. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. llMrM. isisimi ii iMiiIN TiiK c(ii,;i. CHURCH, sl. andrkws ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 4* propensity of the decorators of Gothic work to lapse into the ludicrous. Aninscription attached to this mace bears that it was constructed in 1461 forBishop Kennedy, by a goldsmith of Paris named Mair. James Kennedy, the founder of St. Salvators College, was Bishop ofSt. Andrews from 1440 to 1466. He was the last who died with the titleof bishop, the see having been made metropolitan under his successor. Hewas a zealous and able church
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. llMrM. isisimi ii iMiiIN TiiK c(ii,;i. CHURCH, sl. andrkws ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 4* propensity of the decorators of Gothic work to lapse into the ludicrous. Aninscription attached to this mace bears that it was constructed in 1461 forBishop Kennedy, by a goldsmith of Paris named Mair. James Kennedy, the founder of St. Salvators College, was Bishop ofSt. Andrews from 1440 to 1466. He was the last who died with the titleof bishop, the see having been made metropolitan under his successor. Hewas a zealous and able churchman, devoted to his order, and unmindful ofhis own immediate interests. He lived simply in his own person, butarrogated power, wealth and grandeur to the church, exemplifying hisprinciples in many munificent donations. He founded and richly endowedthe college and church of St. Salvator in 1456.* In erecting for himself hiscostly monument, he appears to have thought that the pomps and vanitieswhich he achieved during life might not unbecomingly await the recepti
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