Aberdour and Inchcolme Author:William Ross Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3LECTURE III. The Monastery of Inchcolme?The influence wielded by monastic institutions?Interest connected with the island?Danish monument?St. Columba?The hermit's oratory?Foundation of ... more »Monastery?Alexander the Fierce?Bull of Pope Alexander the Third?List of churches and other possessions?The Order of Augustinian Canons?Early monastic edifice?Diocese of Dunkeld?Bishops buried on Inehcolme ?Story of the ' Fechtin' Bishop '?An Abbot of romance?Legend of Sir Alan Mortimer's daughter. Having now laid before you such historical notices as I have been able to find connected with our old Castle, the old Church before the period of the Reformation, and the Hospital of St. Martha throughout the whole of its shortlived existence, I am to-night to solicit your attention to the Monastery of Inchcolme. I am not to present you with such a statement of its foundation, and its history from first to last, as would satisfy the insatiable cravings of antiquaries. This would not suit the circumstances in which these lectures are delivered. All that I shall attempt is to lay before you the leading facts of the history of the old religious house in as popular and pleasing a way as I can ; but at the same time making no statement which I have not been at pains to verify, as far as the means of doing so have been within my reach. It is unfortunate for me that I have not the labours of others in this field to fall back on, as the present is, so far as I am aware, the first attempt to give anything like a full account of the Monastery. I shall not enter on any lengthened preliminary statement to prove the importance of the subject, either in its general aspect as bearing on the history of our country, orits more special aspect as having a claim on the attention of those who live in the immediate neighbourhood of the ruins of ...« less