Document 1/7/260 (RRS, iii, no. 253)
- Description
- King Alexander II for Melrose Abbey; has granted that all their lands between Gala and Leader Waters, and all their other lands on south bank of the Tweed (i.e. Eildon and Darnick in Melrose) adjoining lands of Lessuden (St Boswells, ROX) and those of monks of Kelso Abbey, may be held in free forest. No one is to fell timber, hunt, fish or catch birds there without their special permission, or do anything in these lands against their wishes, on pain of king's full forfeiture of £10.
- Firm date
- 3 December 1236
- Dating Notes
- 3rd day of December, regnal year 22
- Place date (modern)
- Ancrum
- Place date (document)
- Alnecrumb
- Related Place
- Ancrum
- Source for Data Entry
- RRS, iii, no. 253
- Trad. ID
- RRS, iii, no. 253
- Calendar number
- 1/7/260
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Document type notes
- Formerly H1/7/257; Handlist, no. 229
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- BL, Cotton Charter xviii, 9
- Document Image
- See the Models of Authority website for an image of this charter with transcription, translation, etc.