LIBER REGISTRI CARTARUM, ETC.

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CARTA DOMINI ALEXANDRI REGIS, Loci Fratrum Prædicatorum Fundatoris, de una pecia seu pisa ceræ. [fol. 23.]

ALEXANDER, Dei Gratia, Rex Scotorum, præpositis suis de Pertht Salutem. Mandamus vobis et præcipimus, quatinus de firma nostra de Pertht habere faciatis, singulis annis, Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Pertht unam pisam1 ceræ, de quaquidem pisa ceræ dotavimus annuatim ecclesiam eorundem Fratrum Prædicatorum de Pertht cum dictam ecclesiam fecimus dedicari. In cujus rei testimonium literas nostras patentes fieri fecimus, testibus Philippo de Maleville, et Roberto de Montealto, Justiciario Scotia, Roberto de Meyners. Apud Forfar, ultimo die

Octobris, anno Regni Domini Regis vicesimo septimo.

[Mandate by King Alexander II., Founder of the "Place," for payment yearly to the brethren of a piece of wax from his "ferme" of Perth. Given at Forfar on 31st October, in the 27th year of his reign, A.D. 1241. His reign began 4th Dec. 1214. See Bond's Handybook for Verifying Dates, p. 309; Bell and Sons, London, 1889.]

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CARTA DOMINI ALEXANDRI, Scotorum Regis, Filii Fundatoris loci, de eadem pisa ceræ. [fol. 23.]

ALEXANDER, Dei Gratia, Rex Scotorum, præpositis suis de Perth Salutem. Mandamus et præcipimus, quatinus de firmis nostris burgi de Perth

1 Mr. Scott thinks that a piece meant a stone of wax.-MS. Notes on Blackfriars, etc., p. 75. He also states that Philip de Maleville was second son of Galfride Maleville, owner of an estate in Midlothian; had been Justiciary, and was afterwards High Sheriff of Mearns; was advanced in life at this date; and that in 1296 his grandson, James

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Maleville of Glenbervie, with others, swore fealty to Edward I. Of Robert de Montealto, or the High Mount, a local name, nothing is known. Robert de Meyners, or Menzies, the ancestor, as Crawford supposes, of the family of Weem, was dispossessed of the office of Chamberlain in 1253. -MS. Notes, pp. 27, 28, 63.

habere faciatis Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Perth, quolibet anno, unam pisam bonæ ceræ, die nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistæ, quam inclytæ recordationis Dominus Rex Alexander, Pater Noster, eis dedit ad luminare ecclesiæ suæ in dedicatione ejusdem, facientes de eisdem firmis dictos fratres pasci, singulis septimanis, uno die. Testibus Roberto de Ros,1 Roberto de Meyners, Camerario, et Willelmo de Louthor, vicecomite de Perth. Apud Scon, ultimo die Maii, anno Regni Domini Regis secundo.

[Mandate by Alexander III. enjoining payment annually, on the day of the nativity of John the Baptist, 24th June, of the piece of wax granted by his father for the lighting of the church of the Friars, and also granting them sustenance, one day weekly, from the "fermes" of the burgh. Dated at Scone, the 31st May, in the 2nd year of his reign (A.D. 1251). His reign began 8th July 1249.]

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CARTA EJUSDEM DOMINI ALEXANDRI, Scotorum Regis, Filii Fundatoris, de decem celdris brasii et quinque celdris frumenti de Cragy et Malhen. [fol. 23.]

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ALEXANDER, Dei Gratia, Rex Scotorum, præpositis suis de Perth, et firmariis suis de Cragyn, et de Malhen, uni vel pluribus, qui pro tempore fuerint, Salutem: Mandamus vobis, et præcipimus, quatinus de firmis nostris de Cragyn, et de Malhen habere faciatis, singulis annis, Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Perth quinque celdras boni frumenti et bene vannati, et decem celdras boni brasii, et similiter habere faciatis eisdem fratribus, singulis annis, de firma nostra burgi de Perth, septem libras et sexdecim solidos, pro procuratione sua annua, et unam pisam ceræ, cum melius forum ceræ fuerit in anno, et solutionem omnium prædictorum, singulis annis, quousque super hoc a nobis aliud receperitis in mandatis, dictis fratribus ita bene fieri faciatis, ne ipsi de vobis justam

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1 "Robert de Ross, son of Sir James Ross, a proprietor in Renfrew, was made one of the Regents at the accession of Alexander III. Leuthor was probably the same name as Lauder. Sir Robert de Lauder, perhaps the son of William, was a companion of Sir William Wallace."-Scott's MS. pp. 63, 68.

2 Craigie and St. Magdalen's are well known and contiguous places in the neighbourhood of Perth

-the latter, now a farm, marking the site of a Hospital of an early date. Some think that the reference in the charter is to Mailer, also a property in the same neighbourhood, but Mr. Scott reads the word, more correctly it seems, Mahlena, a softened form, he says, of Magdalena. — MS. p. 78.

