Manuscripta juridica

Ius proprium Scotiae - Leges burgorum (in Scots, extracts).

Same handwriting as before. Now numbered in the right lower corner as quire 'a' and recto of first leaf of quire 'b'. Divided into only 107 chapters. The work has a preface which was neither printed in Skene's edition nor in the Record edition of the Acts of Parliament of Scotland, vol. 1, where this MS is noticed on p. xxxv

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No. of pages: Part 4, Fol. 5r-23r:

Rubric: Here beginis the law of burch, mayde throw King Davide, Macholm sone, and saynt Margeret

Incipit:

• [{i}Preface:{/i}] For that thar was sa mony men in his kunrike of sundry conditionis, and thare was sa mony lawis that na man stud aw of oy, and in that ille tyme the saide King David fundit and mayde the abbay of Dunfermlyne in honor of saint Mergret, his moder, and in that tim he mayd mony castell and abbaysis of chanouns, qwhyte and blake nunys ... all his lawis of Scotlande, batht of bourcht and lande, throw the haly consent of his Consell, als well of the burges as of othyre

Explicit:

• In the first, he grantide fredome and fraunchis tyll all holy kyrke nane outlaw, na fule(?), na prest wytht land na nane of relygioune, na nane coniugyt befor Justice. Explicit.

  [{i}There follow poems and other non-legal texts, written by the same hand.{/i}]