Document 3/14/5 (Melr. Lib., no. 37)
- Description
- Duncan, son of Gilbert of Carrick for Melrose Abbey; he has given, and granted, and by this his present charter has established, to Melrose Abbey, two saltworks in a suitable place within the feu of Turnberry (AYR), and the 8 acres of arable land near the saltworks most useful to them, and pasture for all the animals of the saltworks, in pure and perpetual alms, free and quit from all custom and secular exaction, because their wood that they used to have at Greenan (AYR) for a saltworks was utterly burnt and destroyed.
- Firm date
- 1179 X 13 June 1250
- Dating Notes
- Roger of Scalebroc’s charter (_Melrose Liber_, i, no. 34), based on earliest date when Herbert could have become dean of Glasgow × death of Earl Duncan of Carrick.
- Source for Data Entry
- Melrose Liber, i, no. 37
- Trad. ID
- Melr. Lib., no. 37
- Calendar number
- 3/14/5
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin