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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 (P.2.)
"of Caithness filled the office of Vicar of Aberdeen. --- (P. 3.) Bishop Ingeram Lindesay who succeeded to the episcopal see of Aberdeen in the year 1441, was afterwards confirmed by Bishop Thomas Spens his successor. -- (P. 4.) In the year 1491, there were the curate and seventy-two Chaplains and Clerks, belonging to the Church --- (P. 5) In the 1508 the Chaplains, Clerks and Singers, had become more numerous than what the service of the Church required. --- (P. 6.7.) In the year 1519, a new Code of laws and regulations, for the members of the College, appears to have been established by the vicar. ----- (P. 9.) William de Turine, Stephen de Manuel, and Bartholomew de Eglisham, presented to the church in the year 1340, the principal and largest image of St. Nicholas which was placed over the centre of [centre] of the high Altar. -- In the year 1351, William de Leith, provost of Aberdeen, presented to the Church a magnificent donation of two large bells, the one called Laurence, and the other Maria, which h [he] purchased at his own expense. ---- (P. 10) In the year 1437 the magistrates and Council allowed an yea [yearly] Salary of £1.6.8. to the Organist. In the year 1449, a tax was imposed, under the authority of an act of the Council and Community, of four groats on each sack of wool, four groats on each bag of Skins, and one groat on each barrel of goods, and on each dacker of hides, for defraying the charge of the repairs of the C [Church]. (P. 11.) In the year 1477, Walter Young, Chaplain, was appointed, by the Magistrates and Council, to perform divine service in the church, -- The Council and Community on the 8th. May, 1508, passed an act in a head Court, by which they assigned, to Curule and Chaplains, Six Merks yearly, for twelve g [groats] from the revenue of Justice Mills, for the expense of the celebration of the Mass of the Sacrament, Called the Holy blud Mass, or Corpus Christi." ----

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