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DE/EW/3787

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Christina Bruce, lady of the Garioch and wife of the late Sir Andrew Moray, for the salvation of the souls of her brother, Robert I, her husband, her own soul and those of her ancestors and successors, grants to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary and all saints, and to a chaplain to serve at the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary within the Garioch, a toft with a croft containing an acre of land within the tenement of 'Drumdurnach' in the lordship of the Garioch and 100 s sterling annually from the land of Greater 'Werthill' within the said lordship.

Omnibus hanc cartam visuris vel audituris Cristiana de Bruyse domina de la Garuiach ac sponsa quondam domini Andree de Morauia dudum panetarij Scotie eternam in Domino salutem . Nouerit vniuersitas vestra nos pro salute anime carissimi fratris nostri domini Roberti Dei gratia regis Scottorum illustris et pro salute anime domini nostri dudum domini Andree de Morauia supradicti ac pro salute anime nostre et animarum antecessorum nostrorum et successorum nostrorum dedisse concessisse [et] hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse in puram et perpetuam elemosinam Deo et beate Marie virgini et omnibus sanctis suis et cuidam capellano viro ydoneo et electo inperpetuum deseruituro apud capellam beate Marie virginis infra le Garuyach vnum toftum cum quodam crofto continente vnam acram terre infra tenementum de Drumdurnach in dominio nostro de la Garuyach et centum solidos sterlingorum annuatim percipiendos ad terminos annorum vsuales per equales portiones de terra nostra de Werthill maiore infra dominium nostrum predictum de le Garuyach {. . .} personam ydoneam eligamus qui quidem omnia necessaria pro seruitio Dei et sancte Marie matris sue ibidem ministrando {. . .} quam quidem concessionem et donationem nostram predictam nos et heredes nostri seu assignati Deo et beate Marie matri sue ac cuidam capellano ad capellaniam predictam beate Marie vt supra inperpetuum defendemus {. . .}

Type of dedication
Grant in honour of saint
Confidence
100
Saint named
Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
1338
Date high
1344
Entry reference
EN/EW/2468
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Christiana Bruce None Noble (other) 100 Christiana de la Bruys.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
St Mary Chapel of Garioch Chapel NJ7123 Chapel of Garioch [CHG] Aberdeen 100