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= History<br> = | = History<br> = | ||
This parish was | This parish was formed from two ancient parishes: Inchbrayock and St. Skeoch. | ||
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Inchbrayock/Inchbrioc/Insula Sanct Bricchi, was made a mensal church of the Archbishop of St. Andrews by Pope Sixtus IV in Feb. 1473, but this, in spite of a supplication of 1484 and a fresh appropriation in 1487, was apparently unsuccessful. Bothparsonage and vicarage were however annexed to the Colleg opf St. Mary at St. Andrews by 1552, this being confirmed in 1553/4 and so continuing, while the cure became a vicarage pensionary. [source "Scotland's mediaeval parishes" ? - Ian B. Cowan: "The parishes of Mediaeval Scotland" Scottish Record Society, 93, SRS, Edinburgh,1967"].<br> | |||
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Dependent of the church of St.Brioc were two chapels, said, according to Jervise, to have been dedicated to St. Mary and St. Fergus. [source: Proceedings of the Society of Antiuquaries of Scotland, vol. XXXVIII, 1903/4; pp.452-453. ] | |||
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