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194 HIGHLAND PAPERS
the said mater in myne name ledis till be done, onder the
oblising of all my gudis present and for till cum. In
vitness of the quhilk thing I haf appensit my seil till thir
my letteris at Dunde the fyve and twenty of October in the
yher of God a thousand four hundreth nynty and twa
yheris befor thir vitness, James Scrimgeour, burgess of
Dunde, Nichol Scrimgeour of Lillok, Johne Scrimgeour,
Colyn Davidsone, James Scrimgeour, and Schir James
Lindissay, chaplane, with oderis diverse.
XLII. Instrument of Collation of Thomas Fyf to the
Rectory of Glastre, July 2, 1495.
In Dei nomine Amen per hoc presens publicum instrumentum
cunctis pateat evidenter quod anno incarnationis
dominicae millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo
quinto mensis vero Julii die secundo indictione xiii. ponti-
ficatusque sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri
Domini Alexandri divina providentia pape sexti anno
tercio in meique notarii publici et testium subscriptorum
presentia personaliter constitutus providus vir Dominus
Jacobus Lyndesay Capellanus procurator et procuratorio
nomine discreti viri domini Thome fif presbyteri presentavit
quandam presentationem nobilis viri Jacobi
Scrymgeour constabularii de Dunde dominique liberi tenementi
baronie de Glastre cum pertincntiis una cum consensu
et assensu magistri Johannis Scrymgeour domini
feodi dictae baronie de Glastre eorum sigillis sigillatam
super rectoria ecclesiae de Glastre antedicte, Reverendo
in Christo patri Roberto 1 dei et apostolice sedis gratia
episcopo Ergadiensi presentantem dictum dominum
Thomam fyf ad dictam rectoriam sive prebendam. 2 Ipse
1 Robert Colquhoun, brother of the Laird of Luss.
2 The Rectory of Glassarie was a prebend of the Cathedral Church of Argyll.
As this was situated on the island of Lismore the bishop was often known as
Episcopus Lismorensis. One of the divisions of the diocese was known as the
Deanery of Glassarie. Glassarie seems to have been treated as a family living.
Among others who held it, sometimes with other preferment, were, in 1423, James
Scrymgeour, afterwards the ambassador from Charles VII. to Martin V. ; in 1431
Robert Scrymgeour; in 1438 Hercules Scrymgeour; in 1454 Alexander Scrymgeour;
in 1500 James Scrymgeour; and Henry Scrymgeour who died in 1572.