the person who made the transcripts, or for whom they were made, were mainly occupied with the possessions and rights of the abbey in its own immediate neighbourhood, or in parts not very remote. Four relate to Newburgh, six to the neighbouring fisheries, the quarry, the grange, and the woods of Lindores, two to the internal arrangements of the monastery, and seven to Dundee and its church and neighbourhood. With the exception of a grant of libera foresta in the woods of Fintray, and of a toft in the burgh of Aberdeen, no notice is taken of the extensive rights and possessions of the abbey in Aberdeenshire. Nor is there any reference to the churches of the abbey in the diocese of Lincoln. The foundation charter is not transcribed. Some of the charters copied appear also Abstracts of those which do not so appear

in our Chartulary.

will be found in Appendix III.

THE CUNINGHAME CHARTULARY AN INCOMPLETE REGISTER OF

WRITS CONNECTED WITH LINDORES

Not only have we evidence from the Abbotsford Club book that the record of writs in our Chartulary is not complete, but from other sources we find that there were several writs (some of them of much importance) which one might naturally expect to find in such a register, but which are absent from our manuscript. Thus in the Registrum Aberdonense1 there is entered a bull of Pope Alexander Iv., dated 13th September 1257, addressed to the abbot and convent of Lindores, and bearing on the income of the monastery derivable from their churches in the Garioch. Again (as we find in the same register)2 two years later (1st August 1259) a deed of agreement was drawn up between the Bishop of Aberdeen and the abbot and convent of Lindores as to the boundaries of certain lands in Aberdeenshire, which, contrary to what one might expect, is lacking in our Chartulary. Other later writs (including an important 2 Pp. 26-27.

1 Vol. i. pp. 23-26.

mandate of King Robert 11.) will be found calendared in Appendix III.

It is plain that if the convent followed the usual practice of registering important deeds relating to rights, privileges, and property, the recently discovered volume must have been supplemented by one or more other books. It is perhaps too much to hope that another volume may yet be rescued from some obscure hiding-place; but it is well that the attention of antiquaries should be drawn to the probability that at least one other volume of the register once existed.

The latest writ entered in our register by the scribe who wrote the earlier portions of the manuscript (ff. 29-74 verso), with the exception of a few writs entered on blank spaces by later hands, is dated in July 1253.1 The bull of Alexander iv. referred to above as preserved in Registrum Aberdonense is dated in September 1257. One cannot but suspect that between. these two dates the whole of the earliest part was transcribed, in other words, that it was transcribed at a time when the bulls of Innocent Iv.2 were the latest bulls in the possession of the monastery. This conjecture falls in sufficiently well with the judgment of Dr. Dickson, based on palæographical considerations, that the earliest portion was written about 1260.'

The dull details connected with the succession of the abbots, together with some few historical notices of the abbey, have been relegated to Appendix IV.

J. D.

2 Nos. XCIX.,

CVI.

1 No. LXXXIV.

THE CHARTULARY OF LINDORES

I

Carta Comitis Dauid de Rege Willelmo.

W. DEI gracia Rex Scottorum Episcopis, Abbatibus, Comitibus, [fol. 29.] Baronibus, Justiciariis, vicecomitibus, prepositis, ministris, et omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis, salutem. Sciant presentes et futuri me Dedisse et concessisse et hac carta mea confirmasse Dauid fratri meo comitatum de Leuenaus cum omnibus pertinenciis suis, et Lundors et Dunde, et forgrund et petmothel, et Neutyle, et fintreth, et Rothiod, et Inuerurin, et Munkegyn, et Boverdyn, et Durnach, et Uuen et Arduuen, et Garuiach, et Mertonam que est in Laudonia iuxta castellum puellarum. Volo itaque et precipio ut predictus Dauid frater meus et heredes sui de me et heredibus meis in feudo et hereditate teneant et possideant omnes terras istas prenominatas per Rectas Diuisas suas quas habuerunt quando illas ei dedi, et cum omnibus iustis pertinenciis suis in bosco et plano, In terris et aquis, In pratis et pascuis, In molendinis et stangnis, In moris et Maresiis, In viis et semitis, et omnibus aliis iustis pertinenciis suis tam non nominatis, quam nominatis; cum sacca et socca, cum tol et Tem, et Infangenthefe, bene et plenarie et honorifice, et ita libere et quiete in omnibus sicut ego ipse unquam terras illas tenui et possedi, faciendo inde mihi et heredibus meis seruicium Decem militum. Testibus H. episcopo Sancti Andree; Jocelino episcopo Glasguensi; M. episcopo de Aberden; S. episcopo Morauiensi; A. episcopo Catenensi; Comite Duncano; Comite Gileberto; Comite Waldevo; Malcolmo Comite Ethol; G. comite de anegus; Comite colbano; Ricardo de Moreuille, Constabulario; Roberto de Quincy; Waltero Olifer; [fol. 29, Alano filio Walteri Senescalli; Willelmo De Haya; Radolpho

A

verso.]

de Vere; Ricardo de Munfichet; Willelmo de Lindesey; Malcolmo filio comitis Duncani; Patricio filio comitis Waldevi; Willelmo filio Ricardi de Moreuille; Rand. de Solis. apud Perth.

'CHARTER of EARL DAVID from KING WILLIAM.'

WILLIAM] by the grace of God King of Scots to the bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciars, sheriffs, provosts, officers, and all good men of his whole land, clerical and lay, greeting. Let those present and to come know that I have given and granted, and by this my charter have confirmed, to David, my brother, the Earldom of Lennox with all its pertinents, and Lundors, and Dundee, and Forgrund, and Petmothel, and Neutyle, and Fintreth, and Rothiod, and Inverurin, and Munkegyn, and Boverdyn, and Durnach, and Vuen, and Arduuen, and Garviach, and Merton, which is in Lothian near the Castle of Maidens. I will, therefore, and command that my brother David aforesaid and his heirs should hold and possess, in fee and heritage, of me and my heirs all those aforenamed lands, by their right marches, which they had when I gave them to him, and with all their just pertinents in wood and plain, in lands and waters, in meadows and pastures, in mills and stanks, in moors and marshes, in roads and paths, and all other their just pertinents both named and unnamed, with sac and soc, with thol and them, and infangthef, well and fully and honourably, and as free and exempt in all things as I myself ever held and possessed those lands, by rendering to me and my heirs the service of ten knights. Witnesses, H[ugh], Bishop of St. Andrews; Jocelin, Bishop of Glasgow; M[atthew], Bishop of Aberdeen; S[imeon], Bishop of Moray; A[ndrew], Bishop of Caithness; Earl Duncan; Earl Gilbert; Earl Waldeve; Malcolm, Earl of Atholl; G. Earl of Angus; Earl Colban; Richard de Moreville, Constable; Robert de Quincy; Walter Olifer; Alan, son of Walter Steward (senescalli); William de Haya; Ralph de Vere; Richard de Munfichet; William de Lindesay; Malcolm, son of Earl Duncan; Patrick, son of Earl Waldeve; William, son of Richard de Moreville; Randolph de Solis. At Perth.

II

Magna Carta Comitis Dauid de fundacione

Monasterij.

VNIVERSIS Sancte Matris ecclesie filiis et fidelibus tam presentibus quam futuris Comes Dauid frater Regis Scottorum, Salutem. Sciatis me fundasse quandam Abbaciam apud Lundors de ordine Kelkoensi, ad honorem Dei et Sancte Marie et Sancti Andree et omnium sanctorum, pro salute anime