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

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