Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.
- William Dugdale
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![ordinance for the yearly provision of the House in 1530 will serve to give some idea of the great charity and hospitality of the place. There was an order for buying 800 wethers, 180 oxen, 11 barrels of salmon, 1200 dried cod-fish, 82 chalders of malt, 30 of wheat, 40 of meal: all which ap¬ pears additional to the produce of their lands, or what their tenants brought in. This profusion of stores would seem very extraordinary, when the number of monks did not ex¬ ceed twenty-five : but the ordinance acquaints us, that the appointments of that year exceeded those of 1528, notwith¬ standing in the last the king had been there twice, and the archbishop thrice. In the chartulary of the House, these visits are complained of as an intolerable burden, and with reason; for, besides loading the Abbey with vast expense, it deprived them of the means of exerting their usual hospi¬ tality towards the poor. John, King of England, granted this Monastery most uncommon privileges; for, by charter under his great Seal, he exempted it a teloniis et consuetudine in every part of England, except London. Robert Bruce here convened the nobility of Scotland, in 1320, when they framed their remonstrance to Pope John in favour of their independence of the English. See the Taxt Roll of this Abbey, in 1617, MS. Harl. 4623, tom. ii. fol. 95. See also MS. Harl. 4613. Sir James Balfour, according to Gough, had a Register of Aber- brothic Abbey in his Library. Two others, one in quarto, written about or before 1400, the other in folio, t. Jac. IV., are said to be in the Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh. A Drawing of part of the Seal of Adam, abbat of Aberbrothic in 1293, occurs in the Harl. MS. 4693, fol. 21 b. Pennant has given a View of the Ruins of this Abbey, which have, since, considerably decayed. In 1608, this Abbey was erected into a temporal lord- ship, in favour of James, Marquess of Hamilton. It after¬ wards belonged to the Earl of Dysart, from whom it was purchased by Patrick Maule of Panmure, ancestor to the Earl of Panmure, whose estates, when Cardonnell wrote, were possessed by the Hon. William Ramsay Maule, brother to the Earl of Dalhousie. Annexed to this Abbey was the right of patronage of thirty-four parish-churches. The revenues amounted, at the Reformation, to 2483/. 5s. Scots money, and in wheat, barley, &c. 5459 Scots bolls. Carta Fundationis per Willielmum Regem Scotorum. [Excript. ab autogr. per prsef. Jac. Balfoure.] Willielmus Dei gratia rex Scotorum, episcopis, ab- batibus, comitibus, justiciariis, vicecomitibus, et omnibus probis hominibus totius terrse suae, clericis et laicis, salutem. Sciant prasentes et futuri, me pro amore Dei, et pro salute animae meae, et pro salute animarum antecessorum et succes- sorum meorum, dedisse, concessisse, et hac mea carta con- firmasse Deo et ecclesiae quam fundavi in honorem Dei et S. Thomse archiprasulis et martyris, apud Aberbrothoicke, et monachis ibidem Deo et S. Thomae servientibus et servituris, in liberam, et puram, et perpetuam elemosinam, Aberbrothoc cum tota schyra sua, per rectas divisas suas, in bosco et piano, terris et aquis, in pratis et pascuis, cum omnibus justis pertinentiis suis; et ecclesiam ejusdem villae; scil. Aberbrothoc, cum plenariis decimis suis, et cum omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis. Dedi et concessi eisdem licentiam et libertatem faciendi burgum et habendi portum et habendi forum unaquaque die Sabati, in eadem terra. Concessi etiam eis imperpetuum hanc in eorum burgo libertatem, ut omnes eorum burgenses, qui in eodem burgo terram vel domum habuerint, et in eo manentes fuerint, et burgenses eorum qui in toftis eorum manent, in burgis meis quieti et liberi sint a thelonio et consuetudine per totam terram meam, et per omnes portus terra meae, de omnibus mercibus et mercaturis suis propriis, quas emerint vel venderint. Dedi et eis concessi Athyn, per rectas divisas suas, et cum omni¬ bus justis pertinentiis suis; et ecclesiam ejusdem villae, cum plenariis decimis suis, et cum aliis justis pertinentiis suis. Dedi et eis Achinglas, per rectas divisas suas, et cum omni¬ bus justis pertinentiis suis: et Dunechtyn cum tota scira sua, per rectas divisas suas, et