Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/3962

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Master Thomas Ednam, canon of Aberdeen, resigns an annual rent of 13 s 4 d to Nicholas Prowdy, vicar of St Machar and general collector of the chaplains of the cathedral church, for an anniversary to be celebrated on the morrow of St Molocus, confessor, for the life time of the said Master Thomas and, after his death, at the time of his death with nine psalms and nine readings, following the custom of the said church, for his soul and that of the late Master Thomas Trail.

{. . .} Idem magister Thomas incontinenter dictum annuum redditum . . . resignauit . et subsequenter idem balliuus sasinam . . . eiusdem . . . Nicholao Prowdy vicario beati Machorij ac generali collectori capellanorum ecclesie cathedralis . . . tradidit pro vno anniuersario . . . celebrando in crastino sancti Moloci confessoris pro tempore vite dicti magistri Thome et post ipsius mortem tempore obitus sui cum nouem psalmis et ix lectionibus secundum consuetudinem dicte ecclesie pro anima eius et anima quondam . . . magistri Thome Tralli {. . .}

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Machar
Saint details
ST/JD/132
Date low
None
Date high
5/10/1464
Entry reference
EN/EW/2544
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100