Document 4/38/15 (APS, i, 101)
- Description
- Inquest made at Inverness in the presence of the bishop of Ross and Alexander Comyn, justiciar of Scotia, and A[lexander] de Montfort, sheriff of Elgin, and A. of Swinton, by Thomas Wiseman, William Wiseman, Archibald of Dallas, Alexander his brother, James of Birnie, Adam son of Robert, Walter of Alves, Andrew ‘Wishey’, Henry of ‘Seleltoch’, Macbeth of Dyke, Hugh Ranald, William son of Turpun, Michael son of Abraham, William of Birnie, John of Ogstoun, Gillepatric Mac Gilbeg and John Smith of Inverness, over whether the land of Meft (MOR) was held by the ancestors of Ewen, thane of ‘Rathenach’, hereditarily and in chief, according to the brieve of the lord king to the justiciar. All the jurors said that the lord King William gave the land of Meft with his house in the castle of Elgin and a fishing on the River Spey to Yothre (Ruadri?) MacGilhys in heritage for the service of one sergeant and doing Scottish army (service). He held these for life and thereafter Ewen his son, grandfather of the present Ewen, and Angus his son, father of the present Ewen, and Ewen himself, have held the land peacefully.
- Firm date
- 27 November 1262
- Dating Notes
- Monday before St Andrew’s Day, 1262.
- Place date (modern)
- Inverness
- Place date (document)
- Invernys
- Related Place
- Inverness
- Source for Data Entry
- APS, i, 101
- Trad. ID
- APS, i, 101
- Calendar number
- 4/38/15
- Charter type
- Inquest
- Language
- Latin
- Original (contemporary)
- yes
- Notes
- NAS, RH 5/27; Formerly TNA, C 47/22/5/8