GEORGE MURRAY [MUREFF (sic) Brady] provided 18 March 1467 by Paul II. On 15 April 1467 he offers one hundred gold florins (Brady). On 14 October 1467 the abbot of Inchaffray is present in Parliament (Acta Parl., ii. 87), and again 12 January 1467-8 (ibid., 89). In 1474 George brought an action against certain persons for destroying and downcasting the mill-lade and mill-dam of Dunfally, and won his case (Acta Audit., p. 33). His Letter of Bailiary in favour of Laurence Oliphant, 25 January 1468-9, is printed in this volume (Appendix to Charters, No. vi.).

On 14 October 1484 George appears by his proctor before the Lords Auditors (Acta Audit., 1466-94, p. 146). For January 1488-9, see No. CLI.

LAURENCE OLIPHANT, clerk of Dunblane, provided 16 November He 'offers' one hundred gold florins in December 1495, ratione commende (Brady).

1495.

Dr. Maitland Thomson has supplied the writer with the information that this Laurence Oliphant was son of the first Lord Oliphant (not of the second lord, as the 'Peerages' say). He fell at the battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513.

ALEXANDER STEWART de Pitcarne, son of Alexander, duke of Albany, by Catherine Sinclair (see Reg. Mag. Sig., iii. Nos. 1230, 111.). On 5 August 1514 a letter was addressed to Leo x. in the name of James v., requesting that Alexander Stewart might have Inchaffray (Epist. Reg. Scot., i. 199). He was granted the commendam by Leo x., 13 November 1514, the abbey being void by the death of Laurence, Peter, presbyter cardinal, of the title of St. Eusebius, resigning his right. Alexander Stewart is described in the provision as 'clerk of the diocese of St. Andrews.' He was absolved ad cautelam. See Hergenrother, Regesta Leonis X. The cardinal who had been previously granted the abbey was Peter Accolti. On 22 December 1514 Stewart offered' for Inchaffray one hundred florins of gold. He held the abbey in commendam, and retained it (paying a tax of one hundred florins) when promoted to the see of Moray, 13 September 1529. He also retained the deanery of Brechin and the commendam of Scone (Brady). He died 21 December 1537 (Black Book of Taymouth, 121). A tack granted (24 April 1536) by him as commendator of Inchaffray, signed by him and twelve canons, is among the Laing Charters (No. 407).

GAVIN DUNBAR, archbishop of Glasgow, was given the commendam, at the request of the king, 29 July 1538; tax, one hundred florins (Brady). Dunbar died 30 April 1547 (Acta Dom. Concil., xxvi. 120).

JOHN HAMILTON, aged twelve or thereby, receives a dispensation, and is granted the abbey, 28 November 1547 (Brady). He resigned in 1551. That the provision was effective is proved from the record of an action by John, commendator of Inchaffray and the convent thereof against Oliver Sinclair and Henry Drummond successively lairds of Petcarnis, for an annual rent of ten marks resting owing for the years 1537 to 1543 inclusive. Mentioned 24 January 1550-51, 2 May and 3 June 1551 (Acts and Decreets, iv. 294; v. 17, 73). This note was furnished to the editor by Dr. Maitland Thomson. Who was this John Hamilton?

ALEXANDER GORDON, late archbishop of Glasgow, elect of Athens. On 4 September 1551 he receives the commendam of Inchaffray, to be held for life, with the church of Athens. He held the commendam till 1564 (Brady); but see below. He is spoken of as elect of Galloway as early as 4 November 1560 (Reg. of Deeds, iii. 432).

Alexander Gordon was a son of John, Master of Huntly, by Jane (Margaret), a natural daughter of James Iv.; he was brother of George, fourth earl of Huntly.

He resigned in favour of James Drummond (see next entry), reserving the right of regress to the commendam in the event of the death of Drummond.

JAMES DRUMMOND, son of David, Lord Drummond. The draft of Queen Mary's petition on his behalf to Pope Pius IV. is now printed for the first time (p. 160). It is undated. Her appointment of James Drummond under the Privy Seal is dated Edinburgh, 26 July 1565 (p. 161). And his reception and institution at the abbey took place 2 August of the same year (see p. 163). Yet Alexander, bishop of Galloway, and commendator of the monasteries of Inchaffray and Tongland,' granted a charter on 20 May 1566 (see Laing Charters, No. 805).

The age of James Drummond is referred to as that of 'a young child' when, in December 1567, Alexander, called bishop of Galloway, was summoned before the General Assembly, and was accused, inter alia, that he had resigned Inchaffray in favour of a

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young child, and set divers lands in feu, in prejudice of the kirk.' The bishop of Galloway 'granted that he had offended in all that was laid to his charge' (Booke of the Universal Kirk of Scotland, pp. 112, 114; see also Calderwood's History of the Kirk of Scotland, ii. 393).

There is no evidence that James Drummond's appointment was sanctioned by the Pope, and everything points to such sanction being lacking. The abbey of Inchaffray, according to Cosmo Innes, was erected into a temporal lordship in his favour, and he was created Lord Maddertie [31 Jan.] 1609." But see what is said by Dr. Maitland Thomson on this subject, in his Appendix on the Abbey Lands, and his note at p. 308.

