- a variation of eccles..
eccl.
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Dunkeld; clergy of Iona removed to, eccl. capital for Scots and Picts, 18; capital of southern Picts, 36; bishopric founded, 53; Andrew, bishop of Caith., abbot of, 83.
From Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns by Gray, James
In fact, if upon any public eccl. grounds the work is to be delayed or not to go on, I cannot see that my money could be more fitly bestowed than in facilitating the arrangement.
From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert
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