. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. le posthumous eulogies, published in a collected form as Funeral sermons, orations, epitaphs, and other pieces on the death of theRight Reverend Patrick Forbes, reprinted for the Spottlswood Club. Thesimple people of the district had their own way of commemorating histheological triumphs. In connection with the ruins of his Castle at Corse,it is said, tradition bears, and the common people still believe, that theDevil visited the Bishop in this Castle ; that they differed ; and that theDevil, on his departure, carried away with him the
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. le posthumous eulogies, published in a collected form as Funeral sermons, orations, epitaphs, and other pieces on the death of theRight Reverend Patrick Forbes, reprinted for the Spottlswood Club. Thesimple people of the district had their own way of commemorating histheological triumphs. In connection with the ruins of his Castle at Corse,it is said, tradition bears, and the common people still believe, that theDevil visited the Bishop in this Castle ; that they differed ; and that theDevil, on his departure, carried away with him the broad side of the Castle,on the stone stairs whereof they still pretend to point out his footsteps. *His son, John Forbes, was the leader of that band of Aberdeen Doctors whocarried on a tough controversial war with the Covenanters, on whose side hiscousin was doing battle with the sword. His theological works, published atAmsterdam in 1703, in two volumes folio, are well known, even beyond thecircle of theological students. *01d Stat. vi.
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