The precise date of the founding of the Chapel of St. Nicholas does not appear to be known, but since 1372, when Robert II. granted a licence to James of Douglas to endow a chaplainry therein, frequent notices of it appear.[1]
In 1390 Sir James Douglas, first Lord of Dalkeith (already referred to), "bequeathed, besides a cup and a missal, a sum of money for the reparation and roofing of the Chapel of St. Nicholas at Dalkeith;" and by another
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Fig. 1134.—The Collegiate Church of Dalkeith. Effigies on Monument in Choir.
deed two years later, "he assigns the residue of his goods to the fabric and ornament of the said chapel,"[2] and for other purposes. Before his death, in 1420, he raised the chapel to the rank of a Collegiate Church, and is supposed to have finished the building, endowing it with "stipends and manses for a provest and five prebendaries, as perpetual chaplains."[3]
