or feorm=food, a meal. A trustworthy authority says that
the meaning of farm "arose from the original practice of letting lands,
on condition that the tenant should supply his lord's household with so
many nights' entertainment." Hence "Reddet firmam trium noctium." (He
will supply three nights' entertainment).--_Doomsday Book_.

[15] Here, out of darkness Light shone. Therefore the Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost [shall be] my God, and the name of this place Light.

[16] This [bell] calls sinners to the Gospel, it to Christ, He to Heaven.

[17] I was born in the year of our Lord, 1526.

[18] In heraldry a scallop-shell is the badge of a pilgrim. It is the
symbol of S. James the Greater, who is generally represented in pilgrim's
garb. In this sense it is sometimes written _Escallop_.

[19] The writer is indebted to Dr Joseph Anderson for kindly examining
two casts of these figures, carefully prepared by Mr James Henderson,
F.S.A., Scot., Dunning.

[20] Erected by public subscription, and inaugurated 3rd November, 1890.
(For architectural correctness, its four dials are omitted in Mr Ross's
drawing of the Tower).

[21] See his _Celtic Scotland_, p. 31, ff.

[22] See _Celtic Scotland_, p. 259.

[23] See _Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_, p. 201.

[24]In telling one or two of these stories, we have tried to combine with
the Marsh M.S. version the somewhat fuller details of the Aberdeen
Breviary.

[25] Baring Gould (_Lives of the Saints_. London, 1874), using probably
a version of the legend reading _pulicem_, instead of _pollicem suum_,
has _clapped a flea into the man's mouth_.

[26] The Dragon is the name still given to that part of the parish in
which is situated the Village of Newtown of Pitcairns.

THE HISTORIC PRESBYTERY OF AUCHTERARDER

By Rev. G. D. MACNAUGHTAN, B.D., Ardoch,
_Clerk of Presbytery_

The district embraced within the bounds of the Presbytery of
Auchterarder belonged for the most part to the ancient Diocese of
Dunblane. Within it lay the famous Abbey of Inchaffray, and the
minister of Muthill was usually Dean of Dunblane. As originally
erected, the Presbytery was, indeed, the Presbytery of Dunblane, but in
1593 the General Assembly ordained the Presbytery of Dunblane "to be
transportit to Auchterardour, with liberty to the brethren of Dunblane
appealing to resort either to Auchterardour or Striviling as they
please." When at last it got into shape it consisted of the