Over the doorway in this angle is a large shield, containing the arms of John Stewart, who was commendator in 1555.
Murray associated with himself the Earl of Morton, Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, Pitcairn, Commendator of Dunfermlin, and Lord Lindsay.
The year before he had begun for Cardinal Henry, afterwards king, and then commendator of the abbey, a second story to the great cloister of Dom Diniz.
Among the dignified clergy who were present at the condemnation of Sir John Borthwick for heresy, in May 1540, we find the names of William Commendator of Culross, and John Abbot of Lindores.
That the Commendator as well as the Abbot was a Colville might be shown from several incidental notices.
This appears to have taken place in 1553, when Lord Claud was aged eleven years; the Archbishop still acting as Administrator in spiritual as well as temporal matters, till the Commendator had attained the age of twenty-three.
Lord Robert Stewart, a natural son of King James the Fifth, Commendator of Holyrood House, afterwards titular Bishop of Caithness and Earl of Orkney: see a subsequent note.
Mr. John Hay was Master of Requests, a Privy Counsellor, andCommendator of Balmerinoch.
James Stewart, of the family of Beath, Commendator of Inch-Colm, or St. Colme.
William Colville, Commendator of Culross: see note in the Appendix to the present volume.
Lord Robert Stuart, Mary's half-brother, commendatorof Holyrood, is said by Sir James Melville to have warned Darnley of his danger.
In 1541, he was Commendator of the Abbey of Kilwinning; which benefice he exchanged with Gawin Hamilton for the Deanery of Glasgow.
He had a grant of the Abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, while yet an infant; Alexander Myln, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, being administrator.
His predecessor, Andrew Stewart, was Bishop of Caithness, and Commendator of the two Abbeys of Kelso and Ferne.
In 1535, he was advanced to the See of Moray, and was likewise Commendator of Scone.
The gift of Lord John Hamilton, Commendator of Arbroath.
If thecommendator got Melville o' Falconcleugh burned in France, will he, think ye, hae ony great difficulty in getting Henry Leslie burned in Scotland?
Thou wouldst yet fly to them, and leave the commendator Blackburn to seize Riddlestain, while thy father suffers the fate thou wouldst avoid.
Two or three gigantic efforts, and the commendator was on the brink of the descent--his back to the chasm, his face to that of his intended destroyer.
There was no evidence brought home to Melville; and the opinion prevailed that the commendatorhad fallen accidentally into the chasm.
The commendator is a man of power, and may get finished what his agents so wofully left undone in your exile.
While the commendator lives, it is vain, Margaret.
John was married to Helen Leslie, eldest daughter of Patrick, Commendator of Lindores; and David Drummond, the founder of the Library, was their eldest son.
I saw him not after death," he answered; "but his end was certainly announced by the provost and Commendator of the monastery.
Every one departed; the Commendator last quitted the church, and ordered the church door to be locked.
His father made him, when only seven years old, Prior or Commendator of St Andrews, an office which entitled him, though a layman, to the full income arising from that rich benefice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commendator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
