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 HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 EEGISTER OF THE CHAPEL EOYAL OF STIRLING 
 
 INCLUDING DETAILS IN EEL AT ION TO THE RISE 
 AND PROGRESS OF SCOTTISH MUSIC 
 
 respecting th* (Drto 0f tht thistle 
 
 REV. CHARLES EOGEES, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and of the Koyal Society of Northern 
 
 Antiquaries, Copenhagen, 
 
 Associate of the Imperial Archaeological Society of Russia, 
 
 Member of the Historical Societies of Pennsylvania and Quebec, 
 
 Honorary Member of the Historical Societies of Michigan, Chicago, and New Jersey, and of the 
 
 Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 
 
 And Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Bohemia, 
 
 Of the Historical Society of Berlin, of the American Ethnological Society, 
 
 And of the Historical Societies of New York, Maine, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, 
 
 Minnesota, South Carolina, Missouri, Vermont, and New Brunswick, 
 
 Of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, 
 
 Of the Historical and Genealogical Society of New England, 
 
 Of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 
 
 Of the Royal Heraldic and Genealogical Society of Italy, 
 And of the Natural History Society of Montreal 
 
 EDINBURGH 
 PRINTED FOR THE GRAMPIAN CLUB 
 
 1882
 
 EDINBURGH : 
 
 PRINTED BY M'FARLANE AND ERSK1NE, 
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 MUSIC 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 HISTORY OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND, 
 REGISTRUM CAPELLE REGIME STRIVELINENSIS, . 
 APPENDIX : 
 
 I. GRANT TO THE CHAPEL ROYAL BY THE REGENT, DUKE 
 OF ALBANY, 
 
 II. PRESENTATION BY JAMES V. OF THE TREASURERSHIP OF 
 THE CHAPEL ROYAL TO MR ANDREW DURIE, . 
 
 III. APPOINTMENT OF JAMES CAMPBELL AS A MUSICIAN IN 
 THE CHAPEL ROYAL, 
 
 IV. JOHN TAYLOR, THE WATER POET'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH, 
 
 V. LETTER OF LORD BINNING TO JAMES VI., . ' . 
 VI. MR JAMES LAW'S MISSION TO LONDON, 
 
 VII. THE RIOT AT HOLYROODHOUSE ON THE 10TH DECEMBER 
 1688, AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN RELATION 
 TO CAPTAIN JOHN WALLACE, 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 PAGE 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 FROM the surface of an inland sea, about four miles 
 in breadth, which at a prehistoric period covered the 
 strath resting between the Ochil Hills and the heights 
 of Bannock and the Lennox, jutted three islets, of 
 which the 'most considerable became, long after the 
 waters had receded, the site of a rude fortalice, 
 latterly of a royal palace. At the dawn of history 
 the place was known as Strivelyn, a compound word 
 signifying a rock surrounded by a marsh. Such was 
 its true description ; but the swamp has ceased, 
 while in the plain, now rich and verdant, meander the 
 rivers Forth, Teith, and Allan, the delight of the 
 angler and the glory of the poet. 
 
 Topographically in the centre of Scotland, Stirling 
 became a focus of the national life. In its castle the 
 sovereign held court and council, in its streets were 
 the dwellings of the nobles, and in its environs were 
 practised the sports of chivalry. Within its Chapel 
 Royal did kings delight to worship ; it was their place 
 of confession and the sanctuary of their household. 
 
 Associated with regal power, Stirling Ilock stood
 
 VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 forth as a great altar in the field of freedom. A 
 cradle of the arts, there was cherished in its halls 
 that music which, wedded to the national song, 
 has endeared Scotland to its sons, and through their 
 minstrelsy has endeared it to the world. 
 
 Of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, any history would 
 be imperfect which did not refer to the grace and 
 beauty of its site. From Stirling Castle may be 
 descried a prospect singularly picturesque. Border- 
 ing the ancient swamp, now a cultured garden, do 
 sylvan-clad mansions rest on a prehistoric sea-beach, 
 while the ennobling panorama is bounded by towering 
 heights and majestic mountains. At every point far 
 as the eye can reach are scenes famous in romance 
 or historically celebrated. Where on the east the 
 Forth enfolds Cambuskenneth Abbey, terminated 
 that struggle between the Scots and Picts which 
 enabled Kenneth, son of Alpin, to establish mon- 
 archical order on tribal misrule. Towards the south 
 at Falkirk, in two military engagements, fought cen- 
 turies apart, did the national cause suffer inglorious 
 discomfiture. In the same direction at Kildean, an 
 ill-advised monarch was worsted and slain. Close by 
 on the south Scottish liberty triumphed at Bannock- 
 burn. On the north at Sheriffmuir the first insur- 
 rection on behalf of the exiled House of Stewart 
 began and terminated. 
 
 When Stirling Castle became a royal residence has 
 not been ascertained ; it was a favoured resort of
 
 INTRODUCTION. vii 
 
 Alexander I. This sovereign, surnamed the Fierce, 
 from his vigorous character, was withal beneficent 
 and pious. To the town of Stirling he, in 1120, 
 granted a charter of incorporation, and founding a 
 chapel in the castle, he, in honour of his departed 
 mother, the sainted Queen Margaret, attached it to 
 Dunfermline monastery."" 
 
 During the reign of David I. (1124-1153) a contro- 
 versy arose between the administrators of the Chapel 
 Royal and the ecclesiastical authorities at Eccles, a 
 parish which comprehended Stirling, and that exten- 
 sive territory embracing the modern parishes of Lar- 
 bert and Dunipace.t The dispute related to the dis- 
 posal of tithes and of the dues of sepulture ; it was 
 adjusted at the Castle of Edinburgh in presence of 
 the king, his son the Prince Henry, and the prin- 
 cipal nobility. In the following document the 
 decision is embodied : 
 
 DE CONCORDIA ECCLESIAEUM DE ECCLES ET STRIUELIN. 
 
 Hec est concordia que facta fuit apud Castellum Puellaruni, 
 coram rege Dauid et Henrico filio eius et baronibus eorum, inter 
 R episcopum Sancti Andree et G. abbatem de Dunfermelyn, 
 de ecclesia parochial! de Eccles et Capella Castelli de Striuelin : 
 llecordati fuerant barones regis, et in hac recordacione omnes 
 concordati sunt, quod ea die qua Hex Alexander fecit Capellara 
 dedicare supradictam, donauit et concessit eidem Capelle deci- 
 mas dominioruin suorum in soca de Striuelin ; que eadem die 
 fuerunt dominia sua, siue acreuerunt siue decreuerunt. Et 
 
 * Keg. de Dunfermlyn, 4, 8. 
 
 t Sketches of Early Scotch History, by Cosmo Junes, Edinb. 1861, 
 8vo, pp. 16, 17.
 
 Vlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 considerauerunt quod ecclesia parochialis de Eccles 
 habere debebat uniuersas decimas que proueniunt de hurd- 
 mannis et bondis et gresmannis cum ceteris consuetudinibus 
 quas debent ecclesie ; et qui mortui fuerint siue sint de manci- 
 piis dominiorum siue de parocbia supradicta corpora eorum 
 iaceant in cimiterio parochiali prenominato cum rebus quas 
 debent habere mortui secum ad ecclesiam nisi forte fuerit quod 
 aliquis de burgensibus aliquo subito casu ibi moriatur. Et si 
 dominia postea creuerunt uel in sartis uel in fractura ueteris 
 terre antea non culte, decimas eorum habeat predicta Capella ; 
 si uero eodem modo creuerunt terre aliorum hominum parochi- 
 aliuni, ecclesia parochialis decimas eorum habeat ; et si homines 
 plures quam solebant dudum modo manent in dominio supra- 
 dicto, decimas eorum et omnium hominum quicumque illud 
 excoluerint dominium habebit capella, et ecclesia parochialis 
 habebit eorum corpora qui in dominio manent ; et si terre que 
 tune non fuerunt de dominio creuerunt in mansuris hominum, 
 parochialis ecclesia eorum decimas habebit; et hiis omnibus 
 predietis hominibus ipsa eadem omnes rectitudines christiani- 
 tatis propter sepulture dignitatem faciet. Hiis presentibus 
 testibus, G. episcopo Dunkeldensis, A. abbate Sancte Crucis, W. 
 abbate de Striuelin, H. priore de Coldingham, 0. priore de 
 Jedde worth, 0. priore Sancte Crucis; et de laicis, Duncano 
 comite, Gospatric coinite, H. constabulario, W. de Sumeruile, 
 Dauid Olifard, W. filio Alani, H. Camerario, Henrico filio Swani; 
 et aliis multis.* 
 
 The preceding instrument may be thus rendered : 
 
 " This is the agreement which was entered into at the Castle 
 of the Maidens, before King David, and Henry his son, and 
 their barons, between E[obert] bishop of St Andrews and G[alfrid] 
 abbot of Dunfermlyn, regarding the parish church of Eccles and 
 the chapel of the Castle of Stirling. The King's barons remem- 
 bered, and in that remembrance all agreed, that on the day 
 when King Alexander caused the aforesaid chapel to be dedi- 
 cated, he gave and granted thereto the tithes of his domains in 
 
 * Reg. de Dunfermlyn, 8, 9.
 
 INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 the lordship of Stirling, as they were his at the time, whether 
 they increased or decreased : And further, they considered that 
 the parish church of Eccles ought to have the whole tithes 
 accruing from the herdsmen, bondmen, and gresmen, with other 
 dues which they owe to the church; and those of them who 
 may die, whether servants of the demesne lands or of the 
 parish, their bodies should lie in the burying-ground of the 
 parish, with such things as the dead ought to have with them 
 to the church, unless by chance any of the burgesses die there 
 suddenly. And if the domains shall increase, either by the 
 grubbing out of wood or the breaking up land not before tilled, 
 the chapel shall possess the tithes; and if the lands of other 
 men of the parish increase, the parish church should have their 
 tithes; and if more men dwell in the demesne than in times 
 past, the tithes of these and of all cultivators shall go to the 
 chapel, while the parish church shall have their bodies ; and if 
 the lands which were not of the demesne increase in the num- 
 ber of dwellings, the parish church should have their tithes ; 
 and to all the church shall minister Christian rites, on account 
 of the dignity of sepulture. These witnesses were present 
 G[regory], bishop of Dunkeld ; A[lwin], abbot of Holyrood ; W., 
 abbot of Stirling; H[erbert], prior of Coldingham; 0[sbert], 
 prior of Jedburgh ; 0[sbert], prior of Holyrood ; and these lay- 
 men Duncan, earl [of Fife] ; Gospatric, earl [of Dunbar] ; 
 H[ugh de Morville], Constable; W[illiam] de Somerville [of 
 Carnwath]; David Olifard [justiciar of Lothian]; W[alter], 
 son of Alan [the Steward]; H[erbert], Chamberlain; Henry, 
 son of Swan, and many others." 
 
 The history of the chapel is continued in the fol- 
 lowing instrument of excambion, of the reign of 
 William the Lyon [1165-1214] :* 
 
 " Willelmus Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius 
 terre sue, clericis et laicis, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse 
 et dedisse et hac carta me confirmasse Deo et ecclesie Sancte 
 
 * Reg. de Dunfermlyn, 38, 39.
 
 X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Trinitatis de Dunfermelyn et monachis ibidem Deo seruientibus 
 et Capelle Castelli mei de Striuelin in excambium terre sue 
 quain primuiu clausi in parco ineo quando parcum meum 
 ])rimum clausi, terrain qtie est inter terrain suarn quam habent 
 extra parcum et diuisas terre de Kirketun et ex alia parte 
 terrain que est inter Cambusbarun terrain Petri de Striuelin 
 et terrain Eogeri filii Odonis, sicut magna strata uadit ad 
 Cuiltedouenald, sicut Eicardus de Moreuilla, constabularius, et 
 Eobertus Auenel, justiciarius, et Eadulphus vicecomes, et Petrus 
 de Striuelin perambulauerunt : Tenendam in perpetuam elemo- 
 sinam, ita libere et quiete, sicut alias elemosinas suas tenent : 
 Testibus, Eicardo de Moruilla, constabulario, Eoberto Auenel, 
 justiciario, Alano filio dapiferi, Adamo filio Thome, Eogero de 
 Valoniis, Eadulpho vicecomite de Striuelin, Petro de Striuelin, 
 Waltero de Berkelai, Eicardo clerico apud Striuelin." 
 
 Rendered into English, the preceding instrument 
 reads thus : 
 
 " William, King of Scots, to all good men, clerical and lay, 
 greeting: Wit ye me to have granted and given, and by this 
 my present charter confirmed to God and the Church of the 
 Holy Trinity at Dunfermline, and the monks there serving 
 God, and to the chapel of my castle of Stirling, in exchange for 
 their land, which I find included in my park when I first 
 enclosed my park,* the land which is between their land which 
 they have outside of the park, and the boundaries of the land 
 of Kirketoun ; and, on the other side, the land which is between 
 Cambusbaron, the land of Peter of Stirling, and the land of 
 Eoger, son of Odo as the high road leads to Cuiltedouenald, 
 as Eichard de Moreville, constable, and Eobert Avenel, justiciary, 
 
 * The King's Park at Stirling, a portion of table-land lying between the 
 south-western edge of the castle rock and the hamlet of Cambusbarron, is 
 still attached to the Crown, under care of the Commissioners of Woods and 
 Forests. When, in 1264, "a new park" at Stirling was to be laid out, 
 allusion was made to " the old," being that doubtless which was con- 
 structed at the instance of King William the Lyon. Exchequer Rolls, 
 i. 24.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 and Ralph the sheriff, and Peter of Stirling perambulated it : 
 To hold in perpetual alms, as freely and peaceably as they hold 
 their other alms. Witnesses Richard de Morville, constable ; 
 Robert Avenel, justiciar ; Alan, son of the Steward ; Adam, son 
 of Thomas ; Roger de Valoniis ; Ralf, sheriff of Stirling ; Walter 
 of Berkelay ; Richard the clerk. At Stirling."* 
 
 Included in the schedule of documents found in the 
 King's Treasury of Edinburgh, on St Michael's Day 
 1282, by Thomas de Carnoto, Ralph de Bosco, and 
 William de Dumfries, is a bull of Pope Alexander IV. 
 [1154-1261], granting indulgence to the King's Chapel. t 
 
 In the account of Sir Robert Erskine, Sheriff of 
 Stirling, rendered at Dundee on the 2d April 1359, 
 appears a' sum of fifty shillings as having been paid 
 to the chaplain officiating in the chapel of St Michael 
 in the Castle of Stirling, his salary being five pounds 
 a year, payable at the king's pleasure.! 
 
 Robert, Earl of Fife, High Chamberlain, in his 
 account presented at Stirling on the 18th March 
 1384, records a payment for two thousand large nails 
 with pointed heads for the door of the chapel at 
 Stirling Castle. 
 
 During the regency of the Duke of Albany the chapel 
 
 * In the Register of Dunfermline the various confirmations include the 
 Chapel Royal of Stirling, with "all things thereto belonging" (pp. 57, 63, 
 66, 81, 154, 157, 418). 
 
 t Acta Parl. Scot., i. 107, 108. 
 
 J Exchequer Rolls, i. 577. The Irish ecclesiastic, St Malachi or Michael, 
 visited David I. " in quodam castello suo," and healed his son, the Prince 
 Henry (Forbes's Kalendars of Scottish Saints, 398). In commemoration of 
 this event the name of the Irish saint may have suggested a dedication of 
 the Chapel Royal alike to himself and to the chief of the apostles. 
 
 Exchequer Rolls, iii. 676.
 
 xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was partially rebuilt. For the work of renovation 
 the chamberlain, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan, 
 presented at Perth, on the 12th June 1412, an account 
 showing an expenditure of 22, 3s. 8d.* 
 
 In 1425 David Broun, canon of the King's Chapel, 
 is named as one of the auditors of exchequer, t In 
 the account of Alexander Guide and John Richardson, 
 custumars of Stirling, rendered 31st May 1434, is 
 included a payment of ten shillings for bread, wine, 
 soap, and wax issued for the use of the chapel. I 
 
 Under 1434 appears a payment of 7, 6s. 8d. as the 
 salary of the chaplain officiating in the Chapel of 
 Stirling Castle. 
 
 In an account rendered to the exchequer on the 
 21st June 1435, there is a payment of five shillings 
 for bread, wine, soap, and wax for the Chapel of 
 Stirling Castle, also for two vials for the use of 
 the altar.]) 
 
 Hitherto the King's Chapel, known also as St 
 Michael's, was a very small structure, while, as we 
 have seen, the humble chaplain, at first recompensed 
 with five pounds a year, was afterwards rewarded 
 with a salary one-half beyond that sum. From the 
 reign of James III. the institution became differently 
 constituted. 
 
 James III. succeeded to the throne in 1460 when 
 a child of nine years. From his grandfather, James 
 
 * Exchequer Rolls, iv. 164. t Ibid. iv. 379. 
 
 I Ibid., iv. 565. Ibid., iv. 592. || Ibid., iv. 605.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 I., inheriting a love of music, he drew to his court at 
 Stirling those who cherished the harmonic art. Of 
 these the most notable was William Rogers, a doctor 
 of music, who came to the Scottish court in the train 
 of the English ambassador.* Eogers, it is believed, 
 was educated in the same school which produced 
 Hamboys, a noted performer, and the author of a 
 musical treatise usually but incorrectly attributed to 
 Thomas of Tewkesbury.f 
 
 With the royal household Rogers was connected 
 prior to the 29th November 1469, when by a charter 
 under the great seal he obtained the lands of Tra- 
 quair, which, on the forfeiture of Lord Boyd, had 
 reverted to the Crown. In the charter it is set forth 
 that the lands were granted him for important ser- 
 vice, while in the instrument of sasine he is described 
 as scutifero meo familiari, that is, a squire of the 
 royal household. + If we suppose, as is probable, that 
 he was connected with the court at least one year be- 
 fore he received his lands, the king must have been in 
 his seventeenth year when he elected him into favour. 
 Doubtless the English musician would to the young 
 and ardent sovereign expatiate on the interesting- 
 character of the richly endowed schools of music con- 
 nected with the English cathedrals and principal 
 
 * Ferrarius Continuation of Boethius, 1574, pp. 391, 392. 
 
 t Hawkins' History of Music, 1776, ii. 345, 346; Bishop Tanner's 
 Bibliotheca, Lond. 1748, p. 373. 
 
 Traquair Papers, quoted by Dr William Chambers in his History of 
 Peeblesshire, Edinb. 1864, p. 85.
 
 xiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 churches. He would also set forth the munificence 
 of Edward IV., in whose household were thirteen 
 minstrels, who discoursed music to him at meals, and 
 at such other seasons as they were specially com- 
 manded to render service.* 
 
 Bv such animating details would be excited the 
 
 I 
 
 enthusiasm of a prince supremely moved by one 
 passion, and who, inexperienced in government, might 
 readily conceive that what had been effected in the 
 sister country could without difficulty be accomplished 
 in his own. James determined that St Michael's 
 Chapel should be rebuilt and constituted both as a 
 royal chapel and a musical college. 
 
 It was most probably when he was about to re- 
 construct the chapel that James summoned to his 
 court those artificers, of whom his patronage be- 
 came attended with tragic events. The artificers 
 included Robert Cochrane, an architect ; James 
 Homyll, a robemaker ; and Leonard, a worker in 
 skins. John Ramsay, a youth of elegant accom- 
 plishments, also obtained special favour. For the 
 progress of events we are indebted to Lindsay of 
 Pitscottie. After setting forth the discomfiture of 
 Henry VI. by Edward IV., his successful rival, Lind- 
 say remarks, that James III., "being in good peace 
 and rest the most part of that year, went to Stirling 
 and remained there." The chronicler then details 
 how James " founded a college, which he named the 
 
 * Hawkins' History of Music, ii. 290-292.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XV 
 
 Chapel Koyal." Now, Edward IV. took Henry VI. 
 prisoner on the 14th April 1471, and if Lindsay's 
 narrative is correct, the Chapel Royal was constructed 
 somewhat posterior to that date. Lindsay's relation 
 is confirmed by entries in the treasurer's accounts. 
 These accounts are extant only from 1473, but in 
 that year, under " Expensis for the Chappell," occur 
 the following items : 
 
 " In the first, to Schire Johnne of Rende* to pay for a pres kist 
 [press chest] to the chapell to keep the graith [equip- 
 ments], ..... xvj 8 vj d 
 
 Item, for the makin of thre albis, three amytis,^ and a towale 
 for the hie alter, . . . . vj 8 
 
 Item, for mess bred for the hale yere, . . . xv 9 
 
 Item, for a pund of sens [incense], . . . iiij 8 
 
 Item, for jli of Birgis threde [Bruges thread] to mend the vesta- 
 
 mentis, . . . . . . ij s vj d 
 
 Item, for the mending of a caip, . . . . iij 8 
 
 Item, for the cariagis of the chapell grath on Sanct Margretes 
 day fra the Abbay [Cambuskenneth] to the castell and to 
 the Abbay, ...... xviij d 
 
 Item, given to the King and the Qwene to offir in the castell 
 on Sanct Margretis day a Franche croune and half aross 
 noble, extendand to ... xxvij 8 vj d ." 
 
 These items in connection with the Chapel Royal 
 are included in the treasurer's statement of 1474 : 
 
 " Item, gevin to Schire Johnne Story, collector for the chapell, 
 for the hail offerandis for this yere, . . . xx" 
 
 * Sir John of Rende or Rhynd was of a Perthshire family. Will of 
 Rynde is, in 1473 and subsequently, named in the Treasurer's Accounts as 
 supplying textile fabrics for the king's use. 
 
 t The amyt or amice was an oblong portion of linen, richly embroidered, 
 worn on the neck at mass.
 
 XVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 It cm, to the King and Qwene to oflir on Sanct Petris day, ilkane 
 j croune, ...... xxiiij 8 
 
 Item, to the King and Qwene to offir vpone Sonday, the xiij day 
 of Julij, ilkane j croune, .... xxiiij 8 
 
 Item, fra Sandris of Turing ix Nouembris and deliuerit to 
 Master Johne Patonsone, vj elne of brade clath for ij 
 tovellis to the Kingis alter, price elne iij 8 , . summa, xviij 9 
 
 Sum totale of thir expensis of the chapel, . xxx 11 vij 9 vi d ." 
 
 The preceding entries refer to the Chapel Royal 
 solely in its ecclesiastical relations. Of the king's 
 intentions respecting it as a musical seminary we 
 shall learn in the sequel. 
 
 Prior to the reign of James I., our knowledge of 
 Scottish music is extremely circumscribed. The bag- 
 pipe belongs to the prehistoric period, as well as 
 some other Scottish instruments in their simpler 
 forms. Among the sculptured decorations of Mel- 
 rose Abbey, founded in 1136, a piper is represented. 
 To the pipers of David II., in 1362, was made a 
 payment of forty shillings."" Especially cherishing 
 the harmonic art, James I. excelled in music, both 
 instrumental and vocal. In his poem, "Peblis to 
 the Play," he celebrates the bagpipe in these strains : 
 
 " The bag pipe blew and they out-threw 
 
 Out of the townis untauld, 
 Lord ! sic ane schout was thame amang 
 Quhen they were owre the wald. 
 
 " With that Will Swain came sweitand out, 
 
 Ane rnickle miller man ; 
 Gif I sail dance, have done, lat se 
 Blaw up the bag-pipe than." 
 
 * Exchequer Rolls, ii. 115.
 
 INTEODUCT10N. xvii 
 
 James I., according to Buchanan,* played on all 
 musical instruments, and could in singing compete 
 with the best vocalists of his age. Writing in 1646, 
 Tassoni remarks that James composed music, but 
 this assertion is not supported by any earlier autho- 
 rity. 
 
 Sir Richard Holland, in " The Howlat,"t a poem 
 composed in 1453, enumerates twenty- three instru- 
 ments as existing in his time. We quote the pas- 
 sage : 
 
 " All thus our lady thai lovit with lyking and lyst 
 Menstralis and musicianis, mo than I mene may, 
 The Psaltery, the Sytholis, the soft Sytharist, 
 The Crovde, and the Monycordis, the Gittyrnis gay ; 
 The Eote and the Kecordour, the Eibupe, the Eist, 
 The Trunipe and the Talburn, the Tympane but tray ; 
 The Lilt Pype and the Lute, the Fydill in fist, 
 The Dulset, the Dulsacordis, the Schalme of Assay ; 
 The amyable Organis vsit full oft ; 
 Claryonis lowde knellis, 
 Portatiuis and Bellis, 
 Cymbaclanis in the cellis 
 
 That soundis so soft." 
 
 The Psaltery was a one-sided instrument of trian- 
 gular form, mounted with three rows of strings ; the 
 Sitholis, so called from cistella, a small bone, was a 
 sort of whistle; the Sitharist or Cither, an instrument 
 of which the strings were twanged with a quill ; the 
 Croude, a species of violin ; the Monycord, a one- 
 
 * Rerum Scot. Hist., lib. x., sec. 57. 
 
 + The Buke of the Howlat. 1823, edited by David Laing, Edinb. Stanza 
 59.
 
 XViii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 stringed instrument; the Gittern or Gy thorn, a species 
 of guitar ; the Kote, a hurdy-gurdy ; the Kibupe or 
 Rebeck, an instrument of three strings; the Rist, 
 probably an instrument emitting music by percus- 
 sion ; the Trumpe, the Jeu-trompe or Jew's harp ; the 
 Recorder, a large flageolet ; the Talburn or Tabor, a 
 small drum ; the Tympane, a large drum ; the Lilt- 
 pipe, a shepherd's pipe or stock and horn ; the 
 Lute, an instrument with originally eight strings; 
 and the Fydell, a pear-shaped instrument, with four 
 strings, resembling the modern violin. The Dulset 
 and the Dulsacord were varieties of the Dulcimer or 
 rudimentary Pianoforte. The Schalme was a species 
 of hautbois. The Organ was then an instrument of 
 ten or fourteen pipes. The Clarion was a trumpet ; 
 and the Portative, a portable organ, afterwards 
 known as the regals. The " Bellis Cymbaclanis " were a 
 sort of tambourine, producing music by percussion. 
 
 The luter or lute-player of James III. wore a livery 
 of green. In August 1473, " Heroun, clerk of the 
 chapell," received at "the Kingis commande" eleven 
 shillings " to his passage to the scolis," while in the 
 following September a payment of five pounds was 
 made to " Johnne Broune, lutare, at his passage our 
 sey to lere his craft." Broune * was doubtless sent 
 to Bruges, for in the subsequent December appears a 
 payment for " a barell of salmond that was send to a 
 lutare to Bruges, at the Kingis command." In 1474 
 
 * Treasurer's Accounts, i. 43-67.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xix 
 
 the king's " litill lutare, the page," was also sent to 
 Bruges. 
 
 These entries might imply that Rogers, who re- 
 ceived the honour of knighthood, and held rank as 
 a courtier and landowner, was not expected to in- 
 struct in the elements of music. He remained in 
 constant attendance on the royal person. The result 
 was such as, among an untutored people and in a 
 turbulent age, might have been anticipated. The 
 nobles and barons conspired against the stranger 
 knight, and determined his overthrow. In 1478 he 
 was forced to surrender the lands of Traquair at a 
 nominal price. For seventy marks* of which forty 
 were to be paid "at Martinmas next ensuing," and 
 the remaining thirty eight days before Christmas 
 he surrendered his lands to James Stewart, Earl of 
 Buchan, the king's uncle, executing in his favour, on 
 the 19th September 1479, an instrument of sasine. 
 Nor did this surrender satisfy either cupidity or 
 revenge. In league against the musician, Buchan 
 was joined by the king's two brothers, the Duke of 
 Albany and the Earl of Mar. The latter was by the 
 king thrown into prison, and there died ; the former 
 escaped to France, but afterwards joined Edward 
 IV., when, in June 1482, he entered Scotland with 
 an army. To resist the invasion, James, on the 22d 
 July, assembled an army at Lauder; but mutiny 
 
 * Chambers's Peeblesshire, pp. 85, 86. The lands of Traquair now pro- 
 duce a rental of about .6000.
 
 XX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 supervened ; for he was accompanied by Rogers, also 
 by bis favourites, Ramsay and Cochrane, of whom 
 the last, having lately been created Earl of Mar, was 
 on this account peculiarly obnoxious. Heedless of the 
 enemy's approach, the Earl of Angus led a party, 
 which seized the royal favourites, and hastening them 
 to Lauder Bridge, there hanged Rogers and Cochrane 
 from the parapet. On account of his youth and the 
 king's entreaties, Ramsay's life was spared.* 
 
 By nearly all the historians it has been alleged or 
 assumed that in the Lauder massacre were included 
 the whole of the king's artistic associates. It is 
 certain that James Homyll, the robemaker, survived, 
 since he is mentioned both in relation to a royal 
 pension and otherwise, some years subsequently. The 
 warrant for his pension may not inappropriately be 
 introduced. 
 
 " James, be the grace of God King of Scottis, to our Chawmer- 
 lane of Striuelyneschire that now is and that sail happin to be 
 for the tyme, greting: Wit ye that we, being at oure perfect 
 aige, and eftir oure last General Eevocatioun, for the singular 
 [favour] that we have to oure familiare sartein and workman for 
 our persoun, James Homyll, we have gevin and assignit and be thir 
 present lettres, gevis and assignis to him ane yerly pensioun of 
 twenty pundis of usuale money of our realme, for all the dayis 
 of his life, for his lele, treu, and thankfull seruice done and to 
 be done til ws ; to be pait to the said James furth of the maills 
 and proffittis pertening til ws within Striuelyneschir be oure 
 Chawmerlane therof that now is and sail happin to be for the 
 tyme, at tua usuale termes in the yer, Witsunday and Mer- 
 
 * Drummond of Hawthornden's History of Scotland, Glasg. 1749, 
 12nio, p. 131.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xxi 
 
 times in winter, be evin porciones, but ony reuocatioun, im- 
 pediment, or again calling of ws or oure successouris quhat- 
 sumeuer, induring the lyftyme of the said James : Quharfor we 
 charge straitly, and commandis you oure said Chawmerlane that 
 now is and sail happin to be for the tyme, that ye yerly content 
 and pay to the said James, at the termes forsaid, the said sume 
 of tuenty pundis, as his fee for all the dayis of his life yerly, of 
 our said proffitis and fermes of Striuelyneschir, nochtwithstand- 
 ing our said late general revocatioun, vnder all the hiest pain 
 and charge that eftir may folow : The quhilk soume of tuenty 
 pundis we sail mak be allowit to you yerly in your comptis be 
 the auditouris of our chekker, ye schawand thir oure letres anys 
 before the saidis auditouris and registrat in Eollis, 
 
 and bringing the said James acquittance and ressait of the said 
 sourne yerly, to scheu for your warant : And thir our letres, 
 being registrat, deliueris thame agane to the said James, to 
 remane with -him for all the dais of his lyfe, as said is : Gevin 
 vnder oure priue sele, at Edinburgh, the tuenty day of Janvar, 
 the yer of our Lorde a thousand four hundreth sevinty and 
 sevin yeris, and of our reynne the auchtene yere." * 
 
 Being involved in a charge of treason along with 
 the Earl of Buchan, Homyll had his goods confis- 
 cated prior to the 10th July 1488. t 
 
 Having slaughtered two of his associates, the dis- 
 satisfied nobles conducted the king to Edinburgh, 
 and there warded him in the castle. Marching to 
 the capital, the English army would have aided in 
 placing the Duke of Albany on the throne ; but the 
 royal brothers becoming reconciled, the king's autho- 
 rity was restored. 
 
 Among those whom James received into his royal 
 
 * Rotuli Scaccarii Scotie, No. 280. 
 
 t Acta Parl, Scot,, ii. 201 ; Treasurer's Accounts, i. Ixiii,
 
 x\ii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 favour were William and Robert Schevez. These 
 persons appear in 1473 as officers of the wardrobe/"' 
 but Kobert is not mentioned subsequently, and may 
 have died young. "Master William Sevas" is, in 
 the Treasurer's Accounts, frequently named. Ac- 
 cording to Buchanan, he had studied medicine at 
 Louvaine under a distinguished preceptor, but had 
 recommended himself to the Scottish sovereign ra- 
 ther as an astrologer, t One of his early offices was 
 that of physician to the court ; he was thereafter con- 
 stituted an auditor of exchequer and archdeacon 
 of St Andrews. J 
 
 On the ground that he was ignorant of theology, 
 William Schevez was by Archbishop Graham of St 
 Andrews refused institution, a proceeding which in- 
 volved the primate in grievous persecution. Schevez 
 was elevated as coadjutor-bishop, and having at 
 length accomplished Graham's deprivation, was about 
 the year 1478 consecrated as his successor. 
 
 On the assassination of Rogers and Cochrane, 
 Archbishop Schevez became the king's principal 
 adviser. Resolved on the endowment of the Chapel 
 
 * Treasurer's Accounts, i. 13, 18, 20. 
 
 t Kerum Scot. Hist., lib. xii., c. 37. In the library of the University of 
 Edinburgh, a MS., bound in a thick folio volume, bears, after the colophon, 
 the signature Scheuez, to which is added in the same handwriting, Lib. 
 Villielmi Sanctidndree Archiepi. The MS., a treatise on medicine, is dated 
 1393, and is entitled, Geraldus de Solo super nono Almansoris. It was pur- 
 chased at the sale of Dr John Jamieson by Principal Lee, at whose death it 
 was acquired by its present custodiers. 
 
 Treasurer's Accounts, i, 21, 23, 75.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXlil 
 
 lioyal as a musical school, James embraced what 
 seemed a favourable opportunity for effecting his 
 purpose. In the conduct of some of its members 
 the priory of Coldingham had become a reproach; 
 it was also the victim of cupidity, for two powerful 
 barons Patrick and James Home had usurped the 
 revenues, and refused to restore them, in defiance 
 of ecclesiastical censures. Utterly defenceless, the 
 monks sought and obtained refuge in the priory of 
 Lindisfarne.* Under the circumstances, James was 
 persuaded by Schevez that annexation to the Chapel 
 Royal of the revenues of Coldingham Priory would at 
 once punish profligate churchmen, and restore to a 
 proper use that which had been unjustly appropriated. 
 The step was in 1485 approved by Parliament, and 
 thereafter Schevez proceeded to obtain the Papal 
 sanction. Innocent III. having acceded to the royal 
 wish, Parliament in 1487 decreed that any attempt 
 to oppose or disturb the act of annexation should 
 be construed as treason, t This enactment was not 
 unnecessary, for Patrick and James Home had 
 already determined to resist any attempt to dis- 
 possess them of the priory revenues. They were 
 warmly supported by the Hepburns, their opulent 
 neighbours. Obtaining a further ally in the Earl 
 of Angus, that powerful nobleman obtained to their 
 
 * Raine's Priory of Coldingham, Stirtees Society, ix., x., xi. ; Hunter's 
 History of the Priory, 1857, 68-71. 
 t Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 171.
 
 \\l\- INTRODUCTION. 
 
 cause the adhesion of the Earl of Argyll, and the 
 Lords Gray, Lyle, and Drummond ; also of many of 
 the lesser barons. In the words of the Act by which 
 they afterwards sought excuse, they renewed the old 
 charge that the king " counsellet and assistet to him 
 in the inbringing of Englishmen to the perpetual 
 subjection of the realm." Personally they sought 
 the support of Henry VII.* The insurrection in 
 favour of the Homes became general, while at Leith 
 and the castle of Dunbar the insurgents obtained 
 both ammunition and money. In the formidable 
 combination contemplating the overthrow of his 
 benefactor, Schevez abandoned the royal cause, and, 
 joining the disaffected, bestowed upon them his epis- 
 copal benediction. Under the persuasion of Schaw 
 of Sauchie, governor of Stirling Castle, the Duke of 
 Rothesay forsook his royal father, and consented to 
 become the nominal leader of his opponents. Among 
 his northern subjects James mustered a considerable 
 army, and at their head met the rebels at Blackness. 
 An amicable arrangement ensued, and the king, 
 under the belief that his opponents were satisfied, 
 disbanded his army. But the insurgents were still in 
 the field, and when James with his armed attendants 
 proceeded from Edinburgh to Stirling in June 1488, 
 he found the castle closed against him. A body 
 of rebels whom he found in the place he drove 
 across Stirling Bridge, and, pursuing them to the 
 
 * Rymer, Foedera, xii. 340,
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXV 
 
 house of Keir, three miles to the northward, set fire 
 to that mansion. On the llth June his followers 
 encountered the main body of the insurgents at 
 Sauchie, near Bannockburn. There he experienced 
 defeat, and, in endeavouring to escape, fell from 
 his horse. Severely stunned, he was borne into a 
 peasant's hut, where, recognised by one of the enemy, 
 he was cruelly slain."" 
 
 Prior to his father's death, the Duke of Rothesay 
 had assumed the government ; when he became 
 actual sovereign, he bestowed on his father's adver- 
 saries high offices of state. Yet, if we believe 
 Lindsay of Pitscottie, he was not satisfied that 
 making war upon his father was an act wholly to 
 be justified. Proceeds the chronicler : 
 
 "The king remained a while in the castle of Stirling, and 
 daily passed to the Chapel Eoyal, and heard matins and evening- 
 song; in the which every day the chaplains prayed for the 
 king's grace, deploring and lamenting the death of his father ; 
 which moved the king, in Stirling, to repentance, that he hap- 
 pened to be counselled to come against his father in battle, 
 where-through he was murdered and slain. To that effect he 
 was moved to pass to the dean of the said Chapel Eoyal, and 
 to have his counsel how he might be satisfied, in his own con- 
 science, of the art and part of the cruel act which was done to 
 his father. The dean, being a godly man, gave the king a good 
 comfort ; and, seeing him in repentance, was very glad thereof. 
 But yet this godly man durst not utter his inind unto the king, 
 so far as his conscience served him ; because the king was young 
 and youthful, and had no constancy to keep counsel or secret 
 thought, albeit it was for his own profit. And also this godly 
 
 * Treasurer's Accounts, i., Preface, Ixvii., Ixviii.
 
 XXVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 mail dreaded the lords, and them that were conspirators of the 
 king's dead, his father, thinking that these murderers would be 
 discontent, and utterly displeased at him, if he had given the 
 king his counsel, so far as his conscience dyted him. Therefore 
 he continued the same till he saw the king farder in age, and 
 other counsellors about him. In the meantime he gave him 
 fair words, and put him in good hope of forgiveness thereof, by 
 God's mercy in Jesus Christ." * 
 
 That James IV. provided for the due continuance 
 of divine service in the Chapel Royal is evidenced in 
 the Treasurer's Accounts by the following entries : 
 
 " 1488. To the clerkis of the chapell for thair service at Ywle, 
 at the kingis commande, . . . xxx fci li. 
 
 1489. To the clerkis of the kingis chapell, at the kingis com- 
 
 mande, ..... xx u li. 
 
 To the clerkis of the chapell for Ywle, . . xxx u li. 
 
 To the clerkis of the chapell that wer in Lythgow quhen 
 the Imbassatouris was thare, at the kingis com- 
 mande, ..... xxx u li. 
 
 1490. On Sonday the ij Janvar, to the clerkis of the chapell 
 
 for thair service at Ywle, . . . xv li." 
 
 When the king moved from one residence to 
 another, there were borne along with him by his 
 attendants a cupboard of plate, a wardrobe of vest- 
 ments, and a box containing the chapel gear. In 
 reference to the last, the Treasurer's Accounts of 
 1484-89 contain the following entries : 
 
 " For the carying of the chapell grayth fra Edinburgh to Lythgow 
 
 before Ywle, and agane to Edinburgh efter Ywle, xx s . 
 
 To Schir Johne of Rind, for iiij hors to Striuelin with the 
 
 * Lindsay of Pitscottie's History of Scotland, Edinb. 1728, fol., p. 93.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXVii 
 
 chapel gere and himself, and fra Striuelin to Edinburgh 
 agane, ...... xxxij s. 
 
 For wesching of the chapel gere, and for a kist to turs it 
 in, ...... iiij s. 
 
 To iiij hors to turs the sammyne graith [convey the same equip- 
 ments] to Edinburgh, .... xx s . 
 
 To Schir Johne Eynde for the carying of the chapell graytht to 
 Lythgow, ..... xviij 8 vi d ." 
 
 Under the year 1494, the Treasurer's Accounts 
 exhibit the following charges in connection with the 
 chapel furniture : 
 
 " Expens made apoune the kingis chapell 
 Item, in the first, gevin to the Lard [Laird] of Lundy,* to mak 
 
 tua towallis to the altar of Striuiling, and to mak ane new 
 
 alb to the sammyne, xvj ellis of braid clath, price of the 
 
 ell iij 8 ., summa, ..... xlviij 8 . 
 Item, for the mending of the sepulture [niche in chancel], the 
 
 chapell dure [door], and Judas crois,f . . iij 8 . 
 
 Item, for a lok, stapill, and nalis, . . . ij 8 . 
 
 Item, bocht j c estland burdis [Dantzic wainscot] for the silour- 
 
 ing [ceiling] of the chapell in Striueling, price . x 1 '. 
 
 Item, gevin to the browdstar [embroiderer] to mend the vest- 
 
 imentis of the Kingis chapell, be command of the King, 
 
 xviij pirnis of gold, bocht fra James of Turing, price ix 1 '. 
 Item, to the sammyne, xj vnce of silk, price of the vnce iiij s., 
 
 summa, ...... xliiij s. 
 
 Item, to the sammyne, xvij ellis of bukerame, price of the ell 
 
 iij s., summa, . . . . . Ij s. 
 
 Item, to the sammyne, iiij vnce of rubannis, price of the vnce 
 
 vj s., summa, ..... xxiiij s. 
 
 * Sir John Lundy of that ilk was governor of Stirling Castle. 
 
 f The Paschal Candlestick, usually of brass, had seven branches, from 
 the seventh or middle one of which a tall piece of wood, painted like a 
 candle, and called the Judas of the Paschal, rose nearly to the roof, on the 
 top of which was placed at Eastertide the Paschal candle of wax.
 
 XXV111 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Item, to the sammyne, a half pund of raw silk, price xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Item, to the browstar himself, for three termes fee, at the Kingis 
 
 command, xx 1 ', summa, . . xl li. xviij s. viij d." 
 
 In the love and practice of music James IV. did 
 not yield to his royal sire. On succeeding to the 
 throne, he continued to support such musical per- 
 formers as had already been employed at court. 
 Jacob, an accomplished luter probably one of Sir 
 William Rogers' pupils * is, in the Treasurer's 
 Accounts, named as receiving his reward in 1489 
 and subsequent years. Owing to his improvidence 
 Jacob in 1500 pledged his lute, when he received, by 
 the king's order, a portion of money to "louse" or 
 redeem it. While ordinary lute-players received a 
 quarterly allowance of fourteen shillings, Jacob had 
 a salary of double that amount. In 1 496 " Lundoris 
 the lutare" and " John Wardlaw the lutare" are named 
 in connection with the household. During the pre- 
 vious reign harpers are unnamed; but in May 1490, 
 an ersche (Irish) harper had, at the king's command, 
 a recompense of eighteen shillings. In 1496 and 
 1497 James Mylsone the harper, Pate the harper, and 
 Fowlis the harper, and the "harper with a [one] 
 hand," received rewards. In 1502 five harpers are 
 named. 
 
 Performers on the clarsha, a kind of harp used 
 
 * Writing in 1529, Ferrarius, the continuator of Boethius, remarks that 
 he had met with several persons who boasted that Sir William Rogers had 
 instructed them (Boethius' History, 1574, pp. 391, 392).
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXIX 
 
 chiefly in the Highlands, and strung with brass wire 
 instead of catgut, were also entertained at court. In 
 the Treasurer's Accounts, Martyn, otherwise Martyn 
 M/Bretne, clareschaw, is named in 1490 and 1492. 
 In 1505 there are payments to Alexander, harper, 
 Pate, harper-clarsha, and his son the Ersch clarsha, 
 "ilk man ix s ." In the same year, Makbuty the 
 clarsha received from the king five French crowns to 
 defray his travelling expenses to the Isles. 
 
 Among the household minstrels were Nicholas 
 Gray, and one Jame, who played on the dron that 
 is, the bagpipe. English pipers came to the castle 
 gate at Edinburgh in 1489, and there played before 
 the king ; these, in August 1491, were rewarded at 
 Linlithgow with seven unicorns.'"" 
 
 A performer on the viol, a three or four stringed 
 instrument, was designated a fithelar or fiddler. 
 These fithelars were employed at court in 1489. In 
 1497 are named " the brokin-bakkit fithelar in Sanct 
 Androus," and " ane fidelar that playit to the king 
 at Durrisdeer ; also " ane fidelar in Dunbar," and 
 " Widderspune, the foulare, that tald tales and 
 brocht foulis to the king." 
 
 The monycord was constantly borne with the king 
 in his state progresses. In April 1497, John Hert 
 received nine shillings for " bering a pare of moni- 
 
 * A gold coin struck in the reign of James III., and exhibiting a unicorn 
 supporting a shield with the royal arms. Its value was eighteen shillings 
 Scottish money.
 
 VOi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 cordis of the kingis fra Abirdene to Strivelin," and 
 in the same year nine shillings were paid for " tursing 
 of the kingis organis betuix Strivelin and Edin- 
 burgh." John Goldsmyth, in Inverness, was, in 
 1502, indemnified in seven shillings and eightpence 
 his advances "for ane cais to turs the organis in, 
 vij 8 and viii d ," while "to ij childer that bure the 
 organis and their bellysis ouir the Month and again" 
 were paid xxviii 8 . 
 
 Payments to vocal performers were not uncom- 
 mon. In 1489 "Cunnynghame the singar" received 
 a demy that is, a French gold coin of fourteen 
 shillings value ; and in the same year Wilzeam, 
 sangster of Linlithgow, had ten pounds for " a sange 
 bwke he brocht to the king be a precep." In April 
 1490, Henry the minstrel, known as the metrical 
 chronicler of Sir William Wallace, is, under the 
 designation of "Blind Harry," recompensed with 
 " eighteen shillings." " Tua women that sang to the 
 king," in June 1496, had a fee of thirteen shillings ; 
 and minstrels " that playit Mons [the famous cannon 
 Mons Meg] doun the gate," received (April 1497) 
 eighteen shillings. In the same month "tua fithe- 
 laris that sang Graysteil to the king " had a gratuity 
 of nine shillings. 
 
 Not forgetful of his father's desire for the esta- 
 blishment of a musical college, James IV. at length 
 took steps towards this object. Having in 1501 
 opened negotiations with the court of Rome, pro-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXxi 
 
 ceedings ensued, which are detailed in the Register. 
 In instrument No. I. it is set forth how that 
 
 "James Abercromby, abbot of Scone,* and David Arnot, 
 archdean of Lothian, -f- judges and executors for the church of 
 St Andrews in the matters underwritten, along with a colleague 
 specially deputed by the Apostolic See, had received a letter of 
 Pope Alexander the Sixth, J by the king's hands. From that 
 letter it appeared that the Pope had got a petition from the 
 king, representing that, in the Chapel Eoyal of the blessed 
 Mary and St Michael, within the palace of the castle of Stirling, 
 in the diocese of St Andrews, one dean, and several others, 
 chantors, chaplains, and clerks, daily celebrated mass, and dis- 
 charged other important functions ; that the king had caused 
 the chapel to be renovated, and adorned it with books, cups, 
 and other ornaments. The king, it had also been set forth, had 
 assigned some of his own immovable property, with a view to 
 the chapel being erected and endowed as a collegiate church, 
 with a common chest, seal, chapter, and other insignia. There- 
 upon the king had desired that the provost of the church of St 
 Mary of the Rock, at St Andrews, and in his royal patronage, 
 should be erected into the deanery of the said church, and that 
 the provost of the church of St Mary should be dean of the 
 collegiate church, preside over the other persons therein, and 
 have the cure of the souls of the king and his household ; 
 
 * This ecclesiastic was probably a scion of Abercromby of that ilk. 
 There was an abbot James of Scone in January 1493 ; also in 1516 (Gor- 
 don's Monasticon, Glasg. 1868, i. 35). 
 
 t Son of John Arnot of that ilk, by his wife Katherine, daughter of 
 Melville of Carnbee. Subsequently provost of Bothwell, he was chosen 
 abbot of Cambuskenneth in 1503, an office he retained till 1509, wlu-n lie- 
 was preferred to the bishopric of Galloway. He died in 1526 (Keith's 
 Scottish Bishops, Edinb. 1824, 277, 278). 
 
 The infamous Roderic Borgia, who, under the title of Alexander VI., 
 was Pope from 1492 till 1503. 
 
 Kirkheugh Church, at St Andrews, has long disappeared ; but the 
 foundations, on a promontory near the present harbour, have been exca- 
 vated. The rhuroh was designated "capella domini regni Scotoruni."
 
 NX -Ml INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and who, while residing in the church of St Mary, should be 
 provost, .and while in the church to be erected should be 
 dean, so that there should not be two dignities, but one only, 
 having the pre-eminence in both churches. There should 
 also be a subdean to act in the dean's absence ; a sacristan to 
 have charge of the jewels and other ornaments; also sixteen 
 canons, and as many prebends skilled in song, with six boy 
 clerics, competently trained in song, or fit to be instructed 
 therein. These should, it was desired, perform divine worship 
 both day and night, and should not be bound to observe any 
 other mode of worship, unless the king so determined. And 
 whereas two canons only had been wont to reside in the 
 Augustinian priory of Rostnot [Eoseneath], albeit its revenues 
 were worth one hundred and twenty pounds sterling yearly, 
 and were sufficient for the support of six, and even more, canons 
 of the order; and that, in the church of Dunbar, the canons 
 generally served by substitutes, it was by the king desired that 
 a suitable portion should be reserved from the revenues of the 
 priory for six canons, of whom the existing prior should be one, 
 and that the residue be applied to the deanery and other offices 
 of the collegiate church ; and that the canonries and prebends 
 of Dunbar, and other benefices with and without cure in the 
 city or diocese of St Andrews, or wherever they are in the 
 patronage of the king or of other laics, yielding revenues to the 
 value of 2000 Scots, being 500 sterling or thereby in the 
 year, should be united to the collegiate church, a suitable por- 
 tion being reserved for the perpetual vicars. Of the residue of 
 the revenues of these benefices, it was desired that a proportion 
 should be distributed among the dean, subdean, and other 
 officers of the collegiate church. By these means, it was set 
 forth that divine worship would be increased in the chapel. 
 The king further offered to assign, as endowment to the colle- 
 giate church, other patrimonial goods of the yearly value of 
 500 Scots. In consideration of the royal request, and on the 
 full understanding that the promised endowments would be 
 forthcoming, the Pope, commending the king's pious and laud- 
 able purpose, commanded the erection of the Chapel Royal into
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXxili 
 
 a collegiate church, reserving to the king the right of presenta- 
 tion of suitable persons to the offices of subdean, sacristan, canons, 
 and prebends, and also the right of instituting and degrading 
 the said six boys. The Pope further exempted the collegiate 
 church and its officers from visitation, correction, jurisdiction, 
 lordship, and power of the Archbishop of St Andrews, and of 
 others his ordinaries whomsoever, and his officers and vicars ; 
 subjecting the church, its subdean, and other officers to the 
 jurisdiction of the dean, and the dean to the immediate pro- 
 tection of the Apostolic See ; and granting all privileges enjoyed 
 by other collegiate churches in Scotland. The Pope likewise 
 empowered the dean to absolve the king and queen, and their 
 children, in cases reserved to the Apostolic See, except for 
 crimes against ecclesiastical liberty, heresy, and rebellion or 
 conspiracy, against the person or state of the Eoman Pontiff or 
 Apostolic See, or other crimes of a like nature." 
 
 This Papal rescript was dated at St Peter's, Rome, 
 on the 2d May 1501, in the ninth year of Alexander's 
 pontificate : On the receipt of these letters the 
 judges made examination, and found that the king, 
 besides the endowments specified in his memorial, 
 had assigned to the collegiate church possessions of 
 the value of 500 Scots yearly, viz., 93, 6s. 8d. from 
 the lands of Castellaw, in the county of Edinburgh ; 
 94, 13s. 4d. from Strathbraan, Glenshee, and Aucht- 
 nabaid, in the county of Perth ; and 312 from 
 Kyntore and Lochaber, in the counties of Elgin and 
 Forres : Whereupon, at the king's request, James, 
 Abbot of Scone, and David, Archdeacon of Lothian, 
 erected the chapel into a collegiate church, with com- 
 mon coffer, seal, chapter, and other collegial insignia, 
 and the said provostry of St Mary of the Bock of St
 
 XXXIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Andrews into a deanery, and applied and assigned the 
 residue of the revenue of the priory of liostnot (Rose- 
 neath) to the dean and others, after deducting 400 
 marks Scots for the six canons of St Augustine, 
 who should do the service of the priory. They 
 further united the canonries and prebends of 
 Spot, Belton, and Dunse, the archpresbytery and 
 rectorship of Dunbar, Ayr and its chapel, Dalmel- 
 lington, Crieff, Kyncardine with its annexed chapels, 
 Petty Bracklyn, Duchell, and the parish churches 
 of Kyrkandrews, Balmaclellan, Kells, Forest, Glen- 
 holm, Buitt, Ellem, and Cranschaws, all of which 
 are in the patronage of the king, and their revenues 
 do not amount to the sum of 2000 Scots yearly, 
 distributing the possessions thus : 500 marks to 
 the dean, 240 marks to the subdean, to one canon 
 100, to seven canons 100 marks each, to the other 
 eight canons 20 each, with suitable daily distribu- 
 tions, to the six boys 90 marks, and reserving from 
 the fruits of the curates of the united benefices a suit- 
 able portion for the perpetual vicars, from Kyrkan- 
 drews 24 marks, with residence to each parish church. 
 Besides, they assigned a portion from the prevents of 
 the canonries and prebends of Pyncarton, first as the 
 presbyters or their removeable clerks who have served 
 in these four canonries or prebends have been accus- 
 tomed to receive ; also to each of these four, one 
 mark Scots for the presbyters or clerks who may 
 serve in the churches or benefices without cure ;
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXV 
 
 imparting to the king the power of publishing statutes 
 for the direction of the church, and to the dean 
 the right of presenting persons to the subdeanery ; 
 granting to the dean, or in his absence to the subdean, 
 the oblations and casual revenues. The instrument 
 was subscribed by notaries public, and sealed with the 
 seals of the judges and with the great seal. The pre- 
 sentation of the Papal Mandate was made by the 
 king to the judges at the Palace of Falkland on the 
 1st September, and the other acts of erection and 
 publication at the castle of Stirling on the 6th 
 September 1501, in presence of Andrew,* Abbot of 
 Lindores, and other witnesses. 
 
 In the Register next in chronological order is a 
 mandate by Pope Alexander VI., dated 19th March 
 1501-2, addressed to the Abbot of Holyrood and the 
 Archdeacon of Lothian, whereby, in accordance with 
 the bull of Paul II., he empowers these delegates to 
 take account of the possessions and goods assigned 
 by the king to his Chapel Royal, as set forth in the 
 royal petitions. Among these are named the rents of 
 Kyntore and Lochaber to the annual value of 70 
 sterling ; also other churches in the king's patronage 
 which should yield a revenue of 80 sterling. Should 
 they find the proposed exchange and union to be to 
 the evident advantage of the collegiate church, they 
 
 * Andrew Caveris, Abbot of Lindores, was appointed Master of Work, 
 at Stirling, 26th January 1496-7, receiving on his entry ;i payment of 
 ,106, 13s. 4d. (Lindores Abbey, by Alexander Laing, LL.D., Edinb. 1876, 
 4to, 528).
 
 X X X VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 were to give licence to the dean and chapter to receive 
 other immovable goods, if the king should desire to 
 assign such, in place of the foresaid possessions and 
 goods, or to unite other churches to the value of 80 
 yearly, with the king's assent; providing also that 
 through this union the several churches should not 
 be deprived of their obsequies, or the cure of souls 
 be neglected. 
 
 No. II. of the Register is a rescript of Pope Alex- 
 ander, dated 16th April 1502, in which the erection of 
 the Chapel Royal as a collegiate church is confirmed, 
 it being provided that the cantor should have pre- 
 cedence of the sacristan, and enjoy a stipend of 100 
 Scots. By a further rescript of the same date (No. 10), 
 it is set forth that the revenues of the church of Ayr, 
 in the diocese of Glasgow, were of the value of 80 
 yearly ; of Kincardyne, in the diocese of Aberdeen, 
 100; of Crieff, in the diocese of Dunkeld, 50; 
 and of Petty Bracklyn and Duchell, in the diocese of 
 Moray, 40 each; and that these were reserved for 
 the new canonries and prebends, 50 for Glasgow, 
 50 for Aberdeen, and 30 marks Scots for each of 
 those of Dunkeld and Moray, the residue to be ap- 
 plied to the collegiate church. 
 
 No. III. is a letter of conservation, dated St Peter's, 
 16th April 1502 ; it is addressed to the abbots of Holy- 
 rood, Cambuskenneth, and Paisley, on behalf of the 
 dean and others serving the Chapel Royal. In the letter 
 it is set forth that whereas the dean and subdean
 
 INTKODUCTION. XXXvii 
 
 had shown that archbishops and other ecclesiastics, 
 also members of the laity, might detain their goods 
 and other possessions, or abet those who detained 
 them, or might inflict injuries on them, and that it 
 would be difficult to have recourse to the Apostolic 
 See in every quarrel ; therefore the Pope commanded 
 the abbots, or two or one of them, personally or by 
 others even should they be without the district in 
 which the abbots are deputed conservators and 
 judges not to permit the petitioners in any of their 
 rights to be molested, but with the Papal authority 
 to exercise ecclesiastical censure, and invoke the 
 secular arm if need be, so that they may not be sum- 
 moned to trial out of the place of their church under 
 pretext of any other conservatories, but may be held 
 to answer in presence of the said abbots or their 
 deputies. Moreover, if the places for citation of 
 molesters be not safe, the judges are to affix citations 
 where it is likely they may come to the notice of those 
 cited, notwithstanding the constitution of Pope Bene- 
 dict VI. and other Popes as to judges, delegates, and 
 conservators, not to be summoned to judgment, or in 
 other edicts which might interfere with the jurisdic- 
 tion of the abbots in this matter, and notwithstanding 
 any privileges granted to churches, monasteries, and 
 orders, even the Cluniac and Cistercian. Further, the 
 Pope decreed that none of the conservators might be 
 hindered by any canonical impediment in the prose- 
 cution of any thing, even should another have com- 
 manded it.
 
 XXXVlil INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A Papal mandate, dated 16th April 1502, and ad- 
 dressed to the abbots of Cambuskenneth and Paisley 
 and to the archdeacon of St Andrews, sets forth that 
 to the Chapel Royal had been appropriated the resi- 
 due fruits of the churches of Ayr, Kincardine, and 
 Crieff ; also of Petty Bracklyn and Duchal. In this 
 mandate the delegates are enjoined to publish the 
 Papal letters when and as frequently as might be 
 needful. They are instructed to aid the dean and 
 other members of the collegiate church in enjoying 
 quiet possession of their goods, and in the execution 
 of their duties are to inflict such ecclesiastical cen- 
 sures as should be needful. In the event of the bishops 
 of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dunkeld, or Moray interfer- 
 ing with the chapel or its officers, they are to invoke 
 the secular arm. 
 
 On the 13th March 1503, the endowments were 
 confirmed by Parliament in an act of the following 
 terms : 
 
 " The quhilk day our sourane lord with autorite of Parliament 
 ratifiis and apprevis the fundatione to infeftmentis maid to the 
 college of Striuiling callit his Chapell Eiale baith of Kirkis Pre- 
 bendis Chanonrijs and landis and the vnionis of the samyne efter 
 the forme of the fundacione writtis and euidentis maid theruppon 
 notwithstanding ony anexationis or vnione maid of the saidis 
 landis prebendis or kirkis of befor." * 
 
 The first dean of the collegiate church was James 
 Allardyce, Provost of Kirkheugh, formerly a member 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., ii. 240.
 
 INTKODUCTION. xxxix 
 
 of the royal household. Allardyce died soon after 
 entering upon office, when, on the king's request, the 
 connection between the church at St Andrews and 
 the Chapel Royal was dissolved. One of the king's 
 early associates was Sir David Beaton of Balfour, who 
 had become Treasurer of the kingdom. His younger 
 brother James was a churchman, and under royal 
 favour his promotion became easy. He was precentor 
 of Caithness* in the cathedral church of Dornoch in 
 October 1497, and from this office he advanced step 
 by step till he became Archbishop of St Andrews. 
 His nephew, David Beaton, was the celebrated car- 
 dinal. In the Register of the Chapel Royal, one of 
 James Beaton's preferments, hitherto unknown to 
 historians, has been recorded. On the 4th January 
 1503, he is described as Rector of Kirkinner, in Wig- 
 townshire, in which capacity he assented to his bene- 
 fice being transferred from the Priory of Whithorn to 
 the Chapel Royal. The instrument of transfer, No. 
 IV. of the Register, proceeds thus : " George, Bishop 
 of Whithorn, consequent on a petition by the prior 
 and chapter of the church at Whithorn, representing 
 that the parish church of Kyrkynnere, belonging to 
 them would, if united to the collegiate church of 
 Stirling, be of no little advantage to its dean and 
 chapter, especially as the king granted to the prior 
 and chapter of Whithorn the church of Kyrkandris, 
 and on the supplication in the said petition to the 
 
 * Bannatyne Club Miscellany, ii. 162.
 
 xl INTRODUCTION. 
 
 bishop to give his consent to the king's donation, and 
 to annex the church of Kyrkynner to the said col- 
 legiate church, the bishop cited Mr James Betoune, 
 rector of Kyrkynnere, and all others interested, to 
 appear at Whithorn to show cause, if any, why the 
 union should not take place ; whereupon the bishop, 
 sitting as judge, the prior and chapter, and Mr David 
 Abyrcrumby, subdean of Dunkeld, as procurator 
 for Mr James Betoune, rector of Kyrkynnere, ap- 
 peared, and asked the bishop's consent to the annexa- 
 tion ; arid the bishop having inspected the king's 
 charter, granted the foresaid church of Kyrkynnere 
 to the collegiate church of Stirling, conferring on the 
 prior and chapter of Whithorn the right to take pos- 
 session of the church of Kyrkandris ; providing also 
 that the said churches be not defrauded of the due 
 obsequies, and the cure of souls in them be noways 
 neglected ; and for the removal of all doubt the royal 
 charter is incorporated in full." This instrument is 
 dated at Edinburgh, 8th December 1503, and is sub- 
 scribed and sealed by the bishop and by the chapter 
 4th January 1503-4, and attested by notaries public. 
 
 No. VI. of the Register is a notarial instrument, 
 attesting that on the 9th December 1503, Mr James 
 Betoune, rector of Kyrkynnere, asserted that the 
 patronage of that church belonged to the prior and 
 convent of Whithorn, and constituted Masters David 
 Abircrommye, subdean of Dunkeld, Fergus Mak- 
 dowel, official of Whithorn, James Akynheide, and
 
 INTKODUCTION. xli 
 
 John Abircrommye, his procurators, to see and hear 
 the annexation of the said church by George, Bishop 
 of Whithorn, and in his name to give consent thereto. 
 This instrument was, at Mr James Betoune's request, 
 taken in the church of St Giles, Edinburgh. 
 
 No. VII. is a notarial instrument by Mr David Abir- 
 crummy, subdean of Dunkeld, as procurator for Mr 
 James Betoune, into the hand of Thomas Kyrkaldy, 
 notary public, of the resignation of the church of Kyrk- 
 ynnere ; taken in the lodging of Alexander Living- 
 stoune, in the burgh of Stirling, on the 12th January 
 1503. 
 
 The next instrument, No. VIII. , is a mandate by 
 Pope Julius II., whereby, in terms of the king's peti- 
 tion, desiring the appointment of a treasurer as the 
 fourth dignitary of the church, next to the cantor, 
 with ten canons and a like number of prebendaries, 
 together with similar portions to the other sixteen 
 prebendaries, the Pope commands the abbots of Dun- 
 fermline, Scone, and Cambuskenneth to institute 
 these offices accordingly, and which were to be in the 
 patronage of the king. The mandate is dated at St 
 Peter's, Rome, the 4th June 1504. 
 
 No. IX. is a confirmation by Pope Julius II., 
 whereby, on the petition of the king and the dean and 
 chapter of the church of the Blessed Mary and St 
 Michael, at Stirling, narrating the grant by the king 
 of the church of Kyrkandris to the prior and chapter 
 of Whithorn, and the annexation of the church of
 
 xlii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Kyrkynnere to the church at Stirling, and the posses- 
 sion thereof by the said church on the demission of 
 James Betoune, the rector, and that the said peti- 
 tioners stated that the revenues of the church of Kyrk- 
 ynner did not exceed 80 sterling ; he approves and 
 confirms the annexation of the church of Kyrkynner : 
 It is dated at Home, 4th June 1504. 
 
 To make room for Beaton's promotion as Prior of 
 Whithorn, and to prepare for his further advance- 
 ment, James IV. petitioned the Pope to revoke the 
 act whereby the collegiate church was united with 
 the Provostry of Kirkheugh. Accordingly Pope 
 Julius II., by rescript dated 3d July 1504 (No. XV.), 
 restricted the Provost of Kirkheugh to his former func- 
 tion, and conferred the office of dean on the bishop 
 of Whithorn. By the same instrument, subsequently 
 confirmed (No. XVII.), the Pope united to the 
 deanery the bishopric of Whithorn, which was after- 
 wards styled the bishopric of Galloway. George 
 Vans, Prior of Whithorn, was appointed to the con- 
 joined office, while Beaton attained the place of prior. 
 The union of the Chapel Royal with the see of Gal- 
 loway would have subjected the royal family to epis- 
 copal jurisdiction, but this contingency was averted 
 by a Papal rescript, No. XIV. of the series. In that 
 rescript, dated 3d July 1504, Julius exempts the mem- 
 bers of the king's household from the jurisdiction 
 of bishops, archbishops, and other ordinaries. He 
 further provides that the abbots of Dunfermline and
 
 INTRODUCTION. xliii 
 
 Cambuskenneth and the Provost of the church of 
 Fesulan,* should uphold the cause of the exempted. 
 
 No. V. is a Papal rescript of the 4th June 1504, in 
 which the canonries and prebends of D unbar, Bal- 
 maclellan, the Forest, Buyth, and Ellam (Ellem), 
 also the prebend of Crieff, are annexed to the colle- 
 giate church. 
 
 In 1508 Beaton was appointed bishop of Whithorn 
 and dean of the Chapel Royal. A mandate of Pope 
 Julius (No. XVI.), dated 8th September 1508, and ad- 
 dressed to the Archbishop of Siponto,t and the abbots 
 of Cambuskenneth and Lindores, incorporates a bull 
 providing tliat the bishop-elect should exercise ordi- 
 nary rights over the churches united to the Chapel 
 Royal, such as the rectors of these churches might 
 have exercised had those churches not been united 
 with that institution. The rectors were charged 
 
 * At Faslane, anciently Fassalane, at the head of the Gareloch, stood a 
 small chapel, dedicated to St Michael, of which the ruin remains ; in the 
 same vicinity were other three chapels. But the designation of " Provost 
 of the church of Fesulan " was more likely to be applied to the chief of a 
 monastery of canons regular, which, dedicated to the Virgin, is believed to 
 have constituted the religious establishment at Roseneath. 
 
 t Siponto is an archdiocese with one suffragan in the Neapolitan territory 
 of Italy; the modern name is Manfredonia. In 1506-11, the Archbishop of 
 Siponto was Antonio Maria dal Monte, an eminent jurist ; he was trans- 
 lated to the see at Padua, and was afterwards a cardinal ; his nephew was 
 Pope Julius III. He died in 1533 (Ughelli Italia Sacra, torn i., 1106, 
 vii., 859). How an Italian ecclesiastic should be introduced into a bull 
 relating to church arrangements in Scotland is not very obvious. As Pope 
 Julius II. despatched from Rome a special legate with a sword of state to 
 James IV. in 1507, the conjecture may be permitted that that legate was 
 the Archbishop of Siponto, who may have remained in Scotland up to the 
 date of Pope Julius's mandate of September 1508.
 
 xliv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 not to suffer the elect of Whithorn and of the Chapel 
 Royal to be molested against the tenor of these 
 letters. 
 
 James Beaton held his conjunct office for one year 
 only ; he was thereafter advanced to the archbishopric 
 of Glasgow. His successor was David Arnot, one 
 of the commissioners in erecting the Collegiate 
 Church, who in No. XVIII. of the Register is, in 
 reference to a document subscribed by him dated on 
 the 5th March 1511, described as " David, bishop of 
 Whithorn and of the Chapel Royal of Stirling." As 
 "bishop of Candida Casa and of the Chapel Royal 
 of Stirling," he appears as a witness on the 10th 
 October 1515, and again on the 7th February 1523.""" 
 
 No. XIII. of the Register is an inventory of vest- 
 ments, jewels, and books which belonged to the 
 institution. Translated it reads thus : 
 
 These are the ornaments, jewels, and volumes kept in the 
 collegiate church of the Blessed Mary and Saint Michael of 
 Stirling, on 4th November 1505, under care of a prudent man, 
 Mr David Trail, sacristan. 
 
 OF A BLACK COLOUK. 
 First, a chasuble,f a stole,]: a maniple with fringe, an 
 
 * Registrant Domus de Soltre, etc. ; Charters of Trinity College and other 
 Collegiate Churches in Midlothian. Bannatyne Club, 1861, pp. 289, 331. 
 
 f The chasuble was a mantle of colour and quality suited to the rank of 
 the wearer, usually bordered with gold. 
 
 J The stole, an embroidered scarf, was worn on the shoulders. 
 
 A narrow scarf, fringed at each end, the maniple was held in the hand, 
 or worn on the arm of the officiating priest.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xlv 
 
 alb,* and an amice-f- of satin of black colour, having a fold of black 
 buckrum; and this chasuble has embroidery of black velvet: 
 Item, three copes, J also of black velvet new and valuable, bear- 
 ing the arms of our lord the King ; one of which is sewed with 
 threads of gold after the manner of glistering stars : Also a 
 chasuble and two tunics of black velvet, sewed with golden 
 threads ; two stoles, three maniples with fringes for three albs 
 and three amices of the same colour and texture : Also a peri- 
 diculum of black velvet, sewed with golden threads in the 
 manner of glistering stars, intended for the high altar, and which 
 has a fold of blue buckram :|| Also one narrow and long cloth 
 of black velvet, upon which are sewed with threads of gold these 
 words "His mercy is over all His works;" it has a fold of blue 
 buckram : Also one cope of black damask, having the embroidery 
 of velvet somewhat red : Likewise a chasuble of black damask, 
 having embroidery of reddish velvet : Also a pendiculum of 
 black damask for the high altar : Also a small and short old 
 cope of silk, of black and red colour mixed, but rather more 
 black than red: Also a chasuble, three stoles, three maniples 
 with the fringe for three albs and three amices of black camelot,H 
 with fold of buckram of the same colour. This chasuble was a 
 fringe of black damask with certain red lines. 
 
 OF BLUE COLOUR. 
 
 First, two copes of blue or sky coloured damask, with golden 
 threads sewed like the rays of the sun ; these are large and pre- 
 cious, having their hoods and the embroidery of precious cloth 
 
 * Made of fine linen, the alb was fitted closely to the body and worn with 
 tight sleeves. 
 
 t A linen garment in the form of an oblong square, the amice was ori- 
 ginally worn as a hood ; it was latterly suspended from the shoulders. 
 
 I A sleeveless garment which surrounded the body, the cope was fur- 
 nished with a hood and by a clasp fastened across the breast. 
 
 A small hanging. 
 
 || True cotton stuff, considered precious. 
 
 IT Camlet, a fabric originally composed of camel's hair, was afterwards 
 made of silk.
 
 xlvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of gold, and they have a linen cloth for preserving them : Also 
 a chasuble, two tunics,* one stole, three maniples, with the 
 fringe for three albs and one amice of damask, of the same 
 colour, quality, and texture with the two copes immediately 
 before named. These two tunics have the embroidery of precious 
 cloth of gold. With these tunics are kept one stole and the 
 fringe for one amice of gold, very precious. 
 
 Also one pendicule for the high altar, of blue damask sewed 
 with golden threads like the rays of the sun, bearing a very 
 beautiful salutation of Our Lady : Also one other pendicule for 
 the high altar, of damask of the same colour and goodness with 
 the pendicule immediately preceding, bearing a most excellent 
 image of God the Father, and of Our Lady, and the images of 
 certain angels. This pendicule has in it many pearls for its 
 adornment ; and these two pendicules have a linen cloth for 
 their preservation : Also two smaller pendicules, of sky or blue 
 coloured velvet, joined together with golden threads, one of them 
 bearing an image of the Holy Trinity wrought in gold : Also 
 one chasuble, two tunics, two stoles, three maniples, and with 
 fringe, and three albs and three amices of velvet of blue colour, 
 and having embroidery of cloth of gold : Also two pendicules 
 for the high altar of blue taffety, one of which bears in the 
 middle of it an image of the crucifix sewed with golden threads, 
 and these two pendicules have a fold of white fustian. 
 
 OF EED COLOUR. 
 
 Two copes of precious cloth of gold, having hoods and em- 
 broidery also of cloth of gold, of red colour. These have a linen 
 cloth for their preservation, and are the best copes in the church, 
 and of great price : Also two copes of cloth of gold and red 
 velvet, having a linen cloth for keeping them : Also two copes 
 of cloth of gold and velvet mixed, with embroidery of cloth of 
 gold, and fringes of silk threads round about them, with linen 
 cloth for keeping them : Also two copes, one chasuble, two 
 tunics, one stole, one maniple with fringe for one alb and one 
 amice of red satin, wrought with threads of gold like the 
 
 * Linen dresses, with tight bleeves, worn by the subdeacons.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xlvii 
 
 branches of trees. These two copes have linen cloth for their 
 preservation : Also one precious cloth of gold of red colour or- 
 dained for the honour of the Eucharist when it is carried with- 
 out the church, having a linen cloth for its preservation : Also 
 four wooden staves of red colour for bearing aloft the said cloth 
 upon the Eucharist : Also one small valuable frontlet of cloth 
 of gold, and with golden threads hanging down, bearing the arms 
 of the king and divers other arms, and certain images of saints, 
 and which has upon it many pearls for its decoration : Also 
 one cope of red velvet, with embroidery of black velvet : Also 
 one cope of red satin cramasy, with embroidery of green damask : 
 Also one chasuble of red satin cramasy, with fringe of green 
 satin : Also a silken casket of square form, red without and 
 white within, for keeping the communion cloths. Therein is 
 included one cassock for the chalice, under a square figure of 
 gold, sewed together, and richly wrought with many pearls : 
 Also one new chasuble, one stole, one maniple with fringe for 
 one alb and one amice of precious red cloth of gold, richly 
 sewed and wrought, having a fold of blue satin. This chasuble 
 has embroidery of cloth of gold sewed with golden threads, and 
 is of great price : Also an old embroidery of cloth of gold suit- 
 able for a cope : Also another old embroidery of cloth of gold, 
 for a cope ; and these two embroidered cloths are of red colour : 
 Also one old frontlet of silk of divers colours, bearing various 
 arms wrought thereupon, and of moderate value. 
 
 OF WHITISH OR DUN COLOUR. 
 
 One chasuble, two tunics, two stoles, three maniples with 
 fringe for three albs and three amices of damask of dun colour, 
 having embroidery of cloth of gold : Also two old silk cloths, 
 wrought with golden threads of dun colour : Also one small 
 old silk cloth wrought with golden threads of dun colour : Also 
 one old velvet cloth of dun colour, intended, as appears, for the 
 pulpit. 
 
 OF GREEN COLOUR. 
 
 One old chasuble, one stole, one maniple bearing the arms of 
 the king and queen, which came from Dacia, of green damask,
 
 xlviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and with fringe for one alb and one amice of the same colour 
 and texture: Also one cloth of verdour of divers colours, but 
 chiefly green : Also two cloths of burd Alexander,* having a 
 fold of linen cloth for covering both : Also one chasuble, with 
 the arms of the king, two tunics, two stoles, three maniples with 
 fringe for three albs and three amices of green damask : Also 
 one chasuble bearing the king's arms, one stole, one maniple 
 with fringe for one of green damask ; this chasuble has em- 
 broidery of black velvet. 
 
 OF WHITE COLOUR. 
 
 Two copes of white cloth of gold, having linen cloth for their 
 preservation. One cope of white damask, sewed with golden 
 threads like the shining sun, and the embroidery of cloth of 
 gold. 
 
 Two chasubles, two stoles, two maniples with fringe for two 
 albs and two amices of white damask, these chasubles having 
 embroidery of black velvet. One chasuble, two tunics, two 
 stoles three maniples with fringe for three albs and three 
 amices of white damask, having embroidery of cloth of gold, and 
 fold of red buckram ; they are new and precious ; and the said 
 tunics have silken cords hanging behind, and bearing the arms 
 of the king before, and of the king and queen, daughter of the 
 King of England, commingled behind. 
 
 OF PURPLE COLOUR. 
 
 Two chasubles of purple velvet, with embroidery of cloth of 
 gold, two stoles, two maniples, and with fringe for two albs and 
 two amices of the same colour and texture. 
 
 Also two brass candlesticks, somewhat large; eight pewter 
 phials ; one small bell hanging before the church door ; three 
 large bells which came from the city of London, having been 
 bought there by the king, founder of the church. One beautiful 
 complete horecudium,-f- made by Sir James Pettygrew. Two 
 
 * Striped silk cloth brought from Alexandria. 
 
 t Or horetudium, supposed to be a striking clock or timepiece.
 
 INTKODUCTION. xlix 
 
 flaccots * of pewter, a pewter cross, gilt, bearing the image of the 
 crucifix. Three small bells ; a wooden cross of red colour, hav- 
 ing a long staff. A long stick for carrying the image of the 
 crucifix without the church. Two large desks of wood, standing 
 in the choir. Three pairs of organs/f of which one is of wood 
 and the other two of pewter or lead. Three servicalia, J to be 
 placed under the missals on the altar. A table with three leaves, 
 whereon are depicted an image of Our Lady carrying her Son 
 in her arms, with two angels carrying musical instruments. A 
 table on which is written " Pridie, etc." A large chest closed 
 with two locks, for keeping the ornaments of the church. The 
 Judas bells and the traitor, for the work of darkness on the 
 week of our Lord's passion. A leather box, suitable for keeping 
 the evidences of the church. Moreover, they have in painting 
 many arms of the king and queen for celebrating ceremonies ; 
 one having three leaves on which are painted, under glass, an 
 image of the' crucifix, and four saints also under glass on the 
 sides. A tabula, || bearing the form of the countenance of our 
 Saviour, is called the vernakill: Also a tabula, on which is 
 painted an image of Our Lady : Also a casket of pewter for the 
 chrism. 
 
 CONCERNING THE JEWELS. 
 
 A large casket of silver for carrying the Eucharist; and a 
 jewel of great weight and sumptuously wrought, and bearing on 
 
 * A flask or flagon, a narrow-necked vessel used for holding sacramental 
 wine. 
 
 f A large organ was erected in Canterbury Cathedral so early as the 
 twelfth century, and such were common in the abbey churches of England 
 a century prior to the Reformation. The three pairs of organs of the Chapel 
 Royal were evidently a species of regals intended to be carried about by the 
 choristers. 
 
 J Cushions. 
 
 The Judas bells and an image of the traitor are not included in any 
 other ecclesiastical inventory which has come under our notice. 
 
 || The tabula was an instrument made of bone which the precentor held 
 in his hand during service ; it was occasionally ornamented with gold or 
 silver.
 
 1 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the top of it an image of the crucifix ; two silver vials gilt about 
 the top ; three silver candlesticks of notable weight ; a censor 
 with nave and spoon, of silver, for incense. The teistyr,* of 
 silver gilt, bearing the image of the crucifix, and of Our Lady, 
 and John the Evangelist ; it has also many gems of various 
 colours set in it, and is a notable jewel. One jewel of silver 
 gilt has a belfry on the top of it, in which is placed a particle or 
 portion of the wood of the holy cross ; and this jewel is adorned 
 with many pearls, and there are inclosed therein, as is verily 
 believed, many relics of the saints. One small jewel of silver 
 gilt, having the image of the crucifix on the top, stretched some- 
 what upward. A ring of pure gold having the likeness of the 
 head of John the Baptist. Also four chalices and four pots of 
 silver gilt, and of considerable weight. One small casket of 
 silver gilt, of a round form, for keeping the Eucharist. One 
 large and precious jewel of pure gold, bearing the image of Our 
 Lady carrying her Son dead upon her knees, and divers other 
 images. This jewel has on its top an image of the crucifix, and 
 is wrought with great skill ; it also bears many gems and divers 
 pearls, and for preservation is enclosed in a leathern case. Three 
 small candlesticks of silver gilt, bearing the arms of the King of 
 England, were brought to Scotland with our queen, who is 
 daughter of the King of England. 
 
 OF THE VOLUMES.f 
 
 Two missals on paper, printed in letters. Two missals on 
 parchment, printed. One old missal on parchment, written with 
 the pen. Book of the Gospels written on parchment. Book of 
 the Epistles written on parchment. Two old psalters written 
 on parchment. Four large music books written on parchment, 
 
 * A small ornament with a canopy. 
 
 f This inventory is dated 4th November 1505, being eighteen months 
 before Walter Chepman, in 1507, under the special sanction of the Privy 
 Council, introduced into Scotland the art of printing. Prior to the operation 
 of Chepman's press Scottish monastic libraries consisted of breviaries, 
 missals and matin books, psalters, and copies of the Gospels and 
 Epistles.
 
 INTRODUCTION. li 
 
 having divers capital letters gilt.* Two large breviaries printed 
 on parchment. One large breviary printed on paper, many of 
 the leaves torn. Two volumes in parchment, with notes of 
 counterpoint. Two legends written on parchment, one of which 
 concerns temporal things, the other relating to the saints. Ten 
 processionals, -f written on parchment, and annotated. Three 
 Gradalia, J written on parchment, and the large gradale, written 
 on parchment, given to the king by the deceased abbot of St 
 Colme. A large breviary, printed on paper. A small breviary, 
 printed on paper. A volume called " Ordinary in usum Sarum," 
 written on parchment. A small missal printed on paper. The 
 vail of the temple divided into two parts, for Quadragesima. 
 Also seven small linen cloths, adorned with crosses, and ordained 
 to cover the images of the saints in the time of Quadragesima, etc. 
 
 From Gavin Douglas's " Palice of Honour," com- 
 posed prior to 1509, it would appear that the instru- 
 ments of music then in use did not materially differ 
 from those enumerated in the " Howlat." 
 
 " In modulatioun hard I play and sing 
 Faburdoun, priksang, discant, countering, 
 Cant organe, figuratioun, and gemmell ; 
 On croud, lute, harp, with mony gudlie spring ; 
 Schalmes, clariounes, portatiues, hard I ring, 
 Monycord, organe, tympane, and cymbell, 
 Sytholl, psalterie, and voices sweet as bell. 
 
 * These letters were, no doubt, illuminated by Sir Thomas Galbraith, a 
 priest descended from a powerful family in the Lennox, who, under James 
 IV., was connected artistically with the Chapel Royal. In the Treasurer's 
 Accounts " Schir Thomas Galbrecht " is named, in 1491, along with " Jok 
 Goldsmythand Craford " as receiving each three unicorns, " for the singyn 
 of a ballad to the king in the mornyng." Sir George Galbraith, probably 
 a brother of Sir Thomas, was Royal Master of Works at Dumbarton. 
 
 t Books containing parts of the service relating to processions. 
 
 J The Graduals were books containing portions of the service of the 
 Mass. 
 
 The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, edited by John Small, Edinb. 
 1874, 8vo, i. 20.
 
 lii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 During the reign of James III. those musical per- 
 formers who received royal gratuities were chiefly 
 Flemings. But James IV. encouraged and recom- 
 pensed minstrels from Italy, tabroners from France, 
 and harpers, pipers, and trumpeters from England. 
 On the 1st January 1507, there appears in the Trea- 
 surer's Accounts a payment of ten pounds eleven 
 shillings as made to sixty-three persons, who included 
 " menstralis, trumpetis, tambroneris, fithelaris, lutaris, 
 harperis, clarscharis, and piparis." Italian min- 
 strels were regarded with especial favour. In Sep- 
 tember 1503, four Italian minstrels received six 
 shillings to "fie [hire] thaime hors to Linlithgow, 
 and to red [clear] them of the toun." 
 
 In August 1515, Bestians (Sebastian) Drummonth 
 had a donative of ten pounds to aid his expenses in 
 visiting his friends in Italy. 
 
 Vocalists were also employed and recompensed. 
 In August 1504, "tua Inglise wemen that sang in 
 the king's pailzeoune [pavilion]" received twenty-three 
 shillings. "The crukit [lame] vicar of Dumfriess, 
 who sang to the king at Lochmaben," had, in Sep- 
 tember 1506, a gratuity of fourteen shillings. The 
 two following entries belong to the year 1508 : 
 
 'Feb. 16. Item, to Wantonnes that the king fechit and gert 
 
 her sing in the quenis chamer, . . . xiij s. 
 
 Mar. 6. Item, to Wantones and her tua marrowes that sang 
 
 with her, ...... xiij s." 
 
 On the 12th September 1512, Nicholas Abernethy,
 
 INTRODUCTION. liii 
 
 the king's " sangster," received from the Treasurer a 
 payment of twenty pounds. * 
 
 In acquiring a knowledge of their art, young musi- 
 cians were aided at the public expense. In the 
 Treasurer's Accounts, under the 27th March 1512, is 
 the following entry : 
 
 " Item, to foure scolaris, menstrallis, be the kingis command, to 
 by thame instrumentis in Flandris vij 11 gret, answerand in 
 Scottis money to xxi li. and help thair expensis and fraucht 
 Lvjs. And therefter, becaus thai plenyeit thai gat our litill 
 expens and fraught deliverit uther Lvj, xxxvj li. xij s." 
 
 To "the chanoun of Halyrudhous" (canon of Holy- 
 rood) were paid in 1506 seven pounds for repairing 
 "the organis in Strivelin." In 1511 "Gilleam," 
 described as " organist makar of the kingis," was 
 given 
 
 " For expensis maid be him on the said organis in gait skynnis 
 and parchment for the bellis [bellows], in nailles and sprentis 
 of irne, in glew, papir, candill, coill, &c., viij h . iijs." 
 
 In supporting and encouraging musical studies, 
 James V., who commenced his reign in 1513, was 
 equally ardent as his royal predecessors. He per- 
 formed on the lute. For lutes purchased for 
 his use, William Galbraith received forty and fifty 
 shillings, and for a lute procured for him in 1540, 
 John Barbour was paid a like sum. 
 
 In his Complaynt of the Papyngo, composed about 
 
 .* Treasurer's Accounts. 
 d
 
 liv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the year 1512, Sir David Lyndsay thus refers to Stir- 
 ling and its Chapel Royal : 
 
 Adieu, fair Snawdoun ! with thy touris hie, 
 The Chapell Royall, park, and tabyll rounde ! 
 
 May, June, and July walde I dwell in thee, 
 War I ane man to heir the hirdis sounde, 
 
 Quhilk doith agane thy royall roche redounde.* 
 
 Among the preferments of the celebrated John 
 Mair or Major were the offices of canon and treasurer 
 of the Chapel Royal. In the records of the Univer- 
 sity of Glasgow f he in 1518 is described thus : 
 Egregius vir magister Johannes Major doctor Parisien- 
 sis ac principalis regens collegii et pedagogii dicte uni- 
 versitatis canonicusque capelle regis ac vicarus de 
 Dunlop. In the same register he is in 1522 desig- 
 nated Theologie professor, t/iesaurarius capelle regie 
 Strivilingensis, etc. 
 
 Quoting Richardinus (Exegesis in can. S. Augustini, 
 fol. 87), Father Hay describes Alexander Paterson, 
 sacristan of the Chapel Royal, as joint-author with the 
 abbot of Inchcolm of a work "For Singing the Mass." 
 The words quoted by him are, Et illius etiam venera- 
 bilis viri Alexandra Pater sonen Sacrarii Regalis Col- 
 legii Stirlingen, Quae non minus devotionem accendunt 
 quam bonam delectationem"\ 
 
 * Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay. Dr Laing's edit. Edinb. 1871, 
 12mo. i., 86. 
 
 t Ann. Univ. Glasg. Records, No. i. 
 
 % Ane Account of the most renowned Churches, Bishopricks, Monastries, 
 and other Devote Places, from the first introducing of Christianity into Scot- 
 land, etc. Written by Mr Richard Augustine Hay, Cannon Regular of St 
 Genof s of Paris, Prior of St Pierremont, etc., 1700, tome i., p. 234.
 
 INTRODUCTION. lv 
 
 In his " History of the Reformation," Knox refers 
 to oppressive measures adopted against one of the 
 musicians of the Chapel Royal, who had been sus- 
 pected of heresy. We quote the Reformer's words : 
 " Richart Carmichaell, yet leving in Fyfe, who being 
 young, and ane singar in the Chapell Royal of Stri- 
 veling, happened in his sleepe to say, ' The devill tak 
 away the preastis, for thei ar a gready pack.' Hie, 
 thairfor, accused be Sir George Clapperton, Deane of 
 the said Chapell, was compelled tharefore to burne 
 his bill." The date of Carmichael's prosecution is 
 not given, but according to the chronological arrange- 
 ment of Knox's work, it must have occurred between 
 the years 1530 and 1536.* There was passed under 
 the Privy Seal, 25th March 1539, " ane letter maid to 
 Richard Carmichaell, remittand to him his eschete 
 gudis pertenying to our Soverane throw being of the 
 said Richard abjurit of heresy." 
 
 In annotating Knox's History, Dr David Laing has 
 shown that Clapperton was subdean only. He first 
 appears in the Treasurer's Accounts as " Maister 
 Elimosinar to the Kingis grace ; " he was afterwards 
 Provost of Trinity College, near Edinburgh. t By an 
 instrument, dated at Edinburgh, 22d March 1546-47, 
 he was as subdean of the Chapel Royal of Stirling 
 named as one of the judges delegated by letters of 
 Antony, grand penitentiary of the Pope, in a process 
 
 * Knox's History of the Reformation. Dr Laing's edit. Edirib. 1846, i. 45. 
 t Reg. Mag. Sig., vol. xiv.
 
 Ivi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ratifying the gift of lands to the abbey of Kilwinning.* 
 Subsequent to the Reformation he continued, though 
 John Duncanson acted as minister, to be styled sub- 
 dean of the Chapel Royal, and received two-thirds of 
 the benefice. As vicar he was, on the 14th Septem- 
 ber 1562, granted a life-rent of the teinds of Kirkin- 
 ner.t He died in April 1574, and in his testament, 
 written at Stirling in his " awn dwelling-house " on 
 the 5th of that month, he names Mr Robert Pont, 
 Provost of Trinity College, to act as oversman and 
 one of his assignees a circumstance which, as Dr 
 Laing remarks, would induce the belief that he had 
 embraced the Reformed doctrines. J 
 
 No. XVIII. of the Register continues the clerical 
 history of the institution. In an instrument dated 
 1st December 1537, Henry (Wemyss), "bishop of 
 Whithorn and of the Chapel Royal," along with the 
 members of the Chapter, ordain 
 
 '' Sir John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel and scribe of the 
 Register, to inscribe in the books a notarial instrument, under 
 the hand of J. Prymrois, taken in the Chapel Royal, near the 
 town of Edinburgh, 5th March 1511, certifying that Sir John 
 Broune, perpetual vicar pensioner of the parish church of Creyf, 
 had compeared in the presence of Mr David Abbercrummy, 
 principal official of Whithorn and of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, 
 subdean of the said Chapel Royal, on the one part, and Sirs Win. 
 Sterheid and John Goldsmyth, canons of the Chapel Royal and 
 
 * Eighth Keport of Historical MS. Commissioners' Report. Part i., p. 
 309. 
 
 f Analecta Scotica, i. 2. 
 J Register of Confirmed Testaments, 21st Sept. 1574.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ivii 
 
 prebendaries of the same church, on the other part ; that in sup- 
 port of his claim for the augmentation of his yearly pension as 
 being too meagre for his support, Sir John Broune produced 
 two writings, one subscribed by James IV., dated at Edinburgh, 
 25th September, the other subscribed by David, bishop of Whit- 
 horn and of the Chapel Eoyal of Stirling, and dated at Edin- 
 burgh, 5th March 1511, whereupon the said vicar demanded 
 augmentation of his pension; and that on consideration the 
 judge ordained that the said vicar should have yearly from the 
 fruits of Creyf 24 marks Scots, and two acres of arable land 
 adjoining the said church from the town of For (?), a garden, 
 houses, pasture, and fuel, paying yearly to the bishop the pro- 
 curations due and wont, synodal fees, and the ordinary expenses 
 to the dean," etc. 
 
 Bishop Henry Wemyss is in certain chartularies 
 designated "fratre regis " and " fratre natural! regis." 
 He was an illegitimate son of James IV. by a daughter 
 of the House of Wemyss.* He appears in March 
 1540 as still holding office as bishop of Candida Casa 
 and of the Chapel Royal. t In his conjunct offices he 
 was succeeded by Andrew Durie, abbot of Melrose, 
 who died in 1558.+ 
 
 .On the 8th January 1548-49 William Hamilton, 
 archdeacon of the Chapel Royal, and official general 
 of Glasgow, granted a decree for transuming the deed 
 of foundation of the collegiate church of Glasgow. 
 
 John Carswell, a pious and learned churchman, 
 latterly Bishop of the Isles, was sometime prebend of 
 
 * Russel's Keith's Scottish Bishops. Edinb. 1824, p. 278. 
 t Liber Col. Nost. Dom. de Glasg., p. 222. 
 
 * Russel's Keith's Scottish Bishops, p. 278. 
 Liber CoL Noet. Dom. de Glaeg., p. 3.
 
 Iviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the Chapel Royal. In the disbursements by Collec- 
 tors of Thirds of Benefices, the sum of 26, 13s. 4d. 
 appears to have been paid him as prebend.* Origi- 
 nally a brother of the abbey of Icolmkill, Carswell 
 was in 1558 appointed to the parishes of South wick 
 and Kingarth by Clapperton, subdean of the Chapel 
 Royal. At the Reformation he embraced the Pro- 
 testant doctrines, and was appointed Superintendent 
 of Argyle ; he was in 1566 promoted as Bishop of the 
 Isles. Bishop Carswell died in 1572 at an advanced 
 age.t 
 
 James Paterson, sacristan of the Chapel Royal, and 
 rector and vicar of Kirkinner and Kirkcowan, was 
 probably a relative of Alexander Paterson, the former 
 sacristan. In the charter-chest of the Earl of Selkirk 
 at St Mary's Isle* is preserved a charter by James 
 Paterson, in which as sacristan of the Chapel Royal 
 and rector of half the rectory and vicarage of Kirk- 
 inner and Kirkcowan, he grants to Roger Gordon, 
 son of the late William Gordon of Cracklaw, half of 
 the two mark-lands of the kirklands of Kirkcowan and 
 Kirkinner of old extent, with the manse, buildings, and 
 garden, situated near the parish church of Kirkinner, 
 upon the glebe thereof, it being provided that the 
 same shall be " prompta et parata ad recipiendum me 
 et meos servitores quoties et quando mihi visum fuerit 
 
 * Russel's Keith's Scottish Bishops, p. 307. 
 
 t Fasti. Eccl. Scot, iii., 11, 445, 447. 
 
 J Fourth Report of Historical MS. Com. Part, i., p. 517.
 
 INTRODUCTION. lix 
 
 ibidem, vel in lye clachane, sumptibus et expensis 
 meis permanere, ac etiam cum officio ballivatus predic- 
 tarum terrarum cum curiis exitibus," etc. This char- 
 ter is dated at Kirkinner on the 3d November 1547 ; 
 it is countersigned by " Alexander [Gordon], Bishop 
 of Whithorn," who in 1558 attained the episcopate, 
 and had probably thereafter attached his name to the 
 charter to complete its validity. 
 
 Queen Mary commenced her personal reign in 
 Scotland in August 1561, and on the llth January 
 following James Paterson, sacristan of the Chapel 
 Royal, handed to Servais de Conde, one of the Queen's 
 valets, an inventory of vestments and ornaments be- 
 longing to the institution. This inventory, of which 
 the original is preserved at Craufurdland Castle, is in 
 these terms : 
 
 " The Inventor of the Querns Grace Chapell Royale geir and 
 ornamentis now heir in the Paleiss of Halyruidhous deliverit be 
 Schir James Paterson, sacristane, at the Quenis command to 
 Serues de Conde,* Frencheman and varloit of Oure Souverein 
 Ladeis chalmer, be Maister Archibald Craufurd, her [Gracis] 
 Maister Almoner, to be keipit in the Wardrop of Edinburgh. 
 " Imprimis, twa blew damaiss capis stripit with gold. 
 " Item, tua reid welwouss [capis] champit with gold. 
 " Item, ane fyne caipe of claith of gold on blew weluouss feild. 
 " Item, thrie black weluouss caipis for the mort, ane of them 
 
 st[ern]it with gold, 
 "Item, tua tunikillis with ane chesabill of blak weluouss for 
 
 * On the 20th January 1564-5 " Servais de Condez, Verlat of her hienes 
 chalmer," was appointed to the keeping of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. 
 George Chalmers' MSS. ; Laing's MSS., University of Edinburgh.
 
 Ix INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the mort stand, with thrie albis, amittis, stolis and fannonis, 
 and purse. 
 
 " Item, tua auld alter towallis. 
 " Item, ane frontole and ane pendikill of blak weluouss st[ern]it 
 
 with gold. 
 " Item, four tunikillis, twa chesabillis of fyne clayth of gold, 
 
 with thrie albis, stolis, fannonis, amittis, and purse. 
 " Item, ane Mess Buik of parchment, with ane nottit Anti- 
 
 phonale of parchment. 
 " Item, ane coffer, with lok and key, within the quhilk thair is 
 
 part of this forsaid garniture. 
 
 " Item, ane pendakill of silk, ane frontoll of gold and purpour 
 velvat. 
 
 " All this geyr receivit be me, Seruais, varlot of chalmer to 
 our Souerane, at hyr command, the eleuint daye of 
 Janver, anno 1561, befor me David Lamerol. 
 
 " S. DE CONDEZ, vallet de charnbre de la Koyne. 
 "A Lillebour, ll me Janvier 1561." 
 
