Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . > > i , , •, • „ t in the attitude of Prayer peaceable times; but opportunities for goodbelow; with the Legend works are like eggs—work best when they arc8. villi leaser En. sci fresjlt He is one of the few Bishops whose andree. This is the first -. 7Tr , , . _. x_. instance of a Bishop of St. sonls Wyntowi has not sent to assuming the title No man of that period has been moreof his See upon his Official linjustiy treated by the Historians of Scotland Seal, though many of them , ^ -r>« n m, had done so previously as tiian Grazer
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . > > i , , •, • „ t in the attitude of Prayer peaceable times; but opportunities for goodbelow; with the Legend works are like eggs—work best when they arc8. villi leaser En. sci fresjlt He is one of the few Bishops whose andree. This is the first -. 7Tr , , . _. x_. instance of a Bishop of St. sonls Wyntowi has not sent to assuming the title No man of that period has been moreof his See upon his Official linjustiy treated by the Historians of Scotland Seal, though many of them , ^ -r>« n m, had done so previously as tiian Grazer, Bishop of St. Andrews. He Witnesses to Charters, has been described as a man of dark in- [Chapter Home Westmin- triguing gpirit.» << watc]ling 0Ver the interests ster, 1292.] E_ _ z . ° oi Edward with dark and dangerous policy;making a base proposal to him, and by his influence with theNobility inducing them to solicit the interference of the EnglishKing. So much the reverse of these imputations was the truth,. 17G BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. that in the really base and treasonable appeal of Bruce and hisaccomplices, Frazer, Bishop of St. Andrews, is designated withJohn Comyn as the two Guardians who, without reference toEdward and his pretensions, intended to raise Baliol to the Throneof Scotland. No Document has yet appeared which shows thatBaliol took a prominent part in betraying the Independence ofScotland; while the Documents brought to light by Sir FrancisPalgraye, in his Illustrations of Scottish History, exhibit Bruceand his partizans as the prompters and instigators of Edward inhis attack on Scottish Independence, and invited Edward to bring-forward those pretensions which cost both nations so dear, andinvolved them in rancorous hostility for more than 200 it was enough for Historians partial to the line of Bruce, tostigmatise Frazer without a colour of justice, that he was a par-tisan of Baliol. What we know of his subsequent
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