the grantors. Two seals Avliich remain, are so much muti- lated tliat they could not be used.
For this addition to the interest of the Chartularv of Kelso, the members of the Club are indebted to their Secretary.
CARTA JOHANNIS TENNENT
Omnibus lianc cartam vifuris vel auditiiris Jacobus commendatarius perpetuus monaftcrij de Calco Johannes abbas do Lindoris coadiutor et adminiltrator dicti monaflcrii et eiufdem loci conventus • • • falutem Novcritis nos • • • accedente ad id fereniffimi principis et patroni noftri Jacobi quinti Scotorum regis illuftriffimi confenfu • • • exigentibus quoque nonnichil honorabilis viri Joliannis Tennent familiaris feruitoris dicti • • • regis nobis et noftro monaflerio benemeritis preflitis • • • ad feodifirmam feu ompbiteofim hereditarie dimittere • • • prefato Johanni Tennent et Mariote
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DE HOWDANES.
Atkinfoun fue fponfe • • • terras noflras de Owirliowdane et Netherliowdane • • • jacentes in doininio de Lauderdaill et infra viceconiitatum de Beruik • • • Reddendo • • • iummam triginta librariun • • • In cuius rei teflimonium figillum commune capituli di6ti noftri monallerii huic prefenti carte nollre eft appenfum vnacuni noftris I'ublcriptionibus manualibus ac cum appenlione figilli officii dicli coadiutoris cum lua iubfcriptione manuali nccnon figillo fecreto dicli I'ereniilimi principis noftri patroni cum fua fubfcriptionc manuali in fignum i'ui confenfus et aftenfus ad premiffa • Apud dictum noftrura monafterium xix Februarij A.D. mdxxxix •
TABLE OF THE PLATES.
TABLE OF THE PLATES-
PLATE I. — Facing the title-page — A fac-simile of the illuminated initial CO of the charter of Malcolm IV., 1159, containing miniature portraits of David I. and Malcolm IV. (See Preface, p. xliv.)
II. — Page i. — A fac-simile of the whole charter after the copper of Ander- son's diplomata, corrected by the original, and coloured to represent it.
Ill, — Page 78. — Fac-simile of the Register, giving the first copy of the charter to Theobaldus Flamaticus, fol. 39.
IV. — Page 84. — Fac-simile of the Register, giving the second engrossing of Theobald's charter, /o/ 42, v.
V. — Page 455. — Fac-simile of the Register, giving the commencement of the Rotnlna Reddifuum, c. 1290,^/. 1.
VI. — Page 470 — Fac-simile of the Register, giving the commencement of the roll of the Abbey's churches in the Rotulus Reddituum, fol. 6.
TABLE OF THE PLATES. ii
VIL — At the end, — A plate of seals of Kelso : —
2. A seal of the convent of Kelso, appended to one of the Melros charters, the property of the Duke of Buceleuch, {Liber de Melros, 145.) That charter is of date about 1202; but the seal is found in the Treasury of Durham, affixed to a chirof/ra- phum dated in 1171, and also to a testimonium in 1200, both printed in the appendix to Raine's North Durham.
^iginbni ^aitctc itTatic Balc&ff cits' i^ ttdt^it
1. A seal of the Abbot of Kelso appended to a deed of hom- age of 1296, in the Chapter House, Westminster, round the seal, birgtr t&biir natbnt lactaiT^ lat iitc siBi gratbm
across the seal, s, abbatis tie caldjou
3. Seal of the Abbot of Kelso, affixed to a convention with the Abbot of Melros, in the church of St James of Roxburgh, on Monday next before the feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, 1309, preserved among the Melros charters, [Liber de Melros, 428.)
round the seal, birgrr tbfcnt itatbm Taftaiii^ fac mt ^lii gratbm across the seal, », abbatis tie kclrijo
4. From a coarse brass stamp of low date and bad art, in the Museum of the Antiquaries, Edinburgh.
^ijjillfiiit (©mmbiTc i\t luartc "Ifc ficl^a
TABULA.
Carta Malcolmi IV. Regis, ex autographo in archivis de Floors, A.D. 1159, p. iii
1. Carta Comitis David filii Regis Malcolmi de fundatione istius Monasterii,
[ad Selechyrc scilicet] A.D. 1119-1124, .... 3
2. Carta Regis David de prima fundatione, [ad Calkou scilicet] A.D. 1147-
J.Xc'^)* ■ • • • • • • « O
3. Notitia de Confirmatione Malcolmi Regis super Carta David Regis, et
aliis donationibus, ....... 7
4. Notitia de Confirmatione Regis Willelmi eidem succedentis, super conces-
sionibus antedictis, . . . . . . . ih.
5. Carta Regis Willelmi, ne quis unquam namum capiat super Abbatem
neque infra neque extra, A.D. 1165-71, . ... 8
6. Carta Domini Regis Alexandri super eodem, A.D. 1224, . . ib.
7. Carta Domini Alexandri Regis Scottorum super privilegiis, et Nativis
nostris calumpniandis, A.D. 1223, . . . . . ib.
8. Carta Domini Regis David de Baronia de Lesmahago, A.D. 1144, . 9
9. Concessio Willelmi Regis de terris Willelmi Comyn, A.D. 1165-1214, . 10
10. Ut terra de Lesmabago sit liberum forestum, A.D. 1236, . . ib.
11. Notitia de Donatione Willelmi Regis Ecclesie de Dunfres, . .11
ib. . 21
1204, ib.
. 22
ib.
. 23
ib.
ii TABULA.
12. Carta Regis Willelmi super fundatione [similis in omnibus cartae Maleolmi
IV. superstiti] A.D. 1165-1214, , . . . .11
13. Confirmatio Regis AVillelmi super donationibus antecessorum suorum,
A.D. 1165-1214, ....... 14
14. Carta Regis Willelmi super tribus e.arucatis terre in Edenham, 1178-98, 18
15. Confirmatio Alexandri Regis de libertatibus et eonsuetudinibus, 1221-36, 19
16. Carta Regis Alexandri ne quis namum capiat super Abbatem, 1214-49, 20
17. Carta Alexandri Regis de centum solidis in burgo de Roxburgh perci-
piendis, 1214-49, .....
18. Idem ad ballivos suos de dictis centum solidis solvendis, 1214-49
19. Carta Willelmi Regis de controversia inter nos et ipsos de Melros.
20. Carta Regis Maleolmi de tofto in Ruglene, 1153-65,
21. Carta Maleolmi Regis super ecclesia de Inverlethan, 1153-65,
22. Carta Willelmi Regis super Ecclesia de Cultre, 1165-1214,
23. David Rex super Ecclesia de Sprouston,
24. C'onfirmatio Willelmi Regis libertatum nostrarum in villa de Molle, 1165-
1214, ......... 24
Berewyk.
25. Confirmatio Regis David super quadam piscaria in villa Berwyci, 1124-53, ib.
26. Memoria de una carucata terre apud Berwicum a rege Davide data, 1124-53, 25
27. Carta Maleolmi Regis super terris Dodyn et Walef, 1153-65, . . ib.
28. De multis aliis terris in Berwico, . . . , . ib.
29. Carta Ilenrici comitis super tofto Dodini, 1147-52, . . .26
30. Carta Regis Willelmi de quadraginta solidis in Berwico, 1165-1214, . ib.
31. Consensus uxoris Walteri Forgrund de duabus marcis, p. 1147, . ib.
32. Carta Willelmi Regis super tofto Dodini in villa Berwyci, 1160-80, . 27
33. Confirmatio Regis David de quadam piscaria in Twede, 1124-53, . 28
34. Carta Walteri Forgrund de duabus marcis in quodam tenemento infra
Berwycum,;?. 1147, . . . . . . . 29
35. Conventio inter nos et Rogerum Lauird super firma in Waldefgat, 1257, 31
36. Quieta clamatio Johannis de Granthame de terris in villa Berwyci, c. 1270, 32
TABULA. iii
37. Quieta clamatio Alexandri de Riparia de terris in Twedemude, 1217-27, 3o
38. Confirmatio Regis Alexandri super conventionem inter nos et communi-
tatem Berewyci de septima parte molendinorum, 1214-49, . . 34
39. Consensus Malcolmi Regis super donatione patris sui de terra de Dodin
et aliis, 1153-65, . . . . . . . ih.
40. Carta Henrici comitis de ilia tofta Dodini in villa Berwici, 1147-52, . 34
41. Donatio Ade Northumbrie Comitisse, de tofto Walef et de una carucata
terre apud Berwicum, 1139-52, . . . . .35
42. Resignatio Nicholai dicti Moyses super cotagio in Bondington, 1307, . ih.
43. Carta conventus erga Willelmum Maceone super terris in Waldefgate,
1307, ........ 3(>
44. Venditio terre in Waldefgate per Thomam de Ravinisher, 1290, . 37
45. Consensio Erame de Bernevyle uxoris Radulphi de eadem super omnibus
nobis datis per eundem in villa Berwici, 1260-75, , . .38
46. Donatio Ade filii Iludding de terris in Huddingate in villa Berwici,
x^^/« • • • • • • • • 'jxy
47. Carta Thome Batail super quadam terra in Waldefgate infra Berwicum,
c. 1266, ........ ib.
48. Conventio inter nos et Thomam Batail super carucata terre et croftis et
edificiis in Bondington, 1266, . . . . .40
49. Quod Petrus capellanus de Berwyk nobis injuriabatur super quadam
terra et aliis rebus, 1215, . . . . . .41
50. Resignatio Ricardi Gwalensis super tota terra sua de Berwick, c. 1200, . 42
51. Confirmatio Hugonis de Balliol super donatione Bernardi de Balliol de
Wudhorn, c. 1200, ....... ib.
52. Carta Bernardi de Balliol super piscaria de Wudhorne in Berwyk, c.
1152, ........ 43
53. Carta Ilugonis de Balliol super eadem piscaria, c. 1200,
54. Carta Ricardi Dunelmensis Episcopi super Wudhorn et Redhowch,
1217-27, ........ 44
55. Quieta clamatio Willelmi Masculi super piscaria de le Redhowch,
1217-27, ........ 45
bQ. Quieta clamatio dicti Willelmi super le Redhowch, 1217-27, . . ih.
iv TABULA.
57. Quieta clamatio David de Houburne super piscaria de Orde et Blakewel,
c. 1220, ........ 46
58. Quieta clamatio Roberti de Pesale super le Redhouch, c. 1220, . ib.
59. Quieta clamatio Alexandri de la River super piscaria de le Redhouch, c. 1220, 47
60. Quieta clamatio Matildis de la River super dicta piscaria de la Red-
houch, c. 1220, . . . . . . . ib.
61. Quieta clamatio David de Houburne super eadem piscaria, c. 1220, . 48
62. Quieta clamatio Willelmi Masculi super eadem piscaria, c. 1220, . ib.
63. Confirmatio Willelmi Masculi super eadem, c. 1220, . . .49
64. Carta Ade filii Hudding de terris in Huddinggate, 1227, {eadem ac supra,
65. Quieta clamatio Hugonis Mulard et sociorum ejus super piscaria apud
Berwicum, c. 1220, . . . . . . .50
66. Carta eorundem super le Redhouch, c. 1220, . . . .50
67. Quieta clamatio uxorum predictorum virorum super dictis piscariis, c. 1220, 51
68. Carta earundem super le Redhouch, c. 1220, .... ib.
69. Carta Roberti de Pesale super piscariis de Orde et Blakewel, c. 1220, . 52
70. Carta Mabille matris Susanne super le Redhouch, c. 1220, . . ib.
Mersekis.
71. Carta Cospatricii comitis super ecclesia de Home cum duabus carucatis
terre, Grenlawe, Lambedene, Foghou, etc., a. 1159, . . .53
72. Confirmatio Ratricii comitis filii Wallevi comitis super ecclesiis de Home,
Grenlaw, Lambedene, Ilaliburton, Foggou, etc., c. 1190, . . 54
73. Carta AVallevi comitis super ecclesia de Home, duabus carucatis terre et
aliis, c. 1170, . . . . . . . ib.
74. Carta Patricii filii Cospatricii super ecclesia de Grenlaw, Lambeden, et
Ilaliburton, c. 1170, . . . . . . .55
75. Carta Willelmi filii Patricii, ne fiat in prejudicium nostrum quod capellam
construxerit in curia sua apud Grenelaw, c. 1230, . . .56
76. Carta Willelmi filii Patricii super duabus bovatis terre et uno tofto et
crofto in tenementis de Grenlawe, c. 1230, .... ib.
TABULA. V
, 77. Confirmatio Patricii militis, filii Patricii Comitis, super donationibus ante-
cessorum suorum, a. 1289, . . . . . .57
78. Carta Willelmi filii Patricii super quodam tofto in villa de Grenlaw et aliis
donationibus, c. 1230, . . . . . .58
79. Carta Cospatricii comitis super ecclesia de Grenlawe cum pertinentiis,
a. 1159, ........ 59
80. Carta Patricii comitis super tofto et crofto et duabus bovatis terre in
villa de Grenlaw, c. 1230, . . . . . . ih.
81. Litera domini Patricii filii et heredis Patricii comitis, quod non impediet
nos, a. 1289, . . . . . . . . 60
82. Carta Willelmi filii Patricii super ecclesia de Grenlaw et dimidia carucata,
c. 1230, ........ 2^.
83. Carta episcopi Sancti Andree super ecclesiis nostris in le Mersekis in pro-
prios usus, 1188-1200, ...... 61
84. Carta Hugonis episcopi Sancti Andree super eisdem ecclesiis, 1178-88, 62
Keth.
85. Carta Symonis Fraser super ecclesia de Keth, terra et nemore nobis con-
cessis per eundem Symonem, c. 1160, .... ib.
86. Confirmatio Ilugonis Lorens et Ede uxoris ejus super ecclesia de Keth,
terra et nemore, c. 1190, . . . . . .63
87. Confirmatio Ilervei filii Philippi Marescalli super omnibus donationibus
Symonis Fraser de ecclesia de Keth, terra et nemore, c, 1230, . 64
88. Carta Johannis de Keth Marescalli super controversia inter nos et eundem
de quibusdam terris apud Keth et donationibus ejusdem super ecclesia
de Keth et aliis, c. 1250, . . • . . . QQ
89. Confirmatio Hervei filii Philippi Marescalli super ecclesia de Keth, terra
et nemore, et aliis, c. 1236, . . . . . .67
90. Confirmatio Malcolm! regis super Ecclesia de Keth, c. 1160-65, . . 68
91. Confirmatio regis Willelmi super eadem ecclesia de Keth et pertinentiis,
1165-1214, ........ ih.
92. Concessio Gilberti de Umfranvyle super dicta ecclesia de Keth, c. 1160, ib.
vi TABULA.
93. Confirmatio Alexandri Regis Scotie super dicta ecclesia de Keth, terra
et nemore, c. 1236, . . . • • • .69
94. Confirmatio Ricardi episcopi Sancti Andree, super donationibus regis
Malcolmi de ecclesia de Keth et aliis, 1163-5, . . .69
95. Sedatio controversie inter nos et Herveum Marchad de ecclesia ville sue
de Keth, c. 1176, . . . . • • .70
96. Carta .Jocelini Episcopi Glasguensis et Prioris de Pasley judicum a Papa
delegatorum super dicta controversia, c. 1176, . . . ib.
97. Confirmatio conventionis inter nos et dictum Herveum per Ricardum
Episcopum Sancti Andree, c. 1176, . . . . .71
98. Carta Symonis Eraser super ecclesia de Keth, terra et nemore, c. 1160, 72
99. De institutione Rectoris in dicta ecclesia, [ubi memoratur conventio cum
Herveo de Keth, 1175-7,] ...... 73
100. Convencio inter nos et Dominum Robertum de Keth super Hundeby
Keth, c. 1300, . . . . . . . ib.
