Document 2/144/67 (Dunf. Reg., App., no. 602)
- Description
- Pope Alexander IV writes to the abbot of Dryburgh and the prior of Coldingham, noting the petition by the abbot and convent of Reading against the abbot and convent of Dunfermline concerning the chapel of Perth with the rights and pertinents belonging by right to the monastery of Reading, having been seized for a long interval of time and held by the power of laymen who presume to detain the same to the injury and prejudice of the monastery. He thus commands them to call together the parties, hear the case, and terminate it without appeal, causing what is decreed to be observed firmly by ecclesiastical censure. If the witnesses named shall have withdrawn out of favour, hatred or fear, they shall compel them by the same censure, without appeal, to provide testimony of the truth, not hindering the indulgence which the abbot and brethren have from the apostolic see that they not be brought to trial without the express mention of this indulgence.
- Firm date
- 13 June 1258
- Dating Notes
- Id. June, pontifical year 4
- Place date (modern)
- Viterbo
- Place date (document)
- Viterbij
- Related Place
- Viterbo
- Source for Data Entry
- Dunfermline Registrum, App., no. 602
- Trad. ID
- Dunf. Reg., App., no. 602
- Calendar number
- 2/144/67
- Charter type
- Papal letter
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NLS, Adv. MS 15.1.19, no. 14
Ferguson, Medieval Papal Reps., App. I, no. 131