Document 3/607/1 (Melr. Lib., no. 161)
- Description
- Geoffrey the cook of Whitton has given, granted and made firm by this his present charter to the hospital of Jerusalem (Torphichen) one oxgang of land in the territory of Whitton (ROX), namely between ‘Horlaue’ and ‘Toccechelis’ and between the trench of ‘Harhou’ and the land of the dowry of Matilda Corbet, by concession and good will of his heirs, in free, pure and perpetual alms, for the souls of his ancestors and successors, on the condition that Isabel, wife of William of Ryedale and her heir or whomever she may wish to assign, may hold in feu and heredity and possess in peace the aforesaid land from the aforesaid hospital free and quit from multure and from all service and custom and from all secular exaction. One pound of cumin is to be returned annually to the hospital by the aforesaid at the feast of Saint James.
- Firm date
- undated
- Probable date
- late 12th/early 13th century
- Dating Notes
- William son of John appears in the late twelfth/early thirteenth century (_Melr. Lib._, no. 196; _Melr. Lib._, no. 134) as do the others in the witness list
- Source for Data Entry
- Melrose Liber, i, no. 161
- Trad. ID
- Melr. Lib., no. 161
- Calendar number
- 3/607/1
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NAS, GD 55/161
- Document Image
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