Alexander, by the grace of God king of the Scots, to all worthy men of his entire land [sends] greeting. Know us to have conceded, and by this our charter to have made firm, in pure and everlasting alms, to the abbot and convent of Melrose, that all lands between Gala and Leader which they have held or in possession of which they have been, and also all other lands which they have held or in possession of which they have been on the south side of the Tweed, which adjoin the lands of Lessudden and the lands of the monks of Kelso, and whatever is contained within the said lands which we have deforested for them, as much below ground as above, they may hold and have for ever in free forest, strictly forbidding anyone, without the express permission of the abbot and convent themselves, to cut wood, hunt, fish, or go fowling, or attempt to do any other thing against the will of same in the said lands, on pain of our full forefeiture of ten pounds. As witnesses: Geoffrey, elect of Dunkeld; Laurence of Abernethy; Bernard Fraser; Thomas son of Ranulf; William of Lindsay; David of Lindsay; Alexander of Stirling. At Ancrum, on the third day of December in the twenty-second year of the reign of the lord king. 

Alex’ . Dei Gratia Rex Scott’ . Omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue Salutem . Sciatis nos concessisse et| hac presenti Carta nostra confirmasse in puram et perpetuam elemosinam abbati et conuentui de Melros ut| omnes terras inter Galwhe et Ledyr quas tenuerunt uel in quarum possessione fuerunt . et etiam omnes alias| terras quas tenuerunt uel in quarum possessione fuerunt ex parte australi de Twed que sunt contigue terris| de Lessedewin’ et terris Monachorum de kalkou et quicquid continetur infra omnes predictas terras quas eis| deforestauimus tam sub terra quam supra teneant et habeant in perpetuum in Liberum forestum . firmiter| prohibentes ne quis sine speciali licentia ipsorum Abbatis et conuentus . in dictis terris . Secare . venari . piscari .| aut aucupari . aut aliquid aliud contra uoluntatem ipsorum facere presumat . super nostram plenariam| forisfacturam . Decem Librarum . Testibus . G . electo Dunkeldensi . Laurentio . de Abbirnith’ . Bernardo fraser’ .| Thoma filio . Ranulfi . Willelmo de Lindeseia . Dauid de Lindeseia . Alexandro . de Striuelin’ . Apud Al-|necrumb . tercio die Decembris . Anno Regni domini Regis vicesimo Secundo .