Series 5 > Calendar of Fearn

ADDITIONS
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Earliest Hands
1471
1 Hand A Obitus Alexandri Frisalle prioris de Bewly qui obiit apud
idem viiiuo die mensis Augusti anno Domini M° ccccmo lx°xjmo.
Alexander Fraser, described as scholar, priest of Moray diocese, vicar of
Abertarff, and subsequently monk of Ardchattan, succeeded Gilbert
Macpherson as prior ofBeauly in 1431. He was an illegitimate kinsman
of Hugh de Fraser, sheriff of Inverness, first Lord Lovat, who
supplicated for him (CSSR, hi, 72, 178, 179, 211). Batten, Beauty, 90,
329, misdates this entry to 1371.
1494
2 Hand C Obitus Katerine Munro quondam uxoris Johannis
Monelaw qui obiit apud Feme xvii|° die mensis Septembris anno
Domini M° cccc° nonagesimo quarto. Pro anima ipsius orate.
Katherine Munro’s parentage is not known. A John Monylaw sat on
the puzzling inquest into the immunities of Tain, 20 April 1439
(Macgill, no. 935), but is not certainly John Monylaw, witness on 12
May 1484 (GD98/X/72), 24 June 1487 (GD98/X/73), and 8 October
1487 (Fraser, Cromartie, ii, no. 526). See also 74.
1501
3 Hand B Obitus illustris viri Andreas Steuart episcopi Morauie
ornatissimi principis Jacobi secundi Scotorum regis illustrissimi frater
qui obiit in nocte Sancti Michaelis Archangeli [28/29 September] anno
Domini M° ccccc° prime.