Series 3 > Letters of James the Fourth, 1505-1513

LETTERS OF JAMES IV
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1510]
that their salvation may be ensured and the poor more
liberally provided for, as will be explained fully by his
ambassador, the Bishop of Moray.
335. Dr. Leonardus Bartinis, Scriptor Apostolicus, to
Patrick Paniter, Rome, December 9, 1510. n.l. 7 ;
brodie, 638.
Lately sent him certain letters, with a confessional, to
Sir David Spens, Rector of Flisk ; now he sends other
letters for the same David, and another confessional. Asks
him to see that they come into the hands of the said David.
Has written about those thirty ducats of his. Asks Paniter
to interest himself in his case. Robert Brown, who is
making a prolonged stay in Rome, has spent twenty ducats
in gold of the Camera, belonging to himself, on behalf of
David Brown, in the suit about the monastery of Marros,
and had shown the greatest energy in his kinsman’s cause,
in the hope that if the suit were successful the money
would be repaid, and that he would get some reward for
his labour. But although this David had often been asked,
he always insisted that there was no agreement, and that
he showed him the same gratitude that he showed to every
one else. It is a notorious fact that he has already made an
agreement with the abbot, and has received benefices and
money. It would be good for him to think that he will
die sometime or other, and not to treat all men in the same
fashion. Robert is a good man, and it is a pity that his
money and exertions should be wasted in this way. Asks
of his own accord that Paniter should insist on David pay¬
ing his debt to Robert. If [David] refuses him, remember
that he is bound to Bartinis for one hundred ducats in the
event of an agreement being made, and he does not believe
that the general discharge which he effected through
Thomas Nudry protects him both because there had been
no agreement at the time of the discharge, and because
the discharge could not cover something that was not
intended.