[The following text is taken from the text version of The Scottish antiquary; or, Northern notes & queries, vol. 8, 1894, pp.14-15. (Internet Archive.) I corrected typographical errors due to the OCR system misrecognition, but there may still exist such errors. Please consult printed version for academic purpose.   S.U.]

    508. PRESENTATION TO A CHAPLAINCY, A.D. 1525. — The following deed is, I think, of interest from its connection with St. Giles' Collegiate Church of Edinburgh, and as illustrating a little-known fact that the Heralds, as such, were possessed of Church patronage :—

    ‘Personaliter accesserunt honorabiles viri, viz. :— Petrus Thomsoun alias Hay [sic, should read Iley? See below. S.U.]. Willelmus Brown alias Albany. Johannes Dicksoun alias Ross heraldi pro se et nomine aliorum heraldorum Regni Scotiae necnon Jacobus Johnestoun claviger pro se et nomine aliorum clavigerorum dicti Regni ad altare Beati Blasii marthiris infra ecclesiam Collegiatam Beati Egidii de Edinburgh situatam. Et ibidem dicti officiarii tanquam veri et indubitati patroni cujusdem capellanie per quondam Dnum. Willelmum Brown Rectorem de Mouswald, apud dictum altare fundatae, nunc vacantis per decessum quondam Dni. Gilberti Fischar ultimi capellam et possessoris ejusdem unanimo consensu et assensu realem actualem et corporalem possessionem provisionem et institutionem totius et integre prefate capellanie cum universis et singulis terris annuis redditibus firmis oblationibus juribus divariis et justis suis pertinenciis quibuscunque per calicis libri et ornamentorum hujus altaris deliberationis discrete viro Dno. Thome Richertsoun capellano ac consanguino ipsius quondam Dni. Willelmi durante toto tempore vite sue tradiderunt concesserunt et deliberaverunt.’
                        J. G. W. J.

[The following text is taken from the text version of Clerk, Sir George, Welwood, Alexander Maconochie, Registrum Cartarum Ecclesie Sancti Egidii de Edinburgh... 1344-1567, Edinburgh, 1859, p.218. (Internet Archive.) I corrected typographical errors due to the OCR system misrecognition, but there may still exist such errors. Please consult printed version for academic purpose.   S.U.]

[Institucio domini Thome Richertsoun in capellania S. Blasii.]

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Primo Octobris . . . millesimo vc vigesimo quinto . . . accesserunt . . . Petrus Thomsoun alias Iley Willelmus Broun alias Albany Johannes Diksoun alias Ross Heraldi . . . nomine . . . heraldorum regis Scocie necnon Jacobus Johnestoun clauiger . . . nomine . . . clauigerorum . . . regis ad altare Beati Blasii marthiris infra ecclesiam . . . Beati Egidii de Edinburgh . . . et ibidem . . . tanquam . . . patroni cuiusdam capellanie per quondam dominum Willelmum Broun rectorem de Mowswald apud dictum altare fundate nunc vacantis per decessum . . . domini Gilberti Fischar . . . institucionem . . . capellanie . . . per calicis libri et ornamentorum . . . deliberacionem . . . domino Thome Richertsoun capellano ac consanguineo ipsius quondam domini Willelmi durante . . . tempore vite . . . tradiderunt . . . secundum tenorem carte fundacionis . . . Acta etc. apud dictum altare hora intermedia ad terciam post merediem etc. testibus . . . magistro Andrea Bonar dominis Willelmo Broun maiore Johanne Harknes Johanne Smyth Johanne Clerk Thoma Gothrasoun Willelmo Cok capellanis Patricio Linlithqw seriando dicti burgi et Willelmo Meldrum.

[The following text is taken from the text version of The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 9, 1912, Notes and Queries, p.345. (Internet Archive.) I corrected typographical errors due to the OCR system misrecognition, but there may still exist such errors. Please consult printed version for academic purpose.   S.U.]

    FROM THE BURGH CHARTER ROOM, HADDINGTON.
    ‘January 4, 1529. ... personaliter constituti honorabilis et circumspecti viri David Lindsay nomine et ex parte Leonis Regis Armorum, Johannes Meldrum alias Marchmond heraldus. Johannes Diksoun alias Ross et Petrus Thomsoun alias Iley heraldi ex una et Dominus Robertus Bachok capellanus Altaris Bte. Virginis Marie infra ecclesiam parochialem de Falkirk ab altera partibus. quiquidem Dominus Robertus non vi aut metu ductus nec errore lapsus, sed ex sua pura libera et spontanea voluntate pro certis causis rationabilibus animum suum, ut asseruit, monens, fecit constituit creavit et solempniter ordinavit, prout tenor presentis instrumenti facit constituit creat et solempniter ordinat prefatum Leonem Armorum Regem et reliquos heraldos Regni Scotie, presentes et futures veros legitimos et indubitatos patrones Capellanie sue per ipsum Dominum Robertum infra Insulam Sancti Michaelis Archangeli in ecclesiam parochialem predictam fundatae, dans et concedens dictus Dominus constituens prefatis Leoni et heraldis patronis predictis aut tribus eorumdem conjunctim, prefato Leone uno eorum existente si infra regnum pro tempore exteterit. ... &c. &c.’

The above Notarial Instrument is on a grant by Sir Robert Bachok of the patronage of the Altarage, founded by him in the Aisle of St. Michael in the parish church of Falkirk, in favour of the Lion King of Arms and the Heralds. Three of the Heralds form a quorum to present, the Lion, if one were in office, being essential.
    The Heralds, with the Macers, were patrons of St. Blaseus' altar in St. Giles, Edinburgh. William Meldrum, from whose protocol book in the Burgh Charter Room, Haddington, I copied the deed was, I suspect, a brother of Marchmond Herald mentioned above.

[The following text is taken from the text version of Thomson, John Maitland, Registrum magni sigilli regum Scotorum : The register of the Great seal of Scotland, A.D. 1580-1593, Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1888, pp.21-22. (Internet Archive.) I corrected typographical errors due to the OCR system misrecognition, but there may still exist such errors. Please consult printed version for academic purpose.   S.U.]

68. Apud Palatium de Halyrudhous,
21 Dec. [1580 S.U.]
REX confirmavit cartam Jacobi Oswald, capellani insule S. Michaelis archangeli infra ecclesiam parochialem de Falkirk, — [qua, — cum consensu M. Roberti Forman Leonis regis armorum, Joannis Patersoun et Adami Makculloch, heraldorum regine, patronorum dicte capellanie, — ad feudifirmam dimisit JOANNI OSWALD filio et heredi quondam Roberti O. de Saltcoittis fratris sui, heredibus ejus et assignatis, — croftam terre cum vasto loco et horreo infra territorium et libertatem burgi de Striviling (inter lie Gallowhillis ex occidentali, terras Jo. Aitkin ex boreali, lonyng inter fossas lapideas ad pontem de Forth conducen. ex orientali, tenementum cum hortis Alex. Schaw de Sauchtie ex australi), aliam croftam ibidem (inter dict. passagium ex occidentali, terras Tho. Lawsoun alias Litiljhone ex boreali, croftam Marie Virginis ex orientali, croftam domini de Kilcreuch ex australi), aliam croftam ibid, (inter Muschetland ex occiden., interlireum B. V. M. ex boreali, locum Fratrum Predicatorum ex orientali, lie Govenehillis ex australi), 2 interlirea terre ibidem (inter terras de Schiphauch quond. Jo. Murray de Touchadame pertinentes ex occidentali, terras Jo. Brydy de Eister Kenneth ex boreali et australi, iter ad monast. de Cambuskynneth ex orientali) :— REDDEND. annuatim dicto capellano 20 bollas ordei infra burgum de Striviling (vel 10 sol. pro qualibet bolla), et 2 modia ordei (vel 5 sol.) in augmentationem rentalis; necnon duplicando feudifirmam in introitu heredum; et si duo termini currerent in tertium solutione minime facta, hec locatio nullius esset roboris :— cum precepto sasine directo Jacobo Andersoun :— TEST. Adamo Bell, Alex. Oswald seniore, Rob. Wilsoun, Pat. Suerd, Arch. Heriot, Alex. M‘Culloch, Pat. Runsiman, nunciis :— Apud Falkirk, 1 Apr. 1557] :— TEST. ut in aliis cartis &c.                         XXXV. 403.

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