unwept, he fell beneath the
spoiler's weapon with the "flowers of the forest."

It is noteworthy that Abbots of Inchaffray, _ex-officio_ prelates of
Parliament, took little to do with public affairs. They do not seem to
have shared at all extensively in the transactions which so often brought
together the leaders of the various religious houses.

The subjoined list is fragmentary, but authoritative so far as it goes:--

MALIS--The Hermit--was present and acted as the head of the establishment
at the beginning. Earl Gilbert must have considered him a person of
trust, since he committed to him the important duty of selecting the
necessary canons.

INNOCENT--The first Abbot--officiated during the lordship of Robert,
1223-1231.

ALAN--1258-1271.

HUGH--1284.

THOMAS--1296.

MAURICE--The Bannockburn celebrity--was promoted to the See of his own
Diocese of Dunblane. Early in his Episcopate a dispute which arose
concerning the lands of Airthrey was submitted to arbiters, one of whom
was his successor in the Abbacy of Inchaffray, viz.:

CHRISTIAN.

WILLIAM appears to have acted for an unusually long term, or had a
successor of the same name. On the Feast of Matthias, 1398, a deed of
Janet Moray, wife of Alexander Moray of Abercairny, was witnessed by
William the Abbot, John the prior, and the whole Convent of Inchaffray.
On 25th January, 1468,

GEORGE obliged himself to make Lawrence, Lord Oliphant, his bailie for
life of the lands of the monastery within twenty days after he should be
admitted to the spirituality by the ordinary and by the King to the
temporality of the said benefice. The family of Oliphant held this
relation during the reign of James V., Mary, and James VI. In 1539,

GAVIN DUNBAR, Archbishop of Glasgow, had the Abbacy _in commendam_. On
15th May of that year he granted Anthony Murray a tack of 4 merk lands of
the "Raith" "for furnishing of our bulls"--probably for the expense of
his confirmation. Before the tack had run out the tenure was made
perpetual by a free charter of the same lands of "Raith" and of the Moor
of Maderty, granted by

ALEXANDER, styled Archbishop of Athens, postulate of the Isles, and
perpetual commendator of the Monastery of Inchaffray, dated at
Inchaffray, December 24th, 1554. This commendator was Alexander Gordon
(brother of George, fourth Earl of Huntly), who was defeated in his hopes
of the Archbishopric of Glasgow on the death of Gavin Dunbar, and
imperfe