The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . s introduction on these seals attests the great re-verence with which it was regarded ; and various references both inthe Registrum Episcopaius Glasguensis, and in the Liber CollegiiNostve Domine, Glasguensis, mdxlix, to the Campana Beati Kente-gerni, abundantly confirm the evidence of its sanctity. It is also re-peatedly referred to in the Aberdeen Breviary, as in the anthem ap-pointed for the day of the apostle of Strathclyde:— Yisitat alma pii vite septenta loca Petri Presul campana cui seruit in ethere sacra. An author of the seventeenth
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . s introduction on these seals attests the great re-verence with which it was regarded ; and various references both inthe Registrum Episcopaius Glasguensis, and in the Liber CollegiiNostve Domine, Glasguensis, mdxlix, to the Campana Beati Kente-gerni, abundantly confirm the evidence of its sanctity. It is also re-peatedly referred to in the Aberdeen Breviary, as in the anthem ap-pointed for the day of the apostle of Strathclyde:— Yisitat alma pii vite septenta loca Petri Presul campana cui seruit in ethere sacra. An author of the seventeenth century affirms that the venerablerelic survived even in the reign of Charles I. ;^ nor is there anythinginconceivable in this, when so many others of the same kind arc stillpreserved. But it is not at all probable that the bell on which the Burgh Records of Glasgow. Mait. Club, Davidis Camerarii de Scotorum, &c . ]L 104. Paris, 1631. Note in Liber Col. Nost. Doin. - Rcgist. Epis. Glasgu , Plates ii. and v. ilasgu. G(iO THE CHKISTIAN citizens of Glasgow, in 1587, expended two sliilliiigs in repair wasof so unpractical a form as their old burgli seal proves the originalcam2)ana of their patron saint to have been. More probably it wasa large bell in the tower of St. Mungos Cathedral, for the repair ofwhich the specified sum might then prove amply sufficient, as appearsfrom a somewhat earlier entry in the same Burgh Records: DecimoMail, 1577, to George Burell, for ane tag to ]?e towng of |?e hie kirkbell, xx^-^ From the inscription on the present great bell of tliecathedral it appears that it was pre-sented by Marcus Knox, a wealthycitizen, in 1594, the old one, after re-peated repairs, having at length, itmay be presumed, entirely given woodcut represents another ofthese ancient Celtic relics, which,though preserved along with othermemorials of Irelands saints, in thevaluable collection of Mr. Bell ofDungannon, pertains to one of theprimitive apostles of his o
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