Document 3/416/14 (Melr. Lib., no. 106)
- Description
- Richard de Moreville, constable of the king of Scotland, and William, his son and heir, have granted and by this their present charter established to Melrose Abbey, for their souls and all their ancestors and successors, a location in Whitelee (ROX) beside the edge of the forest, for a cowsted to be constructed for 100 cows, and they also granted [that] three houses may be constructed in same location for various specified purposes, in pure and perpetual alms.
- Firm date
- 1179 X 1190
- Probable date
- probably 1179 x 1186
- Dating Notes
- earliest date of Herbert dean of Glasgow x death of Richard de Moreville, probable date derived from the florit dates of Roger of Newport (Watt, _Graduates_, p. 428)
- Source for Data Entry
- Melrose Liber, i, no. 106
- Trad. ID
- Melr. Lib., no. 106
- Calendar number
- 3/416/14
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NAS, GD 55/106
- Document Image
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translation, etc.