On this day in 1495, a monk, John Cor, records the first mention of a batch of Scotch Whisky. In a Latin entry in the Exchequer Rolls John Cor is addressed by King James IV of Scotland, with the order to use “eight bolls of malt (brasium) to make whisky (aquavitae).” Historian Janet Foggie has called this the “first mention of whisky in a Scottish source”. Another historian, Mairi Cowan, referred to it as “the first written record of the distillation of whisky”
John Cor has been identified as a member of the Order of Preachers, a Dominican. Although John’s specific friary is unclear from the source itself, the twentieth-century archivist and medievalist scholar Anthony Ross claimed that it could be identified as the Blackfriars house at Edinburgh based on references in the Protocol Book of Peter Marche.
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