Document 1/27/0 (Stevenson, Docs., ii, no. 414)
- Description
- The king and his council appoint that no passage of wool or hides, of messengers or merchants, take place anywhere within the realm of Scotland, excepting in places where there are cocket-seals and at Kirkcudbright. Before they are exported from Kirkcudbright, let the cocket-seal be sent there by the earl of Warenne and by the king’s council in Scotland. In each place, two of the most honest and loyal men of the same place, associated with keepers of the customs of our lord the king, be appointed and sworn to keep the port so closely, that no messenger carrying letters from abroad pass without special warrant from the king, any person carrying closed letters or other suspicious things may be taken and kept in prison. All the mariners who shall pass shall swear and be examined and the merchants shall be free by their oath that they will carry no letters whence mischief might arise to the king or realm and that they will bring nothing from abroad by deed or word which may be hurtful to the king. Further terms follow including that no merchant of Lombardy shall pass anywhere. This ordinance is to be proclaimed and published throughout the kingdom in the chief places and towns so that no man may excuse himself by ignorance.
In the same manner to John, earl of Warenne, guardian of the realm and land of Scotland, that he cause this form to be kept and firmly observed.
- Firm date
- 1296 X 1297
- Source for Data Entry
- Stevenson, Documents, ii, 131-33, no. 414
- Trad. ID
- Stevenson, Docs., ii, no. 414
- Calendar number
- 1/27/None
- Charter type
- Letters close
- Language
- French