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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| 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. 36) No.27 Chantry of Saint Eligh Confessor, or Saint Loyle. Was an ancient institution in the church, and in the year 1472 the magistrates and council conferred the right of its patronage upon the hammermen, who performed their solemn devotions at the altar. The annual revenue of this chantry, at the epocha of the Reformation, was £2.1.8, being the amount of annuities arising from tenements in the Shipraw, Guestraw, Upperkirkgate, and Futtie. ----- (P. 37.) No 28. Chantry of Saint Helen. Was founded, at an early period, by the hammermen and dedicated to their tutelar Saint, or patroness, for the exercise of acts of devotion, according to the practice of the times. For supporting the institution, they were bound by their seal of Cause from the Magistrates, Council, and community, dated September 17th 1579 to contribute to the chaplain half a merk, for every new member, for every master, who entered into indentures with an apprentice, have a merk, for every other engaged servant, one pound of wax, and for every master, one penny weekly, besides the fines and forfeitures, to be levied for the corrections of faults, in their Secular occupations. Subsequently to the Reformation, the hammermen were permitted, by the magistrates, to appropriate these fees to the establishment of a fund for the support of their decayed indegent brethren. |
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