Excerpt from Statutes of the Scottish Church, 1225 1559: Being a Translation of Concilia Scotiae; Ecclesiae Scoticanae Statuta Tam Provincialia Quam Synodalia Quae Supersunt When St. Margaret made Scotland her adopted country, and began the work of converting the Scotic clergy to Scrip tural and Catholic Views and Observances, it was with the church of this Scotia alone that she had to do. Moravia (the great northern province of which modern Morayshire is but a fragment), Caithness, Argyll were hardly within her husband's authority: the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland were wholly without it. Strathclyde and Galloway, though under the kings of Scotia, were no part of their hereditary kingdom, and their churches, though churches of Celtic races and of' Celtic rites, had no connection with that of Scotia; the ancient sees of Whithorn and Glasgow, both daughters of British missions from the south, had always looked southward not northward for spiritual guidance. Lothian, which had come under the power of the kings of' Scotia early in the century, was in all respects more completely alien. The Anglic inhabitants had bargained that they were to be allowed to retain their own laws and customs; of their speech there never had been question; and their church was an integral part of the church of Northumbria, of the Roman obedience. St. Cuthbert, the saint of Northumbria and of Lothian, had with his dying breath charged his disciples to have no dealings with the schismatic Scoti. For four hundred years and more English-speaking Christians had regarded the Celtic churches as Schismatic or worse; and the eleventh cen tury Scoti, who had assumed the name and claimed the inheritance of the schismatics of St. Cuthbert's day, were known to be at least equally schismatical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.