Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/557

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

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

Et episcopo Orchadiensi, percipienti annuatim quinque libras de firmis dicti burgi ex elemosina regis Roberti primi, pro uno dolio vini et una celdra frumenti ad consecracionem corporis Christi in ecclesia Sancti Magni martiris in Orchadia, in plenam solacionem dicte pensionis, v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus the Martyr
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
2/6/1434
Entry reference
EN/EW/496
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