The story of a Bede House in Old Aberdeen starts in 1531 when Bishop Gavin Dunbar of St Machar Cathedral, under the instruction of James V of Scotland, had built a hospital for the elderly poor in Old Aberdeen.
It was not to last, however: he was plucked from the cloister on May 20, 1529 when Pope Clement VII appointed him colleague and successor to Bishop Gavin Dunbar, although Learmonth predeceased the Bishop of Aberdeen, dying on March 18, 1531.
Moreover, Gavin Dunbar, a 16th-century Archbishop of Glasgow, wrote in his Epistolare that Nechtan's see was moved from Mortlach to Aberdeen in the year 1125, partially contradicting the account of Boece.
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He burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528; and Gavin Dunbar, the Archbishop of Glasgow as well as Chancellor of Scotland, intervened with an excommunication for Armstrong, whose activities made the central authority look weak and were a hindrance to diplomacy with England.