Reviewed by: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638. Revised Edition Norman F. Shead Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638. Revised Edition, ed. D. E. R. Watt and A. L. Murray, Scottish Record Society: Edinburgh, 2003. 536 pp. ISBN 0 902054 19 8 This is the third incarnation of Fasti. From its modest beginnings as a bound set of typewritten sheets in 1959, it became a regular book ten years later, modestly described simply as 'second draft'. This new version is described with similar modesty as 'Revised Edition'. It is [End Page 235] considerably increased in size: the 411 pages of 1969 have become 536. References have been updated (for example, NAS instead of SRO) and, a very important element, many references have been added from unprinted sources. In a work of this complexity, it is not surprising that there are many misprints; most, however, are unlikely to mislead the reader, for they are overwhelmingly typographical errors affecting punctuation – the full stop which should be a comma, a missing bracket. Some, however, should be mentioned here. In the index, the page reference for Zachary Pont should be 97, and under the name Stirling, the reference for Gilbert should be page 2 only and George should be inserted and given the page reference 13. Since dates are fundamental to Fasti, misprints of dates should be pointed out. Most will become obvious to the reader (for example, 1362 for 1632 on page 196), but the following are not immediately so: pp. 204 and 205 William de Lauder: for 1505 read 1405; p.209 John Gray: for 1325 read 1425; p.322 the introduction to Orkney diocese: for 1202 read 1102; p.400 date of death of William de Bosco archdeacon of Lothian: for 1232 read 1231; p.435 Alexander Gordon: for 1550 –1575 read 1559– 1575; p.438 Alexander Wood: for 1519 read 1529; p.444 John Fraser: for 1407–9 read 1497–9; p.449 David Livingston: for 1449 read 1469, which was also the date of his provision by the pope. On page 197, in reference to Porterfield, for 'bishop' read 'archbishop'. On pages 466 and 486 the reference to Letters James IV should be to Letters James V. The reference to Eubel under James Betoun on page 193 should be 203, not 2003, and there is a lacuna between Glas. Mun. and 18 May in the last line of page 467. There is a discrepancy between page 34 and page 123 about the foundation of the see of Argyll. The former gives 1192 x 1203 or 1211 x 1214 as the possible dates of erection, the latter 1183 x 1189. The dates 1211 x 1214 seem impossible, especially as the diocese appears in the Liber Censuum of 1192/3. A few more solid changes can be offered. Turpin bishop of Brechin was alive after the founding of Lindores abbey, i.e. after c.1190 [Lind. Lib., no.15]. His successor Radulf cannot have been the king's chaplain Radulf, for the latter was still chaplain after 17 March 1199 [ND, no.466]. Ingram occurs as archdeacon of Glasgow (p.221) 1160 x 1161 [Kel. Lib., no.440], and John as dean of Teviotdale/Roxburgh (p.239) 1181 x 1185/6 [Kel. Lib., no.454]. Since the publication of this edition of Fasti, it is possible to add the month of the death of Richard de Lincoln bishop of Moray in 1203: a note at the foot of fo.29 of the Red Book of Moray [Davis, no.1172] states 'obiit Richardus episcopus Mar.1203'; in the absence of corroboration, this might be tentatively accepted. It is also possible to take note of Professor A. A. M. Duncan's suggestion of 1140 rather than 1144 as the date of foundation of St Andrews cathedral priory [SHR 84 (2005)]. [End Page 236] When dealing with undated documents there is bound to be disagreement about the dates to be ascribed to them. The first date for Herbert dean of Glasgow (p.197), I date to 1179 x 1185/6, for by the latter date William the bishop's clerk had become a canon of Glasgow. The same date 1185...