101. Carta Regis Willelmi de quadraginta solidis in Berwico, 1165-1214, . 75
Abbates.
102. Inter nos et Lambinum Asa, super terris de Drafane et de Dardarach,
1147-60, . . . . . . . . 75
103. Carta Henrici Abbatis super Drafan antedicta, 1208-18, . . 76
104. Carta Osberti Abbatis super villa de Douane, 1180-1203, . . 77
105. Carta Johannis Abbatis super parva Drafane cum suis divisis, 1160-80, ib.
106. Carta Henrici Abbatis super Folcardistune et cetera, 1208-18, . . 78
107. Carta Arnaldi Abbatis super terram de Duueglas cum divisis, 1147-60, . ib.
108. Carta Henrici Abbatis super le Fincurrokis cum divisis, 1208-18, . 79
109. Carta Henrici Abbatis super quandam partem terre in Eincurrokis,
1208-18, . . . . . . . .80
110. Carta Osberti Abbatis super quadam parte terre in Glenane, 1180-1203, 81
111. Carta .Johannis Abbatis super octavam partem de Currokis, 1160-80, . ib.
112. Carta Osberti Abbatis super terra de Currokis cum suis divisis, 1180-
1203, ........ 82
TABULA. Tii
113. Ricardus Abbas concessit David filio decani de Stobhou et heredibus suis,
libertatem sartandi infra terram de le Currokis, 1206-8, . . 83
114. Carta Johannis Abbatis super quandam partem terre de Fincurrokis per
suas divisas, 1160-80, • • • • • . w.
115. Carta Jobannis Abbatis super tertiam partem de Aucbinlek cum suis
divisis, 1160-80, ....... 84
116. Carta Arnaldi Abbatis super terra de Duueglas, cum suis rectis divisis.
{eadem ac supra, 107,) 1147-60, . • • . . ?/>.
117. Carta Johannis Abbatis super dimidia carucata terre in villa de Midilham,
1160-80, ........ 85
GORDUNE.
118. Incipiunt Carte de Gordon, per Richer de Gordon, incipiendo a cimiterio
usque ad Lipstane, . . . • • • . ib.
119. Carta Ade de Gordon filii Ade de Gordon super quandam terram apud
Gordon, per certas divisas, c. 1300, . . . . .86
120. Carte Alicie de Gordon filie Thome de Gordon super donatione anteces-
sorum suorum, c. 1270, . . . . . .87
121. Carta Thome de Gordon Junioris de quadam terra, c. 1250, . . 88
122. Carta ejusdem super pettaria vocata Brun Mos, c. 1250, . . .90
123. Carta Thome de Gordon junioris de eadem pettaria, c. 1250, . . 93
124. Carta Andree Fraser super carucata terre in villa de Gordune, c. 1280, . 94
125. Conventio inter nos et Adam de Gordon mil item, super dicta carucata
terre, 1308, .......
126. Confirmatio Thome de Gordon filii Ricardi de Gordon super donatione
patris sui predicti in villa de Gordon, r. 1180, . . . .97
127. Confirmatio Thome de Gordon junioris super omnibus donationibus ante-
cessorum suorum, c. 1250, . . . . . .98
128. Carta Wallevi Comitis super Halden et Willelmum fratrem ejus, liberos
eorum, et omnes sequaces eorum, c. 1170, .... ib.
viii TABULA.
Home — Melokistane.
129. Carta Ade Curtenay filie Patricii Comitis super quadam parte terre in
territorio de Home, c. 1230, . . • • • .99
130. Confirmatio Tatricii filii Waldevi Comitis de Dunbar super dicta terra in
territorio de Home, c. 1230, . . • • • . ib.
131. Carta Patricii Comitis super terram in Melokestane datam David filio
David de Grame, c. 1200, . . . • . .100
132. Carta de coutroversia inter nos et Willelmum Dominum de Home super
le Pullis, 1268, ....... ib.
133. Donatio Ricardi de Faunes facta David de Grame fratri suo de terra in
Melocstane, c. 1200, . . • • • .102
134. Carta Ade de Faunes filii Ricardi de Faunes super terra in Melokistane,
c. 1230, ........ 103
135. Carta David de Grame junioris super terra in Melokistane, c. 1200, . ib.
136. Carta Willelmi de Hatteley ad firmandum pontem ultra rivulum de Blak-
burn, et cetera, . ...... 104
137. Carta Philippi de Haliburton super terris in Melokistane, c. 1260, . 105
Langtune.
138. Carta Rogeri de Ov super ecclesia de Langton, c. 1150, . . . 106
139. Carta Willelmi de Veteri Ponte super dicta ecclesia de Langtun, 1198-
1214, ......... 107
140. Carta Willelmi de Veteri Ponte primogeniti filiorum AVillelmi antedicti,
super dicta ecclesia et terris de Langton, 1198-1214, . . . 108
141. Carta ejusdem super dictis ecclesia et terris de Langton, 1198-1214, 109
142. Carta Willelmi de Veteri Ponte super predictis, cum omni plenitudine
sua, a. 1219, . . . . . . .110
143. Amicabilis compositio inter nos et Willelmum de Veteri Ponte super
ossibus patris sui de Anglia reportandis, 1203, . . .111
144. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Langton, 1189-99, . . . 112
TABULA. ix
145. Conventio inter nos et Rolandum de Grenlaw, super capella infra clausu-
ram suam, c. 1200, . . . . . . .113
MOLLE.
146. Carta Eschine de Londoniis super Ecclesiam de MoUe, 1185, . . ib.
147. Carta ejusdem de eadem cum suis divisis, c 1190, . . .114
148. Carta Cecilie de Molle super toftum et croftum AVillelmi de ^lolhope,
1200-2, . . . . . . . .115
149. Carta R. de Lincoln super pastura feodi de Molle, 1250, . .117
150. Carta super toftum et croftum Willelmi de Molhope, 1200-2, . .118
151. Carta super quandam donationem Cecilie de Molle, 1200-2, . . 120
152. Carta Anselmi de Molle super quandam pasturam in tenemento de Molle,
c. 1190, ....... 121
153. Carta super eadem, c. 1190, ...... 122
154. Carta super quasdam terras in territorio de Molle [Helayeshoug] c. 1190, 123
155. Compositio super decimam Molendini de Molle, c. 1190, . . 124
156. Carta super unam bovatam terre in territorio de Molle, c. 1200, . 125
157. Carta super toftum et croftum que fuerunt Willelmi de iMolhope junioris,
scilicet Aldtounburn, 1200-2, ...... 126
158. Carta super quamdam partem pasture in tenemento de Molle, c. 1190, . 1 27
159. Carta super quamdam partem terre in territorio de ^lolle, que vocatur
Temple Acre, c. 1190, . . v . . . .129
160. Carta super viginti acras terre arabilis in territorio de Molle, 1255, . ib.
161. Carta super quamdam partem terre in territorio de Molle, c 1190, . 131
162. Carta super unam bovatam terre in territorio de Molle, c. 1200, . ib.
163. Confirmatio super octo acras terre et unam rodam de Molle, c. 1190, . 132
164. Confirmatio super quasdam terras et possessiones in territorio de
Molle, 1251, . . . . . . . .133
165. Carta super unam acram terre in territorio de Molle apud Theules,
c. 1190, ........ 135
166. Super loquelam inter Abbatem de Kalchou, et Ilenricum de ]\lollo, et
uxorem ejus, de quadam ])astura, c. 1190, .... ib.
X TABULA.
167. Carta super quamdam partem terre in territorio de Molle, c. 1190, . 136
168. Super quatuor acras terre in tenemento de Molle, c. 1300, . . ib.
169. Carta super unam bovatam terre in territorio de Molle, c. 1220, . . 137
170. Carta super unam terram in burgo de Roxburg, et in Molle, et in villa de
Renfruu, 1165-77, ....... 138
171. Carta super quasdam possessiones et libertates in territorio de Molle, c. 1220, 139
172. Conventio inter xVbbates et Conventus de Kelsou et de Melros, 1273, . 140
173. Conventio inter Eicardum de Lyncolnia, dominum de Molle, et Abbatem
et Conventum de Kelso, 1260, . . . . .142
174. Carta super terras et libertates in tenemento de Molle, 1270, . . 143
175. Divise terre de Molle, . . . . . .144
176. Carta super ecclesiam de Molle cum terra adjacenti [Ilelayeshough,]
a. 1152, . . . . . . . . ib.
177. Carta super terras et libertates in tenemento de Molle, c. 1190, . . 145
178. Carta Henrici de Molle super ecclesiam de Molle, c. 1190, . . ib.
Kelcho et Melros.
179. Super litem motam inter Abbates de Kelsou et de Melros, 1269, . 146
Lesmahago.
180. Carta super ecclesiam de Lesmahago cum tota parochia, 1144, . . 149
181. Carta super terram de parva Kype, a. 1240, .... ib.
182. Confirmatio Regis Alexandri super terra quam Ricardus Bard dedit
domui Sancti Machuti, 1240, ...... 150
183. Confirmatio regis Alexandri super quadam parte terre in territorio de
Kadyou, 1222, . . . . . . .151
184. Protectio prioratus de Lesmahago, 1222, .... ib.
185. Litera pacis et protectionis prioris et monachorum de Lesmahago, 1230, 152
186. Carta super totam decimam bladi terre Ricardi de Bard, 1228, . . ib.
187. Carta super dimidia marca argenti percipienda de terra quam Gillemur
dedit, a. 1144, ....... 153
TABULA. xi
188. Littera super decern celdris farine avenarum venditis domino Alexandro
Folkard per Thomam de Durram quondam priorem de Lesmahago, 1315, 154
189. Resignatio super parti culam terre in tenemento de Lesmahago que dicitur
PoUnell, 1316, ....... ib.
190. Resignatio super majore Ardauch et minore Ardauch, 1266, . . 155
191. Controversia inter Abbatem et Conventum de Kelso, et dominum Alexan-
drum Folkard, 1316, . . . . . . .158
192. Resignatio super terram de Dowane, 1294, .... 159
193. Resignatio Ade de Dowane junioris de tota terra sua in dicta villa de
Dowane cum pertinenciis suis, 1301, .... 161
194. De causa versata inter nos et Danielem et Robertum de Douane et eorum
uxores, super terra de Dowane, c. 1240, . . . .162
195. Resignatio Ade de Dowane senioris de terra in Grenrig, c. 1311, . 163
196. Conventio inter nos et dictum Adam, 1311, .... 164
197. Inter nos et Reginaldum de Courrokis super terra de Kype sub titulo
permutationis, c. 1290, . . . . . . ib.
198. Resignatio dicti Reginaldi super terris de Fincurrokis, c. 1290, . . 165
199. Deliberatio nobis facta de Fincurrokis, 1315, . . . .166
200. Resignatio Willelmi filii Philippi de Grenrig super tertia parte de Ilau-
tillet, 1266, . . . . . . . . ib.
201. Littera Willelmi de Duglas super cartis suis a nobis receptis, 1288, . 168
202. Carta de terra de Polnele domino Willelmo de Duglas concessa, 1270, . ib.
203. Acta inter nos et Willelmum Foicard super tenemento de Folcardston,
1295, . . . . . . . .169
204. Carta regis Roberti super decem marcis ad lumen Sancti Machuti con-
cessis, 1306-29, ....... ib.
Haldene.
205. Carta Bernardi de Hauden super una carucata terre in villa de Ilauden,
1202-11, ....... 170
206. Carta dicti Bernardi super oc^^cris et una roda terre in Hauden,
c. 1214, ^^ .171
xii TABULA.
Sprouistune.
207. Conventio inter nos et dominum Eustachium Vescy super capella haben-
da in curia de Sprouston, 1207. ..... 172
208. Carta Eustachii de Vescy, de viginti solidis in molendino de Sprouiston,
c. 1207, ........ lb.
209. Confirmatio dicti Eustachii super terris nostris in Sprouistone, c. 1207, 173
210. Carta Margarete de Vescy super dictis viginti solidis, c. 1207, • • 174
Haudene.
211. Finalis concordia inter nos et Bernard um de Hauden, 1202-11, . . ib.
212. Carta Margarete uxoris Eustachii de Vescy super libertatibus nostris in-
fra terram suam, c. 1207, ...... 175
213. Carta Bernardi de Hauden super molendino et stagno de Revedene,
c. 1210, ........ 176
214. Carta Bernardi filii Brien, super una carucata terre in villa de Hau-
den, 1165-71, ....... lb.
215. Carta Radulphi de Veyre super una bovata terre in villa de Sprouiston,
c. 1180, ........ 177
216. Carta Serlonis clerici domini Regis super dimidia carucata terre in
' Sprouston, p. 1165, . . . . . . .178
217. Carta Bernardi filii Brien super decern acris terre apud Hauden, c. 1170, ib.
Revedene.
218. Carta Johannis filii Hugonis super quadam parte terre apud Revedene,
1258, ........ 179
219. Carta Hugonis de Revedene super totam terram suam in territorio de
Revedene, et apud Home simiHter, 1285, .... ib.
220. Resignatio dicti Hugonis super dicta ^j^^er vicecomitem de Roxburgh,
1285, . m^ .180
TABULA. xiii
221. Resignatio W. Glasguensis decani super decern marcis et decimis de
Langton, 1271, ....... 180
CaMSY — CULTRE.
222. Carta Maldoveni Comitis de Lefnax super ecelesia de Kamsy cum suis
libertatibus, 1225—46, . . . . . .181
223. Compositio inter nos et magistrum et fratres templi Jerosolomitani in Scotia
super ecelesia de Culter, 1287, . . . . . ih.
224. Confirmatio Gilbert! Aberdonensis episcopi super ecelesia de Cultre,
1228-39, . . . . . . . .184
225. Quod ecelesia de Cultre sit nobis in proprios usus, 1250, . .185
226. Super ecclesias de Kamsy et de Altermunyn cum terris et decimis in
Lewenas, c. 1200, ....... 186
227. Super admissionem Alani de Soletre capellani ad vicariam ecclesie nostre
de Culter, 1240, . . . . . . . ib.
228. Carta super donationem predicte ecclesie predict© Alano, 1240, . 187
229. Compositio super decern marcis ab ecelesia de Kamsy debitis, 1266, . 187
230. Conventio inter Glasguensem episcopum et Kelso super ecelesia de
Kamsy, 1221, . . . . . . .188
231. Super decem marcis de ecelesia de Kamsy per magistrum Abel percipien-
dis, 1235, ........ 190
232. Resignatio decem marcarum de ecelesia de Camsy, 1266, . . ih.
233. Litera super libertates spectantes ad ecclesiam de Culter, c. 1220, . 191
234. Carta super decem marcis de ecelesia de Camsy, 1321, . . ib.
Malcarustun.
235. Carta super ecclesiam de Malcaruston per Walterum Corbet, c. 1170, 192
236. Carta super dimidiam carucatam. terre in territorio de Malkarustun,
c. 1170, . . . • . . . . ib.
237. Carta super duas acras terre in territorio de Malkarustun, r. 1170, . 193
238. Carta super antedictas duas acras, c. 1170, . . . . ib.
xiv TABULA.
239 Carta super capellam in curia domini AVillelmi lilii Patricii Comitis de
Dunbar per Abbatem et Conventum concessam, 1241, . . 194
240. Carta super hospitale sancti Leonardi de Upsedelington, c. 1240, . 195
241. Carta super Treverlen cum suis divisis, 1133-47, . . . 196
242. Carta super Estirdodingston concessa Thome filio Reginaldi de Boscho,
1219-26, ........ ib.
