. The "Red and white" book of was no sooner advanced to this dignity than he called a councilat Mentz for regulating the manners of the clergy and reforming the discipline ofthe Church, at which considerable reforms were decided upon and his life he wrote many books, according to Mackenzie in his Scots Writers,p. 97, vol. i., numbering about fifty-seven. He died at Mentz in the year 856, inthe sixt)--eighth year of his age. M. Du Pin says that this author excelled inall the common learning of those times ; he had also a knack of turning proseinto verse.—Mackenzies
. The "Red and white" book of was no sooner advanced to this dignity than he called a councilat Mentz for regulating the manners of the clergy and reforming the discipline ofthe Church, at which considerable reforms were decided upon and his life he wrote many books, according to Mackenzie in his Scots Writers,p. 97, vol. i., numbering about fifty-seven. He died at Mentz in the year 856, inthe sixt)--eighth year of his age. M. Du Pin says that this author excelled inall the common learning of those times ; he had also a knack of turning proseinto verse.—Mackenzies Scots Writers, p. 97, vol. i. flDcnnanus, or tbc 32nb nDcn3(c6. 800-S78. ^|i^ 1-NN,\NUS, or Minnaniis, another of the ancient line of Menzies,JL Bl»^ emanating from the college and seat of learning at Dull, may havebeen the son of Menamis or Monaiius, and was a Christian deacon. Itis recorded that Minanmis was an archdeacon, and flourished with a famousreputation for erudition, piety, and learning. Most dear to King Kenneth, he. The Mknzies Altar in St David Menzies Kirk o Weem. 857-960] THIRTY-THIRD & THIRTY-FOURTHMEXZIES. 15 shone during his whole reign. On Kenneths death he left the court, not beingable to endure the wasteful luxury of Donald V.; and after his sad funeral he heldhigh place under King Constantine the Second. During the reign of Constantinethe Danes invaded Scotland, and were encountered by him in a great battle, whenhe was defeated, and being taken prisoner by the Danes, they brought him downto a cove by the seashore, and there struck off the head of the Scottish name of this Menzies, as written b\ the ancient writers, is Mnniaiiiis, and isver}- similar to the Gaelic spelling given b\- man\- people to - da}-, which isMinnaricli, and in South Perthshire it is cut down to Minn, and again in Argyleshireto Mitinus. Mennmms \\-as the writer of several works, viz.: De Lcgitima PicticiRegni cum Scotico Unione, lib. i ; Apologiaui pro Rcg
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