. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. the later days of the Celticchurch, the Culdees of Abernethy are said to have claimed the right of appointing the Abbat of Dunkeld. The armsof Abernethy are, Or a lion rampant gules, dehriiised ofa ribbon sable. ^ The arms at present in use in the diocese are probablyof a conventional nature. The Passion cross may possiblyhave reference to one of the most prized possessions of thecathedral in the later middle ages : Bishop Lauder, whocompleted the nave, and executed other works in connec-tion with the building, which he dedicated in 1465, gavemany present
. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. the later days of the Celticchurch, the Culdees of Abernethy are said to have claimed the right of appointing the Abbat of Dunkeld. The armsof Abernethy are, Or a lion rampant gules, dehriiised ofa ribbon sable. ^ The arms at present in use in the diocese are probablyof a conventional nature. The Passion cross may possiblyhave reference to one of the most prized possessions of thecathedral in the later middle ages : Bishop Lauder, whocompleted the nave, and executed other works in connec-tion with the building, which he dedicated in 1465, gavemany presents to the cathedral, one of which was a silvercross, containing a fragment of the true cross, which wasregarded wiih great veneration. But this explanation cannot l>e regarded as satisfactory,and it is far more probable that the arms of the diocesewere assumed tor no other reason than that they were suitablefor ecclesiastical purposes. They are blazoned thus, Argent, a Passion Cross sable,between tiio nails palewise m base, gules.^^. CHAPTER VL Dunblane. It has already been noted that the practice of using-official arms for their dioceses only became general amongthe Scottish Bishops after the reformation. It was pro-bably the result of the closer intercourse between Englandand Scotland, consequent on the union of the crowns ofthe two countries : and this practice was of slow growth,arms being assumed in some dioceses earlier than in fact, the practice never became universal in this countrybefore the church was disestablished. The arms recordedin the Lyon Register, in accordance with the Act of 1672,by James Ramsay, Bishop of Dunblane, are evidence ofthis : he recorded only his paternal arms, but his successorin the see, Robert Douglas, bore on his seal diocesanarms quartered with his own. As Bishop Douglas onlybegan to rule the see four years before the revolution, itis evident that Dunblane was one of the last of the diocesesto assume arms before the disestablishm
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