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The acts of Robert I, second series.

Compiled by Matthew Hammond, 2018.

Note on dating: The enrolled documents which included a date of time were noted by A.A.M. Duncan in notes interspersed with the main run of numbered documents in RRS, v. These have been entered into the PoMS database as part of the first series of Robert I documents, which have been H-numbered chronologically. The following enrolled documents were not noted by Duncan precisely because the date of time was not copied. These have been given H-numbers based on their order in the rolls. The majority of these have been dated as between the inauguration of Robert I on 25 March 1306 and his death on 7 June 1329. The king issued very few dispositive documents before his victory at Bannockburn on 24 June 1314 and subsequent political stabilization of the kingdom. Therefore, most of the documents below are dated as ‘probably after 24 June 1314’. Occasionally, there are details given in the texts of the documents which allow a narrower date range, and here I am following Duncan’s notes in his indexed table of enrolled documents, RRS, v, 702-35. The index and roll references can also be found there.

I. Documents from the surviving charter roll (Roll IV)

Sheriffdom of Berwick (BWK)

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RMS, i, no. 1

Roll IV, no. 1; Index, no. 115.

June 1314 × 7 June 1329 (return of Earl Patrick to King Robert’s fealty × death of King Robert)

[Robert, king of Scots] has given his beloved and faithful [Patrick, earl of March], all the lands and holdings and annual rents forfeited due to war and [men] not coming into his fealty; to be held by Patrick and his heirs in feu and heritage.

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RMS, i, no. 2

Roll IV, no. 2; Index no. 116 = Roll V, index no. 229

27 March 1324 × 26 March 1325 (regnal year 19)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful James of Douglas, knight, [lands of Lauder (BWK)] in feu and heritage, with fees and forfeitures belonging to the constabulary of Lauder, for service customary in the time of Lord Alexander [III], king of Scotland, his predecessor.

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RMS, i, no. 3

Roll IV, no. 3; Index no. 117 = Index no. 230 (Roll V)

8 March 1316 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (death of Peter Lubaud × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful James Douglas, knight, the land of Cockburn (BWK), which was Peter (Piers) Lubaud knight's, convicted in the king's court of treason, holding James and his heirs or assigns of the chief lord of the feu, as Peter was accustomed to hold it.

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RMS, i, no. 4

Roll IV, no. 4; Index, no. 118

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Adam More, knight, the land of Belton (ELO) due to its forfeiture, holding of the chief lord of the feu, in feu and heritage, with the services of freeholders, for service owed and wont to the chief lord of the feu.

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RMS, i, no. 6

Roll IV, no. 6; Index, no. 120

June 1314 × 7 June 1329 (Forfeiture of Ingram de Guines × death of King Robert)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Laurence of Abernethy, for his homage and service, the land of Lamberton (BWK), which was Ingram de Guines the knight’s, in extent 20 poundlands; in feu and heritage, for the service of two archers in his army and suit of his sheriffdom court of Berwick at a single pleas.

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RMS, i, no. 7

Roll IV, no. 7; Index, no. 121

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Roger Pringle for his homage and service half of the land that was John de L’Isle knight’s in the tenement of Whitsome, in extent 100 shilling-lands, in feu and heritage, for the service of half an archer in his army, one suit at his sheriff court of Berwick at the chief pleas after Easter every year.

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RMS, i, no. 8

Roll IV, no. 8; Index, no. 122

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Other charter for Nicholas Fowler, of half of the aforesaid land (Whitsome), the same tenor in all.

[Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Nicholas Fowler for his homage and service half of the land that was John de L’Isle knight’s in the tenement of Whitsome (BWK), in extent 100 shilling-lands, in feu and heritage, for the service of half an archer in his army, one suit at his sheriff court of Berwick at the chief pleas after Easter every year.]

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RMS, i, no. 9

Roll IV, no. 9; Index, no. 123

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, by the grace of God, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Henry Coseur all that land in the vill and territory of Bondington next to Berwick upon Tweed, which Nicholas called Moses, son and heir of the late Adam called Moses of Bondington, has resigned by staff and baton in the presence of the magnates of the realm, holding in feu and heritage, as Nicholas held the land, for service owed and wont.

Sheriffdom of Roxburgh (ROX)

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RMS, i, no. 12

Roll IV, no. 12; Index, no. 126

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful James Douglas, knight, for his homage and service, all the land of Bedrule (ROX), which was John Comyn the knight’s, in Teviotdale; in feu and heritage, as the said John held it, for service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 14

Roll IV, no. 14; Index, no. 128

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Hugh de le Vickeres all the lands and burgages within and outwith the burghs and touns of Roxburgh, Kerton and Maxwell, which belonged to the late Adam of Mindrum and William of Dalton, holding of the king and of the other feudal lords, in feu and heritage, as Adam and William possessed them, for the rents owed to the king and the other feudal lords, and service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 15

Roll IV, no. 15; Index, no. 129

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William called ‘Maceoun’ for his homage and service, 10 librates of land which were Ingram Cnout’s and John of Weston’s in the tenement of Mertoun (BWK); in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont in the time of Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 16

Roll IV, no. 16; Index, no. 130

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John Lindsay, that land which was John of Weston’s in Rutherford (ROX), and that land which was Adam Gourlay’s in Rutherford and Maxton (ROX); in feu and heritage, for a pair of gilt spurs or 12d annually.

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RMS, i, no. 17

Roll IV, no. 17; Index, no. 131

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Henry of Wardlaw, for his homage and service, half of the barony of Wilton (ROX), which belonged to William de Chartres and Walter of Percehay, in the sheriffdom of Roxburgh; in feu and heritage, as William and Walter held the half of the barony, for as much service as pertains to the fifth part of the service of one knight, and three suits of his court of Roxburgh annually at the three chief pleas.

Sheriffdom of Selkirk (SLK)

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RMS, i, no. 21

Roll IV, no. 21; Index, no. 135

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William Barber, for his homage and service, two parts of the land of Kirkborthwick (ROX) with the third part of the mill of the same, in the barony of Minto; holding of us and our heirs in feu and heritage, for as much forinsec service as pertains to the tenth part of the service of one knight in his army; and suit of his court at Selkirk at the three chief pleas of the sheriffdom every year. He also wills that the land be transferred from the sheriffdom of Roxburgh to the sheriffdom of Selkirk.

