Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . bed the BedComyn (whose final dispatch was done byKirkpatrick in the Cloisters of the MinoritesConvent, Dumfries), he hastened with his ad-herents to Scone, where, on the 27th March,1306, and forty-five days after Comyns murder,ceiior of the Diocese lie was Crowned with as much pomp as thedamping circumstances which enveloped themwould allow. For the Regalia of Scotland, andthe Stone of Destiny (on which every Scot-tish King had sat at his Coronation), had beencarried off by Edward. The three Bishops, whohad assembled to Crown Bruce, were Lamber-ton of S
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . bed the BedComyn (whose final dispatch was done byKirkpatrick in the Cloisters of the MinoritesConvent, Dumfries), he hastened with his ad-herents to Scone, where, on the 27th March,1306, and forty-five days after Comyns murder,ceiior of the Diocese lie was Crowned with as much pomp as thedamping circumstances which enveloped themwould allow. For the Regalia of Scotland, andthe Stone of Destiny (on which every Scot-tish King had sat at his Coronation), had beencarried off by Edward. The three Bishops, whohad assembled to Crown Bruce, were Lamber-ton of St. Andrews, Wishart of Glasgow, andDavid of Murray. A small Circlet of gold wassubstituted for the old Scottish Crown, and Wishart supplied theRoyal Mantle from materials in his own wardrobe. A Banner,wrought with the Arms of Baliol, was delivered to him by thesame Bishop, and under it the newly-consecrated King of Scot-land received homage. A remarkable incident occurred on themorrow worth noticing. Ever since the days of Malcolm Can-. of Glasgow, s. willi DE LAMBERTON is in the act of Discip-lining a refugee whoimplores is a Monk atPrayer. [ House, West-minster^] 184 BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. more, the Earls of Fife had the distinctive right of placing theScottish Sovereigns on the famous Coronation Chair, with its Stone underneath. This honour was theirs from the greatsendees rendered to Canmore by their ancestor Macduff. Onthe occasion of Bruces Coronation, Duncan, Earl of Fife, beingin jail in England, could not, of course, be there and at Scone too;but his sister Isabella, the Countess of Buchan, unexpectedlyarrived at Scone, and claimed the Family right,—which it wasdeemed necessary, on the score of legitimacy, to comply , Robert the Bruce was a second time placed on theold Coronation Chair (which was not carried off, though its com-panion, the Stone, was) by the Countess Isabella. When
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