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An Index, Drawn up About the Year 1629, of Many Records of Charters iiiililiililll ^iiii i:?!iii;'!i!!!iJ!:ia;;;; Gc 941.0002 SC0831 1559029 n^-YNOLDS H13T0:?!CAL Gb,\:::ALOGY COLLECTION 3 1833 00724 1323 A N N D E X, DRAWN UP ABOUT THE YEAR I 629, OF MANY \.^ R E C O R PS OF CHARTER S. GRANTED BY THE DIFFERENT SOVEREIGNS OF SCOTLAND BETWEEN THE YEARS I^Og AND I413, MOST OF WHICH RECORDS HAVE BEEN LONG MISSING. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, GIVING A STATE, FOUNDED ON AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS STILL PRESERVED, OF THE ANCIENT RECORDS OF SCOTLAND, WHICH WERE IN THAT KINGDOM IN THE YEAR 1 292. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED, INDEXES OF THE PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED IN THOSE CHARTERS, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. PUBLISHED AT THE ^/-) O . DESIRE OF ?i cL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD FREDERICK CAMPBELL, LORD CLERK-REGISTER OF SCOTLAND. WITH A VIEW TO LEAD TO A DISCOVERY OF THOSE RECORDS WHICH ARE MISSING. 1559029 PREFACE. J. H E ohjedi of this Publication, is to recover Tome ancient Records of Scotland known compiled about the year and a very ancient to be mifTing ; and the bafis of it is an Index, 1629, Quarto Manufcript on vellum, lately difcovered. Thefe materials came to the knowledge of the Editor by the following means. The Lord Clerk- Regifter for Scotland, Lord Frederick Campbell, fome years ago, in attend- ing to the duties of his office, obferved the periihing condition of the Parliamentary Records of Scotland, and formed the defign of getting them printed for the public benefit, as the Journals of both Houfes and the Parliamentary Rolls had been done in England. Preparatory for this Work, the Editor tranfcribed, with his own hand, as much of the ear- liefl and moft decayed part of thefe Parliamentary Records as would make up two FoUo Volumes ; and was direded by the Lord Regifter, as foon as the bufmefs of his office would permit, to make an accurate refearch in the Tower of London, and in the Chapter-Houfe at Weftminfter, to afcer- tain whether thefe ancient repofitories contained any materials, from which the defects in the Par- liamentary Records of Scotland might be fupplicd, it being well known, that King Edward L had carried to England all the Records prior to the reign of King Robert L In the mean time, Mr Aftle, one of the Truftees of the Britifli Mufeum, whofe knowledge in hiftorical antiquity is not lefs known than his anxious endeavours to make it ufeful to the public, informed the Lord Regifter, that he had difcovered fome curious Manufcripts in the Britifh Mu- feum refpeding Scotland, and in particular the Index now printed. He likewife informed the Lord Regifter of a ftill more important difcovery, which he had made as Keeper of his Majefty's State-Paper Office, which was a Quarto Manufcript on Vellum, written in a charader of great antiquity, and which, befidcs Tranfcripts of many Deeds relative to Scotch affairs, contained Minutes of feveral Parliaments of Scotland antecedent to the earlieft Parliaments mentioned in the printed Statute-Book. In confequence of this very important information, the Lord Regifter direded copies to be iv PREFACE. immediately made, both of the Index in the Mufeum, and the Quarto IVfanufcript in the State- convenientlv could, for the Paper office, preffing the Editor to repair to London as foon as he purpofe of more effeftually carrying on the intended refearch in all the above-mentioned repofi- torlcs. The Editor accordingly, in Auguft 1793, repaired to London, where his firll care was to collate the two copies above mentioned with their originals. The Index of Charters was found to be No. 4609. of the Harleian M nufcripts at the Britlfh firft of that Index, at the top of it, there is written as follows. Mufeum ; and on the page " This Book contains Lifts or Inventories of feveral Rolls or Records of Charters, granted by King Robert III. fucceffive Kings of Scot- " King Robert I. King David II. King Robert II. and " land (a). thefe Rolls are loft." " This Lift is the more valuable, as feveral of On an attentive examination, this Index was found to comprehend Twelve Rolls and One Book of Charters which now exift, and have always been kept with the other Public Records of Scotland. greater number of Rolls and Books But befides thefe, it comprehends and relates to a much of Charters which are not now to be found in the Public Records of Scotland. The number fall- Three Books, ing under this defcription is -no lefs than Fifty-one Rolls of Royal Charters, and confifting partly of Charters, partly of Decrees in Parliament. Thefe Fifty-one Rolls and Three Books, together with Two Rolls of Decrees in Parliament, (mentioned in page 