John called Starnes, son of Thomas, son of Thor, with all his children (tota sequela); and granted to Inchaffray all right and claim which he had in the said John or his offspring. He forbids any of his men molesting John or any of his offspring. Seal of grantor, 9 May 1258. Witnesses..

LXXXIX

[Confirmation by Pope Urban iv. of an agreement between Inchaffray and the Hospital at Brackley in Northamptonshire.]

Urban... to . . abbot and the convent of the monastery of Inchaffray. A petition from the abbot and convent contained that formerly a question had arisen between them, of the one part, and the master and brethren of the Hospital of SS. James and John of Brackley, in the diocese of Lincoln, of the other part, as to certain tithes and other matters; and that at length through the intervention of . . late bishop of Dunblane, in whose diocese the tithes lay, and the bishop of St. Andrews, a friendly agreement between the parties was come to, as is said to be more fully contained in letters thereupon composed, which agreement the abbot and convent petitioned should be fortified by apostolic protection. As the agreement was duly made without pravity, and was accepted by both parties, the Pope confirms it. Viterbo, 12 September 1262.

XC

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

Richard, bishop of Dunkeld, makes known that he had inspected the grants and confirmations of his predecessors, John 1., Richard, John 11., Hugh, Gilbert, and Geoffrey, to the monastery of Inchaffray relating to the church of Madderty and the land of Madderty, called the Abthen, and the quitclaim of cain and coneveth. He confirms the grants and confirmations, saving to him and his successors one mark to be paid yearly from the Abthen, half at Whitsunday and half at Martinmas, as he had found in the original writs of his predecessors. He grants that

the church of Madderty in all its temporal goods might be converted to the use of the abbey by causing the church to be served by a fit chaplain, or, if they preferred it, by one of their own Seal. At Tybermore, 2 August 1263, in the twelfth year of his pontificate. Witnesses. . .

canons.

XCI

[Indenture between the abbey of Inchaffray and Tristram of Gortyn as to certain lands.]

Alan, abbot, and the convent of Inchaffray make known that a dispute had arisen between Tristram of Gortyn, of the one part, and them, of the other part, as to (1) the lands of Cambinche, which was submitted to the arbitration of men skilled in the law, whose award was that these lands lay in common between us; and (2) as to other lands possessed by the abbey and claimed by Tristram and his heirs, more particularly the lands of the infirmary and chapel of the abbey, and the circumjacent land, as it was trenched round about. At length litigation was settled by the following agreement. Tristram quitclaimed any right which he had in the lands-saving the right of the earl of Strathern, and renounced for himself and his heirs seeking opposition in any lay or ecclesiastical court as to the abbey's peaceable possession of the lands in frankalmoign. The convent on its part granted to Tristram, his spouse Christina, and to his heirs (if they sought it) the brotherhood of the monastery in prayers, alms, martyrology, and the other good things generally granted to fellow-brothers (confratribus). They further grant to Tristram, so far as lay in their power, to have a chapel (the rights of the mother-church being saved). To the observance of this agreement both parties gave their corporal oath. The part of the indenture to be kept by the abbey had the seal of Tristram and Malise, earl of Strathern: the part to be kept by Tristram and his heirs had the seals of the abbey and Robert, bishop of Dunblane. At Inchaffray, 14 February 1266.

XCII

[Charter on the same subject by Tristram of Gortyn.] Tristram of Gortyn makes known [after reciting the subject of dispute and the settlement as to Cambinch as in No. xcI.] that on

St. Valentine's day [14 Feb.] 1265 [sic] it was agreed at Inchaffray as follows:-Tristram faithfully promised for himself and his heirs that he would hold the abbot and convent indemnified for all forefaults committed or to be committed in the court of the earl of Strathern on occasion of agreements or controversies about the said lands concerning which he had drawn them before a secular tribunal. He quitclaims, etc. [the rest as in No. XCI.] His seal and the seal of the earl.

XCIII

[Confirmation by Pope Clement IV. of the Church of Madderty.]

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Clement . . to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray. petition from them had been presented, containing that John 1., bishop of Dunkeld, granted to the canons of Inchaffray, with the consent of his chapter, the church of Madderty (of which they had the right of patronage) for their own uses; and that bishops Richard, John 11., Hugh, Gilbert, Geoffrey, and the present bishop Richard, had, with the consent of the chapter, granted that the church might be served by one of the canons. He confirms this. Viterbo, 23 May 1266.

XCIV

[Commission of Pope Clement IV. to the archdeacon of Lothian for the recovery of the property of the abbey.]

