APPENDIX.

I.

GRANT TO THE CHAPEL ROYAL BY THE REGENT,

DUKE OF ALBANY.

Pp. xi., xii.-In the text we have omitted to refer to a grant to the Chapel Royal by the Regent Albany. On the 26th June 1407, the Regent granted half an annual rent of twenty marks of the lands of Craggroth for the sustenance of a chaplain in the Chapel of Michael the Archangel at Stirling Castle, where masses might be said for his own soul, the souls of his two wives, Margaret and Muriel, and their children, and also for the souls of the kings of Scotland, since King Robert the Bruce. We subjoin the original instrument, from the Register of the Great Seal:

"CARTA PRO CAPELLANO FUNDATO IN CASTRO DE STRIUELYNE.

"Robertus, dux Albanie, comes de Fyfe et de Menteth, ac gubernator regni Scocie omnibus probis hominibus tocius regni predicti clericis et laicis salutem. Sciatis nos dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta nostra confirmasse pro salute animarum excellentissimorum principum bone memorie Roberti et David de Bruys Roberti senescalli progenitoris nostri et Roberti senescalli fratris nostri quondam regum Scocie ac eciam pro salute anime nostre et animarum Margarete et Murielle uxorum nostrarum et prolum nostrarum ac antecessorum et successorum nostrorum ac omnium fidelium defunctorum Deo et beate Marie virgini et beato Michali Archangelo ac uni capellano divina celebraturi et imperpetuum celebraturo in capella beati Michaelis Archangeli infra castrum de Striuelyne situata decem marcas annualis redditus annuatim levandas et recipiendas de annuo

redditu viginti marcarum exeunte de terris de Cragortht cum pertinenciis jacentibus infra vicecomitatum de Striuelyne per manus tenencium et inhabitancium earundem : Tenendas et habendas ac percipiendas dictas decem marcas annuatim ad duos anni terminos penthecostes videlicet et Santi Martini in yeme per porciones equales predicto capellano et successoribus suis qui pro tempore fuerint in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam ad manum mortuam imperpetuam cum omnibus libertatibus commoditatibus et aysiamentis ac iustis pertinenciis quibuscunque ad dictum annuum redditum spectantibus seu iuste spectare valentibus in futurum adeo libere et quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut aliqua elemosina infra regnum Scocie per aliquem conceditur siue datur. Volumus eciam et concedimus quod quandocunque et quocienscunque dictum capellanum qui pro tempore fuerit decedere contigerit seu ex aliqua causa racionalibi (sic) a dicta capellania ammoveri extunc nos vel heredes nostri qui pro tempore fuerint infra mensem a tempore vacacionis huiusmodi alium capellanum ydoneum domino episcopo Sanctiandree vel eius vicario generali sede vacante debite presentent admittendum pro salute omnium annimarum predictarum in capella beati Michaelis supradicta pro perpetuo celebratarum. Et quandocunque dictum capellanum qui pro tempore fuerit ad aliquod aliud beneficium ecclesiasticum contigerit promoveri statim postquam illud perceperit seu obtinuerit dicta capellania vacabit Insuper volumus et per presentes ordinamus quod si dictus annuus redditus decem marcarum dicto capellano qui pro tempore fuerit ad dictos terminos bene et prompte annuatim non soluant, licet extunc eidem capellano sine licencia alicuius ministri predictas terras de Craggrotht distringere et namare quousque de dicte animo redditu plenarie fuerit satisfactum nichil inde faciendo dictus capellanus et successores sui nobis et heredibus nostris qui pro tempore fuerint nisi missam cotidie cum dispositi fuerint in capella supradicta et oracionum suffragia devotarum pro omni alio servicio seculari exaccione seu demanda que de dicti annuo redditu decem marcarum aliqualiter exigi poterunt vel

requiri. In cuius rei testimonium presenti carte nostre sigillum officii nostri apponi fecimus: Testibus reverendo in Christo patre Gilberto episcopo Abirdonensi cancellario Scocie Roberto senescallo primogenito carissimi filii nostri et heredis Murdaci senescalli militis Johanne Senescallo filio nostro domino Buchanie Alexandro Senescallo comite de Marr et de Garvyach nepote nostro Johanne Senescallo domino de Lorne Willelmo de Ertht militibus domino Donaldo de Bute decano Dunblanensi et Andrea de Hawyk secretario nostro apud Perth vicesimi sexti Die mensis Junii anno domini millesimo cccemo septimo et gubernacionis nostre anno secundo." *

II.

PRESENTATION BY JAMES V. OF TREASURERSHIP OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL TO MR ANDREW DURIE.

P. liv.—We here find the celebrated John Mair or Major in 1518-22 holding the offices of canon and treasurer of the Chapel Royal of Stirling. Since the text was printed we have fallen upon an entry in the Register of the Privy Seal, which shows that in prospect of his demission Mr Andrew Dury or Durie was by James V. presented to the treasurership. The instrument of gift, dated at Glasgow on the 1st June 1520, is directed to David [Arnot], Bishop of Galloway, and of the Chapel Royal, who is instructed to confer on the presentee ordinary collation. It proceeds thus:

"Presentacio magistri Andree Dury directa reuerendo in Christo patri David episcopo Candidecase et capelle regie Striuelingensis, ad conferendum collacionem ordinariam super thesauraria dicte capelle regie cum eam vacare contigerit per resignacionem seu dimissionen magistri Johannis Mair theologie professoris vltimi thesaurarii et possessoris eiusdem ad presentacionem supremi domini nostri regis ac dispositionem reuerendi in Christo patris, etc., ac collacionem ordinariam dicti reuerendi patris spectante, etc. Apud Glasgow primo die mensis Junii anno

* Reg. Mag. Sig. Rot., xi. 22.

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etc., xx et regni regis septimo. Gratis domino cancellario. Per signaturam manu dicti domini cancellarii subscriptam.

Dury or Durie was appointed Abbot of Melrose in 1526; he obtained the bishopric of Galloway and Deanery of the Chapel Royal in 1541. When on the 3d July 1541 he was recommended to the Pope as successor to Bishop Wemyss in the see of Galloway, the king's letter stipulates, "that according to ancient custom, the Deanery of the Chapel Royal and the Abbey of Tungland should continue united to the bishoprick, but that Durie should resign Melrose, retaining a pension of 1000 marks from its rents, and the usufruct of Mauchline and the surrounding fields." Consequent on the mob breaking the image of St Giles during a procession in honour of that saint, which took place at Edinburgh on the 1st September 1558, Durie became so overwhelmed that he died soon afterwards. By Knox and Calderwood he is denounced as profane and licentious, and is further described as having asserted that the Gospel would not be preached in Scotland so long as he and his Episcopal colleagues survived (Knox's History, 105; Calderwood, i. 332). Bishop Dury was son of John Dury of that Ilk, in the county of Fife, and brother of George Dury, Archdeacon of St Andrews, a canonised saint of the Church of Rome. To their uncle, Archbishop James Beaton, both brothers owed their preferments (Chalmers' History of Dunfermline, i. 198; Brunton and Haig's Senators of the College of Justice, pp. 67, 68).

III.

APPOINTMENT OF JAMES CAMPBELL AS A MUSICIAN IN THE CHAPEL ROYAL

Pp. liv., v.-A contemporary of Alexander Paterson, the sacristan, and of Roland Carmichael, musician in the Chapel, has yet to be named. In the Register of the Privy Seal (vii., fol. 57), under the year 1527, is the following entry:

"Ane lettre to James Campbell makand him singar in the

* Reg. Sec. Sig., lib. v., fol. 144.

kingis chapell riall, and to haue for his seruice thairin xxlib, to be pait be the thesaurar for his lyftyme, or quhill he be promovit to je lib of benefice, etc. At Edinburgh, the first day of Maij and of the Kingis regne the xiiij [zeir].

"Per Signaturam, etc."

IV.

JOHN TAYLOR, THE WATER POET'S VISIT TO EDINBURGH.

Pp. cxxviii., cxxix.-John Taylor was at Edinburgh in the autumn of 1618, the year subsequent to the restoration of the Abbey Church, on the occasion of King James's visit. "I was," he writes, "at his Majesty's Palace, a stately and princely seat, wherein I saw a sumptuous chapel, most nobly adorned with all the appurtenances belonging to so sacred a place, or so royal an owner. In the inner court I saw the king's arms cunningly carved in stone, and fixed over a door aloft on the wall, the red lion being in the crest, over which was written this inscription in Latin, 'Nobis hæc invicta miserunt, 106 proavi.' I inquired

what the English of it was? It was told me as followeth : 106 forefathers have left this to us, unconquered.' The poet then indulges in some poetical reflections on the virtues of a nation which could boast such honours. (See "The Penniless Pilgrimage," in Taylor's Works, 1872, pp. 31, 32.)

V.

LETTER OF LORD BINNING TO JAMES VI.

Pp. cxxvi.-cxxix.-Thomas Hamilton, created in 1613 Lord Binning and Byres, afterwards Earl of Melrose, and latterly Earl of Haddington, became President of the Privy Council in 1616. The following extract from a letter, addressed by him to the king, on the 4th February 1618, would seem to show how (doubtless under Laud's counsel) James VI. had already determined that members of the Privy Council should give compulsory attendance on episcopal service in the Chapel Royal:

"Most Sacred Souerane,

I signified to the counsell