APPENDIX IV

SOURCES OF THE TEXT

By J. MAITLAND THOMSON

The present volume, text and appendix, consists of one hundred and sixty-four deeds, of which ninety-five are printed from originals, eighteen from copies of various ages and various degrees of trustworthiness, and the remaining fifty-one from Registers. The great majority are derived from the charter chest of the Earl of Kinnoull, viz., eighty-seven originals, two copies, forty-seven Deeds preserved only in the ancient Register which was printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1847, and one from a later (sixteenth century) Register. The ancient Register contains also copies of thirty Deeds here printed from originals at Dupplin, and of seven Deeds of which the originals are preserved elsewhere.

Of the remaining twenty-seven the sources are as follows. The Atholl charter chest supplies two; the Montrose charter chest one; the Gask charter chest (now in possession of Captain P. Blair Oliphant at Ardblair) two; the Abercairney charter chest one; the Dollerie charter chest three; the Vatican Registers three; the General Register House, Edinburgh, one; the library of Magdalen College, Oxford, four; that of Edinburgh University one; and that of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries nine. The footnotes will show sufficiently the source of each particular Deed. It remains to give an account of the manuscripts themselves, and first of those preserved elsewhere than at Dupplin.

One original and three fourteenth century copies are at Magdalen College, Oxford. They are among the titles of Brackley Hospital, in Northamptonshire, annexed to the college in 1485. That hospital having been endowed by its patrons, the De Quinceys, with the church (and also for a time with the manor) of Gasknes or Findogask, thus became a neighbour of Inchaffray. Its Scottish possessions were at length handed over to the Bishop of Dunblane. For the charter preserved at Abercairney it has been necessary to reproduce the previous edition without collation, access to the original being at present impos

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Appendix No. IV. See note there.

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Appendix, Nos. IV., IV. A., IV.B. 4 No. XLVI.

sible. For the three originals at Dollerie, to which access has been refused, No. LII. has been reprinted from the Bannatyne Club text, No. CXLVIII. from a facsimile; for No. CXLIX. only a brief abstract has been obtainable.

Of the Deeds1 taken from the Atholl, Montrose, and Gask charter chests, the Register House, and Edinburgh University, enough is said in the relative footnotes.

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Nine Deeds are taken from copies contained in a manuscript in the Library of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, titled Cartae Variae, and in this volume cited as the Antiquaries' MS. It is a nineteenth century copy of the transcripts made by the Hon. Harry Maule of Kelly between 1700 and 1730, and preserved at Panmure. A selection from these was printed in the Spalding Club Miscellany, vol. v., but many are still unprinted. The nine Inchaffray Deeds, with four others, are stated to have been in possession of Hugh Fleming, W.S., and to have been found among the papers of Mr. George Halyburton, late Bishop of Aberdeen. Their separation from the series at Dupplin is probably accidental. Of three + of them there are copies in the Register; the other six are now first printed. A copy of Liber Insule Missarum, which belonged to Dr. John Stuart, has collations in his handwriting of the three charters which are common to the Antiquaries' MS. and the Register. The variants, though their correspondence with the readings of the manuscript is unmistakable, are clearly not taken from that source, but from the originals. Where Dr. Stuart saw these does not appear: Lord Dalhousie at Mr. Lindsay's request kindly caused search to be made for them at Panmure, but in vain. It is probable that all nine originals are extant. For the present, the text of the three registered charters had to be taken from the Register as corrected by Dr. Stuart; for the other six the Antiquaries' MS. is the sole authority.

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Of the three documents printed from the Vatican Registers, two are from the Register of Petitions to the Pope, of which a Calendar down to 1419 has been published in the Rolls Series.

Nos. XXVIII. and XLV.; Appendix I.; XLIII. and Appendix VI.; CIII.; 2 Died 1737. 3 Died 1715.

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Nos. VII., XXIII., L.

Nos. LX., LXXX., LXXXI., XCII., CXXII., CXXVII.

Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, author and editor of many learned works.

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Died 1877.

The third1is from the Avignon Regesta, which the Public Record Office authorities have passed over in their series of Calendars, only temporarily it is to be hoped. Having been, by the good offices of Mr. W. H. Bliss and the courtesy of the Vatican authorities, allowed to make a prolonged study of this Record, I can testify not only to its unique value to the Scottish student for the period of the Schism, but also to the considerable amount of English and Irish matter still to be disinterred from the Avignon Regesta of the Pontiffs who reigned at Avignon before 1378.

The remainder of the volume is derived entirely from the Dupplin charter chest. It consists, as already stated, of eightyseven originals, two copies, and forty-eight Deeds from two registers. These must now be described in more detail.

