Document 3/551/4 (Dunf. Reg., no. 86)
- Description
- John of Strachan, son and heir of the late Sir Ranulf of Strachan knight, at Edinburgh Castle in the king’s chamber in the presence of Sir William de St Clare, sheriff of Edinburgh; Sir John of Lindsey, chamberlain of the lord king; Sir Richard of Straiton; Patrick of Lemington, clerk of the livery; Master John of Musselburgh, clerk of the provender; Master William of Cramond, clerk of the Wardrobe of the lord king; Sir William Bisset; William Clerk, constable of the castle of Edinburgh; William of Ramsey; John of Ramsey; Simon of ‘Eskendy’; Simon of Leslie; Randino de Wardrobe; Alexander of Meldrum; Alan of Wauchope; William of Moray; William of Mastertown; Thomas of Logie; Alan de Camera, and others, has restored and resigned by rod and staff into the hand of Sir Alexander [III], illustrious king of Scotland, all his land of Beath Waldeve (in Dunfermline ph., FIF), with all men and cottars staying on that land, and with all their posterity.
- Firm date
- Saturday 21 May 1278
- Dating Notes
- First Saturday after the feast of St Dunstan the archbishop in the month of May, 1278, at the Castle of Maidens in Edinburgh.
- Place date (modern)
- Edinburgh Castle
- Place date (document)
- castrum puellarum de Edenburg'
- Related Place
- Edinburgh Castle
- Source for Data Entry
- Dunfermline Registrum, no. 86
- Trad. ID
- Dunf. Reg., no. 86
- Calendar number
- 3/551/4
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Notes
- Identified as half of Beath Waldeve (FIF) in Dunf. Reg., no. 87