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event the people of- Galloway would wish a church specially 
sacred to the memory of St. Martin. Apart from the personal 
relationship between these two, the Gallican Church had then and 
for long afterwards supreme influence in this country. There was 
a church erected to his memory at Canterbury so early as the 5th 
century, and out of 160 churches subsequently built, those at 
Hexham, Ripon, Jarrow, and Monkswearmouth were erected by 
masons and glaziers from Tours in the 7th century. The ancient 
liturgy of the British Church was derived from the Gallican Church, 
and the name of St. Martin of Tours occurs not only in pre- 
Reformation kalendars but in one of A.D. 1587 affixed to “The 
cl. Psalmes of David in Meter, for the use of the Kirk of Scotland.” 
(Bp. Forbes’s Kal., p. xlii). 
There was no one whom the Church more delighted to honour ; 
and in answer to the question, What mean these stones? I think 
I may with reason say that they commemorate Romano-Gallican 
priests who in the 7th century ministered in Kirkmadrine Church, 
then erected to the memory of Sanctus Martinus. 
J. G. H. STARKE. 
