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Gameson, ‘The gospels of Margaret of Scotland and the literacy of an eleventh-century queen’, in L. Smith and J. H. M. Taylor (eds), Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (London, 1997), p. 165, citing Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. liturg. fo. 5, fo. 2; R. Rushforth, St. Margaret’s Gospel-book: The Favourite Book of an Eleventh-century Queen of Scots (Oxford, 2007), p. 55. 124. APS, i, pp. 5–6; CDS, ii, no. 840. ), ‘The Scottish king’s household and other fragments, from a 14th century manuscript in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge’, in Scottish History Society Miscellany, vol.

Webster, Scotland from the Eleventh Century to 1603 (Cambridge, 1975), p. 159; J. Wormald, ‘The blood feud in early modern Scotland’, in J. ), Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 101–44 ; J. Wormald, ‘An early modern postscript: the Sandlaw dispute, 1546’, in W. Davies and P. Fouracre (eds), The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1986), p. 202. A. Grant, ‘Franchises north of the border: baronies and regalities in medieval Scotland’, in M.

139. edn (Oxford, 1993), p. 254; more generally, see S. E. Thorne, ‘Livery of seisin’, Law Quarterly Review, 52 (1936), pp. 345–56. , no. 179; see ibid. no. 178. When Robert de Vere made a gift of land to the monks of Melrose he did so by laying a wand on the altar of the monastic church; Melrose Liber, no. 259. St Andrews Liber, p. 349. For another example from c. 1270, see Fraser, Douglas, iii, p. 4. , nos. 348, 349. See here the recent discussion of the relationship between charters and delivery of sasine in G.

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