Document 1/53/354 (RRS, v, no. 310)

Description: Robert, king of Scots, has given Melrose abbey in pure and perpetual alms liberty in Nithsdale and their men the inhabitants there in the sheriffdom of Dumfries from prises, carriages, captions, tallages, and other burdens.
Firm date: 26 November 1326
Dating Notes: 26 November, regnal year 21
Place date (modern): Berwick-upon-Tweed
Place date (document): Berwicum super Twedam
Related Place: Berwick
Source for Data Entry: RRS, v, no. 310
Trad. ID: RRS, v, no. 310
Calendar number: 1/53/354
Charter type: Charter
Language: Latin
Original (contemporary): yes
Notes: NRS, GD 55/375; Melrose Liber, no. 375

Total number of associated factoids: 18

Transaction factoids (1) Relationship factoids (2) Title factoids (15)

Date	Short Summary	Primary	Witnesses
26 Nov. 1326	Gift of freedom from prises, carraiges, captions, etc., for Melrose abbey and its men in Nithsdale (DMF)	yes	Alexander Seton, knight (late13C/early 14C); Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor; James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330); Robert Bruce, son of King Robert I (illeg.); Robert of Lauder, justiciar of Lothian; Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332); Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327); William of Lamberton, bishop of St Andrews (d.1328)

Date	Short Summary	Subject	Object
26 Nov. 1326	Chancellor of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Employment Relationship]	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
26 Nov. 1326	Nepos (nephew/grandson) of Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d. 1329) [Familial Relationship]	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)

Date	Short Summary	Title Holder
26 Nov. 1326	king of Scots	Robert [Bruce] I, king of Scots (d.1329)
26 Nov. 1326	bishop of St Andrews	William of Lamberton, bishop of St Andrews (d.1328)
26 Nov. 1326	abbot of Arbroath	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor
26 Nov. 1326	earl of Moray	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
26 Nov. 1326	chancellor (king's)	Bernard, abbot of Arbroath, chancellor
26 Nov. 1326	lord of Man	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
26 Nov. 1326	lord of Annandale	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
26 Nov. 1326	steward of Scotland	Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327)
26 Nov. 1326	lord of Douglas	James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	Thomas Randolph, earl of Moray (d. 1332)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	Walter Stewart (III) (d.1327)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	James Douglas, lord of Douglas (d.1330)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	Robert Bruce, son of King Robert I (illeg.)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	Alexander Seton, knight (late13C/early 14C)
26 Nov. 1326	knight	Robert of Lauder, justiciar of Lothian