Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . t this occasion it is recorded by Jocelin that the Irish saint presentedKentigern with a crozier, virga de siviplice ligno. This crozier or staff 1 Dr. Reeves and Professor Innes, quoted by the Bishop of Argyll. lona, p. 32. 2 Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 138. ^ The Abbey of Paisley, by Dr. Lees, p. 161.* Scotch Legal Antiquities, p. 244. 14 Costtime of Kentigei-n. appears to have found its way to Ripon, originally a monastery foundedfor a branch of the Scottish Church, which owned Hi, o
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . t this occasion it is recorded by Jocelin that the Irish saint presentedKentigern with a crozier, virga de siviplice ligno. This crozier or staff 1 Dr. Reeves and Professor Innes, quoted by the Bishop of Argyll. lona, p. 32. 2 Scotland in the Middle Ages, p. 138. ^ The Abbey of Paisley, by Dr. Lees, p. 161.* Scotch Legal Antiquities, p. 244. 14 Costtime of Kentigei-n. appears to have found its way to Ripon, originally a monastery foundedfor a branch of the Scottish Church, which owned Hi, or lona, forits head; and Fordun, who wrote at the beginning of the fifteenthcentury, and who, however doubtful his authority when he deals withancient history, may be trusted for contemporary events, says that inhis time it was still to be seen in the church of St. Wilfrid at Ripon,where it was held in great veneration, and preserved in a case inlaidwith gold and pearls. In form it was in all probability similar to the Bachal More, or pastoral staff of St. Moloch, represented in the sub-. joined cut, and now in the possession of the Duke of Argyll. It isa black thorn stick with traces of a metal covering—the latter, nodoubt, the addition of a more recent period. Like other ancient croziers,it is very short, measuring only two feet ten inches in length. Suchwas probably the pastoral staff of Kentigern. His costume is thus given by the monk of Furness, who may havefound the description in the ancient Irish record which he had dis-covered. He wore, says Jocelin, a shirt of roughest haircloth next his skin, and over it a garment made of the skins of goats, and a close hood like that of a fisherman. Above this garment, concealed by a white alb, he wore over his neck a long stole. He had a pastoral staff, not rounded, or gilt, or gemmed, as is now seen with those in high places, but of plain wood, yet curved back, tanicn reflexiim. He carried in his hand a manual, always ready for
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