The biography of every Bishop of Scotland down to the disestablishment of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1688, by Robert Keith, Bishop of Orkney and primus of the Church with an appendix with the history of the Disestablishment, and continuing the succession of that Church down to 1824; where primary sources differ on the succession in early times, Keith quotes them all. It also contains the foundation of the Church of Scotland and an essay on the Culdees, by the historian Walter Goodall, a list of the Scottish parishes in 1688, the complete Calendar of Saints of the Church of Scotland. and Archbishop Spottiswoode's list of pre-Reformation religious houses in Scotland (monasteries by order, nunneries, cathedral chapters and hospitals; with indices. As a whole, a magnificent reference for Scottish history, an unparallelled volume for her ecclestiastical history.