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Master Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow

b. circa 1460, d. circa June 1508

Birth

Master Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow, was born circa 1460.

Working life

  • On 15 January 1503 Master Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow, was occupied as was one of three canons of Glasgow appointed to two commissions of enquiry in Glasgow.1

Property

Master Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow, possessed bought the right to the annual rent of 40 pence from the tenement of Andrew Frebarne in Fisherman's Street near Stok Wel in Glasgow for 40 shillings on 20 March 1487 in Glasgow.2 He possessed purchased a mound of land in the croft of St Tenew from Andrew Hawistoun and his mother Besseta Witscliaw and her husband Master Julian Murref for eight merks and six shillings annually on 6 March 1505 in The croft of St Tenew.3,4,56,7

Death

Master Michael Fleming, rector and prebendary of Ancrum and canon of Glasgow, died circa June 1508 at age ~48. A charter was made on 17 Jun 1508 that let the prebendary of Alncrum to Master James Stewart and his successors, describing it as "a tenement, with garden and pertinents, built by the late Mr Michael Fleming, lying on the north side of the church of Glasgow, between the great garden of the archbishop and the place of the vicars". This shows that one of the prebendaries had a house and garden on the north of the cathedral, and that it stood between the palace garden on the west and the " place " of the choral vicars on the east. (It is now probably underneath the Glagow Necropolis.) One of the assenters was Malcolm Fleming, vicar clergy of the choir of Glasgow.8,9

Citations

  1. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol i, p 416
  2. [S125] Joseph Robertson, Liber Collegii Nostre Domine, p 256
  3. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol ii, p 116-118
  4. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol i, p 337
  5. [S125] Joseph Robertson, Liber Collegii Nostre Domine, p 259, ch xxxv
  6. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol ii, p 235
  7. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol i, p 406
  8. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol ii, p 247-48
  9. [S87] Joseph Bain, Rental book of the diocese of Glasgow, vol i, p 413-414
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