Three Celtic earldoms

ANCIENT EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN 73
and all his goods to the jurisdiction of the bishop of
Dunblane, so that he can compel him and his bailies,
by the censure of the Church, to make full payment.
His seal and the seal of Clement bishop of Dunblane.
Witnesses . . .
[Six marks and four marks charged by Earl Malise on
the rent of Abercairny for payment to the abbot
and convent of Inchaffray.~]
Malise, earl of Strathern, makes known that the
abbot and convent of Inchaffray had been entitled
to receive six marks sterling, in the name of the
earl's second tithes, from the rent of the land of
Ballenoleth in the shire of Fowlis, and at his earnest
request they had patiently borne with the earl's con-
ferring the land of Ballenoleth on his brother Sir
G[ilbert], and so the earl remains bound to them in
the said six marks, which for the future the religious
shall receive from the rent of Abercairny at the
hands of whoever held that land of the earl, to be
paid half at Whitsunday and half at Martinmas.
Moreover, since he was indebted to the said religious
(1) in thirty-six pounds sterling, which he took from
brother Hugh, then terrarious of the monastery,
from the money which the late Roger de Colin, clerk,
while living, gave to the fabric of the church of the
monastery — and also (2) in ten pounds sterling which
he received from the religious on loan (for which he
had given letters obligatory), and likewise (3) in
twenty-four marks sterling, being the sum of four
times the six marks from the land of Ballenoleth,
which had not been paid for four years, he grants for
himself, his heirs and assignees the payment of four
marks sterling yearly from the land of Abercairny
till the whole debt is paid : the first payment to