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vii
.

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE, FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA,

.

ix

APPENDIX.
PAGE
I.

Letters from

David Erskine, Esq.

W. S.

to

Captain
.

(afterwards General) Hutton, 1789-90,, II, Ordinacio Episcopi Sancti Andree Super Regimine
III.

Monasterii Post Combustionem Ejusdeni, Act of Council of the City of Edinburgh., in favour of William Preston of Gortoun, IV. Ordinacio David Abbatis., V- De Officio Coronatoris Regalitatis de Aberbroth et
.
. .

xvi
xviii

xx
xxii

Ejus Annua Pensione,

VI. Lettera Finnancie pro

Domino Duncano Davidsone

xxiv

MonaehOj

>

xxv VII. Statuta Abbatum xxxiii VIII. The Prebendaries and Deans of Restalrig, IX. The Ornamentis and Syluer Work in the College
de Cupro Penes Molendina sua,
.

Kirk of Caraile, X. Cartse in favorem Monialium de Manuel, XI. Redditus Altarium Olim situat. infra Parochiam de
.
. .

xxxv
xl

xlv Linlythgow, XII. Lettera Carpentarii pro Tectura Chorij Ixxxvi XIII. Assedacio Terre de Innerkethyng Cum hostiiagio. Elizabeth Meldrunr, Ixxxvii XIV. Carta Hostilegii Terre de Edynburgh, Johanni Ver. .
.

....
. . .

nour concessa,

xc
.

XV. Ane

Tretyse agayne the Pestilens^

xcii

ILLUSTRATIONS.
I.

Seal of the Carthusians at Perth, to face

Seal of Holyrood Abbey,
.
.

p.

20

II.

p.
. .

27 28
29
ib.

III.

Nun

of St. Catherine of Sienna,

St.

p. p.

IV. Cathedral of

Andrews,

restored,

ground plan, VI. Seals of Balmerino, 2. at end of the volume, ^

VII. Seals of Lindores,
2-

V.

Do.

.....
.
.

may be
at
p.

inserted

when bound

28

EPISTLE INITIATORY.

GENTLE READER,
You
a
little

have herewith presented to your consideration

book, which perchance

may

suggest to your

benevolence the

memory

of better times.

THESE THINGS ARE GIVEN TO YOU FOR AN ENSAMPLE.

Should you desire the
Collector, lo
!

lively representation of the

here he

is.

atnittt* s

INTRODUCTORY NOTICE,
IN the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland the want To of a regular Monasticon has long been felt.

remedy this defect some little has heen accomplished and what that little is the ensuing leaflets humbly But much still remains ere the aspire to show.
;

grand object can be obtained.

To

cope with, or even

to follow at a distance, the great

work achieved by
is,

Dodsworth*
possible
;

for the sister

kingdom,

we
all

fear,

im-

still

the duty of " gathering up the frag-

ments

"

is

sufficiently imperative

upon
if
all

labourers

in the field of Archaeology;

and

the three talents

are not ours to restore,

we

are at

events bound to

husband the one.

The Monasticon Anglicanum was purely the result of Roger Dodsworth's untiring exertion, although the merit has, till recent times been liberally conceded to Dugdale. " Tulit alter honores L" God
forbid

we

should detract from Garter, but

let justice

be ren-

dered to his Collector.

It is not

pretended that what follows

or

is

either

comIt

plete in
is

itself,

worthy of any commendation.

as

projected as a nucleus for the accumulation of

further intelligence,
collaboration,

a basis for more extended

and

as a refresher to the

few who care

for such pursuits.

The

impression of the present work

small,

is

strictly

limited to FIFTY copies on paper, and ONE on VELLUM.

TWENTY on

large

EDINBURGH, THE FEAST OF ST. BARNABAS, 1842.

FRAGMENT! SCOTO-MONASTICA.

HEN we consider that at the

Deforma-

tion in this thereby paganized country

no fewer certainly than one hundred and seventy-eight religious institutions,

Abbies, Convents, Hospitals, &c.
Cf

Reared high their holy heads

;"

and that no work, among the many that the press has diffused, has been devoted to an elaborate and
comprehensive history of them,
enquire,

we

are tempted to

Do

no materials

exist for

such an under-

taking ? or, has indolence and indifference so far o'er-mastered decency and gratitude, that no pious
memorialist can be found to record their fame
little
?

examination will testify that both queries very nearly be replied to in the affirmative.

may

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
But

setting aside the latter, and confining ourselves to the preceding point, we shall endeavour, in so far

as our portfolio permits, to exhibit

1.

2.

What What

matter

we

possess.

use has been

made

of

it.

respect to the first, the registers or collected muniments of the various monasteries and sacred
structures form the most extensive part.

With

The
rate

list

following is presumed to be a tolerably accuof the chartularies still in existence, with

the places where they are deposited. The letter jjlft appended to any chartulary, denotes that a transcript thereof is extant among the tions in the Advocates' Library.

farlan of Macfarlan, (Scotice

Macfarlan CollecMr. Walter Macof that Ilk), was an

eminent antiquary, who devoted

to the historical

monuments

his attention strictly of his own country, es-

pecially the ecclesiastic remains. made at his own expense by his

He

caused to be clerk, one Tait,

copies of most of the chartularies accessible in his time. These are distinguished for their fidelity and

neatness.

Mr. Macfarlan died 5th June

1*767,

and

his

MSS. were purchased by the

*

Faculty of Advocates.*
the Scotish Chartularies oc-

A lamentably wretched list of

42 of a shabby little volume, privately printed, but publicly vended, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, of Middle Hill, " Index to Chartuco. Worcester, F. S. A. &c. &c. &c. entitled laries now or formerly existing, since the Dissolution of Monasteries, by T. P. Typis Medio-Montanis impressit C. Gilmour,
curs at page

1839."

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

O-

ABERDEEN.
On vellum, folio, Chartularium Aberdonense. 188 leaves. Advocates' Library. On vel2. Registrant Aberdonensis Episcopatus. Advocates' Library. ;Pk lum, folio, 89 leaves.
1.

3.

Several fasciculi exist in the library of King's

College, Aberdeen.

ARBROATH.
On Registrum Monasterii de Abirbrothoe. 138 leaves. This volume, which genevellum, 8vo, " Old Register of rally goes under the name of the
1.

Arbroath," consists chiefly of grants in favour of the Abbey. Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. jjlk On 2. Registrum Monasterii de Aberbrothoc. This volume, of a more vellum, folio, 163 leaves. recent date, consists chiefly of grants and leases by the Abbots to their tenantry and others. Advocates'
Library. $fo.

Register of the Abbey, apparently of the early part of the 16th century, and containing much of the matter of the preceding volume, was formerly
3.

in the library at Brechin Castle, and has been presented by Lord Panmure to the burgh of Arbroath.
4.

An

abridgement of the Chartulary of Arbroath,

in the autograph of Sir James Balfour, exists among that baronet's collections in the Advocates' Library.
5.
II.

transcript of the Chartulary occurs in Vol. of Father Hay's " Diplomatum Veterum Collec-

tio."

Advocates' Library.

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

interesting extracts from this Chartulary are appended to the present catalogue, Nos. II. IV. V.

Some

VI. XII. XIII. and XIV.

BALMERINO.
Liber Sancte Marie de Balmurynach. On vellum, Advocates' Library. ;p&, 8vo, 27 leaves.

CAMBUSKENNETH.
On Registrum Monasterii de Cambeskenneth. 166 leaves. Advocates' Library. J^k vellum, folio,

COLDINGHAM.
1.

The

original charters of this

house are pre-

served in the Cathedral library at Durham. Prioratus de Coldingham, impensis 2. Chartse Walteri Macfarlan de eodem transcriptse, anno 1744. On paper, folio, pp. 263. Advocates' Library. 3. Cartse de cella de Coldingham, in ecclesia Dunel-

mensi conservata3.

Advocates' Library. inventory formed by Dr. John of Durham, (ssec. XVII), editor Smith, prebendary
paper, folio, pp. 88.

On

An

was indebted for his promotion to Bishop Crew. See BioThis inventory was transBritannica. graphia mitted by him to Sir Robert Sibbald for the Advocates Library.

of the works of the Venerable Bede.

He

Vide Analecta Scotica,

II. p.

147-

COLDSTREAM.
1.

bus monasterii de Caldstrem.

Cartse Regis Scotorum super terris et libertatiHarl. MS. 6670.

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
2.

Diplomata Ecclesise Sanctse Marise de Caldstrem, Extant in Macfarlan's Collections in Adpp. 63.
vocates' Library, Vol. II.

ORAIL.

On Register of the Collegiate Church of Crail. Advocates' Library. vellum, folio, 118 leaves. This was acquired by the Faculty of Advocates
from the

Town

Council of the Burgh of Crail, in ex-

change for an accurate transcript made at the expense of the Faculty. An inventory of the ornaments and plate of this church, extracted from the chartulary, will be found at page xxxv. hereof.

DRYBURGH.
Liber Sancte Marie de Dryburghe. On paper, 112 leaves. Advocates' Library, jfftk 4to,

An abridgement is among
lections in the

Sir

James Balfour's Col-

same

library.

DUNFERMLINE.
Chartularium de Dunfermline. On vellum, 169 leaves. Advocates' Library. folio, &. 2. Rental of the haill of the Abbacie of patrimony Dunfermline. Haddington Collections in the same
1.

library. ;J$k

DUNBLANE.
Registrum Capituli Dumblanensis. folio, pp. 235. Advocates' Library.

On

paper,

FRAGMENT A SCOTO-MONASTICA.

In the Minutes of the Faculty of Advocates, 29th November 1783, the following card is engrossed
:

Dean

offers his best respects to the of Faculty, hopes the Faculty will honour him with their acceptance of some ancient MSS. particu-

" Lord

S win ton

larly of a Cartulary of the Bishopric of

Dumblane,

extracts from the Cotton Library, and others, according to a list in the hands of the Librarian."

some

ELGIN.
leaves.

On vellum, 12mo, 73 Chartularium de Elgin. This register of writs, Advocates' Library. relating to the house of the Predicant Friars near Elgin, consists chiefly of extracts from the more recent Chartulary of Moray. It as a correct transcript, 1548.
is

formally attested

GLASGOW.
1.

in

Extracts from the Chartularies of Glasgow made On paper, folio, pp. 54. Advocates' 1556.

Library.

Excerpta et Exscripta ex Registris Capituli Harl. MS. 4631. Glasguensis, 1556. 3. Excerpta ex duobus libris pergameno scriptis
2.

Adregistrorum Capituli Glasguensis, A.D. 1556. vocates' Library. Probably a transcript of the preceding.

following extract from the Fifth Report of the late Deputy Clerk Register of Scotland, (Mr.
4.

The

Thomson), Appendix,

p.

24, (General Reports

by

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
Commissioners on Public Records, 1819,
peculiarly interesting. " The antient Chartularies
I.

168),

is

and other Muniments of the Church of Glasgow were carried to France by Archbishop Beaton at the era of the Reformation, and were deposited in the Library of the Scots ColOf these at Paris. lege, and in the Charter House select transcripts Chartularies and Original Charters, have been made at different times, under the direction of the Heads of the College, and presented to At an the City and to the University of Glasgow.
proceedings in execution of the orders of the Board, (May 7, 1806,) ' for obtaining and transcribing all such Royal Charters as may be
early period of

my

found to exist either in Public or Private Depositaries, and which are not at present to be found in the Register of Charters in the General Register House,' these authenticated extracts from the antient Chartularies of Glasgow were very liberally communicated to me by the City and the University for the use of the Record Commission, and all the Royal Charters which they contained were then It was then feared that copied under my direction. these antient Chartularies had perished in the general wreck of the property of the Scots College during the French Revolution, and that their loss had unhappily given to the copies the character and value of originals ; but it has since been ascertained, that by the patriotic and fortunate exertions of Mr. Macpherson, one of the Members of the College, the antient Chartulary, in two volumes, together with the other MSS. of value, were saved and brought into

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

this country. Of these, a part, including the Chartu lary, were for a time deposited in the custody of Mr.

George Chalmers, to whose historical researches they have proved eminently subservient and by the favour of that gentleman, prompted by his ardour and liberal zeal for the success of those measures which his Majesty's Commissioners had undertaken, these invaluable records were entrusted to my care, and at
;

present remain in my custody. " Upon a careful examination

it

has been found

that these two volumes contain various Charters and

Instruments not included in the modern selections above alluded to ; and, on the other hand, that these selections contain several antient Charters copied from
the originals deposited in the Scots College, which had not been included in the Chartularies. I accordingly directed that the an'ient Chartularies should be completely transcribed in the first instance, and that such other Charters as are found only in the modern

and University of The transshould afterwards be added. Glasgow cript of the first and most antient volume of the Chartulary has been already completed with great care. Such parts of the second volume as are not merely duplicates of the first, are now in progress,
collections belonging to the City

and the whole, including these charters, of which the original are probably for ever lost, will be completed
as speedily as possible.

the future destiny of these antient ChartuThat they ought laries I can at present say nothing. to be deposited in the Register House, or in the Advocates' Library,
is

"

Of

abundantly manifest

and

I per-

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

suade myself that the respectable person to whose interference we are indebted for their preservation, take the proper steps for will, of his own accord, It is under that future risks. saving them from all from making any remarks on persuasion that I refrain to whom these records of the Archthe
question, bishoprick of

Glasgow do of right belong."

HOLYROOD.
Charters relating to this Abbey are to be found in Macfarlan's " Veterum Diplomatum Collectio," ii. 135, and in the collection of Father Hay, i. 25?.

Advocates' Library.

INCHAFFRAY,
This chartulary is at Dupplin Castle, the residence of one of those distempered individuals who can neither enjoy a thing himself, nor permit others to do
so.*

A transcript

exists at

Middle

Hill,

co.

Wor-

cester, the seat of Sir

*

Thomas

Phillipps, Bart.

the Committee of the Bannatyne Club prepared for publication Bishop Lesley's History of Scotland, the Editor of that work applied to the proprietors of the various known MSS. for
the use of them, towards the purposes of collation and securing One of these individuals was the illustrious Lord accuracy.

When

Lyon, who though a member, be natyne Club, positively refused

it

remembered, of the said Banlend the

to

MS.
!

Dupplin, or to permit a transcript to be made from it ish denial is too delicately noticed in the preface as
inspection of the

preserved at His churl!

e>

a transient

MS. having

only been permitted by the present

owner."

Apropos of this most distinguished successor 'to Sir David " Lyndsay. Noble in his jejune and unsatisfactory History of the of Arms/' congratulates the " Heralds College" (as he College

10

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

INOHCOLM.
The
Fife.

original chartulary of this

monastery

is in

the

possession of the Earl of

Moray

at Donibristle, co.

KELSO.
Liber Sancte Marie de Calchou.

On

vellum, 8vo,

219 leaves, Advocates' Library. &. A singular specimen of the vernacular of this country, affording no very high impression of the art medical in those days, is copied from this Book of Kelso, at page
xcii.

LINDORES.
Liber Sancte Marie de Londors. 31 leaves, Advocates' Library.

On paper,

12mo,

MAY.
of the

Some Charters relating to this cell are Duke of Buckingham at Stowe.

in the library

MELftOS.
1.

Registrum Chartarum Monasterii Sancte Marie

erroneously terms the Lyoii Office,) on the promotion of a Peer " of the Realm to the office of Lord Lyon, as throwing a lustre

upon the

institution."

the reverse.

It has done nothing of the kind, but quite Ignorance of aught but the exaction of fees, disis

played in a hundred capricious vagaries,

istic

of the establishment

not one

member

the ruling characterof which, from the

iLyoii to his

any

skill in

meanest cub, has ever produced a work or exhibited the sciences of Heraldry, Genealogy, or the cognate

accomplishments.

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
de Melros.

11
Harl.

On

vellum,

folio,

119

leaves,

MS.
2.

3960.
Cartae Abbatiae de Melros.

On

vellum, 4to,

43

leaves, Advocates' Library. J$$ 4 This, although very imperfect, is much earlier than
3.

the preceding.*
greater portion of the muniments relating to Melros are in the archives of the Earl of Morton.

The

MORAY.
1.

tius.

Chartularium Episcopatus Moraviensis VetusOn vellum, folio, 169 leaves. Advocates' LijJU<

brary.
2.

Chartularium Episcopatus Moraviensis alterum On vellum, folio, 319 leaves. In priore recentius.
the same library.
3.

J|H,

Chartularium Episcopatus Moraviensis. On paper, folio, pp. 409. transcript of the first 123

folios

of the preceding by the celebrated Ruddiman. In the same library.

4.

Thomas

Rentale Episcopatus Moraviensis terminorum Pentecostes et Martini in Anno Domini 1565. MaCamerario. On paper, gistro Archibald Lyndesay small 4to, pp. 150.

NEWBOTTLE.
Chartularium de Neubotil.
*

On

vellum,

4to,

87

In the Minutes of the Faculty of Advocates, July 3, 1708, stated that Mr. Henry Malcolm, Minister of the Gospel, having gifted to the Faculty Library some Manuscript leaves of the Chartulary of the Abbacy of Melross, the Faculty desired their Dean to thank him."
it is

12
leaves

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

Advocates' Library. transcript is in Father Hay's Collection, Vol. I. The original was purchased by the Faculty of Advocates from James M'Ewan, bookseller in Edinburgh, in 1723, for twelve
guineas.

PAISLEY.
1. Registrum Moriasterii de Passelet a domo fundata 1.163, usque annum 1529On paper, folio, pp. Advocates' Library. There is a transcript in 274.

Father Hay's Collection, Vol. III. 2. Rental book of the lands within the Lordship
Paisley, for the year 1460, and subsequent years. paper, folio, 202 leaves. vocates' Library.

of the

Abbacy of

On

some Ad-

ST.
1.

ANDREWS.

Rentale Sancti Andree. On paper, large folio, book of accounts of the Archbishopric of pp. 394. St. Andrews, from October 1539 to 1545, containing

the charge and discharge of the granetar and chamAdvocates' Library. berlain of the Archbishop. 2. Liber Sancti Andree et Pittenweem. On paper,
large folio,
3.

401

leaves,

In the same Library.

Registrum Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia. On vellum, small folio, 195 leaves. In the

Lord Panmure at Brechin Castle. ;Jlt, 4. The volume in the Denmylne Collection in the Advocates' Library, No. 29, (A. 3, 34), contains a number of original charters relating to St. Andrews.
possession of

FRAGMENTS SCOTO-MONA.ST1CA.
ST.

13

ANTHONY'S.

The

rentals

buke of Sanct Anthonis and New-

curious little haven. On vellum, 8vo, 21 leaves. record of the Abbey and Hospital of St. Anthony Advocates' Library. near Leith.

ST.

GILES,

(Edinburgh).

This chartulary is the property of Lord Panmure, It is in 4to, vellum, 38 leaves. at Brechin Castle. See at page xviii, an act of the Town-Council
of Edinburgh, referring to a relique of the blessed St.
Giles.

SCONE.
old Chartulary of Scone is a small thin folio, written on parchment, consisting of 32 leaves. It is defective in several places, and the sheets which
1.

The

remain have been improperly bound. It is referred to by Bishop Nicolson in his " Historical Library," published in 1702, as then belonging to the Faculty of Advocates ; and by Sir James Dairy mple, in his " Historical Collections," p. 374, Edin. 1705, as also then remaining in their Library. Erom a marking at the commencement, it appears at one time to have formed part of the Denmylne Collection. Advocates'
Library.
2.
;Jf$ft.

The second and more recent Chartulary is a The MS. consists of 76 larger folio on parchment.
leaves,

and about 50

at the

end of the volume

left

blank.
Sir

It is referred to

both by Bishop Nicolson and

;

James Dalrymple,

as in their time in the posses-

sion of Viscount

Stormont

and

it

appears from a

14

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
first leaf,

notice in the

that

it

was presented

to the

Faculty by David, 7th Viscount Stormont, in 1*773. Advocates' Library.

SOLTRE.
Chartularium domus Sancte Trinitatis nuncupate On vellum, small folio, 24 hospitalis de Soltre. leaves. Advocates' Library.

STIRLING CHAPEL-ROYAL.
Registrum Capellse Regies Strivelinensis. Advocates' Library. lum, folio, 51 leaves.

On vel-

TORPHICHEN.
volume of the Chartulary of this Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem is in the possession of John Black Gracie, Esq. writer to the signet, Edinburgh.
following Chartularies, formerly quoted, are now amissing
:

The

known and

BEAULY, (Ross-shire).
tant at Tarbet- House.

This may perhaps be

Possibly

ex^-

CROSSRAGUEL, (Ayrshire).
archives of the Earl of Cassillis.

among

the

CULROSS, (Perthshire). The fate of this is ascertained from the following curious entry by Lord
Fountainhall
:

"

January

12, 1693.

The Lady

Colvil against

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
Mr. Matthew Fleming,
for

15

500 merks,

as the con-

ventional price of the manuscript she lent him, being a list of all the mortifications dedicated by the Earls

The Lords found Mr. Matthew produced it in process, and it was borrowed up by the deceased Lord Dirleton and when it was sought back from him, he told it was burnt with his lodging, and so it perished casu fortuito : and ordained my Lord Newbyth and the clerk of that process, and others, to be examined thereupon.*' DECISIONS, I. 544.
of Fife to the

Abbacy of

Culross.

this defence relevant,

that

CUP AH, (Angus).

this

All that seems to remain of

p.

Abbacy,
xlv.

is

preserved at

xxv.

So

also

of

Manuel Abbey and Linlithgow Church,

and
FAIL,
(Ayrshire).
in

at pp. xl.

This
1*780,

is

referred to

by Mr.

Gough, writing
library of

as

then
If
it

Lord Auchinleck.
not

existing in the did so at that

it.

period,

it is

now

to

be found, or any traces of

KILWINNING, (Ayrshire). Quoted by Timothy Pont. at Eglinton Castle. Perhaps KINLOSS, (Moray). Transcript is supposed to be in the collection of the late George Chalmers, F. S. A. author of the " Caledonia," who

refers to a "

MS. Monasticon

frequently

Scotise,

penes me."

Although pertaining
lowing

may
:

to the sister country, the folbe noticed as existing in the Advocates'

Library

16

FRAGMENTA SCOTOMONASTICA.

HOLMCULTEAM.
Excerpta de Registro Abbatiae de Holmeultran in Cumbria, cura et studio Joannis Goldij de Craig-

mure

officialis

Dumfrisiensis, 1748.

On

paper, folio,

pp.84. This volume contains 56 charters granted by ScotsAt page 51 the subsequent men, or of Scotish lands. notanda, which may be deemed interesting, occur
:

Advocates' Library.

fifty preceding pages were carefully copied by me, John Goldie of Craigmure, from a book written on vellum, and lent to me by my worthy friend Mr. Joseph Nicolson

"

The

Charters written upon the

of Hawksdale,

nephew

to the Rt.

Reverend William
*

Registrum de Holm.' The book itself is very small, contains two hundred and eighty-four pages, and for the most The above part is written in very fair characters.
Nicolson,
charters are granted by Scotsmen, or relate to lands In the beginning of the book the lying in Scotland.

Bishop of Carlisle, intituled

following notandums are written (as I believe) with Bishop Nicolson's* own hand.

From a note which I met with, August 15, 1707, among Sir D. Fleming's papers, I suppose that Mr. Tho Denton, (who gave it me), had this book from
8
.

"

Mr. Blenerhasset,
" N.B.

(Signed)
is

W.

CARLIOL.

This

not the same Register which was

* Vide Letters of eminent

men

to

Ralph Thoresbjr,

II.

222.

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in

17

William Howard's custody, as will easily appear from Monast. Angl. T. 1, p. 885. (Signed) W. CARLIOL.

my Lord

" There are

many

other Charters contained in the

same Register, of lands in England, and some in Ireland, which were too tedious to transcribe, and I could get none here that could read it so distinctly
as to

do

it

for

me, and, therefore, the

titles

of these

Charters and Deeds only follow, except that when the witnesses names are insert, (which, unluckily, is

but seldom), I will copy them. (Signed)

Jo. GOLDIE."
in

The
existed

Constitutions of the
St.

Nunnery dedicated

honour of

Catherine of Sienna, which formerly side of Edinburgh, vulgarly " The termed Sciennes," are preserved in the Library of the College of Edinburgh. It is a small 4to volume
at

the south

on paper. The Manuscript in Advocates' Library, (No. 31, 3, 12,) a folio volume on paper, of the end of the 16th " Rentale of century is entitled, Religious Houses
in Scotland."

