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PEEFACE. clxiii lations of the country. In the reign of Constantin Mac Aed, the " Pictish Chronicle" tells ns that " Con- " stantinus rex, et Cellachus episcopus, leges discip- " linasque fidei, atque jura ecclesiarum ewangeli- " orumque, pariter cum Scottis in coUe Credulitatis " prope regaU civitate Scoan devoverunt custodiri." We are now on historic ground. Cellach was un- doubtedly Bishop of St. Andrews, and the scene of this event was Scone, the capital of the kingdom. On comparing the language of this passage with the passage previously quoted from the same chro- nicle, giving the cause of the overthrow of the Picts, the contrast between the two is very signi- ficant. In the one, the Picti in jure equitatis aliis, that is, the Scottish clergy, equiparari noluerunt ; and in the other, the king and the Bishop of St. Andrews vowed to preserve the laws and discipline of the faith, pai'iter cum Scottis, — the thing" that the Picts would not do. From tliis time the church of St. Andrews became the head of the Scottish Church, its bishops were termed epscop Alhcin or episcopi Albanie, and it became thoroughly identified with the Scottish kingdom and Scottish people. The legends of the saints above quoted are not referred to as documents of historic authority, but as shadowino; forth ecclesiastical legends in har- mony with the facts indicated by the chronicles and annalists. This much seems certain, that the Colum- ban Church remained the Church of the Pictish