Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

158 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF INCHCOLM
for a term of five years, for ten pounds sterling, payable at Candlemas
and Lammas, with entry at the Feast of the Assumption.
Moray Charters 43. 24. Endorsed : Ista litera servetur propter sigillum
eius quod fuit verum et antiquum sigillum nostrum ad confutandum falsi-
tatem sigilliproducti per Johannem de Balmanoch super officio senescallatus
Istud sigillum fuit fractum et destructum propter quod concessa [sic]
sine consensu capituli. This charter is printed in EMC. Rep., vi. p. 670.
Laurencium . . . Abbatem Monasterii Beati Columbe de Insula. Abbot
from about this date till 1417. See Appendix iv.
Assedasse et adfirmam dimisisse rectoriam Ecclesie de Ochtertule ... ad
terminum quinque annorum. A thirteenth-century statute forbade that
leases should be given for more than five years (Statutes, pp. 13-14).
This is an early instance of a practice which was to become all too common,
both in the case of Inchcolm and the other Scottish religious houses.
See Dowden, Medieval Church, pp. 124-126.
Decimas garbales. Garbal teinds were the teinds of sheaves (garbae),
i.e. the teinds of grain or greater teinds, as contrasted with the lesser
teinds of the young of sheep, kine, etc., and of milk, butter, cheese, wool.
The garbal teinds, the most valuable part of the revenue of a benefice,
accrued, in particular, to the rector, and, in the case of an appropriated
parish, were in the hands of the monastery as rector.
Johanni de Kyngorn domino de Orok. Not mentioned elsewhere. The
lands of Orrock were latterly in the hands of the family of Orrock of
Orrock.
Ad festum assumptionis beate Marie. The Feast of the Assumption is
15 August.
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Indenture recording that on 1 February 1408 an excambion was made
by Robert, Bishop of Dunkeld, and Laurence, Abbot of Inchcolm, whereby
the former gave the lands of Donibristle to the latter in exchange for the
lands of Cambo and Clarbertston in Lothian.
Moray Charters (Transumpt) 42.3.1.
Robertum episcopum Dunkeldensem. Robert de Cardeny, Bishop of
Dunkeld, 1398-1436 (Dowden, Bishops, pp. 70-71)-
Laurentium Abbatem. See Appendix iv.
Omnes terras suas de Donybrissil. The monastery’s possessions
enumerated in the bull of 1178 include ‘ quicquid iuris habetis in Dony-
bressell.’ The lands of Donibristle now passed into the possession of the
monastery. Ross states: 4 There can be little doubt that Donibristle
was the residence of the abbot and canons, when from pressure of circum¬
stances, they found it impossible to remain in safety in their island home ’
(Aberdour and Inchcolme, p. 116).
Pro terris dicti monasterii de Cambo et Clarbertston. The bull of 1178