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DE/EW/5662

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Charter confirms letters of abbot and convent of Kilwinning, Master James Houston, subdean of Glasgow, and Christopher Boyd, perpetual vicar of Dalry, consenting to the founding of a college or collegiate church of Mary, perpetual virgin, and Anne, her mother, in the street of St Teneu, in the city of Glasgow.

{. . .} Et cum cuncta nobis ecclesie capelle et loca sub Sanctorum fundata et dotata vocabulis pia deuotione fidelium sint veneranda illa tamen que in honore semper Virginis Marie Dei et Domini nostri Jhesu Christi genitricis et Anne matris eius Beatarum vocabulis dedicata noscuntur eo ex celebriori memoria conuenit venerari quo Dominus noster Jhesus Christus earundem Marie genitricis sue et Anne matris eius precibus et intercessionibus immediatius et perfectius vota fidelium dirigere et ad gratiam exauditionis admittere valeat {. . .} in ecclesia Marie semper Virginis et Anne matris euis {recte 'eius'} Beatarum in vico Sancte Teneu ciuitatis nostre Glasguensis sita et per dictum Jacobum subdecanum a fundamentis constructa et edificata {. . .}

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Mary and Anne
Saint details
ST/JD/57
Date low
None
Date high
3/6/1542
Entry reference
EN/EW/3369
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