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RMS, i, no. 24

Roll IV, no. 24; Index, no. 138

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Henry de Balliol knight, for his homage and service, all that land of Branxholm, which was Richard Lovel the knight’s, in the barony of Hawick (ROX), except those seven poundlands and six pennylands which were granted by him [the king] to Walter Comyn within the said land of Branxholm; in feu and heritage; for the third part of the service of a knight in his army.

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RMS, i, no. 25

Roll IV, no. 25; Index, no. 139

1 April 1318×7 June 1329 (Capture of Berwick × death of King Robert)

Memorandum that the lord king infefted Newbattle abbey in ten marks received from his burgh ferme of Berwick, by the hand of the mayor and baillies of that burgh, in free pure and perpetual alms, by equal portions on the two terminals of Pentecost and Martinmas.

Sheriffdom of Dumfries (DMF)

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RMS, i, no. 26

Roll IV, no. 26; Index, no. 140

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given John of Carrick, son of William called Russell, the land of ‘Dorsquene’ in the sheriffdom of Dumfries; to be held of the chief lords of that land, in feu and heritage, for the service owed and wont in the time of Alexander III to the chief lord.

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RMS, i, no. 27

Roll IV, no. 27; Index, no. 141

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Richard Edgar, for his homage and service, the chief manor with half of the barony of Sanquhar (DMF), as the said barony was divided between William of Crichton and Isabel his spouse, portionars of said barony, by reason of Isabel on one side and Richard on the other, by the letter of the king’s chapel; held in feu and heritage, in free barony, performing suit and service pertaining to the said half barony with chief manor, as they were in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 28

Roll IV, no. 28; Index, no. 142

Nov. 1314 × 14 Oct. 1318 (arrival of John Soulis in Scotland from France × his death in Ireland)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John Soulis, knight, son of the late Nicholas Soulis, knight, for his homage and service, the land of Kirkandrews (DMF)and ‘Breccalache’, due to their forfeiture, for forinsec service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 29

Roll IV, no. 29; Index, no. 143

Nov. 1314 × 14 Oct. 1318 (arrival of John Soulis in Scotland from France × his death in Ireland)

Robert, king of Scots, has given John Soulis, knight, son of the late Nicholas Soulis, knight, for his homage and service, the barony of Torthorwald (DMF), due to its forfeiture, for service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 30

Roll IV, no. 30; Index, no. 144

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William of Falside, for his homage and service, the land of ‘Brenglese’, which was James of Torthorwald knight’s and which came to the king through forfeiture, to be held as James held it, for forinsec service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 31

Roll IV, no. 31; Index, no. 145

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John son of Lachlan, for his homage and service, the land of Snade (DMF), with park and the demesne land of ‘Baliferne’, extending as far as the summit of mount of ‘Knokynmerlache’ (Slatehouse Hill?), the land of ‘Achinracheny’, the land of Kirkpatrick and the land of Logan, with the land of ‘Bardarache’ (prob. Dardarroch) and of Straith, in the barony of Glencairn (DMF), in feu and heritage, in one integral free barony, for the service of four archers in his army, and the suit of his court of Dumfries, at one single pleas.

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RMS, i, no. 32

Roll IV, no. 32; Index, no. 146

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander de Meniers knight, and Egidia Stewart, his spouse, for his homage and service, all the barony of Durisdeer (DMF); holding by Alexander and Egidia and whichever of them lives longer, and their lawfully procreated heirs, in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont. If Alexander and Egidia both die without any heir, the king wills that the land should devolve on the nearest heir of Alexander by hereditary right.

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RMS, i, no. 33

Roll IV, no. 33; Index, no. 147

Nov. 1314 × 14 Oct. 1318 (arrival of John Soulis in Scotland from France × his death in Ireland)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John Soulis, knight, for his homage and service, all the land of Kirkandrews, which was the late John of Wake the knight’s, in feu and heritage, in free barony, with homage and services of the freeholders, for the service which John of Wake was accustomed to make.

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RMS, i, no. 34

Roll IV, no. 34; Index, no. 148

Nov. 1314 × 7 June 1329 (Cambuskenneth parliament × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful David Lindsay knight, all the lands of Rivox, Mosshope, Middlegill, Blacklaw, ‘Grenhilcotis’ (Greenhill), Eric Stane, and Meikleholmside (in Moffat parish, DMF) in feu and heritage, as the king and his ancestors the lords of Annandale held or possessed them, for one sorehawk for all secular service or demand.

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RMS, i, no. 35

Roll IV, no. 35; Index, no. 149

Nov. 1314 × 7 June 1329 (Cambuskenneth parliament × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful David Lindsay knight, for his homage and service, all the land of Hawkshaw (PEB), in feu and heritage, for the service of two archers in his army.

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RMS, i, no. 36

Roll IV, no. 36; Index, no. 150

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Adam Barber all the land of Brackenwrae in the tenement of Hutton under the moor in Annandale (DMF), which Peter of Graham resigned to him by staff and baton, in feu and heritage, for one penny on Christmas for all service, exaction, custom or demand.

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RMS, i, no. 37

Roll IV, no. 37; Index, no. 151

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Adam Barber, that toft with two oxgangs of land which the late William Inglis held at ferme in the vill of Moffat (DMF) of the lord of Annandale his grandfather; holding in feu and heritage, for a pair of gilt spurs annually.

Sheriffdom of Ayr (AYR)

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RMS, i, no. 39

Roll IV, no. 39; Index, no. 153

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful James Stewart, son of the late John Stewart knight, for his homage and service, all the land of Perceton (AYR) and all the land of Warwickhill (AYR) in the barony of Cunningham; in feu and heritage, for the service of half a knight in his army, and for suit of the court of Irvine at the baronial pleas held there.

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RMS, i, no. 40

Roll IV, no. 40; Index, no. 154

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Winnin and Kilwinning abbey, all the land called ‘Hallande’ (AYR) beside the burgh of Irvine; in pure and perpetual alms. He also remits and quitclaims to the said abbey in perpetuity those 20s. which they used to render to the heirs of Balliol every year for their land of Kilmarnock (AYR).

