. Bygone church life in Scotland . eath until the twelfthcentury nothing definite is known regardingthe history of Glasgow. Within the presentCathedral the site of St. Mungos tomb ispointed out; and it is not improbable that themagnificent pile was erected on this spot tocommemorate the founder of Glasgow. Duringthe bishopric of Kentigern it is not likely thatthere was any building on the present site ofthe Cathedral save the little ce//a or chapel ofthe Bishop, and possibly a few of the housesinhabited by the Culdee priests. It should beremembered that the Culdees were not celibates,but lived
. Bygone church life in Scotland . eath until the twelfthcentury nothing definite is known regardingthe history of Glasgow. Within the presentCathedral the site of St. Mungos tomb ispointed out; and it is not improbable that themagnificent pile was erected on this spot tocommemorate the founder of Glasgow. Duringthe bishopric of Kentigern it is not likely thatthere was any building on the present site ofthe Cathedral save the little ce//a or chapel ofthe Bishop, and possibly a few of the housesinhabited by the Culdee priests. It should beremembered that the Culdees were not celibates,but lived with their families in these rudedwellings, which thus formed the nucleus ofmodern Glasgow. When the ground besidethe Cathedral was turned into a grave-yardevery trace of these houses must have beenremoved. It is possible that St. Kentigernwas buried within his chapel ; and if so, thetomb of St. Mungo, in the crypt of the Cathedral,will mark the place where that primitive structurestood. The history of the See of Glasgow for five. Epi^eop&.l o/ (9l6.^§oW;_. - ;^;.,^, „r p^.:,/r??^J^-~^;- LIFE IN PRE-REFORMATION CATHEDRALS. 73 centuries after the death of St. Kentigern isalmost a total blank; save for some dubiousreferences to certain ecclesiastics supposed tohave been the successors of the Saint, there isnothing to show the progress of the church inthose days. The reforming zeal of MalcolmCanmore and Queen Margaret led to a revivalof religion, as remarkable in its own way asthe Protestant Reformation. The Culdees were ?supplanted by the Romanists, and the founda-tions were laid of a hierarchy that attained tovast power in Scotland. The reforms of theQueen were principally confined to the eastcoast—Dunfermline and St. Andrews—and itwas not until her sixth and youngest son, David,Prince of Cumberland (afterwards David I.),ordered an Inquisitio as to the propertybelonging to the See of Glasgow in 1120, thatany documentary evidence was made availableon this point. Pri
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