David, king of the Scots, by kingly authority and power, with the assent of Henry his son and Queen Matilda his wife, with the confirmation and testimony of the bishops, earls, and barons of his kingdom, with the clergy and the people also agreeing, grants and confirms in perpetual peace everything listed in the charter that follows to the church of the Holy Trinity at Dunfermline, founded by his predecessors’ zeal for religious duty and liberality. He sets forth the gifts of his parents, the gifts of Duncan his brother, the gifts of Edgar his brother, the gifts of Æthelred his brother, the gifts of King Alexander his brother, and the gifts of Queen Sybil. These gifts of his predecessors he freely grants to the aforementioned church in perpetuity, with all their pertinents and correct boundaries. Finally his own gifts follow. All the aforesaid gifts he grants to the church of the Holy Trinity at Dunfermline as freely and quietly as he possesses his own lands.
Firm date
17 July 1127 X 1131
Probable date
possibly 1128
Dating Notes
Consecration of Robert, bishop of St Andrews × death of Queen Maud; possibly on the occasion of Dunfermline's erection into an abbey, although see Barrow's comment on this (_Chrs. David I_, pp. 71-2).