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 honour, and high glory, now and through eternity, Amen.

This little book was finished by the Bishop of the Isles on the 24th day of April, in the year of Christ 1567, in the 25th year of the reign of the moft potent Queen Mary of Scotland.

The grace of God was with it from the first, and brought it to a conclusion.

This was printed at Edinburgh by Robert Lekprevik, 24th April 1567.

In editing these curious passages, no other freedom has been used with the original, than separating or uniting the words, which were improperly divided or joined by the ignorance of the printer. It is curious, that in Lekprevik's title-page, Dunedin, or Edinburgh, is also denominated Dun Monaidh, or the City in the moors.

The following account of Bishop Carswell is extracted from Keith:

"John Carswell, chaplain to the Earl of Argile, rector of Kilmartine, and minister of the New Reformation, and superintendent of Argile and the Isles (he had the title also of dean of the chapel royal at Stirling; Keith's Hist. App. p. 188.), was presented by Queen Mary to the bishopric of the Isles, March 24. 1566 (Pr. Seal), and to the abbay of Ycolumkill. The words of the