Paul III, Pope, 1468-1549

Scope and Contents Letters directed from the Penitentiary of Pope Paul III, in answer to a petition by William Cunynghame in Southhuik, giving power to the subdean of Glasgow and to Archibald Crawford and John Colquhen, canons there, to confirm to the grantee and his heirs a charter of feu-farm of the lands of Southhuik, extending to a four merk land, the third part of all the lands of Southhuik in the lordship of Kilmaurs, bailiary of Cunningham and shire of Ayr, made to the petitioner by Robert Hamilton,...

Scope and Contents Letters from the Papal See addressed to the archdeacon of Lismore, the provost of Trinity College, near Edinburgh, and the provost of Seytoun, narrating that George [Durie], commendator of Dunfermline, had leased or feued for nineteen years to Hugh Rig and Janet Hoppar, his wife, the lands of Carberry in the shire of Musselburgh, regality of Dunfermline, and sheriffdom of Edinburgh, at a yearly rental of £40 Scots with other dues, which the grantees wished confirmed by the pope, and granting...

Scope and Contents Letters from the Papal See, directed to the abbot of Kinloss, the archdeacon of Sodor, and dean of Restalrig, in terms of a petition by James Dundas of Craigtoun, and Elizabeth Hamilton, his wife, to the effect that Walter Lindsay, knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem, preceptor of Torphichen, had by permission of Philip Villers Lisle Adam, grand master of the order, granted to the petitioners the lands of Over Newliston, also the lands of Sarjandland, all as described and bounded in...

Scope and Contents Notarial Instrument of Citation, directed to all and singular, rectors, vicars, perpetual chaplains, curates, presbyters, clerks, notaries, and others in the diocese of St. Andrews and elsewhere within the kingdom of Scotland, required to execute the premises, by William Gibson, dean of Restalrig, and Richard Lawson, archdeacon of Sodor or the Isles, and [ ] provost of St. Bothans, judges, executors, and commissaries, delegated by the Papal See in terms of letters, dated at Rome, 13th May...

Scope and Contents Papal Letters narrating petitions and assertions on the part of James [Hay], bishop of Ross, claiming right to the teinds of the lands of the monastery of Fearn, in the diocese of Ross, within Tarbat and Nigg and other parishes, which had been improperly and falsely withheld by Donald Donune, abbot of Fearn, etc.; narrating also that on the day appointed for hearing the cause, the procurator for the abbot appeared, while the procurator for the bishop did not, and the former therefore...