Document 1/54/15 (RRS, vi, no. 22)
- Description
- David, king of Scots, has placed Arbroath abbey and their lands and men under his firm peace and protection. He grants them freedom from distraint for any debts, pledges or forfeitures, unless it is their own debts, pledges or forfeitures, except to his burgesses. He further commands his justiciars, sheriffs, and their baillies that anyone in their balliaries or burghs who owes debts to the religious or to their attorney bearing these letters may be compelled to pay them. He also mandates that if anyone causes injury to the aforesaid religious or their men, his sheriff in whichever bailliary the injurer may be, should take the injurer and make him answer to the abbey and their men.
- Firm date
- 17 May 1341
- Dating Notes
- 17 May, regnal year 12
- Place date (modern)
- Dundee
- Place date (document)
- Dunde
- Related Place
- Dundee
- Source for Data Entry
- RRS, vi, no. 22
- Trad. ID
- RRS, vi, no. 22
- Calendar number
- 1/54/15
- Charter type
- Letters patent
- Referred to as letter patent
- yes
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- cartulary copy: BL Add. MS 33245, fo 45r