Note 690 — Chapter VIII · THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.

Ib., p. 129.

Dr. Reeves has printed in the appendix to Bishop Colton’s Visitation, edited for the Irish Archæological Society, p. 109, a rule of Columcille taken from one of the Burgundian MSS. It is obviously the same rule which Colgan describes as ‘aliam regulam eremiticam seu præscriptum fratribus scripsit.’ It cannot be connected with St. Columba himself, and it is probably a rule compiled for the Deoradh De at the time the Disert Columcille was founded at Kells. It will be found in the Appendix.