 | Francis Palgrave - Scotland - 1837 - 746 pages
...Parliament held in the city of time, and St. Andrew's, at the feast of Easter then so'lemnity; nex^ following, the said Bishop of Glasgow, in the presence...after which No further opportunity was allowed to he changes ,,T. . . , sides again Wisheart to take any more oaths : but, within eight days after the... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 546 pages
...with agony of mind deplored his errors, beseeched forgiveness, and upon the consecrated host, the four Gospels, the cross of St. Neot, and the black rood of Scotland, he swore a second time eternal homage to the English king. No sooner, however, did Edward return to... | |
 | lord Patrick Fraser - 1848 - 260 pages
...with agony of mind deplored his errors, besought forgiveness, and upon the consecrated host, the four Gospels, the cross of St. Neot, and the black rood of Scotland, he swore a second time eternal homage to the English king. No sooner, however, did Edward return to... | |
 | Joseph Taylor (of Elgin.) - 1858 - 344 pages
...be true and faithful to his sovereign and liege Lord, the King of England, he now took a solemn oath upon the Consecrated Host, the Gospels, the Cross of St Neot, and the Black Rood of Scotland. * His letters patent, by which he thus bound himself and his successors in the see, upon pain of body... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Scotland - 1897 - 474 pages
...Glasgow, who thereupon took the oath of fealty to the King of England for the fourth time, swearing on the consecrated host, the gospels, the cross of St. Neot, and the Black Rood of Scotland. Nothing is more remarkable in the political history of this period than the freedom with which great... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Scotland - 1897 - 436 pages
...Glasgow, who thereupon took the oath of fealty to the King of England for the fourth time, swearing on the consecrated host, the gospels, the cross of St. Neot, and the Black Rood of Scotland. Nothing is more remarkable in the political history of this period than the freedom with which great... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Scotland - 1911 - 276 pages
...and released his prisoner, Bishop Wishart of Glasgow, who swore fealty to him for the fourth time on the consecrated host, the gospels, the cross of St. Neot and the Black Rood of Scotland. In parliament at Lincoln the Pope's letter was discussed. Nothing could have been better calculated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1913 - 620 pages
...Bishop of St Andrews, was the most accomplished perjurer of his age. In 1300 he " did the oath " with the Consecrated Host, the Gospels, the Cross of St Neot, and the fragment of the Vera Crux in the Black Rood of St Margaret. Edward . . . relied a good deal on this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1913 - 626 pages
...Bishop of St Andrews, was the most accomplished perjurer of his age. In 1300 he " did the oath" with the Consecrated Host, the Gospels, the Cross of St Neot, and the fragment of the Vera Crux in the Black Rood of St Margaret. Edward . . . relied a good deal on this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1913 - 632 pages
...Bishop of St Andrews, was the most accomplished perjurer of his age. In 1300 he " did the oath" with the Consecrated Host, the Gospels, the Cross of St Neot, and the fragment of the Vera Crux in the Black Rood of St Margaret. Edward . . . relied a good deal on this... | |
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did the oath " with the Consecrated Host, the Gospels, the Cross of St Neot, and the fragment of the Vera Crux in the Black Rood of St Margaret. Edward . . . relied a good deal on this relic. But of all men a bishop knew his way best among oaths. Probably... 
