Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . an Ocean, where they were long tossed with grievous tempests, till at last,by force of a storm, the Ship was driven into the Bay, near the place where now stands, and there split asunder on the rocks. But Regulus andhis company were all brought safe to shore, having nothing left them but therelics, which they were careful above all things to preserve. S. REG-ULUS ARRIVAL WITH THE RELICS. 89 As to the Vision thus narrated, albeit Spottiswoode and Usher, two excellentAuthors, lay small stress upon it, and the latter counts it no better than a Fa
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . an Ocean, where they were long tossed with grievous tempests, till at last,by force of a storm, the Ship was driven into the Bay, near the place where now stands, and there split asunder on the rocks. But Regulus andhis company were all brought safe to shore, having nothing left them but therelics, which they were careful above all things to preserve. S. REG-ULUS ARRIVAL WITH THE RELICS. 89 As to the Vision thus narrated, albeit Spottiswoode and Usher, two excellentAuthors, lay small stress upon it, and the latter counts it no better than a Fable,yet neither of them, nor any other Author of credit, ever called in question ordisproved Regulus coming to this Kingdom and Place above named with relics, nor the rest of the History in the other circumstances thereof;and our Writers, besides those formerly named, have borne testimony to thesame, as Hector Boethius, lib. vi., fol. 108; and Leslie, Jib. Hi. in , indeed, omits it; but his temper is known,. WEST END OF CATHEDRAL. The fame of their arrival, and of the relics they had brought with them,being spread abroad, many of the Picts, in whose Kingdom they had settled, atthe place now called St. Andrews, resorted to them—some for devotion, othersfor curiosity. And amongst others, Hergustus, King of the Picts for the time, VOL. I. M 90 THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. and who had then dominion of that part of the country, coming hither, when hehad beheld the gravity and piety of the men, and the form of their Service, wasso taken therewith that he settled a constant Abode for them in the same Place,and took order for their entertainment. The Place then was a forest for wildboars, and was called in the country language Muckross, , a Land of Boars,from Muc a sow, and Boss a land or island. Archbishop Usher mentions anotherPlace of the same name, Muckross, which he derives from the British Mock Rhos,porci locus. [Lib. de Britan. Eccles. primordiis, p
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