Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4373

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25 June on the feast of St Molocus, let there be every year in Aberdeen cathedral a commemoration or anniversary, with solemn Mass on the following day at the high altar, with a private Mass, by a vicar of the choir, for William Elphinstone, rector of Clatt . . .

[Vicesimo quinto die mensis Junij in festo sancti Moloci fiat singulis annis in ecclesia cathedrali Aberdonensi commemoracio siue anniuersarium cum missa solenni die sequenti ad magnum altare cum missa priuata a quolibet vicario chori eodem die pro domino Willelmo Elphinstoun rectore de Clatt pro toto tempore vite dicti domini Willelmi [Post cujus obitum] dictum anniuersarium cum missa solenni et alijs priuatis missis per vicarios chori ecclesie cathedralis Abirdonensis qui pro tempore fuerint presentes erit die obitus memorati domini Willelmi . qui vicarij orabunt pro dicto domino Willelmo patre et matre eiusdem pro reuerendo in Christo patre domino Willelmo nuper episcopo Abirdonensi et pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum et pro dicto anniuersario dicti vicarij percipient annuatim summam tredecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum de quibusdam crofto orto et orreis iacentibus prope finem oppidi de Abirdene vt plenius in carta dictis vicarijs per ipsum dominum Willelmum confecta continetur .]

Type of dedication
Liturgical celebration
Confidence
100
Saint named
Molocus
Saint details
ST/EW/158
Date low
None
Date high
1560
Entry reference
EN/EW/2725
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
William Elphinstone Male Rector 100 Sir William Elphinstone, parson of Clatt.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100