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Title: Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church of Scotland
Publisher: London, Virtue
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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from the full stream of the world, and all habi-tations of men. The minster was rigorously simple. Towers were for-bidden ; a simple low, central lantern, with a pyramidal roof, or, as inScotland, a saddle-back covering, stood above the crossing. The apse wasalmost unkno\vn ; the eastern limb was very short; the transept had anaisle divided into recesses for chapels. Whitewash formed the only decora-tion, and the glass was never more richly dight than with grisaille patterns.The church was always dedicated to St. Mary, and provided only with orna-ments and vestments of the most homely, plain, and inexpensive materials.Peals of bells were quite unknown. A satirist of the fourteenth century thus describes a Cistercian house :— There is a well fair abbeyOf while monks and of grey,There be bowers and halls .... .... shin);lcs allOf church cloister, bowers, and hall.There is a cloister fair and lightBroad and long of seemly sight, 1 Ellis Specimens, i. 87. -i lItl 1^ (1 31SI» SdOHSlF) r
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■ -r, ft SSn-phims Altar T 1—, q; THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. 269 The pillars of that cloister allBe ytumed of ChristalWith harlas (plinth) and capitalOf green jasper and red coral.In the praer (the garthe) is a treeSuithe (very) likeful for to see. The following rules were made for the Cistercian houses in Scotland:—All entered the dormitory after the Salve Regina, and none could leave ituntil the vigil of the morrow was rung ; each had his own bed, and slept ina cloth habit. The sacristan locked the doors, and the abbot received thekeys in order to visit every cell separately. There was a strong dungeonfor offenders, besides the scourge plied in chapter or a particular chapel, andbread and water fare. It may be traced at Pluscardine and Kynloss adjoin-ing the chapter-house. Guests were allowed to converse only with the abbotor prior. Novices were received at the age of fourteen, and served one yearof probation. Flesh meat was eaten in the grace-hall on certain days. Noone

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