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THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN
Buchan, grew so poor and necessitous that for his sustenance, with
Alexander’s consent, he sold these lands to William de Meldrum
son of the late John de Meldrum of that ilk, saving the annual feu
due to Alexander and his successors; and that it seems better to him
to have William de Meldrum as his tenant rather than Walter
Greathead; therefore he confirms the sale as contained in Walter’s
charter to William, for an annual rent of twenty shillings sterling,
payable on the feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June)
yearly, the performance of fealty, and three suits of court at his
three head courts at Little Werthill (Wartle, Rayne) in Garioch,
with the same payment on his death as Walter would have paid.
Aberdeen, 28 March 1345.
Uniuersis Sancte Matris ecclesie filijs . hoc Scriptum Visuris vel
Audituris . Prater Alexander de Seton dominus eiusdem Miles /
Gustos elemosine domus Sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani de Tor-
fethyn / infra Regnum Scocie Salutem in domino . Quia per
guerrarum discrimina in dicto Regno habita . Valterus dictus
gretheved burgensis de Abberden dudum tenens noster in feodo et
hereditate de tota terra de Eychtyrelon cum pertinency s in
Bughania . ita maxime depaupertatur / quod propter Suam
releuacionem et vite sue sustentacionem . maxima ipsum com-
pellente necessitate . cum consensu nostro totam dictam terram cum
pertinencys . concessit et plenarieque precise vendidit a se et
heredibus suis inperpetuum . Villelmo de Melgdrume filio quondam
Johannis de Melgdrume domini eiusdem . et heredibus suis ac suis
assignatis . Saluo feodo annuo nobis et successoribus nostris inde
debito et per dictum Willelmum heredos suos et suos assignatos
annuatim Reddendo . Et quia vidimus et perpendimus vtilitatem
nostram fore maiorem / ad habendum predictum Villelmum de
dicta terra tenentem nostram quam dictum Valterum / Nouerit
vniuersitas vestra Nos approbasse . Ratificasse . et per presens
Scriptum nostrum confirmasse . predicto Villelmo et heredibus
suis ac suis assignatis illam concessionem et vendicionem quam
dictus Valterus fecit eidem Villelmo vt premittitur . de tota
predicta terra de Eychtyrelon cum pertinency s in omnibus et pro
omnia . prout Carta prefati Valteri dicto Villelmo inde confecta . in
Se plenius proportat et testatur / Reddendo inde annuatim dictus
THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN
Buchan, grew so poor and necessitous that for his sustenance, with
Alexander’s consent, he sold these lands to William de Meldrum
son of the late John de Meldrum of that ilk, saving the annual feu
due to Alexander and his successors; and that it seems better to him
to have William de Meldrum as his tenant rather than Walter
Greathead; therefore he confirms the sale as contained in Walter’s
charter to William, for an annual rent of twenty shillings sterling,
payable on the feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June)
yearly, the performance of fealty, and three suits of court at his
three head courts at Little Werthill (Wartle, Rayne) in Garioch,
with the same payment on his death as Walter would have paid.
Aberdeen, 28 March 1345.
Uniuersis Sancte Matris ecclesie filijs . hoc Scriptum Visuris vel
Audituris . Prater Alexander de Seton dominus eiusdem Miles /
Gustos elemosine domus Sancti Johannis Jerosolimitani de Tor-
fethyn / infra Regnum Scocie Salutem in domino . Quia per
guerrarum discrimina in dicto Regno habita . Valterus dictus
gretheved burgensis de Abberden dudum tenens noster in feodo et
hereditate de tota terra de Eychtyrelon cum pertinency s in
Bughania . ita maxime depaupertatur / quod propter Suam
releuacionem et vite sue sustentacionem . maxima ipsum com-
pellente necessitate . cum consensu nostro totam dictam terram cum
pertinencys . concessit et plenarieque precise vendidit a se et
heredibus suis inperpetuum . Villelmo de Melgdrume filio quondam
Johannis de Melgdrume domini eiusdem . et heredibus suis ac suis
assignatis . Saluo feodo annuo nobis et successoribus nostris inde
debito et per dictum Willelmum heredos suos et suos assignatos
annuatim Reddendo . Et quia vidimus et perpendimus vtilitatem
nostram fore maiorem / ad habendum predictum Villelmum de
dicta terra tenentem nostram quam dictum Valterum / Nouerit
vniuersitas vestra Nos approbasse . Ratificasse . et per presens
Scriptum nostrum confirmasse . predicto Villelmo et heredibus
suis ac suis assignatis illam concessionem et vendicionem quam
dictus Valterus fecit eidem Villelmo vt premittitur . de tota
predicta terra de Eychtyrelon cum pertinency s in omnibus et pro
omnia . prout Carta prefati Valteri dicto Villelmo inde confecta . in
Se plenius proportat et testatur / Reddendo inde annuatim dictus
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