IRELAND— Shrine of the Bell of St. Patrick’s Will; now in the Museum of the R.I.A. at Dublin (H. O’Neill’s _Fine Arts of Ancient Ireland_, p. 46). Shrine of the Bell of St. Culan, called the _Barnaan Cuilaun_; now in the British Museum (_Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy_, vol. xiv., p. 31). Shrine of the Bell of St. Mogue. Shrine of the Bell of Maelbrigde (Miss M. Stokes’ _Early Christian Art in Ireland_, p. 67). Shrine of the Bell of St. Mura, from the Abbey of Fahan, Co. Donegal (_Ulster Journal of Archæology_, vol. i., p. 274). Shrine of the Bell of Conall Gael, from Inishkeel, Co. Donegal; now in the British Museum (H. T. Ellacombe’s _Church Bells of Devon—Supplement_, p. 365). SCOTLAND— Bell-shrine of Kilmichael Glassary, Argyllshire, dug up on Torrebhlaurn Farm in 1814; now in the National Museum at Edinburgh (Dr. J. Anderson’s _Scotland in Early Christian Times_, 1st ser., p. 207). Bell-shrine, preserved at Guthrie Castle, Forfarshire (_Ibid._, p. 209). [Illustration: THE SHRINE OF THE BELL OF ST. PATRICK’S WILL IN THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, DUBLIN A.D. 1091 TO 1105] The bells of the Celtic Church, whether they be of iron or bronze, whether devoid of lettering or inscribed, ornamented or plain, possess a far higher interest than that attaching to ordinary museum specimens, because most of them have an authentic history, going back in some cases to the time when Christianity was first introduced into this country. The bell, the book, and the crozier which belonged to the Celtic saints who founded churches, were always looked upon with the highest veneration, and were used for a variety of superstitious purposes, such as healing the sick, procuring victory in battle, and the solemnising of oaths. The relics of the saints of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries were enclosed in costly metal shrines, generally a few hundred years after the death of the saint, and an hereditary keeper was appointed to be responsible for the safety of the relics when borrowed for effecting cures and other purposes. The shrines and their contents were thus handed down from generation to generation, and in most cases sold by their last hereditary keepers to collectors of antiquities, from whom they were acquired by the national museums of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The relics still bear the names of the saints to whom they originally belonged; the names of their hereditary keepers are well known, and they have been obtained from the localities where the saint founded his church, and where the relics remained for centuries afterwards undisturbed. No class of antiquities, therefore, possesses a better record or a more satisfactory pedigree.