Document 4/43/1 (NRS, RH 5/29)
- Description
- When John, lord of Pitcox, and Patrick his brother, and Niall of Whittingham, their uncle, had been captured and detained in the king’s prison at Edinburgh, for a robbery committed on Reginald ‘le Perer’ at Dunbar, after their long detention, the king (Henry III of England), at the prayer of the queen, the bishop of Glasgow, and other of his magnates, released them on condition that John and Nigel placed themselves on a ‘visue’ of the country for the charge. And Patrick of Pitcox abjured the realm of Scotland, and promised to go to the Holy Land, and never return without the king’s special leave. For which concession the said John shall give the king 100 marks, and all the moveables found in his manor of Pitcox on the day of his capture. The pledges are David of Graham and others.
- Firm date
- 25 March 1254 X 24 March 1255
- Dating Notes
- AD 1254
- Source for Data Entry
- NRS, RH 5/29
- Trad. ID
- NRS, RH 5/29
- Calendar number
- 4/43/1
- Charter type
- Notification
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NRS, RH 5/29; Formerly TNA, C 47/22/5/12