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[Page] 90 -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF REAY.

[Plans inserted]
FIG. 18. - St Mary's Chapel, Lybster (No. 338); Plan and Sections.

tions and dated June 1726, this chapel is said to have been dedicated
to St Peter.
There is said to be in its vicinity a spring known as St Mary's well.
See Eccles. Arch., i. p. 162; Muir's Eccles. Notes, p. 107; Anderson,
Scot. in Early Christ. Times, p. 62; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i. p. 185;
Orkneyinga Saga (Anderson), pp. xcvii.-xcviii.; Eccles. Hist. Caith.,
p.39.
O.S.M., CAITH., iv. Visited, 25th August 1910.

339. Reay Church. - In the NE. corner of the churchyard [Inserted note] i.e. the old churchyard , in the village, not the one W. of the
church, which is new - of Reay
are the reconstructed remains of part of the old church, measuring
interiorly 16' 2" x 11' 8". Towards the S. end is a tablet bearing two
conjoined shields. Dexter, On a chevron between three bears' heads
couped, a buck's head erased between two hands holding daggers, all
proper; Sinister, Quarterly, 1st and 4th, the Sinclair galley; 2nd and
3rd a lion rampant; dividing the quarters a cross engrailed. Beneath,
the remains of an inscription to the effect that the aisle or a part of
it belongs to Angus Mackay of Bighouse. On the end wall to