220 THE CHURCH OF HUME 



lona to establish the See of Lindisfarne. These had fallen 

 hopelessly out of date in the matter of the correct calculation 

 of the occurrence of Easter; and also out of ecclesiastical 

 fashion by their wearing the anterior instead of the coronal 

 tonsure. 



After this second or Margaretan Re-Formation, the church of 

 Columba abandoned the Lowlands and associated herself with 

 the regions round about Abernethy and Dunkeld. The way 

 being clear, a general re-naming of ancient churches became the 

 correct ecclesiastical usage. Celtic saints were superseded by 

 Roman and Greek. Kentigern, Ninian, and Columba had 

 to yield in many cases to such orthodox names as Cuth- 

 bert, Andrew, and Nicholas. This may have been also the fate 

 of Hume church. The early saint was ignored and became 

 forgotten ; and Nicholas was brought to the front, possibly as 

 the patron saint of the Dunbar family, in his turn also some 

 centuries afterwards to be ignored and forgotten. 



So that a church that has been Celtic and Saxon, Roman 

 Catholic and Protestant, Presbyterian and Prelatic, has wit- 

 nessed on the same spot for centuries to the continuity of the 

 Truth appearing in varying external garb, it may be, but in its 

 inward and vital meaning essentially the same. 



The year 1127 yields a reference to a priest. Cospatric 

 was then a fugitive from his earldom of Northumberland, and in 

 the enjoyment of vast estates which Malcolm Canmore had 

 granted him.^ In that year the clergy of England and Scotland 

 met to consecrate Robert Bishop of St. Andrews, when he, to 

 the satisfaction of the Border ecclesiastics, notified that as a mark 

 of grace the Abbey of Coldingham would be exempted from the 

 peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of St. Andrews. Amongst 

 the local clergymen present whose names are adhibited to this 

 old world document is that of Orm the Presbyter of Houm. 

 His name also occurs under the form of Horm.' For when 

 Cospatric, the third Earl of Dunbar, granted, somewhere between 

 1153-1156, a charter of confirmation in all its rights to the 

 church of Hume, he described them as they were freely and 



2 Illustrations of Scottish History from XII. to XVI. centuries, from 

 MSS. in the Tower and British Museum (Maitland Club.) 



3 Liber de Calchou, No. 287, 



