A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . and Barns, in EastLothian, and Dundas, Wes-tercraigs, and Gogar, in thecounty of Edinburgh. Healso had a charter fromPatrick, Earl of March, ofthe lands of Halsyngton in Berwickshire; and, in 1337, he himself executed two CartasDonationis in favour of the Monastery at In consideration of the services of Sir Alexander Seton,Robert 1. erected his town of Seton into a free burgh, with all theliberties and privileges pertaining
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . and Barns, in EastLothian, and Dundas, Wes-tercraigs, and Gogar, in thecounty of Edinburgh. Healso had a charter fromPatrick, Earl of March, ofthe lands of Halsyngton in Berwickshire; and, in 1337, he himself executed two CartasDonationis in favour of the Monastery at In consideration of the services of Sir Alexander Seton,Robert 1. erected his town of Seton into a free burgh, with all theliberties and privileges pertaining to any other freeburgh belonging to an Earl or Baron, with thisexception, that the people of Seton should not enjoythe privilege of buying wool and skins for manu-facture. Such, according to Chalmers, was thenature of a free burgh of Barony in contradistinction to a Royalburgh. At the same period, the same monarch granted SirAlexander permission to have a market on the Sabbath Along with Sir Neil Campbell and Sir Gilbert Hay, SirAlexander Seton bound himself in the most solemn manner, atCambuskenneth Abbey, on the 9th of September 1308, to defend.
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