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suam aestiraationem^ et hominum traditionem, magis quam secundum
sanctorum sl^tuta patrum, yivebant." i. e. " Yet there
were in the church of kt. Andrew, such as it then was, thirteen
by carnal succession, whom they call Keldees, who lived according
to their own opinion, and the tradition of men, rather than
according to the statutes of the holy fathers."
And further, " Personas autem supra memoratae redditus et possessiones
proprias habebant ;
quas cum e vita decederent, uxores
eorum, quas publice fenebant, filii quoque, vel filiiB, propinqni
vel Generi, inter se di?idebant." i. e. " Bat the persons before
mentioned (the Keldees) had proper incomes and possessions,
which, when they* died, their wives whom they kept publicly,
their sons, daughters, relations, or sons. in. law, divided
among themselves."
The dedication of this Culdee settlement, then named Kilrimont,
i. e. " the temple on the king^s mount," to St. Andrew, is
narrated in the said register as follows. " Locum vero ipsum nota
evidente designatum, ex magna dcvotione septies circumierunt.
Rex Uungus, et ipse Episcopus Regulus, et Viri Caeteri, circui.
tione et perambulations ita disposita sf-ptena prajcessit Episcopus
Kegulus super caput suum cum omni veneratione Reliquias S'ti
Apostoli deferens, suo sacro conventu
Episcopum cum Comitibus
Hymnidicis sequente.
Illos vero devotus secutus Rex Han.
gus est pedentim, Deo intimas preces et gratias fundens devotas.
Regem vero secuti sunt viri optimates, totius regni nobiliores.
Ita locum ipsum Deo commendarunt, et pace regia munierunt.
In signum vero Regias commendationis, per loci circuitum divisim
12 Cruces lapideas viri Sancti erexerunt ; Pt Deo cseli humiliter
supplicabaut, ut omnes in il!o loco menle devota, et pura
jntentione orationis suaepetitionis efficaciam obtinerent." i. e.
" They, seven times, with great devotion, circumambulated thit
place, marked out witli distinct li.T)its, King Uungus, Bishop
Ilegulus himself, a^d their other alten'lants, ordered the manner
of this sevenfold citcumambulaiion as follows.
Bishop Regulus
went first, carrying on his head, with all due veneration, the
relics of the holy apostle, tlie sacred conveation fpUowiDg the