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TABULA.
REGISTRUM DOMUS DE SOLTRE.
1. Carta Malcolmi Regis de donacione terrarum de Brothirstanys vsque ad Lynden
(1153-1165), Chartularium domus de Soltre, ff. 10, 11, Transumptum Chartularii, fol. 5. . . . . . . . P. 3
2. Carta Dauid Olyfard de traua bladi de omnibus carucis suis (1153-1177),
Chart, ff. 6, 23, Tram. /ol. 13. ...... 4
3. Carta Philippi de Ew de donacione terrarum de Philpdawystoun Ew (1165-
1233), Chart. /ol. 19, Trans. /ol. 11. . . . . . ib.
4. Carta Rieardi filii Michaelis de Paistoun de quatuor bollis frumenti (1180-
1214), Chart. /ol. 12, Trans. foll2. ..... 5
5. Carta Johannis filii Eoberti Rnssel de quibusdam terris de Duncanlaw (1180-
1220), Chart. foll9. Trans, f. 10, 11. ..... ib.
6. Carta Eustacii de Stutteuel de duabus skeppis farine auenarum apud Ledale
(1180-1249), Chart. /ol. 20, Trans. /ol. 11 6
7. Carta domini Willelmi regis Scocie de diuersis priuilegiis (1189-1199), Chart.
/ol. 3, Trans, fol. 5. ....... 7
8. Carta Eicardi filii Michaelis de terris de Paistoun (1189-1214), Chart. /ol. 9,
Trans. /ol. 10. . . . . . . . .8
9. Carta Florie relicte quondam Ade Quintini de donacione terrarum de Welflat
in territorio de Lympetlaw (1190-1220), Chart. /ol. 18, Trans. /ol. 3. . 9
10. Carta Bernardi de Hauden de quatuor bollis frumenti (1190-1230), Chari.
/ol. 12, Trans. /ol. 12. ....... 10
11. Carta Petri de Grame de tribus bouatis terre in villa et territorio de Elvynys-
toun (1190-1238), Chart. /ol. 21, Trans, ff. 11, 12. . . . ib.
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12. Carta Viaeani de Mulineys de dimidia carucata terre de Sauletoun (1198-
12U), Chart, fol 4:, Trans, fol^. P. H
13. Indentura inter abbatera et conuentum do Driburgh et magistrum et fratres
de Soltre de carucata terre infra ])arocbiam de Cheldynkyrk, circa 1200, in Libro de Dnjburgh 1220, Chart, ff. 20, 21, Trans, fol. 13. . . ih.
14. Carta Jolumnis de Metbkil de donacione ecclesie de Wemys (1200-1240),
Chart, fol 2&, Trans, fol. % . . . . . . 13
15. Carta Willclmi de Memil de (ofto et crofto et certis acris in villa et territorio
de Langtoun (1200-1253), Chart, fol. 20, Trans, fol. 11. . . ib.
IG. Carta Jobnnnis de Streuelyng de terris de Oucbiltre (1201-1233), Chart, ff.
11,12, Trans, fol. 12 ' . .14
17. Carta Thome de Haya de traua bladi de carucis suis et hominum suoriim ex
parte australi aqae de Forth (1202-1238), Chart, fol. 22, Trans, fol. 13. 15
18. Carta confirraacionis ecclesie de Ormystoun per Willelmum episcopura 8ancti-
andree (1211-1226), 67iar^./oZ. 2, Trans. /o/. 4. . . . . ib.
19. Carta domini Thome de Lestalryk de dimidia celdra frumenti (1211-1226),
Chart, ff. \3, U, Trans, fol. 13. . . . . .16
20. Carta ecclesie de Stratbechin Martyne per Willelmum episcopum Sancti-
andree (1214-1215), C/iar^./. 1,2, Tnms./oZ. 4. ... 17
21. Carta Duncani de Swaynystoun de triginta quatuor acris terre et duabus acris
prati in territorio de Swaynystoun (1214-1240), Chart, fol. 13, Trans, ff.
8, 9. . . . . . . . . .18
22. Carta Thome de Cranystoun de cultura terre (1214-1249), Chart, fol. 6,
Trans. /. 9, 10. . . . . . . . .19
23. Carta Duncani de Swaynystoun et Mariote sponse eius de viginti tribus acris
terre (1221-1224), C'Aar^./o?. 8, 7Vaws./oZ. 8. . . . .20
24. Carta Duncani de Swaynystoun et Mariote sponse eius de decern acris terre et
dimidia eiusJem (1221-1238), Chart, ff. 7, 8, Trans, fol. 8. . .21
25. Carta donacionis ecclesie de Lympctlaw per Ricardum Gerniyne (1221-1239),
Chart, fol. 2, Trans, fol. 3. ...... 22
26. Carta Mariote de Swaynystoun de confirmacione terraruni de Swaynystoun
(1221-12^0), Chart, fol.n, Trans, fol. d. . . . . ib.
27. Carta Alexandri Regis de confirmacione terre de Swaynystoun, 1224, Chart.
ff. 8, 9, Trans, fol. 8. . . . . . • . .23
28. Carta Alexandri Regis de donacione teriarum Brothirstanys Gill} stoun et
iioltrehiW, 1228, Chart, fol. '6, Trans, ff. 4, 5 24
29. Carta Walteri episcopi Glasguensis de confirmacione ecclesie de Orde (1231-
1232),Chart.ff. 16, 17, Trans, fol. 4 ib.
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30. Carta Dauid episcopi Sanctiandree de confirmacione ecclesie de Wemys
(1233-1255), C7iar^./o?. 16, Traws./o?. 2. . . . . P. 25
31. Carta Kicardi Grermine de homagio Alani filii Tock et de terris suis in
Lympetlaw (1235-1258), CAar/./o?. 21, rm??5./o?. 3. ... 26
32. Carta Viniani de Mulineys de terris de Saiiltoun (1236-1238), Chart, fol. 5,
Trans, fol.^. . . . . . . • . 27
33. Carta Nicolai de Veteri Ponte et Anabille sponse sue de terris de Swaynys-
toun (1238-1270), CAar^/oZ. 5, Tvans./o?. 7. .... ih.
34. Carta Edwardi de Albo Fonte de terris de Qwhytwel (1238-1300), Chart.
/ol.7, Trans.ff.7,8. ....... 28
35. Carta Hugonis filii Augustini de Blorauia de duobiis solidis, 1249, Chart.
fol. 23, Trans, fol. 12. . . . . . . .29
36. Carta Johannis Marrescali de Keth de terris de Jonystoun, citca 1250,
Chart.folU, Trans, ff. 6,7. ...... 30
37. Carta Walteri de Soltre burgensis de Berwyk de quadam parte terre sue
(1250-12Q6), Chart.folU, Trans, fol 10. . . . .31
38. Carta Alicie de By de quadam parte terre infra villain Berwici (1250-1270J,
Chart, ff. 15, 16, Trans, fol 10. ..... 32
39. Carta confirmacionis ecclesie de Orde per Willelmum episcopum Glasgueusein,
1255-6, Chart ff. 1,16, Trans, ff. 3,4:. ..... 33
40. Carta confirmacionis ecclesie de Wemys per G-amelum episcopum Sancti-
andree, 1261-2, C7iar^./oZ. 1, Trans. /o?. 2. . . . .34
41. Carta Alexandri regis de donacione dimidie celdre farine auenarum de mo-
lendino de Peblis, 1264, Chart, ff. 3, 4, Trans, fol 6. . . .35
42. Carta Alexandri regis de natiuis et fngitiuis, 1266, Chart, fol 4, Trans.
fol 5. ........ . ib.
43. Transcriptum Willelmi episcopi Sanctiandree de priuilegiis concessis domui
de Soltre per dominum Gregorium papam ix. (1273-1285), Chart, ff. 23,24, Trans, ff. 13, 14 36
44. Inquisicio regis Alexandri de contencione inter magistrum et fratres de Soltre
et Walter 11 m de Morauia super traua bladi de carucis suis, 1273, Chart, ff.
6, 7, Trans, fol 6. ....... 38
45. Carta Willelmi de Morauia de quatuor bollis farine auenarum (1278-1294),
Chart, fol 12, Trans, fol 13. ...... 39
46. Carta resignacionis Thome de Ercildoun de terris suis eiusdem, 1294, Chart.
fol 10, Trans, fol 6. . . . . . . .40
47. Carta Johannis de Jonystoun de resignacione terrarum de Jonystoun (1296-
1324), Chart, ff. 15, 22, Trans, fol 7. . . . . . ib.
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TABULA.
48. Carta Robert! de Keth Marrescalli Scocie de tenemento de Jonystoun Inferiori
(1296-1324), Chart /ol 15, Trans, fol. 7.
49. Obligacio Dauid de Grame de dimidia marca de Elotistoun (1296-1332)
Chart /ol. 4, Trans. /ol. 9.
50. Carta Kadulphi domini de Cranystoun de certis terris in territorio eiusdem
(IZOO-lSSl), Chart. /ol. 22, Trans, fol 12.
51. Indentura inter magistrum et fratres de Soltre et Matheum filium quondam
Willelmi de Kynglas de terris eiusdem, 1306, Chart /ol. 19, Trans, /ol. 11. ....... .
52. Carta Koberti Regis de confirmacione cartarum regis Willelmi et regis Alex
andri (1325 ?), Chart f. 17, 18, Trans, ff. 5,6.
53. Carta abbatis Sancte Cracis de Edynburgh de sex solidis, 1326, Chart ff. 5
6, Trans. /ol. 13.
54. Carta Michaelis filii Dauid de Wemys de confirmacione ecclesie eiusdem et
de certis terris (1328-1332), Chart ff. 9, 10, Trans, /ol. 2.
55. Instrumentnm Willelmi de Cranystoun notarii de transumpto cartarum pre
cedentium per se facto, 1399-1400, Chart /ol. 25, Trans, ff. 14, 15.
56. Tenementum de Lauder, 1426-7, Chart ff. 26, 27, Trans. /ol. 15.
57. Tenementum de Mussilburch, 1444, Chart, /ol. 27 (lacerato), Trans, ff. 15
16. ....... .
58. The annuellis pertenyng to Soltre, no date. Trans. /ol. 17.
P. 41
42
43
44 46
ib.
48 51
52 53
TABULA.
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REGISTRUM ECCLESIE SANCTE TRINITATIS
DE EDINBURGH.
1. Promulgacio bulle Pii pape Secundi super anneccione hospitalis pauperum de
Soltre, 1461-2, Transmaptum in m'chwis hurgi de Edinburgh. . . P. 57
2. Confirmacio fundacionis ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis et hospitalis
pauperum prope Edinburgh, 1462, Sir Lewis Stewart's MS. Collections. 63
3. Decretum Officialis Sanctiandree de controuersia inter dominura de Wemis et
vicarium ecclesie eiusdem, 1475, Registrum Sancte Trinitatis de Edin- burgh, ff. 35, 36 .71
4. Carta ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh super terris de le
Powis de Erth et de Cummystoun, 1502, Reg. Mag. Sig. lib. xiv. no. 15. 74
5. Sentencia vicarii de Markynch contra dominum de Balgony, 1504, Reg. S.
Trin. fol. 42. ........ 77
6. Sententia Craufurd contra carbonarios, 1506, i?e(/. /S'. ^Trm./o?. 43. . 78
7. Carta feodifirme facta per prepositum et prebendaries Willelmo Douglas de
Drumlanrig de certis terris vocatis Soltre Landis, 1507, Trans. Chart.
de Soltre, fol. 16. . . . . . . .79
Preceptura saisine pro dicto Willelmo in dictis terris, 1507, Trans. Chart.
de Soltre, fol. 16. . . . . . . .82
Preceptum Roberti Barkar, 1511, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 18. . . . 82
10. Carta capellani in Soltray pro seruicio diuino per se et non per alium, 1511,
Reg. S. Trin. fol. 19 ib.
11. Preceptum Jacobi Wod, 1511-2, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 18. . . . 84
12. Assedacio duarum acrarum in villa de Leith, 1511-2, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 24. 85
13. Confirmacio de Powis, etc., sine anno, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 24. . . ib.
14. Preceptum Jacobi Wod, 1515, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 24. ... 86
15. Preceptum Patricii Gardner, 1515, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 23. . . . ib.
16. Memorandum de camera prebendarii de Brodyrstanys, 1515-6, Reg. S. Trin.
fol 21 ih.
17. Instrumentum Georgii Neutone notarii de transumpto registri de Soltre per
se facto, 1516, Trans. Chart, de Soltre, ff. 1, 17. ... 87
18. Carta Johannis Watsoun de vna terra iacente in villa de Leitht, 1517, Reg.
S. Trin. fol. 18. . . . . . . . 90
8.
9.
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19. Litera Willelmi et Robert! Levis, 1524, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 22. . . P. 91
20. Litera pensionis Alexandii Makneill notarii publici, io25, Becj. S. Trin.
fol. 32. . . . . . . . . . ih.
21. Litera assedacionis magistri Johannis Dyngwale de dimidietate terrarum de
Wester Lumphoy, 1525-6, Beg. 8. Trin. fol 31. . • . ih.
22. Litera assedacionis Jacobi Abirnethy de dimidietate terrarum de Ester hnm-
^hoy,W26,Beg.S. Trm./olSl. 92
23. Protestacio contra dominum de Lestalrig, 1526, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 26, 27. . ih.
24. Carta Jacobi Barcar filii et heredis quondam Eoberti Barcar incole ville de
Leytht, 1526, i?e(/. /S'. 7Vm./oL 28 95
25. Preceptum sasine eiusdem, 1526, i?e$r. aS'. 7Vin, j^. 28, 29. • . . ih.
26. Preceptum communitatis burgi de Edinburgh, 1526, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 43. ib.
27. Presentacio domini Joliannis Greic ad vicariam peusionariam de Soltre, 1526,
Beg. S. Trin. fol. 42. ....... 96
28. A?sedacio decimarura de Estir Wemis facta Jacobo Hammiltoun militi, 1526,
Beg. 8. Trin. fol. 44. . . . . • .97
29. Assedacio facta Johanni Warlaw et Issabelle Cokburn eius sponse super terris
de Hill ad trcs aunos, 1530, Beg. 8. Trin. fol. 34. ... ih.
30. Assedacio decimarum de Estir Wemys facta Jacobo Coluile de eodem, 1530-1,
Beg. 8. Trin. fol. U. . . . . . . .99
31. Conductio Eoberti Dennis latomi cum pensione xxvi librarura, 1531, Beg. 8.
Trin. fol. 35. . • • • ■ • ■ ■ ih.
32. Capella de Soltre, 1531, Beg. 8. Trin.ff. 24, 25. . . . .101
33. Confirmacio carte Dauid de Wemis de terris et iuribus ecclesie de Wemis
pertinentibus, 1531, i?eg'. /S^. rWw. /o?. 36. .... 103
34. Concessio Prepositi de dome et terra in Westir Lumphoy, 1531, Beg. 8. Trin.
fol.ZI. . . 104
35. Contractus inter Prepositum et Johannem Foullartoun, 1531, Beg. 8. Trin.
fol. 37 . . .105
36. Obligacio inhabitancium de Estir Lumphoy super deuoriis eiusdem, 1531,
Beg. 8. Trin. fol. 33. ....... 106
37. Presentacio vicarie pensionarie de Lempetlaw pro domino Johanne Stobe,
1531, Beg. 8. 2'rin. fol. 25. ...... 107
38. Collacio vicarie pensionarie de Lempetlaw, 1531, Beg. 8. Trin. fol. 25. . ih.
39. Litera balliuatus Jacobi Coluile de Estir Wemis, 1531-2, Beg. 8. Trin.
fol. 3d. ......... ih.
40. Assedacio saline domus et granarii de le Blair Patricio Turnbulle, 1531-2,
Beg. 8. Trin. fol. 38. . . . . . . .108
TABULA.
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41. Presentacio domini Joliannis Lermonth ad prebendam sacristarii, sine anno,
Reg. S. Trin.fol. 38 T. 108
42. Pro Johanae Adesoun, 1543, Reg. S. Trin.fol. 20. ... ih.
43. Carta Willelmi Rankelo et Cristine Barclay, 1543, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 45. • 109
44. Pro magistro Abraham CreichtouD, 1543-4, Reg. S. Trin. ff. 22, 23. . 110
45. Disposicio beneficii in hospitali Sancte Trinitatis in fauorem dominoruni
Jacobi Watsoun et Gilberti Campbell, 1544, Reg. 8. Trin.fol. 49. . Ill
46. Pro Willelmo Blakie, 1547, Reg. 8. Trin. f. 106, 108. . . .112
47. Sasina Alexandri Blake de duobus tenementis in Leytli, 1548-9, Reg. 8. Trin.
fol. 43. . . . . . . . . . ib.
48. Assedacio decimarum de vtroqne Vemis facta Jobanui Yemis de eodem,
1549-50, Reg. 8. T'in. fol. 59. . . . . . .113
49. Pro Joanne Lekpreuik et Ciistina Calder, 1550, Reg. 8. Trin.ff. 71, 72. . ib.
50. Lettre of bailliarie to James Bannatyne, 1551, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 51. . 114
51. Coufirmacio carte de Blayr per Prepositum, 1551, Reg. 8. Trin.ff. 51, 52. . ib.
52. Contract betuix the lairdis of Wester and Eister Wemis for the teindis of
Eister Wemis, 1552, i^e^./S'. Trm./. 64, 65. . . . .115
53. Assedatio vicaric de Vemys, 1553, ^6(7. /?. 7V/72./0?. 59. . . . 116
54. Pro Gulielmo Fular burgense de Edinburgh, 1553, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 62. . ib.
55. Carta Ninivmi Walker in Innerlethame, 1554, Reg. 8. Trin.fol. 55. . 117
56. Carta Joannis Haliburtoun in Murehouslaw terraruni de Soltrayfiat, 1555,
Reg. 8. Trin.fol. 55. . . . . . . .118
57. Carta magistri Dauidis Kollok et Mariote Liuingstoun eius coniugis terra-
rum de Pows, 1556, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 54. ... . ib.
58. Assedacio vicarie de Wemis, 1556, Reg. 8. Trin.fol. G6. . . .119
59. Preceptum sasine Willelmi Hamiltoun, 1556, Reg. 8. Trin.fol. 51. . ib.
60. The assedatiouu of the Eist Vemis maid conforme to the assignatioun maid
be Jhone Vemis of that ilk to Jhames Colwyne of Eist Vemis, 1556-7,
Reg. 8 Trin. ff. 66, 67. ....... 120
61. Carta emphiteosis acre terre cum crofta iacentis in Hawik, 1557, Reg. 8.
Trin. fol 53. . . . . . . . . 121
62. Preceptum sasine earundeni, 1557, Reg. 8. Trin.ff. 53, 54. . . ih.
63. The tak of the hayll kyrk of Soltray bayth personage and vicarage, 1557,
Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 52. . . . . . . . ih.
64. Carta coniuncte infeodationis Willelmi Borthuik et Catherine Crechtoun
eius sponse de terris Soltray, 1557, Reg. 8. Trin. fol 53. . . 122
65. Carta emphiteosis vnius domus seu mansionis cum orto in Duns, 1558,
Reg, 8. Trin.fol. 54. ...... . ^j.
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TABULA.
ib.
66. Carta Eoberti Wod de teneraento in Leith, 1558-9, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 70. P. 123
67. Maister Jamis Scotis and Villiame Scottis tak of Kyrkvrd, 1558-1559, Becj.
S. Trin.fol. 69
68. Tak of the teindis of West Wemis to Johne Wemis of that ilk, 1558-9,
Beg. S. Trin. # 67, 68 124
69. Carta JohannisAytoun, 1559-60, ifej/. ^. TWw./o^. 70. . . . ih.
70. Carta AlexandriLitstar, 1561-2, i?e(7-^- ^»^^*^-/>^- 76. . . .125
71. Carta Joannis Gardinar lanionis burgensis de Edinburgh, sine anno, Beg.
S. Trin.ff. 75, 76. . • • • • • • ih.
72. Carta Eoberti Gray burgensis de Edinburgh et sue spouse, 1563, Beg. S. Trin.
fol.l5. . 126
73. Pro Willelmo comite Mariscalli, 1565, Beg. S. Trin. ff. 79, 80. . . ih.
74. Pro Georgio Pedy et Beatrice Cokburne eius sponsa, 1566, Beg. S. Trin.
ff. 108, 109. ........ 127
75. Carta Rollandi Gardnar, 1566, ^eg-. /S'. Trm./oZ. 71. . . .128
76. Assedutio decimarum de Estir Wemis, 1566, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 73. . ib.
77. Pro Nicholao Young in Gogar et eius sponsa, 1567, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 76, 77. 129
78. Pro Johanne Vchiltrie in Gogar Johanne Craufurde et Joneta Balfoure eius
sponsa ibidem Georgio Vchiltrie et Roberto Young ibidem, 1567, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 77. . . . • . . . . ib.
79. Pro magistro Willelmo Balfoure et sua sponsa, 1567, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 77, 78. 130
80. Pro Florentio Balfoure, 1567, Beg. S. Trin. fol 79. ... ib.
81. Pro Willelmo Birny burgense de Edinburch et Helena Achesoun eius sponsa,
15&7,Beg. S. Trin.ff. 78, 19 131
82. Pro Willelmo comite Mariscalli, 1567, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 80, 80*. . . ib.
83. Pro Agnete Heriot et Jacobi Foulis eius sponso, 1568, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 80*. 132
84. Pro Johanne Craufurde in Nethir Gogar et Jacobo Craufurde eius filio, 1570,
Beg. S. Trin. fol. 81. ....... ib.
85. Assedatio decimarum rectorieet vicarie de Soltra xix annorum facto Caterine
Creichtoun ac Villelmo Borthwik eius filio, 1574, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 84. . 133
86. Assedatioun of the teindschaves of the mains of Wester Wemis with the perti-
nentis maid to Dauid Wemes of that ilk, etc., 1574, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 90. ib.
87. CsLxtaTimothei Tont, 1574, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 90. . . . .134
88. Preceptum sasine Dauidis AVemis de eodem de terris ecclesiasticis de Eister
Wemis et Kirktoun, etc., 1575, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 91. . . . ib.
89. Vro Thorns Fyldav, 1575, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 91. .... ib.
90. Pro Thoma Achesoun burgense de Edinburch et Margareta Eraser eius
sponsa, 1575, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 91, 92. . . . . . 135
TABULA.
XVII
91. Admissio magistri Willelmi Auchmowtie prebendarii de Strethmartane ad
capitulura, 1575, Reg. S. Trin.fol 85. . . . . P. 135
92. Pro Jacobo Craufurd in Gogar, 1575, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 92. . . 136
93. Pro Florentio Balfoure ibidem, 1575, Reg. S. Trin. ff. 92, 93. . . ib.
94. Pro Joanne Vchiltrie, 1575, Reg. S. Trin.fol. 113. . . . ih.
95. Pro Thoma Wyntoun de Strethmarteue, 1575, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 100. . ih.
96. Admissio magistri Andree Mylne ad prebendam subdecani, 1576, Reg. S.
Trin.fol. 86. . . . . . . . .137
97. Pro Margareta et Cristina Chreichtouuis, 1576, Reg. S. Trin.fol. 93. . ih.
98. Preceptum sasine Elizabeth Naper, 1576-7, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 93. . . 138
99. Preceptum sasine Gtdielmi Quhittok, 1576-7, Reg. S. Trin. fol 93. . ib.
100. Preceptum sasine Joannis Hammiltoun iunioris de Grange, 1577, Reg. S.
Trin.fol. 94. . . . . . . . ib.
101. Preceptum sasine Jacobi Lawsoun et Margarete Marche sue sponse,
1577-8, Reg. S. Trin. fol 94 .139
102. ProComiteMarriscalli, 1578, i?ef7. 5. ^rm./o^. 98. . . . ih.
103. Preceptum sasine Jacobi Foulis de Colintoun, 1578, Reg. S. Trin.
fol 94. . . . . . . . . . 140
104. Pro Willelmo Kankello nuntio et Grissellide Meldrume, 1578, Reg. S, Trin.
/ 94, 95. . . . . . . . . ih.
105. Eegres of the foirsaid chartour to Alexander Rankello, 1578, Reg. S. Trin.
fol. 95. . . . . . . . . . ib.
106. Pro Joanne Lauthiane et Elizabeth Naper, 1578, Reg. S. Trin.fol. 95. . ih.
107. Lettre of Pensioun to Mr. Thomas Crage for procuratioun, 1578-9, Reg.
S. Trin.fol 96. . . . . . . .141
108. Pro Gulielmo Wardlavv et Margareta Pontt, 1579-80, Reg. S. Trin.
fol 96. . . . . . . . . .142
119. Pro Jacobo Turpie, 1580, i2e^. aS". Trm./. 96, 97. . . . ih.
110. Eegres grantit of the foirsaid chartour to Alexander Eaukelor, 1580, Reg.
S. Trin. fol 97. . • ih.
111. Inuentarium cartarum collegii Sancte Trinitatis, 1580, Reg. S. Trin,
fol 20 ib.
112. Pro Andrea Bowman in Vtherogall, 1580, ^ej/. /S'. Trm. /o^. 97. . . 144
113. Pro Andrea Edisoun, 1580, Reg. S. Trin.ff. 97, 98. . . . 144
114. Pro Jacobo Eichardsoun, 1580, ^e^. /S'. Trm./o^. 99. . . . «6.
115. Pro Joanne Wilsoun et Elizabeth Littister eius coniuge, 1581, Reg. S.
Trin. fol. 98. . . . . . . . . . ib.
