. Controversial issues in Scottish history; a contrast of the early chronicles with the works of modern historians . St. II. ST. Rules Chapel, the fubjeft of this fecond Plate, asfeen firorathe eaft, is thought to be one of the moft ancient monuments ofChriftianity in Britain. The height of the fquare tower is 105 the top, there is a moll extenfive view of the fea coaft and neigh-»bouring country. By the common tradition, we are informed, that this Chapel was de-dicated to Regulus,sa Grecian Monk, who, in the year 368, broughtthither the bones of St. Andrew from Patras
. Controversial issues in Scottish history; a contrast of the early chronicles with the works of modern historians . St. II. ST. Rules Chapel, the fubjeft of this fecond Plate, asfeen firorathe eaft, is thought to be one of the moft ancient monuments ofChriftianity in Britain. The height of the fquare tower is 105 the top, there is a moll extenfive view of the fea coaft and neigh-»bouring country. By the common tradition, we are informed, that this Chapel was de-dicated to Regulus,sa Grecian Monk, who, in the year 368, broughtthither the bones of St. Andrew from Patras, a town of Peleponefus. Regimund^ the ancient name of the town, was given it from thisMonk. As an apology for the want of fufficient grounds for elucidating theantiquities of St. Andrews, all the archives belonging to this placewere, at the beginning of the Reformation, carried to France, and arefuppofed to be lodged in the Scots College at Douay. 528 Controversial Issues in Scottish History. St. III. THIS Plate gives the fouth front of the CalUe, with the gate of en-trance, which is all that remains, the walls towards the feabeing totally demohfhed. This place is fuppofed to have been built by Roger Bifhop of St. An-drews, who died in 1202. He was fecond fon of Robert of BedemontEarl of Leicefter, and Chancellor of Scotland. It was afterwards re-paired by Cardinal Bethune and Archbifliop Hamilton. On the paradebefore the gate, George Wifhart, a famous preacher, was burnt, at theinlHgation of Cardinal Bethune, who, on account of this, apd otnerenormities, was aflaffinated in his apartment in the year 1546, by-Nor-man Lefley, fon to the earl of Rothes, and others, who threw him overthe very window from whence he had, with exulting pleafure, viewedthe death of Wifhart. Succeeding tumults have left this Caftle anawful heap,of ruins. Over the gateway is a dale, which, though much obliterated, ap-pears to be 1155 Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland 529
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