lord chancellor, and a cardinal, and | 1615. John Spottiswood; translated from Glaswas invested with legantine powers.1 gow; lord chancellor: died in 1639. 1543. John Hamilton; translated from Dunkeld: [See vacant 22 years.] in great favour at court, while his friends were in power. 2

1572. John Douglas, rector of the university of St. Andrew's: the first protestant archbishop here.

1576. Patrick Adamson, parson of Paisley: died in 1591.

[The see vacant, and its revenues bestowed on the duke of Lenox.] 1606. George Gladstanes, or Gladstone; translated from Caithness.

1661. James Sharp, professor of Divinity at St. Andrew's; a proud, overbearing man, and extremely unpopular: barbarously murdered by a set of fanatics on May 3, 1679, on Magus-muir, near St. Andrew's.

1679. Alexander Burnet; translated from Glasgow: died in 1684.

BISHOPRIC OF ABERDEEN.

KING MALCOLM II., having gained a great victory over the Danes in 1010, resolved to found a new bishopric in token of his gratitude for his success, and pitched upon Mortlach, in Banffshire. The see was only inferior, in point of precedence, to St. Andrew's, but its revenue was inconsiderable; and Nectanus, the fourth and last prelate who sat at Mortlach, was removed by David I., in 1139, to Old Aberdeen, whither the see was entirely transferred in 1154, and where it continued until the Revolution. The diocese contained most part of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff.

1164. Matthew de Kinninmund, archdeacon of 1442. Ingeram Lindsay.

Lothian.

1200. John, prior of Kelso.

* Adam Crail.

** Matthew Scot, archdeacon of St. Andrew's; lord chancellor.

1228. Gilbert de Stryvelin.

1238. Randolf de Lambley, abbot of Aber

brothock.

1247. Petre de Ramsay.

1459. Thomas Spence; translated from Galloway; lord privy seal.

1480. Robert Blacadder, prebendary of Glasgow; translated to Glasgow.

1484. William Elphinstone; translated from Ross; at different times lord chancellor, and lord privy seal: he founded the university of Old Aberdeen; for which purpose he got a bull from Alexander VI. in 1494: died in 1514.

1515. Alexander Gordon, precentor of the see of Moray.

1329. Alexander Kinninmund, doctor of theo- 1518. Gavin Dunbar, archdeacon of St. An

1256. Richard de Potton.

1267. Hugh de Benham.

1281. Henry le Clen.

This prelate had, in a great measure, the direction of all civil affairs in Scotland; he possessed great abilities, but was a proud, cruel, and unrelenting tyrant. His oppressions drew upon him general hatred and detestation, and he was murdered in the castle of St. Andrew's, on the 1st of February, 1545, by Norman Leslie (son to the earl of Rothes) and his associates.

2 He was at different times lord privy seal, and lord treasurer; and was one of queen Mary's privy council, and a steady friend to that unfortunate princess. He was declared a traitor by the regent, the earl of Murray; and being in the castle of Dumba ton when that fortress was taken by surprise, he was seized and carried to Stirling, where, on April 1, 1570, he was hanged on a tree.

1615. Alexander Forbes; translated from Caith- | 1662. Alexander Burnet, chaplain to the gar

ness.

1635. Adam Ballenden; translated from Dunblane deprived by the assembly of Glasgow in 1638, when he retired into England, and died soon after.

1661. David Mitchell, prebendary of West

minster.

rison of Dunkirk; translated to Glasgow.

** Patrick Scougal, parson of Saltoun. 1682. George Haliburton; translated from Brechin: ejected soon after the Revolution, and died in 1715.

BISHOPRIC OF BRECHIN.

THIS see was founded by David I. in 1150. The diocese comprehended the greater part of the county of Forfar, with a part of Kincardineshire. The cathedral, a stately Gothic pile, 166 feet in length, and 61 in breadth, was seated on the edge of a precipitous bank descending to the river South Eske; and the west end of this structure forms the present elegant and commodious parish church. There anciently existed here an abbey or convent of Culdees.

1517. John Hepburn.

1558. Donald Campbell, abbot of Cupar.
* John Sinclair, dean of Restalrig.
1566. Alexander Campbell; the first Protestant
bishop of this see: he was made bishop
when but a boy, by the interest of the
earl of Argyll, to whom he alienated
most of the revenues: died in 1606.

[See vacant 4 years.]

1610. Andrew Lamb, parson of Burntisland; translated to Galloway.

1619. David Lindsay, parson of Dundee; translated to Edinburgh.

1634. Walter Whitford, or Whitworth, sub-dean
of Glasgow, and rector of Moffat: de-
prived by the assembly of Glasgow in
1638, and died in 1643.

1662. David Strachan, parson of Fettercairn.
1672. Robert Laurie, dean of Edinburgh.
1678. George Haliburton, parson of Cupar of
Angus; translated to Aberdeen.

1682. Robert Douglas, dean of Glasgow; trans-
lated to Dunblane.

1684. Alexander Cairncross; translated to Glasgow.

James Drummond, parson at Muthil; ejected soon after the Revolution in 1688: died in 1695.

BISHOPRIC OF CAITHNESS.

It is uncertain whether this see owes its foundation to Malcolm III. or to Malcolm IV. Its seat was at Dornoch, and most part of the counties of Sutherland and Caithness were in its diocese. The bishop's palace, from the appearance of its stately ruins, must have been once a sumptuous edifice. The now market-place was the churchyard of the ancient cathedral; the remains of which venerable structure are used as the parish church.