The Harleian MS. 4623, contains the Taxt-Rolls of the following religious houses
:

Arbroath Abbey.

Aberdeen Bishopric. Andrews St. Archbishopric.

Balmerino Abbey. Charter House Priory.

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Cupar Abbey and Lordship. Culross Abbey. Dryburgh Abbey.

Dumblane Bishopric. Dunkeld Deanery.

Chancellary.
Bishopric.

Holyrood Abbey. Elcho Priory.

Glasgow Chantry. Haddington Abbey and Lordship. Inchaffray Abbey. Jedburgh Abbey. Kelso Abbey. Leith, Preceptory of St. Anthony. Melros Abbey.

Monymusk

Priory.

Abbey. Paisley Abbey. Restennot Priory.

Sawlsett Abbey.
(Soulseat).

New

Torpbichen Lordship and Preceptory. Whitherne Priory.

" Scotia Sacra, ane account of the most renowned Churches, Bishopricks, Monasteries, and other devote places, from the first introducing of Christianity into
Scotland, to the disturbances occasioned in nation by the severall reformations of religion.
that

With

a series of the severall Bishops, Abbots, Priors, and other religious governours. Written by Mr. Richard

Augustine Hay, cannon regular of

St.

Genovefe of

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Paris
;

19
First,

Prior of St. Pierremont, &c.

Tome

1700."

The

Folio, Adv. Library, 34, 1.8. late Lieut.- Gen. Hutton formed a collection

" Monasticon Scotiae." He was indeexpressly for a the ecclesiastical topofatigable in his researches into

graphy of this country. After his death, (June 1827,) his collections were purchased by the Faculty of Advocates. They are now bound in 12 vols. 4to.
of which the contents are as follow
:

Vol.

I.

Contains matter relating to the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigton. II. Ayr, Renfrew, and Lanark.
Peebles.

III.

IV. Peebles.

V.

Selkirk,

Roxburgh, Berwick, Haddington, and Edinburgh.

VI. Linlithgow, Stirling, Kinross, Fife. VII. Perth. VIII. Forfar. IX. Forfar, Kincardine, and Aberdeen.

X. Elgin. XI. Inverness, Ross, and Orkney.

XII. Miscellaneous.

Although they necessarily contain much that is heterogeneous and rubbishy, yet. when it is considered that these gatherings were made during the intervals of active duty on his Majesty's service, it is matter
of admiration that they contain so much of importance. His drawings of seals and ruins were dispersed

by auction.

brief

Memoir

of Gen.

Hutton occurs

in the

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Gentleman's Magazine for December 1827, Vol. XCVII. Pt. II. Some interesting letters from David Erskine, Esq. to Gen. Hutton, are printed at the end of this tractate, No. I. Mr. Erskine died at

See Edin. Evening CouNaples, 5th April 1791. rant of May 7 same year. Of the Carthusian Monastery at Perth, no docu-

ments are known to exist but an engraving of the common seal, from a drawing in the possession of Mr. Maidment, faces this page. A list of the Bishops and Priors of St. Andrews, and also of the various religious houses then existing,
;

is

contained in a curious

little

miscellaneous

MS.

in

the Library of the College at Edinburgh, apparently of the early part of the 16th century.
portion of this treatise refers to the use which has been made of the existing materiel.

The second

printed works relating to our subject, the following is a brief, though possibly defective, sum-

Of

mary.

General Topographical publications are of

course excluded.

The " Apparatus ad

accessit

Historian! Scoticam,

lib.

ii,

Martyrologium Scoticum Sanctorum," of that zealous Catholic, Thomas Dempster, published at Bologna 1622, in 4 to. contains a brief view of the
religious establishments.

In 1631, David Camerarius published at Paris, in 4 to, " De Sector um Fortitudine, Doctrina et Pietate,
ac de Ortu et Progressu Ha3resis in Regnis Anglise et Scotise." In this rare work he gives a brief notice

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21

of the ^various religious establishments in Scotland, as well as of the Scotish Monasteries in other countries. The " Treatise of Church-lands and Tithes," by
^

Mr. William Forbes, Advocate, printed

at

Edinburgh

1705, 8vo, has a summary of the Monastic EstabThis is not lishments interspersed in its pages. merely an extremely useful, but a very pleasantly
written book.

In 1734, Mr. John Spotiswood, Advocate, published at Edinburgh in 12mo, " Notes on Hope's Minor Practicks, and an Account of all the Religious Houses in Scotland at the Reformation." The portion relating to the Religious Houses was reprinted " Historical at the end of Bishop Keith's Catalogue of

the Scottish Bishops,

burgh

1755, 4to. Keith's work, edited by Dr. Russell, (the present Bishop of Glasgow), Edinburgh 1824, 8vo. This work of Spotiswood is the basis of all ordinary writers
: :

down to the year 1688." Edinand also in the new edition of

on Scotish Monastic Antiquities In Fordun's " Scoticronicon

:

Goodal, II. 538 Monasteriorum Scotise." In the second vol. of Gough's Topography, p. 607, is a general view of the various Chartularies and Religious Houses, chiefly taken from the MSS. of Father Hay. In the Introduction to Part I. of the " Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland, etched by Adam de Cardonnell :" London. 1788, 8vo and 4to, there is a very complete classified list of the Religious Houses
:

Abreviatio," ed. " Edinburgh, 1759, folio, is a Tabula

formerly existing in Scotland.

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In the Edinburgh Magazine for June 1808, is a " List of the Religious Foundations in Scotland,"

by the Earl of Buchan, pp. 2. In 1809, Mr. now Sir John Graham Dalyell, Kt. and Bart, published " A Tract, chiefly relating to Monastic Antiquities, with some account of a recent search for the Remains of the Scotish Kings interred
in the

Edinburgh 1809, With an engraved specimen of the 8vo, pp. 73. Chartulary of Dunfermline, as frontispiece, and plate of the Seal of the Regality of the Abbey of Dunferm:

Abbey

of Dunfermline."

line, at

Notes, Historical and Descriptive, on the Priory of Inchmahome ; with Introductory Verses, and an

"

page 72.

Appendix of Original Papers. Edinburgh Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for William Blackwood, South Bridge Street and John Murray, Albemarle 4to. Street, London, 1815." (By the Rev. William Minister of Port of Monteath.) Macgregor Stirling, In 1820 Mr. Graham Dalyell printed " Remarks
:

on the Antiquities illustrated by the Chartularies of the Episcopal See of Aberdeen." Edin. 1820, 8vo,
Illustrated with a Frontispiece, containing pp. 52. a specimen of the larger chartulary, and an initial letter (C) from the smaller chartulary.

In 1836, the same gentleman printed " Brief Analysis of the Ancient Records of the Bishopric of
:

Moray."
lary of

Edin. 1826, 8vo, pp. 82 with a Frontispiece, containing specimens of the ancient chartu-

Moray. These were succeeded,

in 1828,

by

"A Brief Anof

alysis of the Chartularies of the

Abbey

Cambus-

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

23

kenneth, Chapel- Royal of Stirling, and Preceptbry of St. Anthony at Leith." Edin. 1828, 8vo, pp. 92. With an illuminated Frontispiece of the Royal Arms
of Scotland, from the chartulary of the tioned religious house.
first

men-

As

a very limited impression of this and the other

three parts was made, they are

now individually
"

scarce,

and collectively extremely rare. In 1828, Mr. Maidment printed

Templaria. Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and Possessions of the Scotish Knights Templar, and their successors the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem." The impression of each reIn two parts, small 4to. stricted to twenty-five copies ; and as these were

some in single leaves printed in small fasciculi the work is seldom found complete, and consequently

among the very scarcest of Scotish privately volumes. The following collation of a perfect printed copy may be useful
:

ranks

Information for Ross of Auchlossin, pp. 11. Information for John Lord Torphichen, pp. 8. Part II. Charter by King James IV. pp. 8. AcPart
I.

count of the Templars, pp. 10. Letters of RepleClaim for giation by James Lord Torphichen, pp. 2.

James Lord Torphichen,

pp. 12.

Chartse Magistri

Hospitalis S. Jo. Hierios. Digneto Scott, pp. 2. Commission by James, the first Lord Torphichen, to

Robert Lyndsay of Dunrod, pp. 2 Thomas Lord Binning his Instrument of Resignation, pp. 4. Proceedings in the Claim for John Hamilton, Advocate,
pp. 10.

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connected with the History of the Scotish Templars, Mr. Gracie, W. S. Superior of all the " Notes Temple lands in Scotland, printed, in 1830, of Charters, &c., by the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Melrose, afterwards Earl of Haddington, to the Vassals of the Barony of Drem. From 1615 to 12. in the same year, " Abstract 1627," pp. And, of the Charters and other Papers recorded in the
Chartulary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596," pp. both in small 4to. Of these very valuable ; little tracts only thirty- five copies were printed, and they rank nearly in the same degree of rarity with the " Templaria" of Mr. Maidment.

As

55

Charters of Coldingham have been printed in the Rev. J. Raine's History of North Durham,

The

London, 1830, folio. In 1831, the late Mr. John Dillon commenced to print some collections relative to the Cathedral Church These he was compelled by declining of Glasgow.
I.

Part

health to relinquish.

After his death, the sheets

al-

ready thrown

were distributed among the members of the Maitland Club, in 1840. They contain an
off

Inventory of the Ornaments, Reliques, Jewels, Vestments, Books, &c. belonging to the Cathedral in
1432, with observations on the Catalogue of Books, and extend to thirty-one pages. This Catalogue of Books and relative observations had previously been communicated by Mr. Dillon to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and they are printed in Vol. II Mr. Dillon has made of their Transactions, p. 328.

much melancholy

blundering, especially in the book

FRAGMENTA SCOTO -MONASTICA.

department
;

25

be found correctly printed, and carefully elaborated, in the forthcoming publication of the Chartulary of Glasgow by Mr.
will

but the whole

Innes.

The Monastic Annals

of Teviotdale

or the His-

tory and Antiquities of the Abbeys of Jedburgh, Kelso, Melrose, and Dryburgh. By the Rev. James Morton, B. D. Prebendary of Lincoln, Vicar of Hoibeach, Domestic Chaplain to the Right Honourable

Earl Grey, Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and Honorary Member of

Antiquarian Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Edinburgh, 1832. 4to, pp. 328, with 18 plates.
the

Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, Cartas, Privilegia

Conventiones, aliaque Munimenta complectens, a domo fundata A. 1). MCLXIII, usque ad A. D. MDXX1X. ad fidem codicis MS. in Bibliotheca
Facultatis Juridicse Edinensis servati,
typis

nunc primum

MDCCCXXXII. Edinburgi, 4to, pp. 447. Preface and Tabula, pp. xxv. Index, pp. With plate of Facsimile. xxvi.
mandatum.
This volume, edited by Cosmo Innes, Esq. was printed at the expense of the Earl of Glasgow, and presented by his Lordship, as his first contribution, to the Maitland Club. In the second volume of the " Miscellanv of the
v

Bannatyne Club,"

edited

by David Laing, Esq.

Edin. 1836. 4to. the following interesting articles relating to the Abbey of Holyrood are to be found at

page 9

" Historia MiraculoseFundationis Monasterii Sancte

[1128.]
Historia Funda-

Crucis prope Edinburgh,

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FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONAST1CA.
de Traile.

tionis Prioratus Insule

Nomina Abbatum

Monasterii
etc.

Inventarium Jocalium, Magni ejusdem Monasterii, Oct. 1493." In the same work, at page 299, are the List of Benefactors to, and Obituary of the Preceptory of St. Anthony, near Leith. From the original volume in the Advocates' Library, noticed at p. 12, supra.
Sancte
Crucis.
Altaris

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta Vetusde Melros. Edinburgi, MDCCCXXXVII. 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I. pp. 32J.
tiora Monasterii Cisterciensis

Preface, pp. xxxii, Indices, pp. xxxvi.

List of Plates,

pp. xiv.

Tabula,

pp. xix.

Vol.

II. pp.

323

to 695.

Tabula, pp. xxi, Indices, pp. xxxv. This magnificent work, illustrated with 27 plates of seals and facsimiles, was presented by the Duke
of Buccleugh and Queensberry to the Bannatyne Club. It was edited by Mr. Innes, to whose taste and accuracy in the publication of this and other
chartularies,

indebted.

the antiquary and historian are alike There are copies on large paper.

Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, e pluribus codicibus consarcinatum circa, A. D. MCCCC. cum continuatione diplomatum recentiorum usque ad A. D.

M.DCXXIII.
pp.

Edinburgi,

MDCCCXXXVII,

4to.

List of the plates, Preface, pp. xlviii. 1 leaf. Twelve Tabula, pp. xxiv. Indices, pp. xl. plates of seals and facsimiles. The contribution to the Bannatyne Club by the

476.

Edited likepresent and late Dukes of Sutherland. wise by Mr. Innes, whose construction of the Antient Map of Moray manifests much labour and diligence

FRAGMENTA SCOTOMONASTICA.
in

27
paper

topographical

research.

There are

large

copies. Ferrerii

Historia

Abbatum de

Vita

Thome

MDCCCXXXIX.
by the
late Sir

Chrystalli 4to. Pp. 96.

Kynlos, unacum Abbatis. Edinburgi,

Preface, pp. xxii.

In this work, contributed to the Bannatyne Club

Alexander Wellesley Leith, Bart, and edited by Mr. Innes, everything that can be found
respecting Kinloss
is

preserved.

Liber Cartarum Sancte Crucis. Munimenta Ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Edwinesburg. -Impressum
Edinburgi, pp. cxxxvi.

MDCCCXL.

Preface, Fifteen Plates of Seals and Facsimiles.

4to.

Pp. 333.

The splendid and valuable contribution of Lord Francis Egerton to the Bannatyne Club. Edited by Mr. Innes. The
cairn's

Seal of the Abbey, as engraved in Mr. Pit" Chronicon Csenobii Sancte Crucis," printed

for the

Bannatyne Club,

is

hereto appended.

Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia Registro ipso in Archivis Barontim de Panmure hodie asservato. 4to. Edinburgi, MDCCCXLI.
e

Pp.
pp.

432.
Ixii.

Preface

and Tabula, pp.

Ixiv.

Indices,

Seven Plates of Facsimiles. Onesimus Tyndall Bruce, Esq. to the Bannatyne Club. Edited by Mr, Innes. There are copies on large paper.

The

contribution of

Liber
4to.

Conventus

S.

Catherine

Senensis

prope

Edinburgum.

Impressum Edinburgi,

MDCCCXLI.

Pp. 26, (unnumbered), 87.

Preface, pp. Ixxxiv.

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PRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

Printed at the expense of the members of the Abbotsford Club, and edited by James Maidment, Esq. The Sisters of " The Sciennes" were Dominicans ; and of the representation of one of these worthy " Lectiones Anladies, as given by Wolfius in his tiquae," and copied in the Constitutions of the Nun-

nery above mentioned, an example is here given. The Chartularies of Balmerino and Lindores, now first printed from the Original MSS. in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. Edinburgh, printed for the Abbotsford Club, MDCCCXLI. 4to. This volume, edited by the former Secretary of the
4

Mr. Turnbull, is divided in two parts. 1. Liber Sancte Marie de Balmerinach, pp. 87, including Appendix and Indices, Introduction, pp. xii. Tabula, Two plates of Seals and ground plan of the pp. iii. Abbey. 2. Liber Sancte Marie de Lundoris, pp. 55, including Appendix and Indices, Introduction pp. xi.
Club,

Two plates of Seals. Copies of Tabula, pp. 2. these Seals are given in the present tractate. Gentle Reader, behold the Abbey of Balmerino, as represented in that singular Map of Scotland, containof Hardyng's Chronicle in the Bodleian Library, (Arch. Seld. B. 26,) and engraved by " Anecdotes of British Topography," Gough, in his

ed in the

MS.

Vol.

II.

Tfinvt- fnu-fx whir//. nrr'f/a.rfrrytrrftn-r xt.it/-x/f/ft//tft</

m tvhvfr

rvf'/f

pa

JItfSfti.tu.itn-

Cloistr

W'caf Front

FBAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
See
also,

29

from the same

original, that of Lindores.

The Reverend

Charles J. Lyon,
is

M. A.

Episcopal

Clergyman of St. Andrews,

engaged on a History " Episcopal, Monastic, Collegiate, and Civil," of that

ancient City. Although, strictly speaking, this rather pertains to the class of Historical Topography, yet,

from the careful attention hestowed on the conventual division of the work,
it is

here recorded.

The

opposite plates exhibit the ground plan and elevation of the Cathedral, as restored by M. Lyon.

The following chartularies

under the
editorial care of

are presently in the press

Mr. Innes,

XAPTO-

OTAAH.
ABERDEEN. For the Spalding Club of that city. One hundred and one copies are thrown off on Maitland Club paper, at the expense and for the use of the Members of that Association.

DUNFERMLINE.

For the Bannatyne Club.

The

joint contribution of several members. GLASGOW. For the Bannatyne and

Maitland

Clubs.

At

their

mutual

cost.

'tx w/iir//.

arrdfH-byuirJ.atv. still-xta/i/tins/ in

wfwk?

<v* in part,.

c!U4. Great
Tower
-S.

Transept,

Cloister doo

Westfront
Scaii;

0f20O feet.

FBAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.
See
also,

29

from the same

original, that of Lindores.

The Reverend

Charles J. Lyon,
is

M. A.

Episcopal

engaged on a History " Episcopal, Monastic, Collegiate, and Civil," of that

Clergyman of St. Andrews,

ancient City. Although, strictly speaking, this rather pertains to the class of Historical Topography, yet,

from the careful attention bestowed on the conventual division of the work,
it is

here recorded.

The

opposite plates exhibit the ground plan and elevation of the Cathedral, as restored by M. Lyon.

The following chartularies

under the
editorial care of

are presently in the press

Mr. Innes,

XAPTO-

ABERDEEN. For the Spalding Club of that city. One hundred and one copies are thrown off on Maitland Club paper, at the expense and for the use of the Members of that Association.

For the Bannatyne Club. The joint contribution of several members. GLASGOW. For the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs. At their mutual cost.

DUNFEBMLINE.

30
SCONE.

FRAGMENTA SCOTO-MONASTICA.

This Chartulary, to be presented by Mr. Smythe to the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs, is now in the press and is edited by the contributor. CAMBUSKENNETH. STIRLING CHAPEL ROYAL. Mr. Lucas of Stirling, it is understood is about to
;

edit these

Chartularies,

as

his

contribution to the

Maitland and Abbotsford Clubs. This ST. GILES, (Edinburgh).

botsford Clubs.

is

to

be contribut-

ed by Lord Meadowbank to the Bannatyne and Ab-

SEALS.
possesses a collection of admirably executed drawings of Scotish Monastic Seals, made by Hewlett of London for the late John Caley,

The Bannatyne Club

one of the editors of the magnificent new edition of Dodsworth and Dugdale'sMonasticon Anglicanum. After Mr. Caley 's death these drawings were purchased by Mr. Thorpe, the eminent bookseller, from whom they were acquired
Esq. of the Augmentation
Office,

by the Bannatynians. Mr. Maidment has, among

his curious

and rare

ac-

cumulations, a drawing of the Seal of the Carthusian Monastery at Perth, of which, it would appear, no impressions are now known to be in existence. This

he has kindly permitted

be lithographed, for the illustration of this tractate. See page 20. Fine casts, in sulphur or wax, of such seals as are still to be found, can be procured from Mr. Doubleday of London, and Mr. H. Laing, Elder Street,
to

Edinburgh.

FRAGMENTA SCOTOMON ASTICA,

Mr. Innes informs me, that he has recently

31
dis-

covered the original matrices of the following Scotish Cenobitical and Episcopal Seals, in the possession of

Mr. Thomas, a merchant of London

Caithness.

Dunkeld.
Kinloss.

(Seal of Cause.)

Newbottle.

Orkney.
St. St.

(Bishop Honey man's.)

of Leith.

Pluscardine..

Anthony
Colmoc.

Of

this latter seal

it

may be observed
in the 31st

that

it

has
that

been engraved on wood

number of

very instructive periodical the Irish Penny Journal, (vol. I, p. 245,) and illustrated, but erroneously, by

Mr.

Petrie,

who seems

to consider that

it

belonged
:

to the

Monastery of Inchcolm, in the Frith of Forth while in reality it is that of Inchmahome, in Monteith.
It

had been previously engraved in Mr. Macgregor Stirling's book referred to at p. 22, supra.

TEA02.
Hatts

Ufa

tt

Sanrtts

LETTERS FROM DAVID ERSKINE, ESQ. W. S. TO CAPTAIN (AFTERWARDS GENERAL) BUTTON.*

FROM THE COPIES IN GENERAL BUTTON'S AUTOGRAPH PENES EDITOREM.^

1.
f

Fleurs, 4th

May

1789.

oOME time ago I had the pleasure of your's of

6th
ult.

the

accompanying a letter from

Lord Buchan.

pleasure to contribute to your collection of Scots conventual seals, which I believe might be rendered nearly complete, with no
It

would give

me much

great trouble, by a person residing in Edinburgh, who had access to the professional men of the law, and to In the the collections in the Advocates' Library.

way of
*

impressions, of the different religious houses in Scotland, are from

business,

many

seals, I

mean

Mr. Erskine, the author

of these letters,

was a member

of the Society of Writers to his Majesty's Signet, and highly distinguished in the profession by his skill in conveyancing,

and intimate acquaintance with the history and practice of the feudal law. His talents and probity secured for him the agency of many of the nobility and principal commoners of Scotland.

II

But though I might possession. venture to allow them to be copied by any person known to me by character in Edinburgh, yet I could
time to time in

my

not, without a

breach of trust to

my

employers, send

If you know anybody in any distance. Edinburgh who can accurately draw from a seal, I shall be obliged to you for your information, as there are many seals of which I would wish to preserve

them

to

drawings, before I return them to their owners. In the records of the city of Edinburgh, much in-

formation

is its

to be found with regard to the religious

neighbourhood, the greater part of them having at the Reformation been granted to the city. I believe the records and charters belonging to the

houses in

and are accurately inventoried. Along with this, I send a lease by the Commendator of Dryburgh, of some lands near the Abbey, and a gift of pension by the Commendator of Inchmahomo The seals of both, or St. Colmocs, to an organist.
city are in

good

order,

though very rude, are in pretty good preservation ; and that of the latter is seldom to be met with. Probably, while you have been in this neighbourhood,

you may have seen much better impressions of the former. They are both intended for Lord Buchan, so you will be kind enough to forward them to him
at

your convenience, with

my

best respects.

I leave this for Edinburgh to-morrow, regretting that my time did not permit me to call upon you.
I

am, with regard, &c.

Ill

2.

Edinburgh^ 5th September 1789.

have before me your letters of the llth May and 27th and 30th August. Absence from town, and other circumstances, have prevented an earlier answer. I do not believe the Duke of Roxburgh is possessed of any chartulary of a religious house, nor do I think
I

he has any writs concerning the Priory of Canonby.

If the register of that priory is extant, it will probably be in the hands of the Duke of Buccleugh. I know

nothing of
print.

its

history but

what

is

to be found in

Insula S 4i Colmoci, Inchmahomoc, and Inchmahomo, are undoubtedly the same, the former being

a Latin translation of the Gaelic of the two latter. I am possessed of an old paper, entitled " The double
of the apointment betwix the Bishop of Dunblain and the Pry or of Inchmahomo. Drawine out of the

Auld

a sentence pronounced by Galfrid, Bishops of Glasgow and Dunkeld, commissioners appointed by Pope Gregory for set-

Wm

Register."

