A late-thirteenth-century king of Scots addresses all his men of the Kintyre, Argyll and Lorn and firmly commands and orders them to be attentive, responsive, united, [and] helpful to Alexander of Argyll, to whom the care and custody of the islands and his other lands [has been given], and in the protection and defense of those islands and his lands. And similiarly [he asks them] to distrain everything which is anything owed to him in his chamber, without any postponement, and additionally to levy the king's debt, if it is necessary, through the same Alexander, who they should summon.
Firm date
1264 X 1296
Dating Notes
see A.A.M. Duncan and A.L. Brown, ‘Argyll and the Isles in the Earlier Middle Ages’, _PSAS_ 90 (1956-57), 219, App. V
Source for Data Entry
A.A.M. Duncan and A.L. Brown, ‘Argyll and the Isles in the Earlier Middle Ages’, PSAS 90 (1956-57), 219, App. V
Trad. ID
Duncan & Brown, PSAS 90, App. V
Calendar number
1/9/1
Charter type
Charter
Language
Latin
Notes
All texts in this formulary run in the name of Jacobus or simply Rex, though several can be shown
(as Nos. V and VI here) to be much earlier in date than 1406.