Registrum episcopatus glasguensis: munimenta Ecclesie metropolitane glasguensis a sede restaurata seculo ineunte XII ad reformatam religionem ...

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Ballantyne and Hughes, 1843 - Glasgow (Scotland) - 621 pages
 

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Page xlvii - The general jubilee proclaimed in 1450, on the terminantion of the great Papal schism, was extended to Scotland, and penitential visits and offerings at the Cathedral of Glasgow declared equally meritorious with those at Rome ; the offerings on the occasion being distributed, one third to the fabric of the Church of Glasgow, one to other pious uses in Scotland, and a third to Rome.
Page l - Glasgow at an early period of his life, and loved to show favour to the Cathedral of which he was a member. In the first year of his reign, it was
Page vii - But in spite of the strong party feeling which was paramount in his mind, he was of so temperate a nature and so honest withal, that no quotations or statements of fact, scarcely an argument or conclusion in his work, has ever been challenged.
Page l - Galloway, and Argyle. The king renewed and extended the privileges, and exemptions, and much valued civil jurisdiction of the bishop, with expressions that show both his attachment to Glasgow, and the commencement of that high character of its Chapter which afterwards drew to the Archbishop's Court of Glasgow a great proportion of civil business.
Page lv - It is impossible for a student of ecclesiastical antiquities not to look back with fond regret to the lordly and ruined church which we have traced from its cradle to its grave, not stopping to question its doctrines, and throwing into a friendly shade its errors of practice. And yet, if we consider it more deeply, we may be satisfied that the gorgeous fabric fell not till it had completed its work, and was no longer useful. Institutions, like mortal bodies, die and are reproduced. Nations pass away,...
Page xxii - of King William, which gave to the bishop the privilege of having a burgh at Glasgow, with a market on Thursday, was granted between the years 1175 and 1178. We smile at the present day to think of the oppression which the bishop's burgh or barony long suffered from the royal burgh of Rutherglen. Even after 1450, when the bishop had obtained a jurisdiction of regality, and Glasgow rose a step in the scale, it...