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From Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, Vol 111: "Edward 111 1335,
Warrant to the Chancellor to issue separate letters under the Great Seal,
pardoning of all offences since the beginning of the world to date; Sir
William de Moubray, Sir Roger de Moubray, Sir Alexander de Cragy, "le pere"
Alexander de Cragy, "le fuiz", John de Dumbarre, Philip de Glen, William
Dalmoy, James de Dundasse, etc etc......Scottish
gentlemen who have come to the King's peace under the conditions of Alexander
de Moubray."
James Dundas was excommunicated by
the Abbot of Dunfermline, because he
persisted in molesting the Abbey boatmen at the
landing-rock, North
Queensferry.
ABSOLUTION FROM EXCOMMUNICATION Granted by the
Abbot of Dunfermline to James de Dundas
"MEMORANDUM. - That in the year of God, 1342, on
Wednesday before the Feast of St. Bartholomew the
Apostle, Alexander, by the grace of God, Abbot of
Dunfermline, went down to the south side of the
Queens's Ferry, at the request of James de Dundas,
concerning an amicable termination of a dispute that
had arisen between him and the Abbot, on account of
his molesting the Abbot's men and boat landing at two
rocks within the flowing of the tide, as they were
wont to do. However,
James de Dundas had alleged
these rocks, to be his property, though the Abbot, his
predecessors, and the Monastery,
had quietly and peaceably enjoyed the right of landing
on them beyond the memory of man, and on this had a
Charter from King David, their founder and first
patron, as also the Confirmations of the various
Kings, his successors, and Popes, as the Abbot then
exhibited, in presence of the following subscribing
witnesses, viz., Magister Johannes de Gaytmilk, Alanus
de Liberton, Michael Squier, Radulphus Clericus,
Johannes de Herth, Alanus Dispenser, Richardus filius
Willielmi Scrismour, Robertus Young, Johannes filius
Henry, Johannes de Lochilde, Radulphus Gourley, as
also before others, inhabitants of the ferry.
James de Dundas
had, on account of his
molestation, incurred the general sentence of
Excommunication contained in the Confirmation of the
Popes, which he had during some time obdurately
resisted, until, on the before-mentioned day, he
humbly supplicated the Abbot, sitting along with some
of his Council on these rocks, as being in possession
of them, that he would absolve him from the sentence
of Excommunication, as far as lay in his power, on his
finding security to abstain from the like molestation;
but, were it ever repeated, he should immediately
again incur the same censure."
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