Malise (III), earl of Strathearn, states that although the canons of his monastery of Inchaffray rendered succour to him, with their men, for maintaining the peace and tranquility of the kingdom after the death of Alexander (III), king of Scots, he desires that, because of the act of courtesy, done as a special favour, no prejudice should be created as regards the obligations of the religious, nor should their act be drawn into custom, inasmuch as by the infeftment granted by his ancestors, the earls of Strathearn, the religious were wholly free from exactions of this kind.