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RMS, i, no. 42

Roll IV, no. 42; Index, no. 156

November 1314 × 7 June 1329 (death of King John Balliol × death of King Robert)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved servant Reginald of Crawford, those two chalders of oatmeal which the late John Balliol was accustomed to receive from the land of Armsheugh in Cunningham (AYR) as the annual ferme; holding in feu and heritage, free and quit.

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RMS, i, no. 43

Roll IV, no. 43; Index, no. 157

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Walter of Aberdalgie all the lands that were Hugh Hay’s, both within and outwith the burgh of Ayr; in feu and heritage, rendering service owed and wont.

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RMS, i, no. 45

Roll IV, no. 45; Index, no. 159

1313, 1 Mar. × 21 Oct. (attestation of Edward without title of earl of Carrick in royal charters: see RRS, v, nos. 29-34 × attestation of Edward as earl of Carrick in royal charters: see RRS, v, nos. 35, 36, 37)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved brother Edward Bruce knight, for his homage and service, the whole earldom of Carrick, to be held by the legitimate male heirs and descending by the direct and masculine line, unless there be living descendants of brothers-german; holding in feu and heritage, with the name, right and dignity of an earl, as freely as the earldom was held in the time of King Alexander III, for the service that was owed and wont in the time of that king. And if the succession of heirs to the earldom is defective, the king wills the earldom shall revert to the crown.

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RMS, i, no. 47

Roll IV, no. 47; Index, no. 161

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Robert Boyd, knight, the land of Noddsdale (AYR), in feu and heritage, for one pair of gilt spurs on Pentecost.

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RMS, i, no. 48

Roll IV, no. 48; Index, no. 162

3 May 1315 × 7 June 1329 (Robert’s gift of Hairshaw to Robert Boyd = RRS, v, no. 67× death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has granted that his beloved and faithful Robert Boyd, knight, may hold his land of Hairshaw (AYR) in free forest.

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RMS, i, no. 49

Roll IV, no. 49; Index, no. 163

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Albin of Ayr, for his homage and service, one obulate of land (half-pennyland) called ‘Cercnokenculrath’ and ‘Autitigille’, in feu and heritage, for the service of an archer in his army.

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RMS, i, no. 50

Roll IV, no. 50; Index, no. 164

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Roger of Blair, that annual render of four chalders of oatmeal and one pound of peppers, which Alan la Zouche and William de Ferrers, knights, used to receive in the name of feuferme from the land of Bourtrees (AYR) which now belongs to James Francis, in the barony of Cunningham (AYR), in feu and heritage, for a pair of gilt spurs or 12d. on Pentecost.

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RMS, i, no. 51

Roll IV, no. 51; Index, no. 165

20 Dec. 1313 × 26 Jan. 1316 (liberation of Fergus of Ardrossan from English captivity: see CDS, iii, no. 325 × death of Fergus at battle of Skerries in Ireland)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Fergus of Ardrossan, knight, that he may hold all of his lands of Ardrossan (AYR) in one integral and free barony, in feu and heritage, with the tenancies of the lands of William of ‘Potteconille’, Richard de Boiville, Laurence de More, Gilbert of Conisbrough, William Kerr, Richard of Kelso, and the whole land and tenement of Lynn in the tenement of Dalry (AYR), with pit and gallows, soke and sake, toll and team, and infangenthef, for service owed and wont, and one suit at his sheriffdom court of Ayr.

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RMS, i, no. 52

Roll IV, no. 52; Index, no. 166

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Robert Semple that land which belonged to John de Balliol knight in the tenement of Largs (AYR), in feu and heritage, in one integral and free barony, with the lordship of the freeholders with their services, and with common pasture of Largs, for 1d. on Pentecost, and making three suits annually at his sheriffdom court of Ayr.

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RMS, i, no. 53

Roll IV, 53; Index, no. 167

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Robert of Cunningham knight, the superior lordship of the lands and tenements of Lambroughton and of ‘Grugere’ in Cunningham (AYR), in feu and heritage, as Alan la Zouche and William de Ferrers held such lordship.

Sheriffdom of Edinburgh

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RMS, i, no. 55 = RMS, i, no. 68 (Index, no. 182)

Roll IV, nos. 55, 68; Index, no. 169

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Robert of Lauder, for his homage and service, all the lands and tenements of Pencaitland (ELO) and Nisbet (ROX), which were Thomas of Pencaitland’s and which were forfeited because of the war; holding in feu and heritage, with feus, mills, and freeholders of the said lands, for service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

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RMS, i, no. 56

Roll IV, no. 56; Index, no. 170

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander of Seton knight, for his homage and service, that land which belonged to the late Alan la Zouche in Tranent (ELO), together with the husbandlands which belonged to the late Alan in the vill and tenement of Niddrie; holding in feu and heritage, and in one free barony, with neyfs and common pasture, for half the service of one knight in his army.

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RMS, i, no. 57

Roll IV, no. 57; Index, no. 171

21 Oct. 1313 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (return of William Oliphant from England: see CDS, iii, no. 339 × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William Oliphant knight all his land of Muirhouse (MLO) in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, in exchange for a certain piece of land which John de Balliol took within the enclosure of the park of Kincardine in the Mearns, and which he wills should remain [as part of] the park.

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RMS, i, no. 58

Roll IV, no. 58; Index, no. 172

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John of Monfode, for his homage and service, that part of the barony of Tranent (ELO), which belonged to William de Ferrers knight; holding in feu and heritage, with annual renders and feufermes, with freeholders and neyfs, with tenancies of the whole land of Fauside and one annual rent owed to the late Alan la Zouche in that barony, for the forinsec service of one archer in his army, and one suit of court annually at his court of Haddington at the chief pleas first held after the Feast of St Michael the Archangel.

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RMS, i, no. 60

Roll IV, no. 60; Index, no. 174

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given John Marshall, son of the late Roland Marshall knight, that annual rent of ten pounds which Ingram de Guines knight was accustomed to receive from the land of Easter Fenton in Lothian (ELO); in feu and heritage, for the service of one archer in his army.

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RMS, i, no. 61

Roll IV, no. 61; Index, no. 175

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William of Fairlie, his land of Inverleith (MLO), in feu and heritage, for 100s in the name of feuferme, on Pentecost and Martinmas.

