imposes a common aid on the whole realm. The earl will be responsible for the forinsec service of the king due from the land. Witnesses [1223-4.]

LIII

{King Alexander II. takes the abbey under his protection, and grants the right to pursue and capture runaway neyfs.] Alexander, king of Scots, makes known that he has taken under his peace and protection the house, abbot, and canons of Inchaffray, their men, lands, and all their possessions. No one should presume to injure or molest them under pain of the king's full forfeiture. He grants to the abbots and canons right to possess themselves of their neyfs and fugitive men, wherever they can find them, outside the royal demesne lands, and forbids any from unjustly detaining them under pain of full forfeiture. Witnesses At Stirling, June 8, 1225.

LIV

[King Alexander II. grants and confirms the tithe of his rents in Auchterarder.]

Alexander, king of Scots, makes known that he has given and confirmed to Inchaffray the whole tithe of his rents from Auchterarder. To be held in pure and perpetual alms, and to be received at the hands of his tenants and his bailies of Auchterarder. Witnesses. At Clonin, August 13, 1226.

LV

[Earl Robert's confirmation of grants of land.]

Robert, earl of Strathern, makes known that he has confirmed to the abbot and canons of Inchaffray the six acres of land which Nigel de Lutoft gave them in the territory of Dolpatrick, and the toft and three acres of land which Henry, son of Tristram, gave them in his vill of Kyntochir, with common pasture for five kine and one horse, and with all other common easements of the same vill, which things aforesaid the said Nigel and Henry, when making their last testameut, bequeathed, for the redemption of their souls, to the abbot and convent in perpetual alms, free of all service. Witnesses [1226-34.]

LVI

[Grant of land by Theobald, son of William.]

Theobald, son of William, son of Clement, makes known that he has given to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray a toft of six perches square, with two acres of land in his vill of Petlandi, to wit, in the ground which is called Fithleres Flat, and with common pasture for eight kine, sixty sheep, and two horses, and with all other common easements of the said vill. He and his heirs will give warrandice for these alms, and will make them free of all burden and secular service. Grantor's seal and 'the seal of my most serene lord, Robert, earl of Strathern,' in token of his assent. Witnesses... [1226-34.]

LVII

[Grant of lands by Robert of Meggefen.]

Robert of Meggefen makes known that, with the assent of Soliua, his wife, and of their children, he has given to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray in pure and perpetual alms two tofts and four acres of land in the vill of Kenandheni, which by another name is called Dolpatrick, to wit, the toft in which Alan of Kyntocher dwelt when the present charter was given, with the acre which pertained to the same toft at that time, and with the buildings which were then on the toft; and also the toft and land which then lay between the house of Richard and the house of Malonacht; and also the land elsewhere which he had added to make up the four acres; and pasture for twenty kine, sixty sheep, and two horses, with all other common easements of the vill of Dolpatrick. He grants warrandice, and undertakes the forinsec service due from the lands. Witnesses. . . [1226-34.]

LVIII

[Earl Robert's confirmation of Robert of Meggefen's grants.]

Robert, earl of Strathern, makes known that he confirms the grants of Robert of Maggefen [as in No. LVII.] [1226-34.]

LIX

[Confirmation by Gilbert, bishop of Dunblane, of the church of Madderty, and the Abthen of Madderty, and the quitclaim of cain and coneveth.]

'Gilbert], humble minister of the church of Dunblane,' makes known that he has confirmed to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray the church of Madderty, with all its just pertinents, and the land called the Abthen of Madderty, to be held by them for their own uses, as in the charters of his venerable predecessors, John, Richard, John, and Hugh, is more fully contained. He also ratifies the quitclaim of cain and coneveth made by Bishop Hugh and the chapter of Dunkeld. His seal. Witnesses . . . [1230-36.]

LX

[Agreement between the abbot and convent of Inchaffray, of the one part, and the bishop of Dunblane, of the other part.]

(Translation)

To all the sons of holy Mother Church who shall see or hear the present writ, G[ilbert], by the grace of God, bishop of Dunkeld, and J[ohn] and P[hilip], by the same grace, humble abbots of Lindores and Scone, greeting eternal in Christ.