It is

and

tling

some matters concerning the Bishoprick of " in consilio Dunblane, and is dated apud Perth A. G. 1238, in octabus S Joannis Baptistse." It has
ti

" Ordinavimus etiam the following clause quod licitum sit dicto comiti [Waltero Cumyng eomiti de Menteath] et successoribus suis domum virorum re:

ligiosorum ordinis S* Augustini in Insula de Inchmaquhomok construere sine impedimento vel eontradic1

tione dicti Episcopi [Dunblanensis] vel suceessorum

IV
suorum." Hence it is clear that Walter Cumyng, Earl of Menteath, was the founder of this Priory ; and there are two monuments of a man and woman in the ruins of the Priory, which are probably the Earl and his wife.* But this may be easily known, as there are arms on both. I do not believe the titles
of this Priory, or any Chartulary of it, are extant. I can give you no information about the Priories

of Lochtay and Strathfillan. I believe both to the family of Breadalbane. belong

now

The

Priory of Restennot in

Angus being
1

a cell of

Jedburgh, was founded by David Bishop of St. Andrews ; who, by a charter In vigilia S* Bartholomei Apostoli 1242, grants to the Abbot and Canons of Jedburgh the church of Restennot, with the chapel of Forfar, and liberty of placing a prior and friars I have seen a tranthere, and of removing them. sumpt of the charter in the hands of the Earl of

In 6th Sept* 1330, Ja8 Bishop of St. Andrews granted to John de Eskdale, Prior' of Restinot, and his successors, the lands of Rostcolby (now Roseoby) in Angus. This Priory was granted
Strathmore.
to the ancestor of the Earl of Kelly, has come to the Earl of Strathmore.

from

whom

it

Frater Henricus Cant gardianus loci fratrum minorum burgi de Roxburgh, cum consensu suorum

fratrum subscript, vizt. Fratris Jofcs Fergussone provincialis fratrum minorum in regno Scocie ac gardiani
loci

fratrum minorum

de Dundee, Fratris

Caroli

* This

monument
"

has been engraved in the late Mr. Mac-

Notes, Historical and Descriptive., on the Priory gregor Stirling's jof Inchmahome/' Plate II.

V Home
Jofos
fratris

gard.

loc.

fratr..

min. de

Dumfries,

fratris

loc. fratr. min. de Kirkcudbright, et Marci Fluccar gard. loc. fratr. de Innerkething, grants to Walter Ker of Cessfurd, knight, the lands This I belonging to that place, 18th Dec. 1564. presume is what is now called the Friers, at the I know nothing junction of the Tweed and Teviot. of the founder, nor of the Red friars or College which

Cant gard.

you mention.
you no information about the Priory of Blantyre, nor is any to be found in Lord Blantyre' s custody. Though an ancient, it was a very inconsiderI can give

able house.

There was a Collegiate Church at Abernethy, of which I see Wm. Schaw was Provost in 1554. I suppose Mr. Douglas of Douglas has the writs. The representative of Seaforth is Humbertstone
Mackenzie, Esq. M. P.* The agent for Dundas of Dundas
is

Mr. John
of me.

Dundas,

writer to the signet.

I dare say I have And I am, &c.

now made you weary

you had any intention of engraving the monastic seals of Scotland, and if you had an enP. S.
If

graver here, I dare say I might be able to furnish him with some, Culross, Dryburgh, Cambuskenneth,
Blantyre, &c.
Subsequently created a British Peer by the title of Lord Seaforth. Dying without male issue., in 1814, the barony became extinct^ and his estates., by virtue of an entail, fell to his
daughter.
*

3.

Edinburgh, I4tk October 1789.

I have the pleasure of both

yours of the 8th nit.

and 12th inst. In the agreement between Walter Cumyng, Earl of enteath, and the Bishop of Dunblane, the name

of the Prior of
deed,
it is

Inchmahomo

is

not mentioned.

In-

probable he was not then appointed. date of the grant by Henry Cant, 18th December 1564, must be right, as I have two notes

The
it

of

taken at different times, which agree.

No

The lands, so far as I recollect, are particularised. mentions in general the particates of land, grant
roods, fishings, &c. about Roxburgh, which belonged to the Friars of Roxburgh. To enable you to clear up your difficulties as to

Restennot, I herewith send four copies I took this summer of original writs of that Priory, which I beg

you

will return, as I

have no duplicate of them.

prefer the authority of these writings to Lord Arbuthnot's, because the monks never would have

forged deeds to decrease the antiquity of their at the sametime, the papers sent are not Priory,
conclusive.

I think I took William Schaw's

made by him
Earn.

name from a grant of some lands near to the Bridge of

by a charter dated at Scone, 9th May, consent of the Bishop of St. Andrews a. r. I. with (Walter), grants to the Monastery of Dryburgh, Ord.
Robert
III,

VII
Prsemonstrat. the whole lands, rents, and others which belonged to the Nunnery of South Berwick, a Priory

of the Cistercian order of the diocese of St. Andrews.

One

of the reasons of the dissolution

is

stated to be
lubricis

" Moniales ejusdem abjecto continencise freno

actibus insolenciis et dissolutionibus indulgere ipsasque ad numerum modicum duarum fore redactas."

The

" ad re-edificacionem mongrant also is intended This may asterii hostili incendio dudum consumpti."
serve to
fix

the sera of the present Monastery of Drywould appear too, that the Nunnery had burgh. been burnt down. This grant is confirmed by WalIt

terus de Haliburton, Dr5s ejusd. et de Drylton, 30th October 1410. One of the witnesses is Dns Thoas

de Alton, magister de Soltre. I suppose David I. was the founder of the Nunnery, for I have seen a charter by Edward III. a. r. 10mo, confirming to the Prioress and Nuns of Berwick-

upon- Tweed, 40 rnerks yearly payable out of tha.t town, which had been granted to them by David of Scotland, and confirmed to them by Edward, King
of England.
I know nothing of the Maison-dieus of Roxburgh and Jedburgh, further than that Walter Ker of Cessfurd had a grant of their patronages as far back as

Aug*' 1488. Malcolm Earl of Fife, " pro salute ale Wilmi Regis Scotie, et pro salute ale et prosperitate Alex13 Regis " Deo et be. Marie et be. SerScotie," &c. Grants vans de Culenross et monachis Cister. ord. ad funda-

'

cionem abbacie sue nove Totam terram Schyre de

Culenross per rectas di visas suas

cum

ecelia et cas-

VIII
tello,

Tenend. in liberum forestum. Testibus Laurencio filio Osney, Nesio de Ramesay, Magro Petro filio ejus, "Wilmo de Valloniis, Hugo de Abernethi." No date. This charter is confirmed by Robert I. apud Sconam 5 to Decri8 a. r. 13 mo This
&c.
.

last is in

my

hands.

an agreement between the Abbot and monks of Cullenros and the Prioress and nuns of Northberwyk, anno 1288. No names of Abbot or Prioress and I have a similar one, anno 1237, infra
I have
;

octabus Apostolorum Petri et Pauli. Robert is Commendator of Inchmahomo, Sept. 1531. John, the son of John Lord Erskine, is Commendator there, 16th August 1552. Pope Paul IV.

nominated David Erskine Abbot of Inchmahomo, 4 Ides of January 1555. He takes possession 5th Dec. 1556. Hugh Lord Sommervill is patron of the Prebendary and Chaplainry of the blessed Virgin founded in the Isle of Carnwath, and presents Hugh Sommervill thereto, 20th June 1573. The notes in the two last paragraphs are taken from the Mar writings. I send a tack, 1557, by Thomas Abbot of Halywood, (Sancti Nemoris,) on account of the very sin-

Be so good as return gular seal. tennot papers.

it

with the ResIt is

I have seen the house or Ministry of Fail. on the side of a lake or morass, and I presume

Loch
have

Feal, Feal, and Fealford are synonimous. not seen any writings concerning it, though probably soon have an opportunity.

I shall

IX
In the Great Seal Record there are two Charters of Confirmation by the King to the Nunnery of It was Haddington, of all their rights in 1458. given about 150 years ago to the Lauderdale family.
It

now
I

belongs to Lord Blantyre.

obliged to you for your offer. not in my power to avail myself of

am much
it is

At
it.

pre-

sent

But

should you remain another year in this country, I flatter myself I might derive some advantage from I am, &c. it.
4.

Edinburgh, 9th December 1789.

have just now before me a transumpt by the Magistrates of Edinburgh, llth October 1486, of two several Charters. The one by Allan Earl of Menteth to Win. de Husky, of the lands of Rusky, " Testibus Dno Christina de without date.
I

priore Drio Malcomo de Jnnerpeffri mo milite, Wil de Montefixo, Joftne de Lany." Theother ri by Mordac Earl of Menteth, fil. Dni Alex Comitis quond. de Menteth, to Sir Walter de Menteth, son of

Insula

tl

Colmoci,

Sir

in

John de Menteth, of the lands of Thorn or Thorn, " Menteth, without date. Witnesses, Dnis Jofce de

Menteth, Malisio de Stratherne,

de Montefixo, Dno Christino priore de Insula S tl Colmilitibus. ro mod, Alex de Menteth, Gilberto de Drummond, Malcolmo de Drummond." These are the oldest documents I remember to have seen of the Priors of

mo

Inchmahomo, (Ragman roll excepted.) I suspect you are mistaken in supposing Polmadie

near Rutherglen to have been an Hospital. It unquestionably belonged to the collegiate church of Dumbarton, and the superiority of the lands of Polmadie still belongs to the Duke of Montrose, as lay
patron of that collegiate church.

have sent you some conventual seals this week, but I have not had it in my power to look them out. I am, &c.
I

meant

to

5.

Edinburgh, 2'3d December 1789.

Along with this mendator of Culross

sion of the seal
;

send Charter by Alex1 Comin 1575, with a tolerable impresCharter by Adam Commendator of
I
.

Cambuskenneth in 1567 Seal somewhat defaced, but I have no better impression by me Charter by James abbot of Newbottle in 1550, with the seal
; ;

pretty well

preserved

and another

seal of

Mark

Commendator of Newbottle, about 1580. From which two last you will be able to complete the Newbottle seal. I also send a charter by John Lord Haly burand Christian de Vallibus, his wife, with her seal, which is very singular, as it represents her with her husband's bearing in one hand and her own in
ton,

be obliged to you to return the I have no desire for charters at your convenience. the seal of Mark of Newbottle, if it can be of any use to you. If I had a day's leisure, I could send you many more conventual seals. I hope to do it before the middle of next month. The collegiate church of Dumbarton was founded
the other.
I shall

XI
by Isabella Duchess of Albany, whom you mention. So your conjecture as to the hospital may be right. I have at present no materials about this collegiate
church.

Roseneath or Luffness. I do not recollect ever to have seen any writings about the former, and I have kept no notes as to the latter. Luffness now belongs either to Lord Portmore or to the Honourable Charles Hope. I have every reason to believe that there is no chartulary of Inchmahomo at Alloa, having examined
I
at all of
all

know nothing

the papers there several years ago. The monastery and nunnery of Haddington were

on the opposite sides of the River Tyne. The was near half a mile below the monastery. nunnery Next week I expect to be able to send you an
inaccurate copy of the chartulary of the Priory of St. Andrews, with a very correct abstract of the
chartulary of Pasley. I cannot decypher the legend of the Dundee seal. I know little of any of the houses in that neighbour-

hood.

Nor am

I acquainted with Jedburgh.

It

was

erected in favour of the

Home

family

but they got

none of the old writings. I have hopes of sending you soon some very
beautiful conventual seals.

If I succeed, there is one of which I shall beg the favour of a drawing from

you.

Have you
Chapters am, &c.
?

the

seals

of the Bishops
to

and

their

or do

you wish

have them

I always

XII

6.

Edinburgh, 31s# December 1789.

have time only to inform you, that yesterday by Kirkpatrick the Kelso carrier, I sent you a parcel containing extracts from the chartulary of Paisley, copied accurately from the original ; and to the best of my recollection, compared by myself. Also copy
I

of the very curious chartulary of the Priory of St.

Andrews. This however is copied by an illiterate inaccurate lad from a copy, so it must be very incorI am, &c. rect.

7.

Edinburgh, 27th March 1790.

I have the pleasure of your's of the 25th instant, and I also received your's of the 10th January, accom-

had formerly sent you. keep for some weeks longer the Chartularies of Paisley, and of the Priory of St. Andrews. When you return them I hope to be able to send you copies either of the Cambuskenneth or both of which contain many Jnchaffray Chartularies
panying the charters
I

You

are

welcome

to

curious particulars.
I

am much

obliged to

make me.

I shall

you for the kind offers you thank you for an excerpt from

the inventory of charters of whatever relates to the Stuarts of Galstoun, Castletoun, Castlemilk, Cambusnethan or Finnart- Stuart ; also a copy of the

XIII
charter by the Earl Marischal to the Carmelites of Innerbervie 1443, and of the titles of the other, papers

from the Marischal College. At present trouble you for nothing further.

shall

next week, or the week thereafter, I hope to send you a deed by the Nunnery of Haddington, with a pretty good impression of the seal, which is the only one I have seen ; also some other conven-

By

tual

and episcopal

bishoprick of St. was in that see, if

one of the ArchAndrews, when Cardinal Beaton you have it not already.
seals, particularly

I saw an engraving of the College of Abernethy's seal some time ago, in the Gentleman's Magazine.
I

suppose

it is

the same you mention, as

to have been sent, from Ireland, the arms of the Abernethys.

I
is

it was said and has on one side

know nothing of the Prior of Oxenfoord. not a mistake in the transcribing, (which

If
is

it

ex-

tremely probable,) he

may

perhaps have been an

English Prior.
I

have now before

me

John Lauder, "

dalise

a deed 20th Jan17 1539 by

ecclesise Glasgueri intra partes

Tevi-

Archidiaconus," John Coldane, ProvostofMethm Gibson, Dean of Restalrig. I always ven, and

am, &c.
8,

Edinburgh, 12th April 1790.

had sometime ago the pleasure of your's of the 1st inst. with a copy of the indenture between W* Keith, Marischal of Scotland, and the Carmelites of
I
1
.

XIV
Inverbervie, for which be so good as accept thanks.
I see from the extracts

my

best

you send me, that the inventory of Charters, &c. which you have, is a copy of Mr. Rob*. Mill's inventory in my possession, so that you need not give yourself the trouble to send me any further extracts from it. The greatest part of the Barony of Beath in Fife,
belonged to the Abbacy or Priory of Inchcolm, an
Island in the Frith of Forth, and now belongs to the Earl of Moray, as Lord of Erection of that Abbacy ;
perfectly clear that Robert Steuart, who grants the charter of part of Beath to James Steuart, in 1543, was Abbot of Inchcolm, not of Icolmkill.

so that I

am

You

will see

some account of

this

Abbacy

in Sib-

bald's History of Fife, p. 40. This day I have the pleasure of your's of the llth, returning the chartularies of Paisley and St. Andrews,

accompanied with sundry other papers, which I have not yet had an opportunity of looking into, but which I shall examine and return probably next week. In I with pleasure accept of the extracts the meantime from the inventory of writs belonging to the Marischal College of Aberdeen. Along with this I send you the chartulary of Cambuskenneth, copied from the original transumpt on vellum, of the whole writings of that abbacy, made by Fouldis the Clerk Register ; which circumstance will enable you to understand the verses sub-

You may return it with joined to the chartulary. your convenience, and be so good as write me when I am, &c. it comes to your hand.

XV
9.

Peggy's Mill, near Edinburgh,

16tfA July,

1790.

ought long ago to have acknowledged the receipt of the chartulary of Cambuskenneth, which reached me very safe two or three days after you left ScotBut having been attacked last winter by some land. complaints in my breast, I have been obliged to retire to country quarters, where I must not write, or indeed attend to any business. This day I go to the northward for some weeks, but still any letters
I

directed for
to

me

at

Edinburgh

will

find their

way

me. I have in Edinburgh copies of some papers belonging to you, which shall be disposed of in any way you shall direct and when you return to Scotland, you shall be most welcome to complete your extracts from the chartulary of Cambuskenneth, and I shall then have it in my power to furnish you with some
;

conventual
I

seals.

am much indebted to you

for

your obliging

offers,

and

shall take the liberty of using

them when oppor-

In the mean time, if it is not too much trouble, I would wish for copies of the following writs of the Marischal College, mentioned in your's of the 10th, (for your former list is in Edinm B. 16, No. 9, Decr annui redditus, &c. burgh,)
tunity offers.

B. 18, N. 3, Confirmation, &c. I suppose the granter of the charter, B. 16, No. 8, is Pingle, not Pringle, Perhaps Phil, de Barbour, B. 19, No. 3, may have

XVI
been the nephew of John Barbour, Archdean of Aberdeen, Robert Bruce's poet and historian. Part of the Melrose charters was purchased by Lord Oxford from Mr. Anderson, (the collector of the Diplomata,) who is supposed to have got them from the families of Hadinton or Buccleugh. Perhaps Mr. Astle may now be possessed of them. I do not recollect the anecdote you mention about Queen Mary's being carried to Inchmahomo. No place could be less exposed to the English fleet. I have some singular seals, which on your return I hope to have it in my power to communicate. I most sincerely congratulate you on your preferment,* and am with truth,

II.

ORDINACIO EPISCOPI SANCTI ANDREE SUPER REGIMINE MONASTERII POST COMBUSTIONEM EJUSDEM.
[EX REG1STRO RECENTIORI CCENOBII DE ABERBROTH.
MS. ADV. BIBL. J

presentes litteras inspecturis vel audituris, Willelmus miseracione divina Episcopus Sancti Andree, salutem et pacem in
instigante nefario humani generis inimico diabolo, ecclesia solempnis de Aberbroth nuper in flammam transivit consump*

Universis Sancte Matris Ecclesie

filiis

Domino sempiternum.

Ex quo

Captain, R. A., 21st

May

J79"0.
to his friend

t For the above letters, the Editor is indebted William Dickson, Esq. Accountant in Edinburgh.

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ad nos pertinet omnibus religiosam et sanctam vitam ducentibus nostrum prebere consilium, auxilium, et juvamen, ne cujusquam tenuitatis occasio ipsos monaehos ab assumpte sanctitatis proposito retivam,
et

vocet, aut perturbet ipsam Ecclesiam, in

quantum

scimus et possumus manutenere volumus et reformare. Volumus igitur, ordinavimus, et perfici jubemus quosdam monaehos ad alia loca religiosa transmitti, quous-

que supradicta

ecclesia meliorari valeat et reformari in

chori tectura, in navi, et cruce.

Nee volumus aliquem

monachum

renuere aut contradicere quod ab abbate suo jussum fuerit et ordinatum, sub pena excommuniOrdinamus eciam duos caciom's et incarceracionis.

monaehos cum duobus armigeris esse

collectores,

levatores, et receptores terrarum et ecclesiarum dicti Monasterii in partibus ultramontanis, et alium in par-

tibus de

Mernys. Angus, Fyf, et de Strath ern, plene et integre ipsos denarios dando abbati suo per indenturam, et ipse abbas per indenturam Magistro
operis ordinato. Qui Magister operis faciet expensas de ipsis denariis per visum et consilium sui abbatis, reddetque raeionem et comp'otum abbati et con-

ventui de receptis.

Et ordmanms quod abbas renee hospites admittat, sed singillastringat expensas, Et sufficere tim et secrete cameram suam teneat.
volumus cuilibet monacho per annum pro victu et vestitu duodecim marcas, percipere alia facienda nostro mediante consilio. Volumus abbatem in omnibus operari. Et ad hec omnia complenda et perficienda dominum Alexandrum de Lindesay dominum de Glenesk, et dominum Johannem Lyoun Camerarium Scocie, consiliarios assignamus et adjutores
b

XVIII
speciales.
literas
fieri

tercio

die

In cujus ordinacionis testimonium has fecimus patentes apud Inchecnethock mensis Junij, anno gracie millesimo

tricentesimo octogesimo.

III.

ACT OF COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH IN FAVOUR OF WILLIAM PRESTON OF GORTOUN.

[ORIG. CHARTERS, 29 DENMYLNE, ADV. LIBRARY, A. 3.34.3

Be

it

kend

till all

men be

thir

pnt

letters,

Us

the

Provost, Baillies, Counselle, and Communitie x>f the burgh of Edynburgh, to be bundyn and sekirly oblist

Williame of Prestoune of Gourton, son and air to umquhill William of Prestoun of Gourton, and to the freindis and surname of thaim, that for alsmekle as William of Prestoune the Fadir, quham God assoillie, made diligent labour and grete menis be a hie
to

and mychty prince the King of France, and many uthir Lordis of France, for the gettyn of the arme bane of Sant Gele, the quhilk bane he frely left to oure mothir Kirk of Sant Gele of Edinburgh, withouttin ony conconsiderand the grate laboures ande costis that he made for the gettyn thairof, we
dicioun makyn.
that within sex or sevin zeris, in all the possible and gudelie haste we may, that we sail big ane He, furth fra our Lady He, quhare the said promitt, as said
is,

We

William

lyis,

the said

He

to be

begunnyn within a

zere, in the quhilk He thare sail be made a brase for his lare in bosit work, and above ye brase a ... of

XIX
bras, with a writ specifiand the bringing of that Relyk be him in Scotland, with his armes, and his armes to

be putt in hewin work in uthir thre partis of the He. Alswa an alter to be made in the said He vith buke and
chalice,

and

that

we

uthir graith belongand thairto. Alswa sail assing the chapelane of quhilum Schir
all

Williame of Prestoune to sing at that alter fra that tyme furth, and gif ony uthir freindis lykys to fest ony ma chapelanis, thai sail be thankfully ressauit
to singue at that alter. Item, That als oft as the said Ryllik beis borne in the zere, that the surname and nerrest of blude of the said Williame, sail bere

Allswa that fra the the said Ryllik before all uthris. dede of the said William fadir, zare sail be fundyn
a chapellane for the termes of five zeris to sing for Item we promitt that thare sail be an obit him. zerely done for him, sic as efferis, the tyme of the In witnes of the quhilk thingis, zere of his decesse. we have set to our commoun sele at Edynburgh the
xi day of the month of January e, the zere of oure Lord a thousand four hundreth fifty-four zeris.

Edin, 14th September

copied off

This the original by me.

HlO.

is

faithfully

THO. RUDDIMAN.

XX
IV.
ORDINACIO DAVID ABBATIS IN OPFICIIS SEQUENTIBUS.
[EX REGISTRO RECENTIORE CCENOBII DE ABERBROTH.J

Memorandum

that the Office of Cellerary extends

in the zeir in wedderis to viii c , price off the pece iijfs ; sum is i cxliiii lib. Item, in marts, lardinar and fress, al

the zere ix x
lib.

price of ilk pece xvfs ; m c c in keling lard i v , price of i iij Item,

,

som
lib.
;

vi xvli.

som xlv

quhen mister is in wynter, to be spendit v and agayne Lentren i m som iij cxxii lib. vifs. viijd. Item, in salmon lard betwex Dunde, the Ferry, and Montrose, xi barell, and the cellerar to and theiroff in bring in the same be Lamess zeirlie v barell in wynter, ande in wynter to be disponit,
off
fish,
c
,

ande

uther

Lentryn vi barrel!. Item, to be bot in dry hadocks and speldings xii m price i c xvid som viii lib. Item, x by the teynde and lard to by fresch fysch daily, iii lib. Item, to by eggs and butir xx merks. Item, to by lamis, velis, griss, and chekins, xx lib. Item,
, ;

to

by

salt,

xx merks.
peper
lib.
i
ij

Item,

iiij

lib. saffron, vii lib.

Item, xvi
xxfs.

lib.

is viij

merks.
i

Item, Item,

ij

lib.

ginger,
ij

Item,

canel xxxijfs.
grains,

ij

lib. clois,
i

merks.
xvifs.
iij

Item,
Item,
i

lib.

merk.

Item,

lib.

masis,

lib.

almonds,

dousan Rise
Imprimis, in
xxxiifs.
;

xxiiijfs.

xxd. Item, Item, candil in the zeir xx lib.

vi lib. price lib.

som

Item, in
iij

xviiid

som

pynt viijd ; vi galloins, price pynt huny lib. xiifs. Item, in the cellerars office,
galloins, price

vynnacar vi

for the fuel bringing

hame, v

lib.

Item,

ij

dosane

XXI
swyne and
sande to ye
xiijfs

bors,

lib.

Item,

fars viii lib.

his expensis pasItem, in habit silver, vi li.

till

and

iiijd.
iij

Item, for the seruitors feis in the

chichyne

lib. xfs.

Memorandum that the auld cellerar chargs wes the zer of God, &c. auchty ande viij zeir, the King's henes being heir twyss, the Archebishop thriss, ande the
off the realme, ande all otheris hospitalite drawis v c lib. xxixfs. and iiijd. ; ande now the kepit, memoriale extends that soume xxvij lib.

