Document 3/530/1 (Fyvie Castle, bdle 289-97, item 295)
- Description
- Niall of Scotstoun, son and heir of the late William of Scotstoun, has sold to Dunfermline Abbey the oxgang of land with pertinents which he had by hereditary right in the villa of Scotstoun (WLO) next the queen’s ferry on the southern part of the Forth (i.e., next to South Queensferry, WLO) for a certain sum of money [unspecified] in full court for his sin and peace of mind. In testimony of this he has caused open letters of acquittance authorised by his seal to be made for the aforesaid religious men at Dunfermline on the feast of St Clement, pope, in the year of grace 1228.
- Firm date
- 23 November 1228 X
- Dating Notes
- Feast of St Clement the pope, 1228; The place- and time-date seem to refer to the letters of acquittance, which are not certainly the same as this charter.
- Place date (modern)
- Dunfermline?
- Place date (document)
- Dunfermlenie
- Related Place
- Dunfermline
- Source for Data Entry
- Fyvie Castle muniments, bundle 289-297, item 295 (a gathering of 6 folios), fo.2v (top).
- Trad. ID
- Fyvie Castle, bdle 289-97, item 295
- Calendar number
- 3/530/1
- Charter type
- Charter
- Language
- Latin