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Peebles, Walter Buchart, John Durward, Thomas
Ramsay, John Hunter and William Stephen
diverse parishioners of the Parish, Master
John Clerk Rector of Logy, Master Alexander
Thorntoun Vicar of Nigg, Master John Fordyce
vicar of Garvock, Sir John Harnar Vicar of
Banchory Ternan, Sir Richard Bennat vicar
of Aberbrothoc [St Vigeans], Sir David Bull-
ock Chaplain, and Master Thomas Dekyson
Bachelor in decreets. They were asked to give
their verdicts on numerous questions as to the
constitution and condition of the almory
and its dependencies some of their answers
are to the effect that the Almory was founded
by the King or Lord Patron, to the end that, as
at other monasteries, the poor and infirm might
be daily sustained there from the fragments
of the Abbots and Convents tables; That they
knew of no letter of foundation; That they knew
of the rents of the house except one garden and
one croft; That the house and Chapel were
well adorned or furnished; and that they knew
no reason where fore the house and Chapel
are built without the monastery except that
it pleased the builder to do so. They further
stated that they knew no grounds for the com-
mon report that the Bishop of Brechin
had any right over the almory House; and
otherwise they referred to the Letter of found
ation of the Monastery.