Laurence Fraser has granted and by this his charter established to Newbattle Abbey that land in the territory of North Hailes (ELO) called ‘Mylnehalc’, which Mary of Hailes first conferred on them in her widowhood, and which afterwards Bernard Fraser conferred on them with the land of ‘Milnehalech’ and certain other lands of the same Mary which he acquired by legal action [euicisset] in the court of Earl Patrick [of Dunbar].
Firm date
1232 X circa 1250
Probable date
1232 × circa 1240s
Dating Notes
Bernard Fraser’s charter (3/231/7) × Alexander of Seton witnessed royal charters in the 1220s and 1230s (_RRS_, iii, nos. 10, 97, 239), and witnessed a charter of Saher de Quincy (_Newb. Reg._, no. 66; 1207×19).