. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. y intended to be the Candida Casa, the successor ofthe famous building of the founder of the see. The seals of the post-reformation Bishops bore as a rulethe paternal arms of their owners, but Bishop Paterson, whorecorded the arms of the diocese at the Lyon Office, impaledthose arms, which are at present in use, with his paternalarms. Thus both in the mediaeval church and in thereformed, we find the figure of the patron saint used asthe favourite device by the Bishops on their official seals. In the shield of arms of the diocese, it would be appro-priate
. The arms of the Scottish bishoprics. y intended to be the Candida Casa, the successor ofthe famous building of the founder of the see. The seals of the post-reformation Bishops bore as a rulethe paternal arms of their owners, but Bishop Paterson, whorecorded the arms of the diocese at the Lyon Office, impaledthose arms, which are at present in use, with his paternalarms. Thus both in the mediaeval church and in thereformed, we find the figure of the patron saint used asthe favourite device by the Bishops on their official seals. In the shield of arms of the diocese, it would be appro-priate and probably more correct, to blazon the links ofchain, not only because they seem to have had a traditionalconnection with St. Ninian, but for the sake of their historicalsignificance, as preserving the memory of one of the privilegesenjoyed by the ancient cathedral of the diocese. The arms are blazoned thus:—?Argent, St. Ninianstanding and full-faced proper, clothed with a pontificalrobe proper, mitred and holding a crosier, CHAPTER XVI. Argyll. The arms of the diocese of Argyll first appear, as faras we know, on the seal of Bishop Arthur Ross, who governedthe see from 1675-1679. His seal, which was round inshape, bore a shield parted per pale : dexter, two crosiersendorsed saltirewise, in chief a mitre : sinister, the paternalarms of Ross. These diocesan arms he recorded in theLyon Register. There are two possible explanations of this shield ofarms : (i) The diocese of Argyll or Lismore was probablyfounded about the year 1200 : it was not mentionedin the list of Scottish sees in the Bull of Pope Inno-cent III., who was crowned 1197-8. St. John Scot,Bishop of Dimkeld, whose jurisdiction extended tothe extreme west of the country, is said to have askedthe Pope to separate the western part of his diocese,as he, being an Englishman, did not understand thelanguage of the people. The diocese of Argyll wastherefore formed out of the parent see of Dunkeld,and Bishop Johns Cha
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