Robert, bishop of St Andrews, for Holyrood Abbey; with assent of chapter, has granted those things which King David has given, namely, church of [Edinburgh] castle with Saughton (MLO); church of St Cuthbert [in Edinburgh]; church of Corstorphine (MLO) with two oxgangs and six acres; church of Airth (STL) with two ploughgates of land in that villa and a saltpan with twenty seven acres of land; church of Livingstone (WLO) with half a ploughgate of land; church of Whitekirk (ELO), and Whitekirk and Ford (MLO); Broughton (MLO); Inverleith (MLO) and Pittendriech (MLO), reserving episcopal dignity and authority
Firm date
1128 X 24 May 1153
Probable date
1140s or early 1150s
Dating Notes
Foundation of the abbacy at Dunfermline × death of King David; prob. based on the presence of Aiulf, dean of Lothian