Cranestun.
243. Carta super villam et tenementum de Estrekraneston, c. 1320, . . 197
244. Carta super villam et tenementum de Estrekraneston que vocatur
Preston, c. 1320, . . . . . . .198
245. Carta super quinque carucatas terre in Ullfkeliston, a. 1206, . .201
246. Carta super octo solidis percipiendis annuatim de Willelmo de Hertisheved
et heredibus et successoribus suis, 1213-14, .... 202
Inuerwyc.
247. Carta super terram quam Walterus dapifer dedit nobis in territorio de In-
verwick, 1236-46, . . . . . . .203
248. Confirmatio super conventionem inter nos et homines de Invervvick,
1190-1203, ........ 205
249. Carta lioberti Hunaud super sextam partem de territorio de Inverwick,
c. 1190, ........ 206
250. Carta Rollandi de Inuerwick super sextam partem de territorio de Inver-
wick, c. 1190, ........ 207
251. Carta super duas partes terre in territorio de Inverwick, c. 1190, . 209
252. Carta Vincencii filii Roberti Avenel super sextam partem de territorio de
Inverwick, c. 1190, ....... 210
253. Confirmatio super quandam conventionem inter nos et milites Dapiferi
Regis, /;. 1203, . . . . . . .211
254. Carta super unam Salinam in Lochkendeloch, c. 1200, . . . ik
255. Carta super duas partes terre in territorio de Inverwick, r. 1190, . 212
TABULA. XV
256. Conventio super quamdam terram in territorio de Inverwick, c. 1190, . 213
257. Carta Robert! Avenel super sextam partem de territorio de Inverwick,
c. 1190, ........ 214
258. Carta super pasturam de Inverwick, c. 1190, .... 215
259. Controversia inter Abbatem et Conventum de Kelso, et dominum Alanum
de Mundegumery militem, 1221, ..... 216
260. Confirmatio super conventionem factam cum domino Roberto de Kent
milite, p. 1190, ....... 217
261. Confirmatio super eandem conventionem factam inter Abbatem et Con-
ventum de Kelso et Robertum de Kent et alios, p. 1190, . . 218
262. Quod possumus licite ingredi terram de Bothkyl, 1310, . . ib.
263. Resignatio super calumpniam in stagno Molendini de Sperteldon, c. 1200, 219
Merchelye.
264. Carta super Mercheleye, c. 1280, ..... ?/>.
265. Confirmatio super Mercheleye a Waltero de Bolbech, c 1280, . . 220
266. Confirmatio ejusdem super terram eandem, c. 1280, . . . 221
267. Confirmatio super viginti sex acras terre juxta Heleychestres, c. 1280, . 222
Halyburtun.
268. Carta super ecclesiam de Halyburtun, c. 1200, .... ih.
269. Confirmatio super capella de Halyburtun, c. 1230, . . . 223
270. Confirmatio super capella de Halybvirtun, a Philippo de Halyburtun,
c. 1261, ........ ih.
271. Resignatio super jus et clameum in capella de Halyburtun, 1261, . 224
272. Carta super ecclesiam de Cambusnaythan cum pertinentiis, c. 1200, . 225
273. Carta super ecclesiam de Simpring cum pertinentiis suis, 1153-65, . 226
274. Carta super ecclesiam de Lyntunruderic cum pertinentibus, c 1160, . xb. 21b. Carta super ecclesia de villa Thancardi, scilicet Wodekyrke, c. 1180, . 227 276. Super inspectionem quarundem cartarum et confirmationum super quas-
dam ecclesias in episcopatibus Sancti Andree et Glasgue, c. 1260, . ih.
xvi TABULA.
277. Super ecclesiara de Simpring in proprios usus, 1251, . . . 22S
278. Super inspectionem cujusdam script! David episcopi Saneti Andree,
p. 1234, ........ ib.
279. Confirmatio super omnes ecclesias et elemosinas nostras in episcopatu de
Glasgu, 1232, . . . . . . .229
280. Confirmatio super decimam bladi terre Ricardi de Barde, 1208-32, . 230
KiLMAURS.
281. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Kilmauris in Cunyngham, 1245, . ib.
282. Confirmatio super eandem ecclesiam, 1246, .... 231
283. Carta super ecclesiam de Kilmauris cum pertinentibus, c. 1170, . ib.
284. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Kilmauris cum dimidia carucata terre,
a. 1189, ........ 232
285. Confirmatio super eandem ecclesiam cum pertinentiis, c. 1170, . . ib.
286. Confirmatio super eandem ecclesiam, c. 1170, . . . . 233
Home.
287. Carta super ecclesias de Home, et de Foghou, 1153-66, . . ib.
288. Carta super unam carucatam terre in Home, eandem villam, et dimidiam
Gordune, a. 1147, ....... 234
289. Carta super totam terram quam Adam Longus tenuit in territorio de
Home, c. 1250, ....... ib.
290. Obligatio ad signandam quandam literam confirmatoriam, 1260, . 235
291. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Home cum pertinentibus, 1268, . ib.
292. Resignatio super terram quam Adam Longus tenuit in territorio de
Home, c. 1250, ....... 236
293. Carta super terram quam J. de Cnolles tenuit de nobis in villa de Home,
1250, . . . . . . . .237
294. Litera super quamdam firmam terre de Home, c. 1200, . . . 238
295. Litera super unam carucatam terre in territorio de Home, 1258, ib.
296. Carta super unum toftum et croftum in villa de Lambeden, c. 1200, 239
TABULA, xvii
297. Carta super unum toftum in Larabeden, c. 1160, • . . 239
298. Carta super toftum et croftum in villa de Lambeden, cum octo acris terre
in eadem villa, c. 1160, ...... 240
Wedirley.
299. Carta super capellam de Wedirlye, cum terris et aliis libertatibus, c. 1250, ib.
300. Controversia inter Abbatem et Conventum de Kelso, et Gilbertum filium
Alden de Home super beneficiis ecclesiasticis de Wedirlye, c. 1250, . 241
301. Confirmatio super terras et pasturam in villa de Wedirlye, c. 1250, . 242
302. Confirmatio super tres acras terre in territorio de Wedirlye, 1258, . 243
FOGHOU.
303. Carta super ecclesiam de Foghou cum pertinentiis, c. 1240, . . 244
304. Confirmatio super universas possessiones datas ecclesie de Kelso per
Cospatricium, c. 1170, ....... 245
305. Carta super capellam de Foghou, cum molendino ejusdem et aliis liber-
tatibus, 1280-97, . . . . ... .245
306. Confirmatio super capellam de Foghou cum molendino ejusdem et aliis
libertatibus, c. 1304, . . . . . . . 246
307. Confirmatio super capellam et molendinum de Foghou, 1304, . . 247
308. Confirmatio super capellam de Foghou cum pertinentiis, 1280-97, . 248
309. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Grenlaw, cum capellis suis, c. 1316, . 249
Cranestun — Naythantheryn.
310. Permutatio inter ecclesias de Craneston et Naythantheren cum suis ap-
pendiciis, 1316, ....... 251
311. Compositio inter episcopum Sancti Andree, et Abbatem et Conventum de
Kelso, 1316, ........ 252
312. Compositio super exemptione et privileges Abbatis et Conventus de
Kelso, 1316, ........ 253
xviii TABULA.
313. Littera de Saysina super dictam ecclesiam cum fructibus, 1317, . . 254
314. Saysina super eandem ecclesiam, de Naythantheryn, 1317, . . ib.
315. Quod archidiaconus Laudonie nullas capiat procurationes de ecclesia de
Naythantherin, 1316, .....*. 255
316. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Craneston (in qua carta H. Ridel, c. 1180,
et duae sequentes confirmantur,) . . . . . ib.
317. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Craneston per R. Ridel, c. 1200, . 256
318. Carta super multura terre de Prestona per R. Ridel, c. 1200, . . 257
319. Carta super quasdam eschalingas in Lambirmore per Willelmum de
Vyerpont, c. 1160, . . . . . . . ib'
320. Carta super duas acras prati in territorio de Horwerden, . . 258
321. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Worwelden cum quibusdam scalingis in
Lambirmore, per W. de Vipont, a. 1174, . . ... 259
322. Confirmatio super sex bovatas terre in territorio de Brochesmuth, a. 1174, ib.
323. Confirmatio super quoddam tenementum in Brochesmuth, 1200-14, . ib.
324. Resignatio super quasdam cartas de ecclesia de Dumfres, c. 1200, . 260
325. Confirmatio super donationem puUanorum haracii Gilberti de Umfram-
wil, c. 1228, ........ 261
326. Confirmatio super dictam donationem pullanorum, c. 1228, . . ib.
327. Confirmatio super decimam dictorum pullanorum, c. 1220, . . 262
328. Carta ad deliberandam decimam pullanorum monachis de Kelso, c. 1220, 263
329. Confirmatio super donationem predictam pullanorum, c. 1250, . . ib.
330. Resignatio Rogeri Rectoris ecclesie de Ellesden super decimam predicto-
rum pullanorum, 1228, .... . . 263
Redisdale.
331. Compositio super quamdam litem inter Abbatem et Conventum de Kelso,
et Rogerum rectorem ecclesie de Ellesden, 1228, . . . 264
332. Compositio inter nos et Henricum Wytwel super quasdam terras in villa
de Dumfres, 1215, ....... 266
TABULA. xix
Symondston.
333. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Symondeston cum pertinenciis suis,
c. 1180, . • • • • • • .267
334. Compositio inter Abbatem et Conventum, et dominum Sytnonem Lockard
militem, 1273, . . . . . . . ih.
335. Compositio super capellam ville Symonis, c. 1180, . . . 269
Wycestun.
336. Carta super ecclesiam de Wycestun cum duabus capellis suis, 1247-64, 270
337. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de villa Wice cum capellis suis, c. 1200, . 271
338. Confirmatio super ecclesiam que dicitur "VVudechirche, c. 1180, . 272
339. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Wyscitun, c. 1260, . . . ih.
KiLLOSEBERNE.
340. Carta super ecclesiam de Kyllosbern, c. 1200, .... 274
341. Resignatio super patronatum ecclesie de Killosbern, 1278, . . ih.
342. Confirmatio super jure patronatus Ecclesie de Kyllosebern, 1264, . 275
343. Conventio super assedationem decimarum ecclesie de Killosbern, 1281, . 276
344. Carta super ecclesias de Traverflat et de Drumereiocb, c. 1180, . . 277
345. Confirmatio super ecclesias de Traverflat et de Dungray, 1266, . ih.
346. Controversia inter nos et Walterum, perpetuum vicarium ecclesie de Ro-
bertston, super decimas garbarum dicte ville, 1279, . . . 278
347. Carta super ecclesiam de Mortun in Stretbtun cum pertinenciis, c. 1200, ib.
348. Carta super ecclesiam de Caldoure cum pertinenciis, c. 1170, . . 280
349. Carta super decimam Molendini de Kalledoure, c. 1170, . . ih.
350. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Stapilgortun, j). 1153, . . . 281
351. Confirmatio super quamdam terram in villa que vocatur Neuthon, c. 1250, ih.
352. Resignatio super quamdam terram in Mydilham una cum carta ejusdem,
1271, ...... .282
XX TABULA.
353. Eesignatio duarum bovatarum terre in Mydilham, 1260, . . 283
354. Carta super quoddam messagium in villa de Kelso, c. 1200, . . 284
355. Resignatio terre Andree filii AVillelmi tinetoris in burgo de Kelso,
1237, ....... 285
356. Carta super donationem ecclesie de Dunsyer, c. 1170, . . . ib.
357. Carta super ecclesia de Wybaldington, c. 1190, . . . 286
358. Carta super unam carrucatam terre in Hetona, c. 1152, . . . ib.
SCHOTTUN.
359. Carta super tenementum de Colpinhope in territorio de Sehottun,
c. 1200, ........ 287
360. Carta super pasturam et alia aysiamenta in territorio ville de Sehottun,
c. 1200, ........ ib.
361. Carta super Colpinhope cum molendino, c. 1230, . . . 288
362. Carta super unam terram in territorio de Sehottun, c. 1220, . . 289
363. Confirmatio super quamdam terram in territorio de Sehottun, c. 1220, . 291
364. Carta super quinque acras terre in territorio de Sehottun, c. 1220, . 292
365. Confirmatio super terram et tenementum in territorio de Sehottun,
c. 1230, . . . . . . . .293
366. Confirmatio super quoddam tenementum in territorio de Sehottun,
c. 1220, ........ ib.
367. Carta super duas bovatas terre cum aliis aysiamentis in villa de Pranwr-
sete, c. 1180, ........ 294
368. Carta super totam Halech de territorio de Prone wessete, c. 1180, . ib.
369. Carta super ecclesiam de Pencathlan, c. 1180, .... 295
370. Carta super eandem ecclesiam cum terris et omnimodis decimis, c. 1180, 296
371. Carta super ecclesiam de Brennath in Moravia et personatum ejusdem
ecclesie, 1203-22, . . . . . . . ib.
372. Carta super Ravendena cum suis rectis diuisis, c. 1140, . . 297
373. Carta super ecclesiam de Seleschirche, 1147-52, . . . ib.
374. Carta super Whytmere cum suis rectis divisis, c. 1150, . . . 298
375. Carta super unam salinam in Carsach, c. 1140, .... ib.
TABULA. xxi
376. Carta super duas bovatas terre juxta Prestbrige in Sprouston, 1153-61,
377. Carta super unum toftum in burgo de Inverkethin, 1160-5,
378. Carta super medietatem sagiminis omnium craspesiorum in Ford
1160-5, .......
379. Confirmatio super eeclesiam de Keth, 1153-60,
380. Confirmatio super scalingas de Bothkel, 1160-4,
381. Carta super dimidiam carucatam terre et super eeclesiam de Sele
chirche, 1153-65, ......
382. Confirmatio super quoddam donum ecclesie de Sprouston, c. 1150,
383. Carta super molendino de Iledenham et unam carucatam terre cum aliis
libertatibus, 1174-8, ......
384. Carta super tres carucatas terre in territorio de Edenham, 1189-98,
385. Confirmatio super unam bovatam terre in territorio de Sprouston
1189-99, .......
386. Confirmatio super ecclesias de Chamsy et Altermunin, 1165-89,
387. Carta super quasdam libertates ville de Kelso, 1165-71, .
388. Confirmatio super decern acras terre in territorio de Hawden, 1171-8,
389. Confirmatio super villam de Traverlen, et terram Dodini in Berewick
1165-74, .......
390. Confirmatio super eeclesiam de Fencateland, 1189-99,
391. Protectio super terram Abbatis de Kelso et homines et catalla, 1165-89,
392. Confirmatio super tres acras terre in territorio de Yheteham, 1235,
393. Quod nullus capiat namum super Abbatem de Kelso, 1224,
394. Confirmatio super libertates et consuetudines nostras, 1243-6,
395. Carta super quamdam terram pro sustentatione pontis de Ettryck
ci. 1234, .......
396. Confirmatio super Immunitatem a Curia Ilomana indultam, 1234,
397. Carta super sex marcas nobis debitas de burgo de Perth, 1302,
398. Confirmatio super tres marcas percipiendas annuatim de Burgo de Perth
399. Carta super libertates et consuetudines monasterii de Kelson, 1214-26,
400. Carta super perceptione trium marcarum de villa de Perth, 1160-4,
401. Confirmatio super omnes libertates de Kelso, 1178-88,
298 299
lb.
300
ih.
ib. 301
ib. 302
304 ib.
305 ib.
306 ib.
307 ib.
308 ib.
309
ib.
