Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland logo

DE/EW/4175

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Item two copes of striped cloth for feast days given by lord Henry de Lychton, bishop. Item Master Duncan de Lychton, chancellor of Aberdeen, gave and offered to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary a blue cope of gold which is called 'Lychtona' on the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1440.

Item due cappe de burde alexandri pro ferialibus diebus date per dominum Henricum de Lychton episcopum . Item venerabilis vir magister Duncanus de Lychtona cancellarius Aberdonensis dedit et optulit Deo et beate Marie virgini vnam cappam blaueam deauratam que vocabitur Lychtona in festo purificationis beate Marie virginis anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quadregesimo qui quidem magister Duncanus fuit nepos prefati domini Henrici de Lychtoun episcopi Abirdonensis {. . .}

Type of dedication
Gift
Confidence
100
Saint named
Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
2/2/1440
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/EW/2635
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Chancellor of Abdn Duncan Lichton, de Male Cathedral dignitary 100 Master Duncan Lichton, chancellor of Aberdeen diocese, 1436-75; Watt and Murray, Fasti, 17.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100