Document 1/50/22 (Stevenson, Docs., i, no. 68)
- Description
- W[illiam] and R[obert], bishops of St Andrews and Glasgow, Duncan, earl of Fife, Alexander Comyn, earl of Buchan and constable of Scotland, John Comyn and James Stewart of Scotland, Guardians of the realm of Scotland by common council, write to William de Soulis, sheriff, and his baillies of Roxburgh, commanding and instructing him by good and faithful men of the country to make an inquisition if the late William de Heswell, father of William Heswell, the bearer of the presents, died vested and [in] sasine of the fee of the land of ‘Edilisheuede’ with its pertinents, within the baillie of Roxburgh, and if the same William, the son, is the legitimate and nearest heir of the said late William de Heswell, his father, of the same land of ‘Edilisheuede’, and the yearly value of the land, and what is held and through what service it is held. Whatever he discovers through this inquisition he is to place in the capellam regiam under the seal of his sheriffdom.
- Firm date
- 10 July 1289
- Dating Notes
- 10th day of July, 1289
- Place date (modern)
- Linlithgow
- Place date (document)
- Lenlithqu
- Related Place
- Linlithgow
- Source for Data Entry
- Stevenson, Documents, i, 95-6, no. 68
- Trad. ID
- Stevenson, Docs., i, no. 68
- Calendar number
- 1/50/22
- Charter type
- Brieve
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NRS, RH5/10