Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/542

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Payment of 5 li to the bishop of Orkney, receiving 5 Ii annually from the burgh fermes for a tun of wine and a chalder of corn for the Mass in the church of St Magnus the Martyr in Orkney, from the alms of King Robert I

Et episcopo Orchadensi, percipienti annuatim quinque libras de firmis dicti burgi pro uno dolio vini et celdra frumenti ad confeccionem corporis Christi in ecclesia Sancti Magni Martiris in Orchadia, ex elemosina regis Roberti primi, in plenam solucionem dicte pensionis de anno computi, v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus the Martyr
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
26/4/1331
Entry reference
EN/EW/483
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