This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...of St Giles's, Edinburgh, Chepman erected an aisle on the south side of that church, and there endowed an altar for a priest to officiate, and pray for the salvation of the souls of the King, and Queen, of himself, his wife, and also his former spouse, and other relations, according to the usual form of such ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...of St Giles's, Edinburgh, Chepman erected an aisle on the south side of that church, and there endowed an altar for a priest to officiate, and pray for the salvation of the souls of the King, and Queen, of himself, his wife, and also his former spouse, and other relations, according to the usual form of such endowments. It was confirmed under the Great Seal on the 21st of August 1513. Scarcely three weeks had elapsed when the sad tidings of the King's fate at Floddon reached Edinburgh. Fifteen years later, towards the close of his own life, Chepman exhibited a fresh instance of his attachment to the memory of his old master. Having endowed a mortuary chapel in the lower part of the cemetery of St Giles's Church on the 12th of August, which was confirmed under the Great Seal on the ICth of September 1528, the priest was enjoined to offer prayers, as usual, not only for the souls of the reigning King, for the Founder, and his wife Agnes Cokburne, and for Margaret Kerkettele or Carkettle, his former spouse, but Especially For The Repose Op THE SOULS OF THE KlNG, THE NOBLES, AND HIS FAITHFUL Subjects Who Were Slain At Floddon, (" et presertim pro salute anime.. nostri domini Jacobi quarti Dei gratia Scotorum regis potentissimi et salute animarum omnium procerum nobilium fideliumque subditorum suorum qui cum eo ob tutelam libcrtatis regni suo in conflictu apud Flodoun contra Anglos commisso occubuerunt.") When printing this charter in the Bannatyne Club volume of " Charters of the Collegiate Church of St Giles's, Edinburgh," the exact time of Chepman's death not having been ascertained, I said "He died in the year 1532 or 1533." I have since found from an old Protocol Book that he must have died within a few months of the...
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