Charter: NRS GD55/99
Description (from People of Medieval Scotland)
William de Moreville, constable of the king of Scots, has granted and by this his present charter established to Melrose Abbey, in augmentation of the land of ‘Milcheside’ (in Melrose, ROX) which they had from his father and from him, for the souls of his father and his mother and all his parents and friend and for the salvation of himself, his wife and all their ancestors and successors, all the land and pasture by the eastern head of the fosse which the monks made, by stated bounds, in free, pure and perpetual alms, without any terrestrial service, custom and secular exaction.
Current location
- Repository
- National Records of Scotland
- Town or City
- Edinburgh
- Shelfmark
- GD55/99
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- Melr. Lib. no. 99
- PoMS Document 3/416/22
- Format
- Unspecified
- Text Date
- 1189 x 1195
People of Medieval Scotland (PoMS Document 3/416/22)
William de Moreville, constable of the king of Scots, has granted and by this his present charter established to Melrose Abbey, in augmentation of the land of ‘Milcheside’ (in Melrose, ROX) which they had from his father and from him, for the souls of his father and his mother and all his parents and friend and for the salvation of himself, his wife and all their ancestors and successors, all the land and pasture by the eastern head of the fosse which the monks made, by stated bounds, in free, pure and perpetual alms, without any terrestrial service, custom and secular exaction.