116. Pro DauideWemisde Drone, 1581, i^e^./S'. Tn'Ti./. 98, 99. . . 145
XVIII
TABULA.
117. Regres on the foirsaid cliartour to David Aydesoun, 1581; lieg. S. Trin.
fol.99. . . . . . . . . p. 145
118. Pro Gulielmo Foular, 1581, Heg, S. Trin.fol 99. . . . • . ih.
119. Pro Georgeo Bannatyne et fratribus suis, 1582, Beg. S. Trin. ff. 100,
101, ......... 146
120. Pro Joanne Fentoun et Agneta Lyndesay eius sponsa, 1582, Beg. S. Trin.
fol. 101. . . . . . ♦ . . . ih.
121. Pro Christina Eaa sponsa Willelmi Quhittok, 1582, Beg. S. 2\in.
ff. 101, 102. ........ 147
122. Pro Gulielmo Foular et Barbara Gibsoun eius coniuge, 1582-3, Beg. S.
Trin.fol. 102. . . . ' . . . . . ih.
123. Carta Cristine Crichtoun et Mariote Chrichtoun de terris in Saltoun, 1583,
Beg. S. Trin.fol. 106. .......' 148
124. Pro Jacobo Colwill de Wemis, 1583, i^ej/. S. Trin.fol. 102. . . ih.
125. Pro Thoma Cokburne, 1583-4, Beg. 8. Trin.ff. 109, 110. . . .149
126. Pro Georgio Pedy, 1583-4, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 110. . . . . «ft,
127. Pro Jacobo Inglis, 1583-4. Beg. S. Trin.fol. 111. . . . .150
128. Pro Joanne Gilbert burgense de Edinburgh, 1583-4, Beg. S. Trin.
fol. 105. .' . . . . . . . ih.
129. Pro Alexandro Hogekin in Nether Broderstanis, 1583-4, Beg. S. Trin.
.^f. 103, 104 151
130. Pro magistro Joanne Leirmonth, 1584, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 103. . . ih.
131. Pro Joanne Drowmond et Margareta Broun eius coniuge, 1584, Beg. S.
Trin. ff. 102, 103. ■■■>... ih.
132. Pro Alexandro Hogekin Mariota Hoppringill eius coniuge et Alexandro
Hogekin eorum filio primogenito, 1584, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 104. . . 152
133. Pro Andrea Bowman in Vtherogall, 1584, i?f<7. /S'. Trtk/o?. 104. . . ih.
134. Pro Margareta Elizabeth et Helena Wilsounis, 1584, Beg. S. Trin.
/.104,105. . . . . . . . ."153
135. Pro Joanne Blak Catharena Thomsoun eius coniuge et Jacobo Blak eorum
mo, 1584, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 112. . . . . . ib.
136. Pro Dauid Flucar et Elizabeth Carnis eius coniuge, 1584, Beg. S. Trin.
#.112,113 .'154
137. Pro Jacobo Lawsoun, 1585, Beg. S. Trin.fol 113. . . . «'j.
138. Pro Jacobo Richardsoun, 1585, i?e^. aS'. Tnw./o?. 113. . . .155
139. Pro comite de Crawfurd, 1586, Beg. S. Trin.fol. 114. . . . ib.
TABULA. XIX
COMPOTA CAPITULI.
140. Compotuui magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1503-4, lieg. S. Trin.
foil P. 157
141. Compotum magistri Johanais Brady prepositi, 1506-7, Reg. S. Trin.
foil. . . . . . . . . .159
142. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1508-9, Reg. S. Trin.
foL2. . . ...... 160
143. Compotum Andree Sandelandis coUectoris fructuum ecclesie de Kirkurd,
1507, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 2. . . . . . .161
144. Compotum magistri Michaelis Loch et domini Henrici Hadingtoun collec-
torura ecclesie de Kirkurd, 1508, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 2. . . . ib.
145. Compotum eorundem, 1509-10, i^egr. ^\ Tnk /oZ. 2. . . .162
146. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1511-12, Reg. S. Trin.
fol. 3. ........ . 163
147. Compotum Andree Sandelandis de fructibus de Kirkurd, 1511-12, Reg. S.
Trin. fol 3. , . . . . . . . 164
148. Compotum magistri Michaelis Loch et domini Willelmi Tempill de fructibus
rectorie de Kyrkwrd, 1512, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 4. . . . 166
149. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1512, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 4. . 167
150. Acquittancia terrarum de Ballerno et Hill necnon ecclesie de Vrd data pre-
posito, 1512-13, i?e(7.A9. TWn./o?. 5. . . . . .168
151. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1513-14, Reg. S. Trin.
fol. 5. . . . . . . . . .169
152. Compotum magistri Jacobi Creichtoun vicarii de Kirkvrd, 1513-14, Reg. S.
Trin. fol. 5. . . ...'.. 170
153. Compotum dominorum Thome Watson e et Willelmi Tempill collectorum
ecclesie et rectorie de Kirkvrd, 1514, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 6. . . 171
154. Compotum domini Eoberti Brady sacriste, 1514, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 6. . 172
155. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1514-15, Reg. S. Trin.
fol 7 173
156. Compotum dominorum Thome Watsone et Willelmi Tempill collectorum
ecclesie et rectorie de Kirkvrd, 1514-15, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 7. . . 174
157. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1515-16, Reg. S. Trin.
fol.8.. . . . . . . . .175
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TABULA.
161.
162.
158. Compotum dominorum Thome Watsone et Willelmi Tempill collectorum
ecclesie et rectorie de Kirkurd, 1515-16, Reg. S. Trm./ol. 8. . P. 176
159. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady propositi, 1516-17, Beg. S. Trin.
/ol.9.. . . . . . . . . 178
160. Compotum dominorum Thome Watsone et Willelmi Tempill collectorum
firmarum collegii, 1517-18, i^ej/. aS*. I'rm./o?. 10. . . . 179
Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1518, Beg. S. Trin.
/ol. 10 . . . . 180
Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1519, Beg. S. Trin.
fol.Vl. . . . . . . . . • 181
163. Compotum domini Willelmi Tempill collectoris firmarum collegii, 1519,
Beg. S. Trin. fol. 12 182
164. Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1519-20, Beg. S. Trin.
/o?. 13. . . . . . . . . . 183
165. Compotum domini Willelmi Tempill receptoris firmarum collegii, 1519-20,
Beg. 8. Tri7i.foI.13. . . . . . . .184
166. Compotum dominorum Willelmi Tempill et Georgii Clapertoun receptorum
tirmarum ecclesie de Kirkurd, 1520-1, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 14. . . 186
167. Compotum eorundem receptorum firmarum rectorie de Kirkvrd et ter-
rarum de Ballerno et le Hyll, 1522, Beg. S. Trin. fol 15. . . 188
Compotum magistri Johannis Brady prepositi, 1522-3, Beg. S. Trin.
fol 15. . . . . . . . . . 189
Compotum dominorum Willelmi Tempill et Georgii Clapertoun recep- torum firmarum et communie collegii, 1522-3, Beg. S. Trin. fol 15. . 190
170. Compotum eorundem, 1524, jRe^. /S'. Trm./oZ. 16. . . . - . 191
171. Compotum domini Willelmi Tempill receptoris firmarum de Lumphoie et
Knkgmd, 1530, Beg. S. Trin. fol 16. . . . . .193
172. Eentale de Vemis, 1531-2, Beg. S. Trin.ff. 39, 40. . . . 194
173. Computum domini Willelmi Yhownger collectoris firmarum de Kyrkhurd
Lumphoy et le Hyll, 1551, Beg. S. Trin. fol 60. . . .198
174. Computum eiusdem, 15.52, i?e(/. /S*. 2Vm./oZ. 60. .... ib.
175. Com^ntnm eiusdem, 1552, Beg. S. Tri7i. fol 60. .... 199
176. Computum eiusdem, 1553, ^e^. /S'. Trin. fol 61. .... ib.
177. Computum domini Dauid Sym sacriste, 1554, Beg. S. Trin. fol 61. . 200
178. Computum eiusdem, 1555, Beg. S. Trin. fol 61. . . . . 201
179. Com])ntnm emsdem, 1556, Beg. S. Trin. fol 63. .... ib.
180. Computum eiusdem, 1557, Beg. S. Trin. fol 63. . . . . 202
181. Computum eiusdem, 1558-9, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 63. ... ib
168.
169.
TABULA.
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ACTA CAPITULL
182. Sententia capituli super domino Jacobo Waudy capellano et prebendario,
1526, Beg. S.Trin.fol. 17 P. 203
183. Actum subdecani et decani collegii Sancte Trinitatis, 1526, lieg. S. Trin.
/ol26. . . . . . . . . . 206
184. Contra dominum Jacobum Watsoun, 1526, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 32. . . 208
185. Sententia propositi et prebendariorum super delictis et pena Sacriste,
1521, Beg. S.Trin.fol. ZO. ...... ih.
186. Depositio et repositio domini Michaelis Disard, 1529, Beg. S. Trin.
fol. 30 210
187. Actum capituli de defectibus Decani et subdecani, 1531, Beg. S. Trin.
/oZ. 33. . . . . . . . . . 211
188. Agreement of the provost and prebendaries with the Sacrist, sf/?e anno, Beg.
S. Trin. fol. 4:1, . 213
189. Actum de demeritis et excessibus penes statuta hospitulariorum, 1539,
Beg. S. Trin. fol. 4^. . . • . . . .214
190. Monitio hospitulariorum ad perimplendum fundacionem, 1539, Beg. S.
Trin. fol. 48. ........ ib.
191. Suspensio domini Jacobi Watsoun pro suis demeritis, 1545-6, Beg. S. Trin.
fol. 62. . . . . . . . . . 215
192. Confessio eiusdem domini Jacobi, 1545-6, Beg. S. T'rin. fol. 62. . ib.
193. License to the same Sir James Watsoun to remain in Dunbertane, 1548-9,
Beg. S.Trin.fol. 4*^. . . . . . .216
194. Ordinatio capituli de compotis domini Jacobi Waldy, 1548-9, Beg. S.
Trin. f. 49,50. ........ 217
195. Ordinatio capituli de delicto et pena domini Jacobi Waldy, 1549, Beg. S.
Trin. fol. 50. ........ 218
196. Ordinatio capituli de domino Waltero Haliburtone et de hortis clandestine
c^msis, 1550-1, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 50. . . . . .219
197. Ordinatio de delicto et pena domini Johannis Ballyngtyng, 1554, Beg. S.
Tnn.fol. 50. . . . . . . . .220
198. Monitio eiusdem domini Johannis coram commissariis archiepiscopi, 1554,
Beg. S.Trin.fol. 48 221
199. Monitio Wilelmi Sinclar bedelli, 1557, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 32. . 222
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TABULA.
200. Actum de removendo Jobanne Gardnar hospitulario, 1558, Reg. 8. Trin
fol58
201. Acta varia cum continuatione capituli, 1573, Beg. S. Trin. fol. 84.
202. Acta varia, 1573-74, Reg. S. Trin, fol. 84. ...
203. Acta varia, 1573-74, Reg. S. Trin. fol. 84. ...
204. Actum de ref'ormatione communis sigilli Collegii, 1574, Reg. S. Trin.
fol. 85"''% ........
205. De receptione magistri Willelmi Auchmowtie prebendarii et renouatione
statutorum Collegii cum continuatione capituli, 1575, Reg. S. Trin jOC, oo. ........
206. Acta varia cum continuatione capituli, 1575, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 85.
207. Depriuatio Roberti Watsoun bospitularii de Soltray, 1576, Reg. 8. Trin
fol.SG.
208. Convictio et reraissio Johannis Cunnyngbame bospitularii, Reg. 8. Trin
fol. 86. ....... .
209. Acta varia, 1576, i?e^. /S'. Trm./o?. 86.
210. Electio Ricardi Byning bospitularii in officium nuncii, 1577, Reg. 8. Trin
fol. 86
211. Statuta varia cum continuatione capituli, 1580, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 87.
212. Actum de assedatione camerarum prebendariorum, 1581, Reg. 8. Trin
fol. 87
213. Acta varia, 1581-82, i?ej7. /S. TWw./oZ. 87. ....
214. Admissio magistri Arcbibaldi Douglas persone de Kirkvrd et alia acta, 1583
Reg. 8. Trin. f. 87, 88. . . ■ . •
215. Acta varia, 1584, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 88. .
216. Actum de tenendis capitulis et de assedatione communarum, 1584, Reg. 8.
Trin. fol. 88. . • • . . .
217. Concessio cartarum variarum, 1584, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 88. .
218. Ordinatio capituli de novo sigillo, 1584-5, Reg. 8. Trin. fol. 89.
219. Carta Jacobi regis burgo de Edinburgh de ecclesia vocata Ecclesia Collegiata
Sancte Trinitatis, 1567, Reg. Mag. 8ig. lib. xxxii. no. 613.
220. Sigi ature of confirmation by King James vi. to the burgh of Edinburgh of
their Kirk-livings, 1612, Ex archivis hurgi de Edinburgh.
P. 222 223 224 226
227
ih. 2.30
231
232 ib.
233 234
236 237
ih. 239
240 241
242
243
246
TABULA. XXIII
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA BEATE MARIE DE CAMPIS
DE EDINBURGH.
1. Magister Thomas Diksoim pro ecclesia Campi, 1510-11, Liher Protocol.
Joh. Foular, ....... P. 2G1
2. Margareta Lowreson et Helena Lowreson pro ecclesia Campi, 1511, Lib.
Protocol. Joh. Foular, ...... ib.
3. Fro magistro Matheo Ker preposito ecclesie Collegiate gloriose virginis Marie
in Campis et prebeadariis eiusdem, 1512, Lib. Protocol. Jac. Young, . 262
4. Pro domino Johanne Andersone capellano, 1516-17, Lib. Protocol. Vincentii
Strachan, ........ 264
5. Carta confirmation is et admortizationis Jacobi Layng, c. 1523, Beg. Mag. Sig.
lib. xxiii., no. 199, . . . . . . 265
6. Carta admortizationis Jonete Kennedy domine Bothuile, 1531, Peg. Blag. Sig.
lib. xxiv., wo. 89. . . . . . . . 267
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA DE RESTALRIG.
1. Bulla Innocencii Octaui continens primam erectionem de Restalrig in eccle-
siam Collegiatara, 1467, MS. apud Pitfour, .... 273
2. Carta magistri Thome Diksoun decani de Lestalrig, 1511, Peg. Mag. Sig.
lib. xvii. 710. 64. . . • ■ . . . 277
3. Carta confirmacionis et admortizacionis capellanie in ecclesia de Kestalrig,
1512, Peg. Mag. Sig. lib. xviii. no. 102. . . . .278
4. Carta Collegii de Restalrig, 1515, Peg. Mag. Sig. lib. xix. 7io. 122. . . 280
5. Carta vnionis et annexacionis rectorie de Ellem ecclesie Collegiate de Res-
talrig, 1527, Peg. Mag. Sig. lib. xxii. wo. 9. . . . . 290
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA DE CORSTORPHINE.
6. Confirmacio donacionis Ade Forstare militis pro sustentacione trium capella-
XXIV TABULA.
norum in capella Beati Johannis baptiste, 1425-6, Beg. Mag. Sig- lib. ii.
^0. 23 P. 293
7. Contirmacio carte Margrete Forstar et Johannis Forstar militis, 1429, Reg.
Mag. Sig. lib. Hi. wo. 30. . . . . . . 295
8. Institucio prepositure et prebendarum ecclesie Collegiate de Corstorphine,
1444, Transumpt. penes Comitis de Lauderdale, . . . 298
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA DE CREYCHTOUN.
9. Carta confirmacionis de fimdacione ecclesie Collegiate de Creychtoun, 1449,
Meg. o/ Acts and Decreets, vol. 169, fol 258. .... 305
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA DE DALKETH.
jO. Fundacio ecclesie Collegiate Beati Nicbolai de Dalketb, 1406, Eegistrum
Honoris de Mortoun, vol. ii. p. 324. . . • . -313
11. Kenunciatioun be Walter Scott of Bukcleuch, 1449-50, Beg. Hon. de Mor-
toun, vol. ii. p. 211. ....... 317
12. Nona ereccio ecclesie Collegiate de Dalketb per dominum Jacobiim
Comitem de Mortoun, 1470, Beg. Hon. de Mortoun., vol. ii. p. 226. . 319
13. Carta admortizacionis roagistri Alexandri Giffevt rectoris de Newlandis,
1505, Beg. Mag. Sig. lib. xiv. no. 58. . . . . . 323
ECCLESIA COLLEGIATA DE ROSSLYN.
14. Confirmatio carte donationis ecclesie Collegiate de Eosslyn, 1523-24, Orig.
penes Gul. E. Aijtoun, D.G.L., ...... 326
LIST OF PLATES.
1. Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, from a Drawing by
John Clerk of Eldin, Esq., about the year 1780, in the pos- session of James T. Gibson Craig, Esq., . To face the title-page.
2. Plan of Trinity College Church, Edinburgh, and Elevations
of the South Porch, &c., . . . . . page xiii
3. Facsimile from the Registers of Soltre and of Trinity
College, ....... xxviii
4. Seal of Queen Mary of Gueldres, Foundress of Trinity Col-
lege, Edinburgh, and Facsimile of the Queen's Signature,
from an Original Charter in Lord Panmure's possession, . xxxii
5. Our Lady Kirk of Field, Edinburgh, February 1567. Fac-
simile of an Original Sketch in H. M. State Paper Office, . xxxviii
6. Restalrig Church, from a Drawing by James Skene, Esq.,
7. CoRSTORPHiNE Church, from a Drawing by James Skene, Esq.,
9. Ancient Monument in Dalkeith Church, from a Drawing by James Drummond, Esq., R.S.A.,
xliii
Ixv
8. Plan of Dalkeith Church, from a Drawing by David Bryce,
Esq., R.S.A., ...... Ixxxvii
xcn
PREFACE.
The original design of this volume was to form a series of Charters and other deeds connected with Trinity College Church and Hospital, Edinburgh, to serve as a companion to the similar volume of the St. Giles Charters recently presented to the Members of the Bannatyne Club. The Hospital of Soltre or Soutra having been annexed to that foundation, its Chartulary, hitherto unpublished, seemed naturally to form the first portion of such a collection. The importance of the volume, it was thought, might further be increased by attempting to collect the foun- dation charters of other Collegiate Churches of the city and county of Edinburgh, consisting of St. Mary's in the Fields, commonly known as the Kirk of Field, Restalrig, Corstorphine, Creichtoun, Dalkeith, and Rosslyn. No separate Register of any of these Churches has been preserved, and the few existing charters contained in protocol books, and other old tran- scripts, for the most part occur in a very inaccurate or imperfect state.
In the Appendix to the Scotichronicon, as enlarged by Walter Bower, Abbot of Inchcolme, there is a list of Monasteries, Priories, and other religious houses which existed in Scotland during the reign of King James the Second. Under the head Przefectur^, sive Pr^positur^, the follow- ing sixteen Collegiate Churches are enumerated, with the names of the founders ; Abirnethy, Bothanis, Bothvill, Carnewith, Corstorphin, Dalkeith, Dirltoun, Douglas [Dunglas], Dunbar, Fowlis, Kilwinin [Kilmun] in Cowal, Lyncloudan, Maybol, Methfven, Roslyn, St. Andrews. To two of these Provostries a remote or fabulous antiquity is assigned, viz., " Abirnethy,
a
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ii PREFACE.
quam fundavit Garnach rex, filius Macdonach, Pictus ;" and St. Mary of the Rock or Kirkheuch, " Sancti Andrese, quam fundavit Constantinus secundus rex Scotorum." On the other hand, it is stated of Dirltoun that only the nomination of Provost had taken place, and of Rosslyn and Douglas,^ that the buildings were then in progress. Dempster, in his Apparatus, Lib. i. De ReUgione,^ gives a similar list, derived " Ex Gilberto Bruno." The name of Fowlis is omitted, but three others are somewhat gratuitously added, " Killesmont, fundat Andreas Dempster." " Achterles, fundat David Dempster baro de Muresk v. et Achterles ix. anno 1403, charta originaria, et acta illius familijE." " Brechin, fundat Jacobus Demp- ster baro de Carrestoun," &c. The founder of Abirnethy, he calls " Rex Pictorum Garnard filius Macdonach anno 1273, Keldeis expulsis Canonici Resfulares inducti."
The number of Collegiate Churches existing in Scotland at the period of the Reformation amounted to about thirty-eight. The following tabular view exhibits, as nearly as can be ascertained, the respective dates of foun- dation, with the names of the founders of these establishments.^ One autho- rity states, that " Collegiate Churches began to be built after King Alex- ander the Third's time (1249-1286,) when the erecting of Monasteries was discouraged by the Popes usurping the right of Patronages."'' It is doubtful if any evidence can be shown of such Collegiate Churches having existed in Scotland earlier than the reign of David the Second (1329-1371) ; and it will be perceived they chiefly belong to the fifteenth century, when so much zeal and munificence was displayed in the enlargement and decoration of the buildings, and when all classes of society vied with each other in the endow-
* " About tlie middle of the fifteenth ceutury, a peti- ^ Apparatus, &c , p. 77. Bononice, 1622, 4to.
tion regarding the erection of the parish church of ^ This list is chiefly derived from chapter xix. in
Douglas into a collegiate church, was presented to the ^\>ci\.i\&v;oo6.^s Account of Religious Houses in Scotland,
Apostolic See ; but though the Pope's consent seems to subjoined to the edition of Hope's 3Iinor Practicks,
have been obtained, the purpose never was fulfilled." — 1734; and reprinted as an Appendix in the editions of
Origines Parochiales Scoiice, vol. i. p. 153 ; Priory of Keith's Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops,
Coldinghar.i, p. 236 (Surtees Society). As the mention 1755 and 1824. The number specified is thirty-three,
of Douglas in the Scotichronicon is an evident blunder including the repetition of Tester ; see note, p. iii.
for Dunglass, the same may possibly be the case in the '' Forbes on Church Lands and Tithes, p. 90. Edin-
notice contained in the Priory of Coldingham. burgh, 1705, 12mo.
PREFACE.
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ment of chaplainries for the maintenance of daily stated service, always including prayers and singing of masses for the souls of the founders, their relations, and benefactors. In Scotland, in more recent times, the term Collegiate was applied to a Church where two ministers served the cure as colleagues ; but it had previously borne a different and wider signification. These Collegiate Churches, called Prcepositurce, were instituted for secular priests or canons, and for choristers, and were under the jurisdiction of a Dean or Provost ; and the service regulated very much as in a Cathedral. Each of these churches consisted of a certain number of Prebendaries or Canons, where they had their several stalls, and with their Dean or Provost made up the Chapter. Most of these establishments, there is reason to be- lieve, had existed as chapels or parish churches, long before they were thus enlarged and endowed b}'^ the great landed proprietors in the neighbourhood.
LIST OF COLLEGIATE CHURCHES IN SCOTLAND.
SHIRES. Aberdeen,
Argyle,
Ayr,
Banff,
Carrick,
Dumbarton,
East-Lothian,
Kilmund in Cowall,
Kilmaurs,
C alien,
NAMES. FOUNDERS. DATES.
OldAberdeen, King's College, William Bishop of Aberdeen, 1505. New Aberdeen, St. Nicholas, Provost, Magistrates, and Henry
Bishop of Aberdeen, 1441.
Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochaw, 1442.
SirWilliam Cunningham of Kilmaurs, 1403.
Alexander Ogilvie of Deskford, and
others, 1543.
Sir Gilbert Kennedy of Dunure, 1441.
Isabella, Countess of Lennox, 1450.
Sir Walter Haly burton of Dirleton, 1444.
Patrick, Earl of Dunbar and March, 1 342.
Sir Alexander Hume of Hume, 1403.
George, Lord Setoun, 1493.
Sir William de Haye of Yester, 1420.
Minnibole or Maybole,
Dumbarton,
Dirleton,
Dunbar,
Dunglass,
Setoun,
^'Bothanis,*
• Spottiswood and others have confounded St. Bo- thanis, the old name of Yester in East-Lothian, with Abbey St. Bathans in Berwickshire, where there was
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a priory of Cistercian nuns, but no Collegiate Church.— The Magistrates of Haddington, in 1557, refer to " the prebendaries of the College Kyrk of Hadingtoun."
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Carail or Craill, |
Sir William Myreton, Vicar of Lath- risk, and Prioress of Haddington, 1517. |
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St. Andrews, |
f Kirkheugh, \ S. Salvator's, |
The King, uncertain. James, Bishop of St. Andrews, 1458. |
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Angus, |
Fowlis, |
Sir Andrew Gray of Fowlis, ' 1446. |
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Guthrie, |
Sir David Guthrie of Guthrie, c. 1456. |
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Kirkcudbright, |
Lynclouden, |
Archibald, Earl of Douglas, 1413. |
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Lanark or Clydesdale, |
Biggar, |
Malcolm, Lord Fleming, 1545. |
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Eothwell, |
Archibald, Earl of Douglas, 1398. |
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Carnwath, |
Sir Thomas Somerville of Carnwath, 1424. |
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Glasgow, Our Lady College |
, James Houston, Subdean of Glasgow, 1528. |
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Hamilton, |
Sir James Hamilton of Cadzow, 1451. |
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Corstorphine, |
Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine, 1429. |
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Creychtoun, |
Sir William Creychtoun, 1449. |
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Dalkeith, |
Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, 1406. |
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Restalrig, |
King James the Third, 1487. |
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Rcsslyn, ' St. Giles, |
William, Earl of Orkney, 1446. Provost andMagistratesofEdinburgh,1466. |
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Edinburgh, ■ |
St. Mary in the Fields, |
Probably the same, 1512. |
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Queen Mary of Gueldres, 1462. |
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Peebles, |
Magistrates of Peebles, and John Lord Hay of Tester, 1542. |
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Perth, |
Abernethy, |
George, Earl of Angus, c. 1450. |
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Metbven in Stratherne, |
Walter, Earl of Athole, 1439. |
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Tullibardine, |
Sir David Murray of Tullibardine, 1446. |
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Renfrew, |
Sempill, |
John, Lord Sempill, 1505- |
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Ross, |
Tayne, |
Thomas, Bishop of Ross, 1487. |
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Stirling,* |
Chapel Royal of Stirling, |
King James the Fourth, 1501. |
It is not necessary in this place to enter into any details for illustrat- ing the history of these establishments, beyond supplying some historical notices respecting the Foundation, the chief Officials, and the Buildings of the several Collegiate Churches of Mid-Lothian, to which the present volume is restricted. But in the first instance, it may be proper to give an account of the ancient Hospital and Church of Soltre.
THE HOSPITAL OF SOLTKE.
In former times, one of the chief thoroughfares from the South led over Soltre or Soutra Hill, on the Western boundary of the county of Hadding- ton. This hill, about seventeen miles from Edinburgh, is the highest elevation to the west of that ridge or chain of mountains known as the Lammermuir Hills, separating Lothian from Lauderdale. It is a dreary part of the country, surrounded by bleak moorlands, and used to afford only scanty pasture for sheep, until the modern improvements in agriculture have brought some considerable tracts under cultivation. Near the summit of the hill, or 1184 feet above the level of the sea, was the site of the ancient Hospital and Church of Soltre. This Hospital, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was one of those religious establishments, of which a considerable number existed in different parts of the kingdom,^ during the Middle Ages, having been erected and endowed not only for stated religious service, but for the benevolent purpose of maintaining a certain number of indigent and infirm persons in the surrounding district, and of receiving for a limited period, pilgrims and other travellers.
The Hospital of Soltre is usually said to have been founded by King Malcolm the Fourth, in the year 1164. For this statement, the oldest authority seems to be the continuator of the Scotichronicon, who wrote about the middle of the fifteenth century. His words are: "Anno 1164,
* Spottiswood, in his Account of Religious Hoiises stead of two, Chalmers makes mention of nine [Cale-
(see note, page ii.), has enumerated twenty-eight Hos- donia, vol. ii. p. 347). There were Spittal-houses for |
pitals, but he says this number might be greatly aug- receiving persons afflicted with incurable leprosy also
niented. In proof of this, in Berwickshire alone, in- found near most of the chief towns.
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de concilio Walthevi abbatis de Melros, rex Malcolmus fundavit nobile mo- nasterium de Cupro in Angus, et ante hoc Coenobium de Soltrey, ad via- tores hospitandos.'" ^ But the King's charter, which contains a grant of the lands of Brotherstanes extending to Lynden on the road to Roxburghe, being the earliest of the present series, has no date, and makes no allusion to the Hospital as having been newly founded. The period of his reign however was from May 1153 to December 1165. Tradition is also favourable to his claims as founder, as it is alleged he conferred on Soltre the privilege of a sanctuary ; a road through Lauderdale (a name given to the western part of the county of Berwick) leading towards Soltre was known as Malcolm's road, and traces of it are said to be still visible ; while another road or causeway through the moors towards Melrose acquired the name of the Girthgate, gate signifying a road, and girth an asylum or sanctuary.^ The following account of Soltre, from Father R. Augustin Hay's " Scotia Sacra," an unpublished work, compiled in the year 1700,^ may be quoted, as furnishing some minute particulars regarding the Hospital and its loca- lity which are not elsewhere to be met with. He commits, however, a palp- able mistake in saying that David, Earl of Huntingdon, was -buried at Soltre in 1219- The words in the Scotichronicon to which Hay evidently refers, apud abbatiam de Sautreia sepidttis,^ unquestionably apply to Sawtrey, a Cistercian abbey in Huntingdonshire.
SoLTRiA, Sowtry in Lothian, ane Hospital erect for the relief of Pilgrims, and poor or sickly people upon Soltry Hills, by Malcolm the 4, anno 1164. It is built 12 [about 17] miles besouth Edin- burgh, on the road that leadeth to Kelso. Ibi sepultus est Comes David 1219 qui apud Jerdlay in Anglia decubuit cui Willielmus frater poslquam de captivitate Anglise rediit ad sua, dederat Comitatum de Huntingtonia de se tenendum et Comitatum de Garwiach, cum dominio de Strath- bogy et territorio de Langforgrond, cum aliis terris et possessionibus latis et spatiosis. There were some lands belonging to Soltry near to Saint Leonard's lands in Edinburgh, prope Capellam
^ In one MS. the words ante hoc are not found. Scoti- appear that along this hill, and across the Girthgate,
chronicon, vol. i. p. 453, Goodall's edit. there had been a chain, suspended for a considerable way
^ See Forsyth's Beauties of Scotland, Edinburgh, in the direction of east and west, to mark the boundaries
1805, vol. i. p. 328. He also mentions the Cross-chain of the priviledged ground." hill, a small eminence or rising ground about half a * MS. Advocates Libraiy, p. 675.
mile to the south of the Hospital, and says, " It would ■• Goodall's edition, vol. ii. p. 34.
THE HOSPITAL OF SOLTRE. vii
B. M. V. in Campo. Xenodocliium mole et operis mimificentia longe maximum in praeruptis mon- tium, loco niraium patent! brum£e incommodis jiixta publicam stratam, advenis per Kegnum iter facientibus «dificatum, de consilio Waltheui Abbatis (MS. de Cnpro). Quos benigne et comiter esceptos ac tridui quiete refectos dimittunt. Addita liospitio «des sacra, eique perampla aedificia adjuncta puerorum receptaculo, quos magno numero Legis Doctoribus in disciplinam tradunt. Pecunia ad tantos sumptus faciendos partem ex constitutis Imperii vectigalibus et jerario erogata partem ex adventitiis fructibus quassita, qua liberalitate Numen maxima propitium, labesque ex noxas animo conceptas, expiari creditum. Locus pervius patebat utrinque transmeantibus peneque jugiter multitudine comeantium frequcntatus legitur in medio duarum Provinciarum. ^des capite Divi Brandani dives. Alexander de Soltria memoratur ad annum 1204. Dominus Johannes Hyriotte vicarius de Soltria is witness to some charters in 14.G7. Jacobus Quintus conscripto adversus Anglnm milite 1542, ex omnibus regni partibus, cum numerus ad Soutrseam iniretur, exercitus 30 hominum raillibus constare ferebatur. The present laird of Sowtry is nam'd Pringle. His residence is att Meusdenhead, a mile distant from the Hill. His buriall place is in ane Isle of the Abbacie which is now decay'd ; the ruins only being conspicuous. The Hospitall stood on the East of the Highway as you come from Edinburgh for Kelso ; on the West there are att this day some Cotter houses. The building appears to have been very spacious. About the midle hill towards Lothian near to the highway, there is a fountain called Ternity Well or Trinity Well. On the south side of the hill att the foot tliere is a small brook which divideth Lothian from Lauderdale. There is a village likewise distant from the Monastery about a mile and a half nam'd Sowtry ; it is probable it belonged of old to the Hospitall.
King Malcolm's grant of the lands of Brotherstanes was renewed and confirmed with extended privileges by his brother William the Lion ; while Alexander the Third confirms an unrecorded grant made by his father Alexander the Second, of half a chalder of oatmeal from the mill of Peebles. The series of Charters, now first printed, records various other benefactors during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. William, Bishop of St. Andrews (1211-1226), confirms to the master and brethren of Soltre the Church of St. Giles at Ormiston in East-Lothian, with its revenue to their proper use • and likewise the Church of Strathmartin in Forfarshire. The churches of Lympetlaw, and of Wemyss, were assigned by Richard Germyne of Lym- petlaw, and John of Methkill. Among other feudal barons or neighbouring landowners, bequests were made by David Olyfard, Richard son of Michael
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of Paistoun, Thomas of Cranstoun, Duncan of Swanystoun, and Mariot his spouse, Walter of Soltre a burgess of Berwick, and John the Marischal of Keith. It is interesti4ig also to find among these benefactors, in 1294, a name of peculiar interest in the literary history of Scotland, Thomas of Ercildoun, son and heir of Thomas Rymour of Ercildoun, the celebrated Scottish poet, familiarly known as Thomas the llhymer.
The original Chartulary is a very small folio of twenty-seven leaves of vellum, the last much mutilated. It was transcribed from the original Charters by William of Cranystoun, Notary Public, as appears by the Instrument, printed as No. 5.5, at page 48, dated at the Church of Pencait- land, the 5th of February 1399-1400, in which the titles of the preceding charters are specified. The charters are engrossed without any apparent regard to chronology, and few of them bearing the date, an attempt has been made to remedy this defect by re-arrangement, and the period of their probable dates is given in the Tabula, within a parenthesis. Of this register, on account of its antiquity, a notarial transcript was made by George Newton, for the use of the Provost of Trinity College, according to his attestation, dated I6th of August 1516. The ancient Register belongs to the Faculty of Advocates. Newton's transcript, which remains among the records of the City of Edinburgh, is a square folio of seventeen leaves of vellum, each page being attested by him, in his official capacity as a Notary. None of the original Charters have been preserved.
In the Papal Taxation of Churches and Monasteries in Scotland at the end of the Thirteenth Century, is the following valuation of Soltre :^ — " Ecclesia ejusdem cs. Cultura ejusdem vj li. xiij s. iiij d. Firraa ejusdem citra mare et ultra^ xvli. xv s. vij d. Bona mobilia ejusdem Ixvij s. Lana et agri ejusdem xli. ixs. Ecclesia de Ormestone xli. Summa LJ li. iiijs. xjd.- — Decima cijs. vd. ob. qt*."
The Plospital of Soltre was under the government of a superior called
* Priory of Coldingham (Surtees Society), p. cxvi. * Tliat is, both on this side and beyond the sea — the
The name is there printed Scoltre. Firth of Forth.
THE HOSPITAL OF SOLTRE. ix
Mngister. It is not possible to furnish a complete list of the Masters, but some of their names have been recorded. In a charter of the end of the twelfth century, Sir Reginald and Sir William of Soltre, chaplains, appear as witnesses ; and Andrew of Soltre, and various other chaplains, occur at a later period. In 1271, an inquisition was made regarding a dispute be- tween the master and brethren of Soltre and the inhabitants of Crailing, in Roxburghshire, regarding a claim for a thrave of corn in harvest out of every ploughgate of the manor; the cause was determined by an assize, con- sisting of a suitor (sectator), and four persons out of each of the three con- tiguous manors of Eckford, Upper Crailing, and of Hetoun, w ho, under the title of antiquiores patrice, decided in favour of Soltre.^ Radulphus, Magister Hospitalis de Soltre, is named in the charter, No. 48. He swore fealty to Edward the First, in the chapel of Edinburgh Castle, 29th July 1291.2 Four years later, Thomas, master of the Trinity Hospital of Soltre, did homage to the English monarch at Berwick, 28th August 1296 ;3 and in return, the said Thomas obtained precepts to several Sheriffs to restore the estates and rights of the Hospital.^
After an interval of a century, the next Master we meet with was Thomas of Aldton, on the 7th of April 1401,* and again in October 1410.^ Stephen Flemyng appears as Master of the Hospital of Soltre, 4th of March 1426-7.^ His successor, Mr. Thomas Lawder, was a person of great worth and distinction. His name occurs in the following Charters as Master of the Hospital, 8th of January 1437-8, and last of August 1444.^ In the latter year he founded a chaplainry at the altar of Saints Martin and Thomas in the Holy Cross Aisle of St. Giles's Church, Edinburgh ; and this endowment was confirmed by royal charter in 1450.*^ Lawder was, in
1 See No. 44, infra, p. 38. ' Turnbull's Fragmenta Scoto-3Ionastica, p. vii.
2 The Bagman Rolls, p. 19, Edinb. 1834, 4to. Ediiib. 1842, 8vo.
' " Frere Thomas, Mestre de la Meson de la Trinite ' See No. 56, infra, p. 51.
de Soltre." Ragman Rolls, p. 156. ' See No. 57, infra, p. 52.
•I Rymer's Fadera, vol. ii. p. 766. Rotuli Scoti<e, ^ Charters of /St. Oiks, Edinburgh, p. 88. It was
vol. i. p. 256. Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 537. renewed and extended by Bishop Lawder, and confirmed
5 See No. 57, infra, p. 52, and No. 55, p. 48. by James the Third, in 1481. Ih. p. 141.
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1452, promoted to the See of Dunkeld, as a reward for his services as preceptor to King James the Second : he was then aged about 60. Abbot Myln, in his Lives of the Bishops of Dunkeld, who passes a high eulogium on Lawder as a person of great ability and piety, states, that he was the first to introduce the custom of preaching in his diocese. Feeling the effects of advanced age, in 1476 Lawder resigned the See in favour of the Dean, James Livingston ; but he survived till November 1481 ; and Myln has recorded the inscription on his tomb, in the Cathedral Church of Dunkeld.^ It is probable that Lawder had resigned his Mastership on the occasion of his being appointed Bishop in 1452, as we find Alan Cant styled Rector of the Hospital and Chancellor of the Church of St. Andrews, apparently between 1453 and 1455." This designation renders it necessary to explain, that Soltre Hospital was, by authority of Pope Nicholas V., annexed to the Church of St. Andrews, as the benefice of the Chan- cellor, with the consent of Alan Cant, who then became Chancellor. Cant had pursued his studies at the University of St. Andrews, where he became a Bachelor of Arts in 1426, and a Licentiate in 1430. In 1460, we find that he was deceased, and that his successor was John Tyky, Bachelor of Decrees.^ In 1479? John Tyry was one of the Masters elected as assistants to the Rector of the University of St. Andrews.
Upon the annexation of Soltre and its possessions, by Mary of Gueldres, to the Foundation of the Trinity College, in 1462, its connexion with St. Andrews was dissolved, and it was restored by Papal authority to its for- mer state as an Hospital and Parish Church, under the charge of a Vicar, who was appointed by the Provost of the new institution. John Heriot, Vicar of Soltre, is witness to several Charters in the year 1467.* In October 1479, Sir John Heriot, as Vicar, claimed having power from Sir Edward Bonkill, Provost of Trinity College, to grant a lease of the tithes of Fawnys.^
1 Alex. M}]!!, Vitce Episcoporum Dankeldensium, p. 25. ^ Charters of Trinity College, infra, p. 58.
In the republication of this work in 1830, the Editor by ' lb. infra, pp. 58-62.
some happy emendations, has rendered the Inscription in- * Spottiswood's Religious Houses.
telli^ible, which it by no means was i.i the original edition. * Acta Audltorum, p. 86.
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Another change befell Soltre after the Keformation. When Trinity College Church and Hospital and its revenues were transferred to the Pro- vost, Magistrates, and Council of Edinburgh, Soutra, as it was then called, having ceased to be maintained as a distinct parish church, the place speedily lost its importance, and the buildings fell into ruins. In the Register of Ministers 1567, William Frank appears as minister of the united parishes of Sowtra, Fawlaw, and Keithhumbye, with a stipend of £30 (Scots), and the vicarage teinds of Keithhumbye. In 1574 the two former places were joined to Creichtoun, of which Adam Johnestoun was minister, with the aid of three readers. The reader at Soutra had an allowance of 20 merks, with the kirk -land, or glebe. In 1589 a separation from Creichtoun took place, and the parishes of Fala and Soutra, although in different counties,^ were again united under one minister. This arrangement has continued to the present time, Fala becoming the parish church, and Sputra existing only in name, or in a few scattered houses, the population of the two united parishes, according to the last census, in 1851, being only 434; the rental however having greatly increased.
Before concluding these notices, I may add, that no plan or view of the old Hospital or its ruins can be discovered. On visiting the locality last autumn, to ascertain if the ruins were such as might serve for a vignette or illustration to the present volume, I was informed that about ten or twelve years ago, every vestige of the walls and foundation had been dug up and carted away for building dykes and farm-steadings in the neighbourhood. Such has too often been the fate of many of our old Ecclesiastical build- ings, when in ruins, and standing in isolated positions ; the proprietors being ignorant or indifferent for their preservation, and the tenants glad to avail themselves of such an easy mode of obtaining building materials. There still however exists a small aisle of the church converted into a burying-vault, which had a narrow escape, as portions of the wall had
* Soutra is in East Lothian or the county of Had- burgh, and in the Presbytery of Dalkeith. See Chal- dington, Fala in Mid-Lothian or the county of Edin- mers's Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 508.
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actually been taken down, when Its proprietor interfered, and caused it to be restored. It formerly belonged to the Pringles of Beatman's Acre, a piece of land adjoining, bestow^ed, it is said, by James the Fifth, in consider- ation of a night's hospitality which he had received. A monumental stone to some of the family, of a late date, is built into the gable of this aisle ; and over the entrance a large stone or lintel wdth the date and initials, 16. D. P. A. R. 86, marks no doubt the year in which this portion of the old church was so appropriated. Mention is made in the various notices of Soutra of a fountain of excellent water, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and vulgarly called the Tarnity Well. This well, we are told, " though it does not appear to have any medicinal qualities, was formerly much celebrated and much frequented by sick and diseased persons." ^ In the course of improvements it has also disappeared, the ground being under tillage, and the water carried off by means of tile-drains.
It only remains to add, that the aisle above mentioned, which rises near the top of the hill, now serves as a solitary beacon or landmark to denote the site of the ancient Hospital and Church of Soltre, which, for many an age, before poors-houses and infirmaries existed; had continued to mi- nister relief to the sick or destitute, vrhile in such a sterile locality, it could not but prove a welcome place of refuge for the weary pilgrim.
^ Statistical Account, vol. x. p. 608. New Statistical Account, Edinhurgh, p. 539.
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TRINITY COLLEGE, EDINBURGH.
The Collegiate Church and Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, appears to have been projected if not founded by King James the Second. ^ During his reign there existed no Collegiate Church within the city, or in the immediate vicinity of Edinburgh. The premature death of that monarch at the siege of Roxburghe Castle, by the bursting of a cannon, on the 3d of August 1460, may have interfered with the neces- sary arrangements ; but his widowed Queen, Mary, daughter of Arnold, Duke of Gueldres, acting upon his intentions, became the actual foundress of that establishment. The Papal bull of Pius II., which authorized the annexation of the Church of Soltre to the College and Hospital newly founded by the Queen, " de novo fundaverit, ac egregio quodam opere construi edificari fecerit," bears the date at Rome, 23d of October (10th kalends of November) 1460, was promulgated by Andrew Bishop of Glas- gow in the parish church of Linlithgow, on the 10th of March 1461-2. Its pious object was " the praise and honour of the Holy Trinity, and of the always blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, of Saint Ninian the confes- sor, and of all the saints and elect of God;" and likewise the salvation of the soul of the Queen's late husband. King James, of her own soul, and those of her kindred, and of the present Bishop of St. Andrews, whose authority she supplicated to confirm this endowment.
The confirmation of this foundation by James Kennedy, Bishop of
' See the references to James the Second, infra, pp. became a separate establishment, unconnected with the 58, 59, and 93. After the Keformation the Hospital Parish Church.
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TRINITY COLLEGE, EDINBURGH.
St. Andrews, is dated the 1st of April 1462, and recites the Queen's peti- tion in which she states the purposes of the new foundation, as a perpetual College or Collegiate Church for a provost, eight chaplains or preben- daries, and two choristers, to which there was to be conjoined an Hospital for the support of thirteen poor persons named Beidmen ; while the sums allotted to the Provost and other officials are specially enumerated, and rules prescribed for the regular and efficient performance of their respec- tive duties. The plan of the building was in the form of a cross-church, of which only the choir, aisles, and transept were completed, with a south porch, and a north chantry-chapel, all in the Second Pointed or Decorated style of architecture. The site of the building was the low ground, with- out the city walls, to the north-east, sheltered by the precipitous rocks of Calton Hill, as exhibited in the accompanying plan, copied from Gordon's survey of Edinburgh, drawn and engraved in 1647.
a Templum Collegiatum.
6 Trinitatis Gerontodo- chiuin.
c Lethensis Plateae Porta.
d Niniani suburbium eeu mendicorum platea.
e S. PauH iEdificinm. / Ergasterium. g Vicus Lethensis. h Vicus Hackerstoni.
';/"';/, IT . Q:" ' ■' ^ Trini
College Kirk, ty Hospital.
Port.
d S. Rinzens [Niniansl suburbs, or the Beg- gar raw.
e S. Paul's Work.
/ The Correction Bouse.
g Lieth Wynd.
ft Hackerston's Wynd.
Other two Papal bulls, communicated by Joseph Robertson, Esq.,^ since the text was printed, will be given in the Appendix. The earlier of the two is dated 6 idus Julii 1462. It is by Pope Pius IL, and in nearly similar
1 From tlie Vatican transcripts deposited in the Britisli Museum.
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terms recites the foundation of the Church and Hospital by James the Second and the Queen Dowager, magnijico et smnptuoso opere, and con- firms the transfer of the Hospital of Soltre, and of the chapel of Uthe- rogall, in the county of Fife, upon the petition of the Queen and her eldest son, King James the Third. The later bull, also of Pope Pius II., is dated G kalendas Septembris 1463. It contains a grant of plenary indulgence to all persons who should in a devout spirit of contrition visit the Church in the course of five years, during the feast of its dedication, on the 10th of July, or the following week, called its Octaves ; and the period was to be further extended every five years, until fifty years had expired. Occasions of this kind were eagerly embraced, and crowds resorted from all quarters to avail themselves of this highly valued privilege. The offerings of each person during the Octaves, when making confession, and partaking of the holy Eucharist, were put into a coffer with two or more keys, one-third of such contributions being reserved for the Papal treasury, ' to assist in carrying on war with the infidels,' the other two-thirds were to be appro- priated towards completing the building of the Church itself.
From the Inventory of Charters of Trinity College, prepared in 1580, and printed at page 143, it is but too clear that the oldest Register written upon vellum, and other early deeds, have been lost. This is much to be regretted, as the existing transcripts of the foundation Charter and its confirmation, and of the Papal bulls, are for the most part extremely inac- curate, and great care was required in collating the different copies for giving an accurate text. The second Register is a folio volume preserved in the City Archives. It commences in the year 1504, and is peculiarly interesting, as furnishing the occasional proceedings of the Chapter, with accounts of receipts and expenditure until the year 1531, attested by the original signatures of the Provosts and Prebendaries for the time ; besides copies of later deeds and acts continued till 1586.
From other sources fortunately we derive some information regarding the progress of the building. During the Queen Dowager's life, the work had
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been commenced and carried on with great energy, under the direction of Sir Edward Bonkill, the first Provost, and of the master of the fabric, or architect, John Halkerstone,^ as appears from the subjoined extracts from the unpublished Exchequer Rolls. These Rolls are not fully pre- served, and some other entries connected with this edifice may perhaps have been overlooked, but it is pleasing, from such an authentic source, to recover the names of the persons to whom we were indebted for one of the finest ecclesiastical buildings, even in its unfinished state, which existed in Edinburgh.
EXTRACTS FROM THE EXCHEQUER ROLLS, 1462-1496.
Rot. Scacc. Compotum domini Roberti Mure Camerarii domine Regine de
No, 240, Striuelingshire ]\Ienteth Methven et Strathern redditum 25 die
Februarii 1461 [2.] Expense ejusdem . . . . Et eidem per solucionem factam capellanis et clericis Collegii
domine Regine liberatis Edwardo Bonkill ipso [fatente receptum] per scriptum sua manu
scriptum ostensum super compotum xvi li. xiii s. iiii d.
No. 240. Compotum domini Henrici de Kinghorn senescalli domine Regine
et camerarii de Garviacb et Brechin redditum .... 11 Augusti 1462. Expense ejusdem . . . . Et eidem per solucionem factam Johanni Halkerstoun ad fa- bricam collegii domine Regine vt patet per librum dicti Johannis sua manu scriptum diuersis vicibus ostensum super compotum iii*' Ixxv li. xi s. vii d. Et eidem per soluci- onem factam Edwardo de Boncle ad dictam fabricam vt patet per scedulam manu sua scriptam ostensam super compotum li s. iiii d. Et dicto Edwardo ad dictam fabricam
* The name of Halkerstone was not uncommon in Edinburgh during the fifteenth and Bixteenth centuries. It is worthy of notice, that the principal access at that time friim the city to Trinity College and Hospital, was an alley or steep passage (No. 163, High Street), which to this day retains the name of Halkerstone's Wynd. See woodcut plan at p. xiv. This name occurs in deeds at least as early as 1500, and we may conjecture that it was so called in honour of the builder of the Queen's
College, ^^^len the present North Bridge was erected, in 1768, most of the old houses on the west side of Halkerstone's Wynd were demolished, and the passage contracted in its width. But one or two "lands" re- mained till they were rebuilt, in consequence of a great fire which happened on the 5th of March 1819. {Chambers's Notices of Bemarkable Fires in Edin- burgh, p. 49.)
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diuersis vicibus vt patet per scedulam suara. manu sua scriptam de recepto ostensam super compotum ^xxix li. ix s. iiii d. Et dicto Edwardo ad dictara fabricam vt patet per binas scedulas de recepto manu sua subscriptas ostensas super compotum xlviii li. super quibus compotandum est cum dicto Edwardo. Et dicto Johanni Halkirstoun ad dictam fabricam per iiberacionem domini Willelmi Eende dicto Johanne fatente receptum per scedulam sua manu scriptam et ostensam super compotum i'' li. xv s. . . . Et dicto Edwardo Bonnkil ad fabricam collegii supradictam per Iiberacionem Nicholai Spethe xlU
No. 240. Compotum Simonis Salman receptoris firmarum comitatus
Marchie .... apud Edinburgh 13 Aug. 14G2
Expense eiusdem . . . . Et eidem pro cariagio bombardi domine regine vt patet per cedulam Koberti Laudre de Edrington facientis fidem super compotum vii li. Et eidem pro cariagio eiusdem bombardi a Berwico ad collegium domine Regine prout fides facta fuit per compotantem vi li. v s.
No. 245. Compotum magistri Andree Lyell camerarii de Marr et de Gar-
viach redditum apud Edinburgh 27 Julii 1463. Expense eiusdem .... Et per solucionem factam Johanni Haukirstoune magistro fabrice domine regine ad fabricam collegii Sancti Saluatoris [Sancte Trinitatis ?]....
xvi li Et eidem per solucionem factam vni nuncupato Mauricio Wormet pro naulo
nonaginta nouem lignorum missorum ab Episcopo Rossensi ad edificium domine Regine iii li. xvi s. x d.
No. 245. Compotum domini Willelmi Rynde .... apud Edinburgh 28 Julii
1463
Expense eiusdem . . . . Et eidem per solucionem factam Johanni Haukirstoun ad fabri- cam collegii Sancti Saluatoris per manus domini Henrici de Kingorn .... liili. xvi s. xd. Et eidem per solucionem factam dicto Johanni Haukirstoun ad dictam fabricam .... Ixxxviili. viis. vi d. Et eidem per solucionem factam Edwardo de Boncle ad dictam fabricam . . . . Ix li.
No. 245. Compotum Johannis de Morauia camerarii de Stratherne ....
Edinburgh 29 Julii 1463. Expense . , . . Et per Iiberacionem factam Johanni Haukirstoune tunc magistro fabrice Sancti Saluatoris ad dictam fabricam liberate quinto die mensis Marcii anni etc sexa- gesimi secundi de mandate domine Regine . . . . x li.
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No. 250. Compotum .... ciistomariorum burgi de Perth .... Faucland
15 Aug. 1463. Expense . . . . Et eisdem in partem solucionis triginta duorum asserum dictorum geistis et octo simplicium dictarum rudis tabularum liberatarura Dauid Boys et Johanni Haukirston ad fabricas collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgum et castri de Ravyn- niscrag de mandato Regine xviii li. iis. iiiid. Et eisdem pro cariagio dictorum lignorum vs. ixd
No. 251. Compotum domini Willelmi Rynde capellani receptoris firma-
rum dominorum de Brechin et Nethver redditum apud Perth
13 mensis Junii 1464
Expense . . . . Et eidem per solucionem Edwardo Bonkle preposito ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh ad structuram eiusdem de mandato domine regine clare memorie vt patet per literas suas sub signeto de precepto et binas literas dicti
Edv/ardi de recepto ostensas super compotum Ix li Et eidera pro Exequiis dicte
domine Regine celebratis in ecclesia cathedrali Brechinensi in luminaribus picturis scu- torum et stipendio seruiencium ex consideracione auditorum xxvii s. iiii d
No. 251. Computum .... receptoris firmarum de FyfiFe .... Perth
20 Junii 1464
Expense . . . . Et eidem per solucionem factam domino Henrico Kingorn seiiescallo domine regine bone memorie ad expensas domicilii domine Regine et post eius obitum ad Exequias et funeralia eiusdem ipso per suas literas testante receptura super compotum i"xi li. XV s. viii d.
No. 255. Computum .... receptoris firmarum terrarum de Leswalt [etc.]
in warda existencium .... Linlithqw 21 Junii 1466 .... a tem- pore obitus domine Regine bone memorie de dictis terris de Kirk- andris qui erat die primo Decembris anno sexagesimo quarto .... vsque diem huius computi. Expense .... In primis allocate computanti per liberacionem factam ad fabricam
collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh de firmis terrarum de Kirkandris assignatis
ad fabricam eiusdem per dominum Regem usque etatem eiusdem quindecim annorum
xxxiii li. vi s. viii d.
No. 255. Computum Johannis de Kincade receptoris firmarum domini
nostri regis infra Lithqwschire redditum ibidem 3 Julii 1466. Expense . . . . Et eidem de firmis terrarum de Gunstoune et Mannuellrig necnon ter-
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rarum quondam Thome Mulbyn in warda existencium liberate ad fabricam collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh de mandato domini Regis literario viii li. ii s. viii d
No. 257. Computum Gilberti domini Kennedy balliui de Carrie redditum
apud Perth 9 Junii 1467
Expense . . . Et eidera per liberacionera factam Johanni Halkirstoune magistro fabrioe collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh de firmis terrarum de Kirkandris de mandato domini Regis . . . . xx li
No. 258. Computum custumariorum burgi de Edinburgh, 14 Junii 1466.
1 Junii 1467. Expense . . . . Et eidem per liberacionem factam domino Edwardo Boncle preposito ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh pro vno pare organorum ad dictum Collegium de mandato domini Regis . x . libre.
No. 261. Computum .... receptoris firmarum .... infra Linlithqvvschire
.... Edinburgh 26 Julii 1469
Expense . . . . Et eidem de firmis terrarum de Gunstoun et Mannuellrig vnacum terris quondam Thome Mulbyn in warda existencium concessarum ad fabricam collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh durante voluntate Regis Johanne Halkerstoun magistro dicte fabrice per suas literas fatente receptum de firmis de Gunistoun de anno computi xiii li. vis. viiid.
No. 263. Computum Willelmi domini Crechtoune vicecomitis de Edin-
burgh redditum ibidem 3 Julii 1471. .... Memorandum quod computans non oneratur . . . . de firmis terrarum de Bol- toune quia assignantur ad fabricam collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh durante voluntate eiusdem
No. 278. Compotum receptoris firmarum et granornm de Lithqwschire
spectancium domino Regi 6 Julii 1479 — 5 Julii 1480. Expense . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis terrarum de Gunistoun Crovnarland et Man- welrig que dicuntur valere in anno viginti libras quia non habuit in mandatis leuare firmas earundem et asserit Walterum Ramsay de Dunone et dominum Edwardum Boncle prepositum collegii Sancte Trinitatis leuare firmas earundem ex toUerancia domini Regis sicut fecerunt per nouem annos elapsos super quibus consulendus est Rex. Et man- datur computanti quatinus deligenter requirat de valore dictarum terrarum et qui eas occupauit.
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No. 280. Compotum receptoris flrmarum de Linlithqwschire spectancium
domini Kegi 5 Julii 1480—6 Julii 1481. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis terrarum de Gummystoune Crovnarisland et Manwell que sunt de proprietate domini Regis et dicuntur valere in anno viginti libras que sunt in manibus Walteri Ramsay de Dunone et domini Edwardi Boncle propositi collegii Sancte Trinitatis ex tolerancia domini Regis.
No. 282. Compotum camerarii et receptoris firmarum de Lithqwschire
6 Julii 1481—29 Augusti 1482. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis [etc. ut supra usque ad'\ et domini Edwardi Bonkill propositi ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh super quibus con- sulendus est Rex.
No. 291. Compotum receptoris firmarum et redditum de Linlithqwschire
extra burgum ejusdem 19 Julii 1486 — 4 Julii 1487. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis [etc. ut supra in compoto 1481-1482].
No. 293. Compotum camerarii de Linlithqwschire 4 Julii 1487 — 2 Augusti
1488. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis [etc. ut supra usque ad\ et domini Eduardi Bonkle propositi ecclesie collegiate Sancte Trinitatis de Edinburgh super quo consulen- dus est Rex.
No. 308. Compotum camerarii de Striuelinschir 7 Augusti 1495 — 22 Junii
1496. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis terrarum de Powis de Erth Mannualrig et molendini eiusdem que fuerunt in manibus domini Edwardi Bonkill tunc propositi collegii Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh et fuerunt assignate ad fabricam eiusdem super quo consulendus est Rex.
No. 310. Compotum camerarii de Striuilinschir 4 Junii 1496 — 7 Julii
1497. . . . . Et non onerat se de firmis terrarum de Powis de Erth Mauuelrig et molendini ejusdem que fuerunt in manibus quondam domini Eduardi Bonkill tunc propositi ecclesie collegiate prope Edinburgh et fuerunt sibi assigoate ad fabricam eiusdem. Et compotans non habuit in mandatis ad leuandum super quo consulendus est Rex.
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Trinity College Church, as above stated, was never completed according to its original design ; but the accounts of revenue and expenditure of the Chapter, between 1504 and 1531, included in the present volume, afford sufficient evidence that considerable progress had been made in the build- ing during that interval. No. 31 is an indenture or contract with Robert Dennis, mason, who, for the annual fee of £26, and a bounty, agreed " to labour and remain for his lifetyme in all maner of labouris concerning his craft to and for the said College :" it is dated 8th of April 1531. Sub- sequent accounts to 1551 are not recorded. But the loss of the entire Register, between its foundation in 1462 and 1503, is much more to be regretted. These later accounts, however, show that the interior of the church must have been ornamented in a manner suitable to the beauty of its architecture. Payments are made for rich covers to the high altar; for curtains of plesance with silk fringes above the head of the Virgin; for silver chalices, reliquaries, cups, and other vessels for Divine service ; also for organs, and bells great and small ; and there is mention of images of the Blessed Virgin and St. Margaret. These with the ornamented service books have long since disappeared ; but there has fortunately been preserved a painting which there is reason to believe was the Altar-piece of that church. I allude to the Diptych, or folding doors, painted on both sides, containing portraits of King James the Third, and his Queen, Margaret of Denmark. This precious work of art, painted about the year 1484, is now, by Hkr Majesty's gracious permission, restored to this country, and exhibited in the great Picture Gallery of Holyrood Palace. In a communication read to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,i after the painting had been trans- ferred from Hampton Court, where it was all but overlooked, I endeavoured to prove its original purpose, by identifying the portrait of Edward Bonkill the Queen's Confessor, and probably that of Mary of Gueldres herself, in the character of an angel seated at the organ of the church, which forms
1 Proceedings of the Society, November 30, 1857. Vol. iii. p. 8.
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the reverse of one of the panels ; the other being the usual representation of the Holy Trinity.
According- to the Queen's foundation, in 1462, confirmed by Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews, the Chapter of Trinity College consisted of a Pro- vost, eight prebendaries, and two choristers or singing boys. The first prebendary had the title of Master of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, the second was called the Sacristan, the others were the Prebendaries re- spectively of 3. Browderstanis, 4. Strathmartin, 5, Gilstoun, 6. Ormistoun, 7. Hill, and 8. Newlands, being so named after the places from which the chief source of revenue was derived ; but which it is not necessary in this place to recapitulate. Their duties are also accurately defined, and strict rules prescribed to enforce residence and propriety of conduct.^ The Pro- vost was enjoined to be present at all festivals ; anniversaries were to be observed on the obits of the Queen, of the late King " our most tender husband," and of Bishop Kennedy. Each prebendary was also directed, whenever he said mass, that he should, in his sacerdotal habits, repair to the tomb of the Foundress with hyssop, and there devoutly read the prayer De prqfundiSf with an exhortation to excite the people to devotion.
It has already been stated that the first Provost of Trinity College was Edward Boncle or Bonkill. His title, Dominus or Sir^ as applied to priests, shows that he had not taken the higher degree of Master of Arts ; but he was a person of distinction. I find from a notice acciden- tally preserved that he was admitted a guild-brother of the town gratis in 1459, in acknowledgment of his aid and counsel.^ It is most probable he was from the first connected with Edinburgh. In addition to the notices of Bonkill which occur in the Exchequer Rolls, already quoted, on the 3d
^ No Prebendary was to obtain institution who was not t>ites, "unless he can read and sing plainly, and under-
qualified by a knowledge of plain chant and descant, or stands arithmetic !'' (p. 271.)
singing in parts, used in cathedral services. Maitland, in ^ " 3 Octobris 1459. Ed. de Boncle efFectus frater
his History of Edinburgh, p. 209, has given a translation of gilde et datur gratis pro suo auxilio et consilio. — Gild
this Charter, but here he mistakes the terms, and says. Court leiffis: this lei/ marJcet 8." — {Volume of Extracts
" That no Prebendary frhall be instituted unless he can from the Council Beijisters, f. 256, MS. Adv. Library,
read and sing plainly, count and discount (p. 209). 13, 4, 9.) The Council Eecords of this period are not
Arnot, by way of improving this qualification, substi- preserved.
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March 1471-2, the name of " Sir Edward Boncle, Provost of the Colledge of the Trinite beside the burgh of Edinburgh," appears in an action and summons before the Lords Auditors for certain sums due as mails to the Kirk of Sowtra.^ It also occurs in other two cases, 13th October 1479,^ and 13th April 1485.^ From the phrase in the two Exchequer Rolls of 1496, tunc prepositi\^ and quondam, we learn that Bonkill was then deceased. The name of his immediate successor as Provost from 1496 to 1502, if any one was appointed, has not been ascertained.
The next Provost of whom we have any notice was Mr. John Brady. He was apparently a native of Lothian, and was educated at St. Andrews. The name Jo. Brade occurs in the class of Determinants in 1478, and M. Jo. Brady in that of Licentiates in 1480. At a meeting of the Uni- versity, held on the 2d of January 1489-90, he appears among the deputies of the district of Lothian ; and he became Archdeacon of Lothian. Brady, who is styled Parson of Tannades, on the 13th February 1500-1, received a presentation to " the channonry and prebend of Crechmond within the Cathedrall Kirk of Aberdeen."^ In the Register of the Privy Seal in 1502 is the following entry : — " A presentatioun to Master Jo. Brady of the Pro- vestre of the Trinite College besid Edinburgh withe a claus in the samyn that the vicarage of the Wemys salbe annext perpetualle to the Provest of the said College and his successouris, &c. De data primi Septembris anno Domini v" and twa yeris. Et regni Regis xv*\ Gratis, per Signaturam."*^ Brady, who continued to be styled " Archdeane of Lowthyane," in the year 1511, as Provost, gave in a propine to David Beton the sum of 44 French crowns, to obtain a new confirmation of some of their lands, and to prevent the same being granted in feu to courteours.^ From this period till his death in November 1525, he appears to have exercised a constant and diligent superintendence of the College.
* Acta Auditorum, p. 23. ^ Beg. Seer. Sig. vol. ii. f. 32.
2 lb. p. 86. * See p. xvii. « lb. vol. ii. fol. 88.
^ Acta Domin. Concilii. p. 115*. ' See infra, p. 85.
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John Dingwall, his immediate successor as Provost was evidently the same with Sir John Dingwall who is mentioned by Knox.^ John Dingwall, whose name appears in the list of Licentiates of the University of St. Andrews, in 1474, was probably the father of the Provost, as Buchanan expressly says he was a priest's son. In confirmation of this, we find in the Privy Seal Register, this notice, " Preceptum legitimationis Domini Johannis Dingwell capel- lani, Henrici Dingwell, Jacobi Dingwell (and three sisters), fratribus et sororibus bastardi, &c," but the father's name is not specified, 1st January 1511-12.2 His designation, sometimes as Dominus, sometimes as Magister, might suggest more than one person of the name ; but by attending to his various titles, as he enjoyed a plurality of offices, we arrive at a dif- ferent conclusion. Among the auditors of the High Treasurer's accounts, 13th October 1516, he is styled " Dominus Johannes Dignvale, Archidia- conus Cathanensis." Having acquired by purchase from one of the burgesses of Edinburgh, a house and garden in the vennel of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the Fields, he is called " Magister Johannes Dingwall, Sedis Apostolice Prothonotarius, Ecclesiarum Moraviensis Rossensis et Catha- nensis Succentor, Thesaurarius, et Archidiaconus ;" and in fulfilment of this purchase he became bound to pay the annual sum of 26s. 8d. to the Provost and Prebendaries of the said church, dated at Edinburgh, 8th of March 1518-9 ; two of the witnesses were * Magistri Matheus Ker, predicte ecclesie collegiate prepositus, et David Vocat, eiusdem ecclesie prebendarius, Scolae- que principalis Grammaticorum Edinburgi preceptor." In 1524, Dominus Johannes Dingwall, Rector of Strabrok and Archdeacon of Caithness, obtained a charter, under the Great Seal, of the mansion and orchard of Wester Strabrok in Linlithgowshire, 15th September, and on the 19th November he conveys the said mansion, &c., by a deed of mortification in favour of the Rector and Vicar of Strabrok.^ Towards the end of 1525, Dingwall succeeded as Provost of Trinity College. Upon the institution
1 History of the Reformation, Works, vol. i. p. 42. ' Reg. Mag. Sig., Lib. xx. Nos. 114, 120.
" Vol. iv. fol. 183.
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of the College of Justice in May 1532, Sir John Dingwall was one of the Judges on the spiritual side taking his seat as Provost of Trinity College ; but he did not long enjoy this distinction, having died, it would appear, within a few months of his promotion to the bench. On the 26th of July that year, an action was raised before the Lords of Session by " Sir Jhone Dingwell, Provest of the Trinite College besyde Edinburgh, for himself, and as executour to umquhile Maister Jhone Brady his immediate prede- cessour and Provest of the said College aganis Elizabeth Ker Lady Buk- cleucht, and Walter Scott of Branxholrae knycht, hir sone," relating to the arrears of teynd-schawis, and of the parsonage of the parish kirk of Lempetlaw, in the parish of Sprouston, Roxburghshire, " for the space of xiii yearis immediatlie precedand and befoir the deceis of the said umquhill Maister Jhone quhilk deceissit in the month of November the zeir of God I™ v^ and xxv zeiris."i On the following day, the 27th of July 1532, in a similar action pursued against Sir William Scott of Branxholme,^ he is styled Maister Jhone Dingwell, Prothonatour Apostolic, Provest of the Trinite College besyde Edinburgh ; but I have not observed his name entered as present at any subsequent meeting of the Lords of Session. We may con- clude, therefore, that he was deceased on the l6th November that year, when James Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, George, Earl of Rothes, and John, Lord Erskine, were admitted as Lords of Session, being chosen by the King, " becaus thair is diverse deide, some seik, and some away of the said Lordis of Sessione, quhairthrow there is no sufficient nomber conforme to the acte maid thereupone of before, to decyde on all matteris, and to mini- ster justice to all his leiges."^ Buchanan, in one of his epigrams, founded, he says, upon some hexameters written by Sir Adam Otterburn of Auldhame and Redhall, knight, refers to the proud titles inscribed on Dingwall's sump- tuous monument, and says he had acquired great wealth at the Court of Rome in his official capacity.*
' Acta Domin. Concili. et Sess., vol. i. fol. 87. ^ Acts of Sederunt, 1532-1552, p. 8. Senators of the
-' lb., fol. 89. College of Justice, p. 37. ♦ Epigrammatim, Lib. ii.
d
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It appears that Dingwall, by his last Will, had bequeathed some money for carrying on the buildings of Trinity College, and that the masons em- ployed raised an action before the Lords of Session on the 9th of July 1533, for payment of this bequest, and of certain arrears which were then due by his executors. It is curious in itself, and may be here subjoined.^
Nono Julii [1533.] — Sederunt Cancellarius Abbates Cambuskynnell Kinloss Dominus Suncti Joliaunis M. Eichardus Bothuile M. Henricus Qubit M. Willelmus Gibsone M. Georgius Ker Clericus Eegistri Johannes Campbel Nicholaus Craufurd Prepositus Edinburgi Thomas Scott Franciscus Bothuil.
MASONES OF THE TRINITE COLLEGE.
Anent the suplicatioun gevin in be the Masonis of the Trinite College besyd Edinburgh aganis Maister "William Gibsoun Dene of Lestalrig and Maister Eobert Leslie cxecutouris of iimquhile ScHiR JoHNNE DiGNEVALE Provest of the said College for the withhalding fra thame of certane sovmes of money left to thame in legacy be the said vmquhile Schir Johnne for thair labouris done at the said College Oure Soueraue Lord directit his writingis to the said Executouris charge- and thame to pay to the saidis Masounis insa fer as wes left to thame in legacy / And siclik insa fer as thai ar vnpayit for thair labouris in tymis bipast / And to bald thame remanand at the bigging of the said College / And to recompenss thame for thair feis and dewiteis in tyme to cum quhill his Grace dischargit thame / Nochtheles the saidis Executouris withhaldis fra thame certane sovmes of thair feis, desirand thairfor that thai suld be compellit to mak payment to the saidis Masounis of the soumes restand awand to thame as at mair lenth is contenit in the said suplica- tioun with the saidis partiis beand personaly present The Lordis of Counsale ordanis the said Maister Eobert Leslie ane of the executouris forsaid of his awin consent to content and pay to the saidis Masounis the sovmis of money contenit in the testament left to thame in legacy And lettres to be directit to poynd and distrenye him thairfor as efferis And as for ony sovmes iiocht expremit in testament Ordanis the saidis Masounis to persew the saidis Executouris for the samin befor the Juge competent that Justice may be ministerit.*
Some uncertainty exists respecting the next Provost. In the Registers of the University of St. Andrews, we find the name "Willelmus Cunyng- HAM Prepositus Sancte Trinitatis prope Edinburgh : Britan.^''' as being ma- triculated in 1532. This might be any time between November and the
^ Vol. iii. fol. 74. ' Ada Dcmiit. Concilii et Se^s-, vol. iii. fol. 74.
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25th of March following when the year 1533 commenced. But whether in consequence of death or resignation, Cunnyngham was succeeded by Mr. Robert Erskine, whose resignation, on the 28th of July 1540, is recorded in the presentation of Sir George Clappertoun to the provestry.
Presentatio Domini Georgii Clappertoun super Prepositura ecclesie collegiate diue Trinitatis props Edinburgh nunc vacante aut cum eandem vacare contigerit per resignationem aut dimis- sionem Magistri Roberti Erskin vltimi possessoris eiusdem Ad presentationem domini Regis et collatione Cardinalis Sancti Andrea pleno iure spectante tc. Apud Edinburgh die xxviii mensis Jidii Anno domini I"" v<= xl" per Signaturam.^
Sir George Clappertoun, one of the Prebendaries of Trinity Col- lege in the year 1520, was Subdean of the Chapel Royal of Stirling; and from 1538 to the death of James the Fifth in 1542, he appears in the Trea- surer's accounts as " Maister Elimosinar (Almoner) to the Kingis Grace." Dominus Georgius Clappertoun, in July 1540, as above, secured a presen- tation under the Privy Seal to the Provostship of Trinity College near Edinburgh ; and by that title he sat in the Provincial Council held at Edinburgh in 1549-^ In a note to Knox's History of the Reformation,^ I was led to conjecture that Clappertoun had resigned this office upon being appointed to the Chapel Royal, but, as already stated, he had been Sub- dean for several years, and the collegiate accounts prove that he continued Provost till at least the 5th of September 1566,* when he probably resigned in favour of his namesake, and no doubt relative, Laurence Clappertoun.
From the Register of Confirmed Testaments in the Commissariat of Edinburgh, we learn that " Sir George Clappertoun, Subdene of the Kingis Majesties Chapell Royall of Striueling, deceissit in the moneth of Apryle 1574." His nomination of Mr. Robert Pont, then Provost of Trinity College, as one of his assignees, may be held as evidence of his having embraced the reformed doctrines.
Laurence Clappertoun appears to have held the office only about
* Reg. Secreti SigilU, vol. xiv. fol. 54. 3 Vol. i. p. 45.
* Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iv. p. 47. ♦ Infra, p. 128.
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three or four years : his name, as Provost, occurs on the '23d of July 1567, and also I'ith of March 1570-1, in which year he must have deceased, as
Mr. Robert Pont, on the 27th of January 1571-2, obtained a presenta- tion to the Provostry of Trinity College, Edinburgh, " vacant be deceiss of umquhile Laurence Clappertoun last Provost thairof."^ Pont's history is well known. He took an active share in church matters as a zealous Presby- terian, was nominated one of the Lords of Session in January 1572, and was admitted before 1574, one of the ministers of St. Cuthbert's Church, or the West Kirk, Edinburgh. On the death of his colleague William Harlaw, he had a presentation to the vicarage of St. Cuthbert's on 29th December, 1578. In 1584, he was deprived of his seat in the Court in consequence of an Act which prohibited " all persons exercising functions of the ministrie within the Kirk of God to bear or exerce any office of civil jurisdiction." He was the last of the Provosts of Trinity College,^ and having disposed to the Magistrates of Edinburgh his rights to the office, no successor was ever appointed. He died on the 8th of May 1606, in the 81st year of his age, and was interred in St. Cuthbert's Church-yard.
A pastour of Christ's flock sometime was I, Within the Church that standeth just hard by,' &c.
After the Reformation, Trinity College Church and its various endow- ments were conveyed by Royal Charter to Sir Symon Prestoun, Lord Pro- vost, and the Magistrates of Edinburgh, 12th November 1567. In the first instance, the gift was specially intended for an Hospital for the support of aged and helpless persons suffering through the events of adverse fortune. But this design, by subsequent charters, and more especially by the Act of Ratification in July 1 587, by which previous gifts during the King's minority, was modified, and along with the support of the poor, provision for the mini-
' Begister of Presentations to Benefices, yo\. i, ' MonteitJis TJieater of 3fortaliti/, p. 23. Edinb.
2 In the opposite facsimile, along with a specimen of 1713. The date, however, of Pont's death is there
the MS. Chartularies, the signatures of the Provosts pre- erroneously given as 1608. — History of the West Kirk,
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sters of Edinburgh, for the education of youth were included, and also to increase the funds of the newly erected College or University of Edinburgh. As explanatory of these purposes, there is printed at p. 246, No. 220, the original Signature by King James, of Confirmation and Novodamus of all the Kirk Livings, to the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Edinburgh, dated 7th August 1612, upon which a Charter under the Great Seal was passed. But previously to this, probably about the year 1580, the building itself was converted into a parochial church, and obtained the name of the North-East parish church of Edinburgh. The first minister was Walter Balcanquall. In 1574, he was one of the three ministers of Edinburgh ; in 1588, there were four; but owing to the increased population, the town in 1598 was divided into four quarters, and two ministers were allotted to each of these four churches, instead of its being divided into eight distinct parishes. In this way Balcanquall, as minister of the North-Eastern, or as it was commonly called the College Kirk, received a colleague in the person of Mr. George Robertson. He died 4th of August I6l6, in the 68th year of his age.
It is not, however, requisite to furnish any list of the ministers of this parish. Of the church itself, numerous views have been engraved for works connected with the history of Edinburgh, or the ecclesiastical anti- quities of Scotland. Its site has already been described, and the accom- panying plan, reduced from a drawing by Thomas Bonnar, City Architect in 1814, with details supplied from the very accurate plans by Mr. Bryce in 1848, when the church was demolished, exhibits the adjoining localities as they existed half a century ago, and may be compared with the wood- cut at p. xiv., copied from Gordon's map of Edinburgh 1647. The Eastern portion of the North Loch had nearly two centuries ago been drained, and converted into the " Physick Gardens," while another portion of the ground belonging to the church was, in 1772, granted for the erection of Lady Glen- orchy's Chapel, which had an injurious effect by circumscribing its limits, and enclosing it with a dead wall. But these buildings, as well as Trinity College and Hospital, have all been swept away, when the ground was
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acquired by the North British Railway Company for a station, warehouses, and other accommodations.
In noticing the destruction of this venerable Church, it would be foreign to the object of the present work to enter upon the vexed question of its proposed restoration. When it was scheduled for railway purposes, the in- difference shown regarding it by the inhabitants can only be accounted for by its unfinished appearance, as seen when looking down upon it from the North Bridge, and their ignorance of its interior, which has been described by an eminent architect as " a very beautiful decorated composition, with the capitals of the piers enriched with foliage, not exceeded in design or exe- cution in any English cathedral." After some further description of the mouldings, the south door and open porch, &c., it is added : " This build- ing is all of good decorated character, and is deserving of minute examina- tion and study. "^ But the Railway Directors nevertheless felt assured of obtaining the building at their own valuation ; the minister of the church and the members of Presbytery deluded themselves with the dream of a more advantageous site and a showy edifice, while the majority of the Town -Council, with all their clamorous anxiety for the good of the parish, were most willing to erase the church altogether from the roll of their ecclesiastical patronage. What therefore could a few Antiquaries expect to accomplish in their desire to avert such an act of barbarism,^ more especially when Government, after being appealed to, refused to interfere for the preservation of this Royal foundation, since it had become one of the parochial churches of the city, and the parties concerned had con- sented to its destruction ?
Trinity Hospital and gardens also shared the same fate. The original building stood in the neighbourhood of the church on the eastern side of Leith Wynd ; and Maitland in his History of Edinburgh, who has given a
1 Eickman's Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Billings's Antiquities, vol. ii., whicli contains probably
Architecture in England, p. 283. Lond. 1835, 8vo. the best representations of tbe building.
See also Muir's Azotes on Churches, pp. 8-17. Lond. * See their ilioworiann November 1844, ^re/tCEoZoi/i'rt
1848, 8vo. AVilson's JTemoriak, vol. i. p. 18; and /Scohca, vol. i v. p. 448.
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detailed account of the Hospital, with the Rules for its governraent, states that it was rebuilt in 1587.^ In the meanwhile the inmates were dislodged and became out-door pensioners, thus infringing or annulling its consti- tution. Amidst the clamour and disputes regarding a site for the Church, the Hospital seems to have been forgotten, except for a foolish claim in the name of some old female pensioners, as having a legal right to the accumulated funds, although appropriated by an Act of Parliament for the restoration of the church. It might have been hoped that a desire to orna- ment the city would have actuated our civic rulers, instead of their repeated attempts to rebuild a sumptuous edifice in the worst possible situation. But the whole affair has been disgraceful to Edinburgh.
It may not be out of place to mention very briefly another matter con- nected with Trinity College Church. Queen Mary of Gueldres, relict of King James the Second, died at Edinburgh on the l6th of November 1463. Some delay had occurred in her interment, and her funeral obsequies were performed in the cathedral church of Brechin ;2 but she was afterwards buried near the High Altar of the College Church which she had founded. The Society of Antiquaries having recommended a careful search to be made to discover her remains, various excavations were accordingly made by authority, but unfortunately, as it proved, not at first in the right direction. It is however unnecessary to give any details respecting the discovery of the two female skeletons — the one in the mortuary chapel, as it was called, on the north side of the church, the other, some months afterwards, within an antique-shaped leaden coflBn, in the Apsis, near the place where the High Altar must have stood, and which two distinguished medical professors concurred in stating was that of a female probably of about thirty years of age, but, as they conjectured, of weak intellect. The matter being brought before the Society of Antiquaries, I was led to investigate the history and character of the Queen Dowager ; and the result of this inquiry, proceeding upon contemporary authority, was, that however much the Queen may have
* Hist, of Edinburgh, p. 480. 2 See p. xv., No. 2.
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been attached to her husband, the high-flown encomiums by our later his- torians of her heroic speech to animate the troops after the King's death, to bring the siege of Roxburghe Castle to a close, was nothing but a pure fable ; that her age could not have exceeded thirty years ; and moreover, that neither her private nor public conduct was such as to warrant any exalted notions of her intellectual capacity.
Reference is made to the old Collegiate Seal in No. 204, which in 1574 was ordered by the Chapter " to be changit and reformit." Engrav- ings of both seals are here given, the former from an impression, which is not well preserved, attached to a deed of no importance in 1566; the latter is interesting in having a rude representation of the Church itself.
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On the rising ground to the south of the Cowgate in Edinburgh, but beyond the city wall, was erected the Monastery of the Preaching, or Black Friars, of the Order of St. Dominick. It was founded in the year 1230 by King Alexander the Second, who bestowed the annual sum of ten marks de Jirmis hurgalibas de Edinburgh, and also the vennel leading to the city, which still retains its name of the Blackfriars Wynd. Subsequent donations were granted by Robert the First, James the Third, and others. The buildings of the Monastery, surrounded with gardens, were extensive and sumptuous, occupying the site of Surgeon's Square, and of the former High School, which is now connected with the Royal Infirmary. Rut the Monastery itself was destroyed by fire in the year 1528, and nearly twenty years later the monks were plundered during the Duke of Somerset's invasion. The monastic buildings had only been partially restored when the Reformation brought such establishments to a close ; and the Black Friars being included in the grant of religious houses made to the Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh, the stones of the ruinous buildings were used for other purposes.
Adjoining the boundaries of this Monastery on the west, but wholly unconnected with it, stood a Church which was dedicated to the Virgin, and known, from its site beyond the walls of the city, as St. Mary in the Fields, or, as it was familiarly called. The Kirk of Field. Arnot supposed that it also might have been founded by Alexander the Second ; while Chalmers, whose words are repeated by later writers, says, " The age of this founda-
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tion, and the piety of the founder, are equally forgotten." i There can be no doubt that the church was of considerable antiquity, since we find in the Ancient Taxation, usually assigned to the end of the thirteenth century, under the head, " Abbas Sancte Crucis," among other dependencies of Holy- rood, EccLESiA Sancte Marie in Campis, rated at 60s. Its name is also occasionally met with in seisins and other deeds when describing the boundaries of adjoining property : as ' the common vennel leading to the church of the Blessed Mary in the Field ;'- ' et viam que ducit ad ecclesiam Campi.'^ Its erection into a Provostry is however of a later date, and may be determined with some certainty by examining the deeds connected with the church itself, which occur in the older Protocol Books chiefly preserved among the City Archives. This Collegiate Church is usually said to have been designed for a Provost and ten Prebendaries ; but no charter of endow- ment to this effect has been discovered. In the year 1511, certain waste lands, adjoining the cemetery of the Kirk of Field, were assigned for the purpose of erecting houses for the Master and chaplains of the several altars founded in the said church, and for the performance of divine services in singing collegialifer} In the same year, Ker, who became Provost, is styled Master pro tempore; but in 1512, and in seisins of a subsequent date, he is designed Propositus, and the church is uniformly called EccLESiA Collegiata. Among the early benefactors connected with this enlargement, Mr. David Vocat, one of the prebendaries, is specially to be noted for his liberality. His name is also associated with one of the chief seminaries of learning in this city, he having for several years filled the oflSce of Master of the Grammar School of Edinburgh.''
A few years later, James Layng, burgess of Edinburgh, with consent of his wife, by a charter under the Great Seal, grants to a chaplain officiating at the high altar in this church, his tenement under the Castle wall, on the
* Maitland's Hist. Edlnh., p. 181. Arnot's Hist. ^ Eentaloftlie Holy Cross Altar, circa 1400. St. Giles
Edinh. p. 243. Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 759. Charters, p. 281.
Wilson's Memorials, vol. ii. p. 177. = Ih. a.u. 1487, p. 183. ■• Infra, p. 262.
'• Stevea s High School of Edinh. p. 3. App. No. II.
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North side of the King's street. In 1531, another Royal charter confirms the mortification by Dame Janet Kennedy, Lady Bothwell, of some tene- ments in Edinburgh and an annual sum of 20s. for a prebendary officiating in the College Church of the blessed Virgin Mary in the Fields, ivithin the walls of the burgh of Edinburgh ; the city wall having recently been ex- tended in that direction. This Lady, who was the daughter of John Lord Kennedy, derived her title from a grant by Archibald, Earl of Angus (her supposed husband), of a liferent of the Lordship of Bothwell, 7th of Feb- ruary 1509 TO, and confirmed the same day by a charter under the Great Seal.^ Before her alleged marriage, she had a natural son by King James the Fourth, who, in 1515, was created Earl of Murray.
The person who first held the office of Provost of the Church, " Pra^po- situs Ecclesiae CoUegiatse nostre Domine de Campis prope Edinburgh," was Matthew Ker, Master of Arts. His name occurs among the licentiates of the University of Paris in the year 1498, and he is designed of the diocese of Glasgow. On his return to Scotland he was preferred to the Vicarage of Petirculter, and afterwards to the Kirk of Field. He also acted as deputy of Robert Forman, Commissary- General, in the Official Court of the diocese of St. Andrews, in deciding matrimonial cases. ^ He was probably dead in 1520, as we find Sir Alexander Coupar, chaplain and prebendary, acting for the rest of his brethren.
The second Provost appears to have been Mr. Richard Bothvile or Bothwell, who, as much by his own talent for public employment as by family influence, obtained his full share of preferment. He was the second son of Richard Bothwell, Provost of Edinburgh in the reign of King James the Third. ^ He was educated for the church, and his name, in the year 1500, occurs in the old Registers of the University of Paris, where he probably took his degrees in law. At an early period of life he obtained a prebend in the Cathedral Church of Glasgow, and became
1 Beg. Mag. Sig. lib. xvi, no. 22. Gen. Eeg. House. Liher Officialis, &c., printed for the
■^ In the year 1515-1516. Liber Sententiarum Oj)i- Abhotsford Club, pp. 5-8. Edinb. 1845, 4to. cialis Sancti Avdree infra Laudoniam 1515-1541. 31R. ' Douglas's Peerage, by Wood, vol. i. pp. 327, 328.
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Rector of Ashkirk, in Selkirkshire. In 1525, we find him described as Doctor of the Civil and Canon Laws, Canon of Glasgow, Rector of Ashkirk, and Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the Fields. He was also Director of Chancery to Kino- James the Fifth ; and on the institution of the College of Justice, 27th May 1532, it being provided that one-half of the Judges should be persons of ecclesiastical dignity, he had the dis- tinction of being named first of the Ordinary Lords on the Spiritual side. On the 11th of March 1539-40, Both well produced a letter from the King to the Court, dispensing with his regular attendance, in consequence of his being "greatlie troublit be infirmite and sickness," but reserving to him his salary and privileges, out of regard to his " auld and good service done to us, and to our derrest fader (James the Fourth." )i He however was able to resume his official duties, as his name frequently occurs in the sederunts of the Court after the date of the dispensation. On the 14th of February 1546-7, the presentation to Sir George Ker of the vacant prebend of St. Matthew in the Kirk of Field, was addressed by Robert, Abbot of Holy- rood, " to the venerable and excellent man, Mr. Richard Bothwell, licentiate in the Laws, Professor of Theolog}", and Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the Fields."^ He died on the 1st of January 1548-9.^ In the following month
Mr. John Spittall, Official of St. Andrews, appears as Provost of the Kirk of Field, but he held the office only for a few jears. He was Rector of the University of St. Andrews in 1547, 1549, and 1550. Dur- ing the two latter years, and also as a member of the Provincial Council held at Edinburgh in 1549,* Mr. John Spittal is designed PrcBpositus Beatce Marice de Campis, as well as Principal Official of St. Andrews and Rector of that University. His name as Provost occurs in the Officials' Register, 7th November 1552. He died, we may suppose, at the close of that year, as Mr. William Cranstoun, Rector of Kembach, and Canon of St. Salvator's
^ iiQclimniow's Historical Account of the Senators ^ Charters of Holyrood, p. 2Q2.
of the College of Justice, p. 10. Douglas's Peerage, by ^ Registrum Glasguense, vol. ii. p. 614.
W'ooJ, vol. i. p. 728. ■* Wilkins, Concilia Mag. Bril., vol. iv. p. 47.
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Collegiate Church of St. Andrews, had been appointed Principal Official before the 10th of March 1552-3.'
Mr. Alexander Forrest, who was educated at St. Andrews, taking his degree of A.M. in 1534, is first met with as Provost of the Collegiate Church, 18th February 1553-4.^ In the following year, the Provost and Prebendaries, granted a feu-charter of part of their property to James, Duke of Chattelherault ; and one reason assigned is specially worthy of notice, as showing that their buildings were in a ruinous state long before the Reformers had commenced their labours for the purgation of idolatry : " considering (it is said) that their houses, especially the Hospital annexed and incorporated with their College, were burnt dou'n and destroyed hy their auld enemies of England [in 1544-47], so that nothing of their said hospital was left^ hid they are altogether waste and entirely destroyed ; wherethrough the Divine worship is not a little decreased in the College, because they were unable to rebuild the said Hospital ;" they had in consequence granted in feu the tenement or hospital with the yards and pertinents thereof, to the Duke, for the purpose of erecting there a mansion-house for his own use.^ Mr. Alexander Forrest, Provost of the Kirk of Field, appears, from an old Inventory of the Town's Charters, to have been alive in 1559.
After the Reformation, the various religious houses in Edinburgh hav- ing been suppressed and the rights conveyed to the Provost and Magistrates, Knox and his friends urged them to appropriate such revenues " for sus- tenyng of the trew ministeris of Goddes word, founding, bigging of hos- pitalis for the pure, and coUegis for learnyng and upbringing of the youth, and sic uther godlie workis."* But selfish interests, and the unsettled state of the country interfered with these liberally devised schemes. It may, how- ever, have been for the purpose, which was afterwards carried into efi*ect, of founding a College, that the Council resolved to purchase the rights of the
' Liber Sentent. Official- etc, 1541-1553. was purcliased by the Magistrates of Ediiiburgli, in
■ Charters of St. Gilen, Y>- '^5d. 1613.
^ V/^ilson's Memorials of Edinburgh, vol. ii. p. 179- * Articles presented to the Town Council, 23(/ April
The Duke of Hamilton's house or ' ludging' then tvected, 1561. Council liecords, vol. iv. fol. 3.
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Kirk of Field, and we are thus furnished with the name of the next Provost, Pennycuke. . . . ^ On the 5th of March 1562-3, " the Provost, Baillies, and Counsale ordainis Maister Johnne Spens bailhe, Andro Murray of Blak- barony, and Maister Johnne Prestoun thesaurer, to talk and commune wdth the Persoun of Pennycuke tuiching the Kirk of Feild and hail bigingis thairof." On the 21st of June, in the Council Records we have the terms of a contract by which "... Penn3'cuik, persoun of that ilk, and Provost of the Kirk of Feild," for the sum of one thousand pounds Scots agrees to transfer to the Town " the hale bigging sumtyme callit the Kirk of Feild, bayth auld and new, with kirkyard, lugingis, &c., that pertenit of before to the Provostrie and prebendars of the samyn." Farther, on the 8th of Octo- ber, a committee was named " to tak inspectioun of the Persoun of Penne- cukis evidentis of the Kirk of Feild, &c., with all diligence, sua that the said Persoun have no farder cause to complene of delay."*
Four years later, we find that Mr. Robert Balfour, brother of the notorious Sir James Balfour of Pettindreich, was Provost of St. Marv's in the Field, when the Provost's house, on the night of the 9th of February 1566-7, was blown up, with the view of concealing one of the most extraordin- ary tragedies that any age or country has witnessed. This was the murder, by Both well and his accomplices, of Darnley, who had been lodged in the Provost's house, and where, only a few hours before, Mary Queen of Scots had visited her husband. This atrocious event, and its consequences, are too well known to require any details, but it has attached an imperishable interest to the spot where it occurred. For the purpose of conveying an accurate idea of the scene, a rough but spirited sketch of the Kirk of Field, and the adjoining localities, was hastily taken and transmitted to the English Court. It is preserved among the correspondence of the period in H. M. State Paper Office, and, by permission, an accurate facsimile of this very curious drawing is here given, on account of local interest.^
1 Perliaps Adam Peniiyciiik, who was a student at colouvcd. It was engraved in a reduced size for Clial-
Rt. Andrews, in 1543. nicrs's Life of Mary Queen of Scots, 1818, and 1822, but
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Balfour was forfeited b}^ Parliament in November 1579, along with other persons who were accessory to the murder of Darnley and of the two Regents.^ The Provostry being no longer reckoned an ecclesiastical office, was then bestowed on John Gib, one of the King's attendants, in the following terms :■ —
" Oar Souerane Lord ordanis ane letter to be maid under the Privy Seill, to Johnne Gib, ane of the Vallettis of his Hienes chalmer, gevand, grantand, and disponand to him for all the dayis of his lyflf, the benefice of the Provestrie of the Kirk of Feild, within the burgh of Edinburgh, now being in our Souerane Lordis handis throw the process and dome of forfaultour ordourlie led and deduceit aganis Robert Balfour broder germane to Sir James Balfour suratyme of Pettin- dreych knycht last possessour thairof . . . with power, &c., to the said Johne during his lifetyme, for brouking, josyng, and possessing of the said Provestrie, setting, using, and disponing upoun the boundis, houssis, yardis, and prebendareis thairof belanging, as umquhile Maister Alexander Forrest, sumtyme Provest thairof, or ony utheris that broukit or possest the samyne of before, &c." Dated 7th of December 1579/
It maybe added, thatEobert Balfour, " son lawfull to Andro Balfour of Montquhanie," on the 22d May 1584, obtained a Ratification by Parliament of a remission of his forfeiture, " Provid- ing alwayis that thir presentis be not extendit to repone and restoir the said Robert to any right he has or may pretend to the Provestrie of the Kirk of Feild, sumtyme situat within the libertie of the burgh of Edinburgh fructis, dewteis and emolumentis thairof quhairsoeuir the same ly of ony termis bypast and to come, but that the same remane and abyid perpetuallie heirefter with the Provest, baillies, counsell, and communitie of the said burgh of Edinburgh," &c.^
The buildings and ground of the Kirk of Field were soon afterwards acquired and appropriated to a much higher purpose than that of rewarding grooms of the bedchamber and other favourites. Robert Reid, Abbot of Kinloss and Bishop of Orkney, who died in France, when sent as one of the ambassadors on occasion of Queen Mary's marriage with the Dauphin of France in 1558, had bequeathed the sum of 8000 merks for the purpose of founding a College in Edinburgh. In the Queen's grant to the Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh of the Kirk lands, in 1562, when the various religious houses were suppressed, the Kirk of Field was included : the objects
• Acts Pari. Scotland, vol. iii. p. 137.
■^ Befjister of Presentations to Benefices, vol. ii. ^ ^4^^, p^,,,;_ Scotland, vol. iii. p. 318.
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of this grant being the erection of hospitals for the poor, the endowment of schools of learning, and the support of the ministry. The Kirk of Field, as already stated, had been purchased in 1563, for the site of the College ; but several years elapsed before the object so long contemplated was at length carried into effect.
Professor Crawford, in his History of the University, written in 1646, refers to the opposition which this scheme met with, until the year 1581, when the amount of Bishop Eeid's bequest having been recovered, it was again found necessary to purchase, for the sum of 300 merks, certain rights to the Kirk of Field which had previously been conferred on John Gib and John Fenton, two of the King's familiar servitors. The account given by Crawford, as it contains a description of the locality, may be quoted : —
" The time being favourable, was weell plyed by the ministers and citizens of Edinburgh befor named, and many else assisting them. So that having obtained ane gift of ane University w ithin the Citie, in the beginning of this yeare (1581), they purchased from John Gib and John Fenton ser- vants to the King's Majestic, their right of the Kirk of Field, to be a place for the situation of the intended College : It consisted then of twa parts, divided be a narrow lane goeing from the Cowgate, on the west syde of Mr. Alexander Guthrie's yairds, thorow the place where the common-hall now stands ; and from thence towards the west, where now the back-yet of the College leadeth to the Potterraw Port. On the north-west of this lane was the great lodging where now are the scholes of the private classes. This was the lodging of the Duke of Chattelerau, Earle of Aran, and, be the for- feitur of the Ilamiltons, disponed to some courtiers, and be them to the Magistrates of Edinburgh. On the east and south syde of this land, was the yairds, chambers, lodging, and kirk, belonging to the Collegiate pro- vestry and prebendaries of the Kirk-a-ficld, commonly called Tcmphim et Prcefectura Scmctce Marice in Campis, becaus that, when the Cowgate was an Loch, it was instead of the wall of the towne. But afterwards, the
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religious houses of the Blackfriers, Kirk-a-field, and Grayfriers, thought it more safe for them to have the towne-wall drawin about without them ; and so, drying the Cowgate Logh, they enlarged the towne on the south syde. This Kirk-a-field stood along towards the east from the Pot- terraw Port, haveing an gairden on the south, betwixt it and the present towne-wall : On the east end thereof was the lodging of the Provost, where now the Principall of the Colledge hath his rowmes ; and to the east from thence (within the present colledge yairds), were the prebendaries cham- bers, blown up with fire at the murther of King Henry ; and to this reli- gious convent belonged all the Colledge yairds. For many years thereafter, John Fenton keeped possession of the Provost of the Kirk-a-field's lodging, and the yaird lying thereto.
" 1583. The Councile, in March, caused inclose the present preccinct of the Colledge with walls, &c. . . ."i
The accompanying plan, from Gordon's survey of Edinburgh 1647, may serve not only to illustrate the earlier drawing of 1567, but also to show the plan of the College, as it was divided into an Upper and a Lower Court.
a Acadeinia.
b Rudera teicpU S. Mariag in campis.
c Vious Equorum.
d Porta figulina.
e Vicus Academiae.
/ Urbis iDoeiiia.
a The College.
b St. Mary of the field,', or the Kirk of Field.
c The Horse wjnd.
(I The Potterraw port.
e The College wjad.
/ The Towne wall.
Crawford, in the course of his work, mentions the period when the various parts of the College buildings were erected. But all traces of the houses which were attached to the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the
* Crawford's Memoirs, MS. The work was printed, but not verj accurately, Edinburgh, 1808, 8vo.
/
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Fields had disappeared, when these additions and alterations were made during the first half of the seventeenth century ; as in turn the whole of the old College buildings have been removed in the course of the present century.
The original entrance, which led into the Lower court, was from the north, immediately opposite the vennel which still retains the name of the College Wynd ; and like that of Heriot's Hospital, it was surmounted with a steeple, but no view of it has been preserved. This account was given me by a well-known distinguished Physician, who was born within the walls of the College in 1749, and survived till 1835. At a more recent period, probably from 1789 till 1822, when the foundation of the present building was laid, the entrance was from South College Street, by the gate repre- sented in the subjoined wood-cut. The house to the left was that of Prin- cipal Robertson, and afterwards of Professor Dalzel ; while the low range of houses to the right, forming the south side of the quadrangle, had been inhabited by some of the Professors ; the one next the gate served as the Senate-house, while the adjoining one was the birthplace of Dugald Stewart. But all personal recollections of these buildings, and their varied associa- tions, must necessarily, in the lapse of time, be soon effaced. The Founda- tion itself has now, for nearly three centuries, continued to flourish, and to confer no ordinary lustre on Edinburgh as a seat of science and learning.
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RESTALRIG.
According to the legendary history of the Blessed Virgin Triduan, Lestalrik or Restalrig, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, might claim an antiquity coeval with the metropolis itself. She is said to have come from Achaia, in the fourth century, in company with St. Regulus, and to have died at Restalrig in the year 510, in the reign of Eugenius the Third, the 8th of October being held as her festival day. Although no precise date can be assigned when a church or chapel was first erected and dedicated to this Saint, whose bones for many centuries were held in high venera- tion,i or when it first became the parish church of Leith, we can trace it back at least to the twelfth century. The names of some of the early rectors or vicars of the church, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, may be found in the Chartularies of Dunfermline, Newbattle, North Berwick, and the Priory of St. Andrews. Adam, parson of the church of Lastalrigg, in the county of Edinburgh, swore fealty to Edward the First in 1296.2 In the Taxation of Ecclesiastical benefices in Scotland, which was prepared about the same period, the " Ecclesia de Lestal- rige," in the Deanery of Linlithgow, is valued at £19» 4s. 2d., and the
1 Breviarivm Aherdonenae, Proprium Sanctorum pro tempore Estivali, fol. 122. David Camerarius de Sco- torum Fortitudine, &c., p. 176.
* Taxa et Decimcc Eccfesiarum, &c., p. cviii. of tlie Surtees Society volume, The Priory of Coldinghame, 1841, 8vo.
This was Adam St. Edmunds, brother of Alan St. Edmunds, Bishop of Caithness, and, fur a short period. Lord Chancellor. Having died intestate, King Edward's
officers seized in the King's hands all the goods and chattels which the Bishop possessed at the time of his decease ; but the English monarch, out of his special grace for the services rendered by the Bishop, issued a warrant for their delivery to the Prior of Coldingham and to the Bishop's brother, " Magistro Ade de Sancto Edmundo persone ecclesie de Lastalrik, fratre prefati Episcopi."— (i?o<wZi Scotice, vol. i. p. G b. Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 785.)
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Tenths at £l, 18s. 5d.^ In the older Taxation, it is rated at 25 marks. The names of barons of Lestah'ig of that ilk also occur, before the pro- perty passed to the family of Logan of Restalrig, who appear more dis- tinctly towards the close of the fourteenth century as superiors of Leith. Sir Robert Logan, knight, Admiral of Scotland, was the founder of the preceptory and hospital of St. Anthony in Leith. In 1435, an extra-dona- tion of the right of patronage of the church of Restalrig was conferred on Thomas Logan of Restalrig, by William, Bishop of St. Andrews.^ The connexion between Restalrig and Leith was further strengthened by Royal donations. There was a spacious building near the mouth of the harbour, occupying a large extent of ground between the Broad Wynd and Bernard Street, usually considered to have been a royal residence, and always designed The King's Wark. None of our local writers, in tracing its his- tory,^ seem to have been aware of the date of its erection ; but this is clearly ascertained by the following payments entered in the Exchequer Rolls of King James the Second : —
No. 230, 29 Junii 1459- Expense . . . Pro decern millibus et sexa- ginta tegulis emptis per compotantem et missus versus Leith ad edificium
^ Johannes Petit (or Litill,) is designed Vicarius de Lestalrig, in a charter of John Winton, a.d. 1448- (Hay's Scotia Sacra, MS. p. 380.)
* Sir Ludovic Stewart's MS. Collections, p. 12.
' Mait!and's7r('stor?/, p. 572. Arnot's .ffisior//, p. 495. Wilson's Memorials, vol. ii. p. 143. Campbell's History of Leith, p. 337, 1827, post 8vo. Dr. D. J. Robertson's Antiquities of Leith, p. 67, 1851. 4to.
Two deeds, printed in the Liher Cartarum Sancte Crucis, throw some light on the history of this pro- perty. In 1450, James the Second grants to the Monks of Holyrood his lands commonly called tfie Kingis Inche, lying in the lordship of Bothkenar, in the sheriffdom of Strevelyn, in exchange for the Monks' land lying in the town of Leith in the barony of Lestalrik, formerly alienated by the Monks to a certain progenitor of the King. The other, of the same date, by James, Abbot of Holyrood, describes the lands in Leith as that land now commonly called The Kingis Werk, lying on the south side of the water of Leith, &c. — (Pp. 141-144.)
In an Instrument of Seisin, 23d May 1494, in de- scribing some boundaries, mention is made " inter ter-
ram sive tenementum Domini Eoberti Gourlaw capellani Aitaris in Insula Australis Ecclesie beate Marie virginis de Lestalrig." — (Canongate Protocol Book.)
The King's Work did not escape the general con- flagration of Leith by the English during the two inva- sions of the Earl of Hartford (afterwards Duke of Somer- set) in 1544 and 1547. On the 21st of October 1564, " the landis caUit the Kingis werk of Leith, with the houssis and biggingis being thairon, which were brint and destroyit be our auld inemies of Ingland. the tvme of the birning of the town of Leyth," being granted in few^ to John Chisholme, Comptrollar of Her Hienes artillery (Register of Signatures in the Office of the Comptroller); and he having repaired or re-edified what was " alluterly decayit," he obtained a new infeftment of the same from the Queen in 1567. Some years later, James the Sixth erected into a free barony, the lung's Work with its garden, and the waste lands surrounding- it, in favour of Bernard Lyndsay of Lochhill ; and its subsequent fate is recorded in the works above men- tioned.
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Domini Regis in villa de Leth . . . £25, 2s. 6d. Et pro carragio dictarum tegularum et induccione earundem in diversis batellis, £l, 3s. 8d.
No. 230, 17 Jiilii 1459 . . • Expense . . . Et pro solucionera factam Thome Olyphant ad fabricam de Leth, £108, 4s. 6d.
No. 232. Computum Thome Olyphant magistri fabrice de Leth, 4 Maii 1458-16 Julii 1460 . . . Pro expensis factis circa dictam fabricam et in complementum ejusdem, £514, 8s. lOd. ob.
From this building. King James the Third, by a charter dated 3d November 1477, endowed a chaplainry in the Upper Chapel of the Parish church of the Blessed Virgin of Lestalrig, by a mortification, besides some other grants, of an annual rent of twelve marks from his land commonly called Le Kingis Werk in the town of Leith and barony of Restalrig. At the same time, the King conferred the chaplainry on his beloved orator and chaplain Patrick Hog, whose duty, and that of his successors, was to say daily mass for the salvation of the souls of the King, of his dearest consort, Margaret, Queen of Scotland, their offspring, &c.^
From the charters now first printed, we find that Restalrig was erected into a Collegiate Church by King James the Third. The bull of Pope Innocent VIII. which authorized the disjunction of Laswade as a mensal church of the See of St. Andrews, and the annexing of it to Restalrig dedi- cated to the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin, states that the King had, at his own expense, commenced to build in a sumptuous manner, and endowed this Collegiate Church for a Dean and a suitable number of canons and pre- bendaries. At the same time, authority was given for the induction of John Frissell (or Eraser), presbyter of the diocese of St. Andrews, and Master of Arts, as Dean. The bull is dated at Rome in November 1487, or within seven months of the King's death. To the original church there had been annexed one or more chapels, and upon an enlarged foundation mainly in- tended for the cultivation of music. When we meet with the words Copella Regia before the year 1500, the locality of the * Chapel Royal' is sometimes
• Beg. Mag. Sig. vol. viii. no. 69. Epistolce Begum Scotoriim, etc. 4to, MS. in the Editor's possession.
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very doubtful. In the Exchequer EoUs, July 1486-July 1487, £10, I6s. Od. was paid, " Finlaio Fell latimo pro certis tegulis lapideis ad capellam Domini Regis contiguam ecclesie parochial! de Lestalrig."
On the 3d of May 1506, Sir Walter Gray, chaplain in Lestalrig, was allowed to set in feu-farm *' a land in the Cowgate of Edin^ for vj merkis, quhilkis six merkis was conquest be umquhile our Soveran Lordis fader (quhom God assolzye!) to the institution of ane Chapellain in Lestah'ig."^
King James the Fourth was a chief benefactor, as appears from his charter 18th October 1512,^ having granted the annual sum of £20, out of the King's Work of Leith, for the maintenance of an additional chaplain ; and having also bestowed the parsonage of Bute, with all its revenues, to be equally divided into six free prebends. In the charter of 1515,3 these several foundations are recapitulated, and the stipends and duties of the dean, prebendaries, and singing boys, specially defined ; and twelve years later, the Rectory of Ellem was annexed to Eestalrig by King James the Fifth.
The following list of the Deans of Restalrig may be considered as complete.
Mr. John Frisale or Fraser, the first Dean, was a person of note, yet there is some uncertainty regarding his parentage and early history. In the Annals of the Fraser family he is said to have been a younger son of Hugh, third Lord Lovat, educated at Oxford, and as Rector of Dingwall, before he was promoted to the Deanery of Restalrig. Another authority says, he was a natural son of Fraser of Fruid, in Peebles-shire, and a Canon of Glasgow, Abbot of Melrose, in 1485, and Bishop of Ross, and that he died in 1507, at the age of 78. In the Registers of the University of St. Andrews, we find Joannes Fresaill among the Determinants in 1472, and Mr. John Fresail, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1479- He was, as above stated, admitted to the Deanery of Restalrig when the Church became Collegiate in 1487. Five years later he was appointed Clerk of Register
» Eeg. Seer. Siy. vol. iii. fol. 72. * Infra, p. 278. ^ I„fra, p. 280.
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Rolls and Council. In the treaty of Peace with England, 15th of June 1493, he was one of the Commissioners, and is designated " Magister Johannes Fresale, Decanus Capelle Regie de Restalrig, Clericus rotulorum et registri ac consilii."^ Under the same titles his name appears in the Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1492 to 1495. In the Exchequer Rolls, 21st June 1496-21st June 1497» we still find " Magister Johannes Eresale, Decanus capelle regie de Lestalrig." A few months later he was promoted to the See of Ross ; and in the Privy Seal Register is a precept for the admission of John, Bishop of Ross, " to the temporalitie of all landis, rentis, and possessionis thairof," dated the 3d of January 1498, xi'"" year of James IV. That the Bishop of Ross was not Rector of Dingwall, appears from a charter of confirmation, by which John, Bishop of Ross, grants to the vicars and chaplains of the Cathedral Church of Ross, an annual sum of £10 out of his property in Linlithgow, dated 10th May 1504, and one of the witnesses to this deed is John Fresell, Rector of Dingwall.^
We may be excused in adding a few words regarding Bishop Eraser. He was not unmindful of his former charge, having founded the chaplainry of St. Triduan in St. Triduan's aisle in the Collegiate Church of Restalrig; and James the Eourth, by his charter, dated 18th of October 1512,^ em- powered the Abbots of Holyrood and Newbattle to erect it into a new prebend. The Bishop finished the Cathedral of Fortrose, and has the report of having been a good hospitable man.^ He died on the 5th of February 1507, aged 78 ; and a monument, with the effigies of a Bishop, in, pontijicalibus, still preserved in that church, is said to be that of Eraser. A letter under the Privy Seal was granted in favour of Sir Robert Fre- sale, Dean of Ross, Alexander Fresale, and James Makyson, executouris to umquhile John, Bishop of Ross, of the temporalities of the lands of the
1 Rotvili Scotia, vol. ii. pp. 509-511. His name also ^ Dom. George Newton was presented to this chap- occurs in a safe conduct with the ambassadors sent to lainry, which was declared vacant by the non-residence England in 1495.— (//;. pp. 515-519.) of Dom. John Fresel, 'l2th Sept. 1507. {Reg. Seer. Si(j.
^ Reg Mag. Sig. Lib. xiv. no. 85, quoted in Origines vol. iii. fol. 137.)
Paroch. Scotia, vol. ii. p. 484. * Keith's Catalogue of Scottish Bishops.
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Bishoprick for one year, dated 1st of May 1507. It only remains to add, that Alexander Fresale, burgess of Linlithgow, obtained from King James the Fourth a charter of two-third parts of the lands of Arbole in the earl- dom of Ross and shire of Inverness, which had fallen into the King's hands " ratione bastardise Joannis quondam Episcopi Rossensis," l6th August 1507.
The Bishop of Ross was perhaps succeeded in the Deanery of Restalrig by Mr. Henry Wood. In the Register of the Privy Seal,^ is this notice : — " A presentation to Mr. Henry Wood of the Deanery of Lestalrig, quhen it sal happin to vak be promotion of Mr. Jo. Fresal to the Bishoprick of Ross, or be resignation or dimission of him. De data x Septembris, Anno domini, etc., Ixxxxvij [1497-] et regno Regis x. per Signaturam : gratis."
No particulars regarding Wood have been discovered. On the suppo- sition that he was duly inducted to the Deanery, he had for his successor, Mr. Robert Boswell, a Canon of Dunkeld. His name as Dean of Restal- rig occurs in the same Register, in a precept of confirmation to Walter Cargill, of a charter " indentata per Magistrum Robertum Boswell, Decanum de Lestalrig, Canon. Dunkeld. ac Prebend, de Fongort," &c., 16 November 1507.^ Myln, in his Lives of the Bishops of Dunkeld, written in the year 1515, and dedicated to Bishop Douglas, and the chief persons connected with the cathedral church, includes Boswell prebendary of Fon- gort, as an open-hearted, hospitable man (liberali et magnarum expensarum viro), who completed the mansion house of his prebend, and other build- ings ; and he informs us he was a son of Boswell of Balmuto. Mr. Robert Boswell, parson of Auchterderran, is stated to have been the son of David Boswell by his second marriage with Lady Margaret Sinclair, daughter of William, Earl of Orkney and Caithness.^ Such a parentage was likely enough to insure his church preferment. His birth may be placed about the year 1458. The name of Ro. Boswel appears first in the list of Deter- minants in 1475, and Mr. Ro. Boswell dives in that of the Licentiates, in
1 Eeg. Seer. Sig. vol. i. fol. 22. " lb. vol. iii. fol. 148. ^ Douglas's Baronage of Scotland, p. 309.
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1477, at the University of St. Andrews. In November 1478, when chosen Dean of the Faculty of Arts, he is styled Rector of Auchterderran. In May 1479? *' venerabilis et nobilis vir Magister Robertas Boswel" was elected Rector of the University, and again in February 1489-90. By some private arrangement, Boswell resigned the Deanery of Restalrig in 1510.
Mr. Thomas Dickson, one of the Canons of Aberdeen, who succeeded, was educated at St. Andrews, and took the usual degrees in the year 1492. His name as Provost of the Collegiate Church of Guthrie in Forfarshire, occurs 20th March 1508-9;^ and his presentation to Restalrig is as follows : —
Presentatio directa sanctissimo domino nostro Pape seu cuicunque alteri cui collatio Decanatus de Lestalrig pertinet pro collatione conferenda Magistro Thome Diksoun caiionico Abirdonensi super dicto Decanatii cum eundem per resignationem demissionem seu deprivationem Magistri Roberti Boswell vacare contigerit etc. ad presentationem Regis spectantem. Apud Striueling ... die mensis . . . anno 1510, et regni Regis 22.^
He was also prebendary of Turreff, Aberdeenshire, and on the 24th August 1511, he obtained a presentation to the rectory of Dunbar.^ The precepts for the royal charter (printed at p. 277), which grants two acres of meadowland on the south side of the church of Lestalrig, is dated 15th October that year ;^ and on the 18th May following, the King issued a pre- sentation, directing the Bishop of the Isles to grant collation to Mr. Thomas Dickson, Dean of Lestalrig, to the rectory of Bute, vacant by the decease of Mr. Robert Abirnethy.^ Another change in the Deanery took place within four years, as
Mr. John Douglas, who must have obtained a presentation to the office, by a kind of simoniacal bargain, resigned to the next Dean his claim of right, title, &c., which was sanctioned by the Lords of Council, on the 27th of June 1515:—
1 Young's Protocol Booh.
* Regist. Seer. Scg.- vol. iv. fol. 64 b.
8 lb. fol. 75 b. * lb. fol. 162.
« lb. fol. 184 b.
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The quhilk day it is concordit betuix Master Johnne Douglas on the ta part and Master Patrik Covintrie on the tother part tuiching the Denery of Lestalrig, and fructis of the samyn, in this manar, the said Master Johnne sail renunce and rennncis all rycht, claim of richt, title, and cans that he hes to the said Denery this day, the said Master Patrik sail content and pay to the said Master Johnne for his expensis maid thairupoun, and sail tak his part supple and defend him thairintill, i<= ducatis, ilk ducat xxs., in this maner 1 ducatis at Martinmess next to cum, and uther 1 at Witsunday next thairefter. Attour the said Maister Patrik hes remittit and for- gevin all fructis intromettit with be the said Master Johnne of the said Denery to this day, etc. Ambe partes consenserunt et instruraenta desuper pecierunt testibus Dominis unacurn Magistris Jacobo Ogilby Thoma Ballantyne Johanne Dinvale Willielmo Gibsoun et Georgio Gud.^
Mr. Patrick Covyntre, bachelor of Decrees and Divinity, was probably a native of Lanarkshire. He was long connected with Glasgow, where he was incorporated in 1487, and was for several years one of the principal Regents of that University. ^ He held the vicarage of Glencarne in 1493, and the rectory of Garvald in 1503.^ On the 7th June 1510, James the Fourth conferred on him a yearly pension of £40, to cease when the King should promote him to a benefice of the value of 100 marks yearly.* In the Exchequer Rolls, 1515, there are the following payments to Coventre, as Dean of Restalrig : —
Corapotum Johannis Leslie feodifirmarii dominii de Garviauch, redditum apud Edinburgh, 20 August! 1515.
— De quibus allocatur compotanti per solutionem factam Magistro Patricio Coventre Decano de Lestalrig in viginti libris per preceptum domine Kegne ipsa existente in viduitate sua pro tempore in sustentatione diuinorum in ecclesia Collegiata de Lestalrig et capellanis ejusdem ad orandum pro anima Kegis Jacobi Quarti sui sponsi dicto precepto vnacum acquittancia dicti Magistri Patricii ostensis super compotum xx ti.
Compotum Eeceptorum generalium proprietatis domini Eegis 2 Novembris 1515.
Expense . . . Et decano de Lastalrig percipienli annuatim viginti libras de Hospicio Domini Kegis in Leith pro sustentatione vnius prebendarii in Collegio de Lastalrig de duobus annis precedentibus hoc compotum xl ti. Et domino Waltero Gray capellano in Restalrig perci- pienti annuatim de eodem hospicio de vno anno . . . viii ti.
' Ada Dominorum Concilii, vol. xxvii. fol, 22. ^ lb. vol. ii. p. 119-
2 Munimenta Univ. Glasg. vol. i. et. ii. p. 100, &c. ■* Beg. Seer. Sig. vol. iv. fol. 92.
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Mr. Patrik Covyntre, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Restallryg, was one of thirteen ambassadors for negotiating a treaty of peace with Eng- land who obtained a safe-conduct from Henry VIIL, 6th February 1515-6.1 Judging from the date of his successor in the Deanery, we may conclude that he died about the year 1524; and in consequence of some special endowment, we find it stated, in 1539, that the services of the vicar of Strathevin (in the presbytery of Hamilton) included prayers "pro anima quondam venerabilis viri Magistri Patricii Covintre Decani de Lestalrig."^
Mr. William Gibson, second son of Thomas Gibson, the ancestor of the family of Gibson of Durie in Fife, became successor to Covyntre as Dean of Restalrig about the year 1525. He received his education at the University of Glasgow, where he was incorporated in 1503, and took his Master's degree in December 150?.^ He afterwards obtained the vicarage of Garvock, and in 1518, we find him styled Rector of Innerarity.* His name as Dean appears as a witness to a deed on the 12th of April 1526.^ He was nominated one of the Senators on the Spiritual side, when the Court of Session was instituted, 27th of May 1532 ; and from the Acts of the Lords of Council and Session he seems to have taken a regular and active share in legal matters. On account of his extensive abilities he was, according to Douglas, frequently employed by King James V. in embassies to the Pope, who honoured him with the armorial bearing of three keys, and the following motto, Coelestes pandite portcB ; and adds, that as a reward for his writings on behalf of the Scottish Church, he obtained the title of Gustos Ecclesice Scotice.^ In May 1540, the Dean of Restalrig became Suffragan to Cardinal Beaton, retaining the benefices which he already held, and to receive in addition a pension of two hundred pounds during his life. In the letter addressed by the King to Pope Paul III. requesting the sanction of his Holiness to this arrangement, Dean Gibson
1 Rotvli Scotia, vol. ii. p. 582. * Ihid. pp. 133, 136, 138. ' Infra, p. 207.
'^ Liher Collegii Nostre Domine Glasgnensis, p. 121. ' Sir E. Douglas's Barm age, p. 568. Senators of
' Segist. Univ. Glasguensis, vol. ii. pp. 118, 124, 285. the College of Justice, p. 13.
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Is described as " hominem non modo ob singularem tbeologiae jurisque peritiam, sed etiam ob morum vitseque integritatem, nobis cognitum et dilectum."^
Dr. John Sinclair, a younger son of Sir Oliver Sinclair of Rosslyn, was educated at St. Andrews, and obtained the Deanery of Restalrig sub- sequently to his appointment as an ordinary Lord of Session on the Spiritual side, 27th April 1540. On this occasion he took his seat on the bench as Rector of Snaw ; and he appears as such in the Minutes of the Court until May 1542, after which there is a blank in the Register. It is probable, therefore, that Gibson was dead before 1545, Sinclair having been ap- pointed Dean, and Mr. John Spittall succeeding him as Rector of Snaw." In the Privy Seal Register is the following notice : —
Preceptum carte confirmationis Arthuro Sinclair fratri germane Magistri Johannis Sinclare, in iitroque jure licentiati ac Decani ecclesie collegiate Beate Marie Virginis de Kestalrig super carta feodifirme per dictum Magistrum Johannem cum consensu Capituli ecclesie antedicte et prebendariorum eiusdem facta sibi et lieredibus suis masculis . . . de totis et integris terris de Kirk- bill cum pertinentiis jacentibus infra baroniam de Strabrok, &c. Apud Edinburgh penult. Augusti 1546.3
The Dean of Restalrig, in Foxe's account of the trial and condemnation of Adam Wallace in 1550, is mentioned as " a worldlie wise man, and not ungodlie in understanding of the truth. "^ At a later period (under the year 1557), Knox says, " that perfyt hypocryte Maister John Sinclare, then Dean of Restalrige, and now Lord President and Bishop of Brechin, began to preach in his Kirk of Restalrig ; and at the beginnyng held him- self so indifferent [impartial], that many had opinion of him, that he was nott far from the kingdom of God."^ And again, he speaks of him, " blynd of ane eie in the body, but of boith in his saule."^ Having attended his
* EimtolcB Regum Scotorum, vol. ii. p. 64. and its deserted area, as consecrated ground, afterwardB
^ "A Nivibus Rector." {Liber Scntent. Offic. St. became a frequent place of burial with Roman Catlio-
Andr. 27 Nov. 1540.) " The Church of Our Lady of lies." (Note to Col. Patrick Gordon's Diary, p. 148.)
Snow (" Beate Marie Virginis ad nives") was, for a ^ Beg. Seer. Sig. vol. xx. fol. 44 h.
short time, the parish church of St. Machar (Old Aber- * Foxe's Martyrs, and Knox's Works, vol. i. p. 549.
deen) ; at the time of the Reforaiation it fell into ruin, * Knox's Works, vol. i. p. 265. ° Ih. p. 235.
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brother Henry Sinclair, Bishop of Ross and President of the Court of Session, in 1564, when he proceeded to Paris to undergo a painful surgical operation ;^ on the 18th September that year, Queen Mary addressed a letter to Queen Elizabeth for a safe-conduct to Maister Johne Sinclair, Dean of Restalrig, to return from France through England.^ The Bishop of Ross, after lingering for some months, died on the 1st of January follow- ing, and before the close of that year the Dean was promoted to the chair as Lord President. About the same time he was also advanced to the See of Brechin. But Sinclair did not long enjoy these honours, having died of fever on the 9th of April 1566.^
Mr. James Lauder, the next Dean of Restalrig, was second son of Robert Lauder of Bass. It is a singular circumstance to find an Act of Privy Council, 13th March 1572-3, stating that "letters were raised at the instance of Mr. James Lauder, Dean of Restalrig, against his father Robert Lauder of Bass, who still detains him in strait prison in Beill."^ The cause of such imprisonment at Beill, his father's residence in East Lothian, is nowhere stated, but from some other unexplained reason he must have soon after relinquished his office of Dean. It may be added in connexion with his family history, that his elder brother, Sir Robert Lauder of Poppill knight, pre- deceased his father, on whose death, in June 1576, James succeeded to the property, but he was murdered by his servant in October 1580.'
Mr. Thomas Douglas had a grant of the Deanery of Restalrig, which became vacant " by the simple dimission and resignation of Mr. James Lauder, last Dean and possessour thairof," reserving a pension of £100 to Mr. Nicholas Elphinston, 10th November 1573.^ Douglas was minister of Stra- brock, and was translated in the following year to the united parishes of Dal- keith, Laswade, and Glencorse. He derived little advantage from such pre- ferment, having died in June 1575. In his latter will, dated 20th May 1575, Mr. Thomas Dowglas, Dean of Restalrig, constituted " his spouse, Marion
* Senators of the College of Justice, p. 59. ■* Regist. Seer. Concilii : Acta.
- Stale Paper Office, tScotland, vol. ix. no. 46- ^ Pitcairn's Criminal Trials, vol. i. p. 89.
^ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 98. " Presentations to Benefices, vol. i.
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Hammiltoun, his onlie executrix, with the oversicht of James Douglas, his son, James Douglas of Knightisrig, and James Hammiltoun of Kincavell ; and maist hamelie desiris and requeistis my Maister my Lord Regentis Grace to be ovirsman to help my wyf and bairnis as his Grace thinkis gude. Item, I leif to my said spous the rowme [place] of Clappertoun and Myln, &c.,' provyding alwyis gif my wyf can nocht leve chaist that scho marie ane godlie man and trew servand to our Kingis Majestic and my Lord Regentis grace, and that he quhome scho sail marie haif als sufficient ane leving as scho hes, and that scho marie nocht without the aviso and counsall of my Maister my Lord Regentis grace, Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie, and George Douglas of Parkend, Capitane of the Castell of Edinburgh."^ His loyalty and attachment as a Douglas to the Regent Earl of Morton is suffi- ciently apparent.
Mr. George Ramsay was presented to the Deanery of Restalrig, with the same reservation of Elphinstoun's pension, 25th October 1575.^ About the same time he was also admitted minister of Dalkeith, Laswade, and Glencorse : his stipend " the haill twa-pairt of the Denerie of Restalrig quhairunto he is newlie provided, £64, 4s. 5d., 1 chalder, 12 bolHs quheit," &c. In order to obtain possession of the various deeds connected with the Deanery, Ramsay instituted an action before the Commissaries of Edinburgh against Sir William Sinclair of Rosslyn, into whose hands they no doubt came upon the death of the Lord President. The decreet of the Com- missaries contains an inventory of the several documents which were then produced and transferred to the new Dean. It is curious and worth pre- serving in this place : —
DENE OF RESTALEIG.
Anent the actionn and caus intentit and persewit be Maister George Eamsay Dene of Res- talrig aganis Schir William Sinclare of Rosliug knicbt be vertew of the saidis commissaris pre- cept direct thairvpoun makand mentioun . That qxihair he is lauchfullie providit to the said
' Commissariat of Edinburgh, Confirmed Testaments, ^ Register of Presentations to Benefices, vol. i.
5th Januarj' 1575-6.
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clenerie with all teindis landis frutis rentis and vther dewiteis pertening thairto be ressoue quhairof he has gude richt to keip the haill evidentis of the said denerie during his liftyme not- withstanding Schir William Sinclair of Eosling knicht hes in keiping the evidentis vnderwrittin of the said Denerie togidder with all vther evidentis pertening thairto . at the leist he had thame or fraudfullie hes putt thame away and will not deliuer thame to the said complenar to be keipit and vsit be him as the propir evidentis of the said denerie . that is to say. Bulla Innocentii octaui de prima erectione coUegii decani et prebendariorum de Restalrig . Carta fundacionis donacionis pistribucionis ordinacionis et confirmacionis ecclesie collegiate de Kestalrig in ampla forma . Ee- signacio duarum acrarum terre per dominum de Kestalrig in favorem decani . Instrumentum resignacionis duarum acrarum , Instrumentum status et saisine duarum acrarum terre pro mansis et hortis . Carta donacionis decern mercatarum terrarum in Strabrok nuncupatarum Kirkhill . Presentacio Alexandri Burtoun et sue sponse prebende Sancti Hieronymi , Collacio prima et institucio domini Georgii Dewer prebendarii Sancti Hieronimi de Eestalrig . The patronis lettres vpoun the foundacioun ellis maid of Sanct Hieromis prebendarie . Lettres in the foure formis vpoun the conseruatouris lettres of the vicarage of Bute annexit to Kestalrig . Carta donacionis annui reditus 20 librarum de Kingiswork in Leith . The Kingis consent to Allan Kirk vpoun the colledge kirk of Kestalrig . Carta capellanie Sancte Triduane de Kestalrig . Saisina 23 soli- dorum . Carta annui reditus 28s. . Assignacio pro prebenda quam magister Thomas Diksoun resignauit . Ane chairtour of Sanct Tredwellis He . Vnio vicarie de Kothsay in Bute ecclesie collegiate de Kestalrig . Instrumentum vnionis capellanie fundate per episcopum Kossensem . as at mair lenth is contenit in the said precept . The said Dene being present . and the said Schir William compering alsua personale quha producit the evidentis efter specifeit . that is to say . Ane decreit of the Lordis of Counsell of the annuellis of Sanct Tredwellis He of the dait vi yeir . Ane lettre for Schir Johne Ballentyn of Sanct Tredwellis alter . Ane lettre of poinding for Sanct Tredwallis alter at Schir Johne Ballentynis instance . Litere ordinarie in fauorem decani et pre- bendariorum de Kestalrig de fructibus rectorie et vicarie de Kothsay . The Kingis approbacioun of the priuilege of Kestalrig . Executoriales erectionis ecclesie de Kestalrig . Instrumentum vnionis rectorie de Bute et diuisionis eiusdem in sex prebendas . Collacio Alexandri Tuilfeith in pergameno . The rentall of Bute in paper . Carta fundacionis dotacionis et confirmacionis de Eestalrig ecclesie with the Kingis greit seill . Carta capellanie Sancte Triduane . Ynio vicarie de Kothsay in Bute et ecclesie collegiate de Kestalrig . Instrumentum resignacionis duarum acrarum terrarum de Kestalrig in manibus regis pro mansis et hortis decani de Kestalrig . Instrumentum saisine dictarum terrarum . Carta indentata donacionis cuiusdam pecie terre pro anniuersario domini de Kestalrig . Lettres for ansuering the prebendaris of the frutis of Koth- say . Instrumentum vnionis capellanie fundate per episcopum Kossensem . Kesignacio duarum acrarum terre per dominum de Kestalrig . Carta pro prebendario Sancte Triduane confirmacionis
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et mortificacionis . Collacioun gevin be procuracioun of ane prebendarie foundit for Maister Thomas Diksonis sauU . Lettres of foure formis vpoun the parochinaris of Bute . Preceptum saisine 28 solidorum annuorum de Hassildene et Cumnok . Instrumentum saisine aaiiui reditus viginti et 6 solidorum de terris de Hassildene et Cumnok prebendario Sancti leronymi . In- strumentum saisine septem librarum annui reditus de terris de Hassildene et Cumnok . Carta annul reditus 28 solidorum . Preceptum saisine annui reditus vii librarum de Hassildene et Cum- nok . Carta dicti annui reditus vii librarum . Preceptum Alexandri Burtoim et sue spouse prebendario Sancti Hieronimi . Copia reuersionis deliberate domino de Stanehous penes redemp- cionem annui reditus septem librarum dicti annui reditus de Hassildene et Cumnok . The copy of the reuersiouu gevin to William Craufurd for redempcioun of x merkis annuel of Brocbtoun. Assignacio pro capellania quondam magistri Thome Diksoun . Collacio procuratoria domini Georgii Dewar prebendarii Sancti Hieronimi . Ane chairtour of alienacioun of x li annuelrent of the hous of the Cannogait . Copie of the few-chairtour of the tenement of the prebendarie Eossen. sett to Cuthbert Fergusoun and his wife . Copy of a chairtour maid be Elen Diksoun . The patronis lettres vpoun the foundacioun of Sanct Hieromis prebend . The forme of reuersioun . Copie of ane reuersioun of the prebendare of Sanct Hierome of viii s. viiid. vpoun the lard of Stanehous land . Bulla Innocentii 8. continens primam erectionem de Eestalrig in ecclesiam colle- eriatam . Ane instrument vnder the note of Schir Johne Andersoun notar . Carta donacionis x mercatarum terrarum in Strabrok nuncupatarum Kirkhill . Instrumentum possessionis rectorie de Ellen vnite mense capellanorum de Restalrig . Carta donacionis annui reditus xx li. de tene- mento lie Kingis Wark in Leith vnacum erectione prebendarii de Bute Leith et Eos . Copia fundacionis altaris Sancti Hieronimi . The Kingis seil to the vniouu of Ellen Kirk to the denerie of Eestalrig . Seising of ane chaiplen of Sanct Tredwell of certan annuellis . The saidis Commissaris be thair decreit decernit the said Schir William to deliuer to the said Dene the pecis and evidentis aboue specifeit he makand the samyn safer as concernis the prebenderis of the said denerie furthcumand to thame and assoilzeis the said Schir William fra the remanent pecis libellit becaus the said precept being referrit be tbe said Dene to his ayth be made fayth he had na vtheris nor as aboue specifeit . At Edinburgh the xxvi day of Januar 1576.
In the year 1592, as will be afterwards noticed in connexion with Dal- keith, Ramsay consented to the dissolution of the Deanery of Eestalrig, and its division into the parsonage of Dalkeith, and the parsonage of Las- wade, he himself continuing to officiate as parish minister of Laswade.
The Alterage of Eestalrig, alias Saint Tredwellis He, granted to Johnne Coupar, student in philosophie in the New College of Sanctandrois, for the space of fyve yeiris vacand by deceis of umquhile Sir Hew Congiltoun, last possessour thairof, October 1574.
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OuRE Soverane Lord, with aduise of the Lordis of his Hienes Secreit Counsall and Auditours of his Chekker, Vndevstanding that the Prebendareis and chaiplainreis situat of auld within the College Kirk of Restalrig foundit vpoun the fruittis of the personage and vicarage of Rothesay in Buit, and personage and vicarage of EUem kirk, within the sherefdome of , being institut
and foiindit be his Maiesteis maist noble progenitours of worthie memorie for intertenying and main- tening of the Airt of Musick, support and sustentatioun of sic personis as profest the said science. Neuertheles thir dyuers yeiris bygane the effect of the said Institutioun and foundation of the saidis prebendareis and chaplainreis bes bene grittumlie neglectit, and able schortlie to cum to vtter decay Insamekle as the saidis beneficeis, fruittis, and emolumentis pertening thairtohaif bene vnworthelie disponit to vnqualifeit personis quha neither wer skilled in the said airt of Musick, nor yit menit onywayis to proffeit thairintill without remeid be prouidit thairto : Thairfore our Soverane Lord, being weill informit of the qualificatioun of his louit Dauid Gumming now Master of the Sang Scule of Edinburgh in the said airt of Musick, being ane actuall techer and vp- bringare of the youth thairin ; And hauand consideratioun that [he] hes twa yeiris awaittit on his Hienes Chappell Royall of Halyruidhous takand vp the Psalmes thairin, and singand with his bairnis without recompens as yit ; thairfore His Maiestie, with aduise foirsaid, and of Mr. Robert Dowglas, Collectour Generall, Ordanis ane letter to be maid under his Previe Seill in dew forme to the said Dauid, makand and ordanand him Preceptour and M"" of the College Kirk of Restalrig, and of all the prebendareis and chaiplanreis situat of auld thairintill, foundit vpoun the fruittis of the foirsaidis personagis and vicarages of the foirnamed kirkis of Rothesay in Buit and Ellem kirk. And his Hienes Commissioner in that pairt to the effect vnderwrittin, during all the dayis of the said Dauidis lyftyme, With full power to him to considder, seik, and try the auld foundatioun and erectioun of the said College (and all superstitioun and adolatrie being abolishit) To follow and imbrace the samin, sa far as it aggreis with Goddis word and Religioun presentlie professit within this realme. And alswa to serche and try how and to quhome the saidis Prebendareis and Chaiplanries, rentis, and livingis belangand thairto is disponit, and gif the dispositionis thereof be maid and gevin to qualifeit personis in Musick, according to the auld foundatioun. And gif the samin be utherwayis disposit to quhatsomevir persoun or personis. To intent, follow and per- sew for reductioun of the samin giftis befoir the Juges ordinar. And siclyk to confer and admit sik qualifeit personis, &c. &c. — At Halyrudhous the last day of November 1586.
Cure Soverane Lord ordanis ane letter of presentatioun to be maid under the greit Seill makand mentioun that his Maiestie being informit of the qualificatioun and habilitie of Robert Fowlis, sone of Jhonne Fowlis burges of Edinburgh in the art of Musick, and of his actuale studie thairin ; Thairfoir presentis him to the Chapellanrie of S*- redwellis He, situat within the College Kirk of Lastarik with all and sindrie landis, &c., vsit and wount and pertening thairto, now vacand be deceis of umq" Hew Congiltoun, last chaplane and possessour thairoff ; And that
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the said presentatioun, &c., direct to Dauid Gumming, Master of the Sang Senile of Edin- burgh, &c. With command to the Lordis of Session, &c. At Dalkeith, the xij day of Merche 1588[-7.]
Prebendary of the College Kirk of Eastarrig liand in the Kingis Wark of Leith, quhilk pertenit sumtyme to umq'® Sir Jo" Lokhart, and the samin vacand be his deceis, was given and disponit to George Hay, sone lawful! to James Hay in Leith, for the space of 7 yeiris for menteriing him at the grammar scule, in caise he remainit thairat, and now vaikis for his non continewatioun in study. His Hienes being informit of the qualiticatioun and habilitie of Thomas Lauder, son to James Lauder, burges of Edin""-, in the art of Musick, and of his actual study thairin, ordanis ane letter of presentation to the said Thomas, &c. — 2? March 1587.
OuRE Soverane Lord ordanis ane letter to be maid and makand mention that his Msfi^ vnder- standing the art of Musick to be neglectit and becum almaist in decay within this realme. His Ma''« not willing so to be, bot rather the science thairof to be followit, and the followaris to be susteuit vpon the fundatioun of sic CoUegis and livingis as wer erectit and dotit for vphalding thairof, and remembering him that laitlie for the mantening and setting fordwart of the said art, and of sic as will gif thair diligence and travellis thairin in tyme cumin, his Ma''« hes maid and constitute Dauid Gumming now Master of the Sang Scuill of our burgh of Edin% being ane actuall teacher of the said art and expert thairin, to be Preceptor and Master of the GoUege Kirk of Res- tarig, &c., Hes now gevin and disponit the prebendary callit Bute Tertius fondit within the Gollege Kirk of Restearig, and vacand be deceis of Sir W™ Barbour, to the said Dauid Gumming now M'' of the Sang Scuill of our burgh of Edin-" — 22 Aprile 1587.
Prebendary callit Bute Quintus in the Gollege kirk of Restearig vacand .... granted to Patrik Dunbare, son lawfull to iimquhile Dauid Dunbar of Petqutrie. — 22 April 1587.
OuRE Soverane Lord ordanis, &c., vnderstanding the art of Musick to be almaist becum in decay within this realme, be neglecting and nocht providing for sic as war qualifiet thairin, or willing to follow the art thairof. Is weill myndit as he hes alreddie begun, that the said art salbe restorit partlie agane within this realme be providing sic personis as hes some entres in the art, and will gif thair mynd and labouris thairto to the prebendareis and chapellanreis of the Gollegis and kirkis that wer foundit and erectit of auld to be servit be musicianis, and for the better ordour to be keipit thairin, his Ma*^® has maid and constitut his louit Dauid Gumming, preceptour and Maister of the College Kirk of Restalrig foundit of auld as ane place for decerning of the said art and seruing of his Ma*^'®. And his Matie considering and being certifiet that Patrik Dunbar, sone to umquhile Dauid Dunbar of the Toun of Penik hes bene brocht up and exerciseit himselff in the same art of Musik this lang tyme bipast, Sua that he hes ane suflScent measour thairof, Hes thairfoir gevin, grantit, and disponit to the said Patrik, all and haill the Ghapellanrie of Rossin foundit within the said Gollege Kirk of Rastalrig, &c., — 8 May 1587.
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Of the Collegiate Church of Restalrig we have neither description, plan, nor representation to furnish us with any correct idea of its appearance and character. It must have been a building of considerable extent, with houses attached for the Dean and Prebendaries. That it was also richly decorated may be inferred from the circumstance that one of the earliest acts of the first General Assembly, on the 21st of December 1560, was to give directions for its demolition : — " The Ministers and Commissioners for- saids being assemblit, finds that the ministrie of the word and sacraments of God, and assemblie of the peiple of the whole parochin of Restalrig, be within the Kirk of Leith ; and that the Kirk of Restalrig, as a monument of idolatries, he raysit and utterlie caste downe and destroy ed."^ That this injunction was carried into efifect, appears from an incidental notice in a con- temporary work, the " Diurnal of Occurrents," respecting the use to which the materials were applied. During the siege of the Castle of Edin- burgh, in August 1571, when the city was divided by contending factions, with the view of strength- ening the walls, a new port or gate was erected inside of the Netherbow Port, and for this pur- pose there was taken " all the aisler stanes (wrought stones) that Alexander Clerk (who was afterwards Provost of the city) had gadderit of The Kirk of Restalrig to big (build) his hous with; and als all stanis and lyme gad- derit be Neil Layng to big his hous with."2 - An engraving of the Collegiate Seal is here annexed.
Notwithstanding the suppression of Restalrig "from henceforth and for ever," as a separate parish by Parliament in 1609, we find from the Minutes
' Boolce of the Universall Kirk, vol. i. p. 5. ^ Diumal, &c. (Bannatyne Club), p. 241. Edinb. 1833, 4to.
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of the Kirk-Session of Leith, that forty years later a proposal for its restora- tion was contemplated. Our Minister, it states, " Mr. Alexander Gibsone, this 29th of Aprill 1649, did intimat to our Sessione, That the Presbyterie of Edinburgh are of that mynd and purpose, with the consent of the Lord Balmerinoch, to cause erect the Kirk of Eestalrig, and to devyd [it] from the kirk and congregatione of South Leith." The Presbytery Records are not preserved to throw any further light on this scheme.^ At that period the property of Eestalrig belonged to Lord Balmerinoch. Some portions of Eestalrig Church which were allowed to remain, consisted of the Eastern window and the walls of the Chancel. At length, in the year 1836, the ruins were restored, and converted into a place of worship, being used as a chapel in connexion with the parish church of Leith. There are engraved views by Grose, Storer, and others, but not very correct, of the ruined church prior to this restoration. The one here given is from a sketch by James Skene of Eubislaw, Esq., taken in the year 1817 or 1818, while the wood-cut vignette, at page Ixiv, from a drawing made at the same time, represents the church as seen from the village.
The cemetery around these walls was principally resorted to as a bury- ing place by those of the Episcopal communion, for the convenience of performing the offices of the dead. The mausoleum-looking building in the former view, contributed in no small degree to the picturesque appearance of this retired spot, being covered with turf and overshadowed with yew trees. Although often said to have been the crypt or family vault erected by Sir Robert Logan of Eestalrig (who died in 1440-41), by whom indeed it may have been built, while it has been used as such by successive proprietors,^ it was undoubtedly attached to the College, perhaps as the chapter-house, or as St. Triduan's chapel. The building is hexagonal, and is constructed in-
* But see Extracts from the Kirk-Session book, 1650- English army, at their coming to Scotland, in anno 1650,
1657, in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries expecting to have found treasures in that place, hearing
of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 161-168. that there was leaden coffins there, raised up his body
2 Scotstarveti-elates, that John Lord Balmerinoch, who and threw it on the streets, &c. — [Staggering State,
died in 1633, " was buried in Eestalrig's burial-place, p. 63.) being a vaulted isle supported with pillars ; And the
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ternally with a groined roof, the ribs springing from a centre pillar two feet in diameter, with small vaulting shafts attached to the wall ; and the dimensions may be stated as fifteen feet on each side from the present base of the pillar, thus nearly corresponding with the sixteen feet of each of the hexagonal sides of the wall. On the sale of the forfeited estates in Restalrig and Leith, of Arthur, Lord Balmerinoch, by the Barons of Exchequer, in 1755, James Earl of Moray was the purchaser, at £16,961. As this crypt is not now used as a burylng-place, one in- terment only within recollection having been permitted, it has been sug- gested, that if the area were cleared, and the windows opened, which at present are filled with ruble work, and the stone floor replaced, it would be a charming specimen of the architecture of the fifteenth century, of which so few specimens now exist in this part of the country. It would also be desirable to examine the great pile, apparently of earth, on the top of the building, as this might perhaps bring to light some remains of St. Triduan's or the Upper Chapel. The accompanying section and elevation hatS been kindly furnished by Mr. Andrew Kerr, Office of H.M. Works. Inside
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there is a large stone, the upper part broken ofi*, with a shield of arms, and an inscription as follows : — " Here • lyeth • ane • honorable • Lady • lonet • Ker • Lady • Restalrig • quha • departit • this • lyfe • 12 • day • of • Maii • Anno • 1526. I. K." The stone is not in its original position, and
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may have been brought from without. There are several burying enclo- sures round the church, including that of " the late Ronald Craufurd of Restalrig, Esquire," its door built up with stone ; some of these may likely enough be of an early date.
In former days the town of Restalrig must have been a place of much greater importance than might be deemed from the straggling houses of the present village. Whether Logan's house was that known as Lochend, or on the site of what is now called Restalrig-house, is doubtful.
" At the distance of about a mile (says Maitland) from the Watergate, at the foot of the Canongate, lies the Lake of Lestalrig, vulgarly Loch-end. This lake, which is about four hundred yards in length, half as much in breadth, and where deepest about eighty feet, as 'tis said ; and the fish wherewith it is said to abound are only pikes and eels."^ For the King's sport, no doubt, we find in the Treasurer's accounts, in 1507, " Item, the xiij day of September (paid) to four men that rowit in ane bote on the Lough of Restalrig to affray fowles, vs." During the siege of Leith, in 1559-60, Bishop Lesley states, that " the Lord Gray, Lieutenant of the Inglis army ludged in Lestalrig town in the Deanis house, and many of all thair hors and demi-lances."^ A house, with a small garden, not far from the east end of the existing church, still retains the name of the Dean's House. The old house of Craigentinny, in the immediate vicinity, formerly giving a title to the family of Nisbet, is of the fifteenth century.
Before passing from Restalrig to Corstorphine, it may be proper to add a few words regarding the parish Church of South Leith. This old fabric, which was restored and somewhat remodelled in 1845, was erected towards the close of the fifteenth century. Chalmers, who calls it " the chapel of the Virgin," says it had existed a century and a half before 15(30. That there may have been such a chapel is by no means improbable, but some of his references expressly call it the Virgin Mary's Kirk ; as in 1490, when
1 History of Edinburgh, p. 502. ^ Lesley's History of Scotland, p. 284.
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Peter Falconer of Leith granted an annuity of 13 marks for supporting a chaplain at St. Peter's altar; and in 1499, when Gilbert Edmonston of Leith, bestowed 12 merks of rent to St. Barbara's altar. ^ In an instrument of seisin, in favour of William Lauder and his spouse, the property is described as contiguous to the churchyard of ''Hlie New Kirk of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Leith," 3d of November 1496.^ On the 2d of August 1501, John Logan, patron of the altar of St. Roche the Confessor, situated in ?iova ecclesia Beate Marie de Leith, presented Sir Patrick Matheson to the chap- lainry of that altar, then vacant by the death of Robert Cairns.^
It has already been stated, that the General Assembly in 1560, when ordering the Church of Restalrig to be destroyed, enjoined the parishioners to repair to the church of South Leith. But they appear to have considered this a hardship ; and among other matters submitted by the Provincial Synod to the General Assembly in October 1583, it is recorded, "Of old, Leith and Restalrig wes one parish, and the parish kirk stood in Restalrig ; while now by the Act of the Assemblie it is ordained to be in Leith, and yet Restal- rig refuses, in respect of old alledged priviledges. Answer^ Ordains the Presbytrie of Edinburgh to tak ordour heirwith."^ It was not however until 24th June 1609, that South Leith was erected by Act of Parliament into a distinct parish, and St. Mary's Church declared to be the parish church, and " the kirk of Restalrig to be suppressed and extinct from hence- forth and for ever ;" and that the benefice of Restalrig, parsonage thereof, with the glebe and manse, pertain to the minister of Leith.^
The first Protestant Minister of Leith, Mr. David Lyndsay, was the son of Robert Lyndsay, who was slain at Pinkie in 1547, a younger son of Walter Lyndsay of Edzell in the shire of Angus.^ He early em- braced the reformed doctrines, and at the nomination of ministers to the chief towns, in July 1560, he was appointed to Leith, his stipend 300 merkis;
1 Chalmers's Caledonia, vol. ii. p. "86. * Canongate Protocol Book. Ih.
* Boohe of the Universal Kirk, vol. ii. p. 636. Calder- wood's History, vol. iii. p. 747. ' Acts Pari. Scotland, vol. iv. p. 442. " Lord Lindsay's TAves of the Lindsays, vol. i. p. 102.
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or £200, as stated in 1574, part of it being the thirds of the parsonage of Restalrig, amounting to £82, 8s. lOd., with the four acres of kirk-land. i At a later period it included " the haill personage and vicarage of Restal- rige," valued at £247, 6s. 8d.^ His name frequently appears in ecclesiastical proceedings, and he accompanied King James the Sixth in his voyage to Denmark in 1589- In 1600, when the King, as the first step to introduce Episcopacy, obtained an Act of Assembly permitting ministers to sit and vote in Parliament, Lyndsay was promoted to the See of Ross; but he still continued his charge as a parochial minister. He died at Leith, on the 14th of August 1613, at the age of 83, being probably the last survivor of his brother Reformers. It may be added, that he had for his colleague and successor in the Church of Leith, in 1609, a namesake, but no relative, Mr. David Lindesay, who published An Heavenly Chariot, at St. Andrews, 1622, 4to, This forms the first portion of his volume entitled, The Godly Man's Journey to Heaven. London, 1625, 12mo.^
1 Register of Ministers, 1567-1576, pp. 7, 73. See also Wodrow Miscellany, p. 3G8.
^ Boohs of Assignation and Modification of Stipendfi, 1599.
^ Ecclesiastical Letters of the Eeign of King James the Sixth (Bannatyne Club), vol. i. pp. 40, 81, 198,
&c. Lindesay died in January 1627. His siiccessor, William Wischart, for his adherence to Prelacy, was deposed in 1039. In the title of his Exposition of the Lord's Prayer, 1633, he assumed the title of Parson of Eestalrigg.
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The parish of Corstorphine, anciently written Crostorfyn, lies in the valley between the Pentland and the Corstorphine hills, about three miles west of Edinburgh. Previously to the reign of David the First, in the year 1128, when he founded the Abbey of Holyrood, there existed a chapel connected with the manor of Corstorphine, and subordinate to the church of St. Cuthbert, Edinburgh. In the foundation charter, the King grants and confirms to the newly-erected Abbey the church of St. Cuthbert, under the Castle wall of Edinburgh, with all its dependencies and pertinents, includ- ing the chapels of Corstorphine and Liberton : " cum duabus capellis que ad eandem ecclesiam Sancti Cuthberti pertinent, scilicet Crostorjin cum duabus bovatis terre et sex acris, et ilia capella de Libertune, etc."^ There is also among the Holyrood charters, one of Normain, Sheriff (Vicecomes) of Berewic, in the same reign, which conveys to the Abbot and Convent of the Holy Cross of Edinburgh, " capellam meam de Corstorfin, cum omni- bus rectitudinibus capelle eidem pertinentibus."^ This chapel, we may suppose, was afterwards known as the parish church. The earliest Lords of the manor upon record were the Marischels, succeeded by the Mores of Abercorn, until the year 1376, when the property was acquired by Adam Forrester, an opulent merchant-burgess of Edinburgh. His name first appears in the public records in 1362 ; and in the following year, with several
* Charters of Holyrood, printed for the Bannatyne '^ lb, p. 10. The name of EdwarJ, Chancellor, as a
Chib, Edinburgh, 1841, 4to, p. 4. witness, fixes its date circa 1147.
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other Scottish merchants, he had a safe-conduct, being styled Adam For- rester, mercator de Scotia/ He was Alderman or Provost of Edinburgh in 1373, 1378, and 1387 ; he also held several offices of trust ; and was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, but was speedily ransomed. About the same time he obtained the honour of knighthood. He died on the 13th October 1405, and was probably interred in a chapel, dedicated to John the Baptist, which he himself had founded beside the parish church of Corstorphine. His widow survived him for many years. The service of his son and heir. Sir John Forrester, is dated 6th November 1405," On the outer wall at the west end of the belfry, or the detached building- used as the Session-house, there is inserted a stone with a monumental in- scription to Sir Adam Forrester.
The first charter of donation and confirmation by King James the Firsts of £24 for the endowment of three chaplainries in the chapel contiguous to the parish church of Corstorphine, is dated at Edinburgh, 25th February 1425-6. Of this endowment, according to the terms of the charter, the sum of £20 was bestowed by the King himself, and not simply paid out of his coffers b}^ way of compensation ; with the additional sum of £4 (con- sisting of two payments of 53s. 4d., and 26s. 8d.) from annual rents in Edin- burgh, bestowed by the late Sir Adam Forrester.'^ In like manner, in the Chamberlain Rolls, in the account rendered by the Ballivus of Edinburgh, 28th May 1434, the discharge includes " Et tribus capellanis per Regem fundatis in capella beati Johannis Baptiste contigua ecclesie parochiali de Corstorphine percipientibus annuatim viginti libras de firmis dicti burgi de Edinburgh, &c,, xx li."^ But among the unprinted Exchequer Rolls, in the year 1500, we find, " Et Preposito et Canonicis de Corstorphine per- cipientibus annuatim viginti libras ex concessione domini Johannis Fores- tair et confirmatione domini Regis Jacobi primi ut patet in rotulis prece- dentibus dictis Preposito et Canonicis per suas literas fatentibus solutionem
1 Eotuli Scotia, vol. i. p. 876. ^ Infra, p. 293.
Charters of St. Giles, p. 41. * Chamberlain Rolls, vol. iii. p. 263.
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super compotum xx li."i The right of patronage at least was conferred on Sir John Forrester, who had granted three acres in the village for erecting houses to the chaplains, with pasturage for three horses and three cows. On the same day (25th February 1425-6) Sir John endowed, with £6, 13s. 4d., a chaplainry at St. Ninian's altar in St. Giles's church, Edinburgh, for prayers for the welfare of the King and Queen, and for the souls of the late Sir Adam and of Margaret Forrester, his father and mother, and of Mar- garet, his deceased spouse.^ Sir John at this time was Master of the King's Household and Great Chamberlain of Scotland.
The second charter of Corstorphine church was evidently the one by which Dame Margaret Forrester, Sir Adam's relict, who still survived, and Sir John, their son, bestowed an annual rent of £21, 13s. 4d. for the support of two additional chaplains and two clerks in the same chapel of Corstorphine. It was confirmed on the 26th May 1429- The erection of the Collegiate Church is usually assigned to that year, when the build- ings were commenced, as the inscription on the first Provost expressly states, " istud collegium incepit a. d. 1429-" It seems, however, from the Papal bull in 1444, that the foundation of the Collegiate Church was onl}^ then completed. In Sir Lewis Stewart's MS. collections, so often quoted for transcripts of old ecclesiastical deeds, there is an abridged copy of the Corstorphine charter of 1444 ; he has also preserved this inaccurate title of what may be called the second foundation charter : " Fundatio Ecclesie Collegiate de Corstorphin [per Johannem Forrester?] militem, ab Plcnrico Wardlaw Episcopo Sancti Andree confirmata, anno 1429."* Sir John For- rester, the Great Chamberlain, is erroneously said to have died in 1440, and to have been succeeded in the office of Chamberlain by James Lord Crichton.^ On the return of King James from England he had been appointed Master of the Household (Magister Hospicii), 1424. In the Exchequer Rolls, Sir John Forrester appears as Chamberlain (Camerarius
» No. 318. Edinburgh, 17th December loOO. ■' Crawfurd"s (\fficers of Slate, p. 311.
« Recj. Mag. Sig. lib. ii. No. 22. * Two MSS. in Advocates Librar-.
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Scoti») in May 1425, and so till June 1441 ; the Rolls for three or four years of a subsequent date, which might have fixed the period of his decease, being- lost. That he was alive in 1444, when Corstorphine was erected into a Collegiate Church, is at least highly probable : the continuator of the Scotichronicon, ch'ca 1447, in his list of Collegiate Churches, names Cor- storphine " cujus fundator dominus Johannes Forster pater ;" but this does not imply his being then alive. His son, the second Sir John Forrester, who had been infeft during his father's life in 1430, is said to have died before 15th September 1454; but this date is not well ascertained. We find, however, that the grandson. Sir Alexander Forrester, w^as in possession of the estates in the year 1463.1
The third charter of foundation of Corstorphine incorporates the bull of Pope Eugene IV., already referred to, dated at Rome, 15th July 1444. It states that Sir John Forrester had assigned the annual rent of 120 gold ducats for sustaining the provost, four prebendaries, and two singing- boys, with the view of completing the Collegiate establishment ; and directs Patrick, Abbot of Holyrood, as his apostolic vicar, to unite and incor- porate the church of Ratho, wnth all its rights and emoluments, to the said College for ever, the additional chaplains to be maintained out of the fruits of that benefice. In virtue of such authority, James, Bishop of St. Andrews, on the 30th October that year, gave his sanction confirming the proposed arrangements. The original deeds are not known to be preserved, but, on the ()th March 1628, an action was raised " at the instance of Mr. Alexander M'Gill, advocate, son lawfuU to umquhill Mr. David M'Gill of Nisbet, sometime advocate to our Soveranis dearest father, against Sir George Forrester of Corstorphin knight, patron of the Provostrie of Cor- storphin, and haifar (possessor) of the foundation;" and the Third founda- tion charter being accordingly produced, the Lords of Council ordained the same "to be transumed,"^ &c. From the official transumpt then made, compared with " this authentic copy" in the Register, it is now printed {infra, p. 298-304).
' Charters of St. Giles's, p. 103, no. 76. ^ Eegister of Acts and Decreets, vol. 412, fol. 145.
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Regarding the ecclesiastical buildings connected with Corstorpliine there is great uncertaint3^ The chapel of St. John the Baptist, founded before 1405, is said to be contiguous to the parish church ; and the latter is usually held to have been distinct from the College. The old church in all probability, like most buildings of the kind, was of small extent, but may have been enlarged from time to time in having such chapels attached to it. No part of the present building, as it now exists, is earlier than the middle of the fifteenth century. Under each of two arched recesses on the north w^all of the chancel there are recumbent figures of a knight in armour, and a lady, with armorial bearings, carved on the front of these monu- ments, which clearly indicate the two Sir John Forresters, who flourished during the first half of that century,^ and lead to the conclusion, that the monuments and this part of the edifice must have been subsequent to the death of the second Sir John Forrester, about the year 1454. In a similar recess in the wall of the south transept, there is another recumbent figure of a kniffht in armour, said traditionallv to be the monument of Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny, who came to Scotland in an embassy to King- James the Fourth, but died at Corstorphine, within a short time of his arrival, in the house of Archibald Forrester, in June 1508. In his testa- ment he expressly says, — " Inprimis, Do et lego animam meam Deo omni- })otenti Beate Marie Virgini et omnibus Sanctis corpustjue meum sepelien- dum fore in ecclesia Fratrum Nigrorum Edinburgi. Item, Lego in die sepulture mee in funeralibus pauperibus aliis piis operibus et dictis fratribus xiiij lib."2 Agreeably to this request, we may conclude, that instead of the church of Corstorphine, he was interred in the monastery of the Black- friars, Edinburgh ; more especially as the monument is unquestionably of an older date, and the shields with arms indicate a Forrester.^
• These raonunients, with the annorial bearings, ^ Andrew Stuart's Genealogical Histonj of the
are minutely described by Mr. Wood in his Peeracie of Stewarts, p. 207.
Scotland, vol. i. pp. 599, 600. See also Statistical Ac- ' See note to Dunbar's Poems, vol. ii, p. 314, and wood-
covnt of the Parish of Corstorphine (Edinburghshire, cut vignette, p. Ixxvi. The persons represented might
p. 233), drawn up by Thomas Thomson, Esq., "Writer perhaps be identified from t]>e arras by a skilful genc-
to the Signet. alogist.
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Nicholas Bannachtyn or Bannatyne, was the first Provost of the Collegiate Church. He pursued his studies at the newly erected University of St. Andrews, his name occurring, as one of the Determinants, in 1423, and as a Licentiate or Master of Arts in 1425. According to his monu- mental inscription, he became Provost in 1429, the year in which the Col- legiate Church is said to have been founded. We also find his name, " Magister Nicholaus de Bannochtyne, Magister in artibus, Prepositus capelle Collegiate de Corstorfine," occurring as a witness to an instrument of seisin of the barony of Corstorphine, 15th September 1436.^ He filled that office for nearly half a century ; and in the inner wall of the chancel, apparently transferred from the place where he was buried, is the following inscription : —
Istvia • coUcgtu . incepit • ano • iJiii • m^ccccoxxtx • £t fobe ano mogr nitJ^olnyP lanaclbty p^posdi' \)it %\ihi9 iaces qui obiit ano Dni m°£ccc°Ixx • • • tuiP aniu^^save simul prisq^ mris telebmbftur xtiu" hit mests iunit p quo anuus retiiiitus x s- in btlla ht iigtlt cramuounO orate pro aib^ tor/. The last words Orate pro animahus eorum are scarcely legible, having apparently been purposely obliterated ; and the blank space on the stone after the numerals m.cccc.lxx. may lead to the conjecture that the inscrip- tion was prepared by Bannatyne during his own life, as he certainly sur- vived the year 1470. This is proved by a charter of confirmation, under the Great Seal, of a grant by William de Camera or Chalmers, Vicar of Kirkurd, of certain lands in Corstorphine for sustaining a secular priest to minister at the altar of St. Anne in the parish church, and one of the wit- nesses was Mr. Nicholas Bannachtyne, Provost of the Collegiate Church of Corstorphine, 20th September 1473.^
Mr. James Douglas was the next Provost, but nothing is known re-
1 Treserved in the cliavter-chest of Sir William Dick ^ Reg. May. Sig. lib. viii. No. 41.
Cunyngham of Prestonfiekl, Bart.
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specting his connexion with this College beyond the circumstance that "Magister Jacobus Douglas, Prepositus de Corstorphing at Decanus de Hadingtone," appears as witness to a charter dated at Dalkeith, 1st Sep- tember 1479.^ At the University of St. Andrews, we meet in the Register with the name of Jacobus Douglas among the Determinants in 1466 ; of Jacobus Douglas, canonicus de Dalkeith, among the Licentiates in 1468 ; and another, Ja. Dowglace, in 1471.
In continuing the list of Provosts, it is uncertain who Douglas had for his immediate successor.
RowLL OF CoRSTORPHiNE, who is rcckoncd among the early Scottish Poets, may have perhaps been Provost of the Collegiate Church. He flourished towards the end of the fifteenth century; but all particulars of his history are unknown, his name only having been embalmed by his contem- porary Dunbar in his " Lament for the Makeris," written about the year 1507. Referring to Death, he says, —
He has tane Rowll of Abirdene, And gentill Rowll of Corstorpiiine ; Twa better fallowis did no man se : Timor mortis conturhat me.'^
It still remains uncertain to which of them should be assigned the strange
rhapsody, entitled
The Cursing of Siit John Rowlts Upoun the Steilaris of his fowlis.^
Mr. James Merchamston, whose name as Provost of the Collegiate Church of Corstorphine next occurs, was, in August 1512, one of the Audi- tors of the Treasurer's Accounts. He is also named in various deeds, preserved in the Edinburgh Protocol books, between August 1512, and September 1518. He was Rector of Hawick in 1504 ; and from the Trea- surer's Accounts he seems to have been employed at the Court of James
* Regixtrum Honoris de Morloun, vol. ii. p. 239. » Printed by_tbe editor, in Select Remains of the Ancievt
'^ Dunbar's Poems, vol. i. p. 214. Popular Poets of Scotland. Edinlmrgli, 1822, 4to.
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the Fourth, having in 1502, received £50 "for ane young gray horse, brocht hame be him furth of Flanders," &c. In a letter of James the Fourth, 11 th January 1507-8, he is styled " Magister Jacobus Mercheinstone noster familiaris."! He probably survived till 1526-7.
Sir Robert Cairncross, chaplain to King James the Fifth, before he obtained the Abbacy of Holy rood, in 1528, had been presented to the pro- vostry of Corstorphine. The date of his investiture as Provost was the 5th of May 1527.^ It may be added, that in 1539, he obtained a grant of the temporalities of the see of Ross, and in the following year was received Bishop, and also held the Abbacy of Fearn in commendam. He died 30th November 1545, and was buried in the Charionry of Ross.
Sir Alexander Scott, by the promotion of Abbot Cairncross, in 1528, became next Provost of Corstorphine. The name was so common, that we cannot presume to identify the persons of that name who incidentally are met with towards the end of the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. It might have been the future Provost of Corstorphine (Dominus Alexander Scott, presbyter) who obtained a presentation to the vicarage pensionary of Glenquhome (in Peeblesshire), 6th April 1505.^ He at least was keeper of the Rolls of Exchequer for many years, as we learn from payments in the Treasurer's Accounts between 1512 and 1542. On the 6th April 1529, Schir Alexander Scott, Provost of Corstorphine raised an action regarding the crops of Ratho for this instant year 1528 ;^ and on the 8th March 1529-30, he appeared before the Lords of Council to deliver " the evidentis of the Lordship of Dirltoun," which had been in his possession '• for the space of xii. or xiii. yeiris bigane."^ In Balfour's Practicks, a case is quoted,'' The King contra Alex. Forestar, Provost of Corstorphine, 12th March 1529 ; but this is an evident mistake, as no such person was then Provost.
1 " Consulibus ac Senatui ]\Ii(Ullcburgensi." EpistolcR ^ Rec). Seer. Sig. vol. iii. fol. 8.
Begum Scotorum, vol. i. p. 74. " ]Mag. Jacobo Inglis," ^ Acta Domin. C'oncilii, vol. xl. fol. 8.
ih. p. 118. ' Ibid. vol. sli. fol. i. b.
'^ See the deed printed from MacNeill's Protocol * Tit. of Tutor ie^, p. 117, printed editio». It is the
book, in Mr. Thomson's Extracts, Proceedings Soc. same in various MSS. Antiq. Scotland, vol. ii. p. 361.
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On the 10th January 1540, Sir Alexander Scott, Provost of Corstor- phine, founded a chaplainry at the altar of John the Baptist, St. Christo- pher the martyr, and St. Ninian the confessor, in the church of Irvine.^ About the same time, a letter of King James the Fifth, under the Privy Seal, was "maid to Schir Alexander Scott, provost of Corstorphine, in his latter days," and in consideration of his long, faithful, and daily service, " in all sessionis, chekkeris, and register," since the death of James the Fourth, in 1513, and of his present inability " to ordour his benefice as deuitie requiris," he received " free licence, liberty, and will to use and dispone upon all his benefices, rentis, possessionis, and takis quhatsumevir as he thinkis maist convenient and profitable."^ In the Treasurer's Accounts for 1526 and subsequent years, his name occurs as one of the Auditors, and as such he signs the Accounts rendered l6th August 1542. He probably died in the course of that year.
Mr. James Scott, who succeeded to the Provostry of Corstorphine in 1543, was the third son of Robert Scott of Allanhaugh and Whitchester. He was educated for the Church, and, in the reign of James the Fifth, was Clerk to the Treasury. In September 1533, there was paid " to Master James Scott be the Kingis precept, and of consideratioun of the Lordis (Auditors) for his labouris in the Kingis materis, £13, 6s. 8d." For his employment " in dyting of the RoUis" of Exchequer, his annual fee was £13, 6s. 8d. After he became Provost of Corstorphine, he was, like his predecessor, one of the Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts (from 1544 to 1562) ; and in the year 1554 he was appointed one of the Ordinary Lords of Session. He died in the autumn of 1563. He built, at Corstorphine, a house or manse for himself and successors, on which his arms, as Sir Robert Douglas men- tions, are still to be seen.^
Robert Douglas is the next Provost of whom we find any notice. He was brother of Mr. John Douglas, parson of Kirkbryde, and one of the prebendaries in the College Kirk of Dalkeith. He died at Clerking-
* Reg. Mag. Sig. lib. xxvii. No. 158. ' Beg. Seer. Sig. vol. xiv. fol. 44. ' Baronage of Scotland, p. 221.
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ton, 23cl January 1584-5, according to his Confirmed Testament by the Commissaries of Edinburgh, 18th November 1586. In his latter Will, he desires to be buried in the College kirk of Corstorphine. Mention is also made of his children, and of James Douglas father brother to the Laird of Corstorphine. His library was very select, consisting only " of xij bukis of Scripture, and audit bukis of prophane authors" — one of which he thus bequeaths: "Item, to the Lady of Corstorphing, ane buik callit Chaser [Chaucer ?] quhilk the yung lady has borrowit fra him,"
Mr. Alexander M'Gill, Advocate, was probably but a youth when he obtained a presentation to the Provostry of Corstorphine. From the pro- ceedings in 1628, already mentioned (p. Ixviii.), we learn that Sir James Forrester of Corstorphin " then remaining in the parts of France," had appointed as his Commissioners Sir Lewis Bellenden of AuchinouU, Justice- Clerk, Mr. David M'Gill, King's Advocate, and Thomas Inglis, portioner of Auldliston ; and they lost no time in granting this presentation, on the 23d of January 1584-5, being the same day when Douglas died. At the same time letters were granted in favour of the said persewar and his said umquhill father (Mr. David M'Gill) as lawful administrator for his entres, &c., for the crop of the year 1585. It would however seem that M'Gill had derived but small emolument from the presentation, since he required, after a lapse of forty-three years, to institute legal proceedings, to ascertain from the foundation charter what rights, &c., belonged to him as Provost ; and to this circumstance we owe the preservation of the charter itself. — For minuter information respecting the chief persons and families, and other matters connected with Corstorphine, I may refer to the account of the parish in the New Statistical Account, prepared by Thomas Thomson, Esq., W.S., to whom I have been greatly indebted in the course of the present investigation.
It only remains to add, that for several years after the Reformation, Corstorphine was not recognised as a separate parish, being again reckoned as a dependency of St. Cuthberts, having a Reader, with a stipend of £13,
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6s. 8d. At length, in compliance with a memorial presented to the Pres- bytery of Edinburgh, 12th March 1587-8, this object was effected. To establish the claim for Corstorphine that it was of old a parish church, Sir James Forrester had referred to various deeds in his possession, and he was directed to produce them at a subsequent meeting ; when, " sycht and in- spectioun being taken be the Presbyterie of sindrie foundations of the said paroche kirk of Corstorphine, with buUes and other rychtis, it was found, that the Kirk of Corstorphine is of old a Paroche kirk, unto the quhilk the Presbyterie interponis thair authoritie,"^ &c. Sir James, who died 4th June 1 589,^ was succeeded in his estates by his brother, Henry Forrester. Mr. Andrew Forrester, the first incumbent, was provided to the vicarage of Corstorphine, vacant by the decease of Adam Bishop of Orkney, last vicar thereof, 25th January 1593-4. The present building then became the parish church,/ and has so continued to the present day. According to the following extract from the Kirk Session book in May 1646, a new isle was erected, most probably on the site of the old parish church, which was then demolished, and the repairs or alterations made at that time may account for some of the existing anomalies : —
Expense for reparation of the Kirk and bigging of tJie Tie. — Maij 3, 1646.
Session kept be the Minister and Elderes : And Mr. James Watsoun and George Cochran were ordained to revise the compts and depursements of moneye for taking downe and puting vpe of the pend betuixt the Kirk and the Quire, ffor stanes lyme sand for that effect, for timber to be the coomesyle, and scaffalding for masones and workemens wages ; as also for taking downe of the old Paroch Kirk, puting upe the new Isle ; ffor lyme timber to be cooples, dales to be sarking, nailes wages to masones and wrights and others workmen their servants ; and for their drink allowed to them who brought home lyme sand stanes timber slaites as also for glase windowes wyre tirleleisses : Was found be them that the expensses extended neare to xiij" [1300] merkis. Off quhilk sowme Receaved from John Cowper of Gogare ffourtie dolores at o6s. the peece, ffrom James Eleis and his mother-in-law P merkis, ffrom Mrs. James Watson ten dolores, ffrom umq' James Eamsey foure dolores, ffrom James Gibbesone half dolor ffrome Kobert Scot ane quatre ecu.
* Presbytery Records, University Library, Edinburgh. ' JRegister Conf. Test. Edinh., 17tb November 1589.
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The rest of the expensses for all other necessaris to the Kirk and Isle slaiting and all was taken out of the box, be common consent, for the interim and promised to be put in agane.
In agane to the box excepting two hundreth pounds quhilk was delyvered be the minister Mr. David Basilic to Andrew Eae, ane hundreth lib. at ane time in . , . qr Mr. James Wat- sone and George Cochran were witnesses; and at another time fifftie lib. to the said Andrew for timber, and fifftie lib. to John Waker for glase to mak vpe his comptis.
In the year 1828, when Corstorphine Church was again subjected to the necessary but unfortunate process of restoration, we may regret that its original form had not been retained, and that, contrary to all rules of Gothic architecture, a doorway, with a small porch, should disfigure the east wall of the chancel. But the primitive look of the church externally has to some extent been preserved, the older portions still having the stone roof of overlapping slabs of old grey flagstones, and the belfry-tower, with a short octagonal spire, remaining unaltered. The plans, before such alterations were made, have not been traced ; but the accompanying view of the church is interesting as exhibiting its appearance in 1817, when the sketch was made by James Skene of Rubislaw, Esq., an accomplished amateur artist, who has preserved many similar views of ancient buildings in various parts of the country, as well as in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood.
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MONUMENT IN COKSTORPHINE CHURCH.
CREYCHTOUN.
Creychtoun, Kreittoun, or Crichton, is a parish in the Presbytery of Dalkeith, about twelve miles S.E. from Edinburgh. The Castle, an impos- ing structure, now in ruins, is situated upon the precipitous bank or rock forming the south side of the deep glen through which runs the Tyne. This small stream, rising from the moor of Middleton, in the adjoining parish of Borthwick, traverses Ormiston in