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xii PREFACE.
The English party in the convent, or perhaps Edward by his sove-
reign authority, had, in the meantime, chosen another abbot. Henry
styled himself abbot before l.SO-i,' and he appears to have been abbot
in 1320.
Simon was abbot from 1321 to 1326.-
The next abbot was Adam de Carale, who held the office on the 12th
September 1335,^ and was still abbot on the last day of April, iu the
14th year of the reign of David 11.^
William, abbot of Scone, occurs from lOth February 1353 to 1 371.^
The next vvhom we find styled abbot of Scone, is Lawrence de Lin-
doris, in 1411, who was the first professor of law at St. Andrews.
Haereticae pravitatis inquisitor ; he is said to have written, Eammen hae-
reticorum Lolardorim, quos toto regno exegit.''
Adam de Crenach was consecrated abbot, 25th A])ril 1418, and still
held the office in 1426.'
William was abbot of Scone on the 31st May 1435."
Thomas de Camera was abbot on the l.Qtli May 1450, and on the 7th
February 1456."'
John was abbot of Scone in 1465. He was vicar-general of Patrick,
Bishop of St. Andrews, 24th February 1471. He was party to a
' N. 127. * N- 1 7-2 ;— Peith Black Friars Cliarters ;_
'^ N. 149. Foedera.
^ Fordmi, (XIII. 51,) is mistaken in stating ^ Fordun and Dempster.
Adam's deatli in 1336. He is mentioned by name " Boece. Acta Parl. vol. ii. — Anno 1418, die 25
in tlie charter of David II. N. 161. Aprilis benedictus est dominus Adam de Crennacli
* N. 161. There cau be little doubt, that the abbas de Scona, vir eximie scientie et reHgionis, a
buU of Benedict XII. (N. 19'2) couferring on the domino Henrico de Wardlaw, episcopo Sancti An-
Abbot of Scone the privileges of a mitred Abbacy, dree. — Fordun, xv. 30.
is addressed to liim, thougli the Abbot's name in it '^ Charters of the Chai'treuse, Perth,
is given Alexauder. In the origuial it must liave '' N. 214, and 220-221.
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