The abbot and convent of Dunfermline write to their lord the king and his council, showing that by virtue of his writ sent to his ministers in Scotland, inquisitions are taken as to various rents belonging to the said abbot and convent, that is, of 40s. of the king’s feu-ferme in the burgh of Haddington, of 100s. of the king’s feu-ferme in the burgh of Edinburgh, of 10 marks of the king’s feu-ferme in the burgh of Stirling, of 5 marks of the king’s feu-ferme in the county of Clackmannan, and of the eighth of pleas, profits and reliefs belonging to the king in the county of Fife and Fothrif, which inquisitions taken remain in the chancery of Scotland, and they cannot have delivery of the said rents without special command of the king.