Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/381

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Payment of 13 li 6 s 8 d to the chaplain founded by David, late earl of Crawford for the souls of his parents and grandfather in the church of St Biternanus in Brechin diocese, receiving 10 merks annually from the burgh fermes

Et capellano fundato per quondam dominum David de Lyndesay comitem de Craufurde, pro animabus patris et matris sui, et anima quondam domini Johannis de Strivelyne avi sui, et pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum, in ecclesia Sancti Biternani, Brechinensis diocesis, percipienti per annum decem marcas de firmis dicti burgi per manus ballivorum ejusdem qui pro tempore fuerint, ad terminos consuetos, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam et ad manum mortuam, ut patet in rotulis compotorum precedencium, de duobus terminis hujus compoti, ut patet per literas Alexandri comitis de Craufurd de recepto ostensas super compotum, et de duobus aliis terminis hujus compoti sub periculo computantis, xiij li vj s viij d.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Biternanus
Saint details
None
Date low
None
Date high
1407
Entry reference
EN/EW/336
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Earl of Crawford David Lindsay Male Earl 100 David Lindsay, 1st earl of Crawford, d.1407. See Alison Cathcart and David Ditchburn, 'Lindsay family, earls of Crawford (per. c.1380-1495', ODNB.
no locations recorded
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence