declared that "there is no doubt
the church was founded by S. Cuthbert himself," and so there has been
Christian worship there for over 1200 years (Rev. Dr. A. Wallace
Williamson's paper in _Aberdeen Ecclesiological Transactions_, ninth
year, p. 114).

[243] _Charters of the Collegiate Church of St. Giles_, p. iv.

[244] _Ibid._

[245] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles, Edinburgh_, p. 3.

[246] Introduction to _Charters_, p. v.

[247] _Ibid._ p. vi.

[248] _St. Giles_, p. 4.

[249] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 419.

[250] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 420.

[251] _Ibid._

[252] _Ibid._ p. 422.

[253] _Ibid._

[254] _Ibid._

[255] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 425.

[256] Dr Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 23.

[257] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 426.

[258] _Ibid._

[259] Introduction to _Charters_, p. xiv.

[260] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 430.

[261] Introduction to _Charters_, p. xv.

[262] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 434.

[263] _Ibid._ p. 436.

[264] No. 77, p. 106.

[265] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 441.

[266] Dr. Laing's Introduction to _Charters_, p. xxx.

[267] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 445.

[268] _Ib._ p. 446

[269] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, pp. 445-449.

[270] Intro. to _Charters_, p. xix.

[271] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 273.

[272] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 117.

[273] _Ibid._ pp. 124, 125.

[274] Calderwood's _History_, vol. iii. pp. 73, 257.

[275] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 454.

[276] _St. Giles_, p. 262.

[277] Very Rev. Dr. Cameron Lees.

[278] _St. Giles_, p. 270.

[279] _Ibid._ p. 214.

[280] Rankin, vol. ii. p. 361.

[281] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 199.

[282] _Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals_, p. 36.

[283] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 298-309.

[284] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 313, 314.

[285] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 455.

[286] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, pp. 455-470.

[287] Fergusson's _History of Architecture_, vol. ii. p. 222.

[288] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 493.

[289] Hay's _Sacra Scotia_, p. 323.

[290] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotl