Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4017

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

William, bishop of Aberdeen to Gilbert Piot and William Binnie, bailies. Details that 16 particates of land have been given to Master Duncan Shearer, rector of Clatt, and to a perpetual chaplain at the altar of St Andrew the apostle within the cathedral church of Aberdeen. Asks them to hand over sasine.

Villelmus miseratione diuina episcopus Abirdonensis . . . Gilberto Pyot et Willelmo Bynne . . . balliuis . . . Quia dedimus . . . magistro Duncano Scherar rectori de Clat nostro clerico familiari et vni capellano perpetuo ad altare sancti Andree apostoli infra ecclesiam cathedralem Abirdonensem . . . illam terram sexdecim perticatas terre in longitudine continentem cum suis pertinencijs iacentem infra nostram ciuitatem Aberdonensem {. . .} prout in carta nostra sibi desuper confecta plenius continetur . Vobis . . . mandamus quatenus dicto magistro Duncano . . . sasinam . . . terre antedicte cum suis pertinencijs nomine ecclesie et dicti altaris tradatis {. . .}

Type of dedication
Grant in honour of saint
Confidence
100
Saint named
Andrew the apostle
Saint details
ST/JD/3
Date low
None
Date high
27/5/1499
Entry reference
EN/EW/2566
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Bishop of Aberdeen William Elphinstone Male Bishop 100 William Elphinstone II, bishop of Aberdeen, 1483-1514; Watt and Murray, Fasti, 4.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100