Document 2/7/95 (H.C. Reg., no. 141a)
- Description
- Robert [Wishart], bishop of Glasgow, writes to the abbot and convent of Holm Cultram noting that Bishop Jocelin, his predecessor, established to them a place and chapel in Galloway named Kirkwinning (Kirkgunzeon, KCB), free of all burdens; they had held it for 40 years and it had been established to them by Pope Innocent III. Walter, bishop of Glasgow, successor to Jocelin and predecessor of Robert, complained to the Apostolic See that the monks of Holm Cultram and other Cistercians of the diocese of Carlisle and Glasgow had usurped certain parish churches, expelled clergy and tenantry, and turned the places into granges of their own. He procured orders from Rome for the bishop of Whithorn and the abbot of Glenluce and archdeacon of Whithorn to summon the parties and try the case. The trial ended thus: Bishop Walter yielded Kirkwinning and the chapel of St. Winninus to the monks of Holm Cultram to hold free of all burdens; the grants of Bishops Jocelin and Walter were established by the dean and chapter of Glasgow after full discussion, and no further steps can be taken by the bishops of Glasgow to upset the judgment. He acknowledges the right of the abbey to Kirkwinning chapel with all teinds, etc., and the dean and chapter of Glasgow, after further examination at his instance, unanimously agree and put their seal to their consent, as the bishop does to this brief.
- Firm date
- circa 1296
- Dating Notes
- Around the time of _Register and Records of Holm Cultram_, no. 141c.
- Source for Data Entry
- Register and Records of Holm Cultram, no. 141a.
- Trad. ID
- H.C. Reg., no. 141a
- Calendar number
- 2/7/95
- Charter type
- Letter (correspondence)
- Language
- Entered from an English summary