The Three Tales of the Three Priests of Peebles; Rendered from the Ancient Scots Vernacular Into Modern Scottish

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... (Rotes iSypIanatorp of tbe fteyt. Page 17; Line I--in Peebles Town. Brtracts from tbe JSurab TRecoros, 1460--ct seq. The following extracts taken from the Burgh Charters and Records between 1460 and 1488, the surmised period of the poem, illustrate contemporaneously the burghal and ecclesiastical life of the time: --Inhabitants of Peebles freed from appearing in Courts of Kings Forest of Ettrick.--Edinburgh, October 28, 1473. James, by the grace of God, King of Scots; to all and sundry, our lieges and subjects, to whose knowledge these our letters shall come, greeting: --Know ye that, forasmuch as our Burgh of Peebles is an old free Burgh of our realm, claimed and founded by our progenitors of most noble mind, with liberties, privileges, and free burghage like as others our Burghs are privileged in time byegone j and, therefore, where the burgesses and inhabitants of our said Burgh have of late been arrested and called by our officers of our Forest of Ettrick to compear and answer at the Courts of our said Forest, in treating of their old freedoms and privileges aforesaid, we have discharged, and by the present letter discharges, for us, and for our successors, the burgesses and inhabitants of our said Burgh of Peebles and their successors that shall inhabit the same Burgh, of all compearing and answerings perpetually in time to come in the said Courts; and if any of the said inhabitants trespasses in destruction or taking of green wood or deer out of our said Forest, we will that the defaulters and trespassers thereof be punished and corrected, and pay their fines by the knowledge of an Assize in our Justice Court of Peebles, as is proper, and in no other Courts outside the freedom of our said Burgh.--James Rex. (III). Patronage of St. John's Altar assigned to ...