28. at the top), though proved by this Index to have been known and patent long a period, that nei- to infpeftion in the year 1629, have been miflaid or difappeared during fo having ever exifted, ther the Editor, nor any perfon known to him, had any knowledge of their the fubjed of the prefent publication. till he had accefs to and perufed the Index which makes The Fifty-one Rolls and Three Books above mentioned as not now exifting in the Public Records of Scotland, feem to have contained about 1845 Charters and 30 Decrees in Parliament, which exclufive of the contents of the two Rolls of Decrees in Parliament mentioned page 28. do not appear to be particularly ftated in the Index. The Manufcript difcovered by Mr Aftle in the State-Paper Office was, on examination, found in everv refpect fo to be the moft ancient Book of Scottift: Record now known to exift, and endeavour to reco- curious and important, that the Lord Regifter thought it incumbent on him to of that part of the Kingdom to which ver it, for the purpofe of its being preferved in the Records it inconteftably appeared to have belonged. (a) It contains alfo Charters granted by Robert Duke of Albany as Regent PREFACE. V gracioufly pleafed to order For this purpofe a petition was prefented to his Majefty, who was which it had the Manufcript Book to be removed from the State-Paper Office at London, with no connexion, and to be delivered to the Lord Regifter of Scotland, that it might be depofited in the General Regifter-Office kept at Edinburgh for the prefervation of the Public Records belong- ing to that part of the Kingdom. This Manufcript Book having been brought by the Lord Regifter to Scotland in November to the examination of the Supreme Court 1793, it was judged proper that it fliould be fubmitted of that country, in order to its receiving the fanftion of that Court. Accordingly, in the month of December 1793, a Committee of the Judges was, in confe- quence of a petition prefented to the Court, appointed to infped the Manufcript, and to report their opinion y who reported, " That the Book is an authentic Record of Writings, Public and Private, relating to Scot- " land."—Whereupon the Court made the following Refolution, to wit, " Approve of the Report; " appoint the Manufcript Volume to be lodged among the other Public Records in the cuftody of this " the Lord Clerk-Regiiler and his Deputies ; and requeft the Lord Prefident, in name of " Court, to return thanks to the Right Honourable Lord Frederick Campbell, Lord Clerk- " Regifter of Scotland, for the trouble which his Lordfliip has taken in recovering to the public " fo valuable a Book of the ancient Records of this country. They further take this opportunity of " expreffing the high fenfe entertained by the Court of the benefit the public has derived from his " Lordftiip's unremitting afliduity and eminent fervices in the execution of his office as Lord " Clerk- Regifter, and particularly in the great attention which he has beftowed upon the con- Records, as well as " ilrudion, fitting up, and completing of the New Repofitory for the Public laft of all, in having fohcited and obtained, " the internal arrangement of the bufinefs there ; and for the prefervation of the building, " by the favour of his Majefty, a permanent eftabliftiment fecurity and fafe cuftody of the Re- " and for defraying the neceiTary expence attending the « Report, with this Commiflion, to be inferted in the Books of Sede- cords (.7) ; and appoint the " runt." Mufeum, it was judged With regard to the Index before mentioned, difcovered in the Britifh the Lord Re- of the public ; and accordingly proper that it ftiould be printed for the information of exciting the public attention to the ^ifter gave orders for that purpofe, as the moft likely means the General Records of Rolls and Books of Royal Charters which have been abftrafted from 27th was appointed Lord Clerk-Reglfler of Scotland. On June [.,) In November 1768, Lord Frederick Campbell Auguft 1787 his Lordfliip's Deputies for 1-74 he laid the foundation-ftone of the General Regifter- Houfe. On 13th remove the Records thither from the two keeping the Records took poffenion of their apartments there, and began to they were formerly kept. On the Jth of vaults under the Court of Seffion, called the Laigh Parliament Houfe, where the General Reg.ller-Houfe. And finally removed from thofe vaults, and arranged in Oaober 1 79 1 the Records were for Majefty, a permanent eftabliftiment of L. 500 a-year in January 1792 his Lordfhip obtained, by the bounty of his ncceft'arily conncdeJ with it. the fupport of the fabric, and for defraying various contingent expences b INTRODUCTION. X H E Index of Charters, which is the principal fubjeft of the prefent publication, has been fully mentioned in the Preface.
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