Document 2/143/70 (Holy. Lib., App. I, no. 8 )
- Description
- Pope Innocent IV takes the church of Holyrood into his protection; the possessions and goods which the abbot and brethren possess canonically and other privileges and goods which they have or may acquire by papal permission, by the liberality of kings or the gifts of the faithful, shall remain with them, including the place on which the church is situated; the churches of [Edinburgh] castle and St Cuthbert, with chapels, dependants and pertinents; the churches of Airth (STL), Livingston (WLO), Kinneil (WLO), Whitekirk (ELO), Carriden (WLO), Tranent (ELO), Bathgate (WLO), Bolton (ELO), Falkirk (STL), Mount Lothian (MLO), the chapel of Pentland, half the garbal teinds and 3 acres of land which they have in the villa of Kinghorn with all pertinents, liberties and immunities. The abbey is exempt from tithes on new lands brought under cultivation by them or at their expense. They are also exempt from tithes on the offspring of their animals. They are permitted to take in whatever clerics or laymen have fled from the secular world and have converted freely, and to retain them without any contradiction. None of the brothers, after making their profession, shall be permitted to depart the cloister without the permission of the abbot; no one may intend to depart without the surety of common letters; they are permitted the right to celebrate divine office privately and quietly during a general interdict. They shall have the privilege of anointment, holy oil, dedications of the altar or basilica, benedictions of the abbots, ordinations of the clerics or monks, and all other ecclesiastical sacraments, preferred from any bishop in the kingdom of the Scots who is in communion with the apostolic see. No one is permitted to construct an oratory within the boundaries of the parishes, without the assent of the diocesan bishop and the chapter, saving the privileges of the papacy. No archbishop, bishop, archdeacon or dean or any other secular persons shall impose new or undue exactions of the churches or chapels. Burial, for those who shall decide to be buried in that place, will be unimpeded, except for those excommunicated or under interdict, saving justice to the church where they are buried. Teinds […] belonging to them which have been detained by laymen shall be recovered and freed into their hands. On the death of the abbot, or his successors, no one may be advanced to that office by deceit or violence, unless the brothers by common consent, or a majority of them, shall provide that the abbot be elected [in accordance with the Augustinian] rule. He prohibits anyone from committing robbery, theft, arson, blood-shed, seizing and killing men or committing other violence [within the boundaries of the abbey’s places or granges]. He establishes all the liberties and immunities granted by his predecessors and those liberties and exemptions of secular exaction granted by kings, by princes or other faithful. The pope directs that no man is permitted to disturb the church or carry away its possessions; saving to the bishop canonical justice and reverence and the authority of the apostolic see. Should any secular person attempt to go against this, after three warnings if he should not make amends, he may lost his honour and be liable to divine justice, and subject himself to retribution.
- Firm date
- 4 September 1247
- Dating Notes
- 2 non. Sept., 1247, pontifical year 5
- Place date (modern)
- Lyon
- Place date (document)
- Lugdun'
- Related Place
- Lyon
- Source for Data Entry
- Holyrood Liber, App. I, no. 8
- Trad. ID
- Holy. Lib., App. I, no. 8
- Calendar number
- 2/143/70
- Charter type
- Papal privilege: general confirmation
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Duplicate Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NAS, CH 7/11