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RMS, i, no. 63

Roll IV, no. 63; Index, no. 177

8 March 1316 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (death of Peter Lubaud × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander Stewart knight, all the lands and tenements of Garleton Dunning (ELO), which belonged to the late Peter Lubaud knight, convicted of treason against his royal dignity; holding in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont.

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RMS, i, no. 64

Roll IV, no. 64; Index, no. 178

8 March 1316 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (death of Peter Lubaud × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander Stewart knight, all the lands and tenements of Elvingstone (ELO), which belonged to the late Peter Lubaud knight, convicted of treason against his royal dignity; holding in feu and heritage of the chief lord of the feu.

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RMS, i, no. 65

Roll IV, no. 65; Index, no. 179

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Thomas Harper (Cithariste), all the lands which belonged to Gilloc [sic] de Camera (Chalmers), whether within or outwith the burgh of Haddington (ELO); holding in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont.

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RMS, i, no. 66

Roll IV, no. 66; Index, no. 180

8 March 1316 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (death of Peter Lubaud × death of King Robert I).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander Stewart knight, all the land of ‘Fischerflat’ in the tenement of Haddington (ELO) which belonged to the late Peter Lubaud knight, convicted of treason against his royal dignity; holding in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont.

1/53/489

RMS, i, no. 69

Roll IV, no. 69; Index, no. 183

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Thomas Simple, for his homage and service, half of the land which Nicholas of the Dispenser, the king’s enemy and rebel, had through his hereditary infeftment in the vill and tenement of Longniddry (ELO) and which Nicholas forfeited to his royal dignity; holding in feu and heritage, for half the service of one archer in his army.

1/53/490

RMS, i, no. 71

Roll IV, no. 71; Index, no. 185

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful servant Henry Scissors, the land of Baberton in the barony of Long Hermiston (MLO), in extent six and a half markates of land and that coal-pit in the barony of Tranent (ELO) called ‘Wawaynespot’, in extent one markate of land, which came to the king due to forfeiture; holding of the chief lords of the feus in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont to the chief lords of the feus.

Sheriffdom of Lanark (LAN)

1/53/491

RMS, i, no. 73

Roll IV, no. 73; Index, no. 187

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved relative Patrick Murray junior, for his homage and service, the land of ‘Odistone’ (LAN), which belonged to the late Walter son of Roger, in Clydesdale; in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

1/53/492

RMS, i, no. 74

Roll IV, no. 74; Index, no. 188

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Andrew Douglas, the land of Kersewell (LAN), which belonged to Henry of Winton, in the barony of Carnwath; holding in feu and heritage of the lords of the feu, for service owed and wont to those lords.

1/53/493

RMS, i, no. 76

Roll IV, no. 76; Index, no. 190

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given Helen de Quarantilly the lands of ‘Bellitstan’ (Belstane, in Carluke parish) and ‘Grunley’ in the forest of Mauldslie (LAN) in exchange for the manor and orchard which Helen had hereditarily in the burgh of Lanark; holding in feu and heritage, without any multure, for one half mark annually on Pentecost and Martinmas.

1/53/494

RMS, i, no. 79

Roll IV, no. 79; Index, no. 193

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given and demitted at feuferme to his beloved and faithful Robert Baird his whole barony of Cambusnethan (LAN), except the freeholders of the barony; in feu and heritage, for ten chalders of good and saleable wheat and ten chalders of good and saleable barley annually at Rutherglen on Martinmas.

Sheriffdom of Dumbarton (DNB)

1/53/495

RMS, i, no. 80

Roll IV, no. 80; Index, no. 194

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Malcolm Fleming, for his homage and service, the whole barony of Kirkintilloch (DNB), which belonged to the late John Comyn knight; in feu and heritage, for the service of one knight in his army, and suit at his sheriff court of Dumbarton at a single pleas held there.

1/53/496

RMS, i, no. 81

Roll IV, no. 81; Index, no. 195

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Malcolm Fleming, the land of Auchendennan in the Lennox, which Malcolm of Drummond resigned by staff and baton in front of his magnates; holding in feu and heritage, as freely as Malcolm of Drummond held it, for service owed and wont.

1/53/497

RMS, i, no. 82

Roll IV, no. 82; Index, no. 196

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, granted to William Fleming of Dumbarton, that he may be quit for the time of his lifetime from the payment of an annual rent of ten marks, which he and his heirs are held to render for the land of Kirkmichael, which is in the liberty of Dumbarton.

Sheriffdom of Stirling

1/53/498

RMS, i, no. 86

Roll IV, no. 86; Index, no. 200

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Alexander Fraser knight, for his homage and service, the land of Touch Fraser (STL); in feu and heritage, in free barony, for service owed and wont in the time of King Alexander III.

1/53/499

RMS, i, no. 87

Roll IV, no. 87; Index, no. 201

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William Bisset of Upsettlington, the land of ‘Fulethe’ (‘Fuleche’), ‘Hwytemyr’ (Whitemire?), Southfield (STL), ‘Welcroft’ (Wellcroft?), Goosecroft (STL), and Torbrex (STL), and all the burgages which belonged to Henry de Melville in the burgh of Stirling (STL), which lands and burgages Henry resigned by staff and baton; holding in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont.

1/53/500

RMS, i, no. 88

Roll IV, no. 88; Index, no. 202

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William Lindsay all the titles of lordship (omnem statum dominii) which Robert de Umfraville knight, former earl of Angus, had in the barony of Dunipace (STL); holding in feu and heritage with owed and customary homages and services, for service owed and wont.

1/53/501

RMS, i, no. 89

Roll IV, no. 89; Index, no. 203

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Robert of Lauder, for his homage and service, the mill of Larbert (STL) which belonged to the late Philip Lindsay knight, and that mill which Simon Lindsay knight, his brother, forfeited against his royal dignity due to war; holding in feu and heritage, for the service which Philip was accustomed to make.

1/53/502

RMS, i, no. 90

Roll IV, no. 90; Index, no. 204

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Malcolm earl of Lennox, in compensation for the lordship of the ploughgate of land of Cardross (DNB), half of the land of Leckie (STL) nearest the land of Boquhan; holding in feu and heritage, in free barony, for a pair of gilt spurs in the name of feuferme. Memorandum that the place where the spurs ought to be paid is not specified.

