Series 3 > Charters of the Abbey of Inchcolm

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restoration and subsequent spoliation of this church, it must have been
appropriated to Inchcolm for approximately a century before the date of
this bull. The kirk of ‘ Dolour ’ appears in the ‘ Rentall ’ of 1573.
(6) Beath, which is here described as a parish church. Previously it
appears as a chapel within the parish of Dalgety and is mentioned as a
chapel in a record of 23 March 1546/47 (RS8., hi. 2215).
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Notarial Instrument narrating that Walter, Abbot of Inchcolm, alleged
to Sir John Forrester, Chamberlain of Scotland, that in January last, a
deputy of the Chamberlain, in the justice-ayre at Kinghom, recognosced
without right, as the Abbot asserts, a certain tenement, on behalf of
the King, which belonged to the Abbot and convent, as part of the
church lands lately acquired by Hugh Scot, burgess of Kinghorn. The
Abbot asked that the said tenement should be disponed to him under
reversion. The Chamberlain replied that whereas it is not clear whether
there has been actual recognition, he was unwilling to grant the pledge,
but delay could not prejudice the monastery.
Moray Charters 43.30. Endorsed: ‘ Instrument anent the Recog-
nitioune of ane tenement in Kingorne quhilk the abbot and convent of
Sanctcolumbisinche desirit to be demittit to thame in pledge befoir the
chalmerlayne generall.’ This charter is much defaced and in part
illegible.
Walterus Abbas Sancticolumbe. Walter Bower.
Domino Johanni Forester militi Camerario Scocie. Sir John Forrester
of Corstorphine was served heir to his father, Sir Adam, on 6 Nov. 1405
(Coll. Chs. of Midlothian, p. Ixvi; Scots Peerage, iv., art. ‘ Forrester, Lord
Forrester ’). He appears very frequently in contemporary records. He
grants a charter, 20 Aug. 1406 (RMS., i. 885) ; is witness to a charter,
14 March 1409 (ibid., i. 918); and is mentioned many times thereafter
in RMS. He is a witness, 28 June 1413 (Menteith, 139). On 26 Oct.
1421, he appears as keeper of the Great Seal (Douglas Bk., iii. p. 56). He
was appointed Master of the King’s Household in 1424 and, as such,
founded a chaplainry in St. Giles’ (CCM., pp. Ixvii-lxviii). He witnesses
charters of 6 March 1422, and 20 Aug. and 13 Oct. 1425 (Douglas Bk.,
iii. pp. 414, 61, 415). He appears as Chamberlain, 18 April 1426 (EMC.
Rep. xi., App., Pt. 6, p. 16) ; 9 May 1429 (EMC. Rep. Milne Some MSS.,
р. 257); as witness to charters under the Great Seal, 1 Sept. 1432 (Douglas
Bk., in. p. 419); 30 Jan. 1432/33 (EMC. Rep. xi., App., Pt. 6, p. 18);
24 Feb. 1432/33 (Douglas Bk., iii. p. 420) ; 30 July 1436 (EMC. Rep.
xii., App., Pt. 8, p. 114) ; 3 May 1437 (Buccleuch, ii. p. 31). On 16 June
1441, he was auditor of Exchequer (Exch. Rolls, v. p. 108). He witnessed
an indenture, 31 Aug. 1445 (Melvilles, iii. p. 31). Sir John Forrester died
с. 1448 (Scots Peerage, iv., loc. cit.) In 1429, along with his mother, he
had added to the endowments his father had conferred upon the chapel