Judicial Proceeding: dispute between Sir John de Lindsay of Thurston and Sir David de Graham

In the parliament held at Scone in the month of March in AD 1372 and the third year of the reign of King Robert II [March 1373], upon the controversy moved between Sir John de Lindsay of Thurston and Sir David de Graham, knights, touching the lands of Old Montrose, it was decreed by the presidents of parliament that the aforesaid Sir David ought to continue in and with his possession of the said lands of Old Montrose, notwithstanding anything hitherto shown on behalf of the same Sir John, and that the king ought to stand with him for his defence against the said Sir John and be held to guarantee the said lands to him from the causes and evidences shown, saving to the aforesaid Sir John his prosecution against the king by the register or otherwise.

  1. Contained in a copy taken from a lost register of parliament given under the great seal at Dunfermline on 23 July 1374 (printed in full in APS, xii, 18). Back