Scottish Eccl. Hist. Also staller. [ad. med.L. stallārius, f. stallum, stalla STALL sb.1] (See quots.)
1561–2. in G. Chalmers, Caledonia (1824), III. VI. viii. 664. [Out of this revenue, he had to pay a vicar pensioner, who did the parochial duty, and a] stallar [or vicar, who served for him in the choir of the cathedral].
1861. C. Innes, Sk. Early Sc. Hist., 82. The bishop and dignitaries were bound to provide priests as their cathedral vicars or stallers.
1875. Alex. Smith, New Hist. Aberdeensh., I. 607. In 1437, the prebendary of Philorth was required to find a sub-deacon as his vicar, or ‘stallar,’ to serve in the cathedral.
1885. R. Naismith, Stonehouse, 110. The ‘stallers’ or prebendaries of Bothwell.
1910. J. Dowden, Mediaeval Ch. Scot., iv. 66. This deputy was known as the canon’s ‘Vicar of the Choir,’ or ‘Vicar Choral.’ Another name frequently applied to this official is ‘stallary’ (stallarius), that is, vicar attached to the canon’s stall in the cathedral, as distinguished from the vicar in charge of the canon’s parish.
