[169] It was this excellent Bishop who built, at his own expense, the beautiful bridge of seven arches on the Dee, near Aberdeen. The Episcopal arms cut on some of the stones are almost as entire as when chiselled by the hands of the sculptor.
[170] Hist. of Scotland, p. 137.
[171] P. 99.
[172] This is the number given by Bishop Lesley, whose account must be preferred to that of Sir R. Gordon, who states it at upwards of 200, as the Bishop lived about a century before Sir Robert.
[173] Sir R. Gordon, p. 100.
[174] Hist., p. 138.
[175] Lesley, p. 184.—Sir R. Gordon, pp. 109, 110.—Shaw’s Moray, pp. 265, 266.
[176] Sir R. Gordon, p. 133.
[177] Lesley, p. 251.
[178] Sir R. Gordon, p. 136.