[241] _St. Giles, Edinburgh, Church, College, and Cathedral_, p. 1. [242] Of the early church, which stood on the site of the present _St. Cuthbert's_, Edinburgh, Dr. Skene has declared that "there is no doubt the church was founded by S. Cuthbert himself," and so there has been Christian worship there for over 1200 years (Rev. Dr. A. Wallace Williamson's paper in _Aberdeen Ecclesiological Transactions_, ninth year, p. 114). [243] _Charters of the Collegiate Church of St. Giles_, p. iv. [244] _Ibid._ [245] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles, Edinburgh_, p. 3. [246] Introduction to _Charters_, p. v. [247] _Ibid._ p. vi. [248] _St. Giles_, p. 4. [249] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 419. [250] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 420. [251] _Ibid._ [252] _Ibid._ p. 422. [253] _Ibid._ [254] _Ibid._ [255] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 425. [256] Dr Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 23. [257] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 426. [258] _Ibid._ [259] Introduction to _Charters_, p. xiv. [260] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 430. [261] Introduction to _Charters_, p. xv. [262] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 434. [263] _Ibid._ p. 436. [264] No. 77, p. 106. [265] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 441. [266] Dr. Laing's Introduction to _Charters_, p. xxx. [267] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 445. [268] _Ib._ p. 446 [269] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, pp. 445-449. [270] Intro. to _Charters_, p. xix. [271] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 273. [272] Dr. Lees' _St. Giles_, p. 117. [273] _Ibid._ pp. 124, 125. [274] Calderwood's _History_, vol. iii. pp. 73, 257. [275] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 454. [276] _St. Giles_, p. 262. [277] Very Rev. Dr. Cameron Lees. [278] _St. Giles_, p. 270. [279] _Ibid._ p. 214. [280] Rankin, vol. ii. p. 361. [281] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 199. [282] _Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals_, p. 36. [283] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 298-309. [284] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. i. pp. 313, 314. [285] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 455. [286] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, pp. 455-470. [287] Fergusson's _History of Architecture_, vol. ii. p. 222. [288] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 493. [289] Hay's _Sacra Scotia_, p. 323. [290] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 109. [291] Rev. John Fergusson of Aberdalgie in _Scottish Antiquary_, January 1897, p. 137. [292] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 116. [293] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 116. [294] _Ibid._ p. 121, and Lord High Treasurer's Accounts. [295] _Ibid._ p. 122. [296] _Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland_, vol. iii. p. 125.