Robert, ‘humble minister of the church of Glasgow’ makes known that in compassion for the plunderings, burnings, and innumerable afflictions which the abbot and convent of Inchaffray had suffered through war, and desirous of relieving, so far as he could, their poverty and low estate, grants to them power to convert to their use, on the resignation or death of the rector, the church of Buthbren (Balfron) in his diocese, the patronage of which church Sir Thomas of Cromennane, knight, had charitably granted them. Every defect, if there were any, in Sir Thomas’s grant he supplies out of the plenitude of his ordinary power. Episcopal and archidiaconal rights are reserved. The monastery need not appoint a vicar, but may cause the church to be served by a simple secular chaplain, or by one of their own canons. Seal of grantor.
Given at Balindarge in Angus, 3 October 1303
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