. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. church of scholars like ^lilne, Ferrier of Pied-mont, John de Fordun, Major, Boece, canon of Aberdeen, Barbour, Bower,abbot of St. Colm, Bellenden, canon of Ross, and Wyntoun, Prior ofLochleven. It had been the mother of Edward of Brechin, who withEustace, Abbot of Arbroath, went afoot through the whole kingdom,preaching the gospel wherever they came; Raulston of Dunkeld andGilbert of Moray carrying fardels of stone from the quarry, or toiling
. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. church of scholars like ^lilne, Ferrier of Pied-mont, John de Fordun, Major, Boece, canon of Aberdeen, Barbour, Bower,abbot of St. Colm, Bellenden, canon of Ross, and Wyntoun, Prior ofLochleven. It had been the mother of Edward of Brechin, who withEustace, Abbot of Arbroath, went afoot through the whole kingdom,preaching the gospel wherever they came; Raulston of Dunkeld andGilbert of Moray carrying fardels of stone from the quarry, or toiling withtheir own hands like St. Hugh of Burgundy ; Landels, vt^ho loved his canonslike sons ; Traill, of whom Clement VII. said that he ought to be poperather than bishop, and that he gave honour to his see and not his see tohim; Clement of Dunblane, the accomplished linguist; Hugh of Dunkeld,the poor mans bishop; and the patriot but soldier-like Sinclair, Robert Reg. Morav. 179. In the last century Kincardine Church roofed with turf. Hist. s. a. 1474.« Comp. Stuarts I«lc of May. Pref. xxxiv.; Leslie, 547. » Leslie, 346. • Sec Leslie, THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. ii Bruces own bishop •} St. Magnus, the earl who calmly read in his breviaryamid the great sea-fight between the Norse king and the Welsh galleys,preserved only to die under the sword of Hacons headsman ; of Sheves, thelearned astronomer and collector of books,—the Scottish Richard of Bury;of Elphinstone, the compiler of the • Breviary of Aberdeen; of Bethune,Tumbull, Wardlaw, and Kennedy, munificent patrons of letters; GavinDouglas, the translator of the^neid; Leslie, the historian, who consoled thesorrows of his royal mistress and his o^vn exile by Divine Remedies;philanthropic builders of bridges, when roads were bad and ferries perilous;founders of hospitals, colleges, and universities;- and high officers of state. Unhappily, there were too many of different character: Bothwell ofOrkney, who l
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