Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4011

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

James IV confirms previous grant of 20 merks from certain rents and fermes of the burgh of Aberdeen at instance of Master Andrew Lyell, treasurer of Aberdeen, to chaplains of the cathedral and the church of St Nicholas, dated 10 May 1491.

Jacobus Dei gratia rex Scottorum . . . licet nos alias in etate nostra tenera constituti literas nostras donationis concessionis et mortificationis de data decimo die mensis Maij anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo primo et regni nostri tercio fecissemus de certis redditibus et firmis burgalibus infra burgum nostrum de Aberdene et extra ad summam viginti mercarum ad instanciam dilecti clerici nostri magistri Andree Liell thesaurarij Aberdonensis easdemque donationes concessiones et mortificationes capellanis ecclesie cathedralis et beati Nycholai burgi nostri antedicti contulisset [contulissemus?] prout in eisdem literis desuper confectis dicitur contineri {. . .}

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Nicholas
Saint details
ST/JD/50
Date low
None
Date high
15/7/1496
Entry reference
EN/EW/2563
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Church (Parish) NJ940063 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100