Document 2/132/19 (Dunf. Reg., no. 239)
- Description
- Pope Lucius III writes to Archibald, abbot of Dunfermline, and the brethren there, taking the monastery into his protection; all the possessions and goods which they have or may acquire by papal permission, by the liberality of kings or the gifts of the faithful, may remain with the abbot and his successors, including the place where the monastery is situated and all the liberties and pertinents; the burgh on the that side of the water where the monastery is situated; all oblations to the high altar; the church of Inverkeithing (FIF), 23 acres of land and a certain pasture next to Dunfermline; half the ferry-tolls of St Margaret the queen; all of Wester Kinghorn (FIF); all of Kirkcaldy (FIF) and its church; all of the shire and church of Newburn (FIF); the shire and church of Goatmilk (FIF); Fetters (FIF); the church of Kellie (FIF) and the chapel of Abercrombie (FIF); the church of Perth (PER), the chapel of the castle, the hospital of St Leonard (PER); and ‘Balmacglenin’ (Friarton, PER) with its pertinents; the church of the Holy Trinity at Dunkeld; Fordie; Dalmarnock (PER), Bendochy (PER), Couttie (PER), ‘Inchturphin’ (PER) and Keithick (PER); the cell of Urquhart in Moray with the church and lands; the eighth part of all pleas and complaints in Fife and Fothrif; the teinds of crops and prebends of the king from Kinghorn, Kellie, and Crail (FIF); 20s. annually from the king’s ferme of ‘Fithkil’ (Leslie, FIF), the teinds of the king’s malt and prebend from Clackmannan (CLA); the whole half of the teinds of profits and of all the king’s rents from Argyll and Kintyre; the teinds of all deer seized between Lammermuir and Tay; half the leather, tallow and fat of animals slaughtered at feasts held in Stirling and between the Forth and Tay; each Saturday at court around Lammermuir one [part?] leather and every sixth Saturday two [parts?] leather, and two parts tallow and six hides of rams and lambs; the whole head, except the tongue, of every whale caught between the Forth and Tay; the church of Stirling with one ploughgate of land, the chapel of the castle and the whole teinds of all the king’s demesne in Stirling and the rents of the burgh and all the king’s cain in the same province; the chapel of the castle of Dunipace (STL); Inveresk ‘major’ (MLO) with its church; Inveresk ‘minor’; the chapel of Cousland (MLO); the burgh and port of Musselburgh with all its liberties; all of Woolmet (MLO) and the church of the villa; Carberry (MLO); Smeaton (MLO); the villa and church of Hailes (MLO); the church of West Calder (MLO); the church of Kirknewton (MLO); a rent of 100s. in Edinburgh, from the day of King Malcolm’s funeral; the dwellings and lands which they have in the burghs of Edinburgh, Haddington, Roxburgh, Berwick, Stirling and Perth with the fisheries in Berwick and in other burghs; ‘Ledmacduuegil’ (Mastertown, FIF) and all their places, lands, teinds, pertinents, waters, meadows, pastures, woods, easements and liberties; from the king’s forests, wood for fires and building; the liberties and immunities granted by Malcolm I [sic III], Alexander, Edgar, David, and Malcolm II [sic IV], late kings of Scots; and all pertinents for their own uses. They are to be free from tolls and all secular customs throughout the realm of Scotland and all the men of the abbey shall be free from all labour-service on bridges, castles and other works. The abbey is exempt from tithes on new lands brought under cultivation by them or at their expense. They are also exempt from tithes on the offspring of their animals. He permits the right to celebrate divine office privately and quietly during a general interdict. In the parish churches, he is permitted to elect clerics or priests and present [them] to the bishop; if they are suitable, the bishop may commit cure of souls to them so that they may answer for spiritual and temporal dues. He also allows the privilege of anointment, holy oil, dedications of the altar or basilica, benedictions of the abbots, ordinations of the clerics or monks, and all other ecclesiastical sacraments. The pope decrees that burial, for those who shall decide to be buried in that place, will be unimpeded, except for those excommunicated or under interdict, saving justice to the church where they are buried. No one shall impose new exactions or customs of the churches or chapels which is not owed. Within the cloisters of the monastery, no one may commit arson or theft, robbery, or seize or murder men.
- Firm date
- 11 October 1184
- Dating Notes
- 14 kal. Nov., 1184, pontifical year 4
- Place date (modern)
- Verona
- Place date (document)
- Veron'
- Related Place
- Verona
- Source for Data Entry
- Dunfermline Registrum, no. 239
- Trad. ID
- Dunf. Reg., no. 239
- Calendar number
- 2/132/19
- Charter type
- Papal privilege: protection
- Language
- Latin