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84 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

of St. Bartholomew worship.t| The Aryan Saint also gave his name to “ Bartholomew Fair’ (in Smithfield, London), which was the principal fair in England in the Middle Ages (from 1133 onwards) for cloth, pewter, leather and cattle and for miracle-plays ; and St. Bartholomew’s Priory on this site, and later St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was given the rights of sanctuary by Edward II. Perhaps the reason for Barthol Chapel, as well as St. Bartholomew’s Day and Fair in the rest of Britain, falling into oblivion in the Roman Church, was the ignominy attaching to papacy through the infamous massacre on that day of the Huguenot Protestants in Paris in 1572.

Another medieval local ‘‘ Bartholomew ”’ of repute is found in the vicinity of the Newton Stone at Leslie on the Gadie River to the east of Mt. Bennachie (see map, p. 19). The founder of the Leslie family and Earl of Garrioch is called “ Bart-olf ’ ina Charter of the twelfth century, and is reputed to have been a Saxon or Hungarian notable who came over with the suite of the family of Queen Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling and spouse of Malcolm Canmore ;? or he may have been one oi the many Anglo-Saxon refugees who were driven to Scotland by the Norman Conquest of England. It seems possible that this Bartolf or Bartholomew, as he is also called, and who became the Earl of Garrioch who founded the house of Leslie, or “ Lesselyn (as this name was spelt in the old Charters) may originally have borne this latter name as his real surname—‘ Lassalle”’ and “La Salle” being Germano-French names—and that he may have adopted, with his “ Garrioch ” title, the old traditional name of Part-olon or Bartholomew, still clinging to that locality. The fact that the old Barthol Chapel was outside Garrioch proper, and was not finally transferred to the Arbroath

1 Tt was the custom formerly in Brittany (or “ Little Britain ’’) for cataleptic patients to spend the night before St. Bartholomew's day dancing in the parish church—an infallible cure for fits. The custom is said not to be altogether extinguished in Brittany at the present day. (B.L.S., 260.) This custom of dancing with reference to fits suggests to me that ‘‘ St. Vitus’ Dance ”’ possibly derives its name from the pagan Saint Burt or ‘“‘ Brit” or ‘* Prwt,’”’ in which the y has dropped out, as in ‘“‘ Biddy ”’ for ‘‘ Bridget,’’ especially as there is no reference to dancing or fits in connection with the youthful martyr St. Vitus in Gould’s life of the latter.

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