Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

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Per fustem et baculum. By staff and wand, the common symbols used
in the formal resignation of land. See Craig, Jus Feudale, 3.1.7.» 3.1.8.
Faeiendo etiam per suos tenentes nobis et nostro monasterio pro predictis
terris servitia debita et consueta ac per ipsos canonicos orationum suffragia
devotarum. The stipulation for both secular and spiritual services in respect
of a grant in frankalmoign is somewhat unusual.
XLV
Notarial Docquet appended to the Transumpt of 1423.
Moray Charters 42.4.
Alexander Biset clericus Sanctiandree diocesis, etc. Biset also attests,
in his notarial capacity, a transumpt of 10 May 1430 (Red Bk. of Grantully,
i. p. 157*)- He may be identical with Alexander Beset, clerk of St. Andrews
diocese, whose supplication to the Pope for provision to the vicarage of
Kilgour (Falkland) is granted, 10 Jan. 1421 (Supplies., p. 242).
Galterum . . . Abbatem monasterii Sancticolumbe. Walter Bower.
Robertas de Hopprew magister in artibus Parisiis presbyter Glasguensis
diocesis, etc. Hopprew’s graduation at Paris is not recorded in Denifle
and Chatelain. Described simply as ‘ priest of the diocese of Glasgow,’
he adds his notarial docquet to an instrument of 9 Oct. 1426 (Passelet,
p. 149). Master Robert Hopprew, substitute of Sir John Liel, treasurer
of the Cathedral church and procurator-general of the Bishop and chapter
of Brechin, appears in an instrument of 15 Jan. 1435 (REB., ii. xxvn.).
Robert de Hopprew, M.A., priest of the diocese of Glasgow, adds his
notarial docquet to a record of 14 Feb. 1435 (ibid., i. 48); and appears
as procurator of the Bishop and chapter of Brechin in instruments of
11 and 17 Feb. 1435 (ibid., ii. xxix. xxx.).
Roberto de Levyngstoun milite Domino de Drumry. Appears also in
No. xlviii. infra. Robert de Levynstoun, lord of Drumry, grants the
lands of Myrecaimie to John Wemyss, c. 1390 (Wemyss, ii. p. 26). He
cannot be definitely identified with the present witness, nor can Sir Robert
de Livingstone, who appears in charters, 16 Oct. 1393 (RMS., i. 870),
5 July 1395 (RPSA., pp. 3, 4), 16 Oct. 1402 (RMS., i. 869), 5 Nov. 1413
(ibid., i. 949). Another Sir Robert of Livingston, who appears as a hostage
in England, 3 Feb. 1423/24 (Cal. of Docs. rel. to Scotland, iv. 942), 28 March,
21 May and at another unspecified date in 1424 (ibid., iv. 953, 960, 970)
cannot be identified with the present Sir Robert Livingstone. He may be
identical with Robert de Livingstone, ‘ scutifer,’ who is a witness, 21 March
1400 (Cambuskenneth, 168). ‘ Robertus de Lewynstoun de Drumry miles ’
witnesses a charter, 15 May 1416 (RMS., ii. 168) ; is a party to an indenture
with David Wemyss regarding the lands of Wemyss, 19 Nov. 1428 (Wemyss,
ii. pp. 55, 57) ; grants by his charter the lands of Raith to John Wemyss,
14 March 1431/32 (ibid., ii. p. 61); is a ‘ compositor ’ in a controversy
between Dunfermline and ‘ Daui hacet of lunfennen,’ 31 July 1437
(Dunfermelyn, Pitfirrane Writs, 27) *, witnesses royal charters,
11 April and 4 May 1440 (RMS., ii. 232,235,236); witnesses an indenture,