310
ib. 311
ib. 312
xxii TABULA.
402. Carta super Natives homines et fugitives de Lesmahago, 1165-71, • 312
403. Confirmatio super omnes libertates et eonsuetudines ecclesie de Kelso,
c. 1211, ........ 313
404. Carta super donationem ecclesie de Mortun in Strathnith, 1171-8, . ih.
405. Carta super ecclesiam de Malcarweston, 1179-89, . . . 314
406. Confirmatio super terras et libertates ecclesie et ville de Molle, 1165-72, ib.
407. Confirmatio super quinque acras terre in Ullfkyleston, 1165-96, . 315
408. Confirmatio super unam carucatam terre in villa de Hawden, 1165-71, . ih.
409. Confirmatio super ecclesias nosfras in episcopatu Glasguensi, 1195-9, . 316
410. Carta super homines et catalla Ahbatis de Kelso, 1165-71, . . 317
411. Carta super ecclesiam de Dunfres et capellam sancti Thome, 1175-87, . ih.
412. Confirmatio super pacem factam inter ecclesias de Kelso et de Melros,
1203-8, ........ 318
413. Confirmatio super ecclesias nostras in episcopatu Glasguensi, c. 1180, . ih.
414. Confirmatio super ecclesiam del Wudechirche, cum tota parochia, c. 1180, 319
415. Confirmatio super ecclesias burgi de Roxburgh, c. 1160, . . 320
416. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Molle, 1147-64, . . . ih.
417. Confirmatio super ecclesiam de Horveresdene, 1147-64, . . 321
418. Littera super dedicationem cimiterii apud ecclesiam Sancti Petri, 1235, . ib.
419. Littera super vicariam Ecclesie de Langton, 1240, . . . 322
420. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Gordune, 1163-73, . . . 323
421. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Horwerden in proprios usus, 1251, . ib,
422. Quod Abbas et Monachi de Kelso presentabunt episcopo, capellanos vel
clericos ad regimen vicariarum, 1208-32, .... 324
423. Confirmatio super capellam Sancti Thome in territorio de Maccuswel,
c. 1180, ........ 325
424. Confirmatio super Ecclesias de Horverden et Simpring in proprios usus,
1251, ......... ih.
425. Confirmatio super ecclesias nostras in Episcopatu Sancti Andree,
c. 1190, ........ 326
426. Confirmatio super ecclesiam faciendam in villa de Lambeden, a. 1158, . 327
427. Conventio inter Episcopos Sancti Andree et Glasgue, et Abbatem et Mo-
nachos de Kelso, 1201, . . . . . . ih.
TABULA. xxiii
428. Compositio facta inter Episcopos Sancti Andree et Glasgue, et Abbatem
et Conventum de Kelso, c. 1201, ..... 328
429. Confirmatio super Ecclesias de Gordune et de Home in proprios usus,
430. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Kaledoure cum pertinenciis suis, c. 1251, 330
431. Confirmatio super libertatem Ecclesie de Kelso cum parochia sua,
1188-1202, ........ ih.
432. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Simprinc in proprios usus, 1251, . 331
433. Confirmatio super omnes Ecclesias et alias elemosinas nostras in Episco-
patu Glasguensi, 1232, ...... 332
434. Confirmatio super Ecclesias et alias libertates nostras in Episcopatu
Sancti Andree, c. 1211, . . . . . . 333
435. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Cultir cum pertinentibus, 1228-39, . 334
436. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Lyntunruderyc cum pertinenciis, 1160-4, 335
437. Confirmatio super sententiam excommunicationis in invasores rerum nos-
trarum, 1247, ........ ib.
438. Carta super libertate Monasterii de Kelso, 1178-88, . . . 436
439. Carta super libertatem ejusdem monasterii, c. 1160, . . , 337
440. Confirmatio super decimam terre in territorio de Lillisclef, c. 1160, . ib.
441. Controversia inter Kelso, et J. rectorem de Lillisclef, c. 1190, . . 338
442. Quod nullus exigat procurationes indebitas vel immoderatas ab ecclesiis
nostris, 1239, . . . . . . . . ib.
443. Quod ecclesia de Kelso sit soluta ab omni subjectione et exactione,
a. 1147, ........ 339
444. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Kultir cum pertinenciis, 1200-7, . ib.
445. Confirmatio super decimas et rectitudines Ecclesie Sancti Laurencii de
Berewic, per Abbatem et Conventum cpncessas, c. 1150, . . 340
446. Confirmatio Prioris, super carta Episcopi Sancti Andree, 1255-71, . ib.
447. Quod episcopi visitent ecclesias Kalchoenses secundum institutum Late-
ranensis concilii, c 1201, ...... 341
448. Compositio inter Abbatem et Conventum de Kelso, et Lambertum, de qua-
dam terra de Berewic, 1177, ...... 343
449. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de C/ultir cum pertinenciis, 1187-99, . 344
xxiv • TABULA.
450. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Cultir cum terris, 1187-99, . . 344
451. Carta super Ecclesiam de Langtunia cum appendiciis, 1162-4, . . 345
452. Confirmatio super omnes Ecclesias, jura, et libertates in Episcopatu Sancti
Andree, c. 1201, . . . . . . . ib.
453. Confirmatio super Ecclesiam de Caldouere lladulphi, c. 1201, . . 346
454. Confirmatio super capellam Castelli de Pebles, 1174-99, . . ih.
455. Confirmatio super capellam de Wedirleye ad usus proprios, c. 1240, . 347
456. Carta de Estir Dodyngstun data Reginald© de Bosco, 1221-76, . . ib.
457. Carta Thome filii lieginaldi, 1221-26, . . , . . .349
458. Carta Emme vidue Thome de Bosco, 1239-48, .... 349
459. De libertatibus burgi de Westerkelsou, 1323, .... ib.
Paparum Privilegia.
460. Privilegium Innocentii Pape, [Innoc. IV. 1243-54,] . . . 350
461. Privilegium ne ultra mare in causam trahamur, [Innoc. IV. 1243-54,] . 354
462. Confirmatio compositionis, [Innoc. IV. 1243-54,] . . . 355
463. Bulla Innocentii Pape, [Innoc. IV. 1243-54,] . . . .356
464. De privilegiis concessis, hactenus non usitatis, [Innoc. III. 1199-1216,] 357
465. Commissi© Papalis contra molestatores, [Innoc. III. 1199-1216,] . 359
466. Ne aliquis nostrum excommunicetur, [Lucii III. 1182-5,] . . 359
467. Privilegium de usu Mitre, [Alex. III. 1160-80,] .... ib.
468. Confirmatio de sasina apud Lochkendloch, [Alex. IV. 1254-61,] . 360
469. De Ecclesiis de Horneden et Wedirley, .... ib.
470. Carta pro Hosberno de terra in Middleham, {eadem ac 117,) 1160-80, . 361
471. De divisis de Prestfeld, 1327, . . . . • . ib^
472. De m archils inter Bolden et Faudon, ..... 362
473. Duo ex statutis antiquis ecclesie Scoticane, c. X. viz. et c. XIV., f. 173, , 363
TABULA. XXV
Cartae in quibusdam foliis Registri recentius scriptae, in ordine.m dispositae.
474. Carta de terra de Draffane, 1271, fol. 21G, . . . . 364
475. Carta Laurentii filii Edmundi de tofto in Edinburw, f. 7, . . . il>.
O'
476. Carta de decern marcis Ecclesie Sancti Machuti, 1316, f. 212, . . oQb
477. De Eeclesia de Eglismalescok in proprios usus data, c. 1320, f. 193, . 366
478. Carta de Aughtyferdale, 1326, f. 177, . . . . .367
479. Carta Rogeri de Auldton prima, c. 1330, f. 202, . . . 368
480. Relaxatio Roberti de Collevyll, c. 1328, f. 202, . . .369
481. Quieta clamatio et relaxatio Johannis Yalays, 1328, f. 202, . . 370
482. Carta Margarete uxoris Rogeri de Auldton, c. 1330, f. 202, . .371
483. Quieta clamatio Alicie heredis Hugonis de Auldburgh, 1329, f. 203, . 372
484. Confirmatio Regis Scottorum super carta Rogeri, 1329, f. 205, . . 373
485. Conventio facta inter Abbatem et Rogerum, 1329, f. 201, . . 374
486. Confirmatio Episcopi Glasguensis, 1329, f. 205, . . . 375
487. Carta licencie Abbatis et Conventus, 1330, f. 204,^ . , . 377
488. Concessio Abbatis et Conventus de Kelso, 1331, f. 204, . . . 378
489. Carta Margarete de Auldton de tenementis in Roxburgh, 1345, f. 207, . 379
490. Mandatum Episcopi de fundatione Rogeri de Auldton, 1346, f. 212, . 380
491. Carta Sirildis Saddeler, p. 1330, f. 308, . . . .381
492. Carta Roberti Sadler, c. 1354, f. 196, . . . . . 382
493. Confirmatio Domini Johannis de Maxwell, c. 1354, f. 197, . . 383
494. Relaxatio Domini Johannis de Maxwell super annua firma, f. 197, c 1354, 384
495. Confirmatio Regis, 1354, f. 200, . . . . .385
496. Carta Rogeri de Auldton de una cantoria in Eeclesia beati Jacobi de
Roxburgh, c. 1354, f. 198, . . . . . . ih.
497. Confirmatio Regis Scotie de eadem, 1354, f. 199, . . . 387
498. Carta cantorie spectantis ad collationem Abbatis, 1354, f. 194, . . 389
499. Confirmatio Edwardi Regis Anglie, 1354, f. 195, . . . .391
500. Inspeximus et confirmatio Edwardi Regis Anglie, 1354, f. 210, . . 393
501. Confirmatio Episcopi Glasguensis, 1358, f. 211, .... 395
502. Memorandum de forma Cantorie, f. 209, . . . . 397
XXVI
TABULA.
f. 213,
503. Memorandum de cartis super Cantoriam, fol. 209,
504. De possessionibus ex quibus fundatur Cantoria, f. 209, .
505. Mandatum Archidiaconi Thevidalie, 1358, f. 211,
506. Confirmatio David Regis Scottorum, 1360, f. 210,
507. Licentia de stagno molendini de Kalcho firmando in territorio de le
Halech, c 1200, f. 218,
508. Carta de terra in Home data Galfrido de Ekkeford, c. 1250, f. 218
509. Procuratorium pro Johanne Ogill, f. 180,
510. Litera Monitionis, f. 181, ....
511. Carta de Dodingston, c. 1330, f. 219,
512. Carta Alexandri de Redpeth de medietate terrarum de Deryngton
513. Carta de Lesmabago, 1370, f. 215,
514. Resignatio Ade de Aghynlek, 1370, f. 176,
515. Nova infeodatio ejusdem, 1372, f. 177,
516. Preceptum de tertia parte Comitisse de Douglas, 1388, f. 216,
517. Breve inquisitionis pro Johanne filio Ricardi, 1398, f. 217,
518. Corrodium pro Willelmo Forman, 1398, f. 217, .
519. Carta de Newbotill, c. 1398, f. 218,
520. Pensio Ricardo de Hanggansyd data, 1398, f. 173,
521. Carta de terra Ricardi de Ilanggandsyd, c. 1398, f. 182,
522. Carta de tenement© dato Thome de Vicaria, 1399, f. 173, 5^3. Preceptum sasine Willelmi de Benatyne, 1400, f. 216, .
524. Carta Rothaldi Were del Blakwodd, c. 1400, f. 7,
525. Confirmatio concordie de vicaria de Wyston, 1406, f. 175,
526. Carta de patronatu de Kyrkyethame, f. 175,
527. Littera pro Abbate de licentia capelle et capellani in ecclesia de Rox
burgh, 1434, f. 178,
528. Constitutio procuratorum .Johannis Trewnot ad comparendum pro co, ad
quascunque curias in burgo de Edinburgh, 1335, f. 190,
529. Carta Alani Abbatis de Kelso facta Johanni de Rutherforde super duas
terras infra burgum de Jedworth in vico de Castilgate, 1464, f. 181,
530. Assedatio terrarum et possessionum de Mellostanis Alexandre et llugoni
Purwes, 1465, f. 183, .
397
lb.
398
399
400
lb. 401 403 404 405 406 407 408
ib. 409
ib. 410
ib. 411 412 413
ib. 414 415
417
419
421
422
TABULA. xxvii
531. Carta feodifirme pro Cudberto Knychtson de terra in baronia de Doding-
ston, 1466, fol. 184, . . . . . . .423
532. Carta Robert! Abbatis facta Johanni de Rutherforde de duabus terris
infra burgum de Jedworth in vico de le Castilgait, 1475, f. 188, . 425
533. Carta Roberti Abbatis facta Jacobo Carmichell de Balmady super terris
de Folkartoun cum pertinentiis, 1495, f. 187. . . . 426
534. Carta Roberti Abbatis facta Roberto Weyr de terris de Rogerhyll et de
Brownbyll, 1497, f. 185, . . . . . .428
535. Carta ejusdem facta Willelmo Conynghame de terris ecclesiasticis de Kil-
mauris vocatis the girnale croft, 1505, f. 185, .... 429
536. Carta Radulphi Ker de terris de Blakhill et hoilhous, 1528, f. 186, . 430
537. Reformatio pacis inter Regna Anglie et Scotie, [apud Eboracum, Mar. 1,
1327,] f. 171, ...... 433
538. Mandatum Episcopi Dunolmensis pro citandis presbiteris de Catholica fide
suspectis, 1402, f. 174, ...... 435
539. Alteram mandatum Episcopi de eisdem, 1402, f. 174, . . . 436
Formulae.
540. Litera attornati ad Parliamentum, c. 1400, f. 172, . . . 438
541. Litera faciendi attornatum ad Parliamentum, f. 216, . . . 439
542. Procuratorium ad Parliamentum, c. 1420, f. 217, . . . ib.
543. Aliud Procuratorium ad Parliamentum, c. 1420, f. 215, . . . 440
544. Litera ad faciendum procuratorem ad parliamentum, f. 217, . . ib.
545. Litera pro presbitero studente in universitate infra Angliam, 1398, f. 173, 441
546. Litera presentationis de permutatione, f. 172, .... 442
547. Alia litera presentationis, f. 172, ..... ib.
xxviii TABULA.
548. Item alia litera presentationis, fol. 172, ..... 443
549. Litera Ballivi per Willelmum Abbatem, f. 193, : . . . ib.
550. Litera Ballivi ad replegiandum homines ab itinere Camerarii seu Justi-
ciarii, f. 6. . . . • • • • • 444
551. Litera attomati procuratoris et commissarii, f. 212, . . . id.
552. Litera attomatus, f. 172, ...... 445
553. Forma faciendi sectatorem, f, 218, . . . . . ib.
554. Litera de recepto, 1415, f. 216, .....
555. Litera de recipiendo in participationem spiritualium, 1403, f. 192,
556. The Marches of Sympryng, ante fol. 1, .
557. De terra in villa de Wester Dodyngstoun, f. 219,
558. Conventio cum Neubotil de salina in Karso, f. 218,
559. A nobyl tretyse agayne the Pestilens, f. 213, .
446 ib.
447 ib.
448 ib.
