Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/1094

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Payment of 5 li to the bishop of Orkney, receiving 5 li annually for a chalder of corn and a tun of wine for a similar consecration [i.e. of the body and blood of Christ in the Mass] in the church of St Magnus the Martyr of Orkney. Gilbert of Kintore, the bishop's procurator, admitting receipt for the year of the account

Et episcopo Orcadensi, percipienti annuatim quinque libras pro una celdra frumenti et uno doleo vini ad consimilem consecracionem in ecclesia Sancti Magni Martiris Orchadensis, Gilberto de Kintor, procuratore domini episcopi, per suas literas fatente receptum super compotum de anno compoti, v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus the Martyr
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/EW/989
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
St Magnus Kirkwall Cathedral HY449108 Kirkwall & St Ola [KSO] Orkney 100