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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

bonis semper dextera larga tua est Nemo lupos melius sacris ab ovilibus arcet Ni Christi lanient diripiantque gregem 10. The Reformation being set afoot about this time there succeeded to him Adam Bothwel Bishop of Orkney the first Reform'd Bishop of this Country and who continued long in his Bishoprick notwithstanding of the prejudice that the Church had then to that Order This Bishop was a Man of great employment and action it was he that Married the Earl of Bothwel then made Duke of Orkney with the Queen in the Palace of Holyrood-House To him Queen Mary when she had resigned the Crown gave a Procuration for the inaugurating the Prince her Son who accordingly on the 29th of July 1567 Crowned and Anointed him in the Church of Sterling And in the Year following when the Earl of Murray Regent was to go to England about the debate betwixt the King and his Mother who was detained Prisoner there This Bishop was one of those who by the Estates of the Kingdom were Commissioned to attend the Regent and assist him in that debate And afterwards at the desire of Queen Elizabeth Anno 1571 he with others were sent into England for the composing of some differences between the Kingdoms He made an exchange of the Bishoprick of Orkney with Robert Steward natural Son to King James the Fifth then Earl of Orkney for the Abbacy of Holyrood-House whereby it came to pass that the Bishop's Son afterwards was made Lord Holyrood-House Robert Steward being Earl of Orkney and also obtaining the Bishoprick of Orkney as is said by the exchange of the Abbacy of Holyrood-House which he before possessed he and his Son Earl Patrick who succeeded him uplifted the Rents of the Bishoprick as their own Hereditary Patrimony The Church of Orkney in the mean time according to the custom then received in Scotland being governed by a Superintendant with Episcopal Power to direct all Church Censures and Ordain Ministers 11. This Superintendant was Mr. James Annan at that time Minister of the Churches of Sanda and Westra But Anno 1606 King James the Sixth by consent of his Parliament and assembly of the Church having restored the Estates of Bishops in Scotland 12. James Law was made Bishop of Orkney and tho' for some time he was deprived of the Temporalities of his Bishoprick by the Oppression of Patreek Earl of Orkney yet after his death he enjoy'd them peaceably Considering the many and great Quarrels and Mischiefs that had always been between the former Earls and Bishops of Orkney and their several Vassals because their Lands did lie mixed thorough other therefore he made that Transaction and Contract with King James the Sixth of which in the last Chapter you have had an Account whereby the Bishoprick is separated from the Earldom and the Bishop is made sole Judge within his own bounds He was a Person who King James did much respect and often employ in several important Matters After his Election to the Bishoprick he was with some other Prelates sent for by the King to Court to advise with them about setling the State of the Church in Scotland And the next Year we find him presiding in the Convocation or Assembly at Linlithgow He had a chief hand in the Tryal of those Oppressions and Treasonable Acts for which Patrick Earl of Orkney was Executed After he had sat Bishop nine Years he was translated from this See to the Archbishoprick of Glasgow 13. To him succeded George Graham Bishop of Dumblane who sat Bishop of Orkney twenty three Years but in the Year 1638 at the Assembly at Glasgow he resign'd his Bishoprick 14. After Bishop Graham had been divested of the Bishoprick King Charles the First did promote Robert Barron Doctor and Professor of Divinity in the Marishal College of Aberdeen to the Bishoprick of this Country but he being forced to fly to Berwick he there died before his Consecration In the Interval of Presbytery the Rents of the Bishoprick were granted to the City of Edinburgh till the Year 1662. 15. In which Year Episcopacy being again restor'd Thomas St. Serf who seems to have his name from Servanus the first Bishop of Orkney commonly call'd St. Serf formerly Bishop of Galloway and the only old Bishop who was then alive was made Bishop of Orkney he liv'd two years after his Installment and died at Edinburgh 16. To him Anno 1664 succeeded Andrew Honyman Archdeacon of St. Andrews a Godly and Learned Prelate the Author of The Seasonable Case and Survey of Napthalie he repaired the Church of Sandwick and did many other works of Charity Anno 1669 being at Edinburgh and going into the Archbishop of St. Andrew's Coach with him he was shot thorough the Arm with a poisoned Ball which by the Phanaticks was designed for the Archbishop this so weakned him that he liv'd not many years after for he died in February 1676 in great peace and with great resignation contrary to what is asserted in a late scandalous Pamphlet as is ready to be attested if need were by several Gentlemen of untainted Reputation Witnesses when he died 17. To him succeeded Murdoch Mackenzie Bishop of Murray translated from that See to this Anno 1677 a most worthy Bishop and greatly beloved of all for his Hospitality Peaceableness Piety and prudent Government he did on his own Charges repair the Lady Church in Shapinsha He liv'd to a good Age being near an hundred Years and yet great was his vigour of Body and Vivacity of Judgment even to his Death but to the regret of all that knew him and the loss of the whole Country He died February 1688. 18. To him Anno 1688 succeeded Andrew Bruce formerly Bishop of Dunkeld He died last March CHAP. VIII The History of the first Plantation of the Isles of Orkney and of the ancient and present Possessors of them The Pights or Picts the first Possessors Of Belus and Ganus Kings of Orkney When it came to the Possession of the Kings of Scotland When the Norwegians got footing and when they were expell'd An Account of the Earls of Orkney Of the Sirname of Sinclar A double of an ancient Manuscript relating to the Affairs of Orkney wherein there is an Account of the first Possessors of that Country different from the former and a full Account of the Earls of Orkney till that time Of Bothwell Duke of Orkney Of the Earls of the Sirname of Steward and Douglass When this Country was again re-annex'd to the Crown Of the Stewardry The several ways how Orkney hath been a Honorary Title Of the Law-right-men and their Office THE first Planters and Possessors of this Country were the Pights as the generality of our Historians do affirm who call Orkney Antiquum Pictorum regnum There are yet in this Country several strange Antique Houses many of which are now overgrown with Earth which are still by the Inhabitants call'd Pights Houses and the Firth that runs betwixt this