FOOTNOTES 1 Adrian and Monan for example.

2. Fillan for example.

3. See James Campbell, Balmerino aSÉ itfl Abbey. p65 and MacKinlay, Non-Sorlptural Dedications. p482, for example. 4. MacKinlay, Non-Soriptural Dedications. p482.

5. St Andrews University Mg 36281. fol 11v. 6. ^ ill 2114.

7. There are charters of 1564 and 1586 in RMS referring to it. 8. Wm Stevenson, Tfeg Kirk and Parish o t Auchtertool, Kirkcaldy

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9. David Camerarius, De Scottorum Fortitudine (1631 edition), p153.

10. See Introduction to Charters of Inchcolm Abbev, SHS 1938, ppxviiff for a fuller explanation.

11. Bannatvne Club 69, p348.

12. MacKinlay, Non-Scriotural Dedications. p217, for example. 13. Pars Hyemails. 15 December.

14. Somtimes "Dubthach".

15. We can assume that this is the same saint as he is described as "Albanach", "of Scotland".

16. Pars Hyemalis.

17. Rankin, Holy Trinity, pp76-77. 18. Laing, Lindores. pp511-2. 19. Forbes Kalendars. p360.

20. His feast in the Aberdeen Breviary is 13 January. 21. A P Forbes, Lives of S Ninian and S Kentigern. The

Historians of Scotland V, pp40ff. 22. Pars Estivalis. 18 November.

23. Lord High Treasurer’s Account 11 October 1504. 24. St Andrews University MS 36281.

25. The trappings of the cult of St Fergus at his altar in St Andrews will be discussed in greater detail at a later stage.

26. Pars Estivalis.

27. Forbes Kalendars. pp420-1.

28. MacKinlay, Non-Soriptural Dedications. ppl6ff. 29. Daughter of Edward the Atheling.

30. Known as Malcolm Canmore. 31. David I (1124-53).

32. Wm Stubbs (ed). Chronica Rogeri ^ Hoveden IV, Rolls Series 1871, plOO.

33. pl8l, no 281.

34. Dunfermline Register, pi83 no 285. 35. Ibid. p185, no 290, 36. Ibid. ppl85-6, no 291. 37. Ibid, p235, no 348. 38. Wyntoun ii, pl65. 39. Fordun i, p295. 40. Wvntoun iii, pp250-1.

41. The feast of St Margaret on 10 June is a post-Reformation introduction.

42. Pars Estivalis. 43. eg, p243, no 356.

44. A O Anderson, Earlv Sources ii, 87. 45. E Henderson, Annals of Dunfermline. p87.

46. J M Webster and A A M Duncan, Regalitv of Dunfermline Court Book 1531-38, Dunfermline 1953, pi85.

47. Ibid. pp66,131 and 133.

48. See Laing, Scottish Seals and Supplement.

49. All these are referred to in E Henderson’s Annals of Dunfermline and elsewhere.

50. MacKinlay, Non-Scriptural Dedications. p7. 51. Rankin, Holv Trinity. pp82-3.

52. St Margaret was also associated with St Laurence’s altar in Holy Trinity Church. See Rankin, Holv Trinity. p89.

53. Pars Estivalis.

54. Forbes Kalendars. pp397-8. 55. Fordun i, p76.

56. This Cistercian house was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary

and St Edward the Confessor. 57. Skene’s CPg, pi87.

58. Forbes Kalendars and MacKinlay Non-Scrlptural Dedications. p500.

59. His feast is 16 September. 60. Whithorn in Galloway.

61. Bede. Ecclesiastical History 111*4. 62. Laing, Lindores. p195.

63. Dunfermline Register. p344 no 451. 64. Rankin, Holy Trinity. pp96-98. 65. Fife Retoura 315.

66. MacKinlay, Non-Scriptural Dedications. p30.

67. Here there was a prebend of St Ninian. Fife Retours 261. 68. For example, St Margaret, St Adrian and St Monan, were all

more prominent in Fife. 69. Pars Estivalis. 18 July. 70. By Jocelin of Furness.

CHAPTER a ONXDENTIFJED SAINTS

It has been convenient to compartmentalise the saints of Fife according to their geographical region of origin or, in one or two cases, according to a region with which they had a particularly strong association. Evidently much remains speculative, nonetheless I believe that something worthwhile has come out of this study. In some cases one simply has to admit that one cannot identify a particular saint or place him in any real context, geographical or otherwise. Usually such saints receive one dedication, and only a passing reference to that in some document or other. Into this category fall the following saints: Aneglas, Carden, Cerotus, Coill and Memma.

In the Legend of St Andrew we read of a deacon called Aneglas in whose church Triduana, Potentia and Cineria, the three virgin companions

of St Regulus, were buried:

" ... et très virgines de Collossia, scilicet, Triduana, Potentia, Cineria. Hae virgines sepultae sunt ad

ecclesiam Sancti A^aglas."(1)

We read that the second of the seven churches of St Andrews was dedicated to "Sancti Aneglas diaconi."(2)

There was a Carden's Well at Monimail in Fife(3) which may be a sign of some cult of the saint whom Forbes has said was patron of Kilmalie and Loth.(4)

According to a charter of 1 May 1511 James IV granted James Henrison the barony of Fordell in Fife "cum advocations et donations capelle S Theoroti".(5) This chapel is referred to later, in the Fife Retours, thus: "Fordell cum advocatione capellae Sancti Theoroti et

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décima parte terrarum et baroniae de Fordell".(6) The identity of this St Theorotus, sometimes known as Cerotus, is unknown.

MacKinlay states (7) that Hay Fleming drew his attention to a St Coill refered to in a charter of 1547 as the joint dedicatory saint of an altar of St John in St Salvator's College Chapel, St Andrews. This saint is not known elsewhere however, and this altar is not alluded to in Cant's T M College M ^ Salvator.(8)

The Memoranda in the Register of the Priory of St Andrews states that David de Bernham, Bishop of St Andrews, dedicated the church of Scoonie in South Fife to "sancte Memma virginis"(9) in 1243. Bishop Forbes suggested(IO) that this might be St Modwena, (11) but there is no obvious reason for supposing this. Considering the presence in Fife of so many dedications to Irish saints the "Mema" commemorated at 24 January in the Martyrology of Tallaght(12) would seem a more likely candidate, but we cannot identify this saint with any certainty.

It is now safe to say that there is no further information to be had about the identity or cults of the aforementioned five saints in pre-Reformation Fife.

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