1. Instead of this famous cross being destined by St. Margaret for Dunfermline, was it not transmitted by her as an heir-loom to her sons? _Fordun_, lib. v. cap. lv. "_Quasi munus haereditarium transmisit ad filios._" Hailes (_Annals_, sub anno 1093) distinguishes the cross which Margaret gifted to Dunfermline from the Black Rood of Scotland; and it is found in the possession of her son David I., in his last illness. He died at Carlisle, 24th May, 1153. (_Fordun_, ut supra.) 2. Is not W. S. G. mistaken when, in speaking of this cross being seized by Edward I. in the Castle of Edinburgh in 1292, he says it is in a list of muniments, &c., found "_in quadam cista in dormitorio S. Crucis._" instead of in a list following, "_et in thesauria castri de Edinburgh inventa fuerunt ornamenta subscripta?_" (Ayloffe's _Calendars_, p. 827.; Robertson's _Index_, Introd. xiii.) 3. When W. S. G. says that this cross was not held in the same superstitious reverence as the Black Stone of Scone, and that Miss Strickland is mistaken when she says that it was seized by King Edward, and restored at the peace of 1327, what does he make of the following authorities?-- (1.) _Fordun_, lib. v, cap. xvii: "Illa sancta crux quam nigram vocant omni genti Scotorum non minus terribilem quam amabilem pro suae reverentia sanctitatis." (2.) _Letters to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, occassioned by some Passages in his late Book of the Scotch Library, &c._, ascribed to the historian Rymer: London, 1702. From a "notable piece of Church history," appended to the second Letter, it appears that the Black Rood accompanied King Edward in his progresses, along with a famous English cross--the Cross Nigth,--and that he received on these two crosses the homage of several of the Scottish magnates. (The same thing, I have no doubt, will appear from the _Foedera_ of the same historian, which I have it not in my power to refer to.) (3.) _Chronicon de Lanercost_, printed by the Maitland Club, Edinburgh, 1839, p. 283. Alluding to the pacification of 1327: "Reddidit etiam eis partem crucis Christi _quam vocant Scotti Blakerode_, et similiter unam instrumentum.... Ragman vocabatur. Lapidem tamen de Scone, in quo solent regis Scotiae apud Scone in creatione sua collocari, Londonensis noluerunt a se demittere quoquomodo. Omnia autem haec asportari fecerat de Scotia inclytus rex Edwardus filius Henrici, dum Scottos suae subjiceret ditioni." Fabian and Holinshed report the same thing. 4. Is not Fordun _quoting_ from Turgot and Aelred (whom he names Baldredus) when he speaks of "illa sancta crux _quam nigram_ vocant?" And how does the description of the Durham cross,-- "Which rood and pictures were all three very richly wrought in silver, and were all smoked black over, being large pictures of a yard or five quarters long," &c. &c.,--