

THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XXIV.— NOVEMBEU, 1859. 



THE QTTIGEICH 



BT DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., 

 ^BOSBSBOE OB HISTOEY AND EH-G-LISH MTEEATTjEE, UHI-TEESITY COllEGE, TOEOSTO. 



Read before the Canadian Institute, 12th Felriiary, 1859. 



Isr the year 1782, Mr. "William Thompson, of Ohriat^s Church 

 College, Oxford, during a long vacation ramble in the highlands of 

 Perthshire, was shown, at the village of Killin, on the banks of 

 Loch Tay, the Qiiigrich, or crosier believed to have anciently belonged 

 to St. Fillan, who has bequeathed his name to the neighbouring 

 Strathfillan, at the head of G-lendochart, as well as to other points of 

 local interest in that district of Perthshire. The Earl of Buchan 

 was then organising the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, which 

 obtained a Royal Charter in the following year, and to him, accord- 

 ingly Mr. Thompson communicated a notice of the curious relic, 

 accompanied with a drawing, the rudeness of which he entreats the 

 Society to excuse, it being only the hasty sketch of a traveller, meant 

 to lead the Society to the possession of the original.* But in this 

 intention the intelligent tourist indulged in hopes which were not 

 destined to realization ; and when the communication was at length 



* Traasactioaa of Soe. Autiq. Scot. vol. iii, p. 289. 

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