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THE DOUGLAS CHARTERS.
[1381.
forsaid spouse, our heires, or ony in our name ; and we, our spouse forsaid, our
heires, no nane maner of man in our names, no because of vs, sail make empedi-
ment, greuance, no distourbance, be na maner of way, till our forsaid sistris thrid
wyth the apportenances, no to hir tenandes tharof, inborn no outborn, in bodys no
in gudes, owr awin kynde men born vtuthe hir forsaid thrid anyrly ovtakyn ; and
thaim aganis hir will we sail nocht take fra hir thrid, wythoutyn lawchfull processe
of law : And in case, gif ony man be duelland in our landes forsaid, kyndmane to
the landes of hir thrid forsaid, at hir persuyt or hir attornays, he sail frely wyth
his gudes be delyuerit till hir thrid forsaid ; sa that, for na clayme that we or ony
in our name may haue aganis hym or thaim, he no thai sail nocht be wythhaldin
fra hir thrid forsaid, hir baillyf doand till vs and ours here apoun, and takand that
at resoun will, all maner of fraude, gyle, exceptioun and cauillatioun owtane : In
wytnes hereof, to thir our lettres we haue gert to putt our sele, the xi day of Maij,
the yhere of grace m.iii im** and ane.
37. Confirmation by King Robert the Second of a Charter by William
Earl of Douglas to the Monks of Melrose, of Penangushope, etc.
No. 23, supra. 10th October [1381].
liOBERTUS Dei gracia Rex Scottorum, omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre
sue, clericis et laycis, salutem : Sciatis nos quamdam cartam Willelmi comitis de
Douglas ac domini baronie de Cauers, de mandato nostro visam, lectam, inspectam
et diligenter examinatam, non rasam, non abolitam, non cancellatam, nee in aliqua
sui parte viciatam intellexisse ad plenum, sub hac forma ; Omnibus hanc cartam
visuris vel audituris, Willelmus comes de Douglas ac dominus baronie de Cauers,
salutem in Domino sempiternam : Sciatis nos dedisse [etc., No. 23, supra\ Qtjam
quidem cartam donacionemque et concessionem in omnibus punctis suis et arti-
eulis, condicionibus et modis, ac circumstanciis suis quibuscunque, forma pariter
et effectu, in omnibus et per omnia vt predictum est, approbamus, ratificamus et
pro nobis et heredibus nostris imperpetuum confirmamus : In cuius rei testimo-
nium presenti carte nostre confirmacionis nostrum precepimus apponi sigillum ;
testibus venerabilibus in Christo patribus, Willelmo et Johanne cancellario nostro
Sanctiandree et Dunkeldensis ecclesiarum episcopis, Johanne primogenito nostro
de Carryk senescallo Scocie, Roberto de Fyf et de Menteth filio nostro dilecto,
Willelmo de Douglas et de Marr consanguineo nostro, comitibus, Jacobo de
Lyndesay nepote nostro karissimo, et Alexandro de Lyndesay consanguineo nostro,
militibus, apud Edynburgh, decimo die Octobris, anno regni nostri vndecimo.