A History Of The Episcopal Church In The Diocese Of Caithness

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• A History Of The Episcopal Church In The Diocese Of Caithness available on February 11 2017 from Indigo for 29.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780217426428 ξ1 registered March 17 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780217426428 ξ2 registered February 11 2017
  
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. MEDIEVAL HISTORY. Early History of St. Gilbert given by Spottiswood-At Council of Northampton-Translated Psalms and Gospels into Gaelic-Built Scrabster -Successors mere Names-Alan de St. Edmund friend of Edward I. -Grant of Wood-Proposed Marriage of Edward and Maid of Norway-King Robert confirms Constitution - Bishop Mudy- Family-Will of Sinclair of Dunbeath, 1456-Provisions-His f.on Ersden of Caithness-Sanctuary rights granted-Next Bishops- Andrew Stewart-Early Wick Charter-Robert Stewart-Elect and Administrator-Charges against Earl of Caithness for Excesses- Bishop at Dornoch in 1549-Earl lays violent hands on Priests- Arche Keyth-His Servant-Violent and Profane-Curate of Bowar assaulted at Easter-Ornaments of Church of Far removed-Character of this Earl-Church Buildings-Wick-Thurso-TwoChurches there-St. Peter's-Kirk at the Ebb-Officials-Seals. the Icelandic annals under the year 1244, we have the entry, " Death of Gilbert, bishop of Scotland."1 Archbishop Spottiswood tells us that Gilbert, then only " a young canon," took an active part at a council held at Northampton in 1176 by the Pope's legate in presence of William, King of Scotland, and the King of England, when he defended the national rights of the Church in Scotland, urging the bishops to refuse the supremacy of the Archbishop of York. The point was not carried, and " the canon Gilbert was in the mouths of all men, and judged worthy of a good preferment."2 It is said also that, for the benefit of the people, he translated the Psalms and Gospels into the Gaelic language. He it was who built the Castle of Burnside, at

^ A History Of The Episcopal Church In The Diocese Of Caithness ISBN 9780217426428 (revised Jul 2025)
^ (2012). A History Of The Episcopal Church In The Diocese Of Caithness Indigo. ISBN 9780217426428 (revised Feb 2017)