Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc | Date: 28 April 2011, 04:31
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Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc: Registorum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc pars prior, Registrum Vetus munimentaque eidem coetanea complectens 1178-1329, [The Book of St. Thomas of Arbroath from the Registry of Arbroath Abbey, Part 1: The Old Register, 1178-1329]
By Registry of Arbroath Abbey
* Publisher: the Registry of Arbroath Abbey, Edinburgh
* Number Of Pages:
* Publication Date: 1848-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: B002EWX0D6
* ISBN-13 / EAN:
Liber S. Thome de Aberbrothoc: Registorum Abbacie de Aberbrothoc pars prior, Registrum Vetus munimentaque eidem coetanea complectens 1178-1329, [The Book of St. Thomas of Arbroath from the Registry of Arbroath Abbey, Part 1: The Old Register, 1178-1329]
By Registry of Arbroath Abbey
* Publisher: the Registry of Arbroath Abbey, Edinburgh
* Number Of Pages: 452
* Publication Date: 1848-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: B002EWX0D6
* ISBN-13 / EAN:
PREFACE.
THE date of the foundation of Arbroath is of some interest in
Church and public history. Thomas a Becket, the high church
Archbishop, was slain at the altar of his own church of Canterbury,
on the 29th of December 1170. Two years afterwards,
in 1173, he was canonized; and within five years of his
canonization, and not more than seven from the period of his
death, in the year 1178,1 William King of Scotland had founded,
endowed, and dedicated to Saint Thomas the Martyr, the Abbey
of Arbroath.
William was no admirer of the Archbishop's principles of
Church independence. His whole policy was opposed to them.
A contemporary Churchman accuses him of imitating the Norman
tyranny in controlling the disposal of Church preferment,2 and
he did not always testify great respect for the Pope. It has been
suggested that William was personally acquainted with Becket in
his early life, " when there was little probability of his ever becoming
a confessor, martyr, and saint."1 Was this the cause, or
was it the natural propensity to extol him who, living and dead,
had humbled the Crown of England, that led William to take
Saint Thomas as his patron saint, and to entreat his intercession
when he was in greatest trouble ?2 Or may we consider the dedication
of his new Abbey, and his invocation of the martyr of
Canterbury, as nothing more than signs of the rapid spreading
of the veneration for the new saint of the high church party, from
which his old opponent himself was not exempt ?3
The Abbey was founded for Tyronensian monks brought from
the monastery of Kelso, in 1178.4
1. Reginald, a monk of Kelso, was the first Abbot of Arbroath.
5 In 1178, the Abbot and Convent of Kelso quitclaimed
from all subjection and obedience, Reginald elected to be Abbot
of the church of St. Thomas in Scotland at Arbroath ; declaring
that notwithstanding monks had been taken from Kelso for the
house of Arbroath, the Abbot of Kelso should never claim any
authority over the Abbot or Convent of the church of St.
Thomas. Wherefore, said they, let mutual charity, friendship
and prayers, have place between the houses, but no dominion
or power. King William was present at that grant, along with
Mathew Bishop of Aberdeen, who consecrated the Abbot, the
See of St. Andrews being vacant1 Abbot Reginald died the same
year.
2. Henry, a monk of Kelso, was the next Abbot. In 1179, the
same Abbot of Kelso granted in his favour a renunciation of all
authority over his house in similar terms with that granted to
Abbot Reginald.2 Henry was Abbot till 1201, or later.3
3. Gilbert is the next Abbot that has occurred. He is found
in charters before 1214/and between 1220-25.5 Gilbert is mentioned
in a charter of Abbot Ralph his successor, as having
perambulated certain lands of Kenny, in the shire of Kingoldrum.6
4. Ralph (Radulphus de Lamley) was Abbot on 30th March
1226. In 1233, on the 8th of the Ides of March, the Abbey
Church was dedicated,7 having been somewhat more than half
a century in building. Abbot Ralph became Bishop of Aberdeen
in 1239, when he probably resigned the Abbacy.
5. Adam was probably the next Abbot. In 1242, Abbot Adam
granted the lands of Conveth and others to John Wischard in feufarm.
1 He was Abbot in 1245.2
6. Walter was Abbot of Arbroath in 1252,3 and in 1256.4
7. Robert was Abbot in December 1261. In 1267 his monks
expelled him from the convent, (pudenter ejecerunt,) and he
appealed to Rome, but no more is known of his history.5
8. Sabinus, Abbot of Arbroath, is witness to the foundationcharter
of Maison Dieu at Brechin, by William de Brechin, in or
before 1267, in which year, 4th July, he grants " liberum introitum,"
to Mesyndew.6
9. John was Abbot of Arbroath on the feast of the Assumption,
1268/
10. The next Abbot was William, who occurs very frequently
from 1276 to 1288.8
11. Henry is the name of the Abbot of Arbroath at the time of
the homages to Edward in 1292, 1296.
12. Nicholas occurs as Abbot of Arbroath, on Saturday next
before the feast of St. Clement the martyr, 1299.9
13. John was Abbot on the feast of St. Stephen the protomartyr,
1303.10 He resigned, or was removed from his office, (cessit et
per episcopum absolutus fuit ab officio,) on the feast of All Saints,
1309.11
14. His successor was Bernard de Linton, who was Chancellor
of Scotland during almost all the reign of Robert the Bruce. He
seems to have been appointed to the Abbacy in 1311, when he
had been Chancellor for some years. He continued Abbot and
Chancellor till 1328, when, on the vigil of St. Philip and St. James,
30th April, being elected to the See of Sodor, a pension was
assigned to him out of his Abbacy; and the Bishop and others
assigning it, narrate that he had been Abbot for seventeen years.1
15. Geoffry immediately succeeded in the Abbacy. He granted
a charter on March 19, 1328,2 and he was Abbot for some time
after the period at which the present volume of the writs of the
Abbey closes.
The King, its founder, was the great benefactor of the Abbey.
But it is astonishing with what rapidity estates in land, churches
and tithes were heaped upon the new foundation, by the magnates
and barons of Angus and the North. It is not uninteresting to
note the acquisitions of a single reign.
King William himself bestowed on the monks serving God and
Saint Thomas the martyr at Aberbrothoc, the territory of Athyn or
Ethie, and Achinglas, the shires of Dunechtyn and Kingoldrum;
a net's fishing in Tay, called Stok, and one in the North Esk; a
salt-work in the Carse of Stirling; the ferry-boat of Montrose, with
its land; the custody of " the Brecbennach," with the lands of
Forglen attached to that office ; a plough of land in Monethen or
Mondyne on the Bervy; a toft in each of the King's burghs and
residences, and a license of "timber in his forests: the patronage
and tithes of the following churches:—....................................................................
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