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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST NICHOLAS CHURCH | St Nicholas Church St Nicholas Church St Nicholas Church |
Revd. [Reverend] Mr McCulloch (E.Ch.) [East Church] Revd. [Reverend] Mr Forsyth (W.Ch.) [West Church] Mr A Scatterty (Verger) Annals of Aberdeen (Kennedy's) |
075 | [Continued] "in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Centuries, which circumstance is confirmed by various records. It seems, however to have been gradually declining, in its splendour and importance towards the dawn of the Reformation. --- The vicar of Aberdeen was parson of the parish and titular of its tithes, both parsonage and vicarage.--- The vicar was the next dignitary of this Church. John de Kyngome, the first ecclesiastic who filled that office, was instituted to the vicarage, about the year 1342, by Bishop Alexander of Kynynmounde, the first of that name who succeeded to the episcopal see of Aberdeen in the year 1329. (At this period there was no Metropolitan church, or any building which merited the name of a Cathedral, belonging to the diocese. Bishop Alexander of Kynynmounde, who occasionally resided at Mortlach, Bain and Fetterneir, had fixed his principal residence at Kirktown of Seaton, in the parish of Saint Machar, about a mile distant from Aberdeen, where there was a small church, dedecated to Saint Macarius, and where he erected a lodging, afterwards dignified with the name of the bishop's palace. One of his successors of the same name, commenced the erection of a cathedral only about the year 1357, on the site of the old church, which was demolished. Hence this place, having become the seat of the bishop, was distinguished as the City of Aberdeen, and, in subsequent ages, was known by the name of Old Aberdeen.) The vicar of St Nicholas was generally the sixth prebendary of the Cathedral but it appears, from the cartulary of the church, that on some occasions, a prebendary of another Cathedral had been preferred to that dignity, for we find, in the year 1519, that John Dingwall, prothonotary and archdeacon" |
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