Lords

Memorandum

halde to be seyne
tar zeirlie, at

for the prouisione off stuff of housnow befor hande, and to continew

zeirlie off this fassone,

ande to be brot in be the GraniAlhalowmess or Mydlentryne, to have

in al vittalis in the grynalis at the ferrest, &c. Item be the office of Granytary, to be brot in be the
zeir's provisione

Granitar for stuff off provisione of houshald for a x ay in the zeir, to al the place, is iiij ij

chalder malt, quhilk extends in the nioneth to vij chalder, with largs expensis, quhilk is largely for the
inbringin off the samyn be negligent officiaris. Item, to be inbrot be the said granitar at the said

In quheit to stuff the place in the zeir, as said is, chalder, quhilk extends in the nioneth, baith for the abbot and servant and al the
termes aboue writtin.

xxx

'place,

wyth largs expensis, to xl bollis. Item to be inbrot be the said granitar of mele, and to be disponit in the place and eten in the moneth, chalder and iiij bollis. Quhilk extends in the zeir iij to xl chaldr. Except bowmennis feis and pensionis. And this reule to be observit and kepit, for the gude ande singular profyte off the place.

XXII

Sum
place
is

of al curnys to ordinar expensis within the x vii and xii ch. of quhete, beir and meil.

that the granitar sete na teynds to na nother landit men, without sikker souerte of haronis, houshandemen, except thaim that hes the commone

Memorandum

and our seil the gryntar beyng for the tyme. And that na thyng be sete to "na barone nor landit
sele

man, without

Lord's awyiss, &c. Item, sen the rentale ma susteyn the place, that throw the negligens off the granitar that the place susteyn na fait, hot that al the wyttalis be brocht in, as is befor writtyn, and that nayn be to craiff fra Paiss

my

Alhalomess in the cuntre, sen Gode off his grace hes giffyn the place largely to luff apon ; and that sleuthness off officiars ger the place want provisione ;
till

and that the abbot for the tyme beande, that he be not sleutbfu.il, na he tak cuir apone hym til ger all be fumllit and inbrot in dew tyme, as said is, in preAnde that the counts of the officiars be missis.
harde four tymyss in the
zeir.

V.
DE OFFICIO CORONATORIS REGALITATIS DE ABERBROTH ET EJUS ANNUA PENSIONE.
[EX REGISTRO RECENTIOB.E CCENOEII DE ABERBROTH. J

and syndry to quhais knawledge this present writ sal to cum, Maister Thomas Dekyson, Crovnar of the Regalite of Abbirbrothot, greting. Sen meidall

To

XXIII
and meritable thing is to beir wytness to the suth- faftness, and naymly in cass quharin ye bidding yaroff ma do prejudice to the innocent man, thin it is that
ful
I,

the forsaid Maistir

Thomas,

grantis

me

off

myn awn

wil fre, but compulsione or strenzheing off ony man, to have remittit and forgevin to the Abbot and Convent

of Abbroth al and sundrie soomes off witallis or silver

aucht to

me

for the execucione off the said office of

Crownarschip, on to the fest off Saint Michael, the zeir xx and viii of our Lorde a thousand four hundreth iiij sa that I be fullyly content and payit off a zers, chalder and aucht bollis off meil, and a chalder and

aucht bollis off beir, off gude and fresch wytail with the merkat met, befor the ffest off Pasche next and immediate followande the date off this present write, and four pundis of silver befor Witsonday next, and im-

mediate followande the date off the said fest of Pasche, without fraude or gile or langir delay quhatsumever and fra thynfurt he sal be zheirly payit for the execucion off the said office of Crownarschip be him and his deputts, ane or ma of xxiiij bollis of beir and meil off the mercatmet, andexl fs. of silver be the granitar off Abbroth, the witail to be payit at a tyme off the zheir
;

togidder,

Mertimess and Wytsonday be ewyn porcionis without fraude or gyil or langer day quhatfumevir. An de for the keeping off this said writ as

and

silver at

is

before writin,

Den

off the

Abbay

of Abbroth,
Bet,

Richart Scot suppriour that tyme Deyn Thomas Hercas,

Grinlaw, and

Den Thomas

Den Thomas

Den

Jhon Driburgh, monks off the said abbay, war oblist to the said Maister Thomas, to gor this writ and condicionis to

be observit and kepit, and for the mair syker-

XXIV
ness subscreivit this writ wyt thair hands, and for the tothir part the saidMaister Thomas hes writin this writ

wyth
day m i

his

awn

hands.

affixit his seil thairto at

Ande for the mair sykirness the Abbay of Abberbroth the xi

zheir of our

off the
xac

iiijiiij

moneth of Januar, the and viij zhers.

Lorde

r Ego Mag Thomas Dykyson approbo prescripta teste manu propria.

VI.
LITTERA FINNANCTE PRO DOMINO DUNCANO DAVIDSONE

MONACHO.
[EX REG1STRO RECENTIORE CCENOBII BE ABERBROTH.]

David, by the permission of Gode, Abbot of Arbroth, with the consent of our haill breder, grantis us to be bundyn and obliss, and be the tenor of this present wryt, be the fathis and trewthis of our bodiis, bindis and oblyss ws tyll ane worchipfull man, Johon

We

Dog, burgess of Dunde, in the sowm of xl powindis of the usual monet of Scotlande, for the eschange of ane certane sowm of Flanderis monet to be maid or payt be the said Jhon to our bruder Den Duncan Davyson in the partis of Flandrys or Frans, to be
payt be the said Jhon, his aiers, executors, or assignais, within xl days eftir the said Den Duncan's acquittans cumis and beys schawn to ws of the rasait of the saide monet within the realm of Scotlande, but ony langer
delay, fraude, or guy 11. To the payment of the quhilk forsaide soume we bynde and obliss ws and our sue-

XXV
cessors to the said Jhon, his aeris, executoris, and assignais, in the stratest forme and styl of obligacion.

In wytness heirof, we haiff affixit to our commoun ta seil, at Arbroth the xx day of August, the zeir of Gode one thousande cccc' nynty.*

VII.
STATUTA ABBATUM DE CUPRO PENES MOLENDINA SUA.
[EX. MS. ORIG. PENES JAC.

MAIDMENT, ARMIS.]

Curia venerabilis patris Johannis Schanwall abbatis de Cupro, tenta apud Cupar, 19 Jan. Grange die xix mensis Januarii, anno Drii
1480.
-n millesimo quadrmgentesimo octogesimo, per Joannum Ogilvy ballivum deputatum eius2.

Dm
.

dem. Curia
Alsua
it is

affir

ta *

&c.

statute, that all the tenentis sail

cum w*

grist to thair thirlit mylnes, and of the comes that thai by in the cuntrie thai sail pay dry multor, and bring

unto the mylne quairunto they ar

thirlit.

Curia venerabilis patris Dni Johis Schanwall, abbatis de Cupro, die xvij mensis Maij, 17 Maij anno Dni millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimo quarto, per Georgium Rattray de
The above is preceded in the Register by a licence to the said Duncan Davidson to travel ie ad partes transmarinas" for two years from 24th August 1490, on his own business and that of
the Monastery.
*

XXVI
ibidem ballivum monasterii de Cupro, tenta apud Cupargrange. Curia affirmata, sectis
vocatis.

The samen day

it

is

statute

and ordanit anent the

tenentis of the Carsgrange, with thair haill consentis toward thair dewties to thair mylne, callit the Bog-

mylne, that they sal haif thair maill frie of ony kind of comes that they pleis to sell thairfor. And siclyk they sal haif thair quhyte and aittis frie that they for teynd and custome delyver to the abbay. And of all wther cornes growand and supercedand to thame they sal pleis the millar of Bog-mylne thairfor,

and bring the samen to him leillelie and trewlie to be grundin at his said mylne for multor use and wont, gevand thair multor aithis to him anes ilk zeir,
according to the statutes made in the Courtis of befoir. And becaus the mylne wil sumtyme want wattir
in

ane dry

zeir,

they

sal prepair themselfis to

cum

w*.

thair cornis to be grundin at the said mylne quhan And gif thay delay, thay sal scho sal haif wattir. pay multor thairfor quhan ever thay pass to the miller of

Bog-mylne, and

mak

conversioun and compo-

sitioun

him

eftir

the forme of the King's lawis

maid thairupon.
Curia venerabilis patris Dni Dauid Bayn, abbatis de Cupro, tenta apud Cupargrange, 8 Maij die octavo mensis Mail, anno Dni millesi1400
>

quadringentesimo octogesimo octavo, Joannem Ogilvy ballivum deputatum per terrarum et dominii de Cupro, in presencia

mo

XXVII
dicti venerabilis patris.
tis

Curia affirmata, sec-

vocatis.

statutum est quod universalis multurae pertinen ad molendinum faciet aqueductum eiusdem sufficienter ac defendet. Et molendiEt istud statutum narius namabit non facientes.
die
et
. .

Quo
.

actum

servabitur per

totum dominium, &c.

Willelmi TrumCuria venerabilis patris bull, abbatis de Cupro, tenta apud Metas 6 Maij ante monasterium, eiusdem die sexto mensis Maij, anno millesimo quingentesimo de*

Dm

cimo octauo, per Magm Anthonium Duby ballivum deputatum terrarum et dominij de Cupro. Curia affirmata, sectis vocatis.

Item the sauien day it is statute and ordanit be the Abbot and Convent of Cupar, and thair bailzie present, that all malt makers that dwell within the Lordship thairof quhairever thay by the here win the said Lordship, or outw* the samen, sal caus the malt maid

be thame be brocht to thair thirlitt mylne quhair thay duell for frie multor to be grundin thairat. And gif thair sal be ony beir gettin to thame to mat in malt,

by inmen or outmen, that they sal ansir thairfor that the samen sal be brocht to thair thirlitt mylne to be grundin thairat for frie multor.
aither

Curia venerabilis patris predicti Abbatis de

Cupro tenta apud Capellam sancte

XXVIII
19 April:

mensis Aprilis, anno Dni Jajv c quadragesimo secundo, per Willelmum Blair de Balgillo, et Joannem Gumming de owtie ballivis deputatis terrarum et dominii. Curia affirmata, &c.
die

xix

Quhilk day toward the complaynt maid be the haill millers of the Lordship in general upon the tennentis
of the samen, for that they can not gett guid payment of thair multors, nor zit ane multor aith, the bailzies decernit that all the tennentis of the
sail

Lordship

give thair multor aithis to the miller quhair thay ar thirlitt, and that in presence of ane officiar gif thay be requyrit ; and in sa far as thay grant of multor

awand, they
els

sal

mak payment

thairof incontinent, or

the

puynd

officiar, at the requisitioun of the millar sail in sa far as is awand thairfor instantlie.

And

to the millars,

be at the

will

and

arrestit

and denyit be the tennentis, thay sail and requisitioun of the millars warnitt be ye official's, to ansir at the nixt Court

to the millars instance thairupon.

Curia Capitalis venerabilis patris Donaldi, abbatis de Cupro, tenta apud B hall, 24 April: die mensis Aprilis, anno Dni Jajv. xxiiij.
.
.

quadragesimo quarto, per Willelmum Roger ballivum deputatum. Curia affirmata.

Quhilk day Spalding millar of Kathik, Johnne and James Crokettis millars of Blacklaw, compleint
.

Wm

upon the tennentis of

thair succkynes thairin that thai

XXIX
ar defraudit of thair thirlitt multors, as also of thair

dry multors, in grit quantitie, and can gett no redress but compulsioun, notw*standing of the statutis of Courtis maid thairupon, the bailzie decernis preceptis of poynding w*in the Lordship to pass att the mil-

and ordanis the offi rs to pass w* thame threw thair thirlitt suckyn, and poynd thair reddiest guids at the millars comand, baith for thirlitt multor and dry multor, q the millaris be applesitt of thame ;
lars desyre,
11

or els that the tennentis

mak

the millaris

payment

in

presens of the

offi

rs

be thair solempne

aith, callit

the

multor aith
his

and

ilk millar to haif this

preuilege w*in

awn suckyn

allenerlie.

Curia balliatus terrarum et dominii de Cupro, tenta in pretorio eiusdem, die septimo men7 April
:

sis

Aprilis

anno

Dm

Jajv

quinquagesimo
et

primo, per

Mag

rum

Davidem Campbell

Willelmurn Roger ballivos deputatos dicta-

rum terrarum. Curia affirmata, sectis

&c.

vocatis,

Quhilk day Davide Jak in Balgirscho of his propre confessioune wes decernit to content and pay to William Spalding, millar of Keithek, sax bollis and ane firlott here, for ten yeres Ring here of ane of Balgirschu, occupett be him betuixt the dait pressent and the xv day of August nix to cum, vnder the pain
.
.

of poindyng of his reddiest gudis

&

gere.

Curia venerabilis patris Donaldi, abbatis de

Cupro, tenta apud

die

nono

XXX
9 Jun: 1551.

mensis

Junij,

anno

Dm
.

Jajvc

m Davidem gesimo primo, per Mag Campbell de Denheid ballivum deputatum. Curia
affirmata.

quinqua-

Quhilk day the bailzie ratifeis the auld statutis maid of befor anent the mylnes w*in the lordschip, sua that gif thair be ony cornes apprehendit passand fra thair awin thirlitt mylne to utheris, than it sal be to the millaris or yair seruandis to tak and intromett w* the samen and it being apprehenditt, the horss that beiris the cornes to pertane to the Abbott of Cupar, the sek and the cornis thairin to the millar that aught to haif the multer thairof be ressoun. Quhilk millar tak the samen w*out any danger to follow eftermay
;

wart.

Q upon the millars askitt acts

r

of Court.

Curia balliatus terrarum et dominij de Cupro, tenta in pretorio eiusdem die quarto mensis
4 Feb
1552.
:

Februarij,

anno

Dm

Jajv
.

quinquagesimo
terrarum.

secundo, per Mag" ballivum deputatum

Davidem Campbell,
dictarum

Curia affirmata,

sectis vocatis.

Quhilk day Henry Rollok in Balgirschie wes decernit to content and pay to William Spalding, millar of Kethik, audit bollis and ten peckis bere, for his Ring bere thir fyveteyne zeirs bigane, w*in terme of
law,

vnder the pain of poynding of

his reddiest gudis

&

gere.

Curia balliatus terrarum et dominii de Cupro,

XXXI
tenta in pretorio eiusdem die xxvj mensis

26 Nov.
1554.

Novembris, anno
quarto, per

Dm Jaj v

qttinquageshno

Willelmum

Mag"

Davidem

Blair de Balgillo, et Campbell ballivos depu-

tatos dictarum terrarum.

sectis vocatis.

Curia affirmata

be aduice of their assessors, hes liquidat the pryces of sax bollis ane firlott here awand to William Spalding be David Jak in Balgirschie, quhilkis he is decernit to pay in ane Court c haldin vij Aprilis, anno and the pryce Jaj v lj m of aucht bollis ten pekis bere awand to the said be Henry Rollock therein, and confessit in ane Court

Quhilk day the

bailzies,

Dm

haldin at Coupar the ferd day of Februar, Jaj v lij zeiris, to fourtene schillingis the boll, and ordainis
preceptis of poynding to
diest gudis

be

direct to

poynd

thair red-

and gere for the same. Extract, ex libro actorum curiarum dicti Dominij m per me Joannem Robisone no" pub ac scribam dictarum curiarum, testan. his meis signo et subscrip 8 in
11

talibus usitat. Ita est,

Joannes Robisone Notarius Publicus

ac Scriba dictar. curiar.

manu

sua.

Curia venerabilis Dni. Leonardi, Commendatarii de Cupro, tenta in aula maiori monasu anno terii eiusdem, die xxvj mensis Febr
,

26 Feb.

Dni

sexagesimo secundo, per Ardum de Lawtoun ballivum deputatum Ogilvy eiusdem.

Jaj v
c

XXXII
day, anent the complaynt maid be the millars of Blaklaw upoun Gilbert Glumy, for the wrangus

Qlk

passing w* his cornes to the laird of Banffis mylne of Foyall to be grundin thairat, the said Gilbert com-

peirand confessit that he past

said mylne, qlk wes (as he the millars of Blaklaw, becaus they wold not grynd his cornes, nor zit len him vicu to the sustentan of his

pairt of aittis to the allegitt) in the default of

th

familie

; quhilk the millars denyitt. bailzie ordanis the said millars to hald

Thairfor the

Glumyis cornes

mylne qll he satisfie thame be his multer aith, in sa far as he hes defraudit thame thir tua zeirs last bypast and this statute to be ane fredome to the haill
in the
;

millars of the Lordschip, provyding that ane bailzie or ane officiar be present at the geving of the said aith ;

ony brouster byis malt outw* the Lordschip, they sail grynd the samen at the mylne of thair suckyn for frie multer, and gif thay pass to utheris mylnes thairfra, it sail be leisum to the millars to hald

and siclyke

gif

bryng to thair milne to be grundin, qll the broustars satisfie the myllars be Extractum de libris acthair aithis for the last fait. toru curiaru dicti dominij per Joannem Robisonne
the nixt malt that the broustar
sail

Notariu publicu.

Hec

huius principalis et tenet cu originale in omnibus fideliter copiat. per

est vera copia

me Georgium
scriptum.

Bissett

Norm
No

Publicum sub-

Ita est, Georgius Bissett

rius

Pubus Teste
,

manu mea

propria.

XXXIII
VIII.

THE PREBENDARIES AND DEANS OF RESTALR1G.

f FROM

THE COLLECTIONS OF GENERAL HUTION IN ADVOCATES* LIBRARY, VOL.

V.]

The nomber of the Prebendries of the Colledge Kirk of Restalrige and the Cheplains thairof. Item, Imprimis the sext prebendries of Buit, foundit vpoun the personage and viccarage of Rothsay in Buite, and vpoun the personage of the and viccarage of Elein kirke, William Barbour lanaries of haueand thre of thame, ane prowydit of auld, nge. a prowydit of new be the first Regenttis an ^ grace, quha is with God, the tua parte allowit to him in his stipend be the kingis thrid. Lancelot Gibsoun, prebendar of Buit, prowydit of

auld.

Cuthbert Suyntoun, prebendar of Bute, prowydit

of auld.

Johnne Nasmyth, prebendar of Bute, prowydit of auld, all being on lyiwe. Johnne Hoggart, prebendar of the kingis wark in Leyth, xxli. out of the said worke, and is departit in Ingeland, and, as I am informit, is w* God.
Maister Lyth,

Hew

Congiltoun, chepland of Sanct Tred-

wallis yle, foundit

xij

vpoun Johnne Dalmohoyis hous

viij

in

m'kis in the Cannongait, with the offerandis that he gat with the Relicts, quis w* God.

m'kis, and

Henrysoun, chepland for Thomas Dikesoun, foundit be the said r Thomas in Cons Close, ten m'kis, and tuelfe markis out of

Maister Williame

r.

XXXIV
the landis of the

Lard

of Stanehous in the west, and

fywe m'Ms out of Brochtoun. Cuthbert Suyntoun hahTand in custodia the cheplanrie of Rosen, foundit be ane Bischope of Ros callit Fresill, xx m'kis lyand in the Cannongait, now perteynand to the ministry and to the puire, bayth it and Congiltouns cheplanrie, be verteu of the Act
of Parliament.

Prebendries and Cheplanries that lay to the colledge kirke of Restalrige, with thair chalmeris and zardis, and sum wanted chalmeris, hot san mony perteynit to the kingis foundatiounis.*
thir ar the

And

"

DEANS OF RESTALRIG.
was Dean, anno 1493,

D
in

r
.

John

Frisle or Eraser

which year he was appointed IA Clerk Register. William Gibson was Dean 1529 and 1539.

D
*
'

r
.

John

Sinclair,

Dean, was appointed BP. of

Brechin, a
et

little

before the Reformation."

Copied from an old Register of Marriages, &c. labelled, Marr. from Jan* 1588 to Jan? 1595.' The register is in the Note by General Hutton. archives of the Town of Leith, 1818."

XXXV
IX.
THE ORNAMENTIS AND SYLUER WORK
KIRK OF CARAILE.
[FROM THE CHARTULART OF
CIIAIL.

IN

THE COLLEGE

MS. ADV. BIBL.]

alter, ane grit chaleiss of syluer contenand of weycht xxiiij vncifs half gilt vnce. Item, ane grit ewcharist for the sacramet duble gilt, contenand xlvj vnce & half vnce. Itm, ane litill ewcharist nocht gilt, weyand viij vnce. Itm, twa syluer sensours, ilk ane weyand xxv vncls, contenand 1 vncis. Itm, twa syluer chandelaris, ilk ane weyand xxxviij vncis & half vnce, in the hail contenand

Inprimis at the hye

diible

Ixxvij

vncis.

Itm,

twa syluer

crowattis,

weyand

baytht ix vncis,

be Schir Thomas Myrtoun, vmquhil Archedene of Abyrdene & prowest of Caraill. Itm, ane cross of syluer duble gilt, weyand Itm, ane litill chaleiss syngle gilt, weyand xiij vncis. be the Prioress of Hadyntoun. xij vncis, baytht giffin
all giffin

The

hail

sowyme

at the hye alter

of the vncis of syluer work xx is xij of vncis. Itm, tharof

duble

gilt Ixxxiiij vncis,

and syngil

xx

gilt vij

&

xvj vncis.

Itm, the ornametis & vestimetis at the hye alter. In the first ane stand of greyne weluet, viz. ane caype,

ane chesable, twa tunykillis, w abbis, stolis, & fannonis w* orphesis ymagerye of fyne gold, w* twa caipis for chantours of greyne byrge satyne orphesit w* reide byrge satyne, w* pendikle & frontale to the
fc

XXXVI
he
alter

of greyn weluet

giffin

be the said Schir

Thomas Myrtoun.
Itm, ane stand of quhit damess, viz. caip, chesable, twa tunykillis, w* abbis, stolis, fannonis, & paralyngs orphest w* claytht of gold ; ane pendikle &
frontale for the alter of quhit damess, w* oder twa quhit caippis of sylk for chatours ; giffin be the sayd

Schir

Thomas Myrtoun.

Itm, ane stand of blew satyne, viz. ane chesable, twa tunykillis orphest w* ymagerye of gold, w* abbis,

paralyngs raferand tharto, w* twa caippis of blew chamblet & ane caip of brown chamblet ; giffin be the prioress of Hadyntoun.
stolis,

fanonis

&

Itm, ane stand of blak, viz. ane chesable of blak weluet orphest w* claytht of gold, twa tunykillis of

blak chamblet orphest w* gra chamblet, w* abbis, stolis, fanonis & paralings conforme tharto ; giffin be
the fundatour.

Itm, ane stand of downe sylk, viz. chesable, twa tunykillis, w* abbis, stolis, fanonis & paralyngs refer-

and

tharto.

Itm, ane blak stand of duble wyrset for mortis, orphest w* reide satyne ; ane chesable, w* twa tunykillis, abbis, stolis, fanonis, & paralings referand to the caippis, w* pendicle & frontale
viz. thre caippis

to the alter,
all

and ane wayle

to

hynge aboue the

alter,

of blak duble wyrset, w* crocis of blak weluet, & mort hedis ouer thame. Item, twa chesapillis for feriale dais, ane of blew chambelat & ane of reide

duble wyrset, w* abbis, stolis, fanonis referand to thame. Itm, thre pendikillis to the he alter, ane of greyne byrgh satyne, ane of blew sairge, & ane of

XXXVII
reide sairge w* frontallis of the samyn. Itm, thre oder frontallis, ane of sylk nedile work, ane of wyrset

nedile work,

Itm, fywe waile of bartane claitbt, to grit befor tbe alter in Lentren, w* ane wail of reide hynge wyrset to hynge befor the ymage of our Ladye. Itm, twa sudoris of done sylk for the seruyce in Pascha.
alter towallis,

& ane

of blew chambelat.

and ane

Itm, ane grit missale of parchment, text hand, for the he alter. Itm, ane baitkyne for mortis, of blak duble wyrset crosit w* blak weluet.
i

The bukis in the queyr. In the first twa hail bukis of the temporale callit, Aspiciens, and twa hail bukis of the Sanctis, callit Sanctorum. Itm, four
new
half bukis, twa for symmer and twa for wynter, contenand the temporale & sanctorum. Itm, thre

auld

hail

antiphonallis.

Itm,

parchmet, & fyve text hand. of parchmet in text hand, contenand ye temporale, Itm, ane buk of proprete & comone of sanctis. Itm, ane lettronale in ewangelis, & ane epistolar.
grit

tene psalteris, all Itm, ane new legeand

volume, contenand ye

breiffis off

atamys, thimis,

rudis, graillis, work for the prowest stalle,

&

alia.

