charter-room

Updated: June 20, 2025

Notwithstanding their disappearance, ample evidence of the tenure of the estate of Sutherland by Hugo Freskyn has been preserved until the present day in the Charter-room at Dunrobin; and the documents are happily as legible as they were over 700 years ago. This renders it certain that Hugo himself had died before December 1214, the latest possible limit of the date of this charter.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns