Series 4 > Knights of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland

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died shortly before this date (ibid., no.36, see p.168 below).
Brother Henry de Livingston, 1449-1462: Appointed preceptor 5
September 1449 (Calendar of Maltese Material, nos.26-27, see
pp.165-6 above), he engaged in a dispute over the preceptorship
with William de Meldrum (see above) from 1449 until 1453/4
(Calendar of Maltese Material, nos.30, 31, 33, see pp.166-7
above); occurs 22 August 1450 (Brechin Registrant, 142-3); 7
December 1458 (Colstoun Writs, no.12 = Document no.17,
see pp.69-70 above); 3 February 1461/2 (sro, GD 97/3); dead
before 4 November 1462 (Calendar of Maltese Material,
no.39, see p.168 above).
Brother Patrick Scougal, 1466: Intruded himself into the preceptory
on death of Livingston, but forced to demit in favour of
William Knollis (see below), 4 February 1466/7 (Calendar
of Maltese Material, no.43, see p.169 above); litigated unsuc¬
cessfully until at least 5 October 1475 (ibid., nos.44-47, 49,
see pp.169-71 above).
Brother William Knollis, 1466-1510: Appointed by grand master,
22 December 1466 following death of Livingston (Calendar of
Maltese Material, no.42, see p.169 above), he successfully
fought off challenge by Patrick Scougal (see above) and
obtained papal confirmation 28 February 1467 (CPL, xii,
269-71); he remained active as preceptor throughout late
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries (sro, GD 32/10/1;
Colstoun Writs, no.29 = Documents nos.26, 29, see pp.90-91,
95-96 above); old and infirm on 1 July 1504 when George
Dundas obtained the right of expectation to succeed to the
preceptory (Calendar of Maltese Material, no.56, see p.172
above; sro, GD 119/6), Knollis lived until 1510 but was
certainly dead before 30 January 1511 (James IV Letters,
no.346).
Brother George Dundas, 1504-1532: Procured right of expectation
to succeed to the preceptory, 1 July 1504 (Calendar of Maltese
Material, no.56, see p.172 above); he was constituted as pre¬
ceptor, 20 September 1504 (Calendar of Maltese Material,
no.58, see p.173 above); a mandate was issued under the privy
seal, 30 November 1508, to admit Dundas to the temporalities
(RSS, i. nos.1771-2; ADC, xxii, 41); occurs on 24 July 1510