 The Inventory was rendered into English and 
 French. The English translation proceeds : 
 
 " Memorandum of the ornamentis of the Kirk quhilk I ressauit 
 fra the Repair of the Chapel of Striueling 1562. 
 " First, twa auld caippis of blew dames droppit with floure 
 
 delice of gold, with the foirbrestis maid in histories. 
 " Alsua, ane cover of the alter, with the vnderpand, all of fresit 
 
 claith of gold with blew, and diuidit equalis in bredis of 
 
 claith of gold ligurit with reid, freinyeit with silk of the same 
 
 cullour. 
 " Mair, twa auld caippis of reid veluot, figurit with flouris of 
 
 gold, furnisit the foirbreistis with counterfeit gold. 
 " Mair, twa tvnicles, ane chasuble, and a caip, all of claith of 
 
 gold, figurit with blew veluot, the foirbreistis of broderie 
 
 work of gold and silk. 
 " Mair, twa tvnicles, thre caippis, ane chasuble, with the cover 
 
 of ane alter and the vnderpand all of blak veluot droppit with 
 
 stands of gold. The foirbreistis of thame of reid veluot en- 
 
 richit with the armes of Scotland and histories.
 
 INTRODUCTION. l x f 
 
 " M"air, ane chasuable and twa tvnaeles of claith of gold, pyrnit 
 with blak, furnisit with the foirbreistis of fyne gold. 
 
 " Mair, foure stoillis and sex fannonis, with fyve beltis maid of 
 quhite threid. 
 
 " Mair, six abbis and foure amytis with twa auld alter claithis. 
 
 * " Worne." 
 
 The original of the French translation which fol- 
 lows is preserved at Preshome among the Papers 
 saved from the wreck of the Scots College at Paris. 
 
 " Memoyre des Ornement D'Eglise que je resceu du Secre- 
 tain de la Chapelle de Strellin, 1562. 
 " Premierement, deux vielle chappe de damas bleu, semee de 
 
 fleur de lis d'or avec les orfres feet d'istoyre. 
 " Plus, ung parrement d'autel avec le soubasseraent, le tout de 
 
 toylle d'oi; frisee de bleu, et meparty de toylle d'or figurree 
 
 de rouge, frange de soye, de mesmes coulleur. 
 " Plus, deux vielle chappe de velours rouge figurree de fleurs 
 
 d'or, garny d'orfre d'or de masse, a savoir faux or. 
 " Plus, deux tuniques et une chasuble et une chappe, le tout de 
 
 toylle d'or figurree de velours bleu, garny d'orfres feet d'or nues. 
 " Plus, deux tuniques, troy chappe, et une chasubles, avec 
 
 ung parrement d'ostel et le soubassement, le tout de velours 
 
 noyr, semez d'estoilles d'or. Et les orfres des diets ornemeiit 
 
 sont de velours rouges enriche des armes d'Ecosse et histoyrre. 
 " Plus, une chasuble, et deux tuniques de toylle d'or, broche de 
 
 noyr, garnye d'orfres d'or fin. 
 " Plus, quatre estolles, et six fanons, avec sincq sainturre feet de 
 
 filz blanc. 
 
 " Plus, six aubes, et quatre amycts avec deux vielle nappe d'autel. 
 
 "Usee."* 
 
 * A Collection of Inventories and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe, 
 etc., 1488-1506 (edited by George Thomson). Printed at Edinburgh 1815. 
 Inuentaires de la Reyne Descosse Douairiere de France, Catalogues of the 
 Jewels, etc., of Mary, Queen of Scots, edited by Joseph Robertson. Edinb. 
 1863, pp. xxvii., cxli,, cxlii., 59 ; Illustrations of the Reigns of Queen Mary 
 and King James VI., pp. 11, 12.
 
 Ixii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 From the care bestowed on the catalogue of its 
 trappings and ornaments at the commencement of her 
 personal reign, it may be inferred that Queen Mary 
 was led to actively interest herself in the collegiate 
 church, while the removal of the articles to Holy- 
 rood-house would induce the belief that even at 
 this period the substitution of that palace as the 
 chapel's headquarters was in contemplation. Pro- 
 bably the intention may have been induced by an 
 event which took place at Stirling not long subse- 
 quent to the queen's return from France. It is 
 reported by Randolph that when on the 14th Sep- 
 tember 1561 "her grace's devout chaplains would, by 
 the good device of Arthur Erskine, have sung a high 
 mass, the Earl of Argyle and the Lord James so 
 disturbed the quire, that some, both priests and clerks, 
 left their places with broken heads and bloody ears." 
 He adds, " It was a sport alone for some who were 
 there to behold it ; others were there that shed a tear 
 or two, and then made no more of the matter."* 
 
 The transference to Holyroodhouse of the endow- 
 ments of the Chapel Royal with its musical school 
 would have involved changes difficult and inoppor- 
 tune. It was therefore not proceeded with. At 
 Holyrood the queen employed musicians, who were 
 recompensed in common with the other members of 
 her household. Her performers on the viol were John 
 Feldie, Moreis Dow, William Hay, John Dow, and 
 
 * Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, i. 54.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixiii 
 
 John Ray. On the 8th January 1561-2 the Treasurer 
 paid to "John Feldie and his bairns, violaris," for 
 their services at last Yule 20. Each violar had a 
 salary of 10 a year, exclusive of perquisites. In 
 1562 the queen's musicians received white taffety to 
 be coats and hose, or trousers, with red and white 
 taffety for their bonnets. 
 
 In 1561 and 1562 the queen employed three per- 
 formers on the lute. John Adesone, valet of the 
 chamber and lute player, received in 1562 a payment 
 of 24. John Hume, chief of the luters, will be men- 
 tioned subsequently. James Heron and James Earn- 
 say played . on the shalme, or pipe and whistle. In 
 1563-4 Eamsay had a salary of 59, 4s. f 
 
 Singers or " sangsters " were also employed in the 
 royal household. In August 1565 the Treasurer paid 
 for clothes and Paris hats to five "sangsters," probably 
 supplied to them on the occasion of the queen's mar- 
 riage with Darnley. As a vocalist David Rizzio ob- 
 tained his first connection with the court. A native 
 of Piedmont, Rizzio came to Scotland in December 
 1561 in the suite of Monsieur Moret, the ambassador 
 of Savoy. At this time there were three valets of the 
 queen's chamber, who each sung a part, but a fourth 
 for bass was wanting. As a bass singer Rizzio was 
 
 * Treasurer's Accounts. Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, i. 72, 73. 
 
 t Register of Signatures, Book i. ; Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, 72-73 ; 
 Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, collected by Prince Lebano, edited by 
 Agnes Strickland, ii. 28.
 
 Ixiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 appointed a valet of the chamber. It is recorded that 
 on the 8th January 1561-2 the Treasurer paid "by a 
 precept to David Bicio, virlat in the Queen's Grace 
 chalmer," 50. In the entry of a further payment 
 made to him on the 14th of the following April, he is 
 described as " David Bicio, Italian, chalmer's cheild.""' 
 In an account of payments made in 1564 by George 
 Wishart of Drymme, deputy of Sir John Wishart of 
 Pitarrow, the Comptroller, Bizzio appears to have 
 then received a salary of eighty pounds, which was 
 paid quarterly.! 
 
 Having served as valet-musician for three years, 
 Bizzio was, in December 1564, appointed successor 
 to M. Boulat, the queen's French secretary, who 
 was removed for misconduct.^ 
 
 A considerable verse writer, and skilful in music, 
 both vocal and instrumental, David Bizzio obtained 
 the queen's favour, and it is believed he warmly 
 supported Darnley's suit. On the 28th February 
 1565-6, there was paid to him, by the queen's precept, 
 the sum of 2000, " in part of ten thousand marks 
 for the duty of the Cunzie house, owing to Her 
 Majestic for two years." His assassination at 
 
 * Treasurer's Accounts. The expression chamber-chield was the usual 
 Scottish designation of a valet of the chamber. 
 
 f MSS. of George Chalmers in Laing's MSS. Collection, University of 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Randolph to Cecil, 13th December 1564 ; Keith, 268. 
 
 Thorpe's Calendar of State Papers, Lond., 1858, 8vo. ; Randolph's 
 Letters to Cecil in 1565, Public Record Office and Cottonian Library ; 
 Goodal, i. 205 ; Chalmers' MSS. in Dr Laing's Collection, University of 
 Edinburgh.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixv 
 
 Holyrooclhouse in the queen's presence, on the 9th 
 March 1566, was one of the most tragic events in 
 her troubled reign. Six weeks after his death, his 
 brother Joseph came to Scotland with M. Castelnau 
 de Malvisie, when he was appointed French secretary 
 in his stead.* He also acted as a musician. But 
 his character was defective, for, in January 1566-7, 
 he fled to England with a friend's money, when the 
 queen, though unsuccessfully, requested Drury to 
 send him back, t 
 
 At the period of Eizzio's slaughter, Mary was 
 advanced in pregnancy about -six months ; her child 
 was born in the Castle of Edinburgh on the 19th 
 June 1566. Prince of Scotland, and heir- apparent 
 of two kingdoms, the royal infant was an object of 
 solicitude to the Reformers. Soon after her recovery 
 the queen was waited upon by Mr John Spottis- 
 woode, superintendent of Lothian, who offered the 
 congratulations of the Church, and at the same time 
 expressed a hope that the future sovereign might be 
 baptized by a Presbyterian minister. Mary accepted 
 the congratulations, but waived the proposal as to 
 the baptism; she had already determined that her 
 son should be baptized in her own faith. J 
 
 Probably the queen hesitated as to whether the 
 baptism should be solemnised at Edinburgh or Stir- 
 
 * Randolph to Cecil, 25th April 1566 ; Keith, Appendix, 120. 
 
 f George Chalmers' MSS., Laing's MSS., University of Edinburgh. 
 
 I Spottiswoode's History of the Church of Scotland, Edinb., 1851, ii. 40.
 
 Ixvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ling. On her arrival from France, in August 1561, 
 when she ventured to restore the mass at Holyrood, 
 a riot had supervened ; and, as we have seen, a 
 similar attempt at Stirling in September had been 
 attended with a demonstration scarcely less violent. 
 But at Stirling was situated the Chapel Royal, and 
 if there former sovereigns were not baptized the 
 place was nevertheless associated with stirring events 
 in the monarchical history. To Stirling Castle Mary 
 removed her son, on the 22d August, and prepara- 
 tions for the baptism were commenced forthwith. 
 To defray costs, the Privy Council, on the 6th 
 October, levied a taxation of 12,000. That taxation 
 was made, the Privy Council record bears, in con- 
 sideration that " sum of the grettest princes in Chris- 
 tendome hes ernestlie requirit of our soveranis that 
 be thair ambassatouris thai may be witnessis and gos- 
 seppis at the baptisme of thair Majesteis derrist sone 
 the native prince of this realme, quhais requisitioun 
 being bayth ressonabil and honorabill, thair Majesteis 
 hes glaidlie condiscendit thairunto, and dalie lukis for 
 the arryving of the saidis ambassatouris." 
 
 The birth of an heir to the Scottish throne was 
 promptly reported to Queen Elizabeth, through Sir 
 James Melvill, who also conveyed to her majesty the 
 request of his royal mistress that she would act as 
 godmother. Accepting the proffered honour, the 
 English queen delegated as her representative at 
 
 * Privy Council Records, ii. 485.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixvii 
 
 the baptism the Countess of Argyle, who, while 
 Mary's natural sister and personal friend, was also a 
 member of the Reformed Church. But the English 
 queen, besides appointing a delegate or "gossip" to 
 represent her at the baptism, despatched to Scotland 
 as special envoy the Earl of Bedford, who, a noted 
 Protestant and the protector of the exiled lords, 
 was sure to be made welcome by the Scottish 
 nobility. Bedford travelled to Scotland with forty 
 attendants ; he was met at Coldingham by Melvill 
 on behalf of the queen, while the Protestant gentry 
 of Haddingtonshire also offered their respects, and 
 joined his .procession. At Edinburgh Bedford and 
 his attendants were accommodated for a night in the 
 Duke of Chatelherault's quarters at Kirk o' Field ; 
 next day they resumed their journey to Stirling. 
 On Saturday the 14th December, Bedford was at 
 Stirling Palace admitted to an audience by Mary, 
 who had, in order to his reception there, hastened 
 from Holyroodhouse. Before her majesty, Bedford 
 placed a gold font, which, in his written instructions, 
 he was commissioned to " say pleasantly was made 
 as soon as we heard of the prince's birth, and then 
 'twas big enough for him ; but now he being grown 
 is too big for it ; therefore it may be better used for 
 the next child, provided it be christened before it 
 outgrows the font." The font weighed 333 ounces, 
 rendering the value 1048, 13s.* 
 
 * Keith's History of Scottish Affairs, 1845, 8vo, ii. 479.
 
 Ixviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The Privy Council precept became payable on the 
 30th November, and preparations being completed, 
 the baptism was fixed to take place on Tuesday the 
 17th December. At five o'clock on the afternoon of 
 that day the nobility, gentry, and burgesses assembled 
 in the Castle. The barons drew up in double columns 
 between the Palace and the Chapel Royal, as a guard 
 of honour ; each in his hand carried a waxen taper, 
 or bore a symbol of office. At the sound of clarions 
 and other instruments, a body of handsome youths 
 passed to the Chapel between the columns bearing 
 torches. The Countess of Argyle, * having in 
 her arms the royal infant, followed next ; she was 
 supported on the right by the Count de Brienne, 
 ambassador of France, and on the left by Monsieur 
 le Croc, substitute deputy of the Duke of Savoy. 
 Following the Countess came the Earl of Athole, 
 bearing a large waxen candle, the Earl of Eglinton, 
 holding " the salt-fat," Lord Sempill, supporting the 
 holy rood, and Lord Ross, bearing a ewer and basin. 
 When the procession reached the Chapel, those who 
 professed the Protestant doctrines remained outside, 
 including the English ambassador, and the Earls of 
 Murray, Both well, and Huntly. 
 
 Within the Chapel already were assembled with 
 
 * By the General Assembly, which met at Edinburgh on the 25th 
 December 1567, the Countess of Argyle was ordered to make public 
 repentance in the Chapel Royal of Stirling, upon ane Sunday in time of 
 preaching, " for assisting at the prince's baptism, performed in a papistical 
 manner." Booke of the Universal Kirk.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixix 
 
 the queen, Archbishop Hamilton of St Andrews, and 
 the Bishops of Dunkeld, Dunblane, and Ross, accom- 
 panied by the prior of Whithorn, and several deans 
 and archdeacons. As representative of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, the Countess of Argyle presented the child at 
 the altar, the baptismal rite being celebrated by the 
 archbishop. The application of saliva, or "the 
 spittle," was omitted, in deference to Mary's express 
 wish. When the solemnities were concluded, the 
 heralds declared aloud the prince's name and titles, 
 as " Charles James, James Charles, Prince and 
 Steward of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of 
 Carrick, Lord of the Isles, and Baron of Renfrew." 
 This proclamation, followed by the din of clarions, 
 was thrice repeated. Thereafter the choristers sung 
 appropriate airs, accompanied by the organs. At 
 the door of the Chapel, the English ambassador 
 assured the queen that, though two earls only had 
 entered the building, twelve were in waiting upon her. 
 The solemnity of the baptism was followed by a 
 great banquet, served in the palace. Writes a con- 
 temporary chronicler : 
 
 " Thaj all past to the greit hall to the supper, quhair at ane 
 tabill sat the quenis majestic at mydburd, the French ambas- 
 satour at the rycht hand, the Inglis ambassatour at hir left 
 hand, and Monsieur de Lacrok, ambassatour for Savoy, at the 
 burd-end. And thair servit the quenis majestic, the erle of 
 Huntlie, carvoure, the erle of Murray, coppar [cupper], and the 
 erle of Bothwill, sewar [server]. The French ambassatour was 
 servit be the erle of Mar, carvoure, the erle of Cassilis, coppar, 
 
 e
 
 'X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and the erle of Athole, sewar. The Inglis ambassatour, be the 
 erle of Eglingtoun, coppar, the erle of Rothes, carvoure, and the 
 eiie of Crawfurd, sewar. The duke of Savoyis ambassatour, be 
 the maister Maxwell, carvour, and the lord Boyd, coppar, and 
 the lord Levingstoun, sewar. The ordour of the cuming of the 
 ineit was this, efter the herauldis, maisseris, trumpetouris, and 
 swescheouris [musicians], being thre maister houshaldis in rank, 
 viz., Fyndlater in the mydis, Seinzour Francisco de Busso at 
 the rycht hand, and Gilbert Balfour at the left, thair come in 
 George lord Seytoun, him allane ; and efter him come Archibald 
 erle of Ergile, allane ; and ilk ane of thame bure ane fair quhite 
 staff in thair handis ; and the lordis, barronis, and nobilles bure 
 fair greit torches, quhilk wer in greit haboundance, and weill 
 ordourit; and efter dansing and playing in haboundance, the 
 saidis lordis that nycht depairtit to thair lugeingis." * 
 
 For several days following the baptism sports were 
 conducted in the palace, and in " the valley," a hollow 
 of Stirling Rock ; while festivities and musical fetes 
 occupied the evenings. On Thursday, the 19th 
 December, a display of fireworks varied the entertain- 
 ment. " Thair wes," writes the author of the Diurnal, 
 " masry [masquerading] and playing in all sortis, be- 
 foir supper ; than ane fort halding in Striueling besyid 
 the Kirk-yaird, qnhairin wes artailzerie, schote fyre 
 bullis, fyre speris, and all vtheris thingis plesand for 
 the sicht of man ; this done, our souerane ladie past 
 to the castell, and thair maid James, prince of Scot- 
 land, the duke of Rothissay, erle of Kyle, Carrick, 
 and Cunnynghame, and barroun of the barronie of 
 Renfrew, and maid certane knychtis." t At the supper 
 
 * Diurnal of Occurrents, 1513-1575, 103, 104. Edinb. 1835, 4to. 
 t Diurnal of Occurrents, 105.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxi 
 
 which followed, an occurrence took place which might 
 have terminated seriously. Jealousy had already 
 been awakened between the French and English, 
 for the former were displeased that the queen had 
 extended a marked attention to her English visitors, 
 while they conceived themselves proportionally neg- 
 lected. This feeling was shared by the queen's French 
 servant, De Bastian, master of the ceremonies, who 
 resolved at the banquet to offer an affront to the 
 English visitors. In the manner of the period, the 
 table containing the viands was ushered into the hall 
 by men draped as satyrs, accompanied by musicians, 
 playing on various instruments. The satyrs were re- 
 moved to make way for the advancing table, but in per- 
 forming this office they seized their tails and wagged 
 them among the guests. The long-tailed English, 
 was an epithet of contempt applied by the Scots 
 to their southern neighbours, and of which the Eng- 
 lish were abundantly aware. There was consequently 
 among this portion of the guests a strong feeling of 
 displeasure, and a number of them resolving not to 
 share the feast, turned their backs upon the table. 
 So indignant was Christopher Hatton,* an English 
 gentleman, that he informed Sir James Melville that 
 but for the queen's presence he would have slain De 
 Bastian on the spot. The queen, who was in con- 
 versation with the Earl of Bedford, turned round on 
 
 * Subsequently Sir Christopher Hatton, latterly Privy Councillor and 
 Lord Chancellor. Queen Mary presented him with a valuable chain having 
 her portrait attached.
 
 Ixxii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 remarking the tumult, and having learned its cause 
 proceeded, with the earl's help, to restore harmony 
 and order.* 
 
 Of the taxation levied by the Privy Council a por- 
 tion was appropriated in gifts to the ambassadors and 
 prominent members of their suites. To the Earl of 
 Bedford, the queen presented a chain of diamonds. 
 John Hume, who conducted the musical arrange- 
 ments, received for himself and staff the sum of 
 177, 10s. 8d. Hume was clothed in a livery of fine 
 velvet, and wore " a hat and velvet bonnet, rapier 
 and belt, "t 
 
 Lord Darnley was not present at his son's baptism. 
 From the queen he had become estranged at the time 
 of Rizzio's murder, but there had been a partial re- 
 conciliation after her confinement. Mary had lived 
 with him at Stirling from the 30th August till the 
 llth September, also for several days at Craigmillar 
 Castle towards the end of November. But he there- 
 after came to Stirling alone, and it does not appear 
 that subsequently any communication passed between 
 him and the queen. He occupied private apart- 
 ments in the burgh, and there remained sullen and 
 solitary amidst the joyous demonstrations of Decem- 
 ber. On the morning of the baptism, if we are to 
 believe the French ambassador, he was intoxicated, 
 and would have exposed the court to disgrace but for 
 
 * Sir James Melville's Memoirs, p. 152. Edinb. 1735. 
 f Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, i. 72, 73.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxiii 
 
 the envoy's interference. On the 24th December he 
 proceeded to Glasgow. The end was near ; he was 
 assassinated at Kirk o' Field, near Edinburgh, on 
 the 10th of February. Whether this terrible solu- 
 tion of a state difficulty was directly countenanced by 
 the queen is a moot point of history. Yet her early 
 union with Bothwell, who was unquestionably privy 
 to her husband's murder, was clearly a blunder which 
 could be repaired only by abdication. On the 24th 
 July 1567, she resigned the crown in favour of her 
 infant son, who was, as James VI., generally recog- 
 nised. During the twenty years of her unhappy life 
 which remained, Mary experienced some solace in 
 cultivating those musical arts which she had cherished 
 as a queen. Unwilling to arouse the jealousy of her 
 royal sister and rival, Melville answered Queen Eliza- 
 beth's question as to her skill with the remark that 
 she played " reasonably well as a queen ; " in truth 
 she excelled in music, especially as a performer on 
 the lute and virginals.* At least one of the court 
 musicians adhered to her during her imprisonment 
 and exile ; " John, the musician who played the base 
 violin," is named, in 1574, as one who bore messages 
 to her in England from her adherents in Scotland. f 
 
 Under charge of the Countess of Mar, the young 
 prince remained at Stirling. When he became king, 
 he had assigned him as part of his household four 
 
 * Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, i. 73. 
 
 t Thorpe's Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland. Loud., 1858, 
 8vo, ii. 916.
 
 Ixxiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 violavis, viz. "Mekill Thomas Hudsoun,* Robert 
 Hudsoun, James Hudsoun, and William Hudsoun." 
 
 These, with their attendant, " Thomas Fowlarton," 
 
 j^ 
 
 were accommodated in the castle, t Among the 
 more dignified members of the household was Alex- 
 ander Gordon, Dean of the Chapel Royal, second son 
 of John, Master of Huntly, by Jane, natural daughter 
 of James IV. Gordon in his youth was companion 
 of James V. He was designed for the bishopric of 
 Caithness in 1514, but the see did not become vacant. 
 Elected in 1547 to the diocese of Glasgow, the Pope 
 gave the preferment to James Beaton, but to relieve 
 Gordon's disappointment constituted him Archbishop 
 of Athens, with the promise that he would receive 
 the next Scottish bishopric. He became Bishop of 
 the Isles in 1558, and sat in the Parliament of 1560 
 which ratified the Confession of Faith. Joining the 
 Reformers he was appointed Bishop of Galloway and 
 Dean of the Chapel Royal ; he was afterwards nomi- 
 nated an Extraordinary Lord of Session. Through 
 his influence at court, he was mainly instrumental in 
 procuring for the Reformed clergy a provision from the 
 thirds of benefices. But he imperfectly discharged 
 his own clerical duties, owing to his being deeply en- 
 grossed with secular affairs. Charged with negli- 
 gence he exposed himself to the censure of the 
 
 * This person, who seems to have been of gigantic stature was, in 1586, 
 appointed Master of the Chapel Royal. (See postea.) 
 f Chalmers' Life of Queen Mary, i. 177.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxv 
 
 General Assembly, but having promptly acknowledged 
 his error and readily submitted to discipline, he was 
 allowed to retain his ecclesiastical offices. He died 
 in November 1575.* 
 
 As regarded the spiritual instruction of the young 
 king, the services of Dean and Bishop Gordon were 
 not available. An instructor was recommended by 
 Buchanan, in the person of John Duncanson, minister 
 of Stirling, and formerly Principal of St Leonard's 
 College. A convert from the old faith, Duncanson 
 was one of the few ecclesiastics who cordially ac- 
 cepted the Reformed doctrines. He was appointed 
 vicar of the Chapel Royal on the 17th March 1568,f 
 having already by the General Assembly been nomi- 
 nated " minister of the King's House," as under the 
 new system the office of chaplain at court was desig- 
 nated. 
 
 The organs and ornaments of the Chapel Royal 
 were preserved when those in cathedrals and other 
 churches were wrecked and ruined. But what the 
 multitude had spared, the Earl of Mar, as Captain of 
 the Castle, caused to be swept away. His act was 
 indemnified by a Parliament convened by the Regent 
 Lennox, which assembled at Stirling on the 28th 
 August 1571. That Parliament passed a resolution, 
 which, from its curious interest, we present in full : 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 775 ; Brunton & Haig's College of Justice, 128 ; 
 Keith's Bishops, 279, 307. 
 t Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 156.
 
 Ixxvl INTRODUCTION. 
 
 " My lord regent's grace thre estatis and haill body of this pre- 
 sent parliamet calling to mynd how at the coronatioun of the 
 kinge ma tie o r souane lord accomplishit and solempnizat vpoun the 
 xxix day of Julij, the zeir of God J m v c and threscoir sevin 
 zeiris, the nobilitie prelattis commissioners of burrowis and 
 vtheris his hienes faythfull and trew subjectis purpoislie convenit 
 for that effect, nawis neglecting the caus of God. Bot with the 
 first louking thereto specialie to the estait of the Chapell Riall 
 within the castell of Striueliug quhair his hienes persoun wes 
 than and presentlie is resident and nurischit Thoucht it tendit 
 to goddis honor that the said Chapell suld be purgit of all 
 monumentis of ydolatrie or vthiris thingis quhatsumeuir dedicat 
 to superstitioun. That the puir word of God my* be trewlie 
 prechit and his sacramentis richtlie and sinceirlie rninistrat 
 therein. Thairfoir thai gaif special and expres comand and 
 charge to Johnne Erie of Mar, Lord Erskin, Capitane of the said 
 Castell of Striuiling that he suld caus the said Chapell w'out 
 delay be purgit and reformit in maner and to the effect aboue- 
 written quhilk comandiment he dewlie put in executioun d(; 
 claring himself ane noble man and a fauorar of godlines. And the 
 same being cosiderit be my lord regent's grace, the thre estatis 
 and haill body of this present parliament foirsaid, thai haif 
 allowit and approvit and be this present act allowis, approvis, and 
 findis guid the said reformatioun and purgatioun of the said 
 Chapell Eoyall, clone and accomplishit be the said Erie of Mar 
 and vtheris at his . . . the sercheing and seiking of all 
 monumental veshells, vestiments . . . apparelling quhat- 
 sumeuir quhilk war within the said Chapell . . . war de- 
 dicat or appertenit thereto. And the dispositions and away 
 p . . . decernand and declarand that the said erle and 
 vther personis makaris . . . reformatioun and purgatioun 
 of the said Chapell Riall for that d . . . incur ony skaith or 
 danger in thair personis, landis, or guidis . . . callit or 
 accusit for the samin ciinalie nor ciuilie be ... way in 
 tyme cuming. Notwithstanding ony lawis or cost . . . 
 euir maid or to be maid quhilk may appeir to extend in the 
 . . . Dischargeing be this present act all iugeis and minis-
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxvii 
 
 teris of ... within this realme present and tocmn of all 
 calling, accusing, or in ony . . . preceding aganis the said 
 erle or vtheris pesonis makars of the f . . . reformatioun and 
 purgatioun at his c5mand their airis and their executoris for 
 that . . . deid or ony thing depending thairvpoun and of 
 thair offices in that part for euir."* 
 
 Another enactment, passed at the Parliament 
 held at Stirling in August, was attended with a 
 serious result. The Duke of Chatelherault, his sons, 
 and Kirkaldy of Grange, were, as supporters of the 
 dethroned queen, subjected to forfeiture. Learning 
 what had occurred, Kirkaldy resolved to surprise 
 the Parliament and arrest its leaders. Seizing the 
 horses which appeared in the public market at Edin- 
 burgh, he, on the evening of the 2d September, left 
 that city at the head of 200 mounted troops, and 300 
 infantry. Reaching Stirling before daybreak, he 
 seized several of the nobility. Among these was 
 the Regent Lennox, who surrendered to Spence of 
 Wormiston. There had been no intention to injure 
 the Regent, but a shot fired by one Captain Calder, 
 a fierce adventurer, wounded him mortally. In a 
 dying state he was carried to the castle, where he 
 evinced deep concern as to the safety of his grandson, 
 the young king. He only survived till the follow- 
 ing day. His remains were honourably interred in 
 the Chapel Royal, and near the spot a monumental 
 tablet was afterwards placed by his widow, in testi- 
 mony of her affection, t 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., iii. 62. 
 
 t Spottiswoode's History, ii. 163-166 ; Chambers's Life of James I., I" 1C.
 
 Ixxviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In relation to an appointment to a canonry in the 
 Chapel Royal, the Privy Council, which assembled at 
 the Palace of Holyrood on the 6th July 1573, were 
 considerably exercised.* By a letter of gift under the 
 Privy Seal, issued on the 26th August 1571, by the 
 late Regent, William Drummond, son of Sir Robert 
 Drummond of Carnock, was appointed to the canonry 
 called " the parsonage and vicarage of Alloway." But 
 Mr David Lindsay, " Commissioner of the Kirk " for 
 the western district, refused admission on the ground 
 that the presentee had not personally produced his 
 letter of gift. In defence it was pleaded that this 
 instrument was presented by his elder brother Patrick, 
 the presentee being at the University of St An- 
 drews prosecuting his studies, and, besides that the 
 inclemency of the season prevented his making long 
 travel. The case was complicated, inasmuch as Mr 
 David Lindsay had appointed to the canonry "ane 
 James Dalrumpill," and had refused the late Regent's 
 letter when it was by the presentee actually produced 
 to him. As Lindsay made no answer to the complaint, 
 a decree was in his absence pronounced in Drum- 
 inond's favour. It proved inoperative, and Dalrymple 
 was within a month afterwards presented to the 
 parsonage and vicarage by the Crown. Dalrymple 
 died in 1580.t 
 
 The Chapel Royal at Stirling seems to have been 
 
 * Privy Council Register, i. 254-256. 
 t Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 84.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxix 
 
 very partially used subsequent to the purgation ; it 
 was probably closed after the court removed from 
 Stirling Castle to Holyroodhouse. It was not to be 
 wholly abandoned. In January 1593-4 the king com- 
 municated to the Privy Council that he expected the 
 queen shortly to bring him an heir. This announce- 
 ment caused a parliament to be summoned ; it met 
 on the 28th January, when anticipatory of the in- 
 teresting event, and consequent baptism, a general 
 taxation was sanctioned. Of the sum of 100,000 
 voted on the occasion, it was ordered that one-half 
 was to be contributed by " the spiritual estate," 
 33,333, Ifes. 8d. by "the freeholders," and the balance, 
 16,666, 13s. 4d., by the burgesses of the royal 
 burghs.* 
 
 Prince Henry was born on the 19th February, and 
 henceforth baptismal concerns occupied the king's 
 chief attention. With a view to the baptism being 
 celebrated in the same ancient palace where he had 
 himself been received into the Church, James caused 
 the fragile and ruinous structure of the Chapel Royal 
 to be removed, while he personally superintended the 
 erection of a new and more commodious edifice on 
 the same site. Of the entire proceedings thereanent, 
 as well as in regard to the event of Prince Henry's 
 baptism, a narrative minute and circumstantial was 
 published at the time, evidently under the king's own 
 direction. This publication, which embraces fifteen 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot, iv. 50-52.
 
 Ixxx INTRODUCTION. 
 
 pages small quarto, is printed in black letter. A 
 copy, almost unique, is preserved in the Grenville 
 Library. The title is " A true Keportarie of the most 
 triumphant and royal Accomplishment of the Bap- 
 tisme of Frederick-Henry, Prince of Scotland, solem- 
 nized the 30 Day of August 1594 : Edinb., E. Walde- 
 grave." The tract, considerably altered, was reprinted 
 at London in 1603, with the title "A true Accompt 
 of the Baptism of Henry Frederick, Prince of Scot- 
 land, and now Prince of Wales." It was again 
 reprinted at Edinburgh in 1787, and it has been re- 
 produced in the third volume of Nichol's " Progresses 
 of Queen Elizabeth," 1805; in the second volume of the 
 Somers Collection ; also in Scotia Redimva, a collec- 
 tion of Scottish Historical Tracts, published in 1826. 
 The " Reportarie " commences thus : 
 
 " The noble and most potent prince of Scotland was born 
 in the castle of Striviling the 19 day of February 1594, upon 
 which occasion the king's majestie sent for the nobles of his 
 land, and to all the capitall burrows thereof, to haue their aduise 
 how he should proceed for the due solemnization of his royal 
 baptisme, and what princes he should send too; when they 
 were all compeared with great diligence and good will, he pro- 
 poned unto them, that it was necessary to direct out ambassa- 
 dours to France, England, Denmark, the Low Countries, the 
 Duke of Brunswicke, his brother-in-law, and to the Duke of 
 Magdelburg, the queenis majestie's grandfather, and to such other 
 princes as should be thought expedient. Likewise he thought 
 the castle of Striviling the most convenient place for the resi- 
 dence of this most noble and mightie prince, in respect that he 
 was borne there ; as also, it was necessary, that sufficient pre- 
 paration might be made for the ambassadours that should be
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxxi 
 
 invited to come, for honour of the crown and countrey. And 
 besides all this, because the Chapell Eoyal was ruinous and 
 too little, concluded that the old chappell should be utterly 
 rased, and a new erected in the same place, that should be more 
 large, long, and glorious, to entertain the great number of 
 straungers expected. These propositions at length considered 
 they all, with a free voluntarie deliberation, graunted unto his 
 majestic the summe of an hundred thousand pounds money of 
 Scotland." 
 
 That the new Chapel Royal might be properly 
 reared and decorated, the king, proceeds the " Re- 
 portarie," gathered together " the greatest number of 
 skilled workmen," and himself superintended their 
 operations. The foreign ambassadors, each as he 
 arrived, was received by the king, and entertained by 
 him " at his own charges." 
 
 Chiefly intent on celebrating the splendour of the 
 baptismal arrangements, the author of the " Repor- 
 tarie " ornits special reference to the architecture of 
 the new chapel, or its structural decorations. But 
 we are informed by the historian, Robert Johnstone, 
 who lived contemporaneously, that the ceiling was 
 garnished with gold, and that the walls were magni- 
 ficently adorned with pictures, sculptures, and other 
 ornaments/" 
 
 The 30th day of August was fixed for the baptism, 
 and ceremonial arrangements entrusted to Sir Patrick 
 
 * Rerum Britannicarum Historia auctore Roberto Johnstono (1572-1628) 
 MS. Advocates Library, fol. 153.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Leslie, commendator or " Lord of Lindores,"* and to 
 Mr William Fowler,t Master of Works, at Stirling or 
 Edinburgh. These, according to the author of the 
 " Reportarie," faithfully discharged their duties, and 
 " by their travell, diligence, and invention, brought 
 it to that perfection which the shortness of the time 
 and other considerations could permit." 
 
 During the two days which preceded the baptism, 
 chivalric sports were conducted in "the valley." In 
 course of these sports appeared in female attire as 
 Amazons, Sir Patrick Leslie, master of the cere- 
 monies, already noticed ; also Sir Walter Scott of 
 Buccleuch, and Mr John Bothwell,J described as 
 " Abbot of Holyrood." On the morning of the 30th 
 Mr Patrick Galloway, " minister of the King's House," 
 
 * Sir Patrick Leslie was second son of the fifth Earl of Eothes. Enjoy- 
 ing the favour of James VL, he was appointed commendator of Lindores, 
 and on the 25th December 1600 was created Lord Lindores. 
 
 f Mr William Fowler appears to have been the son of a merchant in Edin- 
 burgh, who traded with Paris, probably for silks and articles ofvertu. Lord 
 Herreis died suddenly in the lodgings of William Fowler at Edinburgh, 
 on the 20th January 1582-3. After serving as Master of Works, Fowler was 
 appointed by James VI. Secretary to his Queen ; he also received the 
 honour of knighthood. He composed verses ; and a sonnet from his pen 
 addressed to the Countess of Erroll is contained in the Hawthornden MSS., 
 in keeping of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries. Sir William Fowler's 
 sister, Susanna, was wife of Sir John Drummond of Hawthornden, and 
 mother of William Drummond the poet (Privy Council Register, ii. 329, 
 433 ; iii. 549 ; Calderwood, viii. 232 ; Lord Strathallan's Genealogie of the 
 House of Drummond, passim). 
 
 Though described in the " Reportarie " as Abbot of Holyrood, Mr John 
 Bothwell was not an ecclesiastic. Son of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of 
 Orkney, he had from James VI., with whom he was a favourite, three 
 several charters, 1591-1592, of the lands and jurisdiction of the Abbacy of 
 Holyrood. On the 20th December 1607, he was raised to the peerage as 
 Lord Holyroodhouse, the abbey lands being in his favour erected into a tem- 
 poral lordship.
 
 IKTEODUCTION. Ixxxiii 
 
 preached in the new Chapel Royal for the first time. 
 "He/' writes the author of the "Reportarie," "learned- 
 lie and godlie entreated upon the text of the 21 
 of Genesis." The young prince was thereafter bap- 
 tized by Mr David Cunningham, Bishop of Aberdeen. 
 The bishop afterwards " ascended the pulpit, when, 
 after he had delivered in verse a certaine praise and 
 commendation of the prince, then he converted the 
 rest of his Latine oration, in prose, to the ambassa- 
 dours, every one in particular, beginning at the am- 
 bassadour of England, and so continuing with the 
 rest ; wherein he made mention of the chronology of 
 each of these princes, and recited the proximitie and 
 nearnesse of blood that they had with Scotland, con- 
 cluding his oration with exhortation and thanksgiving 
 to God for that good occasion and prosperous as- 
 sembly." "Thereafter," proceeds the " Reportarie," 
 " the provost and prebends of the Chappell Royall did 
 sing the 21 psalme of Dauid, according to the art of 
 musique, to the great delectation of the noble audi- 
 torie." 
 
 The religious service concluded, sixteen barons and 
 gentlemen were dubbed knights ; when, as the author 
 of the " Reportarie" quaintly relates, " great quantity 
 of divers especes of gold and money were cast over 
 amongst the people." 
 
 A banquet followed, which, in its preparation, had 
 no doubt taxed the ingenuity of the age. Proceeds 
 the chronicler : " The kinge, queene, and ambassa-
 
 Ixxxiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 dours were placed all at one table, being formed of 
 three parts, after a geometricall figure in such sort, 
 that euery one might haue a full sight of the other." 
 As the banquet proceeded a great chariot, bearing 
 fruits and delicacies, was drawn into the apartment. 
 It had been contemplated that a lion, as impersonat- 
 ing the monarchy, might drag in the chariot, but in 
 consideration for the nerves of the more sensitive, a 
 moor, richly attired, " bore forward the chariot, being 
 attached to it by great chaines of gold." Next en- 
 tered, or rather sailed into the banquet-hall a ship 
 floating in an artificial sea, at the approach of which 
 volleys from thirty-six brass guns surprised and 
 startled the assembly. The ship, which was in the 
 keel 18 feet long, and to its topmost flag 40 feet in 
 height, bore a cargo of fishes. These are enumerated 
 as " Hearings, whitings, flooks, oysters, buckies, 
 lampets, partans, lapstars, crabs, spout-fish, and 
 clammes." 
 
 " Whilst the ship was unloading," adds the author of 
 the " Reportarie", " Arion, sitting upon the galey nose, 
 which resembled the forme of a dolphine fish, played 
 upon his harpe ; then begane his musick in greene 
 holyne howboyes, in fine parts. After that followed 
 viols, with voices in plaine counterpoint," discoursing 
 Latin hexameters, composed for the occasion. " A 
 stil noise of recoders and fluts," and " for the fourth, 
 a general consort of the best instruments," concluded 
 the first portion of the entertainment.
 
 INTRODUCTION. Ixxxv 
 
 A concert followed. " There was sung, with most 
 delicate dulce voices, and sweet harmonies, in seven 
 partes, the 128th Psalm, with fourteen voices." Re- 
 joicings were prolonged till past midnight. 
 
 Since the preceding pages were printed," 5 " a detached 
 document, discovered in the General Eegister House, 
 would serve to show that about ten years prior to the 
 construction of the new fabric in 1594, a proposal for 
 such a renovation had, through the Lord High Trea- 
 surer, been submitted to the Privy Council. The 
 proposal was made by Sir Kobert Drummond, the 
 King's Master of Works, and it is embodied in the 
 form of a report on the condition of the Royal Palace. 
 The report, embraced in two folio sheets, is inscribed 
 on the back, " Ane fforme and Invitowre of the ex- 
 penssis appeiranlie to be maid in the Kingis hienes 
 Paleyssis as is withein writtin. Apud Halyrudhous 
 septimo Maij anno [millesimo] v c Octuagesimo tertio. 
 Productum per Robertum Drummond de Carnok 
 militem coram dominis scaccarij." 
 
 That portion of the report relating to the Castle 
 and Chapel Royal of Stirling we present entire : 
 
 " THE APPEIRAND EXPENSSIS TO BE MAID UPON THE CASTELL 
 OF STIRLING. 
 
 " Item, the Castell of Stirling is rwingows -f* in sic sort that the 
 greit hall thairof is in poynt of tynsall J be the altering of 
 
 * Other important documents in relation to the early history of the 
 Chapel Royal of Stirling, lately discovered in the General Register House, 
 will be added in the Appendix. 
 
 + Ruinous. t Loss.
 
 IxXXVi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the same quhilkis conswmeis the wallis in resaueing watter 
 and als the thak* of the same is reywin and resaweis 
 watter in sic sort that it sail rott the rwif of the said hall. 
 
 " Item, the foirentres the towris thairof ar naikit and without 
 skalze.y 
 
 " Item, to mend the greit windois in the cowrthall in the new 
 vork twa dissone J vane scott, Thre dissone daillis withe 
 ffoure corballis of aik ; Price off the tymmer and the work- 
 menschip to ane hunderethe merkis. 
 
 " Item, the Westqwarter thairof to he all tane downe to the 
 grownd, thane to big and beild the same vp agane in the 
 maist plesand maner that can be dewyssit : Quhilk qwarter 
 off the said paleys is the best and maist plesand sitwa- 
 tioune off ony of his hienes palayes be ressone it will hawe 
 the maist plesand sycht of all the foure airthis : In speciall 
 Perk || and gairdin 1F deir thairin vp the Rawerais ** of 
 Forth, Teyth, Allone, and Gwddy to Lochlomwnd, ane sycht 
 rownd abowt in all pairtis, and downe the Eewear of Forthe 
 quhair thair standis many greit stane howssis : Provyding 
 thair be ane fair gallery beildit on the ane syd of the said 
 work, withe ane tarras -f-f on the vther syde of the said work : 
 And this ffoirsaid gallerie and tarras to be beildit and bigit 
 vpone the heich pairtis off the ffoirsaid work. 
 
 " Item, the ftbirsaid westqwarter the rwif thairof is all brokin 
 and falling downe, necessar it is the tymmer and skailze 
 thairon to be takin downe presently and laid vp in howssis 
 ffor suppleing the Kingis grace workis. 
 
 " Item, the Chapell Eoyall, the thak thairof resaweis weit and 
 rane in sic sort that the Kingis hienes may nocht weill 
 reniane within the same in tyme off weitt or rane. 
 
 " Item, to witt the said Chappell Eoyall in Stirling, the rwif 
 thairof hes bene wrang wrocht mekill vnder sqware that 
 
 * Thatch. f Slates. J Dozen. Wainscot. 
 
 || The Royal Park of Stirling. 
 
 IF The Royal Gardens, occupying the southern slope of the castle hill, and 
 extending to the plain beneath. 
 ** Rivers. ft Terrace.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the thak of the same is off skailze, and is ane werray licht 
 thak. 
 
 " Notwithstanding thair is many kyppillis * thairof brokin, swa 
 it is necessar to pwt ane new rwif vpone the said Cheppell, 
 and the said rwif to be mekill abone the sqware : Thane 
 the gay vellis -J- of the said Cheppell, the stane work and 
 paittis mane be reassit to ane greit heicht, agreabill to the 
 new rwif thairof ffor remembrance off this wark : In cais 
 the westqwarter off the ffoirsaid palays wer beildit and 
 bigit as is ffoirsaid, thane it wer necessar ffor the owtsett 
 off the said paleys and making of the cowrt and clois large 
 and mair to ane better ffassioun, to tak away the Cheppell 
 and to big the same neirby the northe bak wall in ane vther 
 sort off biging to the pwrpois that oure Qweyne, withe hir 
 tryne off ladyis, may pas fwrthe off this new dewyssit work 
 into the, said Cheppell loft,J and the Kingis grace saitt to 
 be bigit directlie annent the pwppeit thairof: This being 
 done the clos and cowrt will stand neirby vpone sqware in 
 all pairtis, qwhilkis workis wilbe large expens. 
 
 " It is nocht wnknawin to zour lordschipis that the new work 
 off the Castell of Stirling is the maist substantious work 
 and maist plesand withein the same zitt the sitwatioun 
 thairof is nocht gwid nor plesand, in respect thair can na 
 plesand sycht be had swa giff this vther new work wer 
 beildit the Kingis hienes wald mak his recedence in the 
 westqwarter. 
 
 " Item, ffor beilding or biging of ane kennell hows withein the 
 said Castell in the nedder bailze : Suma in expenssis all 
 maner of wayis, extendane to fy ve hunder merkis or thair- 
 by: And gif awld tymmer and skailze be taikin of the 
 westqwarter to fwrneis the foirsaid hows, the expenssis 
 thairof to be of ane les price." 
 
 The description of the older Chapel as being par- 
 tially constructed of turf and insufficiently thatched 
 would point to the poverty of palatial architecture, 
 
 * Cupples. t Gables. t Gallery.
 
 Ix.XXViii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 as contrasted with that of the cathedrals ; while it is 
 not uninteresting to find the court architect providing 
 for the comfort of the queen and her ladies, the king 
 being only in his seventeenth year and unmarried. 
 
 The architect, or master of works, Sir Robert Drum- 
 mond, claims special notice. Descended from the 
 ancient House of Drummond, he was the fifth of his 
 family who owned the lands of Carnock, Stirlingshire. 
 Born about 1518, he seems to have succeeded as the 
 King's Master of Works, his kinsman John Drum- 
 mond,' 5 ' who held a similar office under James IV. and 
 V., and was doubtless architect of the new Palace at 
 Stirling, reared by the latter sovereign. Sir Robert 
 was twice married, his first wife, Margaret Kirk- 
 aldy, being sister of the famous Sir William Kirk- 
 aldy of Grange. His second wife, Marjorie Fleming, 
 was sister of Robert, Lord Elphinstone. His second 
 son, born of the second marriage, was Sir John Drum- 
 mond of Hawthornden, whose son William was the 
 celebrated poet. Sir Robert died in 1592, and his 
 epitaph has been written in verse by the poet, Alex- 
 ander Montgomery.-!- 
 
 The Chapel Royal of Stirling, reared in 1594, after 
 serving the special purpose for which it was prepared, 
 was afterwards exposed to neglect, its internal decora- 
 
 * Lord Strathallan's Genealogie of the House of Drummond, pp. 62, 264, 
 265. 
 
 f Malcolm's Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Drummond, Edinb. 
 1808, p. 32 ; Lord Strathallan's Genealogie of the House of Drummond, 
 pp. 71, 74, 250, 267 ; Alexander Montgomery's Poems, Edinb. 1820, p. 244.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 tions being defaced and scattered. After being used 
 as an ordinary barrack it was modernised and reno- 
 vated, one portion being adapted as a garrison school- 
 room, and another fitted up as a repertory of arms. 
 The architecture is Saxon ; two columns, surmounted 
 by an entablature, adorn the entrance. 
 
 Subsequent to the endowments of the Chapel 
 Royal being transferred to Holyroodhouse, the office 
 of " minister of the constabulary of Stirling " was 
 created. When the Act of Union between the king- 
 doms, of 1707, provided that a garrison should be 
 established^ at Stirling Castle, the two offices of 
 minister of the constabulary and chaplain of the gar- 
 rison seem to have been combined. Thomas David- 
 son, lecturer in the Tron Church, Edinburgh, was, in 
 June 1709, commissioned by Queen Anne as chaplain 
 to the garrison. He was ordained to the charge, and 
 admitted a member of the local Presbytery.* In 
 1759 the chaplaincy of Stirling Castle was conferred 
 on Dr William Robertson, the historian, who at the 
 same time held office as minister of Lady Yester's 
 Church, Edinburgh. Dr Robertson was succeeded 
 by Dr Robert Moodie, minister of Clackmannan, 
 after whose death in 1832 the office, which had for 
 upwards of a century been virtually a sinecure, was 
 again associated with active service. The editor of 
 this work was, in succession to the Rev. Robert Wat- 
 son, appointed chaplain of Stirling Castle by a royal 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 685.
 
 XC INTRODUCTION. 
 
 commission, dated 25th January 1855, and was or- 
 dained to the cure. He retired in August 1863, and 
 to the office no commissioned chaplain has since been 
 appointed. 
 
 To the Chapel Royal of Stirling as a collegiate 
 church does the accompanying Register belong. Styled 
 Registrum Capellce Regies Strivelinensis, it is contained 
 in a folio volume of fifty-one leaves, each leaf being 
 authenticated by Sir James Primrose, who in 1602 
 was appointed clerk to the Privy Council. Written 
 in a large distinct hand, all the folios are entire save 
 one, the 49th, which is lost. There are eighteen 
 separate documents of dates between 1501 and 1537, 
 including charters of erection and endowment, and a 
 list of vestments, jewels, and other ornaments ; also 
 a list of books which in 1505 was possessed by the 
 institution. The documents are generally in Latin. 
 Marginal comments on the different instruments have, 
 with one or two exceptions, been added at a later 
 period. The Register is preserved in the Advocates' 
 Library, and is now printed for the first time. The 
 brief analysis of it, published in 1828 by Sir John 
 Graham Dalyell, conveys a very imperfect idea of its 
 contents. 
 
 In producing a volume chiefly founded on materials 
 obtained from unprinted sources, we have necessarily 
 incurred obligations of kind service. To Mr John 
 Small, of the University of Edinburgh, we are in- 
 debted for important suggestions and useful co-
 
 INTRODUCTION. xci 
 
 operation. Mr Thomas Dickson, of the General 
 Register House, has courteously extended facilities 
 of search, and by rendering available several un- 
 printed documents, has added to the value of our 
 historical details. In the transcription, the Rev. 
 Walter Macleod has exhibited his wonted skill and 
 unwearied diligence. 
 
 3 BRANDON STREET, EDINBURGH, 
 December 1881.
 
 HISTORY 
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND, 
 
 FATHER HAY, in remarking that at the Eeformation 
 the revenues of the Chapel Royal were valued at 
 5000 sterling, adds, " Comparring this with the 
 course of money att the time of James the fourth, the 
 rent of this Royall Chapell can be no less than five 
 thousand merks Scots money, that is 330 pound ster- 
 ling, payable out of the lands, and the soume of five 
 thousand pound sterling payable out of the benefices, 
 being recover'd, and reduced to ane ordinary rentall, 
 which soume [they] would easily afford. 
 These of greatest worth were out of the Chapell's 
 possession in James the sixt's daye, in the Priory of 
 Rosneth, belonging to the Canon Regulars." 
 
 For a time John Duncanson, "minister of the 
 King's House," retained the incumbency of Stirling 
 along with the vicarage of the Chapel Royal. He 
 
 * Hay's Scotia Sacra MS., Advocates Library. The date of the MS. is 
 uncertain. Hay was born in 1601, and attained an advanced age.
 
 XC1V HISTORY OF THE 
 
 resigned his parochial cure subsequent to the 16th 
 January 1571, and it is probable that not long after- 
 wards he accompanied his royal charge to the Palace 
 of Holyrood. Here was constituted as a new Chapel 
 Royal an inconsiderable structure, which stood on the 
 south side of the Palace, and which had been used 
 for worship by the Court, both before the Reforma- 
 tion and subsequently. Of this erection we obtain 
 some account by referring to Sir Robert Drummond's 
 MS. report on the Royal Palaces. This report, 
 which is dated 7th May 1583, contains the following 
 entries : 
 
 "THE PAYLEIS OFF HALYKWDOWS. 
 
 " Item, To repair the Cheppell of the said paleys to the Kingis 
 Majesties honowre, ane honorabill saitt to be maid to his 
 hienes, togidder withe ane chanchelar* wall of tymmer 
 withe ane trym powpeit and fformes and saittis encirclat 
 rownd abowt as effeiris and without the chanchelar wall 
 certane formis to be maid. 
 
 "Item, Foure dissone of vanescott to the Kingis Majesteis saitt 
 and powpeit ; price thairof, ane hunder merkis. 
 
 " Item, Ten corballis to fwrneis the said workis ; price thairof, 
 twenty pundis. 
 
 " Item, Half ane hunder dellis to the foirsaid work, . xx lib . 
 
 " Item, Twentie fyre*t* treis to the sollis and binding of the saidis 
 formis, price, . . . 
 
 " Item, For boltis bandis of irone and iron naillis with ane 
 lotte gleu and . . . thairto ; price thairof, xiij lib vj" viij d . 
 
 " Item, Ffor workmenschip to the said Cheppell, twa hunder 
 merkis. 
 
 " Item, To gett tymmer to big the heidis of the twa Eowndis 
 
 * The cancellus a perforated screen, in this instance made of timber, 
 t Fir.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. XCV 
 
 abone the principall zett at the entres thairof; price of the 
 said tymmer ane hunder pundis ; and the expenssis to big 
 the twa Eowndis ffoirsaidis, twa hunder merkis. 
 
 " Item, to repair and mend the est gallerie with tymmer and 
 sklaitt, as effeiris ; price thairof, . . . 
 
 " And giff swa be to reis the principall hows that garrownis may 
 be laid upone the principall hows thairof." 
 
 Within the Chapel of Holyroodhouse mass had 
 been performed immediately subsequent to Queen 
 Mary's return in August 1561 ; and it was this 
 fabric which became the CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND 
 in substitution for the deserted structure at Stir- 
 ling. The building was removed in 1671, when the 
 Palace was made to assume its present quadrangular 
 form. 
 
 The remainder of Mr John Duncanson's history may 
 now be related. As the king's chaplain or minister 
 he received some share of ecclesiastical honours. A 
 reply, prepared by Duncanson to Tyrie the Jesuit's 
 refutation of Knox's answer to a former work, 
 was revised and issued by the General Assembly of 
 March 1573, and of the succeeding Assembly he was 
 chosen Moderator. In 1 574, he was appointed sub- 
 dean. By the Church in 1576, and again in 1578, 
 he was authorised, with others, to prepare the 
 Second Book of Discipline. He died on the 4th 
 October 1601, having attained nearly his hundredth 
 year. It appeared after his decease that while his 
 office of subdean yielded a revenue of 200 sterling, 
 he had not for a course of years received payment,
 
 XCV1 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 and for a grant of the arrears a petition was, by 
 his son, presented to the king.* 
 
 During his latter years Duncanson had, as his col- 
 league in the office of king's minister, the celebrated 
 John Craig. Deprived of his father, who fell on the 
 field of Flodden, when he was under his twelfth 
 year, Craig became tutor to Lord Dacres. He 
 afterwards joined the Dominican monastery at St 
 Andrews. Some time imprisoned under the charge 
 of heresy, he afterwards travelled in France, and 
 proceeded to Koine. Under the patronage of Car- 
 dinal Pole, he was admitted into a convent at 
 Bologna. By reading the Institutions of Calvin he 
 was led to embrace the Reformed doctrines, and being 
 again charged with heresy he was condemned to suffer 
 at the stake. On the death of Pope Paul IV. in 
 1559 he obtained his liberty. After some stirring ad- 
 ventures and perils he became a minister at Vienna, 
 there obtaining the countenance of Maximilian II. 
 Returning to Scotland he, in 1561, was chosen minis- 
 ter of the Canongate, from which office he was, in 
 1563, translated to St Giles Church. From the pulpit 
 he denounced the marriage of Queen Mary with Both- 
 well. In 1571 he was translated to Montrose, and in 
 1573 to New Aberdeen. He returned to Edinburgh 
 in 1580 as king's minister, for which " the Assembly 
 blessed the Lord and praised the king." Craig drew 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 150 ; ii. 671 ; Miscellany of the Wodrow Society, 
 i. 455, 456.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. XCVli 
 
 up the Confession of Faith, which, subscribed by the 
 king in March 1580, was also adopted by the nation. 
 Of three General Assemblies he was elected Mode- 
 rator. He died on the 12th September 1600, in his 
 eighty-ninth year."" 
 
 Another colleague of Duncanson in the pastorate 
 of the Chapel Royal was Patrick Galloway. From 
 the parochial cure of Fowlis-Easter he was translated 
 to the Old Church, Perth. While holding the latter 
 office he incurred the king's displeasure by support- 
 ing the Earl of Gowrie, and for a time had to retire 
 to England. Permitted to return, he regained the 
 king's favour, and with the approval of the Church ac- 
 cepted in 1589 the office of royal chaplain. He 
 preached in the Chapel Royal, Stirling, at the bap- 
 tism of Prince Henry, and ministered in the Chapel 
 Royal of Holyrood till 1607, when he was translated 
 to St Giles Church, Edinburgh. He died prior to the 
 10th February 1625-6. His eldest son, James, was 
 raised to the peerage as Lord Dunkeld.t 
 
 In 1596 John Edmestoun, minister of Dunning, 
 was appointed minister of the King's House, but still 
 retained his parochial charge. He was succeeded in 
 1602 by Andrew Lamb. A native of Fifeshire, Lamb 
 was ordained minister of Burntisland in 1593. Trans- 
 lated to Arbroath in 1596, he remained there till 
 1600, when he was elected to the second charge of 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 5, 82, 150 ; iii. 462, 843. 
 t Ibid., i. 8, 151 ; ii. 610.
 
 XCV111 HISTOKY OF THE 
 
 South Leith. His preferment as minister of the 
 King's House, or chaplain of the royal household (with 
 the teinds of Kirkinner and Kirkcowan) was sanc- 
 tioned by the General Assembly. On the 24th 
 March 1603, he was appointed commendator of the 
 Abbey of Cupar. He preached at Holyroodhouse on 
 the morning of the 5th April 1603, immediately be- 
 fore the king's departure from Scotland to occupy 
 the English throne. Consecrated, in 1609, Bishop of 
 Brechin, he was transferred to the see of Galloway 
 in 1619, when he also became Dean of the Chapel 
 Royal. Afflicted with blindness he latterly resided 
 at Edinburgh where he died in 1634.* 
 
 Mr James Nicolson, minister of Meigle, was, in 
 1602, nominated as minister of the King's House ; he 
 was appointed to the see of Brechin in 1607. He 
 died before consecration, t 
 
 An Act of Parliament was passed in 1579, enjoin- 
 ing the magistrates of burghs, and provosts of colleges 
 to provide " sang scuilis " in their several localities. 
 In order to the greater efficiency of the Chapel Royal 
 as a musical seminary, the king's chief " violar," 
 Thomas Hudsoun, was, by a royal letter, dated 5th 
 June 1586, appointed "Master" of the institution; 
 he was also appointed chief of the king's " vther chan- 
 torie collegis." His appointment was confirmed by 
 Parliament in 1592. And thereon follows the provi- 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 103, 151, 393, 777 ; ii. 528, 777, 785, 889. 
 t Ibid., i. 151 ; ii. 837.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. XC1X 
 
 sion : " And becaus thair is ane greit pairt of the 
 fruittis and rentis of the kirkis and benefices perten- 
 ing to the said Chappell Royall disponit and assignit 
 to the ministeris serving the cure of the saidis kirkis : 
 Thairfoir His Majestic, with auise foresaid, ordanis and 
 commandis his hienes collectour generall and thesau- 
 rair of the new augmentationis to answer and mak 
 payment zeirlie to the said Thomas of samekle as he 
 sail want of the zeirlie fruittis and rentis of the saidis 
 kirkis and teyndis thairof, be the benefices or stipendis 
 assignit or disponit to the ministeris furth of the 
 same. And for the remanent prebendaries and 
 rentis of the said Chappell Royall, foundit vpoun tem- 
 porall landis and disponit to quhatsumevir vtheris 
 nor to the said Thomas, and vse of the saidis musici- 
 anis at ony tyme sen the dait of his said gift : Findis 
 and declaris that he hes guid richt and actioun to 
 persew for reductioun and annulling thereof, to the 
 effect that the same may be josit and vsit according 
 to the effect and meaning of the said gift and proui- 
 sion in all pointis. And becaus it is speciallie pro- 
 uydit be the said letter that the said Thomas sal 
 haue payit to him zeirlie in his fie, be the Collectour 
 Generall off the superplus, of the thriddis of benefices 
 within this realme, the sowme of tua hundreth pundis 
 monie, ay and quhill samekle of the rentis of the 
 same Chappell Royall be recoverit be him as will 
 extend to the same sowme." The Act concludes by 
 declaring that the king should not fill up the vacant
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 prebendaries so as to deprive Hudsoun of his 
 office. * 
 
 The interests of the musicians serving in the 
 Chapel Royal were further secured by the following 
 Act, passed in 1594 : 
 
 " Our Souerane Lord and Estaitis of this present Parliament, 
 considdering that his Maiesties maist noble progenitoris of guid 
 meraorie conforme to the example of vther ciuile and Christiane 
 princes foundit the Chappell Eoyall of Striuiling, and disponit 
 certane landis, rentis, and benefices thairto for interteynement of 
 ane certane nowmer of Musicianis, to mak residence and seruice 
 in his hienes house and Chappell at all tymes requisit, neuirthe- 
 less be the inoportune sute of sindrie personis in his Maisties 
 minoritie, the rentis of the said benefice ar sua alterit and dis- 
 ponit that the saidis musicianis are not hable to mak residence 
 nor thair is na thing left to thame to leif vpoun, bot that the 
 said erectioun and fundation appearis alluterlie to decay : THAIR- 
 FOIR his hienis and estaitis foirsaidis, retretis, rescindis, cassis, and 
 annullis all takis, pensionis, or vther dispositionis quatsumever 
 maid be his hienes of the few males and dewties of few landis 
 and of the dewties of the takis of teyndis of the said benefice or 
 ony part of the same to quatsumeuir persone or personis at ony 
 tyme heirtofoir And decernis the saidis takis, pensionis, and 
 vther dispositionis foirsaidis of the few males of the saidis landis 
 and of the dewties of the takis of the teyndis thairof to be 
 null : Saulffand allanerlie and exceptand the assign ationis maid 
 to the ministeris resident and servand the cures of the kirkis of 
 the said benefice." f 
 
 A solitary reference sums up the musical history 
 of the Chapel Eoyal from the period of Hudson's 
 appointment as chief musician up to the close of the 
 sixteenth century. That reference, contained in " the 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., iii. 563, 564. f Ibid., iv. 75.
 
 UHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. ci 
 
 Inventory " of Sir Walter Scott of Branxholm, dated 
 at Hawick, llth April 1574, is in these terms : 
 
 " Item, to Schir James Castellaw,* preceptor to the sex barnes 
 foundin within our Soverane Lordis Chapell Royall of Striueling, 
 as for the said barnis pairt of Sanct Marie Kirk of Lowis, for 
 certane zeiris preceding the xx day of Februar, anno Lxxxiij 
 four scoir threttene pundis vjs viijd." -f- 
 
 The preceding extract shows that the office of pre- 
 ceptor or " master of the six bairns " was, in 1574, 
 held by James Castellaw, whom we shall find dis- 
 charging the duties many years afterwards. 
 
 On the 14th May 1601, Mr William Chalmer (pro- 
 bably of the family of Drumlochy) was admitted 
 "Iwter" of the Chapel Royal. J In 1605 he obtained 
 a royal signature for a grant of a yearly pension for 
 life of the third of the prebendary of Kippen, 
 extending to 8, 17s. 9Jd. ; the third of the nunnery 
 of Manuel, extending to 42, 12s. lO^d. ; and out 
 of the thirds of Arbroath, 15 bolls, 2 firlots, 2 pecks 
 of meal ; that is to say, out of Kirktoun 8 bolls, out 
 of Colistoun 6 bolls meal, and out of Brakis the 
 rest extending in all to 50 ; and 16 bolls meal or 
 thereby, in consideration of " the gude, trew, and 
 
 * The name Castellaw is clearly of territorial origin. It was the desig- 
 nation of lands, situated at the base of Turnhouse Hill, parish of Glencross, 
 Edinburghshire, the teinds of which belonged to the Chapel Royal. There 
 were four prebendaries of Castellaw among the offices of the Chapel Royal. 
 
 f Edinb. Com. Reg., iii., 18th November 1574. 
 
 Privy Seal Register, Ixxiii. 292. 
 
 9
 
 Cll HISTORY OF THE 
 
 thankfull service done to his majesty in the office of 
 lectorie in his Majesty's house." In the instrument 
 of gift which is dated at Hampton Court, on the 27th 
 September, and at Edinburgh, 31st December 1605, 
 the grantee is described as "Mr William Chalmer," his 
 Majesty's "servitour." 
 
 In the Register of Presentations appears, under 
 the 8th July 1605, a royal precept for a grant under 
 the Privy Seal to Symeoun Ramsay, son of the 
 late - - Ramsay, indweller in Dalkeith, of the pre- 
 bendary of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, founded on 
 the parsonage and vicarage of the Kirk of Kells, in 
 the shire of Wigtown, during his lifetime, " for his 
 better sustentatioun and intertenement at the scuillis, 
 and to encourage him to continow in the studie of 
 letters and exerceismusick." The office, it is further 
 set forth, was vacant by the decease of Andrew 
 Gray.t 
 
 For many years, notwithstanding feeble attempts 
 after a better state of things, the revenues of the 
 institution were almost wholly secularised. John 
 Gib, who was appointed groom of the Privy Cham- 
 ber when the king was under the age of nine years, 
 acquired an easy ascendancy over his royal master. 
 This is abundantly evidenced by his having be- 
 stowed upon him a succession of immunities and 
 offices. That he might enjoy the revenues, Gib was 
 
 * Register of Presentations to Benefices, iii., fol. 116. 
 t Ibid., iii., fol. 108.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. ciil 
 
 constituted "Prebendary of the Chapell Royall of 
 Striuiling, callit the personage of Dalmellingtoun 
 in the dyocis of Glasgw." This office, he received 
 by a letter under the Privy Seal, dated 9th Feb- 
 ruary 1585-6. In the instrument of gift it is set 
 forth that it was granted on the death of " Schir 
 Andro Buchquhan, last prebender and possessour 
 thereof. "* The gift was followed by a letter under 
 the Privy Seal, dated 14th September 1588, in which 
 Gib was authorised to receive the third part of the 
 parsonage teinds of Dalmellington, belonging to the 
 Chapel Royal. Nor by these grants was the king's 
 liberality towards his early " chamber-chield " in any 
 way exhausted. On the 18th February 1604-5, 
 James constituted his attendant receiver and adminis- 
 trator of the chapel rents. The following is embraced 
 in a royal letter of this date : 
 
 " That our souerane lord considdering quhow heirtofore his 
 rnaiestis royal predicessoures of most blissit and happie memorie, 
 Kingis of his hienes realme of Scotland, alsweill for advancing 
 of the liberall science of musick, as to induce those quha haid 
 attenit to any perfectioun in that airt, to addict thameselffis to 
 the service of thair maiestie's chappell, did specialhe erect and 
 found within thair castell of Striueling ane chappell royal, to 
 remain at their awin gift and presentatioun in all tyme heirefter, 
 and that for training up and educatioun of such personis in the 
 said service, as micht thairefter be most able to serve in the said 
 chappell : and upoun the same respect, and for maintenance and 
 sustenance of thais quha war of the said chappell royall, they 
 did doite and provyde sufficient rentis and revenewis. The quhilk 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, liii., fol. 103.
 
 CIV HISTORY OF THE 
 
 first fundatioun being so advysedlie set doun, hes nevertheles 
 beine within thir few yearis transgressit be the inopportune 
 inquyring of unqualifeit persones to be presentit to the places of 
 the said chappell being unfit for the same, and altogiddervoyde and 
 ignorant of ony knawledge in the said science of musick, quhair- 
 throw baith his maiesties chappell hes beine unprovydit of thais 
 quha could serve thairin and the rentis and emolimentis gevin to 
 the said chapell royall hes beine intromettit with be sic quha 
 can nawayes serue thairfore. And now, it being his maiesties 
 most gratious will, mynd, and intentioun to have the said 
 chapell royall in all thingis restorit to the former integritie 
 according to the first fundatioun and institutioun of the same, 
 and that the rentis thairof be employit to na uther use quhat- 
 sumever : Thairfore, with advyse of the lordis of his maiesties 
 privie counsell of Scotland, makaiid, constituand, and ordinand his 
 maiesties trustie servitour, Jhonn Gib, ane of the gromes of his 
 hienes bed chalmer, during all the dayes of his lyftyme, factour, 
 receaver, and intromettour with the haill teindis, fruitis, rentis, 
 proffittis, and emolimentis quhatsumever belangand and perten- 
 ing, or quhilkis at ony tyme heirtofore hes beine dotit and 
 provydit to the said chapell royall, alsweill that quhilk be 
 the vacand places in the said chapell may be presentlie mellit 
 [meddled] with, as all utheris presentlie possessit be sic as ar 
 provydit quhen ever the same sail onnawayes vaik be thair 
 deceis, to be imployit upoun sufficient persones qualefeit in 
 musick and able to attend and serve his hienes within the said 
 chapell ; and vtherwayes, according as it sail pleas his maiestie 
 to direct ; with power," etc.* 
 
 Disgusted with an act of sovereignty which sup- 
 pressed a national institution, and deprived its proper 
 officers of the means of living, the Scottish Parlia- 
 ment of 1606 ventured on a protest. They passed an 
 Act which, as illustrative of the intelligence and 
 patriotism of the period, we present unabridged. 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, Ixxiv., fol. 287.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CV 
 
 " Oure Souerane Lord being of intentioun not onlie to mantene 
 the honour, prerogatiue, and Majestie of his crowne of this his 
 native kingdome of Scotland, hot also to repair and redress sic 
 thingis as are done to the harme and preiudice of the samyn : 
 to the effect that quhan it sail pleis God to gif his maiestie and 
 his royall successouris occasioun to resorte to his said kingdome 
 the dignitie and ancient markis of soueranitie thairof may be 
 so inviolablie observit as may best stand with his majesties 
 honour, the reputation of the cuntrey, and deserve guid reporte 
 and estimatioun amongis strangeris : And understanding that 
 his maist nobile progenitor of happie meinorie King James the 
 fourt, following the commendable example of vtheris civill and 
 vertuous princis, foundit ane Chapell Eoyall constitute of ane 
 sufficient number of persones for serveing his majestic and his 
 successouris in Musique : and mortefeit, doted, and disponit to 
 the said Chapell Eoyall and memberis thairof diuers kirkis 
 and rentis for thair leving and intertenement, quairof the funda- 
 tion is now sa far neglectit as thair is nather ony sufficient num- 
 ber of qualefeit persones appointit for service thairin, nather is 
 the kirkis, rentis, and revenus thairof keipit in thair awin integritie 
 according to the fundationis, mortificationis, dispositionis, richtis, 
 and securities maid to the said Chapell Eoyall and memberis of the 
 samyn thairanent : Bot be the contrair the saidis landis, kirkis, 
 teyndis, patronages, proffeittis, and rentis ar analeit, dismemberit, 
 dimiuischit, and sa mony wayes enormelie hurte, that his majestie 
 and his successouris sail nocht at their cumming to this cuntrey 
 almaist find ony recorde or apperance of the said fundatioun or 
 ony monument of that Eoyall institutioun ; the inlak quairof 
 will breid dirogatioun to the honour of the realme, quhilk onlie 
 among all the Christiane kingdomes will be the meane vant that 
 civill and commendable provisioun of ordinar Musick for recrea- 
 tioun and honour of thair princis : For remede quairof and to 
 the effect that be his Majesties exampill the subiectis of the 
 said kingdome may be the forder encouraged to interteny thair 
 fundatiounis of Musick scholis, quhairby zouth may be in- 
 structit in that liberall. science quhilk quicknes the ingyne, gives 
 plesant and harmeless recreatioun to all Estaitis and estaittis of
 
 CV1 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 persones, and is ane haly exercise agreable to the religioun, and 
 commandit of God for geving of thankis and praise to his holie 
 Majestie : Our Souerane Lord with advyse and consent of his 
 haill estaittis of this present Parliament ratifeis and appreves 
 the said fundatioun and institutioun of the foirsaid Chappell 
 Eoyall, insafar as concernis the seruice of his Maiestie and his 
 successouris in Musick and all vtheris thingis nocht repugnand to 
 the trew religioun presently professit and be the law establissit 
 within this realme : And all landis, kirkis, teyndis, rentis, and 
 commodities quhatsumeuir mortefeit gevin and disponit to the 
 samyu or to ony of the memberis thairof: And becaus it is 
 knawin that nather the said seruice can be done vnles the per- 
 sones appointit for the samyn have thair competent intertene- 
 inent and auld levying, nather can their levingis be obtenit 
 gif the patronage of thair benefice be taken from his Majestie 
 and the rentis thairof from the said chappell and memberis of 
 the samin, THAIRFOIR his Majestie and Estaittis foirsaidis 
 retreittis, rescindis, cassis, and annullis all alienationis and dis- 
 positionis of landis, kirkis, and patronages of the kirkis and 
 benefices belonging or quhilkis heirtofoir ony wayes belongit to 
 the said Chappell Eoyall, and patrimonie thairof, and memberis 
 of the samyn, and all dispositionis, takkis, rentallis, pensionis, 
 and utheris richtis, titillis, and securiteis quhatsumeuir of the 
 landis, kirkis, teyndis, fruittis, rentis, dueteis, and commoditeis 
 thairof annaleit, disponit, gewin, or sett to quhatsumeuir persone 
 in hurte and prejudice of his hienes patronage of the said 
 Chappell Eoyall or in diminutioun of the best and greatest 
 rentall thairof: And decernis the indoubtit and full richt of 
 the saidis haill patronages of all and sindrie kirkis quhilkis in 
 ony tyme bigane wer dottit or annexit to the said chappell 
 sail now and in all tyme cumming belang and pertene to our 
 said souverane lord and his successouris : And that the Maisteris 
 and Memberis of the said Chappell Eoyall alreadie establisit 
 or heirefter to be provydit or establissit be our Souerane Lord 
 and his succesouris to haue indoubtit richt to the haill landis, 
 kirkis, teyndis, rentis, profh'ttis, dueties, or commoditeis quhilk 
 in ony tyme bigane belangit or appertenit to the said Chappell
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. evil 
 
 Royall and memberis thairof: And lykwayes decernis and 
 ordanis that the nullitie of the saidis alienationis, dispositionis, 
 and securiteis of the saidis patronage or thair landis, kirkis, 
 richtis, and rentis maid to thair preiudice to ony vther persone 
 in maner foirsaid be ressavit be way of exceptioun or reply 
 without ony necessitie of actioun, persute, or reductioun of the 
 samin : And that the samin sail nocht, nor may nocht, in ony tyme 
 dimming be lauchfullie possessit bot be the ordinar memberis 
 alanarlie of the said Chappell Royall being astrictit to serue 
 his Maiestie and his successouris in Musick and vtheris Godlie 
 and lauchfull exerceis agreabill to the fundatioun and nocht 
 repugnant to the trew religioun presentlie professit within 
 this realme nocht withstanding ony richt, titill, or disposition!! 
 thairof gevin or ratifeit in parliament or vtherwayes in contrair 
 the premissis in ony time bigane quhilkis his Majestie 
 and Estaittis forsaiddis declaris to haue bene fra the be- 
 ginning and to be in all tyme cumming null and of nane 
 availl, with all that hes followit or may follow thairvpon as 
 gif the samin had nevir bene grantit nor maid: Exceptand 
 alwayes and Eeserveand the aduocation, donatioun, and richt 
 of patronage of the Kirkis of the said Chappell Eoyall quhilkis 
 were disponit of befoir to George, Erie of Dunbar, or ar 
 disponit to him in this present Parliament, sua that the saidis 
 kirkis, fruitis, rentis, profeittis, dueteis, and emolumentis of 
 the samen, the aduacation, donatioun, and richt of patronage 
 thairof sail nawayes be comprehendit in this present act, 
 bot sail remane with the said George, Erie of Dunbar, his airis 
 and successouris as their heretable patronages: As gif this 
 present act had nevir bene maid and nochtwithstanding the 
 samin, and all vtheris actis and statutis maid of befoir and in 
 this present Parliament ffrome the quhilkis the saidis patronages 
 is and sail be exceptit. And also exceptand and reserveand 
 furth of this present Act and haill contends thairof the Takkis 
 of the Teyndis of the Kirk of the Sanctmarie Lowis and pen- 
 dicles thairof set to Walter Lord Scott of Balcleugh and all the 
 takkis sett to him of all vtheris Teyndis of whatsumeuir kirkis 
 perteining to the said Chappell Royall." * 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., iv. 298.
 
 cviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 The Act of 1606 was passed in the king's name, 
 .and formally received the royal sanction. But James 
 was still strongly disposed to provide for his fa- 
 vourite attendant, irrespective of every other con- 
 sideration. Accordingly, in utter disregard of the 
 Scottish Estates in disregard, too, of those serving 
 the Chapel Royal, he asserted his determination to 
 convert the revenues of the institution into a source 
 of permanent emolument to the companion of his 
 childhood. From Whitehall, on the 15th April 1610, 
 he issued a mandate in these terms : 
 
 " Ane letter maid, with advyse of his hienes richt trustie, and 
 familiar counsallour, Mr Johne Prestoun of Pennycuik, his 
 maiesties generall collectour, makand mentioun that his maiestie 
 calling to mynd the lang, guid, trew, and thankfull service done 
 to his hienes eontinuallie sen his infancie be his maiesties 
 trustie and secreit servitour Johne Gib, grume in his hienes 
 bedchalmer, and his maiestie being always of guid mynd and 
 intentioun to remvnerat his said faithfull seruice with remember- 
 ance of his hienes guidwill, as occasioun sail offer : And remem- 
 bering that albeit his maiestie hes maid and constitute the said 
 Johne maister of his hienes Chapell Eoyall of Striviling, yit the 
 said Johne rypis na proffeit nor commoditie thairby : Bot the 
 patrimonies, fruitis, and rentis of the kirkis annexit to the said 
 Chapell Koyall ar bestowit and imployit to wrang useis : Thair- 
 fore, and unto the tyme his maiestie tak full deliberatioun and 
 resolutioun tuitching the sattelling of ane constant platt how the 
 fruitis and reutis of the said Chapell Eoyall sal be imployit ac- 
 cording to the first foundatioun, his maiestie, of certane knaw- 
 ledge and proper motive, with advyse foirsaid, hes gevin, grantit, 
 and disponit, and be thir presentis geveis, grantis, and dispones 
 to the said John Gib all and sindrie the teynd scheavis and 
 utheris teyndis, fruitis, rentis, emolumentis, maillis, fermes, canis,
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. C1X 
 
 customers, caswalities, proffeitis, and dewties of all and sindrie 
 the Kirkis of Air, Alloway, Damellytoun, Dalrumpill, Balmaclel- 
 lane, Kiellis, Creiff, Glenholme, Suddick, Kirkcoune, Kirkkenner : 
 And als of all and sindrie the Kirkis of Kingarth, in Buit St 
 Marie Kirk of Lewis, and lykways of all and sindrie the fyve 
 prebendaries of Strabrane, and of the four prebendaries of Castel- 
 law, and siclyke of all and sindrie the landis of Strawbrane, 
 Castellaw, and fourtene aikeris of the landis of Raplache, 
 quhilk war and ar ane pairt of the patrimonie and propertie of 
 the said Chapell Koyall. And that in yeirlie pensioun to the 
 said Johne Gib during all the dayis of his lyftyme, togidder 
 also with the haill byrun, teyndis, fruitis, rentis, emolimentis, 
 maillis, fernies, cainis, customes, caswalities, proffeitis, and dew- 
 ties quhatsumever of the haill foirsaidis kirkis, landis, and pre- 
 bendaries restand awand unpayit in the parochinaris and fewaris 
 handis and utheris addebetit in payment thairof. . . ." * 
 
 Effectually to carry out the Royal intention a fur- 
 ther mandate was issued from Oatlands on the 3d 
 July 1612, in which Gib was constituted King's 
 Factor and Commissioner for settling all tacks and 
 assedations connected with the Chapel Royal. Of 
 that instrument an excerpt follows : 
 
 " Ane letter maid, makand mentioun that his maiestie remem- 
 bring that heretofore his hines by his gift under his hines 
 privie seill of the dait, the fyftene day of Apryle the zeir of God 
 jm v jc an( :[ en> g a ve, granted, and disponed to his hines trustie 
 and secreit serwand Johne Gib, groome of his maiesties bed 
 chalmir, all and sindrie the teynd scheavis and other teyndis, 
 fructis, rentis, emolimentis, maillis, fermes, caynes, customes, 
 caswalities, proffeitis, and dewties of all and sindrie the Kirkis 
 of Kingarth in Bute, Air, Alloway, Damellintoun, Bamaclellane, 
 Darympill, Quelton, Kelles, Kerkennare, Kirkowane, Suddick, 
 Glenhome, St Marie Lowes . . . Creif ... the [five] 
 prebendaries of Strabrane, the four prebendaries of Castellaw 
 * Privy Seal Register, Ixxix., fol. 110.
 
 CX HISTOKY OF THE 
 
 And siclyk of all and sindrie the landis of Strabrane, Castellaw, 
 and fourtene aikeris of landis of Raploch, quhilkis war and ar 
 ane pairt of the patrimonie and propertie of his maiesties 
 Chaipel Royall of Striviling, and that in zeirlie pensioun to the 
 said Johne Gib duiring all the dayis of his lyftyme, togidder 
 also with the haill byrun teyndis, fruitis, rentis, emolimentis, 
 maillis, fermes, caynes, customes, caswalitiss, proffeitis, and dew- 
 ties quhatsumever of the haill foirsaidis Kirkis, landis, and pre- 
 bendries, resten awand unpayit in the parochinaris and fewaris 
 handis, and utheris addebtit in payment thairof of all and quhat- 
 sumever zereis bygane preceiding the dait of the said gift as in 
 the same gift maid to the said Johne thairupone at mair lenth 
 is conteyned. Quhilk gift his maiestie hes of certane knaw- 
 ledge and propper motive ratifeit and approvin, and by the ten- 
 nour heirof for his hignes [sic] and his successouris ratifeis and 
 approveis in the haill heidis, claussis, and articles, provisionnis, 
 conditionis, and circumstanceis quhatsumever specifeit and con- 
 teyned thairin : And willis, grantis, declairis, and ordanes that 
 the generalitie heirof sal be als goode, valid e, effectual!, and 
 sufficient in the selff in all respectis as giff the foirsaid gift war 
 at lenth word be word insert herein dispensing thairanent by 
 thir presentis. 
 
 " And fardir, our said souerane lord, in coroboratioun of the 
 foirsaid gift and for the said Johne his better securitie 
 . . . His Maiestie with advyse of his trustie and familiar 
 counsallour, Sir Johne Arnot of Birswick, Knycht, his hines 
 generall collector deput, hes maid, constitute, and ordeyned, 
 and be the tennour heirof maki.s, constituteis, and ordainis, the 
 said Johne Gib duiring all the dayis of his lyftyme his hignes 
 factour and commissionar to the effect vnderspecifeit, geveing, 
 granting, and commiting his maiesties full power and coinmis- 
 sioun to the said Johne to sett takkis and assedationes prouyding 
 that the same be with advyse of the Erie Dumfermling, chancel- 
 lar, Sir Thomas Hammiltoun of Byres, Knycht, clerk of the 
 register, and Mr Willame Oliphant of Newtoun, his maiesties 
 aduocat, and not to indure abone nyntene zeiris, to quhatsever 
 persone or persones he pleissis without dimiuutioun of the
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXI 
 
 auld rentall of all and sindrie the tynd scheaves and other 
 teyndis, fruitis, rentis, emolimentis, and dewties quhatsoever of 
 all and sindrie the aforesaidis Kirkis and prebendaries abone- 
 named, quhilkis takis and assedationes, ane or mae, to be 
 sett be the said Johne Gib, his maiestie, with aduyse foir- 
 said, hes declaired, decernid, and ordanid, and be thir presentis 
 for his hines and his successouris, declairis, decernes, and 
 ordanis sail be als guid, valide, effectuall, and sufficient in the 
 selff in all respectis to the ressauearis, thair airis, assignayis, 
 and successouris, as gif the saidis takis and assedationis war 
 past be his maiestie himselff, or his hines successouris, and be 
 the personnes and prebendaris of the foirsaidis Kirkis gif thai 
 war on lyff, with consent of the haill patrones and chapter of 
 the said Chaipel royall and under thair seillis with all uther 
 solemnities requisit, and Ivkways with speciall and full power 
 to the said Johne to mak and sett the gersoumes and compo- 
 sitiones of the saidis takis, and to intromet with, uptak, and 
 resaue the samyn gersummes and compositiounes of the saidis 
 takis, togidder with the haill zeirlie dewties of the saidis teyndis 
 contenit in the saiddis takkis, and to use and dispone upone the 
 samyn to his awin proper use, at his pleasour, and speciallie as- 
 signis the said yeirlie dewtie of the foirsaidis Kirkis and pre- 
 bendries, teyndis, fruitis, and rentis thairof to the said Johne, 
 in payment to him of his foirsaid zeirlie pensioun during all the 
 dayis of his lyftyme. . . ." * 
 
 The preceding instrument was issued, doubtless 
 at Gib's request, to meet a possible contingency. 
 Gavin Hamilton, bishop of Galloway, t died in the 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, Ixxxii., fol. 45. 
 
 t Second son of the proprietor of Orbistoun, in the county of Lanark, 
 Gavin Hamilton studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gradu- 
 ated in 1584. He is described as having " usurped " the vicarage of Lanark, 
 but in 1590 he was lawfully admitted to the second charge of Hamilton. 
 Translated to Bothwell in 1593, he was, with other brethren, appointed by 
 the General Assembly to attend to the plantation of churches. In 1604 he 
 returned to Hamilton as minister of the first charge ; he was, on the 3d 
 March 1605, promoted to the bishopric of Galloway, and was consecrated
 
 CX11 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 preceding February, and a movement for a reunion 
 of the office of Dean of the Chapel Royal with that 
 bishopric had supervened. Such a reunion implied 
 that at least a portion of the Chapel revenues would 
 fall to be restored. Notwithstanding Gib's prevision 
 and the legal instrument for upholding his claim, the 
 movement for reviving the Deanery made progress. 
 On the 10th April 1612, about three months before 
 Gib had secured office as administrator of the 
 Chapel's rents and teinds, the Archbishop of Glasgow 
 received a letter from the king, in which his majesty 
 commanded him to appoint Mr William Birnie to the 
 office of minister of Ayr, inasmuch that he had " of 
 long tyme resolved to restore the ancient dignity of 
 our Chapell Royall and considering that Air is a 
 church thereupon depending." The king added, " Mr 
 Birnie had been chosen to serve there, the rather 
 becaus we have a mynd to prefer him also to be 
 Deane of our said Chapell.""'" 
 
 Notwithstanding Gib's strategic movement in July, 
 those who guided the royal counsels in April suc- 
 cessfully resumed them in September, when Birnie 
 was constituted " Dean," and " Master of the Chapel 
 Royal," which in the instrument of gift was declared 
 
 21st October 1610. With that bishopric he held the Commendatorship 
 of Whithorn, and also the Abbacies of Dundrennan and Glenluce, yet his 
 emoluments were insufficient for his support. In circumstances of indigence 
 he died in February 1612, about the age of fifty-one. 
 
 * Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, 
 Edinb. 1841, 4to, i. 282.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXlil 
 
 to be " heirefter callit his Majesties Chappell Koyal 
 of Scotland." That instrument proceeds : 
 
 " Oure Soverane Lord ordanis ane letter to be maid under his 
 hienes previe seall in dew forme berand that his rnaiestie calling 
 to mynd quhow that his hienes Chappell Eoyall of Scotland 
 being foundit and erectit of auld be his majesties maist noble 
 progenitores for the honor of the realnie, ornament, and decora- 
 tioun of the kirk thairof, consisting of ane dearie or maister and 
 ane certane number of prebendares quhais cure [is] to reid and 
 sing divine service in the said Chappell for the use of his maies- 
 ties court and household within this kingdome, and considring 
 that the said Chappell and service appointit to be usit therin 
 hes now of lang tyme bene intermittit in default of ane deane 
 and maister to quhome it cheiflie belongis to provyd preben- 
 dares and men skeilfull in musick for service of the said Chap- 
 pell according to the first fundatioun thairof, his maiestie being 
 now of full purpois to haif the samyn restorit and redintegrate 
 to the first integritee and everie thing that is requyrit for the 
 ornament thairof sufficientlie provydit, hes nominat and .pre- 
 sentit his weill belovit Maister Williame Birnee, minister, to the 
 place, office, and dignitie of Deane of the said Chappell Eoyall, Diletur 
 gevand and grantand to the said Maister Williame during all ^ wa ~ 
 the dayis of his lyftyme all and sindrie the landis, kirkes, teyn- 
 dis, frutes,'rentis, emolumentis, custumes, and dewteis quhatsum- 
 ever pertenyng to the samyn, with all dignities, honores, privi- 
 ledgis, immunities, and liberties injoyit at any tyme befoir by 
 any deane of the said Chappell quhilk ar not repugnant to the 
 religioun presentlie professit, and agreable to the lawes of kirk 
 and realme, with speciall power to the said Mr Williame to 
 chuise, nominat, and elect ane sufficient number of prebendares, 
 skeilfull in mwsick being apt and qualifeit for uther divine 
 service, to serve in the particular charges and services of the 
 said Chappell Eoyall, and to gift and confer vnto thame the 
 
 * Probably the sentence commencing diletur quia is left incomplete, 
 owing to some uncertainty on the part of the responsible official as to John 
 Gib's privileges and rights.
 
 Cxiv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 benefices, prebendarees, and vther thair levingis belongand to 
 thame and thair places according to the first institutioun, and 
 finallie to do all and everie thing that servis for the restablisch- 
 ment of the said Chappell and service thairin, till the samyn be 
 broucht to the first perfectioun that is requyrit : And becaus the 
 place of residence of his Majesties Counsall and Sessioun, and 
 cheif reraanaing of his hienes court quhan he sail happin to be 
 in this kingdome is and will be at the toun of Edinburgh ; and 
 that it is expedient the said Chappell be erectit in the maist 
 conspicuus place, and quhair maist resort is of court and coun- 
 sall, his maiestie thairfoir ordanit the place of speciall resi- 
 dence thairof to be at Halyrudhous in the palice of the samyn, 
 and ordanis the said Mr Williame Birnee, deane electit of the 
 same, to tak sufficient ordour for satling the said Chapell haill 
 memberis and office berares thairin, at the said Palice of Haly- 
 rudhous in sic forme and rnaner as belongis, dispensand, lyk as 
 his maiestie be thir presentis dispensis with the claus and con- 
 ditioun contenit in the first institutioun thairof gif any sic be, 
 quhairby it is appointit that the said Chappell be resident at 
 Striveling and callit the Chappell Eoyall thairof, and willis the 
 said Chappell to be heirefter callit his Majesties Chappell Eoyall 
 of Scotland : And be reddy alwayes to attend his maiesties ser- 
 vice in quhatsumever pairt of that kingdome quhair his Majestic 
 sail happin to be personallie present, and keip his majesties re- 
 sidence for the tyme : And ordanis the said lettre to be extendit 
 in the best forme with all clauses neidfull, and with command 
 in the samyn to the Lordis of Counsall, Sessioun, and Eschecker, 
 to grant and direct letres of horning vpone ane simple charge at 
 ten dayes, sequestratioun, arreistment, poinding and vtheris, 
 at the instance of the said Mr Williame for causing him be 
 ansuerit, obeyit, and payit of all and sindrie the landes, kirkes, 
 teyndes, fruites, rentis, and dewties of the said deanery and 
 benefice thairof in all tyme cuming during his lyftyme, as ac- 
 cordis. Gevin at Tibollis the tuentie day of September, the zeir 
 of God j m vj c and tweff zeiris.* 
 
 Son of Birnie of that ilk, Mr William Birnie was 
 
 * Register of Presentations, iv., fol. 80.
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXV 
 
 born at Edinburgh in 1563. After graduating at the 
 University of St Andrews in 1588, he abandoned 
 literature for merchandise, but sustaining heavy 
 losses, he returned to his studies, and entered the 
 Church. By James VI. he was presented to the 
 vicarage of Lanark in 1597, and in 1603 was by the 
 king constituted master and economus of the hospital 
 of St Leonards. He countenanced the brethren con- 
 fined at Blackness in 1606, but continued to enjoy 
 the royal confidence. His appointment to the 
 parish of Ayr in conjunction with the deanery of the 
 Chapel Royal has been referred to. When it was 
 resolved to unite the deanery with the bishopric of 
 Galloway, Birnie consented to surrender his office. 
 As a compensatory arrangement he was, on the 
 16th June 1614, presented to the parsonage and 
 vicarage of Alloway. By this gift his revenues were 
 believed to be augmented one thousand pounds Scots. 
 Yet the increase seems to have been nominal, for the 
 teinds of Alloway were not available. Consequently 
 Birnie was celebrated in these lines 
 
 " He waited on his charge with care and pains, 
 At Air, on little hopes and smaller gains." 
 
 An earnest and devoted pastor, he displayed feats 
 of agility and strength, which made him famous. 
 He died on the 19th January 1619 at the age of fifty- 
 
 six.* 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 86, 306.
 
 ,\vi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 In the see of Galloway, the new bishop was William 
 Cowper, minister of Perth, who received his com- 
 mission on the 31st July 1612, his appointment 
 being afterwards sanctioned by Parliament. Like 
 his predecessor, he held the office of Commendator of 
 Glenluce, and also possessed the revenues of the 
 Priory of Whithorn. On Birnie's resignation he was, 
 on the 2d June 1615, appointed Dean of the Chapel 
 Koyal. The following is the instrument of gift : 
 
 "Our Souerane Lord ordanes ane Lettre to be maid vnder 
 the great seill in dew and ampill forme, to and in favouris of 
 the reverend father in God, William, bishop of Galloway, 
 makand mention that forsamikle as be ane Act of lait parlia- 
 ment, halden at Edinburgh in the moneth of October, the yeir 
 of God Jaj vj c and twelff yeiris his Majestic and Estaittis of 
 the said Parliament ffor great and waichtie causis exprest in the 
 said Act dissolvit, annullit, retreittit, and rescindit ye Act of 
 annexatioun quhairby all the kirk lands within the kingdom of 
 Scotland were annexit to the Croun, in sa far as the samen Act 
 micht or may be extendit to the Abacie of Tungland and Glen- 
 luce and priorie of Quhitherne haill landis, lordschippis, barrones, 
 and vtheris pertening and belanging yairto, to the effect that 
 the saiddis abbacies and priorie with all that hes pertenit and 
 belangit to the samen, alsweill temporalitie as spiritualitie thairof, 
 micht be unitit and incorporat to and with the said bishoprik 
 of Galloway to remayne thairwith inseparable for ever lyk as 
 his Majestic and estaitis foirsaidis be vertew of the said Act of 
 Parliament, unite, annexat, and incorporat to and with the said 
 bishoprik, the foirsaids abacies and pryorie, and with all lands, 
 lordschippis, barrones, burrows, superiorities, kirkis teyndis 
 great and small, functiones, offices, iurisdictiones, and vtheris 
 alsweill of ye temporalitie as spiritualitie yairoff, to remayne 
 abyd and continow with the said bishoprik of Galloway and
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXV11 
 
 with the said William, now bishop of Galloway, and his 
 successouris efter him inseparable in all tyme cuming: And 
 ordanit that ane Lettre of donatioun sould be past and exped in 
 favouris of the said reverend father vnder the greit seill thairvpone 
 in dew and ample forme as at mair lenth is contenit in the Act 
 of Parliament conforme to the quhilk and efter sufficient tryell 
 and consideratioun takin be his Maiestie that the Chappell 
 Koyall of Striviling of auld in the dayes of uniquhile king 
 James the fourt, his hienes grandshir of maist excellent memorie, 
 wes vnitet to the said bishoprik of Galloway, togidder with 
 all landis, kirkis, rentis, offices, iurisdictiones, dignities, and 
 immunities pertening to the said Chappell Koyall, and that the 
 bishoppis of Galloway fra tyme to tyme efter the erectioune of the 
 said chappell wer deanes thairoff and chaiplanes to his maiestie 
 predecessouris : Thairfore our said Souerane Lord, with advys 
 and consent "of the lordis of his hienes secret counsall of his said 
 kingdome of Scotland, hes ratifiet, approvin, and perpetuallie 
 confermit all and quhatsumever giftis . . . and declaires 
 and ordaines that the said reverend father and his successouris 
 bishoppis of Galloway ar and salbe in all tyme cuming chap- 
 lainis to his Maiestie and his successouris as deanes of the said 
 Chapell Royall of Stirling, and remanent vther benefices abone 
 namit, anexat, and incorporat to and with the said bishoprik, 
 in maner above specefeit als lairgelie and amplie in all respectis 
 as onie bishope of Galloway, deane of the Chappell Eoyall, 
 pryour and abbot of the saidis pryorie, and abbacies bruikit and 
 joysit at ony tyme heirtofoir: And ordanes that the present 
 chaptour of the said bishoprik of Galloway with the said bishop- 
 pes seill and chaiptouris seill now vseit salbe sufficient in tyine 
 cuming for the samen bishoprik, Chapell Eoyall, and vtheris 
 benefices abonewrettin, vnitit, and anexat thairto for all fewis, 
 infeftmentis, takes, and vtheris to be grantit to the said reverend 
 father in tyme cuming : And that the said Lettre be furder exten- 
 dit with all claussis necessar and preceptis to be direct ordourlie 
 heirvpone in forme as effeires. At Theoballis the second day of 
 Junii, the zeir of God Jm vj and fyftene zeiris."* 
 
 * Register of Presentations, iv., fol. 118. 
 h
 
 CXviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Having become dean, Bishop Cowper made a vigor- 
 ous effort to recover the misappropriated revenues. 
 To his royal patron he, in January 1616, communi- 
 cated thus : 
 
 M I have intended action against all such as praesentlie pos- 
 sesses the rents of the Chappell, and shall doe what in me lyes to 
 recover them ; not for ony benefit to me, being hartlie content to 
 quyt all the rent theirof that your Hienes Chappell may be pro- 
 vydit of musitians, and the churches belonging therevnto of 
 pastors. . . . And so soone as livings may be provyded for the 
 musitians, it shalbe my great contentment to be their praesident, 
 in sending up to God, everie day, prayers and praises for your 
 Maiestie and your Eoyall children. I remember in the last con- 
 ference concerning it, your Hienes called it, Insigne Imperil, and 
 what your Maiestie estemes ony honorable ensyne of your royall 
 estait, we were most vnthankful servants if we sould not follow 
 it, and willinglie come vnder it, sen your Hienes hes geuen so 
 monifold prooffes of rare pietie and wisdome, never streatching 
 out your royal scepter to the uttermost, bot tempering things 
 lawfull with the law of expedience. In end, all my sute is, 
 your Maiestie wold be pleased to giue commandement to the 
 Lordis of your Hienes Session, that they do iustice in such 
 actions as shall come before their Lordships perteining to the 
 Chappell. Sundrie noble men haue I to do with, bot the caus 
 is your Maiestie's, and not myne." * 
 
 Whatever commands, if any, James conveyed to 
 the Lords of Session, do not appear. But John Gib 
 was arranged with ; he accepted for his claim against 
 the Chapel revenues 3000 marks, which sum was 
 paid him by the bishop. 
 
