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CALENDAR OF FEARN
1482
36 Obitus Johannis McCulloch de Pladis xvj die mensis Octobris anno
Domini M° cccc° Ixxxij.
See 31. John MacCulloch’s relationship to William MacCulloch (51) is
left blank in the latter’s retour, 10 April 1512 (SC29/1/1, 3v).
1484
37 Obitus domini Vilelmi Terrel canonici de Feme xxvij die mensis
Octobris anno Domini M° cccc° Ixxxiiij0.
See 28-32.
38 Obitus domini Finlai McFaid abb. . . [margin lost] festo Bonifacii
episcopi anno Domini . . . [March].
The feast of St Boniface is given by the Calendar as 16 June (above, 53).
Cronicle, 17, dates Abbot Finlay’s death ‘17 March 1485’; his successor
Thomas MacCulloch was summoned by papal judges-delegate on 29
March 1485 (CPL, xiv, 322).
Finlay Paid, called Finlay ‘Malbuson’, canon, and also Finlay
‘Magni’, supplicated for a new provision and ratification, 1440-41
(CSSR, iv, 723, 802), claiming conventual election, with consent of the
prior of Whithorn (see 7), and confirmation by Bishop John Bulloch,
although he had not yet made his monastic profession. He was already
called ‘Finlay by God’s grace abbot of the monastery of New Fearn of
the Premonstratensian Order’ on 12 May 1439, when he appeared in a
dispute with sir Thomas Falconer, precentor of Ross, over the church
of Tarradale (GD199/25). Between 1443 and 1463 he received at least
ten mandates to collate to benefices or act as judge-delegate (CPL, ix,
348 [see also 532], 431, 449; x, 466, 684; xi, 205, 257, 325, 476, 482). His
relationship with John, earl of Ross and lord of the Isles, was good, to
judge by the important charter the earl gave to Fearn on 2 November
1467 (Isles, no. 90). He witnessed a charter of the earl on 12 April 1463
(ibid., no. 79), and one of his predecessor, Earl Alexander, on 10
October 1444 (ibid., no. 43), and is found in a handful of other
documents (GD297/214/3, 13 May 1454; GD297/197, 29 November
1454; Fraser, Cromartie, ii, no. 534, 27 October 1466). He was a