Bishops

Scope and Contents Transcripts of correspondence relating to Archbishop James Sharp, 2 volumes dated 1653-1676, author unknown. A note inserted in the first manuscript contains information on contents of volume, and where original copies are kept. Includes correspondence copied from Harleian Collection in the British Library, and the Wodrow Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland. Letters of James Sharp...

Scope and Contents Custom collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about a blessing stone on Bernara an Easpuig [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray] that it was in a stone font in the graveyard and that people who were afraid would go and stroke it. There is also a note about the bishop's house that it 'was up till late and the stone upon which he rested his book while read[ing] is there still.' The custom is preceded by a short saying 'Bean Chaluim Chille am Miulay. Bean Naomh Mòire am...

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Memorials of Transactions in Scotland from November 1569 to Febuary 1573, by Richard Bannatyne. Together with some papers relating to the Earl of Huntly at Martown, The Recantation of Mr Patrick Adamson, archbishop of St Andrews. 1581-1591.

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Note about the last Bishop of Lismore [Lios Mòr, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that he was brought as a prisoner from Ach nan Duin [Achadun] to Dundee but never returned. The pencil text is quite faded in places making it difficult to read.

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Story about the book of the Bishops of Kilchiaran, collected from John Black, aged eighty-six, Killean, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. Black states that he saw the book of the bishops of Kilchiaran [Kilcheran], which was written in Latin on one page and English on the other, and that it said that the Castle of Achnanduin [Achadun] was built in 1209. The place Lithe-sgeir [Liath Sgeir] is mentioned at the end of the story but with no indication of why.