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Alanus, filius Rollandi, Constabularius, fecit Deo et ecclesie 

 Sancti Oswald! Martiris de Kelletun, de triginta et duabus 

 acris terre in territorio ejusdem ville : Tenendas in liberam 

 et puram et perpetuam elemosinam ita libere et quiete, 

 plenarie et honorifice, sicut carte predicti Alani, filii Eollandi, 

 testantur, salvo servicio nostro : Testibus, Thoma Comite Ethol ; 

 Phillippo de Valoniis, Camerario ; Willelmo Cumin, Justiciario 

 Scotie ; Olivero, capellano ; Willelmo de Boscho, clerico nostro ; 

 Thoma de Coleville ; Ricardo filio Hugonis. Apud Strivelin, 

 vij. die Januarij. 



Which may be Englished as follows : — William, by the 

 grace of God, King of Scots, to all the good men of his whole 

 land, clergy and laity, greeting, — Know, present and future 

 generations, that I have given, and by this, my charter, 

 confirmed, that gift which Alan, the son of Roland, Constable 

 (of Scotland), made to God and the Church of St. Cuthbert 

 of Kirkcudbright, of that part of Sipland which Kenneth held, 

 and also that gift which the same Alan, the son of Rolland, 

 Constable, made to God and the Church of St. Oswald the 

 martyr of Kelton, of thirty and two acres of land in the 

 territory of the said vill. : To hold in free and pure and 

 perpetual alms as freely and quietly, fully and honourably, 

 as the charters of the aforesaid Alan, the son of Roland, bear 

 witness, saving our service : The witnesses being — Thomas, 

 Earl of AthoU ; Philip de Valouiis, Chamberlain ; William 

 Cumming, Justiciary of Scotland ; Oliver, the chaplain ; William 

 de Bosco, our clerk ; Thomas de Coleville ; Richard the son 

 of Hugh. — At Stirling, 7th day of January (no year is given, 

 but as King William the Lion died in 1214, and Thomas, 

 the brother of Alan, was created Earl of Atholl in 1210, the 

 date is clearly 1210-4). 



