NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 06935027 4 L- inor M VALORID * கைகள் பட்ட கள் THE H Antiquities SC O T LAND .. Bu Francis Große Elg: F. A.S. of London and Perth. PA 1 THE SECOND VOLUNE. ; _11134 IR) 2.2, 91.by SHoon 2013 ONOWO . Milton. WA KANUNIMINT att (et WONDON, printed for S:HoopER,N°212, HIGH HEYBERA. MDCCXCI. COUNTY INDEX, VOL. II. A B E R D E ENS H I R E. : -- ABERDEEN Cathedral Church - Page 264-266 — A N GUSS HIRE. Aberbroth Abbey and Tower, Plate I. — Plate II. ,,- Brechen Cachedral Church Glames Caſtle, Plate I. - Plate II. Red Caitle - Reſtennote Priory 256–260 261—263 254-256 26.1. 256 263 263 ARG Y L E S H I R E. Dunſtaffage Caſtle, Lorne 293, 294 A Y R S H I R E. ¿ 199~201 211, 212 209, 210 202—207 207 207 214, 215 Alloway Church Auchinleck Old Caſtle or Manſion Colaine or Culzeen Caſtle Corſhill Houſe Croſraguel Abbey, Plate I. ' - Plate II. - - Plate III. Dean Caſtle Dolquharran Caſtle Dunure Caſtle, Plate I. _ Plate II. Greenand Caſtle Kilwinning Abbey Machlin Caſtle Maybole or Minniboil Collegiate Church Old Houſe of Caſſils Paiſley Abber, Renfrewſhire 198 = -_- 196, 197 197 198 212--214 210 193, 194 197 215--218 St. COUNTY INDEX, VOL. II. St. John the Baptiſt's Church Sorne Caſtle Turnbury Caſtle Page 194-196 211 208, 209 - BANFFSHIRE. Boyne Caſtle, Plate I. - Plate II. - - - Inchdrewr Caſtle - 271 BERWICKS H I R E. Little Den Tower, (See Addenda, p. 305, Vol. II.)— The View placed facing page 112, Vol. I. CL A C K M A N N A N SHIR E. Clackmannan Tower - 225 arch. St. Andrews FIF ESHI R E. Balmerino Abbey Black Friars, or the Dominicans, St. Andrew's Caſtle of St. Andrew's Cathedral Church, St. Andrews Den Miln Caſtle - - - Dumfermling Abbey, Plate I.. --- Plate II. Dumfermling Fratery Pittenweem Priory Roſeythe Caſtle - 284, 285 290 290, 291 289, 290 292 285–288 288 - 288 282, 283 283, 284 181 - GALLO W A Y. Abbots Tower, near New Abbey Butel Caſtle Dundrennan Abbey, Plate I. - Plate II. Dunſkey Caſtle, Plate I. - - Plate II. Glenluce Abbey, Plate I. - 182 182, 183 184 191, 192 192 184, 185 Plate II. 185 Kenmure - : - - jii Page 189, 190 — — - 190 COUNTY INDEX, VOL. II. Kenmure Caſtle, Plate I. - - Plate II. Kennedy Caſtle, Wigtonſhire Kirkcudbright Caſtle, Plate I. Plate II. Laggan Stone, Plate I. Plate II. C, Lincluden College, Plate I. -- - Plate II. - - of Loch Roi-ton, or Hill Caſtle Mote of Urr (Galloway on the plate) Plate I. - Plate II. --New Alje, o Sweethearts, Plate I. - Plaro II. · Thrieve, or 'Thrieff Caitle (See Addendu, p. 305). 191 187–189 189 190 190-191 171, 175 -- 175. 185, 186 181, 182 182 178-182 - 182 175—178 KINCARDIN E S H I R E. Dunotter Caſtle 267-270 KINROSS - SHIR E. Loch Leven Caſtle Lochor Caſtle - - - 225–228 228, 229 LINLITHGOW SHIR E. Linlithgow Palace --- — 231, 233 . MORA Y SHIR E. Biſhop's Palace, at Spynie, Plate I. - Plate II. Elgin Cathedral Church, Plate I. - Plate II. Pluſcardin Priory 280, 281 281 273—277 277 Plate II. - - 278—280 PER T H S HI R E. Abernethy College, Plate I.- - Plate II. - 251-253 253 Campbell iv [ COUNTY INDEX, VOL. II. Campbell Caſtle, Plate I. (See Addenda, p. 305 and 306) - - Plate II. Culrofs or Kyllenroſs Abbey Doun Caſtle Dunblane Cathedral Elcho Caſtle Gowrie Houſe or Caſtle nting Tower Monks Tower - Page 247, 248 . 248 248-250 243 250, 251 247 244 245-247 244-245 - - 4. - - - 245–247 RENFRE W SHIR E. Newark Caſtle 294 STIRLINGS H I R E. - - Almond Houſe Bruce's Caſtle - - Emanuel or Manuel Nunnery Cambuſkenneth Abbey Stirling Church, or the Grey Friars Stirling Caſtle 234 234 235—236 306 240—242 236—240 T W E E D A L E. 223 219-221 - 224 Auchincaſs Caſtle, Evandale Croſs Church, Peebles Drummelzier Caſtle, Tweedale Nid-Path Caſtle St. Andrew's Church, Peebles Tweedmuir Church 222, 223 221--222 224 I SL A N D S. Brodie Caſtle, Iſle of Arran Ranza Caſtie, Ine of Arran Dunvegan Caſtle, Iſle of Sky Inch Colm Abbey, Plate I. --- Plate II. - Plate III. 295 295 296—-298 299—304 304 304 - - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTOR SENCX AND T'LIEN FOUNDATIONS, AO TT LES 3257 D Finther WEDEN oren F ، با نمبر 1 ۔ 17 ) . کر کر۔ CITR I INCLUDIN COPIECE. [ 172 ] G A LLOW A Y. LINCLUDEN COLLEGE. PLATE I. The college of Lincluden, in Galloway, ſtands upon the water of' Cluden, where it falls into the river Nith, about two miles above or north of Dumfries. This houſe was originally a priory of Benedictine nuns, founded in the reign of King Malcolm IV., by Uthred, father to Rolland, Lord of Galloway, who was buried here. By him Lincluden was endowed with the divers lands lying within the baronies of Corſe Michael and Drumſleith, in the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright. The par- ticulars are mentioned in the notes below*.. This priory was afterwards changed by Archibald the Grim, Earl of Douglas, Lord of Galloway and Bothwell, Panitorius Scotiæ, into a college or provoſtry, conſiſting of a provoſt and twelve beadſmen, becauſe of the lewd and ſcandalous lives of the nuns t. This Earl died A. D. 1400, and was interred in the facriſty # The five Merkland r of Little Dryburgh. of Drumjarg of Ernphillan of Erncraig of Blarome of Meikle Dryburgh' of Chriſſmanton of Blacharne : of Erne Menzie. Culnotrie The fifteen-lhilling land of Stackford The forty-fhilling land of Newton The merkland of Clunie and Skellingholm The ſix merkland of Carraſchtie, or Carnchan The fix merkland of Drumganis The five merkland of Traquier The merkland of Stockholm The five merkland of Nunland The five merkland of Cruiſtanes, or Curriſtains The fix merkland of Holm, now Goldee Lee The twenty-lhilling land of Maryholm The four merkland of Nunholm All lying within the barony of Drumſleith and ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright. † Alienore Prioureſſe de Lincluden del Conte de Dumfries is mentioned by Prynne, ad annum 1296. or The corn mill of Corſe Michael The five merkland of Garrenton The twa and a half merkland of Black Park All lying within the barony of Corſe Michael and ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright. 172 G ALLOW A Y. or veſtry here ; over the door of which is ſtill to be ſeen his and his lady's armorial bearings; ſhe was heireſs of Bothwell; they are neatly carved in ſtone on different ſhields; between which three ſtars are inter- laced with three cups, the latter are the inſignia of his office of Pani- tarius Scotiæ. The name of the firſt provoſt of this college was Elefe. He was ſuc- ceeded by Alexander Cairns, appointed by Earl Archibald the fourth, whoſe chancellor he appears to have been, being, by a charter of that Earl, dated February 12, 1413, thus deſcribed : Alexander de Carnys, Præpo- fitus de Lincluden Cancellarius nofter. In the year 1422 he was ſucceeded by John Cameron, official of Lothian *, and rector of Cambuſlang, who was confeſſor and ſecretary to Archibald, the fourth Earl of Douglas, above mentioned. This John Cameron, on the reſtoration of James I., was named Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, and the year following was appointed keeper of the great ſeal ; he was ſoon after elected biſhop of Glaſgow; and, in 1429, was appointed one of the commiſſioners from Scotland for redreſſing grievances, and ſettling the peace with Eng- land; ſoon after, with the conſent of their reſpective patrons, he made the miniſters of the churches of Cambruſlang, Torbolton, Egleſham, Kirkmahoe, Luſs, and Kilearn, prebendaries of Glaſgow, to have ſtalls within the choir there, and places and votes in the chapter for ever. Among the liſt of patrons, was Sir John Forreſter, of Corſterfin, patron of Kirkmahoe, in right of his wife, Margaret : ſhe, with the conſent of her ſon and heir, Sir William Stewart, agreed to it. In the year 1433 Cameron was appointed one of the delegates from Scotland to the Council of Baſil; to which place he went through Eng- land with a retinue of thirty perſons in his train. IN 1437, when the peace was to be negotiated with England, Cameron was one of the Plenipotentiaries for Scotland, and had a ſafe conduct for that purpoſe to paſs into England, together with Sir Alexander Seaton, Sir Walton Ogilvie, and Sir John Forreſter. After the murder of James I. Cameron was removed from the office of chancellor, when he * An official was one appointed to a Sce, but not confirmed by the Pope. returned G ALLOW A V. 193 returned to his biſhoprick, and built the great tower of the Epiſcopal palace at Glaſgow, on which his eſcutcheon of arms is placed; he alſo laid out a great ſum of money in rebuilding the veſtry, which his prede- ceffor, biſhop Lauder, had begun. · In the year 1439, in an indenture between Jean, widow of James I. and Sir Alexander Livingſton, of Callender, anent the perſon of James II. Among the numerous ſeals appendant to that deed was that of Cameron. He died at Lockwood on Chriſtmas Eve, A. D. 1446. CAMERON was ſucceeded in his provoſtry of Lincluden by Haly- burton, whoſe arms are to be ſeen on the ſouth walls, within the choir. He was ſucceeded by John Methuin, doctor of the decretals, who, in 1437, during the minority of James II., was ſecretary of Scotland, and one of the plenipotentiaries along with Sir John Forreſter, of Corſterfin, lord chamberlain of Scotland, the Lords Gordon and Montgomery, with Sir Vano, or Vans: they met at London in time of open war, and, in 1438, renewed the truce for nine years. IN 1444 Methuin was diſmiſſed from his office of ſecretary, and died ſoon after. He was ſucceeded by provoſt Lindſay in 1449, who, in 1465, was appointed lord privy ſeal ; and, along with Muirhead, biſhop of Glaſgow ; Spence, biſhop of Aberdeen ; Crawford, abbot of Holyrood Houſe; the Earls of Crawford, of Argyle; the Lord Livingſtone, Chamberlaine, and Alexander Boyd, of Duncow, was ſent embaffador to England to redreſs all grievances. This commiſſion is dated in 1465. Upon the 18th of December, 1468, William, Earl of Douglas, aſſembled all the lords, barons, and freeholders, with the oldeſt borderers at Lincluden, to reviſe the border laws, when divers regulations were made. Lindſay was ſucceeded in the provoſtry of Lincluden by Living- ſtone, who was ſucceeded by William Herries, rector of Kirkpatrick, who was one of the attendants upon James, the ninth Earl of Douglas, when upon his pilgrimage to Rome, in 1453. Provost ANDERSON ſucceeded Herries; and Anderſon's ſucceſſor was William Stewart, fecond ſon to Sir Thomas Stewart, of Minto, who was ſecond fon to Sir Alexander Stewart, of Garlies. This provoft Stewart was formerly rector of Lochmaban; he was afterwards biſhop of Aber- deen, and appointed lord treaſurer of Scotland: his arms are ſtill to be Y y feen YS 174 G ALLOW A Y. OL ſeen under the Scots arms, upon the great ſtaircaſe in the provoſt's lodg- ings here, which he either rebuilt, or very much repaired. He was after- wards ſucceeded by provoſt Maxwell, whoſe ſucceflor was Robert Doug- las, ſecond ſon to the baron of Drumlanrig; to him — Douglas, of Drumlanrig, who was ſucceeded by John Douglas, of Boatford, who was the laſt provoſt, when Lincluden became a temporal barony in 1565; ſince which period it has been the property of the Nithſdale fa- mily. From what remains of that ancient building, which is part of the provoſt's houſe, the chancel, and ſome of the ſouth wall of the church, an idea may be eaſily formed of its former ſplendour. The choir in particular was finiſhed in the fineſt ſtile of the florid Gothic. The roof was treble, in the manner of that of King's college at Cambridge, and the truſſes, from whence the ribbed arch-work ſprung, are covered with coats of arms; the lower roof is now entirely demoliſhed; the middle one, a plane arch, ſtill ſtands; but the uppermoſt roof, which conſiſted of timber and lead, was deſtroyed at the Reformation. The Earls of Douglas, when in the zenith of their power and greatneſs, ex- pended conſiderable ſums in ornamenting this place, which was their fa- vourite reſidence, when wardens of the weſt marches. In the chancel is the elegant tomb of Margaret, daughter of Robert III., wife of Archibald, Earl of Douglas, firſt Duke of Terouan, and ſon of Archibald the Grim. Her effigy, at full length, ſays Mr. Pennant, lay on the ſtone, her head reſting on two cuſhions ; but the figure is now mutilated, and her bones, till lately, were ſcattered about in a moſt indecent manner, by ſome wretches who broke open the repoſitory in ſearch of treaſure. The tomb is in the form of an arch, with all parts moſt beautifully carved : on the middle of the arch is the heart, the Douglas's arms, guarded by three chalices *, ſet croſsways, with a ſtar near each, and certain letters I could not read. On the wall is inſcribed, A L'aide de dieu, and at ſome diſtance beneath, Hic Jacet D-na Margareta regis Scotiæ fili quodam Comitiſa de Douglas Dna Gollovidiæ et vallis Annandia. * Theſe are generally ſuppoſed to be cups, the inſignia of his office of cupbearer of Scot- land, and not chalices. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX ANO TIL EN FOUNDATION, PO GEN TH Delen LI AL BERT E UT 20 A lender B ko TURI PETE R PI RENT LECT DIBDI om SED LUE BAR SH 150 Po be by S Hooper, Jan.24 179 Vrúsaresfe . IINCLUDEN COLLEGEPI2 1JNCLUDEN COLLEGE Ple GALLOW A Y. 175 In the front of the tomb are nine ſhields, containing as many arms : * in one are the three ſtars, the original coat of this great houſe, for the heart was not added till the good Sir James was employed in carrying that of Robert Brus to the holy land; beſides theſe are the arms after that event; and alſo their arms as Lords of Annandale, Galloway and Liddeſdale. Near the tomb is a doorcafe, richly ornamented with carv- ing; and on the top the heart and cups, as in the former. In other parts of the remains of this church are the arms of the Doug- laſes, or Dukes of Terouan, Earls of Angus, of Ormond, and of Mur- ray : here are beſides, the arms of John Stewart, Earl of Athol, with the motto, firth, fortune, and fil the fetters. BENEATH one of the windows are two rows of figures, the upper of angels, the lower of a corps and other figures, all much defaced, but ſeem- ingly deſigned to expreſs the preparations for the interment of our Sa- viour. ... The remains of a bowling-green and flower garden, with the par- terres and ſcrolls, .very viſible, ſtill exiſt on the ſouth-eaſt ſide of the building : beyond which is a great artificial mount, with a ſpiral walk to the top, which is hallowed, and has a turf ſeat around, whence there is a moſt delightful view over the adjacent country, to which the junction of the rivers is no ſmall addition. This view, which ſhews the ſouth-weſt aſpect, was drawn A. D. 1789. LINCLUDEN COLLEGE. PLATE II. THIS plate exhibits the ruin as it appears from nearly the north-eaſt aſpect. The building at the end next the ſpectator was the provoſt's tower, or manſion. It was drawn A. D. 1789, a few months after the former. . THRIEVE, OR THRIEFF, CASTL E. THIS caſtle ſtands upon an iſland of fixteen Scots acres, formed in the river Dee, in Galloway. Here was, it is ſaid, a more ancient fortreſs belonging 176 1 anne G ALLOW A Y. belonging to the old Lords, or petty Kings, of Galloway ; which being demoliſhed, the preſent building was erected, but by whom or when is not aſcertained, but ſuppoſed to be by a Douglas. Tradition ſays, this caſtle obtained the appellation of Th’rive's Caſtie, that is, the caſtle of the Rive, from one of the Lords of Galloway, of that family who reſided here; and, from his depredations and extortions, was called the Rive: others derive it from the word Reeve, as being a contraction of the Reeves Caſtle. Upon the ruin of the houſe of Douglas, and the annexation of the Lordſhip of Galloway to the Crown of Scotland in 1455, this caſtle re- mained in the King's hands, who appointed captains for the keeping thereof, as occaſion required. In the year 1502 Sir John Dunbar, of Mochrum, was appointed keeper of the caſtle of Thrieff for nine years, and the twenty-five merks worth of land, called the Granges of Thrieff, and the fiſhery thereof, with all other profits and duties whatſoever, per- taining to the ſaid caſtle, with the office of ſteward, of the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright, for which he was to pay the King yearly, on Whitſunday and Martinmaſs, the ſum of, one hundred pounds, and to keep up the caſtle at his own charge. This grant was dated the 12th of September. But in the year 1524, it appears by another grant, dated at Edinburgh, September 9th, that this caſtle, with that of Loughmaban, with all their perquiſites and appendages, and all the King's lands at Duncow, within the county of Dumfries, together with the office of ſheriff of Kirkcud- bright, and all its profits and fees, were given to Robert, Lord Maxwell, and the longeſt liver of his ſons, and their aſſigns and tenants, for the ſpace of nineteen years from the feaſt of St. Martin. .. The Lords Maxwell, afterwards Earls of Nithfdale, poſſeſſed the heri- table office of ſtewards, of the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright, and keepers of the caſtle of Thrieff, until the year 1747, when all the heritable juriſ- dictions in Scotland were annexed to the Crown. · The keeper of the caſtle of Thrieff received from each of the twenty- fix or twenty-ſeven pariſhes in the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright, what was called a ladner-mart cow, that is, a fat cow, in ſuch condition as to be fit for killing and ſalting at Martinmaſs for winter proviſion. Theſe ladner- mart cows were regularly paid to the Earls of Nithſdale, till the forfei- as ture 191 OF CASTLE OF THRIVE TEGUR the . VAN th WWWW FAST WINDOWS NATIAHOWING THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILREN FOUNDATION, לל GALLOW A Y. ture of the laſt Earl in 1715, when it went into diſuſe ; but formerly, ſo attentive were the family to that right, that when, in the year 1704, they ſold the eſtate, upon which the caſtle of Thrieff ſtood, they reſerved the iſland and caſtle, that it might afford them a title to the twenty-ſeven ladner-mart cows belonging to the caſtle ; and they regularly, by a writ- ten commiſſion, appointed a captain of the caſtle of Thrieff. This ruin is now ſaid to be the property of the Laird of Kelton ; by what means it became private property I have not been able to learn, the Lords Maxwell appear to have held it only as tenants by a leaſe from the Crown. This caſtle conſiſts of a large ſquare tower, built with a ſmall ſlate like ſtone ; is ſurrounded at a ſmall diſtance by an envelope, with four round towers ; it had alſo a ſtrong gate, ſhewn in the drawing; the cur- tains of the envelope were pierced for guns. During the troubles under King Charles I. the Earl of Nithſdale held this caſtle for the King, and armed, paid, and victualled, a garriſon therein of eighty men, beſides officers, all at his own expence ; till at length His Majeſty, unable to give him any aſſiſtance, directed and authoriſed him, by the following letters, to make the beſt conditions he could for himſelf and the garriſon of this caſtle, and alſo for that of Car- leverock, wherein he had been for a conſiderable time beſieged. Letter of King Charles I., addreſſed to our right truſty and right well- . beloved couſin and counſellor, Robert, Earl of Nithſdale. “ CHARLES R. « Right truſty and right well-beloved coſen and councellor, we greet you well. Whereas you have repreſented unto us, by your letter of the 12th of September, that thoſe who have beſieged you ſo long in the caſtle of Carlaverock have now offered you honourable conditions to come out; and foraſmuch as our affairs permit not to relieve you ſo ſoon as we had determined, and as ſeemes your neceſſities require, and being withal moſt willing to free your perſon from further danger, and to eaſe you of the trouble and toyle you have ſuſtained by ſo long a ſiege, we do therefore hereby (graciouſly condeſcending unto your humble requeſt) give you leave to embrace and accept the aforeſaid conditions, for the Z z ſafety 178 GALLOW A Y. ſafety and prefervation of your perfon and eftare, having withal a regard to our honour, fo far as the neceſſity of your prefent condition will permit; and we ſhall ſtill, as we have done hitherto, contiue our gra- cious efteem of you. Given at our Court at York this issth day of Sep- tember, in the fixteenth year of our reign, 1640." Letter from King Charles I., addreſſed as before. “ CHARLES R. * Right trüfty and well-beloved coufen and counſellor, we greet you well. Underſtanding by this bearer, that altho you were agreed with thofe that have boleaguered you in Carlaverock upon honourable terms, for your coming forth, and rendering thereof, yet that thofe conditions are not valid untill fuch time that they be ratified by thoſe that have made themfelves members of the great Committee in Edinburgh, and fearing that your enemies there will not give way to your coming forth upon ſuch good terms, we are therefore graciouſly pleaſed, and by theſe pro- fents do permit and give you leave to take ſuch conditions as you can get, whereby the lives and liberties of yourfelf, your family, and thoſe that are with you, may be preſerved : and in caſe they ſhould urge the ſur- rendry of our caſtle of Thrievė, 'which hitherto you have ſo well de- fended, and we wiſh you were able to do fo ftill, our gracious pleaſure is, that you do rather quit the ſame unto them; which, if ſo, the neceſſity require you to do on the beſt and moſt honourable terms you can, rather than hazard the ſafety of your own perſon, and thoſe with you; and in ſuch caſe this ſhall be your warrant and diſcharge. Given at our Court at York, the 15th day of September, in the ſixteenth year of our reign, 7640:"~ This view was drawn A.D. 1789. NEW AB.BEY. PLATE J.. THIS was a Ciſterſtian abbey, founded in the beginning of the thir- teenth century by Devoçgilla, daughter of Allan, Lord of Galloway, irece to David, Earl of Huntingdon, and wife to John Baliol, Lord of Caſtle- SE see . RE LES PSE UNA 3 URIT ER LA PL TEATRE DRAR we DI A A We . MALL ARECORRER WELL TES SEE ARALINE 11- SALMONEDA . . JARAH V TE 23 ESAIN LU es HOLE B07 HER HR Bals SHEKULLI ht LARIS W HON GISTER E OSTER Ema Damm BENE RIT 1 RE OR TEE BE 11 SR . . DOBIE BE - HO PE 11 UBUH SASA RESULTS LIST LEADER ENTRU ambi . 1 IS D ht $ Ni ELLE . OB EE 19 CL . Site Publish'a Tune 16 89 by JHooper Sporrono ABBY of SWEET HEART in GALLOWAY. | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND T LIEN ECUNDATIONS G ALLOW A Y. 179 Caſtlebernard. Baliol died in the year 1269, and was buried in this new foundation. ANDREW WINTON, prior of Lochlevin, informs us, that the lady, Devorgilla, cauſed his heart to be taken out and embalmed; and putting it into an ivory box, bound with enameled filver, cloſed it folemnly in the walls of the church near the high altar, from whence it was occaſion- ally ftiled the Abbey of Sweetheart, though afterwards more generally called New Abbey.. To this abbey there belonged divers baronies, lands, churches, and other valuable poffeſfions, to the annual amount, in money, of 6821. The particulars of ſome of theſe lands ſee in the note *. * The dirks of St. Katherine, of the Hopes, Mont Lothian, Bolton, Kenniel Dorſtorphin, Kirk- patrick, Durham, Corfe. Michael and Buitle, with the tiends of the ſame, all belonged to this abbey, together with the barony of Lochpatrick, comprehending the 49 merks, and 2 filling lands, of old extent, of Kirkpatrick Durham, viz. “The 40'ſhilling land of Culfhengan Ditto - so of Tarbreach The 5 merk land of Atkighay The, 20 fhilling land of Kirkland The 40, ſhilling land of Monidow The i merk land of Darngarroch *The 38 Shilling land and eight-penny land of Bardarroch The 40 Milling land of Calfat Ditto . • of Nether Macarina Ditto -- of Barmoffete The 20 Shilling land of Margley The 40 ſhilling land of Craigilcay Ditto • • of Knocktulloch Ditto . of Arkland Ditto . of Armone The 2 merk land of Qverbar. Ditto - • of Drumconchre The 2 merk land of Netherbar, with the lands of Corſe and Barbain, which are ſaid to be pen. dicle of Bardarrock, and the mill, with all other and fingular annexes, connexes, woods, fiſhings, parts, pendieles, and pertinents, &c., lying within the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright, and fhire of Dum- fries; which laods were fewed 117 merkş, 8- Thilliqgs, and 8 pennies, Scots, to Robert, Maſter of Maxwell, ſon and heir of Robert Lord Maxwell, to him and the heirs male of his body ; which fajl. ing, to his brother John, and his heirs male; which failing, to the heirs male whatſoever, of the above-mentioned Robert, Maſter of Maxwell, for ſervices done to the abbey by the family of Max. well, for taking the abbey and tenanış, &c., under their protection, as appears by the charter granted to him by John, abbọc of the monaſtery of Sweetheart, and she convent of the faipe, bearing date February 18, 1544. The lands of Ardevell, Engleſton, Corfe Little Barr, Damgar- rock, Kirkland of Corſe Michael, Craigend and Leaths, belonged to this monastery, together with lands now belonging to William Craik, Eſq. of Arbigland, and others. THE 180 GALLOW A Y. The firſt abbot of this houſe was Henry, who died in the journey to Citeaux, in the year 1219. He was ſucceeded by Ericus Magiſter, com verforum ejufdem domús; afterwards, according to Prynne, John, Abbot of this houſe ſwore fealty to Edward, ſurnamed Long Shanks, A. D. 1296, and was one of the free barons who choſe that King to be arbitrator be- tween Bruce and Baliol. FEBRUARY 18, A.D. 1548, the name of the incumbent abbot was John, as appears by his ſignature to a charter to the Lords of Maxwell, then made heritable baillies of Sweetheart. This charter was alſo ſigned by 14 monks, whoſe names were as under: 1. Richardus. 2. Thomas Pedden. 3. Jacobus Derling. 4. Frater Willielmus Johnſtone. 5. Frater Gaven Little. 6. Frater Gilbertus Neilfon. 7. Frater Thomas Murray. 8. Frater Johannes Kirkpatrick. 9. Frater Robertus Notman. 10. Frater Patricius Welſh. 11. Frater Patricius Kowll. 12. Frater Andreas Don- nart. 13. Frater Thomas Dickſon. On the 23d of October, A. D. 1558, one, named John, was abbot, as appears by a charter of his granting. Among the conſenting monks, who figned the deed, is Gilbert Brown, of the family of Garſluth, who afterwards became abbot of this houſe, and was the laſt that held that office. Calderwood, in his hiſtory, ſays, that he fat in Parliament on the 17th of Auguſt, 1560, when the Confeſſion of Faith was approved of; and, in 1605, was apprehended by the Lord Cranſton, captain of the guards appointed for the borders, and was ſent firſt to Blackneſs caſtle. and, after ſome days, to the caſtle of Edinburgh, where he was confined till his departure out of the kingdom. He died at Paris the 14th of May, 1612. After the Reformation this abbey was in the hands of the Crown, from 1587, when the Annexation Act paſſed, to the year 1624, when it was granted to Sir Robert Spotſwood of that ilk; in whoſe time the yearly value of the barony was 2121. 10. 10 įd. ſterling. But it has ſince been burdened by Queen Anne, with a mortification in favour of the ſecond miniſter of Dumfries, paid out of the lands of Drumm, in the pariſh of New Abbey, which, with ſeveral decreets of locality, amount to 1411. 45. 8 d. Tuis abbey ſtands in a bottom; the principal parts remaining are, the church GALLOW A Y. 181 church and part of the chapter houſe, ſaid to have been an elegant piece of architecture, demoliſhed, as was reported, for the ſake of the ſtone. It was feared the whole building would have undergone the ſame fate ; wherefore a number of the neighbouring gentry raiſed a ſum of money by ſubſcription, and the miniſter was employed to enter into an agree- ment with the tenant to prevent it, for which forty pounds was paid him. It is but juſtice to Mr. Copeland, the proprietor, who had purchaſed this abbey of Mr. Spotſwood, to take notice, that he had in his leaſe prohi- bited and guarded againſt all ſuch dilapidations; but hurt that his neigh- bours ſhould ſuppoſe him capable of ſuch a piece of barbariſm as to per- mit ſo great an ornament to the country to be demoliſhed for the paltry ſum of ſix or ſeven pounds, the price he was ſaid to have gotten for the ſtones, he, as a fine, or an amende, honourable to his character and taſte, permitted his tenant to take the ſum above mentioned. The miniſter and ſubſcribers are, however, juſtly entitled to the thanks of the country for their public-ſpirited behaviour on this occaſion. In the roof of the ſouth tranſept is an eſcutcheon, charged with two paſtoral ſtaves in faltire ; over them à heart, and beneath them three mullets of five points, 2 and 1, ſaid to be the arms of the abbey ; over the eſcutheon is an inſcription ; from its height, and want of light, ille- gible ; it is ſaid to be, Chriſtus Maritus Meus, which ſeems more appli- . cable to a nunnery than a houſe of monks. Meaſures of this ruin, as communicated by Dr. Clapperton : Area of the whole demeſnes of this abbey, 16 acres. Height of the tower, 90 feet. . Length of the whole church, 200 feet. Breadth of the middle aiſle, 25 feet. Breadth of the ſide aiſles, 15 feet. Tranſept, 102 feet. Breadth of the arches, 15 feet. Diameter of the columns at the baſe, 4 and į feet. Height of the ſhafts of the columns froin baſe to capital, 10 feet. N. B. Six in number. - 3 A Baſe 182 GALLOW A Y. Baſe of the columns ſupporting the tower, 10 feet. Height of the ſhafts of the columns ſupporting the tower, 20 feet. The pariſh kirk ſtands on the ſouth ſide of the church, and is formed out of part of the ruins ; near it is a ſmall gate leading into the abbey, on which is a bell - this is of a ſingular ſtile of architecture; on it are ſeveral defaced carvings in baſſo relievo, with two eſcutcheons of arms. The burial ground lies to the eaſt of the abbey church ; in it are ſome ancient tombſtones ; on one a croſs, with a large and broad ſword on the ſiniſter ſide of it. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. : NEW ABBEY. PLATE II. I HE former view ſhewed the north-weſt appearance of this venerable ruin. This was taken a little to the eaſtward of the ſouth. ' BUTEL CASTLE. THIS ruin was the baronial caſtle of Butel, built out of the materials of a very ancient caſtle of the ſame name. It ſtands in the ſtewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, and pariſh of Butel, on the weſt ſide of the water of Urr, about fifteen miles from Dumfries to the weſtward, and is now the property of George Maxwell, of Muncies, Eſq. The ancient building, from whoſe remains this was erected, ſtood at very ſmall diſtance. The mount, ſome ſcattered fragments of walls, a draw well, and the ſurrounding foſs, all overgrown with trees, fhrubs, and buſhes, are the ſole remains of this fortreſs, ſaid to have been conſi- derable when Galloway was an independant ſtate, and afterwards to have been the favourite reſidence of John Baliol, ſometime King of Scotland. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. THE EI . IN 4. EL ALL HEHEH V pa :: She KURIR Honfun Hana 190 IW ABBY GALLOWAY PI.2.. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A&TOR, LENEX ANO. TILDEN FOUNDATIONS, le HS waren ? Marron', c. Fechahi d' May 28":790. ly 1. Ficopter BUTIE CAS T'IE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ALTOR, LENOX AND T'LIEN FEUNDATION, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND fa£N VUN ĐAT NA, " لان او در 41 FIL الملل اواواووووو ة الولاء الم - دم ورل Go und و من t ولن کی T , IT ,۲۷) ۔ LOUIS FLETUS OS 25 Bw. 15. Jan.) 1700 by. Hooper, J. Lanseer. Sc. MOTE OF GALLOWAY GALLOW A Y. 181 THE ABBOT'S TOWER, NEAR NEW ABBEY. THIS-tower was the reſidence of the abbots of Sweetheart, or New Abbey, when they choſe to retire for a ſhort time from the cares of their office. It commands an extenſive proſpect, and, when in repair, muſt have been a very healthy. habitation, much more ſo than the abbey, which lies rather "low. : In peruſing Keith’s lift of churchmen, it will appear that Sweetheart Abbey produced ſome eminent ſtateſmen and divines, who, it is probable, here planned their political ſyſtem, or purſued their ſacred reſearches, free from the forms, duties, and intrigues, of the convent ; for all ſocie- · ties, even convents, have their intrigues. This place is now the property of Mrs. Maxwell, of Kirkconnell, who purchaſed it ſome years ago. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. A THE-MOTE OF URR. PLATE I. THIS artificial mount was, according to tradition, what is implied by the Saxon term, mote, that is, a place of judicature, or public aſſembly; and when Galloway was an independant ſtate, this was the court where the Reguli, or petty Kings of that diſtrict, held their national councils, and promulgated ſuch, new laws and regulations as were found neceſſary from time to time to be enacted. It was alſo the ſeat of judgement, where their doomſters or judges tried capital offenders. At this time Galloway was divided into two diſtricts, namely, above and below the water of Cree. The mote of Urr was then the great court of judica- cature for the latter. This mount, or hill, greatly reſembles that of the Tinewald, in the Iſle of Man, which is appropriated to the fame uſes.. This kind ºf court was not peculiar to Galloway, or the Iſle of Man. Mounts called motes and court hills are to be ſeen near a great number of caſtles and baronial manſions, not only in Scotland, but in England alſo; their uſe, however, as courts of juſtice, ſeems forgotten in England, where 182 GALLOWA Y. where it has been gencrally ſuppoſed that they were conſtructed for mili- tary purpoſes, particularly to anſwer the uſes of cavaliers, in overlook- ing or commanding the moveable towers, or other works of an enemy. MOTE OF URR. PLATE II. THE mote of Urr is here ſhewn from a different point of view; whence its form may be better diſtinguiſhed than in the former plate, where it is ſomewhat obſcured by the intervening trees and houſes. '. Both theſe views were drawn A. DUNDRENNAN ABBEY. PLATE I. THE following account of the foundation of this abbey is chiefly tranſcribed from the Appendix to Keith’s Catalogue of the Biſhops, &c. - DUNDRENNAN ABBEY, ſituate on Solway Frith, about two miles from Kircudbright, in Galloway, was founded by Fergus, Lord of Gal- loway, in the year 1142. The monks thereof were of the Ciſterſtian order, brought from Rievall, in England. · Sylvanus was the firſt abbot of this place ; he died at Belleland, 7 mo. Id. O&tobris, anno 1189. The laſt abbot hereof was Edward Maxwell, ſon to John, Lord Herries, after whoſe death King James VI. annexed this place to his royal chapel of Sterling. The chronicle of Melroſs is thought to have been written by an abbot of this monaſtery. The firſt part thereof is certainly penned by an Engliſhman, and is a continuation of Bede's Hiſtory ; the fecond part appears to have been written by a Scotſman, familiar and con- temporary with our Stuarts., The Oxford edition, publiſhed in the year 1684, does not agree with our manuſcripts. Alan, Lord of Galloway, was buried in this place in the year 1233.” In the Appendix to Keith's Hiſtory of the Church and State of Scotland, the annual revenues of this houſe, in money, is ſaid to amount to 500 l. This monaſtery, as is evident from its ruins, was once both a beauti- ds. ful Euftactile barch cé"1790 by J Hooper sparrow li MOYE OF C Α'O WAY. P1 2 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTOR, LEKCX AND VALSEN FOUNDATIONS, THE NEW visini PUBLIC LIBRARY SU AXTOR, LENEX AND TIL EN FOUNDATIONS, " اداء .تې نهه ه ، ۰ ۳ فن مدل جه | با ما . ح دو و ۲ ور . . . د ورة سنامه DUN11F 17TAN ABBY P1 1. 183 GALLO W A Y. ful and extenſive pile, but is r.ow miſerably dilapidated. Hither the un- fortunate Queen Mary was eſcorted from Terreagles by the Lord Herries, and from hence ſhe is ſaid to have ſet out for England. The tomb of Alan, Lord of Galloway, was lately to be ſeen ; he lay in a niche in the croſs aiſle, on the eaſt fide of the north door. It is now demoliſhed, but the mutilated trunk of his effigy is ſtill ſhewn ; he was repreſeinted in a recumbent poſture, and croſs legged like a cru- fader ; for though the figure is deprived of its legs, the poſition of the thighs ſhew they were crofled. He is habited in mail armour, over which is a ſurcoat, a belt croſs his right ſhoulder, and another round his waiſt. His lady, it is ſaid, lay on the other ſide of the door. FROM-a plan, in the pofleſſion of the miniſter, it appears that the church of this monaſtery was in the ſhape of a croſs; that over the in- terſection of the body and the tranſept there was a ſpire, which, tradi- tion ſays, was 200 feet high. The body was 120 feet in length, and divided into three ailles by ſeven cluſtered columns fupporting arches on each ſide. The breadth of the ſide aiſles was 15 feet each, that of the middle aiſle 25 feet. The tranſept meaſured, from north to ſouth, 120. feet, from eaſt to weſt 46 feet. . The eaſt end of the church: was of the ſame breadth as the middle aiſle, and only 35 feet in length; four ſmall cluſtered columns, ranging on each ſide of, and in a line with, the two eaſternmoſt that ſupported the ſpire, divide the tranſept into two unequal portions... On the ſouth ſide of the church were the cloyſters, containing a ſquare area of 94 feet, with a graſs plat in the center; eaſt and weſt, but chiefly ſouth of the cloyſters, were the lodgings and different offices of the monaſtery, occupying a ſpace of near 200 feet ſquare.: towards the ſouth end of the weſtern. ſide of theſe buildings was a ſmall projecting erection, in ſhape of a croſs, exactly ſimilar to the church, but inverted thoſe parts which fronted the eaſt in one, facing the weſt in the other." This view, which ſhews the north tranſept of the church, and the adjoin- ing offices of the monaſtery, as viewed from the north weſt, was drawn A. D. 1789. 2 B : DUNDREN- 184 G A L L O W A Y. DUNDRENNAN ABBET. PLATE II. This view ſhews the eaſtern aſpect of the building, which now belongs to Thomas Carnes, Eſq. of London, who purchaſed it about two years ago of the family of —— Curry, Eſq. GLENLUCE ABBEY. PLATE I. GLENLUCE, or Vallis lucis, in Galloway, gives name to a con- ſiderable Bay, as well as this Abbey, which was of the Ciſtertian order, founded in the year 1190 by Rolland, Lord of Galloway, and Conſtable of Scotland. The monks of this monaſtery were brought from Melroſs. Walter, abbot of this place, was ſent to Scotland by John, duke of Albany. Laurence Gordon, ſon to Alexander, biſhop of Galloway, and arch- biſhop of Athens, was likewiſe an abbot of this place. King James VI., in the year 1602, erected Glenluce into a temporality, which, in 1606, was confirmed by an act of parliament. After his death, John Gordon, dean of Saliſbury, ſon to the biſhop above mentioned, became Lord Glen- luce, and diſpoſed of the lordſhip to Sir Robert Gordon, his ſon-in-law. Afterwards Glenluce was united to the biſhoprick of Galloway by act of parliament, and at length Sir James Dalrymple, preſident of the ſeſſion, a gentleman of an ancient family in Carrick, was created Lord Glen- luce ; his ſon, Sir James Dalrymple, king's advocate, juſtice clerk, and ſecretary of ſtate, was likewiſe Lord Glenluce and Earl of Stair. AMONG Mr. M*Farlan's papers in the Advocate's library, Edinburgh, is a deſcription of Galloway by Mr. Andrew Sympſon, A. D. 1684, wherein the ruins of this abbey are thus deſcribed :-" In this pariſh, that is, Glenluce, about half a mile or more northward from the parock kirke, is the abbey of Glenluce, ſituated in a very pleaſant valley, on the eaſt ſide of the river of Luce: the ſteeple and part of the walls of the church, together with the chapter houſe, the walls of the cloyſter, the gatehouſe, with the walls of the large precinēts, are for the moſt part yet ſtanding. In this pariſh of Glenluce there was a ſpirit, which for a long time moleſted the houſe of one Campbell, a weaver: it would be RIC Ahlrich DELLA ZA TER - ir - 1.10 A sh bolest by I Hafer Wing is 790 - DIND RENNON A B.BEY P12 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND ILOEN FOUNDATION SER TO ! ! " " 3 P . SA HF 19 GLENLUCH ABEY Fl.l. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX AND TILIEN FOUNDATIONS, AVGIT Telia WHOA AIN SE ауыр ма А 4 Р о 6. Елена 1. се к А у , на : 5. Тына тиым с Б. 11 GITNI UCI ABBY PI: 2 АЛА НА БА 22 Ернар ига на 11 за за МУС NASAN ТАРТ алган сизнистед 2,3 % терите не на НА тарына НЕ НАСілды 186 GALLOW A Y. from its ſtile, does not ſeem older than the middle of the ſixteenth cen. tury ; indeed, from the dates of 1598 and 1600 over the gate and inner court, it is moft likely ſome re-edification, or great repair, took place at thoſe times. From the wardrobe account of the year 1300, publiſhed by the ſociety of Antiquaries, it appears here was at that time a caſtle, or manſion, of ſufficient ſize and conſequence to receive King Edward I. who remained here one night, in his way from the caſtle of Caerleverock to Kirkcud- bright, and in his chapel here offered up his oblations ; the words of the original are, “ 17 die Julii in Oblac' Regis ad Altare in Capella ſua apud Loghroieton, 7s.”. Poflibly the royal chapel might have been a tent or portable building. ng. .. This fortalice was afterwards one of the Arengths poſſeſſed by the Douglas family, when Lords of Galloway, and upon the ruin of that houſe was granted to the Herries family, from whom it came to the Lords Maxwell, and devolved to a cadet of that houſe; thence denominated Maxwell of the Hills, according to a copy of an ancient pedigree of the Nithſdale family, in the poſſeſſion of Captain Robert Riddell, of Friars Carſe, F. A.S. Robert, the ſon of the ſixth Lord Maxwell; by Beatrix, the daughter of James, Earl of Morton, died here September 13th, 1552, aged about five years, having ſurvived Lord Robert, his father, only a year. This infant, Robert, is not mentioned in Douglas' Peerage ; his brother John there ſtands as the immediate ſucceſſor to Lord Robert; by this family the caſtle and its demeſnes were ſold, and are at preſent the property of M‘Cullock, of Ardwall, Eſq. . • This edifice, which ſurrounds a ſquare court, is now divided into dif- -- ferent tenements. Several coats of arms, with initial letters, are ſet up on different parts of the buildings, chiefly thoſe of the Maxwells and their alliances : over the gate, which is pierced with loop holes for muf- quetry, are the arnis of Scotland, and the date 1598. There is another eſcutcheon, the date 1600 ; both, probably, commemorating, as has been before obſerved, the times of ſome conſiderable repairs or erection. : This view was drawn A. D. 1789. - -.-.--.---- ---- LAV OY CITA X le - Oristinn1728 IN htluse LES Up Rain ent MW IN Filtering 29 '789 oy terperii Up 0.3 roit,'s THE PILLS TOWER THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX ANO TILEEN FOUNDATION, HOW YORK LILIBRARY o lanex 1997 رہے۔ وار را * انا { اور = = تنه ده وه ان الام : شهدا . - یکی از محمد خیرا KIRKINDELIGHT CASTLE PI:1. G A LLOW A Y. 187 .: KIRKCUDBRIGHT CASTLE. PLATE 1. .' HERE was an ancient caſtle belonging to the Dowals, Lords of Galloway, when Galloway was a regality independant of the kingdom of Scotland. This caſtle deſcended with the other property of the Lords of Galloway, to Dervorgelda, heireſs of Allan, the laſt Lord of that regality, and was afterwards annexed to the crown, till James IV. by a. charter, dated at Edinburgh, 26th of February, 1509, granted it, together with the caſtle inains, to the Burgh of Kirkcudbright. The mounds and dykes of this caſtle are. ſtill remaining; by its ſituation it evidently appears to have been conſtructed to defend the entrance of the river Dee. .!...... . . . . : In the town of Kirkcudbright, and probably in this caſtle, King Edward I. reſided ſome days, when on his expedition to the ſiege of Carieverock, in the year 1300, as is ſhewn in the wardrobe account of that year, lately publiſhed by the Society of Antiquaries, of London.. KIRK CUDBRIGHT CASTLE alſo afforded à temporary refuge to the unfortunate King Henry VI. after the battle of Towton, as may be ſeen in the Paſton Letters, vol. 1. p. 248, wherein is the following paffage, " The Kyng Herry is at Kirkowbre with iiij men and a childe, Quene Margaret is at Edinburgh and hir fon”; this is at the bottom of a copy of a letter, dated at Diepe, zoth of Auguſt, 1461. · KING JAMES IV. of Scotland was at Kirkcudbright in March, 2508, as is proved by publick papers, dated at that place. The tra- dition is, that he was hoſpitably entertained there, and that the burgh claimed a reward for their former ſervices to James II. and to himſelf, whereupon he, with conſent of parliament, granted them the old caſtle and mains, as has been above-mentioned. The latter caſtle of. Kirkcudbright, here delineated, was built by Thoras M‘Lellan of Boinbay, anceſtor of the Lords of Kirkcudbright, about the year 1570, on the ſite of the collegiate church, then lately demoliſhed by the reformers, which was granted by King James VI. then a minor, the Earl of Murray being the regent. This charter Cc conveyed 183 GALLO W AY. CON conveyed the whole and entire ſite, * foundation, and place, upon which the place and church of the brothers of Kirkcudbright, were originally conſtructed or erected, together with ſtones therein remain- ing, with all the orchards, gardens, and appurtenances.” It was dated 6th December, 1569. The deſcendants of this Sir Thomas enjoyed the caſtle he had built till April 1663; when ſome women having made a diſturbance at the introduction of an epiſcopal miniſter into the Kirk of Kirkcudbright, the privy council granted a commiſſion to the Earls of Linlithgow, Galloway, Annandale, and Drumlanrig, with Sir John Wauchop, to enquire into the matter. Theſe four earls came to Kirkcudbright caſtle, and found that Lord Kirkcudbright had countenanced what thoſe women had done ; they therefore ſent him priſoner to Edinburgh, 23d May, 1663, where he ſhortly after died, and his neighbours by degrees acquired all his eſtates. During the uſurpation of Cromwell, this lord, with moſt of the Scotch Preſbyterians, had oppoſed the independants, by which he had ſuffered greatly in his fortune; but being likewiſe a great opponent to epiſcopacy, he became obnoxious to government. Afrer his death the caſtle of Kirkcudbright came at length by ſucceſſion to the late Sir Robert Maxwell, of Orchardton, he fold it to the preſent Earl of Selkirk, who is the preſent proprietor. The remains of this building ſhew it was once an elegant as well as large ſtructure ; ſome ancient perſons living when this view was taken, ſaid, that it had extended much farther than it then did, had formerly a handſome gate, and that the roof was taken off about forty years ago, ſince which it has been much injured; the ſtones having been taken for other erections. AGAINST the building are tivo coats of arms; over that on the ſiniſter fide are the initials, G M, and the date, 1582, probably the time when the caſtle was completed, or ſome conſiderable addition made to it. The arms are thoſe of Herries, the Three Hedgehogs, beneath them * TOTUM et integrum ſolum fundum et locum, fuper quibus locus et ecclefiæ Fratrum de Kirkcudbright per prius conſtruebantur ſeu ædificaban:ur, una cum omnibus lapidibus ſuper eiſdem exiftentibus, cum pomariis, hortis et pendiculis. . . this THE NEW YORK I PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANS T'LEEN FOUNDATIONS. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ANTON, LENCX AND TALKEN FOUNDATIONS, GALLOW A Y. this motto, Dons dedit, and another obliterated inſcription, which, according to tradition was, This is the houſe of Herries. KIRKCUDBRIGHT CASTLE. PLATE 11. THIS view ſhews the North aſpect; the former was taken from the Eaſt: both were drawn A. D. 1789. KENMURE CASTLE. PLATE I. THIS caſtle ſtands on a very commanding eminence, at the head of Loch Ken, where the water of the Ken runs into the lake. It is ſaid to have been one of the feats of the ancient Lords of Galloway, and par- ticularly the favourite reſidence of John Baliol, fome time King of Scot- land. KENMU Ř E was for a ſhort time in the hands of the Douglas's, and afterwards, A. D. 1297, with the lands of Lochinvar, acquired from John de Maxwell, by Sir Adam de Gordon, Knight, and has ever ſince continued in his family; one of whom, Sir John. Gordon, of Lochinvar, was (according to Douglas) by King Charles I. raiſed on the 8th of May, 1633, to the dignity of the Peerage, by the titles of Viſcount Kenmure, Lord Lochinvar, to him and his heirs male; and as a farther teſtimony of his majeſty's favor, part of his lands were erected into a royal burrough, with ample juriſdiétion, to be called the Burgh of Galloway, now New Galloway, which with Wigton, Whithorn, and Stranraur, fends a member to the Britiſh parliament. ROBERT, the ſeventh Viſcount, from a too grateful ſenſe of the favors conferred on his anceſtors by the Stuart family, unhappily engaging in the Rebellion, A. D. 1715, was taken priſoner at Preſton, tried, condemned, and executed; his honors and moſt of his eſtates con- fequently forfeited to the crown. Since which his deſcendants have, by their ſervices in the army, endeavoured to compenſate for the miſ- taken attachment of their predeceſſor. - THE Igo GALLO W. A Y. The buildings of this caſtle conſiſt chiefly of two towers, now in ruins, to which ſome later erections, ſtill habitable have been added, en. compalling a ſquare court. Tradition ſays, this caſtle has been twice burned; once during the reign of Queen Mary, and a ſecond time by Oliver Cromwell, or his order. In digging iately near the foot of the mount on which the caſtle ſtands, a great number of cannon balls were diſcovered, ſome forty-eight, and others fix pounders. This plate, which ſhews the diſtant view of the caſtle, the lake, and romantic mountains riſing behind it, was drawn A. P. 1790. KENMURE CASTLE. PLATE 11. THIS plate, which ſhews the entrance into the caſtle, was drawn at the ſame time as plate I. THE LAGGAN STONE. PLATE I. THIS huge ſtone, which is ſo poiſed as to be moveable with a ſmall exertion of force, ſtands near the ſummit of a high ridge of moun- tain's, called the Kells Rins. The particular hill on which it is ſituated is called Mullæ, and the ſtone itſelf is called the Mickle lump; near it is a ſmall pool of water which covers about half a rood of land. The dimenſions of this ſtone are, its greateſt length eight feet nine inches, its height five feet one inch and a half, its circumference twenty- two feet nine inches. This plate gives the appearance of the ſtone, as ſeen at a ſmall diſtance ; the figure ſerves as a ſcale to determine its magnitude. ON THE LAGGAN STONE. PLATE II. . . A DISTANT view of this ſtone is here exhibited, with the adja- cent rocks. Both views were drawn A. D. 1790. . IT 11 . THE NE 23 Iparron je Fubinstein ind is 1790. lry S. He wpur. KENMIKE CASTIF 11.2. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOX, LEMCX AND T'LON TUMA TIRAR WALK WWW SKI NOVO WAN ELLEN WW30 INI W WADAS MAXX 23 SA NA SAS NA ANNON AUSWANAM ASSON SAN AVX NE dengan design RE STRESS ONS 14 24 wild Puck by J Houper Dec.30.17.90 LAGCAN STONEPli. Vivares.se . THE NEW YORK 2JBLIC LIBRARY STOM, LENOX AND TEN FOUNDATIONS, per SSMANN ANN UNEN 12 WO IN WW WA SO SA ON WWW EU BV ANAWAU 1SAVONA W WANAWAKE RA SA 2 MWAN YO TAN KOVEAWN S3506 W VANIE W VE 02 WA NO WWW ANNONSONANOWM MIROSLE SAWWWWWWW SONN TEN ASSIVE KW WAWA A G WESSON IND COM EN WANNEN ESROMAANINESS WA UM WWW WA KASA USA ANA 23 WOWA DAWAN VER SAVO DOW EUX ANNA BY WENN NAUWTA X AN SAU AM SISSE WA Y SE A N WA NE ANO WEWS AU SIS lco MINI WW SONON HELG AYO SEN w RE SWS CSSON SONAS SONS Tívarez a ja ime. 9.00 Deco3Q?190. . . L'ACCAN STONI P12 THE NEW YORK! PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TRDEN FOUNDATIONS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANO TILBEN FOUNDATION. CASTLE KENEDY erdoor is hin 68 11:S1 db pumana PRA sen 4110 Dowin LES UW06 TY ali i i AM 38 DIENA ante Ramsaue 3412 0923 ule de H BRUNEI STROW 2017 NGHUBU INTHIAN. bomo 1 HASSIN T IH NALA? UK 13 33 VINIONS A MEAT W ARE DRUL ANPERINT SO 1 ter SU 3 BASI Muut BRUSCRIBERAR ME ni :01.) R L 2x 14 1 03 TETTE SIBI2 ! THER GALLOW A Y. 191 It ſeems doubtful whether moſt of theſe rocking ſtones are the effects of art or chance. Some ſuppoſe them to have been thus poiſed by the Druids, with an intention to impoſe on their followers by the appearance of a miracle ; others think them the product of accident, on ftones of a particular forin, the circumjacent earth being waſhed from their baſes by fome torrent or heavy rain. · CASTLE KENNEDY. . .:: WIG TONSHIRE. THIS caſtle ſtands in an iſland well planted with trees, in a beautiful lough. The exact time of its conſtruction is not known; but probably it was not built till after the year 1668, as it is not mentioned in a charter or retour of that date. This view was taken A. D. 1789, from the high road leading from Newton Stewart to Stranrawer. CASTLE KENNEDY was anciently the ſeat of the Caſſils family, from one of whom it was purchaſed by the firſt Earl of Stair. The ruinous ſtate of the part here ſhewn, was occaſioned by an accidental fire, which happened in 1717, and is ſuppoſed to have begun in the landry. Every thing was conſumed, but no lives were loſt, as the family were not at home : the gardener ſaved himſelf by jumping out of a high window. :. . DUNSKEY CASTL E. DUNSKEY CASTLE ſtands about half a mile ſouth of Port Patrick, on the neck of a rocky cliff which projects out into the ſea at the extremity of the Mull of Galloway. The building occupies the whole front or breadth, but has an area or parade behind it, about twenty yards deep; it was vaulted, and ſeems to have been calculated for defence ; the acceſs to it was over a draw-bridge. In the back part of the caſtle there are ſome remains of ornaments, which ſhew it was Dd once 192 GALLOW A Y. once a handſome building; many of the ſquared ſtones have been taken away by the owner, for the purpoſe of building a modern ſeat; the rooms were moſt of them very ſmall ; the ſtair-caſe was in the eaſt angle. HISTORY mentions a caſtle here as early as the time of Eugen V. who began his reign A. D. 685. In that king's reign it is ſaid to have been beſieged by Egfrid, King of Bernicia. It is alſo ſaid by Mr. An- drew Sympſon to have been once a great caſtle belonging to the Lords of Airds in Ireland; both theſe relations muſt certainly refer to fome former caſtle or caſtles on or near the ſame ſpot; for from the ſtile of the preſent building, it is evidently apparent that it is not older than the middle of the ſixteenth century, nor is it entitled to the epithet of large; it is nevertheleſs ſtrongly ſituated with reſpect to the ſea, though commanded from a variety of places on the land ſide: when Mr. Symp- ſon wrote, it belonged to John Blair, of Dunſkey, fon and heir of maſter John Blair, late miniſter of Portpatrick; it is at preſent the property of the repreſentative of Sir James Hunter Blair, who married the heireſs, and has an elegant modern houſe in the neighbourhood. This caſtle, like many other ancient buildings, lies under the report of being haunted with evil ſpirits ; and it is particularly affirmed that a miniſter of the pariſh had here a bickering with the foul fiend Satan himſelf, whom he put to flight. : . DUNS KEY CASTLE. PLATE I. THIS plate ſhews a nearer view of the caſtle, as it appears from a ſtation almoſt oppoſite to that from whence the former drawing was made. Both were taken A. D. 1789. A Y R. 5. THEINNEHAVE Sub, 87. Nov.1789.ly 1. Heopor, VIVARESCO. DINSKTY CASTLEF].1: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY”. ASTOR, LEROX ANI TUEN SOMO TAR HELLFOLIE SER BRE SEL BE ESP he Ginawit 53 Udhish us the di diverset May 10, 1730 tys Hooper London - Dansky Castle THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AN AITOR, LENCX ANS TILIEN FOUNDATION, this hugs in r i the AAR > As.n * -ve பாட KAN R சம்சயமாக artupumnir u th mullims பா ப பபப turinaanaalanurianusandure பெyumanam , || -பா. e els யாபுmaniam உHHHY Tirutt ani, யார் . A NINATHUK சோ சாதா udni M TO D 4 = 0 * + தப் "E பாயய ம *-'- ( Muw This ( ' IT, TNCIATE CHITREAT MAYROLE கடன் turn * Hints THAINS tah தை T SDP 13 - G -பபபபா * பட்ச Alai AL ( 193 ) : A Y R S H I.R E. . THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF MAYBOL E OR MINNIBOIL. THIS collegiate church was founded in the year 1441, by Sir Gilbert Kennedy, of Dinnuré, anceſtor to the Earl of Caſiils, for a provoſt or rector, and ſeveral prebendaries; it was confecrated in honour of the bleſſed Virgin Mary. The founder, by his charter, dated at Edinburgh, the 18th of May, in the year before mentioned, endowed it with all, and ſingular, his lands of Largenlen and Brocklack, within the county of Carrick, In a manuſcript deſcription of Carrick, by the Reverend Mr. Aber- crombie, miniſter of Miniboile, among Mr. M'Farlan's collection, there is the following deſcription of this place. “ There was alſo a collegiate church at Mayboll, the fabrick whereof is ſtill extant and entyre, being now uſed as the burial place of the Earls of Caſillis and other gentle- men, who contributed to the putting of a roofe upon it, when it was decayed. On the north ſide of which kirk is the buriall place of the Lord of Colaine ; within are encloſures of new ſquare ftone, lately built; the college confifted of a rector and three prebends, whoſe ſtalls are all of them yet extant, ſave the rector's, which was where thoſe low buildings and the garden are, on the eaſt ſide of that which is now the parfon’s houſe, with the orchard and the wall-trees. The patrimony of this church, were the proveſts and prieſts lands, in the pariſh of Kirk Michael, which fell into the Earl of Caſillis's hands, upon the diffo- lution of the college at the Reformation, out of which he as yet payes yearly to the miniſter of Mayboll, the ſum of 70 marks Scots. As for the church, its preſent patrimony is out of the tyth of the pariſh, which 194 A YRSHI R E. which before the Reformation, was all poſſeſſed and enjoyed by the nuns of North Berwick; and on the diſſolution of the ſaid nuonerie, became a prize to the Laird of Bergeney. The pariſh church ſtands at a little diſtance from the foreſaid college, eaſtward; it does not appear when it was built; but the large iſle, that lyes from the body of the church, fouthward, and makes the figure of the church a T, was built by Mr. James Bonar, miniſter thereat, in the reign of K. Charles the Firſt. Within the ſaid pariſh of Mayboll, there have been other chappels of old, as Kirkbride, on the coaſt fide, whoſe walls and yard be yet extant; and within the lands of Achindrain, and elſewhere, there have been other chappels, whereof the rudera are yet to be ſeen. . The towné of Mayboll ſtands on an aſcending ground from eaſt to weſt, and lyes open to the ſouth ; it hath one principal ſtreet, declining towards the eaſt ; it is pretty well fenced from the north by a higher ridge of hills that lies above it, at a ſmall diſtance northwards ; it hath one principal ſtreet, with houſes on both ſides, built of free-ſtone ; and it is beautified with the ſituation of two caſtles, one at each end of this ſtreet; that to the eaſt belongs to the Earl of Caſſillis, beyond which, eaſtward, ſtands a great new building, which be his granaries. On the weſt end is a caſtle which belonged fome time to the Laird of Blarrquhan, which is now the Tolbuith, and is adorned with a pyra- mide and a row of balluſters round it, raiſed upon the top of the ſtair- caſe, into which they have mounted a fyne clock.”. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH. AYR. For the following account of this building I am indebted to a reve- rend gentleman, whoſe name I am not authoriſed to mention. The ruins of the church of St. John the Baptiſt ſtands between the town and the ſea, within the fort, built by Oliver Cromwell: it is ſaid to have been entire about fixty years ago : at preſent the tower only remains : its foundation may ſtill be traced, from which it appears to have been in the forın of a croſs. Among the archives of this town, is a charter LIBERA CH SHERIA BLUE Pita PRE QAI El HERI lah LY Sparrone Published July 22:1790 by S. Hooper "S JOHN BAPTIST CIURCH THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIREA Ty" A Y R S H I R E. 195 a charter from Robert II. ſurnamed the Blear-eyed, A. D. 1378, reſpecting the preſerving this church from being deſtroyed by the blowing of land ; * but the church has, it is ſaid, been fince quite demoliſhed through want of taſte, and the guilt of avarice; though there is evidence of its having been the ſeat of a parliament, held in the time of Bruce and Baliol, and where a number of the nobility and gentry determined upon noble and free motives, for the former: a copy * Coppie of King Robert his charter to the burgh of Air, allowing a gratification to thoſe who ſhould preſerve the burgh and church from being deſtroyed with ſand. Robertus Dei gratia Rex Scotorum, omnibus probis hominibus totius terræ, feu Clericis, vel Laicis ſalutem, Dum Burgus nofter de Air, per motionem & agitationem arenæ fit quaſi totaliter annihilatus & deſtructus, et .... fimiliter per brevis proceſſum temporis ad finalem de- ſtructionem redegi videbitur, niſi citius per diſcretorum virorum folertia et diligentia remedium apponitur ; nos igitur deſiderantes de Aliquo ... competente in hac parte futuro providere, et precipue caufa eccleſiæ Johannis Baptiſti quam in honore, reverentia et devotione ſemper intendebam et intendam mantenere, protegere et foyere, cujus cæmeterium per violentiam motionis arenæ ut predicitur fere ufq. ad fundamentuin ipſius eccleſiæ adeo eſt denudata eto deſtructa quod multorum offa defunctorum ibidem humata, videntur per ventorum violen- tiam de terra evulſa penitus et circa. Conceſſimus de gratia noſtra ſpeciali illis quicunque fuerint, qui in hac parte defenſionem appofuerunt, et ipſam villam, eccleſiam et cæmete- rium a deſtructione dicta arenæ liberaverint, omnes pacatas vaſtus infra dictum burgum quos meditantibus illorum laboribus et impenſis a deſtrutione præfata arenoſa liberaverint, et fuerint habitabiles, tenendas et habendas eiſdem dicturam pacatarum prænominatis. Conqueſtoribus et hæredibus fuis de nchis et hæredibus noftris in feudo et hereditate in libero burgagio, libere et quiete pleniarie integre et honorifice, reddendo inde annuatim de qualibet pacato predicto, poſtquam effecte ſucrint habitabiles aut habitabilis, unum denarium ſterlinenſem ad feſtum Penticoſtis, tum pro omnia ferme inde exegenda aut ſolvenda. In cujus rei teftimonium præfenti Chartæ noftræ, noftruin præcipimus apponi figellum, teſtibus vere- tabilibus in Chriſto patribus Willelino et Joanne Cancellariis noſtris St. Andraæ et Dunkelden Eccleſiarum Epiſcopis, Joanne primogenito noſtro de Carick ſeu Scotia, Roberto de Fyffe et de Monteith filio noſtro dilecto Willielmo de Douglas et de Marr, conſanguineo noſtro comi - tibus Jacobo de Lindeſay nepote noſtro Kentigerno et Alexandro de Lindeſay, conſanguineo noftro militibus apud Edenburgum decimo die Decembris Anno Regni noſtro Anno decimno. After the copy of this charter, the tranſcriber adds the following note. “ I find this to have been granted by Robert the ſecond, ſurnamed Bleird-eye ; for John was his eldeſt ſon, by Elizabeth Muir, and Robert of Fyfe and Monteith his other for of that marriage. Robert the ſecond's reign commenced in the year 1368; and he died in the nineteenth year of his reign ; ſo that by calculation this charter has been granted in the year 1378. Ee of 196 A Y RSHI RE: of their names and ſignatures is ſtill extant, many of them could not write. Tradition ſays, that Cromwell having taken in this church in order to erect a fort, gave the town a thouſand Engliſh marks to build another. This ſeems probable from the minutes of the town council, at a community meeting, the 3d of July, 1652. “Anent the ſituation of building of the kirk all condeſcend tall poſſible meanes be uſed for building the ſame, either upon Sewalton's ground, or the Grey Friars; and that the ſame be bought; and that the town be ſtented for als much as to utfit the ſame, what is deficient of the money to be had frae the Engliſh.” The new kirk appears to have been built 16548 :. In 1789, when this view was drawn, the tower of the church was very entire ; ſeveral modern tomb-ſtones were ſtanding about it, from whence it ſeems as if it were ſtill uſed as a place of burial. .. · The fort above-mentioned, built by Oliver Cromwell, is a parallelo- gram, the greateſt.length from North to South defended by ſix baſtions; there are alſo two or three magazines, ſeemingly meant for bomb proof, one of them ſerves for a gate, which is here thewn in the drawiøg: It was by King Charles II. granted to Lord Eglington'; the property is now in his lady, who mortgaged it to the Lord Caffilis for 1000l. Several perſons now living remember moſt of the walls ſtanding. DUNURE CASTLE. PLATE I. DUNURE CASTLE is a fine old building, moſt romantickly ſituated on the brink of a perpendicular rocky cliff, in ſome parts over- hanging the ſea; beneath it is a cavern, called the Browneys Cave, now nearly filled up with rubbiſh fallen from the rock and building : it is ſaid to have formerly communicated with the caſtle, and probably ſerved as a ſally port, or ſecret communication with the ſea; as in Dunbar and Turnbury caſtles. NOTHING can ſucceed the ſublimity of the proſpect from this caſtle, whence at one coup d'oeil is ſeen the conical rock of Lamlaſh, and over it the craggy mountains of the Iſle of Arran, frequently hiding their heads in the clouds; from hence alſo may be ſeen the rock of Ailſa, Publish 21 ec 3:1789 by . Hopper WW INN ES SONT NH BES DUIN TRE CASTLE Pli. La DEAR BELLE TA 30 BE . W ROHITURIS Saw TIL DE nat MIESTE pana lah ti - ruolo THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY THE NEW YORÓ PUBLIC LIBRARY ! ASTOR, LENCX ANS TILIEN FOUNDATIONI TE - 50 W 14. Sobiby . Hooper May. 1736 .. VIVARES C. . DUNURE CASTLE P] 2 THE NEW YOR.. PUBLIC LIBRARY ! ASTOR, LENCX AND TILIEN FOUNDATION; EP3S3 TER 'S OLCL Eld" 2 - 8 > NA AT r. Vi N usa TUE ter TAL interna Progress SI WDR BE A COS Pub.Feb.2.3.1791. by Boopor. THE OLD HOUSE OF CASSILIS AYRSHIRE, . A Y R S H I R E. 197 Ailſa, the coaſt of Kentire, on both ſides of Arran, the coaſt of Ireland, the iſlands of Bute and Cumraes, and a great part of the bay of Ayr. By whom, or at what time this caſtle was built, I have not been able to learn ; from its ſtrength and ſituation it muſt formerly have been of conſequence as a fortreſs. DUNURE CASTLE was an ancient reſidence of a principal branch of the Kennedy family, who were therce. called Kennedys of Dunure, and generally eſteemed the head of that name; the Caffilis family is deſcended froin it, and were proprietors of this eſtate till the beginning of the preſent century, when it was ſold to the grandfather of the pre- ſent proprietor, alſo a deſcendant from the Kennedys of Dunure. It ſeems a matter of doubt, whether this caſtle has been inhabited ſince the reign of King James VI. DUNURE CASTLE. PLATE N. The former view was taken from an eminence above the caſtle. This was drawn from the rocks on the ſhore beneath it, and ſhews the Weſt ſide of the keep, and its adjacent buildings. Both views were taken A. D. 1789. THE OLD HOUSE OF CASSILIS. HERE is a great ſquare tower, whoſe walls are of an uncommon thickneſs, with a court of lefſer buildings, beautifully ſituated on a bank above the water of Dun, and ſurrounded by extenſive woods of old tim- ber. This old tower is aſcended by a turnpike ſtair-caſe; the lower ſtory is vaulted: the walls, as high as the third ſtory, are ſaid to be fixteen feet thick. Here are many family portraits, and diverſe other paintings. This tower has probably undergone many repairs; the preſent appear- ance of the building does not beſpeak the laſt to be older than the reign of Queen Mary, or James VI. her ſon. This houſe belongs to the Earl of Caffilis. The view was drawn A. D. 1789. THE 198 AYRSHIRE. THE CASTLE OF DOL QUHARRAN. IN Mr. M*Farlan's collection, in the Advocate's library, Edinburgh, there is the following deſcription of this caſtle : “ The ffately caſtle of Dolquharran, the building whereof is much improved, by the addi- tion lately made thereto, which makes it by very far the beſt houſe in all that country, furrounded with vaſt incloſures of wood, that the country is not able to conſume it, by their building and other inſtru- ments; and among them be oak trees of a conſiderable ſize, both for height and breadth, that will ſerve either for joiſt or roof of a good houſe.” This caſtle at preſent conſiſts of an old tower or fortalice, to which is joined a more modern houſe; probably the addition above-mentioned, from the figures over the door, was made in the year 1679. It is bounded by the garden on one ſide, and on the other by the water of Gervan. On the old tower are eſcutcheons of the arms of Kennedy, and another coat, ſeemingly that of Stewart, but much defaced by age ; over the entrance are alſo ſome armorial bearings. From the battlements of the tower there is a fine proſpect, the river winding under the eye, through a well wooded valley. This venerable building is the property of Tho- mas Kennedy, of Dunure, Eſq. for whom Mr. Adams is erecting a handſome houſe, of the caſtellated form, in the adjacent demeſnes. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. mas GREEN AND CASTL E. THIS view ſhews the caſtle of Greenand, as it appears on the road from Ayr to Maybole. The following deſcription is given of this caſtle, in Mr. M.Farlan's MS. collection : CASTLE of Grenand and the Cave. The Grenand is a high houſe upon the top of a rock hanging over upon the ſea, with ſome lower new work, lately added to it, but never finiſhed; it is too open to the cold and moiſture ariſing from the ſea to be a deſireable habitation, and has been deſigned to be the owners ſecurity againſt a ſurprize, rather than a conſtant reſidence. It is within the pariſh of May bole. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. ALLO. ) デル ​ET HY Tigre VIL 2005 KB Sparroro so Publishid. May 22°:1790 by F. Hooper. DOLYNHARR AN CASTLIC THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ALTC T'LA De HDD re 0 LA GE BERG 134 3 for 1990 by repen GRENAN CASTLE İPUBLIC Libinta AITOR LENEX AMIT", T'LDEN FOUNOAT 1043, THE NEW Yή, και PUBLIC LIBRA; ASTQX, LENCX * TILREN FOUNDATION KETS HI"Y HAFI TIHTO : 50'LE. Hooper Celiulid Maynajgoing . . 4 . . . rust U AT CONVERSE 4 : AITS 354 R WALLS NELLERROL AYRSHIRE. : 199 ALLOWAY CHURCH,* AYRSHIRE. , THIS church ſtands by the river, a ſmall diſtance from the bridge of Doon, on the road leading from Maybole to Ayr. About a century ago it was united to the pariſh of Ayr; ſince which time it has fallen to * This church is alſo famous for being the place wherein the witches and warlocks uſed to hold their infernal meetings, or ſabbaths, and prepare their magical undions: here too they uſed to amuſe themſelves with dancing to the pipes of the muckle-horned Deel. Diverſe ſtories of theſe horrid rites are ſtill current; one of which my worthy friend Mr. Burns has here favoured me with in verſe. TAM O' SHANTER. A TALE. W HEN chapmen billies leave the ſtreet, Ah, gentlc dames! it gars me grect, And drouthy nсebors, neebors mcet, To think how mony counſels ſweet, • As market-days are wearing late, How mony lengthen'd ſage advices, And folk begin to tak the gate; The huſband frae the wiſe deſpiſes! While we ſit bowling at the nappy, And gettin fou, and unco happy, But to our tale:- Ae market-night, We think na on the long Scois miles, Tam had got planted unco right, · The waters, moſſes, flaps and ſtyles, Faſt by an ingle bleezing fincly, That lie between us and our hame, Wi' reamin ſwats that drank divincly; - Where ſits our ſulky, ſullen dame, And at his elbow, ſouter Johnie, Gathering her brows, like gathering ſtorm, His ancient, trufty, drouthy cronie; Nurſing her wrath to keep it warm. Tam lo'cd him like a vera brither, They had been fou for weeks tegither.-- This truth fand honeft Tom o'Shanter, The night drave on wi' fangs and clatter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter; And ay the ale was growing better : (Auld Ayr, whom ne'er a town ſurpaſſes The landlady and Tam grew gracious, For honeſt men and bonnie laſſes.) - With favors ſecret, ſweet, and precious : The ſouter tauld his qucereſt fories; O Tam! hadſt thou but been fae wiſe The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice! The ſtorm without might rair and ruftle, She tauld thee weel, thou was a ſkellum, Tam did na mind the ſtorm a whiſtle.- A blethcrin, bluſterin, drunken blellum; Care, mad to ſee a man ſae happy, That frae November till Oktober, E'en drown'd himſeif amang the nappy: Ae market-day thou was na ſober; As becs flee hame, wi' lades o' treaſure, That ilka melder, wi' the miller, The minutes wing'd their way wi' plcaſure: Thou ſat as long as thou had liller Kings may be bleſt, but Tam was glorious; That every naig was ca'd a fhoc on, O'er a’ the ills o' life victorious! The ſmith and the gat roarin fou on; That at the L-d's houſe, even on Sunday, But pleaſures are like poppies ſpread, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday.- You feize the flower, its bloom is ſhed; She propheſied that, late or ſoon, Or like the ſnow falls in the river, Thou wad be found decp-drown'd in Doon; A moment white-then melts for ever; Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk Or like the borealis race, By Aloway's old haunted kirk. That Nit ere you can point their place; S 200 A Y R S H I R E. to ruins. It is one of the eldeſt pariſhes in Scotland, and ſtill retains theſe privileges: the miniſter of Ayr is obliged to marry and baptiſe in it, and alſo here to hold his parochial catechiſings. The magiſtrátes attempted, Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evaniſhing amid the ſtorm.- Nae man can tether time or tide, The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour o’night's black arch the key-ſane, That dreary hour he mounts his beaſt in; And Gc a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor ſinner was abroad in. Wi' tippeny, we fear nae evil; Wi' uſquebae, we'll face the devil! The ſwats ſae ream'd in Tammie's noddle, Fair-play, he car'd na deils a boddle: But Maggy ſtood, right ſair aſtoniſhid, Till by the heel and hand admoniſh'd, She ventur'd forward on the light, And, wow! Tam ſaw an unco ſight! The wind blew, as 't wad blawn its laft; The rattling ſhowers roſe on the blatt; The ſpeedy gleams the darkneſs ſwallow'd Loud, deep, and lang, the thunder bellow'd: That night, a child might underſtand The deil had buſineſs on his hand. Weel mounted on his grey meare, Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam ſkeipit on thro' dub and mire, Deſpiſing wind, and rain, and fire : Whyles holding faſt his gude blue bonnet; Whyles crooning o’er an auld Scots ſonnet; Whyles glowring round wi' prudent cares, Lelt bogles catch him unawares; Kirk-Aloway was drawing nigh, Where ghaiſts and houlets nightly cry. Warlocks and witches in a dance, Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, ftrathſpeys and reels,. Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-buaker in the Eaſt, There ſat auld Nick in ſhape o' beaſt; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large; To gie them muſic was his charge : He ſcrew'd the pipes and gart them ſkirt, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.- Coffins ſtood round, like open preſſes, That ſhaw'd the dead in their laſt dreſſes; And (by ſome deeviliſh cantraip Night) Each in its cauld hand held a light; By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes, in gibbet-airns ; Twa ſpan-lang, wee, unchirſten'd bairns; A thief, new cutted frae a rape, Wi' his laſt gaſp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' blood red-rufted; Five ſcymitars, wi' murder cruſted; A garter which a babe had ſtrangled; A knife a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain ſon of life bereft, The grey hairs yet (tak to the heft: Wi' mair of horrible and awefu', That even to name wad be unlawfu': Three lawyers' tongues, turn'd inſide out, Wi’lies ſeam'd like a beggar's clout; Three prieſts' hearts, rotten, black as muck, Lay ſtinking, vile, in every neuk. By this time he was croſs the ford, Where in the ſnaw the chapman ſmoor'd; And paſt the birks and meikle ſtane, Where drunken Charlie brak’s neck-bane; And thro’the whins, and by the cairn, Where hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the tree, aboon the well, Where Mungo's mither hang'd herſel : Before him, Doon pours all his floods; The doubling ſtorm roars thro' the woods; The light’nings flaſh from pole to pole; Near, and more near, the thunders roll; When, glimmering thro' groaning trees, Kirk-Aloway ſecin'd in a blecze; Thro’ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud reſounded mirth and dancing. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd and curious, The mirth and fun grew faſt and furious : The piper loud and louder blew; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; Inſpiring, bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canſt make us ſcorn: They 201 A Y R S H I R E. attempted, ſome time ago, to take away the bell; but were repulſed by the Alloites, vi & armis. They reel'd, they ſet, they croſs’d, they cleckit, Till ilka Carlin ſwat and reekit, And coolt her duddies on the wark, And linket at it in her fark.- Even Satan glowr'd, and fidg'd fu' fain, And hotch'd, and blew wi' might and main; Till firſt ac caper-ſync anither- Tam loit his reaſon a' thegither, And roars out 6 Weel done, cutty-fark !" And in an inſtant all was dark ; And ſcarcely had he Maggie rallied, When out the belliſh legion ſallied.- Now Tam! O Tam! had thae been queans, A' plump and ſtrappin in their teens! Their ſarks, inſtead o’creeſhie flainen, Been ſnaw-white, ſeventeen-hunder linen; Thir breeks o' mine, my only pair, That ance were pluſh o'gude blue hair, I wad hae gien them off my hurdies For ae blink o' the bonie burdics! But withered beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad ſpcan a foal, Loupin and flingin on a crumock, I wonder did na turn thy ſtomach. But Tam kend what was what fu’ brawlie; There was ae winſome wench and walic, That night enliſted in the core, (Lang after kend on Carrick ſhore; For mony a beaſt to dead ſhe ſhot, And periſh'd mony a bonnie boat, And ſhook baith meikle corn and bear And kept the country-ſide in fear)- Her cutty-fark o' Paiſley harn, That while a laſſie ſhe had worn, In longitude tho' ſorely ſcanty, It was her beft, and ſhe was vauntie.. Ah! little thought thy reverend graupie, That ſark ſhe coft for her wee Naunie Wi’twa pund Scots ('twas a' her riches! Should ever grac'd a dance o' witches ! As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, When plundering herds aſſail their byke; As open puflie's mortal foes, When, pop, the ſtarts before their noſe; As eager rins the market-croud, When “ catch the thief !” reſounds aloud; So Maggy rins, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch ſhout and hollo. Ah Tam! ah Tam! thou'll get thy fairio! In hell they'll roaſt thee like a herrin! In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin, Kate foon will be a woefu' woman!!! Now, do thy ſpeedy utmoſt, Meg! And win the key-ſtane o' the brig; There at them thou thy tail may toſs, A running ſtream they dare na croſs! But ere the key-ſtane ſhe could make, The fient a tail ſhe had to ſhake; For Nannie, far before the reſt, Hard upon noble Maggy prelt, And flew at Tam with furious ettle, But little kend ſhe Maggy's mettle! Ae ſpring brought off her maſter hale, But left behind her ain gray tail: The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggy ſcarce a ſtump. Now wha this Tale o’truth ſhall read, Ilk man and mother's ſon, take heed : Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd, Or cutty-ſarks rin in your mind, Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear; Remember TAM O'SHANTER'S MEARE! But here my Muſe her wing maun cour, Sic flights are far beyond her power; To ſing how Nannie lap and flang, (A ſouple jad lhe was and ſtrang,) And how Tam ſtood like ane bewitch'd, And thought his very cen eorich'd; CROS- 202 A Y R S H I R E. CROSRAGUEL ABBEY. C CROSRAGUEL, Croceregal, or Crofragmol abbey ftands in Car- rick, one of the ſubdiviſions of the Shire of Air, and in the pariſh of Kirkoſwald, two miles from May bole. This was a Cluniac abbey, founded by Duncan, ſon of Gilbert, Earl of Carrick, in the year 1244, as we are informed by the Chartu- lary of Paiſley. There is a charter of King Robert Bruce to this place, which he therein calls Croceragmer de terra de Dungrelach, given at Berwick the eighteenth year of his reign, and alſo confirmation of all the churches and lands granted to it by Duncan Neil (Nigellus) Robert, his father, and Edward Bruce, his brother, Earls of Carrick, dated at Cambus-kenneth, the 20th of June, and the twenty-firſt year of his reign. The laſt abbot of this place was Quintin Kennedy, brother to the Earl of Caſſils. The famous George Buchannan had afterwards a conſiderable ſum of meney paid him yearly from this abbey, which gave him occafion to denominate himſelf Penſionarius de Crofragmol. Both the temporalities and ſpiritualities of this abbey, were by King James VI. annexed to the Biſhoprick of Dumblane. ACCORDING to Keith's Appendix to the Hiſtory of the Affairs of Church and State of Scotland, the revenues of this houſe were, morey 4661. 135. 4d. Bear 18 c. 7 b. 3 fi. 35 Meal 37 c. Oats 4 c. 15 b. 3 fi. 31 p. . For the following deſcription of this venerable ruin I am indebted to a gentleman reſident near the ſpot, whoſe name. I am not at liberty to mention: “ The abbey of Corſegal or Corroguel ſtands about half way be- tween the Manſe of Kirkoſwald and the town of Maybole, near two miles from each ; the publick road from Ayr to Port Patrick ſuns along the North ſide of the precincts; theſe contain about eight acres of ground, and were encloſed, at leaſt to the Weſt, the North, and the Eaſt, with a ſtone wall of confiderable ſtrength. In this wall there. were two gates, one to the North, which ſeeins to have been the prin- cipal, HI QUORUM HILIKIWA URL DO BE LE biti LES Got BE es ES TU HEE MISSA en SALE SU in BUS GELE f tatag FI DA KA ROSS XO Publishid Nov' 21"1789 by J. Hooper esparrot COPS - RIGAL.P1:1. THE NEW YORK. PUBLIC LIBRARY A&TOR, LEN: 112 48h • • • AYRSHIRE. 203 cipal, another to the South Weſt. Theſe gates were almoſt entire about thirty years ago, but are now, as well as the wall, levelled with the ground; veſtiges, however, both of the gates and the wall are ſtill viſible, excepting to the South of the abbey, on that fide there are no remains of any building whatſoever. A wall was perhaps unneceſſary there, as the precincts are bounded by a marſh. The figure of the precincts is too irregular to be comprehended from a bare deſcription ; by cutting off a ſmall corner or two they may be reduced to a rhom- boid, which is the figure they moſt reſemble. In the center ſtands the abbey; the ſituation ſeems not extremely happy; it is very low; the ſurface of the ground near it very irregular, Iwelling on all hands into hills. The view from it is of conſequence exceedingly confined towards the Eaſt, however, there is a ſmall inter- ruption in the hills, which opens a proſpect fomewhat extenſive and pleaſant. : - In point of excellent water no place can be better ſupplied, a ſmall ſtream riſing out of a marſh adjoining to the Weſt of the precincts, runs immediately along the South of the abbey; this ſtream, it is thought, was conveyed under the very buildings. The walls of theſe are for the moſt part entire, and have a very venerable and magnificent appearance. A maſterly pen might make them retain ſomething of this even in deſcription, but I am quite unacquainted with buildings of this kind, and know not even their names. The following ſketch of the noble remains of this abbey muſt therefore be extremely imperfect and inelegant; I ſhall notwithſtanding endeavour to make it as intelligi- ble and accurate as I can. . ENTERING the precincts from the North, where the principal gate ſtood, you have in front what I ſhall call the Cathedral of the Abbey, which ſtands due Eaſt and Weſt; the walls are almoſt entire, about one hundred and fixty-four feet long, and twenty-two feet high; the architecture in the ſame Gothic taſte which is common in ſtructures of the ſame period; the ſtones in general not very large. There is but one door in all this North ſide and front of the cathedral, which is near the Weſt end of it, conſiderably ornamented, of a Conic ſhape, nine feet high, and at the bottom five feet broad. The ground along G g . . the U 204 A Y R S H I R E. the whole of the building, for about twenty paces from the wall, is encloſed with a bad ftone dyke, and ſet apart for a burying place ; but is now ſeldom uſed. LEAVING the above-mentioned door you turn to the Weſt end of the cathedral, and go about thirty paces South Weſt, which brings you to what is called the Abbots New Houſe. It is an oblong tower about thirty feet high ; below it there is a large arch, through which you paſs before you get to the door of the houſe, which is immediately on the South Eaſt ſide of the arch; this door leads you up a winding narrow ſtair, built to the tower, and conſiſting of three flights of ſteps ; the firſt flight brings you to a room thirteen feet by eleven, lighted by two windows, three feet high, and two feet and a half broad, the one looking to the South, the other to the North ; the ſecond flight brings you to another room exactly of the fame dimenſions, and lighted in the ſame manner ; the third brings you to the top of the tower, which is ſurrounded by a parapet wall. On the top of the ſtair-caſe is a ſmal! building, higher than the tower, which is ſaid to have been a bell- houſe. From the Weſt ſide of this tower, and at right angles with it, there has been a row of buildings, which are now a heap of ruins ; at the South end a Dovecoat of a very ſingular conſtruction is ſtill extant; the ſhaft of it is circular, and ſurrounds a well of excellent water; above five feet from the ground it begins to ſwell, and conti- nues for ſix or ſeven feet, then contracts as it riſes, till it comes to a point at the top, in ſhape therefore it reſembles a pear, hanging from the tree, or rather an egg ſtanding on the thickeſt end; you enter it by a ſmall door on the North, about five feet from the ground; the floor is of ſtone, and ſerves alſo as a covering to the well beneath; the ſides within are full of ſquare holes for pigeons; it is lighted from the top by a ſmall circular opening, and is ſtill perfectly entire, fixteen feet perpendicular, and where wideſt eight feet in diameter. RETURNING to the door of the Abbots Houſe, you go about ten paces due Eaſt, along the inſide of an high wall, which joins to the other buildings of the abbey ; here has been a gate, now in ruins ; entering by the place where the gate ſtood, you find yourſelf on the South Weſt corner of a court, fifty-two feet ſquare ; round this court there AYRSHIRE. 