John Cor

John Cor is the name of the monk referred to in the first known written reference to a batch of Scotch Whisky on 1 June 1495.

The Latin entry in the Exchequer Rolls can be translated as:

"To Brother John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt."[1]

Brother John Cor (Johanni Cor/John Kawe) was a Tironensian monk based at Lindores Abbey in Fife. He was a servant at the court of James IV. The King gave him a gift of 14 shillings on Christmas Day in 1488, and at Christmas time in 1494 Cor was given black cloth from Lille in Flanders for his livery clothes as a clerk in royal service. He was probably an apothecary.[2]

References
  1. George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland: 1488–1496, vol 10 (Edinburgh, 1887), p. 487 "Et per liberacionem factam Fratri Johanni Cor per preceptum compotorum rotulatoris, ut asserit, de mandato domini regis ad faciendum aquavite, infra hoc compotum viij bolle brasii."
  2. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh 1877), pp. ccxiv, 100, 232.
  • Michael Jackson, Scotland and its Whiskies (Duncan Baird: London, 2002), p. 127


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