Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/522

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Payment of 5 li to the bishop of Orkney, receiving 5 li yearly from the burgh fermes for a tun of wine and a chalder of corn for the service of the altar in the church of St Magnus in Orkney, from the old fee of the king

Et episcopo Orcadensi, percipienti annuatim quinque libras de firmis dicti burgi pro uno dolio vini et celdra frumenti pro ministerio altaris in ecclesia Sancti Magni in Orcadia, ex infeodacione regis antiqua, ut patet per literas David de Tulo, procuratoris dicti episcopi, de recepto ostensas super computum, de anno hujus computi, v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
21/3/1429
Entry reference
EN/EW/465
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
St Magnus Kirkwall Cathedral HY449108 Kirkwall & St Ola [KSO] Orkney 100