Note 365 — Chapter X · THE CHURCH.

This difference between the Irish and Scottish Churches may probably be traced to the time when Nechtan drove the monks of Iona out of his dominions, and transferred the superiority to Abernethy. It was adopted, most likely, from the Anglo-Saxons, amongst whom I cannot trace the advocatus any more than the Herenach amongst the Scottish Gael. The character may have existed amongst both people, but I am not aware of any name for it; nor has any word like Vogt penetrated into either English or Scottish, as it has into the Germanic and Scandinavian languages.