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CALENDAR OF FEARN
One of the three sons ofjoan Beaufort, widow ofjames I, by her second
marriage to Sir James Stewart of Lome. For his part in the 1482 crisis see
N. Macdougall, James III (Edinburgh, 1982), 165-8, and for his lack of
commitment to James IV see N. Macdougall, James IV (Edinburgh,
1989), 60-61, 129, 174, 213. The tone of the obit is markedly
favourable.
1506
4 Hand C Obitus bone memorie Annete Fayd quondam sponse
Johannis McCulloch que obiit apud Feme secundo die Septembris anno
Domini M° vto vi° pro cuius anima orate.
Widow of John MacCulloch (36).
1507
5 Hand C Obitus Wilhelmi de Caldor filii Wilhelmi militis qui obiit
apud Ester Arde anno Domini M° quingentesimo vij° [at 23 April].
William, thane of Cawdor, is held to have died in 1503 or soon
thereafter (Cawdor Bk., 117), but is recorded on 18 February 1506
(CS5/181, 94r) and 29 January 1507 (CS5/182, 153r-154r). William, his
eldest son, resigned the succession in 1488 (Cawdor Bk., 71-3), but may
be sir William Calder, vicar of Evan (Barevan), alive 3 January 1509
(ibid., 120). William Calder, sheriff of Nairn, son and heir of deceased
William thane of Cawdor, resigned office, 10 February 1511 (RMS, ii,
3538). The present entry may relate to yet another son of Thane
William.
1516
6 Hand D Obitus bone memorie reuerendi in Christo patris et
domini Thome McCulloch abbatis de Ferine qui obiit apud eiusdem
decimoseptimo mensis Julii anno Domini Incarnacionis M° ccccc° xvj°.
Orate ex caritate pro anima eius.
Thomas MacCulloch’s relationship to the various families of the name
in Easter Ross is unclear, but his forename appears in the Plaids family
(31). Information on him comes mainly from the Cronicle, 17-18, but is
not in the original Balnagown MS. The date of his succession as abbot