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(1) The originals here printed are seventy-three charters and fourteen Papal Bulls. The condition of these, on the whole, bears witness to the care with which they have been preserved. A few are slightly frayed away in places; none have suffered appreciably from damp or vermin; many retain their seals in good condition (see the description in Appendix I.). They have been put up by Mr. Chapman (see Preface) in small canvas bags, some containing one document, some two or more; numbered consecutively, but without systematic arrangeThe series comes down to the end of the seventeenth century, and includes not only Inchaffray Deeds but many others; every Deed relating to estates not now in Lord Kinnoull's possession being classed among the Inchaffray muniments. Only those which can be considered as title-deeds of the abbey are given in the text of the present volume; a few of later date, selected I fear rather at haphazard, will be found in the Appendix, and Mr. Lindsay has added his notes of a few others at the end of the Introduction: these will serve as a supplement to the matter of the same kind contained in the later section of the Bannatyne Club volume. The collection contains extensive materials for the Reformation and post-Reformation history of the abbey lands and churches, which is outwith the scope of the present publication. I need only add that forty-three charters, and all the Bulls, are now first printed; the thirty already printed from the Register are now given from the originals, the Register readings being given in footnotes when they seemed worth recording.

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2 See the facsimiles at the end of the volume.

Of the two documents given from copies at Dupplin,' it need only be said that both copies are on paper, and of the sixteenth century.

The older Register, that printed for the Bannatyne Club, is a parchment book, in small quarto, in a modern half-binding. The leaves measure 7 by 5 inches; the number of lines to a page varies from twenty-one to twenty-nine. The writing is of the fifteenth century; the latest charter inserted is No. CXLII. of the present volume, dated 1389. There are fifty-one leaves, numbered in a handwriting of about 1700; Sir James Balfour3 refers to the first leaf as fol. 2, and quotes a memorandum from fol. 53; which suggests that a leaf at the beginning and another at the end have disappeared, perhaps removed by the modern binder. The Register ends on fol. 51, recto, in the middle of a document. The first three pages and the last have suffered by the application of gall. The fifty-one leaves are in nine gatherings of six leaves, the last three leaves of the last gathering having been cut away. Each charter is preceded by a title, opposite to which in the margin are usually set the letters Rca, occasionally at full length, Rubrica. The titles, and the large capitals with which each document begins, are, like the rest of the writing, in black (not red) ink. These initials are now and then left blank throughout the volume, and never filled in after fol. 43 recto. The first fifty charters are numbered consecutively in Roman numerals; No. LI. is unnumbered; the next six are numbered LI. to LVI., the last ending imperfectly at the bottom of a page; then follow seventeen more charters numbered 1. to XVII., with a heading at the beginning of the first, Hic incipiunt carte et confirmaciones omnium ecclesiarum monasterio Insule missarum pertinencium.' The gatherings are linked together by a peculiar system, not employed in any other manuscript known to me or to any correspondent. A proper name is written, half at the top of the last

1 No. 1.; Appendix No. VII.

The Bannatyne Club edition has a few errors of transcription; one of which (in No. 78 of Lib. Ins. Mis. =LIX. of new edition) shows that the editor had not the use of the Register for correcting the proofs. See also Lib. Ins. Mis., 69 (XIV. of new edition). But on the whole it faithfully reproduces the text. The punctuation and capitals are editorial.

3 Advocates' Library MS., 33.2.38.

In the footnotes the numeration of Lib. Ins. Mis. is that referred to. The first five names, which form a hexameter line, are scribbled on the fly-leaf of a Register of Bury St. Edmunds in the British Museum (Royal MS. 8 E x,

page of each gathering, the other half at the top of the first page of the next gathering. The names thus employed form, so far as they go, an alphabet; they are as follows:

On fols. 6 verso and 7 recto A-dam.

There is no catchword between fols. 48 and 49.

Now fol. 42 ends in the middle of a charter (No. LVI. in the Register, 57 of Lib. Ins. Mis., XXXVIII. of the present volume); and fol. 43 begins with a new heading and fresh numeration as above described. This led the editor of Lib. Ins. Mis. to suspect a lacuna at this point; and the above list of catchwords enables us to calculate the extent of the gap. The end of the name which begins Ge- (perhaps orgius) is gone; so is the beginning of the name (presumably Jo-) which ends -hannes; and between them must have come a name beginning with H. It follows that two gatherings (twelve leaves) are wanting. The facsimile given in Lib. Ins. Mis. is of fol. 2 verso, the first line of fol. 3 being added to make up a complete charter. That given in this volume represents a double page,1 and illustrates the system of catchwords just described.

The later Register is a quarto volume, parchment, in vellum wrapper. The pages measure 103 by 8 inches. The portion used consists of one leaf of index and forty-six of text, beginning with a preface in rather turgid Latin, running in the name of Alexander Gordon the Commendator. There are twenty-eight feu charters engrossed, of the years 1554, 1555, and 1557; after which follow memoranda of later date, the last being dated

pointed out by Mr. Gilson of the MSS. Department). Canon Christopher Wordsworth has unearthed for me the following lines which occur in a manuscript at Clare College, Cambridge (see Dr. James's Catalogue of Western MSS. in the Library of Clare College, Cambridge, 1905, p. 28):

Adam Bernardus Clemens Dionisius Ennok

Felix Galfridus Henricus Job Katerina

Lucas Matheus Nicholaus Odo Philippus.

1 Fols. 24 verso and 25 recto. As these are outside pages of gatherings, they are more worn than an average page of the Register.