Tulchan Bishops

The Tulchan Bishops were bishops appointed in Scotland by James VI to draw the Church revenues for his behoof in part, a tulchan being "a calf-skin stuffed into the rude similitude of a calf" to induce the cow to give her milk freely; "so of the bishops, which the Scotch lairds were glad to construct and make the milk come without disturbance."

Related Topics:
Bishop - Scotland - James VI - Tulchan

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One of them, Robert Montgomery, was prosecuted by the religious reformer Andrew Melville.

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