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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
In the valuable Library of the Advocates, at Edinburgh, is an ancient Roll, which is known by the title of Bagimont's Roll. It is holden in great estimation, and is often referred to, by the Scottish Statutes, under the style of “The Auld Taxation” of Bagimont, as an adequate measure of the true value of Ecclesiastical Benefices. By the kindness of Mr. Napier, the Librarian, I lately obtained an authentic copy of it; and which, from its great worth and curiosity, may not be an improper subject to lay before The Society of Antiquaries.
page 231 note a Report on the Public Records, p. 76 folio, 1812
page 223 note b Bisset appears to be completely mistaken in his account, when he dates the coming of Bagimont into Scotland in “the sexth zeir of the gouvernament of Robert erle of Fyff, A.D. 1406.” For, Lord Hailes, on the authority of Fordun (b x. p. 35), makes Bagimunt's mission into Scotland to be in the year 1275; and says, ”Benemundus de Vicci, vulgarly called Bagimont, was employed by the Pope to collect the tenth of all Ecclesiastical benefices in Scotland, for the relief of the Holy Land; it was paid by all the clergy, except the Cistertians, upon oath, and even under the terrors of excommunication. The Cistertian order had compounded with the Pope, by granting a general aid of 50,000 marks; and thus the amount of their revenues throughout Europe remained unknown.” Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland, vol. I. p. 199. edit. 1797, 8vo. Keith in his Catalogue, p. 13, stales Bagimont to have come into Scotland in the time of William Wiseheart, alias Wishart, who was Bishop of St. Andrew's in 1273. And, in the Calendars of ancient Charters, p. 336, he is called “Benumundus de Vicic (probably Vicci), Canonicus Astensis.” Pinkerton, in his History of Scotland, vol. I. 4to. p. 276, note, says, that Lesley, p. 356, ridiculously dates the Taxation of Bagimont in 1512, instead of 1275.
According to Mr. Chalmers, the real name of this Legate was Bayamond, and that he held an Ecclesiastical Council at Perth; when the whole Clergy agreed to pay the Tenth of their Benefices. In that age, however, the Clergy felt the oppression of paying truly one Tenth of their real incomes: and, they induced Bayamond to repair to Rome, in order to solicit some abatement of that burdensome imposition. But, Bayamond, without making any impression upon the accustomed avarice of the Papal Court, returned into Scotland, where his efforts were ineffectual in collecting the Tax, but where he ultimately found a grave. Caledonia, vol. I. p. 688.
page 245 note a Nota in Eist Louthian. “And likewise the bischoprie of Dunkeld is diuyded fra the bischopis seat thairof, viz. Thir fyve kirkis as followis, viz. In West Louthiane Abircorne., and in Eist Louthaine Aberlady, &c. &c.
page 246 note a Sic.