 * Original Letters relating to Ecclesiastical Affairs in Scotland. Banna- 
 lyne Club, Edinb. 1851, 4to, ii. 466.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 Yielding from his youth a reluctant support to the 
 Presbyterian clergy, James VI. fully determined, 
 after ascending the English throne, to induce his 
 northern subjects to embrace the Anglican ritual. 
 With this object in view he began in 1616, or earlier, to 
 propose a visit to his native kingdom. Preparations 
 for his reception were commenced accordingly. On 
 the 18th July 1616, the treasurer was ordained by 
 the Privy Council to advance 20,000 marks for the 
 works at Stirling, Edinburgh, and Holyrood, in view 
 of the king's visit.* 
 
 There was temporary inaction, but as James had at 
 length fixed the period of his advent, operations were 
 commenced in earnest. On the 4th February 1617 
 the Privy Council passed the following Act : 
 
 " Forsamekle as the necessitie of reparatioun and accomplishe- 
 ing of his Majesteis workis at his majesteis pallace of Halyruid- 
 hous is so vrgent in respect of the neir approtcheing of the tyme 
 appointit for his majesteis comeing heir that choise mon be 
 maid of craftismen frome all the pairtis of the cuntrey to furder 
 the saidis worke : And thairfoir the Lordis of Secreit Counsall 
 ordanis Lettres to be direct chargeing the prouest and baillies of 
 the burrowis of Dundie, St Andros, Dysert, Oail, Pittinweme, and 
 Johne Scrymgeour of Dudop, constable of Dundie, to compeir 
 and to bring, present, and exhibite with thame the personis 
 particularlie vnderwrittin nychtbouris and inhabitantis of the 
 saidis townis, with thair workloomes, befoir the Lordis of secreit 
 counsall, vpoun the ellevint day of February instant : That is 
 to say, the saidis prouest and baillies of Dundee to bring and 
 exhibite Andro Wilsoun, maistir maisoun, Thomas None, James 
 
 * Privy Council Register.
 
 rx\ HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Hunnyman, Johne Norie, Dauid Norie, Johne Donaldsoun, 
 i ; forge Hunuyman, Thomas Buquhannane, and Adam Lowry, 
 maisonis, and Johne Smyth, painter. The saiclis prouest and 
 baillies of Dysert to bring and exhibite Thomas Hird, and 
 . . . Hird, maissonis, the saidis prouest and baillies of St 
 Androis to bring and exhibite Eoger Greene, quheilwrycht, 
 Andro Wilsoun, Thomas Wilsoun, Thomas Robertsoun, Dauid 
 Robertsoun, Hew Phrew, James Phrew, Alexander Miller, 
 Thomas Pady, Johne Wilsoune, maissonis, and Dauid Greg, 
 painter : and the prouest and baillies of Pittinweyme to bring 
 and exhibite with thame, Johne Cowye, Williame Cowye, and 
 Thomas Masoun, maissonis ; and the said Johne Skrymegeour of 
 Dudop, to bring and exhibite with him the said Johne Smith, 
 painter, yf he be in his company to the effect the saidis craftis- 
 men may be imployed in his Majesteis workis foirsaidis at 
 Halyruidhous, quhair thay salbe weele vsed with reddie and 
 thankfull payment for thair labour, vnder the pane of rebellioun 
 and putting of the prouest and baillies of the burrowis foirsaidis 
 and the said Johne Skrymgeour of Dudop to the home with cer- 
 tificatioun to tliame, and thay failzet Lettres salbe direct heir- 
 opoun to putt thame thairto."* 
 
 The magistrates of Glasgow and Linlithgow were, 
 on the 10th of February, charged in like manner 
 to supply their quota of workmen. The Privy Coun- 
 cil minute proceeds : 
 
 " Forsamekle as the necessitie of perfyteing and acconiplishe- 
 ing of his majesteis werkis at the Castell of Edinburgh and 
 palice of Halyruidhous is verie vrgent in respect of the neir 
 approcheing tyme of his majesteis heir comeing as the grittest 
 expeditioun and diligence that can be vsit is litle eneugh, and 
 the saidis werkis being so necessare for the honour and credite 
 of the cuutrey mon be preferrit to all vther werkis of private 
 personis, and proficienttis mon be had frome all the pairtis of the 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, Acta 1615-17, fol. 75.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXX1 
 
 cuntrey to forder and advance the saidis werkis : Thairfore the 
 Lordis of secreit counsall ordanis lettres to be direct chairgeing 
 the prouest and baillies of Glasgw and Lynlithgw to send to his 
 majesteis palice of Halyruidhouse, the personis particularlie 
 vnderwrittin, with thair worklooraes : That is to say, the said 
 prouest and baillies of Glasgow to send in James Eankene, Dauid 
 Sclaiter, John Eankene, Johne Boyde, Johne Stewart, James 
 Eichie, and James, Johne, Dauid, maissiones; and the said prouest 
 and baillies of Lynlithgw, to send in Nicoll and John Gibsonis, 
 maissonis, and at thair comeing to Halyruidhouse, that thay put 
 thame selffis to the maister of his majesteis werkis or his deputis 
 who attendis the werke at Halyruidhous, whare thay salbe put 
 to worke, salbe weele and kyndlie vsit, and sail ressaue honest 
 and thankfull payment for thair labouris, within foure dayes 
 efter the saidis prouest and baillies beis chairgeit thairto vnder 
 the pane of rebellioun," etc.* 
 
 Further edicts were issued on the 20th February, 
 in which certain skilled workmen at Culross were 
 charged to enter service ; another on the 27th Feb- 
 ruary, when James Aytoun and other expert artificers 
 at Edinburgh were enjoined at once to repair to 
 " Halyruidhous with their workeloomes under pane 
 of rebellioun. "f 
 
 The king contemplated operations at Holyrood 
 Palace which his counsellors in Scotland would 
 not have ventured upon. It was his supreme desire 
 that the Chapel Royal of Scotland, now situated at 
 Holyroodhouse, should be specially adapted and fitted 
 up for episcopal worship. Towards this end he de- 
 spatched artists from London, who were charged 
 to wholly renew the Chapel in its interior arrange- 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, Acta 1615-17, fol. 76. t Ibid., fol. 78-80.
 
 i-xxii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ments. The existing furniture was to be taken out, 
 and all traces of Presbyterian worship obliterated. 
 Not only so, but an altar was to be constructed, 
 which, richly decorated, was to support elegantly 
 sculptured candlesticks and other ornaments. The 
 stalls of the prebendaries and choristers were to be 
 adorned with carved and gilded figures of the apostles 
 and evangelists. The English workmen completed 
 their operations in March, as would appear from the 
 following entries in the Treasurer's Accounts : 
 
 "THE EXPENSIS DEBUKSIT IN HIS MAJESTIES EFFAIKIS AND 
 DIRECTIONES OF HIS HIENES COUNSALL IN THE MONETH 
 OF MARCHE 1617. 
 
 " Item, to Nicolas Stone, carvar, citiner of Londoun, for making 
 of Stall seattis wrocht and enriched in all soirtis with bases, 
 fries, comes, armes, figuris, with fair daskis, befoir the saidis 
 stallis and seattis within his hienes Chapell Eoyall of the 
 palace of Halyrudhous, the sown of iiij c lib sterling as the 
 contract, and his acquittance produceit vpoun compt beiris, 
 extending in Scottis money to the sowme of . v m iiij c lib . 
 
 " Item, to Mathow Guidrig, painter, for painting and guilting 
 his majesteis Chapell Eoyall in the palace of Halyrudehous 
 the sowrae of four hundreth merkis sterling money extend- 
 ing in Scottis money to the sowme of iij m ij c Iib as the 
 contract and his acquittance produceit vpon compt beiris, 
 
 . iij m ij c lib . 
 
 " Item, to the said Nicoll Stone and Mathow Guidrig, for thair 
 awin consideratioun and thair menis drink silver L lib ster- 
 ling money, extending in Scottis money to vj lib as the 
 precept and thair acquittance, produceit vpon compt beiris, 
 . . . vi c lib ." 
 
 The king's procedure in connection with a struc-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXX111 
 
 ture in which his royal mother, amidst the execrations 
 of the populace, had been present at mass fifty- 
 six years before, was singularly indiscreet. Wild 
 rumours spread everywhere, especially among the 
 citizens of Edinburgh, that " the mass would surely 
 follow the setting up of images." Bishop Cowper 
 apprehended popular violence and a desecration of 
 the sacred structure. So along with the archbishop 
 of St Andrews and the bishops of Aberdeen and 
 Brechin, and several of the ministers of Edinburgh, 
 he entreated the king "to stay the affixing of the 
 portraits." James expressed indignation. In a 
 letter dated " Whitehall, 13th March," he chided the 
 bishops and ridiculed their apprehensions. "Yee 
 could," he wrote, " endure the dieuels to be figured for 
 ornament of your churches, but can not allow that 
 the patriarches and apostles should have like place." 
 Then he informed the expostulating ecclesiastics that 
 he was independent of their mediation with the 
 people, since he remarked, "They have experience 
 of Oure favour, and Wee of their love, so as nather the 
 one nor the other is to be doubted of." Reminding 
 the bishops of the tumult at Edinburgh, on the 17th 
 December 1596,* he sums up, "The pastor, not the 
 
 * This tumult, long remembered as the Seventeenth of December, took 
 place at Edinburgh in this fashion : Against what he termed " unlawful 
 convocations of the clergy," James had issued an edict ; one Black, a 
 Presbyterian minister, was prosecuted for slandering him and his queen ; 
 and certain nobles, members of the Romish faith, who had been exiled, 
 were allowed to return. So on Friday, the 17th December, some malicious 
 person shouted out that certain Presbyterian ministers, who had convened
 
 CXXiv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 people, is the cause of their misleading; so Wee 
 doubte not to giue them contentment, and that at 
 Oure being there, they will in such poyntis rather 
 trust Vs, and conforme themselues to Oure so well 
 warranted desires, nor the passion of any preacher 
 there of whatsoeuer degrie." While ventilating his 
 indignation, James consented to " stay the erecting 
 of the portraits," "not," as he said, "for ease of 
 their hearts, or confirming them in their error, but 
 because the work could not be done so quickly in 
 that kind as was first appointed." Referring to the 
 royal epistle in a letter to his friend, Patrick Simson, 
 minister of Stirling, dated the 26th of May, Bishop 
 Cowper writes, " Concerning images, we have gotten 
 them discharged, upon a letter we wrote, subscribed 
 by the bishops, Mr Patrik Galloway and Mr Johne 
 Hall ; but yit, with a sharpe rebuke and checke of 
 ignorance, both from his Majestic and Canterburie,* 
 calling our skarring at them scandalum acceptum set 
 non datum. We beare the reproofe the more patientlie, 
 becaus we have obteaned that which we craved, "t 
 
 in St Giles Church, were about to slay the king, who was then in the 
 adjoining structure of the Tolbooth, whereupon a multitude assembled and 
 made a prodigious clamour. The demonstration was as pitiable as it was 
 uncalled for, and it would have been speedily forgotten but for James's 
 own imprudence in seeking revenge for unintended injury. 
 
 * George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, a mild prelate, was used as 
 an instrument by James VI. in persuading the Scottish clergy to conform 
 to Episcopacy. But the real author of the letter was no doubt William 
 Laud, then the king's chaplain. 
 
 t Calderwood's History, vii. 245 ; Spottiswoode's History, iii. 239 ; 
 Original Letters, etc., ii. 499.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXV 
 
 The Scottish authorities were willing that the 
 Chapel Royal should not lack in decorations of an 
 inoffensive character. Under April 1617, the Trea- 
 surer's Accounts present the following entry : 
 
 " Item, to James Eae, merchand burges of Edinburgh, for cer- 
 tane crammassie velvit, Spanies teffitie, and clinking pas- 
 mentis, coft fra him, to be ane cloth to hing befoir his 
 majestic in the kirk, as the compt with his acquittance 
 produceit heirvpoun beiris, . . iij c lx lib iij 8 vj d ." 
 
 The musical arrangements were also fully attended 
 to. The following outlays by the Treasurer are 
 entered the first in May, the second in July : 
 
 " Item, to Mr Dalam, organ maker, in consideratioun of his 
 paines and travillis, tuentie angellis, as the precept and 
 his acquittance produceit vpon compt beiris, Inde, . 
 
 . j c xxxiij lib vj 8 viij d . 
 
 Item, to Alexander Chisholme and Adam Wallat, musitianes, 
 for furnissing to everie ane of thame a suit of apperrell, as 
 the precept with his acquittance produceit vpon compt 
 beiris, ...... vj c lib ." 
 
 On the 16th May 1617, James arrived at Edin- 
 burgh, and on the day following, being Saturday, 
 choral service in the Chapel Royal was celebrated in 
 his presence. There, too, was the Holy Communion 
 dispensed on Whit-Sunday, the 8th June, when a few 
 noblemen and several bishops partook kneeling. 
 Bishop Cowper refused to kneel, but at next Easter 
 he fully complied with the English ritual.'"" The 
 
 * Calderwood's History, vii. 246, 297.
 
 c \\vi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 struggle between Church and King, begun in the 
 Chapel Royal of Scotland in May 1617, did not termin- 
 ate till the Stewart dynasty was dethroned and exiled. 
 
 James proceeded to Stirling, and on the 19th July, 
 within the structure of the Chapel Koyal there, he 
 received a deputation from the University of Edin- 
 burgh, the several regents conducting in his presence 
 a philosophical debate. In compliment to the dispu- 
 tants, the king decreed that the University of the capi- 
 tal should be styled " The College of King James." 
 
 Before the king left Scotland, he, on the advice of 
 Laud, gave orders that musical service in the Chapel 
 Royal should be conducted daily. The command was 
 not acted upon. A solitary musical demonstration 
 took place on the 19th August, when Bishop Cowper 
 baptized a son of John Murray, groom of the bed- 
 chamber, afterwards Earl of Annandale. On that 
 occasion, writes Calderwood, " there was playing of 
 organes, and singing of nuns and boyes, both before 
 and efter sermone. The bishope came doun, efter 
 sermone, to a table standing in the floore, covered 
 with fyne linnen or Cambridge [cambric], where there 
 was also a basen of silver and a lawer, with some 
 cuppes."t In a letter to his Majesty, dated 15th 
 September, Bishop Cowper detailed these occurrences. 
 The letter proceeds : 
 
 * Life of King James the First, by Robert Chambers, Edinb. 1830, ii. 
 244, 245. 
 t Calderwood's History, vii. 277.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXV11 
 
 " Most Gratious and Sacred Soueraine, 
 
 " Please your Hienes, I have as yet done no service in 
 the Chappell, except the baptising of John Murray his sonne, 
 where the organes and musitians, four on everie part, men and 
 boyes, agreit in pleasant harmonic, to the contentment of all, 
 becaus they vnderstood what wes soung. The organes hes bene 
 too commonlie visited, the organist shew me that the spakes 
 that raises the bellowes had bene somewhat vuskilfullie vsed be 
 ignorant people. I shew it to my Lord Chancellar,* who hes 
 commanded to keip them more carefullie, yet the myce and 
 dust of the house will do them evill if convenient coverings be 
 not provyded for them in tyme. For this your Maiestie wilbe 
 pleased giue direction to the Thesaurar; as also for interten- 
 ment of the Organist, who can both mak and mend and play 
 vpon them in ordour, for the rent present the Chappell hes 
 will scarse susteue the Prebendaries that ar, except the Lordis 
 help to restore the living that hes bene taken from it, as I hope 
 they will. As for me I see no appearance of a loodging allowed 
 for me ; four chalmers are offered 'me, wherein a man may not 
 possiblie turne a halbert ; they can not conteine the half of my 
 familie, and some of them wanting chimneyes, can not be for 
 studentes. How the rest of the houses ar disponed, your 
 Majestic will learne of others better nor of me. Neither key 
 of Chappell nor organe loft is committed to me. I wryt no 
 thing be way of complaint, but that your Maiestie, vnderstanding 
 how matters ar, may giue direction as best pleases your 
 Hienes. Sen everie Minister of the countrey hes a manse at 
 his Kirk, I think your Maiesties will shalbe, that your Hienes 
 Deane haue ane also, either within or without, convenient for his 
 estait. Otherway hard to me to wait vpon dailie service there. 
 Bot referring all to your Maiesties good pleasure, I humblie tak 
 my leaue, and rests your Maiesties humble seruant and dailie 
 oratour, WILLIAM, BISHOP OF GALLOWAY, f 
 
 " Cannogait, Septembre 15, 1617. 
 
 " To his Maiestie." 
 
 * Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline. 
 f Original Letters, ii. pp. 509, 510.
 
 r \\viii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 His complaints being unredressed, Bishop Cowper 
 supplicated the king anew. " As to the house," he 
 writes, in April 1818, "your maiestie is informed, the 
 Commissioners of your Highnes affaires hes appointed 
 for me, I took my Lord Secretaire to sie it ; the best 
 of them [the rooms] is not the lenth of a speare, 
 and four of them scarse able to conteine one bed. I 
 hope my Lord Secretarie will shew your Maiestie the 
 truth. I have committed no fault that I suld be 
 shutt vp in a prison, their being larger rowmes anew 
 possest by others. Bot that your Maiestie be not 
 fashed with such triffles, if it may be your Highnes 
 pleasure to command the Treasurer to discharge me 
 on termes taxation. I am bound to pay for Galloway, 
 and that for this half yeare onlie. I shall so long as I 
 Hue furnish a house to my self ; and yet more nor this 
 is given everie yeare in pension to some preachors. 
 In good faith, Sir, I spended that summe in attend- 
 ing your Maiestie at your incomming; my self 
 and ane other lived at the King's table ; bot my 
 retinue vpon my charges, man and horse, six dailie 
 in number." 
 
 Writing in May or June, after mentioning the sum 
 he had paid to Gib,* the bishop adds " It is hard 
 for me to giue of my oune poore portion for restitu- 
 
 * Gib was not satisfied with the sum of 3000 marks paid him for the 
 surrender of his grants, for as titular of Dalmellingtou he continued to draw 
 the parsonage tithes of that church. Increasing in wealth as he grew in 
 royal favour, he was at length, in 1624, dubbed a knight ; he passes from the 
 scene as Sir John Gib of Knock (Life and Times of Robert Gibb, by Sir 
 George Duncan Gibb, Bart. Lond. 1874, 8vo, ii. 50-65).
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXX1X 
 
 tion of the Chappel, and to serue in it without house, 
 maile [rent], or stipend ; for in truth I am forced to 
 give all to the prebendaries." 
 
 As the king remained silent, the disappointed 
 bishop entreated on his behalf the good offices of 
 his friend John Murray. Writing to this influential 
 personage on the 10th August 1618, he proceeds : 
 " It is verie hard that I suld giue my owne geir to re- 
 deme a rent to the Musitians ; for in gud faith I may 
 not spend abone an hundreth merkis of our money of 
 all the rent of the Chappel in the yeare. And then 
 to pay for my house mail three hundreth merkis 
 yearlie, and more." t 
 
 Bishop Cowper's request was at length acceded to, 
 for on the 9th January 1619, the Privy Council gave 
 orders that he should be paid the sum of 1928, 
 17s. 8d., being arrears on account of house rent. The 
 bishop died on the 15th February thereafter, in his 
 fifty-third year. 
 
 In a brief autobiography Bishop Cowper relates that 
 in his eighth year he was taken by his father from 
 Edinburgh to the school of Dunbar, where he remained 
 four years. Sent at the age of thirteen to the Univer- 
 sity of St Andrews, he there prosecuted his studies for 
 three years. Rejecting proposals to enter into busi- 
 ness, he proceeded to Hoddesdon, near London, where 
 he assisted a fellow countryman named Guthrie in con- 
 
 * Origiual Letters, ii. 562, 563 ; Ibid., ii. 558, 559. 
 t Original Letters, ii. 572.
 
 CX XX HISTORY OP THE 
 
 ducting a school. Afterwards he studied theology at 
 London. In his nineteenth year returning to Edin- 
 burgh, he became a licentiate of the Church. He was 
 appointed minister of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, but 
 there, owing to "the weaknesse of the soil in winter 
 and the unwholesome waters," his health was seriously 
 impaired. Translated to Perth in 1595, he there re- 
 mained nineteen years, when he was offered the bishop- 
 ric of Galloway. In his biographical sketch he com- 
 plains that he suffered through misrepresentation, 
 yet it is undeniable that he was one of the forty-two 
 ministers who, in 1606, subscribed a protest to Parlia- 
 ment against the introduction of Episcopacy, and that 
 his subsequent acceptance of a bishopric afforded 
 ground for animadversion. Not only so, but if we 
 are to credit the author of a contemporary narrative 
 respecting the Chapel Koyal, he was chargeable with 
 providing for his relatives out of church funds under 
 his control, without any due regard to the discharge 
 of duties for which these funds were made applicable.* 
 He was nevertheless imbued with pious sentiment, 
 was an erudite theologian and a faithful pastor. His 
 theological works, consisting of sermons and exposi- 
 tions, collected in 1623 in a folio volume, are com- 
 posed in an easy style, and abound in striking illus- 
 trations. Among his works is a defence of Epis- 
 copal government against the unjust imputations of 
 Mr David Hume of Godscroft. 
 
 * Seejposiea.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXX1 
 
 Among the original documents embraced in that 
 volume of Sir James Balfour's Collection, entitled, 
 " Church Affaires from the zeire of God 1610 to the 
 zeire 1625," * is a folio manuscript, entitled, " Infor- 
 matione anent the first and present esteat of the K. M. 
 Chapell Royall." This document, which seems to 
 have been prepared as a report on the condition 
 of the Chapel, immediately subsequent to Bishop 
 Cowper's death, proceeds thus : 
 
 "King James the fourt of gude inemorie, in the zeir [1501] 
 foundit the Chapell Eoyall of Sterling, appointing for the fun- 
 dation xvi. chanonis, nyne prebendaries and sax boyis, with 
 yearly rent as followes : The fundation is confirmed be Popis 
 Alexander and Julius. 
 
 " The saxtein chanonis, besyd the deane (who had a rent of 
 five hundreth mark assigned to him furth of these foundit and 
 mortified revenues) ar these 
 
 1. The subdeane. His rent wes the half of Kirk Inner and 
 Kirkowen in Galloway, which payit to him, besyd the service, of 
 the cure at the kirkis, fourteen scoir markis yeirly, now payis only 
 xl. mark. Andrew Cowper, brother to the late B of Galloway, is 
 titular. 
 
 " 2. The sacristan, who had the iust vther half of the saidis 
 kirkis, payit of old as the vther dilapidat, payis now as the vther 
 xl. mark zeirly. The said Andro Couper is titular of this also. 
 
 " 3. The chanter ; 4. the Thesaurer ; 5. the Maister of the 
 bairnis. Eche one of these had a rent 100 lib. zeirly furth of S. 
 Marie of the Lowis. One William Scot that dwelleth in the 
 border is chanter, who can not serve nor will not reside. Mr 
 Thomas Gray is Thesaurar in lyk maner non resident never 
 comis to the Chapel. James Castellaw is Maister of the 
 bairnis ; he attendis dayly, bot the rent is diminisched to 100 
 mark, being first 100 lib. The revenues of this kirk, ar set in 
 long taks to the Erie of Bakleugh, worth 2000 lib. zeirly. 
 * Advocates Library. MSS. 33, 3, 12.
 
 , \xxii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 " 6. The chanceler, his rent wes the Kirk of Sowthweik, whilk 
 now the organist hes. It payes 100 marks be zeir. It had also 
 ane kirk in Bute, whilk now payis 50 mark be zeir, and the 
 trumpeter Fergison hes it. Thir ar called the sax dignities. 
 
 " 7. The person of Kellis hes now 100 lib. zeirly. A child, 
 Thomas Co wper.nevoy to thelateBischop,is titular can notserve. 
 
 " 8. The person of Balmaklellan hes only 50 marks ; Patrick 
 Dumbar, titular, attends and is skilfull. 
 
 " 9. The person of Glen whom hes 50 mark, and hes sold it to 
 my L. Wigton. Vaikand. 
 
 " 10. The person callit Air primo hes 100 lib. zeirly. The foir- 
 said Andro Cowper titular of this also. 
 
 "11. The person of Alloway hes 80 mark zeirly. Another 
 child, James Cowper, nevoy to the late Bischop, is titular, and 
 can not serve. 
 
 " 12. The person of Dalmellinton hes 80 mark. Johne Gib his 
 ma ties servant is titular. No attendance. 
 
 " 13. The person of Dalrumpill hes 50 mark. Andro Sinklar, 
 titular, attendis and is skilfull. 
 
 " 14. Culton now devyded betuix tuo personis, the said James 
 Castellaw and Barnard Lyndesay,* his majesties servant ; eche 
 of them has xl. lib. zeirly. Barnard Lyndesay can not attend. 
 
 * Bernard Lindsay was one of the cliamber chields of James VI. who at- 
 tained to special favour. Son of Thomas Lindsay, Searcher-general of Leith 
 and Snowdoun Herald, he received from the king in acknowledgment of 
 service a ruinous structure at Leith, called " The King's Work," which he 
 substantially renovated. It was granted to Lindsay as a free barony, on the 
 condition that one of the cellars was to be kept in repair for holding wines 
 and other provisions for the king's use. When James returned from Den- 
 mark with his queen, on the 1st May 1590, they proceeded to the King's 
 Work at Leith, where they remained an entire week. Lindsay, it is re- 
 corded, constructed a large tennis-court, where the king and notable 
 foreigners engaged in recreation. The site of the King's Work is now 
 occupied by the Custom House, and a principal street in Leith is named 
 Bernard Street. Lindsay is, in Walton's Life of Sir Henry Walton, men- 
 tioned as having introduced Sir Henry to James VI. under his assumed name 
 of Octavio Baldi, ambassador of the Duke of Florence. Accompanying the 
 king to England, he acquired the lands of Lochhill in Edinburghshire, and 
 others (Lord Lindsay's Lives of the Lindsays, i. 319, 385, 441 ; Acta. Parl. 
 Scot. iv. 315; Walton's Lives).
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXxiii 
 
 "15 and 16. Creif, having tuo personis foundit, the said Mi- 
 Thomas Gray one, and a child callit Henry Mow the vther. 
 Eche of them hes 80 marks zeirly. This kirk is set in taks. It 
 is worth 22 chalderis zeirly by the Vicarage. 
 
 " Thir ar the xvi. chanonis. 
 
 " The nyn prebendars ar, fyve in Strabran, whairof the said 
 Patrik Dumbar hath one, and Sthephan Tillidaf the vther four ; 
 ilk prebendarie is xx lib. zeirly. The vther four ar in Castellaw, 
 whairof the said James Castellaw hath one, William Duncanson 
 that dwelleth into Pole [Poland], another, and James Keith, who 
 attendis and is skilfull, the vther two. Thir prebendis ar worth 
 eche of them 35 mark zeirly. 
 
 " The sax boyis had 90 markis among them, whairof their is 
 none this day ; and of all the xvi chanonis and nyn prebendis, 
 only sevin attendis, and hes no meanes, so that only they sing 
 the common tune of a Psalme, and, being so few, ar skarse 
 knowen. 
 
 " Item, thair is aikeris besyde Sterling, called the Kaploch,* 
 foundit and perteining to it, bot hes never payit this long 
 tyme. 
 
 " Item, 312 lib. zeirly furth of Kintyr and Loquhaber, payit 
 ever till of late zeiris. 
 
 * Thir abone written kirkis and rentis are reknit in the funda- 
 tion to have payit to the chapell then in the 1501 zeir 2000 
 lib. zeirly, whilk is more then ten thousand lib. now, and this 
 day payis only tuell hundreth lib., and most of it to non 
 residentis. 
 
 " EEMEDIES. 
 
 "First. To restore the 312 lib., whilk wes duly payit furth of 
 Loquhaber and Kintyre furth of the king's duties all the dayis 
 
 * Raploch, a place where archery was practised, as the name implies, is 
 situated at the western base of Stirling Rock ; it is occupied by a modern 
 hamlet. On the 22d August 1607, Archibald Cunnynghame of Ladyland 
 was served heir of Robert Cunnynghame, his father, in fourteen acres of 
 land at Raploch, commonly called Preistis Akris, lying near the castle of 
 Stirling ( Inq. Speciales Stirling, No. 60).
 
 ,. \XXIV HISTORY OF THE 
 
 of King James the fourt and fyft, and of late ceased, these 
 boundis ceasing to be ciuill, whilk now, blessed be God, is 
 vtherwayes, and suld be restored. 
 
 " Secondly. To assay be course of law to repair the dilapidat 
 estait of this benefice, diminution of rentall being so evident, 
 and be the lawis of Scotland a clear irritation of ane tak; 
 besyd that, these takis wanting the patron his consent (who is 
 his majestie), can not subsist, and to this effect to writ to my 
 lord advocat and Secretar to have a cair herein as of his Majesties 
 proper service. 
 
 "Thirdly. Seing thair hes been mortified to the chapell 
 besyd the abone written rentis, evin in the fundation, the pryorie 
 of Restenot,* the prebendaries of Spot, Belton, Duns, Pinkarton, 
 lyand within the college kirk of Dumbar, Kinkairn in Mar, 
 Pettie Brachly and Duthell in Murray, Ellam and Cranschawis 
 in Lamermuir, all this as conteined in the fundation, Item, 
 be act of parliament the pryorie of Coldingame is armexat 
 to the chapell, of all whilkis the chapell hes nothingf to 
 try (seeing the titulars of the chapell hes never renuncit these 
 kirkis and benefices) how they are lost, and [that] either by 
 law or composition some zeirly dutie may be had furth of 
 them. 
 
 " Lastly. If no better meanes can be had, a new fundation 
 must supplie it, or els all will cease. And a howse to the Dean 
 to dwell in wald be giuen, or to pay the meill [rent] of it, as 
 wes befoir." 
 
 By an Act of Parliament, passed in 1606, which 
 recalled alienations of land that had formerly be- 
 longed to the institution, an exception was made in 
 favour of Walter, Lord Scott of Buccleuch, in respect 
 of the church of St Mary Lowes, in Ettrick Forest. 
 
 * Roseneath is here meant. 
 
 t The annexation of Coldingham Priory with the Chapel Royal, though 
 legally proceeded with, was not practically carried out.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXXV 
 
 Consequent on that exception, there proceeded under 
 the Privy Seal, in 1612, a royal letter, ratifying to 
 Walter, Lord Scott of Buccleuch, * a lease of the 
 teinds provided for his predecessor. That document 
 is of the following import : 
 
 "Ane lettre maid, ratefeand, and approwand, and for his 
 maiestie and his successores, perpetuallie confirmand the tak and 
 assedatioun maid, set, and grantit be William Scott, Chanter of 
 his hienes Chapell Koyalle of Striuiling, Mr Thomas Gray, 
 thesaurer thairof, and James Castellaw, Maister of the sax bairnis 
 of ye samyne Chapell, with consent of the prebendaris and 
 chapter of the said Chapell royall, and of Mr James Gray, 
 maister thairof,-and commissionar for his maiestie in that pairt; 
 to vmquhile Sir Walter Scot of Branxholme, knyght, thairefter 
 styllit Walter, Lord Scott of Bukglugh, and to his airis maill 
 beirand the armes and surname of Scott, and thair assignayis 
 quhatsumever, ane or ma off all and sundrie the teynd schevis, and 
 utheris teyndis, fruittis, rentis, proffeittis, proventis, emolumentis, 
 and dewties quhatsumever, baithe greit and small, baithe per- 
 sonage and viccarage, of the paroche kirk and parochin of Sanct 
 Marie kirk of Lowis, lyand in Ettrick forrest, and within the Shir- 
 refdome of [Selkirk], and of all landis, rowmes, and possessionis 
 within the samyne, for all the dayes, yeiris, termes, and space of 
 the lyftime of the said vmquhile Sir Walter, and efter his deceis, 
 for all the dayes, yeiris, space, and termes of nyntene zeiris, and 
 efter the ische of the saidis nynetene zeiris, for all the dayis, 
 zeiris, space, and termes of the second nynetene zeiris; and 
 efter the ische of the saidis second nynetene zeiris, ffor all the 
 dayes, space, zeiris, and termes of the thrid uther nynetene zeiris 
 successive nixt efter the entrie of the said vmquhile our traist 
 cousing and counsallour Walter, Lord Scott of Bukglugh, and 
 
 * Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, a man of great courage and devoted 
 patriotism, was a meritorious favourite of James VI. He was, on the 16th 
 May 1606, raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Scott of Buccleuch.
 
 CXXXvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 his forsaidis thairto, quhilk was and begane at the dait vnder- 
 written of the said tak and assedatioun, for payment of certane 
 zeirlie dewtie thairin contenit as the samyne, of the dait, at 
 I'M in burgh, the fourtene day of September, the zeir of God jm 
 vj c and thrie zeires, at mair lenth proportis in all and sundrie 
 pointis, passis, heidis, articlis, claussis, and conditionis and cir- 
 cumstancis quhatsumever thairin contenit, efter the forme and 
 tennor thairof,with all that hes folio wit or may follow thairvpone: 
 Attoure our said Soverane Lord willis and grantis, and for his 
 maiestie and his successors decernis and ordaines, that this his 
 hienes present ratificatioun is, and sals be, as valide, effectuall, 
 and sufficient in all respectis to his hienes traist cousing Walter, 
 now Lord Scott of Bukglugh, sone and air to the said vmquhile 
 Walter, Lord Scott of Bukglugh, his airis maill and assignayis, 
 for bruiking and joysing of the teyndis, als weill personage and 
 viccarage abonewritt, during the haill lyftymes, zeirs, and space 
 abone specifeit, contenit in the said Tak and assedatioun, to rin 
 as gif the samyne Tak had bene sett with consent of oure said 
 soverane lord, and hed bene subscryuit be his Maiestie, and 
 seillit with his hienes previe seill, at the dait abone written of 
 the said tak and assedatioun, &c., At Edinburgh, the last day 
 of December, the zeir of God Jm vi c and Tuelff zeiris : Com- 
 positio fourtie merkis." Per signaturam. * 
 
 The instrument by which Bishop Cowper, as Dean 
 of the Chapel Eoyal, ratified the preceding mandate, 
 contains additional information as to the officers 
 of the institution and on other points, and is there- 
 fore here presented without abridgment : 
 
 " Be it kend till all men be thir present Lettres, we, William, 
 be ye mercie of God Bishop of Galloway and of the Chappell 
 Royall of Striveling, with advyse and consent of our chapter, 
 channonis, and prebendaris of the said Chappell Royall, for greit 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, kxxii., fol. 83.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXXVii 
 
 and weightie causes and considerations moveing us theirto, To 
 have ratifeit, approvin, and perpetuallie confeirmet, and be the 
 tennor heirof ratifies, approvis, and perpetuallie confeirmes 
 thai Lettres of tak and assedatioun, maid and grantet be 
 William Scott, chantour of the said Chappel Royall of Strivil- 
 ling, Mr Thomas Gray, Thesaurer yairof, and James Castellaw, 
 maister of the sax bairnis of the samyn Chappel], all three 
 dewlie provyded respectiue to the personage and viccarage of 
 the parochyn and paroche kirk of Sanct Marie kirk of ye Lowis, 
 lyand in Attrick Forreste, within the Shreiffdome of [Selkirk] 
 and haveand guid richt respective to ye teyndis, fruites, rentis, 
 dewties, profeitis, proventis, comodities, and emolumentis per- 
 tening to the saidis personage and vicarage, to umquhil Walter 
 Lord Scot of Balcleuche, stylet for the tyme Sir Walter Scot of 
 Branxholme, Knycht, and his airis maill beirand the airmes 
 and surname of Scott, and yair assigneyis quhatsumever, ane or 
 mair, of all and sindrie the teynd schaves, and uther teyndis, 
 fruitis, rentes, profeites, proventis, emolumentis, and dewties 
 quhatsumever, baith greit and small, alsweill personage as vicar- 
 age, of the said paroche kirk and parochin of Sanct Marie Kirk 
 of Lowis, lyand as said is, and of all landis, rowmes, and pos- 
 sessiounis within the samyn, for all the dayis, yeiris, and termes 
 of the lyftyme of the said umquhill Walter Lord Balcleuche, and 
 efter his deceis for all the dayis, yeiris, space, and termes of nynteine 
 yeiris, and efter the ische of the saidis nynteine yeiris, for all the 
 dayis, space, and termes of the second uther nynteine yeires, for 
 all the dayis, space, and termes of the thrid and uther nynteine 
 yeiris successive next efter the entrie of the said umquhill Walter 
 Lord Balcleuche, and his foresaidis yairto, quhilk were and 
 began at the dait underwrittin of the foresaide tak, and yairefter 
 to indure during the lyftyme of the said umquhill Walter Lord 
 Balcleuche, and after his deceis, during the saidis thryse thrie 
 and tryple nynteine yeiris successive, ay and quhill the saidis 
 lyftyme and lyfrent of the said umquhill Walter Lord Balcleuche, 
 and yairefter the saidis thrie and tripell nynteine zeiris succes- 
 sive be fullillie compleit and outrune but interval or inter- 
 ruptioun, for payment zeirlie of the particular dewties respective
 
 (\\\viii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 underwritten, viz., to the said William Scot, chantour foresaid, 
 and his successouris chantouris of the said Chappel Royall, that 
 happenis to be dewlie provydid, and to have guid richt respec- 
 tive as said is of the sowme of ane hundreth pundis guid arid 
 usuall money of this realme of Scotland, and to the saide Mr 
 Thomas Gray, Thesanrer foirsaid, and his successouris Thesau- 
 reris of the said Chappell Eoyall that happenis to be dewlie 
 provydet, and to have guid richt respective as said is of the 
 sowme ane uther hundreth pundis money foirsaid, and to the said 
 James Castellaw, maister of the saidis sax bairnes, and his 
 successouris maisteris of the saidis sax bairnes that happenis to 
 be dewlie provydit, and to have guid richt respective as said is 
 of the sowme of ane hundreth merkis money abone written, at 
 four termis in the zeir, Beltane, Lambis, alhalowmeis, and Candil- 
 mes, be equall poirtionis alanerlie, and als the said umquhile 
 Walter Lord Balcleuche and his foirsaidis, relevand thame and 
 thair saidis successouris, at the handis of the viccar pensionair of 
 the said kirk for the tyme, of all maillis and dewties quhilk he 
 may clame furth of the samyn zeirlie duiring the spaces foirsaidis, 
 in oniewayis siclyk, and in the samyn maner als the said umquhill 
 Walter Lord Balcleuche, and his predecessouris, takismen, and 
 possessouris of the fruits of the said paroche kirk did of befoir, 
 quhilk tak is of the dait,at Edinburgh, the fourteine day of Sep- 
 tember, the zeir of God Jaj vj c and thrie yeiris, and sickly k 
 ratifies, approvis, and perpetuallie confeirmes that letter of con- 
 firmation under the privie Seill, granted be our Soverane Lord 
 the Kingis Majestic, of the foresaid uther letter of tak, quhilk 
 confirmatioun and ratificatioun foirsaid is of the dait the last day 
 of December, the zeir of God Jaj vj c and twelf zeiris : In all 
 and sundrie heidis, poyntis, clausses, articleis, and conditiounis 
 specifeit and conteinit in the foirsaidis lettreis of tak and ratifi- 
 catioun thairof abovewritten : Attour we will and grant, and for 
 us and our successouris declair and ordainis, that thir our Lettres 
 of ratificatioun and confirmatioun abovewritten ar and salbe as 
 guid, valeid, and effectual to ane nobill and potent Lord Walter, 
 now Lord Scot of Balcleuche, sone and air of the said umquhill 
 Walter Lord Scot of Balcleuch, his father, and to his aires
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXXX1X 
 
 maill, assigneyis, and successouris, as gif the foirsaidis lettres of 
 tak and confirmatioun tharof above specifiet were hereintill at 
 lenth et de verbo in verbum ingrost and set down : As also that 
 ye foirsaidis lettres of tak and confirmatioun of the samyn hes 
 bene, ar, and salbe guid, valide, effectuall, and sufficient richtis 
 and securities to the said nobill Lord and his foirsaidis for 
 bruiking, joysing, collecting, using, and disponing upoun the 
 above written teyndis, baith personage and viccarage, of the 
 foirsaid parochin of Sanct Marie Kirk of Lowis during the haill 
 zeiris, space, and tyme mentionat in the saidis lettres of tak, 
 provyding nevertheles that we, the said William Bishop of Gal- 
 loway, be na maner of way obleist in warrandice tharof, but fra 
 our owin propper fact and deed allenarlie, and for the mair 
 securitie we ar content and consentis that yir presentis be 
 ingrost and registrat in the bukis of cunsall ad futuram rei 
 memoriam, and to that effect constitutis 
 
 our prouris, &c. In witness quhairof to thir presentis (quhilk 
 ar writtin be James Hardie, servitor to Ion Gilmour, Wryter), 
 subscrybet be us the said William Bishop of Galloway, and als 
 be our said Chaptour, Channonis, and prebenderies of the said 
 Chappell Eoyall, our awin propper seill, togidder with the said 
 Chaptour seill, ar appendit, at Edinburgh and 
 the secund day of Apryll and dayis of 
 
 the zeir of God Jaj vj c and seventeen zeiris, before thir witnesses, 
 Andro Scot, chirurgeone burges of Edinburgh ; the saidis Jon 
 Gilmour, and James Hardie, and Mr James Scot, our servitor, 
 and witnesses to other subscriptionis. (Signed) Guilielmus, 
 Candidas casae and capellse regies Sterlingen, eps ; Williame Scott, 
 Chantor ; J. Duncanson, prebendar of Castellaw ; Couper, 
 
 prebendar of Kirkynner; Johne Chrainthall, prebendar of 
 Kellis; W. Murray, person of Crieff; Mr Thomas Gray, The- 
 saurer of his majesties chappell ; James Castellaw, Maister of the 
 bairnis; John Ross, prebeudar of Strabran consentis; Patrik 
 Dunbar, ane of the prebendaries of the Chappell Eoyall, callit 
 ane of ye prebendaris of Strathbran ; Andro Scot, Witness ; J. 
 Gilmour, Witness ; Mr James Scott, Witness ; J. Hardie, Wit-
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ness; Gilbert Watt, Witness to the subscriptioun of William 
 Scott, chantour." * 
 
 To the conjunct offices of Bishop of Galloway and 
 Dean of the Chapel Royal, Andrew Lamb, Bishop 
 of Brechin, and formerly " Minister of the King's 
 House," was appointed in 1619 in succession to 
 Bishop Cowper. Lamb's earlier history has been 
 related. Owing to feeble health, or in terms of the 
 royal wish, he, after holding the deanery two years, 
 demitted it, when an important change was effected. 
 The office of dean, so long associated with the see of 
 Galloway, was separated from it, and united with 
 the bishopric of Dunblane. The precept for a char- 
 ter of the office and its emoluments in favour of Adam 
 Bellenden, Bishop of Dunblane, dated at Theobalds, 
 16th July 1621, narrates that partly owing to the 
 absence of the deans of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, 
 and partly because of the great distance of the 
 bishopric of Galloway from the Chapel, divine service 
 had of late years been rarely performed therein, and 
 that the Bishop of Galloway could not conveniently 
 attend thereto, and had therefore, with consent of 
 the chapter of his diocese, demitted his office of dean 
 
 * No. 48 in Process, Deans of the Chapel Royal v. Johnstone and Others, 
 1863-69.
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND. Cxli 
 
 into the king's hands. Therefore, with advice of the 
 lords of the Privy Council, the king detached the 
 deanery from the bishopric of Galloway and from the 
 Crown, and erected the same into a separate benefice, 
 to be designated the Deanery of the Chapel Royal : 
 And whereas John Murray of Lochmaben had resigned 
 the lands and barony of Dundrennan and other lands 
 which belonged to the abbacy, together with an 
 annual rent of ten chalders of victual out of the lands 
 of Markill* and Traprane, in the constabulary of 
 Haddington, which was disponed by the deceased 
 Francis, Lord of Bothwell, and Lady Margaret Doug- 
 las, his spouse, to the late Mr Thomas Craig, advo- 
 cate, and Helen Heriot, his spouse : Therefore his 
 majesty gives, mortifies, and unites the said lands 
 and annual rent to the deanery of the Chapel Royal ; 
 and constitutes Adam, Bishop of Dunblane, dean 
 thereof, to hold of the Crown, for rendering prayers 
 and supplications to God Almighty for the happiness 
 and good estate of the king and his successors, and 
 performing divine service at all times requisite in the 
 Chapel Royal ; also the sum of 300 merks Scots, and 
 to provide the elements necessary for the communion 
 in the said church. The bishop of Dunblane and his 
 successors were bound to pay to the ministers serv- 
 
 * The rents accruing from these lands will be subsequently referred to. 
 In 1606 a considerable part of the land which originally belonged to the 
 monastery of Markhill or Markle, in the parish of Prestonkirk and county 
 of Haddington, was resumed by the Crown, and by Act of Parliament an- 
 nexed to the Chapel Eoyal.
 
 cx lii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 in" in the church of Dundrennan a yearly stipend of 
 
 o 
 
 two chalders of oatmeal.* 
 
 The annexation of the Chapel Royal to the bishop- 
 ric of Dunblane having been sanctioned by the 
 Parliament, which assembled on the 4th August 
 1621,f the Privy Council proceeded to recover from 
 the widow of Bishop Cowper the charters and Other 
 writs of the institution. Bearing the documents en- 
 trusted to her late husband, Mrs Cowper appeared 
 before the Privy Council on the 8th March 1621-2. 
 The relative proceedings are thus set forth in the 
 Register :t 
 
 " Apud Edinburgh, Octauo Martii 1621. Sederunt Chan- 
 cellair, Thesaurair, Wyntoun, Melros, Lauderdaill, 
 L. Erskine, Carnegie, Mr of Elphinstoun, Previe Scale, 
 Thesaurair-depute, Justice-Clerk, Aduocat, Kilsythe, 
 Bruntyland, Marchinstoun, Innerteill, Eidhous, Currie- 
 hill, Fostersait, Sir Andro Ker, Sir Peter Young, Con- 
 seruatour. 
 
 " The quhilk day, in presence of the Lordis of Secret Coun- 
 saill, compeirit personallie Grissell Andersouu, relict of vmqu- 
 hile William, Bishop of Galloway, and for obedience of the 
 chairge execute aganis her at the instance of Adam, Bishop of 
 Dunblane, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell, sho produceit and 
 exhibite befoir the saidis Lordis the bullis register and euidentis 
 of his Maiesties chappell, quhilkis wer in hir lait husbandis cus- 
 todie and keiping, and quhilkis wer delyueret to him vpoun 
 inventair, and his acquittance be command and directioun of 
 the saidis Lordis, quhilkis bullis register and euidentis being 
 consignit in the handis of the clerk of his Maiesties counsaill, 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, xxix., fol. 182. 
 
 t Acta Parl. Scot., iv. 649. 
 
 J Privy Council Register, Jan. 1621 to Mar. 1625, vol. 12
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. cxliii 
 
 the saidis Lord ordainis and commandis him to delyuer the same 
 vpoun inuentair and acquittance to the said Adam, Bishop of 
 Dunblane, Dean of his Maiesties chappell, to be keipt be him as 
 Deane of the chappell in tyme comeing, and to be maid furth- 
 comeand be him to his successouris, anent the delyuerie quhairof 
 thir presentis with the said bishop his acquittance salbe vnto 
 the said clerk of the counsaill ane warrand." 
 
 In the following minute of the Privy Council the 
 delivery of the documents to Bishop Bellenden is 
 circumstantially recorded : 
 
 "Apud Edinburgh, decimo tertio Martii 1621. Sederunt 
 Chancellair Preuie Scale Melros, Thesaurair-depute 
 Lauderdaill, Justice-Clerk, Marchinstoun, L. Erskine, 
 Aduacat, Sir Andro Ker, Carnegie, Kilsaithe, Sir Peter 
 Young, Mr of Elphinstoun, Inuerteill. 
 
 " The quhilk day, in presence of the Lordis of Secrett Coun- 
 saill, compeirit Mr Robert Nairn e, aduocat, as procuratour for 
 Adam, Bishop of Dunblane, Deane of his Maiesties chappell, and 
 gaif in the acquittance vnderwritten subscryued with the said 
 bishop his hand, desiring the same to be insert and registratt in 
 the bookis of Secreit counsell ad futuram rei memoriam, quhilk 
 desire the saidis Lordis finding resounable thay haif ordanit and 
 ordanis the said acquittanis to be insert and registrat in the 
 saidis bookis off the quhilk the tennour followis : I, Adam, 
 Bishop of Dunblane, Deane of his Maiesties chappell, be the 
 tennour heirof grantis me to haif ressauit fra James Primrois, 
 clerk of his Maiesties counsell, the Register bullis lettres and 
 writtis vnderwrittin, quhilkis wer produceit and exhibite befoir 
 the Lordis of Secreit Counsaill vpoun the aucht day of Marche 
 instant, be Grisell Andersoun, relict of umquhile William, Bishop 
 of Galloway, laite deane of the said chappell, for obedience of 
 the chairge execute against hir to that effect, and be the saidis 
 Lordis decreit and sentence wer ordanit to be delyuerit vpoun 
 inuentiar to me as the said decreit bearis. 
 
 " Ane commissioun maid and gevin be Pope Alexander [the 
 sixth to the ab]bottis of Haliruidhous and Scoone and Archideane
 
 cxliv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 of Lo[thian for the erectijoun of the Chappell Eoyall of Strutting 
 in ane colledge [be means of] the mortificatioun and vnioun of 
 certane dewteis to the oute of Eestennett the kirk of 
 
 Dunbar and otheris. The said [commissioun] beareing daite at 
 Roome the saxt of the nones of May [J v c and ane] and in the 
 nynt yeir of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane confirmatioun maid be the said Pope Alexander of the 
 erectioun of the said colledge kirk, with the mortificatiounis and 
 vniouns thairin contenit daitit at Eoome the xxvj of the kalen- 
 dis of May Jm vc and tua in the tent yeir of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane erectioun of a conseruatorie for the said colledge kirk, 
 maid and gevin be the said Pope Alexander quhairby the Abbot- 
 tis of Haliruidhouse Cambuskynneth and Paislay or ony of 
 thame wer appointit to be conseruatouris of the said colledge, 
 daitit at Roome the said saxteene of May Jm v c and tua in the 
 tent year of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane vnioun or applicatioun of the fruitis of channonreis and 
 prebendaryis of the kirkis of Air, Creiff, Kincairdin, Pettie 
 Bracklie, and Duchall, to the Chappell Royall of Striuiling, maid 
 be the said Pope Alexander the saxt at Roome the saxteene of 
 the kalendis of May Jm v c and tua in the tent yeir of his Pope- 
 doome. 
 
 " Ane commissioun maid and gevin be the said Pope Alexan- 
 der the saxt to the Abbottis of Cambuskynneth, Paislay, and 
 Archideane of St Androis, ffor assisting of the Deane and Chap- 
 tour of the Chappell Royall of Striuiling in the peccable posses- 
 sioun of the foirsaidis vnited kirkis, daitit at Roome the saxteen 
 of the kalends of May Im v c and tua in the said tent yeir of his 
 Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane Ratificatioun maid be Pope Julius the secund of the 
 vnioun of certain Channonreis and Prebendaryis of Dunbar, 
 Balmaclellane, Bute Forrest, and Ellem, to the Chappell Royall 
 of Striuiling, with ane vnioun to the same chappell of the fruitis 
 of the Channonrie and Prebendarie of Creiff, daitit at Roome 
 pridie nonas Junij Jm vc and foure in the first yeir of his Pope- 
 doome. 
 
 " Ane Confirmatioun maid be the said Pope Julius the secund
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. Cxlv 
 
 of the vnioun of Kirkinner to the said chappell, and contening 
 ane new vnioun thairof, daitit at Eoorae pridie nonas Junii Jm 
 v c and foure in the first yeir of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane Commissioun maid and gevin be the said Pope Julius 
 the secund to the Abbotis of Scoone, Dunfermlyne, and Cambus- 
 kynneth, for erectioun and establisheing of ane thesaurarie and 
 ten Channonreis to the Chappell of Striuiling, datit at Eoome 
 pridie nonas Junij Jm vc and foure in the first yeir of his Pope- 
 doome. 
 
 " Ane Bull of the said Pope Julius the secund, ordaining and 
 appointing the Bischop of Galloway to be Deane of the Chaip- 
 pell Koyall of Striuiliug, daitit at Eoome the fyft of the nones of 
 Julij Jm v c and foure in the first yeir of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane vnioun maid be the said Pope Julius the secund of the 
 Priorie of Eestenneth and Inchemahomo, and of the Prouestrie 
 of Lincluden to the Chappell Eoyall of Striuiling, daitit at Eoome 
 the thrid of the nones of Junij Jm v c and aucht in the fyft yeir 
 of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane Bull and Lettre quhairby Pope Julius the secund de- 
 ceirnit and ordanit the Bischop of Galloway as Deane of the 
 Chappell Eoyall of Striuiling to haif the hail iurisdictioun, 
 richtis, and preuiledges ouer the kirkis vnite to the said chappell, 
 whilk the ordinarie had befoir the vnion, daitit at Eoome the 
 saxt of the Ides of September Jm v c and aught in the fyft yeir 
 of his Popedoome. 
 
 " Ane Eegister booke of parchement, with trie brodis couerit 
 with broun ledder, contening fiftie-three leavis of parchment, 
 quhairof fiftie-one leavis are markit be the said James Prymrois, 
 and the first and last leavis of the said Eegister are vnmarkit, 
 haveing no thing writtin thairupoun, and of the leavis that ar 
 merkit the threttie nyne leaffe and the fourtie leaffe hath no 
 thing writtin vpoun thame : In the quhilk Eegister the parti- 
 cular Bullis Lettres and Writtis being quotit and intitulat as 
 thay ar heir sett doun ar insert and registratt. 
 
 " Processus super erectione ecclesise collegiataj de Striuiling, 
 begynning at the first leaffe of the said register and ending 
 at the aucht leafe thairof.
 
 ,-xlvi IIISTOKY OF THE 
 
 " Confirmatio erectionis ecclesise Collegiatse de Striuiling cum 
 erectione cantorise, begynnand at the nynt leaffe and ending 
 at the threttene leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Conseruatoria ecclesiae Collegiatse de Striuiling begynnand 
 at the fourteene leaffe and ending at the saxtene leaffe of the 
 said Register. 
 
 " Vnio ecelesise de Kirkinner begynnand at the saxteen [leaffe 
 and] ending at the nyneteen leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Secunda applicatio sive vnio fructuum de Creif et g 
 datum de Dunbar et ecclesiarum de Ellem Bute et Balma- 
 [clellan begynjnaud at the nyneteene leaffe and ending at the 
 xxiii leaffe. 
 
 " Constitutioprocuratorum ad prestandum consensum rector[is] 
 de Kirkinner et ad resignandum post vnionem factam begyn- 
 nand at the xxiii leaffe and ending at the 24 leaffe of the said 
 Eegister. 
 
 " Instrumentum publicum super resignatione de Kirkinner 
 vnder the signum and subscriptioun of Thomas Kirkaldy, preist 
 and notair, begynnand at the 24 leaffe and ending at the 25 leaffe 
 of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Commissio ad erigendum thesaurariam et decem canonicatus 
 et prebendas, begynnand at the 25 leaffe and ending at the 27 
 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Confirmatio vnionis ecclesise de Kirkinner, begynnand at the 
 27 leaffe and ending at the 28 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Applicatio prima fructuum de Air, Kincairdin, Creif, et Pettie 
 Brachlie, begynnand at the 28 leaffe and ending at the 31 leaffe 
 of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Bulk si inquidentem, begynnand at the 32 leaffe and ending 
 at the 33 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Conseruatio penes applicationem fructuum de Air, Kincar- 
 dine, Creif, et Pettie Brachlie, begynnand on the 34 leaffe and 
 ending at the same leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Ornamenta Jocalia et volumina que habentur in ecclesia Col- 
 legiata beatse Marise et Sancti Michaelis de Striuiling et ponun- 
 tur sub firma custodia discreti viri Magistri Dauidis Trail sacristse 
 dicte ecclesise quarto die mensis Novembris de anno domini mil-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. Cxlvii 
 
 lesimo quingentesimo quinto, begynnand at the 35 leaffe and 
 ending at the 38 leaffe of the said Eegister, Preuilegium familia- 
 rium Eegis et Eeginse, grantit be Pope Julius the Secund the 
 fyft of the nones of Julij jm v c and foure, begynnand at the 41 
 leaffe and ending at the 42 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Mutatio decani ecclesiee Collegiatse de Striuiling, begynnand 
 the 42 leaffe and ending at the 43 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Confirmatio bullse super funeralia Jura eclesiastica et Juris- 
 dictione ecclesiarum vnitarum, begynnand at the 44 leaffe and 
 ending at the 46 leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 " Bulla super funeralia Jura ecclesiastica et Jurisdictione ec- 
 clesiarum vnitarum maid be Pope Julius the Secund, at Eome, 
 the saxt day of Ides of September jm v c and aucht, begynnand 
 at the 47 leaffe and ending at the 49 leaffe of the said 
 Eegister. 
 
 " Ane lettre quhairby Henrie Bischop of Galloway and Deane 
 of the Chappell Eoyall of Striuiling, with consent of the chan- 
 nonis, ordanit the erectioun of the Kirk of Creiff to be insert in 
 the Eegister of the said chaippell be Deane Johnne Lambert, 
 keepair of the said Eegister. The said Lettre bearis dait the 
 first of December jm v c xxxvj, and is writtin on the fiftie leaffe of 
 the said Eegister. 
 
 " Ane Instrument maid and consaved in favouris of Deane 
 Johnne Broun, Yicair Pensionair of Creiff, anent the augmenta- 
 tioun of his pensioun whilk he had oute of the Kirk of Creiff. 
 The said Instrument bearis dait the fyft of Marche jm v c and 
 ellevin, and begynnis at the fiftie leaffe and endis at the fiftie 
 ane leaffe of the said Eegister. 
 
 Off the quhilkis particulair bullis, lettres, writtis, and Eegister, 
 I, the said Adam, Bishop of Dunblane, grantis the ressett, and 
 exoneris and dischargeis the said James Prymrois, the said Gris- 
 sell Andersoun, and the airis and executouris of the said laite 
 Bishop of the same for euer : And oblissis me and my airis to 
 keepe the same suirlie for the vse and behoove of me and my 
 successouris, Deanis of the Chappell, and to mak the same 
 furthecomeand to thame quhen it sail pleis God to appoint the 
 tyme : And for the mair securitie I am content and consentis
 
 Cxlviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 that this present Inventair contening my discharge, as said is, 
 be insert and registratt in the Bookis of Preuie Counsaill ad 
 futuram rei memoriam, and for registring heirof constitutis Mr 
 Robert Nairne my procuratouris : In Witnes quhairof, I haif 
 subscryruit thir presentis, with my hand, at Edinburgh, the xiij 
 day of Marche, the yeir of God jm vj and tuentie ane yeiris, 
 befoir thir witnesses, James Bellenden, my eldest sone, Lau- 
 rence Keir and Johnne Aitkine, seruitouris to the said James 
 Prymrois : Sic subscribitur, Ad. B of Dunblane, James Bellen- 
 den, witnes ; Laurence Keir, witnes ; Johnne Aitkyn, witnes." * 
 
 With a zeal not less warm than that evinced by his 
 predecessor, Bishop Bellenden sought to restore the 
 Chapel Koyal to its former opulence. In a letter to 
 the king, dated from the Canongate, the 17th May 
 1623, and despatched to court by Mr James Law, 
 treasurer of the institution, the Bishop writes : 
 
 " The estait of the Chapell Eoiall being well foundit for the 
 tyme be your Maiesties most worthie predecessors, hes resauit 
 suche mine sen the Reformation by most schamefull dilapida- 
 tions as hes bene seen be those that at your Maiesties command 
 hes visited the samin ; for their wer foundit saxtein Prebendaries 
 besyd the Deane, and nyne boyes, whilk had a reasonable pro- 
 vision assigned them above thre thowsand lib., Scottish money, 
 be yeir, whilk now will not be twell hundreth libs., Scottish 
 money yearly. Your Maiestie hes sufficiently provydlt the 
 Deane his dutie, and for the prebendaries, what remedie can be 
 had to recover ony pairt be law sail be assayed. The best 
 meanes to supplie the rest is by mortifieing of some church rent 
 whilk is at your Maiesties gift as yet vndisponit to the vse of the 
 Chappell, for by this course your Maiesties patrimonie is not 
 burdenit, and in the search e of these church levingis that re- 
 mainis vnerectit, the beirar, Mr James Law, hes made grit 
 searche, and taken panes to try owt the samin, with some vther 
 
 * Privy Council Register, Jan. 1621 to Mar. 1625, fol. 13.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. Cxlix 
 
 overtures for the bettering of the Chapell, whilk I wald your 
 Maiestie might be pleased to consider, etc." * 
 
 With his wonted impetuosity, James sanctioned 
 Bishop Bellenden's proposal, by granting a signature 
 authorising the members of the Chapel Royal to 
 receive the fruits of other chaplainries, prebendaries, 
 and altarages throughout the kingdom. As such a 
 royal order was likely to excite much disaffection, Sir 
 Alexander Napier, the Treasurer-Depute, in a letter 
 dated 1st August 1623,t entreated the king to rescind 
 it. It was rescinded accordingly. 
 
 Unaware, of the counter movement, the bishop- 
 dean and the prebendaries re-despatched to court 
 their treasurer, James Law, J with a memorial to the 
 king renewing their request. This memorial, dated 
 5th August [1623], set forth that several of their 
 number had only three pounds sterling by the year, 
 others no recompense whatever, adding, "the haill 
 rent dew to ws all not exceiding ane hundreth merkis 
 sterling." The memorialists then thanked the king 
 for his own " royall and religious dispositioun for re- 
 paireing the breaches thereof, especiallie in such a 
 tyme when the erecting of it finds so vniversall ane 
 oppositioun and contradiction of all sorts of people, 
 from the highest to the tumultuarie vulgar." They 
 next refer to the king's inclination " to re-erect the 
 
 * Original Letters, p. 715. t Ibid., p. 720. 
 
 t Mr James Law was, it is conjectured, the eldest of the three sons of 
 James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow. See Appendix for a letter addressed 
 by Law to the king. 
 
 k
 
 c l HISTORY OF THE 
 
 same by his maiesties own hand, no less by doting 
 thereto a competent mantenance than by building a 
 princelie and glorious fabrick." A prayer follows for 
 the better endowment of the institution, the memo- 
 rialists desiring to have conferred upon it " benefices, 
 chaplanries, and certane small few dewties of kirk- 
 lands," which are described as being " of sa litle value 
 and so troublesome to be collected, that few or nane 
 of them are in vse to pay any dewtie in your Maiesties 
 Exchecker, at the least have bene of the nature of 
 cancealled dewties." The memorial is subscribed by 
 these sixteen members of the institution : 
 
 Eo. Wynram.* An. Cowper. Ad. B. of Dunblane 
 
 Mr James Law. S r . James Keith. and Deane of the 
 
 J. Laurie. S. Tullideff. Chapell Eoiall. 
 
 Robert Eos. J. Castellaw. Walter Troupe. 
 
 A Hay. Mr Ja. Weland. Patrik Dunbar. 
 
 EG*. Weir. Humphray Watson. Johne Watsone. 
 
 To the prayer of this memorial, James, with his 
 usual lack of consideration, gave full effect, and in its 
 terms promulgated a royal mandate. Much indig- 
 nation followed, more especially among those of the 
 higher clergy, whose revenues would have been con- 
 siderably abridged. But James was, on the 27th 
 March 1625, gathered to his fathers. His mandate 
 was virtually recalled by Charles I. in the following 
 
 * Probably of the same family as the celebrated sub-prior of St Andrews. 
 Robert Wynram was connected with the Wynrams of Libberton. He was 
 Albany Herald. (See page clii.)
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. cli 
 
 royal letter, dated 25th August 1626, and addressed 
 to the bishop-dean : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Understanding that it is a course much more 
 just and honorable that our Chappell royall within that our 
 kingdome, and the persounes serving therein, should be main- 
 teined by those meanes appoynted for that purpose at the first 
 fondation thereof, then otherwise by prosecuting of that course 
 intended by our late deare father, by making disposition of 
 some Chappallanaries, preybends, and alterages belonging to our 
 Crowne : Therfore it is our pleasure that (desisting from that 
 former course) yow make searche of the old fundations of that 
 Chappelle, and of the rents alloted there vnto, in whose handes 
 they are for the present, what right they haue to the same, and 
 of all other circumstances that may best giue light to the 
 knowledge thereof: And therefter that the samen may be in 
 readines to be showen wnto ws at our comming to that our 
 kingdome, to the effect wee may giue order for making com- 
 petent provisions for the personnes serving in the said Chappell. 
 So expecting your diligence in the premissis, wee bid, etc. 
 Windsor, the 25 of August 1626." * 
 
 On the same day the king's advocate was com- 
 manded to arrest such proceedings as might be 
 competent on the order of the late king. To the 
 advocate the king's letter proceeded thus : 
 
 " Trustie and weil-beloved Counsellor, we, etc., being in- 
 formed that yow caused charge diverse of the Bishops and 
 Minesters of that our kingdome for production of theire rights 
 and fundamentall titles to such Chapelaneris, preybendes, and 
 alterages, as they possesse, for furtherance of the course intended 
 by oure late deare father to helpe the Chappell Eoyall : And 
 seing wee haue resolued to provyd for the same out of the rents 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 dii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 alloted therevnto as the most lawfull ineanes, whereof wee haue 
 written to the Deane thereof, Our pleasure is that yow desist 
 from further perseuing the saidis Bishops or Ministers for the 
 said cause vntill you be further warranted by ws for your so 
 doeing, for it is not our mynd that anie of them be troubled in 
 the possession which they enjoy e till wee be pleased to giue 
 further order concerning the same. Thus wee bid, etc. Wind- 
 sore, the 25 of August 1626." * 
 
 On the 7th July 1624, Eobert Wynram, Albany 
 Herald, was, in reward of service, appointed "an 
 ordinary musitianer of the Chapel Royal." From 
 the instrument of gift, an excerpt follows : 
 
 "Our Souerane Lordis most gratious and sacred Majestic, 
 being crediblie informit off the qualificatioun, literature, and 
 guid conversatioun off his hienes lovat, Eobert Winrahame, 
 Albanie Herauld, for vsing and exercing off the airt and science 
 of Musik within his Majesties Chappell Eoyall, quhairoff he hes 
 given ane sufficient pruiff and tryell as ane ordinar musitianer 
 within the said Chappell this lang tyme bygane, and thair 
 withall calling to mynd the guid, trew, and thankfull service 
 maid and done to his hienes be the said Eobert Wynrahame, 
 the tymes of his employment as herauld in his Maiesties service, 
 and vtherwayis within the boundis of Orknay, Zetland, and 
 vtheris partis of the Hielandis, and vtheris alsweill be sey as land, 
 quhairin he was in grit perrell and dainger off his lyff : Thair- 
 fore his Majestic, to recornpence the said Eobert Winrame for 
 his guid and thankfull service, quhill ane better casualtie and 
 occasioun fall out, ordaines ane gift and presentatioun to be 
 maid under the privie seall in dew forme, nominattand and 
 presentand the said Eobert Winrame to be ane ordinar Musi- 
 tianer of the said Chappell Eoyall of Strivling, and givand and 
 grantand and disponeand to him the office, place, charge, and 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. cliii 
 
 f unctioun thairoff, for all the dayes of his lyftyme, togidder with 
 that pairt of all and sindrie the teind scheiffis, fruitis, rentis, 
 emolumentis, and dewties quhatsumever of the Paroch Kirk of 
 Sanct Marie Lowis, quhilk perteinit to that chantorie and pre- 
 bendarie of the said Chappell Eoyall of Stirling, sometyme per- 
 teining to umquhill Sir George Gray, possessour thairoff for the 
 tyme, and belanging to the said Chappell Eoyall as ane pairt of 
 the patrimonie of the samyn, now vaikand, in his Maiesties 
 handis, and at his hienes presentatioun and dispositioun, be 
 deprivatioun of William Scott, sone to Walter Scott of Goldi- 
 landis,* last pretendit chantour, prebendar, and titular thairoff, 
 etc."f 
 
 The efforts of Bishop Bellenden, persistently exer- 
 cised, for his better endowment as dean, likewise for 
 increased remuneration to the other members of the 
 institution, led to some further action on the part of 
 the Crown. The following royal letters, addressed 
 to the Privy Council, "the Advocatts," and the 
 Commissioners of Teinds and of Exchequer, also to 
 the Lords of Session, are severally dated 16th May 
 1627. Each seems worthy of a place. 
 
 "TO THE COUNSELL. 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whereas it pleased our late deare father that 
 all those, as well of the Privy Counsell as of the Sessioun, should 
 euery Sonday and holyday repayre to our Chappell Eoyall, 
 haveing for this effect commanded that the seates of the pre- 
 bandaryes or singing men should be distinguished from others 
 of the Nobility, Counsell, and Sessioun : Seing that course hath 
 beene soe seriously recommended by our said father, and that it 
 
 * William Scott held office in the Chapel Royal as a sinecurist, under 
 favour of the Lords of Buccleuch, as titulars of St Mary of the Lowes, 
 t Register of Presentations of Benefices, vi., fol. 7.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 is fitting and decent for diverse respects, Our pleasure is, that 
 at your being in our burgh of Edinburgh, or other parts ad- 
 joyneing, yow repayre euery Sonday and holyday to the said 
 Chappell: And likewise that yow be carefull that all such 
 goode orders as were appointed by our said late deare father 
 concerning the said Chappell may be remidied and settled : And 
 as in this, soe in all other thingis concerning the said Chappell, 
 the deane and members thereof yow give your best advice and 
 assistance, which wee will take as acceptable service done vnto 
 vs. Soe we bid yow, etc. Whitehall, the 26 of May 1627.* 
 
 "To THE ADVOCATTS. 
 
 "Whereas diverse benefices haue beene annexed to our 
 Chappell Eoyall in that our Kingdome, the particulares of some 
 whereof wee remitt to be delivered vnto yow by the reverend 
 father in God and our right trusty and well-beloved counsellour 
 the Bishope of Dumblane, deane of our sayd Chappell: And 
 being willing that the said benefices should, according to the 
 first intention, be fully setled vpoun the samen, Oure pleasure 
 is that yow carefully informe your selves of the best course for 
 the recouery thereof by law, or otherwise that yow vse your 
 best meanes for transacting with the possessours, whereby, if 
 the said dutyes can not at this tyme be recouered, at least some 
 yearely rent thereof may be had for their better mantaynance, 
 which will be a meanes that they be lesse burdenable to our 
 Exchequer, concerning which purpose wee haue for your better 
 assistance wryttin to our Colledge of Justice. Soe recommend- 
 ing this vnto yow as a purpose which wee specially respect, wee 
 bid, etc. Whitehall, the 16 of May 1627.1 
 
 "TO THE COMMISSIONARES. 
 
 " Whereas it pleased our late deare father both effectually, at 
 diverse tymes and vpoun goode consideratiounes to requyre that 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Kegister of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House. 
 ilbid.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. civ 
 
 such benefices and other small church liveings which were an- 
 nexed to our chappell royall in that our kingdome, by the first 
 foundatioun thereof, might be fully setled thervpoun. And 
 seing our fathers intention therin is just and many wayes 
 requisite for our vse, the vse of oure successours and the credite 
 of that our Kingdome : Therefore, in reguard that in your pro- 
 ceeding according to your commissioun the said things belong- 
 ing vnto the sayd chappell are to be treated of among yow, 
 oure pleasure is that a speciall care be taken by yow for the 
 modifying to euery one of the chaplaines out of that church 
 rent, appropriat vnto him some such competent and reasonable 
 nieanes, and after such maner as may most conveniently be 
 done, such things being performed by them as is requyred by 
 our commissioun. And whereas we are informed that the 
 Abbacy of Dundranan was purchaste by our late deare father 
 and mortified for the vse of our said Chappell, though wee doubt 
 not but that at your takeing of the estate of that Abbacy amongst 
 others into your consideratioun yow will consider the differences 
 betweene it and other erectiounes, yet wee have thought goode 
 hereby to acquainte yow with our pleasure herein, which is that 
 yow take such a course therein as shall be most aggreeable to 
 our said father's intention, and as may most conveniently be 
 done, according to the course intended by vs at this time. And 
 whereas it hath beene humbly moued vnto vs that the tithes of 
 the half of the lands of Markhill, whereof the stock being Ten 
 Chalders of victuall, is likewise mortified for the vse of the said 
 Chappell, might be acquired and added therevnto for the vse 
 forsayd, though wee like well of any thing that may tend to the 
 advancement of soe goode a work, yet wee would not determine 
 therein without your speciall advice who are cheefely entrusted 
 with the affaires of this and the like nature: Therefore our 
 pleasure is that yow consider of the samen and take such a 
 course therein as may most conveniently and lawfully be done : 
 All which specially recommending to your care wee bid yow 
 farewell. Whitehall, 16 of May 1627.* 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 " Whereas it pleased our late deare father to wryte vnto yow 
 that whensoeuer any takismen of our Chappell EoyaU should be 
 putt to our home, his escheit of soe much as was held of our 
 said Chappell should be gevin to the deane and members thereof 
 for their better mantaynance till they were otherwise provyded : 
 These are therefore to will and requyre yow that whensoeuer the 
 escheit of any such person doth fall in our hands that soe much 
 thereof as is held of our said Chappell, be gevin to the deane 
 and members thereof whom yow shall cause finde cautioun not 
 to dilapidate or diminish the value of any benefice or other parti- 
 cular granted to our said Chappell, but to preserue the same in 
 their integrity to their successours, according to the pleasure of 
 our late deare father, heretofore signified to this purpose : And 
 it is our further pleasure till the said Chappell rents be esta- 
 blished that yow, our Tresurer and deputy, pay yearely out of the 
 first and readiest of our rents of that our Kingdome, for the vse 
 of the said Chappell, an annuity of three thousand merks Scot- 
 tish, to be disposed and distributed by the deaue of the said 
 Chappell as he shall think expedient for doeing, etc. Whitehall, 
 16 May 1627.* 
 
 "To THE SESSION. 
 
 " Whereas wee haue beene pleased according to the example 
 of our late deare father for trying of such benefices as were mor- 
 tified for the vse of our Chappell Eoyall in that our Kingdome, 
 being willing that they should be recouered (if neede doth soe 
 requyre), by law or otherwise, that the possessours should be delt 
 with, that some yearely rent should be had for the better man- 
 taynance of the deane and the members of the said Chappell, 
 cure pleasure is that whensoeuer any such action concerning 
 the samen shall be intended before yow with the most convenient 
 diligence that can be vsed, proceede in justice therein according 
 to the equity of the cause, and that for the well of the said 
 Chappell yow show as much fauour as can be lawfully granted, 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. civil 
 
 otherwise, at your being so desired by the said deane, or our 
 advocatts, or either of them, that yow mediate, or cause mediate 
 with the said possessours for allowing a yearely rent for the vse 
 foresayd, which wilbe a meanes that they will be lesse burden - 
 able to our exchequer : All which wee recommend vnto your 
 care, and bid, etc. Whitehall, the 16 May 1627." * 
 
 A complaint by Bishop Bellenden against Sir 
 David Lindsay of Balcarres, afterwards Lord Lindsay, 
 as to the withholding of tithes led to the following 
 royal letter being addressed to him as " the Laird of 
 Balcarres : " 
 
 "Trustie, etc. Being informed that the reverend father in God, 
 and our right trustie and wellbeloved counsellor the Bischop of 
 Dumblaine, the Deane of our Chappie Eoyall, cannot haue that 
 wse at your handis in the tithes of some landis belonging to him, 
 as heretours haue in the samen parochen in which his landis 
 doe lye, but is forced to pay a farr greater dwetie proportionabil- 
 lie then they doe, a course in oure judgment contrair to that 
 which should be keept with men of his profession : And sieing 
 our intentione is that everie heretour may haue his owne tithes 
 for ressonable satisfactione to be given to those who haue or pre- 
 tend right thairto : And that the said bischop declairis himselff 
 to what shalbe found ressonble vpon his part : Thairfore wee 
 haue thought good heirby to desire you that the said bischop 
 haue his owne tithes vpon such satisfactione as our commis- 
 sioners for surrendars shall determine, or as you yourselff did 
 giue for them, ffor wee doe not heirby intend any lose to you, 
 but that this maeter betuix yow and him may be composed in a 
 fair and amiable maner according to equitie and conscience, as 
 you wold expect any lawfull fauour from ws in the like ; or in 
 any other kind. Sic, etc. Bagshot, 17 August 1627." f 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in Genera 
 Register House, 
 t Ibid.
 
 dviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Already we have seen that Charles I. had com- 
 manded the members of Council and Session to attend 
 Divine service in the Chapel Koyal on Sundays and 
 holidays, in seats appropriated to them. In 1629 the 
 injunction was emphatically renewed, the king giving 
 positive command that in July of that year the Holy 
 Communion should, at the sound of trumpets,* be 
 dispensed in the Chapel Royal, and that all members 
 of the Privy Council, and of the College of Justice, 
 and other servants of the Crown should, under the 
 highest penalties, repair to the Chapel and there join 
 in that sacred ordinance. The decree proving inopera- 
 tive, Charles despatched to the Privy Council, on the 
 6th November 1629, the following mandate : 
 
 "Eight, etc. Whereas wee formerlie gaue ordour that by 
 sound of Trumpett the communione should be administrated in 
 our Chappell Royall, in July last, that all of our privie counsel!, 
 college of justice and members thareof, and others mentioned in 
 our lettres writen to that effect, might be required to communi- 
 catt, and that such of them as wold not should alsoe be required 
 to forbeare the executioune of thare seuerall charges in our 
 seruice, vntill they brought a certificat of thare receaving the 
 communione from the Deane of that Chappell. But now under- 
 standing that some papistes affected haue neglected this course, 
 
 * History, under like conditions, curiously repeats itself. It is impossible 
 on reading the narrative of this despotic order to avoid recalling a similar 
 order made by an eastern potentate long previously. " Nebuchadnezzar 
 the king made an image of gold, ... he set it up in the plain of Dura, 
 in the province of Babylon. . . . Then an herald cried aloud, To you it 
 is commanded, people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the 
 sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds 
 of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar 
 the king hath set up." Book of Daniel, iii. 1, 4, 5.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clix 
 
 Wee, out of our care and affectione to the inantenance of the 
 professed religeone, are heirby pleased to will and require you 
 that according to our former pleasour herein you renaoue from 
 our counsall table all such whoe are dissobedient in that kind. 
 Whitehall, the 6 of November 1629." * 
 
 A portion of the monastic lands of Markle, Had- 
 dingtonshire, was recovered by the Crown, and in 
 1606 attached to the Chapel Koyal, and with it were 
 conjoined the lands of Traprane in the same vicinity. 
 Patrick Hepburn of Smeaton, whose possessions sur- 
 rounded these lands, had made a claim upon the 
 tithes, and in consequence the following royal letter 
 was addressed to the President of the Council : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whareas wee are informed that our late royall 
 father did purchase the landis of Markle and Trappone and did 
 appropriat them to the vse of our Chappell Eoyall, the tithes of 
 which landis bieing as yet in the possessione of the Laird of 
 Smeetoun bieing willing for the better and more speedie helping 
 of these persones whoe serue in the Chappell, that some present 
 course be taken for thare mantenance and wese of the tennentis 
 of these landis : Oure pleasoure is that by the advise of the 
 Deane of the Chappell, and our aduocatt, you vse your best and 
 most readie endeuouris for dealing with the said Laird for buy- 
 ing these tithes for him : But if you find just cans for reduceing 
 thareof to the vse afoirsaid that you proceed tharein as you shall 
 think most fitt, and vpon your certiefieing of ws what shalbe 
 thought expedient to be done vpon your parte wee will accor- 
 dinglie giue ordour for doing thareof : Willing that you in the 
 meantyme, in our name, require our chancellare and keeper of 
 our seall not to pas any new grant of thes landis or titillis in 
 fauour of any persone till our forther plesure be knowen tharein, 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 Clx HISTORY OF THE 
 
 willing you likewyis to signifie vnto the said Deane that when 
 any competent benefitt shalbe thought fitt by the Commissioners 
 for tithes to be appropriat to the patrimonie of his see, wee will 
 accordinglie giue way therevnto. Sic. etc. Whitehall, the 6 of 
 November 1629." * 
 
 Negotiations with the Laird of Smeaton by the 
 Privy Council having proved tardy, Charles I. com- 
 municated with the Commissioners of Exchequer, in 
 a letter dated 2d October 1630, of which the import 
 follows : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whareas wee are informed that ane annuelrent 
 out of the Landis of Markhill and Trapren was bought and mor- 
 tified by our late deir father for the vse of our Chappell Eoyall, 
 which tharefter was ratiefied in parliament : And that now it is 
 feared that if any dispositioune or deid should be made ws and 
 our successouris of or concerning] these Landis or chappells 
 right to that annualrent wilbe endangered, though wee sie noe 
 just caus to suspect any thing yet to avoid any feare that may 
 come in that kind : Oure pleasure is that you consider if thare 
 be any such necessitie for taking a course to prevent what herm 
 is feared, and if you find it necessarie that you make ane act of 
 exchecquer tharevpon, or otherwayis that you doe thairin as you 
 shall think most fitt for that purpose, which wee if need be shall 
 further authorise as you to this effect shall best advise ws, soe 
 we bid you, etc. Hamptoune Court, the second of October 
 1630." f 
 
 Between the authorities of the Crown in the in- 
 terests of the Chapel Eoyal, and the Laird of 
 Smeaton, matters were at length adjusted. As 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House, 
 t Ibid.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clx 
 
 President of the Council, the Earl of Menteith con- 
 sented to pay to the laird the sum of 500 sterling 
 to compensate his right to the disputed teinds. The 
 arrangement is described in the royal letter which 
 follows, addressed to the Treasurer : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whareas our right trustie, etc., the Erie of Mon- 
 teith hath by expres command from ws, for the vse of our Chap- 
 pell Eoyall, agreed with the Laird of Smeetoun for the tithes of 
 the Landis of Markhill and Trapren for payment vnto him of 
 fyue hunderith poundis sterling. Bieing willing (if convenient- 
 lie it can be done this yeir) that the tithes of theis landis for this 
 crop may be hade for the vse of oure said chappell. Oure 
 pleasure is that with all convenient diligence you pay vnto the 
 said Laird of Smeetoune the said soume of 500 Ub sterling, and 
 that out of the first and reddiest of our rentis, casualities, and 
 vther dueties whatsoeuer due vnto ws within the said Kingdome, 
 and for your soe doing these presentis shalbe vnto you a suffi- 
 cient warrant and discharge. Given at Hamptoune Court the 
 10 of October 1630." * 
 
 On the 17th March 1628 was appointed to the 
 Chapel Royal, as a prebendary and musician, Edward 
 Kellie, respecting whom we are informed in the 
 instrument of gift that he had been " seruitour to 
 George, Viscount of Diplene (afterwards Earl of 
 Kinnoull), Heich Chancellar of Scotland, also one 
 of the Chapel's ordinar musitianes." The instrument 
 of gift is in these terms : 
 
 " Our Souerane Lord being crediblie informit of the qualifica- 
 tioun, literature, and gude conversatioun of his lovitt Edward 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 ol\ii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Kellie, servitour to His Majesties right traist cousing and coun- 
 sellour, George, Viscount of Diplene, Lord Hay of Kinfawnes, 
 Heich Chancellar of Scotland, for vsing and exerceing the airt 
 and science of musik within his majesties Chappell Royall of 
 Stirling, whereof he hes gevin ane sufficient pruiff and tryell as 
 ane of the ordinar rausitianes of the samen this lang tyme 
 bygane : Ordaines thairfore ane gift and presentatioun to be 
 maid vnder the previe seall in dew forme, nominating and pre- 
 senting the said Edward Kellie to be ane of the ordinar preben- 
 daris and musitianes of the said Chappell Royall, gevand, grant- 
 and, and disponand to him the office, place, functioun, and charge 
 thairoff, during all the dayes of his lyftyme, togidder with that 
 pairt of all and sindrie the teind scheivis, fruittis, rentis, emolu- 
 mentis and dewties quhatsumever of the paroche kirk and par- 
 ochine of Sanct Marie Lowis, quhilkis pertenit to the chantorie 
 and prebendarie of the said Chappell Royall of Stirling, some- 
 time pertening to umquhile Sir George Gray, possessour thairof, 
 for the tyme, and belonging to the said Chappell Royall as ane 
 part of the patrimonie of the samyn now vakand in his Maiesties 
 handis, and at his hienes presentation and dispositioun be depri- 
 vatioun of William Scott, sone to Walter Scott of Goldilandis, 
 and of Robert Winrahame, Albanie Herauld, last pretendit pre- 
 bendaris and titularis thairof, or of ane or vther of thame as 
 being vnable and vnqualified to vse and exerce the place of ane 
 musiciane in the said Chappell Royall, and refusing to compeir 
 before the Deane and chaptour of the said Chapell Royall to 
 give tryell of the samyn and throw not residence to serve 
 thairintill, etc." * 
 
 Proving most prominently zealous, Kellie was, on 
 the 26th November 1629, appointed Receiver of 
 the chapel rents and other revenues ; also Director 
 of Music. On his officially reporting as to the in- 
 efficiency and non-residence of persons sharing the 
 
 * Register of Presentations to Benefices, vi., fol. 45.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxiii 
 
 revenues, the Privy Council were in a royal letter 
 instructed to discharge all such as continued ineffi- 
 cient and refractory. That letter follows : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Being informed by Eduard Kellie, our seruand, 
 of the insufficiencie, non-residence, and dissobedience of some 
 heaving charge in our chappell royall to the ordouris prescryued 
 by the dean thareof, and his assistance for setling of the same 
 in a fitt and decent maner, assuming vnto themselves by former 
 giftis of thare offices what freedome and imunitie they think fitt, 
 whareby the seruice to be performed by them is neglected, Oure 
 pleasure is, after due examinatioune and finding of what heirin 
 is alledged to be due, that you discharge such insufficient and re- 
 fractorie personis, iff they shall not be found (after such triall as 
 you shall think requisit) able to discharge a duetie in thare 
 seruices, and most willing heirefter both to better thare judg- 
 mentis in thare professiones, and to obtemper to all the good 
 ordouris alreadie and heirefter to be prescryued by the Dean and 
 his assistances, and for your so doing, etc. Soe wee bid, etc. 
 WhithaU, the 28 Junij 1630."* 
 
 A royal letter, bearing the same date as the pre- 
 ceding, and addressed " to the Exchequer," authorises 
 the cancelling of a precept of six thousand marks, 
 which Kellie had received from the king. This letter 
 proceeds : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whareas Eduard Kellie, our seruand, hath been 
 a humble suittour vnto ws, that his accomptis touching the set- 
 ling of the Chappell Eoyall by our directione and furnesing of 
 thingis tharevnto belonging might be hard, and vpon satisfac- 
 tione made vnto him of such moneyis as should be found justlie 
 due vnto him a precept of sex thousand merkis procured by him 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 dxiv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 from ws might be takkin bak by you to be cancelled, wharein 
 finding his demand reasonable and his former panis to meritt 
 some meritt [reward], find encouragement from ws to continow 
 in our sendee in that kind : Oure plesoure is that what moneyis 
 shall appeare due vnto him vpon his accomptis that with all con- 
 venient diligence you caus pay the same vnto him, remitting the 
 consideratione of his panis till wee shalbe pleased to sie the 
 effect thareof ffor doing whareof, etc. Whitehall, the 28 Junij 
 1630."* 
 
 The king's determination to provide for the musi- 
 cians of the Chapel Eoyal was further evinced by the 
 following communication addressed to his majesty's 
 advocate : 
 
 " Eight, etc. Whareas wee are resolued to be serued in our 
 Chappell Royall in that our kingdome with such musicians 
 borne within the same as are continualie or placed of new by 
 the deane of that chappell and by Eduard Kellie, our seruand, 
 to the effect they may be the mare able to discharge our seruice 
 tharein : Oure pleasoure is, and we doe heirby will and require 
 you, that with all convenient and possible diligence you caus 
 pay out of the reddiest of our rentis or casualties whatsoeuer in 
 that our kingdome, vnto the said Eduard into the behalff of the 
 said musicians all such arrears of thare feeis as shalbe found 
 justlie due vnto them or any of them, conforme to any gift or 
 giftis granted by ws tharevpon least our said seruice at our 
 cumming thither be ather neglected or they not fitt to be in such 
 a place and charge, and for your soe doing, etc. Whitehall, the 
 8 of February 1630." f 
 
 A further royal letter to " the King's Advocate " 
 relative to the due maintenance of the musicians, was 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House. 
 i IW.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxv 
 
 Issued from Greenwich on the 9th June 1631. It 
 proceeds thus : 
 
 " Trustie, etc. Whereas by our gift wee did appoynt a cer- 
 taine soume to be payed foorth of our Exchequer there to the 
 musicians of our Chappell royall for theire maintenance yearlie 
 till such time as the rents of the old fundation of the said Chap- 
 pell should be established, and seing as wee are informed the 
 soume appoynted by our said gift is not sufficient to mantaine 
 such a nomfter in any competencie as our servants : Therefore, 
 and for there better maintenance and disburdening of our Ex- 
 chequer of the said yearlie soume, Wee are verie willing that 
 our said Chappell royall and our musicians thereof be established 
 in the old rents and casualities alloted thereto att, or since the 
 fundation thereof according to its own rights, lawes, and prac- 
 tique of our Said kingdome : Our pleasure is that in all actions 
 intended or to be intended att the instance of the deane of our 
 said Chappell, or of our seruant, Edward Kellie, touching that 
 purpose, yow compeare for our interest and giue them your best 
 assistance against [any] person whatsoever in so farr as yow can 
 laufully doe : Which oure will take as acceptable seruice done 
 vnto vs. Green witch, the 9 of June 1631."* 
 
 To prove his zeal in the restoration of the Chapel 
 Royal, Kellie set forth that at his own cost he 
 maintained an organist and other performers. These 
 commenced duty on the 24th October 1630, and on 
 the 9th June the king addressed to the Exchequer 
 the following notification : 
 
 " Right, etc. Whereas wee appoynted our seruant, Edward 
 Kellie, for the ordering of our Chappell royall, and being cre- 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House. 
 
 I
 
 clxvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 diblie informed that he hath well furnished it with an expert 
 organist, sinking men and boyes, and other things thereto belong- 
 ing, whereof wee doe hereby approue as good seruice : And being 
 lykwise [informed] that the said organist and six boyes haue been 
 since the 24 of October last, and are as yett at the only charge of 
 our said seruant, Wee being vnwilling that he should any wise 
 suffer for his seruice done vnto vs : Our pleasure is, and wee doe 
 hereby will and requyre yow, that with all convenient diligence 
 yow receaue his accompts of his disbursrnents for the maintenance 
 of the said organist and boyes since the said 24 of October last, 
 and accordinglie that yow make payement vnto him, his heires 
 or assignes thereof, and of the arrears of his former accompts 
 allowed by yow preceeding the said day, and that some course 
 be taken whereby he may be disburdened of the lyke charge in 
 all tyme comeing. Greenwitch, the 9 of June 1631." * 
 
 These various proceedings, adopted at the instance 
 of the Chapel's Receiver and Director of Music, 
 induced his Majesty's advisers to obtain from Kellie 
 a special report respecting the institution. Entitled, 
 "Information touching the Chappell-Royal of Scot- 
 land," and dated "Whitehall, 24th January 1631," 
 the report proceeds thus : 
 
 " To the King's most excellent Majestic, the Information 
 and Petition of your Majestie's humble servant, Edward 
 Kellie, touching your Majestie's Chappell-Royal of 
 Scotland. 
 
 " When first your Majestic intended to goe into your kingdome 
 of Scotland, I was employed by your Majestie, and such of your 
 Councill of the kingdom as were then at courte, to provide 
 psalmes, services, and anthynmes for your Majestie's said chap- 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxvii 
 
 pell-royal there, as in your chappell here. Thereupon I caused 
 make twelve great books, gilded, and twelve small ones, with an 
 organe-book, wherein I caused write the said psalmes, services, 
 and anthymnes, and attended the writing thereof fyve monethes 
 here in London. At that tyme, alsoe, I provided the same 
 musick that was at your Majestie's coronation here, with one 
 Bible for your Majestic, and two great Bibles for the Deane and 
 for the Readers of the said chappell. Thereafter I procured 
 your Majestie's warrante for deposeing all insufficient persons 
 that had places in your said chappell-royall, and for placing 
 others more qualified, upon examination, in their roomes. 
 Herevpon I carryed home an organist, and two men for playing 
 on cornets and sakbuts,* and two boyes for singing divisions in 
 the versus, all which are most exquisite in their severall faculties. 
 I caused the said organist examine all the aforesaid musick- 
 bookes and prgan-bookes ; and finding them right, convened all 
 the musicians of your Majestie's said chappell, some whereof 
 (being efter triall found insufficient for such service) I deposed, 
 and choosed some others in their roomes, whereby I made vpp 
 the number of sixteen men, beside the organist and six boyes, 
 who all of them sung there psalmes, services, and anthymnes 
 sufficiently at first sight to the organe, versus, and chorus ; soe 
 being confident of their abilitie to discharge the service, I 
 desired the lordes of your Majesties honourable councell, and 
 others of authoritie, skilfull in that facultie, to heare them; 
 which lordes, after their hearing, in token of their approbation, 
 gave me a testificate under their hands, witnessing that I had 
 fully performed my former vndertakings, and showing that the 
 like service was never done there before by any soe well, or in 
 soe good order. This testificate I have here to show your 
 Majestic. Then, for my assurance in tyme coeming, I took 
 bond of the said musicians, that they should be ready at all 
 tymes to vndertake and discharge the seruice. This bond I 
 have here alsoe to showe. Herefter your Majestic was gra- 
 tiously pleased, by your letters under your highnes privie seall, 
 
 * A bass wind instrument of the trumpet kind, similar to the trom- 
 bone.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 with the consent of the Deane of your said chappell-royall, to 
 constitute mee collector and distributer of the rents pertayning to 
 your said chappell, and to see such good orders established in the 
 same, as the service therein might be well and faithfully done, 
 and that none but persons sufficiently qualified should have 
 any place there, and that they should be all keept at daily 
 practise ; and for that effect your Majestie appointed mee ane 
 chamber within your pallace of Halyrudehouse, wherein I have 
 provided and sett vpp ane organe, two flutes, two pandores 
 with violls, and other instruments, with all sorts of English, 
 French, Dutch, Spaynish, Latin, Italian, and old Scotch musick, 
 vocall and instrumentall. In the said chamber the said organist 
 and the boyes do remain, and the remanent musicians and 
 vnder officers doe meet therein tuice a week to practise and to 
 receive directions for the next service. For observance of these 
 meetings, and many other good orders, I have likewise taken 
 bond of the said musicians, which bond I have also here to 
 showe. In tyme of service within the chappell, the organist 
 and all the singing men are in black gownes, the boyes are in sadd 
 coloured coats, and the vsher and the sexten and vestrie-keeper 
 are in browne gownes. The singing men doe sit in seats, lately 
 made, before the noblemen, and the boyes before them, with 
 their bookis lay'd, as in your Majestie's chappell here. One of 
 the great Bibles is placed in the midle of the chappell for the 
 reader, the other before the Deane. There is sung before the 
 sermon ane full anthymne, and after sermon ane anthymne alone 
 in versus with the organe. And thus every one attendeth the 
 charge in his place in a very grave and decent forme. 
 
 "At this tyme, for your Majestie's now intended journey into 
 your said native kingdome, and for your highnes coronation 
 therein, I have not as yet had any commandment. Nevertheless 
 I am alwayes in readinesse, in manner aforesaide, with the said 
 musick of your Majestie's coronation, and all other musicke 
 necessary, with cornets, sakbuts, and other instruments, with 
 men to play thereon, ready vpon advertisement. 
 
 "If, therefore, it shall please your most sacred Majestie to 
 ratine these my former powers and warrantes, for ingathering of
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 the rents and ordering your said chappell as I have begunne, 
 your Majestie's exchequer by that meanes will be disburdened : 
 And I, your Majestie's servant, shall vndertake either to give 
 your Majestie good assurance, by a new testificate from your 
 councell, of my present abilitie for performance of the service 
 with greater credite to your Majestie's native kingdome than it 
 can be done by strangearis, and with no greater charge vnto 
 your Majestie then is allready due ; or else I shall give tymouse 
 advertisement vnto your highnes that your musicians here may 
 be conveyed thither for the service, which vndoubtedly will be 
 a great and needless charge, if your Majestie's servants at home 
 can doe the same, all things being provided and ready for the 
 purpose. 
 
