According to the poem "
The Inchcape Rock" by
Robert Southey, John Gedy, then Abbot of Aberbrothok, fixed a bell to the inchcape rock in the 1300s to warn mariners of the perilous rock.
The following is a list of abbots and commendators.
Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976)
Summerson, Henry,
"Gedy, John (
fl. 1370–1401?)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 Jan 2009
Watt, D. E .R. & Shead, N. F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries (The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24), (Edinburgh, 2001)