Itm, ane baitkyne off arress

ane buk in prent, callit at the desk at the hye alter.

sax cuschynis. Itm, Ordinariu Diuinoru, chenzeid

&

Itm, in the lady yle, ane grit chaleiss of syluer duble gilt, contenand of weycht xxiiij vnce. Itm, ane oder chaleis to the lady yle off syluer, contenand
off

weycht xvij vnce, syngile gilt. Itm, ane syluer chaless to Sanct Michaellis alter, syngil gilt, conten-

XXXVIII
Itm, twa copper chaleisis, w* coippis off syluer, singile gilt, price of the peice iiij lib, all giffin be Schir Wylzem MyrItm, to toun, fundatour of the College of Caraille.

and of weicht xv vnce & half vnce.

the rude alter ane syluer chaleiss, syngile gilt, weyand xvij vnce. Itm, ane litil chaleiss of syluer to Sanct

Katryne
vnce.

alter,

syngile

gilt,

weyand
work

ix

vnce

&

half

Suma

of vncis of syluer
is

the queyr
syluer
Caraill
is

Ixxxiij.

The
the

work w*in
iij

Kyrk by sowme of College Kyrk of

haill

in the

xxiij

vnces.

altars in the

ornametis in the lady yle & oder Itm, in the lady yle ane chesable kyrk of broun purpur weluet, ane chesable of gra satyne,

The

vestimetis

&

ane chesable of browne wariand taiffaties, ane chesable of reide scarlet, w* abbis, stoilis, fanonis & paraItm, four pendykillis to the lynge referand tharto. lady alter, ane of reide sairge, ane of greyne taffate, l ane of dwne sylk, & ane of wyrset nedil work, all w frontaillis conforme to the pendikillis, w* thre lang Itm, twa wallis of reid sairge for the Itm, ane messail of parchemet, ymagis text hand. Itm, four grit brasyne chandelars, & twa hyngand chandelars.
alter towallis.

in

Lentrone.

Itm, at Sanct Katryne alter, ane chesable of tanny chamblet, w* ab, stoil, fanon, & paralyngs. Itm, twa Itm, pendakillis w* frontalis and thre alter towallis.

ane messail in prent.

chandelaris,

&

Itm, twa grit stanand basyne four hangand chandelaris.

alter,

Itm, at Sanct Michaelis

ane chesable of blak

XXXIX
weluet orphest w* clay* of gold, ane oder chesable of quhit fusteane w* abbis, stolis, fanonis, & paralings raferand to thame. Itm, twa alter towallis, ane pendikle & a frontale, ane messale in perchiamet of text hand. Itm, twa stanand brasyne chandelars & twa

hyngand chandelars. Itm, at Sanct James

alter,

twa

chesabillis,

ane of

blak chamblet, ane oder of quhit fusteane, w* abbis, stolis, paralings & fanonis referand to thame, twa alter
towallis w* pendikle

&

frontale,

twa stanand brafyne

chandelars

& twa hyngand

chandelars.

Itm, at Sanct Jhone the Baptist alter, twa chesabillis, ane of blak chablat & ane of quhit fusteane, w* abbis, stolis, fanonis & paralings raferand to thame, ane messale in prent, & twa hyngand brasyne chandelars. Itm, at Sanct Stewyne alter, ane chesable of quhit fusteane w* ab, stoilis, fanon & paraling, twa alter towallis, ane messaile in prent, and twa hyngand

brasyne chandelars. Itm, at Sanct Jhone the Ewangelist alter, ane chesable of reid sairge w* ab. stoil, fanon & paralyng, twa alter towallis, ane prent messale. Itm, at Sanct Nicholaus alter, ane chesable of blak chamblet w ab, stoil, fanon & paraling, twa alter towallis, w* pendikle & frontale, twa litil stanand
.

fc

brasyne chandelars and twa hyngand.

XL
X.
CART^l IN FAVOREM MONIALIUM DE MANWEL,
[EX MS.
OB.IG.

PENES

J.

A.

MACONOCHIE ARMIG

:]

Wilelmus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus totius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem.
Sciant presentes et futuri
et

hac carta mea Marie de Manwel et monialibus ibidem Deo seruientibus, totam decimam omnium reddituum meorum de vicecomitatu de Lillidgw, et de firma burgi de Lillidgw et de firmis extra burgum, et de molendinis, et in
denarii s, et in frumento, et in farina, et in brasio,
et in prebenda, et in omnibus aliis de quibus redTenendam ditus habeo, vel habere continget.

dedisse et concessisse, confirmasse, Deo et ecclesie beate

me

me

in libera et pura et perpetua elimosina, ita libere quiete, plenarie et honorifice, sicut ille vel aliqui viri
religiosi elimosinas

suas liberius, quietius, plenius et honorificentius tenent et possident. Quare precipio

alibus predictas decimas de
prescriptis absque singulis annis integre persoluant.

vicecomiti et balliuis meis de Lillidgw predictis moni-

omnibus

omni disturbatione
Testibus
Joselino

Rogirio de Ross. Ricancellario meo. episcopo Hugone cardo de Prebenda clerico meo. Radulfo et Waltero Alano filio Walteri dapifero meo. meis. capellanis Wilelmo de Lyndesei. Malcolmo filio comitis Duncani. Geruasio Avenel. Alexandro vicecomite de Wilelmo de Lyndesei. Ricardo de MaleStriuelin. Ricardo filio Hugonis. uill. Wilelmo Flendrense.
-

episcopo

Glascuensi.

XLI
luone de Veteriponte. Decembris.

Apud

Lillidgw, vltimo die

Tenor quondam Alexandri

sequitur in hac forma.

regis

Scotorum carte

Alexander Dei gratia Rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus totius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem.
Sciant presentes et futuri me dedisse et concessisse, et hac carta mea confirmasse, Deo et ecclesie beate

Marie de Manwel et monialibus ibidem Deo semientibus et servituris molendiha mea de Lillidgw, cum tota secta eorundem molendinorum, et cum omnibus justis Tenenda et habenda in pura et pertinentiis suis.
quiete, integre et honorifice, sicut aliqua in toto regno meo liberius et quietius, et integrius, et honorificentius tenetur et pos-

perpetua elemosina,

ita libere

et

Testibus Wilelmo episcopo Sancti Andree. Wilelmo Cumyn Wilelmo de Bosco cancellario. comite de Buchan. Roberto de Londoniis. Roberto
sidetur.

capellano meo.

Alexandro vicecomite de

Striuelin.

Waltero de Lyndesei. Ada filio Gilleberti. Edinburch, vigesimo secundo die Julij.

Apud

Tenor alterius carte prefati quondam Alexandri Regis Scotorum sequitur in hunc modum. Alexander Dei gratia Rex Scotorum vicecomiti suo
de Linlytgw salutem. Scias quod concessimus monialibus de Manwel sedecim celdras auene singulis annis percipiendas de dominicis nostris circa Linlythgw, pro decima molendini de Linlythgw, et pro multura terre quam dedimus Johanni de Kyrbina seruienti
nostro.

Quare

tibi

mandamus

et

firmiter precipi-

mus

quatinus predictis monialibus predictas sexdecim

XLII
Testibus celdras auene singulis annis habere facias. Waltero filio Alani de senescallo. Johanne Maxwel
camerario.
Aprilis,

decimo septimo anni regni domini regis decimo septimo.

Apud

Striuelin,

die

Item, Tenor tercie carte quondam domini Alexandri regis Scotbrum sequitur sub hac forma.
et baliuis suis

Alexander Dei gratia rex Scotorum viceeomitibus de Lynlythgw salutem. Mandamus

vobis et firmiter precipimus, quatinus prepositos burgi nostri de Linlythgw, et firmarios nostros in ballia vestra,

cum necesse fuerit,

artius compellatis, vt sine occasione

aliqua et super nostram plenariam forisfacturam decem librarum singulis annis ad terminos Penticostes et

Sancti Martini, vel saltern infra octo dies a predictis

Manwel de firmis ex donis antecessorum noset redditibus quos habent trorum in burgo et ballia de Linlythgw. Quod si qui eorum hoc facere noluerit, forisfacturam decem librarum ad opus nostrum ab eis capiatis. Nichilominus ipsos per possessiones et bona sua compellentes ad
terminis, satisfaciant monialibus de

satisfaciendum sine delation e dictis monialibus super memoratis firmis et redditibus quos rationabiliter

monstrare poterunt sibi ab eis deberi. Testibus Waltero Cumyn, Comite de Menteth. Wilelmo Comite de Mar camerario, et Alexandro senescallo.

Apud

Linlythgw, vigesimo primo die Aprilis, anno

regni nostri tercio.

Sequitur tenor carte simi Regis Scotorum.

quondam Roberti

illustris-

Robertus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum omnibus probis hominibus totius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem.

XLIII
Sciatis

nos approbasse,

ratificasse,

et

hac present!

carta nostra confirmasse, omnes cartas et evidentias tarn predecessorum nostrorum regum Scotie quam

quorumcunque aliorum

ratificatas et approbatas,

de

predecessoribus nostris antedictis confectas, monasterio de Manwel et priorisse Sibille de Sprouston

nostre dilecte et special!, pro termino vite sue in priorissatu predict! monasterii durature, et monialibus ibidem Deo servientibus et in perpetuum servituris,
tris

in honore

Dei omnipotentis
semper

sue beate Marie

et gloriose mavirginis, et omnium

sanctorum, orantibusque pro salute animarum omnium antecessorum meorum et successorum regum Scotie, eciam quorumcumque aliorum fundatorum

suorum

et

omnium animarum fidelmm defunctorum,

terris,

de quibuscunque

annuis redditibus, posses-

sionibus, molindinis et multuris, cum pertinentiis suis quibuscumque, adeo libere et quiete, plenarie, integre et honorifice, bene et in pace, in omnibus et per

omnia, sicut in cartis et evidentiis predictis plurius In cujus rei continentur. Salvo servicio nostro. testimonium predicte carte nostre confirmation! s sigil-

lum nostrum

precipirnus apponi.

Testibus venera-

bilibus in Christo patribus Waltero et Matheo Sancti Andree et Glasguensis ecclesiarum episcopis. Ro-

berto comite de Fyfe et de Menteth, fratre nostro. Archibaldo, comite de Douglas, domino Galvedie,

Jacobo de Douglas de Dauketh,

Thoma

consanguineis nostris dilectis militibus.

de Erskyn, Alexandro

de Cokburn de Langtoun, custodi magni sigilli nostri. Apud Lithgw, vigesimo quinto die January, anno
regni nostri quarto.

XLIV
Tenor
carte

Domini Rogeri Avenel

matris
ecclesie

sequitur.
filiis

Universis

sancte

dominus

Sciatis me dedisse et Rogerus Avenel salutem. hac carta mea confirmasse, Deo et concessisse, et sancte Marie et monialibus de Man well, ibidem Deo

servientibus, imam celdram frumenti singulis annis de me et heredibus meis recipiendam de horreo meo de

Abircorn ad Natale Domini, in liberam et puram et perpetuam elemosinam pro salute anime mee, et pro salute patris mei et matris mee, et pro salute antecessorum et successorum meorum. Quare volo et precipio ut quisquis firmarius vel serviens ineus [qui] sit in predicto manerio meo predictis monialibus predictam

celdram solvant ad predictum terminum. Quare volo ut predicta domus de Manwel et moniales ibidem Deo servientes predictam elemosinam habeant et teneant adeo libere et quiete ut aliqua elemosina liberius et quietius tenetur vel possidetur. His testibus Roberto de Crossebi. Willelmo Avenel, fratre ejus. Johanne
capellano. Abraam capellano. Philippo capellano. Galfrido senescallo suo. Willelmo de sancto Halwaldo.
et multis
aliis.

XLV
XI.
REDDITUS ALTABIUM OLIM SITUAT. INFRA PAROCHIAM DE LINLYTHGOW.
[FROM A LARGE FOLIO PAPER VOLUME IN THE POSSESSION OF j. A. MACONOCHIE, ESQ. ENTITLED. " ANE REGISTER OF THE SPECIALL EVIDENTIS CONCERNYNG THE BURGH OF LINLT7TGOW AND LIBERTIES THAIROF, MAID BE ANDRO KER, COMMONE CLERK OF THE SAID BDRGH, AND BE ROBERT KER, HIS SON, AND MR. ANDRO KER, CLERK OF THE SAME BURGH OF LINLITHGOW, SONE OF THE SAID ROBERT, AND BE WILLIAM KER, CLERK OF THE SAME BURGH OF LINLITHGOW, SON OF THE SAID MR. ANDRO KER.]*

REDDITUS LUMINIS SANCTI MICHAELIS.

Imprimis de tenemento Johannis Fleyming jacen. in dicto burgo inter terrain Johannis Corss ex parte occidentali et terram Johannis Mane ex parte orientali, ex antiqua fundatione, xiijs. iiijd.
. .

REDDITUS LAMPADIS ET LUMINIS SACRAMENTI.

De

tenemento quondam Vilielmi Barone jacen. inter terram Joannis Kincaid ex parte orientali, et terram Roberti Dalrumple ex parte occidentali, ex donatione

quondam Andra Bonyntoun,

iijs. iiijd.

De

tenemento Archibald! Meluill, inter terram Alexandri Cairnis ex parte orientali, et terram Thome Calder ex parte occidentali, ex donatione dni Patricij
Lyssouris capellani et Jacobi Foulis,
-

xs.

De

tenemento Jacobi Broun, et nunc Joannis Mane, *A few leaves of the original register on vellum,, from which what

follows

had been transcribed, exist in the Advocates' Library ; and four of the obits are printed in Mr. Maidment's Analecta
Scotiea, Vol. I, p. 173.

Edinburgh, Stevenson, 1834.

XLVI
jacen. inter terram Joannis Palmare ex parte oriental!,
et terram Joannis

Fleyming ex parte
. .

occidental!,
.

ex
ijs.

donatione Jacobi Broun,

De

ten

to

Petri Neilson jacen. ad finem occidentalem

.

ex donatione Roberti Amysfield, iiijs. De tenemeto Joannis Ker, et nunc Roberti Cwnynghame, jacen. inter terram Vilielmi Noble ex parte orie et terram Thome Caveris ex parte occiu ex donatione Henrici Levingstoun et Georgii Parkle, xijd.
burgi,
11 , ,

De
De

jacen. ad finem et porta orientalem dicti burgi, ex donatione Vilielmi Brous, ijs.

teneto

Thome Schaw

tene* Joanis

Cowpari jacen.

in vico ecclesie,
capellani,
.

ex

donatione dni Joannis

to

Harwode

xvjd.

De tene Joannis Jak jacen. inter terra Thome Foulis ex parte occi et terram Joannis Frenehe ex parte oriental!, ex donatione Jacobi Foulis, iijs. vjd.
11 ,
.

De

teneto
et

quondam Georgii Prestoun, nunc

heredis

Gray, inter terram Patricij Hyne terram Vilielmi Auchinbey ex parte tal!, ex donatione Jacobi Foulis,
.
.

Thome

ex occidenoriental!,
iiijs.

De
nis

tenemento Dauid Tait jacen. inter terram Johanli Nesbyt ex occi et terram Patricij Hyne ex orientali, empt' per Jacoburn Foulis a Johane Waltoun, iiijs.
,

De eodem
De

tenemento Dauid Rate, empt' per Alexxxxd. andru Foulis a Georgio Parkle,
.

tenemento Dauid Andersone jacen. inter terram Roberti Kynpount ex oriental! parte, et terram Henrici Benyne ex occidental! parte, vjd.
.

De tenemento

Vilielmi Jamis inter terram

Henrici

XLVII
Hamyltoun ex parte occidentali, ex parte una, et terram Patricij Rackyne ex parte orientali, ex parte altera, jacen. in le

Middilraw,

vijd.

REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTE CBUCIS.

Imprimis de tenemento Johannis Kaa jacen. ex parte
boreali fori dicti burgi,
. .
.

xxvjs.

De

tenemento Vilielmi Cowane in vico

ecclesie,
vjs. vijd.

De
sie,

tenemento Johannis Nicholl in dicto vico

.

ecclevjs.

De
sie,

tenemento Johannis Cowpare in dicto vico

.

ecclevjs.

De tenemento
in dicto vico,

Johannis Gray, nunc

. .

Thome Masonne,
.

ijs.

ixd.

De tenemento
dicto vico,
.

dni Alexandri Massone capellani in

.

ijs.

vijd.

Dictus dominus Alexander Masone capellanus

dedit totum et integrum dictum tenementum capellano altaris Sancte Crucis, sub hoc conditione, anno omni celebrari faciant unum anni-

versarium sive obitum die obitus

eius et

sui, pro anima animabus omnium fidelium defunc-

torum.

De tenemento quondam Vilielmi Saltoune, nunc in manibus Eufamie Adorner, jacen. in dicto vico ecclesie,

.....

ijs.

vjd.

De

tenemento quondam Joannis Frenche, nunc in manibus dicte Eufamie, in dicto vico ecclesie, ixs.
.

XLVIII
tenemento quondam Jacob! Ganeling, nunc in manibus dicto Eufamie in dicto vico ecclesie, iiijs. iiijd.

De
De

tenemento Henrici Livingstoune iuxta crucem in

.
. . . .

dicto vico,

iijs.

tenemento Henrici Grant inter terram Johannis Frenche ex parte occidental!, et terram quondam Joannis Hathowye ex parte orientali, iijs. iiijd.
.

De

De tenemento

quond. Dauid Cowpare interterram quond. Joannis Tailzer ex parte orientali, et terram dicti quond. Dauid ex occidental!, xiiijs.
orientali

quond. Johannis Thomsoune, et nunc Johannis Wilsonne de Bonwarstoun, inter terram quond. Joannis tailzer ex parte occidental!, et terram quond. Johannis Malcosoune ex parte orientali.
viijs.

De tenemento

vjd.

De tenemento

quond.

Patricij
.

Wrycht
.

et postea Ste.

phani Forrestar,

ijs.

De tenemento quond. Vilielmi Forsyith, et nunc heredes David Hamiltoun, inter terram dicti quond. David ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Johannis
Chalonare ex parte occidental!,
.

xs.

tenemento quond. Thome Sideserff inter terram quond. Ade Cunynghame ex parte occidental!, et terram quond. Allan! Lambok ex parte orientali, vjs.

De

REDDITUS ALTARIS BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS.

In primis de tenemeto Thome Forest inter terram Jofais Palmare ex parte australi, & terram quond. Jofcis Mure ex boriali, iiijs.
. .

XLIX
De
tenemeto quond. dni Dauid Crauford, nunc Jonis Palmare, inter terra Patricij Harkis ex parte occidentali, & terram Robert! Amysfield ex parte oriental],
xiijs. iiijd.

De

tene*

dni de
11

ex parte occi
11 parte orie ,

Dundas inter terram Donaldi Pers & terram quond. Ade Coningham ex

....
Willelmi
,
. . .

vs.

De

tene to

Patricij Ka ex orie11,

quond. ex occi11
.

Logane inter terram & terram quond. Dauid Baldirston

vjd.

Wirlmi Logane, ex donacione Jonete Logane, ex sua legali conquestu post decessu mariti sui Wirlmi Logane, xviijd.

Item de eod.

tene*

De

orientali dci tenetj Wiffi

tenemeto quond. Dauid Baldirston iacen. ex parte Logane, xijd.

. .

De

tenemeto Johis Pringil & Alexadri Leviston int' terra Dauid Boneton ex parte occidetali, & terra quod, Witimi Thornton ex parte orie iijs.
11 ,
.

De tene* De

quod. Alexandri Smyth iacen. extra pontem,

vs. viijd,

teneto qu5d. Thome Liston iacen. ex parte diet, tenet* Alex. Smyth,
1

orietali
ijs.

De
De
De De

horto Henrici Leuyngston jacen. in

.

le
.

Middilraw
iijs. ijd.
.

in oriente,

tene

to

&

horreo quod. Jonis Galbrath,

ijs. ijd,

tene*

Patricij

Rate

iacen. in le
.

Middilraw ad orien.
.

tale porta burgi,

ijs.

tene

to

quod. Dauid Breich iacen ex parte australi

vici int' t'ra

qu5d.

Ade Thomson
ex occi
1

ex parte
.

oriu,

& terra

quod.

Thome Doby
to

*,

vijs. vjd.

De
De

quod. Jofais Palmare jacen. ex parte austral! vici extra porta orietale burgi, xijd.
tene
.

teneto quod. Witii Bald

int'

t'ra Jofiis

Ross ex
.

orietali,

&

t'ra

quod. WitK

Stele ex occidental!,

xs.
int'

De
t'ra

tene*
11

quod.
.

Thome Doby,
.

postea
11
,

Rownsyma,

quod. Dauid Breich ex

,

orie

&
.

t'ra Patricii

Rate

ex occi

.vjd.
Limonde
.

De

tene

to

ex orie

11
,

quod. WiHi Barone int' t'ram Jofais & t'ram Robert! Dalrlple ex occi11

ijs. ijd.

De

Georgij Hamilton inter t'ram dni de Halkhede ex orie11, & terram Thome Cauers ex occi ijs.

tene

to

11

De
orie

tenet Wiftmi Noble

11
,

int' terra
11

Thome
.

Cauers ex
.

&

t'ram Jonis Ker ex occi

xijd.
orie",

De
&

tene to

JoMs Ker
orientali
11 ,

int'

terra Willi

Noble ex
,
.

t'ra

quod.
to

Thome Cauers

ex occi

11

xijd.

De De
De
int'

tene

Forest ex orie

&

Alexandri Foulis int' t'ra Thome terra dicti Alexandri ex occi iijs.
11 ,

teneinento occidentali quod. Jonis Binny iacen. ex vs. parte orietali tenemeti quod. Patricij Hyne,
.

teneto quod. Jonis Gibson de Dunteruy iacen. terra terra Robert! Chalonar ex parte ori ,
11

&

Thome Rede

ex parte occi
*
11 ,

11 ,
.

iijs.

De

tene

to

Archibald! Byrd iacen.

ori

int' t'ra

Chalonare ex parte
parte occi
11

&

quod. Jonis

t'ra Patricij
.

Ranald ex
iijs.

vjd.

LI

De
De

pistrino Beate

Marie jacen in

le

Middilraw,
int'

ixs.

tenet

Jofris

Dauid Kerss ex Hugon,

....
Child
parte occi
u
,

&

Dauid Henrison

t'ra

&

t'ra

quod. Stephani
viiijs.

Stephani Hugon iacent. int' terra David Henrison ex parte occi , & terram Robert i Smth

De
ex

tene
11

to

quod.

ori

.......
11
li

vs.

De

tenemeto Thome Lokhart iacen. int' t'ram Jofcis Coupare ex occi & t'ram Jacob! Foulis ex orientali, iis. vjd. dat. per Jacobu Foulis.
,

De

tenemeto

Thome

Foulis iacen.
11

int'

t'ram Jacobi
li
Tj
I

Cauelingex

parte occi

& t'ram JonisJak ex parte orie

.&.L

\JL

De
De

teneto

JoMs Jak
li

jacen. int' t'ram

Thome Foulis ex
oriel xviijd.
1

parte occi

& t'ram Jofeis Franch

ex parte

tene* Jofeis

t'ram Patricij

Samel & Jofcis Franche fullonis int' n Hyne ex parte occi & terram Henrici
,
5

Grant ex

oriel

xiijd.
li

De
De
ex

tene

to

Henrici

Grant ex parte
. . .

orie

te*
.

Johis
ijs.

Franche
tene*

fullois,

quod. David Rate nuc Jofeis Samel iacen.

int' t'ra

JoMs Nesbet ex

orietali,

......
occi 11 ,

&

terra Patricij

Hyne
xviijd.

De tene*
ex occi
11

quod. Georgii Preston int' t'ram Patricij & t'ram Wrdmi Uchinbry ex orie
li
.

Hyne
iijs.

De tenemeto
ex occi
11

&

quod. Dauid Rate t'ram qu5d. Georgii Preston ex orie ijs.

Patricij

Hyne int' t'ram

11

LIT

De

tenemeto
'

Ade Colyn int'

t'ra

quod. Witti Preston,

ex occi

&

t'ram quod. Matthei

Meldon ex

orietali,

xijd.

De

tene to quod. Matthei Meldon iacen. ex parte occi vd. communis venelle & torrencie,
.

11

De tenet Dauid Litstar iacen. int' t'ram Thome ex occi & tra quod. Jotlis Man ex orie
11

Forest
.

li

ijs.

De vna
De vna
Due
lene.

in. le Barony, perticata terre iacen.

acra terre iacen. in territorio de Carribbye,*

xijd.

acre t're jacen. iuxta cruce beate Marie

Magda-

Pretorium antiquu burgi.

