Document 1/1000/83 (RRS, iv, no. 78)
- Description
- Alexander, king of Scots, to Henry, king of England; letters patent about case between Adam of Boltby and William of Swinburne concerning a dispute over common land at Langley, in Northumberland, and Staward, in King Alexander's liberty of North Tynedale. Nicholas of Boltby, King Henry's baron, holds barony of South Tynedale of King Henry in chief by law of England, on account of offspring which Nicholas has produced by Philippa, daughter and heir of Adam of Tynedale, who held that barony. Adam of Boltby, son and heir of Philippa, has come before King Henry concerning said barony, stating that William of Swinburne, on account of villa of Staward, which is under King Alexander's liberty of North Tynedale, and which he holds by heredity, has attempted to appropriate common land of villa of Staward to himself and to his men of Staward, to the manifest disinheriting of Nicholas and Adam, as they say. For tenants of villa of Staward [so Adam asserts] were granted free common by ancestors of Philippa within their manor of Langley, which is, in turn, within county of Northumbria and chief of barony of South Tynedale. King Alexander is therefore sending William of Swinburne with letters patent, on fortnight after (feast of) St Hilary next, to King Henry. A perambulation of bounds of disputed land is to be made, and it is to be divided, half to county of Northumbria, and other half to King Alexander's liberty of North Tynedale. King Henry's sheriff of Northumbria and King Alexander's bailiff of North Tynedale are to provide for these arrangements.
- Firm date
- 7 January 1272
- Dating Notes
- 7th day of January, regnal year 23
- Place date (modern)
- Kinross
- Place date (document)
- Kynros
- Related Place
- Kinross
- Source for Data Entry
- Shirley, Royal and other Historical Letters, 1236-1272, ii, 340-2
- Trad. ID
- RRS, iv, no. 78
- Calendar number
- 1/1000/83
- Charter type
- Letters patent
- Referred to as letter patent
- yes
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes