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OxfotdjCinK a long vacation ramble in tbe MgMands of PeZwre. w jPrn! at the village of KiUin, on the bjmk. o^ Looh Tar, the Quigrich, or art, as weUas toother pomto of * local interest in that district of Perthshire, ^he Barl °f ^'^ was then organising the Society of Antiquaries of Scottand, which obtained a Eoyal Charter in the following year, and to bun, acoort- inaly Mr. Thompson communicated a notice of the curious rehc, I«5ompanied with a drawing, the rudeness of which he entrelts thj Society to excuse, it.being only the hasty sketch of a toavdler, meant to lead the Society tM«. \ -*-: 'J^ 9 mi «otoaica. ptintad in the Bodety't TnuwMtloM, it wm MoemiMiiled with « not* which told th»t " Th« ownar of th« r»lio •ft«rw»rd« emigntea to Am«rioiS cwryifag the Quig rich with him/' Wh«o ebgrngod, >om« jun •inoe, In preparing " Tha Prahiatorio Annala of Scotland '• for tha praaa,— littia dreaming then of becoming a aettler in Canadian dearinga, but rather diapoaed to imagine mjraelf in aome apwiial rea- pacta ad»«npiu» gUbm,—l tried to recover the traoea of thU ancient Boottiah relic, and learned that it atiU exiated b the safe cuntody of ita herwlitary keeper, who waa aettled on a farm in Weatem Canada. Since then, unanticipated changea have afforded me opportunitiea for a careftd inapactton of thia ourlooa Bcottiah eoolenaaiieal memo- rial, now tranafenwi to Canadian aoU, and aiyoh notea, deacriptiva or hiatorioal, aa I hav)e been able to glean concerning it, may very appropriately find a place in the Ctmadum Jommat, relative to « lelio, which, though now Canadian, ckima an antiquity aome cen- tariea older than the llrat diacovery of tha New World, with aU that pertaina to ita ohroniolad hiatoiy. Notwithetanding the long proaorlption of all ante-tefonnation and epiioopal reUoa in Scotland, it ia aurpriaing how many auch have been devoutly p*eaert«d, and venerated with auperatitioua fervour, almoat to our own day. In tha flrat Bcottiah Cotenant, the aubacription of which waa, ao early *i 1686, rendered obligatory on every graduate of the Bcottiah univeraitiea. the aubacriber ia made do declare, after long and due examination of hia own oonacience, that he "abhora •^ deteata aU Wnda of papiatri^ but, in apecial, the vaurpit autho- ritiaofthatBomanoAnteohriat, . . . hia oanoniaatioun oPmen, woiichippingof iniagrie,reUcqueaandoroa8ea; . . . hiaprophano holie water, baptiring of beUea, ooaixumg of apirita, ofoaaing, aayn- iaa anoynting. conjuring, hallowing of Goddia holie creatouna, with tiM* auperatitioua opinioun joyned thairwith." Nerertheleaa, at Kfllin,— according to a formar inoumbont, eeU-Umn t the ceU of the Saint'a pod,— wid throughout Olendochart and Btrathflllan, at the doaeif the eighteenth, and even in the aarliar yean of thia idno^ taenth century, fcith in the ▼irtww of the rdioa of Saint raian aeema «o hate been aoaicdy leaa ationg than, of old. in the aanctity which «ho Gada«f BtratWUlM aaoribed to thdr good Abbot in the aerenth '^^exander Dowar. the prwent coatodiar of the Qoigricli, writea ia anawer to quoriea aubnttted to Wm : •♦ 1 4o not mn«nbar where : II-,™' It— ST- ' » rr;-' -'■ 5 ; 81. f UUn UM hafinic oome to thb country [OMftk] In th« y«MP 1818. but h»hni\mn through P«Hh.hir«, mmI Umiw •;•••'"*» pkoM there luun J •fW him. -ueh m Dun-fhwUn : th« hlU of »k JHlUn •* thu MMt «nd of Loch 1km. wher« women with ■iokly ohildr^ *mA to t^md on the morning of the flnt of Auguit, wd b^« then, in • eiirinir that m.« at the toot of the hlU. lK.lu.tlnf thai the** wMtome virtue In thu water i and t\wn they loft aome of the clothw they h«i had on the child. On the U.p "f *• ^ there i» the form of a large armchair cut out of the rook, whore HI. TllUm mA and prewhed to tho pe.»ple. There i- "kewiae^n Btrakh- ffilan, itili •tanding, or at Uaat was wheu I l«fl 8ootlan|ptlie walla of an old chapel, where peupU' «ae«l to go with ih that remamed bound were concluded incurable." ^ , * ^ In thb the Cwadian euatodier of St. FilWa Croaier refer* to • elata of cutm aModatwl with the miracul.)UB powera of another leUo of the iklnt, of which h« appwurt not to hare heard, though ita aMociationa are little loea curioue than thoae of the Sainfa pat- toral crook. Among the relioa of the ancient Soottiah and Welah, M well aa the Iriah Oburch^a, none appear to hate been regarded with more derout or auperrti^a reverence than the porUblo hand- bella which are frequently aawoUted with the name of aomevenerated and canooiaed ecoleaiaatio of the diatrict to which tray belong. Among the moat piiied reUoa of thi. claaa in the Muaeum of the Eoyal Iriah Acad«my ia the Clog btttutuighie, which waa beliered to numifeat ita sympathy by a heavy aweating on the approaching demiee of ita cuatodiera ; and Mr. John Bell, of Dungannon, thua deacnbee, in a letter to me, a aoone which he him«elf witneaaed. " It waa an ancient cuatom to place tk e b eU near any of the Henningi [ita here- ditaiy ou8todien.J when dangeroualy ilL I viaited Mn. Henning, the widow of Paul Henning. the laat keeper of the Clog bemuighto, on her death-bed. She lay in a large, badly-ligbted apartmont, «rowded with people. The beU, which had remained aeveral days, near her head, aeemed to be regarded by thoae who were present ' with much intereat. The vapour of the heated chamber waa so oon- dMiMdontbecoldiB«tdiQfthebdl. that ooasionaUy small strewni 'Ju^ pwnraw^-' -l?^f3y*« /. .X h 4 TB« atrioBicflt. trickled down ita ridef. TUg « hetry ■wetting' •• it wa termed, w« regarded by erery iifRi^Kmf^!^- ir„.'.x ^tx :-r^:sfm^^ •»m.mm^ / nta QviaAicB. 7 tl» oaiting out of dBrib. The Bet. Patrick Stuart, pwidi miniflter / of KiUin. writing tp Sir John. Sincbir, in the kfctor part of the , eighteenth oentuiy, obeerfee: "Theie i. a beU belonging to the ohapel of St. Fillan. that wm in high reputation among the vota- riea of that Sunt in old time* ft Muajly lay on a gravestOTe in the ohurehyard. When mad people were brought to bo dipped in the Saint'a pool, it waa neoeeaary to perform certain oeremoniM. in which there waa a mixture of Druidism and Pop^y. After WBUuning iU night in the chapel bound with ropet, the beU wa. aet upon their head with groat K)lemnity. It waa the poputar opinion thai if atolen itwQuld extricate i^elfoutofthethier.luuida, and ret^im home^^ all the way."* The yirtaea, however, of the ancient relic uSx to have vaniahed along with the faith of ami- pierage*. In the beginning of our aoeptical nineteenth century, an Engliah antiquary carried oflf the ancient bell, without the Samf a interpoaition on behalf of Wa long-favoured atrath, and its potent iiJagantaehhm !»«▼«» «»<» announced ita return to St. Iillan a celL Hho-nrndhtm or bell of Strowan, another and no leaa potent relic of the aame old Scottiah Abbot, haa adhered with more EdeUty to . tlio aoene of ita ancient miraouloua powera. M^. Mdnroy of Lud« ita preaentouatodier, informame tharit ia atill a &vourpi6 popjUar legend in Strowan and Bhiir Athol/that the native of a neiglfbouring pariah having atolen the Brndhetmuni fled with it, he *at down to -teat on a large boulder, on the tob of a neighbouring hill, layinjt the bell on the atone beaide him, whitt he drew breath. On attemp&ig to reaume hia wumey, however, te found the beU immoveable ; but no aooner did the affrighted an^penitent thief turn hia focetowwda Strowan, wfth the r^adution of Returning the abatracted reUc, than it became once more portabW. and waa forthwith reatoied toxta fiivouritereating, place. -^ Such are aome of the curioua^evidenoea of the aancUly inth whjch the reiica of St. Fillan wwS reoendy regarded in the diatrict where early in the aeventh century he bore hia part in the introduction of Chriatianity into Scotland ; and won the reputation for aacetio virtue long after odebrated thua under date of hia martyrdom, in a calendar of Scottiah aainta, written in the early part of the aixteenth centuir, and now preaerved in the Ubracy of the univewity of Edinburgh : 9. Mat Jamwrit.— In Scoeia Sancti Pdaniabbatia apnd Stnithfldane " 4 ('. ■v-^.^mm, TBt OVIOMOH. t fit ^ a pnerieie immoidiia tuts discipliDe nglditrte amem afflixit at pottenifn MtuiulitAtiB et vioiorum reftenendi motos preberet eaatn.- plum. 8uch iil«o are wmei of the many tmoea of tbe nn«radioated yeneration for Nunta, holy bell* and other laorad wlica, in Presby* terian Scotland, upwardu of two centuriea after their lolennn denim- dafcion in the ix^ National Covenant. But other aModationa than auoh cnriona payohdogioa] pholriomena, pertain to the Qtugrioh of St. Pillan, now traniferred with jita here- ditaiy curtodieta to Canada ; though it too had ita heiding rhrtuea hod potent ohanna, lung known and reverenced in the pnTilegedl iUntricti of the Saint. It hae ita hictorioal asaooiatiofna also, and Ifieee of a nature ao aingularly intereating toe Scotland, that it aeeiria to loae much of it* value by being tranaferred to Canadian aoQ / and thus diToroed turn all thoae national and local feelinga whiohqbnfer An it ao peculiar a chartn. When endeavouring to recover t^«« of thla Beottiah relic, in 1860, 1 waa favoured with s letter from the Ber. ifineai McDonell Dawaon, whow own immediate anoeatora were fot a time the guwdiana of St. I111an*ii Croxito, in which he remarked! « The celebrated Crook of St. Tillan ia atill in Canadi, and in the keeping of the very fiunay to whoae anceator it waa confided on the field of amnockbum, when the King, diapleaaed with the abbot for having abatnwted from it the reUcs of St. PiDan previously to the battle, from want of confidence, it ia alleged, in the. Seottiah cauae,, deprived him of the guardisnahip.*'* In this form of fiunfly tradition ia preaerved the xetfiolleetion of aa incident of the field of Bannookbum, thua referred to in Boriand'a • Acta 8anotorom."t " During the night when Bobert, anxioualy bent on hia affidrn, enjoyed not a momenl^a reat, and revolving all i^unga in hia mind, waa at length engaged witii aome of hia fiiienda in «anMst devotion and prayer to Qod xai St. Fillan (whom arm inoloaed in niver he believed waa with him in the army,) that they might bo propitioaa to hia victory, auddenly the rilver arm, in whieli the i«al one waa inclosed, appeared open, and in the twinkling of an eye waa shut withont any peraon touching or approaching it. ffliia mirade bong obse^rved, tl^e priest a^rdedted the altar to inspect it, when he aaw tiie real arm witi»in in, and exdaimfaiig; that the Divinity was oertainly presentj he confeaaed to the King that when he had fBoriaiid'ii rmwfm ^^T;*:*^.^ ^'^■s^ip?"-.*-^-'-'*^* «r w tho bSemm*ion of dlriue M^rt-w.. Awa Ohj. WU to 8t FUr '^ endtenc li«w«.w. tend, to oonflm the Mtt. ^T^^ «te 8oott«.li legend of fhofoortaentV oent»«^ tory of Tfcmnoekburr «.d tlw iiatioMa iiulepeiideiwe. to ^^J^^ riL d«T. Wore H i.«t. indeed, tha* the Minted Al^^ S^r^^^ieotti^h fego^d. tde. or e^nU*.: ^^21 SLtmtfen iiiigbt be added to tW. memeuto ^^ em.t. Butuufdrtmurtely thoia««i«of 0«^^ g«,h matorfiai. Barboiurh..giTeBd«epi«nme»«toAej^a^ ««ntire of Maariee, Abbot «^ I^^^yvT^t^S^iT^i! ^t of tho kneeUnr hort with hi. -plifted en«ri««.«h«tog ft^^ their Ubertyo; die. » ~»««^ ^'^ '^^'^-^^^fT^^^ rfB»nnockU»irilhthem«rn)lo« interpoi^i^ «f the Miiifcd Abbot of aa older oentMy, when we WjaU the ftofc ««it oontnrie. theieafter, »id imtQ the di-olutioii of «Ug.<^ it the Reformation, thew .w«i a oeB or prtorjr* be Abbey of Inehalftay, in Btrathem, near the Hm^nlowi po^of ». Mh>i "founded by King Robert the Briw^ andjpiiieo^^ ySBw, in oonaderatim of the i»iirt«^ the battle of Bannookbimi."^'^' ^ Some curion. and MgUy interorting notioei «f ancient Soottiih CMmei. and their hereditary 1nM*odierB, with ol^irter. rftenw ikeehold. held in virtw of iuA trurt, have been pworeied by the^^ iearche. of lto..Cb»rQO Inne^ PwfeiKW of Hi.te^ la Edinburgh rniTerrily. and Mr, Jofoplv Bol»wt*». ««>«*« *»« g«»*i«i9!9«fSI(p»rOTW'»,!de8oribes its owner in 1782, as Mali4felI)oire, a di^ labonrer. *'The iiaighboura." he says, *'oondvoted me t|o the enried pospessor of this relie, who exhibited it according to the intent of the royal iuTeUment. A youth of nineteen, tiiie represei^tative of hit frtther^s name, and prcsumptiTe heir to the treasure, layj drooping in an outer apartment in the last g^p of a consninption.;'* and yet here was one who only wanted patrimonial lands to hare claimed a prouder descent than any whose ancestry Agaf^ in the Bagman rdl. ThA >VkaeM4$*. }V»«AnlimL8eoi.ll,J^7S. • . • _ 11 !••. •*^, -W^ MMjHMMfMi t'^fW pnwnt leprewptatJye of thote to whom tiie Bruee cnknutod tli« eurtody of tho ■Mwd idio, hM •oquired • fcpn in WMtom 0«Md% ■nd-mon fiwn wttt of fluthin the llde% of ftitaw heiM.thMi from huMelf imdmalumg tlia heattditwy trM<»— » not unwilling to DMt wifcb the ralio. if he oould lee it tnuuCamd to Mfe keeping. He hMi hitherto nemed £800 •• the loweet torn hewM willing to reoeife fbr it; sod ftt one time rabmitted to the Bui of Elgin, while Ger- enior Genend of Oenede, a proporition to tike in lieo^ thie, two thousand aeree of Canadian land to be apportioned among his sons, on learning that His Eioellenoy,who olaims the honors of the Bmc^ ooreted the precious heirloom. Since then he has azpiessed his approral of a modified scheme by which I have endearoored to secure the depontion of this national ifelio in the Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries at Edinburgh, where it would possess an ii^;ter«st and vslne altogether wsnting to it while it lies, as it has done tat some time, sift but totally unheeded, in the strong room of a Cana- dian Custom House* Under this proposed arrangement the Eeeper> ahip of the Crosier is to rwnain nominally with the Dewars,— to avert, it may be, the evil consequences ssid to hare followed deuce rektive to the Crosier of St. Fillsn, Mr. Dewar thus writes: *'I am Bony to say that I can pve you but Utile infornu^on con- oeming the Quigrich. My fiU;her came to this eonntry In the yesr 1818} andinccmiing up the Ottawa river, met with an Hd Scottish gepUeman, of the name of McDonidd, with whom he left several old papers that he had ooneenung the *QnH(neb, which pqiers woe never returned, as Mr. MdHraald's honse was burned soon aftn^ and •Ut.AHmaimV9wit,1im m mm t mm. t^^Vn^^ii/immmiamm^ «v-. >. g-t^^^ ."^^r^yasw ''"'""■ ^^^^ ' f'*^'. ■y j^^*^f??,5 »^'»- \ 10 tM «tiMUNni. y the p«pefk* V^"* ^t. Dtwir, h. Andthatyen^k him mine impedimeni; letting^ nor diatroubance hi the paaaing with the aaid Reliek throw the Countre, if he and hii ftyebearia wa» • tronttodo."t • . ., The Tirtuea aaeribed to the Graiier of St. FQbn, m hia natiTc dii* trict, were of a moat vailed dewrlption. It waa regarded aa an dfectual cure fcriferwr, by adm h i J ater in g, or aprinkliiig with^rater hi which it had been dippod; and wo no leaa inftOible m caaea of ioo^lh^ or the Kiii|f a eril, by being rubbed on the alfiicted parted It mia aer^^Mble alao at a charm ftnr the diacotery and reatoration of itblen tattle ; and genen^ In aO caiea of diaeaae of auch. On this point Mr. Dewar repliea to my queries t "It ia quite true that the reUe waa looked on aa a ehann, but abse it came faito my poaaeaaion • Onttt fl»«ii»toslN>a»iMU*aaMMiib uHt to«te4MdttMViaii tomtom faiti wAB^ iiliiato *t ■t '-^ /-n *^ "^^■n.'^^v^ X Tttt tt«l*miei^. 11 1 hftTe not been mwh tfouMed w«h it fa* Art w»y, weept IWr dU- «MM of cuttle. Twt> mm, who hiw! rfck c«ttl.», cwne to g^ wnter of it fcr thew } b«t I n«^OT inquired whether it cnred thew wr nctt.** On another point, alao, he nddt t "The wfMifa»R <*f the word Qttlg- rieh I do not know ; neither do I know whether it is • Owlie woid In the n«m9 Qittgrieh, by whieh the CTodfr of St. PiJkn in derfg. nrted in the Chnrter of Jumei III., 1 ft»n inclined to roipect a dewriptive memoriid of ita hiitoricd iwwiciation with Tn* Kino, m Robert the Bnwc wm, par tateUente, l»mg Jiftet- the di»yi» of hii Royal deieendant J«mee III. Powibly H componndg wHh JK^A, an old ibrm of cuag, and aignHlci the Kfaig'* Crook ; aa H might weH be defignatcd after the miracnloaa interpoijitirin on thj Brace'* behalf, recorded in the .Icte Sdnttorum. Tha prop?r generic name of tneh tymbolfl of paatoral^vera^ht and nlfle, haa boon mado( the inbjput of ■ome dififerenoe of opinion. With tha nraiil dcriTation of Crotier from F. erwto, it haa been aaramed that thia i^ properly th? imperlof pastoral ataff or crow, But whHe W2 hare th? M^dierol Latin* ' tmrnhmtta for the eroiier, wa hare the correirponding eroeic for the paetural rtaflf j and it is more probable that oar croiier, or cMef- paator's crool^ is derired directly from the A.8. cryr Du. enokf efOally with the ahephcrd'a crook ; aa in the doMription of th? Arch- deacon, in the Frbhu Talk of Ghaueo^f^ lornMla UtbM fnd HMls oOerlnib He made «lM pa|«B pltemly rfiiff I - IdrarllMMahb^UHrtlMMwUhliliflmik, thvmraiiiitiM ^ In Celtic Scodand, the dmple ktin hatmhu ww conrerted ilito haehml eatpnif, thebiabop'a atdTj baeknl mohr, the||g staiT; and the correapondbg bwhatt is used throoghout the andent Irish M.88.,, not only to denote the erorier «f ii hiAop, abbot, or abbeae, but als(» the penitential staff of a pilgrfan ; and it ia mneh roor« likely that the pastoral ataff of the Abbot and Apoetle. of jfltnithfllhn reaembled. U naterial aa well as f&m, a piindtite ahophord'a erook, than that he bore abont wifli him in his missionary yanderinga ^mong the wild tt^ of Loch Tay snch a tempting reHe as that whicb has so long belped to associate his.name and ftme with the scene of hia early and idf-denying labours. Again we «nd the eroiier presented by St. Colnmba of lona, t» St. Kentigem, ihe ilfst Bishop of GlasKOW, do- ■'M \- ^ '• t^ji^mmv It mi aviOMioa. F» ■ignatcd in JooeliiM't life of the Utter, both by the terai baeulut end •«M^ eoother form of the eamiutt» ; while egein at • later period it n^peera in the acoounte of the Soottiah Lord Treaaurer, in 1M)6, aa eabok. The derivation, there ean be little doubt, ia Arom the Oalie or Welah mni, erooked, which enters into m numy compounds, and from which, also, is no doubt derired the more homely eammock, or Soottiah shinty, prohibited by |idWd III. under ito latinised form of To St. FiUan'i cabok a spedal nam^waa giren, though it probably Npreaenta the moat usual form of the ornamental baoulus or cam* butta of the mnth and tenth centuries, and even of a later period* It ia literally a beautifol and elaborately wrought shepherd's crook | aad, whatever diversity of opinions may arise on other points, it cao* not admit of a doubt that this fine example of early Celtic art ex- hibita abundant evidence of belonging to an era long prior to tluit of the hero of Scottish independence. The accompanying lithographiii plate skilfully executed from a very careful drawing,— renders any elaborate description of ito form or detaib unneoeasary. The inter* laeed knot-work and other ornamentotion is auoh ai ia already well known, especially pn some ol the beautifbl silver and guldsinitha* work of early Irish art. The front is jewelled with a large oval oryital, set on a plate which appears to have been moveable, and pro- bably hinged, though it ia now somewhat roughly secured, so as no longer to admit of being opened. Tlus may have been the lid by which the bone of the Saint was biserted in the favoured reliquary -, and which, according to the legend preserved in the "ActeSano- tonim," suddenly appeared open as it stood on the altar in the Bmoe's tent, and rejjtroached ito iaithleM j(uardian with hia unpatriotie deceit. 4bove this. And formidg the frwat of the crest or ridge, is » figure, or bust, of an eodesiaBtic, mobt probably designed for ib» Saint himself, while the lower end of the ridge termmatea in the form of a snake's bead, conunon on bronse relies of a late period. On the flat shieUtahaped point of the jcrook, is a rude bat bold en- graving of the crucifixion, vrith two staU in Uie field, one on each aide below the arms of the acoia. The wbUe is of silver gilt, wrought on ft hollow core of eopper, and meaaur4 nine and a qnarter inchea in bdght, and nearly seven and a ba the crook. It wUl be seen that it acrosa, from, the point of considerably^ both in form B.U.e.ilL OiAOwba^to. -f-lv^S^ i-WjF^, TBI aviomioa. U ittd d«Uili, from the iketeh forabhed to th* fleotdih Antlqiitfifli In 1785, and copied in th* ^hirtoric Annali of SootUnd. with an au- thentication of ita general aoonnusj, on the authoritj of a correapon* dent at whoae requeat the original had been iiupwsted in iti new Cum* dian raliquary. In ita general form it moat nearly reaemblea the head of the short epiMWpal oamhatU borne hj 8t. Luke, in the beautiftilly lUominated Goapeb of BfaeDuman, m the Library at Lambeth PalaM. whioh hare had the middle of the ninth eentnry aMigned aa their dita.* It ia an eioeedingly aimple form, luggeatiTe of a primitive age of art, and yet adorned with inch rleh and taateftil ikill aa to eonatitute— apart from iU aingularly intereating hiatorioal aasocia'- tions,— a raluable example of the workmanahip of the early age to which it mtut be aaaig;ned, and of the primitire driliaation wlueh , followed in the wake of that Chriatianity taught by St. Fillan and o^er Chriatian miasionariea, to the fint coaverti firom among th« pagan CelUpf North Britain. Thia an«ient Scottiah relie ia itill in the poaaeaaion of Alexander Dewar, the lined repreaenUtiTC, in aU probability, of the faroored follower of King Robert, to whom, according to no improbable tradi- tion, it was confided on the field of Bannookbum, fire' hundred And forty-fire years ago. Could the protection which the prejudicea and itiperatition, no lesa than the national and family pride of earlier gdierajtiona, secured for it as a sacred and chartered heirlooni, bo guaranteed to it u»iider the charge of a Canadian yeoriu^ its fittest ^lace would still be in the keepmg of the Dewars, to whole custody it waa entrusted, under such remarkable droumstances, and who have "been, through poverty and exile, faithful to their trust. But remoral from Strathfillan to the clearings of the New "World has broken the eharm. 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