Transaction: Gift of Balfeith (KCD)
- Type of Transaction
- Gift
- From Source
- 3/83/6 (Arb. Lib., no. 89)
- Firm date
- 24 August 1198 X 16 October 1198
- Dating Notes
- Birth of Alexander son of King William × death of Walter Scot the elder, who was dead by the time of King William’s grant to his son, also Walter (<em>RRS</em> ii, no. 404). The testimony of the jurors in the case of Duncan of Arbuthnott at the Synod of Perth in 1206 includes that of Master Isaac, clerk of Bishop Roger of St Andrews, who mentions that he stayed with Elias, the priest of Arbuthnott, while travelling to invite the northern bishops to the consecration of Bishop Roger, which took place on 15 Feb. 1198 (that is, 1197/8) at St Andrews, and that he interviewed the elder Walter Scot on the matter of Duncan of Arbuthnott, and that ‘he saw his death as imminent’. Spalding Misc v, 211. Furthermore, datable to before royal confirmation (<em>RRS</em> ii, no. 413), which Barrow says probably dates to 16 Mar. 1199.
- Primary
- yes
- Dare
- yes
- Tenendas
- in (free, pure and/or perpetual) alms
- Tenendas original language
- in liberam et puram et quietam elemosinam
- Exemptions
- free and quit from all service and/or aid, custom and exaction; free from works [operaciones]
- Exemptions original language
- ab exercitu et expedicione et ab omnibus auxilijs et geldis et omnibus operacionibus et wardis et ab omnibus placitis et querelis ab omnibus consuetudinibus et ab omnibus seruicijs et secularibus exaccionibus
- Perambulation
- yes
- Spiritual Benefits
- Any Spiritual Benefit; Children (pro salute anime); Self (pro salute); Successors (pro salute); Wife (pro salute)