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V.I

1

A amoris,

Et Pater officio, et fanguine Nate, mihi, Accipe, fed facilis, quatuor collecta per annos

Quæ quondam licuit fcripta vocâffe Patris, Parva quidem, fed non parvo congefta labore, Atque utinam multo digna labore putes. Non ego tanto operi fatis apta juvamina jacto Qualia Doctorum commoda vulgus habet. Non mihi facundæ vires, nec copia linguæ,

Nec thecas onerat lectio larga meas.
Rufticus, et pauper, libris peregrinus et aulis,
Vix mihi quæ placeant fcribere digna queo.
At non fpernendum forfan, nec inutile prorfus,
Hoc rudibus, quale eft, invenietur opus.
Fortè bonorum inter felecta volumina Fratrum
Implebit vacuum pagina noftra locum :
Nec deerit, fpero, qui mei memor unus et alter
Colliget ex iftis paucula mella favis.

Non famam Hiftorici celebris, nec præmia capto:
Non honor ingenio convenit ille meo.
Fortè et epiftolicum meritò metuenda laceffent
Verbere non parco critica flagra modum :
At noftri moris modus hic, quo fæpius olim

Monftravit

()

Monftravit calamum charta pufilla meum. '
Quod potui, feci: Nec fum qui talia docti
Sperarem laudes promeritura chori.
Sit laus una mihi, facram docuiffe cohortem
Quam, regit officii cura paterna tui,
Quomodo ab antiquis parva hæc Ecclefia feclis
Veniret ad noftras continuata manus,
Pura quidem, depreffa licet, contemptaque mundo,
At Capiti in cœlis charior inde fuo:
Hanc volui primæ tandem ad veftigia formæ
Ductam per varias expofuiffe vices.

Pars fuit et voti, fi quâ nunc fallere poffem
Arte fenectutis tædia dura pigræ.

Non folitum robur mihi nunc, nec, ut antè, labores
Languida confuetos carpere membra valent.
Diu mihi quo cani caput invafere capilli,

Jamque fupra decimum me tria luftra pre

munt.

At manet ingenium, manet inconcuffa facultas,
Laffitiemque levans utilitatis amor.

Qualia funt, tu ne mediocria noftra recuses,
Quicquid cenfuræ gens inimica dabit,
Tu mihi confilium præbebas primus, opemque,
Tu mihi fcribendi fuafor et auctor eras.
Nunc igitur fcripto folitum dignare favorem,

Auxiliumque operi, quod potes, adde tuum. Sic plures per te liber hic numerabit amicos,

Qui, fine te, parvi forfan habendus erit.

Vive, vale, titulo diu poft mea funera dignus
Præfulis, et grato gratus et ipfe gregi:
Tuque mihi tamdiu folamen quale dedifti,
Diu det folamen ftirps tua tale Tibi!

CONTENTS of VOL. I.

LETTER I

IntroductionGeneral Defcription of Christianity and

its Progrefs-Origin and Antiquity of the Scots-

Various and uncertain Accounts of both.

Confused State of our earliest Scottish History-Uncer-

tain Account of our first Converfion to Chriftianity, as

given by Fordun Enlarged on by Boece and others

Characters and Inconfiftencies of thefe Writers.

Million and Coming of Palladius A Paffage of Profper

relating to it Another of Fordun Both properly

explained Story of the Expulfion and Restoration

of the Scots confidered-Probable Account of their

Converfion to Chriftianity, and of all that Palladius did

among them.

Account of the Picts, among whom Palladius died

Divifion of their Country into a Southern and North-

ern District

Christianity introduced into the former

by Ninian-into the latter by Columba Affifted

or fucceeded by Servanus, Kentigern, and others.

Con

Miffion of Auguftin into Britain by Pope Gregory

Jequences of it- Account of the Ecclefiaftical Hifto-

(a)

rian

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9-23

23-38.

39-65.

66-81.

rian Bede-And of the Pitifb Churches, as recorded
by him and others—Story of Regulus with the Relicts
of St. Andrew-Account of the Pictish Church con-
cluded.

Farther Account of Columba, and of the Monaftery which he founded in Hy Paffage of Bede relating to itStory of Columba recorded by Adamnanus Miffion of Aidan, Finan and Colman, from the Monaftery of Hy, to the Northumbrian Church Thefe three proved to be Bishops of Lindisfarne in that Church.

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82-93

94-108

Controverfy between the Church of Rome and the British
Churches about the keeping of Eafter Share of the
Scottish Bishops of Lindisfarne in that Controverfy
The Northumbrian King decides in favour of the Ro-
mifh Party, and puts an end to the Scottish Million. 109-123.

Inftances of Arrogance in the Church of Rome-The Pictifb and Scottish Churches at last comply with the Romifh Customs-And for fome Time fink into Obfcurity.

View of Church Affairs abroad-Account of the General Councils The Worship of Images eftablished in the Romish Church Oppofed by Charlemagne- -Liberality of that Prince to the See of Rome-Foundation of the Papal Grandeur- Obfervations on the Characters of the primitive Bishops.

Obfervations on the State of the Pictish Church and Nation- — Its Union with the Scottish under Kennetb Character of that Prince

Mac Alpine

His Re

moval

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136-152.