ROTULUS ANTIQUUS REDITUUM MONASTERII DE KeLSO, «. 1300, F. 1-6, . 455
Chalmerlane Compt of the Cell of Lesmahago, 1556. From the
ORIGINAL ACCOMPT IN THE CHARTER ROOM AT FlOORS, .^ , 475
The Rentall of the Abbacie of Kelso, c. 1567. From the original
Rental in the charter room at Floors, . . . 489
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CyALCOLONUS dei gra rex fcottoi/; • Omnib3 amicif fuif francis 0^ angllf 0^' fcottif • cuii6lif(}^ fee dei ecctie filiif :i ppetua falutcm • Nouerint omf pfentef C^ futuri • pip memorip ©"D" regem fcottOT^ auum meum dum comef fuit fundaffe quandam abbaciam apud SElESchiRclie in honore fee dei genitRicis uirginif COarie • C^ fci Jobis evangelillp • pro fakite anirae fup C^ patrif Of matRis fup • frmq,, Cf foroT/ fuarum • omniumq^ anteceflb'Y fucceffoT/c]^ fuoT; • S3 pollqm diuina dementia pofl obitum fris fui Alexandri ei fuccefllt in regnum :/ confilio Cf ammonicioe uenerabit memorip Jobis tunc Glasgven- sis epi • Cf peerum fuoT^ dm timentium .•' predi($lam abbaciam quia locuf ilK^ non erat conuenienf abbacie :* apud IIokesevrgvo) transtullt • in ecctiam beatp maRip uirginif qup fita ell fup ripam fluminis tvede • in loco qui dr kelcho • Quam eccliam Robertvs cpc fci Andree • in cui^ erat epatu • p dei amore ^ fuo :* ab oiTii epifcopali fubie6lione liCam ee conccllit • Ita fcilicet ut abbas ^ coonacbi fupradidp ecctip • a quocunq^ epo uoluerint • iu
IV CARTA AUTHENTICA
Icotia iiel in cumbRiA • crifiua fuuin C^ oleum • C^ ordiiiatioiiem ipfi? abbatis 0^ coonacliOT^ • ^ ce?a fcp ecctie lacramenta accipiant • Haiic libtatem cum aliis liBtatib3 ^ poffeffionib3 quas ex liBalitate aui mei regis B-B- • patKif mei comitif Henrici • fiue mea poffident :! eif quantum ad me ptinet in ppetuum concede • ^ poteftate regali in ppetuam elemofmam confirmo • Videlicet uillam de kelcho cum fuif re6lis diuifis • in terris C^ in aquis • Iblutam 0^ quietam Cf ab omni exa6lione liBam • 0^ q'^ndam terram quam GEROLDVs dedit iuxta diuifas ipfi? villp • qup 't'ra defcendit in uiam qua itur ad neithanesthyrn • Et quocienfcunq^ in ipfa pccta in follennitatib3 • uel in aliis dieb3 feruicium di audiero :! omnes ofFerendaf meas • C^ omnium qui mecum erunt ipfi pcctip confirmo • Et in edenha de molendino • xii • celdras do brafio unoquoq^ anno • Et de mora de edenhao) ad fodiendum petas • a quodam foifato qd defcendit de quada alia mora tranfiendo re6i;o tramite illam moram ufq^ ad tres magnof lapides ex al?a parte exiftentef • Et in burgo de Rokelburg • xt • folidof de cenfu unoq°q^ anno • C^ unam toftam iuxta ecctiam fci jacobi • C^ al?am in nouo Burgo • ^ ?ram qup fuit gavteri cemtaRii • Et ecctias ipfms burgi cum ?ra fua :* ficut unquam acellinuf arcbidiaconuf eaf meli? ^ liberi? liabuit • ^ dimidiam toftam que fuit aculpbi • Et in molendinif • xx • celdras • inter farinam ^ fruratum • 0^ feptimam partem pifcaturp • Et in fproflona unam carrucatam terrp C^ • X • acras • C^ maifuras carrucatp ptinentes • ^ tref acraf de p'ato • ^ ecctiam ei^dem uille • 7 ?ram ecctip ptinentem • Et iuxta prefterbridge duaf bouataf ?rp • quas dedi eif in efcambio duarum bouatarum quas m"^ accomo- dauerunt monachi de terra pcctip fci lavrentii de berewic ♦ Et uillam rauedcNa in ?rif 7 in aquif • Et pafturas de sprostona • C^ moraf ad fodiendu t^uas • communef Ii6ib3 de ravendena ficut hominib3 de Sproflona • Et in BEREwich unam carrucatam ?re • ^ unam maifuram carrucatp ptinentem • iuxta ecctiam fci lavrencii 7 al?am maifuram in burgo • 7 • xt • folidof de cenfu eiMem buRgi unoquoq^ anno • 7 dimidiam partem uni^ pifcaturp
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qiic uocatim BEREwlcftreni • ^ fcptimam partem moleudlnoT/ • C^ terrain doDiNi ill eadein uilla • 7 terrain Waltlieui filii ERnobold • Et uillam de middelliam • C^ Bothelnene cum fuif reclis diuifis • In terrif Of' aquis • in bofcho C^ piano • Et • xxx • acraf terrp de tritorio Lillefclive • int alNam Cf riuulum qui diuidit terrain de middelliam C^ d Lillesclive • 7 decimani molendini ipfi? uillp • fcilicet Lillefclive • Et Whitelawa • 7 Whitecoeue cum fuif re6lif diuifis • Et terram de felefcliiRclie cu fuif diuifif in tris Cf aquif • in bofclio C^ piano • ^ aquaf meaf circa Selescliinclie • comunef ad pifcandu • fuif pp^if pifcatoribj ut meif ^ pafturaf meaf comunef fuif h6ib5 ut meis • C^ bofcliof meof domib3 fuif faciendis • 7 ad ardendu vt m'^ • Et ecctiam de al?a felefcbirche cu dimidia carrucata ?rp • Et ecctiam 7 ?ram d Lesmagu cum fuif re6lif diuifis • Et traverlen cum fuis redlis diuifis • ficut Vnietli earn meli? 7 pleni^ tenuit Cf liabuit • cu omib3 aifiamentif uicini ftrodre quod camcRJ dr • Et craggam ei^dem uille ficut domin? abbas AlfwiNVs fee crucif • C^ ^rnaldvs abbas de kelclio fe adinuicem concor- dauerunt • de quadam calumnia que fuit inr eof • d ipfa cragga coram hif teftib3 • RaDvlplio aibbe de neobotle • WiHo al&be de HreveliN • osBto p^ore d JeDDewRd • RicaRdo cleRico coacliBet • Hanc autem TravcRleN dedit avvs ms pdi61;e ecctie de kelclio in efcambiu decem libratarum tre quara habuerunt in HaRdiggasthorN iuxta Norliamtuniam • Et in RiNfriv unam toftam • 7 unam nauem • C^ pifcaturam uni^ retis • folutam 0^ quietam • 7 ab omni confuetudine liBam . Et in edinbvrg unam toftam • Et in hadigtvn unam toftam • Et in pebbles una toftam • Et in lannarch una toftam • Et ecctiam de ketli • Et dimidium fagimen crafpcfiOT^ qui in FoRth applicuer- int . Et decimain animalium 0^ porcoi^ C^ cafeoT^ de cliaN • de • iiii*"" • kad- Rez • de ilia Galweia • quam uiuente rege alexandro auus ms liabuit • p unumquemq^ annum • Et decimam cafeoT^ d tvededale fimitr p unuqueq^ annum • Et dimidietate corioT^ coquinp mep • 7 omniu occifionu mean. • ita ut ubicunq^ ego t aliquif fucceffo'^ mcoT^ unu coriu habuerit . liabeant
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Cf coonaclii al?am • Et fimitr do un6lis 7 de fepis :* fic d corlls Et omf pelles aRietum C^ agno"?/ • Et decimam corloT^ ceriioT^ 7 ceruai^ qT veltrarii mel capient • Hof aute reddit? coquinp mep • 7 occifionu meai; habebunt CDonacbi p illam ?ram tm • quam uliiente rege Alexandre • au? ms habiiit • Et In KaRsacb imam fallnam • Preterea q'^ntum ad me fpe6lat • concedo Cf confirmo pcctip pnominate • Ex donationc comitif cofpatRicj :! ecctiam de Hoo) cum duab3 carrucatis tre • 7 cum p'^to uno in ^rltorio ei^dem ville • Et ecctiam de Fogbo cum una carrucata trp • Ex donatione herberti de coaccb^wel :! ecctiam d a)accb?wel • Ex donatione Hye 7 Petri filii ei^' :* eccta d sicoPRiG • Ex donatione roberti fiHi Willebui :' pcctiam fci lav- RENTii d berewic • Ex douatione WaltERJ CorbEtb :! ecctiam d a)AL- CARVASTVN cu Una carrucata terrp • Ex donatione vctredi d CQolla :" pcctiam de CQolla cu tra adiacenti • Ex donatione Witbce :' ecctiam uillp fup • Ex donatione AVillelmi Finemund :! pcctiam de Camb3NeitbaN • Ex donatione RicaRdi Cumin :' pcctam de lintunRutbcRic • Prenominataf g^ ?ras C^ poffeffionef omnef • ego pcctip beate uirginif cqarie d kelcho • 7 coonacbif ibidem do feruientib3 :! libe C^ quiete iure ppetuo poffidendas concedo • C^ bac karta mea in ppetuam elemofmam confirmo • ita ut m'^ fuccedentium null? • de pfata ecctia • neq^ de poffeffionib3 ei? aliquid pre- fumat exigcre ^ n^ folas oronef ad animp falutem :* Hec autem karta confirmata eft • Anno ab incarnatione dni • O)** • c" • l°ix° • his testibvs • herberto glasg" epo • Witto morauenfi epo • Greg epo d dunkeld • Witto C^ B'B' frib3 meis • 7 ada matre mea • Gauffiido abbe d Dun- fcRmeliN • OsBto abbe de Jeddew • A(X)fr abbe d Neobotble • Alvredo abbe d StreveliN . Walto cancellario • RoDto p'^ore fci andree • coatbeo arcbi- diacono • l^i andb, • Tor ARcb laodonip • Herbto camerario • Nicbot cKco • Ric capelio • coagistro andij • coagistro ARtvro • Wal?o ciico cancel! • Jobe nepote epi Rob • Sort cKco • Salomone capllo epi Herb • 7 Hclia ciico ei^dem epi • jf GodRedo Rege infularu • CofpatB. comite • FcRtetb comite •
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DuncaN com • GillebRiDe com d Anag? • VctRedo fillo Ferg? • Gilleb de Vmframuili • Wilio d SumoRvill • Kicard d moruiH • Ranfi d fulaf • BB" olifard • E-ic cumin • Roberto Auenel • WiUo d moruiW • WiHo finemiind • Wal?o corb • Alke! d rIdala • HenrIco de percI • Liolplio fit Ct)acc^ ♦ ORm filio Hailaph • 7 aliis quamplurib3 :' clericif ac laicis • APVD • ROKESBVRG .
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Carta comitis Dauid tilij Regis COalcolmj do fudacoe ifti^ Cl)onaflerij.
1 Jj AVID comes fili^ COalcolmi Regis Scotoru • OiTiib3 amicis suif franeis 1: ^^i 9 Anglis • "^ Scotis • cundlisq^, fee dei ecctie filiis salute cotinua • Notu sit oiTiib3 jjfentib3 atq,, fut^is me fundaffe q°ddam coonaf tiiim in Sele- chyrca • s • ad abbathia in honore see a^arie • % sci JoRis ew'^ngte p falute aie mee • ^ pat^s • t coat^s mee • fratrum 'H; soro"^ meai; • oiiimq-, an- ceffoi^t • Hui^ u'' ecce CQonachis in elemofina ppetue donaui tra de Selechirche • fic* riuuliis defcendes a montib3 c^rit in Gierua uf% ad riindfi illii q^ defcendes de Croffinemara currit in Twoda • "t ult' eunde riuulu (|^ cadit in Gierua • q'^nda pticula ?rc in? via q* vadit de callello ad abbathia • 't Gierua videlic3 vers^ veuem uilla • Et \\ oia ita donaui lie' meli'^ liui • in bofco • t in piano • t in aq^s • Et villa de coiddelham • ^t Bothen- denam • t A^ldona • fic* meli^ Rui in tris 1; in aq^s t in bofco • t in piano . Et totu doiniu meu do O[)alros p mediu vicu "^ p mediu fonte • vfq, ad foifa
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'^i fic* foffa diuidit cades i T\yoda • Simitr in tris "^ in aq'^s 7 in bofco 7 in piano • Et in Sprollona vna carucata rre • "^ decc acras • t vna mayfura carucate ptinete • Et jn Berewyc vna carrucata • '^ vna maifura sb ecca ufq,, in Twoda . "^ difiiid vni^ pifcat^e • t feptima ptem molendini • "I q'^draginta solid de cenfii de burgo p vnuqueq,, annu • Et in b^go de Rokelburg vna maifura • 1; feptima molendini • '^ q'^draginta folid de cenfu • T; feptima ptem pifcat^e • Et deeima cafeo?/ de can • s • de Galweia • 1 dimidietate corioT/^ coq^ne mee • Et de omib3 occifionib3 de q'^b3 alram ptem Yieo • "t fimitr de unctis • "I de fepis • fic* de coriis • % 6s pelles mttoT/i 1: agnoi^ • t deeima corioi; cuot^ T; cua'^ q'^s velt'^rij mei capiet • Et aq'^s meas circa Selecliirclie comunes ad pifcand suif pp'^is pifcatorib3 ut meis • "t pafliiras meas comunef hoib3 fuis ut meis • 1: bofcos meos domib3 fuis faciendis 1 ad ardendu ut m'^ • Et jn Anglia in hardingeftrop quar viginti acras de ?ra in dominio • fct cu p'^tis ad illud dominiii ptinentib3 • '^ vna maifura doinio ptinente • "^ duos bouarios set q'^f% habet dece acras • "^ in ultro fex uirgatas t dimidia de rra 1; fex maifuras ufus ponte de Norhatune • 'i q'^nda infula prati iux'^ ponte • "^ molendinu ei^de ville • Et liec oia sup'^dci monaflerii monachis ita libe 1; pacifice iure ppetuo poffidenda cofirmaui • ut m''^ succe- dencium nullus nicli olno n^ solaf crones ad aie salute exi^e pfumat • Hoc factum eft Henrico Rege regnate in Anglia "I A\ex° Rege in Scocia • 1: Johe epo in Glafgucnfi ecca • '^ Herberto abbate in eade abbathia • Hiis teftib3 • Sup'^dco Jo!ie epo • COatilde comitiffa • Henrico filio comitis • Gval- tlielino capellano • Of uto capHo • Alwyno captto • WiHo nepote comitis • Roberto do Bruis • Robto de Vmfrauilla • Gualrio de Bolcbec • Routo de paintona • Cofpat^co fre dalfini • Hugone de OOoruilla • Pagano de braiofa • RoDto Corbet • Reginaldo de COufcampf • Galtio de Lyndefcia • Robto de Burnetuilla • Cofpat^co uicecomite • Cofpat^co filio Aldeue • Vchtredo filio Scot • OOacchus • Colbanus • Gillemicliel • Odardo uicecomite de babenburcli • lyulf filio Vlictredi • Radulpbo Anglico • Aimaro galleio • Rogio de lereceft^a • Adam camerario •