Inasmuch as a contention was raised between a venerable father, Sir Clement bishop of Dunblane, of the one part, and Sir Innocent, abbot, and the convent of Inchaffray, of the other part, concerning the churches of Aberuthven and Thullieden, and concerning the tithes coming from rents and all manner of perquisites of the earl of Strathern, which are called second tithes, all which the said bishop claimed, saying that they pertained to his table by reason of his church, at length, on the advice of good men, the said bishop, for himself and his successors (with the consent and assent of the whole clergy of Dunblane, to whom the election of the bishop pertains, also with the assent of Robert, earl of Strathern, patron of the same see), and the said abbot and convent, for themselves and their successors, agreed to submit to our arbitration on the aforesaid articles, as also on all other churches and possessions at that time granted and conferred on them, with the addition of

the following penalty, namely, that if the same bishop or any of his successors desired to resile from our decision, in the first place, if any advantage should come to his church through our decision, he should restore it to the opposite party, and also pay to the fabric of the bridge of Perth two hundred pounds sterling by way of penalty before entering on litigation. And if the abbot and convent or their successors should wish to resile from our decision, they shall pay to the same bridge, by way of penalty, before entering on litigation three hundred pounds.

The parties, accordingly, having appeared in our presence, and the pleadings of each party having been heard and carefully considered, at length, on the advice of those learned in the law, we made the following ordinance. The said bishop was to abandon the whole action which he was raising, and renounce all right which he sought, or believed that he had, in respect to the matters aforesaid; and the said abbot and convent was to assign to the said bishop and his successors, in the name of the church of Dunblane, an annual payment of sixteen pounds sterling, as estimated by the judgment of good men, and as derivable from certain places.

The parties accepting this our award, to the end that it might obtain the strength of perpetual validity, asked that it might be reduced to writing in the manner of an indenture (modo cyrographi), of which one part sealed with our seals, together with the seal of the said bishop, should remain at the aforesaid monastery of Inchaffray; and the other part sealed similarly with our seals and the seal of the chapter of the same monastery, should remain with the said bishop.

Given in the month of August in the year from the Incarnation of the Lord, MCCXXXIV.

LXI

[Remission by Clement, bishop of Dunblane, of six pounds.]

Clement, bishop of Dunblane, makes known that inasmuch as the arbiters, Gilbert, bishop of Dunkeld, John, abbot of Lindores, and Philip, abbot of Scone, had given the award, as appears from the indentures [No. LX.] that Innocent, abbot, and the convent of Inchaffray were bound to pay sixteen pounds sterling to Clement and his successors, and the abbot and convent had assigned tithes to the value of ten pounds to be received out of the garbal tithes

of Tulibarden and Kincardin and out of the fifth part of the tithes of Barderel; the six pounds which they had not yet assigned, the bishop out of compassion for the poverty of the house of Inchaffray remits for himself and his successors, until the abbot and convent have been put into full and corporal possession of any one of the following churches, Strugeith, Fowlis, Trinity Gask, Monivaird, and Dunning. Given in August, MCCXXXIV. Witnesses

LXII

[Confirmation by Pope Gregory 1x.]

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Gregory [Ix.] to.. bishop of Dunblane. In reply to a request of the bishop, the Pope confirms the amicable composition between him and the clerks of Dunblane, of the one part, and the abbot and convent of Inchaffray, of the other part. Viterbo, 30 April, 1237.

LXIII

[Quitclaim and grant by Duncan of Melginch.]

Duncan of Melginch states that having been summoned by the abbot and convent of Inchaffray on the authority of the abbot of Arbroath and the prior of May, judges delegate appointed by the Pope, on the ground that, founding on a charter of Duncan's father, the abbot and convent laid claim to half of the whole land of Drumkroc in the parish of Melginch, so soon as the facts were known to him, having the fear of God before his eyes, and desirous to save the abbot and convent further labour and expense, he spontaneously and fully quitclaimed the said land, and gave in pure and perpetual alms any right he might have in the same land, for the redemption of the souls of himself, his wife, his children, his father and his ancestors. Sealed with his seal, and with the seal of Philip, abbot of Scone. At Scone, Feast of St. Michael [29 Sept.], мCCXXXVII. Witnesses...

LXIV

[Agreement between Abbey of Inchaffray and the Hospital of

Brackley.]

INDENTURE (Cyrographum).

A dispute having arisen between the abbot and convent of Inchaffray, of the one part, and the master and brethren of the

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