[179] Celtic Scotland, vol. ii. p. 383.

[180] Orig. Par. vol. ii. part ii. p. 601.

[181] Transactions of the Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society (1892), p. 36.

[182] Transactions of the Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society (1892), p. 40.

[183] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 482.

[184] Ibid. p. 485.

[185] Ibid. p. 486.

[186] Celtic Scotland, vol. i. p. 69.

[187] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 408.

[188] Dr. Rankin, vol. ii. p. 350.

[189] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 265.

[190] Celtic Scotland, vol. ii. pp. 83, 84.

[191] Ibid. p. 85.

[192] Celtic Scotland, vol. ii. pp. 85-102.

[193] They were thence taken to Ireland.

[194] Iona, pp. 84, 85.

[195] Celtic Scotland, vol. ii. p. 414.

[196] Register of the Great Seal (1634-1651), p. 708, No. 1903; Origines Parochiales, vol. ii. part i. p. 294.

[197] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 49.

[198] Ibid. pp. 57-59.

[199] Ibid. p. 74.

[200] Transactions.

[201] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 421.

[202] Ibid. p. 426.

[203] Cf. Drummond's West Highland Monuments.

[204] Celtic Scotland, vol. ii. p. 92.

[205] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 266.

[206] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 266-273.

[207] Ibid. p. 273.

[208] Dr. Joseph Robertson's Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, p. 39.

[209] Dr. Joseph Robertson's Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, p. 40.

[210] MacGibbon and Ross's Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 259-262.

[211] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 273.

[212] Ibid. pp. 273-275.

[213] Ibid. p. 276.

[214] Ibid. p. 277.

[215] Ibid.

[216] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 278.

[217] Ibid. p. 279.

[218] Ibid. p. 280.

[219] Ibid.

[220] Ibid.

[221] Ibid. p. 282.

[222] Ibid.

[223] Ibid. p. 284.

[224] Ibid.

[225] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 288.

[226] Ibid. p. 289.

[227] Ibid. p. 290.

[228] Tennyson: A Memoir, vol. ii. p. 280.

[229] Vol. iii. pp. 181-196.

[230] Dr. Cooper's Introduction to Chartulary, pp. xxv.-xxvi.

[231] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 426.

[232] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 427, 428.

[233] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 431.

[234] Records of the University and King's College, Aberdeen, p. xv.

[235] Collections of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 210.

[236] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. pp. 287-289.

[237] Ibid. p. 295.

[238] Transactions of the Aberdeen Ecclesiological Society, sixth year (1891), p. 63 et seq. to p. 76.

[239] Sermons and Addresses, p. 29.

[240] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 151, also to p. 179.

[241] St. Giles, Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral, p. 1.

[242] Of the early church, which stood on the site of the present St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Dr. Skene has declared that "there is no doubt the church was founded by S. Cuthbert himself," and so there has been Christian worship there for over 1200 years (Rev. Dr. A. Wallace Williamson's paper in Aberdeen Ecclesiological Transactions, ninth year, p. 114).

[243] Charters of the Collegiate Church of St. Giles, p. iv.

[244] Ibid.

[245] Dr. Lees' St. Giles, Edinburgh, p. 3.

[246] Introduction to Charters, p. v.

[247] Ibid. p. vi.

[248] St. Giles, p. 4.

[249] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 419.

[250] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 420.

[251] Ibid.

[252] Ibid. p. 422.

[253] Ibid.

[254] Ibid.

[255] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 425.

[256] Dr Lees' St. Giles, p. 23.

[257] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 426.

[258] Ibid.

[259] Introduction to Charters, p. xiv.

[260] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 430.

[261] Introduction to Charters, p. xv.

[262] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 434.

[263] Ibid. p. 436.

[264] No. 77, p. 106.

[265] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 441.

[266] Dr. Laing's Introduction to Charters, p. xxx.

[267] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 445.

[268] Ib. p. 446

[269] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, pp. 445-449.

[270] Intro. to Charters, p. xix.

[271] Dr. Lees' St. Giles, p. 273.

[272] Dr. Lees' St. Giles, p. 117.

[273] Ibid. pp. 124, 125.

[274] Calderwood's History, vol. iii. pp. 73, 257.

[275] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 454.

[276] St. Giles, p. 262.