Item de tenemento quond. Stephani Baity, et nuc Joanis Hamiltoun, jacen. inter terras capellani Trinitatis ex australi et terrain quond. Joanis Hucheon, ijs. Item de tenemeto Gilberti Hamiltoun annuatim, ad sustentacionem Lampadis beate Marie.
iiijs.

Redditus altaris Sancti Eligij olim situat. infra ecclesiam de Ly*gow de interiori parte tene n olim quond. Magistri Johannis Mowbray rectoris de Eglishmachan, ac per ilium quond. Jacobo Ross, nunc ad Thomam Thomson mercatorem pertinen fourtie schillingis,

40

solidatas.
1 posteriori parte eiusd. tene* olim quond. Jonis

Et de

Mayne nunc Magistri

* Carriden
?

Roberti Keir, idem 40 solidatas.f

t These two last entries are in a handwriting of later date.

LIII

KEDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTI JOHANN1S BAPTISTE.

De tenemento

Alexandri Bennet jacen. inter le Wynd Sancti Michaelis ex parte oriental!, et terram Duncani Rutch ex parti occidental!, vjs. viijd.
.

tenemento Roberti Dalr ample jacen. ex parte australi inter terram Vilielmi Barone ex parte orienxs. tali, et terram Johanis Craufurde ex parte occil
1 ,

De

Item ex dicto tenemento Joannis Craufurde inter terram Roberti Dalrumple ex australi, et terram quond. xls. Joannis Wod ex occidentali,
. .

Item de tenemento
centoris
tali,

Dunkelden

principal! dni Patricij inter terram Johnnis

occil*,

Yhung

prexls.

Wod ex orie-

et terram dni

de Halkhede ex

De

Halkhede ex parte

tenemeto Georgii Hamiltoun inter terram dni de orietali, et terram Thome Candois
. .
.

ex parte occidentali,

vjs. viijd.

De

tenemento Joanis Candois inter terram Joanis Ka ex orietali, et terra Vilielmi Qhwhitsonne ex occidentan,
.

..

iis.

De tenemento
Grant ex
tal!,

occidentali, et terram Vilielmi Yill

....
Cristiane

Hathwye

inter terram

David
vjd.

ex orieniiijs.

De tenemento
terra Joannis

quond. Lauren tii Litster jacen. inter Kynnele ex parte occidentali, et terram vjs. vjd. quond. Andree Stoupishall ex oriet
11
,

De

tenemento dni Halkhede

et

Thome Spens jacen.

boreal!, et
.

inter terra

dementis Gray ex parte

terram

quond. Joanis

Mure ex

parte au

11

xiijs. iiijd.

LIV

De

teneto Joannis Palmare jacen. inter terrain Thome Forrest ex parte boreali, et terram Joannis Craufurde u et Andree Ruch ex parte au yjs.
.

De tene quond Ade Cunynghame inter terram dm de Dundas ex occidental!, et terram quond. Thome Sideto

serff

ex

orietali,

vs.

De

tenemeto Eduardi Burn inter terram Thome Forest ex parte occidental!, et terram Thome Schaw ex orientali, iijs. vjd.
.

Item de vna acra terre campestris jacen. supra crucem beate Marie Magdalene inter terram dni nri regis ex
parte orientali, et terram
dentali,

....
Kaa ex
parte
occi11,
.

Andree Ruch ex parte

le

occiixs.

De

dimidia acra terre campestris jacen. in

Magdaleniiijs.

side inter terram Patricij

orietali, et ter-

ram quond. Jacobi Gillone ex

vjd.

Magdalenside inter terram quond. Jacobi Gillone ex parte orientali, et terram Archibald! Boyd ex parte occidental!, ijs. vjd.

De vna

particata terre jacen. in le

De

dimidia acra terre capestris in

le

inter terram Patricij

Ranald ex parte

orietali, et
.

Magdalenside terram
iiijs.

Johanis Forest ex parte occidentali,

vjd.

Item de vna acra

dentali le

terre capestris jacen. ex parte occi-

Wynde

Sancti Michaelis

ixs.

terre vocat. acra Sancti Joanis jacen. inter terra Johannis Deass ex parte orientali, et terram

De

vna acra

Johanis
tali

Brown de Tidmyrtolshun ex
,
.
.

parte occidenxiijs. iiijd.

Que

acra terre assignatur ex antique ad sustentacio.

LV
nem
vnius

lampadis

coram

altare

Sancti

Johanis

Baptiste.

Item de vna camera de teneto

Patricij

principal!

dicti

dm
et
al-

Yhung

precentoris

Dunkelden assignatur

conceditur pro perpetuo capellano celebrend. ad

tare Sancti Johannis

Baptiste prout in carta feofamenti dicti altaris plenius continetur.

REDDITUS PRIMI ALTARIS FUNDAT. PER ROBERTUM BEGYS IN HONORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS.
Imprimis de tenemento Vilielmi Thornetoun jacen. inter terram Joannis Pringill ex parte occidentali, et terrain dicti Vilielmi Thornetoun ex parte orientali,
vijs.

Item de tenemento quond. Thome Burne, et mine Johannis Came, jacen. inter terram quond. Alexandri Smyt ex parte orientali, et terram Andree Ruch ex
parte occidentali
.

iiijs.

Item de tenemento Johannis Deass jacen. inter terram Gilberti Drew ex parte orientali, et terram Vilielmi Bald ex parte occidentali .vs.
.
.

De

tenemento quond. Johannis Rate et nunc Patricij Rate jacen. inter terram quond. Thome Doby ex parte orietali, et terram quond. Joanis Langtoun ex parte
occidentali
.

ijs.

De

tenemento

dicti

ex parte
>

orientali

quond. Johannis Langtoun jacen. tenement! Henrici Livingstoune,

*
*

J\.J. I

Cl

De tenemento Johannis Ker jacen. inter terram quond.

LVI
Vilielmi Noble ex parte oriental!, et terrain quond. xxs. Thome Caveris ex parte occi11
.
.

tenemento quond. Patricij Hathwye jacen. inter terram Vilielmi Carnys ex parte oriental!, et terram Cuthberto Purdy ex parte occidental!, xxijs. iiijd.
tenemento quond. Walteri Layng jacen. inter terram Thome Calder ex parte oriental!, et terram quond. u Robert! Kinpount ex parte occi xijs. vjd.
.
.

De

De

De
tali

tenemento

Calder jacen. ex parte occidenArchibald! Meluill, tenementi quond. iijs.

.

Thome

De tenemento quond. Johannis Corss jacen. inter terram Johannis Fleyming ex parte orientali, et tervs. ram Johannis Kers ex parte occidental!,
.

De

tenemento quond. Robert! Hathwye jacen. inter terram quond. Laurencij Litstar ex parte occidentali, et terram quond. David Rate ex parte orietali, ijs. vjd.
tenemento quond. Vilielmi Hill jacen. inter terram Johannis Frenche ex parte occidentali, et terram David Baxtare ex parte orietali, vjs.
.

De

De De

tenemento

***

Thome Caveris jacen. inter terram

. * *
J..L

tenemento Vilielmi Ranald jacen. inter terram Johannis Cowpare ex parte orientali, et terram Stephani Forrestar ex parte occidentali iiijs.
.

De

Rudolph! Wild jacen. inter terram quond. Joannis Gray ex parte occidentali, et terram Alexandri Hamiltoun ex parte orientali, xvjs.

tenemento quond.

De

tenemento quond. Robert! Amysfield jacen. inter

LVII
Rudolph! Wild ex parte occidental!, et terram Villelmi James ex parte oriental! xiiijs.
terrain quond.

De

tenemento Stephani Forester jacen. inter terram Villelmi Ranald ex parte orientali, et terram quond. David Smyt ex parte occidentali, ixs,
.

De
De

tenemento Johannis Cowpare jacen

*

tenementis quond.

Thome
.

occidentali fori diet! burgi,

Forest jacen. ex parte xxxvjs.

.

tenemento quond. Robert! Hathwye jacen. inter terram Thome Wilsoune ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Georgii Melvill ex parte occidentali, iiijs.
tenemento Edward! Brown jacen. ad partein orietalem diet! burgi, xvs.
.
. .
.

De

De

REDDITUS SECUNDE CAPELLANIE FUNDAT. PER ROBERTUM BEGYS. ANNE.

quobus tenementis quond. Johannis Waltoun et mine Alexandri Foulis jacen. inter terram Thome Forrest ex parte orientali, et terram Jacobi Amysfeild xls. ex parte occidentali,

De

....
. . . . .

De tenemento Thome Forrest jacen.

Johannis Fresale ex andri Foulis ex parte

[inter] terram dni parte orientali, et terram Alex. occiu

xiijs. iiijd.

De

tenemento David Baxtare jacen. inter terram Vilielm! Hill ex parte occidentali, et commune vinellum xvs. ex parte orientali,

De

tenemento Johannis French jacen. inter terram

LVIII
Joanis Jak ex parte occidental! et terrain Vilielmi
Hill ex parte orientali,
.
.

iiijs.

tenemento Roberti Chaloner jacen. inter terram quond. Thome Todrick ex parte orientali, et terram Johannis Gibsoune ex parte occil viijs.
1

De

De tenemento

quond. Johannis Mure, et nunc Johan-

nis Litstar, jacen. inter terram quond. Thome Tailzeor ex parte occidentali, et terram Henrici Kynnele ex

parte orientali,

....
.

xxxs.

quond. Thome Rede jacen. inter terram Joannis Gibsoune ex parte orientali, et terram Patricij xxs. iiijd. Hyne ex parte occidentali,
.

De tenemento

tenemento Stephani RobertsoUne jacen. inter terram Joanis Rithving ex parte occidentali, et terram Joanis Schaw ex parte orietali, vijs.
. .

De

tenemento quond. Johanis Turffis jacen. inter terram Jacobi Peticrew ex parte orientali, et terram u xiijs. iiijd. quond. Vilielmi Forsith ex parte occi
. .

De

tenemento Patricii Ka jacen. inter terram quond. Joannis Smal ex parte occidentali, et terram quond. Vilielmi Logane ex parte orientali, vs.
.

De

tenemento quond. Johanis Mure jacen. inter terram Thome Forrest ex parte orientali, et terram xxxs. Henrici Warwick ex parte occi
11
.

De

De

tenemento Mathei Meldon inter terram Thome Colyne ex parte occi , et commune vinellum ex parte
orientali,

....
11

xiijs. iiid.

LIX
REDDITUS TERTIE CAPELLANIE FUNDAT. PER

ROBERTUM BEGYS. BRIGIDE.

De tenemento Thome Forrest jacen. inter terram Johannis Mure ex parte boreali, et terram Joannis Palmare ex parte
australi,
.

vjs.

De

tenemento quond. Johannis Mure, et nunc Thome Forrest, jacen. inter terram Alexandri Smyt ex parte occidental!, et terram Dauid Litstar ex parte orientali,

.....
Wynd,
.

xxs.

De tenemento
cidentali le

Alexandri Bennett jacen. ex parte oc.

.

vjs.

De tenemento Duncani Ruch

jacen. inter

Alexandri Bennett ex parte orietali, cani Litstar ex parte occidental!,

terram et terram Dunxviijs. viijd.

De
tali

tenemento dicti Duncani Ltstar ex parte occidentenementi Duncani Ruch, viijs. viijd.
.

De

tenemento quond Andre Tailzeor jacen. inter terram quond. Joanis Tailzeor ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Dauid Cowpare ex parte occidental!, vs.

De

toto tenemento quond. Johannis Tailzeor jacen. inter terram Johannis Wilson ex parte orientali, et

terram quond. Dauid Cowpare ex parte occidental!, xs.

De tenemento
ecclesie.

......
.....

quond. Jacobi Caneling jacen. in vico

xs.

De

terris

torali jacen.

campestribus Henrici Kaa, et de horreo et ad fin em orientalem dicti burgi et in le

Magdaleneside, que terre nunc sunt heredum quond. Jacobi Gillone. xxxvs.

LX
De
tenemento quond. Georgii Locke in
.

le

Middilraw
iijs.

in fine oriental! dicti burgi,

vjd.

De
De

tenemento Jacobi Schaw, jacen. inter terram

Jv V 11
1

IS*

tenemento Dauid Wilsonne jacen. ad finem occidentalem dicti burgi, et de vna acra terre vocat. le
Gyldakir,

....
1
. . .

xvjs.

De

tenemento quond. Joanis Todrik jacen. inter terram Henrici Kynnele exparte occidental!, et terram is quond. Jo Mure, ex parte orie *. xiijs. iiijd.

De tenemento

quond. Gilbert! Andisonne. et nunc Donald! Peris, jacen. inter terram Andree Ruche, ex parte occidental], et terra dm de Dundas ex parte
orientali,
. . .

x yjs.

De tenemento Vilielmi Thomsonne,

niell,

nuc Henrici Kyn-

jacen. inter terram dicti Henrici ex occidental! parte, et terram Laurencii Litstar ex parte orientali, xvjs.

REDDITUS ALTARIS OMNIUM SANCTORUM.

De tenemento quond. Johannis Wod jacen. inter terram Johannis Crawforde ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Magistri Patricij Yhung ex parte occidental!, concess. per dictum Johanem Wod, xs.
. .

REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTE KATHERINE VIRGINIS.

Imprimis de tenemento
orientali

quond.
dicti

Vilielmi

Thornetoun jacen.
u parte orie ,
.

inter

terrain

Vilielmi

ex
xs.

parte occidental!, et terram quond. Joanis Synie ex

.
.

LXI

De

tene to quond. Joannis Glasforde, et mine dni Henrici et Jacob! Erkill, ex parte oriental! torrentis ad finem orientalem diet! burgi, vijs.
.

De

tenemento quond. Thome Bell jacen. ex parte oriental! tenement! diet! dni Henrici et Jacob! Erkill,
. . .

...

iijs.

De

tenemento quond. Johannis Innwraven jacen. ex parte orientali tenement! diet! quond. Thome
Bell,
.
.

....
.
.

iijs.

tenemento quond. Johannis Robertsoun textoris jaeen. ex parte orientale dicti tenement! quond. Jovs. annis Inwraven.
.

De

De

orientali

tenemento

dicti

Johannis Robertsoune
. .
.

textoris contigue adiacen.

ijs.

De tenemento

Johannis Carmichaell jacen. inter terram Cuthberti Purdy ex parte orientali, et terrain Arthur! Kincade ex parte occidental!, viijs.
.

Item

tres acre terre iuxta

le

crucem beate Marie Magin territorio de

dalene in

Barony.

Item due acre terre jacen.

Bonytoun.

Item de tenemento Johannis Mane jacen. inter terram Johannis Palmare ex parte orientali, et terrain Johannis Fleyming ex parte occidental!, xiijs. iiijd. ex donatione Roberti Hamiltoun.

De

tenemento Johannis Were jacen. inter terram Vilielmi Valtye ex parte occidental}, et terram quond. Jacob! Schaw ex parte orientali, xiijs. iiijd. in vadio pro duodecim mercis, ex donatione dicti quond. Roberti Hamiltoun.
.

LXII

De

tenemento quondam spectan. Gavino Carmichell,

spectan. Vilielmo Seller,
.

nunc

xxvjs. viijd.

De

David Bennett ex parte occiu Joanis Gray ex parte orientali,

manan.

tenemento quond. Henrici Lanye inter terrain et terram quond. ,

.

xxs.

ex donatione dm" Jacobi Balgernye rectoris de Sla-

De

teneto dicti quond. Johanis Gray, nunc Alexandri

.

Hamiltoun,

.....

xxs.

ex donatione dicti quond. domini Jacobi Balgernye. De tenemento quondam Joanis Pamer, xiijs. iiijd.

REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTI PETRI.

tenemento quond. Thome Forrestar jacen. ad finem occidentalem dicti burgi inter terra Dauid Wilsoune ex parte orietali, et terram quond. Vilielmi Wilsoun ex parte occidental!, vjs. vijd.
.
.

De

quond. Joannis Christane jacen. inter terram u quond. Dauid Nesbyt ex parte orien et terram quond. 11 xd. ex Joannis Lourison ex parte occi donatione Vilielmi Howistoun.
ten*
, ,
.

De

De

tenemento Henrici

Grant jacen.
.

inter

terram

Joanis Frenche ex parte occidentali, et terra Chrisn xd. ex tiane Hath wye ex parte orie ,
.

donacione

dicti Vilielmi

Howistoun.

Item quarterium terrarum de Lochhous dat. per quond. Cristianam lamesin, et assedat. quond. Michaeli de Hamiltoun pro xls. et soluend. annu redditu
debit, germani.

LXIII

De tene* quond. DauidBreich jacen. inter terra Ade Thomsoune ex parte orie et terrain Thome Doby ex parte occiu
1

quond.

*,

quond.
ijs.

tenemento quond. Johannis Langtoun, et nunc Johanis Kincaid, inter terra Patricij Rate ex parte orie et terra Henrici Levingston ex parte occi", ijs. vjd. and xxxd.

De

11

new

quond. Thome Listoun jacen. inter terra quond. Joanis Galboazt ex parte occi , et terra dicti Thome Listoun ex parte orientali, ijs. vjd.
occidental! tene
to
li

De De

recognitioun. pecia terre vocat.

le

Madyrzaird,

vjs. viijd.

REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTI ANDBEE.

De tenemento
lai

Rollandi Wilsoune inter terram Nichooccidental!, et

.

Wryt ex parte
orientali

terram
.

Thome Forest
.

ex parte

xs.

De

tenemento Thome Caveris jacen. inter terram Georgii Hamiltoun ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Vilielmi Noble ex parte occidental^ xiijs. iiijd.

impignorat. pro duodecim mercis, quousque dictus Thomas Caveris vel heredes sui persoluant dictam

Comunitati dicfci burgi pro emptione vnius marce anui redditus ad sustentationem caet

sumam Balliuis

pellani dicti altaris in loco competen.

terra Vilielmi

tenemento quond. Roberti Kinpont jacen. inter Henrysoune ex parte orientali, et terre quond. Dauid Andersoune ex parte occidental!, xs. De tenemento Dauid Baxtare jacen. inter terram Vili-

De

LXIV
elmi Hill ex parte occi11, et terrain
et

Adami Gibsoune,
orietali,

nunc Duncani Newlands, ex parte

vs.

tenemento dm Henrici et Jacob! ErMll jacen. inter terram Rankini Duncan ex parte occidental!, et terram quond. Dauid Bonytoun ex parte oriental!,

De

* *

-2vi-

SUBSCRIPT! ANNUI REDDITUS EX DONACIONE ADE

CAUERIS.

De

tenemeto quond. ecclesie ex parte au

Thome Restoune
hospitii vicarij.

jacen. in vico

11

De tenemento quond. Magistri Johannis Caueris jacen.

inter terrain Robert!
et

Amysfeild ex parte occidental! xxs. terram quond. Andree Ruch ex parte one
11
,

De

tenemento quond. Gilberti Andersoune, et nunc Donaldi Pers, jacen. inter terram Andree Ruehex parte occi n et t'ram dm de Dundas ex parte orie vs. ijd.
11
, ,

tenemento quond. Alani Lambor jacen. inter terram Thome Sideserf ex parte occidental!, et terram xxs. Thome Forest ex parte oriental!,
.

De

De

tenemento quond. Thome Bell, postea Jacob! Millare, jacen. ex parte orientali tenement! diet!
quond.

Thome

Bell,

iiijs.

tenemento quond. Vilielmi Stewyns jacen. inter terram quond. Vilielmi Bald ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Ade Thomsonne ex parte occi
11

De

xs. ijd.

De

tenemento quond.

Thome Dobie jacen.

inter ter-

LXV
ram quond. Dauid Breich ex parte
Patricij
orientali, et terrain
. .

Rate ex parte

occidental!,

vjs.

De tenemento

orientali Henrici

Wernock

jacen. ex
vs.

parte occidental! tenementi quond. Johannis Mure,

De De

tenemento occidental!
.

dicti

Henrici
.

Wernok

coniijs.

tigue adiacen.

tenemento quond. Johannis Forestare jacen. inter terram quond. Georgij Meluill ex parte orientali, et terram Thome Gowane ex parte occidental!, vjs. tenemento Jonete Wolff jacen. inter terram Roberti Smyt ex parte occidental!, et terram Joanis vjs. Nesbyte ex parte orietali,
.

De

tenemento quond. Joannis Christane, et nunc Joannis Nesbyte, jacen. inter terram Jonete Wolff ex parte occidental!, et terram dicti Johannis Nesbyt ex
parte occidental!,
. .

De

vs.

tenemento dicti Joannis Nesbyt inter, terram dicti Joannis ex parte occidentali, et terram quond. Thome xs. Johnneston ex parte orientali,
. .

De

REDDITUS ALTARIS CORPORIS CHRISTI

Fundat. per quond. Magistrum Vilielmi Foulis Archidiaconi Sancti Andree ac vicarium de Edinburgh.

De

tenemento Patricij Harkis jacen. inter terram quond. David Bonnyngtoun ex parte occidentali, et terram quond. David Craufurde capellani et nunc Johannis Palmare, xxviijs.

Dm

LXVI

De
De

tenement

dicti

Joannis Palmare et quond.

.

Dni

I)auid Craufurde,

viijd.

tenemento Alexandri Carnys jacen. inter terram quond. Matthei Meldon ex parte orientali, et terram
viijs.

quond. Archibald! Meluill et parte occidental!,

De

rici

tenemento quond. Henrici Mandby, et nunc HenKynnele, jacen. inter terram quond. Roberti Litstar ex parte occidental!, et terram quond. Joannis Todrik xs. ex parte orientali,
. .
.

tenemento Mathei Favewey jacen. inter terram Duncani Walder ex parte orientali, et terram Joannis Malcomsoun ex parte occidental!, xiijs. iiijd.
.

De

De

tenemento

Thome Mason

jacen. in vico ecclesie

australi, et

inter terram Johannis

Cowpare ex parte

tenementum
Cantok

altaris
iijs.

Sancte Crucis ex parte boreali, ex donatione Dni Johannis iiijd.

capellani.

IN VILLA

DE EDINBURGH.
.

De

tenemento quond. Roberti Michaelis,

Is.

De

tenemento dicti quond. Roberti Michaelis jacen. in vico beate Marie in diet, burgo de Edinburgh,
xxjs. viijd.

De
le

tenemento quond. Roberti Reidpeth jacen. iuxta Netherbow, liijs. iiijd.

. . .

LXVII
REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCT1 N1NIANI PER DIVERSOS
CONCESS.

ex parte austral! vici regii inter terram eiusd. Johanis Wod ex parte oriental!, et terram Magistri Patricij Zoung ex parte

De

tenemento Johannis

Wod jacen.

occidental],

iijs. iiijd.

per Dauid Bonytoun.

De

tenemento Vilielmi Craufurde jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram quond. Johannis Small ex parte orietali, et terram Thome Forrest ex parte occidental!,
.

vjs.

per Johannem Cowpare dat.

De

tenemento Johanis Chalunare jacen. ex parte vici regij inter terram Vilielmi Forsith ex parte orientali, et terram Archibald! Byrd ex parte
austral!

occidentali,

xijs.

per

Johannem Cowpare

concess.

De

jacen. ex parte austral! vici regij inter terram eiusdem Patricij ex parte orientali, et terram Patricij Davidsoun ex parte occidenPatricij

tenemento

Hyne

tali,

vijs.

per Johannem Coupare fundat.

De tenemento

Archibaldi Byrd jacen. ex parte austral! vici regij inter terram quond. Joanis Chalunar ex parte orientali, et terram Johannis ex parte occidentali, iis.

per Johannem Coupare fundat.

Patricij Ranald, nunc Johannis Zong, ex parte au u vici regij inter terram Archibaldi jacen. Byrd ex parte orientali, et terram Duncan! "Walker ex parte occidentali, ixs. per Johannem Cowpare

De tenemento

concess.

LXVIII
tenemento occidental! Henrici Erkill et Jacobi Erkill capellanorum jacen. in le Middelraw inter terram pistrine beate Marie Virginis ex parte orientali, et terram quond. Patricij Hatkyn ex parte occidental!, vjs. per dictum Johannem Cowpare fundat.

De

De tenemento
vici
tal!,

Johannis Gray jacen. ex parte boreali regij inter terram Johannis Rydyn ex parte orienet terram Henrici Kynnele ex parte occidentali,
xiijs.

per

Joannem Cowpare

concess.

De

australi vici regij inter terram Roberti parte oriental!, et terram Henrici Zung
dentali,
.

tenemento Dauid Andersoune jacen. ex parte Kynpount ex ex parte occi-

...

viijs.

