Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4644

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Charter recording the settlement, in presence of the prior of Dunfermline and dean of Dunkeld, papal mandatories, of a controversy between Inchcolm and William Hay, lord of 'Lochorwart' (Borthwick), regarding the land of Caldside, which Hay now resigns to God, the church of St Columba 'de Insula' and the canons serving God there. It is dated at Scone on the first Sunday after the feast of the Trinity in 1263.

Omnibus Sancte matris ecclesie filiis presens Scriptum visuris vel audituris Prior de Dunfermeline et Decanus Dunkeldensis Judices a domino papa delegati Salutem in Domino. Constitutis in presentia nostra Abbate et conventu de Insula Sancti Columbe actoribus per dominum Lambertum canonicum suum procuratorem legittime constitutum ex una parte et Willelmo de Haya domino de Lochoward reo ex altera personaliter comparente in Ecclesia conventuali de Scona questio que sperabatur moveri super terram de Caldside post citationem factam dicto Willelmo per nos in hunc modum conquievit ita videlicet quod dictus Willelmus totam terram de Caldside dedit et quietum clamavit Deo et ecclesie Sancti Columbe de Insula et canonicis ibidem Deo servientibus et imperpetuum servituris in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam {. . .} Datum apud Sconam Dominica prima post festum Trinitatis Anno gratie Millesimo Ducentesimo sexagesimo tertio.

Type of dedication
Grant in honour of saint
Confidence
100
Saint named
Columba
Saint details
ST/JD/11
Date low
3/6/1263
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/EW/2872
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Lord of Borthwick William Hay Male Landowner (unspecified) 100 William Hay, lord of Borthwick
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Inchcolm Abbey NT189826 Aberdour [ABO] Fife 100