1150. Andrew.

1185. John.

BISHOPS OF CAITHNESS.

1490. Andrew Stewart, abbot of Fearn, in Rossshire; lord treasurer.

1213. Adam, abbot of Melrose: murdered by the 1518. Andrew Stewart, son to the earl of Athol;

earl of Caithness.

translated from Dunkeld.

1222. St. Gilbert Moray, chamberlain of Scot- 1542. Robert Stewart, brother to the earl of

Prosper, elected bishop; but resigned in 1680. Andrew Wood; translated from the Isles: favour of

** John Sinclair, son to the earl of Caith

ness. 1

ejected soon after the Revolution in 1688, and died at Dunbar in 1695.

BISHOPRIC OF DUNBLANE.

IN Dunblane, a small town of Strathallan, existed anciently a convent of Culdees, which David I. erected into an episcopal see about the year 1142. The church was dedicated to St. Blaan, who had been superior of the convent in the time of Kenneth III.; and from this saint the place took its name.

The diocese comprehended the west and south parts of Perthshire. The list of the Bishops is very incorrect; but the fault is now beyond remedy.

1 Archbishop Spottiswood says that neither Prosper nor Sinclair was ever consecrated; that the see continued vacant twenty-four years; and that the affairs of it were governed by Adam Gordon, the dean, third son to the earl of Huntly.

1575. Andrew Graham.

1606. George Graham, parson of Scone; translated to Orkney.

1615. Adam Bellenden. rector of Falkirk; translated to Aberdeen.

1636. James Wedderburn, professor of Divinity at St. Andrew's1; deprived by the assembly of Glasgow in 1638: died in 1639.

1661. Robert Leighton, professor of Divinity at Edinburgh; translated to Glasgow. 1673. James Ramsay, dean of Glasgow; translated to Ross.

1684. Robert Douglas; translated from Brechin; ejected soon after the Revolution in 1688: died in 1716.

BISHOPRIC OF DUNKELD.

CONSTANTINE III., king of the Picts, founded a monastery of Culdees here, which was dedicated to St. Columba, the patron saint of that nation. King David, or, as he is called, St. David, expelled the Culdees, changed their church into a cathedral, and founded the see about the year 1127. The diocese comprehended the north part of Perthshire, a small part of Fifeshire, and some parishes in Lothian.

* Gregory: died about 1169.

1169. Richard de Præbenda.

1177. Cormacus.

* Gregory II.

BISHOPS OF Dunkeld.

1178. Walter de Bidun, lord chancellor.

1200. John Scot, archdeacon of St. Andrew's. See St. Andrew's, and the note.

Richard de Præbenda II.

1211. John of Leicester, archdeacon of Lothian: got part of his diocese disjoined to form the see of Argyll.

1214. Hugh de Sigillo; a charitable and humane prelate, called "the poor man's bishop."

** Matthew Scot, lord chancellor; translated from Aberdeen.

1516.

Gavin Douglas, provost of St. Giles's, in Edinburgh; brother to the earl of Angus: he translated Virgil's Æneid. 1527. George Crichton, lord keeper of the privy seal.

1545. John Hamilton (natural son of the earl of Arran); abbot of Paisley; translated to St. Andrew's.

1550. Robert Crichton (nephew to bishop George Crichton): forfeited.

1571. James Paton, the first Protestant bishop of
this see: resigned.

1603. Peter Rollock, a lord of session.
1606. James Nicholson, parson of Meigle.
1638. Alexander Lindsay, parson of St. Mado's;
abjured episcopacy, and accepted from
the then rulers his former church of
St. Mado's in 1638.

1662. George Haliburton, parson of Perth.
1664. Henry Guthrie, formerly parson of Stir-
ling; but had been deposed in 1648.
1677. James Lindsay, minister of Perth.
1679. Andrew Bruce, archdeacon of St. Andrew's:
deprived in 1686, for non-compliance
with some of the court measures; but
when the nation became roused at the
progress of popery, he was made bishop
of Orkney, in May 1688.

1447. William Turnbull, archdeacon of Lothian, 1686.

and lord keeper of the privy seal; trans

lated to Glasgow.

John Hamilton: died one of the ministers of Edinburgh, after the Revolution.

In this bishop's time, the prelates of Dunblane were made deans of the Chapel Royal, which formerly appertained to the bishops of Galloway.

BISHOPRIC OF EDINBURGH.

THIS see was founded by Charles I., at the time his majesty was in Scotland, in 1633. He allotted the parishes of the shires of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Haddington, and a part of Berwick and Stirling shires, to compose this diocese, and the church of St. Giles, in the city of Edinburgh, was made the cathedral. This edifice is said to have been first built in the ninth century; but the present erection is of much later date.

BISHOPS OF Edinburgh.

1634. William Forbes, one of the ministers of | 1671. Alexander Young, archdeacon of St. AnEdinburgh: died the same year.

** David Lindsay; translated from Brechin: 1679.
deprived by the assembly of Glasgow,
in 1638.

1662. George Wiseheart, rector of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

BISHOPRIC OF MORAY.

THE see of Moray was founded by king Malcolm III., surnamed Canmore. The seat of the see was at Elgin, a fair town, situated on the river Lossie, about three miles from its mouth. The cathedral was a magnificent structure, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The diocese comprehended all the county of Elgin, and part of Banffshire, with some parishes in Aberdeenshire, all Nairn, and a part of Inverness.

BISHOPS OF MORAY.