Note 363 — Chapter X · THE CHURCH.

This description is taken from the “History of St. Rule,” etc. (Pinkerton’s Dissertation, vol. 2, Ap. No. 7, sec. 3, and Jamieson’s Culdees, Appendix No. 7), written by a contemporary of the kings Alexander and David. Like most tradition it is a singular mixture of truth and error. The Hungus filius Ferlon, and his son Howonan, contemporaries of Constantine the Great, are evidently Angus Mac Fergus, who reigned from 820 to 834, and his son Eoganan, who was killed in 839. The “Devotion to St. Andrew”—(Pinkerton, No. 12)—exemplifies the growth of error in such traditions, for it represents the saint bidding Angus dedicate to the Church the tithes of his possessions.