Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/5661

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Letter from Alexander, abbot of Kilwinning, to Gavin, archbishop of Glasgow in which Alexander requests that the archbishop consent to the erection of the perpetual vicarage of Dalry into the provostry of the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Anna her mother, to be erected into a collegiate church etc.

{. . .} magistrum Jacobum Houstone dicte vestre ecclesie Glaguensis subdecanum {. . .} vnum Collegium cum certo prebendariorum numero in ecclesia Marie semper Virginis et Anne matris eius Beatarum nouiter per eum a fundamentis constructa {. . .} Nos IGITUR petitionem hiusmodi ex premissis attendentes esse veram et rationi consonam / diuinum cultum semper quantum in nobis est augere cupientes / erectioni dicte vicarie perpetue de Dalry in Preposituram dicte ecclesie Marie et Anne Beatarum in Ecclesiam Collegiatam erigende {. . .}

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Mary and Anne
Saint details
ST/JD/57
Date low
None
Date high
15/7/1532
Entry reference
EN/EW/3368
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Subdean of Glasgow James Houston Male Cathedral dignitary 100 James Houston, subdean of Glasgow 1526-50; Watt and Murray, Fasti, 218.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Our Lady College Glasgow Collegiate Church NS595649 Glasgow [GLW] Lanark 100