Document 1/53/179 (RRS, v, no. 163)

Description: Robert, king of Scots, has given and demitted at feuferme to the mayor and burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed his whole aforesaid vill with pertinents within the following stated bounds [extensive boundary clause], holding in in feu and heritage in perpetuity with all the mills from the mills of Mordington as far as Berwick with burdens and multures, with liberties and amercements of courts, both infangenthef and outfangenthef with ports (i.e., fees for using harbour), tolls, customs, weight measurements, the prison called 'Berfray', with all fisheries on the Tweed which customarily belonged to the burgesses in the time of the late Alexander [III] king of Scotland his predecessor, except the fisheries called Cole and New Water which by custom are leased [assedari] by his sheriffs. All of this is to be held freely in perpetuity as freely as he has held it in is hand, except his great and new customs and the plaints and escheats pertaining to the crown. He also wills and concedes that they may hold it as a free burgh as it was in the time of his ancestors the kings of Scots, and that they shall be free and quit of all the following customs, tolls, and prescriptions throughout his whole kingdom: tolls, bridge-tolls, passage-tolls, wall-tolls, paving-tolls, cavages (cainage?), lastages (export duty), carriages, pickages, quai-fees, river-tolls and of all sales of its purchases and repurchases, with soke and sake, toll and team, ward and ward-penny and from any other customs in the future, and that the burgesses may have their gild merchant. He also wills and concedes that his justiciar of Lothian will place a coroner to stay in Berwick, performing the office of coroner in the burgh and responding to the king and his justiciars, with the aforesaid mills. He also wills and concedes to the mayor and burgesses that no-one may buy or sell within the sheriffdom of Berwick wool, hides or skins except his burgesses on pain of the king's full forfeiture and handing over the goods; and that the burgesses may have their market days on Mondays and Fridays, and that they may have a fair from Easter until Michaelmas every year, but stranger merchants may only trade with the burgesses in the first forty days; rendering annually to the king and his heirs 500 marks usual money on Pentecost and Martinmas by equal portions and that they pay alms every year and the other renders owed by the burgesses, by the hand of the chamberlain of Scotland.
Firm date: 31 March 1320
Dating Notes: 31 March, regnal year 15
Place date (modern): Newbattle
Place date (document): Neubotill'
Related Place: Newbattle
Source for Data Entry: RRS, v, no. 163
Trad. ID: RRS, v, no. 163
Calendar number: 1/53/179
Charter type: Charter
Language: Latin
Notes: cartulary copy: Percy Chartulary, no. MXLI

Total number of associated factoids: 37

Transaction factoids (4) Relationship factoids (5) Title factoids (27) Possession factoids (1)

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Date	Short Summary	Primary	Witnesses
31 Mar. 1320	Gift at feuferme of burgh of Berwick upon Tweed with mills, fisheries, etc.	yes	Alexander Fraser (II), chamberlain (d.1332); Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor; David Murray, bishop of Moray (d.1326); Duncan (IV), earl of Fife (d.1353); Gilbert Hay (II), lord of Errol, constable (d.1333); Henry Cheyne, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1328×29); James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330); Patrick (V), earl of Dunbar/March and Moray (d.1369); Robert Keith, marischal (d.1343); Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332); Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327); William of Lamberton, bishop of St Andrews (d.1328); William Sinclair, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1337)
31 Mar. 1320	Concession of burgh of Berwick in free burgh, free from tolls, with gild merchant	yes
31 Mar. 1320	Concession that justiciar of Lothian will put a coroner in Berwick, with mills and accompanying rights	yes
31 Mar. 1320	Concession of monopoly of trade in wool, hides and skins within the sheriffdom of Berwick; Monday and Friday as weekly market days; fair from Easter to Michaelmas	yes

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Date	Short Summary	Subject	Object
31 Mar. 1320	Predecessor of Robert [Bruce] I (d. 1329), king of Scots	Alexander III, king of Scots (d.1286)	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
31 Mar. 1320	Chancellor of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Employment Relationship]	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
31 Mar. 1320	Constable of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Employment relationship]	Gilbert Hay (II), lord of Errol, constable (d.1333)	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
31 Mar. 1320	Chamberlain of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Employment relationship]	Alexander Fraser (II), chamberlain (d.1332)	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
31 Mar. 1320	Marischal of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Employment Relationship]	Robert Keith, marischal (d.1343)	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)

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Date	Short Summary	Title Holder
31 Mar. 1320	king of Scots	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
31 Mar. 1320	king of Scots	Alexander III, king of Scots (d.1286)
31 Mar. 1320	Dominus (Seigneur - Lord - Sir)	Alexander III, king of Scots (d.1286)
31 Mar. 1320	bishop of St Andrews	William of Lamberton, bishop of St Andrews (d.1328)
31 Mar. 1320	bishop of Dunkeld	William Sinclair, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1337)
31 Mar. 1320	bishop of Moray	David Murray, bishop of Moray (d.1326)
31 Mar. 1320	bishop of Aberdeen	Henry Cheyne, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1328×29)
31 Mar. 1320	abbot of Arbroath	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor
31 Mar. 1320	earl of Moray	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
31 Mar. 1320	chancellor (king's)	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor
31 Mar. 1320	lord of Annandale	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
31 Mar. 1320	lord of Man	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
31 Mar. 1320	earl of Fife	Duncan (IV), earl of Fife (d.1353)
31 Mar. 1320	earl of March	Patrick (V), earl of Dunbar/March and Moray (d.1369)
31 Mar. 1320	steward of Scotland	Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327)
31 Mar. 1320	lord of Douglas	James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330)
31 Mar. 1320	constable (king's)	Gilbert Hay (II), lord of Errol, constable (d.1333)
31 Mar. 1320	chamberlain (king's)	Alexander Fraser (II), chamberlain (d.1332)
31 Mar. 1320	marischal (king's)	Robert Keith, marischal (d.1343)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Duncan (IV), earl of Fife (d.1353)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Patrick (V), earl of Dunbar/March and Moray (d.1369)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Gilbert Hay (II), lord of Errol, constable (d.1333)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Alexander Fraser (II), chamberlain (d.1332)
31 Mar. 1320	knight	Robert Keith, marischal (d.1343)

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Date	Short Summary	Holder	Lord
31 Mar. 1320	Fisheries at Cole and New Water (River Tweed)	Unknown, sheriff of Berwick (Robert I)