Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

150 CHARTERS OF THE ABBEY OF INCHCOLM
Super capella beate Marie infra cimiterium dicte ecclesie de Fithkil sita.
This was probably a chantry chapel. It is not uncommon to find such
chapels erected in the churchyards of parish churches. Chapels of this
type at Corstorphine and Maybole became collegiate churches. Richard
of Kirkcaldy could not have been the founder. He must have been
appointed to the chaplainry of St. Mary’s Chapel; and the point at issue
was probably a financial one, viz. the danger that the monastery might
lose the offerings made in the chapel.
Domino Willelmo Dei gratia Dunkeldensi episcopo. William Sinclair,
1312-37 (Dowden, Bishops, pp. 61-63).
Meo perpetuo servaturum. There is evidently a word—perhaps
‘ iuramento ’—missing in the transcript.
In Capella Grangie de Beupre. Beupre is Bowprie, in the parish of
Aberdour. Ross (Aberdour and Inchcolme, p. 39) suggests that the chapel
was attached to a grange there belonging to the abbey.
In festo Sanctarum Perpetue et Felicitatis. The Feast of SS. Perpetua
and Felicitas is 7 March. Ross {op. cit., p. 39) confuses this with the
Feast of St. Felicitas (23 Nov.) and thus assigns the charter to November
instead of March.
Domino Ricardo tunc capellano parochie de Abirdour. This parochial
chaplain is not otherwise known.
Willelmo Godarde ; Thoma Fabro de Abirdoure. William Godarde does
not appear elsewhere. Thomas was evidently the smith of Aberdour.
Thomas Faber, who cannot positively be identified with him, is one of the
‘ jurati ’ in a case regarding the land of Adthangy, 20 April 1319 {Dun-
fermelyn, 232).
XXXIII
Charter of Duncan, Bishop of Dunkeld, granting, with the consent of
the dean and chapter, all his land of Eglismarten beside Beaupre in
fee-farm to Inchcolm, at a rent of four silver marks as kain of Proules
and any amount that in future they can add to the four marks. After
thorough discussion in chapter and in consideration of the manifold loss
to the monastery through the disturbance of peace, this grant is made to it.
Moray Charters (Transumpt) 42.3.4.
Duncanus . . . ecclesie Dunkeldensis minister humilis. Duncan de
Strathern, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1347-1354 or 1355 (Dowden, Bishops,
pp. 65-66).
Eglismarten iuxta Beaupre. The 1420 transumpt has a note to the
effect: ‘ Eglesmartyn sive Neuton.’ Ross {Aberdour and Inchcolme,
p. 138) declares that it is now called Inchmartin. Inchmartin appears
on the map NNW. of Aberdour. Beaupre, now Bowprie, is in the parish
of Aberdour.
Proules. This has not been identified.
Pensataque destructions quamplurima dictorum canonicorum tarn maris
quam terre propter discordiam pads. This may be a reference to the
spoliation of the abbey by the English in 1335 and of its appropriated