Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/576

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 Robert I for a tun of wine and a chalder of corn for Mass in the church of St Magnus the Martyr in Orkney

[Et] episcopo Orchadensi, percipienti annuatim quinque libras de firmis dicti burgi ex [elemosina regis Roberti primi, pro uno dolio] vini et celdra frumenti ad confeccionem corporis Christi in ecclesia Sancti Magni martiris [in Orchadia, in plenam solucionem dicte pensionis] de duobus terminis hujus compoti, David de Tullach, fratre et receptore dicti [episcopi, fatente receptum super compotum,] v li.

Type of dedication
Church dedication
Confidence
100
Saint named
Magnus the Martyr
Saint details
ST/JD/32
Date low
None
Date high
25/7/1437
Entry reference
EN/EW/513
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