205 there has been a covered way; veſtiges of the arches by which the covering was ſupported are ſtill viſible: in the midſt of the court was a well, which is now filled up with rubbiſh ; walking along the Weſt ſide of the court you find nothing but a ſtrong wall, till you come to the North Weſt corner, where is a ſmall arched door, the ſides of which are much broken down; this door leads into a kind of gallery, eighteen feet broad, and ſeventy-two feet long; lighted only by three narrow ſlips to the Weſt. · TURNING from this door you walk feventy-two feet along the South wall of the cathedral, which forms the North ſide of the court ; in this you find three doors, one almoſt at the North Weſt corner of the court, and two near the North Eaſt. Theſe doors are nearly of the ſame dimenſions, nine feet high, five feet broad at the bottom, and femicircular at the top. The duor at the North Weſt corner of the court is almoſt oppoſite the door in the front or North wall of the cathedral, which we have already mentioned, and leads into the choir. This forms the Weſt part of the cathedral, is of an oblong figure, eighty-eight feet long, and twenty-five broad within the walls, lighted by five windows, with pointed arches, ten feet high, and three feet broad at the bottom; there is but one finall window to the South, at the head of the wall, which has received the light over the co- vering of the court ; on the North wall, and near the North Eaſt corner of the choir, is a niche in the wall, ſemicircular at the top, eight feet broad, and four feet high, where it is probable the image of the patron Saint formerly ſtood. The partition which divides the choir from the church, or Eaſt part of the cathedral, is pretty entire, and has been furniſhed with a pair of bells ; preciſely in the middle of the partition is a door, with a pointed arch, nine feet high, and five feet broad at the bottom, which leads into the church; this ſtill retains ſomething of its ancient mag- nificence, is of the ſame breadth with the choir, but only ſeventy-ſix feet long; the Eaſt end of it is femicircular, or rather triagonal, adorned with three large windows, with pointed arches, eleven feet high and ſeven feet broad at the bottom; there are ſix other windows to the North, and one to the South, of the ſame ſhape and heighth, but only fix 206 , .. AYRSHIR E. fix feet broad. Immediately below the South window, and near the South Eaſt corner of the church, ſtands the altar, which has been greatly ornamented, but is now defaced ; no veſtiges of any inſcription remain here, or in' any part of the abbey. The altar is ſeven feet broad, and four feet high, ſquare, but fretted at the top a little to the left from it ; below the moſt Southerly of the largeſt windows, there is a niche in the wall four feet high and two broad, concave at the top, but almoſt without ornament; in the bottom are two hollows made in the ſtone, like the bottom of a plate ; this is ſuppoſed to have been a private altar, perhaps that of the family of Caffilis. A little to the right of the principal altar is a ſmall door leading to a ruinous ſtair, which 'we ſhall have occaſion to mention imme- diately. Still farther to the right of the altar, on the ſame wall, is a larger door, feven feet high and ſix broad, with a pointed arch, which leads into a high arched room, with a pillar in the middle, and a ſtone bench round the ſides, twenty feet long and fifteen broad, ſaid to be the place where the Conſiſterial Court was held; it is lighted only by one window from the Eaſt; on the left hand, as you enter the room from the church, there is a door which opens on the ruinous ſtair already mentioned. This ſtair has led into a room immediately above the conſiſtory, preciſely of the ſame length and breadth, but now level with the floor. From this room you deſcend a few ſteps into the Abbots Hall, which is twenty feet ſquare, lighted by two ſmall win- dows to the Eaſt, and one to the Weſt looking into the court. RETURNING from the Abbots Hall into the church, by the ſame door, we find the door in the South Weſt corner of the church, the dimenſions of which have been already given ; going out at this door we find ourſelves in the North Eaſt corner of the court; walking five paces from this we come to a door, ſemicircular at the top, eight feet high, and five broad, which opens into a room arched in the roof, immediately below the Abbots Hall, of the ſame breadth and length, and lighted from the Eaſt by two finall windows; proceeding from this room to the South Eaſt corner of the court, you find a ruinous arch, about twenty-four feet long, ten feet high, and nine broad, with a ſtone bench on both ſides; this ſeems to have led to a number of cells, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AN TALIEN FOUNDAT'S CROCEREGAL ABBY Pl 2 beli nord, 6, poodle shin egaymeg. INS 2012 USE WEIURI WEE . SITE HE mutus UL. P NOT So . ADA so 25 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LEKEX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATIONS. Shih Tech 3 ma turm dicunt A erties ker Dica : S ustid WC w u SALDATU 20 1 6 . ure andis V TER Tube Liar in curya Bir Aspire Cork CIELAER HY T13. A Y R S H I R E. 207 cells, which are now a heap of ruins. Turning from this arch you walk along the South ſide of the court, where there is nothing obſerv- able but ſeveral ſmall doors, leading into ruinous cells; what number of theſe there may altogether have been, it is now impoſible to deter- mine, as the greateít part of them are buried under the rubbiſh of their own walls. THE Abbots Old Houſe, as it is called, is the only building of the abbey we have not hitherto mentioned; this ſtands immediately to the South Eaſt of the ruinous cells above deſcribed. It has been an oblong tower ; but the Eaſt fide, in which the ſtair has been built, is now fallen down, which prevents its dimenſions from being accurately taken ; they ſeem, however, to have been nearly the ſame with the dimenſions of the Abbots New Houſe.” The precincts, containing, as above, about eight acres of ground, is at preſent poffeffed by Sir Adam Fergueſon, as it was by his father, upon a tack or leaſe from the Chapel Royal, for nineteen years, at a ſmall rent, and graſſum at entry. Sir Adam ſubjects theſe precincts to his tenant, who rents a farm cloſe to the abbey, this farm is part of the Barony of Balterſan, of which the Manſion Houſe, a fine old building, is ſtill remaining, though in ruins, about a quarter of a mile from the Abbey : Sir Adam is the proprietor. The ſteading of farm houſes is at preſent near the middle of the precincts. This view, which ſhews the South ſide of the ruin, with the re- markable Dovecoat herein deſcribed, was drawn A. D. 1789. At a dif- tance in the back ground appears the Old Houſe of Balterſan. LCROSRAGUEL ABBEY. PLATE II This view gives the Eaſt ſide of the Abbey, with the Eaſt end of the church and building here called the Confiſterial Court. CROSRAGUEL ABBEY. PLATE III. THIS view ſhews the North ſide of the Abbey, and the Abbots New Houſe, as ſeen from the high road leading to Maybole. They were all drawn A. D. 1789. Hh TURN- 203 AYRSH I R E. TURNBURG CAST L E. THE next upon the coaſt are to be ſeen the old ruins of the ancient caſtle of Turnberry, upon the North Weſt point of that rocky angle that turns about towards Gervan, and is perhaps the place called by Pto- lomee, Perigonium, of a Greek origination, importing round the cor- ner, and ſuiting the Engliſh deſignation of Turnbury; and that it can- not be Bargeny, as ſome inagine, the very ſituation of that caſtle and recentneſs of it will abundantly ſhewe ; and to confirme this our conjec- ture, the Perigonium is Turnberry, from turning of the corner, a tradi- tion among the people there, will not a little induce, viz. that near to this very caſtle, there was of old a towne of the fame name, of which there is no veſtige at preſent to be ſeen, but that they perceive fome remainders of a cauſeway, and that the reaſon for this may be, the neighbourhood of the port of the greateſt reſort in all that coaſt, at which the firſt poſſeſſors have landed from Ireland, and ſo might have fixed their habitations near to it, though now the place be but a tract of barren fand.—Thus far Mr. Abbercrombie. .. This caſtle belonged to Alexander, Earl of Carrick, who died in the Holy Land, and left an only daughter and heireſs named Martha ; The about the year 1274, taking the diverſion of hunting, with her women and attendants, met by accident Robert Bruce, Lord of Annan- dale in Scotland, and Cleveland in England, a very handſome young man, who after the uſual ſalutes and kiſſes, which Fordun ſays were cuſtomary in courts, would have proceeded on his way; but the Counteſs being enamoured with him, ſeized his horſes reins, and with a kind of violence, apparently againſt his will, led him to her caſtle of Turnbury, where after detaining him above a fortnight, ſhe married him privately, unknown to the king, or to any of the friends of either party, whence it was currently reported that ſhe had obtained her huſband by a rape. On this the king, to puniſh her for her feudal de- linquency, in marrying without his conſent, ſeized her caſtle and eftates; but by the interpoſition of friends, and the payment of a ſum of money, Robert Bruce ſhortly after obtained a full reftitution. THIS 1 Publion d June 18 i go by I. Hoope e Zeruti" TIRNBURY CISITE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTON, LENCX AND ILOEN FOUNDATIONS. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LERCX AN T'LDEN FCUN - - - - - - 2 2 24 . 27 PIA*767251791 by J I Poope -Ngcute COLÉINE CASTLE A Y R S H I R E. 209 This caſtle was in the hands of the Engliſh in the expedition of King Edward I. A. D. 1306 Bruce having taken ſhelter in the Iſle of Arran, ſent a truſty perſon into Carrick, to learn how his vaſſals ſtood affected to his cauſe, with inſtructions, that if he found them diſpoſed to aſſiſt him, he ſhould make a ſignal at a time appointed, by lighting a fire on an eminence near the caſtle of Turnbury. The meſſenger found the En- gliſh in the poſſeſſion of Carrick, the people diſpirited, and none ready to take arms; he therefore did not make the ſignal; but a fire being made about noon on the appointed ſpot (poſſibly by accident) both Bruce and the meſſenger ſaw it; the former with his aſſociates put to ſea, to join his ſuppoſed party ; the latter to prevent his coming ; they met before Bruce reached the ſhore, when the meſſenger acquainted Bruce with the unpromiſing ſtate of his affairs, and adviſed him to go back ; but he obeying the dictates of deſpair and valor, reſolved to perſevere, and attacking the Engliſh, careleſsly cantoned in the neigh- bourhood of Turnbury, put a number of them to the ſword, and pil- laged their quarters. Percy from the caſtle heard the uproar, yet did not fally forth againſt them, not knowing their ſtrength. Bruce with his followers, not exceeding three hundred in number, remained for ſome days near Turnbury ; but ſuccours having arrived from the neigh- bouring garriſons, he was obliged to ſeek ſafety in the mountainous parts of Carrick. At preſent, as may be ſeen in the drawing, little more than the foundations of the building are remaining. There are fome vaults beneath it, poſſibly once ſally ports communicating with the water. From this ſhore is ſeen the rock of Ailſa, and to the right that of Lamlaſh, with the craggy mountains of Arran. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. COLAINE OR CULZE EN CASTL E. THIS caſtle ſtands on the coaſt of Carrick, in a bay to which it gives name; it is elevated on a rock eighty feet above the level of the fea, which it ſeems to overhang. HERE 210 A Y R S H I R E. Here formerly ſtood an ancient fortalice, of which this is in ſome degree a part. It was the reſidence of that branch of the family of the Kennedy's, which afterwards ſucceeded to the title of Caffilis, in the perſon of Thomas Kennedy, in default of iſſue male of the elder branch. At the bottom of the rock, under the caſtle, are three caves, one beyond the other, well known for the legendary tales related of them, on which account they are celebrated by Mr. Burns, the Ayrſhire Poet, in his excellent poem on Hallow E’en. . In the account of Carrick, among Mr. MʻFarlan’s papers, before quoted, the ſeat itſelf is called the Cave. The Cave (ſays Mr. Abbercrombie) the manſion houſe of Sir Archibald Kennedy, of Colaine, takes its name hence, under the outer area of this houſe there be three natural caves, which enter largh at the water mark, from thence they enter upward to a higher, by an eaſy aſcent ; but the entry to the third is more difficult, being both low in the entry and ſtrait. In the higheſt of them there is a ſpring of good water. The edifice here repreſented was erected by the preſent Earl, after a plan drawn by Mr. Adams in 1789. When this view was taken it was not quite completed. This caſtle is admitted here rather on account of the beauty of its fituation, than for any pretence it has to antiquity, unleſs it may be conſidered as an ancient building repaired.. MACHLIN CASTLE. THIS caſtle ſtands in the town of Machlin ; it formerly belonged to the Earls of Loudoun, and gave the ſecond title to that noble family. In 1789, when this drawing was made, it was the property, by purchaſe, of Gavin Hamilton, Eſq. SORNE 十一 ​一一一一上一下​。 -- -- --- - - 一一一一上一下的​。 THE 一一一一 ​刊出​,一一一一 ​“ 1 中国重​。 ER 目前在日日日日日日​-11 B 日立 ​上一 ​。 中 ​, 平日中 ​。 了 ​。 ” 一書​。 。 . 。 - 一 ​了 ​中一中学 ​了​。” n. 主是在 ​一 ​、中 ​- - 一生中​, - =。 一哥​」 。 要 ​。 了​, - - - - - 上 ​-10 - - 皇 ​一生一世 ​上一 ​-- - -- 可​。 一一一一一一一 ​-- 一一一一一 ​日 ​一 ​一一一一一一 ​, ||| 星星 ​一一一一一 ​是一个 ​一 ​一一一一 ​日 ​一一一一一 ​. 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An old lady of that family died there a few years ago, aged ninety-nine. At preſent it is in the poſſeſſion of Tenant, Eſq. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. THE OLD CASTLE OR MANSION OF AUCHINLECK. THIS was the ancient feat of the family of the Boſwells, of Auchin- leck : the only remains are the fragment of a ruined wall and window, here ſhewn. It is ſaid (and indeed ſeems) to be of great antiquity, It was feated on an inſulated rock, ſtanding in the river, and ap- pears to have been very difficult of acceſs. By the diſpoſition of the ſurrounding rocks it could not ever have been of any conſiderable magnitude. The view here is extremely beautiful, the river running down a deep, rocky, and well wooded glen, ſomewhat like that of Rofilin and Hawthornden. Wood, particularly the fir, ſeems to thrive here very much, ſome firs in the garden meaſuring ninety-ſix feet in height, and their circumference, taken a yard above the ground, near feven feet and a half, they are beſides remarkably ſtraight and elegant. .. . In the adjacent grounds there are the walls of a later manfion, feemingly of the time of Mary or James VI. Theſe, though at pre- fent unroofed, might eaſily be made habitable. These at preſent belong to James Boſwell, Eſq. well known to the publick by diverſe ingenious publications. He reſides in a hand- ſome modern feat adjoining. The Chartulary of Paiſley records a donation from a gentleman of this family, Sir John de Auchinleck, who, A. D. 1385, gives to the I i abbot 21.2 A Y R S H I R E. abbot and convent of that houſe, twenty ſhillings ſterling, per ann. as a compenſation for the contempt and violence done to them, in the perſon of one of the monks, who was emaſculated by him and his accomplices. Tradition fays, this gentleman caught the monk in an improper ſituation with his daughter. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. THE ABBEY OF KILWINNING. UI THIS abbey is ſituated in the Bailiwick of Cunningham, one of the three diſtricts or ſubdiviſions of the Shire of Ayr, about three miles North of the Royal Burgh of Irving, near the Iriſh fea. It was founded in the year 1140, by Hugh Morville, Conſtable of Scotland, for monks of the Tyroneſian order, brought from Kelſo ; it was dedicated to St. Winning. KING Robert granted to this houſe the lands of Hollard, near the Burgh of Irving, and twenty ſhillings rent annually paid by the heirs of Bailliol, for his lands in Kilmarnock. John de Meneteth, Lord of Annan and Knapdale, gave to the ſaid monks the right of patronage and advowſon of the churches of St. Mary and St. Briget, in the Iſle of Arran, with their lands and chappels. The charter is given at Kilwinning, the 12th of October, 1357. And A. D. 1367 Sir John Maxwell of that Ilk, gave them the patronage of the church of Leberton, with an acre of ground thereunto contiguous. In the reign of King Robert III. Sir William Cunningham, of Kel- mares, gave, in pure alms, to the monks of this houſe, the lands of Grange. The annual revenue of this abbey, at the time of the Reformation, amounted to 8403:lls. Scots; 8 balls of wheat; 14 chalders, 1 boll, 3 ferlots, 3 pecks of bear; 67 chaldrons of oatmeal; 13 ſtirks; 14 capons; 100 hens; 268 cheeſes; 9 fathoms ſquare of a peat ſtack, from Mufinullock Moſs. This account of the yearly income of the abbey is taken from the regiſter at London, No. 279. The buildings of this houſe, when entire, according to tradition, occupied ſeveral acres; but at preſent their ſituation cannot be exactly traced ON II. - -- -- - 73 TL - Cha- KILWINNING ABBEY. 0 US ALBI PA BERT S ILIEN 13 P. Thomas oran Komisi THE NEW YORK, PUBLIC LIBRARY AITOR EASY NO TILEEN CAP A Y R S H I R E. 213 iden traced out. In the year 1560. Alexander, Earl of Glencairne, in con- ſequence of an order from the ſtates of Scotland, in a great meaſure demoliſhed this ſtately and beautiful pile. A few years afterwards part of the abbey church was repaired, and converted into the pariſh church, and as ſuch it was uſed till about the year 1775, when being found ruinous and unſafe, it was wholly taken down, and on its ſite a very elegant modern church was erected; the ſteeple or tower was again repaired A. D. 1789, at the expence of the Earl of Eglington. A. D. 1513 William Bunſh, abbot of Kilwinning, was ſlain at the battle of Flodden. · The laſt commendatory abbot of Kilwinning was Gavin Hamilton, of the family of Roplock, a great enemy to John Knox and the con- gregation, and a ſteady friend to the Queen Regent and her daughter, Queen Mary, by whom he was employed in ſeveral negotiations. He exchanged his abbacy for the Deanry of Glaſgow, with Dr. Henry St. Clair, afterwards Biſhop of Roſs, and Preſident of the College of Juſtice, which office he held to his death, in the year 1565. Gavin Hamilton was killed at the Water Gate, in the Cannongate, Edin- burgh, June 28th, 1571. He had in the year 1552 made Hugh, Earl of Eglington, Juſticiary Chamberlain and Baillie of Kilwinning, and aſſigned him a conſiderable ſalary for diſcharging thoſe offices ; his grant was conferred by the Queen, and may be ſeen in the 21ſt book of our Publick Records, Chart. 77. At the general diffolution of religious houſes Alexander, Earl of Glencairn, obtained a grant of this abbey, upon the reſignation of Mr. William Melville, of the family of Raeth. In the year 1603 Hugh, Earl of Eglington, got a new grant of the ſame, with all the lands and tithes, which had at any time belonged to it, either in property or ſuperiority, and they were erected into a temporal lordſhip to him and his heirs ; he alſo obtained the patronage of the churches of Kilwin- ning, Irwin, Dumbarton, Kilmarnock, Ardroffan, and Kilburney : ſince which, it appears in Douglas's account of the family of Balfour, of Burleigh, a charter was procured under the great ſeal, by Michael Balfour, Lord of Balfour and Burleigh, of the lands of the Barony of Kilwinning, to him and his aſſigns; this was dated the 7th of Sep- tember, 19 214 AYRSHIRE. tember, 1614; but it was not long held by that lord, ſince Douglaſs, from the Publick Records, cites a charter of confirmation, dated 1615, of the lands of that lordſhip, formerly reſigned to Hugh, the 5th Earl of Eglington, This view was drawn A. D. 1789. DEAN CASTL E. THIS was one of the ancient fears of the Boyds, Earls of Kilmar- nock, for ſome time the favourites of King James III. It was for- feited in the year 1745, afterwards ſold to the Earl of Glencairne, and in 1789, when this drawing was made, belonged to Miſs Scot. It lies a ſmall diſtance from the main road leading from Kilmar- nock to Stewarton, and conſiſts of a large vaulted ſquare tower, which ſeems to have been built about the beginning of the fifteenth century ; this is ſurrounded by a court and other buildings, apparently more modern. Upon the tower, under a defaced court of arms, there is this inſcription : James Lord of Kilmarnock Dame Katherine Creyk Lady Boyd. The Lord James, here commemorated, according to Douglas, died 1654. He was a firm adherent to the royal cauſe, for which he was by Oliver Cromwell excepted from pardon, and fined fifteen hundred pounds ſterling. In this caſtle, it is ſaid, Lady Margaret (Douglas calls her Mary) fifter to King James III, was confined during the life of her huſband, Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran, from whom ſhe was divorced, notwith- ſtanding ſhe had borne him two children. The pretext for this divorce was ſome legal impediment at the time of marriage. Some fay it was a prior contract to the Lord Hamilton. On her huſband and the reſt of his family falling under the king's diſpleaſure, ſhe went to Denmark, to acquaint him with it; who thereupon USE PIT : : Publand May 14:1790 ry J. Hooper Arrivi DIAN CASTLE THE NEW YORK BLIC LIBRARY 11. LeNCX AND SEN PUASATIONE, OSO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A&TOR. LENCX AND T'LIEN FUN"* * $ WITY ముఖం An there - - A Amarao --scalam 1 2 an if 14 . Awar { } R S FULL House Mana- - - : - - - - -- TATA : THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ABTQA, LENCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATIONS A Y R S H I R E. 215 thereupon fled for refuge to the courts of France and Flanders. In the mean time King James ſent for her. She hoping to make her huſ- band's peace, obeyed the ſummons, when the divorce was procured. After her huſband's death, who died abroad, ſhe was married, A. D. 1471, to the Lord Hamilton, then created Earl of Arran. CORSHILL HOUSE. 1. THIS ruin ſtands about a mile from Stewarton, in the main road leading from thence to Paiſley. It was the ſeat of the family of Cunningham. The laſt perſon who dwelt in it was Sir David Cunningham, thence denominated of Corſhill. His grandſon is now Lord Liſle. At a ſmall diſtance from this ruin are ſome ſmall remains of a more ancient building belonging to the ſame family. This view was drawn A. D. 1789. THE ABBET OF PAISLEY. .. RENFREW SHIRE. THE priory of Paiſley ſtands in the town of that name, in the Shire of Renfrew. It was firſt a priory, and afterwards changed into an abbey of Black Monks, brought from Wenlock, in England. It was founded by Walter, ſon of Alan, Lord High Steward of Scotland, in the year 1164. It was the common burial place of that noble family, until they became Kings of Scotland ; and although King Robert II. the Firſt of this race who attained to that dignity, was buried at Scone, yet nevertheleſs his firſt Lady, Elizabeth Muir (who has made a great noiſe in the Scottiſh Hiſtory) and Euphemia Roſs, his Queen, were both buried here, as likewiſe Margery Bruce his mother. The monks of this place are ſuppoſed to have written a Chronicle of the Affairs of Scotland, called the Black Book of Paiſley, from the colour of its cover. This curious monument of antiquity, cited fre- K k quently 216 A Y R S HIR E. 10W 11 quently by Buchannan, belonged to the Preſident Spoteſwood, and after his death was carried into England by General Lambert, and is now in the King's library, at St. James's. GEORGE Shaw, abbot of this place, in the year 1484, enlarged and beautified this monaſtery, he built the refectory, and other offices neceſſary for the monks, the church and the precinct of the convent, and enlarged the gardens and orchards, which he encloſed with a wall of hewn ſtone, meaſuring about a mile in circuit. In one of the cor- ners of this wall, towards the outer fide, there was a niche, with a ſtatue of the Virgin Mary, with this diſtich engraven under her feet : Hac ne vade viâ, niſi dixeris Ave Maria : Sit ſemper fine væ; qui tibi dicit Ave; One of his ſucceſſors was John Hamilton, natural ſon to James, Earl of Arran, who was then Biſhop of Dunkeld, and afterwards Archbiſhop of St. Andrews. 'The Biſhop reſigned it in the year 1553, 6to Id. Decembris, with the Queen's conſent (reſervatis fibi fructibus) in favour of Lord Claud Hamilton, a child of ten years of age, not- withſtanding that it is expreſſed in the Bulls of Pope Julius, that he was fourteen years old. This Lord Claud was third ſon of James, Duke of Chatelherault, Governor of Scotland. He adhered to Queen Mary's intereſt, and was at the field of Langſide in the year 1568, for which he was forfeited : and Paiſley, thus in the hands of the crown, was beſtowed by the Regent upon Robert, ſon to William Lord Semple, heritable Baillie of Paiſley, and Juſticiary of that regality ; but Lord Claud being afterwards reſtored to his fortune, was, in the year 1591, by the favour of King James VI. created Lord Paiſley. His ſon, James, Earl of Abercorn, A. D. 1592, diſpoſed the abbacy of Paiſley in favour of the Earl of Angus, by whom it was alienated, in the year 1653, to William, firſt Earl of Dundonald; in his poſterity it conti- nued till the year 1764, when the preſent Earl of Abercorn repur- chaſed this paternal inheritance of his family. The abbey church appears to have been, when entire, a very grand building : it was in the : 218 218 A Y R S H I R E. Thy callit the Abbot George of Shaw, About my Abby gart make this waw, An hundred, * four hundredth zear, Eighty four, the date but weir, Pray for his ſalvation That laid this noble foundation.” The revenues of this abbey are thus given in Keith's Appendix. Cluniac Abbey of Paiſley, in the Shire of Renfrew. Money 2468. 1. + Bear 40. C. 12. b. Meal 72. c. 3. b. 3. f. 11. p. Oats 43. c. 1. b. 1. f. 1. p. Cheeſe 705 ft. * This is evidently an error, probably a typographical one; it ſhould be a thouſand. + Scots. TWEE- THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENKI T'I EEN $ JE T UDI par TELETTE LVRATILL DD), U VAR ICM 3 SA Forbtiah'a mee 6.7oby v tomto I CROSS CHURCH TEEBLES : ( 219 ).. .. 