a church built c. 1430. A tower, almost exactly similar,
but more ornate, probably twenty or thirty years later in date, exists
at Dunning, in the same diocese, and also a Celtic Church settlement
associated with St. Serf. The old Culdee Church of Markinch has a
tower of the same peculiar style, originally with a square, upright,
saddle-backed roof, and crow-stepped gables. Some vestiges remain of
the bishop's palace, overlooking the Allan on the south-west of the
cathedral; and the triangular space in front of the south side of the
cathedral, and forming the end of the High Street, has some old houses
which are believed to have been canons' manses.

The chapter consisted of--Dean (Muthill), praecentor, chancellor,
treasurer, archdeacon; _Prebendaries_--Abbot of Cambuskenneth in 1298,
Abbot of Arbroath for Abernethy from 1240; Crieff _primo_ (probably
parish of), Crieff _secundo_ (probably St. Thomas at Milnab), Logie,
Fordishall, Kinkell, Kippen, Monzie, Comrie. Eighteen finely carved
oak stalls of the dignitaries and canons belonging to the sixteenth
century still survive. Other carved work was destroyed in 1559 by the
Prior of St. Andrews and the Earl of Argyll. The line of bishops ended
with three of the neighbouring family of Chisholm of Cromlix. Bishop
James Chisholm was eldest son of Edmund Chisholm, and was a good
administrator. Bishop William Chisholm, his half-brother, was an
ecclesiastic of the worst possible type for fornication, church
robbery, and persecution of so-called heretics. Bishop William
Chisholm, nephew of the robber-bishop, became, after the Reformation, a
Carthusian monk at Lyons. He is supposed to have taken with him the
writs of the See, which have been lost. Marshall[6] gives an account
of this branch of Chisholms. The same writer says[7]: "Among the
sepulchral monuments in the cathedral is that of Malise, eighth Earl of
Strathearn, and his countess. It is in the vestry of the choir, and is
a flat block of gritstone, having on it full-sized figures of the Earl
and Countess. When discovered in the choir, the block was above a
coffin of lead with date 1271. In the centre of the choir is the dust
of Lady Margaret Drummond, mistress (but probably privately married) of
James IV., and her sisters the Ladies Euphemia and Sybilla, daughters
of Lord Drummond, who were poisoned (apparently to clear the way for
the King's marriage to the Princess Mary of England in 1503). Their
remains