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Excerpt from Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-NamesIn the following pages notice is taken of several less known missionaries, whether Columban or not, who, though they did not receive canonisation at Rome, were long held in affectionate remembrance, and were regarded as saints by the men of later times. When speaking of our early missionaries, Canon Isaac Taylor remarks: From the village names of Wales, Scotland, and I...

Excerpt from Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland: Scriptural DedicationsDictionary of Christian Antiquities. Edited by Wm. Smith, LL.D., and Samuel Cheetham, m.a. London: 1875.Dictionary of Christian Biography. Edited by Wm. Smith, LL.D., and Henry Wace, m.a. London: 1880.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

Excerpt from Ancient Church Dedication in Scotland: Non-Scriptural DedicationsThis volume is intended to complete my work on Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland. In the previous volume I dealt with our ecclesiastical buildings under the invocation of Scriptural Saints. In the present volume I deal with those dedicated to non-scriptural Saints, native and foreign. An attempt is made on the one hand to glance at the structural aspects of the ...

Excerpt from Folklore of Scottish Lochs and SpringsBritannia, or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing King doms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent, from the Earliest Antiquity. By William Camden. Translated from the edition published by the Author in MDCVII.Enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough. The second edition in four volumes. 1806.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs No work giving a comprehensive account of Well-worship in Scotland has yet appeared. Mr. R. C. Hope's recent volume, Holy Wells Thai/r Legends and Traditions, discusses the subject in its relation to England In the following pages an attempt has been made to illustrate the more outstanding facts associated with the cult north of the Tweed. Various. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publi...

Excerpt from Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names In the following pages an attempt has been made to trace the influence of the pre-Reformation Church on Scottish place-names. This has been done in the light not only of philology but also of history and topography, and to some extent of ecclesiology and folk-lore. It is hoped that the examples given to illustrate the influence in question will be sufficient to show ...

Excerpt from Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland: Scriptural Dedications Among the works referred to in the present volume are the following: - A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Edited by James A. H. Murray. Oxford. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Edinburgh: 1877-1902. Adamnan's Life of St. Columba. Edited by William Reeves, D.D. Edinburgh: 1874. Aitken, George Shaw. The Abbeys of Arbroath, Balmerino, ...

Excerpt from Ancient Church Dedication in Scotland: Non-Scriptural Dedications Since my chapters went to press, Mr. W. Moir Bryce has issued his St. Margaret of Scotland and ker Chapel the Castle of Edinburgh, in which the conclusion is expressed that the chapel in question was founded by the Queen, and that its chancel arch was added by her son David I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...

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