1147 X 19 August 1179
National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh
From People of Medieval Scotland
W. de lindeseia . Omnibus ecclesie filiis salutem . Sciant tam posteri quam presentes . me dedisse et presenti carta| confirmasse deo et sancte Marie de Mailros . et monachis ibidem deo seruientibus fauope sicut aqua ledre| uadit . et sicut sepes includit . in perpetuam elemosinam pro anima patris mei et matris et omnium paren-|tum meorum et anima mea . Hiis testibus . Anfredo abbate de Neubotila Swano filio thor . Drogone de| lindeseia . Swano de ercedun . Willelmo …ueles . Cospatricio de Ercedun
William of Lindsay to all sons of the Church Greeting: Let those to come as well as those present know that I have given and by the present charter have made firm to God and to St Mary at Melrose and to the monks serving God there Fauhope as Leader Water runs and as the hedge encloses, in perpetual alms, for the soul of my father and my mother and of all my ancestors and my own soul. With these witnesses, Amfred the abbot of Newbattle, Swain the son of Thor, Drogo of Lindsay, Swain of Earlston, William …, Cospatric of Earlston.