1. T W E E D A LE... THE CROSS CHURCH, PEEBLES. THIS is part of the Conventual church, built according to Poecius Major and others, by King Alexander III. A. D. 1257. Some ſay it was erected on the ſpot where the reliques of St. Nicholas, a martyr, were diſcovered; but from the account of this diſcovery, preſerved at Peebles, it appears that that event did not happen till May th, 1262. poſſibly a new church, or ſome addition to the old one, might have been built on this occaſion. Fordun ſays 1261, and the Chronicle of Melroſs places this diſcovery in 1260. This St. Nicholas was a Scotch Biſhop, of the order of Culdees; he is ſuppoſed to have ſuffered mar- tyrdom during the perſecution of Maximian, about the year of our Lord 296. FORDUN thus relates the circumſtances of finding theſe reliques. In the ſame year, i. e. 1261, 7th ld. May, and the 13th of King Alexander, there was found at Peebles, in the preſence of diverſe re- ſpectable perſons, preſbyters, clerks, and burgeffes, a magnificent and venerable croſs, but by whom it had been hidden, or in what year, was totally unknown. It was however believed, that when the per- ſecution by Maximian raged in Britain, about the year of our Lord, 296, it had been hidden by ſome pious perſons. Shortly after, in the ſame place, and about four paces from the ſpot where the croſs had been diſcovered, was found an urn of ſtone, containing the aſhes and bones of a human body, which ſeemed to have been diſmembered limb by limb. No one could tell whoſe remains theſe were. A certain man, however, affirmed them to be the bones of the perſon whoſe name was found written on the ſtone on which the holy croſs was L1 found, 220 TWEED A L E. found, for it was written on the outſide of the ſaid ſtone, the place of St. Nicholas, the Biſhop. In the place where the croſs was found | many miracles were, and are ſtill performed by the ſaid croſs; ſo that crouds of people flock thither, devoutly offering their prayers and ob- lations to God. Wherefore the King, by the advice of the Biſhop of Glaſcow, cauſed a handſome church to be erected to the honor of God and the Holy Croſs. This monaſtery was poſſeſſed by Red Friars. King Robert II. grants to Friar Thomas, deſcribed as Capellana ſuo, pratum regium juxta villam de Peebles; and Frere Thomas Minſtre de Sancta Crucis de Peebles occurs in Prynn's Collections. The monaſtery was built in the form of a ſquare. The church, which formed the South fide, meaſured on the outſide, one hundred and two feet; its width was thirty-two; the height of its ſide walls twenty-four feet from the level of the floor; they were three feet thick. The offices of the convent formed the three other ſides. From ſome projecting ſtones, calculated to receive a roof, it appears, that there were ſome buildings againſt the North wall of the church. The cloiſters were on the Weſt ſide ; the dwelling houſes were only twenty- two feet deep. The whole was built with whin ſtone, except the angles, doors, windows, cornices, &c. which were all of a white free-ſtone, remark- ably good and durable ; the arches of the doors and windows are pointed. The church had four doors, two on the South fide, one on the North leading from the convent, and one in the Weſt end, all deco- rated with neat mouldings. There have evidently been four, if not five windows on the front or fore wall, each fifteen feet high from the ſole to the top of the arch, and five feet ſeven inches wide; a more modern one in the Eaſt gable fixteen feet high and feven wide. In the fore wall of the church, between the third window from the Weſt and the door on the Eaſt of that window, there has plainly been an aperture and arch formed at the firſt building of the church ; it is of, a particular conſtruction, four feet wide, and two and a half high, on the outſide ; but encreaſing to between ſix and ſeven feet in width, and eight feet in height on the inſide, with decorations of free ſtone pro- jecting THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX AND TUREN FOUNDATIT SER M K . lui BERUM ME UP ins HU - 3 BA LES SEE RE ROL BADS corpo.com మన పలు పనులు od Pub Sep 20,4790 by S. Hooper raret Sculp ST ANDREWS CHURCHa! PEEB !, ES. 222 T W E E D A L E. have been dedicated by Joceline, Biſhop of Glaſcow, who died A. D. 1199. To judge by the ſtile of its architecture it ſeems of conſidera- b>le antiquity, all the arches of its doors and windows being ſemicircu- lar, or at leaſt fome ſegment of a circle; from an inſpection of its remains it ſeems to have been full as large as the Croſs Church. BEFORE the Reformation, the town having been rebuilt, changed its ſituation, and being brought nearer to the Crofs Church, that was, after the Diffolution, appropriated to parochial uſes, and St. Andrew's ſuffered to fall to ruin, its roof having been demoliſhed by Cromwell's ſoldiers, who uſed it for a ſtable. The tower, which is ſquare, is ſtill ſtanding, with ſome fragments of the ſide walls of the church. The church-yard, from a number of modern tomb ſtones, appears to be ſtill uſed as a burial ground. In this church were twelve altarages, founded and endowed by the moſt ancient families of the neighbouring gentry of the Shire of Twee- dale. Here too was annually choſen, on the Monday before Michael- mas, the Deacon of the Corporation of Weavers, of the borough of Peebles. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. . ma NID PATH CASTLE. THIS caſtle ſtands on a rock, projecting over the North bank of the river Tweed, which here runs through a deep narrow glen, well wooded on both ſides, and towards the land on the North fide, com- manded an important paſs. By whom, or at what period it was built, is not known. It was formerly the ſeat of the Fraters, Lords of Oliver Caſtle, in Tweedie Muir, and from them, about the year 1312, came to the Hays, Lords of Yeſter, one of which family was afterwards, by King James III. A. D. 1457, created Lord Hay of Yeſter, whoſe deſcendant, John, the eighth Lord Hay, was, on the iſt of December, 1646, raiſed to the dignity of the Earl of Tweedale. WHEN King Charles II. marched for England, John, ſecond Earl of Tweedale, garriſoned his caſtle of Nid Path, for his Majeſty's fer- vice, which held out againſt Oliver Cromwell longer than any place South of the Forth. The NA again RATA Nid P'ATE COS'I'LE | THE NEW YORK, PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND TALIEN FOUNDATION THE NEW YORK! PUBLIC UP! T inti BiH! SURES DE TWIWO 21210591917.797. Harpa AUCHINCASS CASTLE. 223 TWEED A L E. : The family of Tweedale being greatly impoveriſhed by their ad- herence to the Royal Cauſe, fold this, and ſeveral other eſtates, to Wil- liam, the firſt Duke of Queenſberry, whoſe fon was created Earl of March and Ruthenglen, Lord Nid Path ;. and this caſtle was for ſome time the reſidence of the Earls of March: it at preſent belongs to his Grace the Duke of Queenſberry. The walls of this caſtle are eleven feet thick ;, a ſtair-caſe was lately cut into the thickneſs of them, without damaging the building. It is now, however, in ruin, part of it having fallen down. The banks hereabouts, particularly from the high road, a little above the caſtle, afford a moſt beautiful proſpect, terminated by a view of the town and bridge of Peebles. Dr. PenNICUIK, in his deſcription of Tweedale, informs us, this building was of old called the Caſtle of Peebles: he thus celebrates it: The noble Nid Path Peebles overlooks, With its fair bridge and Tweed's meandering brooks ; Upon a rock it proud and ſtately ſtands, And to the fields about gives forth commands. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. AUCHINCASS CASTLE EVANDAL E. THỊs caſtle is ſituated in Evandale, in the pariſh of Kirkpatrick, on the Weſt ſide of the river Evan, near its junction with the water of Garfell, about three miles South Weſt from Moffat; it ſtands on an eminence, ſurrounded by a moraſs. The building was, when entire, a ſquare, flanked by a round tower on each angle. The walls were remarkably thick and high, the whole ſurrounded by a deep double ditch. Great part of the building is now fallen, as may be ſeen by the view. ANNO 1072 this place belonged to Hugh de Graham, and con- tinued in that family for many generations ; from him it came to the Johnſons of Colhead, and was very lately the property of a gentleman of the name of Milligan. This view was drawn A. D. 1799. M m DRUM- 224 T W E E D A L E. DRUMMELZIER. CAST L E. TWE E DAL E. DRUMMELZIER Caſtle is ſituated cloſe to the river Tweed. It was formerly the ſeat of the powerful family of Tweedie, who had great poffefſions in the South of Scotland. A ſmall caſtle, ſituated on the point of a ſteep conical rock, about half a mile from Drum- melzier, was uſed by the Lords of Tweedie, as a fort of reduit or citadel. This fortalice, of which only a few walls are ſtanding, was called the Thanes Caſtle, vulgarly Tennis Caſtle. Both this and Drummelzier Caſtle went by marriage to the Hays. A deſcendant of that family is the preſent proprietor. DRUMMELZIER caſtle, in 1790, when this drawing was taken, was much out of repair. Its form and ſituation will be beſt under- ſtood from the annexed view, TWEED MUIR CHURCH. THE annexed view, which ſhews the church of Tweedmuir, and the adjacent pictureſque country, was drawn from the back of the Bild Inn, A. D. 1790. The mount on which this church ſtands is generally ſuppoſed to be an ancient tumulus, and is vulgarly called a Roman Work. NOTHING can be more romantic than the hills hereabouts; a groupe of them here repreſented, when ſeen in a particular point of view, with a particular light upon them, require ſmall aſſiſtance from fancy to make them reſemble a Couchant Lion, or ſome other large four-footed animal, in a cumbent poſture. CLACK- S BILA cm Pub March 8.1791 by S. Hoopier DRUMMELZIEK CASTLE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATION, 1.97 € TTI ; 7 TiveED MouTHCHURCH. THE NEW YORK pris LIBRARY KOK AND 14 . B E WA TAI Foto Hot TTH T : ht * * LE IN *** 10,797. V T Hoopor: NHAIT HOT I'LLSV ( 225 ) : CLACKMANNANSHIRE. CLACKMANNAN TOWER. eri THIS tower is pleaſantly ſituated on the ſummit of a hill, com- manding an extenſive and beautiful proſpect over the adjacent tract of country. It was long the ſeat of the chief of the Bruces. The large ſquare tower here repreſented is called Robert Bruce's tower; his two handed ſword and helmet were not long ago, and probably ſtill are, pre- ſerved here. Near the tower ſtands the little town of Clackmannan. The Bruces are faid to have had a file or ftring of caſtles, of which this and another in Sterlingſhire were two; they were all within fight of each other, ſo that they could communicate by ſignal. · When Clackmannan firſt belonged to the Bruces is uncertain. There is a charter quoted by Douglas as early as the time of King David II. dated gth of December, 1359; wherein that King grants to Sir Robert Bruce (whom he therein ſtiles his dearly beloved relation) the caſtle and manor of Clackmannan, with diverſe other lands, lying within the Sheriffdom of Clackmannan. LOCH LEVEN CASTLE. KINROSS-SHIRE. na LOCH LEVEN CASTLE ſtands in an iſland meaſuring about eight Engliſh acres, which iſland is ſituated nearly in the middle of a loch or lake, about twelve miles in circumference, and in many places twenty-four fathoms deep. It is not known when this caſtle was built. - It occurs in hiſtory as early as the year 1335, when it was be- fieged by Sir John de Sterling. THE as WIT 226 K I N ROSS-SHIR E. The following account of that ſiege is in ſubſtance given by Fore dun. In the year 1315, in the midſt of Lent, Sir John de Sterling, a ſoldier in the King of England's ſervice, with a great number of An- glefied Scots, among whom were Michael de Arnot, Michael and David de Wemys, and Richard de Malville, Knights, with many others who had embraced the Engliſh party, aſſembled to beſiege the caſtle of Loch Leven, and reconnoitering the borders of the lake, and ſeeing that the caſtle would not be eaſily taken, eſtabliſhed their quar- ters at Kenroſs, ſurrounding the church with a fortreſs; thereby con- verting the houſe of God to a den of thieves. Alan de Vipont was then Governor of the caſte, and had with him James Lambyn, a citizen of St. Andrews, and many other brave and robuſt Scotchmen. The ſiege for a while went on in the ordinary manner; but the be- fiegers gaining little ground, had recourſe to ſtratagem, and in order to overflow the caſtle and drown the garriſon, conſtructed a ſtrong and high dam, with turf and hard rammed earth croſs the receſs of the water of Leven, where it empties itſelf; at this work the neighbouring people, women as well as men, worked inceſſantly; they alſo by channels cut in the earth, drew down the waters of Leven to the town of Kinroſs. The feſtival of the bleſſed Margaret, Queen of Scotland, ap- proaching, which was annualiy celebrated at Dumfermling, Sir John de Sterling thought it neceſſary for form fake to attend, taking ſeveral of his people with him; the remainder he diſpoſed of in the beſt manner for carrying on the ſiege ; but the bleſſed Servanus, the pro- tector of the Iſlanders, inſpired them with the following mode of defence. The governor and garriſon informed of Sterling's abſence, and being in want of victuals, fireing, and all other neceſſaries, fecretly de- tached four valiant men in a light boat, and provided with proper inſtruments to deſtroy the dam; they got out on the Eaſt Gide of the caſtle, unperceived by the beſiegers, and after labouring almoſt the whole night, d-ſpairing of accompliſhing their purpoſe, had deter- mined to deſiſt. But one of them fuggeſting that they ſhould perliſt a little longer, and that he would promiſe them help from the faith he had in St. Servanus, reſuming their work, the water began to ooze copal reſidence. It was granted ence probably ſtiled Lord of Loch Pe the moſt remarkable is, that it was inate Queen Mary was confined, and from e It had occaſionally been uſed as a priſon, XINR O S S-SHIRE Pris tid tiis csile was ancientlr a royal reſiden Å: R et III. ro Douglas, thence probablyn 1.49; Wit makes this cattle the mon D A Y2 mrherein the unfortunate Queen what the made her eſcape. It had on both before and after that tire. The cattle in 1790, when there a rectangular wall, encloſing a fome of them round; with co, chapel and apartment where a ſquare tower; it ſtands as I have read (for I could geon, and a vaulted in the North ſide. when theſe drawings were made, confiſted of encloſing a ſmall area, flanked by little towers, z with ſome ruined walls, ſaid to be thoſe of the vent where Queen Mary was confined. The keep is it ſtands in the North Eaſt angle of the area ; in it, à (for I could not get in to ſee it) there is a pit or dun- vaulted room over it; the chief entrance is through a gate the outſide of the caſtle, chiefly towards the Eaſt, are ſeveral Pot trees, particularly the remains of an afh, which appears, when ire to have been of a great ſize. This view ſhews the inſide of the - Cute and the keep, as viewed from the South Weſt. 211C LOCHOR CASTLE. THIS Caſtle is built on a peninſula on the South ſide of the Loch of Lochor, in the Shire of Kinroſs, and was founded by Duncan de Lochor, in the reign of Malcolm IV. King of Scotland, anno 1160. It conſiſted of a ſtrong ſquare tower, with many lower buildings, ſur- rounded by a wall, with round towers, waſhed by the waters of the Loch, which abounds with pike and perch. In the reign of King Alexander II. Adam de Lochor was Sheriff of Perth, David de Lochor is in 1255 alſo Sheriff. In 1289 Hugo de Lochor is Vicecomes de Fife, as is Conſtantinus in 1292. David de Lochor is named in Ragman's roll anno 1296. In 1315 Thomas de Lochor is in the Parliament at Ayr, that tailzied the crown, and his ſeal is ap- pended to that act. In the reign of King Robert I. this eſtate féll to the ſon of a gentleman, Adam de Valloniis, who had married a daugh- ter ETTE 'H LITTL. = = E = = tha AHMES }}}} HTTLE By FAST . Tits st: p ক . THE SELLEN}}}} . Bes: ৩ - ই 1111#* ন মরিস - #E LATE ST Is= HE SHE さくらさんがいます​。 R BinitiatrizediiE এn E = " ও = ==== মানিকে / LE ati = === = । Trশন = = = = = = = E. / = । TELECT E dit : নি - Publish'd June 119 1790 by J. Hooper. sparror L OCH OAR CASTLE 228 K IN ROSS-SHIRE It is ſaid this caſtle was anciently a royal reſidence. It was granted by King Robert III. to Douglas, thence probably ſtiled Lord of Loch Leven ; but what makes this caſtle the moſt remarkable is, that it was the priſon wherein the unfortunate Queen Mary was confined, and from whence ſhe made her eſcape. It had occaſionally been uſed as a priſon, both before and after that tiire. The caſtle in 1790, when theſe drawings were made, confiſted of a rectangular wall, encloſing a ſmall area, flanked by little towers, ſome of them round; with ſome ruined walls, ſaid to be thoſe of the chapel and apartment where Queen Mary was confined. The keep is a ſquare tower; it ſtands in the North Eaſt angle of the area ; in it, as I have read (for I could not get in to ſee it) there is a pit or dun- geon, and a vaulted room over it ; the chief entrance is through a gate in the North ſide. On the outſide of the caſtle, chiefly towards the Eaſt, are ſeveral ancient trees, particularly the remains of an afh, which appears, when entire, to have been of a great fize. This view ſhews the inſide of the caſtle and the keep, as viewed from the South Weſt LOCHOR CASTLE. THIS Caſtle is built on a peninſula on the South ſide of the Loch of Lochor, in the Shire of Kinroſs, and was founded by Duncan de Lochor, in the reign of Malcolm IV. King of Scotland, anno 1160. It conſiſted of a ſtrong ſquare tower, with many lower buildings; ſur- rounded by a wall, with round towers, waſhed by the waters of the Loch, which abounds with pike and perch. In the reign of King Alexander II. Adain de Lochor was Sheriff of Perth, David de Locher is in 1255 alſo Sheriff. In 1289 Hugo de Lochor is Vicecomes de Fife, as is Conſtantinus in 1292. David de Lochor is named in Ragınan’s roll anno 1296. In 1315 Thomas de Lochor is in the Parliament at Ayr, that tailzied the crown, and his ſeal is ap- pended to that act. In the reign of King Robert I. this eſtate fell to the ſon of a gentleman, Adam de Valloniis, who had married a daugh- ter HATHI R ESATE SELLE . HEN GT 30 Mode Shu ESS S CEL CHE LE · Publisha June 11217.90 by J. Hooper, frarron LOCH ORR ČAS TLE | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENGK AND : T. LAEN KOUNDATIONI. KINROSS-SHIR E. 229 ter of the Barons of Lochor. It continued in this family for a conſidera- ble time, and then came to Sir Andrew Wardlaw, of Torry, who mar- ried the eldeſt daughter of D. Jacobus de Valloniis, in whoſe family it remained till the time of King Charles I. Over the chief entry to the tower is inſcribed Robertus de Wardlaw, who greatly fortified and repaired this caſtle. After the Wardlaws it came into the poffeffion of Sir John Malcolm, whoſe deſcendant, Sir Michael, lately fold what remained of this ancient Barony to Park, Eſq. In this Caſtle Chriſtopher Seaton, who had married the ſiſter of King Robert Bruce, and had aſſiſted at the ſlaughter of Comyn, at Dumfries, was taken, and by the order of King Edward I. was be- headed at Dumfries, anno 1306, LIN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATIONI. URU LA? H III TUTTO She Este SITE 1 070970, 1791.17 SHeeper. LOCH LEVEN CASTLE BCN . --- --- - = . . . SA ng ME ON * * Wiki 333 - uluttug og Hooper Maria 1791 Naun 11MITILCOV PALACE. 232 LINLITHGOWSHIRE. a barrack, it was accidentally ſet on fire by the King's troops. The pediments over the windows are dated 1619. In one of the other fides is a room ninety-five feet long, thirty feet fix inches wide, and thirty-three high ; at one end is a gallery with three arches, perhaps intended for a band of muſick : narrow galleries run quite round the old part, to preſerve the communication with the apartments. The parliament chamber is a handſome room, HERE was born on the 8th of December, 1542, the unfortunate Queen Mary. Her father, James V. then dying at Falkland of a broken heart, for the miſcarriage at Solway Moſs, foretold the miſe- ries that hung over her and Scotland. - It came,” ſaid he, “ with a laſs, and will be loſt with one.” The chapel was built by James V. The church is a handſome building, and ſome of the windows are extremely elegant. Here is ſtill ſhewn the aiſle where James IV. * ſaw the appa- rition, : * Some time ago was found at Home Caſtle the remains of a body, in an Ox hide; it had an iron chain round the loins, and was therefore ſuppoſed to have been James IV. who was well known to wear an iron chain round his loins, by way of pennance, for having been acceſſary to his father's death; he moreover conſtantly added a link to this chain every year. His being found in Home Caſtle is thus accounted for: at the battle of Flodden the Earl of Hume with his troops kept aloof; when, it is ſaid, the King eſcaping to him much wounded, threatened to call him to a ſevere account, for being one of the cauſes of the loſs of the battle. The Earl dreading the King's reſentment is ſaid to have murthered him, and buried him privately in Hume Caſtle. In contradiction to this account, it was generally fuppoſed that the body of that King was brought to ihe Abbey of Sheen, near Richmond, in Surry, and there kept till the Pope's permiſſion could be had to bury it, he having died under the ſentence of excommu- nication. The Pope's Bull taking off that ſentence is printed in Rymer. The above receives ſome corroboration from the following letter written by Queen Catherine to King Henry VIII. which was printed in the London Magazine, to which it was communicated by Arthur Collins, author of the Peerage, &c. This letter was copied from the Manu. fcript Collection of Gregory King, Lancaſter Herald. QUEEN CATHERINE TO KING HENRY. SI R, MY Lord Havard hath ſent me a letter open to your grace, within one of mine, by which you will ſee at length the great victory that our Lord hath given your LINLITHGOW SHIRE. 233 rition, that warned him of the impending fate of the battle of Flodden. The Weſt end of the church ſeems more modern than the reſt, and is ſaid to have been built by a Biſhop, as a penance enjoined him by, the Pope, for incontinency. On this church is a handſome ſpire, with a crown on the top. It is now uſed for parochial ſervice. Lately in digging a grave a baſſo relievo, neatly cut in ſtone, was found; the ſubject was Chriſt's Paſſion, of which there were only two parts, the firſt, Chriſt Praying in the Garden, the ſecond, Chriſt Healing Mal- chus's Ear; they were both incloſed in Gothick pannels, and meaſured about two feet in height, and not quite ſo much in breadth. your ſubjects in your abſence; and for this cauſe it is no need therein to trouble your grace with long writing ; but to my thinking the battle hath been on your grace, and all your realme, the greateſt honour that could be, and more than you ſhould wyn of the crown of France ; thanked be God for it; and I am ſure your grace forgetteth not to do this, which ſhall be cauſe to ſend you many moe ſuch victories, as I truſt he ſhall doe. My huſ- band, for haſtineſs, with Rouge Croſſe I could not ſend your grace the piece of the King of Scots coat, which John Glyn now bringeth. In this your grace ſhall ſee how I can keep my promiſe, ſending you for banners a King's coat; I thought to ſend himſelf to you, but our Engliſhmen would not ſuffer it. It ſhould have been better for him to have been in peace, than to have this reward. All that God ſendeth is for the beſt. My Lord of Surrey, my Henry, would fain know your pleaſure in burying of the King of Scots body; for he hath writien to me ſo. With the next meſſenger your grace's pleaſure may be therein known; and with this I make an end, praying God to ſend you home ſhortly, for without this no joy here can be accompliſhed, and for the ſame I pray; and now go to our lady at Walſinghame, that I promiſed ſo long ago to fee at Voburne the XVI of September--I ſend your grace herein a bill found in a Scottiſh man's purſe, of ſuch things as the French King ſent to the ſaid King of Scots, to make warr againſt you, be- ſeeching you to ſend Mathew bither, as ſoon as the meſſenger cometh to bring me tidings from your grace. Your Wife and true Servant, KATHERINE. xt The ſword and dagger of King James IV. are now preſerved in the Heralds Office, where they were lodged by the Earl of Surrey. Stowe ſays, that on the Diſſolution of the Abbey of Sheene, King James IV's. body was thrown into a waſte room, amongſt old timber, lead, and ſtone. STIR- WIFE Rih 24 RE man BV pienie..., Fullwhd Sept 22 17 gola ATTY WEST" IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY .TOR LENCX ANS NA NOTIONS ci he TE Missionaria de salidas all mobile SA home at South learning training and HIS Perhiliaherl Jan 77.7799. by P Hooper Holborn BRUCE'S CASTLE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SON AITOR LEMGX AND TALEN FOUNDATION OD PUBES A Fel3 7pingogen MON ng ranting? Neustan NUNNERY OF MANNEL or EMANUEL STIRLING SHIRE. 235 THE NUNNERY OF EMANUEL OR MANUEL. THIS nunnery is ſituated on the borders of Stirlingſhire, upon the Weſt bank of the water of Avon, about a mile above the bridge of Lin- lithgow, in the pariſh of Moranſide or Muiravonſide. It was founded about the year. 1156 by King Malcolm IV. ſurnamed the Maiden, and was a priory occupied by nuns of the Bernardine or Ciſtertian order, to whom belonged thirteen convents in Scotland. Beſides the endowments beſtowed by the royal founder, it received conſiderable donations from others at different periods. King William, ſurnamed the Lion, made a grant of the tenth of all his revenues in the fire and borough of Linlithgow, both money and vi&tual. Alexander II. made a donation of the mills of Linlithgow, with all their ſequels and appurtenances; and Roger de Avenel beſtowed on the holy fifters a chalder of wheat, to be paid by him and his heirs, out of his barns of Abercorn, at Chriſtmas, yearly. · The prioreſs of this place, whoſe name was Chriſtina, ſwore fealty to Edward I. July 4, 1292, * as did her ſucceſſor, named Alice, at Linlithgow, in 1296. f This nunnery had poſſeſſions in the ſhires of Edinburgh and Ayr, as well as in thoſe of Linlithgow and Stirling, as appears by an order of Edward, to the Sheriffs of thoſe thires, to reinſtate the prioreſs in poffeſſion of her lands, within their ſeveral juriſdictions, in conſequence of her having ſworn fealty to that Monarch. When the liſt of eccleſiaſtiçal revenues were drawn up in 1562, thoſe of Emanuel amounted to fifty-two pounds, fourteen ſhillings, and eight-pence Scots, three chalders of bear, ſeven chalders of mcal, with a large quantity of ſalmon. I Of this nunnery little remains, except the Weſt end of the church. This fragment contains an arched door or gateway, with three ſmall * Rymer's Federa, tom. 2. p. 572. + Keith on Religious Houſes. I Keith's Appendix. PP Gothic THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATIONI. 2'38 STIRLING SHIRE. collegiate ; this chapel was pulled down by James VI. who on its fite erected the preſent chapel. James V. was crowned here, and here reſided during his minority, and received his education ; he built the preſent palace, which is a ſquare all of hewn ſtone, adorned with ſculpture; in the center is a ſmall ſquare court, called the Lion's Den, from the King's lions having been kept there. The palace contains inany large and elegant apartments; the ground ſtory has been con- verted into a barrack for the private ſoldiers ; the upper ſtory gives a houſe for the governor, and lodgings for the officers. OPPOSITE to the palace is a chapel of hewn ſtone, built by James VI. for the baptiſm of Prince Henry, in 1594; it is nosv em- ployed as a ſtore room; and here is preſerved the hulk of a boat, in which that King cauſed the proviſions to be drawn in, at this cere- mony; and in the roof hangs a piece of ſquare wood, in which are carved models of the caſtles of Edinburgh, Stirling, Dumbarton, and Blackneſs. A STRONG battery, called the French Battery, points to the bridge ; it was probably ſo called from being conſtructed by engineers of that nation. Great additions were inade to the works here, by order of Queen Ann, ſome of them never completed. ADJOINING to the North ſide of the caſtle is an eminence con- taining a few acres, which being fortified, makes a part of the caſtle; it is called the Nether Bailey. Here is the well which ſupplies the garriſon. : On the South Weſt fide of the caſtle is the park, encloſed by a ſtone wall; this, with ſeveral other pieces of ground round the garriſon, form a juriſdiction, called the Conſtabulary of the caſtle. At the Eaſt end of the park was a royal garden ; veſtiges of the walks and parterres are ſtill viſible. In the garden is a mount of earth in form of a table, called the Knot, where, according to tradition, the court ſometimes held Fêtes Champetres. Poſſibly this might be the round table men- tioned by Barbour, if ſo, it was here King James IV. uſed to amuſe himſelf with the paſtime, called the Knights of the Round Table, of which he is ſaid to have been peculiarly fond. THE STIRLING SHIRE. 239 The lordſhip and caſtle of Stirling was the uſual dowry of the Queen of Scotland, at leaſt after the acceſſion of the Stewarts. On the North Weſt of the caſtle is a ſteep path leading to the town, this is called Ballochgeick. James V. who uſed often to travel through the country in diſguiſe, for different purpoſes, when queſtioned who he was, always anſwered, the Good Man of Ballochgeick. . 