The community of the realm in Scotland, 1249–1424
History, law and charters in a recreated kingdom

The table includes records of 763 ‘acts’ in the name of David II, king of Scots, gathered from Bruce Webster’s edition (RRS, vi) and RMS, 1, and fifteen documents of the king’s guardians and lieutenants, most of them by Robert Stewart, the future Robert II. Of the 763 ‘acts’ of David II, 35 have not been entered into the PoMS database. In the case of four of these, the documents have not fallen within the geographical remit of the database- they do not relate to Scottish places and were not written in Scotland. The remaining 31 sources listed in the table which have not been included in the PoMS database have been deemed ‘lost acts’. Unlike the other RRS volumes, Webster did not create a separate appendix of ‘lost acts’, but included a number of such texts in the course of the edition. These are either fragmentary and incomplete or known only from notes.

As the attached spreadsheet shows, 470 documents of David II have been entered into the PoMS database from numbered entries in Bruce Webster's edition of the acts of David II, Regesta Regum Scottorum, vi. These are highlighted blue in column G of the spreadsheet. A further 260 have been added from the rolls copies printed in RMS, i, a.k.a. the Register of the Great Seal. These are highlighted green. A handful of documents in the list are duplicates, generally because they appear more than once in the rolls: these have their rows highlighted yellow on the spreadsheet. All of the RMS documents are also noted in RRS, vi, and the page numbers of this notes have been listed in column G. Most of the 'rolls' copies of David II charters are actually from a surviving register or book known as Liber 1. The documents from Liber 1 are printed in the main body of RMS, i, and are listed in columns C and D of the spreadsheet. Column C gives the number in RMS, i, and Column D gives the number in Liber 1. There are 276 documents listed in Liber 1, including five sets of duplicates, all of which date to the period between 1362 to 1371. 48 of these have been entered from numbered versions in RRS, vi, often surviving contemporary sheets, but 223 have been entered from the RMS copy. A further 33 documents have been entered from Appendix 1 of RMS, i, an edition of transcripts and copies made from lost charter rolls, numbered 28 through 58 in RMS. These are described in columns E and F.

The spreadsheet also includes documents printed in RRS, vi, in the name of the guardians and lieutenants acting for David II - Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332), John Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1346), Andrew Murray, pantler of Scotland (d. 1338), and Robert Stewart, the future king Robert II (d. 1390). These documents have the H-number sequence, H1/55.