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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]
(P. 28) No.14 Chantry of St Mary Magdalene.-- This chantry was founded jby Andrew Allanson, provost of Aberdeen, in the year 1479, for an obit and anniversary on Sunday immediately Subsequent to the festival of St Bartholomew. He devised to the altar £2 and two merks of annuities, arising from certain crofts of land near the town. Christian Cadrow, his widow, furnished to the altar a complete suit of Sacerdotal vestments, of silk and gold, for the deacon and subdeacon, a silver gilt chalice weighing thirtythree ounces, for the service of the High Mass. -----
(P. 28) No.15 Chantry of St Stephen Prothomartyr. At what time this chantry was founded we have not been informed. Stephen de Baboni, burgess of Aberdeen, by a charter dated 18th March 1454, granted and confirmed to the altar, for prayers for his own soul, and for the souls of Marjory, his wife £1.13.4 of annuities, arising from Certain tenements in the town, and for maintaining a lamp to burn before the altar. By another charter of the same date, he granted to the chaplains an annuity of £1.0.0 from a tenement in the upper Kirkgate, for maintenance of the lamps of the altars dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St Nicholas. The obit was ordered to be celebrated yearly, on Sunday, immediately subsequent to the feast of the Epiphany. -----

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