Document 2/145/17 (Pluscarden, App. L)
- Description
- Pope Urban IV takes the monastery of Pluscarden into his protection and establishes to the prior and brethren the possessions and goods which they possess canonically and other privileges and goods which they have or may acquire by papal permission, by the liberality of kings or the gifts of the faithful, including the place where the monastery is situated with its pertinents, the church in the villa called Dores (INV) with the garbal teinds of the place and other pertinents, the right of patronage which they hold in that church, the garbal teinds which they have in the forests, called in the vernacular Pluscarden (MOR) and Auchtertyre (MOR), the teinds of mills and of iron, the use of one fishery with twenty nets which they have in the river, called in vernacular Spey, the mill with running water and all pertinents they have in the villa of Elgin (MOR), the lands and possessions which they have in the places called in the vernacular ‘Fernanan’ (Fernway, in Dyke and Moy, MOR), Tillidivie (MOR), ‘Kep’ (probably one of the Keppernachs in Ardclach, NAI) and Meikle Kintessack (MOR) and Meft (MOR), the lands and forest which they have in Pluscarden and Auchtertyre with [pertinents] and all other liberties and immunities. Everyone is debarred from presuming to exact teinds from the monastery, in respect of gardens, orchards, fishing and meadows, or of food for their animals. They are permitted to take in whatever clerics or laymen have fled from the secular world and have converted freely, and to retain them without any contradiction. None of the brothers, after making their profession, shall be permitted to depart without the permission of the prior, except to take up stricter orders; no one may intend to depart without the surety of common letters. The pope prohibits any of the monks or converts under profession, without the consent and licence of the abbot and a major part of the chapter, to guarantee or accept some borrowed money beyond the price of the chapter unless it is useful to the house. But if by chance he presumes to do [this], the convent shall not be made to answer for it to a certain degree. They are permitted in their own cases, whether civil or criminal, to maintain disputes, to use testimonies of their brethren, lest through the absence of witnesses justice is lost. He permits the right to celebrate divine office privately and quietly during a general interdict. On the death of the abbot, or his successors, no one may be advanced to that office by deceit or violence, unless the brothers by common consent, or a majority of them, shall provide that the abbot be elected in accordance with the Benedictine rule. He prohibits anyone from committing robbery, theft, arson, blood-shed, seizing and killing men or committing other violence within the boundaries of the abbey’s places or granges. The pope directs that no man is permitted to disturb the church or carry away its possessions; saving to the bishop canonical justice and reverence and the authority of the apostolic see. Should any secular person attempt to go against this, after three warnings if he should not make amends, he may lost his honour and be liable to divine justice, and subject himself to retribution.
- Firm date
- 5 July 1263
- Dating Notes
- 3 non. July, 1263, pontifical year 2
- Place date (modern)
- Orvieto
- Place date (document)
- urbem ueterem
- Related Place
- Orvieto
- Source for Data Entry
- Macphail, Pluscardyn, App. L
- Trad. ID
- Pluscarden, App. L
- Calendar number
- 2/145/17
- Charter type
- Papal privilege: general confirmation
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NAS, GD 1/313/1