cum omnibus aliis justis per¬ tinentiis suis; et ecclesiam ejusdem villae cum omnibus ad earn juste pertinentibus; et Kingoldrum, cum tota scira sua, et per rectas divisas suas ; et ecclesiam ejusdem villae, cum omnibus ad earn juste pertinentibus; et ecclesiam S. Marise de Veteri Munros, cum terra ejusdem ecclesiae quae Scotice Abthen vocatur, per rectas divisas suas; et cum decimis plenariis et omnibus aliis justis pertinentiis suis; et ecelesiam de Benchoryn, cum omnibus justis pertinentiis suis: et ec¬ clesiam de Clampnes, cum omnibus justis pertinentiis suis; et ecclesiam de Hancwy-litle in Tyndale, cum omnibus per¬ tinentiis suis, in capellis, et terris, in decimis, in elemosinis, et in omnibus aliis ecclesiasticis rectitudinibus, consuetudini- bus, et beneficiis, cum connnuni pastura et omnibus aliis asiamentis ejusdem parochiae; et unum plenarium toftum in singulis burgis meis, quae habeo et habiturus sum; et licen¬ tiam capiendi in forestis meis quaecunque eis necessaria fue¬ rint ad aedificia sua, et ad usus proprios. Et unum rete super aquam meam de Perthe, quae vocatur Stock; et unum plenarium rete super aquam de Northescke, juxta Muros; et unam salinam juxta salinas meas in Kars, apud Stre ve- lyne, cum quinque acris terra, et cum pastura et focali ad pradictam salinam sufficientibus. Concedo etiam eis liberam terram suam, cum sacco et socco, cum thol, et teme, et in- fangeltheife; et ferrum et duellum; fossam, et furcas, et liberam election em abbatis, et firmam pacem intra divisas de Aberbrothoc. Praterea concessi iis, et hac carta mea con- firmavi, ut omnia tofta, quag iis dedi in omnibus burgis et maneriis meis, per totam terram meam libera sint et quieta ab omnibus auxiliis ad me et haeredes meos pertinentibus. Quare prohibeo firmiter, ne quis de pradictis terris auxilia vel operationes aliquas exigere prasumat super meam de- fensionem. Concessi etiam iis, ut nullus hominum suorum in terris eorum manentium non capiatur pro alicujus debito nisi pro debitis eorum propriis. Concessi eisdem et confirmavi ut omnes terra, quas iis dedi, et homines super illas ma¬ nentes, communem pasturam habeant, cum omnibus vicinis suis, ita libere, et plenarie, sicut homines, qui in terris illis manebant, antequam illas dederam in elemosinam, et melius et plenius habere solebant in tempore meo vel antecessorum meorum. Pracepi et jam, ut omnes homines in scira de Aberbrothoc, et de Athyn manentes, qui ipsum molendinum non habent, et eorum homines veniant molere ad molen¬ dinum de Aberbrothoc, et non alibi eant molere super meam defensionem. Praterea dedi eis ecclesiam de Inneruys, cum una carucata terra, quae dedi eidem ecclesiae in honore sanctae Mariae in perpetuam elemosinam, et cum omnibus aliis justis pertinentiis suis. Dedi etiam iis ecclesiam de Abickerdour; et ecclesiam de Innerbondyne; ecclesiam de Baneffe; ecclesiam de Gamryne; et ecclesiam de Tarways; et ecclesiam de Nug; et ecclesiam de Fyuyne; et ecclesiam de Cula in Marr: et ecclesiam de Katryne; et ecclesiam de Innerlunane; et ecclesiam de Panbryde; et 'ecclesiam de Fethmeffe ; et illas tredecem acras terra juxta eandem ec¬ clesiam, quas Willielmus Cumyne vicecomes de Forfar eis per praceptum meum dedit; et ecclesiam de Monieky; et ecclesiam de Cuthryne; et ecclesiam de Abirnythy, cum capellis, terris, decimis, et oblationibus omnimodis, cum communi pastura, et omnibus aliis asiamentis, et cum omni¬ bus aliis ad pradictas ecclesias juste pertinentibus: Tenen¬ dum in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elemosinam, ita libere et quieti, plenarie, et honorifice, sicut aliqua elemosina in toto regno meo liberius, et quietius, plenius, et honorificen- tius tenent et possident. Dedi etiam iis et concessi batellam passagii mei de Munros, cum terra ad pradictam batellam pertinente, cum omnibus rectitudinibus ad batellam et ad terram illam pertinentibus, quam scil. terram Helias clericus meus de Munrosse tenuerat. Tenendum in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elemosinam, liberti et quiete ab exercitu et ex- peditione et operatione, et auxilio, et ab omnibus consuetu- dinibus et omni servicio et exactione. Dedi et iis concessi custodiam de Brecbenoch, et terram de Forglint, cum pra- 7 P 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0703.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)