Document 2/137/27 (Camb. Reg., no. 118C)
- Description
- Pope Innocent III writes to the prior of Holyrood, the dean of Tyninghame, St Andrews diocese, and Master Laurence, official of the bishop of St Andrews, stating that he has received a complaint from the abbot and convent of Dunfermline, maintain that the canons of Cambuskenneth, St Andrews diocese, have detained the chapel of Dunipace and certain teinds of Stirling as belonging to them by right. Innocent thus commands them to call them together and hear the case, and to establish what is canonical, without appeal, causing what is decreed to be observed firmly by ecclesiastical censure, restoring to its correct state whatever shall appear to have been rashly attempted after a legitimate appeal was made. If the witnesses named shall have withdrawn out of favour, hatred or fear, they shall compel them by a similar stricture, without appeal, to provide testimony of the truth, and no letter obtained from the apostolic see shall prejudice truth and justice. If all of them cannot take part in carrying this out, let two of them do it.
- Firm date
- 27 October 1204
- Dating Notes
- 6 kal. Nov., pontifical year 7
- Place date (modern)
- Rome (St Peter's)
- Place date (document)
- Rome apud Sanctum Petrum
- Related Place
- Rome
- Source for Data Entry
- Cambuskenneth Registrum, no. 118C
- Trad. ID
- Camb. Reg., no. 118C
- Calendar number
- 2/137/27
- Charter type
- Papal letter
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Ferguson, Medieval Papal Reps., App. I, no. 20
Cooper, Select Scottish Cases, no. 8