Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/335

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Payment of 5 li to the bishop and cathedral church of Aberdeen for the sustaining of a chaplain celebrating for the souls of Robert III, his ancestors and successors, receiving 5 li which used to be paid to the church of St Magnus in Orkney

Et domino episcopo Aberdonensi et ecclesie cathedrali ejusdem, ad sustentacionem unius capellani, celebrantis pro animabus regis Roberti tercii, antecessorum et successorum suorum, in ecclesia antedicta, percipienti illas quinque libras quas percipere consuevit ecclesia Sancti Magni in ecclesia Orcadensi, pro vino et frumento ad confeccionem corporis Christi, quousque universalis ecclesia ad unionem fuerit reducta, ut patet per literas dicti domini episcopi de recepto ostensas super compotum, de dictis duobus terminis, v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
12/3/1406
Entry reference
EN/EW/296
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