People of Medieval Scotland
1093 - 1371

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

Total number of associated factoids: 4

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Date Short Summary Primary Witnesses
17 May 1341 Concession of firm peace and protection yes
17 May 1341 Concession that no one may take poinds yes
17 May 1341 Command that debts owed Arbroath abbey must be paid; sheriffs must make injurers answer abbey's cases yes


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Date Short Summary Title Holder
17 May 1341 king of Scots David II, king of Scots (d. 1371)