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ADDENDUM

When too late for insertion in its proper place, the following important note, furnished by Dr. Maitland Thomson from the Vatican Registers, came to hand :—

CARDINAL PETER [ACCOLTI] was made commendator of Inchaffray, 3 October 1513; but, litteris apostolicis desuper non confectis, the cardinal resigned on 13 November 1514, on which day Alexander was granted the commendam.

NOTES, CHIEFLY

ON

PERSONS AND PLACES

PERSONS

NAMED IN THE CHARTERS, BULLS, ETC., PRE-
CEDED BY LISTS OF THE BISHOPS OF DUNBLANE
AND DUNKELD.1

A LIST OF THE BISHOPS OF DUNBLANE FROM 1150 тo 1466.

NOTE.-Bishops whose names occur in the Charters, etc., printed in this volume, or who are otherwise referred to, are marked by an asterisk.

LAURENCE, c. 1150. He appears in record for the first time in a bull of Adrian iv., dated 27 February 1155.

*SYMON OF SYMEON appears first in record with Hugh, bishop of St. Andrews (who was consecrated in 1178), Regist. Priorat. S. Andree, 147. Other evidence shows that Gams cannot be far wrong when he places the accession of his successor as c. 1197.2

*JONATHAN, c. 1197. He died in 1210, and was buried at Inchaffray (Scotichr., viii. 73). He may have been the same person as Jonathan, archdeacon of Dunblane in Symon's time (Northberwic, 7).

*ABRAHAM succeeded, presumably, immediately after the death of Jonathan, 1210. He was the son of a priest (Theiner, Monumenta, No. 6), and was consecrated by William Malvoisine, bishop of St. Andrews (Ibid.). He was bishop 7 February 1220 (Dunfermelyn, 66, 68). He was alive after the death of Earl Gilbert (No. LII.). If he is to be identified with Abraham, the earl's chaplain, he had a son named Arthur (No. xxvI.). The year of his death does not appear in the Chroniclers. It cannot have been much later than 1223.

RALPH (Radulfus) elect (Arbroath, i. 59). He resigned while elect (see Eubel, Hierarchia, i. 238), certainly before 1226, and probably earlier.

1 Dr. Dowden's contributions are marked D. Dr. Maitland Thomson's are marked M. T.

2 I have little doubt that 'W,' bishop of Dunblane, who appears (so far as I know) only in the Chartulary of Cambuskenneth, p. 160, is an error for 'S.'

OSBERT. See Cambuskenneth, No. 126. The date of his succession is doubtful. He died being professed a canon of Holyrood in 1231 (Scotichr., ix. 48).

*CLEMENT, a Dominican friar, chosen apparently by the bishops of St. Andrews, Brechin, and Dunkeld, on the mandate of Gregory 1x.: consecrated by William, bishop of St. Andrews, at Wedale, 4 September 1233 (Chron. de Mailros). We find him bishop in the present volume (Nos. LX., LXI.), in August 1234. He died, according to Scotichronicon (x. 11), in 1256: according to the Chronicle of Melrose, in 1258. I am not aware of any evidence to show which of these dates is more likely to be correct.

*ROBERT [de Prebenda] Dean of Dunblane. The earliest notice I have found in connection with the bishopric is in the Register of Glasgow (i. 166), where he appears as R. by divine permission elect of the church of Dunblane and canon of Glasgow,' 2 January 1258-59. He is still elect 22 August 1259 (Cal. Pap. Reg., i. 367). A story of his intrigues with a view of being advanced to the see of Glasgow before he was consecrated for Dunblane is told in the Chronicles of Melrose (s. a. 1259). In the present volume we have what is the latest appearance (so far as I know) of Robert in Scottish record, 25 March 1283 (No. cx111.).

He appears to have been an Englishman, and to have had property in the county of Nottingham. He was favoured by Henry III. at the request of his daughter, Margaret, Queen of Scotland (Bain's Calendar, i. 2395, 2440, 2443, 2657).

He died probably early in 1284.

*WILLIAM, abbot of Arbroath, elected concorditer by the chapter on the death of Robert. Objections to the regularity of the election seem to have been made, for William resigned into the hands of the Pope all rights derived from the election. The Pope thereupon provided him to the see. He was consecrated a few days before 18 December 1284 by Ordonius, cardinal-bishop of Tusculum. Letters announcing his appointment were sent to Malise, earl of Strathern, 'patron of the church of Dunblane' (Theiner, Monumenta, No. 284). In the present volume he appears in 1287 (No. cxvIII.). He took the oath of fealty to Edward I., 12 July 1291 (Ragman Rolls, 14).

(He is probably the
Elected concorditer

Alpinius,' canon on the death of caused him to be See letter dated

He died probably early in 1296. *ALPIN, canon of Dunblane. of Dunblane, of No. cxvIII.) William. The election confirmed by the Pope, who consecrated by Matthew, cardinal-bishop of Porto. 16 October 1296 (Theiner, No. 355). His rule was short. See next entry.

NICHOLAS, abbot of Arbroath, elected on the death of Alpin: resigned his rights to the Pope, who appointed him by the plenitude of apostolic