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DE/JD/5838

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To all the faithfull of Christ who shall see or hear the present writ, Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotland, health everlasting in the Lord. Know all of you that on Tuesday within the octave of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year of grace, MCCLI, for the soul od my Lord, Alexander, of pious memory [etc., . . .] I have [. . .] given, granted, and by this present charter confirmed to God and to the chapel of Blessed Mary, situated in the parish of Logie Durno, five marks sterling a year, for the maintenance of a chaplain who in the said chapel with reside continually, and with the leave of the saif Lord Bishop of Aberdeen and of the abbot and convent of Lundors will for ever celebrate divine services in honour of the Glorious Virgin Mary.

Vniversis christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris uel audituris Alanus Ostiarius, Justiciarius Scocie, eternam in domino salutem: Nouerit vniuersitas uestra me anno gracie .mccl. primo, Die martis, infra octavas apostolorum Petri et pauli, pro anima pie recordacionis domini mei Alexandri quondam illustris regis scocie, et pro salute anime mee, et Margerie uxoris mee, et omnium antecessorum et successorum meorum, de consensu et uoluntate venerabilis Patris, Domini P. dei gracia episcopi Aberdonensis, et religiosorum uirorum Abbatis et conuentus de Lundors, dedisse, concessisse, et presenti scripto confirmasse deo et capelle beate marie site in parochia de Logindurnach, quinque marcas annuas sterlingorum ad sustentacionem vnius capellani qui in dicta capella continue residebit, et de licencia dictorum Domini Episcopi Aberdonensis et abbatis et conuentus de Lundors in perpetuum de gloriosa uirgine maria diuina celebrabit

Type of dedication
Liturgical celebration
Confidence
100
Saint named
Glorious Virgin Mary
Saint details
ST/JD/2
Date low
04/07/1251
Date high
None
Entry reference
EN/JD/3479
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Alan Durward Male Noble (other) 100 Sir Alan Hostiarius, justiciar of Scotland.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
St Mary Logie Durno Chapel NJ704264 Chapel of Garioch [CHG] Aberdeen 100