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PREFACE. clxvii under reservation of the claim of the See of York, and the right of the See of St Andrews ; and that Arnold, the next bishop, was consecrated by William, Bishop of Murray, as the Pope's legate, in the pre- sence of the king, and of the bishops, abbots, and princes of the land. He was succeeded by Richard, chaplain to King Malcolm the Fourth, who was elected in 1163, and consecrated in 1165, "apud " Sanctum Andreiam in Scotia, ab Episcopis ejusdem " terrae." This controversy regarding the indepen- dence of the Scottish Church, and the independence of the See of St Andrews as its head, seemed to in- volve that of the Scottish nation likewise ; and we can well believe that the discussion called forth the highest pretensions to antiquity on behalf both of the Church and of the people. It is in the year 1165, the year of the consecration of Richard, Bishop of St. Andrews, by the bishops of the land, and the year in which William the Lion commenced his reign, that the first of the series of Latin lists purporting to contain the early history of Scotland appeared. They consist of the Chronicle, the Descrip- tion of Scotland, and the " Legend of St. Andrew," contained in the Colbertine MS. And the form which the chronicles had now assumed was simply this, — the foundation of St. Andrews by Angus, the son of Fergus, king of the Picts, in the eighth century, is transferred back to the fourth century, and connected with the removal of the relics from Constantinople to Patras in the reign of Constan-