Source:NRS catalogue entry GD86/21

NRS, GD86/21
Originally written 10 Oct 1457

National Records of Scotland catalogue
Date	10 Oct 1457
Title	Charter under the Great Seal of James II whereby, in praise and honour of God Almighty, the Virgin Mary, St. Duthac the Confessor and all the Saints and for the salvation of the souls of James I, his father, Joan, Queen of Scots, his mother, and Mary, Queen of Scots, his consort, and also of his own soul and the souls of his children and all his predecessors and successors, and for the increase of divine worship, he grants to God and to St. Duthac and to the chaplain celebrating divine worship in the Collegiate Church of St. Duthac of Tayne for his sustentation the lands of Dunskaith with pertinents lying in the lordship of Ardmanach and sheriffdom of Innirnis, together with an annual-rent of two merks Scots from the freight and profits of the port and ferry of Croma[r]ty. To be held in pure and perpetual alms ad manum mortuam. The said chaplain when appointed to the church is to celebrate mass daily at the high altar for the foresaid souls and at the beginning of each mass to exhort the people to say a pater noster with a Salutacione Angelica and to be present in the choir at matins high mass and vespers cum nota in his habit like the other chaplains of the church; and if he should happen to be promoted to a better benefice so that he was unable to minister in the said service personally the said chaplainry was to become vacant and the presentation to pertain to the granter and his successors and the collation to the bishops of Ross
Description	Witnesses, John, Bishop of Moray, George, Bishop of Brechin, Chancellor, Thomas, Bishop of Ross, and William, Bishop of Caithnes, John, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles, Alexander, Earl of Huntle, Lord Gordoune and Badzenach, Alexander, Lord Montgomerre, Patrick, Lord Glammys, James de Levingstoun of Calentar, Great Chamberlain, Robert, Lord Flemyng, William de Moravia of Tulibardin and Ninian Sprot, Comptrollers. At Innirnis 10 October 1457, a.r. 21. Seal gone.
Collection	Sir William Fraser Charters (GD86)
Reference	GD86/21 (link to catalog entry)
Repository	National Records of Scotland
Access status	Open
Location	Off site
Level	File
Publication note	Printed in `Fraser Papers', S.H.S., pp.219-221.

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• 10 October 1457 - Charter under the Great Seal of James II whereby, in praise and honour of God Almighty, the Virgin Mary, St. Duthac the Confessor and all the Saints and for the salvation of the souls of James I, his father, Joan, Queen of Scots, his mother, and Mary, Queen of Scots, his consort, and also of his own soul and the souls of his children and all his predecessors and successors, and for the increase of divine worship, he grants to God and to St. Duthac and to the chaplain celebrating divine worship in the Collegiate Church of St. Duthac of Tayne for his sustentation the lands of Dunskaith with pertinents lying in the lordship of Ardmanach and sheriffdom of Innirnis, together with an annual-rent of two merks Scots from the freight and profits of the port and ferry of Croma[r]ty. To be held in pure and perpetual alms ad manum mortuam. The said chaplain when appointed to the church is to celebrate mass daily at the high altar for the foresaid souls and at the beginning of each mass to exhort the people to say a pater noster with a Salutacione Angelica and to be present in the choir at matins high mass and vespers cum nota in his habit like the other chaplains of the church; and if he should happen to be promoted to a better benefice so that he was unable to minister in the said service personally the said chaplainry was to become vacant and the presentation to pertain to the granter and his successors and the collation to the bishops of Ross. Witnesses, John, Bishop of Moray, George, Bishop of Brechin, Chancellor, Thomas, Bishop of Ross, and William, Bishop of Caithnes, John, Earl of Ross, Lord of the Isles, Alexander, Earl of Huntle, Lord Gordoune and Badzenach, Alexander, Lord Montgomerre, Patrick, Lord Glammys, James de Levingstoun of Calentar, Great Chamberlain, Robert, Lord Flemyng, William de Moravia of Tulibardin and Ninian Sprot, Comptrollers. At Innirnis
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