256 STRATHCLYDE AND GALLOWAY CHARTERS. 
111.—CHarTER OF Epwarp bE Brus, Lorp or GaLLoway, To 
HoLm CuLtTrRaM. 
Edwardus de Brus, dominus 
Galwidie universis Christi 
fidelibus [visuris] vel audituris 
salutem in Domino sempiter- 
nam. Noveritis me pro salute 
anime mee et omnium ante- 
cessorum et successorum 
meorum dedisse remisisse et 
omnino pro me et heredibus ac 
assignatis meis quietum cla- 
masse religiosis viris, Abbati et 
Conventui de Holm [Cultram] 
[et] eorum successoribus illam 
annuam firmam decem librarum 
sterlingorum quam _ reddere 
solebant d[ominis] d[e] B[otil] 
[pro terris] suis quas habent 
apud Kirke Wynny in Galwidia 
in liberam et perpetuam 
elemosinam ex d[{onacione et] 
concessione Rolandi filii Huc- 
tredi et aliorum donatorum: 
ita quod nee ego dictus Hd- 
wardus nec aliquis heredum 
aut assignatorum meorum nec 
aliquis alius in dicta annua 
firma aliquid de cetero exigere 
potuerimus nec vendicare. In 
cujus rei testimonium hoc 
presens scriptum sigilli mei 
impressione roboravi. 
Edward de Brus, Lord of 
Galloway, to all Christ’s faith- 
ful who shall see or hear this, 
everlasting health in the Lord. 
Know ye that I, for the health 
of my soul and of the souls of 
all my ancestors and successors, 
have granted, remitted, and 
entirely quitclaimed for myself 
my heirs and assigns, to the re- 
ligious, the Abbot and Convent 
of Holm Cultram and _ their 
successors that yearly payment 
of ten pounds sterling which 
they were wont to make to the 
lords of Bothel21 for their lands 
which they have at Kirke- 
wynny [Kirkgunzeon] in Gal- 
loway, in free and perpetual 
alms, by the gift and grant and 
concession of Roland son of 
Huctred and other donors: So 
that neither I, the said 
Edward, nor any of my heirs or 
assigns nor any one else will be 
able to make any claim hence- 
forth in the said yearly pay- 
ment. In attestation of which 
I have fortified this present 
writing with the impression of 
my seal. 
The seal has the early Brus shield, a saltire and chief. 
The text in the gaps is restored by the great kindness of 
Chancellor and Archdeacon Prescott from a copy of the Holm 
Cultram Chartulary in the British Museum. This charter is 
not given in the Carlisle copy ; but Huctred’s charter in that, 
Chancellor Prescott tells me, grants the Kirkwynny lands 
subject to the 4.10 payment to the lords of Botil. This looks 
as though the lords of Bothel (or Buittle) held lands in Kirk- 
gunzeon out of which Uchtred’s grant was made, and that the 
21 Or, less probably, Buittle. 