 " These premisses I most humbly refer vnto your Majestie's 
 speedy resolution and answer herein. And because this infor- 
 mation hath no man else to [be] answerable for what is in it 
 but my selfe, whoe have formerly given proofe of my care and 
 affection to your highnes service ; Therefore that your Majestie 
 may be assured that I attempt nothing but what is faire, and 
 what I am confident to performe, as I shall be answerable for, 
 according to my vndertaking, I have subscrived these presents 
 with my hand, at Whitehall, 24th Januarii 1631, after the Eng- 
 lish account. E. KELLIE." * 
 
 The king's long promised visit to Edinburgh was 
 at length fulfilled. Charles arrived at Holyrood 
 Palace on the 15th June 1633, and by the civic 
 authorities was received at a splendid demonstration. 
 Next day being Sunday, he attended morning service 
 in the Chapel Royal, when the dean, Bishop Bellen- 
 den, preached, t 
 
 For the coronation extensive preparations had 
 
 * Dauney's Ancient Scottish Melodies, Edinb. 1837, 4to, pp. 365-367. 
 t Spalding's Memorials, 1850, i. 35.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 been made by Sir James Balfour, Lyon-King-at- 
 Arms, and Tuesday, the 18th instant, was fixed for 
 the ceremonial. On Monday evening Charles pro- 
 ceeded to the castle, where he remained for the 
 night. Next morning at eight o'clock he, in the 
 great hall of the castle, seated on a chair of state, 
 received a congratulatory address from the nobility 
 and barons, presented by the Lord Chancellor. A 
 procession was formed, in which, preceded by trum- 
 peters, the nobility, clergy, and officers of state took 
 their places, each according to his degree. Next 
 came the king, attired gorgeously in crimson velvet, 
 his train borne by four noblemen. Dismounting at 
 Holyroodhouse, he walked to the Abbey Church, 
 having borne over him a canopy of crimson velvet 
 fringed with gold. The Archbishop of Glasgow rode 
 in the procession, but the Archbishop of St Andrews 
 waited at the western door of the church to receive 
 his Majesty. 
 
 The king, as he entered the building, knelt upon 
 the floor. When he rose up, Bishop Bellenden, as 
 dean, conducted him to a seat, and then presented 
 to him Mr James Hannay, minister of the Abbey 
 Church. Preceded by the choristers, discoursing ap- 
 propriate music, his Majesty now moved forward to the 
 dais, while the crown, sceptre, sword, and spurs, also 
 the anointing oil, were placed near the communion 
 table. Having sat down, he, after an interval, 
 occupied a chair near the pulpit. Dr David Lindsay,
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxi 
 
 Bishop of Brechin, preached from that passage in 
 the first Book of Kings/'" relating to the anointing of 
 Solomon as King of Israel. At the close of the dis- 
 course the king reascended the dais, where the 
 Primate presented him to the people. Just as the 
 words "God save the king" had been ejaculated by 
 all present, the choir sung an anthem. Then the 
 king deposited an oblation in a cup of gold, when the 
 archbishop, who received it, administered the coro- 
 nation oath. Again the choristers discoursed sacred 
 music, and the litany was, by the Bishops of Moray 
 and Ross, read and sung. The archbishop having 
 invoked the Divine blessing, the Duke of Lennox, as 
 great chamberlain, disrobed the king of his upper 
 garment. Under a canopy near the pulpit he now 
 seated himself, when the archbishop approached with 
 the consecrated vial of oil. By the archbishop's 
 hands the king was anointed on the head, breast, 
 elbows, and palms of the hands ; also above and 
 between the shoulders. Near the communion table 
 he was next, by the great chamberlain, clad in the 
 state robes of James IV. ; he was thereafter girt with 
 the sword of state, and, having received other symbols 
 of sovereign authority, was by the Archbishop of St 
 Andrews solemnly crowned. The clergy and barons 
 having severally expressed their allegiance, were per- 
 mitted to kiss the king's left cheek. Charles now 
 partook of the Holy Communion, and thereafter left 
 
 * 1 Kings, i. 39.
 
 Clxxii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the church, wearing his crown and carrying the 
 sceptre.* 
 
 To this description, derived from the narrative of 
 Sir James Balfour, may be added some particulars 
 of the coronation detailed by John Spalding, the 
 industrious annalist. According to this accurate 
 observer, the Archbishop of St Andrews, and the 
 Bishops of Moray, Dunkeld, Eoss, Dunblane, and 
 Brechin wore white rochets. There were also, 
 remarks the annalist, among other offensive emblems, 
 a crucifix wrought in tapestry on the communion 
 table, towards which the surplice-clad bishops made 
 obeisance. The other Scottish prelates, adds Spald- 
 ing, wore black gowns, t 
 
 In their accounts of the coronation, both Balfour 
 and Spalding omit reference to a great functionary 
 present on the occasion, who was then exercising 
 a most disastrous influence upon his sovereign. 
 This was William Laud, Bishop of London, and 
 Dean of the Chapel Royal of England. He accom- 
 panied James VI. to Scotland in 1617 as his chap- 
 lain, and had since attained to great authority. He 
 will shortly reappear. 
 
 Charles opened parliament on Wednesday the 
 19th June. On the occasion was passed an Act 
 "for the rehabilitatione of Francis Stewart," de- 
 
 * See " The Memorable and soleme Coronatione of King Charles, crowned 
 King of Scotland at Holyrudhouse, the 18th Junii 1633," Balfour's His- 
 torical Works, iv. 354, 389. 
 
 t Spalding's Memorials, i. 36, 37.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxiii 
 
 scribed as " eldest lawfull sone of vmq 1 Francis, some- 
 tyme Erie Bothuell." Consequent thereon, Bishop 
 Bellenden protested that "the expeding of the act 
 sould not be prejudiciall to the said Bishop of Dum- 
 blane and his successors, deanes of the chappell 
 royall, anent the lands of Markill and Traprain, 
 lyand withine the constabularie of Hadingtone, dotted 
 and mortified be his Majestie's father of eternal 
 memorie, to the vse of his Majestie's chappell royall 
 in Striveling, and annexit to the bishoprick of Dum- 
 blane." On behalf of the restored earl, the king 
 assented to the protest. In the same parliament the 
 late king's gift of the Abbey of Dundrennan to the 
 deanery of the Chapel Royal was ratified and con- 
 firmed.* 
 
 On Monday the 24th June, being St John's Day, 
 the king proceeded in state to the Abbey Church, 
 and there, after a solemn offertory, touched about 
 one hundred persons for the king's evil. Round the 
 neck of each he suspended by a white silk riband a 
 piece of gold, t 
 
 Spalding, who mentions the place of coronation as 
 " the Abay Kirk," relates that " vpon Tuysday the 
 25th of Junij, the king hard deuotion in his owne 
 cheppell royall." He adds : "Doctor William 
 Forbes, minister at Abirdein, teichit in his blak 
 goun, without surpluce or rotchet. His text wes at 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., v. 56, 72. 
 
 t Balfour's Annak, vol. ii., p. 261.
 
 Clxxiv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the 27th verss of the 14th chepdour of Sanct Johnes 
 Gospell. The Englishe seruice wes said befoir and 
 efter sermon, as thair vse wes, the cheplanis and 
 novices haueing thair white surpluces on. The 
 Bischop of Dumblane, as cheplane of the cheppell 
 royall, had his rotchet and whyte sleivis on, bot 
 none of our Scottis bischopis except he had the lyk, 
 bot onlie blak gounes." A moderate Episcopalian, 
 Spalding regarded the white sleeve as a badge of 
 Popery. He reports that Charles worshipped in 
 "the cheppell royal" on Sunday the 30th June. 
 It was for the last time. 
 
 With most of his suite, Charles left Scotland for 
 London on the 15th of July. Laud still lingered in 
 the north ; he visited Archbishop Spottiswoode at St 
 Andrews, and Bishop Bellenden at Dunblane, dis- 
 coursing to both of approaching changes, and endea- 
 vouring to ascertain how far these prelates might be 
 of service. 
 
 Laud had just returned to London when, on the 
 4th August, he was invested with that high dignity 
 to which he had long aspired, and the duties of which 
 he had some time virtually performed. He was 
 elevated to the archdiocese of Canterbury, and so 
 became primate. But high-handed action in the 
 Church of England was then somewhat impractic- 
 able. Scotland, less potent in respect of wealth, and 
 
 * Spalding's Memorials, i. 39, 40.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxv 
 
 its people in respect of loyalty more pliant/" must in 
 the first instance be won. But neither Archbishop 
 Spottiswoode nor Bishop Bellenden were sufficiently 
 advanced for work to be done at Edinburgh. Com- 
 pliant as to costume, they were Protestant at heart. 
 Laud, with the craft of the conspirator, ever sought 
 to relieve of duty those who refused to yield to his 
 authority. Edinburgh was in the archdiocese of St 
 Andrews ; it was now separated from it, and a new 
 diocese constituted, of which it was made the centre, 
 As first bishop, Laud named Dr William Forbes, 
 who, though preaching to the king in his black gown, 
 was found ready to acquiesce both in the Liturgy 
 and Canons. To Bishop Bellenden was, on the 8th 
 October, addressed a royal letter, embodying certain 
 " articles," concocted by the English primate. These 
 documents proceed : 
 
 " Eeverend Father in God and Trusty and Wel-beloued Coun- 
 sellour, Wee greet yow well. Wee have thought goode, for the 
 better ordering of Divine Service to be performed in oure Chap- 
 pell Eoyall there, to sett doune some Articles vnder oure owne 
 hand to be observed therein, which We send yow here enclosed. 
 And it is oure speciall pleasure that yow carefully see everie 
 thing performed, according as Wee have directed by these oure 
 enclosed Articles : And likeuise that you certifie to the Lords of 
 oure Privie Counsall if any of these appointed by oure former 
 
 * A speech of James, Earl of Arran, afterwards Duke of Hamilton, 
 spoken in 1689, seems to interpret that sentiment of loyalty, which led so 
 many Scotsmen to strongly adhere to the House of Stewart. Referring to 
 the dethroned and exiled James VII., Lord Arran remarked, " I must 
 distinguish between his Popery and his person ; I dislike the one, but have 
 sworn and do owe allegiance to the other."
 
 Clxxvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 letters to them to communicate in cure Chappell Royall, shall 
 not accordingly performe the same, to the effect such order may 
 be taken by our Counsell therein, as by our sayds former letters 
 to them Wee did appointe. Wherein, expecting your diligence 
 and care, Wee bid you farewell From our Court at Whitehall, 
 the eight' 1 *' of October 1633. 
 " To the Reverend Father in God, and oure 
 Right Trusty and Welbeloued Counsel- 
 loure the Bishope of Dunblane, Dean of 
 our Chappell Royall within oure King- 
 dome of Scotland. 
 
 " THE ARTICLES FOR His MAJESTIE'S CHAPEL ROYAL. 
 October the 8th, 1633. 
 
 " CHARLES REX, 
 
 " Our express Will and pleasure is that the 
 Dean of our Chappel, that now is, and his successors, shall be 
 Assistant to the Right Reverend Father in God, the Archbishop 
 of St Andrews, at the Coronation, so often as it shall happen. 
 
 " That the Book of the Form of our Coronation lately used, 
 be put in a little box, and laid into a standard, and committed 
 to the care of the Dean of the Chappel successively. 
 
 " That there be Prayers tuice a-day, with the Quire, as well 
 in our absence as otherwise, according to the English Liturgie, 
 till some course be taken for making one, that may fit the cus- 
 tom and constitution of that church. 
 
 " That the Dean of the Chappel look carefully that all that 
 receive the Blessed Sacrament there, receive it kneeling ; and 
 that there be a Communion held in that our Chappel, the first 
 Sunday of every month. 
 
 " That the Dean of our Chappel that now is, and so succes- 
 sively, come duly thither to prayers upon Sundays, and such 
 Holy-days as that Church observes, in his Whites and preach so, 
 whenever he preacheth there ; And that he be not absent from 
 thence, but upon necessary occasion of his Diocese, or otherwise, 
 according to the course of his preferment.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 " That these Orders shall be our Warrant to the Dean of our 
 Chappel, that the Lords of our Privy Council, the Lords of the 
 Sessions, the Advocates, Clerks, Writers to the Signet, and 
 Members of our College of Justice, be commanded to receive 
 the Holy Communion, once every year at the least, in that our 
 Chappel Eoyal, and kneeling, for example's sake to the kingdom. 
 And We likewise command the Dean aforesaid to make Eeport 
 yearly to us, how Wee are obeyed therein, and by whom ; as 
 also, if any man shall refuse, in what manner he doth so, and 
 why? 
 
 "That the Copes* which are consecrated to our use, be de- 
 livered to the Dean to be kept upon inventory by him, and 
 in a Standard } provided for that purpose ; and to be used at 
 the celebration of the Sacrament in our Chapel Royall." J 
 
 In the " articles " there is skilful handling. The 
 Form of the Coronation, which was to be honourably 
 preserved, was a religious ritual approved by Laud. 
 Then the Dean is honoured in being constituted 
 Assistant of the Primate in conducting future 
 coronations. Thus distinguished he is privileged 
 to conduct daily service in the Chapel Royal; 
 according to the Book of Common Prayer, till 
 a special Service Book is got ready. The Eng- 
 lish Prayer Book would pioneer other forms which 
 Laud had in preparation. But Bishop Bellenden as 
 Dean was called on to adopt a course from which the 
 most emboldened would have shrunk. He was to 
 enjoin the Lords of the Privy Council, the Lords of 
 
 * Communion Cups ; chalices. 
 
 t An upright cupboard similar to a modern wardrobe. 
 
 J Wodrow MSS. Folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 12.
 
 dxxviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Session, the Advocates, the Writers to the Signet, 
 and their Clerks, to partake in the Chapel Royal of 
 the Holy Communion (on their knees) at least once 
 a year. And in default he was to report them to 
 the sovereign. Of the Bishop-Dean there was de- 
 manded a further and special test. The cups used 
 by the king at his coronation one into which he 
 had dropped an oblation or piece of gold, the other 
 that from which he had tasted wine in the Communion 
 service the Dean was charged to revere as specially 
 "consecrated;" and as such was to preserve in "a 
 standard " constructed for that purpose. These king- 
 touched vessels were only to be used by those com- 
 municating in the Chapel Eoyal. 
 
 Notwithstanding the enticing words wherewith 
 " the articles " commenced, they closed with require- 
 ments against which every Protestant minister would 
 certainly revolt. Cups consecrated to Christ in the 
 blessed Sacrament could derive no further or special 
 sanctity from the royal touch. Nor would any ecclesi- 
 astic, worthy of his office, compel men to partake of a 
 sacred ordinance utterly regardless of their personal 
 inclination. While usually requiring a strict and 
 uncompromising obedience, Laud meanwhile exhi- 
 bited towards Bellenden a conciliatory policy. By 
 the Parliament of 1633 had been continued an impost 
 granted some years before as a temporary aid to the 
 king's brother-in-law, the Prince Palatine. Obnox- 
 ious generally, this impost was a special source
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxix 
 
 of complaint on the part of Bishop Bellenden. For his 
 relief Laud procured him the following royal letter, 
 which was issued just a week after the despatch of 
 " the articles." It proceeds thus : 
 
 " Trustie, etc. Being willing that the reverend father in God, 
 the bischop of Dunblane, deane of our Chapell, and his succes- 
 sours deanes thairof, be freed from hence furth of all taxations 
 and impossitions whatsoever in so far as may concerne ther 
 owin personall esteats and goodis, and as for the rents payable 
 to them belonging to the said chappell, we ar lykwayes willing 
 that they have what favour may be convenentlie affurded vnto 
 them without prejudice of the course establisched for the levye- 
 ing of our taxations. Our pleasur is that having to this purpois 
 conferred with our right, etc., the Erles of Morton and Traquair, 
 our Theasaurers principall and deputie, Our Clerk of Eegister, 
 and the said bischop, you draw up such a warrand to be signed 
 by us, and to pass our sealls as shal be sufficient for frieing of 
 him and them of the premisses or what further they and you in 
 your opinions think we may convenientlie doe, and that you 
 send the same docat by you for our hand to be returned and 
 exped accordinglie. Whythall, 15 Oct. 1633." * 
 
 Grateful for past favours, Bishop Bellenden ac- 
 cepted " the articles " without offering a protest. 
 Against remonstrance there were several reasons. The 
 injunction to daily service gave a further claim to per- 
 sonal recompense or to promotion, and also effectually 
 served to plead the cause of the musicians. Be- 
 sides, the Bishop had some legal business in the 
 courts at Westminster, which a hint from the English 
 
 * Sir William Alexander's Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General 
 Register House.
 
 c-lxxx HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Primate to the presiding judge might help satisfac- 
 torily to adjust. At the commencement of the follow- 
 ing letter Laud refers to the influencing of judges 
 without scruple or hesitation : 
 
 " You are much beholding to my Lord Sterlinge ; * and for 
 my selfe, I did you the best service I could, and am glad your 
 troublesome suites are at an end. I hope that which the Kinge 
 hath now done will preserve you against your pressing neces- 
 sityes, thurough which I pray God send you a good passage : 
 But for Westminster foes, they did very much wrong you, who- 
 ever they [were] that made those relations to you of that great 
 sume ; for my former [letters told] the trueth to you. 
 
 " Concerning your preferment, until any better] place falls, I 
 can promise nothing ; but I assure [you his Majestic] hath a 
 very good opinion both of you and your service ; and, therefore, 
 I [can not] doubt but that he will take you and your estate into 
 his consideration. All this time you have given his Majestic 
 good content, and he expects that you continue in that course ; 
 and lett him still receive a note whoe they be that conforme, 
 and whoe not, for I see his Majestic is resolved to go constantlie 
 on, and therefore you must not fayle. 
 
 " I have considerd howe much reason you speake concerning 
 the poor singing men, and have receivd their petition, which 
 you sent enclosd. I must needs say their case deserves a great 
 deale of commiseration ; and the very first time that I gott 
 accesse to his Majestie, after the receipt of your letters, I ac- 
 quainted him with their necessities, and he, like a gracious and 
 a good Prince, was very much moved with it, and commanded 
 me to deliver theire Petition to my Lord Sterling, that some 
 course might be taken for them ; and this, God willing, I will 
 doe soe soone as ever I can meete with that Lord, which I hope 
 will be this day, and soe soone as I can drive it to any good 
 
 * Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, the Scottish Secretary at 
 Court.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxxi 
 
 issue, you shall heare from me. Soe, in hast, I leave you to the 
 grace of God, and rest, 
 
 " Your Lordship's very lovinge Friend and Brother, 
 
 "W. CANT.* 
 
 " Lambeth, January 14, 1633-[4j." 
 
 With his legal affairs at Westminster satisfactorily 
 adjusted, Bishop Bellenden ventured to serve as dean 
 after his own fashion. By Mr John Row f we are 
 informed, with reference to the king's command, as to 
 the Lords of the Privy Council and others receiving 
 the communion in the Chapel, kneeling, on the first 
 Sunday of every month, that Bellenden required 
 obedience in a manner of his own. In connec- 
 tion with the December celebration he, in the Scot- 
 tish mode, preached on the preceding Saturday by 
 way of preparation, while his teaching was such that 
 the ordinance was postponed till Sunday the 15th of 
 the month, and even then there were few partici- 
 pants. J The bishop having also omitted daily service, 
 his procedure, as might indeed have been anticipated, 
 moved Laud with indignation. And a fit opportunity 
 for expressing it occurred not long afterwards, when, 
 on the unexpected demise of the Bishop of Edinburgh, 
 Bellenden made application for the office. The fol- 
 lowing letter from Laud to Bellenden is endorsed 
 " Anent the Liturgie and his sermon," and it is 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No 13. 
 
 t Row's Historic of the Kirk. Wodrow Society, 1842, p. 370. 
 
 t Ibid. 
 
 m
 
 rl \\xii HISTOKY OF THE 
 
 evident that the discourse referred to was that 
 preached early in December. Laud's letter proceeds : 
 
 " S. IN CHKISTO. 
 
 " My very good Lord, I am right sorry for the death of the 
 Bishop of Edinburrow, the loss being very great both to the 
 King and the Church I acquainted his Majesty how needful 
 it was to fill that place with an able successor ; and when men- 
 tion was made of divers men to succeed, I did, as you desire, 
 show his Majestic what your desires were, and what necessityes 
 lay upon you. After much consideration of the busynes his 
 Majestic resolued to give the Bishoprick of Edinburrowe to my 
 Lord of Brehen ; and for yourselfe he commanded me to write 
 expresly to you that he did not take it well, that contrary to his 
 express command you had omitted prayers in his Chappell 
 Royall, according to the English Liturgye, with some other 
 omissiouns there, which pleased him not ; besides, his Majestic 
 hath heard that there have lately been some differences in Eden- 
 burgh about the sufferings of Christ, etc., and that your Lord- 
 ship was some cause of them ; or, at least, such an occasion as 
 might have bred much disturbance, if the late Bishop of Eden- 
 burrow, his care and temper, had not moderated them ; and this 
 his Majestic is not well pleased with neither. And this hath 
 been the cause, as I conceive, why his Majestic hath past you 
 over in this remove ; and you shall doe very well to apply e 
 yourselfe better both to his Majesties service and the well or- 
 dering of that Church, lest you give just occasion to the Kinge 
 to passe you by, when any other remove falls. I am very sorry 
 that I must write thus unto you ; but the only way of helpe 
 lyes in yourselfe and your owne carriage : and, therefore, if you 
 will not be carefull of that, I do not see what any friend can be 
 able to doe for you. Therefore, not doubting but you will 
 take these things into serious consideration for your owne good, 
 I leave you to the grace of God, and rest, 
 
 " Your Lordship's very loving Friend and Brother, 
 
 "W. CANT.* 
 
 " Lambeth, May 6th, 1634." 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 15.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxxiii 
 
 Bishop Forbes, tidings of whose demise had been 
 conveyed to the court, held his high office only a 
 few weeks. Consecrated in the Chapel Royal on the 
 28th January 1634, he died on the 12th April there- 
 after. Just before his death he had, in a charge 
 to his clergy, exhibited his strong adhesion to the 
 royal will, and his departure had therefore, as Laud 
 expressed it, been held as a loss, " both to the King 
 and the Church." By acting upon his own principles, 
 rather than those of the Court, Bellenden now realised 
 that he had missed preferment ; he resolved henceforth 
 to make a liberal sacrifice of his convictions. If we 
 rightly interpret the primate's next letter, he must 
 have despatched to the king more than one missive 
 expressive of obedience. His pleas in extenuation of 
 his nonconformity are by Laud in the following letter 
 fully adverted to : 
 
 " S IN CHRISTO. 
 
 " My very good Lord, My hast at this time forces me to 
 write very briefly ; and these are to lett you knowe that I write 
 nothing in my former letters but as the Kinge was informed, 
 and myself by him commanded. I have now read your Lord- 
 ship's letters to his Majestic, which hath in some part satisfeit 
 him, but not altogether. And for the first, his Majesty saith, 
 that though the gentlemen of the Chapell Eoyall did absent 
 themselves for feare of arrests, having not to pay ; and that that 
 might hinder the service in the Chappel in a solemne and for- 
 mall way of singing by them ; Yet his Majestic thinks you 
 might have got a Chaplaine of your owne to have read the 
 English Liturgye, that soe the work, for the maine part of it, 
 might have gone on. And for the payment of those menn I think
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 your Lordship knowes I have done all the good offices I cann, 
 but have it not in my power to mend all the difficultyes of the 
 time. 
 
 Concerning the disturbance that was in Edinburrow, if any 
 wrong was done your Lordship, that must lye upon them whoe 
 misreported you to the King, who ere they were. And howso- 
 euer, the Kinge took it not ill, you advised the then Bishop of 
 Edinburgh to appease the differences, for that was very worthily 
 done and discreetly done by you. But as far as I remember, 
 the charge layed upon you to the Kinge was, that in your own 
 sermon, which you preach'd about that time, you did rather side 
 with one partye than either represse or comepose the difference. 
 Though I must needs confess to your Lordship, that by reason 
 of the multitude of businesses which lie upon me, I cannot 
 charge my memory with the particular. 
 
 " You have done very well to acquaint the Lords of Counsell 
 and Session, etc., with his Majesties resolution concerning the 
 Communion in the Chappell Eoyall. And I doubt not, if you 
 continue to doe that which his Majestie lookes for in the course 
 of the Church, and which is most just and fit to be done, but 
 that you will easily recover his Majesty's favour, and find the 
 good of it. So in hast I leave you to the grace of God, and rest, 
 
 " Your Lordship's very loving Friend and Brother, 
 
 " W. CANT.* 
 
 "Lambeth, July 1, 1634." 
 
 As Bellenden was now willing to impose the Holy 
 Communion on all whom the king and Laud had en- 
 joined to receive it, the latter was content to renew 
 expressions of approval, also to indicate recompense. 
 He wrote thus : 
 
 "S IN C. 
 "My very good Lord, I have a second time moved his 
 
 h Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 16. The letter is endorsed 
 " Anent Reading of the Liturgie and his Sermon at Edinburgh."
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxxV 
 
 Majestie concerning them that obeyed or disobeyed his com- 
 mands in receiving the Communion in the Chappell at Hally- 
 rudhous, and you shall not fayle to receiue his Majesties answer 
 by my Lord [of Eosse], so that I shall not need to be farther 
 troublesome to you in that particular]. 
 
 " His Majesty is fully satissfyed that the English ... in 
 . . . the Chappell Eoyall before my Lord of E[osse] . . . and 
 in all things else, one . . . satisfied me concerning . . . 
 his Majestie such satisf . . . doubt not but your L . . . 
 so much to your fi . . . Your . . . gentlemen of the 
 Chap . . . tomouehisMajestieconce . . . and he told 
 me that a little before his . . . d since the . . . your 
 Lordship half the money was payed unto them. And that the 
 other half was payed before to one, I thinke, of theire company, 
 whom themselves employed to receive it ; who, it seems, was a 
 bancroft [bankrupt], and either ran away with their money, or 
 misspent it, or else serued his own turn with it. Now, what to 
 say to this I cannot tell, for the chequer is not in that case that I 
 can think it fit, (or if I doe) I am sure the Lord Treasurer will not 
 think soe, that the king should pay the same sum twice ; and 
 yet I must confesse it falls very hard upon the poore men to 
 bear the losse, but they should have been wiser in the choyce 
 of their agent. Notwithstanding, if there can be any hope in 
 this case to relieue them, I shall do my best ; and for the future 
 my lord hath promised me they shall be duly payed. 
 
 " Soe I leave you to the grace of God, and rest, 
 " Your Lordship's loving Friend and Brother, 
 
 " W. CANT.* 
 
 " Croyden, October 4, 1634." 
 
 In answer to an inquiry by Bellenden as to the 
 plunder of the Chapel funds, Laud must have excited 
 his surprise by naming Edward Kellie as the delin- 
 quent. Towards his correspondent the primate 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 17.
 
 Clxxxvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 is, in his next letter, complimentary and reassur- 
 ing: 
 
 " S. IN CHRISTO. 
 
 " My very good Lord, I am very glad to heare your resolu- 
 tions for the ordering of his Majesties Chappell Eoyall, and that 
 you are resolved to wear your whites, notwithstanding the 
 maliciousnes of foolish men. I know his Majestic will take 
 your obedience and care very well; and being fully satisfied, 
 both concerning your sermon and all thinges else committed to 
 your trust, you may, as opportunity serues, expect from his 
 Majestic all reasonable thinges ; and I shall not be wanting to 
 give you all the assistance that I can vpon all occasions, of 
 which I heartily pray you not to doubt. 
 
 " My lord, the Earle of Traquare is now come, and I shall 
 take the first opportunity I can to speake once more with 
 him about the gentlemen of the Chappell, and shall showe him 
 what your lordship writes concerning one Edward Kelly, whom 
 you mention; and what answer soever I can gett, you shall 
 receive from me. 
 
 " Soe in hast, I leave you to the grace of God, and rest, 
 " Your Lordship's very loving Friend and Brother, 
 
 "W. CANT. 
 
 " Lambeth, Jan. 12, 1634[5]. 
 
 " I have spoken with my Lord Traquare, and he tells me (if 
 I mistooke him not) that pay was made to Kelly with relation 
 to the gentlemen of the Chappell, and that your oun hand, as 
 well as others, is to some agreement that was made thereabout. 
 The paper was not then about him, else he had showed it me. 
 Your Lordship, therefore, shall doe very well to speak with him 
 again about this particular. As for the time to come, he hath 
 assumed to me they shall be duly paid."* 
 
 Prior to the 15th February 1634-5, Kellie was 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 14.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxxvii 
 
 displaced, and " Mr Edward Millar, musician, resid- 
 ing in Edinburgh/' appointed his successor.* 
 
 Bellenden's promotion at length arrived, but with 
 it was accompanied the proviso that he was to 
 become resident at Aberdeen. Should he accept, 
 then the English primate made sure that the Scottish 
 capital was ecclesiastically his own. In expression 
 the following is abundantly fraternal : 
 
 " S. IN CHRISTO. 
 
 " My very good Lord, The king hathe been acquainted with 
 your care of the Chappell Eoyall, and is very well pleased with 
 the conformity which hath been there at the late reception of 
 the blessed Sacrament ; and, for my part, I am heartyly glad to 
 see in what a faire way the Church busynesses now are in those 
 parts. I hope, if the bishops be pleased to continue theire good 
 example and their care, all thinges will settle beyond expec- 
 tation. 
 
 " The king hath declared his pleasure concerning the bishop- 
 rickes now void, and hath given yow the bishopricke of Aber- 
 deen, as you will heare more at large by my Lord of Eosse. 
 But being an Vniversity and a place of consequence, he will 
 have you reside there, and relies much upon you for the well 
 ordering of that place. I am very glad the kinge hath been soe 
 mindful of you, and given you soe good a testimony vpon this 
 occasion of your remove. So I leave you to the grace of God, 
 and rest, 
 
 " Your Lordship's very loveinge Freind and Brother, 
 
 " W. CANT, f 
 
 "Lambeth, May 19, 1635." 
 
 As concerned Scotland, Laud's hopes had reached 
 
 * Register of Presentations, vii., fol. 24. 
 t Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 19.
 
 clxxxviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 a climax. David Lindsay, pliant and courtly, was 
 Bishop of Edinburgh ; and Bellenden, with his un- 
 certainties, was residing in his distant diocese of 
 Aberdeen."" 
 
 Lately constituted Lord Chancellor, Archbishop 
 Spottiswoode, with his embarrassing assertion of 
 Protestant doctrine, was virtually silenced. And 
 above all, there was for the office of dean of the 
 Chapel Royal an ecclesiastic in waiting whose obe- 
 dience had been proved. It is here essential to place 
 under review some recent occurrences. Desirous of 
 assimilating the two national Churches, James VI. 
 had sought, subsequent to the English accession, to 
 accommodate the Scottish Church to the Angli- 
 can system in matters of ecclesiastical ritual, and 
 clerical attire. Doctrinal considerations were at 
 the outset deemed of less moment ; but when Laud 
 became king's chaplain, circumstances changed. 
 James's resolution in 1617 to affix in the Chapel 
 Royal certain carved figures, and his unwillingness to 
 withdraw the order, were due to the perversity of 
 Laud. On the withdrawal was substituted an order 
 for the English Book of Common Prayer being 
 used in daily service an innovation which at this 
 
 * That Bellenden was translated to Aberdeen because Laud regarded 
 him as an impediment to the execution of his plans was at the time Well 
 understood. In reference to the translation, Principal Eobert Baillie thus 
 writes to his correspondent, Mr William Spang : " He was removed 
 from the Chappell Royal to Aberdeen, as one who did not favour well 
 enough Canterburie's new wayes" (Baillie's Letters, Edinb. 1841, i. 161).
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. clxxxix 
 
 time the king would not have ventured otherwise to 
 propose. 
 
 Having introduced a liturgical service in the Chapel 
 Royal, and then prescribed kneeling at the com- 
 munion, the way for further innovation was opened 
 up. Through Archbishop Spottiswoode of St 
 Andrews, Laud in 1618 obtained for the celebrated 
 " five articles" the sanction of the General Assembly. 
 When these articles, sanctioned by the Estates of 
 Parliament, became law, Laud urged the king to 
 enforce their adoption. Partially this was done ; 
 but James, alarmed by his adviser's impetuosity on 
 the one hand, and the defiant attitude of the Presby- 
 terians on the other, somewhat hesitated. With the 
 accession of Charles to the throne in 1625, ecclesias- 
 tical affairs assumed a new aspect. Having married 
 Henrietta Maria of France, a Roman Catholic, 
 Charles virtually adopted his consort's faith. Under 
 his firm policy, Laud became a chief power in the 
 state. With his approval, Charles made proclama- 
 tion at Edinburgh that church lands and teinds, 
 granted to members of the laity by his predecessors, 
 were to be revoked. Obedience to the articles of 
 Perth was exacted rigorously. Laud suggested the 
 coronation visit ; the religious ritual which attended 
 it had his approval. In the Chapel Royal a liturgical 
 service was, he maintained, to be observed daily. 
 He had designs far more sweeping, and for fully 
 accomplishing them the time seemed to have arrived.
 
 cxc HISTORY OF THE 
 
 As Bellenden's successor, Laud nominated Dr 
 James Wedderburn, a churchman, of whose devotion 
 to the king and attachment to himself he possessed 
 ample experience. A native of Dundee, where his 
 family had held some status, Wedderburn studied at 
 Oxford,* ; he was also a disciple of Isaac Casaubon. t 
 Thereafter he became a professor in St Mary's Col- 
 lege, St Andrews, where with his colleagues he, on 
 receiving, in January 1624, the late king's com- 
 mands to use the English Liturgy, yielded a ready 
 compliance. J Under Laud's recommendation, he 
 soon afterwards was appointed prebendary of Ely ; 
 he subsequently held the living of Compton, Hants, 
 and of Mildenhall, Suffolk. When appointed to the 
 Chapel Koyal and bishopric of Dunblane, he was 
 prebendary of Whitchurch, in Wells. 
 
 With so many events conspiring to his ends, Laud, 
 full of enterprise and hope, despatched Wedderburn 
 to Edinburgh. The latter did not realise what he 
 
 * Kussel's Keith's Bishops, Edinb. 1824, p. 182. 
 
 t Defending himself, in his autobiography, from the charge of recom- 
 mending Bellenden and Wedderburn to the conjunct offices of dean and 
 bishop as his " creatures" and " instruments," Laud writes : " With the 
 Bp. of Dunblane, Dr Wedderborne, I confess I had more and longer 
 acquaintance ; for he lived some years in England, and was recommended 
 unto me as a man that had very good parts and learning in him. He lived 
 long with Mr Isaac Casaubon, who was not like to teach him any Popery, 
 and who certainly would not have retained him so long, or so near unto 
 him, had he not found him a deserver. After I came acquainted with him, 
 I wished him very well for his worth sake, and did what I could for him 
 to live." It may here be added that Wedderburn nominated Laud as his 
 executor (Archbishop Laud's Works, iii. 373, 374 ; vii. 591). 
 
 J Calderwood's History, vii. 569.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXci 
 
 had expected, and was consequently discouraged. 
 This circumstance explains an observation made by 
 Laud at the commencement of the following extract 
 from a letter addressed by him to his confidential 
 adviser, John Maxwell, Bishop of Ross : 
 
 "I thanke you for your care of Dr Wedderbourne. He is 
 very able to doe service, and will certainly doe it, if you can 
 keepe up his heart. I was in good hope he had been conse- 
 crated, as well as my Lord of Brehen, but I perceive he is not. 
 What the reason is [I know] not; but 'tis a thousand pityes 
 that those uncertainties abide with him. I pray [commend] my 
 love to him, and tell him I would not have him sticke att any 
 thinge, for the kinge will not leave him long att Dunblane after 
 he hath once settled the Chappell right, which I see will settle 
 apace, if he keepe his footing. My letters are gone to the 
 Bishop of Aberdene, by the king's command, to dissert his Pro- 
 testation concerning the Chappell, [and] to leave the rents 
 presently to Dr Wedderbourne. . . . Concerning that 
 which you mension about fitting of the Chappell, both with 
 silver vessels and other ornaments, upon the sale now to be 
 made of some stuffe of the king's, I think my Lorde of St 
 Andrewes will very shortly receive a letter, under the king's 
 hand, to give power for all that yow desire ; and then, if you 
 do not see the Chappell well furnished, the blame for ever be 
 yours." * 
 
 The letter from which we obtain the preceding 
 extract is dated at " Croydon, September 19, 1635." 
 Sufficiently characteristic, inasmuch as it conveys 
 counsel to his protege" that he would have him " not 
 to sticke att anythinge," it clearly shows that Wedder- 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 20.
 
 Cxcii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 burn was hesitating. One cause of discouragement 
 is hinted at his predecessor, Bishop Bellenden, 
 had asserted his title to a portion of the chapel 
 revenues. In the postscript of the letter a more 
 costly decoration of the chapel is foreshadowed/' 
 
 From detached accounts of the High Treasurer, in 
 the General Eegister House, we learn that, with the 
 accession of Wedderburn to the deanery, certain 
 repairs were carried out on his place of ministration. 
 In these accounts are named two chapels, the new 
 and " the auld," the former being described as having 
 formed " the laich chalmeris vnder the Quenys chal- 
 meris." This accommodation was probably selected 
 by Wedderburn as being more suitable for his reli- 
 gious rites than that embraced in the older structure. 
 A portion of the accounts follow : 
 
 "THE COMPT OF THE SCLATTEEIS BEGYNNAND IN MENSE 
 JULIJ IN ANNO, ETC., XXXV to . 
 
 " Item, imprimis to Kobert and Johne Blaris for iiij raid iij 
 quarteris ruid new theiking, with sclait and lyme vpon the 
 auld chapell. Kichingis, weschelows, dresryis, and south 
 toure. Ilk ruid xxxiij 9 iiij d . Summa, . vij lib xviij 8 iiij d . 
 
 * Those who have any misgiving as to Laud's secret intention in introduc- 
 ing the Book of Canons, should read the whole of his letter to the Bishop of 
 Ross, from which we have made the preceding extract. In this letter he uses 
 these words, " I am very glad your Canons are alsoe in so good a readiness, 
 and that the true meaning of that ane Canone remains still under the. cur- 
 taine. I hope you will tak care that it may be fully printed and passed 
 with the rest." For a calm and lucid account of Laud's procedure in con- 
 nection with the Scottish Church, see Dr Hill Burton's History of Scotland, 
 2d edit., vol. vi., pp. 104-206 ; also Prynne's "Hidden Workes of Darkenes," 
 Lond. 1645, passim.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXClil 
 
 " Item, to the said Eobert for the theiking of the lytill garding, 
 Chalmer beand ruiffit extending to j rude, half ruid, and 
 quarter ruid, and to the foresaid Robert for new theiking, 
 with borit lath and Chathnes sclait and lyme, elekwys the 
 south syde of the new chapell, extending to v ruid iij 
 quarteris ruid. Ilk ruid vt supra xxxiij 8 iiij d . Suma huius 
 vij ruid half ruid is, ... xij lib x 8 . 
 
 " SCLAITIS ENTERIT TO THE SAID WERK IN MENSE 
 JULIJ ANNO VT SUPRA. 
 
 "Item, to William Fynn for v m Cathnes sclait. Ilk j m iij lib ., 
 Suma, ...... xv lib . 
 
 " Item, in ij south lychtis of the new chapell bewis the chancel- 
 lary wall, .... j c xx futtis half futt. 
 
 " Item, to the cartaris of the foresaid aikin tymmer of sindry 
 sortis brocht vp for the galre ruif, warping of the chapell 
 deskis, and chancelry wall xlij draucht. Ilk draucht fra 
 Leith to the abbay xvj d . Suma, . . . Ivj 8 . 
 
 "THE EXPENSIS MAID APON IRNE WERK IN MENSE SEPTEMBRIS 
 ANNO UT SUPRA. 
 
 " Item, to Robert Monepenny for iij c xl gret nalis to ruiffis for 
 the dowbill rynpannis of the fare entre and auld chapell, 
 extending to xx stane wecht. 
 
 " Item, to the said chapell gavill twa square lychtis vnder the 
 travys pece in bund, plet, and bosit Irne werk 
 
 xxxvij stanis xv pund. 
 
 " Item, to the boys vyndo of the foresaid chapell gavill vnder 
 the laich travys pece in bosit maid Irne werk, xxx stane. 
 
 " Item, to the gret square lycht abone the bosit Irne windo and 
 travys pece twa plane plet windois contenand in maid Irne 
 werk, ..... xxxiij stane. 
 
 "THE SCLATERIS EXPENSIS WITH SKAILZE IN 
 
 " Item, iriprimis the north, syde of the chapell .extending to
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 vij ruid, half ruid, quarter ruid, and v eluis, wrocht be 
 John Blayr. 
 
 " Item, to Robert Blayr for the new work of the fore entre elik- 
 wys, with skailze and fog theiking togiddir with the turpyk 
 heid of the samyn, extending to x ruidis, half ruid, vij 
 elnis. 
 
 " And to the said Eobert for j ruide xxxij elnis new theiking 
 work, with skailze vpon ane part of the north syde of the 
 chalmeris nixt the toure quhilk was the auld chapell, and 
 for v ruid ij elnis new work elikwis apon the complete 
 theiking of the inner syde of the saidis chalmeris fra the 
 fare entre to the kirk stepill, and for vj elnis ane quarter 
 new theiking werk upon the galre at the eist end of the 
 new chapell. 
 
 Suma huius totalis ruidis skailze xxv ruidis, half ruid, 
 vij elnis, price ilk ruid workmanschip furuysing of 
 skailze thairto, with the haill carriage, vj lib . Suma, 
 
 j c xxxiiij lib iij 8 iiij d . 
 
 " Item, to Thomas Adeson, Allaster Campbell, and Andro 
 Lokart, for v ruidis v elnis riging stane to the fore new 
 werk, and to the samyn for vij ruid, half ruid, quarter ruid, 
 v elnis riging stane to the chapell, and for iiij ruidis, iij 
 elnis, riggin stane to the north chalmeris foresaid, extend- 
 ing in toto to xviij rude, v elnis, half eln, price ilk ruid 
 xij s . Suma, .... xj lib vij 8 vj d . 
 
 " Item, for fog furnysing to the foresaid werk, . iij lib x s . 
 
 " Item, to Sir James Nichollson for certane sarking burd of 
 Scotis ayk, and to John Brand for the fraucht thairof fra 
 Striuiling hevyn to Leith, . . . viij lib xj 8 . 
 
 " IN MENSE AUGUSTJ ANNO, ETC., XXXV* . 
 
 " Item, to Robert Days, pergeonar, for pergene of the laich 
 chalmeris vnder the Quenys chalmeris, now the new chapell, 
 with calk and glew of all costis, . . xxiiij 8 . 
 
 " Item, to George Peblis for perginyng, harling, and beting of the 
 glasin wyndois of the samyn without, . . vj 8 .
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXCV 
 
 Amidst his innovating precipitation, reminded that 
 Wedderburn had not only not been consecrated, but 
 had not even received his letters of presentation, 
 Laud now attended to the latter formality. In an 
 instrument of gift, dated at Royston, 14th October 
 1635, Wedderburn had granted to him over and 
 above the ancient endowments and foundations made 
 by the kings of Scotland, " all and whole that endow- 
 ment and foundation annexed and made to the 
 chapel, of the lands of the monastery and barony 
 of Dundrennan, as contained in the gift thereof 
 under the Privy Seal on 16th July 1621 ; " also "the 
 annual rent of ten chalders of victual out of the lands 
 of Markill and Traprane." * 
 
 Wedderburn was consecrated on the llth Feb- 
 ruary 1636, the event being followed up by new 
 activities. For some time Laud had been occupied 
 in framing his " Canons and Constitutions Ecclesias- 
 tical," a book, as we have seen, adroitly prepared, 
 and intended to sap the foundations of Presbyterian 
 government. Issued on the 23d May, by authority 
 of a royal edict, and without any other sanction, it 
 contained among other provisions, injunctions that 
 each church should have its baptismal font, also a 
 communion table at the upper end of the chancel ; 
 that the Sacrament of the Supper should be received 
 kneeling, and that in the Communion service all 
 should stand while repeating the Creed. 
 
 * Privy Seal Kegister, cvi., fol. 369.
 
 cxrvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 However inoffensive some of these commands may 
 seem, it must be remembered that they were thrust 
 upon the Church by a sovereign who excited prejudice 
 by cherishing Romish doctrine ; also at the hands of 
 an ecclesiastic whose Protestant professions were 
 certainly insincere. It had been predicted by Dr 
 Juxon, Bishop of London, in a letter to the Bishop 
 of Ross, that the Book of Canons would "make more 
 noise than all the cannons in Edinburgh Castle." * 
 The demonstration attending the introduction was 
 indeed less than might have been anticipated ; for 
 in these times intelligence travelled slowly, and a large 
 proportion of the clergy had accepted the measures 
 of the court. Prior to issuing his Book of Canons, 
 Laud had, in April 1636, received from Charles a 
 private warrant authorising him also to prepare a 
 Scottish Liturgy or Service Book. On the day fol- 
 lowing the English primate addressed a lengthened 
 communication to Dr Wedderburn, in which, after con- 
 gratulating him on his being consecrated, he thanked 
 him for some suggestions respecting the Service Book, 
 and in the king's name offered others. With refer- 
 ence to the affairs of the Chapel Royal he proceeds : 
 
 " I have received other letters from you, by which I find you 
 have written to his Majesty about the Communion in the 
 Chapel Royal, concerning which the King holds his former re- 
 solution, that he would be very glad there should be a full com- 
 munion at all solemn times, as is appointed. But because men 
 
 * Wodrow MSS., folio, vol. Ixvi., No. 21.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXCV11 
 
 doe not alwayes fit themselves as they ought for that great and holy 
 worke, therefore his Majesty will be satisfied, if every one that is 
 required to communicate there doe solemnly and conformably 
 performe that action, once a year at least. And in conformity to 
 this, you are to signifie once a yeare unto his sacred Majesty, who 
 have communicated within the compasse of that year, and who 
 not ; and of this you must not faile." * 
 
 After some delay the Service Book was placed in 
 the hands of Robert Young, the king's printer, who 
 undertook to have it ready in autumn. Thereupon 
 the Privy Council were enjoined to make proclamation 
 that, under heavy penalties, the book should be used 
 in every parish church. Hesitating to issue a work 
 which might involve him in popular disfavour, Young 
 moved tardily. At length the volume appeared in 
 May 1637, when a royal edict provided that it should 
 be first used in the churches of Edinburgh. 
 
 The Chapel Royal was situated within the 
 precincts of the city, but in this connection no 
 special arrangements had been made. It is pro- 
 bable that Wedderburn, who had early taken alarm, 
 was content to leave the burden on his more ven- 
 turous colleagues. That part of the cathedral of 
 St Giles occupied by the congregation of the High 
 Church was fixed on for giving public effect to the 
 king's mandate. 
 
 An eagerly expectant crowd assembled early, and 
 on the opening of the doors at once occupied the 
 
 * Prynne's " Hidden Workes of Darkenes," Lond. 1645, fol. 152, 154. 
 
 n
 
 CXCViii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 church. As the church bells ceased to ring, two 
 dignitaries in white vestments entered the Arch- 
 
 o 
 
 bishop of St Andrews, Chancellor of the kingdom, who 
 proceeded to occupy the throne, and Bishop Lindsay, 
 who ascended the pulpit. Standing in the reading 
 desk, Dr James Hannay, Dean of Edinburgh, com- 
 menced to read from the new Service Book. On 
 every side arose murmurs, followed by angry ejacula- 
 tions on the part of the more ardent. Near the pul- 
 pit a woman rose up, and cast towards it the small 
 stool on which she had been seated. Confusion en- 
 sued, and after in vain attempting to restore order 
 the archbishop and all the clergy withdrew. 
 
 Next day the Privy Council met at Holyroodhouse, 
 seventeen members being present, among whom five 
 were bishops.* On this occasion was passed the 
 following minute : 
 
 " Apud Halyrudhous, 24 July 1637. Sederunt Chancellar, 
 Dumfreis, Bishop of Edinburgh, Bishop of Brechin, 
 Thesaurar, Southesk, Bishop of Murray, Clerk Eegister, 
 Glasgow, Lord Lome, Bishop of Galloway, Justice 
 General!, Priuie Scale, Lord Alexander, Bishop of 
 Eos, Depute Thesurer, Aduocat. 
 
 Forsamekle as the lords of secreit counsell having consid- 
 derit the late turbulent and mutinous cariage of a number of 
 base people, who vpon the Lords day, and in the Lords hous, in a 
 rude, barbarous, and seditious way did with foule mouths and 
 unpious hands appose themselffes to his divine seruice, to the 
 dishonnour of God, disgrace of his majesteis governement, and 
 disturbance of the publict peace of this citie of Edinburgh : and 
 
 * Bishop Wedderburn of the Chapel Royal was not of the number.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CXC1X 
 
 the saids lords being carefull in the dewtie of thair office to 
 inquire for and make tryell of the authors and abbetters of this 
 disorderlie tumult, and to preuent all further grouth of the same ; 
 The lords of secreit counsell ordains the Lyon herald, and his 
 brethren heralds and pursevants with a trumpet, and displeyed 
 coat of armes, to pas to the mercat croce of this citie, and there be 
 opin proclamation to command and charge all and sindrie the 
 inhabitants of the said citie of Edinburgh, als weill men as 
 wemen, that they conteane themselffes in peace and quyetnes, 
 and that nane of thame presoome nor take vpon hand to make 
 anie gadderings or convocatiouns vpon the streit, or to haue anie 
 meitings in priuat quhairby the publict peace of the citie may 
 be disturbed : And in special! that nane attempt to make dis- 
 order or raise anie tumult in the churches or churchyairds, nor 
 to revile or belshe furth anie contumelious speeches or impreca- 
 tions aganis anie of his majesteis servants, being of the ecclesi- 
 astick or civill estat, or of the inferior clergie, nor to offer 
 violence or injurie to thame, or anie of thame be word or deid, 
 nor to impugne nor traduce his majesteis governement, nor to 
 raile and speeke aganis the seruice booke, whiche for the fur- 
 therance of Gods worship, hes beene warrantablie established, 
 vnder the pane of death to be inflicted vpon thame as seditious 
 persons and contemners of his majesteis religious and royall 
 commandements, certifeing all and sindrie who sail doe or 
 attempt anie thing in the contrare that the pane of death sail 
 be execute vpon thame without favour or mercie, conforme to 
 the lawes and acts of counsell provided in that behalfe : Lykeas 
 the saids lords declares if anie servants, man or woman, sail 
 offend in that kynde, or that anie of the inhabitants of this citie 
 sail heare or see anie of the aforesaids misdemeanours and not 
 reveale the names of the offenders, or apprehend and deliver 
 thame to the magistrats of the said citie, or if anie of the rascall 
 maisterlesse boyes committing anie suche disorder sail be ressett 
 within anie hous of the said citie, that the maister of the servant, 
 the hearer of the speeches and seer of the deid, and not doing 
 diligence, as said is, and the ressetters of the saids persons sail 
 be repute, haldin, and esteemed as persons guiltie, connivers,
 
 CC HISTORY OF THE 
 
 and favorers of the partie delinquent, and sail be accordinglie 
 punished in thair persons and goods as the principall offender, 
 and according to the merite and qualitie of his trespasse. 
 Lykeas the saids lords finds and declares vpon good reason of state 
 that the provest, bailleis, counsell, and communitie of the said 
 citie of Edinburgh, ar and must be lyable and debtors for quhat- 
 somever ryot, trouble, or wrong that sail be committed within 
 thair citie, in maner foresaid : Commanding heirby the saids pro- 
 vest and bailleis of the said citie of Edinburgh to haue a speciall 
 care and regard to see the premissis putt to dew and full execu- 
 tion in all points, and that they inquire for, apprehend, and 
 cominitt to ward all and sindrie persons whome they sail leirne 
 or deprehend to haue beene, or who hereafter sail be, guiltie of the 
 bygane tumult, or after disorder as the saids provest and bailleis 
 will answer vpon the dewtie of thair office at thair highest 
 charge and parell." * 
 
 This proclamation served to whet popular indigna- 
 tion. From its centre to its extremities was the 
 country aroused, and a storm swept abroad not less 
 vehement than that which eighty years before had 
 overthrown a Church and wrecked the cathedrals. 
 At Edinburgh, Committees, or "Tables" as they were 
 called, assembled daily. On the 1st March 1638, the 
 National Covenant was renewed in the Greyfriars 
 Church, many subscribing with their pens dipped in 
 their own blood. Apprehensive of attack, members 
 of the Privy Council left Edinburgh for Stirling. 
 Their frequently repeated proclamations were received 
 with scorn, or by uncompromising rejoinders. Laud 
 and the king meditated revenge, but might not cope 
 with the nation in arms. Charles at length offered 
 
 * Privy Council Register, Acta, May 1636 ; Nov. 1639, folio, 2186.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. cci 
 
 terms ; on the 22d September 1638, the Service Book 
 was recalled, and the infamous Court of High Commis- 
 sion suspended. Not only so, but the king consented 
 to convene a Parliament and convoke a General 
 Assembly. That Assembly, which met at Glasgow, 
 among its many memorable enactments, deprived and 
 excommunicated Bishops Bellenden and Wedderburn. 
 To Bellenden Charles gave a small pension, which he 
 received under an assumed name. Afterwards ap- 
 pointed Rector of Portlock in Somersetshire, he there 
 died in 1647. * Laud had augured that Wedder- 
 burn would " settle the Chapel Royal if he kept his 
 footing." A footing he did not attain. His history 
 may be briefly summed up in his patron's words : 
 " He came into England, and after he had been there 
 about a twelvemonth, he fell sick and died."t His 
 death took place on the 23d September 1639, and his 
 remains were deposited in Canterbury Cathedral, 
 where, in the chapel consecrated to the Virgin, a 
 monument with a Latin inscription celebrates his 
 virtues. One of the most scholarly of Scottish 
 bishops, he unhappily identified himself with a 
 despotic movement, and died in his fifty- fourth year 
 the victim of regret. + 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., iii. 885. 
 
 t Russel's Keith's Bishops, 182; Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 840; Bishop Laud's 
 Works, vii. 591. 
 
 Bishop Wedderburn's brother John, M.D. of the University of St 
 Andrews, attained reputation as a physician, and received the honour of 
 knighthood. He became chief physician in the State of Moravia, and 
 resided at Olinutz.
 
 CCli HISTORY OF THE 
 
 The Covenanters were not slow in improving their 
 triumphs. Obtaining a general ascendancy in the 
 north, where their cause at first was doubtful, they 
 also got possession of the principal strongholds, and, 
 under their military leader, General Leslie, became 
 masters of the country. When the king, early in 
 May 1639, sent a fleet into the Firth of Forth/" the 
 Act was accepted as a declaration of war, and Leslie 
 and his troops a few weeks later marched to the 
 Border. 
 
 Intent on suppressing the Scottish malcontents, 
 Charles had with an army reached Birks, seven miles 
 beyond Berwick ; but learning that twenty thousand 
 troops were, under Leslie, entrenched at Dunse Hill, 
 he proceeded to offer terms. The treaty, known as 
 the Pacification of Berwick, followed; it included 
 permission to hold a General Assembly. That 
 Assembly was summoned to meet at Edinburgh on 
 the 12th August ; a week previously Charles had by 
 letter informed the bishops that they still enjoyed 
 his support, which on fitting opportunity would be 
 shown them. He also gave instructions that, in 
 the carrying out of repairs at Holyroodhouse, the 
 Chapel Koyal should be placed in order, with a 
 view to its future use in its former connection. 
 Among other documents lately discovered in the 
 General Register House are workmen's accounts 
 in relation to the Chapel. 
 
 * Burton's History of Scotland, edit. 1873, vii. 273.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CClll 
 
 In August Clement Toweris, "glassen wright," 
 was paid for glass work to the Chapel Royal, 66, 
 16s. 8d. ; and in September " Jhone Weir, maisoun, 
 and his seruand," had 48 shillings as "ane oulkis 
 [week's] wagis, for laying the pavement of the chapel." 
 These charges also are ranged under August and 
 September. 
 
 " Itein, to George Wallace, spangeonar and his marrowis, sparge- 
 ing the auld hall, the twa turnpykis, and pairts of the 
 gallarie, the chapel, the twa chalmeris of the forewark, sett 
 in task to thame, .... xxvj lib . 
 
 Item, sett in task to George Hay, sclaitter, the poynting bette- 
 ment of the bak chalmeris, and poynting and betten of the 
 north syde of the chapell, with the stair, . . xij lib . 
 
 Item, to twa women clengeing the chapell, . . ij 8 . 
 
 Item, to George Tulloch, sawar, and his marrow, for v draucht 
 of geistis to the chapell, ilk draucht ij 8 ; ij draucht of cor- 
 bellis, ilk draucht xvj d , . . . xij 8 viij d ." 
 
 On a folio sheet,. preserved in the Register House, 
 is the following list : 
 
 " The names of ye ministeris within the diocie of Glasgow, 
 who ar to be chaplanes to his Ma tie for service of ye Chapell 
 Eoyall : 
 
 1. Mr Wm. Annan, minister at Air. 
 
 2. Doctor James Eliott, minister at Glasgow. 
 
 3. Maister Jhone Lyndsay, att Carstaires. 
 
 4. Mr Eobert Hammilton, at Lesmahagow. 
 
 5. Dr Theodor Hay, Archedeacon of Glasgow. 
 
 6. Mr Jhone Hay, persone of Renfrow. 
 
 7. Mr George Buchanan, persone of Kilpatrik. 
 
 8. Mr Jhone Alexander, persone of Hoddorn.
 
 Cciv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 9. Mr Wm. Bennett, persone of Ancrum. 
 
 10. Mr Thomas Forrester, minister at Melros. 
 
 11. Mr Patrik Lyndsay, minister at Maxtoun. 
 
 These were named by the bishops as being suitable 
 preachers in the Chapel Royal during the king's 
 visit ; they had severally adopted the Service Book, 
 while some of them had lately been deprived of 
 ministerial status. 
 
 The General Assembly, which met on the 12th 
 August, abolished Episcopacy, rescinded the five 
 articles of Perth, and condemned the Book of Canons 
 and the Service Book, all these acts being sanc- 
 tioned by the Earl of Traquair, as king's commis- 
 sioner. Parliament met on the 31st of August 
 for the despatch of business ; it was adjourned, as 
 it had been several times previously. When it 
 reassembled, on the 2d June 1640, an attempt was 
 again made to arrest its deliberations. That attempt 
 was resisted, and, in defiance of the royal will, its 
 sittings were continued. Among its enactments were 
 an adoption of the National Covenant, and a full 
 ratification of the acts of the General Assembly. After 
 appointing "the Committee of Estates" to act as a 
 permanent body, Parliament adjourned till Novem- 
 ber. By his " Short" and his " Large" Declarations, 
 Charles had sufficiently manifested what his real 
 intentions were, and so abundantly justified that 
 march into England, which terminated in the victory at 
 Newburn and the capture of Newcastle. The nego-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCV 
 
 tiations which followed, commencing at Bipon on 
 the 1st of October, were adjourned to London, 
 and did not terminate till at the hands of the English 
 Parliament Laud was committed to the Tower. On 
 the 7th August 1641, a treaty was completed, and 
 in one week thereafter Charles was at Holyrood. 
 
 During a brief period had occurred a marvellous 
 transition. For attempting to crush liberty in his 
 own portion of the kingdom Laud was a captive, 
 charged with conspiracy and treason. At Edinburgh 
 the new recipients of royal favour were those persons 
 with whom Charles had lately been at war. The 
 most conspicuous minister of the Presbyterian clergy 
 was Mr Alexander Henderson. He had led opposi- 
 tion to the Service Book, drawn up the National 
 Covenant, been a chief author of various Petitions 
 and Protests, was Moderator of the General As- 
 sembly of 1638, and in August 1639 had preached 
 at the opening of the adjourned Parliament ; he 
 was also one of the delegates from the Covenanting 
 army which had conferred with the king at Berwick, 
 and a commissioner in the recent treaty. When 
 Charles arrived at Holyroodhouse on Saturday the 
 14th August, Mr Henderson was honoured by an 
 interview, and named as royal chaplain. Next 
 morning he preached before the king in the Abbey 
 Church; he discoursed from Romans xi. and 13, 
 on the subject of the Divine supremacy.* In 
 
 * Baillie's Letters and Journals, Eclinb. 1841, i. 385, 386.
 
 CCvi HISTORY OP THE 
 
 reality, as is stated by Baillie,* Mr Henderson 
 was virtually appointed dean, and with the same 
 endowments as had been enjoyed by Dr Wed- 
 derburn. The subjoined instrument of gift, printed 
 for the first time, is not without interest, inasmuch 
 that the reasons assigned for the appointment, and 
 the nature of the appointment itself are set forth in 
 measured language. The document proceeds : 
 
 " Ane Lettre maid making mentioun that his majestie con- 
 siddering that it is necessar when his hienes or his sone, the 
 Prince, shall come into this thair Kingdome of Scotland, that 
 thair be some minister to attend thame for performing the dew- 
 ties of divyne worshipe in thair famelies, and his majestie 
 having now large prooff of the abilitie and faithfulnes of his 
 hienes trustie and weilbelouit Maister Alexander Hendersoun, 
 present minister at Edinburgh, for the said charge, hath maid 
 choyse of him for performing of the aforsaid dewties in all tymes 
 comeiug, duiring the wholl tyme of the said Maister Alexander 
 his lyfe, and thairfor in recompence of his semice and attendance 
 both bypast and to come, with advyse and consent of his hienes 
 trustie counsallour Sir James Carmichaell, of that ilk, Knight, 
 thesaurer depute, and of the remanent commissioneris of his 
 hienes Exchequer of the said kingdome givand, grantand, and 
 disponeand to the said Maister Alexander, for all the dayes of 
 his lyftynae, All and haill the landis, monasterrie, and barony 
 of Dundrennane, comprehending in the samen all and sundry 
 tounes, landis, castellis, touris, fortalices, woodis, baronies, plaines, 
 milnis, multuris, annualrentis, kirkis, kirklandis, teyndis, fish- 
 ings, fruittis, rentis, proventis, emolumentis, seruices, and vtheris 
 dewties of the samen quhatsumevir contenit in the lettre of 
 donation, dispositioun, dotatioun, and mortificatioun of the same 
 be his majesties vmquhill father, of worthie memorie, mortifeing 
 
 * Baillie's Letters and Journals, Edinb. 1841, i. 395.
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCV11 
 
 the same to apperteane and belong to his hienes chappell royall 
 within this kingdome : Quhilk mortificatioun is of the dait the 
 sexteinth day of Julij j m vj c tuentie ane yeares : And als all and 
 haill that annualrent or yearlie dewtie of ten chalderis victuall 
 halff beir halff wheat yearlie, to be vplifted betuix Yule and 
 Candlemes, furth of the landis of Markle and medow thairof 
 videlicet, ane huudreth and tuentie bollis thairof furth of the 
 saidis landis of Markle, tuentie four bollis thairof furth of the 
 landis of Trapren, and sexteine bollis furth of the saidis landis 
 of Medow of Markle, all lyand within the lordship of Hailles, 
 Constabularie of Hadintoun and Sherefdome of Edinburgh : 
 Quhilkis landis and vtheris particularlie abonewrittin comeing 
 in our said Soverane lord, and his said vmquhill fatheris handes 
 they did annex and mortifie the same to the bishoprik of Dum- 
 blane, and quhilkis ar now become agane in his hienes handis 
 throw being of the functioun of bishops found vnlawfull within 
 this kingdome : Beginand the said Maister Alexander, his entrie 
 to the landis and vtheris abonwrittin, and to the vplifting of the 
 mailles and dewties of the same of this instant crept and year 
 of God j m vj and fourtie ane yeares, and so furth yerelie thair- 
 efter in tyme comeing duiring the said Maister Alexander his 
 lyftyme, as said is. The said Maister Alexander alwayes paying 
 to the minister present, and to come serving his cuir at the 
 Kirk of Dundrennane, the yeirlie stipend vnderwrittin, videlicet : 
 Tua chalderis ait meall, good and sufficient mercat stuff, and 
 thrie hundreth merkis Scottis money yearlie, at the termes vsed 
 and wont, and provyding the elementis for the celebratioun of 
 the communion yearlie, als aft as the samyn shall happin to be 
 celibrat at the said Kirk, and als relewing the saidis ministeris 
 of all taxatiounes, impositiounes, and vtheris burdenis quhat- 
 sumevir that shall happin to be imposed vpon the teynd scheaves 
 and vtheris teyndis of the forsaid Kirk of Dundrennane : And 
 siclyk to best vphold and repair the samen kirk in tyme come- 
 ing duiring his lyftyme, as said is, with command thairin to the 
 lordis of counsall and sessioune to grant and direct lettres and 
 executoriallis necessar, at the instance of the said Maister 
 Alexander for causing of him to be readily answerit and obeyit
 
 CCViii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 of the fruittis, rentis, and emoluments of the landis and vtheris 
 abonwrittin, of this instant cropt and yeir of God j m vj c and 
 fourtie ane yeares, and in tyme comeing duiring his lyftyme, as 
 said is : Lykas, his majestic promises in verbo principis to 
 ratifie and approve the premissis in this or any vther subsequent 
 parliament, and to doe every vther thing that shall be thought 
 necessar to mak the said Maister Alexander to be readily 
 ansuerit and obeyit of the fruittis, rentis, and emolumentis of 
 the landis and vtheris abonwreittin dureing all the dayes of his 
 lyftyme, as said is, without prejudice of any farder prouisioun 
 to the ministeris serving the cuir within the forsaidis boundis. 
 Giviu at Halyrudhous, the first day of October j m vj c and fourtie 
 ane yearis. Per Signaturam." * 
 
 At Holyroodhouse Mr Henderson at once com- 
 menced his duties as household chaplain, arranging 
 as to those brethren who should preach before the 
 king, and himself conducting morning and evening 
 worship daily in the king's presence.t Publicly in 
 Parliament Charles sanctioned the various proceed- 
 ings of the General Assembly, bestowed offices and 
 titles on the most prominent of his former oppo- 
 nents, and consented that the revenues of the several 
 bishoprics should be devoted to the better endow- 
 ment of the universities, and the augmentation of the 
 stipends of the poorer clergy. 
 
 In 1642, certain feu-duties belonging to the Chapel 
 Royal were conferred on James Livingston of the 
 bedchamber (afterwards Baron Skirling), who subse- 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, cix., fol. 277. 
 
 t Baillie's Letters and Journals, i. 385, 386.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 quently disposed of them to the Earl of Crawford ; 
 the transfer was, in 1647, confirmed by Parliament. 
 
 The emoluments of the prebendaryship, styled 
 " Ayr primo," were conferred on Mr William Semple, 
 Regent of Humanity at Glasgow, afterwards minister 
 of Neilston; and in 1647 Parliament ratified the 
 grant.* By a charter under the great seal, dated 3d 
 November 1647, and which in the following year 
 Parliament confirmed, the vicarage and parsonage 
 teinds which had formerly belonged to the Chapel 
 Royal were granted to the ministers of the churches 
 of Ayr, Alloway, Coylton, Dalmellington, and Dal- 
 rymple. f 
 
 Andrew Ramsay, subdean of the Chapel Royal, 
 claims special notice. Son of the proprietor of Bal- 
 main, he was sometime professor of divinity in the 
 University of Saumur, was afterwards minister of 
 Arbuthnott, and in 1614 was admitted to a charge 
 at Edinburgh. In 1629 he was presented by Charles 
 I. to the subdeanery. For maintaining the lawful- 
 ness of the expedition to England, he was, in 1649, 
 deposed, but was restored in 1655. Retiring from 
 the office of subdean in 1658, he spent his latter 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 840 ; Acta Parl. Scot., vi., i. 848. 
 
 t Acta Parl. Scot., vi., ii. 81. It would appear that a portion of the 
 revenues of the Chapel Royal had been by Charles I. granted to the burgh 
 of Elgin some time prior to the 29th October 1634, when the grant is 
 referred to in two royal letters of that date, addressed to the Lords of 
 Session and the Commissioners of Exchequer, in favour of Andrew Sinclair, 
 one of the prebendaries appointed by James VI. (see Sir William Alexander's 
 Register of Royal Letters, MS. in General Register House).
 
 CCX HISTORY OF THE 
 
 years on his estate of Abbotshall, where he died 
 30th December 1659, in his eighty-fifth year. He 
 founded four bursaries in the University of Edin- 
 burgh, the patronage of which is vested in the Town 
 Council of the city.* 
 
 In the office of subdean, Ramsay was succeeded 
 by Archibald Turner, one of the ministers of Edin- 
 burgh, formerly of North Berwick. He retained the 
 office from June 1663 till his death, which took place 
 30th March 1681. His brother was the cruel but 
 gallant Sir James Turner, t 
 
 At Whitehall, on the 30th January 1649, Charles 
 I. expiated with his blood his tergiversation and 
 tyranny. His gallant lieutenant, the Marquis of 
 Montrose, was executed at Edinburgh on the 25th 
 of May. One week subsequent to the latter event, 
 the Parliament, which met on the 1st of June, granted 
 "full powers" to the Commissioners of the Treasury 
 to remove the organs from the Chapel Royal, and to 
 dispose of them. J Not long afterwards the Com- 
 missioners for the Plantation of Kirks were recom- 
 mended by Parliament to maintain a minister in the 
 castle of Edinburgh, and with that view to secure 
 "the reversion of the subdeanery of the Chapell 
 Royall, now in the hands of Mr Andrew Ramsay." 
 On the 23d June 1649, Parliament granted to the 
 lately erected parish church of Glencross "sevine 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 10, 394 ; iii. 855. f Ibid., i. 10. 
 
 J Acta Parl. Scot., vi., ii. 389. Ibid., vi., ii. 720.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCX1 
 
 scoir marks zeirlie, payit of lait out of the landis of 
 Castellaw, belonging to the erle of Roxburghe, for 
 the mantinance of the organs and singers in the 
 Chappell of Stirling, not onlie abolished bot now 
 vacant, by deceas of vmq le James Crichtoun and 
 James Mouat, and by the demissioun of Johne Cas- 
 tellaw, last presentit thairto."* 
 
 On the 13th November 1650, Holyroodhouse was 
 partially destroyed by fire, which seems to have been 
 incidentally kindled by a company of Cromwell's 
 soldiers, accommodated in the structure. The Pro- 
 tector did not occupy the palace during his visit in 
 1648, or during any portion of his sojourn in 1650-1. 
 In 1659 he gave orders to restore the building, and 
 in the course of the following year repairs were pro- 
 ceeded with, t 
 
 On the 8th August 1654, the Protector granted to 
 the University of Glasgow, for its better endowment, 
 the superiorities of lands which had belonged to the 
 bishopric of Glasgow, exclusive of the superiority of 
 the deanery of the Chapel Eoyal. J 
 
 During the early days of his adversity, Charles II. 
 
 * Acta Parl. Scot., vi., ii. 482. In the Register of Holyroodhouse parish, 
 styled " The Buik of the Kirk off the Canageit, 1564-1567," occur these 
 entries : " The 21 of Aprill, anno Domini 1565, Alexander Castellaw, in 
 the Cowgait, ane child callit James, his witnes Thomas Hoge, James 
 Patersoun, gott in merriage, and hes bene at the commonioun." " The viii 
 of Novembre 1567, Alexander Castella, ane child callit Johue, witnes 
 Johne Castella." Probably the children so baptized were the subsequent 
 musicians. 
 
 t NicolPs Diary, pp. 35, 224 ; Bannatyne Miscellany, ii. 404. 
 
 J Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 379, 840 ; Acta Parl. Scot., vi., ii. 831.
 
 ccxii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 had sworn to uphold the Covenant and maintain 
 the Presbyterian Church ; but before he left Breda 
 to occupy the throne in 1660, he consented that 
 Episcopacy should be restored. Among those ap- 
 pointed to the bishoprics was Dr Robert Leighton, 
 Principal of the University of Edinburgh, who was 
 nominated to the diocese of Dunblane and dean- 
 ery of the Chapel Koyal. Justly reputed for his 
 piety and learning, and withal moderate and concilia- 
 tory, his appointment was unexceptionable. But 
 Leighton would not accede to a proposal, believed 
 to have been made to him, to leave his diocese with- 
 out supervision and discharge weekly duty in the 
 Abbey Church, already a collegiate parochial charge. 
 His resolution being inconvenient, he was, in 1669, 
 after holding office in the Chapel Royal for eight 
 years, appointed Commendator of the archdiocese 
 of Glasgow. Thereby a way was opened up for 
 other contemplated changes. Meanwhile the career 
 of Dr Leighton may be summarised. He was ap- 
 pointed Archbishop of Glasgow in 1671 ; but, dis- 
 gusted with regal despotism, and distressed by what 
 he regarded as the indiscreet zeal of his Presby- 
 terian brethren, he in 1674 relinquished his office. 
 Retiring into private life, he died in London in June 
 1684. He bequeathed his important theological 
 library to the clergy of the diocese of Dunblane, 
 by whom it is preserved. 
 
 Among the more zealous promoters of the king's
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 restoration was Sir William Bruce, afterwards of 
 Balcaskie, latterly of Kinross. Trained as an archi- 
 tect abroad, this ardent royalist there gained the 
 intimacy of General Monk, to whom it is believed he 
 suggested as a remedy for prevailing distractions the 
 king's recall. He was privileged secretly to convey 
 to Breda tidings of Monk's early efforts in the royal 
 cause. * Charles did not forget this important ser- 
 vice, and immediately on his restoration constituted 
 his faithful adherent Clerk to the Bills in the Court 
 of Session, then a lucrative office. In 1668 Bruce 
 was created a baronet, and soon thereafter was ap- 
 pointed Surveyor-General of Royal Buildings. It 
 was probably at this time that unknown to the Privy 
 Council he was authorised by the king to prepare 
 designs for the restoration of Holyroodhouse. Of 
 these designs we are first informed in the summer of 
 1671, when the Commissioners of Exchequer re- 
 ceived a royal warrant, dated at Windsor Castle 3d of 
 June, in which they were enjoined to allow Sir William 
 Bruce to proceed with the work of restoration, con- 
 formably with his designs, modified by certain "direc- 
 tions " sent along with them, and which, according 
 to the Earl of Lauderdale, the king had personally 
 prepared. Among these " directions " the following 
 relative to the proposed renovation of the "new" and 
 " auld " structures of the Chapel Eoyal are to be re- 
 marked specially : 
 
 * Douglas's Baronage, i. 245. 

 
 ,r\iv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 " In the Ground Plane, that which is designed for the low 
 Chappell is to be made a large vaulted cellare ; for His Majestic 
 will have noe Chappell in this new house, but ane entire from 
 the Guarde Chambre on the Eoyall Apartement towards the 
 East into the Church, and his family prayers in or near the 
 Presence as in Whitehall and his other houses here." 
 
 " The upper storie of the Chappell abone the Great Celler His 
 Majestic intends for a Councell-Chamber with ane outer roome, 
 and the Closets for Clerks." 
 
 Here we definitely learn the king's intention to 
 dispense with his principal chapel within the palace, 
 a resolution which implied that accommodation 
 would be sought elsewhere. This soon became ap- 
 parent. It may only be remarked that the change 
 was not ventured upon till Leighton, relieved of the 
 deanery, was established at Glasgow in his new office 
 of commendator.* 
 
 The king's wishes could now be sanctioned without 
 protest. So we find that on the 23d September 1672, 
 the Privy Council and Commissioners of Exchequer 
 passed an Act declaring that the Abbey Church be- 
 longed to the Crown, that it should be " His Majesteis 
 Chapell Royeall in all tymes comeing," and that " the 
 magistrates of Edinburgh or Cannongate " should be 
 
 * The date of Leighton's removal to Glasgow is not precisely known ; it 
 was certainly prior to the 6th April 1671, when he despatched from Glas- 
 gow a letter to the clergy of the diocese of Dunblane, which commences, 
 " The superadded burden that I have here sits so hard upon me " (" Regis- 
 ter of the Diocesan Synod of Dunblane," edited with an Introduction and 
 Biographical Notes by John Wilson, D.D., minister of Dunning. Edinb. 
 1877, 4to).
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXV 
 
 discharged from longer using it as " ane paroch 
 church."* 
 
 Whether owing to the royal visit, fixed for 1673, 
 being postponed, or from financial or other considera- 
 tions, the parishioners of the Canongate still continued 
 in undisturbed possession of the Abbey Church. The 
 cost of repairs on the palace proved not inconsider- 
 able, and probably would have excited complaint, 
 had not the joys of the restoration still lingered in 
 Scottish hearts. Sir William's designs, which were 
 chiefly executed by Kobert Mylne, the king's mason, 
 included the demolition of the five original courts 
 and the removal of some works by Cromwell,t also 
 the rebuilding of the entire palace, excepting that 
 portion at the north-east corner, reared by James V. 
 in 1528, and now known as Queen Mary's apartments. 
 Commenced in 1671, the new palace was finished in 
 1574, but further repairs were proceeded with, which 
 were not completed till 1679. The money which 
 passed through the hands of the Surveyor-General 
 from 1674 to 1679 was about 160,000 Scots, of 
 which sum about four-fifths were spent on works at 
 Holyrood.J 
 
 * Privy Council Register, No. 2, p. 629. 
 
 t A portion of the king's " Directions " to the Privy Council accom- 
 panying his warrant of June 1671 proceeds thus : " Wee doe hereby order 
 you to cause that pairt thereof which was built by the usurpers, and doth 
 darken the court, to be taken down." 
 
 J See Papers by Dr Joseph Robertson and Mr David Marshall, in 
 Proceedings of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, vol. iii., 113-117, and 
 vol. ii., new series, 324-337.
 
 CCXvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 To the annals of the chapel we would return briefly. 
 By a royal letter, dated 19th September 1662, James 
 Hamilton, formerly minister at Dumfries and Edin- 
 burgh, was granted four hundred marks as "the 
 yearly tack dewtie of the personage and vicarrage 
 teinds of St Mary's kirk of the Lowes," described as 
 " one of the kirkes founded and mortified to our 
 Chapell Royal of Stirling now vacand in our hands 
 by the deceis of Andro Sinclare, Johne Castellaw, or 
 any others of the prebends or quiristers who had 
 last right thereto." Sometime agent to his uncle, 
 Viscount Claneboy, James Hamilton was in 1625 
 ordained by Robert, Bishop of Down, minister of 
 Ballywalter. Deprived for declining to use the Ser- 
 vice Book, he was reponed by authority of Parliament. 
 In 1638 he was chosen minister of Dumfries. Visiting 
 by order of the General Assembly the Presbyterians 
 in the north of Ireland, he was taken prisoner by Col- 
 kitto and committed to Mingary Castle, where he suf- 
 fered irksome detention. Translated to Edinburgh in 
 1647, he was thereafter appointed by the Church, also 
 by Parliament, to the discharge of important duties. 
 In May 1650, he was commissioned to examine the 
 Marquis of Montrose after his capture. While sitting 
 with a Committee of the Estates at Alyth in August 
 1651, he was seized by the English army, carried to 
 England, and there detained as a prisoner nineteen 
 
 * Privy Seal Register, new series, i., fol. 142.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXvii 
 
 months.* His pension from the Chapel Royal he 
 received on account of his " constant affection and 
 loyalty " to the king, and his " great losses and suffer- 
 ings upon that accompt and imprisonment and other- 
 wise during the late troubles, "t 
 
 In 1673 James Ramsay, minister of Hamilton, was 
 in succession to Archbishop Leighton appointed 
 Bishop of Dunblane and Dean of the Chapel Royal. 
 Having charged Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton to 
 make payment to him as dean of eight and a half 
 chalders of victual out of the lands of Markle, Kin- 
 loch sought a suspicion on the ground that the 
 annuity was originally granted by the Earl of Both- 
 well to Mr Thomas Craig, advocate, redeemable on 
 the payment of 7000 marks. The lands afterwards 
 came into the possession of Sir George Seton, who 
 paid 7000 marks to the king, and thereupon obtained 
 a grant of redemption. Much litigation supervened, 
 attended with decisions for and against the com- 
 plainant.* 
 
 Bishop Ramsay was in 1684 translated to the 
 bishopric of Ross, when Robert Douglas, Bishop 
 of Brechin, was appointed to the conjunct offices. 
 Deprived on the abolition of Episcopacy in 1689, 
 Bishop Douglas retired to Dundee, where, in the 
 enjoyment of a pension from William III., he 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 14, 568. 
 
 t Privy Seal Register, new series, i., fol. 142. 
 
 J Lord Fountainhall's Historical Notices. Edinb. 1848, i. 105.
 
 CCXViii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 resided till his death, which took place in April 
 
 1716.* 
 
 John Hamilton, who was in succession a regent 
 
 in the University of St Andrews and minister of 
 Cramond and South Leith, was appointed subdean 
 in 1681. He was promoted to the bishopric of 
 Dunkeld in 1686, and died before the 24th February 
 1698.t 
 
 On the 6th February 1685, James, Duke of York, 
 succeeded to the throne. Indiscreet, cruel, and over- 
 bearing, he was in his religious opinions strictly in 
 earnest. Avowedly he was a member of the Romish 
 Church. At his command the painter Verrio deco- 
 rated St George's Chapel, Windsor, which otherwise 
 he adapted for Catholic worship. But in matters 
 ecclesiastical James bestowed on Scotland a chief 
 attention. There was in the north a greater scope. 
 Zealous Protestants as they were, the Scots were 
 equally remarkable for an excessive loyalty. Allegi- 
 ance to the throne they cherished with a passionate 
 force, which might not be restrained even by injustice. 
 Already, as heir-apparent, James had experienced 
 on three occasions an abundant hospitality at Edin- 
 burgh, and there he had resolved to settle should his 
 English subjects venture to dethrone him. Against 
 this possible contingency some preparations were 
 made even before the occurrence of the vacancy which 
 
 * Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 840. 
 t Ibid., i. 101, 133, 394.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxix 
 
 made him king ; for Hugh Wallace of Ingliston, the 
 royal cash-keeper, had, during the two years preceding 
 March 1686, disbursed to Mr James Smith, overseer 
 at Holyroodhouse and Edinburgh Castle, for repairs 
 chiefly on the former, the sum of 12,814, 10s. lOd. 
 Scottish money. This amount, added to the 160,000 
 expended principally on the palace buildings a few 
 years before, implied an outlay which in the then 
 impoverished condition of the Scottish exchequer 
 must be regarded as enormous. Among the items 
 were payments to James Bane, wright, and John 
 Callander, smith, for repairing at Holyrood the king's 
 privy chamber and oratory.* 
 
 Having in the first instance resolved to traverse the 
 late king's orders by causing the large apartment at 
 Holyroodhouse, constructed as a council chamber, to 
 be in terms of the original design adapted as a 
 Chapel Eoyal, James despatched to the Scottish Privy 
 Council the following mandate : 
 
 " JAMES, R, 
 
 " Eight trusty and right welbeloved cousins and councel- 
 lors, right trusty and entirely beloved cousin and councellor, and 
 right trusty and welbeloved cousins and councellors, Wee greet 
 you well. Whereas by our Letter (of the date of these presents) 
 directed to the Duke of Hamilton, heretable Keeper of our 
 Palace of Holyroodhouse, Wee have thought fit to require him 
 to deliver up to our Chancellor, or any having his order, the Keys 
 of that great Koome in our said Palace which formerly was 
 designed to have been the Councell Chamber there ; Which Wee 
 have appointed to be made use of hereafter as our Chappell, 
 
 * Dr David Laing's MSS., University of Edinburgh.
 
 OCXS HISTORY OF THE 
 
 and are now resolved that the same be fitted for that purpose 
 with all possible diligence. It is now our Will and pleasure : 
 and Wee doe hereby authorise and require you presently to give 
 the necessary orders for fitting and preparing the said great 
 Eoome, so as it shalbe needfull for the same to be when made 
 use of as our Chappell, according to such directions therein as 
 shall be given by our said Chancellor, either for the Chappell it 
 selfe or the closets and other conveniencies thereunto belonging, 
 and at our charge to order the payment of all expenses needfull 
 to be laid out upon this occasion, which shalbe allowed to you 
 in your accompts. The performance whereof without any delay 
 Wee doe hereby recommend to your particular care. And for 
 your doing the same this shalbe your warrant. So wee bid you 
 heartily ffarewelL Given at our Court at Windsor, the 25th 
 day of September 1686, and of our Eeigne the 2d year. 
 " By his Majesty's command. 
 
 " MELFORT." 
 
 The intended adaptation of the Great Room to the 
 purpose for which it was originally designed may 
 have been partly intended as a compliment to the 
 architect, Sir William Bruce. Arrangements made 
 progress, as appears from the following royal letter, 
 dated 5th February 1687 : 
 
 " JAMES, B., 
 
 " Eight trusty and right welbeloved cousins and councel- 
 lors, right trusty and entirely beloved cousins and councellors, 
 and right trusty and welbeloved cousins and councellors, Wee 
 greet you well. Whereas by our Letter of the date of these 
 presents to our right trusty and entirely beloved cousin 
 and councellor William, Duke of Hamilton, Heretable Keeper 
 of our Palace of Holyroodhouse, Wee haue signified our pleasure 
 concerning the enlargement of our Chappell there, by allowing 
 that wall to be taken downe which is upon the right hand in 
 the passage that leads from the head of the great staire, to the
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXX1 
 
 round staires or turnpike that leads up to the third story, accord- 
 ing to the directions of our Chancellor and our Almoner there. 
 It is now our will and pleasure, and Wee doe hereby authorise 
 and require you at our charge to cause the expenses of taking 
 downe the said wall and making what other conveniencie is 
 needfull for the enlargement aforesaid to be laid out, and to take 
 care that the said expences be computed at reasonable rates to 
 the workmen and others that shalbe imployed in making the 
 said enlargement. For paying of which expences these presents 
 together with the receipts of the workmen and others aforesaid, 
 shalbe to you and to all others respectively who may be therein 
 any way concerned, particularly to the Lords Auditors of your 
 accompts for allowing the same a sufficient warrant. And so 
 Wee bid you heartily ffarewell. Given at our Court at White- 
 hall, the 5th day of February 168-f, and of our Keigne the 
 2d year. 
 
 " By his Majesty's command. 
 
 " MELFOET." 
 
 In view of a Eoman Catholic Chapel being esta- 
 blished at Holyroodhouse, the Lord Chancellor Perth, 
 an attached friend of the king, had in 1685 made 
 large purchases. Writes Lord Fountainhall : " He 
 got from the king 8000 sterling, with which he 
 bought altars, candlesticks, priests' garments, and 
 other ornaments and popish gauds for erecting the 
 Chappell in the Abbey and brought them home ; 
 and tho ther be Acts of Parliament for seizing such 
 trash, yet our customers past them." * 
 
 A counterpart to the conduct of Archbishop Laud 
 at the court of Charles II. was at the court of James 
 
 * Lord Fountainhall's Historical Observes of Memorable Documents 
 from October 1680 to April 1681. Edinb. 1840, 4to, p. 241.
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 enacted by the brothers James and John Drummond, 
 Earls of Perth and Melfort The Earl of Perth, the 
 elder brother, who was now Lord Chancellor, had 
 acquired an unenviable notoriety by inventing the 
 thumbscrew, an instrument which, by producing 
 exquisite torture, was found more efficacious in ex- 
 torting confession than "the boot" of his royal master. 
 Melfort, the younger brother, who as a principal 
 secretary of state subscribes these earlier documents, 
 possessed a literary aptitude which enabled him to 
 indulge a lofty rodomontade that served momentarily 
 to deceive. 
 
 From what had already occurred, the brothers 
 Drummond well knew that any manifesto suddenly 
 put forth to establish at Holyroodhouse a Catholic 
 chapel would involve an unpleasant result, therefore 
 they proceeded cautiously. There was a steady pre- 
 paration secretly conducted. The king named, as 
 Almoner of the Chapel Royal, Alexander Dunbar, 
 a supposed Catholic, and in order to his maintenance 
 granted the following letter : 
 
 " JAMES, R, 
 
 "Eight trusty and right welbeloved cousins and councel- 
 lors, right trusty and entirely beloved cousins and councellors, 
 and right trusty and welbeloved cousins and councellors, Wee 
 greet you well. Whereas Wee did formerly resolve to bestow 
 the sume of one hundred pounds sterline money yearly for pro- 
 viding and furnishing Wine, Oyle, Bread, and other necessaries 
 for the vse of our Chappell in our Palace of Holyroodhouse : and 
 in regard the same was destinated by Us for the vse aforesaid
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXxiii 
 
 long before the terme of Mertimes last : It is now our will and 
 pleasure, and Wee doe hereby authorise and require you to pay, 
 or cause to be paid unto Mr Alexander Dunbar, our Almoner 
 there (to be disposed of at the sight, and by the approbation of 
 our right, trusty, and right welbeloved cousin and councellor 
 James, Earle of Perth, our chancellor), the sume of fifty pounds 
 sterline for the said terme of Mertimes last, with fifty pounds 
 sterline more for the terme of Whitsunday, lately past in this 
 present year of God, and fifty pounds sterline immediatly after 
 the terme of Mertimes next ensuing the date of these presents, 
 out of the first and readiest of our Bents, Revenues, Customes, 
 and casualities whatsumever of that our ancient Kingdome : 
 and so forth to continue yearly and termely thereafter during 
 our Royall pleasure only. For doing whereof, these presents 
 (together with our said Almoner, his receipts from time to time) 
 shalbe to you, and all others respectively who may be therein 
 any way concerned, particularly to the Lords Auditors of your 
 accompts for allowing the same a sufficient warrant. And so 
 Wee bid you heartily ffarewell. Given at our Court at White- 
 hall, the 19th day of May 1687, and of our Reigne the 3d year. 
 " By his Majesty's command. 
 
 " MELFORT." 
 
 Also on the 19th of May were the Privy Council 
 enjoined to make payment of one hundred pounds for 
 a musical service. The royal letter on this subject 
 proceeds : 
 
 "JAMES, R, 
 
 "Right trusty and right welbeloved cousins and coun- 
 cellors, right trusty and entirely beloved cousins and councellors, 
 and right trusty and welbeloved cousins and councellors, 
 Wee greet you well. Whereas Wee did formerly resolve to 
 bestow the sume of one hundred pounds sterline money yearly 
 upon the Persones appointed for the service of the Musick 
 imployed for the vse of our Chappell in our Palace of Holyrood-
 
 CCXxiv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 house ; and in regard the same was destinated by Us for them 
 long before the terine of Whitsunday lately past in this present 
 year of God : It is now our Will and pleasure, and Wee doe 
 hereby authorise and require you to pay, or cause to be paid, 
 unto Mr Alexander Dunbar, our Almoner there (to be disposed 
 of at the sight and by the approbation of our right trusty and 
 right welbeloved cousin and councellor, James, Earle of Perth, 
 our Chancellor), the sume of fifty pounds sterline for the said 
 terine of Whitsunday lately past in this present year of God, 
 and fifty pounds sterline immediatly after the terme of Mer- 
 tirnes next ensuing the date of these presents, out of the first 
 and readiest of our Eents, Eevenues, Custoines, and Casualities 
 whatsoever of that our ancient Kingdome ; and so forth to con- 
 tinue yearly and termely thereafter, during our Eoyall pleasure 
 only. For doing whereof, these presents (together with our said 
 Almoner his receipts from time to time) shalbe to you, and all 
 others respectively who may be therein any way concerned, 
 particularly to the Lords Auditors of your Accompts for allow- 
 ing the same, a sufficient warrant. And so Wee bid you heartily 
 ffarewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall, the 19th day of 
 May 1687, and of Our Reigne the 3d year. 
 
 " By his Majesty's command. 
 
 " MELFORT." 
 
 Having nominated a Komish almoner, and made 
 provision for a musical staff, James proceeded to fully 
 constitute the Chapel Royal as a conventual church. 
 As abbot he nominated Father Richard Augustin 
 Hay, Canon of St Genevieve, Paris. On this subject 
 we have Hay's own authority. "King James the 
 seventh," he writes, " intended to bestow that place 
 upon our Canons of Saint Genoveves. For that 
 effect I began to trait with the Earle of Perth, the 
 29th of May 1687, att seven of the clock att night,
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXV 
 
 and continued the 31st of May, the 2, 4, 13, 16 days 
 of June."* 
 
 Under the guidance of Perth and Melfort, James 
 had actually restored the Abbey Church as a Romish 
 convent, when he publicly announced that he meant 
 differently. It was his royal intention, he averred, 
 to utilise the church as the chapel of an Order of 
 Chivalry, which he had revived in honour of his 
 ancient kingdom. To impress this upon the country, 
 Melfort exercised his literary craft in framing the fol- 
 lowing warrant ; it appeared in a Latin dress, but 
 we present an English translation : 
 
 "JAMES, R, 
 
 "Our Sovereign Lord ordains a Letter Patent to be 
 made and passed under the Great Seal of the ancient kingdom 
 of Scotland, making mention that whereas his Majesty's royal 
 predecessor, Achaius, King of Scots (of glorious memory), did 
 institute the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, 
 consisting of the Sovereign and Twelve Knights Brethren, in 
 allusion to our blessed Saviour and His Twelve Apostles, and 
 that under the protection of our Blessed Lady and her holy 
 Apostle, Saint Andrew, Patron of Scotland, the said Order being 
 instituted for the defence of the Christian Eeligion, and in 
 commemoration of a signal victory obtained by the said Achaius, 
 King of Scots, over Athelstan, King of the Saxons, after a bloody 
 battle, in the time of which there appeared in the heavens a 
 White Cross, in form of that upon which the Apostle, Saint 
 Andrew, suffered martyrdom, by which apparition the Scots, 
 being encouraged, put their enemies to flight, killing the said 
 Athelstan, with most of his followers. And it being most cer- 
 tain, by the general consent of ancient and modern historians, 
 
 * Father Hay, Diplomatum Veterum Cullectio, i., p. 288, MS. Advocates 
 Library.
 
 iv\\vi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 and by several other authentic proofs and documents and records 
 of that Kingdom, that the said most ancient and most noble 
 Order of the Thistle continued in great glory and splendour for 
 many hundreds of years, and that several Foreign Princes and 
 Kings have been Knights of the said Order, and that the same 
 was always had in great respect and honour in all places wher- 
 ever Christian valour advanced the glory of the Cross, until the 
 unfortunate Rebellion against His Majesty's Royal greatgrand- 
 mother, Mary Queen of Scots (of most pious and glorious 
 memory), at which time the splendour both of Morals and 
 Monarchy fell together into contempt, and the Most Noble 
 Order, with all its ornaments and rites and ceremonies, was 
 extinguished, some of the Brethren of that Order laying the 
 the ensigns thereof aside, and out of a rebellious contempt to 
 their then Sovereign Lady, His Majesty's said Royal Great Grand- 
 mother, and others of them, forced to fly into foreign countries 
 for safety of their lives. And whereas the succeeding great 
 disorders and dismal rebellions, in the reigns of His Majesty's 
 Royal Predecessors since that time, hath hindered and diverted 
 them from restoring the said Order to its former ancient lustre, 
 His Majesty hath now thought fit, as a mark of Royal favour 
 and esteem of that his ancient Kingdom, and of the desire he 
 hath to restore it to its former splendour and reputation, con- 
 sidering the many and seasonable instances of duty and affection 
 it has shown to His Royal person, both since his accession to 
 the Crown and in times of his greatest difficulties, has, as a 
 lasting mark of Royal favour, and in remembrance of the 
 nation's duty and affection unto him, to all succeeding ages, 
 thought fit at this time to revive the said Order, of which His 
 Majesty is undoubted and rightful Sovereign ; and doth hereby 
 revive and restore the same to its full glory, lustre, and magni- 
 ficence, as it heretofore was, with such change and additions as 
 are already made, or shall hereafter be declared by His Majesty ; 
 hereby giving to it Twelve Knights, of which, with His Majesty 
 as Sovereign, the Order above named is to consist in all time 
 coming, all honours, dignities, titles, privileges, additions, and 
 others, which either have in time past belonged to the Most
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXV11 
 
 Noble Order of the Thistle, or what His Majesty shall declare 
 to belong thereunto in time coming, as an evident proof that no 
 dutiful or faithful service done by His people shall be passed over 
 without suitable return of bounty, honour, and favour for him. 
 And His Majesty ordains the said Letter patent to be passed 
 under the Great Seal aforesaid per saltum, without passing any 
 other Eegister or Seal ; in order whereunto these presents shall 
 be to the Director of His Majesty's Chancellary, and their De- 
 puties for visiting of the same, and to the Lord High Chancellor, 
 for causing the Great Seal to be appended thereunto, a sufficient 
 Warrant. Given at the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of May 
 1687, and of His Majesty's reign the third year." * 
 
 The statements so put forth were wholly fictitious. 
 The legend respecting Achaius and Athelstan is 
 founded upon that other monastic legend connected 
 with the conversion of the emperor Constantine. 
 First assigned a place in history by John of Fordun, 
 it was reproduced, with fresh colouring, by Bishop 
 Leslie and others. Even though the narrative had 
 rested on a probable foundation, it bears in its earlier 
 details no relation to the establishment of a chivalric 
 order, t 
 
 The figure of St Andrew the apostle was not used 
 as a national symbol prior to the reign of Robert II. 
 (1371-1390). In this reign was struck a gold coin ex- 
 hibiting the apostle on his cross, and which was called 
 the St Andrew. An effigy of the apostle was struck on 
 
 * Register of the Great Seal, Ixxi. 128. 
 
 t See an exhaustive paper on the origin of the city of St Andrews and 
 its early ecclesiastical settlement, by Mr William F. Skene, now Historio- 
 grapher Royal. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 
 iv., pp. 300-321.
 
 CCXXviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 gold coins of different sizes during the reigns of 
 James II., III., and IV.'" As an emblem the Thistle 
 is unknown prior to the reign of James III. In an 
 inventory of household articles belonging to the queen 
 of that sovereign, dated 1488, a coverlet is described 
 as embroidered with thistles. The words are, "A 
 couering of variand purpir tartar, browdin with thris- 
 sillis and a vnicorne."t In his poem, "The Thistle 
 and the Hose," composed in 1503 in honour of the 
 betrothal of James IV. and the Princess Margaret, 
 William Dunbar celebrates the king under the em- 
 blem of a Thistle. He chose this symbol apparently 
 in centra-distinction to the Rose, under which em- 
 blem he designates the royal princess, who was 
 descended from the joint stems of York and Lan- 
 caster. On his coin, the angel, James IV. had 
 the thistle as a mint mark. And on a letter 
 addressed by him to Ferdinand II., King of Aragon, 
 dated at Edinburgh, the kalends of July 1512, the 
 impression of his seal would seem to represent a 
 collar of thistles and knots enclosing the royal 
 shield. | A collar, formed of thistles of gold, to 
 which was attached an oval badge, with the effigy of 
 St Andrew, was by James V. worn as a decoration. 
 Such a collar was displayed on the great seal of 
 Queen Mary, and was also struck upon her coins. 
 
 * Cochran-Patrick's Coinage of Scotland, 1876, vol. ii., plate 2. 
 
 t Treasurer's Accounts, i. 85. 
 
