Saint Monance is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony and lordship in the county of Fife. It also appears in the sources as St Monans, Sanct Monance, Inverie (historic lands) and St. Monans.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS vi, no.461 (1596): creation of a free burgh at Sanct Monanis, cited by Glasgow. This does not establish creation of the territorial barony. RMS v, no.2273 (1593) concerns lands and fortalice.
Retours and Lyon records
Retours: Fife, no.693 — dominium in the published index. No.1492 (1590), cited by Glasgow, concerns lands named Sanct Monance alias Inverie, not an explicit barony. Published vol. III index (1816); .
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