Transaction: Gift of four ploughgates in 'Edmundeston' (in Stenton, ELO)

Type of Transaction: Gift
From Source: 3/547/6 (Melr. Lib., no. 4)
Firm date: 24 May 1153 X 23 September 1168
Probable date: prob. 9 Dec. 1165 x 23 Sept. 1168
Dating Notes: ascension of King Malcolm IV x <em>RRS</em>, ii, no. 81; probable date derived from the fact that Walter asks for masses to be celebrated for the soul of King Malcolm.

Primary: yes
Dare: yes
Tenendas: in (free, pure and/or perpetual) alms
Tenendas original language: in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam
Exemptions: free and quit from all service and/or aid, custom and exaction
Exemptions original language: ab omni seruio et consuetudine
Spiritual Benefits: Ancestors (pro anima); Any Spiritual Benefit; Self (pro anima); Successors (pro anima)
Witnesses in original, but not copied into cartulary: yes

Associated People (2) Pro Anima people (1) Possessions: Lands (1)

Role	Name	Name (original language)	Name (translation)	Floruits
Grantor	Walter Stewart (I), son of Alan (d.1177)	Walterus filius alani	Walter son of Alan, steward of the king of Scotland	1137 × 1175
Beneficiary	Melrose Abbey (fd.1136)	sancte marie de Melros et monachis ibidem	Saint Mary of Melrose and the monks there	1147 × 1309

Role	Name	Name (original language)	Name (translation)	Floruits
Pro anima	Malcolm IV, king of Scots (d.1165)	Malcolmi	my lord, Malcolm the king	1145 × 1165

Type	Name	Original Text	Related Place
ELO (East Lothian)	4 ploughgates in Edmundeston	quatuor carrucatas terre de edmundiston'	Edmundiston