1/53/503

RMS, i, no. 91

Roll IV, no. 91; Index, no. 205

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John de Soules knight, for his homage and service, the barony of Kirkandrews (DMF) which belonged to John of Wake knight; holding in feu and heritage, with service of the freeholders and tenancies of the said land, for service owed and wont.

1/53/504

RMS, i, no. 92

Roll IV, no. 92; Index, no. 206

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given Thomas the clerk, son of John of Carruthers, all the lands of Mouswald and Appletreethwaite (DMF), saving to himself the fowling and hunting; holding in feu and heritage, for one pair of gilt spurs on the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist at his manor of Lochmaben.

1/53/505

RMS, i, no. 93

Roll IV, no. 93; Index, no. 207

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Thomas the clerk, son of John of Carruthers, for his homage and service, half of the land which Robert of ‘Applingdene’ had in Annandale by reason of Joan his wife; holding in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont.

1/53/506

RMS, i, no. 94

Roll IV, no. 94; Index, no. 208

= Roll VI; Index, no. 297, and Roll IX; Index no. 530

25 March 1319 × 24 March 1320 (regnal year 14)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Richard son of Richard Edgar, a pennyland of Kirkpatrick (DMF) which is now in the hand of the Richard Edgar the father; having and holding by Richard the son and the lawfully procreated heirs of his body, in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont. If Richard dies without any lawful heirs, the king wills that the land shall go to Richard’s brother Donald and his lawfully procreated heirs; failing this, their brother Edgar; failing this, their brother Dungal.

1/53/507

RMS, i, no. 95

Not in index

Restenneth, February 1317 (regnal year 11)

Memorandum that the lord king granted to Simon of Saltoun the clerk, for the term of his life, the office of ‘tronator’ and ‘wagator’ and the custody of the tron and ‘wage’ (weighing machine) and the office of clerk of the new custom in his burgh of Berwick.

1/53/508

RMS, i, no. 96

Not in index

At Holyrood of Edinburgh, Feb. 1317 × 24 Mar. 1317 (the aforesaid year = r.y.11)

The same [lord king] granted the same Simon [of Saltoun] the hospital of Hutton (BWK) beside Berwick for the term of his life.

II. Documents from fragmentary charter roll transcripts (RMS, i, App. 1)

1/53/509

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 2

Roll II; Index, no. 10

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Patrick of Ogilvie, for his homage and service, all that land of the barony of Kettins (ANG) called ‘le Bordland’, as it was in the time of the late Malcolm of Kettins; holding in feu and heritage, for the fifth part of the service of a knight and the Scottish service pertaining to two parts of a davoch of land, and with one part of a suit at his sheriffdom court of Forfar.

1/53/510

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 3

Roll II; Index, no. 39

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William of Strabrock, for his homage and service, all the land of Pitmillan (ABD) and of Upper Tipperty (ABD) together with the mill of the same Tipperty and the multure of Lower Tipperty and a third of the teind container pertaining to the mill of Upper Tipperty, in the earldom of Buchan; in feu and heritage, for the forinsec service pertaining to the fifth part of the service of a knight in his army, and Scottish service owed and wont.

1/53/511

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 5

Roll II; Index, no. 50

25 March 1306 × 28 Jan. 1323, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of William, earl of Ross, and succession of Hugh; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Hugh of Ross knight, the thanage of Glendowachy in the sheriffdom of Banff (BNF), in feu and heritage, for eight carriage horses annually from each davoch of the thanage.

1/53/512

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 6

Roll II; Index, no. 51

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has granted Mary Comyn, spouse of the late Edmund Comyn knight, the land of the two ‘Cullenachys’ (Collynie, ABD) and of ‘Salchope’ with mill (?Saphock, ABD), in his thanage of Formartine (ABD), 20 marklands in extent, until the aforesaid Mary her third part (i.e., widow's terce) justly and according to the assize of land out of all the lands that belonged to the late Edmund her husband within his kingdom are recuperated or other lands are competently provided, saving Scottish service in his army. He also grants that she may be free, without any interference from his baillies, to introduce her men to the land with their goods, while there are not neyfs and liege men on that land from old times.

1/53/513

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 8

Roll II; Index, no. 54

25 March 1306 × 28 Jan. 1323, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of William, earl of Ross, and succession of Hugh; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, by the grace of God, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Hugh of Ross knight, and his beloved sister Matilda, his spouse, in free marriage, the land of Nairn with burgh, by the bounds by which he held it when it was a sheriffdom in the time of Alexander III, with barons and freeholders within the aforesaid land having baronies and lands; holding of Thomas Randolph earl of Moray in feu and heritage, in free barony, as any land granted in free marriage according to the law of the realm may be held; saving the right of regality to the earl, as in the lands of the earldom of Moray which he possesses, and saving to the aforesaid barons the liberties of their baronies as any of their peers hold of an earl; saving also to his faithful bishops, abbots and other clerks their estates; for service owed and wont to the aforesaid earl; when the time comes that service should be made, and suit of his court of Elgin at a single pleas.

1/53/514

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 9

Roll II; Index, no. 59

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Rory son of Alan [MacRuari], for his homage and service, a davoch of land with a half of Moidart (INV) with advowson of the church of the same, three davochs of the land of Knoydart (INV), half a davoch of Arisaig (INV), namely, five pennylands of ‘Gedeuall’ and five pennylands of Glen Beasdale (INV) and of ‘Bethey’, six davochs of land of Eigg and Rhum (INV) with advowson of the church of the same, six davochs and three quarterlands in the parish of ‘Kilpedre Blisen’ [Kilpeter in Uist], the island of Barra and the island of Gighay, which lands Christina of Mar, daughter of the late Alan son of Rory (Alan MacRuari) resigned by staff and baton; holding my legitimate male heirs in feu and heritage, for the service of a ship with 26 oars with men and victuals. He also wills that if Rory has no male heirs, that Rory son of the said Christina shall have the land hereditarily, and that the said Rory will be held to marry the daughter or daughters of the said Rory his uncle if she or they might have legitimacy with 40 marks sterling and if it Rory son of Christina dies, such that succession to the aforesaid lands may not be had, the daughter or daughters of Rory son of Alan may inherit the lands from their father, and if the said Rory son of Alan has no heirs, he wills that the land shall revert to Christina and her heirs.