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Carta Regis Dauid de p^ma fudacoe •
2 David del gfa lllufl's Rex Scott • Oniib3 Ice coat'^s ecclefie filiis 1: fidelib3 M faH • Notu sit oiTiib3 pfentlb3 t fiituris me fundaffe dum fiii comes q°ddam aionaftrium in Selechirche ad abbatliiam in honore fee coarie virgis • t fci Joliis E^yangelift"' • p salute aie mee • "H; oiTiium aiiceffo'^ t succeffoT^ meoT^ • Sed poftq'^m diuina clemecia poft obitum fris mei Regis Alexandri succcffi in regnu • confilio "^ ammonicione venabilis memorie Jo!iis epi Glafg • alioi/q. pcem meo-7^ pdcm coonafrium qT_ locus no erat ^uenies abbatliie ap*^ Rox- burgu t'^nftuli in ecca be coarie v^ginis q® fita eft fup ripa fluminis Twede • in loco q*^ dr Calkou • q'^m eccam Robt^ fci Andree epc in cui^ erat epatu p dei amorc T: meo conceflit m'^ "^ ciufde loci ecce abbati • "I coonacliis • foluta T; q^etam 1: oi sbieccione t exaccione libam • ita • s • ut abbas "I foonaclii supMce ecce a q^cumq,, epo voluerint in Scocia ut in cumb^a crifma fuu 1: oleu • "^ ordinacom ipius abbis t foonachoi^ "^ ceta ecce fac'^menta accipiant • Ego y° Imic ecce in elimofma ppetua donaui villa de kelcH cu suif rHis diuifis in tris '^ in aq'^s folutam '^ q^etam T: ab oi exaccione liBam • Et q°cienfcut|5 in eade ecca 'in folepnitatib3 ut in aliis dieb3 suiciu dei audiero :" 6s oftendas meas T: oium q'^ mecu eriit ppetue dcdi in elemofma • 't in Edinliam de foolendino • xij • celdf de b'Tio q^lib anno • Et de mora de Edynlia ad fodiend cefpites ad faciend igne • a q°da foflato qM defcend' de q"clam alia mora f^nfiendo recto f^mite ilia mora ufq^ ad tres magnos lapides ex alta ptc exiftentes • Et in burgo de Roxburg • xl folid de cenfu unoq°q^ anno • T: ds eccas "^ scolas ciufde burgi cu oiTiib3 ea^^ ptineciis • et vnu toft iux' eccam sci Jacobi • 1; altum in nouo burgo • et tra q*^ fuit Gaut"' cymcntaf • T: in coo- lendinis xx • celdf int farina 'H: f"mcntu • T: feptima ptu pifcature • T: in Sprou- ifton"^ vna carucata rre • t • x ac'^s 1: maifuras carucate ptinetcs • et t^'s ac'^a de p'^to et eccam ciufde villc • '^ tra ecce ptinente • ©"no Jolie epo Glafg fiml dante 't epali auctor*® ^Pmantc • Et villa Raucdene ficut un(4' in moo
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dominlo ea meli^ liabui • in trls "^ In a^qs • in paft^is de Sproufton • "t mora ad fodlend turuas comimes hoib3 dc Reuedene fic^ hoib3 de Sprouift • Et in Berewyc una carucata tre % vna maifura carucate ptinente • iux'^ eccam fci Laurecij • "H; altam maifura in burgo • 1; • xl fot • de cenfu elMe b^gi imoq^q^, anno • 1 dimidin, ptem vni^ plfcat^e q® vocat^ berewyckftreem • "l feptima pte CQolendinoT^ • Et villa de coyddllham • et Bouldene • fic* uncq'^ meli^ liiii • in ?ris • % in bofco • in aq'^s • '^ in piano • Et xxx*** ac'^s ?re de rritorlo Lyllefclef" inr alnam '^ rluulu q^ diuidit tra dc a)yddllham • t de Lyllefcleiie • % decima cooledini ei^de vllle • s • Lyllefcleue • '^ Wytlielawc • cu snif r^tls dlulfis fic' ea meli^ Yiui in meo dnio • Et tra de Selkyrke • fic* riuulus de- fcendes a montib3 c^rit in gierwa ufq^ ad rluulu illu q^ defcendes de Croffan- efmer c^rlt in Twede • t ult'^ eunde rluulu q'^ cadit in gieruuam • q'^dam ptictam ire inc via q** ven* de caftello ^ fup vetem abblam cadit in code riuulo • "^ Gierwa t vetem villa fic^ uncq'^ meli^ liui in tris • '^ in bofco • in aq'^s '^ in piano • Et aq'^s meas c'^ca Selekirke comunes ad pifcandu fuis pp'^is pifcatorib3 ut meis • "l pafturas meas comunes fuis h6ib3 ut meis • "^ bofcos meof domib3 fuis faciendis "^ ad ardendu ut m^ • Et t^icnlen cu fuis r'^tis diuifis • fic^ Vinetli ea meli^ 1: pleni^ tenuit "t liuit • Et craggam eiufde ville fic*' diis abbs Alfwyn^ See Crucis '^ Arnold*^ abbas de kalcliou fe adinuicem ^cordauert • de q'^dam calupnia q® fuit inr cos de ipa Cragga • cora biis teflib3 • R • atJbe de Neubotil • "^ aliis • Hanc a T^ueleii dedi pdce ecce de kelcliou in efcambiii • x . lib'^tai^ rre q'% habuerut in liardingeflborn iux*^ Norliamton q'^m m"^ acomodauunt ad meu magnu negociu . Et in Renfriu vnu toft • 1: vna navim % pifcat^am uni^ retis foluta '^ q^eta • '^ ab oiTii exaccoe liBam . Et decima aialiu % porcoi^ '^ cafeorum de can . de iiij°'' • cadrez • deilla Galweiaq'^m viuenteReg Alex** bui p unuqucq^ annu • t decima cafeoT^ de Tweddal simitr p unuqueq^ annu • Et medietate coq'^ne mee t de omib3 occifionib3 meis omiuq^ fucceffo:^ meoi^ • ita ut ubicijqj unu coriu liabuo :" babeat coonaclii t aliu • "^ simitr de vnctis • t sepiis fic' de coreis • '^ oms pelles arietu '^ agnoi; • Et decima corioi/^ cuot^^ t cuai; q'^s
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velt'^rij mei capitit • Hos a reddit^ coq'^ne mee 1: occifionu meai^ dedi cis p ilia rra tm q'%1 viuete Rege Alex** tiui • Et in karfali vna falina • Et !i oia fup'^dci monaftii alJbi 1; coonacfi ita libe % pacifice iure ppetuo poffidenda cofmaui • vt m'^ fuccedcntiu nils nicli 010 nifi solaf oronef ad ale salute de sup'^dca ecca exige pfumat • Hii3tefiib3 • Henr fit Reg • % aliis • Et p?ea eccam de Selkirkc libam T; q^eta fie* ele'^ debet dari • et pcedi • ita • s • q pdCi a!5bes fint capHi mei \ filii mei 't succefloT^ meo^ de pdca ecca •
Confirmaco OOalcolmi regis sr carta Dauid regis '^ aliis donacoib3 •
5 Ct/alcolm^ Rex conf^mat oia snp'^dca • "^ addit liec • Eccam videlic5 de Sel- M 9- kirke • Eccam T: cella sci COaclmti • Eccam de OQaxweH • Eccam de OOolle • Eccam de Innlethan •
Confirm • Regis Witti fris COalcolmi eidm fuccedes fup coceflionib3 andictis •
4 ViHs % Rex fr ei^ ei fuccedes cofirmat oia pdca • 'i addit eccam de Dum- fres cu capella sci Thome in ipo burgo cu oiTiib3 caT^ ptineciis inF burgii 1: ext'^ • "^ addit • pnoiatas g^ tras • T; poffeflTioes oiTis • Ego ecce be agaric de kelkou • t CQonacb ibid deo §uientib3 iure ppetuo poPdendas cocedo • T: liac carta mea in ppetua elemoTam cOrmo • ut ita libe t q'^ete "l lionorifice teneat t poflideat oius rras fuas 1: poffeflioes • "t vniufa tenemeta l\ia • fie' aliq'^ecca libius • "i q'^eci^' '^ lionorabili^ elemofinam fua tenet % pofiidet ' Ita ut nemo de hac noTata ecca de kelcfi • neq,, de poflcflionib3 ei*^ • necj,, de ulla q^ ad ilia ptinet aliqVl pfumat exige nifi solaf oroes ad ialute animarum •
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Carta Regis AViHmi • nc quis uiiq,'^ namu capiat sr AlSbera neq^ if^ neq^ ex'^ •
5 V ilis dei gfa Rex Scott • Juftic • vicec • 1: omib3 pbis lioib3 toci-'rre sue /oi. lo. fait • COando t Tmit pcipio • ne q^s unq'^ namu capiat fup abbem de kelcli iieq^, inf*^ neq^ ext*^ tras eiMe ecce • p'^ufq'^ ipe abbas ut a)inift^ sui re- q^rant^ de rectitudie facieda • 't ipi a r^'titudie facieda defecerint • Si q'^s a balliuoi^ ut alio'^ hoinu meo-if. huic pcepto meo ^t%e pfumpiit in plena miam mea ut succeffo'^ meo?^ se nouit incidiffe • Teft hiis • Nicholao can- cellario • Ric de COoruili • conft • Hugone Ridet ap*^ Edinburg •
Carta B'ni Regis Alexandri fup eodm •
6 Alexand dei gfa Rex Scott • Juflic • vicec • '^ omib3 pbis lioib3 ^^^i^ ^^^ fue fait • COandam^ % Tmi? pcipim^ • ne q^s namu capiat fup abbem de kelcti • neq-, inf*^ • neq, exf^ tras ecce de kelc!i • p'^ufq'^ ipe abbas ut ei^ foinifl^ reqVant'^ de r'^titudie facieda • t ipi de r^titudie facieda defecint • Si q^s a balliuo'^ ut alioi^ lioinu meo'^ huic pcepto noftro ^t'^ire pfupferit • in plena miam firam • '^ succeffoT/ nroT^ fe nouit incidiffe • fic* carta ^ni Reg-' WiHi pat^s nri teflat^ • Teft • Rad caplino nro • Thorn de St^uelin clico • Rofjto de Rof • Witto de Bruis • Johe de Vailib3 • Wilio de Lyndef- ap"^ Selekirk" • Decimo die ffebi^ • Anno regni dni Reg-" • Decimo •
Carta B'ni Alxi Regis Scoc sr puilcg • ''t Natiuis firis calupniand •
7 Alex dei gfa Rex Scotl • Omib3 pbis hoib3 toci^ ?rc fue clicis "I laicis Salt • Sciatis me ^ceffiffc ecce sec coarie de kelch • "l Herbto abbi ei^de
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loci oms eafde liBtates T; ^fuctudies q'^s at5btes aficeffores fui an ipm liabu- erut 1; tcnuerut • ita bii '^ libe fic* abbes aficeffores fui eas uncj'^ melius t libiiis habuerut ''t tenuerut • Et ubicuq^ ex*^ donia mea i tota ?ra mea natios '^ fugitives holes fuos inueiiit ^ illos iufte 't sfi dilacbe habcat • Vnde phibeo f^mir "l fup plenaria mea forisfactura ut nemo illos i\\ catalla fua fibi iniufte detineat n*^ ipm ppt hoc ut miniftros ei^ iniuflc vexet • Teft • Win de Bofch CanceH • Wal?o Olifard Juftic laodon • Johe de Mackef- wel • Bernardo de Hauden • AViH fit Johis ap"" Rokefburg . vicesio die ap^t . Anno regni nri octane •
Carta ©"ni Reg"° Dauid de barou de Lefm" •
8 JJauid del gra Rex Scot? • Vnimis fee ecce dei filiis "l fidelib3 fuis fait • Sciatis me intuitu dei t p falute aie mee • T; oium auceffoi/^ t fucccffoT^i meoT; • cofilio ''t amonicione Johis Glafg epi dediffe T: li*c carta mea co- rmalfe abbathie de Kelch q'^i fundaui • "t abbti "^ coonachis ibide deo suien- tib5 • i libam '^ ppetua elemosiam • eccam de Lefmahag"' • 1: tota lefma- hagu • p fuas r*^tas diuifas • "l cu oimodis ptincciis fuis in bofco 't piano • in moris • "l marifcis • in pafcuis T; aq^s • in molendinis • T; in cetis edificiis • t manfionibj ^{l"endis in tra fua put eis libuit • Itaq, nlliq oio lioinii liceat rras ut poffeffioes coonachoi^ aliq° m° occupare n^ p ipos • Et nolo ut eafde tras 't poffeffioes ita qVte "I liBe ppetutr optineat • fie* ego ipe eas un^ libius '^ q'^eci^ obtinui t poffedi • solas orocs ad falute aia-j^ exfoluedo • Dcam u° eccam pnoiatus Johes epc ex affenfu toci^ cleri fui ad pcticom mea ab 6i exaccoe t sbieccione epali iure ppetuo pdcis abbi % coonach qVta clamau' 1; liEam • fie' carta ipius tefi:at^ 't cof^mat • Itacj,, abbas "I monachi kalchoenfes do ecca de lefmahag" fie* de cella sua ordinabut • pVrem 't /•„/. n. coonachos ordis 1; habit^ kalchoenfis in ipa succeffuie inftituedo • put loc" potuit honefte fuftcntare • vna cu rccepcoe paupu p eos f^nfeunciu •
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Q^cuq, a pp uite iit mcniL'^ pictm cuadend ad dcam ccUa ^fugint • iit iiil'" q'^tuor cruces c'^cumftantes puenint ob reuencia dei • "± sci OOaclmti Pma pace mea cocedo • Hec a carta cofirmata eft • Anno ab incarnacoe dni 00°. C°. xP. iiij". Regni mci • xx° p^mo • com hlis tcft •
Coceffio WiHi Reg-^ de ?f Willi Comyne •
9 Vitts dei gra Rex Scott • Epis • Abbib3 • Comitib3 • Baronib3 • Juftic • Vicec • ppofitis • COinlft^s • '^ omib3 pbis Ii6ib3 toci^ ire fue ciicis 1: laicis . fait • Sciant pfentes t futur me ^ceffiffe deo '"t see CO* de kalcR • 1; sco COacliuto de Lefmaliag" 1: cgonacli ibide §uientib3 • donacom q"in WiHs Comyn fecit eis de rra ilia de q'^^t°u'fia fuit inr eunde WiHm Cumyn • "± abbtm de kalcH • p eafde diuifas q* cotinent^' i carta eiMe Willi Cumyn • Tenend in libam "l ppetua elemoam i bofco "^ piano • i p'^tis 1: pafcuis • t oiTiib3 aliis aifiametis • ad pfata ¥ra ptinentib3 • Ita libe T; q'^ete • plenarie "I honori- fice fic^ carta pnominati W« Cumyn • teilat^ • Saluo luicio meo • Teft •
V t ?ra do LefiTi • s^ libu foreftu •
10 Alex di gra Rex Scottoi/ • OiTiib3 pbis hoib3 toci^ t're fue fait • Sciatis q coceffim^ p^ori 1: couentui de Lefmahag"" ut tota tra fua de Lefmaliagu lieant in liBum foreftu inppetuu • Q'^re f ^mir phibem^ ne q^s sn eo'^ licencia in pdca rra fua fecet aut venet^ fup nram plenaria forisftura dece librai^ • Teft" • pat^cio comite de Dumbar • W. Olifard Juftic laodonie ap*^ Lanarc • vii°. x°. die COaii • Anno regni dni Reg" • xx°i° •
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Donac ViHi Reg"' ecctc dc Dunfrcs •
