'liberty,' that if any of their men, from the lands which he has given them in pure alms, be indicted in his court for theft, or any other crime which pertains to his court, and if he shall be condemned, his body shall be left to the earl and his heirs, 'so as to preserve the rights of our court'; but all his chattels shall belong to the canons. The whole of pecuniary fines of his court, inflicted on their men, shall go to the canons. Witnesses. [1203-8.]

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XXVI

[Grant of a croft in Edardoennech by Tristram.]

Tristram makes known that he has given to the canons of Inchaffray, for the love of God and the weal of his soul, the croft in his land of Edardoennech, which is nearest to the stank of the mill of Gortin, by those marches which Malise, the prior, held in his life-time. To be held of Tristram and his heirs in frankalmoign. Witnesses . [c. 1208.]

XXVII

[Confirmation of No. xxvI. by Earl Gilbert.]

Gilbert, earl of Stathern, makes known that he confirms to the canons of Inchaffray the gift of Tristram, to wit, the croft [as in No. XXVI.] Witnesses [c. 1208.]

XXVIII

[Earl Gilbert grants the church of Fowlis.]

Gilbert, earl of Strathern, makes known to all his friends and his men, clerical and lay, that for the love of God and the weal of the souls of himself, his wife, his ancestors and his heirs, he has given to the canons of Inchaffray the church of St. Bean of Fowlis, with all its pertinents, in tithes, oblations, and obventions, with the dower-land of the church, the common pasture of the parish and other easements pertaining to the church, in pure and perpetual alms. To be held of him and his heirs by the canons in proprios usus, as fully and freely as any religious in the whole realm of Scotland hold churches. Witnesses

[1210.]

XXXIII

[Grant of Balmakgillon by Earl Gilbert.]

Gilbert, earl of Strathern, makes known that he has given to the canons of Inchaffray, Balmakgillon, by its right marches, and with all its just pertinents. To be held in frankalmoign, in wood and plain, lands and waters, meadows and pastures, moors and marshes, stanks and mills, fish-pools and fisheries, as freely and fully as any alms in the whole realm of Scotland is held of any earl or baron. He and his heirs will perform the forinsec service of the king due from the land. Witnesses .

XXXIV

[1210-18.]

[Grant of a site for a mill by Earl Gilbert.]

Gilbert, earl of Strathern, makes known to all his beloved friends that he has given to the canons of Inchaffray a site for a mill on the Earn-water, wherever they may choose on the east of the mill which, at the time this charter was composed, was at Dunfallin, on the condition that their men should assist his men in making a stank or a mill-lade for both the mills, and that they should receive no grain to grind at their mill which came from his own lands, except they had his leave, or the leave of the tenants of his mill. To be held in pure and perpetual alms. Grantor's seal. Witnesses. . . [1210-18.]

XXXV

[King Alexander II. grants exemption from toll.]

Alexander, king of Scots, makes known that he has granted to the canons of Inchaffray that they should be free, throughout his whole land, of toll and custom on any of the things which they purchase for their own use. He strictly forbids any presuming to demand from them toll or custom. Witnesses At Stirling,

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10 March [1215-21].

XXXVI

[Bishop Hugh's confirmation of the church of Madderty.]

Hugh, bishop of Dunkeld, makes known that he has confirmed to his beloved sons in Christ, the canons of Inchaffray, the church

of Madderty, as fully and freely as the charter of gift granted by his predecessor, John I., testifies, since the church of Madderty is in the gift of the bishops of Dunkeld who are acknowledged to be the true patrons. Although it was at the eleventh hour he was called among the labourers of the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth by the chief householder of the Gospel, and although his own observance of religious rule might be imperfect and unreal, yet he was bound to cherish it in others, and to treat religious honourably. In compassion for the poverty of the canons he interprets very liberally and favourably the original gift of bishop John, and the confirmations of bishops Richard 11. and John 11.; and, with the advice of his clergy, he grants that the canons should convert the whole revenues of the church of Madderty to their own uses. Yet they are to present to him and his successors priests for institution to the church, who should be responsible to the bishop in spirituals and as regards the cure of souls; and, if it was preferred, be answerable in temporals to the canons,-saving in all things the bishop's rights. Seal of the grantor. Witnesses [1215-21.]

XXXVII

[Earl Gilbert's gift of part of the adjacent marsh.]

Gilbert, earl of Strathern, makes known that he has given to the canons of Inchaffray in pure and perpetual alms as much of the marsh adjacent to Inchaffray in the shire of Fowlis as was surrounded by a trench in the year in which this charter was composed, namely, 1218. To be held free of all secular service and Witnesses

exaction.

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XXXVIII

[Seher de Quincy, earl of Winton, grants ten acres in Gask in

exchange.]

Seher de Quincy, earl of Winton, makes known that he has given in pure and perpetual alms to the canons of Inchaffray the ten acres in his lands of Gask which by his command had been perambulated by [persons named]. To be held free of all secular service. He gives also the pasture of ten kine in the common pasture of Gask. Seal of grantor. 'Be it known that I have given the aforesaid in exchange for the seven acres which the said canons claimed from me at law.' Witnesses. [Names of witnesses wanting; the charter being incomplete.] [c. 1218.]