436 THE aUIGRICH. 



Scottish antiquary.* Episcopal memorials of the same class, re- 

 covered from more than one ancient tomb in the choirs of Scottish 

 cathedrals, are figured or described in the " Prehistoric Annals of 

 Scotland," along with other ecclesiastical relics connected with the 

 early Scottish church.-j' One of those ancient Scottish Croziers, the 

 relic of a favourite Celtic saint, and a memorial of the older cathedral 

 of the See of Argyll: the Crozier of St. Moluae, — long held, along 

 with a little freehold, in the Island of Lismore, the seat of the old 

 Bishopric, — has been recently transferred to the Duke of Argyll, by 

 the last "Baron of Bachul," as the hereditary keeper of the Crozier 

 was called, from its Gaelic name of Bachul Molir, or the Great Staff. 

 In describing this relic, Mr. Innes adds: "The Baron Bachul's of 

 Lismore, though an uncommon, is not a unique instance of such 

 tenures in Scotland. There is charter evidence of a mere croft of 

 land in Cowal being held in the fifteenth century as an appendage to 

 the office of Keeper of the Crozier of St. Mund, the saint to whom 

 Ealmun is dedicated. In this case the land or the tenure bears the 

 name of Deowray — a name suggesting a similar office with that 

 which gave the name Deor or Jore (modernised Dewar) to the here- 

 ditary Keeper of the Crozier of St. Phillan in Glendochart." To 

 this also may be added, in illustration both of such tenure and name, 

 the Holy Bell of St. Rowen, which still secures to the family of 

 Dewar certain hereditary chartered rights in Monivaird ;j: 



If any such freehold pertained in ancient times to the Doires or 

 Dewars of StrathfiUan, in virtue of their trust, all traces of it have 

 long disappeared. The English tourist to whom we owe the revived 

 knowledge of the Crozier of St. Eillan, — which appears to have been 

 altogether unknown to the authors of the Statistical Accounts of the 

 Parish of Killin, — describes its owner in 1782, as Malice Doire, a day 

 labourer. " The neighbours," he says, " conducted me to the envied 

 possessor of this reli.^, who exhibited it according to the intent of 

 the royal investment. A youth of nineteen, the representative of his 

 father's name, and presumptive heir to the treasure, lay drooping in 

 an outer apartment in the last gasp of a consumption ;" and yet here 

 was one who only wanted patrimonial lands to have claimed a prouder 

 descent than any whose ancestry figure in the Ragman roll. The 



* Proceedings of Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. ii., pp. 12, 125. 

 t Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, p. 464. 

 X Vide Archseol. Scot., ii., p. 75. 



