agan Ireland_ (London: 1895);
describes similar usages still prevailing in Ireland.

[7] _Dalyell_, p. 671.

[8] _History of the Rebellions in Scotland_. By Robert Chambers. Vol.
II., p. 87.

[9] _Statistical Account of 1794_, p. 234.

[10] _Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose_. By M. Napier. Vol. II., p.
537.

[11] He was schoolmaster at Abernethy, and subsequently married the
daughter of the parish minister. She died in 1708 at the age of 80.

[12] See _Register of the Diocesan Synod of Dunblane_. Edited by John
Wilson, D.D. Edinburgh: 1877; page 91.

Before the passing of the Act of 1810 for augmenting parochial stipends
in Scotland, the stipend was L21 17s 11d, the smallest in Scotland. 50
Geo. III., cap. 84.

[13] _Diocesan Register_, p. 251.

[14] _Diocesan Register_, p. 150.

[15] _Historical Selections_. _From the MSS. of Sir John Lauder of
Fountainhall_. Vol. I., p. 138.

[16] Wodrow's _History of The Sufferings of The Church of Scotland_.
II., p. 386.

[17] Wodrow II., p. 386.

[18] Graham Dunlop MSS., quoted in Story's _Carstares_, p. 80.

[19] See Fountainhall, p. 138.

[20] Story's _Carstares_, p. 82.

[21] History, II., p. 531.

[22] Fountainhall, p. 164.

[23] That his spirit was in no way cowed is obvious from the report of
what he said and did when he was brought before the Privy Council and
informed that "Argile was tane," and urged to tell everything. "He
laugh't at them, and with a very obstinate and unbelieving carriage
said--'If ye have the principall, what neids ye ask these questions at
me.'"--Fountainhall, p. 187.

[24] _Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae_. By Hew Scott, D.D. Vol. II., pp.
766-768.

[25] The ecclesiastical quarrel which began in 1765 when Mr Patrick
Crichton was presented to the living, went on for several years, and
only ended when the presentee, seeing that a peaceable settlement was
impossible, retired.

[26] Chambers' _Life of Burns_, II., 144.

[27] Glendevon Session Records.

[28] _Life of Archibald Campbell Tait_. By R. T. Davidson, D.D., and
W. Bentham, D.D. 2 Vols. London: 1891.

BY THE WELL OF ST. FILLAN

By Rev. THOMAS ARMSTRONG, Dundurn

"Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung
On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring."
--_Lady of the Lake_.

Any one who has visited the scene hallowed in tradition as the sojourn
of St. Fillan, can understand how the genius of Scott should have