Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4284

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Item two silver basins for washing, gilt on the rims, given by Bishop Henry with an inscription beginning 'Henry, by the grace of God etc, caused me to be made in 1433 and whoever removes us from that altar and from Our Lady will be removed from the kingdom of God . . .'.

{. . .} Item due pelues de argento pro lotione in circumferencijs deaurate date per dominum episcopum Henricum Abberdonensem cum subscriptione incipiente HENRICUS DEI GRACIA ETC. FECIT ME FIERI ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QUADRINGENTESIMO TRICESIMO TERCIO ET QUICUNQUE NOS ALIENAUERIT AB ISTO ALTARI ET A NOSTRA DOMINA SIT ALIENUS A REGNO DEI {. . .}

Type of dedication
Invocation
Confidence
90
Saint named
Our Lady
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
1433
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/EW/2679
Notes
Dedication type on basis of earlier examples.
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Bishop of Aberdeen Henry Lichton, de Male Bishop 100 Henry de Lichton, bishop of Moray, 1414-22 and then bishop of Aberdeen, 1422-40; Watt and Murray, Fasti, 280, 3.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100