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William Forbes Skene was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene, of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on the 7th of June 1809.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... kings during this period--Conall Crandomua, and Dungall or Duuehad mac Duban, who reign jointly ten years; Dom-uall Donn thirteen years, Mailduin mac Couall seventeen years, and Fearchan Fada twenty-one years--in all sixty-one years, which brings us to the end of the century; but Tigheruac records the death of Conall Crandomna in 660, Mailduin mac the little kingdom was broken up. The same year which saw Domnall Brecc slain in Strath-carron, likewise brought Osuald's reign over Northumbria to a disastrous end. His first effort, on finding himself firmly seated on the throne, had been to re-establish the Christian Church in his dominions, and to drive back the flow of paganism and apostasy which had overspread the country. He naturally turned to the form of Christianity in which he had been educated, and sent to the elders of the Scots, desiring them to send him a prelate who might instruct the nation of the Angles once more in the Christian faith, and ere long received Bishop Aidan from them for this purpose. The account of this mission belongs more to the History of the Early Christian Church in Scotland, and will be there more fully noticed. It is sufficient for our present purpose to say that his episcopal seat was fixed in the island of Lindis-farne, which the king gave him for the purpose. ' From that time,' says Bede, ' many came from the region of the Scots into Britain, and preached the Word to those provinces of the Angles over which King Osuald ruled, and they among them who had received priests' orders administered the sacrament of baptism. Churches were built. The people joyfully flocked to hear the Word. Possessions and lands were given of the king's bounty to build monasteries. The Anglic youth were instructed by their...
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(The Lord's Supper and the Passover Ritual; Being a Transl...)
The Lord's Supper and the Passover Ritual; Being a Translation of the Substance of Professor Bickell's Work Termed "Messe und Pascha." By William F. Skene ... With an Introduction by the Translator on the Connection of the Early Christian Church with the Jewish Church. I. The primitive Christian liturgy.--II: The Jewish ritual which gave rise to the old Christian liturgy.--III: Comparison of the Apostolic liturgy with the corresponding Jewish ritual.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... Caerediu (Carriden), a British town on the Forth, i. 238. Caerini, a northern tribe, i. 76. Caerleon (Isca Siluruni), i. 81, 107. Caernech, St., legend of, ii. 46. Cailin, clan. See Campbells. Cain and Conveth, dues from Crown lands, iii. 227-32, 262. Cairbre, surnamed Righfhada or Bioda, i. 140. Cairpentaloch, i. 153. Caislen Credi. iVee Scone. Caithness (Catbanesia, Cathannia), in the Pictish legend the territory of Cait, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, i. 186; one of the seven provinces of the PictiRh kingdom, 280 ; iii. 44; original extent of the district, i. 232; attacked by Thor- stein the Bed, 326; invaded by Sigurd, earl of Orkney, 336, and brought under Norwegian rule, 342, 345, 374; iii. 44, 45; Thor- finn, Sigurd's son, and grandson of Malcolm n., is made earl of Caithness and Sutherland, i. 389, 401 ; bishopric of, ii. 382; earldom of, iii. 8, 71 : historical account of the earldom and earls of, 448-53. Calathros (Calatrii, Catraeth), battles in, i. 247, 291 ; district of, 247, 256, 424. Caledones, or Caledonii, a section of the Picts, i. 94, 99, 100, 127, 130; account of, by Tacitus, 58-60; their territory, as given by Pto- lemy, 75, 76; join with the Mieata; in hostilities against the Roman province, 80; campaign of Severus, 82-89; characteristics of these ancient tribes, 83. Caledonia, the term by which that portion of Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde was known to the Romans, i. 1, 40, 41. Caledonian Forest, the (Sylvia Cale- donia), i. 40, 48. Callender (Kalentyr), on the Carron, thanage of, iii. 277-8. Calps paid by native-men, iii. 318; abolition of, 368. Calphurnius Agricola, sent to Britain, i. 79. Cambuskenneth, chartnlary of, i. 424. Cameron clan and its septs, iii. 313, 315, 331, 350, 479. Camlann, battle...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... One time there a large church was built by Mobii, and the clerics were considering what each of them would like to have the church full of.1 'I should like,' said Ciaran, 'its full of " sons of the church," who frequent the canonical hours.'2 'I should like,' said Cainnech, 'its full of books, to be used by "sons of life."' 'I should like,' said Comgall, 'its full of sickness and diseases to be in my own body, to my subjugation and chastisement.' Colum Cille, however, chose3 its full of gold and silver, to make reliquaries and monasteries therewith. Mobii said that it should not be so; but that Colum Cille's community would be richer than every community, both in 4 Eriu and Alba. Mobii told his proUgis to leave the place in which they were, for that an unknown 6 plague would come there, viz., the Buid Chonaill;6 and he further said to Colum Cille that he should not receive land until permitted by him (Mobii). Each of them went his way afterwards. Colum Cille proceeded to Cenel-Conaill. The way he went was across the river, the name of which is Biur.7 There he said, 'Bir against fochainne,'3 and the plague did not therefore reach 1 Full of. The expression in the person named Conall, who died of it, but of whose memory no other record now remains.--{Obits and Martyrology of Christ Church, pref. p. Ixxv.) But the old form of the name being Buidhe Chonnaill, it is more likely that it was derived from Cunnall (glossed 'stipnla' in the MS. quoted in Nigra's Reliq. Celt., p. 38); andthattheplaguewas so called from the hue {Buide Chonnaill, 'strawyellow') which its victims exhibited. 7 Biur. Dr. Reeves states (Adamnan, p. 52, note d) that is, the river in Tyrone, now called the Moyola, which flows into the N.-W. arm of Lough Neagh. s 'Bir...
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William Forbes Skene was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene, of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen, and was born on the 7th of June 1809.
He was educated at Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh and at the University of St Andrews, taking an especial interest in the study of Celtic philology and literature.
In 1879 he was made a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) of the University of Oxford, and in 1881 Historiographer Royal for Scotland.
In 1832, he became a Writer to the Signet (WS), and shortly afterwards obtained an official appointment in the bill department of the Court of Session, which he held until 1865. His early interest in the history and antiquities of the Scottish Highlands bore its first fruit in 1837, when he published The Highlanders of Scotland, their Origin, History and Antiquities.
In 1847, during the Highland Potato Famine, he was appointed Secretary to the Central Board for Highland Relief. In this position he worked closely with Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
His chief work, however, is his Celtic Scotland, a History of Ancient Alban (3 vols. , Edinburgh, 1876–1880), perhaps the most important contribution to Scottish history written during the 19th century.
The most important of Skene's works are: editions of John of Fordun's Chronica gentis Scotorum (Edinburgh, 1871–1872); of the Four Ancient Books of Wales (Edinburgh, 1868); of the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots (Edinburgh, 1867); and of Adomnán's Vita S. Columbae (Edinburgh, 1874); an Essay on the Coronation Stone of Scone (Edinburgh, 1869); and Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene (Aberdeen, 1887). One of Skene's harshest critics was the Scottish philologist Alexander Macbain.
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An avowed Evangelical, he had argued that, since the Scottish Episcopal Church’s General Synod of 1863 had established the English Book of Common Prayer as the primary authority for the Church’s worship and the Scottish Episcopal Church had adopted the Church of England’s Thirty Nine Articles as a doctrinal yardstick, for St Vincent’s to remain outside that church could no longer be justified.
William Forbes Skene was a leading member of the congregation of St Vincent’s Scottish Episcopal Church in St Vincent Street in Edinburgh's Northern New Town.