 J Egerton MSS., in the British Museum, No. 616, p. 39.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXX1X 
 
 The coins of James VI. displayed a thistle with 
 leaves. The motto, Nemo me impune lacesset, which 
 first appeared on the Scottish coinage in 1581, was, 
 it is believed, suggested by Buchanan. 
 
 Up to this time we have in Scotland no trace of 
 a chivalric order. The decoration of St Andrew 
 on his cross and the symbol of the thistle were 
 used by the sovereign only. So far as appears, the 
 Order of St Andrew is first mentioned by Men- 
 nenius, in his Delicice Equestrium sive Militarum 
 Ordinum, printed at Cologne in 1613. His authority 
 was accepted by others, till at length Elias Ashmole, 
 the heraldic antiquary, writing in 1672,* sets forth 
 the Order of the Thistle in the manner described in 
 James's warrant, though with details less copious. 
 Ashmole chiefly depends on information derived 
 from contemporaries. His informants are Sir Charles 
 Erskine, Lyon King of Arms, and the Earl of Lau- 
 derdale. The latter assumed that "among his 
 readings he had discovered that the knights were 
 thirteen in number, corresponding with the numbers 
 of the apostolic college." His acquaintance with 
 the order, Sir Charles Erskine based on a MS. of 
 Sir James Balfour, said to have been lost. But in 
 Balfour's numerous writings which are extant, the 
 order is unnamed ! 
 
 That two gossiping and credulous writers such as 
 
 * The Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the 
 Garter, etc., by Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald, Lond. 1672. 
 
 P
 
 tvxxx HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Sir George Mackenzie and Alexander Nisbet * should 
 repeat the story of Achaius with modern additions 
 may not excite surprise. After relating the legend in 
 detail, Nisbet affects to doubt it. An accomplished 
 scholar, Mackenzie was ready to assert anything 
 which would gratify his sovereign's wishes. Both 
 writers set forth that Achaius made a league with 
 Charlemagne, and that in honour of the event the 
 former instituted this knightly order. Among the 
 ruins of the monastery at Scone, writes Nisbet, Sir 
 James Balfour found a MS., describing the corona- 
 tion of Alexander lit. in 1249, and in which it 
 appeared that the coronation had been postponed till 
 the sovereign, a child of nine years, became a knight 
 of St Andrew. By Robert the Bruce the order, he 
 asserts, was chivalrously restored. It was, he adds, 
 splendidly renovated by James V., who added a collar 
 of thyme and rue, and at a chapter at Linlithgow 
 constituted George, Lord Seaton, one of the knight 
 companions. Both Nisbet and Mackenzie allege that 
 the knights, arrayed in their parliamentary robes, met 
 yearly on St Andrew's Day. The latter describes 
 them as convening in St Andrews cathedral, the 
 former as assembling at St Andrews " in the ancient 
 chapel of the order." But all this is fiction. 
 
 As in other conspiracies, everything had been ar- 
 ranged to strike at once. On the 29th May the 
 
 * Sir George Mackenzie's Observations upon the Laws and Customs of 
 -Nations as to Precedency. Edinb. 1680, pp. 99-101 ; Nisbet's System of 
 Heraldry, ii. 104-122.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXxi 
 
 warrant was issued for the pretended revival of the 
 order, and on the same day was prepared a patent 
 for its restitution to be passed under the great seal. 
 Such was the precipitation that the patent was 
 exhibited even before the great seal had been ap- 
 pended. Other manifestoes followed. On the 31st 
 May the statutes of the order were published, and 
 Melfort's under- secretary, Sir Andrew Forrester, 
 was appointed as its secretary.* Eight knights were 
 created on the 8th June all vigorous adherents of 
 the royal policy. 
 
 On the 28th June James again communicated with 
 the Council. Referring to his edict for reconstitut- 
 ing the Order of the Thistle, his Majesty reveals 
 more plainly what his real intentions were. He 
 desired that the Abbey Church might be recovered 
 from the magistrates of Edinburgh, "not only as 
 being most fit and convenient for accommodating the 
 Knights of the Thistle," but as, to quote his own 
 words, " also most proper for the performance of 
 religious worship and exercise of our household, when 
 we shall have occasion to be there, our present chapel 
 in that palace not being large enough for the same." 
 Therefore were the Council enjoined to call upon the 
 civic authorities " to deliver up the keys of the church 
 to the Earl of Perth, the Chancellor," in order that it 
 might be adapted as "the chapel of the said Order." 
 
 * History of the Orders of Knighthood, by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 
 iii. 18-20.
 
 CCXXxii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 To compensate the parishioners of the Canongate, 
 James proposed to grant to the Town Council for 
 erecting a new church, money " long ago mortified by 
 Thomas Moodie, sometime merchant in Edinburgh, 
 of which the disposal was by Act of Parliament 
 vested in the Crown. Private citizens who possessed 
 lofts and galleries were to be accommodated with 
 similar conveniences in the new church.* 
 
 The royal letter from which we have taken 
 these extracts was on the 12th July laid on the 
 Council table. Lord Fountainhall, who was present, 
 thus describes the occurrence : 
 
 " July 12, 1687. At Privy Council, there is a letter read from 
 the King, bearing, that the Abbay Church was the Chapel be- 
 longing to his Palace of Holy-roodhouse ; and that the Knights 
 of the noble Order of the Thistle, which he had now erected, 
 could not meet in St Andrews church (being demolished in the 
 Rebellion, as they called our Reformation), and so it was neces- 
 sary for them to have this church ; and the Provost of Edinburgh 
 was ordained to see the keys of it given them. After a long 
 silence, the Archbishop of Glasgow -j- told it was a mensal and 
 
 * Maitland's History of Edinburgh, 1753, fol., pp. 142, 143. In 1650 
 Thomas Moodie, or, as he is styled in Slezer's Theatrum Scotia, p. 7, Sir Thomas 
 Moodie of Sachten-Hall, bequeathed the sum of twenty thousand marks to 
 the Town Council, in trust, for building a church in the town, and which, 
 after various projects for its application, was at length made use of in pro- 
 viding a church for the parishioners of the Canongate, on their ejection 
 from the Abbey Church (Wilson's Memorials of Edinburgh, 1872, p. 428). 
 
 f A native of Aberdeenshire, Archbishop John Paterson, an early op- 
 ponent of the Covenant, was promoted from Ellon to a charge at Edin- 
 burgh, in which diocese he became dean. He was afterwards in succession 
 Bishop of Galloway and Edinburgh and Archbishop of Glasgow. He ac- 
 cumulated wealth, which he invested in estates in different parts of the 
 country ; he died in 1708.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXXlii 
 
 patrimonial church of the Bishoprick of Edinburgh : And though 
 he was now translated, and the See vacant, yet it belonged not 
 to the Provost to deliver the keys ; This was understood that he 
 was seeking the compliment, to be employed himself, to keep 
 some possession in Edinburgh, whereof he was seeking to be 
 Commendator ; however it was adjusted, that the keys should 
 be immediately delivered to the Chancellor himself; and the 
 inhabitants of the Canongate (whose parochial church, it was 
 not of old before the Eeformation, but belonged to the Convent 
 there) were ordained to go to the Lady Tester's Church ; and 
 the French minister and congregation were put out of it to the 
 High-school, or Common-hall. So this is the first Protestant 
 church taken away from us." * 
 
 The preceding relation of Lord Fountainhall is 
 confirmed and followed up by another contemporary, 
 Father Kichard Hay. " Tewsday the llth of July," 
 writes this respected chronicler, "the keys of the 
 church were given to my Lord Chancellar, who 
 delivered them next morning to the Provost, and gave 
 him fourteen days to take away the sets the bedler 
 had care thereof. The Sunday following the Abbay 
 parish was transferred to the Lady Esther's [Yester's] 
 Church, and the minister thereof preached therein." t 
 
 The following minute of the Town Council of 
 Edinburgh, dated 13th July 1687, proves that the 
 surrender of the Abbey Church was promptly ac- 
 ceded to : 
 
 " Edinburgh, the thirteenth July j m vj c eightie seven years. 
 " The which day the Councell considering the Kings Majestic 
 
 * Lord Fountainhall's Decisions, i. 466. 
 
 t Father Hay, Diplomatum Veterum Collectio, i., p. 288.
 
 CCXXX'iv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 has appointed the inhabitants of the Canongate to remove from 
 the Abbay Church in respect the said kirk is to be inlarged con- 
 forme to the draught therof appro ven by his Majestic, and that 
 his Majestic by his Letter has appointed the parochiners and in- 
 habitants to be accomodat in the Ladie Zester's kirk untill such 
 tyme there be a kirk built for them : Therfor they recomend 
 to the Dean of Gild to cause deliver the keyes of the said Ladie 
 Zester's kirk befor ffryday next, and because the ffrench minister 
 has this long tyme bygane preached in the said Ladie Zester's 
 kirk, therfor they appoint him to preach in the comon hall of 
 the Colledge quhich they think most fitt for accomodating the 
 french congregation during the councells pleasure." * 
 
 The Privy Council moved tardily. Subservient as 
 were the majority, neither the insignia of the 
 Thistle, nor even the favour of the sovereign himself 
 might induce them rashly to excite popular violence. 
 Even Melfort hesitated. But Alexander Stewart, 
 Earl of Moray, who had lately abjured Protestantism, 
 proved equal to the occasion. As Lord High Com- 
 missioner he, in the following letter, bearing the 
 king's superscription, charged and warned the Privy 
 Council : 
 
 " JAMES, K., 
 
 " Eight trusty and right welbeloved cousins and councellors, 
 right trusty and entirely beloved cousins and councellors, and 
 right trusty and welbeloved cousins and councellors, Wee greet 
 you well Whereas Wee haue resolved that our Chappell at 
 Holyroodhouse (formerly made use of as the Parish Church of 
 the Canongate) be repaired and put in order with all possible 
 expedition, to the end it may be fitted in all things for being 
 our own Catholick Chappell where divine service may be per- 
 
 * Burgh Records of Edinburgh, vol. xxxii., fol. 127.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXXV 
 
 formed, and likewise be made capable of the ceremonies and 
 solemnities of the most ancient and most Noble Order of the 
 Thistle : and whereas Wee doe well know that the much 
 greater part of the work and materialls needfull for this repara- 
 tion can be had much better and cheaper at London than in 
 Scotland, and therefore haue ordered our right trusty and right 
 welbeloved cousin and councellor, John, Earle of Melfort, one of 
 our Principall Secretaries of State to engage Mr James Eoulis, 
 merchant in London, to become bound to the carvers, joyners, 
 and other workmen here, to be employed in and about the said 
 work and reparation, who would not undertake the same with- 
 out good security in our City of London for performance of the 
 conditions that are agreed on with them for that effect; in 
 order whereunto the said Earle of Melfort having by our ex- 
 presse order and speciall command signed the severall Bills of 
 Exchange here undermentioned drawn by him upon 
 Maxwell of Kirkonnell, and John Drummond, two of our 
 Receivers and Paymasters, for the punctuall payment whereof 
 the said Earle has given his own private security to the said 
 Mr James Eoulis, viz. : One Bill for nine hundred twenty two 
 pounds and six shillings sterline, payable here the 20th day of 
 January next : Item, a second Bill of Exchange for four hun- 
 dred and seventy pounds and eight shillings sterline, payable 
 here the 20th of February next : Item, a third Bill for four 
 hundred and ten pounds sterline money, payable at Edinburgh 
 the first day of May next ensuing the date of these presents ; 
 in which three Bills (all payable to the said Mr James Foulis or 
 his order) the exchange and other reasonable allowances being 
 already included : It is now our expresse Will and pleasure, 
 and Wee doe hereby authorise and strictly require you to make 
 or cause to be made exact and punctuall payments of the severall 
 sumes mentioned in' the said Bills upon the respective dayes 
 aforesaid when they shall become due. Wherein you are not 
 (upon any consideration) to faile, not only for the reason of our 
 having obliged the said Earle of Melfort to engage his own 
 private credit for the punctuall performance of the same, but 
 also because Wee are obliged to pay interest to the said Mr
 
 CCXXXVi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 James Foulis, from and after the respective dayes aforesaid, so 
 long as the said summes or any of them shall remaine unpaid ; 
 which Wee doe hereby recommend unto your speciall care to 
 prevent, as that which will be very unacceptable unto Us. And 
 in regard that for compleating the said works and reparations 
 there wilbe a further charge and expence of moneys needfull 
 for mason work, paving, glasing, sarking, and roofing, it is our 
 further expresse will and pleasure that you pay or cause to be 
 paid such summe or summes of money as shalbe from time to 
 time needfull for the same, or for any other necessaries that 
 wilbe requisite for that effect, so as the whole work and repara- 
 tion may be fully compleated, and our own said Chappell be 
 exactly put in order for the purposes already mentioned, before 
 the first day of May next to come precisely in failour of which 
 Wee cannot but be highly displeased : And therefore doubt 
 not but you wilbe most carefull to have the same fully per- 
 formed. For all which, these presents shalbe to you, and all 
 others respectively who may be therein any way concerned, par- 
 ticularly to the Lords Auditors of your accompts for allowing 
 the payments of the severall summes, and the other charges and 
 expences already mentioned, a sufficient warrant. And so Wee 
 bid you heartily ffarewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall, 
 the 3d day of December 1687, and of our Eeigne the 3d year. 
 " By his Majesty's command. 
 
 " MORRAY." 
 
 Not as a mere act of despotism did James issue 
 the command, whereby he demanded of the Privy 
 Council to make payment of bills of exchange, in 
 the executing of which they had expressed no con- 
 currence. There were hidden causes. James had 
 committed himself to purchases of an illegal cha- 
 racter, a revelation of which would have excited 
 insurrection. On his behalf the Lord Chancellor 
 Perth had, in 1685, expended 8000 sterling in pro-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXXVil 
 
 curing Romish " gauds " for Holyrood Chapel, in 
 contravention of the Acts of Parliament. * And, 
 according to Lord Fountainhall, a further importation 
 had lately been effected. His lordship writes : " 23 
 Novembris 1686. The King's Yaught arrived from 
 London at Leith, with the Popish altar, vestements, 
 images, Priests, and other dependers, for the Popish 
 Chapell in the Abbey, "t This cargo was no doubt 
 the product of " the carvers, joyners, and other work- 
 men," engaged by Mr James Foulis, and for which 
 were drawn Melfort's bills. The charge of 1 802, 14s. 
 sterling, being made in three bills, it was hoped that the 
 small amount payable on each would avert complaint. 
 Doubtless the cause of the debt, disguised in the 
 king's letter, was patent to the Council ; but under 
 the recollection of the serious disturbance which 
 occurred in 1680, when the Pope's effigy was burned 
 at Edinburgh, they maintained a prudent silence. 
 In the second portion of his letter, James enjoins the 
 Council to at once employ skilled workmen, in order 
 to the restoration of the church, so that, under his 
 Majesty's highest displeasure, it might be completed 
 before the following May. 
 
 A brief outline of the early history of the Abbey 
 Church is now essential. Founded by David I. in 
 1128, and by him dedicated to the honour of the 
 Holy Cross, the Virgin, and All Saints, the Abbey 
 
 * See supra, p. ccxxi. 
 
 t Lord Fountainhall's Historical Notices, ii. 763.
 
 CCXXXviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 was planted with canons regular of the Augustine 
 order. Within the structure John Baliol held a Par- 
 liament in 1296, and in the adjacent chapel was a 
 Council convened in 1303 by his son Edward. In 
 the abbey hospitality was, in 1381, extended to John 
 of Gaunt. Burned in 1385 by Richard II., the 
 fabric was subsequently repaired. The occasional 
 resort of Eobert III. and James I., it was the birth- 
 place of James II., the place of his coronation, also 
 of his sepulture. In the abbey was James III. 
 married in 1469 to Margaret of Denmark. Pre- 
 paratory to his marriage with Margaret, the English 
 princess, in 1503, James IV. constructed a palace at 
 the spot, which, afterwards extended by the regent 
 John, Duke of Albany, and James V., forms the 
 older portion of that royal residence which exists 
 now. After several dilapidations, the church of the 
 abbey was, about 1460, restored by the abbot, 
 Archibald Campbell ; it was, along with the palace, 
 partially burned by the English army in 1544 ; and 
 again in 1547. The palace was further dilapidated, 
 and a portion of the furniture seized and scattered, 
 by the Reformers in 1559 ; yet it was found suffi- 
 cient to accommodate Queen Mary and her court 
 on her return to Scotland in 1561.* 
 
 * At the Reformation the revenues of the abbey were set down at .2926, 
 8s. 6d. money, and 116 chalders of victual. For further authentic details 
 respecting the history of Holyroodhouse, see Historia Miraculose Funda- 
 tionis Monasterii Sancte Crucis, prope Edinburgh ; Inventarium localium, 
 etc., Magni Altaris ejusdem monasterii, MCCCCLXXXIII., Bannatyne Miscel-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCXXxix 
 
 The prevailing belief that Queen Mary was married 
 to Lord Darnley in the Abbey Church rests, we 
 think, on insufficient evidence. At the time of the 
 marriage the church seems to have been used for 
 worship by the parishioners of the Canongate. Mr 
 John Brand, minister of the Canongate, published the 
 queen's banns, and a record of the event in the Kirk 
 Session Minute Book of that parish proceeds thus : 
 
 "The 21 of Julij Anno Domini 1565. The quhilk day Johne 
 Brand, mynister, presentit to ye Kirk ane writting, written be ye 
 Justice Clark hand, desyring ye Kirk of ye Cannogait and mynis- 
 ter thairof, to proclame Harie, Duk of Abbynye, erle of Hois, etc., 
 on ye one part, and Marie, be ye grace of God quene souerane 
 of this realme, on ye vthair part. The q lk ye Kirk ordanis ye 
 mynister so to do with inwocation of ye name of God." 
 
 In the Marriage Register of the Canongate is the 
 following entry : " Henry, Duk of Albany, erll of 
 Rois, Marie, be the grace of God, quen souerane of 
 this realme, 1, 2, ^." In continuation of this entry 
 are these words : " Married in the chappell."* 
 
 lany, vol. ii., p. 11 ; Chronicon Ccenobii Sanctae Crucis Edinburgensis, 
 edited by Mr Kobert Pitcairn, Bannatyne Club, 1828, 4to; also Liber 
 Cartarum Sancte Crucis ; Munimenta Ecclesie Sancte Crucis de Edwines- 
 burg, with a preface by Professor Cosmo Innes, Bannatyne Club, 1841. 
 
 * Buik of the Kirk of the Canagait, 1564-67. The entry in the Marriage 
 Register is in these words : " The 29 day of Julij anno 1565. Henry and 
 Marie, Kyng and qwene of Scottis." It will be remarked in the entry of 
 proclamation that the banns had been proclaimed twice only, the figure 3 
 being deleted by the registrar. In the same Register appear under the 
 heading of " The persons that has communicat the time of their deceis day 
 and zeir beginning anno 1565," these two remarkable entries, which are 
 totally unconnected with the preamble " Mons r Singnior Dauid ves slane 
 in Halyrudhous the ix day of Merche anno 1565;" "The Kyng's grace 
 blaven vp y 1 buder in ye Kirk of Feild the x of Februar 1566."
 
 CCxl HISTORY OF THE 
 
 In naming the locality of Queen Mary's marriage, 
 Lord Herries, a contemporary, remarks that it was 
 solemnised " by Mr John Sinkclare, persone of Res- 
 telrigg, in the Chappell Royal of Hallirudhous, at 
 mass."* And Sir James Melville describes the cere- 
 mony as being performed in the " Palace of Halyrood- 
 House uithin the Queen's Chappel at the Mass."t 
 Now the place in which Mary had mass performed 
 on her arrival from France was certainly not the 
 Abbey Church, but a chapel within the Palace. 
 Such a chapel is described in the report of Sir 
 Robert Drummond in 1583,! an( ^ to ^ we conceive, 
 does Lord Herries allude when he refers to Lord 
 Glencairn's procedure at Holyroodhouse in June 
 1567, after Mary's imprisonment at Lochleven. His 
 statement is : 
 
 " The Earle of Glencairne, with his domestick servants onlie 
 in his companie, went to the Chappell of Halliroodhous, and 
 with great noyse broake doune the altar, and defaced everie 
 thing that pertained to the ornaments therof ; which was much 
 commended by the ministrie, for an act of pietie and zeale ; but 
 the nobilitie did not approve it, for they reprehended him for 
 acting without a publick order." 
 
 Further, the General Assembly of 1569 having 
 charged Adam Bothwell, commendator of Holyrood, 
 
 * Lord Herries' " Historic of the Reigne of Marie Queen of Scots." Ab- 
 botsford Club, 1834, pp. 70, 71. 
 
 t Sir James Melvil's " Memoires." Lond. 1683, p. 57. 
 
 See supra, p. xciv. 
 
 Lord Herries'a " Historic," p. 97. In his History of Edinburgh, Mait-
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxli 
 
 with allowing some churches to fall into decay, he 
 in defence pleaded that with respect to the Abbey 
 Church it had been ruinous " these twenty years by- 
 gane," and accordingly he proposed and was per- 
 mitted by the Assembly to dispose of the materials 
 forming the choir and transept in order to procure 
 funds for repairing the nave, so that it might be in com- 
 fortable use by the parishioners of the Canongate.* 
 Within the restored nave was crowned, in 1590, Anne 
 of Denmark, Queen of James VI. t From this period 
 up to the accession of James VII. the chief events 
 connected with the Abbey Church have been detailed. 
 By the Privy Council the injunction of the 3d 
 December 1687 was fully obeyed. Under their 
 sanction was introduced daily service according to 
 the Romish ritual. In reference to this arrangement 
 Lord Fountainhall has the following : 
 
 " 6 Februarij 1688. In the evening and next morning many 
 Litanies and Masses are said in the Abbey, by the Popish Priests, 
 for the soul of King Charles the 2d, to bring him out of Purga- 
 tory, he having died on that day now three years agoe." J 
 
 land remarks that there was a Chapel at Holyrood adjoining the Dean's 
 House in St Anne's Yard, of which the remains existed in his time 
 (Maitland's History of Edinburgh, 1753, p. 153). As confirmatory of our 
 view as to the Queen's Chapel in the Palace being the scene of her marriage 
 with Lord Darnley, we may refer to a case of discipline in the Canongate 
 Eegister. Therein it appears that, on the 12th July 1565, Symon Lokart 
 acknowledged his offence in having "abusit" the sacrament of baptism, by 
 having " his barne baptizet in Papestrie in the chappell." 
 
 * Booke of the Universall Kirk, Bannatyne Club, pp. 163, 167. 
 
 t Papers relative to the Marriage of King James VI., Bannatyne Club, 
 1828, p. 39. 
 
 t Lord Fountainhall's Historical Notices, p. 852.
 
 Ccxlii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Having actively pushed forward his monastic pre- 
 parations, Father Hay was enabled on the 22d March 
 to issue the printed rules of a Catholic College which 
 he had established at Holyrood, and in which was 
 offered gratuitous instruction.* Riots in the city 
 which attended these innovations were rigorously 
 suppressed, two of the rioters being executed and 
 others publicly flogged.t 
 
 In the Town Council minute of the 13th July 
 1687, the ground stated for surrendering the Abbey 
 Church is, that it was " to be inlarged conforme 
 to the draught thereof appro ven by his Majestic." 
 That "draught," prepared by Sir William Bruce, 
 embraced an accommodation for the Knights of the 
 Thistle, quaintly described by Father Hay as "a 
 curious work of timber. "J Sir William's design, 
 elegantly engraved in folio, is presented in Vitrumus 
 Scoticus, an architectural work of much rarity. 
 Entitled "The Interior of the Chapel Royal," the 
 plate represents the Knights stalls, six on each 
 side with the throne of the sovereign at the western 
 extremity. Resting on a dais approached by six 
 
 * Lord Fountainhall's Historical Notices, p. 860. 
 
 f Dr Daniel Wilson's Memorials of Edinburgh, 1872, p. 105. 
 
 J Diplomatum Veterum Colkctio, i. 288, 289, Advocates Library. 
 
 Vitruviiis Scoticus is a collection of plans and elevations of public 
 buildings, engraved chiefly from designs by the celebrated architect Mr 
 William Adam, who died in 1748. Several of the designs relating to Holy- 
 roodhouse are described as having been executed by Sir William Bruce. 
 The work was published early in the century, and contains one hundred and 
 sixty plates. A perfect copy is in the Edinburgh University Library ; that 
 in the Advocates Library is imperfect.
 
 CHAPEL KOYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxliil 
 
 steps fenced right and left by carved representa- 
 tions of the lion and unicorn, the throne is topped 
 by a canopy, displaying the royal escutcheon and 
 other appropriate emblems. The stalls, which are 
 separated from the side aisles by a screen, are 
 formed by elegant Corinthian columns, supporting an 
 architrave over each stall on which are displayed 
 each knight's heraldic insignia, with his helmet and 
 weapons. The general effect is imposing, notwith- 
 standing the incongruity of Greek architecture in 
 combination with a structure wholly Gothic. 
 
 In course of operations the royal vault containing 
 the ancient tombs was restored, while the less 
 offensive portion of "the gauds" or ornaments of 
 1685 and 1686 was utilised and displayed. Among 
 these ornaments Nisbet refers to figures of the 
 Saviour and Twelve Apostles, and other well-executed 
 pieces of sculpture.* There was a large and magnifi- 
 cent organ, and the flooring was of marble.t 
 
 Insurrection was imminent, hence, by order of the 
 Privy Council, Captain John Wallace (probably of 
 the family of Craigie) was stationed in the Palace, 
 with a military guard. The precaution had be- 
 come especially essential under the now universal un- 
 popularity of the king. On the llth December 1688 
 the day on which James escaped from Whitehall, 
 
 * Nisbet's Heraldry, ii. 120. 
 
 t Maitland's History of Edinburgh, p. 153 ; Journey through Scotland, 
 Lond. 1729, p. 61 ; Arnot's History of Edinburgh, pp. 252-255.
 
 CCxliv HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the Town Council of Edinburgh assembled at the Coun- 
 cil Chambers, and passed the following minute : 
 
 " At Edinburgh, the eleventh of December j m vj c 
 " eightie eight years. 
 
 " The which day, the Lord Provost produced two orders of his 
 Majestie's privy councell in relation to the unhappie tumult that 
 has arisen this day of ane rable of all sorts of people quhich is 
 signed by his Majestie's privy councell, quhich the councell ap- 
 points the same to be recorded, quhairof the tennor ffollowes : 
 Edinburgh, the tenth of December j m vj c eightie eight These are 
 requireing the provost and baillies of Edinburgh upon sight 
 hereof, with the Traine bands and Militia, and to besiege the 
 place quhair Captain Wallace is, and to take care that none 
 escape, except such as shall render themselves prissoners, and to 
 make search for and apprehend Captain Wallace himself and 
 the officers of his companie, and to keep thame strict untill they 
 be brought to judgement, and secure all other posts about the 
 town for apprehending all others that are guiltie. This yow 
 shall doe without farder delay, as yow will be answerable. Sic 
 subscribitur Atholl, Breadalbane, Tarbat, Jo. Dalrymple. 
 
 " ffollowes the order of his Majesties privie 
 councell ordaineing Captain Wallace to deliver himself 
 prissoner. 
 
 " Edinburgh, the said Tenth December j m vj c eightie eight. 
 
 " These are ordering yow Captain Wallace to deliver up your 
 persone to the provost of Edinburgh or any of the baillies 
 therof, under all highest paines. Sic subscribitur Atholl, 
 Breadalbane, Tarbat, Jo. Dalrymple. 
 
 "After receipt of the quhich orders the Lord Provost and rema- 
 nent Magistrats issued forth a proclamation commanding all the 
 Inhabitants belonging to the Train bands of this Cittie to attend 
 their respective captains' colloures, with their armes, imediatly, 
 that conforme to the abovewrittin order the persone of Captain 
 Wallace might be seized upon, and made certification to them
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxlv 
 
 conforme to the said order, and the Magistrats haveing gone 
 upon the head of the Train bands, and Livetenant Colonell 
 Grahame's Companie and the Militia of this Cittie, and Henry 
 Frazer, Eosse herauld, and James [Gnthrie], Dingwall pursevant, 
 haveing with trumpeters gone to the entrie of the abbay closse, 
 the said herauld and pursevant haveing their coats displayed, 
 did require Captain Wallace to give obedience to the orders of 
 his Majestie's privy councell, and upon his refuseall they gave 
 into the Magistrats their execution upon the back of the said 
 last order, quhich execution the councell appointed to be re- 
 corded, quhairof the tennor ffollowes : Wpon the tenth day of 
 December j m vj eightie eight years Wee, Henry Frazer, Eosse 
 herauld, and James Guthrie, Dingwall pursevant, be vertue of 
 the abovewrittin orders, past with the baillies of Edinburgh to 
 the foot of the Cannogate and there they stopped and ordered 
 us to goe forward with our coats of armes displayed and sound 
 of trumpet, to Captain Wallace and require him conforme to the 
 saids abovewrittin orders, and his Company being standing at 
 the innerside of the Strand near the entrie to the Abbay, with 
 all their armes presented : The comanding officer of the said 
 Company called to us to stand off for none should enter, and the 
 said Captain Wallace was standing a litle back amongst his 
 souldiers, and cryed for one of us to enter ; and I, the said Henry 
 Frazer, went foreward to him and told him that the Lords of his 
 Majestie's privy councell had ordered him to deliver up his per- 
 sone to the baillies of Edinburgh, who was there readie to 
 receive him. He gave no ansuer, but called his Livetenant and 
 whispered to him, and went imediatly away backward behind 
 his owne Companie, and the said Livetenant came to the front 
 of the said companie and comanded us to be gone, and we told 
 him that we thought the Captain wold be so discreet as to give 
 ane ansuer to the Lords of the privy councells orders, and wee 
 Avas waiting for it, and he againe comanded us to be gone, for we 
 should have no more ansuer nor we had gotten already, and if 
 we stayed any longer we should have ane ansuer by and by : 
 And I, the said Henry Frazer, came back to the saids baillies 
 and told them what had been said to us, and they ordered me
 
 CC.xlvi HISTORY OF THE 
 
 to goe back and wait upon ane ansuer, quhich accordingly I did, 
 and being befor the said company I saw ane Serjeant come and 
 asked the Livetenant if the rabble was gone, he ansuered not : 
 The said Serjeant said yee are ordered to make your post good, 
 and irnediatly the said Livetenant fired ane gun that was in his 
 hand, and then all the souldiers of the said companie fired like- 
 wayes. This wee did conforme to the saids orders, with our coats 
 of armes displayed and sound of trumpet, befor thir witnesses, 
 Alexander Bonner and William Eckford, town officers in Edin- 
 burgh, and John Wightman, officer there, with severall other 
 witnesses to the premisses : And for the verification hereof wee 
 and the said witnesses have subscrived the samen with our 
 hands : Sic subscribitur, Henry ffrazer, herauld ; James Guthrie, 
 pursevant ; Alexr. Bonner, witnes ; John Wightman, witnes ; 
 Win. Eckford, witnes : Sic subscribitur, Magnus Prince, pro." * 
 
 Captain Wallace was compelled to surrender soon 
 afterwards. In Appendix VII. will be found a nar- 
 rative of the circumstances attending the event, also 
 of the devastation of the church. With that devasta- 
 tion terminated a scheme for restoring under royal 
 sanction the Roman Catholic faith a scheme which, 
 formulated by Laud, had been advanced by Lauder- 
 dale, and all but enforced by Moray and Perth and 
 Melfort. 
 
 In reviewing the history of the Chapel Eoyal cer- 
 tain points stand out prominently. Seeking by his 
 own authority to transform his Chapel Eoyal into a 
 musical college, James III. excited among his nobles 
 that wide discontent which resulted in their rebellion 
 and in his own discomfiture and death. Moved by 
 
 * Burgh Records of Edinburgh, vol. xxxii., fol. 270, 271.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxlvii 
 
 despotic counsels, James VII. sought to constitute as 
 his Chapel Royal a structure which would accommo- 
 date a Roman Catholic college, and wherein might be 
 practised those rites calculated to attract an interest 
 in the old creed. The new despotic movement was 
 like the old, checked by insurrection, with this im- 
 portant difference that subsequent to the second over- 
 throw absolutism perished. As from the ashes of the 
 Pre-Reformation martyrs sprung up the seeds of reli- 
 gious freedom so the odour of that conflagration 
 which consumed the adornments of the Abbey Church 
 has been felt ever since in the enjoyment of civil 
 liberty and constitutional government. 
 
 Reckoning from 1120, the probable year in which 
 was reared at Stirling Castle the earliest semblance 
 of a royal fane to the devastation of the church of 
 Holyrood in 1688, a Chapel Royal may be held to 
 have been connected with the headquarters of the 
 sovereign for 568 years. And if, as we have found, 
 the Chapel Royal at Stirling had only a covering of 
 thatch four centuries and a half after it was reared, 
 it may be concluded that the original erection was 
 primitive in the extreme. In a condition the reverse 
 of superb was that chapel in Holyrood Palace * in 
 which Queen Mary attended the celebration of mass. 
 The Abbey Church, a noble pile not inferior in the 
 magnificence of its Gothic architecture to any of the 
 cathedrals, was the Chapel Royal at the last. At 
 
 * Supra, p. Ixxxvi.-xciv.
 
 CCxlviii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the last, indeed ; for if we date from the probable 
 commencement of repairs in December 1687 to the 
 devastation in December of the following year, it is 
 most doubtful whether in its new connection religious 
 service was performed in it even once ! 
 
 With the popular insurrection in December 1688 
 terminated the last effort put forth in this country 
 for the re-establishment of the Eomish Church. 
 By the destruction of the knights' stalls, James's 
 Order of chivalry also fell into abeyance, and so 
 remained for fifteen years. 
 
 Revived by Queen Anne, in a patent passed under 
 the Great Seal, 31st December 1703, the Order of 
 the Thistle has been held in respect and honour ever 
 since. On the 8th May 1827, George IV. increased 
 the number of the Knights from twelve to sixteen. 
 The Star of the Order consists of a St Andrew's 
 cross of silver embroidery, with rays emanating 
 from between the points of the cross, in the centre 
 of which, on a gold field, is a Thistle of green, 
 heightened with gold, the flower being of its natural 
 colour, the whole surrounded by a circle of green, 
 bearing the motto, Nemo me impune lacessit, in golden 
 characters. The Badge, worn attached to a green 
 ribbon, is an oval plate entirely of gold, bearing St 
 Andrew with his cross within a circle containing the 
 motto of the Order, the whole being surrounded by 
 rays of light in the form of a glory. The collar is 
 composed of golden Thistles and sprigs of rue,
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. CCxlix 
 
 enamelled proper. A Dean of the Order was first 
 appointed by George III., on the 7th January 1763.* 
 The other officers are the Lyon King of Arms, a 
 Secretary, and the Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod. 
 
 By the mob of December 1688, the Abbey Church 
 was not only deprived of its ornaments and elegant fit- 
 tings, but other vandalisms were perpetrated. The 
 royal vault was opened, and leaden coffins enclos- 
 ing the remains of members of the royal house were 
 rudely broken up. On the 20th May 1689, or six 
 months after the occurrence of this tumult, James, 
 fourth Duke of Hamilton, remarks in a letter to the 
 Earl of Melville, Secretary of State, that the entire 
 building had been seriously despoiled. t It would 
 not appear that any considerable restoration was at- 
 tempted till half a century later. 
 
 On a representation by James, sixth Duke of Hamil- 
 ton, as hereditary keeper, addressed to the Barons 
 of Exchequer, these consulted an architect and a 
 builder, who recommended that the church should 
 have a roofing of flagstones ; they also presented 
 an estimate for the work which amounted to 1003. 
 The recommendation and estimate were, on the 7th 
 August 1758, both approved. When these repairs 
 were carried out, it became evident that the walls 
 were very much overweighted. To this effect a 
 
 * For List of the Deans of the Order of the Thistle from the first appoint- 
 ment in 1763 till 1845, see Fasti Eccl. Scot., i. 398. 
 t Leven and Melville Papers, Bannatyne Club, 1843, p. 27.
 
 Ccl IIISTOKY OF THE 
 
 report was made to the Barons in 1766, but no 
 action supervened. The anticipated result followed, 
 for on the 2d December 1768, the roof fell into the 
 interior, destroying in its descent the more consider- 
 able mouldings. In 1776 Hugo Arnot remarked the 
 exposed remains of James V. and other royal per- 
 sonages, but three years later when he composed his 
 History these coffins had been rifled. * 
 
 Among the skulls seized by the populace were those 
 of Queen Magdalene and Lord Darnley. The former 
 at once disappeared, but Darnley's skull fell into the 
 possession of Mr James Cummyng of the Lyon 
 Office, at whose death it was included in a collection 
 of statuary at Edinburgh. It has not latterly been 
 traced. 
 
 The last subdean of the Chapel Eoyal prior to the 
 Revolution was Mr John Mackqueene, one of the 
 ministers of Edinburgh, who was appointed by James 
 VII. in 1688. Deprived in April 1689, by the Con- 
 vention of Estates, for refusing to submit to the 
 Revolution settlement, he visited the exiled king at 
 St Germains, and subsequently ministered in England. 
 His habits were eccentric and unclerical. He died 
 in 1733, having attained about the age of ninety.t 
 
 * Arnot's History of Edinburgh, 1779, pp. 252-255 ; Dr D. Wilson's 
 Memorials of Edinburgh, 1872, p. 409. For a detailed account of the 
 monuments and tombstones in the Abbey Church and churchyard of Holy- 
 rood, see Gordon's Monasticon, vol. i., pp. 184-202, and Rogers' Monuments 
 and Monumental Inscriptions, vol. i., 99-116. 
 
 t Fasti Eccl. Scot, i. 36, 394.
 
 CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. Cell 
 
 The revenues of the deanery, subsequent to the 
 abolition of Episcopacy at the Revolution, having 
 reverted to the Crown, William III. conferred them 
 on his vigorous adherent and private chaplain, Dr 
 William Carstairs. 
 
 With the approval of the General Assembly, the 
 funds connected with the office of dean were in 1737 
 divided into three parts, each being conferred on a 
 clergyman selected by the Crown, who was described 
 as one of the deans of the Chapel Royal. The ori- 
 ginal apportionment to each dean was about 84.* 
 
 Prior to 1841, certain leases of teinds belonging to 
 the Chapel Royal having expired, the aggregate 
 yearly rental greatly increased. To effectually utilise 
 the augmented revenues, a chair of Biblical Criticism 
 was established in the University of Edinburgh. The 
 revenues were further disposed by the Scottish Uni- 
 versities' Commissioners as set forth in their Report 
 issued in 1863. From that document we make the 
 following extract : 
 
 " In view of the difficulty of obtaining farther grants of public 
 money for the support of the Theological Chairs in the Faculties 
 of Divinity, the attention of the Commissioners has been directed 
 to a source which has already partly been made use of for the 
 object in question. That source is the income of the deanery of 
 the Chapel Koyal. This deanery, which, before the abolition of 
 Episcopacy in Scotland, had been attached to the See of Dun- 
 blane, fell on that event to the Crown, and the revenues have 
 
 * For a list of Deans and Subdeans of the Chapel Royal, also of Chap- 
 lains in Ordinary to the Sovereign, and of Royal Almoners, see Fasti Eccl. 
 Scot., i. 393-399.
 
 Cclii HISTORY OF THE 
 
 since been bestowed by grants on three of the Crown chaplains, 
 who are commonly called Deans of the Chapel Eoyal, and who 
 divide the revenues equally among them. The practice which 
 is now followed is, that, when one of the three deans dies, a new 
 gift is made out in favour of the two surviving deans and the 
 new dean. The last gift was on llth December 1846, 'in 
 favour of Dr John Lee, so long as he shall hold the office of 
 Principal of the University of Edinburgh, of Dr Norman M'Leod 
 during our pleasure, and of Dr Eobert Lee, so long as he shall 
 hold the office of Professor of Biblical Criticism and Biblical 
 Antiquities in the University of Edinburgh, and to his succes- 
 sors in office, and to each of them as aforesaid, equally.' The 
 gift to Dr Eobert Lee attaches one-third of the revenues of the 
 deanery to the Chair in the University of Edinburgh, now held 
 by him ; and the Commissioners would respectfully submit that, 
 were the principle extended to the remaining two-thirds of the 
 revenues, with the view of benefiting the Faculties of Divinity 
 in the several Universities of Scotland generally, than which a 
 more fitting object for this Eoyal bounty could not be found, a 
 gracious act would be done to the Church and the Universities, 
 and the Government would be saved the difficulty of seeking 
 public money for the purpose. 
 
 " The manner in which it seems to the Commissioners that the 
 portion of the, revenues of the deanery to which they refer could 
 with the greatest advantage be used for the benefit of the Theo- 
 logical Chairs in the Universities is as follows : The present 
 average amount of the whole divisible revenues of the deanery, 
 which vary to a certain extent from year to year, but which are 
 now not likely permanently to alter much in value, is 2018 a 
 year. The Commissioners propose that, leaving out of view the 
 one-third now attached to the Chair of Biblical Criticism in the 
 University of Edinburgh, each of the remaining two-thirds of 
 the revenues should, as it becomes vacant, be divided into two, 
 and each of the sixth parts so obtained (336 a year on the 
 average) should be given to one of four deans, who should be 
 certain theological professors in the four universities, and that 
 this scheme should be carried out in the following order, viz.,
 
 CHAPEL EOYAL OF SCOTLAND. Ccliii 
 
 there being now one-third vacant by the death of the late Dr 
 John Lee, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, one-half of 
 this to be given to the person who shall be appointed Professor 
 of Divinity in that university, the person so appointed giving 
 up the amount of the present endowment of his Chair, to in- 
 crease the income of the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the 
 same university, and the other half to be given to found a Chair 
 of Biblical Criticism in the University of Aberdeen ; and, on the 
 remaining third becoming vacant by the death of Dr M'Leod, 
 one-half to be given as an endowment for a Chair of Biblical 
 Criticism in the University of Glasgow, and the other half to be 
 attached to the Chair of Church History in St Mary's College, 
 St Andrews, the salary from the Woods and Forests of that 
 Chair (150) being then given as an assistance to the Principal, 
 and the college endowment of the same Chair (106) being added 
 to the Chair of Biblical Criticism, now the second professorship 
 of divinity in that college. 
 
 " With regard to the one-third of the revenues of the deanery 
 at present attached to the Chair of Biblical Criticism in the 
 University of Edinburgh, it will be for Her Majesty to consider, 
 when it becomes vacant, whether it may be advisable that the 
 whole should continue attached to that Chair, so as to provide 
 an independent endowment to the professor, irrespective of class 
 fees, or whether it may be advantageous and practicable that 
 part of it should be applied for the benefit of the other Theologi- 
 cal Chairs in that university, or in the universities generally." * 
 
 According to the preceding scheme the Univer- 
 sities' Commissioners distributed the Deanery re- 
 venues in this manner. They granted to the Univer- 
 sity of Edinburgh for the Professorship of Divinity, 
 
 * General Report of Universities' Commissioners, Scotland, p. 173. The 
 Commissioners, in their ordinances, were subsequently enabled to give 
 effect to the main principle on which these suggestions proceeded ; though, 
 in carrying them out, they saw occasion to introduce alterations as to some 
 of the details.
 
 Ccliv HISTORY OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 336, and for the Professorship of Biblical Criticism, 
 672; to the University of Glasgow for the Pro- 
 fessorship of Biblical Criticism, 336 ; to St Mary's 
 College, St Andrews, for the Professorship of Church 
 History, 336 ; and to the University of Aberdeen 
 for the Professorship of Biblical Criticism, 336. 
 The Deanery revenues are derived from lands in 
 the counties of Wigtown, Kirkcudbright, Ayr, and 
 Perth ; also from teinds on the lands of Shaws, Helm- 
 burn, and Balliades, in the parishes of Ettrick and 
 Kirkhope, in the county of Selkirk. 
 
 The teinds of the Selkirkshire estates were in 1647 
 valued at 210 Scots, and in 1863 the deans raised 
 an action in the Court of Teinds, setting forth that 
 the valuation so made was effected without the requi- 
 site sanction, and that it should consequently be 
 rescinded. The Court of Teinds, also the Second 
 Division of the Court of Session, held otherwise, 
 whereupon the deans appealed to the House of Lords, 
 which, on the 18th March 1869, affirmed with costs 
 the judgments of the courts below.
 
 REGISTRTJM 
 CAPELLE REGLE STEIVELINENSIS.
 
 KEGISTEFM 
 
 CAPELLJE REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 
 
 1. PROCESSUS SUPER ERECCIONE ECCLESIE COLLEGIATE Jflan'n. 
 DE STRIUELING. 
 
 VNIUERSIS et singulis Christ! fidelibus et presertim Scoticane 
 nacionis, omnibusque aliis et singulis quorum interest, intererit, 
 seu interesse quousque infrascriptum tangit negocium seu 
 tangere poterit quomodolibet infuturum, quibuscunque nomini- 
 bus censeantur aut quacunque prefulgeant dignitate, Jacobus 
 Abercrumby, permissione diuina abbas monasterii de Scona 
 ordinis Sancti Augustini Sancti Andree diocesis, et Dauid 
 Arnote, archidiaconus Laudonie in ecclesia sancti Andree, iudices 
 et executores ad infrascripta, vna cum nostro in hac parte 
 collega, cum ilia clausula Quatenus uos vel duo aut unus 
 uestrum etc. a sede apostolica specialiter deputati, salutem in 
 Domino, et presentibus fidem indubiam inhibere nostrisque huius- 
 modi ymmouerius apostolicis firmiter obedire mandatis : LITERAS 
 sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini, Alexandri 
 diuina prouidencia Pape Sexti, eius vera bulla plumbea cum 
 cordula canapis more Komane curie impendente, bullatas, sanas, 
 siquidem et integras, non viciatas, non cancellatas, nee in aliqua 
 sui parte suspectas, sed omni prorsus vicio et suspicione carentes 
 vt in eis prima facie apparebat, nobis per illustrissimum et 
 serenissimum principem et dominum, dominum Jacobum diuina 
 favente clemencia Scotorum regem Quartum, principalem in eis- 
 
 A
 
 2 REGISTRUM 
 
 dem litteris apostolicis principaliter nominatum, coram notario 
 publico et testibus infrascriptis presentatas, nos cum ea qua 
 decuit reuerencia noueritis recepisse huiusmodi sub tenore : 
 
 ALEXANDER, Episcopus Seruus seruorum Dei, dilectis filiis 
 Sancte Crucis et de Scona, Sanctiandree diocesis, monasteri- 
 orum abbatibus, ac archidiacono Laudonie in ecclesia Sanctian- 
 dree, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Inter cetera cordis 
 nostri desiderabilia ilia intensis desideramus affectibus ut ubique 
 locorum maiestas Altissimi in graciarum benedictionibus collau- 
 detur et cultus sui nominis gloriosi amplietur ; ac pia Christi 
 fidelium presertim Catholicorum regum vota, ex quibus eiusdem 
 diuini nominis exaltacio ipsorumque regum et aliorum Christi 
 fidelium animarum salus prouenire et persone quelibet diuin- 
 orum omciorum decantacioni et celebracioni in singulis ecclesiis 
 presertim collegiatis de nouo erigendis cum animi quiete et 
 tranquillitate insistere possint, ad exaudicionis graciam libenter 
 admittimus ; ac ea, prout in domino conspicimus, salubriter ex- 
 pedire fauoribus prosequimur oportunis. Exhibita siquidem 
 nobis nuper pro parte carissimi in Christo filii nostri, Jacobi 
 Scotorum Eegis illustris, peticio continebat quod, licet in Capella 
 Eegia nuncupata Beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis, infra palacium 
 ipsius Jacobi regis opidi de Striueling Sanctiandree diocesis sita, 
 vnus decanus nuncupatus ac plures alij cantores et capellani ac 
 clerici missas et alia diuina officia singulis diebus ad libitum 
 prefati Jacobi Kegis ammouibiles celebrent, ipseque Jacobus Eex 
 predictam capellam suis expensis reformari fecerit, ac libris, cali- 
 cibus, et aliis ornamentis ecclesiasticis pro diuino cultu in eadem 
 capella necessariis honorifice munuerit et ornauerit, ac eciam 
 nonnulla bona immobilia ad eum legittime pertinencia eidem 
 capelle pro illius dote assignauerit : Tamen si dicta capella in 
 collegiatam ecclesiam, et prepositura Ecclesie beate Marie de 
 Eupe Sanctiandree, que inibi dignitas principalis et de iure 
 patronatus prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Scotorum 
 Eegis, ex priuilegio apostolico cui hactenus derogatum non est, 
 existit, et ad eius meram collacionem ex simili priuilegio apos- 
 tolico pertinet, eciam in decanatum eiusdem erigende ecclesie qui 
 Nota. inibi dignitas eciam principalis existeret, pro vno decano qui
 
 CAPELL^E KEGLE STKIVELINENSIS. 3 
 
 aliis eiusdem erigende ecclesie personis preesset cuique cura 
 animarum dicti Jacob! et pro tempore existentis regis et regine 
 Scotorum et eorum officialium et familiarium continuorum con- 
 mensalium et eorumdem familiariura familiarum et seruitorum 
 imminent, quique omnimodam jurisdictionem in omnes personas 
 dicte erigende ecclesie pro tempore existentes haberet, et qui, 
 dum in ecclesia eadem beate Marie in ilia prepositus, dum uero 
 in erigenda ecclesia resident in ilia decanus foret, ita ut non due 
 dignitates existant sed vnica dumtaxat in qualibet dictarum 
 ecclesiarum preeminenciam habens existeret ; et vnus subde- 
 canus qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia dignitas secunda, pro JL 
 vno subdecano qui dicti decani, cum absens uel impeditus fuerit Vide 
 
 ,. . . ., . nota de 
 
 aut alias in ecclesia Beate Marie resident, in omnibus vices ex- jurisdic- 
 erceat et suppleat ; ac vna sacristia que inibi officium seu ad- V n 
 ministracio existerent, pro vno sacrista, qui iocalium et orna- absentia 
 mentorum dicte erigende ecclesie curam haberet; necnon sedecim ef 
 canonicatus et totidem prebende, pro sedecim canonicis in 
 cantu et alias sufficienter instructis ; ac sex pueri clerici simili- nota penes 
 ter in cantu competenter instruct! seu vt instruerentur apti et se 
 ydonei, qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia diuina officia diurna, 
 pariter et nocturna, prout in aliis ecclesiis collegiatis regni Scocie 
 celebrantur seu ad libitum et voluntatem prefati Jacobi et pro 
 tempore existentis regis Scotorum, secundum morem et consue- 
 tudinem Eomane ecclesie, prout magis prefato Jacobo et pro 
 tempore existent! regi Scotorum placeret, ita quod ad alium 
 morem seu consuetudinem in ipsa erigenda ecclesia nisi prout 
 rex uoluerit in illis celebrandis obseruare non tenerentur, ad Dei 
 laudem et [pro] ipsius Jacobi Eegis eiusque antecessorum et suc- 
 cessorum animarum salute decantare et celebrare, et alias eidem 
 erigende ecclesie in diuinis iuxta prouidam ipsius Jacobi Eegis 
 ordiuacionem faciendam, deseruire tenerentur, erigerentur et in- 
 struerentur : Et cum in prioratu de Eostnot, ordinis Sancti Nota de 
 Augustini, dicte diocesis, duo dumtaxat canonici residere consue- ft 
 
 uerint, quamuis illius fructus, redditus, et prouentus centum fructus 
 viginti librarum Sterlingorum secundum communem existima- va i en t a u- 
 
 cionem valeant annuatim et sufficientes sint ad sustentacionem 
 
 sex ac eciam pluriurn cauonicorum dicti ordiuis ; ac in ecclesia Stirling.
 
 4 REGISTRUM 
 
 de Dunbar, eiusdem diocesis, illius canonic! pro maiori parte non 
 per se, sed prout in multis aliis collegiatis ecclesiis regni Scocie 
 iuxta consuetudinem hactenus obseruatam fieri consueuerint per 
 substitutos deseruiant ; si, reseruata congrua porcione ex fructi- 
 bus dicti prioratus pro sex canonicis dicti ordinis, quorum prior 
 dicti prioratus pro tempore existens vnus existeret, residuum 
 fructuum dicti prioratus decanatui et aliis inibi erigendis, sub- 
 decanatui et sacristie ac canonicatibus et prebendis, pro decano, 
 subdecano, sacrista, canonicis, et aliis personis dicte erigende 
 ecclesie pro tempore existentibus, iuxta huiusmodo prouidam 
 ordinacionem prefati Jacobi Eegis perpetuo applicarentur ac cano- 
 nicatus et prebende dicte ecclesie de Dunbar, qui de iure patro- 
 natus ipsius regis existunt, ac alia beneficia ecclesiastica cum 
 cura et sine cura in ciuitate uel dicta diocesi Sanctiandree seu 
 alias vbilibet consistencia et de iure patronatus ipsius regis seu 
 aliorum laicorum existencia, quorum fructus, redditus, et pro- 
 uentus ad valorem duarum millium librarum monete Scocie, 
 quingintas libras sterlingorum, uel circa constituencium, dum- 
 taxat ascenderint annuatim, de quibus eidem Jacobo Eegi vide- 
 bitur, de ipsius Jacobi Kegis et aliorum laicorum patronorum 
 respectiue consensu, dicte erigende ecclesie, reseruata ex fructibus 
 curatorum beneficiorum pro vicariis perpetuis eorumdem benefi- 
 ciorum curatorum congrua porcione, ex qua ipsi vicarii se comode 
 sustentari, jura episcopalia persoluere, et alia onera sibi racione 
 curatorum beneficiorum huiusmodi incumbencia supportare, 
 possint, perpetuo vnirentur, annecterentur, et incorporarentur, ita 
 quod eciam congrua porcio presbytris ydoneis ad hoc deputandis, 
 qui canonicatibus et prebendis et aliis vniendis sine cura bene- 
 ficiis in diuinis officiis deseruirent, per eos ex canonicatuum et 
 prebendarum ac sine cura vniendorum beneficiorum huiusmodi 
 fructibus, quamdiu illis deseruierint, percipienda, assignaretur, 
 et residuum fructuum vniendorum beneficiorum huiusmodi, de- 
 ductis porcionibus predicti s, inter decanum, subdecanum, sac- 
 ristam, et canonicos predictos, ac alias personas dicte erigende 
 ecclesie, iuxta prouidam ordinacionem ipsius Jacobi Eegis de- 
 super faciendam, distribuerentur : PKOFECTO ex hoc, non solum 
 in ipsa capella postquam in collegia tarn ecclesiam ac in ea digni-
 
 CAPELL.E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 5 
 
 tates ac canonicatus et prebende ac alia officia huiusmodi erecta 
 seu instituta et pueri huiusmodi instituti fuerint, sed eciam in 
 de Dunbar et aliis ecclesiis et beneficiis vniendis ac prioratu 
 huiusmodi, diuiuus cultus augmentum susciperet et eciam ad 
 decorem dicte capelle cederet : Et ipse Jacobus Eex, vltra bona 
 predicta per eum dicte capelle assignata, alia boua patrimonialia 
 valoris annui quingintarum librarum, uel circa, monete Scocie, 
 huiusmodi pro premissis assignaret : Quare pro parte dicti 
 Jacobi Eegis nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum vt eandem capel- 
 lam sub eadem inuocacione in collegiatam ecclesiam, cum com- 
 muni archa, sigillo, capitulo, et aliis collegialibus insigniis, et in 
 ea dictam preposituram eciam in decanatum qui inibi eciam 
 dignitas principalis, ut prefertur, existat, pro moderno et pro Nota. 
 tempore existente preposito dicte ecclesie Beate Marie, qui eciam 
 decanus in dicta erigenda ecclesia sit, et aliis eiusdem erigende 
 ecclesie presit, cuique cura animarum dicti Jacobi et pro tempore 
 existentis regis et regine Scotorum et aliorum predictorum 
 immineat, quique omnimodam iurisdictionem et preeminenciam 
 predictas habeat ; et viium subdiaconum, qui in eadem erigenda 
 ecclesia dignitas secunda, pro vno subdecano qui vices dicti 
 decani ut prefertur suppleat ; ac vnam sacristiam, que inibi offi- 
 cium seu administracio existant, pro vno sacrista qui dictorum 
 iocalium et ornamentorum dicte ecclesie curam habeat ; necnon 
 sedecim canonicatus et totidem prebendas, pro sexdecim canoni- 
 cis in cantu et alias sufficienter instructis ; ac sex pueros clericos 
 similiter in cantu competenter instructos, seu ut instruantur aptos 
 et ydoneos, qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia diuina officia diurna, 
 pariter et nocturna, prout in ecclesiis collegiatis dicti Regni 
 Scocie celebrautur seu ad libitum et voluntatem prefati Jacobi et 
 pro tempore existentis Regis Scotorum, secundum inorem et con- 
 suetudinem Eomane ecclesie huiusmodi, prout magis prefato 
 Jacobo et pro tempore existenti Regi Scotorum placuerit, ad Dei 
 laudem et pro ipsius Jacobi Regis eiusque antecessorum et suc- 
 cessorum animarum salute decantare et celebrare, et alias eidem 
 erigende ecclesie in diuinis iuxta huiusmodi prouidam ipsius 
 Jacobi Regis ordinacionem faciendum deseruire teneantur, eri- 
 gere et instituere, ac eidem ecclesie dicta beneficia vnire, an-
 
 6 REGISTRUM 
 
 nectere, et incorporarc, aliasque in permissis oportune prouidere 
 de benignitate apostolica, dignaremur : Nos IGITUR, qui dudum 
 inter alia volumus quod semper in vnionibus commissio fieret 
 ad partes, uocatis quorum interesset, quique ecclesiarum omnium 
 decorem et uenustatem ac in illis diuini cultus augmentum nostris 
 potissime temporibus supremis desideramus affectibus, fructuum, 
 reddituum, et prouentuum dictorum beneficiorum per dictum 
 Jacobum Eegem assignatorum verum ualorem annuum presenti- 
 bus pro expresso haberi volentes, piumque et laudabile ipsius 
 Jacobi Eegis in hoc propositum plurimum in Domino commeii- 
 dantes, ac alias de premissis certain noticiam non habentes, 
 
 Nota, huiusmodi supplicacionibus inclinati, etc., MANDAMUS quatenus 
 vos, uel duo, aut vnus uestrum, si est ita, eandem capellam, post- 
 quam prefatus Jacobus Eex alia bona valoris annui quingintarum 
 librarum monete Scocie huiusmodi, uel circa, realiter et cum 
 effectu pro premissis assignauerit, sub eadem inuocacione in col- 
 legiatam ecclesiam cum communi archa, sigillo, capitulo et aliis 
 collegialibus insigniis, et in ea dictam preposituram in decana- 
 tum qui inibi eciam dignitas principals existat, pro moderno et 
 pro tempore existente preposito dicte ecclesie beate Marie, qui 
 eciam decanus in dicta erigenda ecclesia existat ac aliis [personis] 
 eiusdem erigende ecclesie presit, cuique cura animarum dicti 
 Jacobi et pro tempore existentis regis et regine Scotorum et eius 
 officialium et familiarium continuorum conmensalium et eorum- 
 dem famuliarium famuliarium et seruitorum et pro tempore 
 existencium immineat, quique omnimodam iurisdictionem in 
 omnes personas dicte erigende ecclesie pro tempore existentes 
 habeat, et qui, dum in ecclesia beate Marie resederit seu fuerit 
 in ilia prepositus, dum vero in erigenda ecclesia in ilia decanus 
 existat, ita ut non sint due dignitates sed vnica dumtaxat in 
 qualibet dictarum ecclesiarum preeminenciam habens existat; 
 
 Vide et vnum subdecanatum qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia dignitas 
 secunda, pro vno subdecano qui vices dicti decani, cum absens 
 uel impeditus fuerit aut alias in ecclesia Beate Marie resident, 
 in omnibus exerceat et suppleat ; ac vnam sacristiam que inibi 
 officium seu administracio existant, pro vno sacrista qui iocalium 
 et aliorum ornamentorum dicte ecclesie erigende curam habeat ;
 
 CAPELL^I REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 7 
 
 necnon sexdecim canonicatus et totidem prebendas, pro sedecim 
 canonicis in cantu peritis et alias sufficienter instructis ; ac sex 
 pueros clericos similiter in cantu competenter instructos seu ut 
 instruantur aptos et ydoneos, qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia 
 diuina officia diurna, pariter et nocturna, prout in aliis ecclesiis 
 collegiatis predicti regni Scocie celebrantur, seu ad libitum et 
 voluntatem prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis regis 
 Scotorum, secundum morem et consuetudinem Komane ecclesie 
 huiusmodi, prout magis prefato Jacobo et pro tempore existenti 
 regi Scotorum placuerit, ita quod ad alium morem seu consuetu- 
 dinem in ipsa ecclesia erigenda, nisi prout rex voluerit, in illis 
 celebrandis obseruare non teneantur, ad Dei laudem et eciam 
 pro ipsius Jacobi Eegis eiusque antecessorum et successorum ani- 
 marum salute decantare et celebrare, et alias eidem erigende 
 ecclesie in diuinis iuxta prouidam ipsius Jacobi Eegis ordinaci- 
 onem faciendam, deseruire teneantur, erigere et instituere : 
 Necnon predicta iam per ipsum regem assignata et in posterum 
 assignanda bona, mobilia et immobilia, pro ipsius capelle in col- 
 legiatam erigende ecclesie, ac decanatus, subdecanatus, sacris- 
 tie, canonicatuum, et prebendarum, ac clericorum predictorum 
 dote, et eorumdem decani, subdecani, sacriste, ac canoni- 
 corum, et puerorum, et aliorum eiusdem ecclesie personarum 
 sustentacione ; ac, reseruata congrua porcione pro sex canonicis 
 dicti ordinis qui in eodem prioratu in diuinis deseruire 
 et vacare habeant, et ex quibus dicti prioratus prior pro 
 tempore existens vnus existat, ex bonis et fructibus dicti prior- 
 atus, residuum quod dein ex bonis et fructibus dicti prioratus 
 superfuerit, decanatui, subdeca[na]tui, sacristie, ac canonicatibus, 
 et prebendis predictis, pro decani, subdecani, sacriste, ac canoni- 
 corum predictorum, et aliarum personarum dicte ecclesie susten- 
 tacione, iuxta huiusmodi dicti Jacobi Eegis ordinacionem, per- 
 petuo applicare assignare et appropriare; ac dicte ecclesie 
 erigende, postquam erecta fuerit, dicte de Dunbar et aliarum fructus ac 
 collegiatarum ecclesiarum dicte seu aliarum diocesium, canoni- capellaT 
 catus, et prebendas, ac perrochiales ecclesias, et alia beneficia eut an- 
 
 nuatim 
 ecclesiastica cum cura vel sine cura, mnspatronatus ipsius regis duo millia 
 
 seu aliorum laicorum, quorum fructus redditus et prouentus j^^ 1 
 
 Scotisu.
 
 8 REGISTRUM 
 
 duo millia libraruni monete predicte Scocie dumtaxat secundum 
 communem extimacionem valeant annuatim, si ad hoc prefati 
 regis et aliorum laicorum de quorum iure patronatus beneficia 
 vnienda huiusmodi fuerint respectiue expressus accesserit assen- 
 Nota sus, perpetuo vnire, annectere, et incorporare ; ac qualiter fructus 
 
 mialiter ca nouicatuum et prebendarum ac aliorum beneficiorum vnitorum 
 
 debent 
 
 fruetns huiusmodi ac aliorum bonorum per dictum regem assignatorum 
 
 seu assignandorum inter singulas personas dicte erigeude ecclesie 
 
 canonicos distribui debeant, de ipsius Jacobi Regis consensu statuere et 
 
 ordinare ; ac ex fructibus curatorum Beneficiorum huiusmodi 
 
 vniendorum congruam porcionem pro vicariis perpetuis, ex qua 
 
 nota bcne. ipsi vicarij se commode sustentare et iura episcopalia persoluere 
 
 ac alia onera sibi racione vicariarum perpetuarum huiusmodi 
 
 incumbencia supportare possint, reseruare ; ac eciam porciones 
 
 pro presbiteris ydoneis qui in de Dunbar ac aliis collegiatis 
 
 ecclesiis, quorum canonicatus et prebende, ac aliis ecclesiis siue 
 
 beneficiis sine cura que dicte erigende ecclesie vnientur, in 
 
 diuinis deseruiant et alia illis incumbencia onera supportent, 
 
 quique huiusmodi porcionem, quamdiu canonicatibus et preben- 
 
 dis ac sine cura beneficiis vnitis huiusmodi de seruierint, per- 
 
 cipiant, alioquin illorum loco alij substituantur, assignare ; ac 
 
 vide pro singula que pro felici statu et directione ecclesie predicte eri- 
 
 statutis. g en de, e t personarum in ea diuinis officiis huiusmodi insis- 
 
 tencium, salubria et vtilia esse cognoueritis ac alias licita et 
 
 honesta et sacris canonibus non contraria, statuere et ordinare ; 
 
 Vide t%* ac i us patronatus et presentandi personas ydoneas predicto 
 
 Juspatro- d ecano e t pro tempore existenti ad subdecanatum. sacristiam, 
 
 nntus ac - 1 f 
 
 presenta- ac canonicatus, et prebendas erigendos predictos, tarn hac prima 
 rcLcTreser? e Q. uam quociens vacabunt, prefato Jacobo et pro tempore exist- 
 uatur. enti regi Scotorum, et illorum institutionem eidem decano, jus 
 de pueris. vero instituendi et destituendi dictos sex pueros, tarn hac prima 
 vice quam quociens placuerit, similiter eidem Jacobo et pro tem- 
 pore existenti regi Scotorum, perpetuo reseruare et concedere 
 auctoritate nostra curetis. Nos enim, si erectionem huiusmodi 
 et alia premissa per vos aut aliquem ex vobis vigore presencium 
 fieri contigerit, vt prefertur, dictam erigendam ecclesiam, prius- 
 quain in collegiatam erecta fuerit, et illius decanum, subdecanum,
 
 CAPELL^E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 9 
 
 sacristam, canonicos, capitulum, clericos pueros, et siugulares exempcio 
 personas eiusdem, cuin omnibus bonis predictis, assignatis et anun'in 
 assiguandis, et que ad dictam erigendam ecclesiam et illius per- ecclesia 
 sonas in posterum quomodolibet pertinebunt, ab omni visitacione, residfn- * 
 correctione, iurisdictione, superioritate, dominio, et potestate tium . a ^. 
 
 ' * omni alia 
 
 moderm et pro tempore existentis arcmepiscopi Sanctiandree iurisdic- 
 aliorumque ordinariorum quorumcunque eiusque officialium et fo^nj 1 ^ 1 
 vicariorum similiter pro tempore existencium, penitus et omnino papse. 
 perpetuo auctoritate apostolica tenore presencium eximimus 
 totaliter et liberainus; ac ecclesiam, subdecanum, sacristam, 
 canonicos, capitulum, clericos seu pueros, et alias personas 
 eiusdem ecclesie pro tempore existentes, visitacioni, correction!, 
 et superioritati ac omnimode jurisdiction! dicti decani pro tem- 
 pore existentis, decanum vero predictum sedi apostolice et illius 
 ac beati Petri apostoli protection! immediate subicimus ; ita ut 
 archiepiscopus, ordinarij, officiales, et vicarii predicti, eciam 
 racione delicti aut contractus seu rei de qua agetur, vbicumque 
 committatur delictum, iniatur contractus, aut res ipsa consistat, 
 nullam iurisdictionem, superioritatem, potestatem, aut dominium 
 in ecclesiam, decanum, subdecanum, sacristam, canonicos, capi- 
 tulum, pueros, et personas predictas, aut eorum bona predicta 
 assignata et assignanda et ad ipsam ecclesiam eciam racione 
 vnitorum beneficiorum quomodolibet pertinencia, exercere pos- 
 sint ; sed teneantur decanus coram nobis vel sede predicta aut 
 legatis uel subdelegatis eius, subdecanus uero, sacrista, et 
 canonici, ac pueri predicti, et alie eiusdem erigende ecclesie pro 
 tempore existentes persone, de se conquerentibus coram dicta 
 decano vel eius locum tenente in iusticia respondere ; aut quos- decretum 
 cunque processus quos in contrarium haberi, ac eciam sentencias lrntans - 
 quas proferri, necnon quicquid in contrarium attemptari conti- 
 gerit, irrita et inania nulliusque roboris vel momenti existere 
 decernimus : Ac eidem erigende ecclesie, et illius decano, sub- nota bene. 
 decano, sacriste, capitulo, canonicis, pueris, et personis predictis 
 pro tempore existentibus, quod omnibus et singulis priuilegiis, 
 immunitatibus exempcionibus, fauoribus, graciis, et indultis 
 aliis collegiatis ecclesiis regni Scocie huiusinodi quomodolibet 
 concessis, et quibus ille et illarum persone eciam dignitates ac
 
 10 REGISTRUM 
 
 ( auonicatus et prebendas in eis obtinentes de jure vel consuetu- 
 dine vtuntur, potiuntur, et gaudent, seu vti, potiri, et gaudere 
 poteruut quomodolibet in futurum, vti, potiri, et gaudere possint, 
 eadem auctoritate apostolica eciam presencium tenore indulge- 
 mus : Ac dicto decano pro tempore existenti, absoluendi regem 
 et reginam Scotorum pro tempore existentes eorumque liberos, 
 in casibus sedi predicte reseruatis, preterquam offense ecclesias- 
 tice libertatis criminum, heresis et rebellionis aut conspiracionis 
 in personam vel statum Eomani pontificis seu sedem predictam, 
 falsitatis litterarum apostolicarum, supplicacionum et commis- 
 sionum, inuasionis, depredacionis, occupacionis, aut deuastacionis 
 terrarura et maris Romane ecclesie mediate vel immediate sub- 
 iectorum, offense personalis in episcopum vel alium prelatum, 
 prohibicionis deuolucionis causarum ad Eomanam curiam, dela- 
 cionis armorum, et aliorum prohibitorum ad partes infidelium, 
 semel dumtaxat in uita ; in aliis uero quociens fuerit oportunum, 
 confessione eorum diligenter audita pro commissis, absoluendi, et 
 iniungendi eis penitenciam salutarem, ac omnium peccatorum 
 suorum, de quibus corde contriti et ore confessi fuerint, eciam 
 semel in vita et in mortis articulo, quociens mortis articulus 
 huiusmodi euenerit, plenam remissionem eis in sinceritate fidei, 
 vnitate dicte Romane ecclesie ac obediencia et deuocione nostra 
 et successorum nostrorum Romanorum pontificum canonice in- 
 trancium persistentibus, auctoritate apostolica concedendi, eadem 
 auctoritate apostolica tenore presencium facultatem concedimus ; 
 Sic tamen quod idem confessor de hiis de quibus fuerit alter! 
 satisfactio impendenda, dictus decanus earn illis per eos super- 
 uixerit vel per alios, si forte tune transierint, faciendam iniun- 
 gat, qua rex et regina ac filii predict! uel illi facere teneantur ; 
 et ut, quod absit, propter huiusmodi graciam vel concessioner!! 
 rex et regina ac eorum filij predicti reddantur procliuiores ad 
 illicita in posterum committenda, volunms quod si a sinceritate 
 fidei, vnitate Romane ecclesie, ac obediencia et deuocione nostra 
 et successorum nostrorum predictorum canonice intrancium 
 destiterint, aut ex confidencia concessionis uel remissionis pre- 
 dictarum, aliqua forsan commiserint, concessio et remissio ac quo 
 ad illas presentes littere huiusmodi eis nullatenus suffragentur,
 
 CAPELL^E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 11 
 
 non obstantibus felicis recordacionis Innocencij pape quart! pre- 
 decessoris nostri circa exemptos edita que incipit Volentes, ac 
 aliis apostolicis necnon in prouincialibus et synodalibus conciliis 
 editis, generalibus uel specialibus constitucionibus et ordinacioni- 
 bus, ac de Dumbar et aliarum ecclesiarum predictarum necnon 
 monasterij sen regularis loci a quo dictus prioratus forsan de- 
 pendet, et ipsius ordinis iuramento, confirmacione apostolica, uel 
 quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus ceteris- 
 que contrariis quibuscumque : Prouiso quod canonicatus et pre- 
 bende ac alia beneficia cum cura et sine cura vigore presencium 
 vnienda, ut prefertur, debitis propterea non fraudentur obsequijs 
 et animarum cura in beneficiis curatis huiusraodi nullatenus nec- 
 ligatur, sed illorum ac canonicatuum et prebendarum ac aliorum 
 vniendorum sine cura beneficiorum huiusmodi congrue support- Decretum 
 entur onera consueta. Nos enim ex nunc irritum decernimus et lri 
 inane, si secus super hiis a quoquam quauis auctoritate scienter 
 vel ignoranter contigerit attemptari. Datum Eome apud Sanc- 
 tum Petrum, anno Incarnacionis Dominice millesimo quingen- 
 tesimo primo, sexto nonas Maij, pontificatus nostri anno nono. 
 
 POST QUARUM quidem litterarum apostolicarum presentacionem 
 et recepcionem nobis et per nos, ut premittitur, factas, productis 
 premitus coram nobis per prefatum illustrissimum dominum 
 Jacobum Eegem, ad informandum animum nostrum de et super 
 contentis et narratis in preinsertis litteris apostolicis, nonnullis 
 testibus fidedignis, ipsisque rite et legittime per nos receptis et 
 ad iurandum admissis juratisque et diligenter examinatis, de et mo bilia " 
 super omnibus et singulis in eisdem literis contentis nos infor- val . ris 
 
 . . . quingen- 
 
 mauimus : Consequenter vero prefatus illustrissimus dominus tarum 
 
 Jacobus Eex, vltra bona Capelle Eegie nuncupate Beate Marie 
 
 et Sancti Michaelis intra palacium ipsius illustrissimi domini regcm 
 
 Jacobi Eegis, opidi de Striueling, Sanctiandree diocesis, per eum, ganctcT 
 
 vt in dictis litteris assienata continetur. nonnulla bona patri- Mariae 
 
 . " assignata 
 
 moniabia valoris annul quingentarum librarum uel circa monete eaque ex 
 
 Scocie, pro erectione et aliis in eisdem litteris contentis, videlicet, J^*^" 
 de firmis et fructibus terrarum de Castellaw nonaginta tres libras Castellaw. 
 sex solidos et octo denarios, in vicecomitatu de Edinburgh ; de ^"n do 
 
 Streichbrawne, de Glenche, de Auchtnabaid, nonaginta quatuor glenche. 
 
 Kyntair 
 
 libras tresdeciin solidos et quatuor denarios, m vicecomitatu de
 
 12 
 
 REGISTRUM 
 
 execucio 
 judicum. 
 
 .ERECTIO. 
 
 J nota de 
 Jurisdic- 
 tione sub- 
 decani in 
 absentia 
 decani. 
 
 Perth ; de Kyuteir et de Lochabbir trescentas duodecim libras, 
 in vicecomitatibus de Tervert, et de Elgyn et Fores iacencium, 
 realiter et cuin effectu assignauit. Subsequenter fuimus per 
 prefatum illustrissiraum doniinuin Jacobum Eegem debita cum 
 instancia requisiti quatenus ad execucionem dictarum litteraruin 
 apostolicarum et contentorum in eisdem procedere dignaremur, 
 iuxta traditam seu directam per eas a sede apostolica nobis for- 
 mam. Nos IGITUR, Jacobus abbas dicti monasterij de Scona 
 et Dauid archidiaconus, iudices et executores prefati, attend- 
 entes requisitionem huiusmodi fore iustam et racioni consonam, 
 volentesque mandatum apostolicum supradictum nobis in hac 
 parte directum reuerenter exequi, vt tenemur, et quia per infor- 
 macionem legittimam et diligenter a dictis testibus per nos, 
 ut premittitur, factam et receptam examinationem, omnia et 
 singula in dictis litteris narrata et expressa veritate fulciri 
 inuenimus ; idcirco, auctoritate apostolica nobis commissa et qua 
 fungimur in hac parte, eandem capellam in collegiatam ecclesiaru, 
 cum communi archa, sigillo, capitulo, et aliis collegialibus in- 
 signijs; et in ea preposituram ecclesie Beate Marie de Eupe 
 Sanctiandree in preinsertis litteris apostolicis mentionatam, que 
 inibi dignitas principals existit, in decanatum qui eciam in ipsa 
 per nos eadem auctoritate apostolica erecta ecclesia dignitas prin- 
 cipalis existat, pro moderno et pro tempore existente preposito 
 dicte ecclesie beate Marie, qui eciam decanus in dicta erecta 
 ecclesia existat, ac aliis eiusdem ecclesie erecte presit, cuique 
 cura animarum dicti illustrissimi domini Jacobi et pro tempore 
 existentis regis et regine Scotorum et eorum officialium, fami- 
 liarium, continuorum commensalium, et eorumdem familiarium 
 familiarium et seruitorum existencium habeat, et qui, dum in 
 ecclesia beate Marie fuerit in ilia prepositus, dum vero in erecta 
 ecclesia huiusmodi fuerit, in ilia decanus existat, ita ut non 
 due dignitates sed vnica dumtaxat in qualibet dictarum eccles- 
 iarum preeminenciam habens existat ; et vnum subdecanatum, 
 qui in eadein erecta ecclesia dignitas secunda, pro vno subdecano, 
 qui vices dicti decani, cum absens vel impeditus fuerit aut alias 
 in ecclesia Beate Marie resederit, in omnibus exerceat et sup- 
 pleat ; ac vnam sacristiam, que in dicta ecclesia erecta officium 
 seu administracio existunt, pro vno sacrista qui iocalium et orna-
 
 CAPELL/E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 13 
 
 mentorum dicte ecclesie curam habeat ; necnon sexdecim canoni- 
 catus et totidem prebendas, pro sexdecim canonicis in cantu 
 peritis et alias sufficienter instructis ; ac sex pueros clericos 
 similiter in cantu competenter instructos seu ut instruantur 
 aptos et ydoneos, qui in eadem ecclesia erecta diuina officia 
 diurna, pariter et nocturna, prout in alijs ecclesiis collegiatis 
 regni Scocie celebrantur seu ad libitum et uoluntatem prefati 
 illustrissimi domini Jacobi et pro tempore existentis regis Scoto- 
 rum, secundum morem et consuetudinem Eomane ecclesie prout 
 magis prefato illustrissimo domino Jacobo et pro tempore exist- 
 enti regi Scotorum placuerit, ita quod ad alium morem seu con- 
 suetudinem in ipsa erecta ecclesia, nisi prout dictus illustrissimus 
 dominus Jacobus Eex voluerit in illis celebrandis, obseruare 
 non teneantur, ad Dei laudem et eciam pro ipsius illustrissimi 
 domini Jacobi Eegis eiusque antecessorum et successorum ani- 
 marum salute decantare et celebrare, et alias eidem erecte ecclesie 
 in diuinis iuxta prouidam ipsius illustrissimi domini Jacobi 
 Regis ordinacionem faciendum deseruire teneantur, EREXIMUS ET 
 INSTITUIMUS. Necnon predicta, tarn per ipsum illustrissimum 
 dominum Jacobum Regem dudum, quam nunc, coram nobis, ut 
 premittitur, assignata bona, mobilia et immobilia, pro ipsius 
 capelle in collegiatam erecte, ac decanatus, subdecanatus, sacristie, 
 canonicatuum, et prebendarum, ac clericorum predictorum dote, 
 et eorumdem decani, subdecani, sacriste, et canonicorum, ac 
 puerorum, et aliarum eiusdem ecclesie personarum sustentacione ; 
 ac nonnulla bona et fructus, videlicet, in terris, domibus, ortis, 
 pratis, annuis redditibus, oblacionibus, decimis, aliisque obuen- 
 cionibus, ad valorem quadringentarum marcarum prefate monete 
 Scocie, pro sex canonicis ordinis Sancti Augustini qui prior- 
 atui de Rostinot, ordinis et diocesis predictorum, in diuinis Rostinot. 
 deseruire et vacare habeant, et ex quibus dicti prioratus prior 
 
 pro tempore existens vnus existat, ex bonis et fructibus dicti deRostinot 
 
 residuus 
 prioratus pro congrua porcione reseruauimus ; reseruataque deducendo 
 
 huiusmodi congrua porcione, residuum uero quod ex bonis et 40 . In . arc!l3 
 
 . . * . ecclesuu 
 
 fructibus dicti prioratus superfuit ac superest decanatui, sub- stirlin or- 
 decanatui, sacristie, ac canonicatibus, et prebendis predictis, pro dmatur - 
 decani, subdecani, sacriste, et canonicorum predictorum ac alia- 
 rum personarum dicte ecclesie sustentacione, iuxta infrascriptam
 
 14 REGISTRUM 
 
 prouidam dicti illustrissimi domini Jacob! Eegis ordinacionem, 
 perpetuo APPLICAUIMUS, ASSIGNAUIMUS, ET APPROPRIAUIMUS ; ac 
 infrascriptos canonicatus et prebendas de Spot, de Beltone, de 
 Dunse, de Pyncartone, infra ecclesiam collegiatam de Dunbar, 
 ecclesiae vnacum archipresbiteratu et rectoria eiusdem ecclesie de Dtmbar, 
 ug ' Sanctiandree diocesis, de Ayr cum sua capella, de Dampnellytone, 
 infra ecclesiam Glasgwensem, de Crieff infra ecclesiam Dunkeld- 
 densem, de Kyncardyne cum suis capellis annexis infra ecclesiam 
 ,, Abordenensem, de Pettebrawchle et de Duthell infra ecclesias 
 glen Morauienses, insuper ecclesias perochiales de Kyrkandris, de Bal- 
 l ^r t maclellane, de Kellis, Candedicase diocesis, de Forrest, de Glen- 
 do forrest. quhoome, de Sutheke, Glasguensis diocesis, de Butt, Sodorensis 
 diocesis, de Ellam et Cranschawis, dicte Sanctiandree diocesis, 
 quiquidem Canonicatus et prebende ac perochiales ecclesie ante- 
 dicte de jure patronatus dicti illustrissimi domini Jacobi Regis 
 existunt, et illorum canonicatuum et prebendarum ac ipsarum 
 ecclesiarum perochialium fructus ad summam duarum millium 
 librarum monete predicte Scocie non ascendunt, de ipsius 
 illustrissimi domini Jacobi Eegis ibidem presentis et id fieri 
 petentis expresso consensu et assensu, seruatis tamen premitus 
 legittime iuris ordine, modo, et forma, ac singulis aliis in pre- 
 missis necessariis et requisitis seruandis, perpetuo VNIUIMUS, 
 ANNEXIMUS, ET ixcoRPORAUiMUS. Statuimus insuper et ordin- 
 auimus, de ipsius illustrissimi domini Jacobi Regis ibidem, ut 
 premittitur, presentis et id fieri petentis expresso consensu et 
 assensu, fructus canonicatuum et prebendarum ac alioram bene- 
 ficiorum vnitorum et bonorum per dictum illustrissimum domi- 
 * num Jacobum Regem assignatorum huiusmodi, inter singulas 
 mercedes personas dicte erecte ecclesie in hunc qui sequitur modum dis- 
 tr ibui debere et distribuimus : decano, videlicet, quingentas 
 marcas, fructus tamen et eorumdem valores dicte prepositure 
 ecclesie collegiate Beate Marie de Rupe in Sanctoandrea in 
 huiusmodi summa includendo ; subdecano ducentas quadraginta 
 marcas; sacriste ducentas quadragenta marcas; vni canonico 
 de dictis sexdecini canonicis quern prefatus illustrissimus 
 dominus Jacobus Rex assumere uoluerit, centum libras ; ac 
 septem canonicis de dicto numero canonicorum vnicuique 
 illorum centum marcas ; reliquis vero octo canonicis singulis
 
 CAPELI^E KEGIJE STRIVELINENSIS. 15 
 
 eorumdem viginti libras, vnacum distribucionibus quotidianis ex quibus 
 competentibus ; sex autem pueris octogenta decem marcas ^^1^ 
 dicte monete ; ac ex fructibus curatorum beneficiorum predic- de pueris. 
 torum ut prefertur per nos vnitorum congruam porcionem, de 
 ecclesiis de Kyrkandris viginti quatuor marcas, de Balmak- 
 lellane vigenti quatuor, de Kellis viginti quator, de Glen- 
 quhome vigenti quatuor, de Suthleke vigenti quatuor, de Butt 
 viginti quatuor, de Forest vigenti sex, de Cranschawis viginti, de 
 Ellam viginti, et vnicuique de quatuor capellis de Kynkardyn 
 quindecim marcas in pecunia numerata dicte monete Scocie, 
 dictarum diocesium, vnacum competenti mansione ad quamlibet vide bene. 
 ecclesiam perochialem de predictis, pro vicariis perpetuis, ex 
 qua ipsi vicarij se commode sustentare et iura episcopalia per- 
 soluere ac alia onera sibi racione vicariarum perpetuarum huius- 
 modi incumbencia supportare possint, reseruamus; insuper et 
 porcionem de prouentibus canonicatuum et prebendarum, de 
 Pyncartone vigenti, de Spot vigenti, de Beltone vigenti, de Dunse 
 vigenti, de Kectoria dicte ecclesie collegiate de Dunbar vigenti, et 
 de illius archipresbiteratu vigenti quatuor, dicte Sanctiandree dio- 
 cesis, infra huiusmodi ecclesiam collegiatam de Dumbar, de Creiff 
 infra Dunkeldensem decem marcas, preterea de Ayr infra Glasgu- 
 ensem, de Kyncardyne infra Abberdonensem, de Pettebrawchly et 
 de Duthel infra Morauiensem ecclesias, tantam et talem quantam 
 presbiteri seu alij clerici remouibiles qui seruierunt in huiusmodi 
 quatuor canonicatibus et prebendis iam immediate predictis perci- 
 pere consueuerunt seu de presenti percipiunt, insuper et vnicuique 
 illorum quatuor vnam marcarn sepefate monete pro presbiteris 
 seu alijs ydoneis seruientibus clericis qui in ecclesiis siue bene- 
 ficiis sine cura predictis sic, vt premittitur, vnitis, in diuinis 
 deseruiant, et alia illis incumbencia onera supportent, quique 
 huiusmodi porcionem, quam diu canonicatibus et prebendis ac 
 sine cura beneficiis vnitis huiusmodi deseruierint, percipiant, 
 alioquin aliis illorum loco substituendis, assignamus. Volumus 
 eciam et ordinamus quod decanus, subdecanus, canonici, et ceteri vide bene. 
 ministrantes in dicta erecta ecclesia, choros aliaque ornamenta 
 suminis altaribus pertinencia et rectoribus dictarum ecclesiarum 
 vnitarum de consuetudine incumbencia episcopalibus tamen 
 iuribus demptis, suis sumptibus et expensis sustentent con-
 
 16 REGISTRUM 
 
 gruenter et reforment. Ac dicto illustrissimo domino Jacobo 
 Regi, pro felici statu et directions dicte erecte ecclesie et per- 
 sonarum in ea diuinis officiis insistencium, salubria vtilia et 
 honesta ac sacris canonibus non contraria edendi statuta quantum 
 sue regie maiestati placuerit, auctoritate apostolica facultatem 
 impertimur ; ac ius patronatus et presentandi personas ydoneas 
 predicto decano et pro tempore existenti ad subdecanatum, 
 sacristiam, ac canonicatus, et prebendas erectos predictos, tarn 
 
 depueris. hac prima vice quam quociens vacabunt prefato illustrissimo 
 domino Jacobo et pro tempore existenti Scotorum regi, et 
 illorum institucionem, eidem decano jus vero instituendi et 
 distituendi dictos sex pueros, tarn hac prima vice quam 
 quociens placuerit, similiter eidem illustrissimo domino Jacobo 
 et pro tempore existenti regi Scotorum perpetuo reseruamus 
 et concessimus, prout erigimus, et instituimus, applicamus, 
 assignamus, appropriamus, vnimus, annectimus, incorporamus, 
 statuimus, ordinamus, reseruamus, et concedimus, per presentes ; 
 
 Notabene. oblaciones uero et alias obuenciones in dicta erecta ecclesia 
 racione cure animarum prouenientes, decano eiusdem ecclesie 
 si inibi residenciam personalem fecerit et huiusmodi curam 
 animarum regis, regine, et suorum officialium et familiarium 
 exercuerit, alioquin, eo absente et residenciam personalem ibi 
 minime faciente, subdecano eiusdem collegij erecti qui decani 
 vices supplere habeat, de supremi domini nostri Eegis predict! 
 consensu et assensu, pro perpetuo pertinere decernimus. QUE 
 OMNIA et singula necnon litteras apostolicas huiusmodi, et hunc 
 nostrum processum, ac omnia et singula in eis contenta, vobis 
 omnibus et singulis supradictis, communiter uel diuisim, quibus 
 presens noster processus dirigitur, intimamus, insinuamus, et 
 notificamus, ac ad vestram et cuiuslibet uestrum noticiam dedu- 
 cimus et deduci volumus, presencium per tenorem. In quorum 
 omnium et singulorum fidem et testimonium premissorum, pre- 
 sentes litteras siue presens publicum instrumentum processum 
 nostrum huiusmodi in se continentes siue continens, exinde fieri 
 et per notaries publicos infrascriptos subscribi et publicari man- 
 dauimus nostrorumque sigillorum iussimus et fecimus appen- 
 sionem communiri ; et in signum consensus et assensus dicti 
 serenissimi domini nostri regis, ad perpetue firmitatis corrobora-
 
 CAPELL.E KEGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 17 
 
 cionem omnium et singulorum premissorum, suum magnum 
 sigillum presentibus est appensum. Acta fuerunt hec quoad 
 presentacionem dictarum litterarum apostolicarum per prefatum 
 dominum nostrum regem iudicibus prescriptis, apud palacium 
 suum de Falklande, primo die mensis Septembris, hora decima, 
 aut eo circa, ante meridiem ; quo vero ad alia premissa per pre- 
 fatos iudices dicta, erecta, et publicata, apud castrum de Stre- 
 uyling sexto die mensis antedicti hora vndecima ante meridiem, 
 anno Incarnacionis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo primo, 
 indictione quarta, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et 
 domini domini Alexandri diuina prouidencia Pape sexti anno 
 decimo, presentibus ibidem venerabilibus in Christo patribus 
 Andrea abbate monastery de Lundoris, Andrea priore de Mayo 
 ac prothonotario apostolico, nobili et potenti domino Alexandra 
 domino Hvme magno camerario Scocie, honorabilibus viris Arch- 
 baldo Edmonstone de Duntreith, Johanne Eainsay, militibus, 
 venerandis viris magistris Johanne Hepburne preposito de Lyn- 
 clowdane, Willelmo Bailzhe rectore de Kerretone, Thoma Halkar- 
 stone preposito de Creichtoune, Eoberto Schaw, clericis, Necnon 
 prouidis viris Eoberto Coluile de Hyltoune, Petro Creichtoune, 
 Dauid Betone, Willelmo Sympsone, et Adam Eeid, laicis, testibus 
 ad premissa successiue rogatis, pariter et requisitis. 
 JAMES E. 
 
 Et ego Henricus Alani, archidiaconus Dunblanensis, pub- 
 licus auctoritatibus imperiali et regia notarius, quia 
 predictarum litterarum apostolicarum presentacioni, re- 
 cepcioni, processus huiusmodi decreti interpositioni, erec- 
 tionis publicacioni, ceterisque premissis successiue gestis 
 et narratis, dum, vt premittitur, dicerentur et fierent, 
 vnacum notario publico subscripto et testibus prenomi- 
 natis, presens interfui, eaque sic dici et fieri vidi, sciui et 
 audiui ac in notam cepi, ex qua presentem processum 
 manu alterius scriptum in duabus membranis, quarum 
 vltima linea prime sic desinit Immediate subicimus, et 
 prima secunde sic incipit Ita ut archiepiscopus, filo 
 consutis, meis nomine et subscripcione, vnacum corro- 
 boracione sigillorum de quibus superius est facta mentio, 
 B
 
 18 REG1STRUM 
 
 signaui in fidem et testimonium omnium et singulorum 
 Ai 1 .',"" 1 '" premissorum, requisitus et rogatus. 
 
 Et ego Thomas Allani, presbiter Glasguensis diocesis, sacris 
 apostolica imperiali et regia auctoritatibus notarius pub- 
 licus, quia predictarum litterarum apostolicarum presen- 
 tacioni, recepcioni, processus huiusmodi decreti inter- 
 posicioni, erectionis publicacioni, ceterisque premissis 
 successiue gestis et narratis, dum, ut premittitur, dicer- 
 entur et fierent, vnacum domino notario publico et 
 testibus suprascriptis, presens interfui, eaque sic dici et 
 fieri vidi et sciui ac in notam cepi, ex qua presentem 
 processum alterius manu scriptum in duabus membranis 
 quarum vltima linea prime sic desinit Inmediate subi- 
 cimus, et prima secunde sic incipit Ita ut archiepis- 
 copus, filo consutis, meis nomine et subscripcione 
 solitis, cum corroboracione sigillorum superius expres- 
 sorum, signaui in testimonium veritatis premissorum, 
 
 Thomas . ., 
 
 Allani. requisitus. 
 
