Produced by Brian Foley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BYGONE CHURCH LIFE IN SCOTLAND. [Illustration: Glasgow Cathedral with Blacader's Aisle] Bygone Church Life in Scotland Edited by William Andrews LONDON: WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C. 1899. WILLIAM.ANDREWS.& CO THE.MULL.PRESS Preface. I hope the present collection of new studies on old themes will win a welcome from Scotsmen at home and abroad. My contributors, who have kindly furnished me with articles, are recognized authorities on the subjects they have written about, and I think their efforts cannot fail to find favour with the reader. WILLIAM ANDREWS. THE HULL PRESS, _Christmas Eve, 1898._ Contents. PAGE THE CROSS IN SCOTLAND. By the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A. 1 BELL LORE. By England Howlett 34 SAINTS AND HOLY WELLS. By Thomas Frost 46 LIFE IN THE PRE-REFORMATION CATHEDRALS. By A. H. Millar, F.S.A., Scot. 64 PUBLIC WORSHIP IN OLDEN TIMES. By the Rev. Alexander Waters, M.A., B.D. 86 CHURCH MUSIC. By Thomas Frost 98 DISCIPLINE IN THE KIRK. By the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A. 108 CURIOSITIES OF CHURCH FINANCE. By the Rev. R. Wilkins Rees 130 WITCHCRAFT AND THE KIRK. By the Rev. R. Wilkins Rees 162 BIRTH AND BAPTISMS, CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS 194 MARRIAGE LAWS AND CUSTOMS 210 GRETNA GREEN GOSSIP 227 DEATH AND BURIAL CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS 237 THE STORY OF A STOOL 255 THE MARTYRS' MONUMENT, EDINBURGH 260 Bygone Church Life in Scotland. The Cross in Scotland. BY THE REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A.