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 the "three birds called papingoes, relative to the name of Pepdie." In Keith's Catalogue and by Spottiswoode we are told that the Collegiate Church of Dunglass was founded in the year 1450 by Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk. Chalmers, in the Caledonia, Vol. p. 512, says it was founded by Sir Alexander Home of Home in 1403. He was the son of Sir Thomas and Nicolas Pepdie. Sir James Hall, in a letter written in 1789 (see Hutton Collection), finds from examination, evidently of original documents in his possession, that it was founded by Sir Alexander in 1403. Dr. Laing also adopts this date as correct. Perhaps, as above suggested, the choir and tower may have been built in 1403, while the nave was not erected till after 1450.

The Collegiate Church of Dunglass.

Details of Sedilia.

The Collegiate Church of Dunglass.

Arms of Sir Thomas Home and his Wife in North Transept.

Dunglass Church is generally regarded as having been Collegiate. In the appendix to the Scotichronicon, it is stated that in the reign of James II. the buildings of Douglas (probably a mistake for Dunglass) were in progress, and in the Originales Parochiales, Vol. p. 153, the following note occurs:—"About the middle of the fifteenth century a petition regarding the erection of the Parish Church of Douglas (evidently mistaken for Dunglass) into a Collegiate Church was presented to the Apostolic See, but though the Pope's consent seems to have been obtained, the purpose never was fulfilled."