 2. CONFIRMACIO ERECCIONIS ECCLESIE COLLEGIATE DE 
 STRIUELING CUM ERECCIONE CANTOKIE. 
 
 ALEXANDER episcopus, seruus seruorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam. Apostolice nobis desuper meritis licet insufficienti- 
 bus iniuncte seruitutis officium mentem nostram excitat, et in- 
 ducit ut ea que eciam de mandate nostro pro statu prospero 
 ecclesiarum ecclesiasticorumque beneficiorum ac personarum in 
 illis diuinis laudibus insistencium et eciam ad diuini cultus aug- 
 mentum et perseueranciam prouide facta dicuntur apostolico 
 munimine roboremus, vt eo firmius illibata persistant quo magis 
 nostro fuerint presidio communita, ac alias in hijs eiusdem officii 
 partes fauorabiliter impendamus prout in domino conspicimus 
 salubriter expedire : Dudum siquidem pro parte carissimi in 
 Cbristo filii nostri Jacobi Scotorum Eegis illustris nobis exposito 
 quod, licet in Capella Eegia nuncupata Beate Marie et Sancti 
 Micliaelis intra palacium ipsius Jacobi Eegis, opidi de Sterling,
 
 CAPELLuE REGLE STEIVELINENSIS. 19 
 
 Sanctiandree diocesis, sita, vnus decanus nuncupatus ac quam- 
 plures alii cantores et capellani ac clerici missas et alia diuina 
 officia singulis diebus ad libitum prefati Jacobi Eegis ammoui- 
 biles celebrarent, ipseque Jacobus Eex predictam Capellam suis 
 expensis reformari fecisset, ac libris, calicibus, et aliis ornamen- 
 tis ecclesiasticis pro diuino cultu in eadem capella necessariis 
 honorifice muniuisset et ornasset, ac eciam nonnulla bona im- 
 mobilia ad eum legittime pertinencia eidem capelle pro illius 
 dote assignasset : Tamen si dicta capella in collegiatam eccle- 
 siam, et prepositura ecclesie Beate Marie de Eupe Sanctiandree, 
 que inibi dignitas principalis et de jure patronatus prefati Jacobi 
 et pro tempore existentis Scotorum regis, ex priuilegio apostolico 
 cui eatenus derogatum non erat, existebat, et ad eius meram 
 collacionem ex siniili priuilegio apostolico pertinebat, eciam in 
 decanatum eiusdem erigende ecclesie qui inibi dignitas eciam 
 principalis existeret, pro vno decano qui alijs eiusdem erigende 
 ecclesie personis presset cuique cura animarum dicti Jacobi et 
 pro tempore existentis regis et regine Scotorum et eorum omcia- 
 lium et familiarium continuorum conmensalium et eorumdem 
 familiarium familiarum et seruitorum imineret, quique omni- 
 modam iurisdictionem in omnes personas dicte erigende ecclesie 
 pro tempore existentes haberet, et qui, dum in eadem ecclesia 
 beate Marie de Eupe in ilia prepositus, dum uero in erigenda 
 ecclesia resideret in ilia decanus foret, ita ut non due dignitates 
 existerent sed vnica dumtaxat in qualibet dictarum ecclesiarum 
 preeminenciam habens existeret ; et vnus subdecanatus qui in vide 
 eadem erigenda ecclesia dignitas secunda, pro vno subdecano 
 qui dicti decani, cum absens uel impeditus foret aut alias in 
 ecclesia Beate Marie resideret, in omnibus vices exerceret et 
 suppleret ; ac vna sacristia que inibi officium seu administra- 
 cio existerent, pro vno sacrista qui iocalium et ornamentorum 
 dicte erigende ecclesie curam haberet; necnon sedecim canoni- 
 catus et totidem prebende, pro sedecim canonicis in cantu et Decanoni- 
 alijs sufficienter instructis ; ac sex pueri clerici similiter in cantu 
 competenter instruct! seu ut instruerentur apti et ydonei, qui in 
 eadem erigenda ecclesia diuina officia diurna, pariter et nocturna, 
 prout in alijs ecclesiis collegiatis regni Scocie celebrabantur seu
 
 20 REGISTRUM 
 
 ad libitum et uoluntatem prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis 
 regis Scotorum, secundum morem et consuetudines Roman e 
 ecclesie, prout magis prefato Jacobo et pro tempore existent! regi 
 Scotorum placeret, ita quod ad alium morem seu consuetudinem 
 in ipsa erigenda ecclesia nisi prout Eex uellet in illis celebrandis 
 obseruare non tenerentur, ad Dei laudem et pro ipsius Jacobi 
 Regis eiusque antecessorum et successorum animarum salute 
 decantare et celebrare et alias eidem erigende ecclesie in diuinis 
 
 vide iuxta prouidam ipsius Jacobi Eegis ordinacionern faciendam 
 deseruire tenerentur, erigerentur et instituerentur : Et cum in 
 prioratu de Rosnot, ordinis Sancti Augustini, dicti diocesis, duo 
 dumtaxat canonici residere consueuisseut, quamuis illius fructus, 
 redditus, et prouentus. Centum uiginti libras Stirlingorum secun- 
 dum communem extimacionem ualerent annuatim et sufficientes 
 essent ad sustentacionem sex ac eciam plurium canonicorum 
 dicti ordinis ; ac in ecclesia de Dumbar, eiusdem diocesis, illius 
 canonici pro maiori parte noil per se, sed prout in multis alijs 
 collegiatis ecclesijs regni Scocie iuxta consuetudinem eatenus 
 obseruatam fieri consuetum erat per substitutos deseruirent ; si, 
 reseruata congrua porcione ex fructibus dicti prioratus pro sex 
 canonicis dicti ordinis, quorum prior dicti prioratus pro tempore 
 existens vnus existeret, residuum fructuum dicti prioratus deca- 
 natui et aliis inibi erigendis, subdecanatui et sacristie ac canoni- 
 catibus et prebendis, pro decano, subdecano, et sacrista, canonicis, 
 et aliis personis dicte erigende ecclesie pro tempore existentibus, 
 iuxta huiusmodi prouidam ordinacionem prefati Jacobi Regis 
 perpetuo applicarentur, ac canonicatus et prebende dicte ecclesie 
 de Dunbar, qui de iure patronatus ipsius regis existebant, ac alia 
 beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura et sine cura in ciuitate vel dicta 
 diocesi Sanctiandree seu alias vbilibet consistencia et de jure 
 patronatus ipsius regis seu aliorum laicorum existencia, quorum 
 fructus, redditus, et prouentus ad valorem duarum millium 
 librarum monete Scocie, quingentas libras Stirlingorum, uel circa 
 constituencium, dumtaxat ascenderent annuatim, de quibus eidem 
 Jacobo Regi videretur, de ipsius Jacobi regis et aliorum laicorum 
 
 Nota. patronorum respectiue consensu, dicte erigende ecclesie, reseruata 
 ex fructibus curatorum beneficiorum pro vicariis perpetuis eorum-
 
 CAPELL.E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 21 
 
 dem beneficiorum curatorum congrua porcione, ex qua ipsi vicarii 
 se commode sustentare, iura episcopalia persoluere, et alia onera 
 sibi racione curatorum beneficiorum huiusmodi incumbencia 
 supportare, possent, perpetuo vnirentur, annecterentur, et incor- 
 porarentur, ita quod eciam congrua porcio presbiteris ydoneis ad 
 hoc deputandis, qui canonicatibus et prebendis et aliis vniendis 
 sine cura beneficiis in diuinis officiis deseruirent, per eos ex 
 canonicatuum et prebendarum ac sine cura vniendorum bene- 
 ficiorum huiusmodi fructibus, quamdiu illis deseruirent, perci- 
 pienda, assignaretur, et residuum fructuum vniendorum benefi- 
 ciorum huiusmodi, deductis porcionibus predictis, inter decanum, 
 subdecanum, sacristam, et canonicos predictos, et alias personas 
 dicte erigende ecclesie, iuxta prouidam ordinacionem ipsius 
 Jacobi Eegis desuper faciendam, distribuerentur : Ex HOC, non 
 solurn in ipsa capella postquam in collegiatam ecclesiam ac in ea 
 dignitates ac canonicatus et prebende et alia officia huiusmodi 
 erecta seu instituta et pueri huiusmodi instituti forent, sed eciam 
 in de Dunbar et aliis ecclesiis et beneficiis vniendis ac prioratu 
 huiusmodi, diuinus cultus augmentum susciperet et eciam ad 
 decorem dicte capelle cederet : Et ipse Jacobus Eex, ultra bona 
 predicta per eum dicte capelle assignata alia bona patrimonialia 
 valoris annui quingentarum librarum uel circa monete Scocie 
 huiusmodi pro premissis assignaret ; ac pro parte dicti Jacobi 
 Regis nobis humiliter supplicate vt in premissis oportune proui- 
 dere de benignitate apostolica dignaremur: Nos tune, de pre- 
 missis certam noticiam non habentes, eiusdem Jacobi Eegis in ea 
 parte supplicacionibus inclinati, Sancte Crucis et de Scona, dicte 
 diocesis, monasteriorum abbatibus, ac archidiacono Laudonie, in 
 ecclesia Sanctiandree, eorum propriis nominibus non expressis, 
 alijs nostris litteris dedimus in mandatis quatenus ipsi, uel duo, 
 aut vnus eorurn, si erat ita, eandem capellam postquam prefatus 
 Jacobus Eex, alia bona valoris annui quingentarum librarum 
 monete Scocie huiusmodi, uel circa, realiter et cum effectu pro 
 premissis assignasset, sub eadem inuocacione in collegiatam ec- 
 clesiam cum communi archa, sigillo, capitulo et alijs collegialibus 
 insignijs, et in ea dictani preposituram in decanatum qui inibi 
 eciam dignitas principalis existeret, pro tune et pro tempore
 
 22 REGISTRUM 
 
 existente preposito dicte ecclesie Eeate Marie, qui eciam decanus 
 in dicta erigenda ecclesia existeret, ac alijs personis eiusdem 
 erigende ecclesie preesset cuique cura animarum dicti Jacobi et 
 pro tempore existentis regis et regine Scotorum et eorum officia- 
 lium et familiarium continuorum conmensalium et eorumdem 
 familiarium familiarium et seruitorum pro tempore existencium 
 immineret quique omnimodam iurisdictionem in oranes personas 
 dicte erigende ecclesie pro tempore existentes haberet, et qui 
 dum in ecclesia beate Marie resideret seu foret in ilia prepositus, 
 dum uero in erigenda ecclesia in ilia decanus existeret, ita quod 
 non essent due dignitates sed vnica dumtaxat in qualibet die- 
 vide bcne. tarum ecclesiarum preeminenciam habens existeret ; et vnum 
 subdecanatum qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia dignitas secunda, 
 pro vno subdecano qui vices dicti decani, cum absens uel impe- 
 ditus foret aut alias in ecclesia Beate Marie resideret, in omnibus 
 exerceret et suppleret ; ac vnam sacristiam que inibi officium 
 seu administracio existeret, pro uno sacrista qui iocalium et 
 aliorum ornamentorum dicte ecclesie erigende curam haberet ; 
 necnon sedecim canonicatus et totidem prebendas, pro sedecim 
 canonicis in cantu peritis et alias sufficienter instructis ; ac sex 
 de pueris. pueros clericos similiter in cantu competenter instructos seu ut 
 instruerentur aptos et ydoneos, qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia 
 diuina officia diurna, pariter et nocturna, prout in ecclesiis aliis 
 collegiatis predicti regni Scocie celebrabantur seu ad libitum et 
 voluntatem prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis regis 
 Scotorum, secundum morem et consuetudinem Romane ecclesie 
 huiusmodi, prout magis prefato Jacobo et pro tempore existenti 
 Eegi Scotorum placeret, ita quod ad alium morem seu consue- 
 tudinem in ipsa erigenda ecclesia, nisi prout Rex uellet, in ill is 
 celebrandis obseruare non tenerentur, ad Dei laudem et eciam 
 pro ipsius Jacobi Eegis eiusque antecessorum et successorum 
 animarum salute decantare et celebrare, et alias eidem erigende 
 ecclesie in diuinis iuxta prouidam ipsius Jacobi Eegis ordina- 
 cionem faciendam, deseruire tenerentur, erigere et instituere : 
 Necnon predicta per ipsum regem tune assignata et in posterum 
 assignanda bona, mobilia et immobilia, pro ipsius capelle in col- 
 legiatam erigende ecclesie, ac decanatus, subdecanatus, sacristie,
 
 CAPELL.E EEGDE STRIVELINENSIS. 23 
 
 cauonicatuum, et prebendarum, ac clericorum predictorum dote, 
 et eorumdem decani subdecani, sacriste, ac canonicorum, et puer- 
 orum, et aliarum eiusdem erigende ecclesie personarum sustenta- 
 cione ; ac, reseruata congrua porcione pro sex canonicis dicti 
 ordinis qui in eodem prioratu in diuinis deseruire et uacare 
 haberent, et ex quibus dicti prioratus prior pro tempore existens 
 vnus existeret, ex bonis et fructibus dicti prioratus, residuum 
 quod ex bonis et fructibus dicti prioratus superesset, decanatui, 
 subdecanatui, sacristie, ac canonicatibus, et prebendis predictis, 
 pro decani, subdecani, sacriste, ac canonicorum predictorum, et 
 aliarum personarum dicte ecclesie sustentacione, iuxta hums- 
 modi dicti Jacobi Regis ordinacionem, perpetuo applicare assig- 
 nare et appropriare ; ac dicte erigende ecclesie, postquam erecta 
 foret, dicte de Dumbar et aliarum collegiatarum ecclesiarum 
 dicte seu aliarum diocesium, canonicatus, et prebendas, ac per- 
 rochiales ecclesias, et alia beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura et sine 
 cura, iuris patronatus ipsius regis seu aliorum laicorum, quorum 
 fructus, redditus, et prouentus duo millia librarum monete Scocie 
 dumtaxat secundum communem extimacionem ualerent annua- 
 tim, si ad hoc prefati Eegis et aliorum laicorum de quorum iure 
 patronatus beneficia unienda huiusmodi forent respectiue expres- 
 sus accederet assensus, perpetuo unire, annectere, et incorporare ; 
 ac qualiter fructus canonicatuum et prebendarum ac aliorum 
 beneficiorum unitorum huiusmodi et aliorum bonorum per dictum 
 regem assignatorum uel assignandorum inter singulas personas 
 dicte erigende ecclesie distribui deberent, de ipsius Jacobi Eegis 
 consensu statuere et ordinare ; ac ex fructibus curatorum bene- 
 ficiorum huiusmodi uniendorum congruam porcionem pro vicariis 
 perpetuis, ex qua ipsi vicarii se commode sustentare et iura 
 episcopalia persoluere ac alia onera sibi racione vicariaruiu per- 
 petuarum huiusmodi incumbencia supportare possent, reseruare ; 
 ac eciam porcionem pro presbiteris ydoneis qui in de Dunbar et 
 aliis collegiatis ecclesiis siue beneficiis sine cura, que dicte eri- 
 gende ecclesie unirentur, in diuiuis deseruirent et alia illis 
 incumbencia onera supportarent, quique huisusmodi porcionem, 
 quamdiu canonicatibus et prebendis ac sine cura beneficiis unitis 
 huiusmodi deseruirent, preciperent, alioquin eorum loco alij
 
 24 
 
 REGISTRUM 
 
 de statutis 
 a " 
 
 Decura 
 ^'"!" a e r t u 
 reine et 
 
 sessis. 
 
 substituerentur, assignare ; ac singula que pro felici statu ac 
 directione ecclesie predicte erigende, et personarum in ea diuinis 
 officiis huiusmodi insistencium, salubria et vtilia esse cognosce- 
 rent et alias licita et honesta et sacris canonibus non contraria, 
 statuere et ordinare ; ac ius patronatus et presentandi personas 
 ydoneas predicto decano eciam pro tempore existenti ad sub- 
 decanatum, sacristiam, ac canonicatus, et prebendas erigendos 
 predictos, tarn ea prima vice quani quociens vacarent, prefato 
 Jacobo et pro tempore existenti regi Scotorum, et illorum insti- 
 tuciones eidem decano, ius vero instituendi et destituendi dictos 
 sex pueros, tarn ea prima vice quam quociens placeret, similiter 
 eidem Jacobo et pro tempore existenti Regi Scotorurn, perpetuo 
 reseruare et concedere auctoritate nostra curarent. Nos, si 
 erectionem huiusmodi et alia premissa per eos aut aliquem ex eis 
 earumdem litterarum nostrarum uigore fieri contingeret, ut pre- 
 fertiiT, dicto decano pro tempore existenti, absoluendi regem et 
 reginam Scotorurn pro tempore existentes eorumque liberos in 
 casibus sedi predicte reseruatis, de casibus* non consessis pre- 
 terquam offense ecclesiastice libertatis criminum, heresis et 
 rebellionis aut conspiracionis in personam uel statum Eomani 
 pontificis seu sedem predictam, falsitatis litterarum apostoli- 
 carum, supplicacionum et commissionum, inuasionis, depreda- 
 cionis, occupacionis, aut deuastacionis terrarum et maris Romane 
 ecclesie mediate uel immediate subiectorum, offense personalis in 
 episcopum uel alium prelatum, prohibicionis deuolucionis causa- 
 rum ad Rornanam curiam, delacionis armorum, et aliorum prohibi- 
 torum ad partes infidelium, semel dumtaxat in uita ; in aliis uero 
 quociens foret oportunum, confessione eorum diligenter audita 
 pro commissis, absoluendi, et iniungeiidi eis penitenciam saluta- 
 rem, ac omnium peccatorum suorum, de quibus corde contriti 
 et ore confessi forent, eciam semel in uita et in mortis articulo, 
 quociens articulus mortis huiusmodi eueniret, plenam remis- 
 sionem eis in sinceritate fidei, vnitate dicte Romane ecclesie ac 
 obediencia et deuocione nostra et successorum nostrorum 
 Romanorum Pontificum canonice intrantium persistentibus, 
 
 * The words "de casibus non consessis" are written on the margin, and in 
 another hand than that of the text.
 
 CAPELL.E REGLE STR1VELINEXSIS. 25 
 
 auctoritate apostolica concedendi, eadem auctoritate facultatem 
 concessimus. Et DEINDE, sicut exhibita nobis nuper pro parte peticio 
 prefati Jacob! Kegis et dilectorum filiorum decani et capituli canTet 6 " 
 dicte erecte ecclesie peticio continebat, tune abbas monasterii capituli. 
 de Scona et archidiaconus Laudonie huiusmodi ad execucionem 
 earumdem litterarum, alias illarum forma seruata, procedentes, 
 quia ita esse reperierunt, dicta m. capellam, postquam prefatus 
 Jacobus Rex de suis bonis patrimonialibus, certa bona immobilia 
 tune expressa, valoris annui quingentarum librarum monete 
 Scocie, pro dote dicte erigende ecclesie et alias iuxta dictarum 
 litterarum tenorem assignauerat, in collegiatam ecclesiam, ac in 
 ea dictam preposituram in decanatum dignitatem principalem, 
 subdecanatum, sacristiam, et sedecim canonicatus, et totidem 
 prebendas, ac sex pueros clericos, alias iuxta tenorem dictarum 
 litterarum erexerunt et instituerunt ; ac, reseruatis ex fructibus 
 dicti prioratus pro priore et aliis quinque canonicis regularibus 
 dicti ordinis quadringentis marchis monete Scocie huiusmodi, 
 residuum fructuum dicti prioratus dicte ecclesie erecte perpetuo 
 applicarunt et appropriarunt ; ac rectoriam et archipresbiteratum 
 nuncupates et certos alios tune expresses canonicatus et pre- 
 bendas dicte ecclesie de Dunbar, ac de Kyrkandris, et de Balina- 
 clellane, et de Kellis, ac de Glenquhoome, necnon de Swythtyk, 
 et de Butt, ac de Foresta, necnon de Cranschawis, et de Ellam 
 predicte, et Glasguensis ac Candidecase diocesium perrochiales 
 ecclesias, que, ac rectoria et archipresbiteratus nuncupati ac 
 singuli alii canonicatus et prebende predicti, iurispatronatus 
 prefati Kegis existebant et quorum omnium insimul fructus, red- 
 ditus, et prouentus duarum millium librarum monete Scocie 
 secundum communem extimacionem ualorem annuum non exce- 
 dunt, de ipsius Jacobi consensu, eidem erecte ecclesie pro illius 
 dote et ministris seu personis eius, perpetuo vnierunt, annexe- 
 runt, et incorporauerunt, ita quod, cedentibus uel decedentibus 
 rectoriam archpresbiteratum et alios canonicatus et prebendas 
 ac perrochiales ecclesias huiusmodi obtinentibus, liceret eisdem 
 decano et capitulo dicte ecclesie erecte illorum corporalem pos- 
 sessionem propria auctoritate apprehendere et perpetuo retinere, 
 et ex dictis fructibus inclusis in eis fructibus, dicte prepositure
 
 26 REGISTRUM 
 
 Beate Marie de Kupe decano quingentas ; et subdecano ducentas 
 Noto. et quadraginta marchas ; et totidem sacriste ; ac vni canonico ex 
 
 Pi-imam- ^ictis sedecim canonicis quern rex assumere seu noniinare 
 
 stitucio A 
 
 cantoris, uoluerit, ita quod cantor dicte ecclesie collegiate erecte existat, 
 
 centum libras dicte monete ; ac singulis ex septem centum mar- 
 chas ; reliquis uero singulis octo canonicis viginti libras vnacum 
 distribu- distribucionibus quottidianis ; pro omnibus uero sex pueris 
 t!diima! UO P re dictis nonaginta marcas dicte monete ; et ex fructibus sin- 
 Nota. De gularum de Kyrkandris, et de Balmaclellane, ac de Kellis, et 
 Deeper- de Glenquhoome, necnon de Swythtyk, et de Buytt, viginti 
 cionibus quatuor, et de Foresta viginti sex, de Cranschawis viginti, et 
 de Ellam, perrochialium ecclesiarum predictarum pro singulis 
 illarum perpetuis vicariis viginti marchas similes in pecunia 
 numerata, cum mansione seu habitacione competenti ad quam- 
 libet perrochialium ecclesiarum predictarum pertinente pro 
 congrua porcione singulorum illorum vicariorum perpetuorum 
 pro tempore existencium, ac eciam congruam porcionem ecclesie 
 de Dunbar, uidelicet, rectorie, viginti, archipresbiteratui viginti 
 quatuor, de Pyncartone viginti, de Spot viginti, de Beltone 
 viginti, de Dunsque nuncupatis canonicatibus et prebendis 
 viginti marchas similes, ac aliis beneficiis sine cura predictis 
 eciam dicte erecte ecclesie vnitis seu illorum fructibus pro pres- 
 biteris ydoneis qui illis, alias iuxta tenorem dictarum litterarum, 
 deseruire haberent, congruas porciones reseruarunt, et assigna- 
 runt, et tantum percipere habeant deseruiendo : Ac eciam quod 
 De obla- oblaciones in dicta erecta ecclesia racione cure animarum pro- 
 Notabene. uenientes, decano eiusdem ecclesie cum inibi residenciam fecerit, 
 alioquin, eo absente, subdecano pro tempore existenti pertineant, 
 De statu- de prefati regis cousensu ordinarunt : Ac eidem Jacobo et pro 
 tempore existenti regi Scotorum, pro felici statu dicte erecte 
 ecclesie, racionabilia ac licita et honesta statuta faciendi et 
 edendi facultatem concesserunt, ac jus patronatus et presentandi 
 subdecanum, sacristam, ac canonicos ad subdecanatum, sacris- 
 tiam, ac canonicatus, et prebendas, tarn ea vice quam quociens 
 uacabunt, et ius instituendi dictos pueros prefato Jacobo Regi et 
 successoribus suis ; ius uero instituendi ad subdecanatum, sacris- 
 tiam, ac canonicatus, et prebendas predictos, tarn ea prima uice
 
 CAPELL.E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 27 
 
 quam eciam quociens uacabunt, pro tempore presentatos, decano 
 predicto eciam pro tempore existent! perpetuo reseruarunt et 
 concesserunt : Et alia sibi commissa fecerunt prout in litteris 
 predictis continetur ac processu seu quodam instrumento 
 publico desuper habito et confecto dicitur plenius contineri. 
 CUM AUTEM sicut eadem peticio subiungebat dictus Jacobus Erectio 
 Rex cupiat quod unus ex dictis canonicis nominandis, pro quo ca 
 est reseruata porcio centum librarum dicte monete Scocie, sit 
 cantor in dicta ecclesia, sic in collegiatam erecta, et si in ilia 
 erigeretur vna cantoria que inibi dignitas et similiter de iure 
 patronatus dicti Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Regis Scotorum 
 existeret, et per dictum canonicum cantorem canonicatum et pre- 
 bendam predictos pro quibus dicta porcio centum librarum re- 
 seruata est pro tempore obtinentem obtineatur, erigeretur et in- 
 stitueretur in eadem ecclesia, dignitatum numerus augeretur ad 
 Dei laudem et ipsius ecclesie decorem ; pro parte Jacobi Regis 
 ac decani et capituli predictorum nobis fuit humiliter supplica- 
 tum vt premissis omnibus et singulis, per dictos abbatem de 
 Scona et archidiaconum litterarum dictarum vigore factis et 
 executis, pro illorum subsistencia firmiori robur apostolice con- 
 firmacionis adicere, ac in dicta erecta ecclesia vnam cantoriam, Cantoria. 
 que inibi dignitas eciam de iure patronatus dicti Regis sit, 
 erigere, ac alias in premissis oportune prouidere de benignitate 
 apostolica dignaremur, Nos IGITUR, qui dudum inter alia 
 uolumus quod petentes beneficia ecclesiastica alijsuniri teneren- 
 tur exprimere uerum valorem secundum extimacionem predictam, 
 eciam beneficii cui aliud uniri peteretur, alioquin vnio non 
 ualeret, et semper in vnionibus commissio fieret ad partes, 
 uocatis quorum interesset, et idem obseruaretur in confirmacioni- 
 bus vnionum iam factarum, decanum et capitulum prefatos ac Nota. 
 ipsius capituli singulares personas a quibuscunque excommuni- p* r < s 1 ( { ) . 10 
 cacionis suspensionis et inter dicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sen- rum 
 
 . -iii- decani 
 
 tenciis censuns et penis a iure uel ab nomine quauis occasione suiHhrani 
 uel causa latis si quibus quomodolibet innodati existunt ad s 'V ;n 
 effectum presencium dumtaxat consequendum harum serie ab- person - 
 soluentes et absolutes fore censentes ac fructuum reddituum et 
 
 prouentuum meiise capitularis dicte erecte ecclesie uerum Striuilong- 
 
 eiisis.
 
 28 REGISTRUM 
 
 valorem annuum presentibus pro expresso habentes, huiusmodi 
 supplicacionibus inclinati, dicte capelle in collegiatam ecclesiam 
 
 Nota. et in ea decanatus subdecanatus sacristie sedecim canonicatuum 
 et totidem prebendarum necnon sex puerorum predictorum 
 erectionem et institucionem ac eidem ecclesie pro ems ac 
 decanatus subdecanatus sacristie canonicatuum et prebendarum 
 dote et decani subdecani sacriste canonicorum et puerorum et 
 aliarum personarum dicte ecclesie sustentacione applicacionem 
 bonorum et dicti prioratus fructuum necnon Eectorie et Archi- 
 presbiteratus nuncapatorum et singulorum aliorum canonica- 
 tuum et prebendarum dicte ecclesie de Dunbar ac aliorum 
 beneficiorum curatorum et non curatorum vnionem annexionem 
 et incorporacionem ac reseruacionem seu assignacionem con- 
 gruarum porcionum pro vicarijs perpetuis curatorum beneficiorum 
 et presbitris qui Eectorie et Archipresbiteratui nuncupatis ac aliis 
 cauonicatibus et prebendis et sine cura vnitis beneficiis huius- 
 modi deseruire habeant necnon ordinacionem et facultatem ac 
 reseruacionem tarn iuris patronatus quam institucionis et desti- 
 tucionis predictarum tarn Eegi quam decano predictis respectiue 
 
 Notabene. factas predictas et alia premissa omnia et singula per dictos 
 Abbatem de Scona et Archidiaconum ut prefertur statuta et 
 ordinata et facta et executa auctoritate apostolica tenore pre- 
 sencium approbamus et confirmamus supplentes omnes singulos 
 defectus si qui forsan interuenerint in eisdem, premissaque 
 omnia perpetue firinitatis robur obtinere debere decernimus, 
 necnon facultatem absoluendi Eegem et Eeginam et alios predictos 
 in casibus predictis eidem decano per dictas litteras concessam 
 ad subdecanum eiusdem ecclesie pro tempore existentem per se 
 uel alium seu alios presbiteros ydoneos seculares vel cuiusuis 
 ordinis regulares, dicto decano absente et eciam eo presente 
 exercendam, extendimus, seu dicto subdecano ut prefertur con- 
 cedimus ; ac in eadein erecta ecclesia vnam cantoriam que inibi 
 dignitas ante dictam sacristiam et similiter de iure patronatus 
 dicti Eegis eciam pro tempore existentis existat, pro uno cantore, 
 qui similiter ex dictis sedecim canonicis per dictum Eegem 
 nominandus existat, et ad illam prefato decano presentetur 
 et per eum instituatur, eisdem auctoritate et tenore absque
 
 CAPELL.E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 29 
 
 alicuius preiudicio erigimus et instituimus, non obstantibus 
 uoluntate nostra predicta et alijs constitucionibus et ordina- 
 cionibus apostolicis ac dicte ecclesie iuramento confirmacione 
 apostolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et con- 
 suetudinibus ceterisque contrariis quibuscunque : Nulli ergo 
 omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre absolucionis appro- 
 bacionis confirmacionis suppletionis decreti extensionis conces- 
 sionis erectionis et institucionis infringere uel ei ausutemerario 
 contraire: Si quis antem hoc attemptare presumpserit, indig- 
 nacionem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri et Pauli aposto- 
 lorum eius se nouerit incursurum. Datum Eome apud Sanctum 
 Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice Millesimo quingentesimo 
 secundo sextodecimo Kalendas Maij Pontificatus nostri anno 
 decimo. 
 
 3. CONSERUATOKIA ECCLESIE COLLEGIATE DE STRIUELING. 
 
 ALEXANDER EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM Dei Dilectis filijs 
 Sancte crucis et Cambusthinet ac de Pasleto Sanctiandree et 
 Glasguensis diocesium monasteriorum abbatibus, salutem et 
 apostolicam benedictionem : Militanti ecclesie licet inmeriti dis- 
 ponente domino presidentes circa curam ecclesiarum omnium 
 solercia reddimur indefessa solliciti ut iuxta debitum pastoralis 
 officii earum occuramus dispendijs et profectibus diuina co- 
 operante clemencia salubriter intendamus. Sane pro parte 
 dilectorum filiorum Decani subdecani sacriste canonicorum 
 puerorum clericorum et aliarum personarum ecclesie Capelle 
 Eegie nuncupate beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis, intra palacium 
 opidi de Stirlyng Sancte Andree diocesis site, conquestione per- 
 cepimus quod ipsi dubitant ne aliqui archiepiscopi et episcopi 
 alijque ecclesiarum prelati et clerici ac ecclesiastice persone tarn 
 religiose quam seculares, necnon Duces Marchiones Comites 
 Barones Nobiles Milites et laici, communia ciuitatum vniuer- 
 sitates opidorum Castrorum villarum et aliorum locorum, ac ulio 
 singulares persone ciuitatum et diocesium et aliarum partium 
 diuersarum occupent et occupari faciant Castra villas et alia
 
 30 REGISTRUM 
 
 loca terras domes possessiones iura et iurisdictiones necnon 
 fructus census redditus et prouentus dicte ecclesie, et nonnulla 
 alia bona mobilia et immobilia spiritualia et temporalia, ad de- 
 canum subdecanum sacristam canonicos pueros et alias personas 
 et ecclesiam predictos spectancia,et ea detineant indebite occupata 
 seu ea detinentibus prestent auxilium consilium uel fauorem, ac 
 eciam nonnulli ciuitatum et diocesium ac parcium predictarum 
 qui nomen domini inuanum recipere, non formidabunt eisdem 
 decano subdecano sacriste canonicis pueris et personis necnon 
 canton eiusdem ecclesie mine et pro tempore existentibus, super 
 predictis castris villis et locis alijs terris domibus possessionibus 
 iuribus et iurisdictionibus priuilegiis indultis exempcionibus 
 immunitatibus ac fructibus censibus redditibus et prouentibus 
 eorumdem, et quibuseumque aliis bonis mobilibus et immobilibus 
 spiritualibus et temporalibus et alijs rebus ad eosdem decanum 
 subdecanum sacristam cantorem canonicos pueros et personas ac 
 ecclesiam predictos communiter uel diuisim nunc et pro tem- 
 pore spectantibus, multiplices molestias et iniurias inferant et 
 iacturas : Quare dicti decanus subdecanus sacrista canonici et 
 persone nobis humiliter supplicarunt, ut cum eis et eciam decano 
 eiusdem ecclesie pro tempore existenti ualde redderetur difficile 
 pro singulis querelis ad apostolicam sedem -habere recursum 
 prouidere ipsis super hoc paterna diligencia curaremus. Nos 
 IGITUR, qui hodie in eadem ecclesia vnam cantoriam que inibi 
 dignitas existeret pro uno cantore qui vnus ex canonicis eiusdem 
 ecclesie existeret, per alias litteras nostras ereximus, aduersus 
 occupatores detentores presumptores molestatores et iniuriatores 
 huiusmodi illo volentes eisdem decano subdecano sacriste cantori 
 canonicis pueris et personis remedio subuenire, per quod ipsorum 
 compescatur temeritas, et aliis aditus committendi similia pre- 
 cludatur, discretion! nostre per apostolica scripta mandamus, 
 quatenus uos uel duo aut vnus uestrum per uos uel alium seu 
 alios eciam si sint extra loca in quibus deputati estis conser- 
 uatores et iudices prefatis decano subdecano sacriste cantori 
 canonicis pueris et personis nunc et pro tempore existentibus 
 efficacis defensionis presidio assistentes, non permittatis eosdem 
 super hijs et quibuslibet aliis bonis ac iuribus ad decanum sub-
 
 CAPELLJE REGLE STEIVELINENSIS. 31 
 
 decanum sacristam cantorem canonicos pueros et personas nee- Cantoria. 
 non ecclesiam predictos communiter uel diuisim nunc et pro 
 tempore existentibus super priuilegijs indultis exempcionibus et 
 immunitatibus predictis ab eisdem uel quibusuis alijs indebite 
 molestari uel eis grauamina uel dampna seu iniurias irrogari 
 facturi, dictis decano subdecano sacriste cantori canonicis per- 
 sonis et pueris cum ab eis uel procuratoribus suis aut eorum <le robore 
 aliquo fueritis requisiti de predictis et alijs personis quibuslibet toi-ie 6 *" 
 super restitucione dictorum castrorum -villarum terrarum et 
 aliorum locorum iurisdictionem iurium et bonorum mobilium 
 et immobilium reddituum quoque et prouentuum et aliorum 
 quorurncunque bonorum necnon de quibuslibet molestiis 
 iniuriis atque damnis presentibus et futuris in illis videlicet 
 qui iudicialem requirunt indaginem summarie et de piano sine 
 strepitu et figura iudicij in alijs uero prout qualitas eorum 
 exegerit iusticie complementum occupatores seu detentores pre- 
 sumptores molestatores et iniuriatores huiusmodi necnon con- 
 tradictores quoslibet et rebelles eciam exemptos eciam ordinum 
 quorumcunque eciam quascumque similes uel dissimiles conser- 
 uatorias habentes et quibuscumque priuilegiis munitos cuius- 
 cumque dignitatis status gradus ordinis uel condicionis extiterint 
 quandocumque et quocienscumque expedient auctoritate nostra 
 per censuram ecclesiasticam appellatione postposita compescendo Nota. De 
 inuocato ad hoc si opus fuerit auxilio brachij secularis Ita quod ^ e e 
 ipsi decanus subdecanus sacrista cantor canonici pueri et alie 
 persone dicte ecclesie nunc et pro tempore existentes ne a diuinis Nota. 
 retrahantur extra locum dicte ecclesie eciam pretextu quarum- 
 
 cumque aliarum conseruatoriarum ad iudicium euocari non pos- diuinis ex- 
 sint sed teneantur dumtaxat coram uobis aut aliquo uestrum 
 seu deputatis a uobis de iusticia respondere ceterum si per 
 summariam informacionem super hiis per uos habendam uobis 
 constiterit quod ad loca in quibus occupatores detentores pre- 
 sump tores molestatores et iniuriatores huiusmodi ac alios quos 
 presentes littere concernunt pro tempore moneri contigerit pro 
 monicionibus ipsis et citacionibus de eis faciendis tutus non 
 pateat accessus seu eorum copia commode haberi non possit nos 
 uobis citaciones et moniciones quaslibet per edita publica locis
 
 32 REGISTRUM 
 
 affigenda publicis et partibus illis uicinis de quibus sit uerisimilis 
 
 coniectura quod ad noticiam citatorum et monitorum huiusinodi 
 
 Nota. De peruenire valeant faciendi ac quibuscumque alijs conseruatoribus 
 
 litteris quibusuis aliis personis ecclesiis monasterijs locis et ordinibus 
 
 fli)ostolicis 
 
 sub qni- eciam per litteras apostolicas sub quibuscumque tenoribus de- 
 
 et deputandis eciam sub censuris ecclesiasticis inhibendi 
 eciam sub plenam et liberam concedimus tenore presencium facultatem, ac 
 eccfesiasti- uolumus et predicta auctoritate decernimus quod moniciones et 
 eis inhi- citaciones huiusmodi sic facte perinde citatos et monitos arctent 
 ac si eis personaliter insinuate et intimate extitissent, non obstan- 
 tibus tarn felicis recordacionis Bonifacij pape octaui predecessoris 
 nostri, in quibus cauetur ne aliquis extra suam ciuitatem et 
 diocesim nisi in certis exceptis casibus et in illis ultra unam 
 dietam a fine sue diocesis ad indicium euocetur : Seu ne indices 
 et conseruatores prefati a sede deputati predicta extra ciuitatem 
 et diocesim in quibus deputati fuerint contra quoscumque pro- 
 cedere seu alij uel alijs uices suas committere aut aliquos ultra 
 unam dietam a fine diocesis eorum trahere presumant et de 
 duabus dietis in consilio generali edita dummodo ultra quatuor 
 dietas aliquis auctoritate presencium non trahatur, seu quod de 
 alijs quam manifests iniurijs et uiolentiis ac alijs que iudicialem 
 requirunt indaginem penis in eos si secus egerint ad id pro- 
 curantes adiectis Conseruatores se nullatenus intromittant quam 
 aliis quibuscumque constitucionibus a predecessoribus nostris 
 Romaiiis pontificibus tarn de iudicibus delegatis et conseruatori- 
 bus quam personis ultra certum numerum ad iudicium non 
 uocandis aut alijs editis que uestre possent in hac parte iuris- 
 dictioni aut potestati eiusque libero exercicio quomodolibet 
 obuiare necnon quibusuis priuilegijs et indultis alijs ecclesiis 
 notabene monastery's et locis ac illorum personis et ordinibus quibus- 
 censis et cumque eciam Cluniacensis uel Cisterciensis sub quibuscumque 
 
 cistercien- tenoribus concessis eciam si in illis caueatur expresse quod pre- 
 sisordines. . 
 
 textu quarumcumque aliarum conseruatoriarum et litterarum 
 
 apostolicarum extra loca eorum coram quibusuis iudicibus et 
 conseruatoribus apostolicis ad iudicium euocari non possiut sed 
 teneantur coram eorum conseruatoribus et delegatis ab eis dum- 
 taxat respondere et queuis citaciones et inhibiciones inde pro
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 33 
 
 tempore secute nullius sint roboris uel momenti quibus illis 
 alias in suo robore permansuris quoad premissa hac uice dum- 
 taxat harum serie specialiter et expresse derogamus contrariis 
 quibuscumque seu si aliquibus communiter uel diuisim a pre- 
 dicta sit sede indultum quod interdici suspendi uel excommuni- 
 cari seu extra uel ultra certa loca ad iudicium euocari non 
 possint per litteras apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam 
 ac de uerbo ad uerbum de indulto huiusmodi et eorum personis 
 locis ordinibus et nominibus propriis mencionibus et qualibet 
 alia dicte sedis indulgencia generali uel speciali cuiuscumque 
 tenoris existat per quam presentibus non expressam uel totaliter 
 non insertam uestre iurisdictionis explicacio in hac parte ualeat 
 quomodolibet impediri et de qua cuiusque toto tenore habenda 
 sit de uerbo ad uerbum in nostris litteris mencio specialis. Et 
 insuper uoluinus et apostolica auctoritate deoernimus quod 
 quilibet uestrum prosequi ualeat articulum eciam per alium 
 inchoatum quamuis idem inchoans nullo fuerit impedimento 
 canonico prepeditus quodque a dato presencium sit uobis et 
 unicuique uestrum in premissis et eorum singulis ceptis et non 
 ceptis presentibus et futuris perpetuata potestas et iurisdictio 
 attributa ut eo uigore eaque firmitate possitis in premissis 
 omnibus ceptis et non ceptis presentibus et futuris ac pro pre- 
 dictis procedere ac si predicta omnia et singula coram uobis 
 cepta fuissent et iurisdictio uestra et cuiuslibet vestrum in pre- 
 dictis omnibus et singulis per citacionem uel modum alium 
 perpetuata legittime extitisset constitucione predicta super con- 
 seruatoribus et alia qualibet in contrarium edita non obstantibus 
 presentibus perpetuis futuris temporibus ualituris. Datum 
 Home apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis Dominice 
 millesirno quingentesimo secundo sextodecimo kaleudas Maij 
 Pontificatus nostri anno decimo. 
 
 4. VNIO ECCLESIE DE KlRKYNNER. 
 
 GEORGIUS MISERACIONE DIUINA EPISCOPUS Candidecase Omnibus 
 et singulis domiuis Abbatibus Prioribus Archidiaconis Decanis
 
 34 REGISTRUM 
 
 Cantoribus Sacristis ecclesiarum perrochialium Rectoribus vi- 
 cariis perpetuis alteristis presbiteris curatis et non curatis 
 ceterisque Christi fidelibus clericis et laicis per regnum Scocie 
 ubilibet constitutis ad quorum noticias presentes littere peru- 
 enerint salutem cum benedictione diuina Iniunctum nobis pas- 
 torale omciurn mentem nostram excitat et inducit ut ad ea per 
 que ecclesiarum presertim collegiatarum necnon personarum in 
 illis altissimo famulancium necessitatibus consulatur operosis 
 studiis et remediis fauorabiliter intendamus Sane pro parte 
 venerabilium et religiosorum nostrorum Prioris et capituli nostri 
 ecclesie nostre Candidecase ordinis premonstratensis nobis nuper 
 exhibita peticio continebat quod excellentissimus ac metuendis- 
 simus princeps et dominus noster dorninus Jacobus Rex quartus 
 Scotorum illustrissimus modernus ecclesiam perrochialem de 
 Kyrkandris nostre diocesis de ipsius iure patronatus hereditarie 
 pertinentem cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis dictis 
 priori et capitulo eorumque successoribus in perpetua elimosina 
 concessit et in proprietate donauit cuius donacionis uigore 
 eorum necessitatibus prouidetur utiliter ac laudabiliter subu- 
 enitur et cum ecclesia perrochialis de Kyrkynnire eciam nostre 
 diocesis ad quam dum pro tempore uacat presentacio persone 
 ydonee ad dictos priorem pro tempore existentem et capitulum 
 nostrum pertinere dinoscitur si eadem ecclesia de Kyrkynnere 
 cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis mense capitulari 
 ecclesie collegiate beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis alias 
 Capelle Regie site infra palacium Opidi de Stirlyng Sancti- 
 audree diocesis que per dictum regem nostrum illustrissimum 
 de nouo fundata extitit perpetuo vniretur annectaretur et 
 incorporaretur decani et capituli dicte ecclesie de Sterlyng 
 commoditatibus non parum consularet maxime ex eo quia 
 prefatus Rex noster illustrissimus dictam ecclesiam de Kyrk- 
 andris motiuo et occasione huiusmodi unionis fiende prefatis 
 priori et capitulo nostro prauitate et dolo cessante ut pre- 
 mittitur proinde concessit Quare pro parte prioris et capituli 
 prefatorum nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut consensum 
 nostrum dictis donacioni et concessioni per dictum Regem 
 factis prebere et concedere ac ecclesiam perrochialem predictarn
 
 CAPELL^L REGIME STKIVELINENSIS. 35 
 
 de Kyrkynner cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis ad 
 dictam ecclesiam collegiatam alias Capellam Eegiam de Stirlyng 
 et ad eius mensam capitularem perpetuo ut prefertur vnire 
 annectere et incorporare aliasque in premissis oportune prouidere 
 auctoritate nostra ordinaria benigniter dignaremur Nos igitur 
 Georgius episcopus antedictus huiusmodi supplicacionibus in ea 
 parte inclinati necnon consideracione prefati illustrissimi domini 
 nostri Eegis super hoc humiliter supplicant! s volentes tamen in 
 premissis nostris ordinem in omnibus obseruare dictos priorem 
 et capitulum nostrum ac venerabilem uirum inagistrum Jacobum 
 Betoune rectorem prefate ecclesie de Kyrkynnere omnesque 
 alios et singulos in premissis interesse habentes ad comparen- 
 dum coram nobis certis die et hora sibi limitatis infra locum 
 capitularem ecclesie nostre Candidecase predicte ad uidendum 
 et audiendum nos ex nostra auctoritate ordinaria dictam ec- 
 clesiam de Kyrkynnere cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis 
 suis ad prefatam ecclesiam collegiatam de Stirlyng et eius 
 mensam capitularem perpetuo unire annectere et incorporare 
 uel ad allegandum causam racionabilem si quam habent quare 
 huiusmodi vnio et incorporacio fieri non deberent cum intima- 
 cione debita ut moris est legittime citari fecimus Unde dicte 
 citacionis termino adueniente nobis in loco capitulari dicte 
 ecclesie nostre Candidecase pro tribunali sedentibus priore et 
 capitulo nostro prefatis capitulariter ac venerabili uiro magistro 
 Dauid Abyrcrumby subdecano ecclesie Dunkeldensis pro cura- 
 tore et eo nomine dicti magistri Jacobi Betoune rectoris dicte 
 ecclesie perrochialis de Kyrkynnere ad hoc ab eo specialiter 
 constitute coram nobis uigore dicte citacionis in iudicio legit- 
 time comparentibus et consensum nostrum ac vnionem annexi- 
 onem et incorporacionem predictas cum instancia diligenter fieri 
 petentibus Nos UERO ut in premissis calumpniantibus uiam 
 penitus excludamus cartam quandam domini nostri Eegis 
 predicti super prefata donacione ecclesie perrochialis de Kyrk- 
 andris confectam et coram nobis in iudicio productam diligenter 
 inspeximus ex cuius tenore de et super omnibus et singulis 
 narratis premissis animum nostrum suinmarie informauiinus 
 habitisque super huiusmodi narratis et petitis cum priore et
 
 36 REGISTRUM 
 
 capitulo nostro predictis ad hoc capitulariter ut premittitur 
 oui"Te< r atis dilisenti et sollenni tractatu et deliberacione pre- 
 
 o o o * 
 
 ccdenciis in talibus debitis et consuetis: Suadentes eciam 
 corumdem prioris et capituli perpetua utilitate euidenter in 
 omnibus preuisa et undique considerata sematis insuper cause 
 cognicione iuris ordine modo et forma debitis ac singulis aliis 
 in premissis necessariis et requisitis seruandis dictas donacionem 
 et concessionem per dominum nostrum Eegem illustrissimum 
 de ecclesia perrochiali de Kyrkandris ut predicitur factas ad- 
 mittimus recipimus et approbamus et eisdem nostrum con- 
 sensum damus et concedimus ac ecclesiam predictam de Kyrkyn- 
 nere que est de iure patronatus predictorum prioris et capituli 
 nostri cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis ad prefatam 
 ecclesiam collegiatam alias capellam regiam de Stirlyng et 
 eius mensam capitularem de expresso et unanimi consensu et 
 assensu prioris et capituli nostri predictorum ac procuratoris et 
 eo nomine ad hoc speciale mandatum habentis omnibus meliori- 
 bus uia et iure quibus melius et efficacius poterirnus auctoritate 
 nostra ordinaria saluis iuribus episcopalibus perpetuo vniuimus 
 annex imus et incorporauimus prout tenore presencium eadem 
 auctoritate admittimus recipimus approbamus damus concedi- 
 mus vnimus annectimus incorporamus applicamus et appro- 
 priamus imperpetuum. Ita quod cedente uel decedente moderno 
 ipsius perrochialis ecclesie unite rectore seu illam alias quomo- 
 dolibet dirnittente liceat eisdem decano et capitulo dicte ecclesie 
 de Stirlynge per se uel alium seu alios corporalem perrochialis 
 ecclesie de Kyrkynnyre predicte iuriumque et pertinenciarum 
 predictorum eiusdem possessionem propria auctoritate libere 
 apprehendere et perpetuo retinere illiusque fructus redditus et 
 prouentus in suos ac mense capitularis ecclesie de Stirlyng 
 predictorum usus et utilitatem conuertere : Pariformiter eciam 
 cedente uel decedente moderno ipsius perrochialis ecclesie de 
 Kyrkandris rectore seu illam alias dimittente liceat dictis 
 priori et capitulo nostro per se uel alium seu alios corporalem 
 huiusmodi ecclesie de Kyrkandris juriumque et pertinenciarum 
 predictorum eiusdem possessionem propria auctoritate libere 
 apprehendere et perpetuo retinere illiusque fructus redditus et
 
 CAPELUE REGLE STR1VELINENSIS. 37 
 
 prouentus in suos usus et utilitatem conuertere Nostra et suc- 
 cessorum nostrorum ac cuiusuis alterius licencia super hijs 
 minime requisita: Et quod dictus Eex noster illustrissimus 
 fructus redditus et prouentus prefate ecclesie unite inter per- 
 sonas ecclesie collegiate de Stirlyng pro earundem sustentacione 
 iuxta suam prouidam ordinacionem eciam perpetuo duraturam 
 faciendam in prebendas seu porciones unam ve plures diuidere 
 ualeat et dispouere ac cum reliquis prouentibus huiusmodi 
 ecclesie de Stirlyng in prouisionibus et alijs predicti fructus 
 uniti naturam penitus sorciantur eandem : Prouiso quod propter 
 unionem annexionem incorporacionem donacionern et conces- 
 sionem huiusmodi dicte ecclesie perrochiales de Kyrkynnyre et 
 Kyrkandris debitis propterea non fraudentur obsequijs et ani- 
 marum cura in illis nullatenus necligatur sed earum congrua 
 supportentur onera consueta dictis autem vnione annexione et 
 incorporacione per nos ut premittitur factis prior et capitulum 
 nostrum ac procurator predicti huiusmodi unionem annexionem 
 incorporacionem applicacionem et appropriacionem admiserunt 
 receperunt approbauerunt ratum gratum firmum atque stabile 
 habuerunt perpetuo. Et ne de carta Eegia predicta aliquibus 
 dubitandi occasio forsitan tribuatur illius tenorem sub presentibus 
 de verbo in uerbum integraliter inserere fecimus in hac forma : 
 
 JACOBUS DEI GRACIA Eex Scotorum omnibus probis homini- 
 bus tocius terre sue clericis et laicis salutem Sciatis quia nos 
 considerantes et perpendentes quod venerabilis in Christo pater 
 et religiosi uiri nostri oratores Prior et conuentus moderni 
 ecclesie cathedralis Candidecase gratuiti et beniuoli extiterunt 
 et existunt in eorum unanimi consensu et assensu datis et 
 exhibitis annexioni unioni et incorporacioni faciendis per Eeu- 
 erendum in Christo patrem eorumque ordinarium Oeorgium 
 episcopum Candidecase ecclesie nostre collegiate nuncupate 
 capelle Eegie situate infra castrum nostrum de Stirlynge de et 
 super ecclesia de Kyrkynnyre tarn rectoria quam uicaria Can- 
 didecase diocesis cum omnibus et singulis decimis fructibus et 
 prouentibus eiusdem cum pertinenciis que ad dictorum prioris 
 et conuentus iuspatronatus spectabat : Nolentes igitur ipsos 
 priorem et conuentuni seu ecclesiam Candidecase predictarn
 
 38 REGISTRUM 
 
 inde grauari sou aliquod dampnum sustinere ymmopocius per 
 nos aliusmodi ad eorum euidentem vtilitatem et proficuuni 
 provider! dedimus ob id concessimus, admortizauimus et con- 
 fmnauimus et hac present! carta nostra damus concedimus 
 admortizamus et pro nobis et successoribus nostris ad manum 
 mortuam pro perpetuo confirmamus predicte ecclesie Candide- 
 case ac Priori et conuentui eiusdem modernis eorumque succes- 
 soribus inibi Deo seruituris imperpetuum diuini cultus aug- 
 mentum et pro specialibus oracionum suffrages per ipsos pro 
 nobis nostrisque successoribus celebrantibus, ecclesiam cle 
 Kyrkandris tarn rectoriam quam uicariam Candidecase diocesis 
 predicte, cum omnibus et singulis decimis fructibus et prouenti- 
 bus eiusdem cum pertinenciis ad nostrum iuspatronatus spec- 
 tantibus et pertinentibus. Tenendam et habendam ac cum 
 ipsis priore et conuentu et eorum successoribus in proprietate 
 et in puram et perpetuam elimosinam ac ad manum mortuam 
 imperpetuum remanendam libere quiete bene et in pace sine 
 aliquo retenemento aut reuocacione quacumque faciendo ei. 
 Celebrando inde annuatim dicti prior et conuentus et eorum 
 successores in predicta ecclesia pro perpetuo Deo seruituri pro 
 nobis nostrisque predecessoribus et successoribus specialia 
 oracionum sufiragia deuotarum tantum ut premittitur : In 
 cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre magnum sigillum 
 nostrum apponi precipimus. Testibus reuerendissimo in 
 Christo patre nostroque carissimo fratre Jacobo Sanctiandree 
 Archiepiscopo duce Eossie etc. cancellario nostro, reuerendo 
 in Christo patre Willelmo episcopo Abberdenensi nostri secreti 
 sigilli custode dilectis consanguineis nostris Archibaldo Comite 
 de Ergyle domino Campbell et Lome magistro hospicii nostri, 
 Patricio comite de Bothuile domino Halys etc. Matheo comite 
 de Lennax domino Dernle Alexandro domino Hume magno 
 camerario nostro Andrea domino Gray iusticiario nostro et 
 dilecto clerico nostro magistro Gauino Dumbar decano Mor- 
 auiensi nostrorum rotulorum et registri ac consilij clerico 
 apud Edinburgh octauo die mensis Decembris anno Domini 
 millesimo quingentesimo tercio et regni nostri decimo sexto. 
 QUE OMNIA et singula et hunc processum nostrum atque
 
 CAPELL.E REGI/E STRIVELINENSIS. 39 
 
 omnia et singula in eo contenta uobis omnibus et singulis 
 supradictis communiter uel diuisim insinuamus et notificamus 
 et ad uestram et cuiuslibet uestrum noticiam deducimus et 
 deduci uolumus presencium per tenorem. In quorum omnium 
 et singulorum fidem et testimonium premissorum presentes 
 litteras siue presens publicum instrumentum processum nostrum 
 huiusmodi in se continentes seu continens exinde fieri et per 
 notaries publicos infrascriptos subscribi et publicari sigilli nostri 
 auctentici ac sigilli dicti capituli nostri iussimus et fecimus 
 appensione communiri ad perpetue firmitatis corroboracionem 
 omnium et singulorum premissorum. Insuper autem nos 
 Georgius episcopus et singulares persone capituli nostri predicti 
 presentes litteras siue presens publicum instrumentum subscrip- 
 simus et subscripserunt Acta fuerunt hec in loco capitulari 
 predicto quarto die mensis Januarij bora undecima ante meridiem 
 uel ea circa anno incarnacionis dominice millesimo quingen- 
 tesimo tercio indiccione septima pontificatus sanctissimi in 
 Christo patris et domini nostri domini Juliani diuina proui- 
 dencia pape secundi anno primo Presentibus ibidem venerabilibus 
 uiris magistris Fergusio Makdowel official! generali Candidecase 
 Willelmo Magarwe uicario perpetuo ecclesie perrocbialis de 
 Penneghame dicte Candidecase diocesis dominis Johanne Mak- 
 crekane Johanne Makneile presbyteris prouidis eciam uiris 
 Patricio Wause de Berynberyth Duncano Murraw et Cuthberto 
 Conynghaini laicis testibus ad premissa uocatis pariter et 
 rogatis. 
 
 Nos Georgius episcopus Candidecase manu nostra subscrip- 
 simus hunc processum et eundem approbamus et ratificamus, 
 etc. 
 
 Nos Patricius prior dicte ecclesie Candidecase manu nostra 
 propria subscripsimus. 
 
 Ego Johannes canonicus et supprior dicte ecclesie manu mea 
 propria subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Willelmus canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria sub- 
 scripsi. 
 
 Ego Henricus Makkynnel canonicus dicte ecclesie manu 
 propria subscripsi.
 
 40 
 
 REGISTRUM 
 
 Johannes. 
 Makcre- 
 kane no- 
 tarius. 
 
 Eollandus Makclaouthan canonicus dicte ecclesic maim 
 propria subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Andreas Melygam canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Nycholayus Walcar canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Jacobus Conynghaim canonicus dicte ecclesie manu 
 propria subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Andreas Steuynson manu propria canonicus dicte ecclesie 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Dauid Cartar canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria sub- 
 scripsi. 
 
 Ego Alexander Kynneir canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Alexander Waus canonicus dicte ecclesie manu propria 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Ego Andreas Ferny canonicus dicte ecclesie manu mea propria 
 subscripsi. 
 
 Et ego Johannes Makcrekane presbiter Candidecase diocesis 
 uicariusque perpetuus ecclesie perrocbialis Insule eius- 
 dem diocesis imperiali et regali auctoritatibus notarius 
 publictis dictis peticioni supplicacioni citacionis decreto 
 carte Regie production! procuratoris comparicioni et sui 
 mandati production! prioris et capituli consensus pres- 
 tacioni tractatui deliberacioni unioni annexioni incorpor- 
 acioni reseruacioni recepcioni approbacioni ratibabicioni 
 processus huiusmodi decreti iuterposicioni ceterisque pre- 
 missis gestis et narratis dum ut premittitur dicerentur 
 et fierent unacum notariis publicis subscripts et testibus 
 prenominatis presens interfui eaque sic dici et fieri uidi 
 sciui et audiui ac in notam cepi. Ex qua presentem 
 processum manu propria scriptum meis nomine et sub- 
 scripcione una cum corroboracione sigillorum et subscrip- 
 cionum de quibus superius est facta mencio signaui in 
 fidem et testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum 
 rogatus specialiter et requisitus. 
 Et ego Willelmus Makgarwe artium magister ac presbiter
 
 CAPELUE REGLE STKIVELINENSIS. 41 
 
 Candidecase diocesis uicariusque perpetuus ecclesie per- 
 rochialis de Pennyghaim publicus imperial! et regali 
 auctoritatibus notarius dictis peticioni supplicacioni cita- 
 cionis decreto carte regie productioni procuratoris com- 
 paricioni et sui mandati productioni prioris et capitiili 
 consensus prestacioni tractatui deliberacioni unioni an- 
 nexioni incorporacioni reseruacioni recepcioni approba- 
 cioni ratihabicioni processus huiusmodi decreti inter- 
 posicioni ceterisque premissis gestis et narratis dum ut 
 premittitur dicerentur et fierent unacum notariis supra- 
 scripto et subscriptis ac testibus prenominatis presens 
 interim eaque sic dici et fieri vidi sciui et audiui ac in 
 notam cepi. Ex qua presentem processum manu supra- 
 scripti notarii scriptum meis nomine signo et subscripcione 
 unacum corroboracione sigillorum et subscripcionum de 
 quibus superius est facta mencio signaui in fidem et 
 testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum rogatus 
 specialiter et requisitus. notarius. 
 
 Et ego Johannes Makcrekane presbiter Candidecase diocesis 
 publicus imperiali ac regali auctoritatibus notarius dictis 
 peticioni supplicacioni citacionis decreto carte regie pro- 
 ductioni procuratoris comparicioni et sui mandati pro- 
 ductioni prioris et capituli consensus prestacioni tractatui 
 deliberacioni vnioni aniiexioni incorporacioni reseruacioni 
 recepcioni approbacioni ratihabicioni processus huiusmodi 
 decreti interposicioni ceterisque premissis gestis et nar- 
 ratis dum ut premittitur dicerentur et fierent unacum 
 notariis subscriptis et testibus prenominatis presens 
 interfui eaque sic dici et fieri uidi sciui et audiui ac in 
 notam cepi. Ex qua presentem processum manu supra- 
 scripti notarij primo subscribentis scriptum meis nomine 
 signo et subscripcione una cum corroboracione sigillorum 
 et subscripcionum de quibus superius est facta mencio j h annc3 
 
 signaui in fidem et testimonium omnium et singulorum Makere- 
 
 . . . kane no- 
 
 premissorum rogatus specialiter et requisitus. tarius.
 
 42 REGISTRUM 
 
 5. SECUNDA ArrLicAcio SITJE VNIO FRUCTUUM DE CREIF ET 
 QUARUMDEM PREBENDARUM DE DUNBAR AC ECCLESIARUM DE 
 ELLAM BUTE ET BALMACLELLANE. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam iniunctum nobis desuper apostolice seruitutis officium 
 nos inducit ut uotis illis per que singularum ecclesiarum et 
 personarum in illis diuinis officijs insistencium inde unitatibus 
 ac commoditatibus salubriter consulatur libenter animamus ac 
 prout expedit nostri pastoralis officij partes fauorabiliter im- 
 pendamus Dudum siquidem postquam felicis recordacionis 
 Alexandra Papa sexto predecessor! nostro pro parte carissimi 
 in Christo filij nostri tune sui Jacobi Scotorum Eegis illustris 
 inter alia expositum fuerat quod licet in Capella Eegia nuncupata 
 beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis intra palacium ipsius Jacobi 
 Regis opidi de Sterlyng Sanctiandree diocesis sita vnus decanus 
 nuncupatus et plures alij cantores et cappellani ac clerici missas 
 et alia diuina officia singulis diebus ad libitum ipsius Jacobi 
 Eegis ammouibiles celebrarent ipseque Jacobus Eex predictam 
 capellam suis sumptibus reformari fecisset ac libris calicibus et 
 aliis ornamentis ecclesiasticis pro diuino ctiltu in eadem capella 
 necessarijs honorifice muniuisset et ornasset ac eciam nonnulla 
 bona immobilia ad eum legittime pertinencia eidem capelle pro 
 illius dote assignauisset tamen si dicta capella in collegiatam 
 ecclesiam et prepositura ecclesie beate Marie de Eupe Sanctian- 
 dree que inibi dignitas principalis et de iure patronatus prefati 
 Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Scotorum Eegis ex priuilegio 
 apostolico existebat et ad eius meram collacionem ex simili 
 priuilegio pertinebat eciam in decanatum eiusdem erigende 
 ecclesie qui inibi dignitas eciam principalis existeret pro uno 
 decano qui alijs eiusdem erigende ecclesie personis preesset et 
 certam tune expressam iurisdictionem in omnes personas dicte 
 erigende ecclesie haberet et dum in eadem. beate Marie in ilia 
 prepositus dum uero in erigenda ecclesia resideret in ilia decanus 
 foret et unus subdecanatus qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia 
 dignitas secuuda pro uno subdecano qui dicti decani certo modo
 
 CAPELIJE REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 43 
 
 tune expresso uices suppleret ac una sacristia que inibi officium 
 ecu administracio existeret pro uno sacrista qui curam iocaliura 
 dicte ecclesie haberet necnon sedecim canonicatus et totidera 
 prebende pro sedecim canonicis in cantu et aliis sufficienter 
 instructis ac sex pueri clerici similiter in cantu competenter 
 instructi seu ut instruerentur apti et ydonei qui in eadem 
 erigeuda ecclesia diuina officia diuma pariter et nocturna certo 
 modo tune expresso ad Dei laudem et pro ipsius Jacobi Eegis 
 eiusque antecessorum et successorum animarum salute deeantare 
 et celebrare et alias eidem erigende ecclesie in diuinis iuxta 
 prouidam ipsius Jacobi Eegis ordinacionem faciendam deseruire 
 tenerentur. Et cum in ecclesia de Dunbar eiusdem diocesis 
 illius canonici pro maiori parte non per so set prout in multis 
 alijs 1 collegiatis ecclesijs regni Scocie iuxta consuetudinem 
 eatenus obseruatam per substitutes deseruirent si canonicatus 
 et prebende dicte ecclesie de Dunbar qui de iure patronatus 
 ipsius regis existebant et alia beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura et 
 sine cura iuris patronatus ipsius regis seu aliorum laicorum 
 existencia quorum fructus redditus et prouentus ad ualorem 
 duarum millium librarum monete Scocie quingentas libras 
 Sterlingorum uel circa constituencium dumtaxat ascenderent 
 annuatim et de quibus ipsi Jacobo Eegi uideretur de eius et 
 aliorum laicorum patronorum respectiue consensu dicte erigende 
 ecclesie reseruata ex fructibus curatorum beneficiorum pro 
 uicariis perpetuis earumdem cougrua porcione ex qua se com- 
 mode sustentare iura episcopalia persoluere et alia onera sibi 
 racione curatorum beneficiorum huiusmodi incumbencia sup- 
 portare possent perpetuo vnirentur annecterentur et incor- 
 porarentur. Ita quod eciam congrua porcio presbiteris ydoneis 
 qui canonicatibus et prebendis et alijs vniendis sine cura bene- 
 ficiorum huiusmodi quamdiu illis deseruirent percipienda as- 
 signaretur et residuum deductis huiusmodi porcionibus inter 
 decanum subdecanum sacristam et canonicos predictos ac alias 
 personas dicte erigende ecclesie certo modo tune expresso dis- 
 tribueretur. Ex hoc non solum in capella postquam in collegi- 
 atam ecclesiam ac in ea dignitates et canonicatus et prebende 
 et alia officia huiusmodi erecta seu instituta et dicti sex pueri
 
 44 REGISTRUM 
 
 et instituti forent sed eciam in de Dunbar ac alijs ecclesijs 
 et beneficiis uniendis predictis diuinus cultus augmentum 
 susciperet et ipse Jacobus Eex eciam alia bona patrimonialia 
 ualoris annul quingentarum librarum uel circa monete Scocie 
 pro premissis assignaret ac pro parte dicti Jacob! Eegis eidem 
 predecessor! humiliter supplicato ut in premissis oportune 
 prouidere de benignitate apostolica dignaretur et dictus pre- 
 decessor eiusdem Jacob! Eegis in ea parte supplicacionibus 
 tune inclinatus Sancte crucis et de Scona Sanctiandree diocesis 
 raonasteriorum abbatibus ac archidiacono Laudonie in ecclesia 
 Sanctiandree eorum propriis nominibus non expressis suis 
 litteris dederat in mandatis quatenus si erat ita eandem capellam 
 postquam prefatus Jacobus Eex alia bona immobilia ualoris 
 quingentarum librarum monete Scocie huiusmodi cum effectu 
 pro premissis assignasset in collegiatam ecclesiam cum com- 
 muni archa sigillo capitulo et aliis insigniis collegialibus et 
 in ea dictam preposituram in decanatum dignitatem principalem 
 pro tune et pro tempore existente preposito dicte ecclesie beate 
 Marie qui eciam decanus in eadem erigenda ecclesia existeret 
 et vnum subdecanatum pro uno subdecano qui uices eiusdem 
 decani eciam modo et forma tune expressis suppleret ac sacris- 
 tiam et sedecim canonicatus et prebendas et sex pueros clericos 
 qui eciam certo modo tune expresso diuina officia celebrarent 
 et decantarent erigerent et instituerent ac dicte ecclesie erigende 
 postquam erecta foret dicte de Dunbar et aliarum collegiatarum 
 ecclesiarum predicte seu aliarum diocesium canonicatus et 
 prebendas ac perrochiales ecclesias et alia beneficia ecclesiastica 
 cum cura et sine cura iuris patronatus ipsius Eegis seu aliorum 
 laicorum ualoris annui duarum rnillium librarum monete pre- 
 dicte de consensu Jacob! Eegis et aliorum laicorum predictorum 
 respectiue unirent annecterent et incorporarent ac congmam 
 porcionem tarn pro uicarijs curatorum beneficiorum quam pro 
 presbiteris ydoneis qui canonicatibus et prebendis ac aliis 
 beneficiis sine cura vniendis deseruirent assignarent sub certis 
 modo et forma eciam tune expressis pro parte Jacob! Eegis 
 prefati ac dilectorum filiorum decani et capituli dicte erecte 
 ecclesie eidem predecessor! eciam exposito quod tune abbas
 
 CAPELL^ REGLE STKIVELINENSIS. 45 
 
 monasterij de Scona et Archidiaconus Laudonie huiusmodi ad 
 execucionem earurndem litterarum alias illorum forma seruata 
 procedentes quia ita esse reperierant dictam capellam postquam 
 prefatus Jacobus Eex de suis bonis patrimonialibus certa bona 
 immobilia tune expressa ualoris annul quingentarum librarura 
 monete Socie pro dote dicte erigende ecclesie et alias iuxta 
 dictarum litterarum tenorem assignauerat in collegiatam ec- 
 clesiam et in ea dictam preposituram in decanatum dignitatem 
 principalem subdecanatum sacristiam et sedecim canonicatus et 
 totidem prebendas ac sex pueros clericos alias iuxta tenorem 
 earumdein litterarum erexerant et instituerant ac inter alia de 
 Balmaclellane et de Foresta ac de Buytt necnon de Ellam Foresta. 
 Glasguensis ac Sodorensis et dicte Sanctiandree diocesium per- 
 rocliiales ecclesias necnon Eectoriam et Archipresbiteratum et 
 de Dunse ac de Beltoun et de Spott necnon de Pynkartoun 
 nuncupates dicte ecclesie Dunbar canonicatus et prebendas qui 
 iuris patronatus prefati Eegis existebant de ipsius Jacobi Eegis 
 consensu eidem erecte ecclesie pro illius dote et ministris seu 
 personis eius perpetuo unierant annexerant et incorporauerant 
 ac quod fructus redditus et prouentus canonicatus et de Creyff 
 nuncupate prebende ecclesie Dunkeldensis quinquaginta libras 
 Sterlingorum ualebant annuatim et s; reseruatis ex fructibus 
 canonicatus et prebende de Creiff huiusmodi triginta marchis 
 monete Scocie pro obtinente pro tempore eosdem canonicatum 
 et prebendam de Creiff residuum fructuum eorumdem dicte 
 erecte ecclesie perpetuo applicaretur et appropriaretur profecto 
 ex hoc canonicorum numerus in dicta ecclesia Dunkeldense non 
 minueretur et eciam huiusmodi canonicatum et prebendam de 
 Creyff pro tempore obtinens ex residuo fructuum qui ei re- 
 manerent se commode sustentare posset ac eciam decanus sub- 
 decanus sacrista et cantor ac alie persone dicte erecte ecclesie 
 aliquod subuencionis auxilium pro eorum commodiori susten- 
 tacione reciperet dictus predecessor ipsorum Jacobi Eegis ac 
 decani et capituli in ea parte supplicacionibus tune inclinatus 
 dicte capelle in collegiatam ecclesiam et in ea decanatus sub- 
 decanatus sacriste sedecim canonicatuum et totidem prebenda- 
 rum necnon sex puerorum predictorum erectionem et instituci-
 
 46 REGISTRUM 
 
 onem ac eidem ecclesie pro eius ac decanatus subdecanatus 
 sacristie canon icatuum et prebendarum huiusmodi dote et 
 decani subdecani sacriste canonicorum et puerorura ac aliarum 
 personarum dicte ecclesie sustentacione applicacioneni bonorum 
 et Eectorie et Archipresbiteratus nuncupatorum ac singulorum 
 aliorum canonicatuum et prebendarum dicte ecclesie de Dunbar 
 ac aliorum beneficiorum curatorum et non curatorum unionem 
 annexionem et incorporacionem factas predictas et alia per 
 dictos Abbatem de Scoiia et Archidiaconum statuta ordinata 
 facta et executa auctoritate apostolica per quasdem approbauit 
 et confirmauit ac per alias suas litteras in dicta erecta ecclesia 
 unam cantoriam que inibi dignitas ante sacristiam et similiter 
 de iure patronatus ipsius Eegis eciam pro tempore existentis 
 existeret pro uno cantore qui similiter ex dictis sedecim canonicis 
 esset et ad illam prefato decano per dictum Eegem nominaretur 
 et per eum institueretur eadem auctoritate apostolica sine alicuius 
 preiudicio erexit et reseruatis pro canonico dictos canonicatum 
 et prebendam de Creyff obtinente triginta marchis eiusdem 
 monete Scocie residues fructus redditus et prouentus dictoruin 
 canonicatus et prebende de Creyff, eidem erecte ecclesie seu 
 illius mense capitulari eadem auctoritate perpetuo applicauit 
 et appropriauit ac residues huiusmodi fructus ab eisdem canoni- 
 catu et prebenda de Creyff perpetuo dimembrauit et separauit. 
 Ita que exceptis triginta marchis pro obtinente canonicatum et 
 prebendam de Creiff huiusmodi reseruatis liceret decano et 
 capitulo prefatis cedente uel decedente canonicatum et pre- 
 bendam de Creiff huiusmodi obtinente residuum fructuum 
 reddituum et prouentuum canonicatus et prebende de Creyff 
 huiusmodi propria auctoritate libere apprehendere et in suos 
 et ecclesie erecte huiusmodi usus et utilitatem conuertere 
 diocesani loci et cuiusuis alterius licencia super hoc minime 
 requisita certis desuper executoribus prout in singulis litteris 
 predictis desuper respectiue confectis plenius continetur. Cum 
 autem sicut exhibita nobis nuper pro parte Jacobi Eegis ac 
 decani et capituli predictorum petitio continebat unio predicta 
 quoad canonicatus et prebendas dicte ecclesie de Dunbar et 
 quoad de Balmaclellane et de Foresta ac de Buytt necnon de
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 47 
 
 Ellam ecclesias perrochiales ac eciam applicacio residui fructuum 
 canonicatus et prebende de Creiff huiusmodi non dum effectum 
 sortite fuerint et pro eo quia reuocaciones unionum et incorpor- 
 acionum effectum non sortitarum tarn a pie memorie Pio Papa 
 III. eciam predecessore nostro quam eciam postmodum a nobis 
 ad summum apostolicatus apicem assumptis emanauerint Et 
 propterea decanus et capitulum prefati dubitent effectu unionis 
 annexionis et incorporacionis ac applicacionis et appropriacionis 
 predictorum frustrari posse. Pro parte eorumdem Jacobi Regis 
 ac decani et capituli nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut in 
 premissis oportune prouidere de benignitate apostolica dignare- 
 nnir. Nos qui dudum inter alia uolumus quo*d petentes beneficia 
 ecclesiastica alijs uniri tenerentur exprimere uerum annuum 
 ualorem secundum communem extimacionem tam beneficij uniti 
 quam eius cui aliud uniri peteretur alioquin unio non ualeret 
 et semper in unionibus commissio fieret ad partes uocatis quorum 
 interesse decanum et capitulum prefatos ac ipsius capituli 
 singulares personas a quibuscunque excommunicacionis sus- 
 pensionis et interdicti alijsque ecclesiasticis sentenciis censuris 
 et penis a iure uel ab homine quauis occasione uel causalitatis 
 si quibus quomodolibet innodati existunt ad effectum presencium 
 dumtaxat consequendum harum serie absoluentes et absolutos 
 fore censentes ac fructuum reddituum et prouentuum mense 
 capitularis necnon canonicatuum et prebendarum ecclesie de 
 Dunbar ac de Balmaclellane et de Buytt necnon de Foresta et 
 Ellam perrochialium ecclesiarum ac residui canonicatus et pre- 
 bende de Creyff predictorum ueros ualores annuos presentibus 
 pro expressis habentes huiusmodi supplicacionibus inclinati 
 priores litteras predictas quoad unionem annexionem et incor- 
 poraciouem predictas quoad canonicatus et prebendas dicte 
 ecclesie de Dunbar ac de Balmaclellane et Foresta necnon de 
 Buytt et Ellam perrochiales ecclesias necnon applicacionem 
 residui fructuum dictorum canonicatus et prebende de Creiff 
 dicte erecte ecclesie ac desuper confectas litteras cum omnibus 
 et singulis in eis contentis clausulis. Ipsosque decamim et 
 capitulum quoad illarum consequendum effectum in pristimim 
 et eum statum in quo aritequain reuocaciones huiusmodi union uin
 
 48 REGISTRUM 
 
 cJTectum non sortitarum ab eodem pio predecessore et a nobis 
 oiuauurent quoinodolibet existebant eadem auctoritate apostolica 
 tenore presentium restituimus reponimus et plenarie reintegramus 
 ac pro pociori cautela ipsos canonicatus et prebendas dicte 
 ecclesie de Dunbar ac easdem de Balmaclellane et de Foresta ac 
 de Buytt necnon de Ellam perrochiales ecclesias alias sub modo 
 et forma in prioribus litteris contentis eidem erecte ecclesie 
 auctoritate et tenore predictis de nouo perpetuo unimus annecti- 
 mus et incorporamus ac residuum fructuum dictorum canonicatus 
 et prebende de Creyff eidem eciam erecte ecclesie applicatum et 
 appropriatum eciam perpetuo applicamus et appropriamus. 
 Itaque cedentibus liel decedentibus dicte ecclesie de Dunbar 
 canonicis et de Creiff unitos canonicatus et prebendas ac uni- 
 tarum ecclesiarum rectoribus perrochiales ecclesias huiusmodi 
 respectiue obtinentibus liceat eisdem decano et capitulo cor- 
 poralem possessionem vnitorum canonicatuum et prebendarum 
 ac perrochialium ecclesiarum et residuum fructuum applicati et 
 appropriati huiusmodi alias iuxta tenorem litterarurn predic- 
 tarum propria auctoritate libere apprehend ere et perpetuo 
 retinere ac iuxta tenorem litterarum earumdem in suos et 
 erecte ecclesie huiusmodi usus et utilitatem conuertere non 
 obstantibus uoluntate nostra predicta et alijs apostolicis 
 constitucionibus ac Dunkeldensis et de Dunbar necnon erecte 
 ecelesiarum predictarum iuramento confirmacione apostolica uel 
 quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus ac 
 omnibus illis que dictus Alexander predecessor in prefatis 
 litteris uoluit non obstare ceterisque contrary's quibuscumque. 
 Nulli ergo omnino hominurn liceat hanc paginam nostre absolu- 
 cionis restitucionis reposicionis reintegracionis unionis annexionis 
 incorporacionis applicacionis et appropriacionis infringere uel ei 
 ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare pre- 
 sumpserit indignacionem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri et 
 Pauli apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum. Datum Rome 
 apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice millesimo 
 quingentesimo quarto Pridie nonas Junij Pontificatus nostri 
 anno primo.
 
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 6. CONSTITUCIO PROCURATORUM AD PRESTANDUM CONSENSUM 
 RECTORIS VNIONI DE KlRKYNNER ET AD RESIGNANDUM POST 
 VNIONEM FACTAM. 
 
 IN DEI NOMINE AMEN. Per hoc presens publicum instrumen- 
 tum cunctis pateat euidenter Quod anno incarnacionis dominice 
 millesimo quingentesimo tercio mensis uero Decembris die nona 
 indictione septima Pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo patris et 
 domini nostri domini Julij diuina prouidencia Pape secundi 
 anno primo in mei notarij publici et testium subscriptorum pre- 
 sencia personaliter constitutus egregius uir Magister Jacobus 
 Betoune Eector de Kyrkynnere Candidecase diocesis dixit et 
 asseruit quod perrochialis ecclesia de Kyrkynnere ad presenta- 
 cionem siue ius patronatus venerabilium et religiosorum nos- 
 trorum prioris et conuentus ecclesie Candidecase ac ad institu- 
 cionem siue collacionem episcopi ordinarij eiusdem pro tempore 
 existentis pertinere dinoscitur et pertinet Et cum Eeuerendus in 
 Christo pater et dominus dominus Georgeus miseracione diuina 
 episcopus Candidecase modernus ex certis causis racionabilibus 
 animum suum ad hoc moventibus dictam ecclesiam perrochialem 
 de Kyrkynnere cum suis iuribus et uniuersis pertinenciis de 
 consensu et assensu sui capituli uidelicet dictorum Prioris et 
 conuentus ecclesie collegiate beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis 
 alias capelle regie situate infra castrum de Striuelyng Sancti- 
 andree diocesis sub certis modo et forma pro perpetuo unire 
 annectere et incorporare nuper intendit Ideoque idem magister 
 Jacobus non vi aut metu ductus nee errore lapsus sed sua mera 
 pura et spontanea uoluntate ut asseruit omnibus melioribus 
 modo uia et forma quibus melius et efficacius potuit et debuit 
 fecit constituit creauit nominauit et solenniter ordinauit ac 
 tenore presentis publici instrumenti facit constituit creat nominat 
 et solempniter ordinat venerabiles et circumspectos uiros magis- 
 tros Dauid Abircrommye subdecanum ecclesie cathedralis Dun- 
 keldensis Fergusium Makdowel officialem Candidecase Jacobum 
 Akynheide et Johannem Abercrommye et eorum quemlibet in 
 solidum suos ueros legittimos et indubitatos procuratores actores 
 
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 50 REGISTRUM 
 
 factores et negociorum suorum gestores ac nuncios speciales et 
 generates Dans et concedens dictis suis procuratoribus et eorum 
 cuilibet insolidum suam ueram liberam puram et expressaui potes- 
 tatem ac mandatum speciale et generale pro se et nomine suo 
 citato nel non citato coram dicto reuerendo in Christo patre et 
 domino quibuscumque diebus et locis comparendum ad uidendum 
 et audiendum dictas annexionem unionem et incorporacionem 
 prefate ecclesie perrochialis cum suis iuribus fructibusetpertinen- 
 ciis per dictum reuerendum patrem de sua ordinaria potestate de 
 consensu et assensu dictorum Prioris et conuentus ecclesie col- 
 legiate alias capelle regie de Striuelyng fieri et compleri ac eciani 
 ad dandum et prestandum ex certa sciencia pro se et nomine 
 suo suum liberum et purum consensum et assensum eciam in 
 suum preiudicium dictis annectioni vnioni et incorporacioni et 
 ipsas annectionem unionem et incorporaciouem approbandum 
 recipiendum et ratificandum Et postquam huiusmodi unio annec- 
 tacio et incorporacio ut predicitur iure ordinario facta fuerit ad 
 dictam perrocliialeni ecclesiam de Kyrkynner ac omne ius et 
 iuris titulum quod habet in eadem atit habere poterit in futuruni 
 tarn in petitorio quam in possessorio in presencia dicti reuerendi 
 patris aut extra suam presenciam seu coram notario et testibus 
 prout melius videbitur expedire simpliciter dimittendum et 
 renunciandum uecnon ad iurandum in an imam dicti domini 
 constituentis quod in dictis suis consensu et assensu approba- 
 cione ratificacione recepcione dimissione seu renunciacione non 
 interuenit neque interueniet fraus dolus decepcio Synioniaca 
 labes seu queuis alia pactio illicita Processus litteras instrumen- 
 tuni seu instrumenta desuper petendum levandum et optinendum. 
 Et generaliter omnia alia et singula faciendum gerendum et 
 exercendum que in premissis et circa ea necessaria fuerint seu 
 oportuua et que ipsemet dominus constituens faceret seu facere 
 posset si in premissis omnibus et singulis presens personaliter 
 interesset. Promisit insuper idem dominus constituens michi 
 notario publico subscripto stipulanti et recipienti uice et nomine 
 omnium et singulorum quorum interest intererit aut interesse 
 poterit se ratum gratum firmum atque stabile habendum et 
 habituruin totum id et quicquid dicti sui procurators plures
 
 : REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 51 
 
 aut unus in premissis seu premissorum aliquo duxerint seu dux- 
 erit faciendum sub ypotheca et obligacione omnium bonorum suo- 
 rum presencium et futurorum. Super quibus omnibus et singulis 
 prefatus dominus constituens a me notario publico subscripto sibi 
 fieri petiit hoc presens publicum instrumentum seu publica instru- 
 menta Acta erant hec in ecclesia beati Egidij de Edinburgh hora 
 undecima ante meridiem aut eo circa sub anno die mense indic- 
 tione et pontificatu quibus supra Presentibus ibidem prouidis uiris 
 Koberto Wardlaw Johanne Maxwall et Jacobo Lermonthe cum 
 diuersis alijs testibus ad premissa uocatis pariter et rogatis. 
 
 Et ego Georgeus Newtoune presbiter Glasguensis dio- 
 cesis publicus auctoritatibus imperial! et regali nota- 
 rius quia dictorum procuratorum constitucioni nomi- 
 nacioni potestatis dacioni et ratihabicioni ceterisque pre- 
 missis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur 
 dicere'ntur agerentur et fierent una cum prenominatis 
 testibus presens interfui eaque omnia et singula sic fieri 
 et dici vidi et audiui ac in notam recepi Ideoque hoc 
 presens publicum instrumentum manu aliena scriptum 
 exinde confeci et in hanc publicam formam redegi signo- 
 que et nomine meis solitis et consuetis signaui rogatus 
 et requisitus in fidem et testimonium premissorum. Neutoun 
 
 7. INSTRUMENTUM PUBLICUM SUPER KESIGNACIONE 
 DE KYRKYNNER. 
 
 IN DEI NOMINE AMEN. Per hoc presens publicum instrumentum 
 cunctis pateat euidenter quod anno incarnacionis dominice 
 millesimo quingentesimo tercio mensis uero Januarij die duode- 
 cima pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri 
 domini Julij diuina prouidencia Pape secundi anno prime in 
 mei notarij publici et testium subscriptorum presencia per- 
 sonaliter coustitutus venerabilis vir magister David Abircrummy 
 subdecanus ecclesie Dunkeldensis procurator et eo nomine ad 
 infrascripta eciam venerabilis uiri magistri Jacobi Betoune 
 Kectoris ecclesie perrochialis de Kyrkynnere Candidecase
 
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 diocesis tenens manualiter quoddam instrumentum publicum 
 manu discreti uiri Georgei Newtoune presbitri ac notarij public! 
 Glasguensis diocesis super dicto mandate procuratorio confectum 
 et subscriptum Idem dominus procurator et eo nomine dixit et 
 asseruit quod reuerendus in Christo pater et dominus dominus 
 Georgeus episcopus ecclesie Candidecase de consensu et assensu 
 capituli sui scilicet prioris et conuentus eiusdem ecclesie Candide- 
 case ac prefati magistri Jacobi Betoune dictam ecclesiam perro- 
 chialem de Kyrkynner cum suis iuribus et vniuersis pertinen- 
 ciis ad dictam ecclesiam collegiatam beate Marie et Sancti 
 Michaelis alias Capelle Eegie situate infra castrum de Striuelyng 
 Sanctiandree diocesis ex causis racionabilibus animum suum ad 
 hoc mouentibus sub certis modo et forma iure ordinario uniuit 
 et perpetuo incorporauit prout in processibus et euidenciis 
 desuper confectis ad plenum continetur Ideoque idem dominus 
 procurator procuratorio nomine prefati magistri Jacobi Betoune 
 uigore dicti instrument! publici sufficientem potestatem habens 
 prout michi notario publico luculenter constabat omnibus 
 melioribus via iure et modo quibus potuit dictam ecclesiam 
 perrochialem de Kyrkynner coram me uotario publico et testi- 
 bus subscriptis pure et simpliciter dimisit ac omni iuri et iuris 
 titulo tarn in possessorio quam petitorio per eundem magistrum 
 Jacobum Betoun in huiusmodi ecclesia de Kyrkynnere habitis 
 in manu eciam mei notarij publici uoluntarie renunciauit Super 
 quibus omnibus et singulis prefatis magister Dauid Abir- 
 crummye a me notario publico subscripto sibi fieri petiit vnum 
 aut plura publicum seu publica instrumentum aut instruments 
 Acta erant hec in hospicio Alexandri Leuingstoune infra Burgum 
 de Striuelyng hora prirna post meridiem aut eacirca sub anno 
 die mense indictione et pontificatu quibus supra. Presentibus 
 ibidem prouidis viris Alexandra Leuyngstoune Jacobo Watsone 
 Dauid Braide Johanne Abircrummye et dominis Jacobo 
 Fransche Johanne Gourlay capellanis cum diuersis alijs testi- 
 bus ad premissa uocatis specialiter atque rogatis. 
 
 Et Ego Thomas Kyrkaldy presbiter Sancti andree diocesis 
 sacra autoritate apostolica notarius dictum mandatum 
 procuratorium vidi tenui et diligenter consideraui ac
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STKIVKLINENSIS. 53 
 
 prefati procurations assercioni diinissioni renuuciacioni 
 ceterisque omnibus et singulis dum sic ut premittitur 
 agerentur dicerentur et fierent una cum prenominatis 
 testibus presens interim eaque omnia et singula sic fieri 
 vidi sciui et audiui ac in notam recepi Indeque presens 
 publicum instrumentum manu mea propria scriptum in 
 hanc publicam formam redegi signoque ac nomine meis 
 solitis et consuetis signaui Eogatus et requisitus in fidem 
 
 ac testimonium omnium et singulorum premissorum. Thomas 
 
 Kyrkaldye. 
 
 8. COMMISSIO AD ERIGENDUM THESAURARIAM ET DECEM 
 CANONICATUS ET PREBENDAS. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI dilectis filiis do 
 Dunfennlyne et de Scona ac de Cambuskynneth Sanctiandree 
 diocesis monasteriorum abbatibus salutem et apostolicam bene- 
 dictionem Admonet nos suscepti cura regiminis ut uotis singu- 
 lorum Christi fidelium presertim catholicoruni regum per que 
 diuinus cultus et ministrorum numerus in ecclesiis quibuslibet 
 augmentum suscipiant libenter annuamus ac ea fauoribus prose- 
 quamur oportunus exhibita siquidem nobis nuper pro parte 
 carissimi in Christo filij nostri Jacobi Scotorum regis illustris 
 ac dilectorum filiorum decani et capituli ecclesie beate Marie 
 et Sancti Michaelis opidi de Stirlyng Sanctiandree diocesis 
 peticio continebat quod cum alias auctoritate quarumdem 
 litterarum felicis recordacionis Alexandri Pape VI. predecessoris 
 nostri dicta ecclesia tune capella regia nuncupata in collegiatam 
 ecclesiam et prepositura ecclesie beate Marie de rupe Sancti- 
 andree que inibi dignitas principalis et de iure patronatus 
 prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Scotorum Eegis ex pri- 
 uilegio apostolico existebat et ad eius meram collacionem ex 
 simili priuilegio pertinebat eciam in decanatum eiusdem erecte 
 ecclesie qui inibi dignitas eciam principalis existeret pro vno 
 decano qui alijs eiusdem erigende ecclesie personis preesset et 
 dum in eadem beate Marie in ilia prepositus dum uero in erecta 
 ecclesia resideret in ilia decanus existat et vnus subdecanus qui
 
 54 REGISTEUM 
 
 inibi dignitas secunda pro uno subdecano qui dicti decani certo 
 uiodo tune expresso uices suppleret ac vna cantoria que inibi 
 tercia dignitas ac vna sacristia que inibi officium seu adminis- 
 tracio existant pro vno sacrista qui curam iocaliurn dicte 
 note de sa- ecclesie liabeat necnon sedecim canonicatus et totidem pre- 
 li'e pueris. bende pro sedecim canonicis in cantu et alijs sufficienter 
 instructis ac sex pueri clerici similiter in cantu conipetenter 
 instructi seu ut instruerentur apti et ydonei qui in eadem eri- 
 genda ecclesia diuina officia diurna pariter et nocturna certo 
 modo tune expresso ad Dei laudem et pro ipsius Jacobi Eegis 
 eiusque antecessorum et successorum animarum salute decantare 
 et celebrare et alias eidem ecclesie in diuinis iuxta prouidam 
 ipsius Jacobi regis ordinacionem desuper apostolica auctoritate 
 factam deseruire tenentur erecti et instituti fuerint et certi 
 redditus annui certorum beneficiorum ecclesiasticorum ac alia 
 beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura iuris patronatus ipsius regis seu 
 aliorum laicorum quorum fructus redditus et prouentus ad 
 duo milia valorem duarum millium librarum monete Scocie quingentas 
 libras sterlingorum uel circa constituentium dumtaxat ascendunt 
 annuatim de consensu dicti Jacobi Eegis eidem erecte ecclesie 
 pro illius dote ac decani subdecani cantoris sacriste canonicomm 
 et puerorum predictorum sustentacione sub certis modo et 
 forma vnita annexa et incorporata ac applicati et appropriati 
 fuerint et ipse Jacobus Eex eciam alia bona patrimonialia 
 valoris annui quingentarum librarum uel circa monete Scocie 
 pro premissis assignauerit ac ius patronatus et presentacio 
 decano dicte erecte ecclesie pro tempore existenti de personis 
 ydoneis ad subdecanatum cantoriam sacristiam canonicatus et 
 prebendas predictas tarn ea uice a primeua eorum erectione 
 quam quociens uacarent per dictum decanum instituendas eidem 
 Jacobo et pro tempore existenti Eegi Scotorum litterarum pre- 
 dictarum uigore reseruatum et concessum fuerit et postmodum 
 perrochialis ecclesia de Kyrkynner Candidecase diocesis que ad 
 presentacionem dilectorurn filiorum Prioris et capituli ecclesie 
 Candidecase Premonstratensis ordinis pertinebat de consensu 
 prioris et capituli ecclesie Candidecase predictorum eidem erecte 
 ecclesie ordinaria auctoritate perpetuo vnita annexa et incor-
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STEIVELINENSIS. 55 
 
 porata ac huiusmodi vnio effectum sortita fuerint et prefatus 
 Jacobus Rex in recompensam dicte perrochialis ecclesie de 
 Kyrkynner perrochialein ecclesiam de Kyrkandris dicte Candide- 
 case diocesis que iuris patronatus ipsius regis existebat et que 
 prius dicte ecclesie collegiate unita fuerat licet huiusmodi vnio 
 ex certis causis effectum sortita non fuit prefatis priori et 
 capitulo ecclesie Candidecase in perpetuam elimosinam conces- 
 serit et huiusmodi concessio dicta ordinaria auctoritate appro- 
 bata et confirmata fuerit. Et si in dicta erecta ecclesia vna 
 thesauraria que inibi dignitas postdictam cantoriam existeret thesau- 
 pro uno Thesaurario et decem alij seu pauciores canonicatus et rana " 
 totidem prebende pro totidem canonicis qui vnacum decano 
 can tore sacrista et alijs canonicis prefatis iuxta modum et 
 formain in prioribus litteris traditas et contentas in eadem 
 erecta ecclesia in diuinis deseruire tenerentur. Et ipse thesau- thesaurari- 
 rarius pro prebenda sua qualem cantor seu aliam porcionem per 
 
 decanum et capitulum prefatos de consensu regis prefati statu- qualem 
 
 , r ,. , ' . .,., v . , . cantor. 
 
 endam seu ordmandam et similiter alij decem seu pauciores 
 canonici instituendi equales prebendas sen porciones quales alij 
 sedecim canonici percipiunt seu per decanum et capitulum pre- 
 fatos de consensu ipsius regis statuendam perciperent profecto 
 ex hoc in ipsa erecta ecclesia dignitatum et canonicorum ac 
 ministrorum numerus augeretur ad ipsius erecte ecclesie decorem 
 et diuini cultus augmentum ac eciam fructus dicte ecclesie de 
 Kyrkynnere unacum aliis bonis per dictum regem assignatis et 
 alijs fructibus predictis eiderri ecclesie applicatis sufficerent ut 
 Thesaurarius et alij decem seu pauciores canonici predicti 
 equalem porcionem cum cantore et aliis canonicis predictis 
 respectiue seu aliam congruentem porcionem per regem et 
 capitulum prefatos prouide statuendam et ordinandam percipere 
 posent. Quare pro parte Jacobi regis ac decani et capituli 
 predictorum nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut in dicta erecta 
 ecclesia vnam thesaurariam que inibi quarta dignitas existat pro 
 uno thesaurario et alios decem seu pauciores prout Jacobus 
 rex ac decanus et capitulum prefati expedire cognouerint canoni- 
 catus et totidem prebendas qui et dicta thesauraria similiter de 
 jure patronatus Jacobi prefati et pro tempore existentis Scotorum
 
 56 UEGISTKUM 
 
 regis existant erigere et instituere ac alias in premissis oportune 
 prouidere de benignitate apostolica dignaremur Nos igitur qui 
 ecclesiarum quarumlibet decorem sinceris desideramus affecti- 
 bus de premissis certain noticiam non habentes ac decanum et 
 capitulum prefatos ipsiusque capituli singulares personas a 
 quibuscumque excommunicacionis suspensionis et interdicti 
 alijsque ecclesiasticis sentenciis censuris et penis a iure vel ab 
 honiine quauis occasione uel causa latis si quibus quomodolibet 
 innodati existunt ad effectum presentium dumtaxat consequen- 
 dum harum serie absoluentes et absolutes fore censentes 
 huiusmodi supplicacionibus inclinati discrecioni vestre per 
 apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus si est ita in dicta erecta 
 vnam thesaurariam que inibi quarta dignitas existat pro uno 
 thesaurario et alios decem seu pauciores prout Jacobus Rex et 
 decanus et capitulum prefati expedire cognouerint canonicatus 
 et totidem prebendas qui et dicta tbesauraria tarn hac vice pri- 
 nieua ab eoriim erectione quam quociens uacabunt similiter de 
 iure patronatus Jacobi prefati et pro tempore existentis regis 
 Scotorum existant pro totidem canonicis qui thesaurarius et 
 canonici equalem quoad thesaurariam qualem cantor et decem 
 canonici aliorum decem canonicatuum et prebendarum erigen- 
 dorum huiusmodi quales alij sedecim canonici predict! perci- 
 piunt aut alias congruentes per eosdem decanum et capitulum 
 de consensu prefati Jacobi regis statuendas et ordinandas seu 
 limitandas prebendas seu porciones ex fructibus redditibus 
 et prouentibus mense capitularis dicte erecte ecclesie seu illi 
 vnitorum beneficiorum percipiant ac eciam eisdem prerogatiuis 
 immunitatibus exempcionibus et priuilegiis vtantur pociantur et 
 gaudeant quibus alij dignitates ac canonicatus et prebendas in 
 eadem erecta ecclesia obtinentes vtantur pociuntur et gaudent 
 ac vti potiri et gaudere poterunt quomodolibet in futurum 
 erigere instituere sine alicuius preiudicio auctoritate nostra 
 curetis non obstantibus constitucionibus et ordinacionibus 
 apostolicis ac dicte erecte ecclesie iuramento confirmacione 
 apostolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consue- 
 tudinibus ceterisque contrariis quibuscumque Datum Rome 
 Apud Sauctum Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice millesimo
 
 CAPELLjE REGDE STRIVELINENSIS. 57 
 
 quingentesimo quarto pridie nonas Juuij Pontificatus nostri 
 anno primo. 
 
 9. CONFIRMACIO VNIONIS ECCLESIE DE KlRKYNNER. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI Ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam exposcit iniunctum nobis desuper apostolice seruitutis 
 officium ut eaque pro ecclesiarum quarumlibet presertim colle- 
 giatarum insignium et personarum in illis diuinis officiis Domino 
 psallentium commoditatibus et utilitate facta fuisse dicuntur 
 ut in sua ualiditate persistant cum a nobis petitur apostolico 
 munimine roboremus exhibita siquidem nobis nuper pro parte 
 carissimi in Christo filii nostri Jacobi Scotorum Eegis illustris 
 ac dilectorum filiorum decani et capituli ecclesie beate Marie 
 et Sancte Michaelis opidi de Sterlyng Sanctiandree diocesis 
 peticio continebat quod cum ipse Jacobus perrochialem ecclesiam 
 de Kyrkandris Candidecase diocesis que de jure patronatus 
 ipsius Jacobi Eegis existebat et alias dicte ecclesie de Stirlyng 
 vnita fuerat licet ipsa unio effectum sortita non fuerit delectis 
 filiis priori et capitulo candide case ecclesie premonstratensis 
 ordinis in perpetuam elimosinam concessisset et proprietatem 
 ac huiusmodi concessio ordinaria auctoritate confirmata fuisset 
 venerabilis frater noster Georgeus episcopus Candidecase perro- 
 chialem ecclesiam de Kyrkynner dicte Candidecase diocesis que 
 dum pro tempore uacabat presentacionem prioris capitulique 
 predictorum pertinebat de eorumdem Prioris et capituli ac dilecti 
 filij Jacobi Betone tune dicte ecclesie de Kyrkynner rectoris 
 consensu dicte ecclesie de Sterlyng seu eius mense capitulari 
 perpetuo uniuit annexuit et incorporauit Ita quod dicto Jacobo 
 Betone cedente uel decedente seu alias dictam ecclesiam de 
 Kyrkynner quomodolibet dimittente liceret eisdem decano et 
 capitulo prefate ecclesie de Sterlyng per se uel alium seu alios 
 corporalem possessionem dicte ecclesie de Kyrkynner propria 
 auctoritate libere apprehendere et retinere. Et cum postmodum 
 ipse Jacobus Betoun ad effectum unionis huiusmodi dictam 
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 dimississet ipsi decanus et capitulum possessionem dicte ecclesie 
 de Kyrkynner assecuti fuerint. Quare pro parte eorumdem 
 Jacob! Eegis ac decani et capituli dicte ecclesie de Stirlyng 
 asserentium fructus redditus et prouentus dicte ecclesie de 
 Kyrkynnere octuaginta librarum Sterlingorum secundum com- 
 munera extimacionem ualorern aiimium non excedere nobis fuit 
 humiliter supplicatum vt vnioni annexioni et incorporacioni 
 predictis pro illarum subsisteiicia firmiori robore apostolice 
 confirmacionis adicere aliasque in premissis oportune prouidere 
 de benignitate apostolica dignaremur. Nos igitur qui dudum 
 inter alia volumus quod petentes beneficia ecclesiastica alijs 
 uniri tenerentur exprimere uerum annuum ualorem secundum 
 extimacionem predictam eciam beneficij cui aliud uniri peteretur 
 alioquin unio non ualeret et semper in vnionibus commissio 
 fieret ad partes uocatis quorum interesset et idem obseruaretur 
 in confirmacionibus unionum iam factarum decanum et capitulum 
 ecclesie de Sterlyng liuiusmodi ipsiusque capituli singulares 
 personas a quibuscumque excommunicacionis suspensionis et 
 interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sentenciis censuris et penis a 
 iure uel ab homine quauis occasione uel causa latis si quibus 
 quomodolibet innodati existunt ad effectum presentium dum- 
 taxat consequendum harum serie absoluentes et absolutos fore 
 censentes necnon fructuum reddituum et prouentuum mense 
 capitularis dicte ecclesie de Sterlyng uerum annuum ualorem 
 presentibus pro expresso habentes huiusmodi supplicacionibus 
 inclinati unionem annexionem et incorporacionem ecclesie de 
 Kyrkynner huiusmodi auctoritate apostolica tenore presentium 
 approbamus et confirmamus supplemusque omnes et singulos 
 defectus si qui forsan interuenerint in eisdem. Et nichilominus 
 pro pociori cautela eandem ecclesiam de Kyrkynnere siue ut 
 premittitur siue alias quouismodo aut ex alterius cuiuscumque 
 persona seu per liberam resignacionem dicti Jacobi Betoun uel 
 cuiusuis alterius de ilia extra dictam curiam eciam coram notario 
 publico et testibus sponte factam aut constitucionem felicis 
 recordacionis Johannis Pape XXII. eciam predecessoris nostri que 
 incipit Execrabilis uel assecucionem alterius beneficii eccle- 
 siastici dicta ordinaria auctoritate collati uacet eciam si tanto
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 59 
 
 tempore uacauerit quod eius collacio iuxta Lateranensis statuta 
 concilii ad sedem apostolicam legittime deuoluta ipsaque ecclesia 
 de Kyrkynner disposicioni apostolice specialiter reseruata existat 
 et super ea inter aliquos lis cuius statum presentibus haberi 
 uolumus pro expresso pendeat indecisa dummodo tempore datum 
 presencium non sit in ea alicui specialiter ius quesitum cum 
 omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis eidem ecclesie de Stirlyng 
 de nouo perpetuo unimus annectimus et incorporamus. Ita quod 
 liceat eisdem decano et capitulo eiusdem ecclesie de Stirlyng 
 per se uel aliuni seu alios corporalem possessionem ecclesie de 
 Kyrkynnere iuriumque et pertinenciarum predictorum libere 
 continuare seu de nouo propria auctoritate apprehendere et 
 perpetuo retinere ac illius fructus redditus et prouentus in suos 
 ac de Sterlyng necnon de Kyrkynnere ecclesiarum usus et 
 utilitatem conuertere diocesarn loci et cuiusuis alterius licencia 
 super hoc minime requisita non obstantibus uoluntate nostra 
 predicta ac pie memorie Bonifacii Pape VIII. similiter prede- 
 cessoris nostri et alijs apostolicis constitucionibus necnon ecclesie 
 Candidecase et ordinis predictorum iuramento confirmacione 
 apostolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et con- 
 suetudinibus ac priuilegiis et indultis eidem ordini sub quibus-: 
 cumque tenoribus concessis quibus illorum tenores pro sufficienter 
 expressis habentes hac uice dumtaxat specialiter et expresse 
 derogamus contrariis quibuscumque Aut si aliqui super proui- 
 sionibus sibi faciendis de huiusmodi uel aliis beneficiis eccle- 
 siasticis in illis partibus speciales uel generales dicte sedis uel 
 legatorum eius litteras impetrauerint eciam si per eas ad inhi- 
 bicionem reseruacionem et decretum uel alias quomodolibet sit 
 processum quas quidem litteras et processus habitos per easdem 
 at inde secuta quecumque ad dictam ecclesiam de Kyrkynner 
 aolumus non extendi sed nullum per hoc eis quoad assecucionem 
 beneficiorum aliorum preiudicium generari et quibuslibet alijs 
 indulgenciis et litteris apostolicis generalibus uel specialibus quo- 
 rumcumque tenorum existant per que presentibus non expressa 
 uel totaliter non inserta effectus earum impediri ualeat quomodo- 
 libet uel difTerri de quibus quorumque totis tenoribus de uerbo 
 ad uerbum habenda sit in nostris litteris mencio specialis
 
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 Prouiso quod dicta ecclesia de Kyrkynnere debitis propterea 
 non fraudetur obsequiis et animarum cura in ea nullatenus 
 necligatur sed eius congrue supportentur on era consueta. Nos 
 enim exnunc irritum decernimus et inane si secus super hijs a 
 quo quam quauis auctoritate scienter uel ignoranter contigerit 
 attemptari Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc pagiuani 
 nostre absolucionis approbacionis confirmacionis supplecionis 
 vnionis annexionis incorporacionis voluntatis derogacionis et 
 constitucionis infringere uel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis 
 autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignacionem omnipotentis 
 Dei ac beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum eius se nouerit 
 incursurum Datum Eome apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarna- 
 cionis Dominice millesimo quingentesimo quarto pridie nonas 
 Junii pontificatus nostri anno primo. 
 