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3 Melius forum, i.e. minus pretium.—Lexicon.

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habeant materiam conquerendi, per quod ad vos graviter capere merito debeamus. Et nos omnia prædicta vobis in compotis vestris faciemus plenius allocari. Testibus Malcolmo, Comite de Fyf,1 Willelmo, Comite de Marr, Camerario, et Johanne de Parco. Apud Sconam, decimo die Octobris, anno Regni Nostri septimo decimo. In prædictarum cartarum visionis et inspectionis testimonium, sigillum nostrum præsentibus duximus apponendum.

[Mandate by Alexander III. ordering his provosts, "farmers," under pain of his displeasure in case of failure, to pay to the Friars, yearly, five chalders of good well-winnowed grain, ten chalders of malt, seven pounds sixteen shillings in money, and a piece of wax when it was cheap. These payments to be allowed in the accounts. Dated at Scone on the 10th October, in the 17th year of his reign, A.D. 1266.]

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CARTA inspectionis dictarum trium Cartarum sub sigillo Willelmi
Episcopi Sancti Andree. [fol. 23.]

PATEAT universis, quod nos Willelmus, miseratione divina, ecclesiæ Sancti Andree Episcopus, vidimus et diligenter inspeximus quandam literam Domini Alexandri Patris bonæ memoriæ, quondam Regis Scotorum, pro Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Perth, sigillo ejusdem regis munitam, tenorem qui sequitur continentem [No. I. here recited in full, and verbatim]. Vidimus insuper ad planum et inspeximus duas literas Domini Alexandri Filii, bonæ memoriæ, quondam Regis Scotia, pro dictis fratribus, sigillo ejusdem regis majori munitas, tenores qui sequuntur integre continentes: [Nos. II. and III. similarly recited].

[Record of Inspection of the three foregoing charters by William, Bishop of St. Andrews, probably William Fraser, who was one of the Regents of the kingdom during the time of Margaret of Norway, and who died 1290.]

1 Malcolm Duff, Earl of Fife, succeeded his uncle Malcolm in 1230, and was present at the coronation of Alexander III. on 13th July 1249. He was appointed one of the Regents in 1255, and died 1266.

2 William, Earl of Mar, Lord Chamberlain, succeeded his father Duncan about 1234, and married Elizabeth, daughter of William Cumyn, Earl of Buchan. Of John de Parco, the third witness, nothing is known.--Scott's MS. pp. 112, 114.

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CARTA EJUSDEM DOMINI ALEXANDRI Regis de gardino suo dato conventui, et de aquæ conductu de stagno molendini sui. [fols. 2 and 24.]

ALEXANDER, Dei Gratia, Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis hominibus totius terræ suæ Salutem: Sciant præsentes et futuri nos, divinæ caritatis intuitu, dedisse, concessisse, et, hac carta nostra, confirmasse Deo, et Beatæ Mariæ, et Fratribus Prædicatoribus de Perth Deo ibidem servientibus, et in perpetuum servituris, totam illam placiam, in qua fuit gardinum nostrum. Tenen: et haben: eisdem Fratribus Prædicatoribus de nobis, et hæredibus nostris, in puram et perpetuam eleemosinam ita libere et quiete sicut aliqua eleemosina in regno nostro liberius et quietius ab aliquibus viris religiosis tenetur et possidetur. Concessimus etiam dictis fratribus ut habeant conductum aquæ, de stagno molendini nostri de Perth, habentem in quadrum quatuor pollices absque damno tamen dicti molendini nostri de Perth. Quare firmiter prohibemus, ne quis, contra hanc concessionem, dictos fratres libere uti impediat dicto conductu sine mandato nostro speciali. Testibus venerabili Patre Willelmo, Episcopo Glasguensi, Camerario Nostro, Willelmo, Comite de Mar, Alano, Hostiario, Justiciario Scotia, Alexandro Cumyn, Johanne Vallibus, Roberto de Meyners. Apud Sanctam Crucem, septimo die Junii, anno Regni Domini Regis tricesimo.

[Grant by Alexander II. of his garden, afterwards known as the "Gylt Herbar," and of a conduit four inches square from the "stank" or dam of the Town's Mills. At Holyrood, the 7th June, in the 30th year of his reign, A.D. 1244.]

1 William, Bishop of Glasgow: William de Bondington, who held the See for a long period from A.D. 1233. Alan, hostiarius-an officer of the palace whose functions it is now difficult to describe-was probably the son of Thomas de Lundin, or Lundie, in Forfarshire. He was greatly favoured by the King, who gave him Marjory, his natural daughter, in marriage, and afterwards made him

Justiciary (see Lord Hailes' Annals and Fordoun). Alexander Cumyn was the son and heir-apparent of William Cumyn, second Earl of Buchan.-John de Vallibus, pronounced Vaux or Vaus, belonged to a family who, Lord Hailes says, were proprietors of Dirleton in East Lothian.-Scott's MS. pp. 57-59.