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Villelmus et heredes sui vel sui assignati nobis et successoribus
nostris pro feodo nostro memorato duodecim solidos sterling’
tantummodo . ad festum Natiuitatis beati Johannis Baptiste quos
prefatus Valterus et predecessores sui . predecessoribus nostris . ad
idem festum annuatim reddiderunt et reddere consueuerunt / Et
faciendo idem predictus Villelmus et heredes sui ac sui assignati .
nobis et successoribus nostris. fidelitatem vt moris est. et tres sectas
ad tres Curias nostras capitales apud Lytill Verthylle in La Garuyach.
Soluendo eciam idem Villelmus et heredes sui ac sui assignati. nobis
et successoribus nostris . tantum pro obitu suo / quantum dictus
Valterus nobis et successoribus nostris. si tenens noster perseuerasset.
pro obitu suo Soluisse debuit / vel predecessores sui Soluere con¬
sueuerunt / In Cuius Rei testimonium . presenti Scripto nostro
Sigillum nostrum est appensum . Acta et Data apud Aberden die
Lune proximo post festum beate marie virginis . Anno . domini .
Millesimo . trescentesimo . quadragesimo . quinto .
endorsed: Carta hospitalis de [Echter ?] Elon .
description: Original. Parchment, 26-5011. x i4'3cm. at l.h.
edge, 13cm. at r.h. edge, folded to a depth of i-5cm., slit for seal-
tag; tag, i-jcm. wide, with oval seal in red wax, now crumbling
and largely illegible, possibly depicting enthroned Madonna with
child standing at her feet.
source: Fyvie Castle Muniments, no.2.
printed: Aberdeen—Banff Coll., 318—19
comments: This document shows the impact of the war in the
north-east, and helps to trace the movements of brother Alexander
de Seton in 1345. The feast of Our Lady is presumably the
Annunciation (25 March).
Charter of brother Alexander de Seton, master of the house of the
Hospital of St John of Jerusalem of Torphichen, granting to
William called Sleigh of Temple and his heirs the Hospital’s land
in the vill of Halkerston, formerly held by John Calfherd, resigned
by his true heirs at a full court held at Balantrodoch on 24 February
1345/6, with common pasture and all other easements, etc., for an

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