Benedictine Pluscarden i

Union of Pluscarden with Urquhart, by the Papal Bull Ad apicem. John Bonally, monk of Dunfermline and Prior of Urquhart, Prior of Pluscarden.

1456-1476
William Boyce, monk of Dunfermline, Prior of Pluscarden.

1461
The Liber Pluscardensis written at the Priory.

1476-1480
Thomas Foster, monk of Dunfermline, Prior of Pluscarden.

1479
Gavin Dunbar, cleric of Moray Diocese, attempts to become Prior of Pluscarden.

1481-1486?
David Boyce, monk of Arbroath, Prior of Pluscarden, although Robert Harrower, monk of Dunfermline, had been elected by the community.

1487-1509
Robert Harrower, Prior of Pluscarden.

1506
King James IV visits Pluscarden.

1509-1529
George Learmonth, cleric of St Andrews Diocese, Prior of Pluscarden, having become a monk.

1518
Gavin Dunbar, Dean of Moray, becomes Bishop of Aberdeen.

1529
George Learmonth, Prior of Pluscarden provided as coadjutor to Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Aberdeen.

1529-1560
Alexander Dunbar, canon of Ross Diocese, Prior of Pluscarden, having become a monk.

1531
George Learmonth dies in March, a year before Bishop Gavin Dunbar.

1548
Three of Prior Alexander's sons legitimated.

August: Reformation Parliament.

19th September: death of Prior Alexander Dunbar.