admonished, was not careful to pay the ten marks. The monks of Lindores had obtained Apostolic Letters to the prior of May and the provost of St. Mary's church, St. Andrews; and the vicar had obtained similar letters to the official of Aberdeen and his colleague. The vicar alleged that he had to pay so much to the abbot and convent that he could not be suitably maintained on the residue. While litigation was pending before the official and his colleague, Mydford the vicar retired from the suit. The prior and provost proceeded in the case before them, approved of the bishop's 'taxatio,' and gave definitive sentence to that effect. Mydford appealed from this sentence, and obtained Apostolic Letters to the abbot of Kynloss and his colleagues. But while the appeal was pending before these judges, Mydford appeared before the Bishops of Dunblane and Brechin and other prelates, in the church of the Friars Preachers, at Perth, on Saturday next after 14th September 1256 [i.e. on Sept. 16], agreed to the payment of the ten marks, and submitted himself to the judgment of the Bishops of Dunblane and Brechin as regards damages and costs. The bishops adjudged him to pay the arrears, and also fifty marks for damages and costs (although they really came to more), and remitted the vicar to the special grace of the abbot and convent. Sealed with the seals of the two bishops.—LL., pp. 14-16.

(11.) 1257, February 10, Lateran.-Pope Alexander [Iv.] to the abbot and convent. Prohibits the bishop or archdeacon of Brechin exacting anything from that portion of the revenues from the church of Dundee which belonged to the abbot and convent, or sequestrating the same. The vicar had been assigned a portion from which he was to bear the episcopalia and other burdens.— LL., p. 16.

(12.) 1257, September 13, Rome, St. Peter's.—Pope Alexander [iv.] confirms the sentence of taxatio' of the parishes in the diocese of Aberdeen appropriated to Lindores, which sentence had been pronounced at Banquhory Terny on the Thursday next after the feast of St. Peter ad vincula [1 Aug.], 1250, by the commissioners appointed [see No.5]. The 'taxatio' detailed in full.—Reg. Aberdon., i. 23-26.

(13.) 1259, August 1.-Composition between Richard, Bishop of Aberdeen, and Thomas, abbot of Lindores, as to the boundaries of Threpland, lying between the bishop's land of Bondyngton and the monks' land of Newton.--Ibid. i. 26.

(14.) 1261, August 7.—Quitclaim by Thomas, abbot of Lindores, and the convent to Sir Robert de Brus, lord of Annandale, of the second tithes of the lands of the latter beyond the Mounth.— Record Office. See Bain's Calendar, ii. No. 2267.1

(15.) 1265, March 14, Lindores.-King Alexander [.] grants that the whole wood of the monks, with the lands at Lindores, should be held in liberam forestam.' No one to cut or hunt in the said wood without the leave of the abbot and convent.LL., p. 11.

(16.) 1266, March 4, Stirling.-King Alexander [111.] grants and confirms to the abbot and convent that they should have their vill which is called New Burgh in liberum burgum,' with a market every Tuesday, and the liberties of burgh and market, 'saving the liberties of our burghs.'-LL., p. 8.

(17.) 1282, March 15, Orvieto.-Pope Martin [Iv.] notifies the amount of cess payable by certain monasteries in England and Scotland. The abbey of Lindores was to pay 2 bezants.-C.P.R., i. 475-76.

(18.) 1288, December 13, at St. Maria Maggiore.-Nicholas [iv.] to the abbot and convent, confirms the grant of the church of Collessie made by Roger de Quency. [See Nos. CXLI.-CXLV.].T., p. 140.

(19.) 1289, March 15, at St. Maria Maggiore.-Nicholas [Iv.] to the abbot and convent. In answer to a petition stating that Scotland is a cold region, and that some of the monks had suffered from being bare-headed when on certain solemn festivals they were vested in albs and silk copes, grants permission that they should use caps (pileis) on these festivals and in processions, provided that due reverence was done at the reading of the Gospel [in the Mass] and at the Elevation, and in all other things.2— T., p. 141; LL., pp. 24-25.

