Document 4/38/38 (CDS, ii, no. 1588)
- Description
- Inquisition [under a writ dated at Linlithgow 12 August 1304, commanding inquiry as to the privileges claimed by Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick in Annandale, and that the jury be composed of men of the counties of Roxburgh and Dumfries] made at Dumfries on 31 Aug. 1304, before Matthew de Redman and John de Lucy, by Richard Marischal, Matthew of Eccles, Donald McCane, Fergus Marischal, Roland Marischal, Henry de Mandeville, Donald Campbell, Walter of Twynholm, knights; Michael Macgethe, Patrick Magylboythyn, Gilbert Macmonhathe, Cuthbert McCane, Walter of Annan, Walter de Comestone, Thomas of Kirkconnell, Thomas of Arbigland, Hugh of Urr, Adam of Fawhope, Thomas Belle, Guy of Denholm, John de Hederstone, Richard del Fleckes, William of Falside, Peter of Hesswell, and John Aliores, jurors; who find that the earl of Carrick has this liberty, that is, that no sheriff of Dumfries or other servant of the king or his ancestors may enter the bounds of Annandale to make attachments, summonses, or distraints, nor have they done so for time beyond memory; but that the king may choose a coroner from one of the earl’s homagers in Annandale, and issue writs to him direct, who shall represent and answer to the king and his justices of Lothian at Dumfries; that the earl has these liberties by the ‘title of antiquity’, that is, from the time of William, king of Scotland and all his successors uninterruptedly to this day. They append their seals.
- Firm date
- Monday 31 August 1304
- Dating Notes
- Monday after the Decollation of St John the Baptist, in the king’s 32nd year
- Place date (modern)
- Dumfries
- Related Place
- Dumfries
- Source for Data Entry
- CDS, ii, no. 1588
- Trad. ID
- CDS, ii, no. 1588
- Calendar number
- 4/38/38
- Charter type
- Inquest
- Language
- Entered from an English summary