IN S C O T L A N D .
Bing granted to G o d and St. Andrew, that it Ihould be the head
Umother of all the churches in his dominions*. This was the
who firft direited that the crofs of St. Andrew ihould be-
•ethe badge of the country. In 518, after the conqueft of the
J , he removed the epifcopal fee to St. Andrew’s, and the bilhop
■ftyled, maximus Scotorum epifcopus. In 1441 it was eredted into
Brchbiihoprick, by Sextus IV. at the interceffion of James 'III.
■606 the priory was fupprefled, and the power of eledtion, in
I k transferred to eight bilhops, the principal of St. Leonard’s
lege, the archdeacon, the vicars of St. Andrew’*, Leucbars, and
«■he cathedral was founded, in 1161, by bifhop Arnold, but
piy years elapfed till it attained its full magnificence, it not being
completed before 1318. Its length, from eaft to weft, was
fee hundred and feventy feet| of the tranfept three hundred
;»d twenty-two. Of this fuperb pile nothing remains but part of
lead and weft ends, and of the Ibuth fide. With fuch fuccefs
[and expedition did- iacrilege effedl its ruin.
Kear the eaft end is the chapel of St. Regulus, a Angular edifice.
■ tower is a lofty equilateral quadrangle, of twenty feet each
■ 31111 a hundred and three high. The body of the chapel re-
fps, but the two fide-chapels are ruined. The arches of the
■iws and doors are round, fome even form more than femi-
■ «; a.proof of the antiquity : but I cannot admit Hergufius,
, 11 *s attributed, to have been the founder.
»he priory was founded by Alexander I. in 1122, and the monks
* Camden, 1233,
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