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Volume 4/ includes two-sided documents (such as chirographs or indentures), recording agreements between two or more parties. It also includes judgements, settlements, sentences and other court decision, often by papal judges-delegates. Other records of legal proceedings are included here, such as inquests and recognitions of perambulations, as well as the records of Scottish parliaments, starting in the 1290s.
Section One: Agreements
| Series | Description |
|---|
| 4/1/ | Agreements between Scottish kings and others |
| 4/2/ | Agreements between Scottish queens and others |
| 4/3/ | Agreements between two or more bishops |
| 4/4/ | Agreements between bishops and heads of religious houses |
| 4/5/ | Agreements between bishops and hospitals |
| 4/6/ | Agreements between bishops and other ecclesiastical persons |
| 4/7/ | Agreements between members of secular cathedral chapters |
| 4/8/ | Agreements between two or more religious houses, including cathedrals staffed by canons regular |
| 4/9/ | Agreements between religious houses and secular clerics |
| 4/10/ | Agreements between religious houses and hospitals |
| 4/11/ | Agreements between religious houses and local churches |
| 4/12/ | Agreements between religious houses and other ecclesiastical persons |
| 4/13/ | Agreements between hospitals and clerics |
| 4/14/ | Agreements between local clergy |
| 4/15/ | Agreements between bishops and earls and countesses and their sons |
| 4/16/ | Agreements between bishops and nobles and knights |
| 4/17/ | Agreements between bishops and other laypeople |
| 4/18/ | Agreements between cathedral chapters and laypeople |
| 4/19/ | Agreements between religious houses and earls and countesses and their sons |
| 4/20/ | Agreements between religious houses and nobles and knights |
| 4/21/ | Agreements between religious houses and burgesses |
| 4/22/ | Agreements between religious houses and other laypeople |
| 4/23/ | Agreements between hospitals and laypeople |
| 4/24/ | Agreements between parish churches and laypeople |
| 4/25/ | Agreements between other clerics and laypeople |
| 4/26/ | Agreements between two or more laypeople |
| 4/27/ | Agreements between English kings and laypeople |
Section Two: Settlements and Judgements
| Series | Description |
|---|
| 4/30/ | Papal legates |
| 4/31/ | Papal auditors |
| 4/32/ | Papal judges delegate, including agreements decided in front of PJD's |
| 4/33/ | Bishops |
| 4/34/ | Archdeacons and officials |
| 4/35/ | Heads of religious houses |
Section Three: Courts, Inquests, and Perambulations
| 4/36/ | Church courts |
|---|
| 4/37/ | Secular courts (inc. sheriffs and justiciars) |
| 4/38/ | Inquests |
| 4/39/ | Perambulations |
| 4/40/ | Perambulations of the Anglo-Scottish border |
Section Four: Community of the realm
| Series | Description |
|---|
| 4/41/ | Ambassadors of the kings of Scots |
| 4/42/ | 'National' councils (see also acts of the Guardians in Vol. 1/) |
| 4/43/ | Miscellaneous |
| 4/50 | Scottish parliaments |