Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/5596

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

. . . And especially for the sake of the church of John the Baptist which I intended and intend always to maintain, protect and favour in honour, reverence and devotion, the cemetery of which, through the violent movement of the sand, has been laid so bare and destroyed, to the foundation of the very church, as is said, that the buried bones of many of the dead are seen there . . .

{. . .} et precipue causa ecclesiae Johannis Baptisti quam in honore reverentia et devotione semper intendebam et intendam mantenere, protegere et fovere, cujus caemeterium per violentiam motionis arenae ut predicitur fere usque ad fundamentum ipsius ecclesiae adeo est denudata et destructa quod multorum ossa defunctorum ibidem humata videntur per ventorum violentiam de terra evulsa penitus et circa {. . .}

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
John the Baptist
Saint details
ST/JD/24
Date low
None
Date high
10/12/1380
Entry reference
EN/EW/3313
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
St John the Baptist Ayr Church (Parish) NS3422 Ayr [AYP] Ayr 100