Robert, king of Scots, considering the losses and oppression of the war in former time done to Whithorn cathedral and its archdeaconry, out of his divine piety and devotion to his patron Saint Ninian, gives the aforesaid archdeaconry in pure and perpetual alms, and his beloved and faithful clerk Master Gilbert of Galloway, now archdeacon of the same, the right of patronage and advowson of the church of Kells in Galloway (KCB). He also wills that the bishop and chapter and the archdeaconate be united in the said church.
Firm date
25 March 1306 X 11 July 1321
Probable date
24 June 1314 ×; possibly ca 1320
Dating Notes
inauguration of King Robert I × attestation of Master Gilbert as archdeacon (_Glas. Reg._, i, 228); prob. after battle of Bannockburn); possible date suggested by D.E.R. Watt (_Scottish Graduates_, 209)