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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. 31) No.19 Chantry of Saint Andrew the Apostle. -- John de Mar, burgess of Aberdeen, founded this chantry on the 10th of August, 1473. By this charter, of that date, he granted and confirmed, to the chaplain of the altar, for prayers for his soul, perpetual annuities, amounting to £2.6.8 arising from tenements in the town. Richard Rutherford, burgess of Aberdeen granted 12th February 1450. to the altar and Chaplains, for prayers and masses annuities amounting to £4.7.6 arising from Certain tenements in the town. Symon Dodd rector of Invernochty gave to the altar an annuity of £1.0.0 arising from a tenement in the town, for celebrating yearly a mass of requiem for John Stewart, Earl of Mar. -----
No.20 Chantry of Saint John the Baptist. Was founded at an early period by the wrights and masons, for the exercise of the rites of religion at the altar. John Knowles, burgess of Aberdeen, who was lay patron of it, by a charter dated October the 9th 1486, granted to the vicar, and to the altar and chaplain an annuity of £2.1.0 to be levied from a tenement in the Castlegate, and of two merks from another, near it, both bounded on the South by the Trinity Burn, for prayers and suffrages, and for an obit on the anniversaries of himself and his wife, to be celebrated on Saturday, immediately subsequent to the festival of the conversion of Saint Paul. -----

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