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ancient seat of scholarship. Besides, there is a 

 legend connected with the history of the " Gentle 

 Craft," emanating from this celebrated place. In a 

 work, published at Liege, in Belgium, 1689, called 

 " The Lives of the Holy Fathers," we find an ac- 

 count given of a St. Male, who visited St. Andrews 

 about the tenth century, and who performed a great 

 miracle upon the fish of the Tay, for the purpose of 

 strengthening, among the rude inhabitants of the 

 district, a belief in his divine mission to teach the 

 truths of Christianity. There are accounts still ex- 

 tant of similar legends in other parts of Scotland, as 

 well as in England. "We have a notable story con- 

 nected with one of our early English bishops the 

 Bishop of Chichester which shows the common 

 practice of early times of ascribing miracles to fish. 

 The first bishop sent from Eome to this part of 

 England, seeing the people eat greedily of the sand- 

 eels caught near the place, sent information to St. 

 Peter's, that the people here eat serpents. This 

 horrified the Holy See, and a message was sent 

 back, that if they would refrain from such a repul- 

 sive and heathenish custom, they should for the 

 future be amply supplied with real fish, and that 

 of the very first quality. The people consented; 

 the influence of the Holy Pontiff was immediately 

 put into requisition, and a most sumptuous supply 

 of fish of every kind was for a long period most 

 miraculously served out to the benighted but faith- 

 ful people.* 



* History of Chichester. 



