Document 1/54/724 (RMS, i, no. 372)
- Description
- David, king of Scots, notifies that, despite the custom that any moveable goods of the kingdom's bishops should pertain to the king's use as the time of their deaths, and because this practice removed from the bishops the ability to create their testaments in order to distribute their goods, and due to the sagacity of the clergy and others of his council, the king is now informed that this custom has ceased and is hereafter to cease, as unbecoming to the honesty of the Church; the king, at the urgent instance of the prelates, with the consent of Robert Stewart, steward of Scotland, his nephew, and his children, and the other barons and nobles, and the three communities of the realm in his full parliament at Perth, grants that every bishop should be allowed to make his testament concerning any of his moveable goods at the time of his death and distribute them according to his will. Nevertheless lands, rents, lordships and services with had been accustomed to pertain to the royal right during a vacancy of a see shall continue to do so. And if any bishops die intestate, the nearest friends of the bishops should dispose of all his moveable goods, without any impediment from the king or his officers. And the bishops should established one perpetual chaplain in each cathedral church to celebrate one mass, or the king and after his death the salvation of his soul, and for the soul of his lord father [Robert I].
- Firm date
- 25 July 1368 X 22 February 1371
- Dating Notes
- Date of grant of earldom of March to George Dunbar (_RMS_, i, no. 292) x death of David II.
- Source for Data Entry
- RMS, i, no. 372
- Trad. ID
- RMS, i, no. 372
- Calendar number
- 1/54/724
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Document type notes
- Records of the Parliaments of Scotland: RPS 1370/10/2