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The Presbytery of Perth; Or, Memoirs of the Members, Ministers of the Several Parishes Within the Bounds; From the Reformation
The Presbytery of Perth Or Memoirs of the Members Ministers of the Several Parishes Within the Bounds From the Reformation Author:John Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Mrs. C. Paton Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can s... more »elect from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ABEENETHY. The ancient form of the name of this parish is Abernetbyn, said to denote the town upon the Nethy, which is the name of a small stream that flows past the village. Wynton, in his " Oryginale Ohronikill of Scotland," gives it this name in the following stanza, alluding to the invasion of Scotland by William the Conquerer in 1072 : -- " Ae thousand twa and seventie yare, William bastard with his powere, In Scotland cam, and wasted syne, And rode throngh't, till Abernethyn." The name given to it by the Highlanders was Obair, or Abair Nadchtain, which is said to mean the work of JVectair, or Neathar, the name of more than one of the Pictish Kings. Nectan the I. began to reign A. D. 456, and is said to have founded the church here. It was the seat of the Bishop of the Picts, and Fordun says there were three elections of bishops at Abernethy, while as yet there was only one bishop in the country. Kenneth III., after subduing the Picts, translated the See to St Andrews in 840. The Culdees had one of their principal seats here, and a college at which were taught the sciences in so far as they were then known. About the year 1240, the altarage of the church was transferred to the Bishop of Dunblane, who engaged to provide for the due performance ofthe religious services. Towards the end of the 13th century, the ancient monastery of the Culdees was subverted, and changed into a Priory of Canons regular, from the Abbey of InchafFray. The Session Registers do not go far back. The earlier volumes seem to have been lost at the time of the Secession in 1736, an...« less