 10. APPLICACIO PRIMA FRUCTUUM DE AIRE KINCARDIN CKEIF 
 ET PETTY BRACHLEE. 
 
 ALEXANDER episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam ad ea ex iniuncto nobis desuper apostolice seruitutis 
 officio libenter intendimus per que dignitatibus personisque 
 ecclesiasticis de oportune prouisionis auxilio ualeat salubriter 
 prouideri Dudum siquidem pro parte nobis carissimi in Christo 
 filij nostri Jacobi Scotorum Eegis illustris exposito quod licet 
 in capella regia nuncupata beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis intra 
 palacium ipsius Jacobi regis opidi de Stirlyng Sanctiandree 
 diocesis sita vnus decanus nuncupatus et plures alij cantores et 
 capellani ac clerici missas et alia diuina officia singulis diebus 
 ad libitum ipsius Jacobi Eegis ammouibiles celebrarent Ipseque 
 rex predictam capellam suis sumptibus reformari fecisset ac 
 ornamentis ecclesiasticis pro diuino cultu in eadem necessariis 
 honorifice ornasset et nonnulla bona immobilia pro dote dicte 
 capelle assignasset tamen si dicta capella in collegiatam ecclesiam 
 et prepositura ecclesie beate Marie de Eupe Sanctiandree que 
 inibi dignitas principalis et de iure patronatus prefati Jacobi et 
 pro tempore existentis Scotorum Eegis ex priuilegio apostolico
 
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 existebat et ad eius meram collacionem ex simili priuilegio 
 pertinebat eciam in decanatum eiusdem erigende ecclesie qui 
 inibi dignitas eciam principalis existeret pro uno decano qui 
 alijs eiusdem erigende ecclesie personis preesset et certam tune 
 expressam iurisdictionem in omnes personas dicte erigende 
 ecclesie haberet et dum in eadem beate Marie in ilia prepositus 
 dum uero in erigenda ecclesia resideret in ilia decanus foret et 
 vnus subdecanatus qui in eadem erigenda ecclesia dignitas 
 secunda pro uno subdecano qui dicti decani certo modo tune 
 expresso uices suppleret ac vna sacristia que inibi officium seu 
 administracio existerent pro uno sacrista qui curam iocalium 
 dicte ecclesie haberet necnon sedecim canonicatus et totidem 
 prebende pro sedecim canonicis in cantu et aliis sufficienter 
 instructis ac sex pueri clerici similiter in cantu competenter 
 instruct! seu ut instruerentur apti et ydonei qui in eadem eri- 
 genda ecclesia diuina officia diurna pariter et nocturna certo 
 modo tune expresso ad Dei laudem et pro ipsius Jacobi regis 
 eiusque antecessorum et successorum animarum salute decantare 
 et celebrare et alias eidem erigende ecclesie in diuinis iuxta 
 prouidam ipsius regis ordinacionem faciendam deseruire tene- 
 rentur erigerentur et instituerentur et cum in prioratu de Eos- Prioratus 
 tinot ordinis sancti Augustini dicte diocesis duo canonici residere 
 consueuissent quamuis illius fructus centum uiginti libras ster- 
 lingorum secundum communem exstimacionem ualerent annu- 
 atim et sufficientes essent ad sustentacionem sex et eciam 
 plurium canonicorum dicti ordinis ac in ecclesia de Dunbar 
 eiusdem diocesis canonici pro maiori parte non per se sed prout 
 in multis aliis collegiatis ecclesiis regni Scocie iuxta consue- 
 tudinem eatenus obseruatam per substitutes deseruirent si re- 
 seruata congrua porcione ex fructibus dicti prioratus pro sex 
 canonicis dicti ordinis quorum prior dicti prioratus pro tempore 
 existens unus existeret residuum fructuum dicti prioratus de- 
 canatui et aliis inibi erigendis Subdecanatui et Sacristie ac 
 canonicatibus et prebendis pro decano subdecano sacrista can- 
 onicis et alijs personis dicte erigende ecclesie iuxta ordinacionem 
 prefati Jacobi Kegis perpetuo applicaretur ac canonicus et pre- 
 bende dicte ecclesie de Dunbar qui de iure patronatus ipsius
 
 62 REGISTRUM 
 
 Kegis existebant et alia beneficia ecclesiastica cuin cura et sine 
 cura in ciuitate uel dicta diocesi Sanctiandree seu alias ubilibet 
 consistencia et de iure patronatus ipsius regis seu aliorum 
 laicorum existencia quorum fractus redditus et prouentus ad 
 ualorem duarum millium librarum monete Scocie quingentas 
 libras Sterlingorum uel circa constituencium dumtaxat ascen- 
 derent annuatim et de quibus ipsi Jacobi Regi uideretur de 
 eius et aliorum laicorum patron orum respectiue consensu dicte 
 
 Reseruata erigende ecclesie reseruata ex fructibus curatorum beneficiorum 
 pro uicariis perpetuis eorumdem congrua porcione ex qua se 
 
 perpetuis. commode sustentare iura episcopalia persoluere et alia onera 
 sibi racione beneficiorum curatorum huiusmodi incumbencia 
 supportare possent perpetuo vnirentur annecterentur et incor- 
 porarentur ita quod eciam congrua porcio presbiteris ydoneis qui 
 canonicatibus et prebendis et aliis uniendis sine cura beneficiis 
 in diuinis deseruirent ex fructibus redditibus et prouentibus 
 canonicatuum et prebendarum et sine cura beneficiorum huius- 
 modi quamdiu illis deseruirent percipienda assignaretur et resi- 
 duum deductis huiusmodi jjorcionibus inter decanum subdecanum 
 sacristam et canonicos predictos ac alias personas dicte erigende 
 ecclesie certo modo tune expresso distribuerentur ex hoc non 
 solum in capella postquam in collegiatam ecclesiam ac in ea 
 dignitates ac canonicatus et prebende et alia officia huiusmodi 
 erecta seu instituta et dicti sex pueri instituti forent sed eciam 
 inde Dumbar ac aliis ecclesiis et beneficiis uniendis ac prioratu 
 predictis diuinus cultus augmentum susciperet et ipse Jacobus 
 rex eciam alia bona patrimonialia ualoris annui quingentarum 
 librarum uel circa monete Scocie pro premissis assignaret ac pro 
 parte dicti Jacobi regis nobis tune humiliter supplicati ut in 
 premissis oportune prouidere de benignitate apostolica dignare- 
 mur Nos tune de premissis certain noticiam non habentes eius- 
 dem Jacobi regis in ea parte supplicacionibus inclinati Sancte 
 Crucis et de Scona Sanctiandree diocesis monasteriorum abbatibus 
 ac archidiacono Laudonie in ecclesie Sanctiandree eorum propriis 
 nominibus non expressis aliis nostris litteris dedimus in man- 
 datis quatenus si erat ita eandem capellam postquam prefatus 
 Jacobus Rex alia bona immobilia ualoris annui quingentarum
 
 CAPELL.E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 63 
 
 librarum monete Scocie huiusmodi cum effectu pro premissis 
 assignasset in collegiatam ecclesiam cum communi archa sigillo 
 capitulo et alijs insigniis collegialibus et in ea dictam preposi- 
 turam in decanatum dignitatem principalem pro tune et pro 
 tempore existente preposito dicte ecclesie beate Marie qui eciam 
 decanus in eadem erigenda ecclesia existeret et unum subde- 
 canatum pro uno sub decano qui uices eiusdem decani eciam 
 modo et forma tune expressis haberet ac sacristiam et sedecim 
 canonicatus et prebendas et sex pueros clericos qui eciam certo 
 modo tune expresso diuina officia celebrarent et decantarent 
 erigerent et instituerent ac reseruata congrua porcione pro sex 
 canonicis dicti ordinis qui in eodem prioratu in diuinis deserui- 
 rent et quorum vnus dictus prior existeret ex bonis et fructibus 
 dicti prioratus residuum quod superesset decanatui subdecanatui 
 sacristie ac canonicatibus et prebendis predictis perpetuo appli- 
 carent et appropriarent ac dicte erigende ecclesie postquam 
 erecta foret dicte de Dunbar et aliarum collegiatarum ecclesia- 
 rum predicte seu aliarum diocesium canonicatus et prebendas ac 
 perrochiales ecclesias et alia beneficia ecclesiastica cum cura et 
 sine cura iuris patronatus ipsius Eegis seu aliorum laicorum 
 ualoris annui duarum millium librarum monete predicte de con- 
 sensu Jacobi Regis et aliorum laicorum predictorum respectiue 
 vnirent et incorporarent ac congruam porcionem tarn pro uicariis 
 curatorum beneficiorum quam pro presbitris ydoneis qui canoni- 
 catibus et prebendis et aliis beneficiis sine cura uniendis 
 deseruirent assignarent sub certis modo et forma eciam tune 
 expressis Et deinde sicut exhibita nobis nuper pro parte prefati 
 Jacobi regis ac dilectorum filiorum decani et capituli dicte erecte 
 ecclesie peticio continebat tune abbas monastery de Scona et 
 archidiaconus Laudonie huiusmodi ad execucionem dictarum 
 litterarum alias illarum forma seruata procedentes quia ita esse 
 reperierunt dictam capellam postquam prefatus Jacobus Eex de 
 suis bonis patrimonialibus certa bona immobilia tune expressa 
 ualoris annui quingentarum librarum monete Scocie assignauerat 
 in collegiatam ecclesiam ac in ea dictam preposituram in 
 decanatum dignitatem principalem subdecanatum sacristiam et 
 sedecim canonicatus et totidem prebendas ac sex pueros clericos
 
 64 REGISTRUM 
 
 alias iuxta tenorem dictarum litterarum erexerunt et instituer- 
 unt ac reseruatis ex fructibus dicti prioratus pro priore 
 et aliis quinque canonicis regularibus dicti ordinis quad- 
 ringentis marchis monete Scocie Eesiduum fructuum dicti 
 prioratus dicte ecclesie erecte perpetuo applicarunt et appropri- 
 arunt ac certas tune expressas perrochiales ecclesias necnon 
 rectoriam et archipresbiteratum nuncupates et certos alios tune 
 expressos dicte ecclesie de Dunbare et quamuis de facto de Ayre 
 Glasguensis cum suis pertinenciis seu annexis et de Creiff Dun- 
 Kyncar- keldensis ac de Kyncardyne Abbordenensis cum capellis 
 annexis necnon de Pettybrachele et de Duchel nuncupates 
 Morauiensis ecclesiarum canonicatus et prebendas qui iuris 
 patronatus prefati Eegis existunt et quorum omnium insimul 
 fructus redditus et prouentus duarum millium librarum monete 
 Scocie secundum communem extimacionem ualorem annuum 
 non excedunt de ipsius Jacobi Eegis consensu eidem erecte 
 ecclesie pro illius dote et ministris seu personis eius perpetuo 
 unierunt annexuerunt et incorporauerunt Ita quod cedentibus 
 uel decedentibus prioratum rectoriam et Archipresbiteratum 
 nuncupates ac alios canonicatus et prebendas huiusmodi obti- 
 nentibus liceat capitulo dicte ecclesie erecte illorum corporalem 
 possessionem apprehendere prout in litteris predictis plenius 
 continetur et quodam instrumento publico seu processu desuper 
 habito et confecto dicitur plenius contineri cum autem sicut 
 eadem peticio subiungebat fructus redditus et prouentus singu- 
 lorum canonicatuum et prebendarum metropolitane et aliarum 
 ecclesiarum predictarum satis uberes existant cum de Ayre 
 Glasguensis octuaginta et de Kyncardyne Abordenensis centum 
 ac de Creiff Dunkeldensis quinquaginta et de Petty Brachlye et 
 de Duchel Morauiensis ecclesiarum canonicatuum et prebenda- 
 rum huiusmodi quadraginta libras Sterlingorum ualeant annu- 
 atim et si reseruatis pro Glasguensis quinquaginta et Aborde- 
 nensis eciam quinquaginta ac pro singulis Dunkeldensis et 
 Morauiensis ecclesiarum canonicatibus et prebendis huiusmodi 
 et illos pro tempore obtinentibus triginta marchis monete regni 
 Scocie residuum fructuum earumdem dicte erecte ecclesie per- 
 petuo applicaretur et appropriaretur profecto ex hoc canonico-
 
 CAPELL^) REGI^ STRIVELINENSIS. 65 
 
 rum numerus in dictis cathedralibus ecclesiis non minueretur et 
 eciam huiusmodi canonicatus et prebendas earumdem metro- 
 politane et cathedralium ecclesiarum pro tempore obtinentes ex 
 residue fructuum qui eis remauerent se commode sustentare 
 possent ac eciam decanus subdecanus cantor sacrista canonici 
 pueri ac alie persone dicte erecte ecclesie aliquod subuencionis 
 auxilium pro eorum commodiori sustentacione susciperent pro 
 parte Jacobi Eegis ac decani et capituli predictorum nobis fuit 
 humiliter supplicatum ut in premissis oportuiie prouidere de 
 benignitate apostolica dignaremur Nos igitur qui hodie vnain Cantoria. 
 cantoriam que inibi dignitas existeret et per vnum ex sedecim 
 canonicis obtineretur in eadem erecta ecclesia per alias nostras 
 litteras ereximus quique ecclesiarum et personarum ecclesiasti- 
 carum quarumlibet statui et commoditatibus quantum cum Deo 
 possumus libenter consulimus decanum et capitulum prefatos 
 ipsiusque capituli singulares personas a quibuscumque excom- 
 unicacionis suspensions et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sen- 
 tenciis censuris et penis a iure uel ab homine quauis occasione 
 uel causa latis si quibus quomodolibet innodati existunt ad 
 effectum presencium dumtaxat consequendum harum serie ab- 
 soluentes et absolutes fore censeutes ac fructus redditus et 
 prouentus mense capitularis dicte erecte ecclesie presentibus 
 pro expressis habentes huiusmodi supplicacionibus Jacobi Eegis 
 ac decani et capituli predictorum inclinati reseruatis pro singulis 
 de Ayre Glasguensis quinquaginta et de Kynkardyne Abor- Kyncar- 
 denensis eciam quinquaginta ac de Creiff Dunkeldensis triginta et yne> 
 de Pettybrachlye et Duchel nuncupatis canonicatibus et pre- 
 bendis Morauiensis ecclesiarum predictarum triginta marchis 
 eiusdem monete Scocie residues fructus redditus et prouentus 
 canonicatuum et prebendarum Glasguensis et Abordenensis ac 
 Dunkeldensis et Morauiensis ecclesiarum predictarum qui insimul 
 ducentarum librarum Stirlingorum similium secundum com- 
 munem extimacionem ualorem annuum ut asseritur non ex- 
 cedunt eidem erecte ecclesie seu eius mense capitulari auctoritate 
 apostolica tenore presencium perpetuo applicamus et appro- 
 priamus et residues huiusmodi fructus ab eisdem canonicatibus 
 et prebendis dictarum Glasguensis et Abordenensis et Dunkcld-
 
 66 REGISTRUM 
 
 ensis et Morauiensis ecclesiaruin perpetuo dimembramus et 
 separamus Ita quod exceptis quinquaginta pro singulis Glas- 
 guensis et Abordenensis et triginta marchis pro singulis Dun- 
 keldensis et Morauiensis ecclesiarum canonicatuum et prebend- 
 arum huiusmodi reseruatis liceat decano et capitulo prefatis 
 cedentibus uel decedentibus canonicatus et prebendas Glasgu- 
 ensis et Aberdonensis ac Dunkeldensis et Morauiensis ecclesi- 
 arum huiusmodi obtinentibus Eesiduum fructuum reddituum et 
 prouentuum huiusmodi quatuor canonicatuum et prebendarum 
 propria auctoritate libere apprehendere et in suos et ecclesie 
 erecte huiusmodi vsus et vtilitatem conuertere diocesanorum 
 locorum et quorumuis aliorum licencia super hoc minime re- 
 quisita Non obstantibus constitucionibus et ordinacionibus 
 Apostolicis et Glasguensis Dunkeldensis Aberdonensis et Mor- 
 auiensis ecclesiarum predictarum iuramento confirmacione apos- 
 tolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consuetu- 
 dinibus ceterisque contrariis quibuscumque Nulli ergo onmino 
 hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre absolucionis appropriacionis 
 applicacionis dimembracionis et separacionis infringere uel ei 
 ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc atternptare pre- 
 sumpserit indignacionem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri 
 et Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum Datum Eome 
 apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice Millesimo 
 quingentesimo secundo sexto decimo Kalendas Maij Pontificatus 
 nostri anno decimo. 
 
 11. BULL A SI IN EUIDENTEM. 
 
 ALEXANDER EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUOKUM Dei dilectis filiis 
 Abbati Monasterij Sancte Crucis Sanctiandree diocesis et Archi- 
 diacono Laudonie in ecclesia Sanctiandree salutem et apostoli- 
 cam benedictionem Ex iniuncto nobis desuper apostolice serui- 
 tutis officio ad ea libenter intendimus per que ecclesiarum 
 omnium ac personarum in eis diuinis laudibus deditarum vtilitas 
 procuratur illaque fauoribus prosequimur oportunus Dudum
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 67 
 
 siquidem a felicis recordacionis Paulo Pape II. predecessore 
 nostro emanarunt littere tenoris subsequentis : 
 
 Paulus episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam cum in omnibus iudiciis sit rectitude iusticie et 
 consciencie puritas obseruanda id multo magis in commissioni- 
 bus alienacionum rerum ecclesiasticarum conuenit obseruari in 
 quibus de Christi patrimonio et dispensacione pauperum non de 
 proprio cuiusque peculio agitur aut tractatur Qua propter oportet 
 ut in examinandis huiusmodi alienacionum. causis que a sede 
 apostolica in forma si IN EUIDENTEM utilitatem cedant oneratis 
 ecclesiasticorum iudicum consciences delegantur nichil fauor 
 usurpet nichil timor extorqueat nulla expectacio pecunij iusti- 
 ciam conscienciam que subuertat Monemus igitur et sub inter- 
 minacione diuini iudicij omnibus commissarijs et delegatis 
 huiusmodi districte precipimus ut caute et diligenter attendant 
 causas in litteris apostolicis per supplicantes expressas illasque 
 sollicite examinent atque discuciant testes et probaciones super 
 narratorum ueritate recipiant et solum Deum pre oculis habentes 
 omni timore aut fauore deposito ecclesiarum indemnitatibus 
 consulant nee in lesionem aut detrimentum earum decretum 
 quomodolibet interponant Si quis autem commissarius aut dele- 
 gatus consciencie sue prodigus in grauamen et detrimentum 
 ecclesie per graciam timorem uel sordes alienacioni consenserit 
 aut decretum uel auctoritatem interposuerit inferior quidem 
 episcopo sentenciam excommunicacionis incurrat Episcopus uero 
 aut superior ab execucione officij per annum nouerit se sus- 
 pensum ad extimacionem detrimenti ecclesie illati nichilominus 
 condemnandus sciturus quod si suspensione durante damna- 
 biliter ingesserit se in diuinis irregularitatis laqueo se inuoluet 
 a quo nisi per summum pontificem poterit liberari. Is uero 
 qui dolo uel fraude aut scienter in detrimentum ecclesiarum 
 alienacionem fieri procurauerit aut per sordes uel inpressionem 
 alienacionis decretum extorserit similem sentenciam excom- 
 municacionis incurrat a qua nisi per Eomanum pontificem possit 
 absolui ad restitucionem nichilominus rerum alienarum cum 
 fructibus quandocumque de premissis constiterit condemnandus. 
 Volumus autem quod delegati et commissarij predicti de penis
 
 68 REGISTRUM 
 
 constitucionis nostre specifice moneantur et in quibuscumque 
 litteris commissiouum huiusmodi hoc statutum nostrum inser- 
 atur Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre 
 monicionis precept! et uohmtatis infringere uel et ausu teme- 
 rario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare presumpserit 
 indignacionem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri et Pauli 
 apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum Datum Eome apud 
 Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice Millesimo quad- 
 ringentesimo sexagesimo quinto quinto Idus Maij Pontificatus 
 nostri anno primo. 
 
 Et deiude sicut exhibita nobis pro parte dilectorum filiorum 
 decani et capituli ecclesie capelle regie nuncupate beate Marie 
 et Sanctf Michaelis intra palacium carissimi in Christo filij nostri 
 Jacobi Scotorum regis illustris opidi de Stirling Sanctiandree 
 notabene. diocesis peticio continebat : Cum nos nuper alias dicti Jacobi 
 Eegis in ea parte supplicacionibus inclinati eandem capellam in 
 collegiatam et in ea vnum decanum et vnum subdecanum dig- 
 nitates ac unam sacristiam officium necnon certos canonicatus 
 et prebendas pro totidem canonicis et alias certas personas post- 
 quam dictus Jacobus Eex certa bona immobilia ualoris annui 
 tune expressi pro dote ipsius ecclesie assignasset exigi et institui 
 per alias nostras litteras mandauissemus postquam ipse Jacobus 
 Eex iuxta dictarum litterarum nostrarum tenorem bona predicta 
 assignauerat earumdem litterarum nostrarum vigore dicta capella 
 in collegiatam ecclesiam et in ilia dignitates ac canonicatus et 
 prebende huiusmodi erecti et persone institute fuerint; cum 
 autem sicut eadem peticio subiungebat inter certa bona per 
 dictum Eegem assignata prefatus Jacobus Eex de Kyntire et de 
 Lochabire possessiones et bona immobilia Lesmorensis et Mor- 
 auiensis siue Eossensis diocesium ualoris annui septuaginta 
 librarum Stirlingorum uel circa eidem ecclesie assignauerit et si 
 ilia cum alijs bonis immobilibus utilioribus per eumdem Eegem 
 in cambium assignandis permutarentur seu loco bonorum as- 
 signatorum ut prefertur certe ecclesie iuris patronatus ipsius 
 regis ex quorum fructibus redditibus et prouentibus annuis 
 octuaginta libre similes uel circa singulis annis peruenirent et 
 perciperentur mense capitulari dicte ecclesie perpetuo vnirenttir
 
 CAPELLJE REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 69 
 
 annecterentur et incorporarentur permutacio sen unio huiusmodi 
 si fierent in euidentem utilitatem dicte mense capitiilaris ced- 
 erent ; pro parte dictorum decani et capituli nobis fuit huniiliter 
 supplicatum ut in premissis prouidere de benignitate apostolica 
 dignaremur: Nos igitur qui dudum inter alia uolumus quod 
 petentes beneficia ecclesiastica alijs uniri tenerentur exprimere 
 uerum ualorem aunuum secundum communem extimacionem 
 eciam beneficii cui vnio fieri peteretur alioquin unio non ualeret 
 et semper in unionibus commissio fieret ad partes uocatis quorum 
 interest de premissis certain noticiam non habentes et capituli 
 singulares personas a quibusuis excommunicacionis suspensionis 
 et iuterdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sentenciis censuris et penis a 
 iure uel ab homine quauis occasione uel causa si quibus quomo- 
 dolibet innodate existunt ad effectum presencium dumtaxat 
 consequendum harum serie absoluentes et absolutas fore cen- 
 sentes necnon possessionum et bonorum predictorum assigna- 
 torum et assignandorum situs et confines ac fructuum reddituum 
 et prouentuum dicte mense ueros ualores annuos presentibus 
 pro expressis habentes huiusmodi, suplicaciouibus inclinati, 
 discrecioni uestre per apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus 
 possessionibus et bonis predictis tarn assignatis quam assignandis 
 coram uobis insimul procedentibus specificatis prius ac seruata 
 forma litterarurn preinsertarum huiusmodi coniunctim pro- 
 cedentes de premissis nos diligenter informetis et per informaci- 
 onem huiusmodi ita esse et permutacionem seu vnionem ali- 
 quarum ecclesiarum que de iure patronatus dicti Regis existant 
 quarumque fructus redditus et prouentus ad minus octuaginta 
 libras ualeant annuatim eidem ecclesie seu illius mense capitulari 
 Si FIENT IN EUIDENTEM utilitatem dicte ecclesie cedere reppereritis 
 eisdem decano et capitulo recipiendi alia bona immobilia utiliora 
 si ilia prefatus Jacobus Rex pro prefatis possessionibus et bonis 
 per eum assignatis assignare seu in excambium dare uoluerit 
 licenciam et facultatem concedere seu alias ecclesias que de iure 
 patronatus dicti regis existant et quarum fructus redditus et 
 prouentus ad ualorem octuaginta librarum similium ad minus 
 ascendant annuatim cum omnibus iuribus et pertinenciis suis si 
 ad hoc prefati Regis accesserit assensus eidem mense perpetuo
 
 70 REGISTRUM 
 
 vnire annectere et incorporare auctoritate nostra curetis, ita quod 
 cedentibus uel decedentibus dictarum imiendaruin ecclesiarum 
 tune rectoribus seu ecclesias ipsas uniendas alias quomodolibet 
 dimittentibus liceat decano et capitulo prefatis per se uel alium 
 seu alios corporalem possessionem ecclesiarum uniendarum 
 iuriumque et pertinenciarum predictorum propria auctoritate 
 apprehendere et perpetuo retinere ac illarum fructus redditus et 
 prouentus predictos in suos et dicte mense usus et utilitatem 
 conuertere diocesani loci et cuiusuis alterius licencia super hoc 
 minime requisita, non obstantibus uoluntate nostra predicta et 
 aliis apostolicis constitucionibus et ordinacionibus necnon dicte 
 ecclesie erecte iuramento confirmacione apostolica uel quauis 
 alia firmitate roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus contrary's 
 quibuscumque aut si aliqui super prouisionibus sibi faciendis de 
 huiusmodi uel aliis beneficiis ecclesiasticis in illis partibus 
 speciales uel generales dicte sedis uel legatorum eius litteras 
 impetrauerit eciam si per eas ad inhibicionem reseruacionem et 
 decretum uel alias quomodolibet sit processum quasquidem 
 litteras et processus habitos per easdem et inde secuta que- 
 cumque ad dictas uniendas ecclesias uolumus non extendi sed 
 nullum per hoc eis quo ad assecucionem beneficiorum aliorum 
 preiudicium generari et quibuslibet priuilegiis indulgences et 
 litteris apostolicis generalibus uel specialibus quorumcumque 
 tenorum existant per que presentibus non expressa uel totaliter 
 non inserta effectus earum impediri ualeat quomodolibet uel 
 differri et de quibus quorumque totis tenoribus de uerbo ad 
 verbum habenda sit in nostris litteris mencio specialis : Volu- 
 mus autem quod propter unionem annexionem et incorporaci- 
 onem predictas si eas uigore presencium fieri contingat dicte 
 ecclesie uniende debitis non fraudentur obsequiis et animarum 
 cura in quibus ilia iinminet nullatenus necligatur sed illarum. 
 congrue supportentur onera consueta : et insuper quoad unionem 
 huiusmodi si illam uigore presencium fieri contingat exnunc ir- 
 ritum decernimus et inane si secus super hiis a quoquam quauis 
 auctoritate scienter uel ignoranter contigerit attemptari. Datum 
 Rome apud Sanctum Petrum anno incarnacionis domiuice
 
 CAPELL.E REGLE STKIVELINENSIS. 71 
 
 Millesimo quingentesimo primo quarto decimo kalendas Aprilis 
 Pontificatus nostri anno Decimo. 
 
 12. CONSERUATORIA PENES APPLICACIONEM FRUCTUUM DE AlR 
 KINCARDIN CREIF ET PETTYBRACHLIE. 
 
 ALEXANDER EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM Dei Dilectis filiis de 
 Carabuskynneth et Pasleto Sanctiandree et Glasguensis dioce- 
 sium monasteriorum abbatibus ac archidiacono ecclesie Sancti- 
 andree salutem et apostolicam benedictionem Hodie ex certis 
 causis ac sub certis modo et forma tune expressis reseruatis 
 pro de Ayre Glasguensis quinquaginta et de Kyncardyne Abor- 
 denensis eciam quinquaginta ac de Crieff Dunkeldensis tri- 
 ginta et de Pettybrachlye et Duchel nuncupatis canonicatibus et 
 prebendis Morauiensis ecclesiarum similiter triginta marchis 
 monete Scocie Eesiduos fructus redditus et prouentus singulorum 
 eorumdem canonicatuum et prebendarum ecclesie capelle regie 
 nuncupate beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis intra palacium opidi 
 de Stirlyng Sanctiandree diocesis site seu illius mense capit- 
 ulari apostolica auctoritate perpetuo applicauimus et appropri- 
 auimus ac residues fructus huiusmodi ab eisdem canonicatibus 
 et prebendis eadem auctoritate perpetuo dimembrauimus et sep- 
 arauimus prout in nostris inde confectis litteris plenius con- 
 tinetur Quocirca discrecioni uestre per apostolica scripta man- 
 damus quatenus uos uel duo aut unus uestrum si et postquam 
 dicte littere uobis presentate fuerint per uos uel alium seu 
 alios litteras ipsas et in eis contenta quecumque ubi et 
 quando ac quocienscumque opus fuerit ac pro parte decani 
 pro tempore existentis et dilectorum filiorum capituli dicte 
 ecclesie seu alicuius eorum desuper requisiti fueritis pub- 
 licantes ac eis in premissis efficacis defensionis presidio as- 
 sistentes faciatis eos auctoritate nostra pacifica possessione uel 
 quasi applicacionis appropriacionis dimembracionis et separa- 
 cionis ac aliorum in eisdem litteris contentorum gaudere non 
 permittentes eosdem decanum et capitulum per venerabiles 
 fratres nostros Glasguensem Archiepiscopum et Abordenensem 
 ac Dunkeldensem et Morauiensem episcopos necnon dilectos
 
 72 KEGISTRUM 
 
 filios singular urn Glasguensis Abordonensis Dunkeldensis et 
 Morauiensis ecclesiaruin predictarum capitula seu per quoscum- 
 que alios contra applicacionis appropriacionis dimembracionis 
 et separacionis ac litterarum predictarum tenorem quomodolibet 
 indebite molestari contradictores quoslibet et rebelles auctori- 
 tate nostra per censuram ecclesiasticam appellacione postposita 
 compescendo inuocato eciam ad hoc si opus fuerit auxilio brachii 
 secularis Non obstantibus felicis recordacionis Bonifacij Pape 
 VIII predecessoris nostri qua inter alia cauuetur expresse ne 
 aliquis extra suam ciuitatem uel diocesim nisi in certis exceptis 
 casibus et in illis ultra unam dictam a fine sue diocesis ad iudi- 
 cium euocetur Seu ne iudices et conseruatores a sede apos- 
 tolica deputati extra ciuitatem et diocesim in quibus deputati 
 fuerint contra quoscumque procedere aut alij uel aliis uices suas 
 committere presumant et de duabus dictis in concilio generali 
 edita durnmodo ultra quatuor dictas aliquis auctoritate presen- 
 cium non trahatur ac aliis constitucionibus et ordinacionibus 
 apostolicis ac omnibus illis que in dictis litteris uolumus non 
 obstare. Aut si archiepiscopo episcopis et capitulis prefatis uel 
 quibusuis aliis communiter uel diuisim ab eadem sit sede indul- 
 tum quod interdici suspendi uel excommunicari aut extra uel 
 vltra certa loca ad iudicium euocari non possint per litteras 
 apostolicas non facientes plenam expressam ac de uerbo in 
 uerbum huiusmodi mencionem. Datum Rome apud Sanctum 
 Petrum anno incarnacionis dominice Millesimo quingentesimo 
 secundo sextodecimo Kalendas Maii Pontificatus nostri anno 
 decimo. 
 
 13. HEC sunt ornamenta iocalia et volumina que habentur in 
 ecclesia collegiata beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis de Striueling 
 et ponuntur sub firma custodia discreti uiri magistri Dauid 
 Traile sacriste dicte ecclesie quarto die rnensis Nouembris de anno 
 Domini millesimo quingentesimo quinto. 
 
 De color e niyro. 
 In primis vna casula ima stola tmus manipulus cum ly parrus
 
 CAPELL/E REGIME STIUVELINENSIS. 73 
 
 pro vna alba et uno amictu de ly satene nigri coloris habenti 
 duplicaturam de ly bucram nigri coloris et hec casula habet ly 
 orphus de vellus eciara nigri coloris. Item tres cape de ly vellus 
 eciam nigri coloris none et preciose portantes arma domini 
 Eegis de quibus mia earum est consuta cum filis aureis ad 
 modum stellarum splendencium. Item una casula et due tunice 
 de vellus nigri coloris consute cum filis aureis due stole tres 
 manipuli cum ly parrus pro tribus albis et tribus amictibus 
 eiusdem coloris et substancie. Item unum pendiculum de uellus 
 nigri coloris consutum cum filis aureis ad modum stellarum 
 splendencium pro summo altari ordinatum et habet duplicatu- 
 ram de bucram blodij coloris. Item unus paruus et longus 
 pannus de vellus nigri coloris super quern consuta sunt cum filis 
 aureis hec uerba Misericordia eius super omnia opera eius et 
 habet duplicaturam de bucram blodij coloris. Item vua capa de 
 ly dammes' nigri coloris habens ly orphus de vellus subrubij 
 coloris. Item vna casula de dammes nigri coloris habens ly 
 orphus de vellus subrubii coloris. Item vnum pendiculum de 
 dammes nigri coloris pro summo altari. Item vna parua et 
 curta capa serica antiqua nigri et rubei coloris mixtim plus 
 tamen participat de nigro colore. Item una casula tres stole 
 tres manipuli cum ly parrus pro tribus albis et tribus amictibus 
 de cameleto nigri coloris cum dupplicatura de bucram eiusdem 
 coloris et hec casula habet ly parrus de dammes nigri coloris 
 cum quibusdem lineis rubei coloris. 
 
 De Uodio colore. 
 
 In primis due cape de dammes blodij seu celestis coloris cum 
 filis aureis consute ad modum radiorum solis et sunt large et 
 preciose habentes capucia sua et ly orphus de panno precioso 
 auri et habent pannum lineum ad illas conseruandas. Item una 
 casula due tunice vna stola tres manipuli cum ly parrus pro 
 tribus albis et uno amictu de dammes eiusdem coloris bonitatis 
 et substancie cum duabus capis inmediate predictis et hec due 
 tunice habent ly orphus de precioso panno auri. Et cum istis 
 tunicis habentur vna stola et ly parrus pro uno amictu de auro 
 ualde precioso. Item unum pendiculum pro summo altari de
 
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 dauirnes blodij coloris cum fills aureis consutum ad modum radi- 
 orum soils portans pulclierime salutacionem nostre domine. 
 Item vnum aliud pendiculum pro summo altari de dammes 
 eiusdem coloris et bonitatis cum pendiculo inmediate precedente 
 portans honestissime yniaginem Dei patris et nostre Domine ac 
 ymagines quorumdam angelorum et hoc pendiculum habet in se 
 multas margaritas ad eius decorem et hec duo pendicula liabent 
 pannum lineum ad eorum conseruacionem. Item duo alia pen- 
 dicula minora de vellus celestis seu blodij coloris contexta cum 
 filis aureis et vnum illorum portat ymaginem Sancte Trinitatis 
 in auro contextam. Item vna casula due tunice due stole tres 
 manipuli et cum ly parrus et tribus albis et tribus amictibus de 
 vellus subuellus blodij coloris et habent ly orphus de panno 
 auri. Item duo pendicula pro summo altari de ly taffate blodij 
 coloris quorum vnum portat in eius medio ymaginem crucifixi 
 consutam cum filis aureis et hec duo pendicula duplicaturam 
 habent de ly fustiane albi coloris. 
 
 De colore rubio. 
 
 Item due cape de panno precioso auri habentes capucia et 
 ly orphus eciam de panno auri rubij coloris et habent pannum 
 lineum ad earum conseruacionem et sunt meliores cape in ec- 
 clesia et magni precii. Item due cape de panno auri et vellus 
 subuellus rubei coloris et habent pannum lineum ad earum con- 
 seruacionem. Item due cape de panno auri et de vellus com- 
 mixtim rubei coloris cum ly orphus de panno auri et habent ly 
 frenzeis de filis cericis in earum circumferencijs et cum panno 
 lineo ad earum conseruacionem. Item due cape vna casula due 
 tunice vna stola unus manipulus cum ly parrus pro una alba et 
 vno amictu de satene rubij coloris contexta cum filis aureis ad 
 modum ramorum arborum et hec due cape habent pannum 
 lineum ad earum conseruacionem. Item unus pannus preciosus 
 de auro rubij coloris ad honorem eucharistie ordiuatus quando 
 deportatur extra ecclesiam et habet pannum lineum ad eius 
 conseruacionem. Item quatuor haste lignie rubij coloris ad por- 
 tandum in alto dictum pannum super eucharistiam. Item vnum 
 paruum frontale preciosum de auro et cum filis aureis pendentj-
 
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 bus portans anna Eegis et diuersa alia arma et certas ymagines 
 sanctorum et habet in se multas margaritas ad eius decorem. 
 Item una capa de vellus rubij coloris cum ly orphus de vellus 
 nigri coloris. Item vna capa de Sateyne crammasy rubij coloris 
 cum ly orphus de dammes viridis coloris. Item una casula de 
 sateyne crammasy rudii coloris cum ly parrus de sateyne uiridis 
 coloris. Item una capsula serica figure quadrangularis rubii 
 coloris exterius et albi coloris interius pro corporalibus seruandis. 
 Et ibi includitur unum co-opertorium pro calice sub figura quad- 
 rangulari de auro consutum cum multis margaritis sumptuose 
 fabricatum. Item una casula noua una stola unus manipulus 
 cum ly parrus pro una alba et uno amictu de panno auri pre- 
 ciosi rubij coloris sumptuose consute et fabricate habente dupli- 
 caturam de sateyne blodij coloris et hec casula habet ly orphus 
 de panno auri cum filis aureis consutum et est res magni precii. 
 Item unum antiquum ly orphus de panno auri conueniens pro 
 una capa. Item unum aliud antiquum ly orphus de panno auri 
 pro una capa et hec duo ly orphus sunt rubii coloris. Item unum 
 antiquum frontale de serico diuersorum colorum portans diuersa 
 arma desuper contexta et est modici ualoris. 
 
 De sulalbo color e alias ly dunne colour e. 
 
 Item vna casula due tunice due stole tres manipuli cum ly 
 parrus pro tribus albis et tribus amictibus de dammes de ly 
 dwne colore habentibus ly orphus de panno auri. Item duo 
 panni cerici antiqui cum filis aureis contexti ly dwne coloris. 
 Item vnus paruus pannus serious antiquus cum filis aureis con- 
 textus ly dwne coloris. Item unus antiquus de vellus de ly 
 dwne colore pro ambone ut apparet ordinatus. 
 
 De colore viridi. 
 
 Item vna casula antiqua vna stola vnus manipulus portans 
 arma regis et regine que uenit de Dacia de dammes uiridis coloris 
 et cum ly parrus pro una alba et uno amictu eiusdem coloris et 
 substancie. Item vnus pannus de ly verdoure diuersorum colorum 
 plus tamen declinans ad colorem uiridem. Item duo panni de ly 
 burdalexander habentes duplicaturam de panneo lineo pro duobua
 
 76 REGISTRUM 
 
 ainbobus co-operiendis. Item vna casula cuin armis domini regis 
 due tunice due stole tres manipuli cum ly parrus pro tribus albis 
 et tribus amictibus de dammes uiridis coloris. Item vna casula 
 portans arma regis una stola unus manipulus cum ly parrus pro 
 una alba de dammes uiridis coloris et hec casula habet ly orphus 
 de vellus uigri coloris. 
 
 4 
 
 De colore albo. 
 
 Item due cape de panno auri albi coloris et habent pannum 
 lyneum ad earum conseruacionem. Item una capa de dammes 
 albi coloris cum filis aureis consuta ad modum solis splendentis 
 et ly orphus de pauno auri. Item due casule due stole duo mani- 
 puli cum ly parrus pro duabus albis et duobus amictibus de 
 dammes albi coloris Et dicte casule habent ly orphus de uellus 
 nigri coloris. Item una casula due tunice due stole tres manipuli 
 cum ly parrus pro tribus albis et tribus amictibus de dammes 
 albi coloris et habent ly orphus de panno auri et duplicaturam 
 de bucram rubij coloris et sunt noue et preciose et dicte tunice 
 habent cordas sericas pendentes retro et portant arma Eegis 
 abante et regis ac regine filie regis Auglie commixtim retro. 
 
 De colore purpureo. 
 
 Item due casule de vellus purpurei coloris cum ly orphus de 
 panno auri due stole duo manipuli et cum ly parrus pro duabus 
 albis et duobus amictibus eiusdem coloris et substancie. 
 
 ITEM duo candelabra erea aliquantulum magna. Item octo fiole 
 de stanno. Item una parua campana pendens ante fores ecclesie. 
 Item tres magne campane que uenerunt ex ciuitate Lundoniarum 
 ibi empte per dominum Eegem fundatorem ecclesie. Item unum 
 pulcrum horecudium completum per dominum Jacobum Petty- 
 grew fabricatum. Item duo ly flacottis de stanno. Item crux 
 de stanno de aurato portans ymaginem crucifixi. Item tria 
 tintinabula. Item una crux lignea rubij coloris habens hastam 
 longam. Item una hasta longa ad portaudum ymaginem cruci- 
 fixi extra ecclesiam. Item duo magni ambones de lignis stantes 
 in choro. Item tria paria organorum quorum unum est de lignis 
 et duo alia de stanno siue de plumbo. Item tria seruicalia ad
 
 CAPELL^E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 77 
 
 supponendum missalibus in altari. Item vna tabula cum tribus 
 folijs ubi depinguntur ymago Domine nostre gerentis Filiuni 
 suum in ulnis suis et duo angeli portantes instrumenta musicalia. 
 Item una tabula in qua scribitur qui pridie etc. Item vna magna 
 archa clausa cum duabus feris pro ornamentis ecclesie seruandis. 
 Item ly Judas bellis et ly traditor pro officio tenebrarum in 
 septimana dominice passionis. Item boxa correa apta ad seruan- 
 dum euidencias ecclesie. Item habentur in pictura multa arma 
 regis et regine pro obsequiis celebrandis. Item una habens tria 
 folia ubi depinguntur sub uitro ymago crucifixi et quatuor 
 sanctorum eciam sub uitro in lateribus. Item una tabula por- 
 tans formam uultus nostri Saluatoris et uocatur ly vernakill. 
 Item una tabula in qua depingitur ymago nostre domine. Item 
 una capsula pro crismate de stanno. 
 
 ET SEQUITUR DE JOCALIBUS. 
 
 In primis una magna capsula de argento pro eucharistia 
 portanda et iocale magni ponderis ac sumptuose fabri- 
 catum et portat in eius summitate ymaginem crucifixi. 
 Item due fiole de argento et sunt deaurate circa earum 
 summitates. Item tria candelabra de argento et sunt pon- 
 deris notabilis. Item unus thuribulus cum naui et cocleari 
 de argento pro incenso. Item ly teistyr de argento deaurato 
 portans ymaginem crucifixi ac nostre domine et Johannis euuan- 
 geliste habet eciam multas gemmas diuersorum colorum in se 
 fixas et est notabile iocale. Item unum iocale de argento 
 deaurato fabricatum ad modum habens campanile in eius sum- 
 mitate una locatur una particula siue pecia ligni crucis sancte 
 et ornatur illud iocale cum multis margaritis et includuntur in 
 eodem ut ueraciter creditur multe reliquie sanctorum. Item 
 unum paruum iocale de argento deaurato habens ymaginem 
 crucifixi in eius summitate et protenditur aliquantulum in altum. 
 Item unus circulus de puro auro habens formam capitis beati 
 Johannis Baptiste. Item quatuor calices et quatuor patene de 
 argento deaurato et bene ponderantes. Item una parua capsula 
 de argento deaurato rotunde figure pro eucharistia seruanda. 
 Item unum magnum et preciosum iocale de puro auro portans
 
 78 REGISTHUM 
 
 yiua^inem iiostre domine gerentis Eilium suum mortuum super 
 genua eius et diuersas alias ymagines et hoc locale habet in eius 
 summitate ymaginem crucifixi et est artificiose fabricatum portat 
 eciam multas gemmas diuersorum et margaritas et includitur in 
 una boxa de correo ad eius conseruacionem. Item tria parua 
 candelabra de argento deaurato portantia arma regis Anglie et de- 
 portata fuerunt ad partes Scoticanas cum Regina nostra que est 
 filia Regis Anglie. 
 
 ET SEQUITUR DE VOLUMINIBUS. 
 
 In primis duo missalia in papiro de littera impressa. 
 Item duo missalia in pergamino de littera impressa. Item 
 unum antiquum missale in pergamino cum penna scrip- 
 turn. Item liber euuangeliorum in pergamino cum penna 
 scriptus. Item liber epistolarum in pergamino cum penna 
 scriptus. Item duo psalteria antiqua in pergamino cum 
 penna scripta. Item quatuor magna antiphonaria in pergamino 
 cum penna scripta et habent diuersas litteras capitales deauratas. 
 Item duo magna breuiaria in pergamino de littera impressa. 
 Item vnum magnum breuiarium in papiro in littera impressa 
 et est ruptum in multis foliis. Item duo volumina in per- 
 gamino cum notis de ly faburdone. Item due legende in per- 
 gamino cum penna scripte quarum vna est de temporal! et altera 
 de proprietatibus sanctorum. Item decem processionalia in 
 pergamino cum penna scripta et notata. Item tria gradalia in 
 pergamino cum penna scripta. Item unum alterum gradale 
 magnum et nouum in pergamino cum penna scriptum datum 
 domino regi per abbatem Insule sancte Columbe defunctum. 
 Item unum breuiarium magnum in papiro de littera impressa. 
 Item unum paruum breuiarium in papiro de littera impressa. 
 Item unum uolumen uocatum ordinarium secundum vsum Sarum 
 in pergamino cum penna scriptum. Item vnum paruum missale 
 in papiro de littera impressa. Item velum templi et est diuisum 
 in duas partes pro quadragesima. Item septem parui panni 
 linei ornati cum crucibus et ordinantur ad co-operiendum 
 ymagines sanctorum tempore quadragesimali. Item octo mani- 
 tergia pro manibus lauandis in missa de quibus sunt quatuor de 
 ly dornyke. Item quatuor corporalia pro missis celebrandis.
 
 CAPELL/E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 79 
 
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 and lialf a page.] 
 
 14. PEEUILEGIUM FAMILIARIUM REGIS ET REGINE. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI AD PERPETUAM rei 
 memoriam. Honestis omnium fidelium uotis et apostolice sedis 
 deuotarum personarum presertim Catholicorum principum de- 
 sideriis per que persone quelibet eorum obsequiis insistentes 
 sublatis uexationibus et inquietacionibus vniuersis in pacis et 
 quietis dulcedine ualeant eis debitum prestare famulatum 
 libenter anmiimus eaque quantum cum Deo possumus fauoribus 
 prosequimur oportunis sane pro parte carissimi filii nostri Jacobi 
 Scotorum Eegis et carissime in Christo filie nostre Margarete 
 Kegine Scotorum illustrium nobis nuper exhibita peticio con- 
 tinebat quod cum sepe contingat quod familiares continui com- 
 mensales eorundem Eegis et Eegine et eorum obsequiis insis- 
 tentes ad instanciam diuersarum personarum coram diuersis 
 iudicibus et forsan non ordinariis suis in diuersis causis et quan- 
 doque ciuilibus ad iudicium euocenter quamuis ipsi familiares 
 in obsequiis huiusmodi insistentes parati essent coram iudice 
 ordinario ubi resident pro tempore de se querelantibus in iusticia 
 respondere et ex huiusmodi euocacione eorundem familiarium 
 et obsequiis insistencium coram diuersis iudicibus ipsi familiares 
 et obsequiis insistentes diuersa damna et incomoda quandoque 
 paciuntur impedianturque eciam ne in hiis que ad obsequium 
 Eegis et Eegine predictor um pertinent cum ilia diligencia et 
 assiduitate intendere possint Conueniensque uideretur et tarn 
 pro eorum quiete quam eciam ut circa obsequia Eegis et Eegine 
 predictorum congruis temporibus insistere valeant ut aliquis
 
 80 REGISTIIUM 
 
 iudex deputetur coram quo commode conueniri possint Quare 
 
 pro parte Regis et Eegine predictorum nobis fuit humiliter sup- 
 
 plicatum ut omnes et singulos eorum et pro tempore existencium 
 
 qui cen- Regis et Regine Scotorum nunc et pro tempore existentes fami- 
 
 sentur Hares continuos commensales eorumque et cuiuslibet eorum 
 exempti. . . 
 
 familiares. obsequiis insistentes et actu seruientes. Jit qui per sex menses 
 seruiuerint eisdem a quorumcunque Episcoporum et Archiepis- 
 coporum aliorumque ordinariorum eorumque officialium pre- 
 sencium et futurorum jurisdictione correccione dominio et 
 potestate penitus eximere et totaliter liberare aliasque in 
 premissis oportune prouidere de benignitate apostolica dig- 
 naremur Nos igitur qui personarum singularum presertim 
 seruiciis Regum et Reginarum insistencium pacem et quietem 
 summis desideriis exoptamus huiusmodi supplicacionibus in- 
 clinati omnes et singulos Jacobi et Margarite predictorum et 
 pro tempore existencium Regis et Regine Scotorum familiares 
 continuos commensales eorumque et cuiuslibet eoruin obsequiis 
 Nota. insistentes ac actu seruientes et qui per sex menses continuos 
 Terser! CS seru i uerm t eisdem a quorumcunque Episcoporum Archiepis- 
 uentcsper coporum aliorumque ordinariorum eorumque officialium pre- 
 sencium et futurorum iurisdictione correccioue dominio et 
 potestate preterquam racione uel causa quorumcunque bene- 
 ficiorum ecclesiasticorum secularium uel regularium obtentorum 
 uel optinendorum pro tempore eximimus et totaliter liberanaus 
 Ita quod Episcopi Archiepiscopi aliique ordinarii et officiales 
 prefati seu eorum aliquis nullam eciam racione delicti aut rei de 
 qua ageretur ubicunque committatur delictum aut res ipsa con- 
 sistat correccionem superioritatem aut dominium et potestatem 
 in familiares et obsequiis prefatos presentes et futures aut 
 eorum aliquem exercere possint Sed teneantur ipsi familiares in 
 obsequiis insistentes presentes et futuri de se querelantibus tarn 
 laicis quam ecclesiasticis coram dilecto filio decano ecclesie 
 beate Marie et Sancti Michaelis Capelle Regie nuncupate opidi 
 de Sterlyng Sancti Andree diocesis nunc et pro tempore exis- 
 tente in iusticia respondere possintque ipsi familiares et obsequiis 
 insistentes presentes et futuri Coram prefato decano in iusticia 
 respondere ; decernentes ex nunc omnes et singulos processus
 
 CAPELL.E REGLE STKIVELINENSIS. 81 
 
 sentencias quos et quas contra familiares et obsequiis insistentes 
 prefatos presencium tenorem exeinpcionis et liberacionis huius- 
 modi haberi et promulgari contigerit nullius roboris uel momenti 
 existere ac irritum et inane quicquid secus super hiis a quoquam 
 quauis autoritate scienter uel ignoranter contra tenorem presen- 
 cium fieri uel attemptari contigerit et quecunque pro tempore 
 inde secuta nulla irrita et inania nulliusque roboris uel momenti 
 Quocirca dilectis filiis de Dunfermlyn et Cambuskynneth Sancti- Quocirca 
 andree diocesis monasteriorum Abbatibus ac preposito ecclesie ^{j^ j 
 Fesulan per apostolica scripta mandamus quatinus ipsi uel duo Dunfenn- 
 aut vnus eorum eisdem familiaribus et obsequiis insistentibus Cambus- 
 
 in premissis efficacis defensionis auxilio assistentes faciant eos kynnet ac 
 exempcione et liberacione predictis pacifice frui et gaudere non ecclesie 
 
 permittentes eos per episcopos archiepiscopos ordinaries et 
 officiales predictos ant quoscunque alios contra tenorem ex- Kca scripta 
 empcionis et liberacionis huiusmodi quomodolibet molestari u " a 
 contradictores autoritate nostra appellacione postposita com- 
 pescendo Non obstantibus felicis recordacionis Innocencij Pape 
 IIII. predecessoris nostri circa exemptos que incipit Volentes 
 etaliis constitucionibus et ordinacionibus apostolicis necnon sta- 
 tutis et consuetudinibus dicte ecclesie beate Marie iurameuto 
 confirmacione apostolica uel quauis firmitate alia roboratis con- 
 trariis quibuscunque Seu si archiepiscopis episcopis ofdinariis Note. 
 et officialibus prefatis uel quibusuis aliis communiter uel diuisim ^""J f* 
 ab eadem sit sede indultum quod interdici suspendi uel excom- cassabun- 
 municari non possint per litteras apostolicas non facientes ex special! 
 plenam et expressam ac de uerbo ad uerbum de indulto huius- autoritate 
 
 r . appos- 
 
 modi mencionem Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat lianc pagi- tolica et 
 
 nam nostre exempcionis liberacionis decreti et mandati iufringere 
 uel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attemptare 
 presumpserit indignacione omuipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri 
 et Pauli apostolorum eius se nouerit incursurum Datum liome 
 apud Sanctum Petrum anno Incarnacionis dominice Millesimo 
 quingentesimo quarto Quinto nonas Julij.
 
 82 REGISTRUM 
 
 15. MUTACIO DECANI ECCLESIE COLLEGIATE DE STERLYNG. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI ad rei perpetuam 
 memoriam. Eomani Pontificis prouidencia circumspecta non- 
 nunquam per sedem apostolicam ordinata commutat prout ec- 
 clesiarum commoditatibus et Catholicorum regum uotis attentis 
 id in domino conspicit salubriter expedire sane pro parte Caris- 
 simi in Christo filii nostri Jacobi Scotorum Eegis illustris nobis 
 nuper exhibita peticio continebat quod alias ad supplicacionem 
 prefati regis capella Eegia nuncupata beate Marie et Sancti 
 Michaelis intra palacium ipsius Eegis opidi de Sterlyng Sancti- 
 andree dyocesis in collegiatam ecclesiam et in ea inter alias 
 dignitates et beneficia ecclesiastica inibi erecta Prepositura beate 
 Marie de Eupe Sanctiandree que inibi dignitas principalis et de 
 iure patronatus prefati Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Scotorum 
 regis et preuilegio apostolico existit et ad eius meram collaci- 
 onem ex eodem preuiligio pertinet in decanatum dignitatem 
 inibi principalem pro uno decano qui aliis eiusdem tune eri- 
 gende ecclesie presset personis cuique cura animarum dicti 
 Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Eegis et Eegine Scotorum et 
 eorum officialium et familiarium continuorum commensalium et 
 familiarium eorumdem familiarium et seruorum immineret quod- 
 que omnimodam jurisdictionem in omnes personas dicte eri- 
 gende ecclesie pro tempore existentes haberet et dum in eadem 
 beate Marie de Eupe in ilia prepositus dum uero in erecta 
 ecclesiis huiusmodi resideret in ea decanus foret Ita ut non due 
 dignitates existerent sed una dumtaxat in qualibet dictarum 
 ecclesiarum preeminenciam habens existeret apostolica autoritate 
 erecta ftiit. Et quia prepositus dicte ecclesie de Eupe commode 
 circa curam animarum utriusque dictarum ecclesiarum in quibus 
 respectiue Prepositus et Decanus existit intendere non potest 
 et decanus pro tempore existens curam animarum Eegis et 
 Regine predictorum habere, conueniens uidetur quod persona 
 magis qualificata quam ipse decanus sit existat ; et propterea si 
 statueretur et ordinaretur quod dictus prepositus dicte ecclesie 
 de Eupe nunc et pro tempore existens de cetero decanus in
 
 CAPELL^l REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 83 
 
 dicta ecclesia de Sterlyng non esset, sed venerabilis frater noster 
 modernus et pro tempore existens Episcopus Candicase Episcopus 
 decanus eiusdem ecclesie beate Marie existeret, profecto ex hoc 
 decori et uenustati dicte ecclesie de Sterlyng magis consuleretur : 
 Quare pro parte eiusdem Jacobi Regis nobis sunt humiliter sup- 
 plicatum vt in premissis oportune prouidere de benignitate 
 apostolica dignaremur : Nos IGITUR huiusmodi supplicationibus 
 inclinati quod de cetero perpetuis futuris temporibus prefatus 
 Prepositus dicte ecclesie de Eupe non decanus eiusdem ecclesie 
 de Sterling sed solum prout ante huiusmodi erectionem Preposi- 
 tus prefate ecclesie de Rupe ut prius remaneat, et ipse Episco- 
 pus Candidecase nunc et pro tempore existens Decanus eiusdem 
 ecclesie de Sterling existat eandemque preheminentiam et 
 superioritatem in dicta ecclesia de Sterling habeat et curam 
 animarum Regis et Regine ac aliarum predictorum exerceat prout 
 Prepositus dicte ecclesie de Rupe dum in ipsa ecclesia de Ster- 
 ling residebat iuxta tenorem litterarum apostolicarum super 
 huiusmodi erectione confectarum habebat et exercebat et habere 
 et exercere poterat ac eadem emolumenta ex fructibus dicte 
 ecclesie erecte prout ipse prepositus percipiebat etiam vnacum 
 ecclesia sua Candidecase percipere possit auctoritate apostolica 
 tenore presencium statuimus et ordinamus Non obstantibus 
 premissis ac constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis nec- 
 non ecclesiarum predictarum iuramento confirmatione apostolica 
 vel quauis firmitate alia roboratis statutis et consuetudinibus 
 ceterisque contrariis quibuscunque Nulli ergo omnino hominum 
 liceat hanc paginam nostrorum statuti et ordinationis infringere 
 vel ei ausu temerario contraire Siquis autem hoc attemptare 
 presumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei ac beatorum Petri 
 et Pauli apostolorum eius se venerit incursurum Datum Rome 
 apud Sanctum Petrum anno Incarnationis dominice Millesimo 
 quingentesimo quarto Quinto nonas Julii Pontificatus nostri 
 anno prime.
 
 84 EEGISTRUM 
 
 [Here in tlw original MS. occurs a blank of two pages.'] 
 
 16. CONFIRM AGIO BULLE SUPER FUNERALIA JURA ECCLESIASTIC A 
 ET JURISDICTIONS ECCLESIARUM VNITARUM. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERUUS SERUORUM DEI Venerabili fratri 
 Archiepiscopo Sipontini et dilectis filiis de Cambuskynnet et 
 Lowndoris Sanctiandree diocesis Monasteriorum Abbatibus 
 salutem et apostolicam benedictionem hodie emanarunt a nobis 
 littere tenoris subsequentis : 
 
 Julius episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei me- 
 moriam Romani pontificis prouidencia circumspecta ad ea libenter 
 intendit per que litibus obuietur et sue prouisionis * adminiculo 
 que in concessis per eum graciis suboriri possent dubia sopiantur 
 sane pro parte Carissimi in Christo filij nostri Jacobi Scotorum 
 Regis illustris ac dilecti filii Jacobi electi Candidecase nobis 
 nuper exhibita peticio continebat quod alias felicis recorda- 
 cionis Alexander Pape VI. -f- predecessor noster ad supplica- 
 tionem dicti Jacobi Regis Capellam Regiam beate Marie et 
 Sancti Michaelis intra palacium J in opido de Sterling Sancti- 
 andree diocesis in collegiatam ecclesiam et in ea decanatum 
 principalem et subdecanatum ac sacristiam dignitates necnon 
 certos || canonicatus et prebendas tune expressos erigi ac certa 
 beneficia ecclesiastica usque 11 ad certam summam tune expres- 
 sam cum cura et sine cura que de iure patronatus ipsius Regis 
 et aliorum laicorum erant de consensu regis et patronorum pre- 
 dictorum respectiue per quasdam uniri annecti et incorporari 
 
 * Et sua provisionis et ordinations, in No. 17. t Sextus for VI., in No. 17. 
 J Palacium situm, in No. 17. Sacristam, in No. 17. 
 
 || Certa, in No. 17. 1T Vsque, in No. 17.
 
 CAPELL.E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 85 
 
 mandauit ac decanatum subdecanatum sacristiam * et canonicos 
 ac clericos et alias personas dicte ecclesie tune erigenda-f- et 
 ipsam ecclesiam postquam erecta foret necnon bona omnia eidem 
 ecclesie tune unita et imposterum unienda ab Archiepiscopi Nota de 
 et { quorumcunque aliorum ordinariorum eorumque officialium e * e p ~ b 
 tune et pro tempore existentium iurisdictione superioritate archiepis- 
 dominio ac uisitatione et correctione penitus et omnino exeunt sncti- 
 et totaliter liberauit ita ut decanus coram sede apostolica uel an dree. 
 delegatis eius subdecanus uero sacrista ac canonici et persone 
 ecclesie huiusmodi coram ipso decano pro tempore existente 
 tenerentur de se querelantibus in iusticia respondere ac irritum 
 et inane quicquid secus super hiis a quaquam || quauis auctori- 
 tate scienter uel ignoranter contingeret attemptari decreuit. Et 
 deinde per alias suas statuit et ordinauit quod prepositus ecclesie 
 de EupelT Sanctiandree diocesis dum in ipsa ecclesia tune 
 [e]recta inibi decanus et dum in ipsa ecclesia de Euppe resideret 
 inibi prepositus existeret ac successiue nos per reliquas omnes 
 et singulos dicti Jacobi et pro tempore existentis Eegis ac eciam 
 Eegine Scotorum similiter pro tempore existentis famuliares Familiare 
 continues commensales et eorumdem familiarum familiares ** et 
 seruitores a iurisdictione dominio et superioritate quorumcunque 
 Archiepiscoporum et episcoporum ordinariorum et ff officialium 
 suorum pro tempore existentium eximimus et totaliter liber- 
 auimus ac iurisdictioni dicti decani pro tempore existentis sub- 
 misimus ac statuimus et ordinauimus quod ex tune de cetero 
 dictus prepositus prefate ecclesie de Euppe non esset decanus 
 dicte erecte ecclesie sed episcopus Candidecase tune et pro tem- 
 pore existens esset decanus dicte ecclesie erecte et curam ani- 
 marum Eegis et Eegine et eorum officialium ac familiarium 
 seruitorum JJ predictorum haberet prout prepositus dicte ecclesie 
 de Euppe dum in ipsa ecclesia erecta residebat juxta tenorem 
 litterarum Alexandri predecessoris habebat ac exercere poterat 
 
 Sacrisiam, in No. 17. t Erigende, in No. 17. 
 
 J Archiepiscopi Sanctiaiidree ac, in No. 17. Delegates, in No. 17. 
 
 || Quoquam, in No. 17. U Ruppe, in No. 17. 
 
 ** Famuliares, in No. 17. tt Et, omitted in No. 17. 
 
 JJ Et seruitorum, in No. 17. / *P* erecia ecclesia, in No. 17.
 
 86 REGISTRUM 
 
 eademque emolumenta ex fructibus dicte ecclesie erecte prout 
 
 ipse Prepositus percipiebat eciain* vnacum ecclesia Candidecase 
 
 recipere f posset et nouissime per alias nostras litteras de frat- 
 
 rum nostrorum consilio eciam ad requisicionem prefati Regis 
 
 Episcopus statuimus et ordinauimus quod ipse Episcopus Candidecase } pro 
 
 randide- teinpore existens denominetur Episcopus Capelle Regie Ster- 
 
 casie deno- . ., . . . . ,. . ., 
 
 minetur lingensis et gaudeat omnibus priuilegns jurisdictiombus et 
 ipelle PUS indultis quibus ipse Episcopus Candidecase vt decanus dicte 
 regie Stri- ecclesie Capelle Regie iuxta priuilegia desuper concessa gaudere 
 posset prout in singulis litteris predictis dicitur plenius contineri 
 cum autem sicut eadem peticio subiungebat licet per prefatum 
 Alexandrum predecessorem omnia et singula bona dicte erecte 
 ecclesie a jurisdictione ordinaria exempta et perrochiales ecclesie 
 de jure patronatus ipsius Regis et aliorum laicorum patronorum 
 de illorum consensu respectiue eidem erecte ecclesie uigore 
 litterarum Alexandri predecessoris cum omnibus iuribus et per- 
 tinenciis suis unite fuerunt ipsaque vnio effectum sortita extiterit 
 ad ipsumque Episcopum cura animarum Regis et Regine ac 
 famuliarum || et aliorum predictorum pertineat Tamen ab 
 aliquibus reuocatur indubium an ipse episcopus Candidecase et 
 capelle regie jurisdictionem ordinariam super ecclesias par- 
 rochiales et illarum parrochianos exercere et iura ordinaria 
 eciam funeralia a perochianis 11" et famuliaribus ac aliis predictis 
 cure ipsius Episcopi vt decano dicte ecclesie erecte vt prefertur 
 commissis illis pro tempore decedentibus habere possit pro parte 
 Jacobi regis et Jacobi electi predictorum asserencium equum 
 uideri ab eodem episcopo ab illis temporalia recipi deberi ** qui- 
 bus spiritualia ministrant ipsosque Regem et Reginam pro 
 tempore eorumque famuliares -f-f et seruitores ac parrochialium 
 ecclesiarum parrochianos ad temporalia per eas ante erectionem 
 ac vnionem parrochialium ecclesiarum huiusmodi solui solita post 
 erectionem etvnionem huiusmodi eidem episcopo soluendijj teneri 
 nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum vt in premissis et ad tollendas 
 
 * Eciam, omitted in No. 17. t Percipere, in No. 17. 
 
 % Candidecasie, in No. 17. Parrochiales, in No. 17. 
 
 H Familiarum, in No. 17. H Parrochianis, in No. 17. 
 
 ** Debere, in No. 17. ft Familiares, in No. 17. JJ Soluendam, in No. 17.
 
 CAPELLjE REGLE STR1VELINENSIS. 87 
 
 contenciones que premissoram occasione inter prefatum Epis- 
 copum Candidecase et capelle Eegie nunc et pro tempore exis- 
 tentem et * alios locorum ordinaries seu parrochialium ecclesi- 
 arum Kectores exoriri possent oportune prouidere de benignitate 
 apostolica dignaremur Nos igitur prefatum Jacobum Electum 
 a quibuscunque excommunicacionis suspensionis et interdicti Nota. 
 aliisque ecclesiasticis sentenciis censuris -f- et penis a iure vel ab " 
 
 homine quauis occasione vel causa latis siquibus quomodolibet 
 innodatos existit ad effectum presencium dumtaxat consequen- 
 dum harum serie absoluentes et absolutum fore censentes huius- 
 modi supplicacionibus inclinati auctoritate apostolica tenore 
 preseucium decernimus et declaramus quod prefatus Jacobus 
 Electus et pro tempore existens Episcopus Candidecase J Capelle 
 Eegie omnia et singula predicta ac alia iura quacumque eciam Nota. De 
 funeralia in parrocbiales ecclesias unitas et alias predictas ac \^ 
 illarum parrochianos officiales famuliares et seruitores prefatos 
 que rectores predictarum eidem erecte ecclesie vnitarum et 
 aliarum ecclesiarum infra quarum parrochias Regem et Reginani 
 ac eorum officiales famulares et seruitores cure et iurisdictioni 
 dicti Episcopi Candidecase et Capelle Regie commissas |j vt pre- 
 fertur pro tempore decedere contigerit vt alii ordinarii locorum 
 ab eisdem Regeet Regina et eorum IF officialibus et familiarum** 
 familiaribus et seruitoribus predictis ac si ipsi sub cura et iuris- 
 dictione dicti Episcopi Candidecase et Capelle Regie et ipse par- de fune- 
 rochiales ecclesie eidem erecte ecclesie vnite non essent petere rallbus - 
 et exigere possent recipere que et habere ac exigere et omni- 
 modam iurisdictionem in parrochiales ecclesias vnitas et alias Episcopus 
 predictas ac parrochianos ff officiales familiares et seruitores pre- ^"^^ 
 fatos exercere possit et debeat Non obstantibus premissis ac omnimo- 
 apostolicis necnon in prouincialibus et sinodalibus Conciliis dfJtionem" 
 editis generalibus uel specialibus constitucionibus et ordina- di( jte ca- 
 
 .... . . A1 pelle et 
 
 cionibus necnon omnibus illis que in nostns volumus ac Alex- aliarum 
 ander predecessor prefatus in suis litteris predictis uoluit non JjJJ 1 1 ^.. 
 
 tarum 
 
 * Ac, in No. 17. f Censuris, omitted in No. 17. Candidecase et, in No. 17. quando 
 Familiares, in No. 17. II Commwsos, in No. 17. 
 
 H Eorum, omitted in No. 17. '* Ac familiarium, in No. 17. 
 
 ff Par at this point No. 17 stops, one folio of the original wanting.
 
 88 REGISTRUM 
 
 obstare ceterisque contrariis quibuscunque Nulli ergo omnino 
 hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre absolucionis decreti et 
 declaracionis infringere uel ei ausu temerario contraire Siquis 
 autem hoc attemptare presumpserit indignacionem omnipotentis 
 Dei ac beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum eius se nouerit 
 incursurum Datum Rome apud Sanctum petrum Anno Incarna- 
 ciouis dominice Millesimo quingentesimo octauo sexto Idus 
 Septembris pontificatus nostri Anno quinto. 
 
 Quocirca discrecioni uestre per apostolica scripta mandamus 
 quatinus uos uel duo aut vnum uestrum per uos vel alium sen 
 alios litteras predictas ac omnia et singula in eis contenta ubi 
 et quando expedient ac quociens pro parte Jacobi Regis et 
 Jacobi Electi seu pro tempore Episcopi Candidecase et capelle 
 Regie predictorum super hoc fueritis requisiti soleraniter publi- 
 cantes ac eisdem Jacobo Regi et Jacobo electo ac pro tempore 
 Episcopo Candidecase et capelle Regie in premissis emcacis de- 
 fensionis presidio assistentes faciatis litteras et in eis contenta 
 huiusmodi inuiolabiliter obseruari non permittentes eundem 
 Jacobum electum et pro tempore Episcopi Candidecase et capelle 
 regie existente super illis per quoscumque cuiuscunque status 
 uel condictionis fuerint contra tenorem litterarum predictarum 
 quomodolibet molestari Contradictores per censuram ecclesiasti- 
 cam appellacione postposita compescendo non obstantibus pie 
 memorie Bonifacii Pape vni eciam predecessoris nostri quo inter 
 alia cauetur ne quis extra suas ciuitatem et diocesim nisi in cer- 
 tis exceptis casibus et in illis ultra vnam dietam a fine sue dio- 
 cesis ad iudicium reuocetur seu ne iudices a sede predicta 
 deputati fuerint contra quoscunque procedere aut alii vel aliis 
 uices suas committere presumunt et duabus dietis in consilio 
 generali edita dummodo ultra tres dietas aliquis auctoritate pre- 
 sencium non trahitur ac aliis constitucionibus et ordinacionibus 
 apostolicis necnon omnibus supradictis aut si aliquibus com- 
 muniter uel diuisim ab eadem sit sede indultum quod interdici 
 suspendi vel excommunicari non possint per litteras apostolicas 
 non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo ad uerbum de 
 indulto huiusmodi mencionem Datum Rome apud Sanctum 
 petrum Anno Incarnacionis dominice Millesimo quingente-
 
 CAPELL^E REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 89 
 
 simo octauo sexto idus Septembris Pontificatua nostri anno 
 quinto. 
 
 [A blank of one page and a half in original.] 
 
 17. BULLA SUPER FUNERALIA JURA ECCLESIASTICA ET IURISDIO 
 TIONEM ECCLESIARUM VNITARUM, ETC. 
 
 JULIUS EPISCOPUS SERWS SERVORUM DEI ad perpetuam rei 
 memoriam Eomani Pontificis prouidencia circumspecta [etc. as 
 incorporated in No. 16, under which the variations are noted. 
 
 No. 1 7 is imperfect, through the loss of one folio of the ori- 
 ginal MS., and closes with " ac par-" as noted in No. 16.] 
 
 18. SUBSEQUITUR tenor erectionis vicarie ecclesie de Creyf per Fol. 50. 
 lecte audite et postea judicialiter et recongnite ac per dominum 
 Ninianum Spotiswoid archidiaconum capelle Eegie Striuelingen- 
 sis et dominum Willelmuni Aitoune Eectorem de Banue testes 
 in scriptis huiusmodi erectione insertos legittime probate. Qui 
 vero testes tempore promulgacionis iudicialis dicte erectionis 
 per quondam Magistrum Dauid Abercumbby iudieem ac eiusdem 
 capelle Regie subdicanum pro tribunali sedentem sentencialiter 
 late presentes fuerunt ac tenorem continenciam dicte erectionis 
 sufficienter, probauerunt verum eciam Magistrum Willelmum 
 Dennestoun notarium et scribam tune temporis memorati quon-
 
 90 REGISTRUM 
 
 dam judicis in dicta erectione recongnouerunt. Propterea Reuer- 
 endus in Christo pater Henricus miseratione diuina prenominate 
 capelle et Candidecase Episcopus pro tribunal! sedens confrat- 
 runi suorum consilio canonicorum aut saltern maiorum partis 
 eorum capitulariter in loco capitulari capitulariter congregati et 
 imperpetue rei memoriam eandem erectionem per dominum 
 Johannem Lambert prebeudarum prelibate capelle ac scribam 
 predicti capituli regestrari et in libris regestrorum sepedicte 
 capelle inscribi et imponi mandauit ordinauit et decreuit primo 
 die mensis Decembris Anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo 
 tricesimo septimo. 
 
 In Dei Nomine Amen Per hoc presens publicum Instrumen- 
 tum cunctis pateat euidenter quod anno Incarnacionis dominice 
 Millesimo quingentesimo vndecimo mensis vero Mercii die 
 quinto indictione decima quinta pontificatus Sanctissimi in 
 Christo patris et domini nostri domini Julij diuina prouidencia 
 pape secundi anno nono In mei notarii publici et testium 
 subscriptorum presencia sedente pro tribunali venerabili" et 
 egregio viro Magistro Dauid Abbercrummy officiali principali 
 Candidecase et Capelle Regie Striuelingensis ac eiusdem capelle 
 regie subdicano comparuerunt personaliter in iudicio discretus 
 vir dominus Johannes Broune vicarius pensionarius perpetuus 
 ecclesie parrochialis de Creyf in Stratherne actor ab vna Et 
 domini Willelmus Sterheid et Johannes Goldsmyth canonici 
 dicte capelle Regie ac prebendarij eiusdem ecclesie de Creyf rei 
 partibus ab altera dictis prebendariis prius ad hoc legitime 
 citatis tanquam in termino per dictum Judicem assignato ad 
 augmentandam pensionem annuam dicti vicarij Quequid pensio 
 vt idem vicarius asseruit erat nimie exigua perua et exilis sic 
 quod de eadem commode se sustentari non valuit. Idem vero 
 vicarius ad suam intencionem roborandam duas in iudicio 
 produxit scripturas vnam videlicet subscriptam manu propria 
 excellentissimi principis et domini nostri domini Jacobi quarti 
 Scotorum regis illustrissimi ac in margine eiusdem cum illo 
 uerbo Rex. Alteram vero manu propria reuerendi in Christo 
 patris et domini domini Dauid miseracioni diuina Candidecase 
 et capelle Regie Striuelingensis Episcopi subscriptam Duarum
 
 CAPELL^E REGIME STRIVELINENSIS. 91 
 
 quidem scripturarum tenores sequuntur et sunt tales: Rex. We 
 as patrone of the kyrk of Creyf gyffis ouyr full consent and 
 assent be thir ouyr lettres that the bischop of ouyr chapel rial 
 erec and mak the vicar pensione of the sayd kyrk equauilent to 
 the vtheris vicaris pensionarys of the kyrkys of Balmaclellene 
 Suthwyth and Kellys vnit erectit to ouyr sayd chapel wyth ane 
 manse zard and gleyb of twa akaris of the kyrk land of Creyf 
 callyt for nixt adiacent to the sayd kyrk to the sustentacione 
 of the vicar therof to serue the cuyr payand procuragis and 
 synnagis and mak the dene Rurale expensys in visitacion as 
 efferys and ordanys that this be done be the bischop of ouyr 
 chapel Ryel and official tharof be tharis dyscrecionys the 
 quantyte of the cuyr beyng consyderit. Subscriuit wyth our 
 hand at Edynbrugh the xxv daye of September and of our 
 reng the xxiiij or zeir Et sequitur subscripcio manualis. Rex 
 James. Schyr officiale forsamekyll as the vicarage of the kyrk of 
 Creyf is nocht contenyt in the erectioun of our souerane lordis 
 chapel riale as the layf of the vicaragis that ar incorporat tharto 
 is tharfor that ze assyngne and mak our vicar of Creyf als 
 mekyll zeyrly to his pensioun of the fructis o the said vicarage 
 to sustene hym and serue the cuyr as ony of the vicaragis of 
 Balmaclelen Suchwych or Kellis has wyth ane manse zard and 
 gleib and tua akaris of the kyrk land callyt For iiixt adiacent 
 to the sayd kyrk wyth certane gress sovmes for gudyng of the 
 said gleib accordyng to the extent of the said kyrkland he 
 payund of the samyn zerly procurage and synage aucht and 
 wount and makand the deyiie rurale expense quhen he vesiis 
 the sayd kyrk alanerlye for our souerane lordys patroun of the 
 sayd kyrk of Creyf has consentyt heirto and cominendit ws to 
 hys writtingis to do the samyn keip this our mandment for 
 zour warand and cause the samyn to be fulfyllyt sa that we 
 heir na complant tharof in tymys cuming. Subscriuit wyth our 
 hand at Edinbrugh the v day of March the zer of God l m v c 
 xi yeris. Et sequitur subscripcio manualis dicti Episcopi D. 
 Candidecase et capelle Regie Striuelingensis Episcopus. Qui- 
 busquidem scripturis in iudicio coram partibus publice perlectis 
 et ostensis dictus vicarius instanter a ludice postulauit vt aug-
 
 92 REGISTRUM 
 
 mentacionem sue annue pensionis dicte vicarie perpetue secun- 
 dum tenorem dictarum duarum scripturarum procedere dignare- 
 tur attenta maxime quod per dictos prebendaries nulla raciona- 
 bilis tarn fuerat in iudicio alligata quare huiusmodi augmentacio 
 fieri non deberet Dominus vero ludex antedictus inspectis deli- 
 genter dictis duabus scripturis et fundacione prefate capelle 
 Regie Striuelingensis in illo presertim posse vbi agitur de erec- 
 tione vicariarum perpetuarum et eoramdem pencionibus annuis 
 ecclesiarum parrochialium de Suchwich Kellis et Balm c lellane 
 pertinencium ad dictam capellam regiam pensionem annuam 
 dicte vicarie perpetue de Creif in modo qui sequitur Augmen- 
 tauit et ordinauit videlicet quod vicarius perpetuus eiusdem 
 ecclesie de Creif in Stratherne qui pro tempore fuerit deinceps 
 habeat annuatim pro perpetuis temporibus futuris de fructibus 
 ipsius ecclesie de Creif pro sua sustentacione et omnibus suppor- 
 tandis vnde commode viuere valeat viginti quatuor marcas 
 vsualis monete Eegni Scocie et duas acras arrabiles viciniores 
 dicte ecclesie de villa que For nuncupatur pertinentes ad eandem 
 ecclesiam ortumque et domos edificatas vna cum pastura ani- 
 malium suorum secundum congruenciam earundem dictarum 
 acrarum et cum focalibus competentibus in moris et marresiis 
 eiusdem ville. Et preterea quod prefatus vicarius qui pro tem- 
 pore fuit sic deinceps perpetuus temporibus futuris astrictus ad 
 soluendum annuatim Episcopo ordinario loci procuraciones debi- 
 tas et consuetas pro dicta ecclesia pecunias sinodales et expensas 
 ordinarias decano christianitatis qui pro tempore dictam ecclesiam 
 de Creif in Strathern et eius parrochia annuatim visitauerit. Et 
 quod solucio pensionis quo ad prefatas xxiiij or marcas fieri 
 deberet dicto vicario de Creif qui pro tempore fuerit ad quatuor 
 anni terminos vsuales porciones equales annuatim leuandas ex 
 fructibus dicte ecclesie de Creif videlicet in festiuitatibus Inuen- 
 cionis Sancte Crucis Sancti Petri qui ad uincula dicitur Omnium 
 Sanctorum et Purificacionis nostre domine. Super quibus omni- 
 bus et singulis premissis prefatus dominus Johannes Brovn 
 vicarius pensionarius perpetuus dicte ecclesie parrochialis de 
 Creif in Stratherne a me notario publico subscripto sibi fieri 
 peciit presens publicum Instrumentum seu publica Instrumenta
 
 CAfELUE REGLE STRIVELINENSIS. 93 
 
 vnum vel plura. Acta erant hec in capella regia prope opidum 
 de Edinburgh sita in loco consistoriali eiusdem hora quasi duo- 
 decima ante meridiem vel eo circa sub anno die mense Indic- 
 tione et pontificatu quibus supra presentibus ibidem discretis 
 viris et dominis Niniano Spottiswode archidiacono prelate 
 capelle regie Striuelingensis Johanne Tod Alexandro Painter 
 Willelmo Atkyn Nycholaio Buchane capellanis. Jacobo Aik- 
 man burgensi de Edinbrugh Johanne Abercrumby et Alexandro 
 Kamsay cum diuersis aliis testibus ad premissa vocatis pariter 
 et rogatis. 
 
 (Sd.) J. PRYMROIS. 
 
 19. ANE INDEX OF RIGHTS OF THE CHAPPELL AND OF THEIR BULLS 
 
 OR PATENTS. 
 
 1. Processus super erectione ecclesise collegiatse de Sterling. 
 The erection of the Chapell, .... FoL 1. 
 
 2. Confirmatio erectionis. A confirmation theirof . Fol. 9. 
 
 3. Conseruatoria ecclesise collegiatse de Sterling. A conserva- 
 
 torie Bull theirof, Fol. 14. 
 
 4. Vnio ecclesise de Kirkinner. The vnion of Kirkinner to the 
 
 ChappeU, Fol. 16. 
 
 Constitutio procuratorum ad prsestandum consensum rectoris 
 vnioni de Kirkinner et ad resignandum post vnionem 
 factam, Fol. 23. 
 
 Confirmatio erectionis de Kirkinner, . . . Fol. 27. 
 
 5. Vnio fructuum de Creiff Dunbar Ellam, Bute Balmaclellan, 
 
 etc., FoL 19. 
 
 6. Commissio ad erigendam Thesaurariam et decem canonicatus 
 
 et prsebendas. Commission for erection of the thesaurer 
 and mo prsebenderis, Fol. 25. 
 
 7. Applicatio fructuum de Air, Kincardin Creiff and Pettie 
 
 Brachley, . Fol. 28. 
 
 8. Bulla si in euideutem, .... . Fol. 32. 
 
 9. Conseruatoria de Air, Kincardin Creiff, etc., . Fol. 34.
 
 94 REGISTRUM 
 
 10. A registre of ornaments and books pertaining to the Chap- 
 
 pell, Fol. 35. 
 
 11. Priuelegium familiarium regis et reginse, . . Fol. 41. 
 
 12. Mutatio decani. The transferring of the Deanrie to the 
 
 Bishop of Galloway. 
 
 13. A patent of the Deanes iurisdiction ouer all the vnited 
 
 kirks, Fol. 47. Confirmation of it, . . Fol. 44. 
 
 14. Erectio vicarise ecclesia de Creiff. 
 
 Besyde these conteiued in this registre there are eleuen 
 Bulles. 
 
 I . R . 6 . 5. 
 T H 
 
 CVM MANV 
 PROPEIA
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 i. 
 
 GRANT TO THE CHAPEL EOYAL BY THE EEGENT, 
 DUKE OF ALBANY. 
 
 Pp. xi., xii. In the text we have omitted to refer to a grant 
 to the Chapel Royal by the Regent Albany. On the 26th June 
 1407, the Regent granted half an annual rent of twenty marks 
 of the lands of Craggroth for the sustenance of a chaplain in the 
 Chapel of Michael the Archangel at Stirling Castle, where 
 masses might be said for his own soul, the souls of his two 
 wives, Margaret and Muriel, and their children, and also for the 
 souls of the kings of Scotland, since King Robert the Bruce. 
 We subjoin the original instrument, from the Register of the 
 Great Seal : 
 
 " CARTA PRO CAPELLANO FUNDATO IN CASTRO DE STRIUELYNE. 
 
 " Robertus, dux Albanie, comes de Fyfe et de Menteth, ac gub- 
 ernator regni Scocie omnibus probis hominibus tocius regni 
 predicti clericis et laicis salutem. Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse 
 et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse pro salute animarum 
 excellentissimorum principum bone memorie Roberti et David 
 de Bruys Roberti senescalli progenitoris nostri et Roberti senes- 
 calli fratris nostri quondam regum Scocie ac eciam pro salute 
 anime nostre et animarum Margarete et Murielle uxorum nos- 
 trarum et prolum nostrarum ac antecessorum et successorum 
 nostrorum ac omnium fidelium defunctorum Deo et beate Marie 
 virgini et beato Michali Archangelo ac uni capellano divina cele- 
 braturi et imperpetuum celebraturo in capella beati Michaelis 
 Archangeli infra castrum de Striuelyne situata decem marcas 
 annualis redditus annuatim levaudas et recipiendas de annuo
 
 96 APPENDIX. 
 
 redditu viginti marcarum exeunte de terris de Cragortht cum 
 pertinenciis jacentibus infra vicecomitatum de Striuelyne per 
 manus teneucium et inhabitancium earundem : Tenendas et 
 habendas ac percipiendas dictas decem, marcas annuatim ad 
 duos anni terminos penthecostes videlicet et Santi Martini in 
 yeme per porciones equales predicto capellano et successoribus 
 suis qui pro tempore fuerint in liberam puram et perpetuam 
 elemosinam ad manum mortuam imperpetuam cum omnibus 
 libertatibus commoditatibus et aysiamentis ac iustis pertinenciis 
 quibuscunque ad dictum annuum redditum spectantibus sen 
 iuste spectare valentibus in futurum adeo libere et quiete 
 plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace in omnibus et per 
 omnia sicut aliqua elemosina infra regnum Scocie per aliquem 
 conceditur siue datur. Volumus eciam et concedimus quod 
 quandocunque et quocienscunque dictum capellanum qui pro 
 tempore fuerit decedere contigerit seu ex aliqua causa ra- 
 cionalibi (sic) a dicta capellania ammoveri extunc nos vel 
 heredes nostri qui pro tempore fuerint infra mensem a 
 tempore vacacionis huiusmodi alium capellanum ydoneum 
 domino episcopo Sanctiandree vel eius vicario generali sede 
 vacante debite presentent admittendum pro salute omnium an- 
 nimarum predictarum in capella beati Michaelis supradicta pro 
 perpetuo celebratarum. Et quandocunque dictum capellanum 
 qui pro tempore fuerit ad aliquod aliud beneficium ecclesiasti- 
 cuin contigerit promoveri statirn postquam illud perceperit seu 
 obtinuerit dicta capellania vacabit Insuper volumus et per pre- 
 sentes ordinamus quod si dictus annuus redditus decem mar- 
 carum dicto capellano qui pro tempore fuerit ad dictos terminos 
 bene et prompte annuatim non soluant, licet extunc eidem 
 capellano sine licencia alicuius ministri predictas terras de 
 Craggrotht distringere et namare quousque de dicte animo red- 
 ditu plenarie fuerit satisfactum nichil inde faciendo dictus 
 capellanus et successores sui nobis et heredibus nostris qui 
 pro tempore fuerint nisi missam cotidie cum dispositi fuerint 
 in capella supradicta et oracionum suffragia devotarum pro 
 omni alio servicio seculari exaccione seu demanda que de dicti 
 aunuo redditu decem marcarum aliqualiter exigi poterunt vel
 
 APPENDIX. 97 
 
 requiri. In cuius rei testimonium present! carte nostre sigillum 
 officii nostri apponi fecimus : Testibus reverendo in Christo patre 
 Gilberto episcopo Abirdonensi cancellario Scocie Roberto senes- 
 callo primogenito carissimi filii nostri et heredis Murdaci senes- 
 calli militis Johanne Senescallo filio nostro domino Buchanie 
 Alexandra Senescallo comite de Marr et de Garvyach nepote 
 nostro Johanne Senescallo domino de Lome Willelmo de Ertht 
 militibus domino Donaldo de Bute decano Dunblanensi et 
 Andrea de Hawyk secretario nostro apud Perth vicesimi sexti 
 Die mensis Junii anno domini millesimo cccc mo septimo et guber- 
 nacionis nostre anno secundo." * 
 
 II. 
 
 PRESENTATION BY JAMES V. OF TREASUEERSHIP OF THE CHAPEL 
 EOYAL TO MR ANDREW DURIE. 
 
 P. liv. We here find the celebrated John Mair or Major in 
 1518-22 holding the offices of canon and treasurer of the Chapel 
 Royal of Stirling. Since the text was printed we have fallen 
 upon an entry in the Register of the Privy Seal, which shows 
 that in prospect of his demission Mr Andrew Dury or Durie was 
 by James V. presented to the treasurership. The instrument 
 of gift, dated at Glasgow on the 1st June 1520, is directed to 
 David [Arnot], Bishop of Galloway, and of the Chapel Royal, 
 who is instructed to confer on the presentee ordinary collation. 
 It proceeds thus : 
 
 " Presentacio magistri Andree Dury directa reuerendo in 
 Christo patri David episcopo Candidecase et capelle regie Striuel- 
 ingensis, ad conferendum collacionem ordinariam super thesau- 
 raria dicte capelle regie cum earn vacare contigerit per resigna- 
 cionem seu dimissionen magistri Johannis Mair theologie profes- 
 soris vltimi thesaurarii et possessoris eiusdem ad presentacionem 
 supremi domini nostri regis ac dispositionem reuerendi in Christo 
 patris, etc., ac collacionem ordinariam dicti reuerendi patris 
 spectante, etc. Apud Glasgow primo die meiisis Junii anno 
 
 * Reg. Mag. Sig. Rot., xi. 22. 
 G
 
 98 APPENDIX. 
 
 etc., xx et rcgni regis septimo. Gratis domino canccllario. Per 
 signaturam maim dicti domini cancellarii subscriptam.* 
 
 Dury or Durie was appointed Abbot of Melrose in 1526 ; he 
 obtained the bishopric of Galloway and Deanery of the Chapel 
 Royal in ] 541. When on the 3d July 1541 he was recommended 
 to the Pope as successor to Bishop Wemyss in the see of Gal- 
 loway, the king's letter stipiilates, " that according to ancient 
 custom, the Deanery of the Chapel Royal and the Abbey of 
 Tungland should continue united to the bishoprick, but that 
 Durie should resign Melrose, retaining a pension of 1000 marks 
 from its rents, and the usufruct of Mauchline and the surround- 
 ing fields." Consequent on the mob breaking the image of St 
 Giles during a procession in honour of that saint, which took 
 place at Edinburgh on the 1st September 1558, Durie became 
 so overwhelmed that he died soon afterwards. By Knox and 
 Calderwood he is denounced as profane and licentious, and is 
 further described as having asserted that the Gospel would not 
 be preached in Scotland so long as he and his Episcopal col- 
 leagues survived (Knox's History, 105 ; Calderwood, i. 332). 
 Bishop Dury was son of John Dury of that Ilk, in the county of 
 Fife, and brother of George Dury, Archdeacon of St Andrews, 
 a canonised saint of the Church of Eome. To their uncle, 
 Archbishop James Beaton, both brothers owed their preferments 
 (Chalmers' History of Dunfermline, i. 198 ; Brunton and Haig's 
 Senators of the College of Justice, pp. 67, 68). 
 
 III. 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF JAMES CAMPBELL AS A MUSICIAN IN THE 
 CHAPEL ROYAL. 
 
 Pp. liv., v. A contemporary of Alexander Paterson, the 
 sacristan, and of Roland Carmichael, musician in the Chapel, 
 has yet to be named. In the Register of the Privy Seal (vii., 
 fol. 57), under the year 1527, is the following entry : 
 
 " Ane lettre to James Campbell makand him singar in the 
 * Reg. Sec. Sig., lib. v., fol. 144.
 
 APPENDIX. 99 
 
 kingis chapell riall, and to haue for his seruice thairin xx lib , to be 
 pait be the thesaurar for his lyftyme, or quhill he be promovit to 
 j c Hb O f b erie fi cej e tc. At Edinburgh, the first day of Maij and 
 of the Kingis regne the xiiij [zeir]. 
 
 " Per Signaturam, etc." 
 
 IV. 
 
 JOHN TAYLOE, THE WATEK POET'S VISIT TO EDINBUEGH. 
 
 Pp. cxxviii., cxxix. John Taylor was at Edinburgh in the 
 autumn of 1618, the year subsequent to the restoration of the 
 Abbey Church, on the occasion of King James's visit. " I was," 
 he writes, " at his Majesty's Palace, a stately and princely seat, 
 wherein I saw a sumptuous chapel, most nobly adorned with 
 all the appurtenances belonging to so sacred a place, or so royal 
 an owner. In the inner court I saw the king's arms cunningly 
 carved in stone, and fixed over a door aloft on the wall, the red 
 lion being in the crest, over which was written this inscription 
 in Latin, ' Nobis hcec invicta miserunt, 106 proavi.' I inquired 
 what the English of it was ? It was told me as followeth : 
 ' 10 6 forefathers have left this to us, unconqucred.' The poet then 
 indulges in some poetical reflections on the virtues of a nation 
 which could boast such honours. (See "The Penniless Pil- 
 grimage," in Taylor's Works, 3872, pp. 31, 32.) 
 
 V. 
 
 LETTEE OF LOED BINNING TO JAMES VI. 
 
 Pp. cxxvi.-cxxix. Thomas Hamilton, created in 1613 Lord 
 Binning and Byres, afterwards Earl of Melrose, and latterly Earl 
 of Haddington, became President of the Privy Council in 1616. 
 The following extract from a letter, addressed by him to the 
 king, on the 4th February 1618, would seem to show how 
 (doubtless under Laud's counsel) James VI. had already deter- 
 mined that members of the Privy Council should give com- 
 pulsory attendance on episcopal service in the Chapel Royal : 
 
 " Most Sacred Souerane, ... I signified to the counsell
 
 100 APPENDIX. 
 
 your maiesties pleasour anent their repairing to sermon vpoun 
 the Soundayes to your maiesties chapell of Halyrudhows, which 
 they ar uilling to do, and wald haue done alreddie, if the 
 Bischop of Gallowayes heavie seiknes had not hindered him to 
 preache this tyme bygane. He promeisis to aduerteis the 
 counseil when his recouerie sail enable him to preache, and 
 they to resort to it as your maiestie hes commanded. . . . 
 
 - " BINNING." * 
 
 VI. 
 
 MR JAMES LAW'S MISSION TO LONDON. 
 