1/53/515

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 10

Roll II; Index, no. 68

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given the Blessed Virgin Mary and the church of St Magnus the Martyr of Orkney and the bishop of the same place, in pure and perpetual alms, three chalders of wheat and one cask of wine, in order to have bread and wine for the divine mass, annually on Pentecost at Aberdeen by the hand of the grieve or the baillies of that burgh.

1/53/516

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 11

Roll II, no. ; Index, no. 70

25 June 1316 × 28 Jan. 1323 (Inspected charter × death of William, earl of Ross)

Robert, king of Scots, has inspected and truly understood the ordination and hereditary institution made by John of Ross of Hugh of Ross knight his brother of all the lands which he held within the kingdom. [Charter of John of Ross, son of the lord William earl of Ross, dated at Inverness on the morrows of Nativity of St John the Baptist, 1316] The king approves this ordination, saving his service of those lands.

1/53/517

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 22

Roll III; Index, no. 95

Duplicate = Index, no. 501 (Roll IX)

25 March 1306 × 11 July 1321, prob. 24 June 1314 ×, perhaps circa 1320 (inauguration of King Robert I × attestation of Master Gilbert as archdeacon (Glas. Reg., i, 228); prob. after battle of Bannockburn); possible date suggested by D.E.R. Watt (Scottish Graduates, 209).

Robert, king of Scots, considering the losses and oppression of the war in former time done to Whithorn cathedral and its archdeaconry, out of his divine piety and devotion to his patron Saint Ninian, gives the aforesaid archdeaconry in pure and perpetual alms, and his beloved and faithful clerk Master Gilbert of Galloway, now archdeacon of the same, the right of patronage and advowson of the church of Kells in Galloway (KCB). He also wills that the bishop and chapter and the archdeaconate be united in the said church.

1/53/518

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 26

Roll III; Index, no. 108

= RMS, i, App. 1, no. 86 (Index, no. 503; Roll IX)

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has confirmed that donation which Roger de Quincy, earl of Winchester, constable of Scotland, made to Lindores abbey of 200 cart-loads of heather from the moor of Kinloch (FIF) annually for the support of their house, and of all the peats from the peatary of Monagrey (FIF), and no-one else should dig peats without the license and wish of the monks, nor should the monks give or sell, nor in any way alienate or convert anything, unless in the uses of the said house; and one acre in the said moor to them, next to the where they will dig the peats where they can dry the peats; and one house next to the nearest ford, which is called ‘Ethywyn’ (poss. Gaddon, Collessie parish, FIF), on the eastern side, in the field of ‘Thoriston’ (in or near Kinloch, FIF), containing two acres of land, to which they can draw their heather and peats, and common pasture on his moor of Kinloch for ten sheep and two cows for the work of the their keeper who keeps the house and fuel; and free right of way for the monks and their men with their oxen and carts, and the oxen who draw the carts may have right of common pasture on the moor from when they begin to take away the heather and peat until the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September); holding in perpetuity, as the earl’s charter attests, saving the king’s service.

1/53/519

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 30

Roll III; Index, no. 114

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given out of his special grace, to the religious men the prior of Restenneth and the canons of Jedburgh living at Restenneth in pure and perpetual alms, licence and liberty to cut timber in his forest of Plater, according to their needs and for their own uses, for their ploughs, wagons, harrows, with yokes, beams, and other apparatuses pertaining to the aforesaid ploughs, wagons and harrows. He commands and instructs his forester of Plater to permit them to do these things throughout the whole forest.

1/53/520

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 34

Roll V; Index, no. 217

Dec. 1313 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 ×; possibly × Dec. 1318 (Thomas Randolph as lord of Man× death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn, possibly before Randolph’s acquisition of the lordship of Annandale).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved nephew Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray and lord of Man, for his homage and service to him and his kingdom, the whole land of Annandale (DMF); holding by him and his legitimate male heirs of the body, in feu and heritage, with homages and services of freeholders, advowsons of churches, patronage of abbeys, feus and forfeitures, whether from war or peace, with bondsmen and bondages, neyfs and their offspring. He also grants that he may hold this land in free regality, with the four pleas of the crown; for the service of ten knights in his army.

1/53/521

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 40

Roll VI; Index, no. 246

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted, and?] confirmed to his servant, Osbert son of Forsyth, 100 shillinglands in the tenement of ‘Salakhill’ in his sheriffdom of Stirling, an extent of which was made by his chamberlain of Scotland, according to boundaries [not copied], with common pasture for 40 cows; performing the office that the late Michael called Beg and William his son used to perform in the said sheriffdom in the time of King Alexander III.

1/53/522

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 49

Roll VI; Index, no. 270

April 1318 × 7 June 1329 (Date of inspected charter × death of King Robert I)

Robert, king of Scots, has inspected and truly understood that charter which Rodolph Lindsay, recently master of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem at Torphichen, made to Reginald More. [Charter of Ralph to Reginald of the land of Templeton with the mill and shiels, dated at Torphichen, April 1318.]. The king approves and ratifies this charter.

1/53/523

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 51

Roll VI; Index, no. 272

RRS, v, no. 444 (lost act)

= Index, no. 557 (Roll IX)

Dated at Perth, 25 March 1321 × 24 March 1322 (regnal year 16)

Robert, king of Scots, has confirmed the donation which his beloved and faithful Patrick, earl of March, made to his beloved and faithful Alexander Seton, knight, of the whole tenement of Hassington (BWK) in the sheriffdom of Berwick, which tenement Marjorie spouse of the late Nicholas Graham knight, daughter and one heir of the late Marjorie de Muschamp, countess of Strathearn, in her widowhood, restored by staff and baton to Patrick, earl of March, at ‘Colbranspeth’ (Cockburnspath, ELO) on the Monday after the Feast of St Barnaby the apostle AD 1320 (16 June 1320).

1/53/524

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 53

Roll VI; Index, no. 283

= Index, no. 355 (Roll VII)

4 Aug. 1320 × 7 June 1329 (conviction and forfeiture of William Soulis × death of King Robert)

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted and?] confirmed his beloved son Robert Bruce, for his homage and service, all his land of Liddesdale, which belonged to William Soulis knight, and which William forfeited; in free barony and in free forest, with the homages and services of freeholders, advowson of the churches, multure of the mills, for service owed and wont and suit at his sheriffdom court of Roxburgh at a single pleas.

