An Old Story Of A Highland Parish

AN OLD STORY OF A
HIGHLAND PARISH

BY

GEORGE P. SHAW

WITH PREFACE BY
HILAIRE BELLOC

LONDON
SANDS & CO.
15 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
76 CAMBRIDGE STREET, GLASGOW
AND EDINBURGH
1926

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	HOW THE CELTIC MONKS CAME TO MORTLACH	1
II.	HOW THE CELTIC MONKS LIVED AT MORTLACH	16
III.	WHAT THE CELTIC MONKS TAUGHT AT MORTLACH	29
IV.	FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS	44
V.	THE PRESBENDARIES OF MORTLACH	54
VI.	DAYS OF PERSECUTION	61
VII.	FORTES IN FIDE	78
VIII.	IN LATER YEARS	90

APPENDICES

NO. I.	CONCERNING MORTLACH PARISH CHURCH	99
NO. II.	THE REPUTED SEE OF MORTLACH	102
NO. III.	THE LANDS OF MORTLACH	113
	INDEX	119

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

KIRK AND KIRKTON OF MORTLACH	Frontispiece
	PAGE
SHENVAL IN THE CABRACH	7
TOMNAGYLACH AND BEN RINNES	23
KEITHOCK AND AUCHINDOUN CASTLE	49
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, ABERLOUR	55
ST MARY'S, DUFFTOWN	65
FIDDICH VALLEY AND BEN AIGEN FROM BALVENIE CASTLE	81
TULLOCHALLUM	93