1 1 Vitts Rex dat not) eccam de Dunfres cu capUa sci Thome i ipo burgo • "^ tofta ad ipam capella ptinente • Et q'^nq^ ac'^s rre aide ecc^ ptinetes • ita ne liceat no^ eccam ilia sine capella • t • ea^^ rcdditus ab opacoe ecc^ nre • t pp^is ufib3 frum q^'q^m" alicnare • Et ^fmat eiMe Reg donu • Jocelin^ epc sb eade for'^ • Ite Laurenci^ ciic^ p decimis dc kars eide ecce de Dunfres ptinetib3 reddet ap*^ KalcTi ad nudinas dc Rokelljurg' singlis annis vite fne duos folid • It Radulph^ fit Dunegat dat eide ecce q'^da tra in Dunfrcs q'' s" p* cognofci • Due nie fepant ab inuice inf*^ uilla q'^T^ p altam itur ad eccam sci Blaani • alra u° pcedit ap*^ oriente ^ c'^cuit rupe q'^nda q^ uocat^ grenebam • T: s" p q'^nda semita reutit^ ad eande uia de q'^ pceffit • Tota u° ?ra q^ iacet in? has uias dei eft % pnoiate ecce • Ite Ada filius Hcnrici de Dunfres ex affenfu • CO • sponfe sue dat nob has tras noiat'i q"s ex legitla emcoe fua adqTiuit in burgo de dunfres • videhc rras q"^3 Rob lokeffmyth • ^ Walrus fit Wille • 1 Rob Scot • '-b Rog Sutor • 1: Wal?us carnifex • % Radulph^ mcator • ^ Alan^ fit Emme • 'I Ada Sunifwain • ^+ Alan^ de bodha • de se tenuerut • Et refignau* in man^ nras totu ius ""t domiu qd i tris habebat •
Carta Reg" Witti sr fudac •
12 ViUs dei gra Rex Scott • Epis • Abbtib3 • Comitib5 • Baronib5 • Jufiic • vicecoin • ppofitis . cpinift^s • "l omib3 pbis hoib3 toci^ ?rc fue • clicis "I laicis fall • Noiiint oiTis ta f^fentes q*^ futur pie memorie • B-D" Rege Scot! auum meu du comes fuit fundaffe q'^ndam abbathiam ap*^ Selekirkc in lionore see di genet'^cis u^ginis coarie • "t sci Job is ew'^ngt p falutc aic sue • "t pat\s '^ mat'^s fue ffumq^ "^t soroi/ suai; oiumq, ancefibTy. fucceffoi/qj fuoi; • S3 p^q*^
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dina cleraecia p° obltu fris fui Alex^ el fucceffit in regnu cofilio t amoiiicbe uenabit coemorie Jotiis tuc glafguenfis epi • '^ pceru suo:^ dm timenciu pdcam abbaciam ap*^ RokeflDurg qi. loc^ crat ^gruencior t"iillullt • i eccani be COarie iiViiiis cf lita [eft] fup ripa fluiTiis Twede 1 loco q^ dr Kalc!i • Qfm eccam Rob epc sci Andree i cui^ erat epatu p dei amore '^t suo ab oi epali sbieccioe libam ee coceffit • Ita • s • ut abbas '^ cqonachi sup'^^dce ecce a q^cuq,, epo uoliiint in Scocia • t in Cumb^a crilma fuu 1: oleu T; ordinacom ipoi^ abbatu t coonaclioT^ • "^ cera fee ecc^ fac'^inenta accipiant • Hanc libtate cu aliis liDtatib5 1; poffeffioib3 q'^s ex libtate aui mei reg • l^B' • pat^s mei comitis Henrici • Regis COalcolmi fris mei fiu mea poffident • eis q*'ntu ad me ptinet inppetuu _pcedo • 1: poteftate regali in ppetua eleiam cof^mo • Vide- lic3 iiilla de kalcb cu fuis r"^tis diuifis in tris • t in aq^s foluta '^ q^eta • ''t ab oi exaccoe libam • t q"^nda tra (fm. Geroldus dedit iux'^dluifas ipius uille • q* rra defcend^ in uia q"^ itnr ad Neytlianeftliirn • Et q^ciescuq^ in ipa ecca 1 solempnitatib3 t aliis dieb3 §uiciu di audiero oiiis offendas meas • "^ omium fot, 12. q^ mecu erut ipi ecce ^Pmo • Et in Hedenbam de coolendino • xii"' celdr'^s de b'^fio unoqiioq^ anno • Et do mora de Hedenba ad fodiendu pctas a q°da foffato q°d defcendit de q'^da alia mora t'^nfeundo r'^to finite ilia mora • ufq, ad tres magnos lapides ex alt;a pte exiftentes • Et in tritorio ei^de uille ex dono pagani de boffeuilla una bouata tre • Et in b^go de Rokefburg q'^d'^- ginta sot de cenfu unoq^q^ anno • Et una tofta iux'^ eccam sci Jacobi • "t aluam i nouo b^go • ''t tra que fuit Gauri cimentarii • Et eccas ipfius burgi cu ura fua • fic' unq*^ acellin^ arcliid eas meli^ '^ lioius buit • Et dimid tofta q^ fuit Aculfi • Et in moledinis • xx" celdr'^s inr farina T: frumentu • Et ptem septima pifcat^e • Et in Sprouflona una carucata rre t x • ac"s t coaifuras carucate ptinetes • ""i tres ac'^ de p^^to • Et eccam ei^em uille • 't ?ra ecc^ ptinetem • ''t iux'^ pftelbrige duas bouatas tre q'^s dedi eis 1 efcambio duai^ bouataT^ (fm. m^ accomodauunt a^onacbi de ura ecc* fci LaurCcii de Berewic • Et uilla de Reueden in ?ris "^ in aq'^s • Et pafturas de Sprouflona • ■^ moras ad fodiend t^uas comunef h6ib3 de Reuedenna llc^ hoib3 de Sprouf-
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toiia • Et una carucata ?re de haudena cu crofta ^ tofta in eade uilla ex donacoe Waldepii • Et in Berewic una carucata tre • 1: vna maifura caru- cate ptinente • iux'^ eccam sci Laurencii • % aluam maifura in burgo • Et xl • sot de ccnfu eiMe burgi unoquoqj anno • Et dimid pte uni^ pifcat^e q^ uocat^ bero^yicftreme • Et feptima ptem moledinoi/ • et tram Dodini i eade uilla • Et ?ra Walclini filii Ernebaldi • Et uilla de Cl)iddilha ^ do Botheldeii cu fuis r'^tis diuifis • in tris T; in aq^s • in bofco 1: in piano . t xxx*^ ac'^s rre de ?ritorio Lillifclef inr alna "I riuulu q"^ diuidit tra de COedil- liam 1: de Lillefcliue '^ decima molendini ipius uille • s • Lillefcliue • ''t Whyte- lau • '^ Wliytemere cu fuis r'^tis diuifis • '^ rra de Selekirc cu fuis r^tis diuilis i tris • in aq^s • 1: I bofco '^ i piano • Et aq"s meas c'^ca Selekirc comunef ad pif- cand fuis pp^is pifcatorib3 ut meis • Et bofcos raeos domib3 fuis faciend • "l ad ardend ut m^ • Et eccam alrius Selekirche cu dimidia carucata tre t eccam 't tra de Lefmaliag cu fuis r^tis diuifis • Et f^uerlen cu fuis r'^tis diuifis • sicut Vineth ea meli^ "I pleni^ tenuit "t liabuit • cu oib3 aifiametis uicinifcoodre :' q°d cameri dr • Et c"ggliam eiufde uille sic' dompn^ abbas Alfwyn^ see crucis • "t Ernald^tuc abbas dekalchou se adinuice cocordauunt • de q'^da calupnia q^ fuit int eos de ipa c'^gga cora biis Teft • Rad Abbe de Neubotil • WiHo abbe St^uelyn de • Ofbto p^ore de Jeddeword • Ric clico • OOacliebet • Hanc a t^ier- len dedit auus mens pdce ecce de kalcH • in excambiu • x • libra?/ tre q'^m buerut in liardeo-aflliorn iux'^ Norliamtoun • Et in Reiifru vna tofta • 1; vna naviin • ^± pifcatura vni^ retis foluta "^ q'^eta • '^ ab oi ^fuetudine liCam • Et in Edinburg vna tofta • Et in Hadington vna tofta • Et in Jedd vna tofta • Et in Pebt vna tofta • Et in Lanarc • vna tofta • Et ecclefiam do Ketli • Et dimid scgiinen c'Tpcfio-;/ q^ in ford applicuef t • Et dec'iam aialiu "t porco:^ • "t cafeoT/ de can • Et de q'^^tuor cadred de Gahveia q"^in uiuete Rege Alex** auus iTis Tiuit p unii(|ue(|j annu • Et decima cafeo'^ de Twcddale singlis annis simitr • Et dimidietate corio"^ coq^ne mee • 1: oium occifionu meoT/ • ita ut vibicuq^ ego ut aliq^s fucceflb'^ mco^ unu coriu bucrit • beant t foonaclii altuni • Et siinitr de unctis ''t de sepis fic' de coriis • "t oiTis pellos
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arietu "^ agno^^ • T: clecima corioT^ cuot^ t cuaT^ q^s iielt'^rii mei capiet • Hos a reddit^ coq^ne mce "i occifionu mea'v liabebut coonaclii p ilia tiTi tm q'^m iiiuente Rege Alex° auus ms Huit • Et in Kars vna salina ptea q'^ntu ad me fpectat ^cedo • "l pPmo ecce |^noiate • ex donacoe Comitis Compa- tricii eccam do Home cu duab3 carucatis rre • '^ cu p'^to uno in tritorio eiufde iiille • Et eccara de ffoggou cu una carucata tre • Et eccam de Grenelaue cu rra ad eande ptinent • T: capella de Lambedena • Ex dona- coe HerDti de COaccufwel • eccam de COaccufwel • Ex donacoe Hie 1; pet^ filii ei^ eccam de Symp^ng" • Ex donacoe Ro§i de Oy eccam de Langetune cu oiTiib3 ad cam ptinentib3 • Ex donacoe Ro^ii fit Willi eccam fci Laure- cii de Berewyc • Ex donacoe Walri Corbet • eccam de OQalcaruilloii • cu una carucata rre • Ex donacoe Vctredi de Ct)olla • eccam de COolla cu rra ad ea ptinetc • Ex donacoe Wifclie • eccam uille fue • Ex donacoe Willi finemud eccam de kambufnaytlian . Ex donacoe Ric Cumyn eccam de Lyntonrotherick • P^noTatas g'^ tras '^ poffeffioes oes • ego ecce be coarie v'^ginis de kalcR 'H; O)onacliis ibide deo §uientib3 iure ppetuo poflidendas ^cedo ''t h'^c carta mea i ppetua eleiam coPmo ut ita libe q^ete 1; honorifice teneat 'i poffideat OS tras fuas % poffeffioes • "I uniufa tenemeta sua • fic* aliq'^/o/. i^ ecca libius T: qVcius et lionorabili^ elemoTas fuas tenet t poffidet • Ita ut nemo de li'^c noTata ecca de kalcli • neq., de poffeffioib3 ei^ neq^ de ulla re q^ ad ea ptinet aliq'^d pfumat exi§e n"^ solas oroes ad ale falute • Hiis Tefti- b3 • Idem p oinia dicit COalcolm^ ff ei^ q"^ fuit Rex an ipm • nicH oTo addens aut subtrahens •
Cofirmac • Reg Willm sr donac • anceffo^/L • s •
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cormaffe p falute aie Regis B'B' aui mei . Et comltis Henrici pat'^s mci 't p I'alute ate mee • "^ oium anceffoT/L "I succeffoT^ meoi^ • deo "t ecce fee COarie de KalcR • 1: coonaclils iblde deo §ulcntib5 i liBam "t ppetua elemofina os tras % ce?as poffeffioes fuas q'^s fiuerut % tenuerut i tepe Regis Dauid au^ mei • Et I tepe OOalcolmi fris mei • Tenedas p eafd liotates t r'^titudies p q^s ipi eas unq'^ meli^ '^ pleni^ • liCius '^ qVci^ tenuerut 't poffederut • Cocedo % pdce ecce fee COarie de kalc!i • t ei^de loci coonachis • vt holes fui q'^ in kalclio fut manetes 6ib3 diebus septimane ex'° die flatuto fori mei de RokelburO; licencia lieant vendendi i uilla fiia focale "I matiem % annonam • Et f^nfeuntes licencia heant eis ifla vendendi • Heant % ipi holes fui licencia uendendi i fenefl^s fuis pane "I §uicia • ^ carnes • Si a pifce i suis ppHs q'^drigis ut eq^s attulerint et inde uende voliiint in feneft^s suis liceat eis uenae • Q'^drige a aliunde venietes • T; pinde f^nfeuntes • no ibi exhone- ret . neqj ibi uendat • S3 ad foi^ meu ueniat • Die a fori mei flatuti de Rokelburg no liceat eis q'^cquam enie i uilla sua • S3 ad foru meu ueniat • 1; ibi cu aliis burgenfib3 meis q^ uoluint emant • p r'^tas ^fuetudies fuas . Dedi % % coceffi pnoiatis CQonachis ad ufus ''-fc opacoera ipius ecce de kalchou eccam de Dunfres cu ?ris 1: decimis 'H: oTodis oblacoib3 • 1: cu capella sci Thome i ipo burgo • t cu tofta ad ipam capella ptinete • '^ cu q^nq^ ac'^s tre q'^s eide ecce "I capelle i liBam eleoiam dedi • 1 p Philippu de Valonis t"di feci • "I cu omib3 aliis ei^ ecce iuflis ptineciis • Ita ne liceat alicul eccam ilia ut capella aut eai^ reddit^ sine bnficia ab opacbe ecce de Kalcli ^ pp'^s ufib3 coonachoT^ q°quo m" alienare • Et capella caflelli de Pebles cu carucata tre ad ipam ptinete • t cu redditu x folid de Tma burgi de Pebles que Rex ©-B- auus ms eide capelle affig"'uit ad diuinu cfficiu i ea ppetuo celebrandu p aia comitis Henrici pris mei • Ita '^ q pfati a)onachi ibide ydonea 't pulc'^m capella faciet t inueniet ibi honefla ornameta ecciaftica 't capellanu (]^ in ea p aia comitis Henrici ppetuo miniftret • Et eccam de Cultir iux'"' Aberden cu oiTiib3 ad ipam eccam iufle ptinetib3 • Et unu toft i hadiiigton t ?ra ilia q® eft iux"^ toftu illu vfus foi^ de q'^ solebam fire singlis annis • iiii'"" •
