Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
History
Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
Omnes quoque ecclesia ab aqua quæ vocatur Tweoda usque Tinam australem
et ultra desertum ad occidentem pertinebant illo tempore ad præfatam
ecclesiam; et hæ mansiones, Carnham et Culterham et duæ Geddewrd ad
australem plagam Tevietæ, quas Ecgfridus episcopus condidit; et
Mailros, et Tigbrethingham, et Eoriercorn ad occidentalem partem,
Edwinesburch et Petterham, et Aldham, et Tinningaham, et Coldingaham,
et Tollmathe, et Northam.—Sim. Dun., _His. Rec._, p. 68.
Footnote 430:
Eum (Pehtelmum) subsecuti sunt Frithewald, Pectwine, Ethelbriht,
Beadulf, nec præterea plures alicubi reperio, quod cito defecerit
episcopatus, quia extrema, ut dixi, Anglorum ora est et Scottorum vel
Pictorum depopulationi opportuna.—W. Malm., _Gest. Pontific. Ang._,
Lib. iii. § 118.
CHAPTER VI.
THE SECULAR CLERGY AND THE CULDEES.
[Sidenote: No appearance of name of Culdee till after expulsion of
Columban monks.]
It is not till after the expulsion of the Columban monks from the
kingdom of the Picts, in the beginning of the eighth century, that the
name of Culdee appears. To Adamnan, to Eddi and to Bede it was totally
unknown. They knew of no body of clergy who bore this name, and in the
whole range of ecclesiastical history there is nothing more entirely
destitute of authority than the application of this name to the Columban
monks of the sixth and seventh centuries,[431] or more utterly baseless
than the fabric which has been raised upon that assumption. Like many of
our popular notions, it originated with Hector Boece, and, at a time
when the influence of his fabulous history was still paramount in
Scotland, it became associated with an ecclesiastical controversy which
powerfully engaged the sympathies of the Scottish people; and this gave
it a force and vitality which renders it difficult for the popular mind
to regard the history of the early Scottish Church through any other
medium. At this most critical period of its history we unfortunately
lose the invaluable light afforded by the trustworthy narratives of
Adamnan and Bede, but their very silence shows that it was a name not
identified with the Monastic Church, which then not only prevailed in
Ireland, but embraced likewise the churches of the Scots and the Picts,
of the Cumbrians and the Northumbrians, but rather associated with those
influences which affected the monastic system in both countries.
[Sidenote: Monastic Church affected by two opposite influences:]
The Monastic Church was broken in upon by two opposite influences,
which, though very different in their characters, yet possessed one
feature in common, and were eventually to unite. One of these influences
was external to the Monastic Church. The other developed itself within
it.
[Sidenote: First, by secular clergy.]
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