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Notices of Bishop Carswell. xvii
' nocht be travellit wele throwch in Wynter, quhilk ze
' sail also remember at the Assemblie gif ze be thair ;
' and efter my returning, I vald be glaid to commoun
' with zow as the oportunitie may serve. Thus com-
■ mittis zow to the protection of God.'
In 1564, Carswell was appointed Titular Bishop
of the Isles. It appears from the Register of the
Privy Seal 1 that Mr. Patrick M'Lane having by the
Queen's recommendation been elected Bishop of
the Isles and Abbot of Icolmkill, but from the state
of his health and other circumstances being unable to
fulfil these offices, he resigned his right to Mr. John
Carswell, in consideration of a yearly pension for his
support; and on the 12th January 1564-5, Mr. John
Carswell got from the Queen a grant for life of the
whole revenue, lands, and possessions of the Bishopric
of the Isles and Abbey of Icolmkill, on condition of
his paying a yearly pension to Mr. Patrick M'Lane for
his support, and also paying the stipends of the
ministers planted within the Bishopric, and relieving
the Queen thereof. This gave him a claim to the
revenues of the ancient see. The amount of these was
not great, for previous to his time they had been
greatly dilapidated by his predecessors, and of the
remnant that existed there was manifestly much diffi-
culty in raising any part. In the letter to Mr. Camp-
bell, already quoted, he says on this subject : — ' Bot in
• this mater of Teindis, it is nocht myne, bot the
' factouris. And zit gif George vald remember how
1 B. xxxii. p. 126.
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