Document 6/2/36 (CDS, ii, no. 990b)
- Description
- ...Also the ‘letters of certain inhabitants of Scotland’ as follows: Gillenef (Gilla na Naem) McGillhert, Neel (Niall) McEthe, Gilchrist McEthe, Dungal McGilleueras, Duncan McGillauenan, Adam McGilleconil, Gillespic (Gillespie) McEuri, Cuthbert McEuri, Kalman (Colman) McKelli, Michael his brother, Hoen (Eoin) McEthe, Cuthbert his brother, Achmacath (Echmarcach) McGilmotha, Michael McGilmocha, the chief men (‘greinours’) of the lineage of Clenafren, declare that having aided John de Balliol, late king of Scotland, in his war and ‘fole enprise’ against the king of England, who is about to send his army into Galloway to chastise them, they for themselves and their lineage confess their fault, come to his peace, and swear on the Saints to assist him against Balliol and all others; and have given hostages....
- Firm date
- Monday 25 June 1296
- Dating Notes
- Monday after St John Baptist’s day, 1296
- Place date (modern)
- Wigtown
- Related Place
- Wigtown
- Source for Data Entry
- CDS, ii, no. 990b
- Trad. ID
- CDS, ii, no. 990b
- Calendar number
- 6/2/36
- Charter type
- Public Instrument
- Language
- Entered from an English summary
- Notes
- Some emendations have been made to spellings of names based on comments by D.C. McWhannell, 'Gaill, Gaidheil, Gall-Ghaidheil and the Cenela of Greater Galloway', TDGNHAS 87 (2013), 98-9.