d besides, that the forenamed vicar, who has been
bound, _pro tempore_, so, hereafter is, in perpetuity, bound to pay
annually to the bishop in ordinary of the place the procurations aucht
and wount on behalf of the said church, the synodal moneys and expense
in ordinary for the Dean of Christianity who has annually visited the
said Church of Crieff, in Strathearn, and the parish thereof; and that
the payment of the pension, as regards the said 24 merks, shall be made
to the said vicar of Crieff for the time being, at the four usual
annual terms, in equal portions, to be lifted annually out of the
fruits of the said Church of Crieff--viz., at the Festivals of the
Finding of the Holy Cross; of St. Peter of the Chain; of All Saints;
and of the Purification of our Lady.

"Upon which premises--all and single--the foresaid John Broune,
perpetual pensionary vicar of the said parochial Church of Crieff, in
Strathearn, asked the present public instruments to be executed for him
by me, notary public undersigned. These deeds were lodged in the
Chapel Royal, near the town of Edinburgh, in the consistory of the
same, at the twelfth hour before mid-day, or thereby, in the year, day,
month, indiction, and pontificate as above, there being present
discreet men, Masters Ninian Spottiswoode, Archdeacon of the furesaid
Chapel Royal, Stirling; John Tod, Alexander Painter, William Atkyn,
Nicholas Buchan, all of the Chapel; James Aikman, burgess of Edinburgh;
John Abercrummy, and Alexander Ramsay, with divers others, witnesses to
the premises.

(Signed) "J. PRYMROIS."

It would appear from all this that there was a deal of trouble in
connection with the erection of the Church of Crieff. One is apt to
get confused among the Popes, Bishops, principal officials, and
notaries public who were all concerned in the erection. We seem to
reach the close of the long process on the first day of September,
1537, the year of the marriage of James V. to Madeleine of France, the
year which lies almost exactly midway between the Battle of Flodden and
the outbreak of the Reformation in 1560. Upon the second day of
December, 1537, "the reverend father in Christ, Henry, by the Divine
compassion, Bishop of the forenamed Chapel and of Candida Casa, from
the tribunal with the consent of his brother canons, or at all events
of the greater part of them, being assembled in Chapter, and as a
memorial of a perpetual thing, ordered, ordained, and decreed tha