28 MAY 1910, Page 16

THE MEDIAEVAL SCOTTISH CHURCH.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

Six,—In your last issue, p. 851, you speak of the Mediaeval Scottish Church as "Roman." A Papal Legate never appeared in Scotland till David's reign, and Roman influence only lasted four centuries. The Scottish Mediaeval Church was akin in all respects to that in England. There never was a Roman Catholic Church in England according to Asquith, Bryce, Dr. Bright, Lord Selborne, Dr. Browne, Freeman, Stubbs, Creighton, and a host of other authorities. In history one reads always of " Ecclesia Anglicana," never of Ecelesia