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Clement to the archdeacon of Lothian [almost word for word as No. LXXXIII. The specified goods of the monastery are 'tithes, lands, vineyards, houses, meadows, woods, mills, pastures, fisheries, rents.'] Viterbo, 1 July 1266.

XCV

[Earl Malise's grant of leave to take stone from his quarry of Nethergask.]

Malise, earl of Strathern, makes known that he has given leave for ever to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray to dig and cut stones in his quarry and land of Nethergask, for their church and other buildings to be constructed at their pleasure in the monastery. He grants entrance and exit, and free transit through

his whole land of Nethergask for their men, animals, carts, waggons, and gives two acres of land next adjacent to the quarry on the west, where they may collect the stones, and build a house where they can cut them. The rest of the two acres they may dispose of as they will. Seal of grantor. At Crieff, 12 November 1266.

XCVI

[Six marks and four marks charged by Earl Malise on the rent of Abercairney for payment to the abbot and convent of Inchaffray.]

Malise, earl of Strathern, makes known that the abbot and convent of Inchaffray had been entitled to receive six marks sterling, in the name of the earl's second tithes, from the rent of the land of Ballenoleth in the shire of Fowlis, and at his earnest request they had patiently borne with the earl's conferring the land of Ballenoleth on his brother Sir G[ilbert], and so the earl remains bound to them in the said six marks, which for the future the religious shall receive from the rent of Abbircarnych at the hands of whoever held that land of the earl, to be paid half at Whitsunday and half at Martinmas. Moreover, since he was indebted to the said religious (1) in thirty-six pounds sterling, which he took from brother Hugh, then terrarius of the monastery, from the money which the late Roger de Colin, clerk, while living, gave to the fabric of the church of the monastery-and also (2) in ten pounds sterling which he received from the religious on loan (for which he had given letters obligatory), and likewise (3) in twenty-four marks sterling, being the sum of four times the six marks from the land of Ballenoleth, which had not been paid for four years, he grants for himself, his heirs and assignees the payment of four marks sterling yearly from the land of Abbircarnych till the whole debt is paid: the first payment to be at Whitsunday, 1218 [1268]. His seal. At Crieff, St. Ambrose's day [4 April] in the above year. Witnesses Grants warrandice for the six marks.

XCVII

[Endowment of a chaplaincy at Inchaffray by Earl Malise.]

Earl Malise makes known that he has given to God, St. Mary, and a chaplain celebrating divine service in the almshouse of

Inchaffray for the souls of his ancestors and of all the faithful departed, and for the soul of Brice of Ardrossan (for his quitclaim to him and his heirs of the lands of Buthaldy and of Lanyrky, which Brice quitclaimed to the earl and his heirs after Brice's day) four marks from the rent of the land called Mukrand, to be received yearly for ever of him and his heirs at the hand of the tenant of the land, for the support of the said chaplain, whoever he may be. Moreover, he gives for ever to the chaplain, and his successors, for finding a chalice, etc., the portion of land called Tolauch, which the said Brice of Ardrossan held in the town of Dunblane. He also gives power to the abbot of Inchaffray, when any chaplain dies, to appoint at the peril of his soul another fit chaplain, without any opposition of the earl or his heirs. For the fulfilment of the grant he subjects himself and his heirs to the interdict of the bishop of Dunblane, for the time being, renouncing every appeal and remede of law, canon and civil. Grantor's seal. Witnesses. . . [c. 1270.]

XCVIII

[Grant by Brice of Ardrossan of one mark to the chaplain celebrating in the almshouse.]

Brice of Ardrossan makes known that he holds as firm and stable (so far as pertained to him) the grant by Malise, late earl of Strathern, of four marks to the chaplain [as in No. xcvi.]. And because the said earl had first given, as in his charter, the land of Tulach to the chaplain and his successors for finding a chalice and ornamenta for the almshouse, and afterwards having changed his will assigned the land to the church of Dunblane at the disposition of the bishop, he (Brice), unwilling that the divine offices should cease in the almshouse for lack of the said ornamenta, of his mere pleasure gives for the weal of the souls of himself, his ancestors, and earl Malise, a mark, half at Whitsunday and half at Martinmas, to the chaplain, to be received yearly, from the land which he holds by charter at fee-farm in the territory of Petlandy, through the abbot and convent of Inchaffray, to whom he assigned the land by charter. Further, if by any chance the abbot and convent should be evicted from the said land, he wills that his heirs or assignees, to whom his lands pass, should from those lands pay the mark, and if necessary should be compelled to this by