1/53/525

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 54

Roll VI; Index, no. 287

27 March 1324× 26 March 1325 (regnal year 19)

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted and?] confirmed to his beloved and faithful Aymer of Hadden knight, for his homage and service, eleven husbandlands in the barony and tenement of Sprouston, in extent twenty markates of land; holding of the chief lord of the barony, for the fifth part of the service of a knight and 4d. to the chief lord of the barony; making three suits of the court of the chief lord at Sprouston.

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 55 (Roll VI; Index, no. 289) = 1/7/95; RRS, iii, no. 93 (King Alexander II)

1/53/526

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 56

Roll VI; Index, no. 298

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Memorandum that the lord king confirmed that donation which Richard Edgar made to Donald his son, of the chief manor in the barony of Sanquhar (DMF), with a half of that barony pertaining to that manor, as the said barony was divided between William of Crichton and Isabel his spouse portionars by reason of the said spouse, and the same Richard Edgar, except the three pennylands specified in the charter.

1/53/527

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 57

Roll VI; Index, no. 304

= Index, no. 366 (Roll VII)

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted and?] confirmed to his beloved and faithful Eustace of Maxwell, knight, for breaking down and reducing the castle of Caerlaverock (DMF), ten pounds sterling of an annual rent of 22 pounds sterling which he pays for his lands of Caerlaverock; and he remits the aforesaid ten pounds to Eustace and his heirs in perpetuity by these present letters.

1/53/528

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 68

Roll VIII; Index, no. 405

= Index, no. 554 (Roll IX)

Circa 23 August 1315 (probably at same time as Earl Duncan’s agreement with King Robert: see RRS, v, no. 72).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved relative Duncan, earl of Fife, for his homage and service, all the underwritten lands and baronies, namely, the barony of Onele in the sheriffdom of Aberdeen (Kincardine O’Neil, ABD), the barony of Kinnoull in the sheriffdom of Perth, the barony of Calder (Calder-Comitis) in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh; holding by Duncan and the legitimate heirs of his body, with the homages and services of freeholders, advowsons of churches, bondsmen and bondages, neyfs and their offspring, mills and multures, etc., in feu and heritage, for service owed and wont. If Duncan has no legitimate bodily heirs, the king wills that all the aforesaid shall fall to Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray, and his legitimate heirs.

1/53/529

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 71

Roll VIII; Index, no. 418

23 August 1315 × 7 June 1329 (return of earldom of Fife to Duncan × death of King Robert)

Robert, king of Scots, since he has granted to his beloved and faithful Malcolm, earl of Lennox, the land of ‘Strathoune’ [Stratha’an, BNF] through the forfeiture of David of Strathbogie, knight, former earl of Atholl, at the time when Duncan, earl of Fife, of whom the land is held in chief, was acting against the king’s peace, for which land Malcolm did homage to the king, and after this the king granted the earl of Fife all his lands and tenements with tenancies and freeholders in the kingdom of Scotland hereditarily, and since the said Malcolm by right is not held to do homage to the earl of Fife, he grants to the same earl of Fife the occasion of homage to him made by Malcolm for the same land, with wards, reliefs, or homages, or anything else pertaining to the earldom of Fife, no prejudice against he or his heirs is engendered, although he is free and quit of everything that was owed for the same in old times.

1/53/530

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 76

Roll VIII; Index, no. 451

Oct. 1314 × Dec. 1320 (death of Henry de Percy × departure from kingdom of Ingram de Umfraville)

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted, and?] confirmed to Donald Campbell knight, for his homage and service, half of the barony of Redcastle in Angus as it was partitioned and allocated between the king on one side due to the forfeiture of Henry de Percy knight who died against his faith, and Ingram de Umfraville knight on the other, perambulated by Bernard abbot of Arbroath, his chancellor, and his sheriff of Forfar in his name and the attorneys of Ingram, in the presence of sworn men of the country; holding in feu and heritage, with all the freeholders and neyfs, for service owed and wont.

1/53/531

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 78

Roll VIII; Index, no. 453

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted, and?] confirmed to our beloved and faithful William of Dissington, knight, for his homage and service, the land of Balglassie in his thanage of Aberlemno (ANG), with one mark annual rent from his mill of Aberlemno, in extent ten markates of land; holding in feu and heritage, for the service of one archer in his army, and three suits of court at his sheriffdom court of Forfar at the three chief pleas, and making (i.e., paying) multure to his mill of Aberlemno, and suit of the aforesaid lands owed and wont, and paying nothing to the prior of Restenneth.

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 80 (Roll VIII; Index, no. 456) = 1/53/315; RRS, v, no. 274 (note only)

1/53/532

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 81

Roll VIII; Index, no. 467

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted, and?] confirmed to his beloved and faithful Henry called ‘Buttirwambe’, for his homage and service, all the land of Tullyneddie beside Clunie (PER) which was the late William of Clunie’s, and which William resigned by staff and baton, and which he later infefted hereditarily to Angus son of Ewen [filii Eugenii = MacEwen?], and which Angus resigned by staff and baton in front of the magnates of the realm at Perth; holding by Henry and his heirs or assigns in feu and heritage, with sake and soke, pit and gallows, toll and team, infangenthef, for the service of one sergeand with hauberk on horseback, and making forinsec service pertaining to the land.

1/53/533

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 83

Roll VIII; Index, no. 480

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, is firmly obligated to Master Maninus de Maneriis, citizen of Milan, for his service, in 24 pounds sterling, annual payment for his lifetime, paid by equal portion on Pentecost and Martinmas at St John’s Town of Perth. He also grants Master Maninus for his lifetime, retention in his household according to the following conditions: when he is at the king’s court, he may have a man-at-arms, wardrobe-keeper, and page, without horses or grooms. He also grants while itinerating through the country fodder and provender for four horses and wages for four grooms.

1/53/534

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 84

Roll VIII; Index, no. 491

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has [given, granted, and?] confirmed to William of Kinghorn, clerk and burgess of the same, two ploughgates of his demesne land of Kinghorn (FIF), namely the ploughgate of Seafield and of Tyrie with ‘Dromdyuane’ at feuferme; for three chalders of good and saleable wheat grown on that land, on Martinmas in his manor of Kinghorn, and eight marks on Pentecost.

