not 20 Aug. 1216 × 6 Aug. 1219
British Library, London
From People of Medieval Scotland
A . dei Gratia Rex Scott’ . omnibus probis Hominibus tocius terre Sue Salutem . Sciant presentes et futuri nos dedisse . concessisse . et hac carta nostra confirmasse deo et beate| Marie de Melros . et monachis ibidem deo seruientibus et inperpetuum seruituris Brunschet’ . Hauchycref’ . et Dergauel . Tenendas . et habendas . eisdem monachis| inperpetuum de nobis et heredibus nostris per rectas diuisas suas et cum omnibus iustis pertinentiis suis . in Boscho et plano . in terris et aquis . in pratis et pas-|cuis . in moris et maresiis . in Stagnis et molendinis . et cum omnibus aliis ad dictas terras iuste pertinentibus . libere . quiete . plenarie . et honorifice| faciendo forinsecum seruitium in auxiliis tam quantum pertinet ad quartam partem vnius militis . De exercitu uero et omni alio forinseco seruitio ipsos omnino quietos clama-|mus . Predictas autem terras contra omnes homines predictis monachis de Melros in perpetuum warentizabimus . Testibus . P . Comite de Dunbar’ . Waltero .| Olifard’ . Iusticiario . Laodonie . Waltero . Byset’ . Bernardo . Fraser’ . Dauid Marscallo . Willelmo de Breychin’ . Thoma . de Normanuill’ . apud Selechirk’ .| Sextodecimo die Iulii . Anno . Regni . Domini Regis vicesimo tercio .
A(lexander), by the grace of God king of the Scots, to all worthy men of his entire land [sends] greeting. Let present and future know us to have given, conceded, and by this our charter to have made firm, to God, blessed Mary at Melrose, and to the monks serving God in that place now and for ever in the future, Burntscarthgreen, Auchencrieff, and Dargavel; for the same monks to hold and to have for ever, of us and our heirs, by their right marches and with all things rightfully belonging to them, in wood and plain, in lands and waters, in meadows and pastures, in moors and marshes, in ponds and mills, and with all other things rightfully belonging to the said lands, freely, quitly, fully, and honourably, performing as much forinsec service in aids as pertains to the quarter of one knight. From army service, however, and all other forinsec service we entirely quitclaim them. We shall warrant the aforesaid lands to the aforesaid monks of Melrose for ever against all men. As witnesses: P(atrick), earl of Dunbar; Walter Oliphant, justiciar of Lothian; Walter Bisset; Bernard Fraser; David the marischal; William of Brechin; Thomas de Normanville. At Selkirk on the sixteenth day of July, in the twenty-third year of the reign of the lord king.
