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Register of the Collegiate Church of Crail, Fifeshire. With Historical Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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Crail is a royal burgh situated on the eastern coast of Fife-shire, near the apex of that peninsula familiarly known as the East Neuk. Anciently written Carrail, Caryl, and Karaite, the name is derived from caer, a fortified place, and ail, a corner. A castle belonging to the Scottish kings occupied the rock which overhangs the present harbour, of which some vestiges remain. This structure was probably of ancient origin. Constantine, King of Scotland, while unsuccessfully contending with invading Norsemen, fell in battle among the rocks at Balcomie near Crail in 877. He may have occupied the castle as a principal seat. To Sir Robert Sibbald, writing in 1710, it appeared as “the ruins of a strong castle.” It was a favourite hunting-seat of David I. in the twelfth century, when he followed the chase in the adjoining territory of Kingsmuir. By a royal charter granted to the collegiate church of Crail, dated 24th November 1526, James V. de-scribes the site of the church as “an ancient borough where sundry princes, his predecessors, had made their residence and dwelling-place, and as he and his successors might do in time to come as reasonable causes and occasions should befall.” These expressions would imply that the castle was inhabitable in the sixteenth century. The royal demesne of Crail was frequently included in the jointure lands of the Scottish queens.
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page 324 note * As to the precise locality we follow tradition. According to Mr J. Hill Burton, Constantine was killed near the Firth of Forth (History of Scotland, 1873, vol. i., p. 330)Google Scholar.
page 325 note * Sibbald's History of Fife. Cupar-Fife, 1803, 8vo, p. 345.
page 325 note † See pestea.
page 325 note ‡ Knox's History of the Reformation, edit. 1846, vol. i., p. 347Google Scholar.
page 325 note § M'Crie's Life of John Knox, 4th edit., vol. i., p. 270Google Scholar.
page 327 note * Eccles, Fasti. Scot., vol. ii., pp. 415Google Scholar , 416.
page 327 note † Ib., p. 415.
page 327 note ‡ Crawfurd's Officers of State, 1726, fol., p. 383; Scot's Staggering State, edit. 1872, pp. 53, 127; Historical Commission's Report, part iv., p. 501.
page 327 note § Burgh Archives of Crail.
page 327 note ∥ Ib.
page 327 note ¶ Acta Parl. Scot., iv. 74.
page 327 note ** Advocates Library, Edinburgh. Press mark, 34, 4, 6.
page 329 note * Archseologia Scotica, vol. iii., p. 99.
page 330 note * In the Gentleman's Magazine for December 1827, is contained a brief memoir of the general; and there is an account of his father in the number for March 1823, pp. 228–232.
page 330 note † Wood's East Neuk of Fife, p. 38.
page 330 note ‡ Burgh Archives of Crail.
page 331 note * Ecclesiastics who did not hold the degree of Master of Arts were styled Schir or Sir.
page 331 note † Burgh Archives of Crail.
page 331 note ‡ Ib.
page 332 note * Burgh Archives of Crail.
page 332 note † Register, No. 102.
page 333 note * On the 5th October 1542, Sir David Bowman, described as prebendary of the altar of St James the Apostle in the college church, grants a charter, establishing or rather extending the endowment of the grammar school at Crail, “in favour of his kinsman, Mr John Bowman, priest, and his successors, priests and preceptors of the grammar school of Crail, at the altar of St John the Baptist in the said college church, to offer prayers for the prosperity and safety of James V. and Mary, his queen; of Cardinal Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews; and for his own soul, and those of his father, mother, and brothers deceased.” The endowment consisted of six and a half acres of land, with various other crofts and tenements (DrLee's, JohnLectures on the History of the Church of Scotland. Edin. 1860, vol. i., pp. 49Google Scholar, 334–34).
page 333 note † Burgh Archives of Crail.
page 334 note * Inquisitiones Speciales, Fife, 326.
page 334 note ‡ The East Neuk of Fife. By the Rev. Walter Wood. Edin. 1862. Pp. 180, 275.
page 334 note § Inquisitiones Speciales, Fife, 1402.
page 334 note ∥ Fasti Eccles. Scot., ii., p. 417.
page 334 note † Ib.
page 335 note * Robertson's Index, pp. 18, 34.
page 335 note † Wood's East Neuk of Fife, pp. 33, 254.
page 335 note ‡ Chamberlain's Rolls, i. 496, 524.
page 335 note § Fourth Report of Royal Historical Commission, part i., 495.
page 336 note * Wood's East Neuk of Fife, p. 255.
page 336 note † Ib.
page 336 note ‡ Fasti Eccles Scot., ii 484
page 336 note § Notes on Orkney and Zetland, by Peterkin, Alexander. Edin. 1822. Vol. i., 8vo, pp. 122Google Scholar, 123; Appendix No. II., p. 29.
page 337 note * Fasti Eccles. Scot., ill., pp. 409, 433.
page 337 note † Conolly's Fifiana, 1869, 8vo, p. 121; Story's Life of Principal Carstares, 1874, 8vo, p. 3; Wood's East Neuk of Fife, pp. 135, 297.
page 338 note * Freehold.
page 341 note * Generally known.
page 341 note † Injury.
page 342 note * Grandfather.1
page 342 note † Widow's liferent.
page 344 note * Common possession, or place of shelter.
page 344 note † Disturb.
page 344 note ‡ Hinder.
page 346 note * Now called Wormiston.
page 346 note † A loan, or narrow enclosed way.
page 346 note ‡ Mill-dam.
page 349 note * Hank of yarn.
page 349 note † A stopple or fastener.
page 362 note * Failing.
page 362 note † Engage.
page 362 note ‡ Chosen, Ornamental.
page 366 note * Younger.
page 373 note * Issue, access.
page 374 note * Grass or pasturage.
page 374 note † Sea-weed.
page 375 note * Laurence Oliphant was nominated Abbot of Inchaffray by bull of provision from Pope Alexander VI. on the 16th November 1495, on the resignation of George Murray. He died or resigned before December 1514 (“Vatican Act. Consist., Obligazioni,” ad ann.). This abbot is not mentioned in the imperfect list given in “Liber Insule Missarum,” or “Register of Inchaffray,” printed in 1847 by the Bannatyne Club.
page 375 note † This abbot is omitted in the list given in “Liber Sancte Marie de Balmerinach,” printed in 1841 by the Abbotsford Club.
page 377 note * Adjacent.