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denarlos • Coccdo % eis "^ cormo aniiatl t^fdecim vaccas 1; totlde porcos de cano meo de ?ra q'^m Diuienaldi tenet p excambio reddlt^ q*rn pdci coonaclii folebant Yire de cano • de tra q'^m Rad fllius duneg • t duuen fr fuus teniiiint "^ de ?ra q'^m Gillepat'^ck fr eoi; tenuit in Gleneham • Et ut loca uafti mei de Selekyrcke ad que f^ftuli holes meos de Elrebope fic' de pocbia uille mee de felecb • '^ os i illis locis bitantes cu vniufis poffeffioib3 fuis fint intedentes ad eccam de Selekirke tanq'^ ad mat^cem eccam fua • Et fi forte coti&rit q i eifde locis mat^x ecca aut capella fimdata fuit ea cu oib3 iuflis ptineciis fuis do • 1; cocedo deo '^ pfate ecce kalcboens • "^ ei-^de ecce coonacbis 1 boam '^ ppetua elemoTam • Et ex donacoe pie coemorie reg OOalcolmi fris mei eccam delnnerletban • Et ex donacoe comitis ©'©' fris mei eccam de Kamfy et eccam de Altminim in Leuenauf • Et ex donacoe WiHi finemund eccam de kam- bufnaytban • Et ex donacoe Ric Cumin eccam de Lytonrotbcric • Et ex donacione Wice eccam de uilla Wice cu capellis suif • Et ex dono ferg^ OOackabard eccam de Dunfyer cu capelbs t tris '^ decis T: omib3 abis pdca-^ eccai^ iultis ptineciis • ita bbe q'^ete • plenaf • "^ bonorifice fic* carte donato'i^i ''t aduocatoT^ eis donat "i coPmant • t sic* carta Jocct glafg epi eis cofmat • Et ex donacione Hug Ridel eccam de Craneftun • cu tra ad ea ptinete 1: cu oib3 aliis iuftis ptineciis fuis • Et ex donacoe Euardi de pencatbelad • eccam de pencatbelad cu oib3 iuftis ptineciis fuis • Et ex donacoe Walti de carnoto eccam de T'^uerflet "^ eccam de Dungrey • cu oib3 ea'^ iuftis ptineciis • Et ex donacoe Rad de Clere eccam de Caledouer • q^ fuit eiMe Rad de Clere • cu oiTiib3 aliis r'^tis ptineciis fuis • Et ex donacoe Hug- sin manicis eccam de foortun i ft'^bnitb cu una carucata tre % cu oib3 aliis iuftis ptineciis fuis • Et ex donacoe Willi de Kunygburg • eccam de Stapel- /„/. u. gorton • cu capellis • rris • 't decimis • 1; omib3 aliis iuftis ptineciis • Con- cede % eis '^ coPmo una carucata rre i uilla de Haudena p eafde diuifas • p (["^s ea buerut afiq"^ linaldus fili^ Briani buiif3 pdcam Haudcne • cu 6ib3 aifiametis inf^ diuifas ipi^ carucate rre • Et vna tofta i pdca uilla de Haue- dene lioam % q'^etii ab oi Suicio • Et boTem illoT^ q"^ sup tofta ilia sedeblt
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libum "l q^ctu ab oi suicio '^ alia cofuetudie sic' carta Bernardi tcftat^ • Et duas bouatas tre i rritorio de COolle cfs efchina de Londoniis eis dedit • t paft^am • "^ alia aifiaiTita i uilla de COolle • sic* carta efcliine teftat^ • Et fex bouatas tre i rritorio de Brockefmuth • q'^s Wilis de COorewiH • 't Rob de Landeles 'H; OQuryel vxor eiufd Rob eifde coonachis dederut 1: cormauerut • Et donacom fcaligai^ illai/ q'^s WiHs de veto ponte eis dedit • "I carta fua cof^mauit • Et fcalingas de botlikil • p r'^tas diuifas fuas • ita plenarie • liBe • 1: q^ete • fic* CofpatVi^ comes • illas eis dedit t carta fua coPmauit • Et ex donacoe pie memorie reg Cpalcolmi fris mei • vnu toftu i Ruthirglen • Et donacom q'^m Walrus Corbet fecit eis de ecca de COalcarwifton'"^ • ^ de omib3 eiufd ecc^ iuflis ptineciis • 1: oib3 tris • "I poffeffioib3 "l liBtatib3 • q"s ide Walrus Corbet pnoTatis foonacli de Kalcli donauit • fic' carta ei^ teflat^ • faluo §uico meo • Et vna bouata rrc i Sprouifton • (fm Rad de ueir eis dedit • fic* carta ei^ teftat^ • saluo §uicio meo • Et 1 rritorio de OOolle tota tra • 1; p'^tum "l iiem^ . 1 totu Houloclies hou • i bofco "I piano • 1: pafl^a • ext'^ una ac'"^ ?re . q"'m afelin^ ded' W . cemetario • Q" ^ pdcs Anfelin^ de COolle dedit pdce ecce Kalclioen • t q° Ric de Line" • 1; Cl)atild filia % heres legla eiMe Anfelini aide ecce cocefferut • 1: carta fua coPmauunt • Tenend p diuifas pnoTatas in cartis pdcoi^ Anfelini • Ric de Line" • '± COatild filie Anfelini fic* carte eoT^ teftant^ • saluo suicio meo • Et i tritorio de Lefmaliag donacom ilia q'^in Wilis Cumyn • fecit eis de t;ra ilia de (f cont^iilio fuit inr eunde Wilim cumyn • '^ abbem de Kalcb • Tenend p eafde diuifas q® cotinent^ in carta ei^e Wilii cumyn • fic* carta ei^ tefla^ • saluo suicio meo • Et ex donacoe Symonif ffrafer eccam de Ketli • q" fuit eiMe Symonif • cu tra ad eande eccam ptinete p diuifas noTatas i carta pdci Symonis ffrafcR • t cu 6ib3 ci^dc ecce iuflis ptineciis • sic* carta ia dci Symonis tefiat^ • faluo suicio meo • Prera cocedo 1: Tmir pcipio ut abbas de Kalcfi "^ eiMe loci coonaclii teneat ""t habeat inppetuii rra de q*^ cont°ufia fuit inr eos "l CQonaclios de Ol)elros • p easde diuifas p q'^s ilia tenuunt • Anno "t die q° rex Dauid auus ms fuit uiuus 'H; mortuus • Ita ut n*^ crga eos n'' aliq^m aliu inpoftum intrent in
c
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placitu de diuifis illls • neqs do rra fiue de bofco q® inf^ diuifas illas fut • pliibeo % rmi? ne q^s eif inpofrum iniuria iiide faciat fup mea plenaria defenfionem • pnoTatas ig^ ?ras oms • "^ eccas • '^ eai^ capllas • 'I oiiis ea-^ obucncocs cu tris • decis • '^ oib3 eai^ iuflis ptineciis 1: r'^tltudlnibs pnoTate ecce fee Ct)arie de KalcR • '^ pp'^is ufib3 % suftentacoib3 coonachoi^ ibide deo §uienciiim i libam "^ ppetua elemofina concedo • 1: pfenti carta mea conrmo • ut oes pdcas tras • t eccas • % tenemeta cu oib3 iiiftis ptineciis fuis • ita libe • qVte • plenarie • % honorifice tieant • "^ i libam 1^ ppetua elemofma poffideat lie* aliq'^s alias elemofmas i regno Scott • libius • q'^eci^ • pleni^ • % honorifi- cenci^ lint "^ poffidet • Et fic* carte donatoi^ *% aduocatOT^ pdcai^ rraT^ fme eccai^ eifde coonacliis donat "^ cofirmat • faluo Suicio meo de illis de q^b3 §uiciu de iure Hre dcbeo • Hiis Tell" •
Carta Reg" WiHi sr • iii • caruc" • rre i edinh'^m •
14 V ills di gfaRex Scott • Epis • Abbatib3 • Comitib3 • Baronib3 • Juft" • vice- comitib3 • ppofitis • OQinifl^s • '^ 6ib3 pbis lioib3 toci^ t;re fue clicis 1 laycis • fait • Sciant pfentes "^ futuf me dediffe 1: ^ceffiffe • 't li'^c carta mea coPmaffe do '^ ecce see COaf de Kalcli • t cooii • ibid do §uien? t §uitur • i liBam 1: pura • T: ppetua elcmoiam • t*f carucatas rre i tritorio de edenham • fie* Er- kenbald^ abbas de Dunrmelyn eis p pceptu meu t'^didit • duas • s • 1; dimid ppinq'^orcs diuifis rre fue de Kalc!i • ab aq'^lonari pte petarie de licdenlia • Q^ rra tendit a petaria px" loco iux*^ diuifas coi/d coonaclio'^ • vfq, ad diuifas de Neuton • ct p diuifas auft'^les de Neuton • ufq^ i Edene • Et s*" p Edene ufq^ ad ponte uadi • ab occidetali pte de Edenbam • Et inde ^ i uia q ducit vfus liofpitale • ufq^ ad furcat^am uie q* uenit ab aq'^lonari pte petarie • Et s* p eande uia • ufq,, ad p^mu locu pnominate diuife • Et pafl^am cui^da pticle tre q^ ell in? diuifas de Kalcti • '^ pdcam petaria • Ita ut coonacb tieant pall^am ciufd ?rc • "I botes mci de Edenbam lieant ayfiamcntu ipi^ rre ad
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expandendu ibi petas fiias • Et dimid carucata rre ab orientali pte q"'rerie ipfo'^ coonaclioT/ int q^iordcci ac'^s tre q'^s tint ex dono pagani de bofeuiH • T; rram inrmoi^L • "t in? petaria 1: uia que tendit ners^ uadu de Sprouift- • 1: pifcat^am in Tweda r que ptinebat ad Edenham • a diuifis de Kalcfi • vfq,, ad diuifas de Vgham • pdcas a t^s carucatas tre "i pifcat^am dedi eis i efcambiii • XX*' • celdraT^ f"mcnti 1: farine • de ilia menfura q fult tempo regis ©■©■ aui mei • q'^s pdci foonachi lire folebat i moledino mo de Rokefburg" • Et i efcambiu t'^um marcai^ q'^s tire solcbat de Tma burgi mei do Rokefburg" . Et i efcambiu • xij""" • eeldrai^ bTii • q'^s lire solebat de moledino meo de Edenlia • ex dono B'©' regis aui mei • Q'^re volo t Tmir pcipio ut pfati coonaclii pfatas tres carucatas tre • cu pdcis diuifis • T; pdcam pifcat^am lieant Ic tencat • I libam • pura • '^ ppetua elemofma • ita lioe • q'^ete • pacifice • "I lionorifice • fic* alias elemoias i regno meo • libius • q'^eci^ • pleni^ • "l lionori- ficeci^ tenet 1; poffident • CocefTi a pfatis coonacli • q fi moledinu cot/ de Kalcli aut ppr inundacoes aquai; • aut ppu gelu molere no poffit • ut aliq° cafu fra6lu fit :' ut molat ad molendinu meu de Edinliam bladii qd creuit fup ?ra pnoiata de Edinham • "^t eoi^ ui6tu libe % abfq^ mult^a • pximi^ ad illd q°d fuit fup tremyl • tf fuit dnicum bladu meu • ita tn ut ad uitandu g'^uame lioTum meoT/t de Edinlia • no nifi p tref aut q'^tuor dies ibi coonachi infimt molant • Coceffi % eis ut liceat ipis liBe • % abfq^ inltura bladu q°d fup pdcam tram creuit -i q° uoluint afportare • Hiis teft-= .
CoPmac • ©"ni Alex^ Reg'" • de liotatib3 '^ cofuet" •
15 Alex dei gfa rex Scott • OiTiib3 pbis lioib3 toci^ tre fue clicis "I laicis • fait • /oi. 15. Sciatif me coceffiffe ecce see COarie de Kalcli • T; H^berto abbi eiMe loci os eafde libtates T: cofuctudies q*s abbes anccffores fui an ipm liuerut • 1 tenucrut • ita bn • "l libe • fic* abbes ancefforcs fui cas uncq*^ meli^ • "I libius
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liabucrut '^ tenuerut • Et iiblcuq,, ex*^ dominla mea i tota tra mca natiuos "^ fugitiuos lioies fuos inueiiit :' illos iufle 't fii dilacoe Reat • Vnde phibeo Pmit • 1: flip mea plenaria forlsftura • ut nemo illos ut catalla fua liufle de- tineat n*" ipm u\ colnlftros el^ pp? li° iniuile vexet • Tell" •
Carta Regis Alexandri ne quis namum capiat fuper Abbatem •
16 Alex dei gFa rex Scott • Juft" • vicecom • '^ omib3 pbis lioib3 toci^ tre fue ddeti fait • coandam^ "^ f^mi? pcipim^ ne q^s namu capiat sup at5t)em de KalcH • neq^ inf^ neq^ exf ?ras ecce de Kalcli • p^ufq'^ ipe abbas • ut roinifl^ ei^ req'^rant^ de r^titudie facieda • "t ipi de r'^titudie facieda defecint • Si q'^s a baliuoTjt • ut alio'^ hoinu nroi^ huic pcepto nro ^f^ire pfumpiit :" i plena miara liram • ut succefloT^ nroi^ se noiiit incidiffe • sic* carta dni regis WiHi pat^s firi teflat^ • Teftib5 •
Carta Alex^ Regis de cent solid in burgo de Roxburgh pcipiend •
17 Alex dei gra Rex Scott • Omib3 pbis Ii6ib3 toci^ ?re sue ciicis 1; laicis fait • Sciant pfentes 't fut^i nos diuine caritatis intuitu • '^ p falute aie fire dediffe coceffiffe • 't li"c carta nra cof hiiaffe deo 1; ecce COarie de Kalcli • t cQofi • ibid do Anient • "I inppetuu suituf • centu sot • singllf annis pcipiendos de Tma burgi firi de Rokefburg • i efcambiu vaccai^ 1; porcoT^ • % corioi/i q'^s folebat pcipe in ualle de Nyth • Et i efcabium corio:^ • t sepoi^ de Karric • \ I efcabiu corioT^ "I sepo?/ de occifioe aialium ad op^ nfm fca ex auft'^i pte maris Scocie • Et i efcambiu oium elemofniaT^ • 't libtatu • '^ pclliu arictu "^ agnoT^ • "^ omiu alioT^ aialiu dcos coonaclios cotingenciu in domo 1; coq^na fira • Q'^re volum^ % pcipim^ ut ppoiti firi de Rokefburg singlis annis dcis foonacti lire faciat pdcos centu sot ad pentecofl" • Teftib3 •
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Ad ballluos suos de dels • c • s folued •
18 Alex del gra Rex Scott • ppofitis fuis de Rokelburg • fait • COadam^ voh "^ pclpim^ • q'^tin^ de Tma burgi nri de Rokelburg • foonachis de kalcliou singlis annis ad tminu Pentecoft"' lire faciatis centu folidos q°s eis dedim^ ^ efcambiu clemofinai^ fua'^ • Et pliibem^ Pmir ne aliq^ dcis coonacli • dcos centu folid • ult'^ pdcm rmlnu detinere pfumat • Et i liui^ rei tellimoniu has tras nras patetes nob f^nfmittim^ . Tellib3 •
De cof'uerfia in? nos "I Ipos de OOclros p WiHm Regera •
19 ViHs del gra rex Scott • Epis • Abbtib3 • Comitib3 • Baronib^ • Jufl" • jhi. le. vicecom • ppofitis • cqinift^s • 't ofnib3 pbis lioib3 toci9 rre fue fait • Sciat pfetes "i fut^i q cu cotroufia p mltos annof durafl3 int domes de Kalcli • '^ de COelros • de diuifis inr COelros • '^ boulden • ?rara coonaclioi^ de Kalcli • tande dns p*p* • celellinus p tras suas m^ significau* • t i remiffione pcco?^ m^ iniunxit ut fca diligenti inq'^ficbe de diuifis illis • q°d iuflu ee inqVerem :' ptib3 affignare • JoHs % T^T^ sci Stplii i celio coonte pfbi? cardinalis • dum legacoe fun^et^ in rra raea me inflant inde pcat^ eft • '^ auctoritatc fua id m"^ iniuxit • Tande ueni ap*^ COelros • anno ab incarnacoe dni • ro° • cc'* • ij° • i oclauis eplpliie • t pfentib3 mltis clicis 1; laicis cu s^mo fieret de diuifis iH • Wilis q*^ tuc fuit abbas de COelros • habito tra^latu "^ cofilio p cofenfu couent^ fui • et Olbert^ abbas de Kalcli p confenfu capli fui copmiferut i me t affida- uerut q ftarent dco meo fup diuifis ill • Et q iHd q^d ego scdm inq'^ficoem mea inde dic'em :' ex ut^jue pte Tmit '% inuiolabiliu • teneret • Ciiq>, p^ca diligente inq'^ficocm p pbos "^ antiq^s holes pat'^e inde feciffcm :! plies i pfencia mea ptes couenire feci • Tande venerut ad me ap*^ Seleschirche • anno ab incarnacoe dni (D" • cc*^ • iiij° • die dnica p^ claufu pafcha • 't ibi i plena