Document 4/32/49 (Dryb. Lib., no. 192 )
- Description
- A[dam], abbot of Melrose, G[…], prior of Melrose, and R[ichard], dean of Teviotdale, recite a mandate of Pope Honorius [III] appointing them papal judges-delegate in the case between the abbot and convent of Dryburgh and the prior and monks of May and others of the diocese of St Andrews concerning certain teinds of the church of Kilrenny (FIF). By the authority of the mandate, the intention of the canons is confirmed as follows: the abbot and convent of Dryburgh state that ships and small fishing boats put into that stream dividing the boundaries between the parish of Kilrenny and the parish of Anstruther (FIF), because of the proximity of the places, are occupying the parish of Kilrenny, that is extended up to the middle of the channel of the same stream, and their anchors are being fixed within the boundaries of the same parish, and staying within those boundaries all night, [therefore] half of the teinds of all ships and small fishing boats put in that place and occupying the boundaries of the parish, ought to belong to the mother church of Kilrenny, which half the said abbot and convent say the prior and monks of May seize and detain to the prejudice of the said church. The lawsuit was ended thus: the monks of May, for good peace, shall pay annually in perpetuity 1 mark to the parish church of Kilrenny at the same church, that is, half at Pentecost and half at Martinmas, by the procurator of the abbot and canons. By this payment, the monks shall be free and immune from all exaction and legal action of canons, saving that the canons, who receive spiritual dues from their own parishioners remaining in the same parish, shall receive the teinds in full [and] the monks shall receive teinds in full from all others coming from elsewhere.
- Firm date
- 13 December 1225
- Dating Notes
- Id. Dec., 1225
- Place date (modern)
- Melrose
- Place date (document)
- Melros
- Related Place
- Melrose
- Source for Data Entry
- Dryburgh Liber, no. 192
- Trad. ID
- Dryb. Lib., no. 192
- Calendar number
- 4/32/49
- Charter type
- Settlement
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Ferguson, Medieval Papal Reps., App. I, no. 63
Cooper, Select Scottish Cases, no. 18