De tenemento Thome
vici regij inter

Foulis jacen. ex parte australi

terram Patricij Davisone ex parte orienet terra Jacobi Scott ex parte occidentali, tali, xjs.

fundat. per

Johannem Zung,

tenemento Jacobi Scott jacen. ex parte australi vici regij inter terram Thome Foulis ex parte orientali, et terram Gilberti Hamiltoun ex parte occidentali,
.

De

xs. per diet.

Johannem Zung

concess.

Roberti Glen jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram quond. Roberti Wolff ex parte oriental!, et terram Roberti Smyt ex parte occidentali, Dominum Johannem Muffet fundat. iiijs. per

De tenemento

tenemento Johannis Adamsoune jacen. in le Middilraw inter terram dicti Patricij Hatkyn ex parte orie , et terra Joanis Kers ex parte occidentali, xs. per dictum Patricium Hatkyn fundat.
li

De

LXIX
ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram Jacobi Lanark ex parte oriental!, et terram Magistri Alexandri Inglis ex parte
tenemento
Sideserff jacen.
occidental!,
.

De

Thome

iiijs.

fundat. per

uxorem

dicti

Thome.

De

quond. Andree Logane jacen, ex boreali vici regij inter terram quond. Patricij parte Kaa ex parte occidental!, et terram quond. Jacobi

tenemento

Dm

et Henrici Erkill

ex parte

orientali,

viijs. iiijd.

fundat. per drim

Andream Logane.

De tenemento

Johannis Chalonare jacen. ex parte

australi vici regij inter terram Vilielmi Forsith ex parte orietali, et terram Archibaldi Byrd ex parte occidental!,
ixs.

per dominu

Andream Logane

fundat.

Item de tenemento Petri Neilsoune jacen. ex parte

boreali vici regij inter terram
et
.

terram Dauid Kerss ex orientali

et dat.

iiijs.

fundat.

per dominum Andream Logane.

REDDITUS ALTARIS SANCTE TRINITATIS.

De

tenemento Robert! Duncane jacen. ex parte bo-

reali vici regij inter

terram Henrici Erkill et Jacobi Erkill capellanorum ex parte orientali, et terram Andree Logane ex parte occidental!, s j
.

De una

acra terre Patricij Kaa jacen. ex parte boreali vie jacentis ad hospitale Sancte Marie Magdalene inter terram Sancte Marie ex orie , et terram Joi:

hannis Cowpare ex occidental!,.

xs.

LXX
De
tenemento Robert! Amysfeild jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terrain Joanis Caveris ex parte orie et terram Joannis Palmare ex parte occidental!,
11

xiijs. iiijd.

De
vici

orie 15

tenemento Vilielmi Cairnis jacen. ex parte au regij inter terram Vilielmi Patersoune ex parte , et terram quond. Patricij Hatwye ex parte occi ,
li

11

Joannis Palmare jacen. ex parte au vici regij inter terram Robert! Parcle ex parte orientali, et terram Johanis Ay an ex parte occi , viijs.
tene*
11
11
.

De

teneto Vilielmi Hill et Vilielmi Boyse jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram Thome Colyne ex
parte orie
tal!,
11

De

et

....
terram

Thome Gray ex

parte occidenxiijs.

De

tenemento Dauid Hamyltoune jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram Johanis Cowpare ex parte orietali, et terram Andree Scott ex parte occidental!,

pistrino et toto tene* raw inter terram Joannis

tali,

De

nostro jacen. in

le

Middil-

et terram Patricij

Johnstoune ex parte orienxls. Hatkyn ex parte occi

li

De

teneto

regij

Thome Schaw jacen. ex parte boreali vici inter communem torrentem decurrentem versus
orietali, et
.

lacum ex parte

terram Eduardi Broune ex

. . .

parte occidental!,

vijs.
1'

De

tene to Cuthberti Purdy jacen. ex parte occi

vici

LXXI
regij inter

terram Patricij Hathowye ex parte orietali^ et terram Vilielmi Carmichaell ex parte occi , xxs.
11

tenemeto occidental! Alexandri Foulis jacen. ex u n parte au vici regij inter terram eiusd. Alex Foulis ex parte orientali, et terram Jacobi Aimysfield ex
parte occidental!,
. . .

De

viijs.

De
et

tene* Jacobi Aymisfield jacen. ex parte boreali

vici regij inter t'ram

Henrici Kynel ex parte orientali,

.

terram Vilielmi Hyll ex parte occidental!,

tene* Joannis

iiijs.

De

France jacen. ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram Vilielmi Hyll ex parte orientali, et vs. terram Joannis Jak ex parte occidental!,

De

tene*

Archibald! Craufurde ex parte boreali vici

regij inter terram Dauid Newlands ex parte orientali, 11 xs. et terram Thome Forrest ex parte occi ,

De

tene

to

Joannis
.

Nicoll in le
.

Kirkgait ex
.

parte
vjs.

boreali,

De

'

tene*

Dauid Barrye ex parte au

11

vici regij inter

terram Robert! Smy*. ex parte occi Walker ex parte orie

11

et
.

terram Andree
.

vs.

De

Vilielmi Cairnis pro rnissa nominis Jesu xxs. et luminibus,

tene*
.
.

De

tene to

quondam Domini Andree Logane

Jacobi et parte boreali vici regij inter terram Henrici Erkill ex parte orientali, et terram Patricij

Dm

jacen. ex

Kaa ex

parte occi

11

fundatum per Jonetam Logane,

viijs.

LXXII
Item de

eodem tene to

fundatum
. .

per
.

Dominum
xxs.
li

Andream Logane,

Item de teneto Robert! Duncane jacen. ex parte bo una camera cum solia, fundatum per dnm Henricu et Jacobum Erkill ad capellanu altaris Trinitatis.

Ane tenement

of land pertening to William Knollis.

OBITUS JACOBI ROBISOUNE ET MARIOTE WEIR

celebrand. in ecclesia parochiali de Linlytgow bis in anno, viz. post Festa Pentecostes et Sancti Martini in

equales portiones, pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum, de uno annuo redditu viginti

hyeme per

solidorum annuatim percipiend. et leuand. de toto et integro tenement o dicte Mariote Weir jacen. inburgo

de Linlytgw ex parte boreali vici regij inter terram Jacobi Robisoune ex parte oriel et terram Stephani Waus ex parte occidentali, ad Festum Pentecostes et
1

Sancti Martini in hyeme, et pro quolibet obitu celebrand. decem solidos, et quilibet capellanus tenabit octo denarios, viz.
:

Capellano parochiali,
Crucis,
.
.
.

viij d. viij

Sancti Johannis Baptiste,

viij d.

d.

Sancte Marie, Sancte Trinitatis,

Sancti Nicholai,

viij d.
viij d. viij d. viij d. viij d.

Sancte Anne, Sancte Katherine,

Sancti Petri, Sancti Andree, Sancti Niniani,
.

viij d.
viij d.

viij d.

viij

d.

Sancti Johannis Evangeliste, Sancti Cononis,

.

viij d.

Clericus parochialis,

vj d.

Et Capellanus Sancte Trinitatis pro preparatione mense et

luminaribus,
.

Et bedellus, pro pulsatione campane per villam

narios.
bis,

viij

d.

duos de-

Obiit dicta Mariota Weir m.cccc.

xxv. feria secunda ante festum

Pentecostes.

LXXIII
tenebuntur dicti capellani anniversariuni celebrare ad dictum altare Sancte Trinitatis, et Sancti Nicholai, et Sancti Johannis Evangeliste, et missam de Requiem cum nota bis in anno, et reliqui capellani missam de Requiem privatim, vt supra dictum est. Et quicunque capellanus se absentaverit de Placebo et Dirige feodum amittet, et dicti capellani Sancte Trinitatis, Sancti Nicholai, et
Sancti Johanis Euangeliste dicti altaris distribuant

Pro quibus summis

dabunt ecclesie et pauperibus stipendia absentium prout voluerint coram sumo judice respondere.
et

[The next and eleven succeeding

obits

do not occur

in the paper volume, but are taken from the vellum fragments in the Advocates' Library.]

OBITUS PATRICU HYNE celebrand. coram

Jofcis Baptiste xvj

altari

die mensis Januarij, qui obiit

Su anno

Dni M.
u

cccc Ixxxj

paro , de decem Scocie annuatim percipiend. & leuand. de toto & to dicti Patricij jacen. ex parte boreali integro tene vici regij int' t'ra Dauid Rate ex parte occidentali,

capellanis & clerico solidis annui redditus vsualis monete

cum tresdecim

&

terra

Thome Gray
.

ex parte
:

orieu,

&

cuilibet

capellano dabitur viijd. viz.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Johannis, Capellano Sancte Brigide, Capellano Sancte Katerine,
Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree, Capellano Corporis Xpi,
. .

viij d.
.

viij

d.

Capellano Sancti Antonij, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis,

viij

d.
d. d.

viij
viij

viij d.
viij

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

d.

Capellano Sancti Saluatoris,

Clerico paroji,
.
.

viij d.
viij d.
.

viij d.
viij

d.

viij d.
viij

Bedello pulsanti per villa, Capellano Sancto Johannis pro preparacione mense

ij

d.

d.

&

luminaribus,

vj d.

viij d.

LXXIV
OBITUS ANDREE RUCH celebrand. cora altari Sancti Niniani xxv die mesis Marcij qui obiit anno Dm m
cccc lxxx cu tresdeci capellanis, de dece solidis annul redditus vsualis monete annuatim pereipiend. & leuand. de toto & integro teneraeto dicti Andree iacen. in

burgo de Linlitbgw ex parte boreali vici regii inter terram Donaldi Pers ex parte orietali, & terram quod. Tbome Cauers ex parte occidentali, & dabitur cuilibet
capellano viijd. viz.
Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,
.

viij d.
.

viij d.

Capellano Sancti Antonij, Capellano Sancti Niniani,

viij
.

d.

viij d.
viij

Capellano Sancte Marie, viij Capellano Sancti Johannis Bap.

d.

Capellano Sancti Saluatoris, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis,

Clerico parochiali, Capellano Sancti Niniani pro
.

d.

viij d.

tiste,

viij

d.

viij d.

Capellano Sancte Brigide, Capellano Sancte Kat'ine,

Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,
-

viij d.
viij d.
viij d.

preparacione mese
minaribus,
.

& pro
.

lu.

vj d.
.

viij d.

Bedello pulsanti per villam,

ij

d.

Capellano Corporis Xpi,

viij d.

OBITUS DAUID COUPARE celebrand. coram

altari

Sancti Niniani septimo die mesis Februarij qui obiit anno milles cccc octuagetercio dequmque solidis

Dm

annui reddit' annuati percipiend. & leuand. de occidentali tenemeto dicti Dauid cum pertinen. jacen. in

burgo de Linlithgw ex parte australi vici regii int' terram quod Andree Coupare ex parte occidentali, & terram dicti Dauid ex parte orientali, cu sex capellanis et clerico parochiali, et dabitur cuilibet capellano viijd. & clerico vjd. viz. :
Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,
.

viij d.
viij d. viij

Capellano Sancti Niniani, Clerico parochiali,

viij

d.

vj d.

Capellano Sancte Marie,

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Andree,

d.

Capellano Sancti Niniani pro

luminaribus, Bedello pulsanti per villam,
. .

viij d.

iiij
.

d.
d.

viij d.

ij

LXXV
OBITUS ADE CAUERIS celebrand. corain altari Sancti Andree in vigilia Sancti Thome Apostoli qui obiit anno

Dni

de octo solidis annni reddit' viz. de de tene* dicti quod Ade jacen. in quatuor dicto burgo inter terram mine Robert! Amysfeld ex parte occidental!, & terram Andree Ruch ex parte orietali, & de quatuor solidis annui reddit' percipiend. & leuand. de tene*quod Mathei Meldonint' t'ram Jacobi Amysfeld ex parte orientali, & t'ram Alexandri Carny no ex parte occidetali, & dabitur cuilibet cap xd. viz.
cccc
liij

solidis

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,
Capellano Corporis Xpi,

x d. x d. x d. x d. x d.
x d. x d.

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

x
x

d. d.

. Clerico parochial!, Capellano altaris Sancti Andree

pro preparacione niese

minaribus,
.

&

lu.

vj d.

Bedello per villam pulsanti eam-

Capellano Sancti Antonij,

panam,

ij

d.

in

OBITUS MAGISTRI JOHANNIS CAUERIS celebrand. Translacione Sancti Andree cum sex capellanis
clerico,

&

de quinque

solidis

annui reddit' annuatim

percipiend. & leuand. de tenemeto jacen. in dicto burgo int' terra Jofeis
orientali,
tal!,

Dauid Hamilton

& terra quod Jofais

no
.

Coupare ex parte Murray ex parte occiden:

&

dabitur cuilibet cap

viij d.
.

viijd. viz.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

Capellano beate Marie,

viij d.

Capellano

Clerico parochiali, Sancti Andree

viij

d.

viij d.
viij d.
viij d. viij

preparacione mese

&

pro pro lu.

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Andree, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis,

. . minaribus, Bedello pulsanti campanam per

vj d.

d,

villam,

ijd.

OBITUS DAUID WILSONE celebrand. Augusti qui obiit anno Dni m cccc

xvj

die mesis
8

Ixxxiiij*

cora

LXXVI
Sancte Katherine virginis de decem solidis annui redditus annuati percipiend. & leuand.de toto & integro tenemeto suo cum pertinen iacen. in dicto burgo
altari

ex parte australi vici ex parte "orietali, &

parte
occiu
,

regii int' t'ram

t'ra

Willelmi Gellane

quod.

Simone Forestar ex

cum decem

capellanis

&

clerico,

&

cuilibet

capellano dabitur xd.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crueis,
.

x
x
.

d.

d. d.

Capellano Sancte Marie, Capellano Sancti Johannis Baptiste,

.

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancte Katherine, Domino Johanni Wolff pro tem.

x x

d. d.

Capellano Sancte Brigide, Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,

.

x d. x d. x x
d.
d.

pore suo, et post eius decessum, capellano Sancte Trinitatis, x Clerieo parochiali, x
.

d.
d.

Capellano Sancte Katerine pro

mensa & luminaribus,

Bedello pulsanti
villam,

viij

d.

campanam per
.

ij

d.

OBITUS THOME- LISTONE celebrand. cora

Sancti Eligij

altari

cum

sex capellanis

&

clerico qui obiit

cccc Ixxxv penultimo die Septembris anno Dni de quinque solidis annui reddit' viz. de triginta deto nariis de tene dicti Thome jacen. ex parte australi vici regii in le Madyryhard & de triginta denariis annui reddit' de tenemeto dicti Thome jacen. ex parte boreali vici regii ex parte occidentali tene*
1

Jom's
viz.
:

Carnys,

&

dabitur

cuilibet

capellano,

viijd,

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crueis, Capellano beate Marie,

iij

d.

Clerico prochiali,

vj d.

et

pro
luiiij

viij d.
viij

preparacione mense
minibus, Bedello pulsanti
villam,
.

& pro

d.

d.

Capellano Sancte Brigide,

Capellano Sancti Capellano Corporis Xpi,

....

viij d. viij d. viij

campanam per
.
.

ij

d.

d.

LXXVII
<

OBITUS DAUID ANDERSON celebrand. penultimo die Septebris qui obiit anno Dm m cccc Ixxxiiij cora altari Sancti Saluatoris cum decem capellanis & clerico, de decem solidis annul reddit' annuatim percipiend. & leuand. de tenemeto suo cum pertinen iacen. in dicto burgo ex parte australi vici regii int'

t'ram quod. Roberti Kurpur ex parte orietali, terram quod. Henrici Binny ex parte occidental!, & dabitur
cuilibet capellano, xd. viz.
Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,
.

&

x
.

d. d.

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Saluatoris,

Clerico parochiali,
. .

x d. Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Johannis Baptiste,

.

x x x

d. d. d.

Capellano Sancti Saluatoris pro

preparacione
luminaribus, Bedello pulsanti
villam,

Capellano Sancte Katerine,

Capellano Sancti Petri,
Capellano Sancti Andree,
.

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

x d. x d. x d. x d. x d.

mense
.

&

pro
viij d.

campanam per
.
.

ij

d.

OBITUS JONETE LOGANE celebrand. ad altare Sancti

octo capellanis clerico, de sex solidis & to sex denariis de tene suo jacen. in dicto burgo ex
Petri

cum

&

parte boreali vici regij

int' terram Patricij Ka ex parte & terram Roberti Duncan ex parte orietali, occidental!, quequidem annuum redditu habuit ab Henrico Ka ex

legali

conquestu dicte Jonete in sua viduitate post decessum mariti sui Willelmi Logan, & dabitur cuilibet
capellano

&

clerico viijd. viz.

.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

Capellano Sancte Marie, Capallano Sancte Kat'ine,

viij

d.
d.

Clerico parochiali,

viij d.

viij
.

Et pro preparacione mense &

luminaribus, Bedello pulsanti
villam,
. .

viij

d.

viij d.

viij d.
.

campanam per
. . .

Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,

viij d.
viij
.

ij

d.

d.

Capallano Corporis Xpi,

viij d.
.

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

viij d.

LXXVIII
OBITUS WILLELMI SMYTH celebrand. in die commemoracione animarum cum sex capellanis & clerico, de
solidis annul reddit' annuati percipiend. & de tenemeto dicti quod. "Willelmi Smyth extra leuand. pontem ad finem orientalem dicti burgi ex parte

quinque

boreali vici regij,

viz.

&

dabitur cuilibet capellano

viiijd.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Andree,

viij d. viij d.
.

Capellano Corporis Xpi,

Clerico parochiali,
.

viij
.

d.

vj d.

viij

d.

&

pro preparacione mense

luminaribus,
.
.

&
iiij

viij d.

d.

Bedello pulsanti
villam,
.

campanam per
.

ij

d.

OBITUS MAGISTRI HENRICI BOYS

lithgw xxvij die mensis Junij anno septimo celebrand. in choro de Linlithgw

Dm m

vicarij

de Linoctuage
tres-

cum

decem

reddit'

& clerico, de duodecim solidis annui annuatim percipiend. & leuand. de toto & integro tenemeto Thome Forest jacen. ex parte oecidentali fori dicti burgi inter terram Jacobi Schaw ex parte occidental^ et terram Jofeis Forrest ex parte boreali,
capellanis

&

dabitur cuilibet capellano xd. viz.

.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie,

x
. .

d.

Capellano Sancti Andree,

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Antonij,
.

x d.

x d.

x d.
x d. x d.
.

Capellano Sancti Saluatoris, Capellano Sancti Johannis Capellano Sancte Brigide, Capellano Sancte Katerine,

x x
x x x x

d.

d.
d.

Capellano Sancti Niniani, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis,

Clerico parochiali,
. .

d.

d.
d.

viij d.

Capellano Sancti Petri,

d.

Cureto pro luminaribus, & pre. paracione mense, Bedello pulsanti campanam per
villam,
.

iiij

d.

ij

d.

LXXIX
OBITUS JOHANNIS PALMER fundat. per eum
brand. ad altare Sancti
Saluatoris in festo
cele-

Sancte

cccc Scola&tice virginis mense Februarij anno Dni vel feria quinta ansi Carnisprivii cu tresdeeem lj
capellanis

&

clerico parochial!,

de decem

solidis

annui

redditus vsualis monete Scocie annuatim percipiend. & leuand. de toto & integro teneto Patricij Marty n
jacen. ex parte australi vici regii dicti burgi int' t'ram

quod Jonis ex parte lyng ex parte occi

11
,

orietali,

&

t'ram Henrici Canecapellano subscripto

&
viij

cuilibet

&

clerico prochiali
.

dabuntur
d. d. d. d.

viiijd. videlicet.
d.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

viij

Capellano Sancte Katerine, Capellano Sancti Petri,

viij viij

d. d.

Capellano beate Marie

viij
viij

Capellano Sancti Andree, Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Antonij,

Capellano Sancti Niniani,
Clerico parochiali,
.

viij
viij
viij

Capellano Sancti Salvatoris, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis, Capellano

Baptist,

d.
d. d. d.

viij d.

Sancti
.

Johannis
.

viij viij

viij
.

d.

Capellano Sancte Anne,

viij d.

Item capellano Sancti Saluatoris pro preparacione & luminaribus,

Bedello,
ij

vj d.

d.

OBITUS ANDREE DE BONYNTON, quod burgensis de

Linlithquo celebrand. in choro ecclesie beati Michaelis Archangeli dicti burgi bis in anno, viz. in crastinis post festum Sancte Trinitatis pro anima quod Magistri Patricij

de Howistoune yicarij de Linlithgw & pro anima dicti Andree & pro animabus omnium fidelium defuncItem in crastino post festu Sancti Martini cum tor. sex capellanis subscriptis & clerico paro de vno annuo redditu decem solidorum vsualis monete Scocie annuali

tim percipiend.
dicti

&

leuand. de toto

&

integro tenemeto
fori dicti

Andree

jacen.

ex parte orientali

burgi

LXXX
inter terram
Patricij

JoMs Palmare ex parte boreali, & terrain Harkes ex parte australi, ad festu Pente-

costes

Sancti Martini in hieme, celebrand.

.

&

&

pro quolibet obitu

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie,

viij d.
.

Clerico parochiali dicti Burgi,

vj d.

viij d.

Et

pro campanis pulsandis

.

&
iiij

viij d.

candelis illuminatis,

d.

Capellano Sancti Andree,

Capellano Corporis Xpi.
Capellano Sancti Niniani,

viij d.
viij

Item bedello pulsanti campanam

. . per villam, Dictus dominus vicarius obiit anno

d.

ij

d.

viij d.

domini m.ccccxxix.
Dictus Andreas obiit m.ccccxlij.

OBITUS PATRICIJ KAA burgensis de Linlithgw celebrand. coram altari Sancti Eligij confessoris bis in
anno, viz. in crastino post festum Sancti Johanis Baptiste&in crastino postfestu Sancti Andree Apostoli pro

anima dicti Patricij parentuq. suoru & omnium fidelium defunctorum de vno annuo redditu decem solidor. vsualis monete Scocie annuatim percipiend. et leuand. de tenemeto Jofeis Patricson cum pertinen. iacente in dicto burgo inter terram quod Ade Cavers ex parte
Willelmi Saltoun ex parte occidental}, ad festu Pentecostes & Sancti Martini in
orientali,

& terram quod

hieme,

&

pro quolibet obitu celebrand.

.

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

Capellano beale Marie, Capellano Sancti Eligij,

viij
.

d.

Item Clerico parochiali pro campanis pulsand.

viij d.
.

&

candelis illuminand,

iiij

d.

viij

d.

Item Bedello pulsanti capana per

. villam pro quolibet obitu, Obitus dicti Patricij Ka m.ccccxlj.

viij
.

d.

ij

d.

Capellano Sancti Antonij,

Capellano Corporis Xpi.
Clerico parochiali,
.

viij d. viij d. viij d.

&*

LXXXI
OBITUS PATRICIJ HARKES burgen. de Linlithgw semel in anno celebrand. coram altari Sancti Niniani confessoris in festo Sancti Remigij pro anima dicti
Patricij

parentuq suoru

& omnium

fideliu defunctor.

de vno annuo redditu decem solidorum vsualis monete Scocie annuati percipiend. & leuand. de tento Roberti Man jacente in die to burgo ex parte australi vici regii inter terram Henrici Caneling ex parte oriental], & terram Thome Forest ex parte occi adfestum Pen. & Sancti Martini in hieme cu capellanis infra6 viz.
11

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,

x
.

d. d.
d.

Capellano Sancte Katerine,

Clerico parochiali . Itm Clerico paro * pro cadelis
1 .

d.

x
x

vj d.

Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree, Capellano Corporis Xpi,
Capellano Sancti Antonij,
.

il-

x x x
x

d. d. d. d. d.

lurainand.

& campanis
.

pulsand.

viij

d.

Item bedello pulsanti capana per

villain,
.

vj d.

Item ad collacione capnis facied,

Dictus Patricius obiit m.ccccxlvj.

xiiij d.

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

OBITUS DUNCANI LITSTER celebrand. in crastino post

festu Corporis

Xpi semel in ano in choro ecclesie Sancti Michaelis cum octo capellanis & clerico, de vno annuo redditu viij solidorum vsualis monete Scocie annuati to percipiend. & leuad. de tene dicti Duncani jacente in
burgo ex parte australi vici regij inter terram Duncani Ruch ex parte orietali, & terra Jonis Kincade ex parte occi ad festu Pen. & Sancti Martini.
dicto
11 ,

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie,

.

x
.

d.

x d.

x d. Capellano Sancti Niniani, Clerico paro'* pro candelis illuminad. cam.

x
.

d.
d.

panis pulsand.

