the said matter before, to due execution, that so our said oratours may be answered of the said pets without delay, under payne of payment of the samyn of his ain guids, togidder with the expenses sustenit by our said oratours in the said mater of our said Sheriffs default. The quhilk to do we commit to you, conjunctlie and severalie, our full power by thir our lettres, delivering thame by you dulie execute and endorsat agane to the berar. Given under our signet at Edinburgh, the xix day of April, and of our reign the xvii yeir [A.D. 1505]. Ex deliberatione Dominorum Consilii. J. DOUGLAS.

[ENDORSEMENT OF SUMMONS.]

The 22nd day of April, the yeir of God one thousand five hundred and five yeirs, I, Richard Brown, Massinger, one of the Sheriffs within written, passed at the command of our Sovrane Lords lettres to the Sheriff of Perth and apprehendit him personalie in Edinburgh, and the said day I commandit and chairgit him, in our Sovrane Lord the Kings name, personalie to put our Sovrane Lord the Kings lettres directit to him in the mater within written to due execution, and to make the Freiris Predicatours of the Burgh of St. Johnston be paid of the petis obtained of the said Freiris upon Margaret Logy and Thomas Hay, as within written, and under the pains contenit in thir our Sovrane Lord's lettres: and this I did before thir witnesses, Henry Bruce, John Strang, and William Rodgie, with others divers for the mair witnessing of this my execution, I have set hereto my signet before the said witnesses.

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CARTA DOMINI ROBERTI BRUCE, Scotorum Regis, de multura non præstanda et ly Roume-fre molendi ad sua molendina de Pertht quinque celdras frumenti et decem celdras ordei ac omnimoda blada ad usum nostrum. [fol. 24.*]

ROBERTUS, Dei gratia, Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis hominibus terræ suæ Salutem Sciatis, quod, pro salute animæ meæ, animarum antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, Regum Scotiæ, de gratia nostra speciali concessimus religiosis viris, Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Perth, in liberam puram et perpetuam eleemosinam quod ipsi, et eorum successores, in perpetuum liberi sint a præstatione multuræ, et "rum-fre" post bladum nostrum et bladum cancellarii justiciarii et camerarii nostri, qui pro tempore fuerint, et bladum inventum in trimodio, cum ad molendinum venerint dicti fratres ad molendina nostra de Perth: videlicet, de quinque celdris

frumenti et decem celdris ordei singulis annis molendis ibidem. Præterea volumus et concedimus, quod dicti fratres et eorum successores libere molant, ad molendina nostra prædicta, sine præstatione multuræ, omnimoda quæ adquisierint pro sustentatione sua propria. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras, perpetuo duraturas, dictis fratribus fieri fecimus patentes. Apud Abirbrothock, octavo die Januarii, anno Regni nostri septimo decimo.

[Charter of King Robert I. (Bruce) granting the Friars right to have five chalders of corn, and ten chalders of barley yearly, besides what might be necessary for their proper subsistence, ground free of 'multure' at the mills of Perth, with 'Roum-fre,' or service, after the grain of his chancellor, justiciar, and chamberlain, or what was in the hopper, had been disposed of for the time. Dated at Arbroath, the 8th day of January and 17th year of his reign, A.D. 1323.]

(1) PRÆCEPTUM EJUSDEM DOMINI REGIS, de eodem, directum Camerario, Scotia. [fol. 24.]

ROBERTUS, Dei gratia, Rex Scotorum, camerario suo Scotiæ, qui pro tempore fuerit, Salutem: Sciatis quod pro salute animæ meæ, et salute animarum antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, Regum Scotia, de gratia nostra speciali concessimus religiosis viris, Fratribus prædicatoribus de Perth, etc. (foregoing charter recited verbatim). Quare vobis mandamus et præcipimus quatinus dictos religiosos viros contra hanc concessionem nostram inquietare seu gravare nullatenus præsumatis, nec a quoquam, quantum in vobis est, inquietari seu gravari permittatis. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras prædictis religiosis perpetuo duraturas vobis mittimus patentes. Datum apud Abirbrothock, octavo die Januarii, anno regni nostri decimo septimo.

[Precept, of the same place and date, enjoining the chamberlain for the time being to see that the brethren were protected in the possession of the fore-mentioned privileges.]