 Pp. cxlviii.-cl. The following letter, addressed " To the King, 
 his most excellent Maiestie," is No. 104 of a volume of the 
 Balfour MSS. in the Advocates Library, with the press mark, 
 33, 3, 12. Written by Mr James Law, treasurer of the Chapel 
 Royal, and representative at court of its dean and chapter, the 
 letter refers to a proposal of the king " touching another pur- 
 pose" made in the royal audience chamber, and respecting which 
 the writer had subsequently received a vague and mysterious 
 mission. In imitation of the court, Law expresses himself 
 mysteriously; but in the light of past resolutions and occur- 
 rences, it is obvious that James was willing to grant the prayer 
 of his memorial, on the condition that his constituents gave 
 effect to the court views, by introducing into the chapel Anglican 
 rites. Law's request for a further interview would doubtless be 
 granted, unless apprehension was entertained by the impecuni- 
 ous sovereign that the treasurer would insist on immediate 
 payment of his travelling costs. Mr Law's letter proceeds : 
 
 * As the members of the Privy Council and Officers of State were 
 directly amenable to the sovereign, they were selected as the first victims 
 of despotic power. To Laud, as the son of a Berkshire silk mercer, it 
 must have been intensely gratifying, that, in his capacity of domestic 
 chaplain to the weakest prince in Europe, he could, with some hope of 
 success, command the nobles of an ancient and unconquered kingdom to 
 submit to his authority. Extravagantly loyal as the Scots are, it is to be 
 remarked that in religious concerns they have not since the Reformation 
 stooped to despotic rule. (State Papers of Thomas, Earl of Melros, Abbots- 
 ford Club, 1837, ii. 626.)
 
 APPENDIX. 101 
 
 "Most Sacred and Gratious Soveraigne, In your maiesties 
 audience at Windsore, vpon the sext day of Julij last bypast, 
 wher I wes gratiouslie hard in the effairs of your maiesties 
 Chapell Eoyall some litle twiching ane other purpose wes 
 expressed, and vpon the niorne by wreat supplied, yet not so 
 cleerlie. bot that it is more then neidfull some farder wer hard 
 for detecting that which is evill, and proponing that which no 
 doubt may prove proffitable for pace in the church, and per- 
 petuall strenthning your sacred maiestie and most hopefull suc- 
 cessioun; so that now I most hairtilie wisch and desyre yet 
 once again on my bended knees to offer vp old mit, new stampt, 
 wnto your heighnesse grave consideration, that the same being 
 put to tryell may (efter your maiesties princelie censure) prove 
 no les fyned from impuritie then offerred with sinceritie. Not 
 doubting bot when your maiestie will be pleased to call for me 
 to court, ordour will be takin that I receave some reasonable 
 supplie for my better addresse ther. 
 
 "Efter my dispatch in the effairs of your maiesties Eoyall 
 Chapell, for expeding the same, I reteired my selff home, to my 
 no small expenss, wher wee receave a vehement opposition of 
 some to whom ar trusted the manadging of your maiesties rents, 
 who, vpon plausible reasones and weak pretences (bot fra ther 
 own privat respects), labour in the very cradill to extiriguisch 
 that laudable work. In which case I can sufficientlie verefie 
 against them all that these proceidings do least tend to the 
 hurt of the crown rent or lieges ; and will not be infeebled, bot 
 think my self more then happie, if your maiestie, considdering 
 the equitie of the caus, by your own sacred hand erecting that 
 Godlie work, winn to your maiestie immortall gloir. So creave- 
 ing pardon for that wherin I may haue offended, I beseech 
 Almichtie God to blisse your maiestie with all maner of hap- 
 piness. 
 
 " Your maiesties most humble and obedient servand, 
 
 (Signed) " Mr JAMES LAW. 
 
 " Edinburgh, 
 
 " 14 August 1623."
 
 102 APPENDIX. 
 
 VII. 
 
 TUB RlOT AT HOLYROODHOUSE ON THE 10TH DECEMBER 1688, 
 AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN RELATION TO CAPTAIN 
 JOHN WALLACE. 
 
 Pp. ccxliii. The wrecking of the Abbey Church in December 
 1688, attended as it was with a bold defence by Captain Wal- 
 lace, who, on behalf of the Government of James VII., held 
 Holyroodhouse by an armed force, forms a not unimportant 
 episode in the national history. As the subject has not hitherto 
 been referred to fully in any connected narrative, we have 
 thought of supplementing what is stated in the text by a 
 detailed relation. It is convenient to adduce, in the first in- 
 stance, an account of the occurrence drawn up by Colin, Earl 
 of Balcarres, and transmitted by that nobleman to the dethroned 
 sovereign at St Germains. His lordship writes : 
 
 " The night after he [the Earl of Perth] left Edinburgh, the 
 rabble met in great numbers in the streets ; George Stirling, an 
 apothecary, and Mr Menzies, a merchant, to inflame them, made 
 drums beat through all quarters of the town; the inhabi- 
 tants came running out of their houses to know the cause of so 
 sudden an alarm, were met by those posted by Mr Stirling and 
 Menzies, who told them they had good reasons to believe the 
 Papists designed that night to burn the town that therefore 
 all good Protestants should arm and meet for their own defence. 
 After they had assembled all they could, and seeing no appear- 
 ance of any danger, they -began to tire ; one of them proposed 
 that it was a pity so many honest men should meet without 
 doing something worthy of themselves, and that it would please 
 and satisfy all good Protestants if they should go and pull 
 down the Popish chapel of the abbey. The proposal took, 
 and, as ever in such tumultuous meetings, all cried ' Agreed ; ' 
 men and boys mingled together in confusion. Captain John 
 Wallace was then in your Majesty's palace, with 120 men, 
 raised by the Council to defend it. When he saw them ap- 
 proaching he sent a sergeant to desire them to retire that 
 otherwise he should be obliged to do his duty, and fire upon
 
 APPENDIX. 103 
 
 them. This they did not regard, so he gave them a volley of 
 firelocks, which killed about a dozen and wounded others. 
 Upon the first fire they ran, and the noise was industriously 
 spread by the Lords and Gentlemen, sitting at the same time 
 at their meetings, that Captain Wallace had made a butchery of 
 the inhabitants ; and, to inflame the more, it was asserted that 
 few of any consideration in the town but had children killed ; 
 this brought all to meet, and they were joined by the discon- 
 tented Lords and Gentlemen, who resolved to go altogether to 
 attack Captain Wallace. One of them proposed, since what 
 they were going to do might afterwards be challenged, and they 
 brought to trouble, that some of their number should be sent to 
 the Marquis of Atholl, to desire him to give them a warrant for 
 what they intended, and likewise that he, with some other 
 Councillors, might order the Magistrates' concurrence. 
 
 " At their desire his Lordship, Viscount of Tarbat,* and the 
 Earl of Breadalbane, signed them a warrant, and ordered the 
 heralds and pursuivants to attend them, to summon Captain 
 Wallace, in the King's name, to deliver up the palace. The town 
 company, commanded by Captain Graham, marched first ; next 
 the discontented Gentlemen (the chief of them were Sir James 
 Montgomery, William Lockhart, Eiccarton, Drummond, Lord 
 Mersington, William Drummond, Clerk to the Artillery, Living- 
 stone) ; next the Provost and all the magistrates in their robes, 
 accompanied by a mob of several thousands. When they came 
 near the Abbey, the Magistrates sent the heralds and trumpets 
 with the Marquis's warrant and order to Captain Wallace to quit 
 the place, which he positively refused, as the order was not from 
 a full quorum of the Council. Upon his refusal, they began to 
 fire at each other, and the Gentlemen and Magistrates got behind 
 cover, and left Captain Graham with the trained bands and 
 rabble to dispute the matter. Captain Graham left them, and 
 got into the court by a back way, which, when Captain Wallace 
 knew, and saw himself like to be attacked before and behind, 
 he retired and forsook his post. When his men missed him, 
 they threw down their arms and begged quarter. The Gentle- 
 * Afterwards Earl of Cromarty.
 
 104 APPENDIX. 
 
 men and rabble, when they saw all danger over, rushed in upon 
 them, killed some and put the rest in prison, where many of 
 them died of their wounds and hunger. The rabble, having 
 nothing to resist them, entered the house, pulled down all they 
 could find in the private chapel, demolished all things within 
 the Abbey Church, which had been finished some days before 
 they entered, and plundered the house the Jesuits had lived in. 
 When their work was over, they opened the Chancellor's cellars 
 and wines, and made themselves as drunk with wine as before 
 they had been with zeal."* 
 
 So far Lord Balcarres, writing as a partisan of the dethroned 
 sovereign. Wodrow, who presents the next version, quotes as 
 his authorities " a reverend minister since the revolution, then a 
 student in Edinburgh, who was engaged in the attack and wounded 
 very sore ; " also " some letters writ at this time." He writes : 
 
 " Upon Sabbath, December 9th [1688], some idle people walk- 
 ing in the Park and St Anthony's Yards, seeking to come through 
 the Abbey as their nearest road, found all the gates shut, and 
 cannons placed at every gate, and were discharged by the sen- 
 tinels to come near. This, with the addition that the court was 
 full of armed men, when reported in the town, heightened the 
 jealousies of the populace, and the fears of more thinking per- 
 sons, that evil was designed. And in the evening a few young 
 lads accidentally got together, after some conversation upon the 
 present danger, began to huzza, and there was soon a vast 
 gathering of students at the college, and apprentices. The 
 magistrates caused shut all the ports, and the keys were brought 
 to the Provost, Magnus Prince, his house at the foot of Lib- 
 berton's Wynd, and the rest of the magistrates absconded. The 
 youths gathered about his lodgings, which were inaccessible, 
 calling for the keys, and upon his refusal, threatened to burn his 
 house, but did no hurt. From thence they came to the Cross, 
 and having forced up the door with forehammers, they pro- 
 claimed an offer of four hundred pounds sterling to any who 
 
 * Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland, 1688-1690, by Colin 
 Earl of Balcarres, presented to King James II. at St Germains, 1690. 
 Edinb., Bannatyne Club, 1841, pp. 15-17.
 
 APPENDIX. 105 
 
 should bring Perth or Melford dead or alive. No more hap- 
 pened this night. 
 
 " Next day, in the forenoon, the Town Council met, and emitted 
 a proclamation ' discharging tumults, and ordering parents and 
 masters to keep their servants and children within doors.' 
 This proclamation was torn as soon as it was read, and the offi- 
 cers and drummer stopped when going through the town. This 
 day the Chancellor and his family saw good to retire from the 
 Abbey and go out of town. Matters continued quiet till 
 twilight, and then a multitude began to gather at the head of 
 the Cowgate, and after they had provided themselves in staves 
 and torches, they came up the Bow, where they knew of two 
 drums, and seized them ; one of them soon broke, and with the 
 other, their numbers still increasing, they went down the town 
 to the Netherbow. In the Canongate they stopped a little, 
 seeing the Guard drawing out, and upon sending to inquire what 
 the matter was, they found the Captain friendly, and that he 
 only drew out his men to put respect upon them. They desired 
 he should call them in ; which was presently done, and they 
 went forward. At the Canongate Cross they took down the 
 Earl of Perth's picture and carried it with them to the Abbey. 
 There Captain "Wallace was advanced with some soldiers beyond 
 the strand. Whereupon they stopped, and sent to demand 
 access to the court ; which, he refusing, they beat their drum, 
 and with a cry run in upon him. He ordered his men to 
 fire, which did abundance of hurt ; severals were killed upon 
 the spot, and many wounded, to the number of 36 or 38, 
 whereof not a few died afterward. After the fire the appren- 
 tices and youths fell in upon the Captain with great fury, forced 
 him and his men off the street, and killed two of them outright 
 before they could enter the Abbey gate ; that being presently 
 shut, they could get no further in the pursuit. Upon this they 
 retired a little, and ordered some of their number to carry off the 
 dead, and to help up the wounded to the town, and require 
 assistance ; and then lodged themselves in houses and closses 
 the best way they could. Meanwhile Captain Wallace and his 
 men continued, from this time about nine till eleven, firing up
 
 106 APPENDIX. 
 
 the street. Those who went up to the town carried up with 
 them some of the arms and hands of the dead and maimed, and 
 hearing of a number of gentlemen and others in a vintner's, went 
 to them and showed how they had been treated. The gentlemen 
 applied to the Town Council then sitting for assistance ; which 
 they refused, and the commissioners from the apprentices and 
 others threatened to burn the town. The gentlemen went and 
 got a quorum of the Privy Council, who ordered the magistrates 
 to raise the trained bands, and sent down two heralds with them 
 in their coats displayed before them, to require Captain Wallace 
 to surrender, and the trained bands were ordered to force him if 
 he did not. When the heralds came down, they summoned Captain 
 Wallace to surrender the Abbey in the council's name ; this he 
 refused. Then the town-guards, and trained bands, commanded 
 by Captains M'Gill and Graham, came up, and some firing was 
 on both sides, without any great hurt, but some slight wounds. The 
 Captain would have defended the Abbey against them all, having 
 a vast advantage of the ground ; but Captain Graham, with a 
 part of his men, broke in by a back entry not so well guarded, 
 which the party in the Abbey observing, fled, and about thirty- 
 six were taken prisoners, but Wallace and a good many 
 escaped. The youths observing this, broke into the court, and 
 killed all the soldiers they met with. It was said about four- 
 teen soldiers were killed. Whether they got liberty, as some 
 of my accounts say, from the town captains I know not, but 
 they fell presently to rifle the chapel and schools, and brought 
 the timber work, and library, with everything that came in their 
 way, to the closs, and burnt them. It was some time before 
 they could fall upon the images, to destroy which was their end in 
 making the attack. At length they found them in an oven, with 
 an old press set before it to cover its mouth. Those they took 
 out, and carried them up to the town in procession through the 
 streets, and back again to the Abbey Closs, and there burned them. 
 They entered the church, rased the new work there, and turned up 
 the marble pavement, and rifled the chancellor's lodgings, and 
 some others in the Abbey; but none of the youths and apprentices 
 laid their hands on anything to carry it off, but all was burned." * 
 * Wodrow's History. Glasgow, 1830, iv. 473, 474.
 
 APPENDIX. 107 
 
 On his surrender, Captain Wallace was sent as a prisoner to 
 the Bass, where we find him detained on the 4th January 1689, 
 when an order was made by the city authorities that his per- 
 sonal effects should be delivered to Craufurd of Craufurdstoun, 
 probably a relation. The order proceeds thus : 
 
 " Edinburgh, the fourth January J m vj c eightie nyne. 
 
 "The said day the Councell, considering that there was 
 severall goods in trunks pertaineing to Captain John Wallace, 
 who is now prissoner in the Bass, sequestrat in Captain Patrick 
 Steill and Captain Dumbar their hands, by order of the Lord 
 provost, they appoint the goods to be inventured at the sight of 
 baillie John Charters, and the whole goods, excepting armes, to 
 be delivered therafter to Eobert Craufurd of Craufurdstoun, 
 upon his receipt therof, for the saids persones exoneration." * 
 
 Wallace was subsequently transferred to the Tolbooth of Edin- 
 burgh, then crowded with political offenders. After he had been 
 a captive fourteen months, the Privy Council proceeded to con- 
 sider a memorial presented by him, detailing the circumstances 
 under which he was arrested, and entreating liberation. In the 
 following minute of Council, of the 5th February 1691, the 
 memorial is quoted : 
 
 " Att Edinburgh, the ffifth day of ffebruary 
 " J m vj c nyntie one yearis. 
 
 "Anent a petition given in to the Lords of their Majesties 
 privy councell be Captain John Wallace, prisoner in the tolbooth 
 of Edinburgh, Shewing that the petitioner, being in the year 
 jm v jc eightie eight commanded by the privy Councell to goe 
 with his company to Lochaber for suppressing some Insurection 
 among the highlanders, And having returned, he was therafter 
 comanded to goe to Ailison Bank to convoy and bring back 
 some Cannon and Amunition from thence to the Castle of Edin- 
 burgh, All which comands the petitioner did punctually execute 
 
 * Burgh Records of Edinburgh, vol. xxxii., fol. 281.
 
 108 APPENDIX. 
 
 to the satisfaction of the privy councell, from whom he receaved 
 his commands. After which the petitioner was comanded to 
 augment the number of the company, and to keep guard within 
 the precinct of the pallace of Hollyroodhouse, and to defend the 
 King's house and court from all violence and attempts, as he 
 should be ansuerable at his highest perrill: And he having 
 applyed himself accordingly, and used all imaginable moderation 
 therin, True it is that, when he was upon his deuty, he and his 
 company were invaded and assaulted, and their very lifes putt 
 in hazard, by ane numerous and disorderly rabble; and they 
 having keeped themselves within the bounds of moderamen 
 inculpate tutele ther was some blood happned id be shed on 
 aither syde, upon which the petitioner was shortly therafter 
 apprehended, and hath been keept prisoner these five months 
 bygone : And seing the petitioner had parliament ordours from 
 the privy councell in wryte sufficient to vindicat him and justifie 
 all his behaviour in the premissis ; and that, in case the peti- 
 tioner had omitted to doe what he did, he might justly have 
 been in hazard of being shott to death, upon ane sentence of ane 
 court martiall, for not obeying and executing these peremptar 
 ordors, which were given to him not by ane privat persone or 
 single officer of state, but by the privy councell, solemnly mett 
 together, and subscribit by their clerk, conforme their oune 
 warrand in presentia : And the petitioner being assaulted and 
 invaded, and he and his company putt in hazard of their lives, 
 under cloud and silence of night, he humbly conceaves that by 
 the Law of all nationes, alse well as by the martiall Law, he is 
 altogither secure and unquestionable ffor any accident that 
 fell out and hapned upon that occasion : And seing the peti- 
 tioners small fortune and meanes is exhausted by this long 
 expensive imprisonment, and that for freeing himself of any 
 longer imprisonment he is content to accept of and undergoe 
 voluntar banishment out of the kingdome : And therfore, craving 
 their Lordships to take the premissis to their consideration, and 
 ordaine him to be sett att liberty, upon enacting himself to goe 
 abroad out of the kingdome, within such a competent tyme as 
 their Lordships shall think fitt, and never to returne againe
 
 APPENDIX. 109 
 
 therto without their Lordships speciall warrand for that effect, 
 under such paines and penalties as their Lordships shall think fitt, 
 as the said petition bears. THE SAIDS LORDS of their majesties 
 privy councell having considered the above petition, they heirby 
 give ordor and warrand to Sir William Lockhart, their majesties 
 sollicitor, with assistance of Sir Patrick Hume and Mr Hugh 
 Dallrymple, advocatts, to intent and follow furth a criminall 
 pursuite before the Lords of Justiciary against the petitioner, 
 conforme to the former ordor of Councell, given to his Majesties 
 advocat or his deputes for that effect." * 
 
 The Privy Council's order was not carried out, and in the 
 summer of 1692 we find Wallace again pleading for his libera- 
 tion. The minute of Council thereanent, dated 14th June, is in 
 these terms : 
 
 " Att Edinburgh, the ffourteint day of Junij 
 " J m vj c and nyntie tuo years. 
 
 " Anent the petition given in to the Lords of there Majesties 
 privie Councill be Captain John Wallace, prisoner in the tolbooth 
 of Edinburgh, Shewing that wheras the petitioner hes continowed 
 upwards of three years in a severe imprisonment in the Bass 
 and tolbooth of Edinburgh, whereby his health is impaired, his 
 bodie weakned, and his small fortune intirely ruined, and that 
 be frequent applicationes made be the petitioner himself to the 
 saids Lords, he wes severall tymes remitted to the sollicitor and 
 assessouris, and his speedie tryall recomended to them, at his 
 oune earnest desyre, yet hitherto there hes been no process 
 intended againest him; and sieing the petitioner hes alreadie 
 suffered verie considerably by a tedious imprisonement, equallio 
 hurtfull to his persone and small fortune, notwithstanding 
 whereof he is heartily willing for farder satisfactione to signe a 
 voluntar banishment from all his majesties dominiones for ever ; 
 And therefore humbly craveing that the saids Lords would be 
 pleased to take the premissis to there consideratione, and in 
 respect of the petitioner's long imprisonement, and the great 
 
 * Privy Council Register, Acta, Jan. 1691-2, p. 68.
 
 110 APPENDIX. 
 
 prejudice he hes sustained both in his persone and small fortune 
 therethrough, as also of the voluntar banishment the petitioner 
 is willing to undertake from all his majestyes dominions, under 
 what penalty shall be thought fitt to allow the petitioner to be 
 dismissed upon signeing the same. And he shall never ceass 
 to pray that God may bless the natione with ane lasting peace, 
 off [which] he shall never be a disturber. As also that the saids 
 Lords would be pleased to recomend the maister of the prisone 
 to the Lords of theasurie for what Jayll fies shall bee due be 
 the petitioner, as the said petitione bears. THE SAIDS LORDS of 
 there Majestyes privie councill, haveing considered this petition 
 given in to them be the above Captain John Wallace, they 
 hereby give order and warrand to Sir William Lockhart, there 
 majestyes sollicitor, to raise a Lybell againest the petitioner 
 befor the Lords Comissioners of there Majestyes Justiciare, and 
 to cause cite the petitioner thereon betuixt and the ffourth day 
 of Jully next." * 
 
 With respect to this further resolution, Sir William Lockhart, 
 as Solicitor General, reported to the Council, that without their 
 special authority he could not enter upon proceedings. The 
 next minute proceeds : 
 
 " Att Edinburgh, the Threttie day of Junij. 
 
 There Majestyes Sollicitour haveing moved to the councill 
 that the warrand direct to him for persewing of Captain John 
 Wallace who comanded the guaird in the Abbay in winter 
 j m vj c and eightie eight when severall persones were killed, does 
 not bear the cryme of treasone, and that he could not persew 
 for treasone without a speciall warrand to that effect : And 
 therefore desyred to know if they would ordor him to persew for 
 treasone or not : The same haveing gone to a vote wes carryed in 
 the negative, and appoyuted the Interloquitor to stand as 
 formerly pronounced." -f- 
 
 * Privy Council Register, Acta, February 1692 to March 1693. 
 t Ibid.
 
 APPENDIX. Ill 
 
 On the 6th August 1692 and two following days, Captain 
 Wallace, charged with manslaughter, was subjected to trial in 
 the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh, the judges being Robert, 
 Earl of Lothian, Justiciary-General, Sir Colin Campbell of 
 Aberuchill, Mr David Home of Crossrig, Sir John Lauder of 
 Fountainhall, Mr Archibald Hope of Rankeillour, and Mr James 
 Falconer of Pheasdo, Commissioners. Captain Wallace was 
 "indyted and accused for the slaughter of William Lourie, 
 John Insch, and David Auchterlonie, and others, in maner men- 
 tioned in his Indytement." On behalf of the Privy Council, 
 the " persewers " were " Sir William Lockhart, there majesties 
 sollicitor, Sir Patrick Home, and Mr Hugh Dalrymple." For the 
 defence appeared as " procurators Sir James Ogilvie, Sir Robert 
 Colt, Sir David Thoirs, James Stewart, and Mr Thomas Skein." 
 There was a prolonged discussion on the relevancy, when the 
 Court found that " when some boys and others were at the foot 
 of the Canongate the panell caused fire upon them, whereby the 
 abovenamed were killed or received wounds from which they 
 died, and that the panell was art and part thereof." They also 
 found relevant the defence "that a rabble met and declared to 
 John Paterson that they would trouble the soldiers and pillage 
 the abbey ; " also " that the said rabble came down the Canon- 
 gate with swords and firearms, and beat some of the sentinels 
 and advanced within speaking distance." Further " that Cap- 
 tain Wallace caused his men to fire after having been visited by 
 a Herald and Pursuivant, with some of the bailies." After Mr 
 Thomas Skein and Sir James Ogilvie had been heard on behalf 
 of the prisoner, and Sir Patrick Home in reply, James Smith, 
 ensign in the castle of Dumbarton, deponed, " that being one of 
 the artillery and master gunner he was ordered to the abbey to 
 receive commands from Captain Wallace : that he accordingly 
 pointed and directed the cannons : that while in Laurens Orr's 
 house he heard firing by the soldiers : that before the firing he saw 
 a multitude of people at the Nether Cross near the Watergate, who 
 had neither firearms nor other weapons, and that they dispersed 
 after the first firing : that having left the house he heard a second 
 firing, but on what provocation knows not, nor who ordered the
 
 112 APPENDIX. 
 
 firing: thereafter heard the sounding of a trumpet and saw a 
 great multitude, but knows not if armed ; that Mr Bruce, lieu- 
 tenant to Captain Wallace, came near and asked for the captain, 
 and when told that he had gone, cursed him for leaving him in 
 that condition: that the lieutenant desired him to go to the 
 commanding officer of the multitude to request him to desist 
 encroaching on that which they had undertaken to defend : that 
 he refused, but would send one of his men : did not hear any 
 volley except from the soldiers : heard a granade fired and break 
 before leaving Orr's house, and found none of the cannons had 
 been fired : thinks that the granade must have been thrown by 
 Captain Wallace's company, as no others had any of them : but 
 did not see the same fired." David Eobertson, gunner in the 
 castle of Edinburgh, deponed, that " he heard firing by Captain 
 Wallace's company, but did not see any killed or wounded : 
 heard a trumpet and the noise of a multitude, and heard a second 
 firing, but knows not whether from the soldiers or multitude : 
 knows no more, being beside the cannons within the pend, till 
 dismissed by Captain Grahame. 
 
 Alexander Adamson, son to the deceased Andrew Adamson, 
 indweller in Edinburgh, deponed, that " there was a rumour in 
 the streets on Sabbath night of a designed massacre, whereupon 
 a number of boys and girls gathered together and paraded the 
 streets, but did no harm : had some swords, and offered to break 
 up the door of the Cross, but did not do so : that the next day 
 being 10th December, a number of boys and others with sticks 
 and staves again gathered together, and that they had no other 
 weapons excepting one boy who had a stick in one hand and a 
 pistol in the other, and some with swords hanging by their 
 sides, and a drum beating : that they took down the Earl of 
 Perth's picture on the new land at the back of the Canongate 
 Cross, and proposed to burn it at the Cross of Edinburgh, but 
 that immediately thereafter they proceeded to the foot of the 
 Canongate, near the Abbey, where Captain Wallace was with 
 part of his company : that one of the boys went near to the 
 Captain and spoke to him : that the Captain having his sword 
 drawn wagged the same and said, ' Stand off, Doges/ but did not
 
 APPENDIX. 113 
 
 hear other discourse that passed betwixt them : that there was a 
 firing by the Captain's company, and one fell down before him 
 wounded, but did not see any blood, it being dark : that the 
 people gathered together by sound of Drum near the Chapel 
 door at the Water Yett, where he heard some say, ' Eun in upon 
 him : ' again heard firing." 
 
 Thomas Litlejohn, son to the deceased Thomas Litlejohn, 
 tailor in Edinburgh, gave similar evidence. 
 
 John Wightman, town officer of Edinburgh, accompanied 
 Bailies Graham and Pattouu with the heralds. He deponed, that 
 " more than a dozen shots were fired up the Canongate : that in 
 going down with the Magistrates and heralds he met at the 
 Nether Bow the deceased William Lourie, servant to John Inch, 
 stabler, and heard him moaning of a shot in his hand, which he 
 afterwards learned was all shattered." 
 
 Further evidence for the prosecution was given by William 
 Eckford and Alexander Bonner, town officers, John Inch, 
 stabler, Henry Eraser, Eoss Herald, James Guthrie, Dingwall 
 Pursuivant, and James Grahame and William Patton, late 
 Bailies of Edinburgh. 
 
 For the defence the witnesses were William Carmichael, 
 prisoner in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, who deponed that he 
 heard a number of the multitude express their purpose of going 
 to the Abbey to destroy the pictures and images there : Captain 
 Paterson, in the Links .of Leith ; David Eobertson, vintner ; 
 William Pratt, servitor to Saughtounhall, younger ; Henry Pit- 
 cairn of Pitlour; Captain James Cuninghame, late in Glen- 
 cairn's regiment, and James Home, smith in the Abbey. These 
 generally testified to the forbearance of Captain Wallace before 
 the firing took place. Thereupon the jury returned as verdict 
 " The assyse haveing chosen Peter Wedderburn of Gosford there 
 Chancellar, and haveing considered the lybell and the Lords 
 there interloquitor, and the wholl depositiones of the witnessis 
 adduced thereanent, they all in one voyce, by the mouth of the 
 said Chancellour ffind the lybell against the said Captain John 
 Wallace not proven, but ffinds the exculpation conform to the 
 Lords interloquitor sufficiently proven. In witnes whereof, thir 
 
 H
 
 114 APPENDIX. 
 
 presents are subscryved by there said Chancellour and James 
 Livingstoun there wreitter hereof. Att Edinburgh, the sixt 
 day of August j m vj and ffourscore tuelve yearis. Sic subscribitur, 
 Pet. Wedderburn, Can ler , Ja. Livingstoun, cl k ." 
 
 " Upon the opening and reading of the which verdict of Assyse 
 Captain John Wallace and his procurators abovenamed asked 
 and took Instrumentis." * The subsequent history of Captain 
 Wallace has not been ascertained. 
 
 * Book of Adjournal, 1690-1693, being the Records of the Justiciary Court, 
 preserved in the General Register House.
 
 INDEX, 
 
 ABBOT, George, Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, cxxiv. 
 
 Abbotshall, estate of, ccx. 
 Abercromby, Mr David, subdean of Dun- 
 keld, xl, xlii; official of Whit- 
 horn, etc., Ivi, 35, 49, 51, 52, 89, 
 90. 
 
 James, Abbot of Scone, xxxi, 1, 2. 
 John, xli.; 49, 52, 93. 
 Aberdeen, William, Bishop of, 38. 
 Aberdeen, Diocese of, xxxvi ; church of, 
 
 14, 15, etc. 
 
 Bishop of, xxxviii, cxxiii, cxci. 
 new church of, xcvi. 
 University of, ccliii, ccliv. 
 Abernethy, Nicolas, a singer, liii. 
 Achaius, King of Scots, ccxxv, ccxxxvii, 
 
 ccxxx. 
 Adam, Mr William, architect, ccxlii. 
 
 son of Thomas, x, xi. 
 Adamson, Alexander, 112. 
 
 Andrew, 112. 
 Adesone, John, valet, Ixiii. 
 
 Thomas, cxciv. 
 Aikman, James, burgess of Edinburgh, 
 
 93. 
 
 Ailison Bank, 107. 
 Aitkine, John, cxlviii. 
 Aitoune, Sir William, rector of Banue 
 
 (Benve), 89. 
 
 Akynheid, James, xl, 49. 
 Alan, son of the steward, x. xi. 
 Alanson, Henry, Archdean of Dunblane, 
 
 17, 18. 
 
 Thomas, presbyter, 18. 
 Albany, Duke of, xi, xix, xxi. 
 
 Henry (Darnley), Duke of, ccxxxix. 
 John, Duke of, ccxxxviii. 
 Robert, Duke of, 95, 96. 
 Alexander I., King of Scots, vii, viii. 
 III., King of Scots, ccxxx. 
 IV., Pope, xi. 
 VI., Pope, xxxi, xxxvi, cxxxi, cxliii, 
 
 cxliv, 1, 2. 
 a harper, xxix. 
 
 Mr John, minister of Hoddom, cciii. 
 Sir William, clxxx. 
 Alexandria, cloth from, xlviii. 
 Allan, river, v, Ixxxvi. 
 
 Allardyce, James, provost of Kirkheu^h, 
 
 xxxviii, xxxix. 
 Alloway, vicarage of, Ixxviii, cix, cxv, 
 
 ccix. 
 
 parson of, cxxxii. 
 
 Alyth, committee of estates at, ccxvi. 
 Anderson, Grissell, relict of William, 
 
 Bishop of Galloway, cxlii, cxliii. 
 Angus, Earl of, xx, xxiii. 
 Annan, Mr William, minister at Ayr, 
 
 cciii. 
 Anne, Queen, Ixxxix ; revives the Order 
 
 of the Thistle, ccxlviii. 
 of Denmark, Queen of James VI., 
 
 ccxl. 
 Antonio Maria dal Monte, Archbishop of 
 
 Siponto, xliii. 
 Antony, Grand Penitentiary of the Pope, 
 
 Iv. 
 
 Arbroath, xcvii, ci. 
 Arbuthnott, Andrew Ramsay, minister of, 
 
 ccix. 
 
 Argyle, Countess of, Ixvii, Ixviii, Ixix. 
 Earl of, xxiv, Ixii. 
 Archibald, Earl of, Ixx, 38. 
 Arnot, David, Archdean of Lothian, 
 
 xxxi ; Dean of Chapel Royal and 
 
 Bishop of Galloway, xliv, 1, 2, 
 
 97. 
 
 Hugo, historian, ccl. 
 Sir John, of that ilk, xxxi. 
 Sir John, of Birswick, ex. 
 Arran, James, Earl of, clxxv. 
 Ashmole, Elias, heraldic antiquary, 
 
 ccxxix. 
 Athelstan, King of the Saxons, ccxxv, 
 
 ccxxvii. 
 
 Athole, Earl of, Ixviii, Ixx. 
 Atholl, Marquis of, 102. 
 Atkyn, William, chaplain, 93. 
 Auchtnabaid, lands of, xxxiii, 11. 
 AveneL Robert, justiciar, x, xi. 
 Ayr, Chapel of, xxxiv, xxxvi, xxxviii, 
 
 cix, cxxxii, cxliv, cxlvi, ccix ; 
 
 united to Chapel Royal, 60-66. 
 lands in shire of, belonging to Chapel 
 
 Royal, ccliv. 
 Aytoun, James, artificer, of Culross, 
 
 cxxi.
 
 116 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hiiillit', IVincijuil Robert, clxxxviii. 
 
 Mr William, rector of Kerretown, 17, 
 
 B:ilrnrres, Colin, Earl of, 102, 104. 
 
 Baldi, Octavio, ambassador from Flor- 
 ence, cxx.xii. 
 
 Balfour, Gilbert, Ixx. 
 
 Sir James, Lypn King of Arms, clxx, 
 
 clxxii, ccxxix, ccxxx. 
 Sir James, MS collection by, cxxxi. 
 
 Baliol, Edward, son of John, ccxxxviii. 
 
 Baliol, John, King of Scots, ccxxxviii. 
 
 Balliades, lands of, ccliv. 
 
 Bally waiter, Hamilton, minister of, ccxvi. 
 
 Balmaclellan, church of. xxxiv, xliii, cix, 
 cxxxii, cxliv, 14, 25, 26 ; united to 
 Chapel Royal, 42-48, 91, 92. 
 
 Bannock, the heights of, v. 
 
 Bannockburn, vi. 
 
 Bane, James, wright, ccxix. 
 
 Barbour, John, a luter, liii. 
 
 Bass Rock, 107. 
 
 Bastian, de, Queen Mary's French ser- 
 vant, Ixxi. 
 
 Beaton, Sir David, of Balfour, xxxix. 
 James, rector of Kirkinner, 35, 58. 
 James, Archbishop of St Andrews, 
 xxxix ; dean of Chapel Royal, 
 xliii ; Archbishop of Glasgow, xliv; 
 Bishop of Caithness, Ixxiv, 98. 
 
 Bedford, Earl of, envoy to Scotland, Ixvii, 
 Ixviii, Ixix, Ixx, Ixxi, Ixxii. 
 
 Bellenden, Adam, Bishop of Dunblane, 
 cxl ; his connection with the 
 Chapel Royal, cxli-clviii ; Bishop 
 of Aberdeen, clxxxvii ; deprived, 
 cci ; made rector of Portlock, and 
 dies, cci. 
 
 James, eldest son of the Bishop, 
 cxlviii. 
 
 Belton, prebends of, xxxiv, cxxxiv. 14, 
 15, 26, 45. 
 
 Benedict VI., Pope, xxxvii. 
 
 Bennett, Mr William, parson of Ancrum, 
 cciv. 
 
 Berkley, Walter de, x, xi. 
 
 Berwick, North, minister of (Turner), ccx. 
 
 Berwick, Pacification of, cii. 
 
 Betone, David, 17. 
 
 Binning, Thomas, Lord, 99, 100. 
 
 Birnie, Mr William, dean of Chapel 
 Royal, cxii-cxvi. 
 
 Birnie of that Ilk, cxiv. 
 
 Birks, King Charles I. at, ccii. 
 
 Black, Mr David, minister, cxxiii. 
 
 Blackness, ministers confined at, cxv. 
 
 Blair, Robert, mason, cxcii, cxciii, cxciv. 
 John, mason, cxii, cxciv. 
 
 Bonar, Alexander, town officer of Edin- 
 burgh, ccxlvi, 113. 
 
 Boniface VIII., Pope, 32, 59, 72. 
 
 Bosco, Ralph de, xi. 
 
 Bothkennar, cxxx. 
 
 Bothwell, Adam, commendator of Holy- 
 rood, ccxl. 
 
 Adam, Bishop of Orkney, Ixxxii. 
 Mr John, abbot of Holyrood, Ixxxii. 
 
 Bothwell, parish of, cxi. 
 
 Earl of, Ixviii, Ixix, Ixxiii, xcvi. 
 Francis, Earl of, cxli, clxxii, clxxiii. 
 Patrick, Earl of, 38. 
 Boyd, Lord, Ixx. 
 Boyd, Lord, forfeiture of, xiii. 
 Boyde, John, mason, Glasgow, cxxi. 
 Braid, David, 52. 
 Brakis, rents of, ci. 
 Brand, Mr John, minister of Canongate, 
 
 cxciv, ccxxxix. 
 Breadalbane, Earl of, 102. 
 Breda, in Holland, ccxii, ccxiii. 
 Breichen, Bishop of, cxxiii, clxxxii, 
 
 cxci. 
 Brienne, Count de, French Ambassador, 
 
 Ixviii, Ixix. 
 Broun, Sir John, vicar of Creiff, Ivi, Ivii, 
 
 cxlvii, 90, 92. 
 David, canon, xii. 
 John, luter, xviii. 
 
 Bruce, Robert, King of Scots, ccxxx. 
 Lieutenant, 112. 
 Sir William, of Kinross, ccxiii, ccxv. 
 
 ccxx, ccxiii. 
 
 Bruges, city of, xv, xviii, xix. 
 Brunswick, Duke of, Ixxx. 
 Buccleuch, Earl of, cxxxi. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott of, Ixxxii. 
 
 Sir Walter, Lord Scott of, cxxxiv- 
 
 cxxxviii. 
 
 Buchan, Nicholas, chaplain, 93. 
 Buchan, John Stewart, Earl of, xii. 
 
 James Stewart, Earl of, xix, xxi. 
 Buchanan, Sir Andrew, prebendary of 
 
 Chapel Royal, ciii. 
 George, the historian, xvii, xxii, 
 
 Ixxv, ccxxix. 
 
 George, minister of Kilpatrick, cciii. 
 Thomas, mason in Dundee, cxx. 
 Burntisland, xcvii. 
 Busso, Francisco de, musician, Ixx. 
 Bute (Buitt), church of, xxxiv, xliii, 
 cix, cxxxii, cxliv, 14, 15, 25, 26 ; 
 united to Chapel Royal, 42-48. 
 Donald of, dean of Dunblane, 97. 
 
 Caithness, bishopric of, Ixxiv. 
 Calder, Captain, Ixxvii. 
 Callander, John, smith, ccxix. 
 Cambusbarron, lands of, x. 
 Cambuskenneth, abbey of, vi, xv. 
 
 Abbot of, xxxvi, xxxviii, xii, xlii, 
 
 xliii, cxliv, 29. 
 Campbell, Alister, cxeiv. 
 
 Archibald, Abbot of Holyrood, 
 
 ccxxxviii. 
 
 James, musician in chapel royal, 98. 
 Sir Colin, of Aberuchill, 111. 
 Canongate, church of, xcvi, ccxiv, 
 
 ccxxxix. 
 
 marriage register of, ccxxxix, ccxli. 
 parishioners of, ccxxxii, ccxxxiv, 
 
 ccxli. 
 
 the cross of, 105, 112. 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, cxxiv.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 117 
 
 Canterbury, cathedral of, xlix ; burial of 
 Bishop Wedderburn therein, cci. 
 
 Carnoto, Thomas de, xi. 
 
 Carmichael, Sir James, of that ilk, ccvi. 
 Roland, musician in the Chapel Royal, 
 
 98. 
 Richard, singer in the Chapel Royal, 
 
 Iv. 
 William, 113. 
 
 Carstairs, Dr William, ccli, 
 
 Carswell, John, Bishop of the Isles, Ivii, 
 Iviii. 
 
 Cartar, David, canon, 40. 
 
 Casaubon, Isaac, cxc. 
 
 Cassillis, Earl of, Ixix. 
 
 Castellaw, Alexander, ccxi. 
 
 Sir James, preceptor of music, ci, 
 cxxxi-cxxxiii, cxxxv, cxxxvii, 
 cxxxix, cl. 
 John, ccxi, ccxvi. 
 lands of, xxxiii, ci, cix-ccxi, 11. 
 
 Castelnau, M. de Malvisie, Ixv. 
 
 Catholic College at Holyrood, ccxlii. 
 
 Cavers, Andrew, Abbot of Lindores, xxxv. 
 
 Chalmer, Mr William, luter of Chapel 
 Royal, ci, cii. 
 
 Chantry of the Chapel Royal, 27, 54-57, 
 65, 66. 
 
 Chapel Royal, Register of, xc, cxliii- 
 
 cxlviii, 1-94. 
 
 Revenues of, xciii, xcix, ccli. 
 at Holyrood, Ivi, lix, ccxlvii ; 
 modern deans of, and their in- 
 comes, ccli-ccliv; worship in, 99, 
 100. 
 
 at Stirling, v-ix, etc. ; founded, xiv, 
 xv ; united with the see of Gallo- 
 way, xlii ; organs in, xlix ; orna- 
 ments in, Ix, Ixi ; baptism of 
 James VI. in, Ixv-lxxii ; deanery 
 of, Ixxiv ; baptism of Prince 
 Henry in, Ixxix-lxxxv ; renovated, 
 Ixxix, Ixxxi ; repairs to be made 
 on, Ixxxv, Ixxxix, cxvii ; revisited 
 by James VI., cxxvi, cxxxi, 
 cxxxiii-cxxxix, cxliii-cxlviii, ccxi, 
 ccxvi, ccxlvii, 1-94 ; erection of, as 
 a collegiate church, with chantry, 
 18 ; treasurership of, 55 ; inventory 
 of jewels and books belonging to, 
 72-78 ; Deanery of, 82, 83. 
 transferred from Stirling to Holy- 
 rood, Ixii, Ixxix, xciv, xcv ; styled 
 "Chapel Royal of Scotland," cxiii, 
 cxxi ; decorated for worship, cxxii, 
 cxxiii ; revenues of, cl-clxii ; inno- 
 vations in worship therein, clviii ; 
 musicians and music of, clxi-clxix ; 
 Charles I. worship in, clxix, 
 clxxiv; "Articles" for worship 
 therein, clxxvi, clxxviii ; liturgical 
 service in, clxxxix ; repairs in, 
 cxcii-cxciv, cciii, cciv ; organs to 
 be removed from, ccx ; alterations 
 in the structure of, ccxiii, ccxiv; 
 converted into a conventual church, 
 
 ccxxiv ; cost of ornaments for, 
 ccxxxvi, ccxxxvii ; question af 
 Queen Mary's marriage in, ccxxxix, 
 ccxi ; as a Romish college, ccxlvii. 
 
 Charlemagne, Emperor, ccxxx. 
 
 Charles I., King of Great Britain, cl- 
 clxviii ; visits Scotland, clxix ; his 
 coronation, clxx-clxxii ; opens Par- 
 liament, clxxii ; touches people 
 for "King's Evil," clxxiii; returns 
 to London, clxxiv ; his efforts to 
 introduce the liturgy into the 
 Church of Scotland, clxxxix-ccv ; 
 arrives at Holyrood, ccv ; executed 
 at Whitehall, ccx. 
 
 II., King of Great Britain, ccxi, 
 ccxii, ccxxi, ccxli. 
 
 Charters, John, bailie of Edinburgh, 107. 
 
 Chatelherault, Duke of, Ixvii, Ixxvii. 
 
 Chepman, Walter, printer, 1. 
 
 Chisholme, Alexander, musician, cxxv. 
 
 Chivalry, Order of, proposed by James 
 VII., ccxxv, ccxxix, ccxlviii. 
 
 Cistercian order of monks, xxxvii. 
 
 Cither, musical instrument, xvii. 
 
 Claneboy, Viscount, ccxvi. 
 
 Clapperton, Sir George, subdean of Chapel 
 Royal, Iv, Iviii. 
 
 Clarion, trumpet, xviii. 
 
 Clarsha, musical instrument, xxviii, xxix. 
 
 Cluniac order of monks, xxxvii. 
 
 Cochran, Robert, architect, xiv, xx, xxii. 
 
 Coins of Scotland, ccxxviii, ccxxix. 
 
 Coldingham, Ixvii. 
 
 Herbert, prior of, viii, ix. 
 priory of, xxiii, cxxxiv. 
 
 Colistoun, rents of, ci. 
 
 Colkitto, ccxvi. 
 
 Cologne, town of, ccxxix. 
 
 Colt, Sir Robert, advocate, 111. 
 
 Colvile, Robert, of Hyltoun, 17. 
 
 Commission, Court of High, cci. 
 
 Compton, in Hants, cxc. 
 
 Conde, Servais de, the queen's valet, 
 lix, Ix. 
 
 Constantine, Emperor, ccxxvii. 
 
 Conynghaim, Cuthbert, 39. 
 James, canon, 40. 
 
 Cornets, for music in Chapel Royal, clxvii. 
 
 "Coronation, Form of," preserved in 
 Chapel Royal, clxxvii. 
 
 Covenant, the National, renewed, cc ; 
 confirmed by the king, cciv. 
 
 Cowgate, the, Edinburgh, 105. 
 
 Cowper, William, Bishop of Galloway, 
 cxvi, cxviii, cxxiii-cxxx, cxxxvi- 
 cxxxix, cxlii, cxliii. 
 Andrew, brother of the Bishop of 
 Galloway, cxxxi, cxxxii, cxxxix, cl. 
 James, nephew of the Bishop, cxxxii. 
 Thomas, nephew of the Bishop, 
 cxxxii. 
 
 Cowye, John, mason, Pittenweyme, cxx. 
 William, mason, Pittenweyme, cxx. 
 
 Coylton, church of, ccix. 
 
 Craford, a singer li.
 
 118 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Craggroth, lands of, 95, 96. 
 
 Craig, Mr John, minister, xcvi, xcvii. 
 Mr Thomas, advocate, cxli, ccxvii. 
 
 Craigmillar Castle, Ixxii. 
 
 Crail, burgh of, cxix. 
 
 Crainthall, John, prebendar of Kells, 
 cxxxix. 
 
 Cramond, Hamilton, minister of, ccxviii. 
 
 Cranschaws, church of, xxxiv, cxxxiv, 14, 
 15, 25, 26. 
 
 Craufurd, Mr Archibald, the queen's al- 
 moner, lix. 
 Earl of, Ixx, ccix. 
 Robert, of Craufurdston, 107. 
 
 Craufurdland Castle, lix. 
 
 Crieff, church of, xxxiv, xxxvi, xxxviii, 
 xliii, Ivii, cix, cxxxiii, cxliv-cxlvii, 
 14, 15 ; union of, to Chapel Royal, 
 42-48, 60-66, 71, 89-94. 
 
 Crichton, James, singer in Chapel Royal, 
 ccxi. 
 
 Crichtoun, Peter, 17. 
 
 Croc, Monsieur le, deputy from Savoy, 
 Ixviii, Ixix. 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, the Protector, ccxi, ccxv. 
 
 Croude, musical instrument, xvii. 
 
 Culross, workmen of, cxxi. 
 
 Cult-donald (Cuilte-dovenald), x. 
 
 Cnltoun, rents of, cxxxii. 
 
 Cummyng, Mr James, of the Lyon Office, 
 ccl. 
 
 Cuninghame, Captain James, 113. 
 
 Cunningham, Mr David, Bishop of Aber- 
 deen, Ixxxiii. 
 
 Cunnynghame, Archibald, of Ladyland, 
 
 cxxxiii. 
 Robert, father of Archibald, cxxxiii. 
 
 Cunynghame, a singer, xxx. 
 
 Cupar, Abbey of, xcviii. 
 
 Cymbaclanis Bells, musical instruments, 
 xviii. 
 
 Dacia, 75. 
 
 Dacres, Lord, xcvi. 
 
 Dalam, Mr, organ maker, cxxv. 
 
 Dalkeith, cii. 
 
 Dalmellington, prebends of, xxxiv, ciii, 
 
 cix, ccix, 14. 
 parson of, cxxxii. 
 
 Dalrymple, Mr Hugh, advocate, 109, 111. 
 James, Ixxviii. 
 church of, cix, cxxxii, ccix. 
 
 Dalyell, Sir John Graham, xc. 
 
 Darnley, Lord, Ixiii, Ixiv, Ixxii ; his mar- 
 riage to Queen Mary, ccxxxix ; his 
 skull exhumed, ccl. 
 
 David I., King of Scots, vii, viii, xi, 
 
 ccxxxvii. 
 II., King of Scots, xvi. 
 
 Davidson, Thomas, chaplain of the garri- 
 son of Stirling, Ixxxix. 
 
 Days, Robert, pergeonar, cxciv. 
 
 Denmark, cxxxii. 
 
 Dennestoun, Mr William, notary, 89. 
 
 Donaldson, John, mason in Dundee, 
 cxx. 
 
 Douglas, Gavin, the poet, li. 
 Douglas, Lady Margaret, Countess of 
 Bothwell, cxli. 
 
 Robert, Bishop of Brechin, ccxvii. 
 Dow, Moreis, musician, Ixii. 
 
 John, musician, Ixii. 
 Down, Robert, Bishop of, ccxvi. 
 Drumlochy, Chalmers of, ci. 
 Drumniond, James, Earl of Perth, ccxxi- 
 ccxxv. 
 
 John, Earl of Melfort, ccxx-ccxxv. 
 
 John, architect, Ixxxviii. 
 
 John, receiver of royal rents, ccxxxv. 
 
 Sir John, of Hawthornden, Ixxxii, 
 Ixxxviii. 
 
 Lord, xxiv. 
 
 Sir Robert of Carnock, Ixxviii, Ixxxv, 
 Ixxxviii, xciv, ccxi. 
 
 Sebastian, lii. 
 
 William, canon of Chapel Royal, 
 Ixxviii. 
 
 William, clerk to the artillery, 103. 
 
 William, the poet, Ixxxii, Ixxxviii. 
 Duchell (Duthell), church of, xxxiv, xxxvi, 
 xxxviii, cxxxiv, cxliv, 14, 15, 
 64, 65, 71. 
 
 Dulcet, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Dulcimer, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Dulsacord, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Dumbarton, castle of, 111. 
 Dumfries, William de, xi. 
 
 the " cruikit " vicar of, lii. 
 Dunbar, Alexander, almoner of Chapel 
 Royal, ccxxii-ccxxiv. 
 
 Gavin, dean of Moray, 38. 
 Dunbar, Captain, 107. 
 
 castle of, xxiv. 
 
 George, Earl of, cvii. 
 
 rectory of, xxxiv, 15. 
 
 collegiate church of, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 
 15, 20-25, 28, etc. 
 
 prebends of, xliii, cxxxiv, cxliv, 3- 
 5, 20, 42-48. 
 
 school of, cxxix. 
 
 Patrick, prebendar, cxxxii, cxxxiii, 
 cxxxix, cl. 
 
 William, the poet, ccxxviii. 
 Dunblane, Bishop of, Ixix, clxxii, clxxiii. 
 
 bishopric of, united to the deanery 
 of the Chapel Royal, cxl, cxlii, ccli. 
 
 diocese of, ccxii, ccxiv. 
 Duncan, Earl of Fife, viii, ix. 
 Duncanson, John, subdean of Chapel 
 Royal, Ivi, Ixxv, xciii-xcvii, cxxxix. 
 
 William, in Poland, cxxxiii. 
 Dundee, xi, cxix, cxc, ccxvii. 
 Dundrennan, barony of, cxli, cxcv, ccvi. 
 
 abbey of, civ, clxxiii. 
 
 church of, cxlii, ccvii. 
 Dunfermline, monastery of, vii, x. 
 
 Galfrid, Abbot of, vii, viii. 
 
 Abbot of, xlii, xliii. 
 
 Earl of, ex. 
 
 Dunipace, parish of, vii. 
 Dunkeld, diocese of, xxxvi. 
 
 church of, 14, 15, etc.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 119 
 
 Dunkeld, Bishop of, xxxviii, Ixix, clxxii. 
 
 Gregory, Bishop of, viii, ix. 
 
 Lord, xcvii. 
 
 Dunlop, John Mair, vicar of, liv. 
 Dunning, parish of, xcvii. 
 Dunse Law (Hill), ccii. 
 
 prebends of, xxxiv, cxxxiv, 14, 26, 45. 
 Duplin, George, Viscount, clxi, clxii. 
 Dura, Plain of, clviii. 
 Durrisdeer, xxix. 
 
 Dury, Andrew, Abbot of Melrose, Ivii ; 
 treasurer of Chapel Royal, 97, 98. 
 
 George, archdean of St Andrews, 98. 
 
 John, of that ilk, 98. 
 Dysart, burgh of, cxix, cxx. 
 
 Eccles, parish church of, vii, ix. 
 Eckford, William, town officer of Edin- 
 burgh, ccxlvi, 113. 
 
 Edinburgh, castle of, vii, xxi, xxix, Ixv, 
 cxx, cxcvi ; repairs on, ccxix, 107. 
 cross of, 112. 
 
 university of, cxxvi, ccx, ccli ; chairs 
 in connection with Chapel Royal, 
 cclii-ccliv. 
 
 diocese of, erected, clxxv, ccxxxiii. 
 Bishop of, clxxxii. 
 
 magistrates of, ccxxxi-ccxlvi, 103-106. 
 Train Bands of, ccxliv. 
 Edmestoun, John, minister at Dunning, 
 
 xcvii. 
 Edmondstone, Sir Archibald, of Dun- 
 
 treith, 17. 
 
 Edward IV., King of England, xiv, xv, xix. 
 Eglinton, Earl of, Ixviii, Ixx. 
 Elgin, grant to the burgh of, ccix. 
 
 lands in shire of, 12. 
 Elizabeth, Queen of England, Ixvi, Ixix, 
 
 Ixxiii. 
 
 Ellein, church of, xxxiv, xliii, cxxxiv, 
 cxliv, 14, 15, 25, 26; united to 
 Chapel Royal, 42-48. 
 Elliot, Dr James, minister at Glasgow, 
 
 cciii. 
 
 Ellon, parish of, ccxxxii. 
 Elphinstone, Robert, Lord, Ixxxviii. 
 Ely, prebendary of, cxc. 
 England, musicians from, liii. 
 Erskine, Arthur, Ixii. 
 
 Sir Robert, Sheriff of Stirling, xi. 
 Erroll, Countess of, Ixxxii. 
 Erskine, Sir Charles, Lyon King of Arms, 
 
 ccxxix. 
 
 Ertht, William of, Knight, 97. 
 Ettrick Forest, Kirk of the Lowes in, 
 
 cxxxiv, cxxxv, 14, 15, 25, 26. 
 lands in parish of, ccliv. 
 Exchequer, commissioners of, cliii, clx, 
 clxiii. 
 
 Falconer, Mr James, of Phesdo, 111. 
 Falkirk, vi. 
 
 Falkland, palace of, xxxv, 17. 
 Faslane (Fesulan), church of, xliii, 81. 
 Feldie, John, musician, Ixii, Ixiii. 
 Ferdinand II., King of Aragon, ccxxviii. 
 
 Ferguson, a trumpeter, cxxxii. 
 Ferny, Andrew, canon, 40. 
 Flanders, musical instruments from, liii. 
 Fleming, Marjorie, wife of Sir Robert 
 
 Drummond, Ixxxviii. 
 Flemings, musicians, Hi. 
 Flodden, battle of, xcvi. 
 Florence, Duke of, cxxxii. 
 Forbes, Dr William, clxxiii, clxxiv ; ap- 
 pointed first Bishop of Edinburgh, 
 clxxv ; his death, clxxxi, clxxxiii. 
 Fordun, John of, historian, ccxxvii. 
 Forest, church of the, xxxiv, xliii, 14, 15, 
 
 25, 26, 45. 
 Forrester, Sir Andrew, ccxxxi. 
 
 Mr Thomas, minister at Melrose, cciv. 
 Forth, Firth of, ccii. 
 
 river of, v, vi, Ixxxvi. 
 Fowlis, Mr James, merchant in London, 
 
 ccxxxv-ccxxxvii. 
 
 Fountainhall, Lord, ccxxi, ccxxxii, ccxli. 
 Fowlarton, Thomas, Ixxiv. 
 Fowler, Susanna, wife of Sir John Drum- 
 mond, Ixxxii. 
 
 Mr William, Master of Works, Ixxxii. 
 Fowlis, a harper, xxviii. 
 Fowlis-Easter, church of, xcvii. 
 France, xix, Ixvi, xcvi. 
 musicians from, lii. 
 Fransche, James, 52. 
 Fraser, Henry, Rosse herald, ccxlv, ccxlvi, 
 
 113. 
 French Protestant Church in Edinburgh, 
 
 ccxxxiii. 
 
 Fydell, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Fyndlater, a musician, Ixx. 
 Fynn, William, cxciii. 
 
 Galbraith, Sir George, Master of Works at 
 
 Dumbarton, li. 
 Sir Thomas, priest, li. 
 William, a luter, liii. 
 Galloway, Mr Patrick, minister of the 
 
 king's house, Ixxxii. xcvii, cxxiv. 
 bishopric of, xlii, cxi, cxvi ; dis- 
 united from the deanery of Chapel 
 Royal, cxl, 14. 
 David, Bishop of, 90, 91. 
 George, Bishop of, 33, 35, 37, 39. 
 Gaunt, John of, entertained in the Abbey 
 
 Church of Holyrood, ccxxxviii. 
 George III., King, ccxlix. 
 IV., King, ccxlviii. 
 Gib, John, groom of the chamber, cii-cxii. 
 
 cxiii, cxviii, cxxviii, cxxxii. 
 Sir George Duncan, baronet, cxxviii. 
 Sir John, of Knock, cxxviii. 
 Robert, cxxviii. 
 Gibson, Nicol, mason, Linlithgow, cxxi. 
 
 John, mason, Linlithgow, cxxi. 
 Gilleam, an organist, liii. 
 Gilmour, John, writer, cxxxix. 
 Gittern (Gythorn), musical instrument, 
 
 xviii. 
 
 Glasgow, collegiate church of, Ivii, 14, 15. 
 General Assembly at, cci, cciv, ccviii.
 
 120 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Glasgow, magistrates of, cxx. 
 
 university of, endowed by Cromwell, 
 ccxi ; endowment of a Chair from 
 funds of Chapel Royal, ccliii, ccliv. 
 diocese of, xxxvi, ccxi. 
 Archbishop of, xxxviii, cxii, clxx. 
 Glencairn, Earl of, ccxi. 
 Glencorse, parish of, ci, ccx. 
 Glenholm, church of, xxxiv, cix, cxxxii, 
 
 14, 15, 25, 26. 
 Glenluce, abbacy of, cxvi. 
 Glenshee, lands of, xxxiii, 11. 
 Goldsmyth, Sir John, canon, Ivi. 
 
 John, xxx, li, 90. 
 
 Gordon, Alexander, Bishop of Whithorn, 
 lix; dean of Chapel Koyal, etc., 
 Ixxiv, Ixxv. 
 
 Gordon, Roger, son of William of Crack- 
 law, Iviii. 
 
 Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar, viii, ix. 
 Gourlay, John, chaplain, 52. 
 Gowrie, Earl of, xcvii. 
 Graham, Archbishop, xxii. 
 Captain, 103, 106, 112. 
 James, bailie of Edinburgh, 113. 
 Grahame, Lieut. -Colonel, ccxlv, ccxlvi. 
 Gray, Andrew, musician, cii. 
 Andrew, Lord, 38. 
 Sir George, chanter of Chapel Royal, 
 
 cliii, clxii. 
 Mr James, master of the Chapel 
 
 Royal, cxxxv. 
 Nicholas, a minstrel, xxix. 
 Mr Thomas, treasurer of the Chapel 
 Royal, cxxxi, cxxxiii, cxxxv, 
 cxxxvii, cxxxix. 
 Lord, xxiv. 
 
 Graysteil, a song, xxx. 
 Green, Roger, wheelwright, St Andrews, 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Greg, David, painter, St Andrews, cxx. 
 Greyfriars' Church, Edinburgh, cc. 
 Guidrig, Mathew, painter, cxxii. 
 Guide, Alexander, custumar of Stirling,xii. 
 Guthrie, James, Dingwall pursevant, 
 
 ccxlv, ccxlvi, 113. 
 
 schoolmaster of Hoddesdon, cxxix, 
 cxxx. 
 
 Haddington, Thomas, Earl of, 99. 
 Haddingtonshire, gentry of, Ixvii. 
 Halkarstone, Mr Thomas, provost of 
 
 Creichtoun, 17. 
 
 Hall, Mr John, minister, cxxiv. 
 Hamboys, a musician, xiii. 
 Hamilton, Duke of, keeper of Holyrood 
 
 Palace, ccxix, ccxx. 
 James, fourth Duke of, ccxlix. 
 James, sixth Duke of, ccxlix. 
 Gavin, Bishop of Galloway, cxi. 
 James, Duke of, clxxv. 
 Mr James, minister, ccxvi. 
 John, subdean of Chapel Royal, 
 
 ccxviii. 
 
 Mr Robert, minister at Lesmahagow, 
 cciii. 
 
 Hamilton, Thomas, Earl of Haddinsrton, 
 
 99, 100. 
 William, archdean of Chapel Royal, 
 
 Ivii. 
 
 Archbishop of St Andrews, Ixix. 
 Sir Thomas, of Byres, clerk of regis- 
 ter, ex. 
 
 Hannay, Mr James, minister of the Abbey 
 Church, clxx ; dean of Edinburgh, 
 cxcviii. 
 
 Hardie, James, cxxxix. 
 Harpers, King James IV.'s, xxviii, xxix. 
 Hatton, Sir Christopher, Ixxi. 
 Hay, George, slater, cciii. 
 
 Mr John, parson of Renfrew, cciii. 
 Mr Richard Augustine (Father), liv, 
 
 xciii, ccxxiv, ccxxxiii, ccxlii. 
 Dr Theodore, archdean of Glasgow, 
 
 cciii. 
 
 William, musician, Ixii. 
 Hawyk, Andrew of, secretary to Duke of 
 
 Albany, 97. 
 
 Helmburn, land of, ccliv. 
 Henderson, Mr Alexander, minister, ccv ; 
 Royal gift to him, ccvi ; chaplain 
 to the royal household, ccviii. 
 Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I., 
 
 clxxxix. 
 Henry VI. , King of England, xiv, xv. 
 
 VII., King of England, xxiv. 
 Henry, Prince, son of James VI. , Ixxix ; 
 
 his baptism, Ixxix-lxxxv, xcvii. 
 Bishop of Galloway, 90. 
 son of Swan, viii, ix. 
 Prince, son of David I., vii, viii, 
 
 xi. 
 
 the minstrel, xxx. 
 Hepburn, Mr John, provost of Linclu- 
 
 den, 17. 
 
 Patrick, of Smeaton, clix, clxi. 
 Hepburns, the family of, xxiv. 
 Heriot, Helen, wife of Mr Thomas Craig, 
 
 cxli. 
 
 Herbert, the chamberlain, viii, ix. 
 Heron, James, musician, Ixiii. 
 Heroun, clerk of the chapel, xviii. 
 Herries, Lord, Ixxxii, ccxi. 
 Hert, John, a porter, xxix. 
 High School of Edinburgh, ccxxxiii. 
 Hird, Thomas, mason in Dysart, cxx. 
 Hoddesdon, cxxix. 
 Hoge, Thomas, ccxi. 
 Holland, Sir Richard, xvii. 
 Holyrood, Abbot of, xxxv, xxxvi, cxliii, 
 
 cxliv, 1, 21, 25. 
 
 Abbey Church of, coronation of 
 Charles I. in, clxx-clxxiv, ccxiv, 
 ccxv ; as a Romish convent, ccxxv; 
 chapel for Knights of the Thistle, 
 ccxxxi-ccxxxvi ; historical sketch 
 of the church, ccxxxvii, ccxliii ; 
 as Chapel Royal, ccxlvii ; despoiled 
 by mob, ccxlix ; repaired, ccxlix ; 
 wreck of, 102-114. 
 Alevin, Abbot of, viii, ix. 
 a canon of, organist, liii.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 121 
 
 Holyrood, Osbert, prior of, viii, ix. 
 Holyroodhouse, Ixviii, xcviii, cxix, 
 cxcviii, ccii ; designs for building, 
 ccxlii. 
 
 Chapel Royal at, lix, Ixii, cxiv. 
 palace of, xciv, xcv, cxiv, cxx, cxxi ; 
 visited by Charles I., clxix, ccv ; 
 partly burned, ccxi ; restoration 
 of, ecxiii-ccxv ; repairs on, ccxix, 
 99, 108. 
 
 John, Lord, Ixxxii. 
 Home, Mr David, of Crossrig, 111. 
 Baron James, xxiii, xxiv. 
 Patrick, xxiii, xxiv. 
 Homyll, James, robemaker, xix, xx, 
 
 xxi. 
 Hope, Mr Archibald, of Rankeillour, 
 
 111. 
 
 Home, James, smith, 113. 
 Howlat, the, poem of, xvii, li. 
 Hudsoun, " Mekill " Thomas, Ixxiv, 
 
 xcviii-c. 
 Robert, Ixxiv. 
 James, Ixxiv. 
 William, Ixxiv. 
 
 Hume, Alexander, Lord, 17, 38. 
 Mr David, of Godscroft, cxxx. 
 John, chief luter, Ixiii, Ixxii. 
 Sir Patrick, advocate, 109, 111. 
 Hunnyman, James, mason in Dundee, 
 
 cxx. 
 
 George, mason in Dundee, cxx. 
 Huntly, Earl of, Ixviii. 
 John, Master of, Ixxiv. 
 
 Icolmkill, abbey of, Iviii. 
 
 Inch, John, stabler in Edinburgh, 113. 
 
 Inchcolm, Abbot of, liv, 78. 
 
 Inchmahome, priory of, cxiv. 
 
 Innocent III., Pope, xxiii. 
 
 Italy, minstrels from, Hi. 
 
 Jacob, a musician, xxviii. 
 Jame, a piper, xxix. 
 
 James I., King of Scots, xii, xiii, xvi, 
 xvii, c.cxxxviii. 
 
 II., King, ccxxviii; born at Holyrood, 
 ccxxxviii. 
 
 III., King of Scots, xii-xiv, xviii- 
 xxv, lii, ccxxviii, ccxxxviii, ccxlvi. 
 
 the queen of, ccxxviii, ccxxxviii. 
 
 IV., King of Scots, xxvi, xxviii- 
 liii, Ivii, Ixxxviii, cxiii, cxvii, 
 cxxxi, cxxxiv ; his state robes, 
 clxxi, ccxxviii, ccxxxviii, 1-28, 
 etc., 79, 80. 
 
 V., King of Scots, liii, Ixxiv, cxxxiv, 
 ccxv ; collar worn by, ccxxviii, 
 ccxxx, ccxxxviii ; his coffin opened, 
 ccl, 97. 
 
 VI., King of Scots, born in Edin- 
 burgh, Ixv ; his baptism, Ixviii, 
 Ixix ; his household, Ixxii, Ixxiv, 
 xciii, xcviii, ex v, cxix ; preparations 
 for his visit to Scotland (1617), 
 cxix-cxxvi ; his efforts to decorate 
 
 the Chapel Royal, cxxiii-cxxvi, 
 cxxxii, clxxxviii, clxxxix ; coins 
 of, ccxxix, ccxli, 99. 
 VII., King, clxxv, ccxviii-ccxxxviii, 
 
 ccxli, ccxliii, ccxlvi, ccl, 102. 
 Jamieson, Dr John, xxii. 
 Jaue, natural daughter of James IV., 
 
 Ixxiv. 
 Jedburgh (Jedworth, etc.), Osbert, prior 
 
 of, viii, ix. 
 
 John, a Court musician, Ixxiii. 
 subprior of Whithorn, 39. 
 XII., Pope, 58. 
 
 Johnstone, Robert, historian, Ixxxi. 
 Judas Cross, the, xxvii. 
 
 Bells, xlix, 77. 
 Julian II., Pope, xli-xliii, cxxxi, cxliv, 
 
 cxlvii, 39. 
 
 HI., Pope, xliii, cxxxi. 
 Juxon, Dr, Bishop of London, cxcvi. 
 
 Keir, Laurence, cxlviii. 
 Keith, James, cxxxiii. 
 
 Sir James, prebendary of Chapel 
 
 Royal, cl. 
 Kellie, Edward, musician, clxi-clxix, 
 
 clxxxv, clxxxvi. 
 Kells, church of, xxxiv, cii, cix, 14, 15, 
 
 25, 26, 91, 92. 
 parson of, cxxxii. 
 Kenneth, son of Alpin, vi. 
 Kildean, vi. 
 
 Kilwinning, abbey lands of, Ivi. 
 Kincardyn, church and chapel of, xxxiv, 
 xxxvi, xxxviii, cxliv, 14, 15, 60- 
 66, 71. 
 
 Kinkairn in Mar, kirk of, cxxxiv. 
 Kingarth, parish of, Iviii, cix. 
 Kinloch, Francis, of Gilmerton, ccxvii. 
 Kippen, prebendary of, ci. 
 Kirkaldy, Margaret, wife of Sir Robert 
 
 Drummond, Ixxxviii. 
 Thomas, a priest, cxlvi, 52, 53. 
 Sir William, of Grange, Ixxvii, 
 
 Ixxxviii. 
 
 Kirkandrews, church of, xxxiv, xxxix- 
 xli, 14, 15, 25, 26, 35, 38, 55, 
 57. 
 Kirkcowan, rector of, Iviii. 
 
 teinds of, xcviii, cix, cxxxi. 
 Kirkcudbright, lands in, belonging to 
 
 Chapel Royal, ccliv. 
 
 Kirkheugh, church of, St Andrews, xxxi ; 
 separated from the Chapel Royal, 
 xxxix. 
 
 provostry of, xlii. 
 Kirkhope, lands in parish of, ccliv. 
 Kirkinner, church of, xxxix-xli, Iviii, 
 lix, cix, cxxxi, cxlvi ; union of 
 to Chapel Royal, 33-41, 49-52, 
 57. 
 James Beaton, rector of, xxxix-xli, 
 
 35, 49, 51, 52, 57-60. 
 teinds of, Ivi, xcviii. 
 Kirk o' Field, Ixvii, Ixxiii. 
 Kirktoun, ci.
 
 122 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Kirktoun (Kirketun), lands of, x, ci. 
 Knox, John, the Reformer, Iv, xcv. 
 Kyuneir, Alexander, canon, 40. 
 Kyntore (Kintyr), lands of, xxxiii, xxxv, 
 
 cxxxiii, 12, 68. 
 Kyrkaldy, Thomas, notary, xli. 
 
 V 
 
 Laing, Dr David, Iv, Ivi. 
 
 Lamb, Andrew, Bishop of Brechin, xcvii, 
 
 xcviii, cxl. 
 Lambert, Sir John, prebendary, Ivi, 
 
 cxlvii. 
 
 Lamerol, David, Ix. 
 Lanark, vicarage of, cxi, cxv. 
 Larbert, parish of, vii. 
 Lateran Council, 59. 
 
 Laud, Archbishop, cxxiv, cxxvi, clxxii, 
 clxxiv-clxxix ; his correspondence 
 for the introduction of a Liturgy 
 into the Church of Scotland, 
 clxxx-cxcvii ; committed to the 
 Tower of London and charged 
 with treason, ccv ; ccxxi, ccxlvi, 99, 
 100. 
 
 Lander, Sir John, of Fountainhall, 111. 
 town of, xix. 
 bridge of, xx. 
 
 Lauderdale, Earl of, ccxiii, ccxxix, ccxlvi. 
 Laurie, J., cl. 
 Law, Mr James, treasurer of the Chapel 
 
 Royal, cxlviii-cl, 100, 101. 
 James, Archbishop of Glasgow, cxlix. 
 Lee, Dr John, principal, xxii ; dean of 
 
 Chapel Royal, cclii, ccliii. 
 Dr Robert, dean of Chapel Royal, 
 
 cclii. 
 Leighton, Dr Robert, Bishop, ccxii, ccxiv, 
 
 ccxvii. 
 
 Leith, "the King's Work" at, cxxxii. 
 Port of, cxciii, cxciv, ccxxxvii. 
 South, xcviii. 
 
 Hamilton, minister of, ccxviii. 
 Lennox, the, v, li. 
 Duke of, clxxi. 
 Mathew, Earl of, 38. 
 The Regent, Ixxv, Ixxvii. 
 Leonard, skinner, xv. 
 Lermonthe, James, 51. 
 Leslie, General, ccii. 
 
 Sir Patrick, commendator of Lindores, 
 
 Ixxxii. 
 
 Levingston, Lord, Ixx, 103. 
 Levingstoun, Alexander, 52. 
 Liberton's Wynd, Edinburgh, 104. 
 Liltpipe, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Lincluden, provostry of, cxlv. 
 Lindsay, Bernard, cxxxii. 
 
 Thomas, Searcher-General of Leith, 
 
 cxxxii. 
 
 Mr John, minister at Carstairs, cciii. 
 Mr David, Ixxviii ; Bishop of Brechin, 
 clxx ; made Bishop of Edinburgh, 
 clxxxii, clxxxviii, cxcviii. 
 Sir David, of Balcarres, clvii. 
 Mr Patrick, minister at Maxtoun, cciv. 
 of Pitscottie, xxv. 
 
 Lindisfarne, priory of, xxiii. 
 Lindores, Andrew, Abbot of, xxxv, 17. 
 
 Abbot of, xliii. 
 
 a musician, xxviii. 
 Linlithgow, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, lii, cxx, 
 
 cxxi, ccxxx. 
 Litlejohn, Thomas, tailor in Edinburgh, 
 
 113. 
 Livingston, James, clerk, 114. 
 
 James, of the royal bedchamber 
 
 ccviii. 
 
 Livingstone, Alexander, xli. 
 Lochaber, 107. 
 
 lands of, xxxiii, xxxv, cxxxiii, 12, 68. 
 Lochill, lands of, cxxxii. 
 Loch Leven, ccxl. 
 Loch Lomond, Ixxxvi. 
 Lochmaben, lii. 
 
 Loekhart, Sir William, 103, 109, 110, 111. 
 Lokart, Andrew, cxciv. 
 
 Symon, ccxli. 
 London, cxxx, ccv, ccxxxvii, 76. 
 
 Artists brought from, to Holyrood, 
 
 cxxi. 
 
 Lothian, archdean of, xxxv, cxliv, 1, 21, 
 25. 
 
 Robert, Earl of, Justice-General, 111. 
 Lourie, William, 113. 
 Louvain, city of, xxii. 
 Lowes, St Mary Kirk of, cvii, cix, cxxxi, 
 cxxxiv-cxxxviii, cxliv, cliii, clxii, 
 ccxvi. 
 
 Lowry, Adam, mason in Dundee, cxx. 
 Lundy, laird of, xxvii. 
 Lute, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Lyle, Lord, xxiv. 
 Lyudsay, Sir David, the poet, liv. 
 
 Mackenzie, Sir George, ccxxx. 
 Mackqueen, Mr John, subdean of Chapel 
 
 Royal, ccl. 
 Macleod, Dr Norman, dean of Chapel 
 
 Royal, cclii, ccliii. 
 Makgarwe, William, vicar of Peninghame, 
 
 39, 40. 
 
 Magdalene, Queen, her coffin rifled, ccl. 
 Magdeburg, Duke of, Ixxx. 
 Mair (Major), Mr John, liv, 97, 98. 
 Makbuty, a harper, xxix. 
 Makclaouthan, Rolland, canon, 40. 
 Makcrekane, John, presbyter, 39, 41. 
 Makdowel, Fergus, official of Whithorn, 
 
 xl, 39, 49. 
 Makkynnel, Henry, canon of Whithorn, 
 
 39. 
 
 Makneile, John, presbyter, 39. 
 Malvisie, M. Castelnau de, Ixv. 
 Manfredonia, diocese of, xliii. 
 Manuel, nunnery of, ci. 
 Mar, Earl of, xix, xx, Ixix, Ixxv, Ixxvi. 
 
 Countess of, Ixxiii. 
 Margaret, Queen, vii. 
 
 of Denmark, Queen of James III., 
 
 ccxxxviii. 
 the Princess, Queen of James IV., 
 
 ccxxviii, ccxxxviii, 79.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 123 
 
 Margaret, wife of Robert, Duke of 
 
 Albany,' 95. 
 Markill, lauds and monastery of, cxli, civ, 
 
 clix-clxi, clxxiii, cxcv, ccvii, ccxvii. 
 Mary, Queen of Scots, Ixi-lxiii, Ixv- 
 
 Ixix, Ixxii, Ixxiii, xcvi, ccxv, ccxxvi, 
 
 ccxxxviii ; place of her marriage 
 
 with Darnley discussed, ccxxxix, 
 
 ccxli. 
 Masoun, Thomas, mason in Pittenweyme, 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Mauchline, 98. 
 
 Maximilian II., Emperor, xcvi. 
 Maxwell of Kirkconnell, ccxxxv. 
 John, 51. 
 
 John, Bishop of Ross, cxci. 
 the Master of, Ixx. 
 May, Andrew, prior of, 17. 
 M'Bretne, Martyn, a musician, xxix. 
 M'Gill, Captain, 106. 
 Meg, MODS, cannon, xxx. 
 Melfort, John, Earl of, ccxx-ccxxv, 
 
 ccxxxi-ccxxxvii, ccxivi, 105. 
 Melrose, abbey of, xvi, 98. 
 Melvill, Sir James, Ixvi, Ixxi, Ixxiii, ccxl. 
 Melville, Katherine, wife of Sir John 
 
 Arnot, xxxi. 
 
 Earl of, secretary of state, ccxlix. 
 Melygam, Andrew, canon, 40. 
 Mennenius, author, ccxxix. 
 Menzies, Mr, an Edinburgh merchant. 
 
 102. 
 
 Mersington, Lord, 103. 
 Mildenhall, Suffolk, cxc. 
 Militia, the, ccxliv, ccxlv. 
 Millar, Mr Edward, musician, clxxxvii. 
 Miller, Alexander, mason, St Andrews, 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Mingary Castle, ccxvi. 
 Minstrels, students, liii. 
 Monepenny, Robert, cxciii. 
 Monk, General, ccxiii. 
 Monteith, Earl of, clxi. 
 Montgomery, Alexander, poet, Ixxxviii. 
 
 Sir James, 103. 
 Montrose, Marquis of, ccxvi ; executed, 
 
 ccx. 
 
 church of, xcvi. 
 
 Monycord, musical instrument, xvii. 
 Moodie, l)r Robert, minister of Clack- 
 mannan, Ixxxix. 
 Moodie, Thomas, "mortification" by him, 
 
 ccxxxii. 
 
 Moravia, State of, cci. 
 Moray, Earl of, Ixviii, Ixix, ccxxxiv- 
 
 ccxxxvi, ccxivi. 
 diocese of, xxxvi, 14, 15. 
 Bishop of, xxxviii, clxxi, clxxii. 
 Moret, Monsieur, ambassador of Savoy, 
 
 Ixiii. 
 
 Morton, Earl of, clxxix. 
 Morville, Richard de, constable, x, xi. 
 
 Hugh de, constable, viii, ix. 
 Motto of Scottish coinage, ccxxix. 
 Mouat, James, singer iu Chapel Royal, 
 
 ccxi. 
 
 Mow, Henry, cxxxiii. 
 Murraw, Duncan, 39. 
 Murray, John, Earl of Annandale, his 
 
 son's baptism, cxxvi, cxxvii, cxxix. 
 John, of Lochmabeu, cxli. 
 W., parson of Creitf, cxxxix. 
 Muriel, wife of Robert, Duke of Albany, 
 
 95. 
 Music, instruments of, in Chapel Royal, 
 
 clxvii, clxviii. 
 
 Musicians of Chapel Royal, c-cix, cxxix. 
 Mylne, Robert, the king's mason, ccxv. 
 Mylsone, James, a harper, xxviii. 
 
 Nairn, Mr Robert, advocate, cxliii, cxlviiL 
 Napier, Sir Alexander, cxlix. 
 Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, clviii. 
 Neilston, William Semple, minister of, 
 
 ccix. 
 
 Netherbow, the, Edinburgh, 105, 113. 
 Newburn, battle of, cciv. 
 Newcastle, capture of, cciv. 
 Newtoun, George, presbyter, 52. 
 Nicholson, Mr James, minister at Meigle, 
 xcviii. 
 
 Sir James, cxciv. 
 Nisbet, Alexander, heraldic writer, ccxxx, 
 
 ccxliii. 
 Norie, Thomas, mason in Dundee, cxix. 
 
 David, mason in Dundee, cxx. 
 
 John, mason in Dundee, cxx. 
 
 Ochil Hills, v. 
 
 Olifard, David, justiciar of Lothian, viii, 
 
 ix. 
 
 Ogilvie, Sir James, advocate, 111. 
 Oliphaut, Mr William of Newtoun, ex. 
 Olmutz, in Moravia, cci. 
 Orbistoun, proprietor of, cxi. 
 Organ, musical, xviii. 
 Organist for Chapel Royal, clxvii. 
 Orr, Laurence, 111, 11'2. 
 Oxford, university of, cxc. 
 
 Padua, see of, xliii. 
 
 Pady, Thomas, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 
 Painter, Alexander, chaplain, 93. 
 
 Paisley, Abbot of, xxxvi, cxliv, 29. 
 
 Palatine, the Prince, clxxviii. 
 
 Paris hats for singers, Ixiii. 
 
 Scots College at, Ixi. 
 Pate, the harper, xxviii, xxix. 
 Paterson, Alexander, sacristan of Chapel 
 Royal, liv, Iviii, 98. 
 
 James, sacristan of Chapel Royal, 
 Iviii, lix. 
 
 James, ccxi. 
 
 Captain, in Leith Links, 113. 
 
 John, 111. 
 
 John, Archbishop of Glasgow, 
 
 ccxxxii. 
 
 Patonson, Mr John, xvi. 
 Patrick, prior of Whithorn, 39. 
 Pattoun, William, bailie of Edinburgh, 
 
 113. 
 Paul IV., Pope, xcvi.
 
 124 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Paul II., Pope, 67. 
 
 Peblis, George, workman, cxciv. 
 
 " Peblis to the Play," the poem of, xvi. 
 
 Perth, old church of, xcvii. 
 
 lands in county of, belonging to 
 
 Chapel Royal, ccliv. 
 James, Earl of, ccxxi, ccxxv, ccxxxi, 
 
 ccxxxvi, ccxlvi, 102, 105. 
 Pettybrachly, church of, xxxiv, xxxvi, 
 
 xxxviii, cxxxiv, cxliv, cxlvi, 14, 
 
 15, 60-66, 71. 
 
 Pettygrew, Sir James, xlviii, 76. 
 Phrew, Hew, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 
 James, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 Picts, the, vi. 
 Piedmont, Ixiii. 
 
 Pinkartoun, prebends of, cxxxiv. 
 Pipers to James the Fourth, xxix. 
 Pitcairn, Henry, of Pitlour, 113. 
 Pitscottie, Lyndsay of, xiv. 
 Pittenweem, burgh of, cxix, cxx. 
 Pole, Cardinal, xcvi. 
 
 Pont, Mr Robert, provost of Trinity Col- 
 lege, Ivi. 
 Pope's, the, effigy, burned at Edinburgh, 
 
 ccxxxvii. 
 
 Portative, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Portlock, in Somerset, rectory of, cci. 
 Pratt, William, 113. 
 Preistis Acres (Raploch), near Stirling 
 
 Castle, cxxxiii. 
 Preshome, papers at, Ixi. 
 Preston, Mr John, of Pennycuik, cviii. 
 Prestonkirk, parish of, cxli. 
 Primrose, Sir James, Clerk of the Privy 
 
 Council, Ivi, xc, cxliii, cxlv, cxlvii, 
 
 cxlviii, 93. 
 Prince, Magnus, provost of Edinburgh, 
 
 104. 
 
 Psaltery, musical instrument, xvii. 
 Pyncartone, prebends of, xxxiv, 14, 26, 
 
 45. 
 
 Rae, James, merchant burgess of Edin- 
 burgh, cxxv. 
 
 Ralph, sheriff of Stirling, x, xL 
 Ramsay of Balmain, ceix. 
 
 Alexander, 93. 
 
 Andrew, subdean of Chapel Royal, 
 ccix, ccx. 
 
 James, musician, Ixiii. 
 
 James, Bishop of Dunblane, ccxvii. 
 
 John, xiv., xx. 
 
 Sir John, 17. 
 
 Symeon, student of music, cii. 
 Randolph, ambassador of England, Ixii. 
 Raploch, lands of, cix, cxxxiii. 
 Rankine, James, mason, Glasgow, cxxi. 
 
 John, mason, Glasgow, cxxi. 
 Ray, John, musician, Ixiii. 
 Recorder, musical instrument, xvii. 
 Reid, Adam, 17. 
 Rhynd (Rende), Sir John of, xv, xxvi, 
 
 xxvii. 
 
 Ribupe (Rebeck), musical instrument, 
 xviii. 
 
 Riccarton, laird of, 103. 
 
 Richard II., King of England, ccxxxviii. 
 
 the clerk, x, xi. 
 Richardson, John, custumar of Stirling, 
 
 xii. 
 
 Richie, James, mason, Glasgow, cxxi. 
 Ripon, negotiations at, ccv. 
 Rist, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Rizzio, David, vocalist, etc., Ixiii, Ixiv, 
 Ixv, Ixxii ; his death, ccxxxix. 
 
 Joseph, brother of David, Ixv. 
 Robert II., King of Scots, ccxxvii. 
 
 III., King of Scots, ccxxxviii. 
 
 Earl of Fife, chamberlain, xi. 
 Robertson, David, gunner, 112. 
 
 David, vintner, 113. 
 
 Thomas, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 
 David, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 
 Dr William, historian, Ixxxix. 
 Rogers, Sir William, doctor of music, xiii, 
 xix, xx, xxii, xxviii. 
 
 son of Odo, x. 
 Rome, court of, xxx, xxxi. 
 Ros, Robert, cl. 
 Roseneath (Rostnot ?) xxxii, xxxiv. 
 
 Priory of, xciii, 3, 13, 20. 
 
 chapel at, xliii. 
 
 Ross, John, prebendar of Strathbraan, 
 cxxxix. 
 
 Lord, Ixviii. 
 
 Bishop of, Ixix clxxi, clxxii, clxxxv, 
 clxxxvii, cxcvi. 
 
 James, Duke of, Archbishop of St 
 
 Andrews, 38. 
 Rostnot (Restenot, Roseneath) xxxii, 
 
 xxxiv, cxxxiv, cxlv. 
 Rote, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Rothes, Earl of, Ixx, Ixxxii. 
 Rothesay, Duke of, xxiv, xxv. 
 Row, Mr John, historian, clxxxi. 
 Roulat, M., secretary to Queen Mary, 
 Ixiv. 
 
 Sakbuts, for music in Chapel Royal, 
 
 clxvii. 
 
 Sauchie, battle of, xxv. 
 Sauchiehall, laird of, younger, 113. 
 Saumur, university of, Andrew Ramsay 
 
 professor in, ccix. 
 Savoy, Duke of, represented at baptism 
 
 of James VI., Ixviii. 
 Schalme, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Schevez, Robert, xxii. 
 
 William, Archbishop of St Andrews, 
 
 xxii, xxiv 
 
 Sclaiter, David, mason in Glasgow, cxxi. 
 Scone, abbot of, xli, cxliii, cxlv, 1, 21, 
 
 25, 28. 
 
 abbey of, ccxxx. 
 Scot, Andrew, surgeon, cxxxix. 
 
 Mr James, servitor to the Bishop of 
 
 Galloway, cxxxix. 
 
 Scott, Walter of Goldilands, cliii, clxii. 
 Sir Walter, of Buccleuch, Ixxxii, 
 
 cvii. 
 of Branxholme, ci.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 125 
 
 Scott, William, chantor of Chapel Royal, 
 cxxxi, cxxxv, cxxxvii, cxxxix, clii, 
 clxii. 
 
 Scots College at Paris, Ixi. 
 Scrymgeour, John, of Dudhope, cxix, 
 
 cxx. 
 
 Selkirk, Earl of, Iviii. 
 Sempill, Lord, Ixviii. 
 Semple, Mr William, regent in Glasgow 
 
 College, ccix. 
 
 Service Book, the, cxcviii, cci. 
 Seton, Alexander, Earl of Uunfermline, 
 
 chancellor, cxxvii. 
 Seton, Sir George, ccxvii. 
 
 George Lord, Ixx, ccxxx. 
 Shaw, laird of Sauchie, xxiv. 
 
 Mr Robert, clerk, 17. 
 Shaws, lands of, Selkirkshire, ccliv. 
 Sheriffmuir, vi. 
 Simson, Mr Patrick, minister at Stirling, 
 
 cxxiv. 
 Sinclair, Andrew, prebendary, cxxxii, 
 
 ccix, ccxvi. 
 
 Mr John, minister of Restalrig, ccxl. 
 Siponto, Archbishop of, xliii. 
 Sitharist, musical instrument, xvii. 
 Sitholis, musical instrument, xvii. 
 Skene, Mr Thomas, 111. 
 Skirling, Baron, (Livingstone), ccviii. 
 Smith, Mr James, overseer of works, 
 
 ccxix. 
 
 James, ensign, 111. 
 Smyth, John, painter in Dundee, cxx. 
 Solomon, King of Israel, clxxi. 
 Somerville, William de, of Carnwath, 
 
 viii, ix. 
 
 Southwick (Suddick) parish church of, 
 Iviii, cix, cxxxii, 14, 15, 25, 26, 
 91, 92. 
 
 Spalding, John, historian, clxxii, clxxiv. 
 Spang, Mr William, clxxxviii. 
 Spence, laird of Wormiston, Ixxvii. 
 Spot, prebends of, xxxiv, cxxxiv, 14, 26, 
 
 45. 
 Spottiswoode, Mr John, superintendent 
 
 of Lothian, Ixv. 
 Archbishop, clxxiv, clxxv, clxxxviii, 
 
 clxxxix, cxcviii. 
 Ninian, archdean of Chapel Royal, 
 
 89, 93. 
 
 St Andrew, patron of Scotland, ccxxv- 
 ' ccxxviii. 
 
 Order of, ccxxix, ccxxx. 
 St Andrews, Robert, Bi^iop of, vii, viii. 
 burgh of, cxix, cxx. 
 cathedral of, ccxxx. 
 university of, cxv, ccxviii. 
 Archbishop of, cxxiii, clxx-clxxii. 
 St Mary's College of, cxc, ccliii, 
 
 ccliv. 
 
 St Anne's Yard, Edinburgh, ccxli. 
 St Anthony's Yards, near Holyrood, 104. 
 St Genevieve, Paris, canon of, ccxxiv. 
 St Giles, church of, Edinburgh, xli, xcvi, 
 
 cxcvii, 51. 
 image of, 98. 
 
 St Leonard's, hospital of, cxv. 
 St Mary of the Rock, church of, xxxi, 
 xxxiii ; separated from Chapel 
 Royal, xxxix, xlii, 2, 3, 4, etc. 
 of the Lewes, kirk of, cvii, cix, 
 
 cxxxi, cxxxiv. 
 
 St Michael, chapel of, in Stirling Castle 
 (or Chapel Royal), xi, xli, 2, 11, 
 18, etc. 
 
 Steill, Captain Patrick, 107. 
 Sterheid, Sir William, canon, Ivi, 90. 
 Stevynson, Andrew, canon, 40. 
 Stewart, Alexander, Earl of Mar, 97. 
 Alexander, Earl of Moray, ccxxxiv. 
 James, advocate, 111. 
 John, Earl of Buchan, xii, 97. 
 John, Lord Lome, 97. 
 Murdoch, Duke of Albany, 97. 
 Robert, eldest son of Murdoch, Duke 
 
 of Albany, 97. 
 House of, vi, clxxv. 
 John, mason, Glasgow, cxxi. 
 Stirling (Strivelyn, etc.), v. vii, cxix, 
 
 cxxvi, 2. 
 
 Parliament held at, Ixxvii. 
 Privy Council retire to, cc. 
 haven, cxciv. 
 
 castle of, v, vi, xxiv, xxv, xxxv, Ixvi, 
 Ixviii, Ixxv, Ixxx, Ixxxv, Ixxxvi, 
 ccxlvii, 11, 18, 29, 37. 
 chaplaincy of, Ixxxix, xc. 
 collegiate church of, xxxix-xliv ; pro- 
 cess for its erection, 1-18 ; confir- 
 mation thereof, 18-29 ; conservatory 
 of, 29-33. 
 Palace of, Ixvii, Ixxxviii, 11, 18, 
 
 29. 
 
 William, Earl of, clxxx. 
 park of, x, Ixxxvi, 
 rock, Ixx. 
 Peter of, x. 
 
 George, apothecary, 102. 
 W., Abbot of, viii, ix. 
 Stone, Nicholas, carver, of London, cxxii. 
 Story, Sir John, xv. 
 Strathbraan, lands of, xxxiii, cix, ex, 
 
 cxxxiii, 11. 
 Strathearn, 92, 93. 
 Swain, Will, xvi. 
 Sympsone, William, 17. 
 
 Talburu (or Tabor), musical instrument, 
 
 xviii. 
 
 Tarbat, the Viscount of, 103. 
 Tassoni, the author, xvii. 
 Taylor, John, the "Water Poet," 99. 
 Teinds belonging to Chapel Royal, ccliv. 
 Teith, river, v, Ixxxvi. 
 Tewkesbury, Thomas of, xiii. 
 Thistle, Order of, ccxxv, cexxix-cexxxi, 
 ccxlviii, ccxlix. 
 
 Knights of, ccxxv, ccxxvi, ccxxx, 
 ccxxxi, ccxlii, ccxlviii. 
 
 Oflicers of, ccxlix. 
 
 Star of the order, described, <vxlviii. 
 "Thistle and Rose," poem of, ccxxviii.
 
 126 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Thoirs, Sir David, advocate, 111. 
 
 Thomson, George, editor, Ixi. 
 
 Tod, John, Chaplain, 93. 
 
 Towris, Clement, glass wright, cciii. 
 
 Train Bands, the, of Edinburgh, ccxliv, 
 
 ccxlv. 
 Trail, Mr David, sacristan of Chapel 
 
 Royal, xliv, cxlvi, 72. 
 Traprane, lands of, cxli, clix-clxi, clxxiii, 
 
 cxcv, ccvii. 
 Traquair, lands of, xix. 
 
 Earl of, clxxix, clxxxvi, cciv. 
 Trinity College, Edinburgh, the Provost 
 
 of, Iv. 
 
 Troupe, Walter, cl. 
 Trumpe, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Tullideff, Stephen, prebendary of Chapel 
 
 Royal, cxxxiii, cl. 
 Tulloch, George, sawyer, cciii. 
 Tungland, abbacy of, cxvi, 98. 
 Turing, Sanders of, xvi. 
 
 James of, xxvii. 
 Turner, Archibald, subdean of Chapel 
 
 Royal, ccx. 
 Sir James, ccx. 
 Turnhotise-hill, ci. 
 
 Tympane, musical instrument, xviii. 
 Tyrie, the Jesuit, xcv. 
 
 University commissioners, their report as 
 to revenues of Chapel Royal, ccii- 
 ccliv. 
 
 Valoniis, Roger de, x, xi. 
 Vaus, George, prior of Whithorn, xlii. 
 Verrio, the painter, ccxviii. 
 Vienna, xcvi. 
 
 Walcar, Nycholas, canon, 40. 
 Wallace, George, " Spangeonar," cciii. 
 Wallace, Hugh, of Ingliston, ccxix. 
 Wallace, Captain John, his conduct at 
 Holyrood-house, ccxliii-ccxlvi, 102- 
 
 114. 
 
 Wallace, Sir William, xxx. 
 Wallat, Adam, musician, cxxv. 
 Walter, son of Alan the steward, viii, 
 
 ix. 
 
 Walton, Sir Henry, cxxxii. 
 Wardlaw, John, a luter, xxviii. 
 Wardlaw, Robert, 51. 
 
 Wantones, a singer, Hi. 
 
 Watergate, the, of Edinburgh, 111, 113. 
 
 Watson, James, 52. 
 
 Watson, Humphrey, cl. 
 
 John, cl. 
 Watson, Rev. Robert, chaplain of Stirling 
 
 Castle, Ixxxix. 
 Watt, Gilbert, cxl. 
 Waus, Alexander, canon, 40. 
 Wause, Patrick, of Berynberyth, 39. 
 Wedderburn, Dr James, Bishop of Dun- 
 blane, account of, cxc-cxcvii ; de- 
 prived, his death and burial, cci. 
 Dr John, brother of the bishop, cci. 
 Peter, of Gosford, 113, 114. 
 Weir, John, mason, cciii. 
 
 Robert, cl. 
 
 Weland, Mr James, cl. 
 Wells, diocese of, cxc. 
 Wemyss, Henry, Bishop of Galloway, Ivi, 
 
 Ivii, cxlvii, 90, 98. 
 
 Whitchurch, Wells, prebendary of, cxc. 
 Whithorn, George, Bishop of, xxxix, xli. 
 prior of, xxxix, xl, xli, Ixix. 
 priory of, cxvi. 
 Widderspune, a fowler, xxix. 
 Wightman, John, town officer of Edin- 
 burgh, ccxlvi, 113. 
 Wigton, Earl of, cxxxii. 
 
 lands in, belonging to Chapel Royal, 
 
 ccliv. 
 
 William, canon of Whithorn, 39. 
 William III., Bang of Great Britain, ccx vii, 
 
 ccli. 
 William, a singer, xxx. 
 
 Bishop of Aberdeen, 38. 
 William the Lyon, King of Scots, ix, x. 
 Wilson, Andrew, mason of Dundee, cxix. 
 Andrew, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 John, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 Thomas, mason, St Andrews, cxx. 
 Windsor, 101. 
 
 St George's Chapel at, ccxviiL 
 Wishart, Sir John of Pitarrow, Ixiv. 
 
 George, of Drymme, Ixiv. 
 Wynram, Robert, albany herald, cl, clii, 
 
 clxii. 
 Wynrams of Liberton, cl. 
 
 Young, Robert, printer, cxcvii. 
 Tester's, Lady, church, ccxxxiii, ccxxxiv. 
 
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