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.
![dicto Brecbenoch, faciendo inde servitium quod in exercitu debetur nostro, de terra ilia, et de Brechenoch. Dedi et iis unam carucatam terras in Monechen, super aquam de Bervyne, quam Willielmus de Munford, et Humphridus de Berkelay, et Walterus Scotus, et Alanus filius Simonis, et alii probi homines mei per prseceptum meum eis mensu- rarunt; Tenendum in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam, cum communi pastura et cum omnibus asiamentis ad terram illam pertinentibus, ita libere, plenarie, et honorifice, et quiete ab occupatione et ab omni seculari exactione, sicut aliquam elemosinam suam liberius et quietius, plenius, et honorificentius tenent, in regno meo. Testibus domino Alexandro filio domini regis; Henrico abbate de Kalkow ; Willielmo de Bosco, cancellario; Philippo de Yalon, came- rario; Johanne de Maxuswell; Boberto capellano domini regis, Boberto de S. Germano et Gilberto de Strewelyne clericis domini regis, magistro Martino et magistro Badulpho medicis; Jordano Cumyne; Waltero Cumyne. Apud Selkirke, 25. die Februarii. abbey of BrgburgI). tn Beiimchsljiie. THIS Abbey was founded by Hugh Morville, con¬ stable of Scotland, and Beatrix de Campo Bello, his wife, in the time of David the First, a copy of whose charter of confirmation and endowment was communicated to Sir William Dugdale by Sir Thomas Balfour. It was situated upon the banks of the Tweed, in Teviotdale. The monks of Dryburgh were Premonstratensians, and were brought from Alnwick, in Northumberland, in 1152. The Church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Irish Abbies of Druin la Croix and Woodburn were considered as daughters of this Abbey. Dryburgh was burnt and plundered by the English in 1323. King James the Sixth gave this Abbey, with its revenue, to the Earl of Mar, who erected it into a temporal lordship, together with Inchmahomac in Perthshire, in fa¬ vour of Henry Erskine, the Earl’s third son, by the Lady Mary Stewart. This Abbey has been since purchased by the Earl of Buchan. A Copy of the Chartulary of Dryburgh Abbey, a quarto volume, upon paper, is preserved in the Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh. The Harl. MS. 4623, tom. ii. fol. 85 et seq., has a Taxt Boll of Dryburgh, A.D. 1630. See also MS. Harl. 4613. There are scarcely any reliques of the Church of this Abbey, though there are considerable remains of the Con¬ ventual buildings. Cmtofmtm He Drsbrugit?. Carta Davidis Regis Scottorum, de Dotatione ejusdem. [“ Exscript, ab autogr. per. prsef. J. Balfoure.] David rex Scottorum, episcopis, abbatibus, comitibus, justiciariis, baronibus, vicecomitibus, ministris, et omnibus hominibus totius terrae suae, Francis, Anglis, et Scottis, et Gallawidensibus, salutem. Sciant, tarn posteri, quam prae- sentes, me concessisse, et dedisse, et hac mea carta con- firmasse ecclesiae S. Mariae de Drybrughe, quamfundavi, et fratribus canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus, pro salute animae meae, et pro salute animarum praedecessorum et suc- cessorum meorum, ad tenendum de me et haeredibus meis, in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam, ecclesiam de Dry¬ brughe, cum capellis, decimis, oblationibus, et omnimodis pertinentiis suis; ecclesiam de Lanarke, cum terris et deci¬ mis et omnibus rebus ad illam juste pertinentibus : Et ec¬ clesiam de Pedynane, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis: Et in eadem villa illam carucatam terrae, quam Nicholaus clericus meus de me habuit et tenuit, ita quiete, et libere ab omni seculari exactione, et consuetudine eisdem fratribus perpetuo possidendas, sicut aliqua alia ecclesia vel ecclesiae terrae meae elemosinas suas melius et quietius tenent et ossident; ita tamen, quod in ecclesiis illis officium divinum oneste fiat. Dedi iis insuper landam illam quae vocatur Caddysleya, cum pastura infra forestam meam, pro salute animae Henrici filii mei, in liberam et perpetuam elemosi¬ nam ; et unum manerium in burgo meo de Caruile iis dedi, cum tribus rudis terrae ad ilium pertinentibus. Dedi dictis fratribus et iis confirmavi illam terram et omnia ad earn pertinentia, quam Beatrix de Bello Campo de Bogero Jani- tore emit, et iis in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam dedit. Et illud etiam toftum extra portam occidentalem de Boges- brughe, quam Johannis capellani fuit, ita liberum et quie- tum eis concedo, sicut carta Henrici comitis filii mei iis donatmn et confirmatum. Concedo etiam et confirmo iis illam terram quae est inter murum ejusdem portae, quam Ada capellanus meus iis concessit, et in liberam et perpe¬ tuam elemosinam dedit, cum eadem libertate quam eidem Adae concesseram; scil. ut nullus super plenarium foris- factum meum de ilia terra censum aut aliquam omninb con- suetudinem quando in burgo advenerit praesumat exigere. Praeterea praefatis fratribus concedo ut liceat iis in nemoribus meis accipere ea quae necessaria habuerint in usibus suis, et aedificiis, ita ut nullus eos injuste disturbet, et ut sint liberi et quieti in omni regno meo de teloneo et omnibus seculari- bus exactionibus et consuetudinibus, sicut aliqui viri re- ligiosi in tota terra mea liberiores inveniuntur; viz. quan¬ tum ad se et propria cat alia sua. Yolo itaque et praecipio, ut pracdicta domus praenominatas elemosinas, donationes, et libertates ita libere, quiete, et honorifice teneat etpossideat sicut aliqua ecclesia in omni regno meo liberius et quietius tenet et possidet. Testibus Henrico comite filio meo, Ada comitissa sua, Walterus cancellarius, Duncanus comes; Hugo de Morvilla, Walterus de Lindesei; Bobertus Ave- nell; Walterus Bidell; Herbertus camerarius, Nicholaus clericus, Aluinus filius Arkill, Even marischallus, Gille- colme Mackthumpethin, Mackbeth, Macktorphrin, Meuin filius Colbani. ►p Ego Bobertus S. Andreae episcopus confirmo. ►£< Ego Gregorius Dunkeldensis episcopus confirmo. ►p Ego Andreas Katenensis episcopus confirmo. Slbbty of Sumfennlutff. PENNANT says, This Abbey was begun by Mal¬ colm Canmore, and finished by Alexander the First. He says it was probably first intended for the pious and more useful purpose of a religious infirmary, being styled in some old manuscripts, Monasterium ab monte infirmorum. David the First changed it into an Abbey, and brought into it thirteen monks from Canterbury ; but at the Dissolution it supported twenty-six. Its endowments were very con¬ siderable. At the Beformation, the revenue, in money alone, was two thousand five hundred and thirteen pounds Scots. Some of the grants were singular: that of David I. gives it the tithe of all the gold found in Fife and Fotherif; a proof of the precious metal being then discovered in streams flowing from the hills. Another from the same monarch invests it with part of the seals taken near King- horn ; and a third, by Malcolm the Fourth, gives them the heads (except the tongues) of certain small whales called Crespeis, which might be taken in such part of Scotchwater](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0704.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)