Document 1/53/105 (RRS, v, no. 96)
- Description
- Robert, king of Scots, places Melrose abbey and all its lands and possessions under his firm peace and protection. He firmly prohibits anyone from injuring them under pain of his full forfeiture. He grants them freedom from distraint for any debts, pledges or forfeitures, unless it is their own debts, pledges or forfeitures, except to his burgesses. He further commands his justiciars, sheriffs, and their baillies that anyone in their balliaries or burghs who owes debts to the religious or to their attorney bearing these letters may be compelled.
- Firm date
- 28 June 1316
- Dating Notes
- 28 June, regnal year 11
- Place date (modern)
- Kilwinning
- Place date (document)
- Kilwinyn
- Related Place
- Kilwinning
- Source for Data Entry
- RRS, v, no. 96
- Trad. ID
- RRS, v, no. 96
- Calendar number
- 1/53/105
- Charter type
- Letters patent
- Referred to as letter patent
- yes
- Language
- Latin
- Duplicate Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NRS, GD 55/360 and 360*. Melrose Liber, no. 360.