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A67329	An account of the Islands of Orkney by James Wallace ... ; to which is added an essay concerning the Thule of the ancients.	Wallace, James, d. 1688.; Sibbald, Robert, Sir, 1641-1722. Essay concerning the Thule of the ancients.	1700 (1700)	Wing W491; ESTC R34706	63,791	200

time of King James the First 4. William Tulloch who was Bishop of this Country in the time of King James the Third of him we read that Anno 1468 he was sent with several other Noble Persons to Christiern King of Denmark and Norway to seek his Daughter the Lady Margaret in Marriage to the said King James About July they came to Hafnen in Denmark where King Christiern then remained and were of him joyfully received and well heard concerning their Sute insomuch that by advice of his Council he agreed that the Lady Margaret should be given in Marriage to King James and that the Isles of Orkney and Zetland should remain in the Possession of him and his Successors Kings of Scotland till either the said King Christiern or his Successors in Name of Dowry should pay to King James or his Successors the Sum of Fifty thousand Florins of the Rhine Upon this the Bishop and the other Ambassadors return with the espoused Lady to Scotland in November and in the Abbey Church at Holyrood-house She was Married and Crowned Queen Afterwards she was brought to Bed of a Son call'd James who afterwards succeded to the Crown whereupon Christiern to congratulate the happy Birth of this young Prince his Grandchild renounced by a Charter under his Great Seal all the Right Title and Claim which he or the Kings of Denmark might have to the Isles of Orkney and Zetland This Bishop was translated from this to the Bishoprick of Murray and continued five Years Bishop of that See and there dying was buried in St. Maries Isle in the Canonry Church of Elgin 5. To him succeeded Andrew Bishop of Orkney who also liv'd in the Reign of King James the Third and was Bishop at that time when the Town of Kirkwall got their erection into a Royal Burrough confirm'd by the said King Anno 1486. 6. After him succeeded Edward Steward Bishop of Orkney who liv'd in the Reign of King James the Fourth of him Boethius gives a noble Testimony He enlarged the Cathedral Church to the East all above the Grees 7. To him succeeded Thomas Bishop of Orkney who Endowed something for the maintenance of the Choiristers of the Cathedral 8. After him was Robert Maxwell Bishop of Orkney he caused to be built the Stalls that are in the Cathedral and it was he that caused found and made those excellent Bells that are in the Steeple of the Cathedral which at his own expences were founded in the Castle of Edinburgh in the Year 1528 in the Reign of King James the Fifth as their inscription bears The next Year Anno 1629 May 18. The Earl of Cathnes and the Lord Sinclar came with a great Army by Sea into Orkney to have taken possession of it as of a Country to which they pretended some Right but the People of the Country under the command of Sir James Sinclar natural Son to Robert Sinclar the last Earl of Orkney of that Sirname encounted the Earl with such courage at a place call'd Summersdale that his Army was wholly discomfited the Earl himself with 500 of his Men being killed and the Lord Sinclar with all the rest taken Prisoners It is said of this Sir James Sinclar that presuming on his merits and the good service he had done the King by that engagement begg'd of King James the Fifth then Reigning the Isles of Sanda and Eda which he represented to him then as small Islands or Holms only sit for Pasture and upon his Request obtain'd them which I conceive may be the reason why Buchanan does not reckon any of these either Sanda or Eda amongst the Isles of Orkney by being deceiv'd with that opinion that they were but Holms whereas they are amongst the most considerable Islands in this Country but the King being afterward better informed and that he had been imposed on by Sir James threatned that his Head should pay for it when he came to Orkney for fear of which when he heard of the King's Arrival he cast himself in the Sea in a place called the Gloup of Linksness and was drowned The King coming in Person to this Country to settle the Troubles and Commotions that were in it was nobly entertain'd by the Bishop all the time of his stay and having put a Guard in the King 's and Bishop's Castles having first visited some of the Western Isles he returned to Edinburgh taking with him some of the Factious Gentry At this time also the Town of Kirkwall gave such demonstrations of their Affection and Loyalty to their King that sometime after he ratified their Erection into a Royal Burrough by a new Charter of confirmation Anno 1536 9. To him succeeded Robert Reid Bishop of Orkney a very deserving Man of an excellent Wit and great Experience He caus'd to be built a stately Tower to the North end of the Bishop's Palace where his Statue in a stone is as yet remaining set in the Wall He greatly enlarged the Cathedral Church adding three Pillars to the former Fabrick and decoring the entry with a magnificent Porch He moreover built St. Olaus Church in Kirkwal and a large Court of Houses to be a College for the instructing the Youth of this Country in Grammar and Philosophy He made a new foundation of the Chapter enlarging the number of Canons Prebendaries and other Officers and setling large and ample Provisions on them as is set down in the former Chapter In a Book Dedicated to him by Adam Senior a Monk of the Cisteroian Order I find that he had a right to the Monastries of Beaulie and Kinloss but whether he had these as Bishop of Orkney or only in commendam I cannot determine He was in great credit with his Prince King James the Fifth who consulted him in all his weighty Affairs In his time he perform'd many Honourable Embassages to the Credit and Benefit of his Country Amongst the rest he was one of those that accompanied the young Queen Mary when she was sent into France to be Married to the Dolphin afterwards Francis the second King of France tho' both in his going and coming he had bad Fortune for in his going the Ship he was in Perished on the Coast of France near to Bulloigne the Bishop and the Earl of Rothes that was with him hardly escaping by the Ship 's Boat And in his return from the Court of France he died at Diep the 14th of September 1558 of whom Ant. Bardol gives us this Epigram Quid tentem angusto perstringere carmine laudes Quas nulla eloquii vis celebrare queat Clarus es eloquio Coelo dignissime praesul Antiqua generis nobilitate viges Commissumque gregem pascis relevasque jacentem Exemplo ducens ad melioratuo Ac velut exoriens terris sol discutit umbras Illustras radiis pectora caeca tuis Hortaris tardos objurgas corripis omnes In mala praecipites quo vetus error agit Pauperibus tua tecta patent tua prompta voluntas Atque