(20.) 1290, September 13, Orvieto.-Nicholas [Iv.] to the abbot and convent. In answer to a letter stating that the Privilege of Pope Celestine [see No. xc.] had begun to be destroyed by age [quia vero illud incipit nimia vetustate consumi] the Pope recites the Privilege in full [differences only in the strange spelling of the

1 The seal attached is described in Appendix VII.

2 Where divina ministeria is read by T., divina misteria is read by LL.

place-names], and declares that the present letter should have all the force of the original and might be exhibited in courts of law or elsewhere.-T., p. 141.

(21.) 1309-10, February 19, 'the Thursday next before the feast of St. Peter's Chair' (Feb. 22), Lindores.--Memorandum of a controversy between the abbot and convent of the one part, and the men of the New Burgh of Lindores of the other part, as it was debated in the chapter-house before Sir Robert of Keith, Marshal of Scotland, and Justiciar from the water of Forth to the mountains of Scotland. Continued on the following day, Friday, in the presence of the Bishop of St. Andrews and others. The men of the burgh had withheld their fermes for five years. Decision in favour of the monastery.-LL., pp. 11-13. [This writ is translated at length in Lindores Abbey, pp. 474-75, and presents an interesting illustration of the legal procedure of the time.]

(22.) 1306-1329.—An undated charter of King Robert (presumably Robert 1.) confirming No. CXXXVII. of our Chartulary. The witnesses are not recorded. Printed by Turnbull (from a charter in Haddington's Collection in the Advocates' Library) in LL., p. 41.

(23.) 1345, June 24, Villeneuve, near Avignon.—Pope Clement vi. grants to Simon Young (Juvenis) of the diocese of Aberdeen the reservation of a benefice, value twenty marks with cure of souls, or fifteen marks without cure, in the gift of the abbot and convent of Lindores.-C.P.R., iii. 185 [compare C.P.R. 'Petitions,' i. 95].

(24) 1345, December 7, Avignon.-Pope Clement vi. to the Abbot of Lindores and the Prior of Abernethy to make provision to Walter de Coventre, M.A., Licentiate of Civil Law, canon of Ross and Abernethy, of the archdeaconry of Dunblane.—C.P.R., iii. 198.

(25.) 1350, March 17 [or March 16, in exemplification, No. 27], Lindores.-Duncan, Earl of Fife, grants in proprios usus to Lindores the parish church of Ochtirmokadi (Auchtermuchty), in fulfilment of a vow made when he was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Durham [Neville's Cross, 17 Oct. 1346]. From the exemplification in a confirmation by King David.-Haddington's Charters, LL., pp. 43-45.

(26.) 1352, April 12, St. Andrews.—William [Landels] Bishop of St. Andrews, with the assent of his chapter, confirms Earl Duncan's gift (No. 25).—From exemplification in No. 27.

(27) 1354, December 3, Avignon.-Pope Innocent vi. confirms the grant of the parish church of Ochtirmokadi (Auchtermuchty) in the diocese of St. Andrews, by Duncan, Earl of Fife. This writ contains exemplifications of Nos. 25, 26.-C.P.R., iii. 539-540.

(28.) 1355, November 19, Lindores.-Sir David de Lyndesay of Crauford grants to Lindores six stones of wax to be paid annually for finding a light to be burned daily in the choir of the abbeychurch at the tomb of Lady Mary, his late wife, and of himself at certain services. For finding the wax he grants 2 marks out of his lands of Pitfour.-As exemplified in R.M.S., p. 36, No. 94.

(29.) 1355-57.-Undated charter of Thomas, Earl of Mar, granting to Sir Robert de Erskyne, knight and his wife, Cristiana de Kethe, certain lands in Garioch, together with four marks annual rent due by the abbot and convent of Lindores out of the land of Flandres.-Collections for History of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 536.

(30.) 1358, July 31, Dundee.-King David II. confirms Earl Duncan's grant, No. 25.-From Haddington's Collection of Charters in Advocates' Library. Printed by Turnbull in LL., p. 43.

(31.) 1364, August 3, Lindores.-King David 11. confirms, with exemplification, Sir David de Lyndesay's grant of Nov. 19, 1355. -R.M.S., p. 37, No. 94.

(32.) 1364, August 3, Lindores.-King David 11. grants to Lindores half the land of Estir Cragy in the barony of Parnbogall (Barnbougle), in the county of Edinburgh, which was resigned into his hands for the purpose by Bartholomew de Loone, knight, and Philippa, his spouse, daughter and heiress of Philip de Moubray, knight, on condition that a Mass should be said at the altar of St. Michael in the abbey-church for the souls of the donors, etc. -R.M.S., p. 39, No. 101.

(33.) 1364, September 20, Dundee.-King David 11. confirms the charter of King Alexander 11. (exemplified with witnesses) which appears in our Chartulary without witnesses (No. cxx.); and adds that the lands of Cragy of Milton and of Claypottys [near Dundee] and of Balmaw [see No. XXXVI.], of which the monastery was infeft, should be held quit of all service.-R.M.S., p. 36, No. 92.

(34) 1367, July 4, Stirling.-King David II. grants to Sir Robert de Erskyne, knight, and his wife certain lands in Garioch 'now in our hands for a certain reason' [compare No. 29], including 4

marks annual rent paid by Lindores out of the land of Flandres.— Collections, Aberdeen and Banff, 539.

:

(35) 1380.-Petition to the Pope by William of Angus, abbot of Lindores (1) For a faculty to hear confessions (because mortality was rife in Scotland) of all persons, secular and regular, lay and clerical, and to absolve them even in cases reserved to the Apostolic See, and to enjoin suitable penance; (2) On behalf of Thomas de Kilconkar for a canonry in Moray, notwithstanding that he has the church of Monymel; (3) On behalf of Augustine de Gogare, priest, for a benefice in the gift of Dunfermline, notwithstanding that he has the church of Gogare.-C.P.R., Pet. i.

557.

(36.) 1382, October 1, Chateauneuf, in the diocese of Avignon.Clement VII. (Anti-Pope) to the Bishop of Brechin and the officials of St. Andrews and Dunkeld, to summon those concerned in a dispute between John Steil who had intruded himself into the office of abbot and the abbot William. Further, to take order in

respect to Lindores (various details).-C.P.R., iv. 248-49.

(37.) 1392, March 23, Perth.-King Robert III. confirms to David of Abirkedor the security of certain rents in Dundee belonging to the monastery for a loan of 7 marks made by the said David to the monastery.-R.M.S., p. 207, No. 35.

(38.) 1402, November 8, Kyndromi (Kildrummy).-Isabella de Douglas, Lady of Mar and of Garioch in her widowhood, for the weal of her soul, etc., grants to Lindores the patronage and advowson of the church of Codilstane (Coldstone) in Mar; and on the death or resignation of Simon, then rector, they might convert the church in proprios usus, if confirmation of the grant could be obtained. Warrandice against all deadly.— Denmy/n Charters in Advocates' Library: printed by Turnbull in LL., p. 49.1

(39.) 1414, March 26, Tortosa.-Benedict XIII. (Anti-Pope) in answer to a petition grants that, whereas the monastery of St Mary, Lindores, has its buildings ruined and its rents diminished by reason of the nearness of the wild (silvestrium) Scots, the church of Crech (Criech in Fife) in the diocese of St. Andrews, value

1 Presumably the Bishop of Aberdeen refused confirmation, as Coldstone continued to be a prebendal church of Aberdeen. See Regist. Aberdon., ii. 255. Thomas, Earl of Mar, presented to Codlystanys in 1374.-C.P.R., iv. 198.