Document 4/21/7 (Familie of Innes, 54-6)
- Description
- In the dispute between the prior and convent of Pluscarden, on one side, and the burgesses of Elgin, on the other, over the services owed for the maintenance and repair of the mill and mill-pond of Elgin (MOR), on the land of the grieveship of Elgin, which the burgesses hold at feuferme from the king, an agreement is formed, whereby the burgesses, with the consent of the whole commune, including Adam son of Stephen and Patrick Heroc, at that time grieves of Elgin, and Hugh Heroc, Thomas Peyne, Andrew Vis, Matthew Black, and William Black son of the late Simon Heroc, gathered in the cemetery of St Giles’, have given and granted, and by this present writing in the form of a chirograph, have established to Pluscarden Priory, all that land lying between the two mills of Elgin, for the quitclaim of the services for the upkeep of the said mills and mill-ponds, saving the multure which the burgesses will owe the brothers of Pluscarden, for an annual render of 12d., saving the mill of the heirs of Duffus in the said land. The brethren have granted the burgesses to be free from all exaction and demands.
- Firm date
- 6 December 1272
- Dating Notes
- St Nicholas’s Day, 1272
- Place date (modern)
- Elgin (St Giles’s cemetery)
- Place date (document)
- cemeterio sancti Egidii
- Related Place
- Elgin
- Source for Data Entry
- Familie of Innes, 54-6
- Trad. ID
- Familie of Innes, 54-6
- Calendar number
- 4/21/7
- Charter type
- Agreement
- Chirograph?
- yes
- Language
- Latin