&

pro seruicio,

xiiij d.
ij

Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,

Capellano Corporis Xpi,

x
.

x d.

Item bedello pulsanti per villa,. Dictus Duncanus obiit m.cccclxiij.

d.

d.

Capellano Sancti Antonij,

x d.

LXXXII
OBITUS JOHANNIS COUPARE celebrand. ad
altare

SanctiNiniani semelin anno decimo octauo die mensis

Junij per decem capellanos & clericum de istis anuis redditibus subscriptis, viz. de quinque solidis annui

redditus tene*'

quod Willelmi Liston

iacen. int' t'ram

Jonis

Adamson ex parte orietali, & t'ram Roberti Wolff ex parte occidentali, & de tribus solidis annui redditus tene*' occidentalis JoMs Turffis jacen. ex parte boreali vici inter terra dicti JoMs Turffe ex parte orientali, & terra Jofois Murray ex parte occidentali, & de duobus
annul redditus de teneto Johis Coupare jacen. in le Middilraw int' t'ram Jofeis Nesbit ex parte occidetali, ad festu Pentecost. & Sancti Martini in
solidis

hieme.
Capellano paroehiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancti Petri,
.

x x
.

d. d.
d.

Capellano Sancte Sithe, Capellano Sancti Kiniani,

Clerico paroli,
. .

x d. x
d.

vj d.

x
.

d.
d.

Capellano Sancti Andree,

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Antonij,
.

x
x

Capellano Sancti Niniani pro preparacione mese & can del is illu-

x d.
.

minand,

iiij
.

d.
d.

d.

Bedello pulsanti per villa, Dictus Johannes obiit xviij die Junij

ij

anno domiiii m.cccclxv.

OBITUS MAGISTKI JOHANNIS HENRICI presbiteri celebrand. coram altari Sancti Saluatoris in secunda die
mensis Octobris per capellanu parochialem et alios nouem capnoa percuratum ecclesieet capnum Sancti Saluatoris eligend.

Et

quilibet capellanus habebit

decem

celebrabunt missas privatas denarios, prout moris est pro defunctis, cum anniversario et exe cantu in crastina. Clericus parochialis quiis et missa cum
habebit pro servicio et campanis
viijd.

quorum nouem

Bedellus

LXXXIII
Et pro candelis pro transitu bis cum cainpana ijd. et ceteris ornametis xd. ad ordinationem capni altaris Sancti Salvatoris. De vno annuo redditu decem
solidoru annuatim precipiend. et leuand. de toto et inteto gro tene Henrici Caneling jacen. in dictb burgo ex
11 parte au vici regij inter t'ram Johanis Kerss ex parte

orietali, et

terram

dm

Roberti

Mane ex parte occi ad

11 ,

festum Pentecostes et Sancti M'tini in hyeme. tus Magister Henricus obiit anno mcccclxto
.

Die-

OBITUS JACOBI MALUILL celebrand xvj die mensis Augusti coram altari Sancte Sithe virginis semel in anno de vno annuo redditu decem solidorum percipiend. et leuand. de tenemento Thome Foulis

cum

perti-

nen. jacen. in dicto burgo ex parte austral! vici regij inter terram Patricij Davisone ex parte orientali, et

terram

Thome Gray

ex parte

occidental!,,

cum decem

capellanis et clerico, viz.

Capellano parochial!, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano Sancte Marie, Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree, Cap n Corporis Christi, Capellano Sancte Sithe, Capn Sanete Katherine,
. .
.

x d.
.

Capellano Sancti Niniani,

x d.
x
d.

d.
d. d.

Capellano Sancti Salvatoris,

x x
x

Cap

Clerico parochiali, no Sancte Sithe

ratione

d.

pro prepa.

d.
d.

mese

et candelis il.

luminandis,

xj d.
.

x d. x d.

Bedello pulsanti per villa, Dictus Jacobus obiit anno domini

ij

d.

m.cccc

lij.

OBITUS ELIZABETH DE LEUYNGSTON, quondam

sponse Roberti de Levingston de Middilbenyn, funper Henricum de Levingston de Middilbenyn, mo celebrand. xxj die mensis Julij coram altari Sancte
dat.

Antonij abbatis

cum

tredecim capellanis et clerico

LXXXIV
redditu quatuordeeim solidorum vsualis monete Scocie, viz. de tenemetis infrascriptis. Et
primis de octo solidis annul redditus de tenemeto Dauid Litstar cum pertinen. jacen. in dicto burgo ex
parte boreali vici inter terrain
occil*,

de vno

ammo

et terram Johanis de quatuor solidis et sex Forrest jacen. ex parte boreali vici inter terram Dauid Litstar ex parte orientali, et terram Alexandri Smyt ex parte occidentali. Et de octodecim denariis annui redditus de tenemeto Joannis Sym jacen. ex parte boreali vici inter terram Patricij Syme ex parte occidentali, et terra Nicholai Wryths ex parte orietali.

Thome Forrest ex parte Mane ex parte orietali. Et denariis de tenemeto Thome

Et

cuilibet capellano dabitur xd. viz.

x x
x x x x
.

Capellano parochial!, Capellano Sancte Crucis, Capellano Sancte Katherine,

.

d.
d.

Capellano beate Marie,

Capno SctiJohannis

Baptiste,

x d.
.

Capellano Saricti Niniani, Capellano Sancti Salvatoris,

Clerico parochiali,

Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree, Capellano Corporis Christi,

d. d.

x x x x
X

d,
d.

d. d.
d.

d. d.
d.

Bedello pulsanti capanam

villam,

per
ij

Capellano Sancti Antonij,

Capellano Sancti Eligij, Capellano Sancte Sithe,
.

d.

x d.

Domui elemosine dicti Domui leprosorum,

Capellano

burgi,

xij d. xij d.

Sancti Antonij

pro
iiij

candelis illuminandis,

d.

Dicta Elezabet

obiit

m.cccc

xvij.

OBITUS ROBERTI DE AMYSFIELD celebrand. in crastino post festum Simonis et Jude per duodecim capellanos et clericu de vno annuo redditu novem solidorum vsualis monete regni Scocie annuatim percito cii pertinen. piend. et leuand. de teneme DauidBennet
ex parte boreali vici regij inter jacen. in dicto burgo
terram Roberti

Mure ex

parte occidentali, et terram

LXXXV
Alexandri Hamiltoune ex parte oriental!, ad festum Pentecostes et Sancti Martini. Cuilibet capellano dabitur viijd. viz.
Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,
.

viij
.

d. d.

Capellano Sancti Niniani, Capellano Sancti Salvatoris, Capellano Sancte Trinitatis,

. Clerico parochiali, Et residuum pro candelis et

viij d.
viij

viij

d.

Capellano beate Marie,

Capellano Sancti Petri,
Capellano Sancti Andree,

viij d.

viij d.

viij d.
viij d.

yj d.

mense
.

Capellano Corporis Xpi, Capellano Sancti Antonij,

Capellano Sancti Eligij, Capellano Sancte Sithe,

viij

d. d. d.

viij
.

viij
.

. preparacione, . Bedello pulsanti per villam, Dictus obitus celebrabitur coram

iiij ij

d.

d.

viij d.

altari

Sancti Petri Apostoli

Iviij.

m.cccc

OBITUS DOMINI JOHANNIS BLACKBURN capellani coram altari Sancte Katharine feria secunda postfestum Corporis Christi celebrand. semel in anum de decem solidis annui redditus vsualis monete regni Scocie
annuatim percipiend. et leuand. de tenemento Robert! Bartelmew cum pertinen. jacen. in dicto burgo ex
parte boreali vici regij inter terram

Dauid Bonytoun

ex parte occidental!, et terram

orientali,

cum decem

Patricij Hyne ex parte capellanis et clerico ; et cuilibet

capellano dabitur xd. viz,

Capellano parochiali, Capellano Sancte Crucis,
.

x
.

d.

Capellano Sancti Salvatoris,

Clerico parochiali,
. .

x d.

x d.

x
ij

d. d.

Capellano beate Marie, Capellano Sancte Katherine,

x
.

d. d.

Bedello pulsanti capana per villa,

x
x.

Capellano Sancti Petri, Capellano Sancti Andree,

d.
d.

Capellano Sancte Katharine pro preparacione mense et luminaribus,

. .

x
x

d.

Capellano Corporis Xpi

Capellano Sancti Antonij, Capellano Sancti Niniani,

x d.
.

Dictus dominus Johannes obiit in

die

d.

Lune

post festum Corporis

d.

Christi.

OBITUS
in

STEPHANI ROBERTSOUNE celebrand.

bis

anno ad

altare Sancte Trinitatis, viz. feria terciapost

LXXXVI
festum Corporis Xpi pro anima Simonis Robertsoune patris et Agnetis matris sue qui obiit anno

(The MS. here ends

abruptly.)

XII.
LITTERA. CARPENTARII PRO TECTURA CHORI.*
[EX REGISTRO RECENTIORE DE ABERBROTH. MS. ADV. BIBL.]

THIS endentur present

verzer, this

grace m.ccc.xciiij, the xvi day of the

wytnes that the zer of moneth of Fecunnande was made between the reveberis

rend fathir into Crist Johne, throch the grace of Godde, Abbat of the Abbay of Abberbroth, and the
the ta part, and Wilzam Plummer of Tweddale, burges of the City of Andirston, of the tothir part, that is to say, that the forsad

Convent of that

ilk place, of

Wyllam Plummer sal theke the mekil quer of thar Abbay wyt lede, and gutter al abowt sufficiandly with lede for the quhilk thekyn and gutteryn the Abbot and the Convent sal pay till hym xxxv marcs at syndry termys, as he is wyrkand and of the xxxv marcs v marcs sal dwel style in the Abbots hand and the
;

Convents, quhillys the quer be thekyt, and alurryt abowyt with stane ; and quhen it is alurryt abowt with stane, he sal dytht it abowt wytht lede suffyciandly as his craft askys ; and quhen he has endyt that
al

werk, he

sal

be payt of v marcs and a gown with a

*

Vide

Num.

II. p. xvi.

supra.

LXXXVII
hys ravarde ; quhilk Wilzam Plummer sal fynd a man on his awn cost, and the Abbot and Convent a man alsua of thar cost, quil the werk be fullyly
til

hude

endyt.

The Abbot and

the Convent

sail

fynd

all

maner of gratht that pertenys to that werk quhil is wyrkande. Willam sal haf alsua for ilk stane fynyne that he fynys of lede iijd. and a stane of ilke hundyr that he fynys til his travel, and that day that he
wyrks he
sal

haf a penny

till

his noynsankys.

In the

wytness of this thyng to the ta part of there endentur to the Abbot and the Convent for to dwel, the selis of John Brog and of John Preehurrys, burges
of the burgh of Abberbroth, ar to put ; the tothir part anens Wilzam of Tweddal, Plummer, the com-

mon

Chapytyr of Abberbroth remayns and gyffyn the zer and the day of the selyt. Dowyn moneth befor namyt,*
sele of the

XIII.

ASSEDACIO TERRE DE INNERKETHYNG CUM HOSTILAGTO. ELIZABETH MELDRUM.

EX REGISTRO RECENTIORE DE ABERBROTH, MS. ADV.
BIBL.lj

NOTUM
divina
*

sit

omnibus Christi

fidelibus presens scriptum

visuris vel audituris,

quod nos

Abbas Monasterii de Abberbroth

Jofanes, permissione et ejusdem

The acquittance by William Plummer for the stipulations of the above agreement occurs in the Register, of date 21st May 1396.

LXXXVIII
Conventus de expresso consensu totius Capituli nostri damus, concedimus, et present! carta nostra confirmamus Elizabeth filise quondam Alexandri de
loci

Meldrum,

quoddam

et heredibus suis procreatis seu procreandis, tenementum nostrum jacens in burgo de

Innerkething ex parte boreali ejusdem burgi prope ecclesiam, inter tenementum Willelmi Michaelis ex parte una, et tenementum Henrici Walki ex parte australi ex parte altera, Tenendum et habendum dicta Elizabeth et heredibus suis inliberum burgagium in feodo ethereditate inperpetuum de nobis et successoribus noscommoditatibus, libertatibus, aysiet justis pertinenciis suis, salva nobis justiamentis, cia regalitatis et aliis placitis nostris in dicto tenemento
tris,

cum omnibus

cum

voluerimus tenendis.

Reddendo inde nobis

et

successoribus nostris dicta Elizabeth et heredes sui

duos solidos argento ad festum Penticostes, et inveniendo Abbati de abbacia qui pro tempore fuerit, et
ejus monachis, conversis et clerieis, ballivis et actornatis, et eorundem venientibus pro negociis et causis

Monasterii, quociens advenerint, singulis

statum suum cum familia in qua honeste poterint comedere

et aliis apparatibus,

secundum honestum hospicium, aulam

cum mensa, tristula, spensam cum buttellario, camepoterint, co-

ram seu cameras, ubi honeste recubare

et

stabulum pro equis ad numerum quinam honestam, triginta et infra. Invenient eciam readvenientibus predictis personis sufficiens focale tarn in aula et in camera quam in coquina, albas candelas de cepo, que vulgariter nuncupantur Candele de Paris, lecterium stramentum in aula et in camera, et sal pro mensa. Sed

LXXXIX
abbas vel monachi sui, clerici vel actornati sui predicti, ultra tres noctes continue hospitati fuerint, presi

dicta Elizebeth aut heredes

non tenebuntur ad

focale

et albas candelas, sed omnia alia onera subibunt pro mora personarum predictarum et earum familia. Pre-

terea

nuncii vel cursores Abbatis intervenerint, ad hospitandum sine contradiccione admittentur, ad

cum

sumptus tamen pro

cibariis suis

eadem Elizebeth nee

heredes sui non tenebuntur. Dicta vero Elizebeth seu heredes sui nullo modo dictum tenementum vendent,
nisi

impignorabunt, vel ad feodofirmam dimittent, de consensu predictorum Abbatis et Conventus

In cujus rei testimonium, qui pro tempore fuerint. uni parti hujus carte sic indentate, penes predictam Elizebeth et heredes suos remanenti, commune sigil-

lum

capituli nostri concorditer est

appensum.

Alteri

vero parti, penes predictos Abbatem et Conventum remansare, predicta Elezebeth, quia sigillum proprium non habuit, sigillum discreti viri Jofeis de Femory

Dm

opponi procuravit. Apud Abbroth tercio die mensis anno millesimo trecentesimo nonogesimo Junii,

Dm

quinto.

xc

XIV.
CARTA HOSTILEGII TERRE DE EDYNBURGH JOHANNI

VERNOUR CONCESSA.
[EX REGISTRO RKCENTIORE DE ABERBROTH. MS. ADV.
BIBI..]

This indentur made at Edinburgh the twenty day of the moneth of November, the zer of our Lorde a thousand four hundreth and tuenty and aucht, betwex a reverende fadir in Crist, Walter, throw the saynd of God, Abbot of the Abbay of Abberbroth, on the ta parte, and Jhon Vernour, burges of Edinburgh, on the tothir parte, proportis, contenis and beris witness, that it is fully accordit betuex the saidis partis in the maner, forme and effec, as her effer folouse, apon al maner of clame that the said Lord Abbote maid agaynys the forsaid John Vernour of twa schillings of annuale rent to be takyn of a croft of his and of ostillary quhilk he claymit to be aucht of a tenement of the said John Vernours to the forsaid abbay of Abberbroth that is to say, the said John Vernour, moffit of consciens, has gyfyn and grantit, and be thir presente endenturs frely gifys and grawnts the saide annuale rent of twa schillings to the forsaid abbay of Abbirbroth in fee and herytage for evermar, to be takyn of a croft of his lyand on southt half the town of Edinburgh betwex the croft of Sanct Lenard on the est parte, on the ta parte, and the croft of the houss of Soltre on the west parte, on the tothir parte. Alsua
;

XCI
the said abbot sal haf ostillary within the forsaid tenement of John Vernour, that is to say, hal, chaw-

myr, kechyng, and butre, with simillar utensele as the

tyme of the said abbots lyffing, as he repayrs at consalis and assembilleis and the said John Vernour and his familiars,
said
usis, for all

John Vernour
;

the

als

long as the forsaid abbot beis within hym at innys, sal be on the abbots cost for reverenes, honour and

It is accordit courtasy of the forsaid Lord Abbot. alsua that fra the discesse of the said abbot, the said

John Vernour and his ayrs sal be dischargit forevir mar of all suilk ostillary of his forsaid tenement, and never Abbot of Abberbroth to chalange na clame fra
theynfurth ostillary within the said tenement. It is accordit alsua that the said John Vernour sal be bro-

In the witnesyng of al theryt in the forsaid abbay. thir condicionis before wrytyn, to be kepit in al poynts, the sele of the forsaid Lord Abbot, togydder with the

commoun

sele of the forsaid abbay, is put to the parte of this endentur for to ramayn with the said John

Vernour, and the sele of John Vernour, togydder with common sele of Edinburgh be him procuryt, is put to the parte of this endentur for to ramayn with
the forsaid Lord
zer forvritin.

Abbot

the day, place, moneth, and

XCII

XV.
ANE TRETYSE AGAYNE THE PESTILENS.
[EX REGISTRO CCENOBII KALCHOENSIS. MS. ADV. BIBL.]

begynnys a nobyl tretyse made of a gud phiJohn of Burdouse, for medecine agayne the sician, The pestilens iwyll, and it is departyt in iiij parts. first tellis how a man sal kepe hym in tyme of pestilens,

HER

that he
tell

fall

nocht into the iwyll

this sekenis

the second

chapeter
tell

how

comys
;

medecine agayne he sal be kepyt.

this jewyll

iij chapeter the ferde telly s how

;

the

The
gud

clerk says in fyrst chapeter that for default of rewlynd and dyetyng in mete and drynk men
in sekness
;

qwhen the pestilens in the contrey, men that will be kepit fra the reynes iwyl hym nedys to kep hym fra al outrage and excess
fallys off

tharfor

nocht mykyll, for

na oyse na bathys, na swete is opyn the porys of the body, and maks the venomouse ayr to anter, and destroys the lyfly sprets and infeblys the body, and sowerandly
in

mete and

drink,

all

hawntyng of lychery, for that bath infeblys the kynde and opynnys the pors, that wekyt ayr may enter and invenomouse the sprets of the man. Als oys lytyll that tym froyt, and et lytell or nocht
of salmonys, garlek, or ony slyk mets that bryngs a man to unkyndlyk. Also sofer nocht gretly thryst
that tym, and gyf thu thrysts gretly, drynk bot mesurabyll to slokyn the thryst and the hete, and a best

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drink war calde water mengyt with venegyr de tysene for that maner drynk is rycht gud, namly to them that ar coleric of complexion for thai are hate and
dry,

and commonly lene of body.

is

The secunde
and qwhat

chapter tellis how this seknes In man ar the cause thereof.

cummys
iij

prin-

cipal parts and members, the hart, the lever, and the harnys, and ilk ane of thir has his clengyng plas quhar he may out his superfluites and clengs him. The hart has his clenging plas under the armys, that
is

in in the hoi of the oxster

levir is

the clenging plas of the betuix the the and the body in the holis ; but
;

the clenging plas of the harnys are under the eis or under the throte. Than this ewill comyss thus, qwen

the porrys ar opyn for swm cause befor sayd, the air venoims enteyrs and alson menges the mannys blude, and sa rynnis to the hart that is gude and ruth of
lyf,

and distroyes the kynd of man and

fleis

slayis

the hart

kindly the tyngs that

to his
it

is

puts the
plas
is

venome

clinging

plas,

aganys and for that

it,

him; and

not out, it passes to the principale party nest, that is the levir, for to destroy
stoppit that

may

it,

and on the samyn Wyse put it till his clenging plas, and for that alsua is sparyt it may not out, bot passis to iij principal party, that is the harnys, and he puts it till his clenging plas, and yhit it may not out there, and thus a lang tyme it is mo wand or it rest in any plas xii ours or mar, and than at the last within xxiiij houris, gif if it be not passand out with bledyng, it festyngs in some plas and casts a man into the agu, and

maks a

byl or a bolg in soni part of the plasis befor said, or else ner thaim.

iij

clenging

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The thryd chapter tellys help again this iwil and qwhen it may be wel helpit with latyng of blude. Qwa
felys ony preking of blude or flecrying, it is taknyng to ward the seknes, therefor thai suld bled son, gif it may be in the first our or within vj ours efter, or gif it may

than drink not, no et not; or it be, and tary not ovir the twell ours, for all that tyme the meter is mowand for cause befor sayd, and certainly bledyng betymis of the vanys that I sal tell, sal haf it away ; bot if ye pass xxiiij ours, the mater is gaderyt and hardnyd, and will not out of the vayn gif it be strykyn. Nevir the les if a man bled, it dois no harme, bot it is not sekyr that it may help. If the mater be gaderit under othyr the armehole it cumneys of the hart, and than bled of the hart weyn that is called the cordyak, and on the samyn side that the iwil is in, or else is there ij harmys ; ane is gif ye blede on the
not be
zhit,

tother syde the gude blood

rumpyt, na venome iwil sal dwel fast, and the body is the fouylar for fault of gud blud that wald haf the kind the second harme is mar, for than the blud that is envenamit sail pass
;

clenges the syde not corsal be drawin out out of the vayne,
it

outerward the yhart and venoume it, and hast a man to his endyng. Gif the seknes be betwex the the and the body, it is of the levir, and than gif the water aper in the ourinar syde besyde the prive tyngs, blede of the

on the samyn syde, that is of wayn betwex the the meltha and the tother than nest it; for gif the byll be ther and ye blede of the arme, the mater will draw
fute

up agayn to the principal party of the hart or of the Als if the mater be mar outliver, and do harme.

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ward
and ferrer fra the prive tings, bled of the vayn betwex ankleth and the hole, or on the vayn that is ewin under the ankleth that is called the sophene, or ell be the ventosyd on the the with a boist or a home besyde the byle and gif the mater aper in the clenging plas of the hede fra the harnys, blede of the hede vayn of the samyn arme that is called Cephalica, that lyes nest abowin the hart vayn that is
to the syde
;

Cordyak in the bouat of the arme, or ell bled of vayn that is abofe the hand between the thorn and the next fynger, or ell be ventosyt betwex the
called the

schulder with boystis. Fra the blud be drawin out and the principal members thus cleyngit, the hart suld be comfurdyd be

cauld electuary to tempyr the gret hete therof ; syn it war gud to haf water stillit of thir iiij herbys, that is,
to wit, Dytane, Pynpnole, turaietyn this is gud medicyne in this sekiies ;

and scabius, and and als he suld

wele fra hete, for qwen a man is in this he suld be dyattyd mesurably, for the fever seknes ever mar is with the seknes, and qwil a man is in the fevir agu he suld et na flesch hot lytyl chekynis sodyn

kepe

hym

in clare water, or ell fresch fysch, or other small fysch fresch rostyd, to ete with vineger.

Als than

it is

gude

to ete potag of

almunds and

drink tysan, or in the hete, smal ale and thyn ; and gif the sekman covet gretly to drynk vyn, gif therfor

venager mengyd wyt mekyl water, hot gif ye may get qwyt wyn of the Reyn, it is better than rede wyne. Oyse mesurably tham all drynks. Alsua it is gude to oyse a powder, that is sud agayn al venom,, that is made of thir herbys, or of sum of thaim that

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best be gottyn,
scil.

dytan,

pynpnole,

turmentyn,

and schavyose, and ij maner of spyces scil. bolwarnil and terra sygillata thir twa spyces has the self
;

vertu of thir herbys befor wrytyn thir spycery brayde be thaim self, and drunkyn wyt wyn or ale, casts out
:

vename

place quhar it had entre gif a man be venomed, ttierfor qwa so dreds him of this seknes, kep him fra the tyngs that ar specyfyde in
fra the

samyn

the

first

chapter.

qua so therin kep him betyme as the tother chapter thechis, and rowllis him efter the theching of this trethis, throw sekyyrly, that he sal be hale throu the grace of God gif he will kep him in the manner beforsayd, he sal not dred no pestilens of byle na of
;

And

agu.
Explicit

quidam

nobilis tractatus contra pestilen-

ciam, et contra uni versa febrium genera.

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