Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/3866

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

The court of lord Adam, bishop of Aberdeen, held at the hill of the chapel of St Thomas the Martyr beside the canonry of Aberdeen on Thursday 24 October 1381. Mentions the head messuage of the said lands on Monday after the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary last past.

Curia domini Ade Dei gratia episcopi Aberdonensis tenta apud montem capelle beati Thome Martiris iuxta canoniam de Aberdon die Jouis vigesimo quarto die mensis Octobris anno Domini millesimo trecentesimo octogesimo primo super ostentione cartarum tenentium clamantium tenere de domino episcopo supradicto et de sua ecclesia Aberdonensi . Quo die lecto citatorio et vocato sepius domino Willelmo de Keth clamante se fore tenentem pro terris de Murthlach et non comparente probataque in curia per balliuum videlicet Alexandrum Banerman ipsius domini Willelmi citatione cum testibus ad hoc vocatis videlicet Jacobo Duncani et Waltero Scissore iurantibus quod in ipsius citatione presentes fuerunt ad capitale messuagium dictarum terrarum die lune proximo post festum natiuitatis beate Marie Virginis vltimo preteritum {. . .}

Type of dedication
Dating by feast day
Confidence
100
Saint named
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
None
Date high
24/10/1381
Entry reference
EN/EW/2498
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
no locations recorded
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence