Document 2/143/168 (Scone Lib., no. 113)
- Description
- Pope Innocent IV takes the church of Scone into his protection; the possessions and goods which the abbot and brethren possess canonically and other privileges and goods which they have or may acquire by papal permission, by the liberality of kings or the gifts of the faithful, shall remain with them, including the place where the church is situated with all pertinents, liberties and immunities. Everyone is debarred from presuming to exact teinds from them, in respect of lands which they cultivate with their own hands or at their own expense, or of food for their animals. They are permitted to take in whatever clerics or laymen have fled from the secular world and have converted freely, and to retain them without any contradiction. None of the brothers, after making their profession, shall be permitted to depart without the permission of the abbot; no one may intend to depart without the surety of common letters; they are permitted the right to celebrate divine office privately and quietly during a general interdict. They may have the privilege of anointment, holy oil, dedications of the altar or basilica, ordinations of the clerics who take orders, preferred from any bishop in the kingdom of the Scots who is catholic and in communion with the apostolic see. No one is permitted to construct oratories or chapels within the boundaries of the parishes of the churches, without the assent of the diocesan bishop, saving the privileges of the papacy. No one shall impose new exactions or customs of the churches or chapels which are not owed. Burial, for those who shall decide to be buried in that place, will be unimpeded, except for those excommunicated or under interdict, saving justice to the church where they are buried. In addition, teinds and possessions belonging to the church by right which have been detained by laymen shall be returned to the hands of the abbot. On the death of the abbot, or his successors, no one may be advanced to that office by deceit or violence, unless the brothers by common consent, or a majority of them, shall provide that the abbot be elected in accordance with the Augustinian rule. He prohibits anyone from committing robbery, theft, arson, blood-shed, seizing and killing men or committing other violence within the boundaries of the abbey’s places or granges. He establishes all the liberties and immunities granted by his predecessors and those liberties and exemptions of secular exaction indulged by kings, by princes or other faithful. The pope directs that no man is permitted to disturb the church or carry away its possessions; saving to the bishop canonical justice and reverence and the authority of the apostolic see. Should any secular person attempt to go against this, after three warnings if he should not make amends, he may lose his honour and be liable to divine justice, and subject himself to retribution.
- Firm date
- 26 January 1254
- Dating Notes
- 7 kal. Feb., 1253, pontifical year 11
- Place date (modern)
- Lateran
- Place date (document)
- Lateran
- Related Place
- Lateran
- Source for Data Entry
- Scone Liber, no. 113
- Trad. ID
- Scone Lib., no. 113
- Calendar number
- 2/143/168
- Charter type
- Papal privilege: general confirmation
- Language
- Latin