| Admin_History | Dona Catalina Cathcartwas daughter of D Guilleimo Cathcart, of the Artillery, and Governor of the town of Gerona, and Dona Mariana Vicht, and was widow of D Cornelio Troyens, native of Amberes in Brabant. Guilleimo Godolphin was a native of Cornwall and former English Ambassador in Madrid. Dona Catalina made her will in 1694, asked for burial in the Scots College and left her property to Godolphin to found a capellania in the College. It appears that Godolphin gave the money to the College as a loan to redeem two censos, the College having to pay 3% interest to his heirs. When Godolphin died in 1696, his executors founded the Cathcart Capellania in the College. The original debt of the College was paid off in three clearances and by this cancellation the monetary objections of the College to the Capellania were transferred elsewhere. The Rector, however, remained patron of the Capellania and had the right to appoint a chaplain, who had to be a secular priest, not a religious. |