[277] Very Rev. Dr. Cameron Lees.

[278] St. Giles, p. 270.

[279] Ibid. p. 214.

[280] Rankin, vol. ii. p. 361.

[281] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 199.

[282] Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, p. 36.

[283] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 298-309.

[284] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 313, 314.

[285] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 455.

[286] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, pp. 455-470.

[287] Fergusson's History of Architecture, vol. ii. p. 222.

[288] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 493.

[289] Hay's Sacra Scotia, p. 323.

[290] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 109.

[291] Rev. John Fergusson of Aberdalgie in Scottish Antiquary, January 1897, p. 137.

[292] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 116.

[293] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 116.

[294] Ibid. p. 121, and Lord High Treasurer's Accounts.

[295] Ibid. p. 122.

[296] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 125.

[297] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 132.

[298] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 330.

[299] Ibid. p. 138.

[300] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 450.

[301] Ibid. p. 450

[302] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 451.

[303] Ibid.

[304] Ibid.

[305] Professor Mitchell's Scottish Reformation, p. 96.

[306] The Works of John Knox, vol. i. p. 228.

[307] Sketches of Early Scotch History, p. 10.

[308] Ibid. p. 11.

[309] Ibid. p. 18.

[310] Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, p. 27.

[311] Modern Painters, vol. i. p. 23.

[312] Ibid. vol. iii. p. 44.

[313] Ibid. vol. v. p. 206.

[314] Oxford Lectures, p. 27.

[315] Montalembert's Monks of the West, vol. ii. pp. 40, 41.

[316] The Augustinian order had also monasteries at Scone, Inchcolm, Lochleven, Isle of May, and Pittenweem, Blantyre, Cambuskenneth, Restennet, Canonby, and Inchaffray, as well as smaller houses at Loch Tay, Portmoak, Monymusk, St. Mary's Isle Priory at Trail, Rowadil, Oronsay, Colonsay, Inchmahome, Rosneath, Strathfillan, Scarinche, Abernethy (Perthshire); the Premonstratensian order had also abbeys at Saulseat, Holywood, Whithorn, Tongland, Fearn; the Benedictine order had also abbeys at Coldingham and Urquhart; the Cluniacensian order had also abbeys at Crossraguel, Fail, and Dalmulin; the Tyronensian order had also abbeys at Lesmahagow, Kilwinning, Lindores, Iona, and smaller houses at Dull, Fyvie, Inchkenneth, Rothesay (St. Mary's); the Cistercian order had also abbeys at Newbattle, Dundrennan, Kinloss, Deir, Cupar, Glenluce, Culross, Balmerino, Sweetheart, and smaller houses at Saddel, Friars Carse (near Dumfries), Hassendean, Mauchline, Cadvan (in Dunbog), and Holm Cultram; the order of Vallis Caulium had priories at Pluscardine, Beauly, and Ardchattan; the Carthusians had houses at Perth and Makerstone (Roxburghshire). There were 14 religious houses belonging to the Trinity Friars, 12 to the Carmelites, 18 to the Dominicans, 7 to the Franciscans, 13 to the Observantines, 6 to the Knights of Malta, 16 to the Knights Templars.

[317] Scottish Ordnance Gazetteer, vol. vi. p. 300.

[318] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 54 et seq. to p. 72.

[319] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 68.

[320] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 71.

[321] Ibid. pp. 71, 72.

[322] Gordon's Monasticon, p. 156.

[323] Gordon's Monasticon, p. 158.

[324] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 401 et seq. to p. 414.

[325] Ibid. p. 403.

[326] Gordon's Monasticon, p. 254.

[327] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 448.

[328] Monasticon, p. 324.

[329] Ibid. p. 340.

[330] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 451 et seq. to p. 464.

[331] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 462.

[332] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 464.

[333] Introduction to Registrum de Dunfermlyn, p. 25.

[334] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 231.

[335] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 231.

[336] Introduction to Registrum, p. 25.

[337] Monasticon, p. 404.

[338] Registrum, p. 25.

[339] Monasticon, pp. 411, 412.

[340] The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 234.

[341] Ibid. pp. 234, 238.

[342] Ibid. p. 238.

[343] Ibid.

[344] Ibid.

[345] Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals, pp. 33, 34.

[346] Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland, vol. i. p. 238.