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 86 (Roll IX; Index, no. 503) = RMS, i, App. 1, no. 26 (Roll III; Index, no. 108). See above for calendar entry.

1/53/535

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 87

Roll IX; Index, no. 518

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Oliver Carpenter, for his homage and service, all the land of Eddlewood in Clydesdale (LAN), by stated bounds, for four marks on Pentecost and Martinmas, and the forinsec service of one archer, and three suits of court at his court of Cadzow on the three chief pleas.

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 90 (Roll IX; Index, no. 538) = RMS, i, App. 1, no. 42 = RRS, v, p. 451 (1/53/201)

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 95 (Roll XIV; Index, no.593) = 1/8/77; RRS, iv, no. 166 (King Alexander III)

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 96 (Roll XIV; Index, no. 597) = RPS, A1323/7/4 (Memorandum of a judgement by Robert I concerning a petition by Alexander of Badby)

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 97 (Roll XV; Index, no. 602) = 1/6/282; RRS, ii, no. 311 (King William I)

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 98 (Roll XV; Index, no. 605) = 1/4/62; Chrs David I, no. 130 (King David I)

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 103 (Roll XVIII; Index, no. 628) = 1/55/1 (Thomas Randolph, guardian)

1/53/536

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 105

Roll XIX; Index, no. 644

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful James son of Dunsleve (Donnsléibhe) , for his homage and service, seven and a half old marklands (‘senemargis’) of his lordship of Kintyre (ARG), namely one old markland and one quarter of ‘Ardayardill’ (Airds, in Carrdale), one half old markland of Ugadale, one old markland of ‘Ardinlochu’, one old markland of Ardnacross, one and a half old marklands of Kilkeddan, three quarters of an old markland of Gartgreillan and of ‘Arngaffs’, a quarter part and an eighth part of an old markland of Grianan between the land of the abbot of Iona and the land of ‘Ardcardell’ (Airds, in Carradale), one old markland of Peninver, and eighth of an old markland of Laggan lying near Peninver; in feu and heritage, for the forinsec service of one ship of 26 oars with men and victuals.

Note: ‘Ard Charadel’ and ‘Grienen’ are shown on Blaeu map of Kintye (1654)

1/53/537

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 107

Roll XIX; Index, no. 659

25 March 1306 × 7 June 1329, prob. 24 June 1314 × (inauguration × death of King Robert I; prob. after battle of Bannockburn).

Robert, king of Scots, has given Gillespie son of Walter, for his homage and service, six pennylands of Lerags (ARG), four pennylands of ‘Gelachcarchen’ (or ‘Lochkerchan’), four pennylands of Ardoran (ARG), one pennyland of ‘Strengchroschian’ (An t-Sreang, or the ‘String of Lorn’, ARG), one pennyland of Fineglen (ARG), one pennyland of ‘Lochane’ (poss. Loch na Sreinge, ARG), one pennyland of ‘Dernglek’, one pennyland of ‘Garbech’ [Garvach?], and one pennyland of ‘Garcowaell’; in feu and heritage, in free barony, for the service of a ship of 26 oars with victuals for fifteen days.

Note: Index B gives the alternative place-names ‘Dereagis’ and ‘Lochkerchan’.

1/53/538

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 108

Roll XIX; Index, no. 662

June 1316 × 28 Jan. 1323, possibly by 14 Oct. 1318 (Edward Bruce as king of Ireland × death of William, earl of Ross, and succession of Hugh; possibly × death of Edward Bruce).

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful Hugh of Ross knight, for his service, that half of the land of Kinfauns (PER) which he now has in his hand, with the half of the same fishing, in exchange for the land of Glenken in Galloway (KCB) which Hugh had due to his brother the late Walter of Ross knight, and which the late Walter had by the donation of Edward, king of Ireland, the king’s brother; in feu and heritage, for 3d. at Perth on Pentecost, for ward, relief, marriage, suit of court, and other services and demands, and without transit to the army except when the men inhabiting the king’s demesne lands may transit to the army.

Appendix. Documents noted by Duncan, but entered from superior roll copy

1/53/104

RMS, i, no. 18 = RRS, v, no. 95 (a poor inventory copy)

Roll IV, no. 18; Index, no. 132

Melrose, 8 June, a.r. 11 (1316)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful John, son of the late John son of Nigel/ Niall, for his homage and service, all the land that was Alan le Suche’s in Mertoun (ROX), two bondages with two cottars in Newbigging, the demesne land that was John de Balliol’s called ‘le Flat’, half of the fenland of the aforesaid portion, half of the fulling mill which belonged to John de Balliol, and land that was Nicholas of Rutherford’s in Newbigging, in the constabulary of Lauder; in feu and heritage, for the service of two archers in the king’s army.

1/53/114

RMS, i, no. 22 = RRS, v, no. 105

Roll IV, no. 22; Index, no. 136

Edinburgh, 16 Oct., a.r. 11 (1316)

Robert, king of Scots, has given his beloved and faithful William Turnbull that piece of land lying to the west of Philiphaugh (‘Fulhophalche’) (SLK), extending in the forest as far as in previous times had been ploughed by the plough (carruca), in feu and heritage, for the payment of one large arrow at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

1/53/261

RMS, i, no. 85 = RRS, v, no. 233 (note only)

Roll IV, no. 85; Index, no. 199

Peebles, 10 June, a.r. 18 (1323)

Robert, king of Scots, has given Henry of Annandale, for his homage and service, the land of Sauchie (CLA) and the land of Balquharn within the land of Menstrie (CLA); in feu and heritage, for the [?] part of the forinsec service of a knight and his Scottish service.

1/53/315

RMS, i, App. 1, no. 80 =RRS, v, no. 274 (note only)

Roll VIII; Index, no. 456

Arbroath, 2 May, a.r. 20 (1325)

King Robert I, for the renunciation of any right or claim which William Blunt, knight, could have made, with the late Andrew de Harcia earl of Carlisle, has given William Blunt all his demesne land in the thanage of Aberlemno (ANG) in the sheriffdom of Forfar, by stated bounds, with the common pasture of Montreathmont and ('Durynecragis') Turin Hill (ANG), in feu and heritage, in one free barony, with pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll and team and infangenthef, for the service of two archers in his army, and three suits annually at the sheriffdom court of Forfar.