Indenture between Sir Hugh of Abernethy and Lady Ethona [or Ethena], widow of Sir Christine, in regard to her terce lands of Argyll and Athole, 16th May, c. 1277

Indenture between Sir Hugh of Abernethy and Lady Ethona [or Ethena], widow of Sir Christine, in regard to her terce lands of Argyll and Athole, 16th May, c. 1277

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Indenture

16/05/1277

Latin

Sir Hugh of Abernethy, Lady Ethona, widow of Sir Christine

Sir Hugh of Abernethy, Lady Ethona, widow of Sir Christine

Hec est conuencio facta inter nobilem virum, dominum Hugonem de Abernithi, ex una parte, et dominam Ethonam, sponsam quondam domini Cristini filii Banchcauer ex altera, videlicet, quod dicta domina E. in libera viduitate et potestate sua concessit dicto domino H. omnes terras et possessiones ipsam de iure et assisa terre contingentes racione dicti domini C., mariti sui, nomine tercie partis sue ; videlicet, omnes terras et possessiones ipsam iure tercie partis sue contingentes infra Ergadiam, cum terris sibi pertinentibus infra Adholiam : Tenendas et habendas dicto domino Hugoni et heredibus suis uel suis assignatis toto tempore vite dicte domine E., cum omnibus pertinenciis, iuribus, libertatibus, et aisiamentis ad dictas terras spectantibus, uel de jure spectare valentibus : Reddendo inde ipse et heredes sui uel sui assignati dicte domine uel suis assignatis in suo perpetuo, singulis annis, antiquam firmam quam dicte terre in vltimis diebus domini C. mariti dicte domine reddere consueuerunt, cum omnibus seruiciis et secularibus demandis ad dictas terras spectantibus : Et sciendum quod dictus dominus Hugo
et heredes sui, uel sui assignati, facient domino regi per quantum tempus quantum illas terras ad firmam tenuerint seruicium domino regi de dictis terris debitum, et satisfacient domino regi de annua firma sibi debita, ad terminos debitos, de terris dicte domine Ethone in Adholia : Preterea idem dominus H. et heredes sui seu sui assignati soluent firmas predictarum terrarum dicte domine et suis assignatis de dictis terris ad duos anni terminos, videlicet, ad Penticostem et ad festum Sancti Martini in hyeme, termino prime solucionis incipiente ad Penticostem anni gracie millesimi ducentesimi septuagesimi septimi. In cuius rei testimonium huic scripto, in modo cyrograffi confecto, parti residenti penes dominam appensum est sigillum dicti domini Hugonis, et parti residenti penes dictum dominum Hugonem appensum
est sigillum dicte domine Ethone.

This is an agreement made between the noble man, lord Hugh of Abernethy, on one side, and lady Ethona, spouse of the late lord Cristin son of ‘Banchcauer’ on the other, namely, that the said lady Ethona in free widowhood and [in] her power, granted to the said lord Hugh all those lands and possessions by right and assise of land composed by the reckoning of the said lord Cristin, her husband, in the name of her third part; namely, all those lands and possessions comprising her third part within Argyll, with lands belonging to her within Atholl: having and holding by the said lord Hugh and his heirs or his assignees for all the lifetime of the said lady Ethona, with all pertinents, rights, liberties, and easements belonging to the said lands, or which ought to belong to them by right: he and his heirs or his assignees rendering thence to the said lady or to her assignees forever, every year, the old rent which they had been accustomed to render for the said land in the last days of lord Cristin, the husband of the said lady, with all the services and secular demands pertaining to the said lands. And knowing that the said lord Hugh and his heirs or their assignees will perform for the lord king for as much time on those lands which they may hold at ferme the service to the lord king owed from the said lands, and they will satisfy the lord king of the annual rent owed, on the dates they are owed, for the lands of the said lady Ethona in Atholl. Moreover, the same lord Hugh and his heirs or their assignees will pay the rents on the aforesaid lands to the said lady and her assignees for the said lands on the two terminals of the year, namely, on Pentecost (or Whitsun) and on the Feast of St Martin in Winter (or Martinmas), the first due-date for payment beginning on Pentecost in the year of grace 1277. In testimony of these things in this writing, prepared in the form of a chirograph (or indenture), the seal of the said lord Hugh is appended to the part staying with the lady, and the seal of the said lady Ethona is appended to the part staying with the said lord Hugh.

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