'This caſtle has been the ſcene of many warlike feats, having been repeatedly beſieged, taken, diſmantled, and rebuilt by different parties, during the wars between the Engliſh and Scots, as well as in their civil diſſenſions. A. D. 1297, it being in the hands of the Engliſh, was abandoned by Sir Marmaduke de Twenge, and ſeized by Wallace, for the Scots; who held it a year, and then deſtroyed and abandoned it ; it was, how- ever, in a few weeks re-occupied and repaired by King Edward. It was again taken by the Scots in 1299. A. D. 1303 it capitulated to Sir John de Foulis, for want of provi- fion; and was the next year, i. e. 1354, retaken by King Edward, after a long defence, in which the garriſon was reduced to twenty-eight men : in this fiege Edward is ſaid to have battered it with engines, that threw ſtones of two hundred pounds weight; and Fordun ſays, that he cauſed all the lead to be taken off the monaſtery of St. Andrew's, and carried to Stirling, for the conſtruction of his machines. A. D. 1333 it yielded to the B.iliol party, and, as ſome ſay, was diſmantled by directions from the Engliſh Court ; but in 1336 was re- built by the orders of King Edward III. ſtrongly garriſoneş, and the command of it given to Sir Thomas Ruckby. A. D. 1337 it was beſieged by the Scots under Sir William Doug- las, of Liddeſdale, and Sir Andrew Murray, who lay two months before it, but was relieved by King Edward in perſon. Next year the fiege was renewed, and again raiſed by the Engliſh Monarch ; but in 1339 the Scots, under Douglas and Murray, took it; after which the Eng- liſh were never able to penetrate ſo far into Scotland. The laſt reduction of this fortreſs by a fiege, was in 1651, when Cromwell followed King Charles II. into England, before the battle of Worceſter. He left General Monk to accompliſh the conqueſt of Scotland. Qq 240 STIRLINGSHIRE. Scotland. This caſtle was then taken by him, when he carried the Scottiſh Records to London, they having been removed hither upon the ſurrender of Edinburgh Caſtle. In 1660° they were by King Charles II. packed up in hogſheads, and ſhipped for Scotland ; but the ſhips being caſt away near Berwick, they were all irrecoverably loſt. IN 1746 Stirling Caſtle was attacked by the Highlanders, but they were ſoon obliged to relinquiſh the fiege. .. -. The area on which this caſtle ſtands is of an irregular figure, its length running nearly North and South, being double that of its breadth ; it is divided into two courts. . : The entrance is on the South ſide through a ſtrong gate, flanked by round towers ; on the left, or Weſt, in a corner, ſtands the palace, a ſingular building, richly ornamented with groteſque figures. .. • PASSING the South Eaſt angle of the palace you come into a ſecond area, or kind of ſquare, where a little to the North Eaſt is the Old Parliament Houſe, a vaſt room, of one hundred and twenty feet long, very high, with a timbered roof: this building forms the Eaſt ſide of the ſquare. The North ſide is cloſed by the chapel, built by James VI. on the ſite of the collegiate one, as has been before obſerved i n The Weſt ſide was bordered by a wall, beyond which, adjoining to the outward, or Weſtern wall of the caſtle, were the armory and bar- racks for the garriſon; further Weſtward was the magazine. On the whole, the ſituation of this caſtle greatly reſembles that of Edinburgh, each being mounted on the ridge of a precipitous rock. This and the Caſtle of Dumbarton were ſaid jointly to ſecure the Lowlands from the incurſions of the Highlanders; the former as the Lock, of which Stirling was the Key, This view was drawn A. D. 1790. . THE GREY FRIARS CHURCH, AT STIRLING. THIS church was built A. D. 1494, by King James V. for a con- vent of Franciſcans or Grey Friars : it is a very handſome building, in the beſt ſtyle of what is called Gothic architecture : it is all of hewn ſtone, ETH E LE EL L ! VONS ette TRUE TE Hot NG de mate BENE TAL CLS WETE CACHE SER RE NIIRLING CIRCH Pub. Tan! 28.2797. by SHeerer. TER THE LA L DE MORE RT HE BE NO 33 WA TA 1 एस्ट ASEAN THE NEW YORK). PUBLIC LIBRARY A&TOR. LENCX AND T'LIEN FOUNDATIONS, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBPAP . ASTOR, LEN parrojo કા . ( fe R 25 1 ને રજા તે DOWN CAS TLE. PIRTH SHIRI. પીની ધમાલ |, I | | | | | | | | | - - છે 'મા ! '' B-HIMATE AGREAવતેમના માનમરતામાતાના. 1 TET HD, Hooper. E 5 Tubland Aug 19h ngoby s ; ( 243 ) PE R T H S H I RE. DOUN CASTL E. THIS caſtle, according to tradition, was built by Murdock, Duke of Albany, who was, it is ſaid, executed on a hill within ſight of it. It is very pleaſantly and ſtrongly ſituated, being almoſt ſurrounded by the river Teath; for (ize and ſtrength it exceeds moſt of the caſtles in this part of Scotland, thoſe of Edinburgh and Sterling excepted. The firſt time it occurs in hiſtory, is Sir James Stewart, of Beath, being appointed Conſtable thereof by James V. The ſon of this Sir James, in the year 1565, obtained a charter under the great ſeal, of certain lands, to be called the Barony of Doun. He was a ſteady friend to Queen Mary during the civil wars, when this caſtle was always a ſafe retreat to the loyaliſts: FORMER LY; before the abolition of hereditary offices, courts were held here, in a room kept in repair for that purpoſe. In the Rebellion of the year 1745 it was for ſome time occupied by the Rebels, who planted a twelve pounder in one of the windows, and ſeveral ſwivels on the parapets ; thefe' guns were brought from a mer- chant ſhip which had fallen into their hands. On its being quitted by the Rebels, an engineer was ſent down by Government to furvey the caſtle, with an intent to repair and fortify it, if capable of being made tenable ; but it is probable that he reported to the contrary. It has ſince been neglected and ſuffered to fall to ruin. It is at preſent the property of the Earl of Murray. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. Rr GOW. 244 PERTHSHIR E. GOWRIE HOUSE OR CASTL E. IV. . . . . GOWRIE CASTLE ſtands on the South Eaſt ſide of the town of Perth, at the Eaſt end of the South-ſtreet. When, or by whom, it was built is not aſcertained; but if one may judge from its appear- ance and ſtyle of architecture, it does not ſeem older than the time of James V. or at moſt his father, James IV. Ir was the reſidence of the Earls of Gowrie, till forfeited by that noble family, on account of that ſtrange and myſterious tranſaction, called Gowrie’s Conſpiracy, the ſcene of which was this houſe. The circumſtances are too long and too intricate to be here properly related. Certain it is, that the attainder of this family cauſed very conſiderable e cheats to the crown, and afforded the means of gratifying a number of rapacious courtiers. : .. AFTER Lord Gowrie's forfeiture, the Magiſtrates obtained the pro- perty of this manfion or caſtle, which, in the year 1746, they pre- ſented, together with the freedom of the town, to his Royal Highneſs, William, Duke of Cumberland, from whom the Board of Ordnance, a's report ſays, purchaſed it for five thouſand pounds. It has ever ſince ferved as barracks for the detachment of the Royal Artillery, in Scotland. THE MONKS TOWER. THIS tower ſtands in a walk, near the river. Tay, in the garden of Gowrie Houſe: it is of an oval figure, with a high roof, vaulted within; the area or internal meaſure is about twenty-four feet by thir- teen: it has a fire-place and coved cieling, in which are coarſely painted the twelve ſigns of the Zodiac, the Heathen Gods and God- defics, and the arms, creſt, and cyphers of the Hay family. The painting, from its ſtyle, does not ſeein, older than the time of King Charles I. and is ſaid to have been done by the ſame hand as the cielings of the palace of Scoon. Aſparently this tower was intended .. for - 一一一一 ​1月 ​一看 ​LINE | 1 . 有山​。 此副作用​。 。 的 ​1974。 . -- 上山​。 三 ​7 are 目中​, ) .35%, ) | 一直是中国 ​- 照​」。 。 日五国 ​一一一 ​一一 ​-- 即可​。 一种用 ​。所以​,在用Mira的一种重 ​。 日出日出 ​-- 十月十一日​。 #日​,国家一一 ​一一一一一一 ​一一一一一一一 ​- 出品 ​( 1 2 ) 2012 川普得個E . 三三三 ​F1 - 言情 ​ic. ||| - 目中​, 1 一一一一一一上市直事业中 ​- 一日​, THE 中生 ​一一一一一一 ​- USER . --- - F1 - 市​。 中国重 ​重要事​。可是作事事​, - 上田中国 ​上看​, 正 ​节日​。 。 多 ​Publish's March 6:1789 by S. Hooper. w/ E. COWFIE HOUSE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LEXCX AND TILREN FOUNDATION, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTON, LENCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATION, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ATOR, LENOX AND I'LAEN EGUNDATION, I VIJICIC TOWER Miver: enlarg & hoitli az urfernama SR CSS WHIS HET 100 KAN 1 246 PER T HSHIRE. 10 In this caſtle James VI. was, A, D. 1582, on his return from a hunc- ing party in Athol, ſtopped by a number of his moſt faithful peers, with an intent to reſcue him from his worthleſs favorites, who were poiſoning his young mind, with arbitrary principles, under the ſpecious appellation of the Royal Prerogative. The King endeavoured to eſcape, but was prevented, upon which burſting into tears, he was told by the Guardian of Glames, " That it was better children weep than bearded men.” The confederated Lords carried the King off; but ſhortly after getting out of their hands, he put himſelf into the poſſeſſion of Lord Arran. This tranſaction was called “ The Raid of Ruthven.” MR. PENNANT mentions another remarkable, though more happy, event, which happened here : “ A daughter of the firſt Earl of Gow- rie was addreſſed by a young gentleman in the neighbourhood, much her inferior in rank and fortune ; her family, though they gave no countenance to the match, permitted him to viſit them, and lodged him in a tower, near another in which was the young lady's chamber, but up a different ſtair-caſe, and communicating with another part of the houſe : the lady, before the communicating doors were fhut, con- veyed herſelf into her lover's apartment; but ſome one of the family having diſcovered it, told it to her mother, who cutting off, as fhe thought, all poſſibility of retreat, haſtened to ſurprize them ; but the young lady, hearing the well-known footſteps of her mother hobbling up ſtairs, ran to the top of the leads, and took a defperate leap of nine feet four inches, over a chafın of fixty feet from the ground, lighted on the battlements of the other tower, whence defcending into her own chamber, ſhe crept into her bed ; her mother having in vain fought her in her lover's chamber, came into her room, where finding her ſeemingly aſleep, ſhe apologized to her for her unjuſt fufpicion. The young lady eloped the next night, and was married.” The top of the towers, from and to which the lady leaped, are ftill ſhewn, under the appellation of the Maiden's Leap. This caſtle con Giſts of two ancient ſquare towers, connected by buildings of later date ; it is ſtill inhabited as a farm-houſe, though the back part is in ruins. The banquetting hall is ſtill diſcoverable, the chimney of which is ornamented with groteſque heads of ſtucco ; two of L- THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY VAR ASTOR, LENEX ANS TILREN FOUNDATION, 248 PERTHSHIR E. to be analogous to it; for it ſtands in the pariſh of Dolor, was bounded by the glen of Care, and waſhed by the burn of Sorrow. Here is an extraordinary contrivance for procuring water under cover : a ſubterraneous way to the burn running at the bottom of the rock, on which the caſtle is ſituated, having been made with ſtone and lime, it is now broken at the top, and is to be ſeen through the buſhes and bruſh-wood with which it is overgrown ; looking down the con- duit or ſteps affords a moſt tremendous ſight. This caſtle, which with its circumſcribing demeſnes belonged to the Argyle family, was A. D. 1645 taken and burned by the Marquis of Montroſe, who carried fire and ſword through the whole eſtate. The landlord of the inn at Dolor ſaid, his grandfather, who was agent to the Argyle family, put a roof on it. It was inhabited when the family were Marquiſies of Lorn: at preſent it belongs to the Duke of Argyle. This plate gives a near view of the caſtle. CASTLE CAMPBELL. PLATE II. • : THIS view ſhews the caſtle at a diſtance, as ſeen from the village of Dolor. This and Plate I. were drawn A. D. 1790. CULROSS OR KYLLENROSS ABBEY. THIS was a Ciſtertian Abbey, ſituated upon the Frith of Forth, in the ſhire of Perth, and dioceſe of Dumblane. It was founded in the year 1217 by Malcolm, Earl of Fife; the Chronicle of Melroſs, which records this foundation, ſays the monks and firſt abbot were ſent from the abbey of Kinleſs. The conventual church was not only dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but alſo to St. Servanus the Confeſſor, whoſe feſtival was annually kept on the firſt day of July, even long after the Reformation; on which day the men and women were ac- cuſtomed to aſſemble early in the morning, and walk in proceflion round the town, carrying green boughs in their hands, and afterwards ſpending LE GS CHI WHO SUN Fuchs The's ?? :701 by I foupier CAMPBELL CASTIEl.. | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AITOR, LENCX AND TILIEN FOUNDATION F FUUERI* in LUR 1 re CS ful 19 H au . Tigilm entro P 2. 12 10 B . ww Puériss hitel May 671789 by J I tooper. Sparron je. . . CUT OSS ABBEY. 250 PER T H SHIRE Lambs. n. 22. Capons 7 doz. Poultry 261 d. Butter 71 ftone. Cheeſe 791 ſtone. A. Straw 8 truſſes. And the Abbot ſays, there were nine monks in the convent, five whereof had recanted; but the other four would not by any perſuaſion. And he mentions a certain allowance he had given to thoſe that had recanted; but had given nothing to the others. This view was drawn 1784. THE CATHEDRAL OF DUNBLANE. THE Cathedral of Dunblane is ſituated on an eminence on the Eaſt- ern bank of the river Allan, and overlooking the town to which it pro- . bably gives name. The ſee of Dunblane was founded by King David, about the year 1142 ; he alſo built the cathedral.. Its revenues at the Reformation amounted to the ſum of 3131. (Scots) in money; i chaldron of wheat ; 11 chaldron, 11 bolls, 3 firlots, and į a peck of bear; 50 chaldron, i boll, i firlot, and 31 pecks of meal; 9 chaldron and 12 bolls of oats. This church was once poſſeſſed of diverſe lands in England. Much of this cathedral is ſtill ſtanding, though faſt falling to de- cay. The choir is kept in repair, and ſerves for the parochial church : under it are fepulchral vaults. In the choir are ſeveral of the oaken feats for the choriſters, on which are carved, as uſual, groteſque figures ; among them, a ca“, a fox, and an owl. At the upper end of the choir are ſome of the prebendaries ſtalls ; on' the right of the entrance the Biſhop's ſeat, and on the left that of the Dean ; thefe are alſo of oak, handſomely carved. Here are ſeveral coarſe blue marble ſtones over the graves of di- verſe of the Biſhops and Deans : on ſome of them there are the marks of brafs plates. BEHIND a modern ſeat is a niche in the wall, in which is the figure of a Biſhop, as large as life; he is dreſſed in pontificalibus, with his mitre. The three ſteps to the altar ſtill remain. In the niche where the veſſel for holy water formerly ſtood, there is now a door. 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With reſpect to the firſt ſuppoſition, it is cbjected that they cannot have been meant for watch towers, ſince they are not always placed on elevated ſtations, commanding an uninterrupted proſpect around them, but, on the contrary, are frequently covered by commanding hills, par- ticularly towards that ſide from whence danger was moſt probable. That they were imitations of Minarets, ſeems extremely impro- bable; the deteſtation in which every article and circumſtance of Pagan Worſhip was held by the Cruſaders, makes it ſcarcely poſſible they would introduce any of them into the Chriſtian Church. And for the argument deduced from the Culdees following the ceremonies of the Greek Church, it remains to be proved, that the Greeks uſed Minarets; beſides it is generally held there were no Culdees in Ireland. The third opinion, namely that they were penitentiary towers, ſeems, on the whole, the moſt prevalent, though it appears rather to have acquired the ſuffrage from the defeat of its competitors, than from any very cogent reaſons offered in its ſupport. GORDON viſited this tower, of which he gives the following ac- count: “ I went directly,” ſays he, 6 to Abernethy, the ancient capital of the Pictiſh Nation, about four miles from Perth, to ſee if I could find any remains of the Piets hereabouts; but could diſcover nothing except a ſtately hollow pillar, without a ſtair-caſe: ſo that when I entered within, and looked upward, I could ſcarce forbear ima- gining myſelf at the bottom of a deep draw-well : it has only one door or entrance facing the North, ſomewhat above the baſis, the heighth of which is eight foot and a half, and the breadth, from jamb to jamb, two and a half. Towards the top are four windows, which have ſerved for the admiſſion of light; they are equidiſtant, and five feet nine inches in heighth, and two foot two inches in breadth, and each is ſupported by two ſmall pillars; at the bottom are two rows of ſtones projecting from beneath, which ſerved for the baſis of a pedeſtal. The whole heighth of the pillar is ſeventy-five foot, and conſiſts of fixty- four rows, or regular courſes of hewn ſtone : the external circum- ference at the baſe is forty-eight foot, but diminiſhes ſomewhat towards nin the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTOR, LENEX AND T'LIEN FOUNDATION, TO Publino lang J Hosphere Oa^7.1790 A! HILTHY ,WIR P1.2.. PERTHSHI R E. 253 the top; and the thickneſs of the wall is three foot and a half. This is, by the inhabitants hereabouts, called the Round Steeple of Aber- nethy; and is ſuppoſed to be the only remains of a Pictiſh work in theſe parts." This view ſhews the ruins of the church, with a diſtant view of the tower. Orver. . . TI ABERNETHY COLLEGE. PLATE II. THIS might with more propriety be called a view of the tower, of which it gives a particular delineation, as ſeen from the high road from Perth. - Theſe views were drawn A. D. 1790. ANGUS. ( 254 ) A N G U S S H I R E . GLAMES CASTLE. PLATE I. . G LAMES Caſtle originally conſiſted of two rectangular towers, longer than broad, with walls of fifteen feet in thickneſs; they were connected by a ſquare projection, and together formed a figure fome- what like the letter Z, ſaving that in the caſtle all the angles were right ones. This form gave mutual defences to part of the building. GREAT alterations and additions were made to this houſe by Pa- trick, Earl of Kinghorn ; theſe, according to the above cited plan, a date carved on a ſtone on the outſide of the building, and other autho- rities, were done in the year 1606, and not 1686, as is ſaid in an an- cient print, engraved about that time. The architect employed on this occaſion, as tradition reports, was Inigo Jones ; indeed the work ſeems greatly to reſemble Herriot's Hoſpital, at Edinburgh, and di- verſe other buildings deſigned by him. The great hall was finiſhed A. D. 1621. It is a handſome room, with a coved cieling, adorned with heads and ornaments in ſtucco. Here are many family portraits, among them a large picture, in a carved oaken frame, repreſenting Earl Patrick and his Three Sons. In the back ground a view of the caſtle, as it was in 1683. At that time there were three gates leading from the park. In the ancient part of this caſtle is ſhewed the room wherein Malcolm II. was murdered. Fordun has it, that he was killed at or near the town of Glames; but does not ſay in the caſtle. A PARTICULAR deſcription is given of this manſion in an Ano- nymous Journey through Scotland, publiſhed in 1723. Since which diverſe alterations have been projected in the building, for which one of the wings has been partly pulled down, and is not yet rebuilt. " IN WORLD BARTH MOUNTAIN Mech EN BIS 12P EP IS EN OKA W he Lublisha tentan go by J Hooper. of norodje CHAMM'S CASTIEPl.). ANGUS SHIR E. 255 “ In the entering Strathmore I arrived at the noble palace of Glames, belonging to Lion, Earl of Strathmore. This palace, as you approach it, ſtrikes you with awe and admiration, by the many turrets and gilded balluſtrades at the top. It ſtands in the middle of a well planted park, with avenues cut through every way to the houſe. The great avenue thickly planted on each ſide, at the entrance of which there is a great ſtone gate, with offices on each ſide, of free ſtone, like a little town, leads you in half a mile to the outer court, which has a ſtatue on each fide, on the top of the gate, as big as the life. On the great gate of the inner court are balluſtrades of ſtone, finely adorned with ſtatues; and in the court are four brazen ſtatues, bigger than the life, on pedeſtals; the one of James VI. and firſt of England in his ſtole; the other of Charles I. in his boots, ſpurs, and ſword, as he is ſometimes painted by Vandyke; Charles II. is in a Roman dreſs, as on the Exchange, in London; and James II. in the ſame he is in at Whitehall. From this court, by balluſtrades of iron, you have a full proſpect of the gar- deos on each ſide, cut into graſs plats, and adorned with ever-greens, whicla are very well kept. The houſe is the higheſt I ever ſaw, con- fiſting of a high tower in the middle, with two wings, and a tower at each end; the whole above two hundred feet broad. The ſtairs from the entry to the top of the houſe conſiſts of one hundred and forty-three ſteps, of which the great ſtairs, where five people can mount abreaſt, are eighty-fix, each of one ſtone. In the firſt floor are thirty- eight fire rooms. The hall is adorned with fainily pictures; and be- hind the hall is a handſome chapel, with an organ, for the church of England ſervice. On the altar is a good picture of the Laſt Supper, and on the citling an Aſcenſion, done by one De Wit, a Dutchman, whom Earl Patrick, this Earl's Grandfather, brought from Holland, and who painted the cielings of moſt of the rooms. In the drawing room, next to the hall, is the beſt picture I ever faw, of Queen Mary of Modena, the Pretender's mother. The Duke of Lauderdale in his robes, by Sir Peter Lely; and the late Lord Dundee, with a croud of half lengths of the nobility of Scotland; and over a chimney a curious Italian piece, of our Saviour difputing with the Doctors in the Temple. U u WHEN 256 ANGUS SHIR E. ; When the Pretender lay here they made eighty-eight beds, within the houſe, for him and his retinue, beſides the inferior ſervants, who lay in the offices out of doors. The preſent Earl's elder brother ſaved the eſtate from being forfeited, by being killed at the head of his regi- ment, on Shiremore.” In the court before the miniſter's houſe is ſhewn a ſtone, on which is engraved a croſs and diverſe figures, ſaid to allude to the murder of King Malcolm, and the deaths of the murderers, who attempting to croſs the lake of Forfar, then ſlightly frozen over, the ice broke, and they were drowned. This ſtone is deſcribed and engraved in Mr. Pen- nant's Tour. Diverſe weapons, with ſome braſs veſſels lately found in draining that lake, are ſhewn in the caſtle. . The tradition of an ancient lofty building, called the Tower of Glamis, ſituated on an eminence near the center of the town of King- horn, in Fifeſhire, is ſtill preſerved in that place. It ſerved as a ſea- mark to failors navigating the Forth. This building becoming ruinous a gentleman in the neighbourhood obtained leave of the Strathmore family, to whom it belonged, to take the ſtones for the purpoſe of building, on condition that he ſhould put down a pillar on the ſpot whence he took the ſtones, with this inſcription, “ Here ſtood Glamis Tower.” This pillar is remembered by many of the inhabitants at preſent (A. I. 1789) living ; but it is now removed. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. GLAMES CASTLE. PLATE II. THIS view gives a more pictureſque, though leſs deſcriptive, delinea- tion of the caſtle than the former. They were both drawn on the farne day.. ABERBROTH ABBEY. ABERBROTH or ABERBROTHACK, in the Shire of An- gus, is ſituated on the ſea ſhore, on the burn of Brithock or Brothe. ----------- ---------- a immediate me ... t ambodia T of the KAKO ARBEY. -- PU PH ----- - - --- ARBERRYOTHOR A PT Mayo og ty I chorper ARARE FR [ ibland TOYOT A NGUSS HIRE. 257 It was one of the richeſt and moſt ſumptuous abbeys in Scotland, and was founded, A. D. 1178, by King William, the Lion, who was buried here. It was dedicated to St. Thomas Becket, Archbiſhop of Canter- bury, and filled with Benedictine or Tyroneſian Monks, brought from the Abbey of Kelſo.. This place is in ſeveral manuſcripts called Monaſterium Bajocenſe, and by Dempiter Aberbredock-kuidel. King Robert Bruce granted to this abbey ten marks ſterling, to be received annually from the Tha- nage of Monifoth, for maintaining lights about the tomb of William, King of Scotland; and King John, of England, probably out of regard to the monaſtery, granted to the inhabitants of this town the privilege of diſpoſing of their goods any where within his dominions, London excepted, toll and cuſtom free. Pope Lucius. III. in the year 1182, confirmed all donations that were made to this monaſtery. The firſt Abbot was Reginaldús, a Monk of Tyron, who was in the year 1178, releaſed' by John, Abbot of Kelſo, from all ſubordina- tion due to him as Abbot of that monaſtery; to which charter Richard, of Aburbuthenoth or Arbuthnot, the King's Clerk, was witneſs: this Reginaldus was conſecrated at King William's requeſt, by Mathew, Biſhop of Aberdeen, the church of St. Andrew being then vacant. . The ſecond Abbot was Henry, a profeſſed Monk of Kelſo, who was likewiſe, A. 1). 1179, releaſed by the Abbot of that houſe, from that ſubjection to him and his fucceffors, which he had at his profeſſion Livorn to obſerve. ::: BERNARD, Abbot of Aberbroth, was Chancellor under King Robert Bruce, and afterwards Biſhop of the Iſles. May 2d, 1394, an inden- ture was made between John Geddy, Abbot of this houſe, and the bur- geſſes of the town, whereby that Abbot, for certain conſiderations, ob- liges himſelf and his ſucceſſors, at their proper expence and charges, to maintain the pier in ſuch ſtate that veſſels may enter, and lay there in fafety, In the year 1461 Pope Pius II. granted the Abbot of this houſe an exemption from attending at the yearly epiſcopal fynods, of which he directed the Biſhop of St. Andrew's to give notice to his brethren, threatening excommunication to any one who ſhould trouble him on that 258 ANGUS SHIRE. M that account. Yet it does not appear (ſays Keith) that theſe threats were regarded by John Biſhop of Brechin, and Alexander Biſhop of Murray. Popc BENEDICT, by his Bull, dated at Avignon, 6 Kal. June, and the ſecond year of his Pontificate, granted to John, Abbot of Aber- broth, and his ſucceſſors, the privilege of making uſe of and wearing the mitre, ring, robes, and other Epiſcopal Inſignia ; and Pope Martin, by his Bull of the 5th Id. June, and the third of his Pontificate, autho- riſed Walter, Abbot thereof, and his fucceffors, to confer the minor orders on the Monks and Clerks of their convent. The laſt Eccleſiaſtic Abbot was Cardinal Beaton, at the fame time Archbiſhop of St. Andrew's. The laſt Commendatory Abbot of this houſe was John Hamilton, ſecond fon to the Duke of Chaſtelherault, afterwards created Marquis of Hamilton. This Abbey was erected into a temporal lordſhip, in favour of James, Marquis of Hamilton, ſon to the former; the grant is dated upon the 5th of May, 1608. This Abbey afterwards belonged to the Earl of Dyfart, from whom it was purchaſed, with the right of patronage of thirty-four pariſh churches, belonging to it, by Patrick Maule, of Panmure, Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to King James VI. in which family it remained till the year 1715, when it eſcheated to the crown by forfeiture, and was under the management of the Barons of the Exchequer. A. D. 1752 part of the ſite of the Abbey was obtained by the town. For the adminiftration of juſtice the Convent elected and paid an officer, called Bailey of the Regality, which became hereditary; the family of Airly held it before the Reformation, and till the year 1747, when it was ſold and veſted in the crown, with other hereditable juriſ- dictions. The walls of the Regality Priſon are ſtill remaining. In the year 1445 the election of this officer proved fatal to the Chieftains of two noble families: the Convent had that year choſen Alexander Lindeſay, eldeít ſon of the Earl of Crawiord, to be Judge or Bailey of their Regality; but he proved to expenſive by his number of followers, and high way of living, that they were obliged to remove him, and appoint in his place Alexander, nephew to Jolin Ogilvie, of Airly, who had an hereditary claim to the place: this occafioned a cruel wa 260 ANGUS SHIR E. with the firſt ſtatement, except in the ſalmon, which is the ſame as the ſecond. This Abbey was built with a red ſtone found hereabouts, which ill reſiſts the weather, ſo that the ornamented parts expoſed to the open air, are inuch defaced, and the carvings ſcarcely diſtinguiſhable. The buildings of this houſe were all encloſed by a ſtrong wall, the ground forming an irregular figure. The length from North to South about one hundred and ninety geometrical paces, and the mean breadth, from Eaſt to Weſt one hundred and thirteen ; the breadth at the North end exceeding that at the South upwards of one third. On the South Weſt corner is a tower, now the ſteeple of the preſent pariſh Kirk; and at the South Eaſt corner is the darn, or private gate, over which was a houſe for catechiſing. The greateſt part of the walls were ſtanding within the memory of man, but are now nearly demoliſhed. On the North ſide of the area, and almoſt in the middle, between the two corners, ſtood the Abbey Church, which was of the figure of a croſs. Weſt of the tranſept it was divided into a middle and two ſide aiſles, by a double row of columns, ſupporting arches. The meaſures of this church are as follows: Inside length of the whole church, from Eaſt to Weſt, 270 feet. BREADTH of the middle aiſle 35 feet; ſide aiſles each 163 feet. Total breadth of the whole church, ſide aifles included, 68 feet. Length from the Weſt end to the tranſept 148 feet. Breadth of the tranſept, fide aiſle of 161 feet included, 451 feet. LENGTH of the whole tranſept, from North to South, i32 feet. Length from the Eaſt end to the tranſept 76] feet. The heighth of the ſide walls, as appears from the mark of the roof on the ruins, was about '67 feet. Part of the Abbot's houſe is ſtill ſtanding, and inhabited; in here ſome of the ancient floors are remaining, and ſeveral handſome carvings in oak. This Abbey, on the whole, though not the moſt elegant when entire, yet from the magnitude of its parts, is the moſt magnifi- cent in Scotland. This view was drawn A. D. 1788. ABER- • 9: 12 BATAS VO . 24 2 HEIM CI ! F ed MEH mais Fubicat a Aug 26 17go by J. Hooper. ARBRO ATT ABBEY !!2. ANGUSS HIRE. 201 201 ABERBROTH ABBEY. PLATE 11. THIS view, which ſhews the outſide of the great gate, with the Regality Priſon, was drawn A. D. 1790.. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BRECHEN. BRECHEN was a Biſhop's fee. It was founded about the year 1 140, by King David I. Its annual revenues, in money and rents paid in kind, before the Reformation, are ſaid to have amounted to ſeven hundred pounds ;, but after that event, were diminiſhed to one hundred and fifty, owing to alienationis of its eſtates, made by Alexander Camp- bell, the firſt Proteſtant Biſhop, to his Chieftain, the Earl of Argyle, by whoſe intereſt he had been promoted to that ſee. Keith in his Ap- pendix ſays, “ In this Biſhoprick there is great confuſion and un- certainty." . ?.. . The Culdees had a Convent here, which afterwards gave way to the Mathurines, or Red Friars; but neither of them feein to have had any thing to do with this church. The ruins of the Abbey of Red Friars, called the College, according to Maitland, are yet to be ſeen inz the College Wynd, adjoining to the North Weſtern end of the Gram- mar School. This Church is a handſome building, in length one hundred and ſixty feet, in breadth ſixty-one; the Eaſtern part is ruinous.; the Weſt- ern part now ſerves for the pariſh church. Round it, under the eaves of the roof, ran a handſome cornice, carved, with quaterfoils and brackets. . . . . . . . . . - The tower is an hundred and twenty feet high, ſquare, and em- battled, having four ſmall chinks or windows over each other, above which are the belfry windows, large, with pointed arches, divided into two by a mullion, which ſeparates at the top, and give ſpaces for a hand- ſome quatrefeuil. This tower is crowned with an hexagonal ſpire, pierced with ſmall windows. THER E 262 AN GUSS H I R E. Here is another tall ſlender tower, fimilar to that at Abernethy: Gordon deſcribes it in his Itinerary, in the following words : “ In my journey Northward I found a ſteeple at Brechen, differing little in ſhape from that at Abernethy, only it was larger, and covered at the top; for its heighth from the baſe to the cornice is eighty-five feet, and from thence to the vane fifteen, in all one hundred; it conſiſts of fixty regular courſes of ſtone; the external circumference thereof is forty-ſeven foot, and the thickneſs of the wall three feet eight inches; however this has no pedeſtal like the other, but ſeems to ſhoot out of the ground like a tree; it has a door fronting the South, the heighth and breadth of which differs little from Abernethy; only upon it are evidences ſufficient to demonſtrate that it was a Chriſtian work, for over the top of the door is the figure of our Saviour on the Croſs, with two little images or ſtatues towards the middle. . This ſteeple has a low ſpiral roof of ſtone, with three or four win- dows above the cornice, and on the top there is placed a vane; it has no ſtaircaſe within any more than the other, but the inhabitants of both towns aſcend to the top by ladders : the vulgar notion of theſe is, that they are Pictiſh ; and I ſhould eaſily have reſted in that opinion, had I not been fince that time aſſured that ſome of the like monuments are to be ſeen in Ireland, where the Picts never ſettled.” Theſe meaſures differ ſomewhat from Mr. Pennant's; he ſays, 66 the heighth from the ground is eighty feet; the inner diameter, within a few feet of the bottom, is eight feet; the thickneſs of the walls at that part ſeven feet two inches; ſo that the whole diameter is fifteen feet two; the circumference very near forty-eight feet; the inner diameter at the top is ſeven feet eight inches ; the thickneſs of the walls four feet lix; the circumference thirty-eight feet eight inches; which proportion gives the building an inexpreſſible elegance : the top is roofed with an octa- gonal ſpire, twenty-three feet high, which makes the whole one hundred and three feet high ; in this fpire are four windows placed alternate on the ſides, reſting on the top of the tower : near the top of the tower are four others facing the four cardinal points.” A maſon, who was at work on the church when I ſaw it, ſaid he had meaſured this tower for a wager, and found its heighth to the top of the nev ЕВ да - сон - - - - Т - 1 . . . . . Г. . . . . . . ... . 5 . Н . Н. - . Т ) . . P 1 . ... А E . 4 w , - А - а гит . - нь 1 .1 1 * к 1 с Н а и 4 . - - - - - - ег .. . ашиті статті - + + + : h tter - Er Ter-. ст. Н АН, " 1 . 1 " - , : " ** Р - - Pв - на - * - за tон. 2.PART" Ря : ПАТ Т. Е E. . В. . Е 1 Ети НА Н. та ін га HTT На е замистове *, miwili уэ Ноорил і у мі) BRECHIN CHURCH & TOWER 3 1 3 4N - - - - - 44 - ANGUS SHIRE. 263 the vane to be one hundred and eight feet exactly. In deſcribing the male figure under the Crucifix, Mr. Pennant thinks it was meant for St. John; to me it appeared to have a large beard, and to be leaning on a kind of crutch; whereas St. John is always repreſented as a hand- ſome young man. The tower is connected to the church by a ſmall covered paffage. There are at preſent two bells in this tower, to which the aſcent is by ladders. This view, which ſhews the North Eaſt aſpect of the church, was drawn A. D. 1790. THE RED CASTLE. THIS Caſtle ſtands on a high cliff, called the Red Head, on the South ſide of the Bay of Lunan. It probably took its denomination of the Red Caſtle, from the colour of the cliff whereon it is built, which is red, as are alſo the ſtones uſed in its conſtruction, like thoſe of the Abbey of Aberbroath. . This, according to tradition, was once the reſidence of King Wil- liam, ſurnamed the Lion, by whom it is likewiſe ſaid to have been built. He began his reign in the year 1165, and died in 1214. Very little of this caſtle is at preſent remaining, as may be ſeen by the view. Its ragged fragments carry the appearance of antiquity. In Haddington's Chart, p. 583, there is an entry of a charter granted by King Robert de Bruce, to Sir Donald Campbell, of the moiety of the Barony of Red Caſtle, which Henry de Percy, Knight, had for- feited to that King. Whether this caſtle is meant or not I will not take upon me to determine. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. TE RESTEN NOTE PRIORY:: THE deſcription of this Priory is given in that of Jedburgh, in Tia viotdale, to which it was a cell. . Y y ABER ( 264 ) , A B E R D E E N S H I R E. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH, OLD ABERDEEN. THIS Biſhoprick was originally founded at Murthfack, in the county of Banff, by Malcolm II. in the year 101o, in commemoration of a great victory obtained by him over the Danes. Beanus was by him appointed Biſhop thereof; he was the firſt Scotch Prelate that had a Dioceſe aſſigned to him." This See having continued one hundred and twenty-ſeven years at Murthlack, was, in the year 1137, tranſlated to Aberdeen by King David I. who confirmed to it the lands of Murthlack, Cloveih, and Durimeth. : i ... .. .... . MATHEW KENNIMOUTH, the third Biſhop after the tranſlation to Aberdeen, and who ſucceeded about the year 1165, began this Ca- thedral, which was dedicated to St. Marchar : whether it was finiſhed during his life time or not is uncertain... Henry Cheen, the twelfth Biſhop, who died 1329, repaired this building, which had ſuffered much during the contention between Bruce and Bailiol. 'n in? : :: .. · ALEXANDER KENNIMOUTH, the ſecond Biſhop of that name, the ſixteenth after the tranſlation of the See, ſucceeded about the year 1356. He not thinking the church ſufficiently beautiful for a Cathe- dral, cauſed it to be pulled down, and laid the foundation of one more magnificent; but before the work was advanced fix cubits high, he was ſent out of the land by the King, on an einbaſſy, and died ſoon after his return.. . About the year 1340 the Engliſh ſet fire to the town of Aberdeen, which burned ſix days, when the Biſhop's Palace, and all the Prebendal Houſes, were deſtroyed. THE SU Publishd Jeptio: 1790 by J. Hooper ASS RES 3 LO TEE AUF Brem ELSH SUR TAL TEL SAL Khes Hos FTP OID ABERDEEN CATHEDRAL LEL Test பக்கப்பாவாக Wan TRONIC ** ROL RESO Recherches asiana ete TER NICE es TUFE S GEWS SKA 42 WE HI Nece ES hitin THE IR PE SEEN DIE RE VE Sparrow THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX ANO TILIEN FOUNDATIONS. 265 A B E R DE ENSHIR E. The Cathedral appears to have remained unfiniſhed till the acceſſion of Biſhop Henry Leighton, in the year 1424, who greatly advanced that work, and beſtowed large ſums of his own for perfecting it; he built alſo a chapel within it, called St. John's chapel, in which he was buried about the year 1441 Bishop Thomas Spence, who died 1480, greatly adorned this Ca- thedral, and rebuilt the Biſhop's Palace, &c. which had remained in ruins ever ſince the burning thereof by the Engliſh. BISHOP William Elphinſtone, who died in 1514, propoſed great additions to this church; he began the choir and Eaſt end of it, but did not live to complete his plan. Bishop Gawen Dunbar, who died in 1531, ſet himſelf to per- fect what Biſhop Elphinſtone had begun, and therefore ſued the Biſhop's executors for certain legacies left by that Prelate for thołe purpoſes, adding thereto money of his own ; but the Reformation hin- dered the completion; this building ſuffered much by that event, but more, it is ſaid, by the Revolution. * * This venerable pile, which had fuffered ſo much by the Reformation, did not eſcape the fury of the Covenanters, in the unfortunate reign of King Charles I. So violent was the zeal of that reforming period agair.ſt all monuments of idolatry, that, perhaps, the Sun and Moon, very antient objects of falſe worſhip, owed their ſafety to their diſtance. As there was then nothing to be found worth carrying off, the illiberal zealots wrecked their vengeance upon the ſtones and timber. The high altar-piece, of the fineſt workmanſhip of any thing of that kind in Europe, had to that time remained inviolate ; but in the year 1649 was hewed to pieces by order, and with the aid, of the pariſh Miniſter. The car- penter employed for this infamous purpofe, awed by the fanctity of the place, and ſtruck with the noble workmanſhip, refuſed to lay a tool on it, till the more than Gothic. Prieſt took the hatchet from his hand, and ſtruck the firit blow. The wainſcotting was richly carved, and ornamented with different kinds of crowns at the top, admirably cut; one of theſe, large, and of ſuperior workmanſhip, even ſtaggered the zeal of the furious Prieſt ; he wiſhed to ſave it, perhaps is a trophy over a fallen enemy; whaiever his motive may have been, his hopes were diſappointed; while the carpenter rudely hewed down the ſupporting timbers, the crown fell from a great heighth, plowed up the pavement of the church, and few in a thouſand pieces. Douglas's Deſcription of the Eaſt Coaſt of Scotland. In his account the dates reſpecting the acceſſions of the Biſhops, repairs, &c. differ widely from Spotſwood, whoſe Chronology has been here adopted. HERE KINCAR DINESH I R E. DUNOTTER CASTLE. DUNOTTER Caſtle is ſituated on the Eaſt coaſt of Kincardines fhire, on a rock projecting into the ſea, acceſſible from the land on the Weft ſide, and that only by a narrow, ſteep, and winding path, over a deep gully, by which it is connected with the main land, and which ſerves as a kind of natural foſs or ditch, the adjacent rock having been ſcarped, and rendered inacceſſible by art. The entrance into the caſtle is through a gate, in a wall of about forty feet high, whence by a long paſſage, partly arched over, and through another gate pierced with four oilliets or loop-holes, you enter the area of the caſtle, which meaſures about an Engliſh acre and a quarter. This paffage was alſo formerly ſtrengthened by two iron portculliſes. This area is ſurrounded by an embattled wall, and occupied by buildings of very different ages. The oldeſt except the chapel is a ſquare tower, ſaid to have been built about the latter end of the four- teenth century. A large range of lodging rooms and offices, with a long gallery, of one hundred and twenty feet, ſeems of a very modern date, not older than the latter end of the ſixteenth century. Here are alſo ſhewn the ruins of diverſe other buildings and con- veniences neceſſary for a garriſon ; ſuch as a chapel, barracks, a baſon, or ciſtern of water, twenty feet diameter, a bowling green, and a forge, ſaid to be uſed for caſting iron bullets. On this rock, notwithſtanding its difficulty of acceſs, the church and burial place of the pariſh was originally ſituated. The building now called the chapel, being formerly the pariſh church. During the contention between Bruce and Baliol, the natural ſtrength of this rock Z z induced 269 KINCARDIN ESHIRE Burnt up the Kirk and all that was therein, Attour the rock, the lave ran with great dii), Some hung on crags right dolefully to die, Some lap, ſome fell, fome fluttered in the Sea, No Southeron in life was left in that hoid, And them within they burnt to powder cold. When this was done, feil fell on their knees down, At the Biſhop aſk'd abſolution. When Wallace leugh, ſaid, I forgive you all, . Are ye war-men, repent you for fo ſmall ? They rued not us into the town of Air, Our true barons when they hanged there. . ; DO IN 1336 this caſtle was refortified by King Edward III. in his pro- greſs through Scotland: but was, as ſoon as 'that King quitted the kingdom, retaken by the Guardian, Sir Andrew Murray. Nothing reſpecting this caſtle occurs in hiſtory, till the civil wars of the laſt century, when it was beſieged by the Marquis of Montroſe, and the church again burned. This caſtle was inhabited till the beginning of the preſent century; but was demoliſhed ſoon after its forfeiture, in the year 1715, when its ruins were repurchaſed by the Earl, and afterwards ſold by him to Mr. Keith of Rovelſton. The Annotator of Camden mentions the ſtately rooms in the new buildings and the library; he alſo ſpeaks of St, Padie's Church, here famous for being the burial place of St. Palladius, who, in 431, was ſent by Pope Celeſtine to preach the Goſpel to the Scots. In this caſtle, during Cromwell's Uſurpation, the Regalia of Scot- land, conſiſting of the crown, ſword, and ſcepter, were depoſited; the Earl being then appointed, by King Charles II. one of the Commiſ- fioners for managing the government while his Majeſty was abroad. Mr. Ogilvie, to whom the defence of this caſtle was committed, find- ing it ſo cloſely inveſted that he could not long hold out, prevailed on the wife of the Miniſter of Kineef, a bold and prudent woman, who happened to be in the caſtle at that time, to aſſiſt in conveying them away; :270 KINCARD IN ESHIR E. away; this ſhe did by packing them up in a bundle, as things of no value, and walking boldly out with them. They were afterwards hid under the pulpit of Kineef, till the Reſtoration. This eſcape ſucceeded the more eaſily, as Mr. J. Keith, who, on the caſtle being inveſted, failed immediately for France, had induſtriouſly cauſed it to be reported that he had taken them with him. For this piece of ſervice the King, at his Reſtoration, created Sir William Keith Knight Mariſchal of Scotland, and Earl of Kintore. The caſtle was at the time of the above-mentioned ſiege well ſtored with cannon and ammunition. On the ſurrender the enemy allowed the iron guns and four mortars to remain; but carried off the reſt, viz. twenty-one braſs cannon, one hundred and forty fixed muſkets, and many firelocks, twenty-fix barrels of powder, and ten cheſts of muſket balls. ::This view was drawn A. D. 1790.. BANFF- | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENEX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATION, ( 271 ) B A N F F S H I R E. . BOYNE CASTLE. PLATE I. THIS Caſtle ſtands about ſix miles South of Cullen ; it is roman- ticly ſituated on a high perpendicular rock, on the South ſide of a deep gloomy ravine or glen, through which runs the river. The banks are wooded quite to the waters edge. This was the Baronial Caſtle of the diſtrict called the Boyne, and anciently the reſidence of the family of the Ogilvies, anceſtors of the preſent noble proprietor, Lord Findlater. The building does not appear to have been very large, nor could it ever have been long tenable againſt beſiegers, being commanded on the South ſide by a hill, which runs quite to its walls, looking down into it. The caſtle was in figure a' rectangular parallelogram, its angles flanked by round towers. The grand entrance was on the South ſide, over a draw-bridge, and through a gate, defended alſo by two round towers. It is now quite a ruin, as the views ſufficiently ſhew. It was lately uſed for a granary. This view ſhews the front or South ſide, with the gate or chief entrance. It was drawn A. D. 1790. . BOYNE CASTLE. PLATE II. VCI THIS thews the North ſide of the building, with the rock and river. It was drawn A. D. 1790. A a a THE 272 B A N F F S H I R E. THE CASTLE OF INCHDREWR. This was the caſtle of the Barony of Inchdrewr, in the county of Banff; it is ſituated at a ſmall diſtance from the ſea, and by the ſtyle of its architecture ſeems to have been built about the time of King James IV. or V. Sir George OGILVY, of Dunlugas, who was created a Baronet by King Charles I. on roth of July, 1627, in the ſame year, obtained a charter under the great ſeal, of the lands of the Barony of Inchdrews. He was afterwards raiſed to the dignity of Peerage, by the title of Lord Ogilvie, of Banff, by letters patent, to him and the heirs male of his body, dated 31ſt of Auguſt, 1642. MORAY - - - - - 39 S wa .. Pwee '301790 by J Hoopsere INCH DRVAR CASTLE THE NEW YORK | PUBLIC LIBRARY AITOR LENCX AND T'LIEN FOUNDATION, : : ( 273 ) M OR A Y S H I R E. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ELGIN. THIS was the Cathedral Church of the Dioceſe of Moray, tranſlated from the Church of the Holy Trinity, at Spynie, at the requeſt of the Chapter and King Alexander II. and by virtue of a bull from Pope Ho- norius, dated 10th April, 1224. It appears that here was a church before the tranſlation, which pro- bably was taken down as ſoon as the new one was finiſhed, as being too mean for a Cathedral. Biſhop Andrew Moray is ſaid to have laid the foundation ſtone of the new Cathedral Church on the very day on which the tranſlation was declared, viz. 19th July, 1224. AFTER this church had ſtood one hundred and fixty-ſix years, from the date of its foundation, it was burned down in the year 1390, by Alexander Stewart, Lord of Badenoch, commonly called the Wolf of Badenoch, ſon of King Robert II. for which he was excommunicated; but on making due ſubmiſſion and reparation, was again received into the church. Bishop Barr began rebuilding the church, and every Canon contri- buted. Biſhop Spynie continued the work; but though every pariſh paid a ſubſidy, yet through the troubles of the times, it made Now ad- vances. Biſhop Innes laid the foundation of the great ſteeple, in the middle of the church, and greatly advanced it.. After his death the Chapter met, May 18, 1414, and bound themſelves, by a folemn oath, that whoſoever ſhould be elected Biſhop, he ſhould annually apply one third of his revenue to the rebuilding the Cathedral, until it ſhould be finiſhed. THE - 274 MORA Y S H I R E. The church at length being rebuilt, it remained entire for many years, till in the beginning of the fixteenth century, about the year 1506, the great ſteeple in the center fell down; the next year Biſhop Foreman began to rebuild it; but the work was not finiſhed before the year 1538, when the heighth of the tower, including the fpire, was one hundred and ninety-eight feet. “ This church, (ſays Shaw) when entire, was a building of Gothic architecture, inferior to few in Europe ; it ſtood due Eaſt and Weſt, in the form of a Paſſion or Jeruſalem Croſs, ornamented with five towers, whereof two parallel ſtood on the Weſt end, one in the middle, and two on the Eaſt end: betwixt the two towers on the Weſt end was the great porch or entrance. This gate is a concave arch, twenty- four feet broad, in baſe, and twenty-four in heighth, terminating in a ſharp angle. On each ſide of the doors, in the ſweep of the arch, are eight round and eight fluted pilaſters, fix and a half feet high, adorned with a chapiter, from which ariſe fixteen pilaſters, which meet in the key of the arch. There were porticoes or to-falls on each ſide of the church, Eaſtwards, from the traverſe or croſs, which were eighteen feet broad without the walls. To yield ſufficient light to a building ſo large, beſides the great windows in the porticoes and a row of attic windows in the walls, each fix feet high, above the porticoes; there was, in the Weſt gable, above the gate, a window in form of an acute angled arch, nineteen feet broad in baſe, and twenty-ſeven in heighth; and in the Eaſt gable, between the turrets, a row of fine parallel win- dows, each two feet broad, and ten high ; above theſe are five more, each ſeven feet high; and over all a circular window, near ten feet in diameter. In the heart of the wall of the church, and leading to all the upper windows, there is a channel or walk round the whole building. 'The grand gate, the windows, the pillars, the projecting table, pedeſtals, cordons, &c. are adorned with foliage, grapes, and other carving. Let us, after deſcribing the body of the church, take a view of the Chapter Houſe, commonly called “ the Apprentices Ille," a curious piece of architecture, ſtanding on the North ſide of the church, and communicating with the choir by a vaulted veſtry. The houſe is an exact octagon, thirty-four feet high ; and the diagonal breadth, within M OR A Y S HIRE. 275 within the walls, thirty-ſeven feet. It is arched and vaulted at the top, and the whole arched roof ſupported by one pillar, in the centre of the houſe; arched pillars from every angle terminate in the grand pillar. This pillar, nine feet in circumference, is cruſted over with fixteen round pilaſters or ſmall pillars, alternately round and fluted, and twenty-four feet high, adorned with a chapiter, from which ariſe fixe teen round pillars, that ſpread along the roof, and join at the top; with the pillars (five in number) riſing from every ſide of the octolateral figure. There is a large window in every ſide of feven, and the eighth fide communicates with the choir. In the North wall of this Chapter Houſe there are five ſtalls, cut by way of niches, for the Biſhop (or the Dean in the Biſhop's abſence) and the dignified clergy to fit in. The middle ſtall, for the Biſhop or Dean, is larger, and raiſed a ſtep higher, than the other four : they were all lined with wainſcot. SOME of the dimenfions of the church may be ſeen as follows: Feet The length on the outſide - - - - . 264 The breadth on the outſide 35 The breadth within the walls 28 The length of the traverſe outſide - 114 The length within walls 110 The heighth of the Weſt tower, not including the ſpire - The heighth of the tower in the centre, including the ſpire The ! h of the Eaſtern turrets The breadth of the great gate - The heighth thereof - - The breadth of each valve - - The heighth of each valve near - The heighth of the ſide walls - -- The heighth of the Chapter Houſe The diagonal breadth within walls - The breadth of every ſide near - The circumference of the great pillar The height thereof below the chapiter The breadth of the porticoes on the ſide B bb The 84 198 24 34 18 296 MOR A Y S H I R E. Feet 19 The breadth of the Weſt window The heighth thereof - The heighth of the Eaſt windows The heighth of the ſecond row The diameter of the circular window - - In taking theſe dimenſions I have not ſtudied a ſcrupulous exactneſs, and in ſome of them it is not poſlīble to do ſo. The ſpires of the two Weſt towers are fallen ; but the ſtone work is pretty entire. No part of the great tower, in the middle, now ſtands. The two Eaſtern tur- rets, being winding ſtair-caſes, and vaulted at top, are entire. The walls of the choir are pretty entire; and ſo is the whole Chapter Houſe; but the walls of the nave and traverſe are moſtly fallen. It is a miſtake, that this ſtately edifice was either burnt or demo- liſhed by the mob at the Reformation. The following act of Privy Council fhews the contrary, viz. “ Edinburgh, 14th February, 1567-8. Seeing proviſion muſt be made for entertaining the men of war (fol- diers) whoſe ſervice cannot be ſpared, until the rebellious and diſobe- dient ſubjects be reduced ; therefore appoint, that the lead be taken from the Cathedral Churches in Aberdeen and Elgin, and ſold for fuf- tentation of the ſaid men of war. And command and charge the Earl of Huntley, Sheriff of Aberdeen, and his deputes; Alexander Dunbar, of Cumnock, Knight, Sheriff of Elgin and Forreſs, and his deputes ; William, Biſhop of Aberdeen; Patrick, Biſhop of Moray, &c. That they defend and aftiſt Alexander Clerk and William Bernie, and their ſervants, in taking down and ſelling the ſaid lead, &c. Signed R. M.” (Keith’s Hift.) The lead was accordingly taken off the churches, and ſhipped at Aberdeen, for Holland; but foon after the ſhip had left the river, it ſunk, which was owing, as many thought, to the ſuperſtition of the Roman Catholic Captain. Be this as it may, the Cathedral of Moray being uncovered, was ſuffered to decay, as a piece of Romiſh vanity, too expenſive to be kept in repair. Some painted rooms in the towers and choir remained ſo entire about the year 1640, that Roman Catho- lics repaired to them, there to ſay their prayers. (Rec. Preſbytery of Elgin.) . it !! Hai ngàn ti lete 3 3 25 DES ERE 1. TLCIN CHAPTEPHOISE P1.. D2 . A STE BE LT BURUT ON 1974 MOR AYS HIRE. 277 Elgin.) The great tower, in the middle of the church, being unco- vered, the wooden work gradually decayed, and the foundation failing, the tower fell, anno 1711, on a Peace Sunday, in the morning: ſeveral children were playing, and idle people walking within the area of the church, and immediately as they removed to breakfaſt, the tower fell down, and no one was hurt. The College, when at Spynie, conſiſted of a Dean, Chancellor, Archdeacon, Chanter, Treaſurer, and eight Canons, inſtituted by Biſhop Bricius : on the tranſlation the Canons were encreaſed to twenty-two. The precinct here was walled round with a ſtrong ſtone wall, four yards high, and nine hundred in circuit. It had four gates; the Eaſt gate, called the Water-gate or the Pan's Port, appears to have had an iron door, a portcullis, and a porters lodge; probably the other gates, now fallen, had the ſame fences. Within this area ſtood the Cathedral and the Canons Houſes. On July 3d, 1402, Alexander Mac Donald, third fon of the Lord, of the Iſles, entered the College of Elgin, wholly ſpoiled and plundered it, and burnt great part of the town'; for this he and his officers were excommunicated; but afterwards abſolved, on paying a ſum of money, applied to the erection of a croſs and bell, on that part of the chanonry neareſt the bridge of Elgin. The revenues of this biſhoprick, according to Keith, were: Money 16491. 75. 7d. (Scots.) Wheat 10 bolls. Bear 77 c. 6 b. 3 f. 2 p. Oats 2 c. 8 b. Salmon 8 laſt c. · Poultry n. 223. This plate gives a general view of the Cathedral, as ſeen on the South Eaſt. 1.1 ry CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ELGIN. PLATE II.. This plate ſhews the Chapter Houſe of this elegant building. Both views were drawn A. D. 1790. THE B 92 ST Oleme hid August 13*1790 by S. Hooper Sparrones PLUSCARDIVE MONASTERY.P!!. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOA LERCX AND TlNpw Miller ONA, MOR AY SHIR E. 279 five Monks, in kething and habite ſilver 161. And to ilk ane in victual i chalder, 5 bolls per annum. . This priory ſtands on the North ſide of the river Lochty, about fix miles South Weſt from the town of Elgin, near the entry of the val- ley, at the foot of the North hill, which reverberating the ſun beams, renders the place very warm. The walls of the precinct are almoſt entire, and make nearly a ſquare figure. The church ſtands about the middle of the ſquare; a fine edifice, in the form of a croſs, with a ſquare tower in the middle, all of hewn ſtone. The Oratory and Re- fectory join to the South end of the church, under which is the Dor- mitory. The Chapter Houſe is a piece of curious workmanſhip; Shaw * calls it an octagonal cube (by which, I ſuppoſe, he means that its heighth is equal to its diameter). The vaulted roof of this building is ſupported by one pillar. The lodgings of the Prior, and cells of the Monks were all contiguous to the church. Here are, in different parts, paintings in freſco, on the walls. Within the precincts were gardens and green walks. In a word, the remains of this priory ſhew, that theſe Monks lived in a ſtately palace, and not in mean cottages. The Prior was Lord of Regality within the priory lands, and had a diſtinct Regality, in Gravge Hill, called the Regality of Staneforenoon.” At the Reformation Sir Alexander Seaton, afterwards Earl of Dunferm- line, was, anno 1565, made Commendator of Pluſcarden ; he diſpoſed of the church lands and the patronage, the lands of Grange Hill, and the Barony of Pluſcarden, and Old Mill, 23 February, 1595, to Ken- neth Mackenzie, of Kintail, who got a new grant of that barony, dated 12th March, 1607, with all and ſundry the teind fheaves of the whole lands and Barony, with their pertinents, which were never ſeparated from the ſtock, and of which the Prior, and Convent, and their prede- ceſſors, were in poffeffion in all times paſt. * In his Hiſtory of the Province of Moray. Сcc MAY TPLAN in 22 H that Podnester tist arreta 1979.79n b e st ! SPYNJE PALACE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND T'LIEN FOUNDATION, THE NET, PUBLIC · ASTE T'LA انها 11 زمان . »» 77 دره . آوا ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، " 07'INTE CASTLE MOR AY SHIR E. 281 built by Biſhop David Stewart, who died A. D. 1475. This Biſhop having ſome diſpute with the Earl of Huntley, laid him under an eccleſiaſtic cenſure, at which the Gordons were ſo much provoked, that they threatened to pull the Biſhop out of his pigeon holes, meani- ing the little old rooms of the former epiſcopal reſidence; the Biſhop is faid to have replied, that he ſhould foou build a houſe, out of which the Earl and his whole Clan ſhould not be able to pull him. In the other three corners ſtood ſmall towers, with narrow rooms. On the South ſide of the area, between the towers, was a ſpacious ten- nis court; and parallel to it, on the inſide, a chapel: on the Eaſt fide, between the turrets, were placed the offices and ſtables; and the North fide svas occupied by lodging rooms, ftore houſes, and cellars. The gate or chief entry was in the centre of the Eaſt wall, ſecured by an iron portcullis. Over this gate are placed the arms of Biſhop John Iones, with the initials of his name; he was conſecrated A. D. 1406 : his arms are three ſtars. This has occafioned a conjecture, though not ſupported by any other authority, that he was the firſt who built any part of that court.. In the South wall of David's Tower are placed the arms of Biſhops David Stewart and Patrick Heyburn. The precinct of this palace was well fenced with a high and ſtrong wall, and within it were gar- dens, plots of graſs, and pleafant green walks. In 1590 Sir Alexander Lindſay, ſon of the Earl of Crawford, was created Lord Spynie, whoſe grandſon dying 1760, without iſſue, the lands reverted to the crown, and were granted to Douglas, of Spynie ; from whom the Barony was purchaſed by James Brodie, late of White- hill; and is now the property of James Brodie, his grandſon. But the caſtle and precinct (paying annually about twelve pounds ſterling). belong to the crown. 1. SPYNIE CASTLE. PLATE II. THIS pláte gives a diferent view of this venerable ruin. Both were drawi A. D. 1.790. S Sen ruin. FIFE- .: '( 282 ) F I F E S H I R E .. PRIORY OF PITTE NWE E M. PITTENWEEM, in the ſhire of Fife, was a houſe of Canons regular of St. Auguſtine, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and a cell to the Mitred Priory of St. Andrew's. It was ſituated in the town of Pit- tinweem, near the South Eaſt corner of the county of Fife : when or by whom it was founded is not mentioned by any writers I have ſeen. It had a great many lands Lelonging to it, with the churches of Rind, Anſtruther-Weſter, &c. which are now erected into a regality, called the regality of Pittenweem, of which the Lairds of Anftruther are heritable Bailies. COLONEL STUART, Captain of his Majeſty's Guards, was ap- pointed Commendator of Pittleweem, in the year 1567. His ſon, Fred- rick Stuart, was, in the year 1609, by the favour of King James VI. raiſed to the dignity of Lord Pittenweem ; but dying without male iſſue, the honour became extinct. From the following ſtory, the original foundation of this monaſtery took place at a very early period. “ St. Fillan, (if we may believe Camerarius, who tells us the ſtory from the Chronicle of Paiſley) was born in the ſhire of Fife, in the ſeventh century; his father, Feriath, was a nobleman, and his mother's name was Kentigerna. At his birth he appeared like a monſter, having ſomething in his mouth like a ſtone; upon which his father ordered him privately to be drowned, in an adjacent loch : but the boy being preſerved by the adminiſtration of angels, a holy Biſhop, called Ibarus, coming accidentally by, took up the child, and having baptized him, cauſed bring him up in all virtue - and literature, in the monaſtery of Pittenweem, and at length, upon the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AITOR, LERCX AND T'LEEN FOUNDATION, FIFE S H I R E. 283 The death of the Abbot, he was choſen in his place; but ſome time before his death he retired to the folitary deſert of Tyrus, where he ſpent the remainder of his days in devotion, and died about the year of our Lord 649."* ANNO 1527 John, Prior of Pittenweem, was a ſubſcriber to the ſentence pronounced againſt the Abbot of Ferm, declaring him anz Heretic. The account of the profits, given in at the Reformation, amounted in money to the ſum of 4121. 128. 6d. ; 4 chaldron and 5 bolls of wheat; 7 chaldron and 2 bolls of bear; 4 chaldron, 12 bolls, 2 firlots, Iį peck of meal ; 7 chaldron, 2 bolls, i firlot, 31 pecks of oats ; I chaldron and 11 bolls.of peas; and 20 chaidron of ſalt. This view was drawn A. D. 1784. ROSEYTHE CASTLE. 1 HIS caſtle ſtands in the county of Fife, a little above the North Ferry, oppoſite Hopetoun Houſe. I have not been able to learn at what time, or by whom, it was built. Sir Robert Sibbald deſcribes it in his Hiſtory of Fife. « The Caſtle of Roſeythe,” ſays he, “ is re- markable, being ſituated upon a rock that advances a little into the Forth : the water at full tide ſurrounds it, and makes it an iſland. It was anciently the ſeat of the Stuarts, of Roſeythe, or Dunideer, brother Germain to Walter, the great Stuart, of Scotland, father to King Ro- bert II. ; that fainily failed lately: the laſt Laird of that name dying unmarried, without brother or children, diſpoſed the eſtate to a ſtranger; and it is at preſent the poſſeſſion of Primroſe, Earl of Roſeberry.” The tradition of the country, however unfounded, is, that the mother of Oliver Cromwell was born in this caſtle, and that the pro- tector himſelf therefore viſited it during the time he commanded the army in Scotland. It is at preſent the property of Lord Hopetoun. * M.Kenzie's Lives of the Sco. Writ. I, 272, 272. D d d ON 11C 284 F I F E S H I R E. On the Weſt ſide of the door, on the South wall of this caſtle, i:: the following inſcription : IN DEV TYM DRAV YIS CORD YE BEL TO CLINC OVHAIS MER Y VOCE VARNIS TO MEAT & DRINC. In one of the barns belonging to Mr. Walker, at Orchard Head; is a ſtone, which he picked out of the rubbiſh of this caſtle ; on it is this inſcription : GOD GRANT AL GLOIR, I MAY ESCHEV BOT IN THE CROS OF CHRIST IESV. This view was drawn A. D. 1784.. THE ABBEY OF BAL MERINO. THIS was a Ciſtertian Abbey, of which Keith gives the following account : “ Balmerino or Balmerinach, in Fifeſhire, called by Leſly Balmuræum, and by Fordun Habitaculum ad Mare, was an abbey of a beautiful ſtructure; ·begun by King Alexander 11. and his mother, Emergarda, daughter to the Earl of Beaumont, in the year 1229. This lady bought the lands of Balmarinach, and paid therefore a thouſand marks ſterling, to Richard de Ruele, ſon of Henry, who reſigned Bal- merinach, Cultrach, and Balandeari, in the court of King Alexander, at Forfar, the day after the Feaſt of St. Dennis, in the year 1215; upon which ground Emergarda founded this monaſtery ; which was of old a ſtately building, pleaſantly ſituated near the ſhore, hard by the ſalt water of Tay.' It is now for the most part in ruins. The Monks of this place, which was dedicated to St. Edward, as well as the Virgin Máry, ivere brought from Melroſs. David de Lindſay gave them an annuity out of his miil of Kirkbuit, which was confirmed by King Alexander II. in the year 1233: Symon, ſon and heir of Symon de Kennir, granted them, in perpetual alms, a moiety of all his lands, in the feud of Kinnir, which is now called 286 F I F E S H I R E. VCI DO 1 Its endowments were very conſiderable; one in particular granted by David I. has cauſed much ſpeculation; this was “ the tyth of all the gold found in Fife and Fotheriff, which has been conſidered as a proof that gold was frequently found in the ſtreams flowing from the hills.” Another grant, from the ſame Monarch, inveſts this monaſtery with a right to part of the ſeals taken at Kinghorn ; and a third, by Malcolm IV. gives them the heads (except the tongues) of certaia finall Whales, called Creſpeis, which might be taken in ſuch parts of Scotch water (the Firth of Forth) where the church ſtood; and the oil extracted from them was to be employed for its uſe. Boru King Malcolm and King Alexander beſtowed ſeveral confi- derable eſtates on theſe Monks; among them Muffelburgh and Inve- reſk, with the pariſh church, mills, and harbour, were given by King Malcolm and his ſon, St. David. Burnt Iſand, called of old Weſter- Kinghorn, with its caſtle and harbour, belonged alſo to this place, with Kinghorn, Kirkaldy, and ſeveral other towns, &c. mentioned in the Chartulary of this Houſe, in the Advocate's Library. The firſt Abbot of this monaftery was Gosfridus, of whom the Hiſtory of Florence, of Worceſter, gives the following account: “ A man of ſingular pictvĘ W ORK! Canterbury, by name Gosfridus, was, at the requeſt of David, Nurig bf the Scots, and with the appro- bation of Archbiſhop Williate as the cted Abbot of the place in Scotland, called Dumfermling; but' TE HLAS. ordained by Robert, Biſhop of St. Andrew's, in the year 1128. This Gosfridus died in the year 1153: for the Chronicle of the Holy Croſs, at the aforeſaid year, ſays, Gof- fridus, the firſt Abbot of Dumfermling, died, and his nephew, Gau. fridus, ſucceeded in his place. The laſt Abbot was George Durie, Commendator and Archdeacon of St. Andrew's. The church and monaſtery were dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland; it was united to the crown by the 18gth act of King James VIth's 13th parliament. At the General Diſſolution of the Monaſteries, Dumfermling was firſt given to Secretary Pitcairn, then to the maſter of Gray, and after- wards was conferred upon Alexander Seton, a younger ſon of George Lord Seton, who was at firſt advanced to the honour of a Peer of the Realın, 288 F I F E S H I R E. Here, as has been before obſerved, ſeveral of the Kings of Scotland were buried; theſe were Malcolm, Edgar, Alexander, David I. Mal- colm IV. Alexander II. and Robert Bruce'; the two firſt apart, the others under as many flat ſtones, each nine feet long. The Queen of Malcolm is alſo here enterred. Here is likewiſe the tomb of. Robert Pitcairn, the Commendator above-mentioned. KING MALCOLM CANMORE had a caſtle here; ſome ſmall re- mains of it, ſituated on a mount, in Mr. Phyn's gardens, at Pittencrief, are ſtill viſible ; and there is a popular ſtory of a ſubterraneous paſſage from it to the monaſtery. A palace was afterwards built on the ſide next the town, which falling to decay, was rebuilt by Anne, of Den- mark, as appears by the following inſcription : Propylæum et ſuperſtructas ædes vetuſtate et injuriis temporum col- lapſas dirutafque; a fundamentis in hanc ampliorem formam reſtituit et inſtauravit ANNA Regina FREDERICI DANORUM Regis Au- guftiffimi Filia : anno falutis 1600. This palace is now quite in ruins ; but nevertheleſs it may be plainly ſeen. It was once a magnificent building. Here was born that unfortunate monarch King Charles I. A gateway intervenes be- tween the royal reſidence and the Abbey Church. This view ſhews the North ſide of the charch and palace, called the King's Houſe, drawn from a chamber window in the New Inn. DUMFERMLING ABBEY. PLATE II. THIS plate gives a general view of theſe magnificent ruins. The building oppoſite, on the left, is the Fratery ; to the right of it is the church and the ſcattered arches and window; on the right of all is ſaid to be the burial-place of ſome of the Kings. Y THE FRATERY OF DUMFERMLING ABBEY. THIS view ſhews the beautiful window of the Fratery or Refectory, viewed on the outſide, and its adjoining gate. It was, with the other views of this abbey, drawn A. D. 1790. THE cu March Cena Songs vodoon s hr 162 TE ES F - LAURENT NE ER CH 25 leh ATS RELESS B9 DUMIEKM1]NG AFBEY. 11.2. FU ERT D 21 3RROW BOARD THESE ECH EDIN . 1983 BELLE body SENSOR HT UR RE BENED 53 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX AND TILIEN FOUNDATION ; THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY', ASTOR, LENOX AND THLEEN FOUNDATIONS ab CH TECH ' t ERROR i 1 270,rarch 23,7797. T Heerer, STAN LAWS Α Η ΕΙΣ ΒΑΙ, F I F E S H I R E , THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. ANDREW'S. THIS was the metropolitical church of Scotland, removed hither by Ungus, in 518, after the conqueſt of the Picts. This was the Prince who firſt made the croſs of St. Andrew the Scottiſh badge. In the year 1441 St. Andrew's was erected into an Archbiſhoprick, by Pope Sixtus IV. at the interceſſion of James III. The Cathedral was begun by Biſhop Arnold, anno 1161; he dying the ſame year, the work ſeems to have proceeded very ſlowly, ſince it was not completed by Biſhop Lamberton till the year 1318, one hun- dred and fifty-ſeven years from the time it was firſt begun. The following meaſures ſhew it was a very large building, and the remains evince it was elegantly finiſhed. Its figure was that of a croſs; its length from Eaſt to Weſt meaſured three hundred and ſeventy feet; the tranſept three hundred and twenty-two. Of this magnificent building nothing remains above ground but fragments of the Eaſt and Weſt ends ; the South wall of the choir, meaſuring in length about one hundred and eighty feet, and thirty in heighth ; there is alſo a wall at right angles to the choir, poſſibly part of the South tranſept ; the reſt was deſtroyed by Knox and his facri- legious followers. : The Weſt end conſiſts of a large gate, with a pointed arch, called the Golden Gate, probably from its having been once gilt; over it are a ſeries of arches, above which was a large window: on each ſide of the gate was a polygonal tower, crowned with a conical top. That on the North ſide is fallen down. The Eaſt end has alſo two turrets, crowned with pointed tops, be- tween which were three windows, and over it a large one, nearly oc-- cupying the whole interval between the turrets. In the South wall is a range of windows with pointed arches; but in part ſuppoſed to have been the South tranſept : the windows are cir- cular, and at the bottom there runs a range of interlaced ſemicircular arches. AT 290 F I F E S H I R E. At the Eaſt end is the chapel of St. Regulus, chiefly remarkable for its tower, which is a ſquare of twenty feet; its heighth an hundred and three, or as ſome have it, an hundred and fix, feet. The body of this chapel is ſtill remaining; but the two ſide aiſles are demoliſhed. The doors and windows are round; ſome of their arches contain more than a ſemicircle. It has lately been repaired at the publick expence. THE DOMINICANS, OR BLACK FRIARS, ST. ANDREW'S. Tig THIS is ſaid to be part of the Convent of Black Friars, probably the chapel ; it ſtands on the right hand ſide of the main ſtreet, going to- wards the Cathedral, and feems, though ſmall, to have been a hand- ſome building. Its arched ſtone roof greatly reſembles that of the Col- lege of Lincluden, near Dumfries. Here are neither monuments nor inſcriptions. The Grammar School is within its precincts, and by ſome ſuppoſed to have been a part of the original building; but now entirely mo- dernifud. . .. · The Dominicans or Black Friars, of St. Andrew's, Keith ſays, were founded by William Wiſhart, Biſhop of that city, in the year 1274, and placed at the Weſt part of the ſtreet, called the Northgate. King James V. annexed to this houſe, at St. Andrew's, the Convents of Coupar and St. Monan’s, both in Fife, at the deſire of Friar John Adamſon, Profeſſor of Divinity, and Provincial of the Order in Scot- land. The charter is dated at Edinburgh; the 23d January, the eighth year of his reign. This view was drawn A. D. 1790. THE CASTLE OF ST. ANDREW'S. THIS caſtle ſtands by the ſea ſide, on a ridge of rocks North of the town, ſaid to have been acceſſible only by a narrow paffage. On the Eaſt and North the ruins of the walls, and the perpendicular rock below, TUS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR ENCY AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AKTOR, LENCX ANG | L£N 64/64 TNA, 21 ATTA To CASTLE OF SAHIHEW". .FI F E S H I Ř E. 291 below, are a great heighth above the ſea, which at high water, beats againſt them. The South wall has fallen to the water's edge ; large fragments of the South Eaſt wall have tumbled inwards, and formed a ſteep bank, covered with graſs and weeds, not eaſily paſſable. The great ſquare tower is ſtill ſufficiently entire to give ſome idea of the elegance of the building. This caſtle was built in the year 1155, by Roger, Biſhop of this ſee : he died in 1202. It appears that at this time the ſea did not ap- proach to its walls, for a little to the South Eaſt are ſtill to be ſeen, at low water, the remains of a ſmall chapel. Befides this we alſo learn from ſome old writings, of an eſtate in the neighbourhood, that the proprietor had the privilege of driving his cattle and goods on the Eaſt fide of the caſtle, which for ſome centuries paſt no man could have done. CARDINAL BEATON greatly repaired and beautified this building. From a window in it he is ſaid to have enjoyed the cruel ſpectacle of Wiſhart's execution, who was burnt for hereſy on a ſmall green op- poſite the caſtle. In the year 1546 Norman Leſlie, brother to the Earl of Rothes, with ſome of his followers, ſeizing the porter by ſurpriſe, made them- ſelves maſter of the caſtle, when one of them, Peter Carmichael, ran immediately to the Cardinal's chamber, and flew him, and afterwards expoſed his body out of the very window whence he had ſeen the death of Wiſhart. The perſons concerned in this murder ſeized and held out the caſtle for a year, though beſieged by the French commander with two great cannon, called Crook-mow and Deaf-meg. They afterwards ſurrendered to a French fleet, in July 1547, and were tranſported to France. The caſtle was, in purſuance of an act of council, demolithed, left it ſhould ſerve as a receptacle for rebels ; and perhaps left it ſhould be occupied by the Engliſh, who were then ex- pected to invade Scotland. There is a common tradition, that this caſtle was demoliſhed by Cromwell. This ſeems to be groundleſs; if that was the caſe, it muſt have previouſly been rebuilt or repaired. This view was drawn in 1990. F ff DEN 292 F I F E S H I R E. DEN MILN CASTLE. THE following account of this caſtle is taken from Sir Robert Sib- bald's Hiſtory of Fife : : " Den MILN CASTLE was antiently the Earl of Fyfe's; and after the forefaulture King James II. anno reg. 14, gave it to his be- loved and familiar ſervant James Balfour,, ſon to Sir John Balfour, of Balgarvie, Knight; and is now the ſeat of Sir Michael Balfour, his lineal ſucceſſor. Sir James Balfour ; Lord Lyon, a moſt knowing antiquary; and Sir Andrew Balfour, a very learned phyſician, were fons of this houſe, and brothers ; vide Memor. Balfourian. Hard by it is Clatchart-Craig, an high rock; on the top of it was antiently a ſtrong calle.” This view was drawn A. D. 1790. AR. 3 HOT DY X2 WASAN ON MINDS HERE Mundi Pub, March.76, 2792. by SHooper: DEN MIIN CASTLE THE NEW Y:: | PUBLIC LIBRAL, ASTOR, LENOX AN TIL EN FOUNDATIONS ( 293 ) A R G Y L E S H I R E. . DUNSTAFFAGE CASTLE, LORNE. Ti Пует . THE builder of this caſtle and time of its conſtruction are unknown; it is certainly of great antiquity, and was once the ſeat of the Pictiſh and Scottiſh Princes. Here for a long time was preſerved the famous ſtone, the Palladium of Scotland, brought, as the legend has it, from Spain. It was afterwards removed by Kenneth II. to Scone, and is now in Weſtminſter Abbey ; brought thither by King Edward I. On it was the following inſcription : Ni fallat fatum Scoti quocunque locatum Invenient lapidem, regnare tenantur ibidem. The caſtle is ſquare ; the inſide only eighty-ſeven feet : it is partly in ruins, though in other parts habitable. Three of the angles have round towers, one of them projecting but very little. The entrance is towards the ſea, at preſent by a ſtair-caſe; but probably, in former times, by a draw-bridge, which fell from a ſmall gateway: the ma-. ſonry appears very ancient; the tops einbattled or crenellated. This building is ſituated on a rock, whoſe fides have been ſcarped down to the form of the.caſtle, in order to render it ſteep and difficult of acceſs. IN 1307 this caſtle was held by Alexander Mac Dougal, Lord of Argyle, a friend to the Engliſh ; but it was that year taken by Robert Bruce, when Mac Dougal ſuing to that Prince for peace, was received into his favour. ABOUT the year 1455 this caſtle appears to have been the reſidence of the Lords of the Iſles; for here James, laſt Earl of Douglas, after his defeat in Annandale, fled to Donald, the Regulus of the tiine, and prevailed on him to take arms, and carry on a plundering war againſt his Monarch, James II. AT BEC TECH LE PRES WS S439 LALOM an RE EL LE EL US UE at RELEA TER PERLE TH F pub, oathe di dived ting 2017 99. by J. Hooperty Thomas Jealth A MEWARK CASTLE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX ANE T'LIEN FOUNDATIONE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY APTOR, LENOX AND TILIEN FOUNDATIONS, EDSA CR i'an itu dis direid wing 32.igor day! How mais fa Ratza (ESTLE. (296) IS L E OF SKY. DUNVEGAN CASTLE. THE Caſtle of Dunvegan ſtands on a high rock, over a loch of the ſame name, a branch of Loch Falart ; part of it has been repaired in the modern taſte, but the greater portion of it is ancient. The oldeſt part is a ſquare tower, which, with a wall round the edge of the rock, was the original fortification, .“ In this caſtle,” ſays Mr. Pennant, “ is preſerved the Braolauch- Thi, or fairy flag of the family, beſtowed on it by Titania, the Ben Shi, or wife of Oberon, King of the Fairies; The bleſſed it at the ſame time with powers of the firſt importance, which were to be exerted only on three occaſions : but on the laſt, after the end was obtained, an inviſible being is to arrive and carry off the ſtandard and ſtandard bearear, never more to be ſeen. A family of Clan y Faitter had this dangerous office, and held it by three lands in Bracadale. The fag has been produced thrice, the firſt time in an unequal engagement againſt the Clan-Ronald, to whoſe light the Macleods were multiplied ten fold; the ſecond preſerved the heir of the family, being then produced to ſave the longings of the lady of the family; and the third time to ſave my own) ; but it was ſo tattered that Titania did not ſeem to think it worth ſending for. . This was a ſuperſtition derived from the Norwegian anceſtry of the houſe, the fable was caught from the country, and might be of uſe to animate the Clan. The Danes had their magical ſtandard Raefan, or, the Raven embroidered in an inſtant by the three daughters of Lodbroke and liſters of Hinguir, Hubbar or Ivar. * Sigurd had an enchanted fag C Та * Afler, .vit. Alfred 10. given . HIN ICONCOCHOCOOOO carbono fu? i ebrego 16 2977.99 lange DUNVEGAN CASTLE THE NEW YORK! PUBLIC LIBRARY AITOR, LENOX ANO TILIEN FOUNDATION, I'S LE OF SKY. 297 given him by his mother, with circumſtances ſomewhat ſimilar to the Dunvegan colours; whoſoever bore it in the day of battle was to be killed ; accordingly in one of his battles, three ſtandard bearers were ſucceſſively ſain, but on the death of the laſt he obtained the vi&cry.* . Here is preſerved a great ox-horn tipped with ſilver : the arm was twiſted round its ſpires, the mouth brought over the elbow, and then drank off. The Northern nations held this ſpecies of cup in high ef- teem, and uſed the capacious horns of the great Aurochs.f They graced the hoſpitable halls of Kings, and out of them the antient heroes quenched their thirſt: Haquin, § weary with ſlaughter, calls aloud for the mighty draught. Heu labor immenfus, feffos quam vellicat Artus ! Quis mihi jam præbet cornua plena mero ! In this caſtle is alſo preſerved, a round ſhield made of iron, that even in its decayed ſtate weighs near twenty pounds ; itſelf a load in theſe degenerate days : yet they were in uſe no longer ago than in the beginning of the laſt century. Each Chieftain had his armour bearer, who preceded his maſter in time of war, and by my author's || account in time of peace; for they went armed even to church, in the manner the North Americans do at preſent in the frontier ſettlements, and for the ſame reaſon, the dread of ſavages. In times long before thoſe the ancient Scotch uſed round targets, made of oak, covered with the hides of bulls, and long ſhields, narrow below, and broad above, formed of pieces of oak or willow, fecured with iron : I gueſs them to be of the ſame kind with the Norwegian íhields figured by Wormius, and probably derived from the ſame SCO arol * Torfæus 27. + Urorum Cornibus, Barbari ſeptentrionales potant, urnaſque binas capitis unius cornua implent. Plinii lib. II. c. 37. I Saxo Grammat. 94. Wormii Mon. Dan. 389. | Timothy Poats MS. Advoc. Library S Vide fig. 1. tab. XX. country; 298 ISLE OF S K Y. country; they had alſo a guard for their ſhoulders, called Scapul;* and for offenſive weapons had the bow, ſword, two-handed ſword, and Lochaber ax, a weapon likewiſe of Norwegian origin; but the image- tombs of antient warriors are the beſt lectures on this ſubject." To the liſt of offenſive weapons uſed by the Scotch, may be added, leaden mallets + and Jedburgh ſtaves ; the latter are deſcribed by Major. I * Vide fig. 1. tab. XX. + Lamb's Battle of Flodden. I Hiſt. Major Britt. p. 198. ISLE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTON, LEXOX ONE TILSEN FOUNDATIONT: ISLE OF INCH COLM. 303 his ſee thear accordyngiy; and had with him a coovent of a C. hakbutters and L. pioners, to kepe his houſe and land thear, and ii rowe barkes well furniſhed with municion, and lxx mariners, for them to kepe his waters, whereby it is thought he ſhall ſoon becum a prelate of great powr. The perfytnes of his religion is not alwaies to tarry at home, but ſumtime to rowe out abrode a viſitacion, and when he goithe, I have hard ſay he taketh alweyes his ſumners in barke with hym, which are very open mouthed, and never talk but they are harde a mile of, ſo that either for loove of his bleffynges, or fear of his curſinges, he is like to be ſouveraigne over moſt of his neighbours.” GREAT part of this monaſtery is ſtill remaining; the cloyſters, with rooms over them, encloſing a ſquare area, are quite entire; the pit or priſon, is a moſt diſmal hole, though lighted by a ſmall window; the refectory is up one pair of ſtairs; in it, near the window, is a kind of ſeparate cloſet, up a few ſteps, commanding a view of the monks when at table; this is ſuppoſed to have been the Abbot's ſeat; adjoining to the refectory is a room, from the ſize of its chimney, probably the kitchen. The octagonal Chapter-houſe, with its ſtone roof, is alſo ſtanding; over it is a roon of the ſame ſhape, in all likelihood, the place where the charters were kept. Here are the remains of an inſcription, in the black letter, which began with Stultus. The inſide of the whole building ſeems to have been plaiſtered. Near the water there is a range of offices. Near the Chapter-houſe is the remains of a very large ſemi- circular arch. In the adjoining grounds lies the old carved ſtone, ſaid to be a Daniſh monument, engraved by Sir Robert Sibbald, in whoſe book it is deli- neated as having a human head at each end; at preſent it is ſo defaced by time or weather, that nothing like a head can be diſtinguiſhed at either end : indeed it requires the aid of a creative fancy, to make out any of the ſculpture ; ſomething like a man with a ſpear is ſeen (by farp-lighted antiquaries) on the North ſide ; and on the South, the figure of a croſs; this ſtone has been moved from its original ſituation. This view ſhews the range of buildings near the Sca, the entrance I ii into 304 ISLE OF INCH COLM. into the cloyſters, and the Chapter-houſe, with the tower of the church, and fragment of the large arch above-mentioned. THE ABBEY OF INCH COL M. PLATE ZI. THIS plate gives a nearer view of the entrance into the cloyſter, the tower of the church and large arch. ... THE ABBEY OF INCH COLM, PLATE III. THIS view preſents the remains of the church, with part of the great arch, as viewed from a different ſtation. ; . . . PLATES I. and II. were drawn A. D. 1789, and plate III. in 1790. le tue est 43 NBS 11 unese V SOM FAILUT MATIJEKapat MONASTERY 19 INCH COLM. WAR 1. channel de RE ed MEDIA : A INCE COLM HBBEY } 1.3. THE NEW YORKI PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENCX ANO TILIEN FOUNDATIONB. ( 305 ) ADDEN DA TO VOL. II. BERWICKSHIRE, LITTLE DEN TOWER. LITTLE DEN TOWER was a Fortalice or Border-houſe be- . longing to the Kers: It is pleaſantly ſituated on a cliff, overlooking the river Tweed. It is now entirely in ruins, and is the property of -- Ker, ef Newhorn, Elq.--See the view facing page 112. Vol. I. ADDENDA TO THRIEVE CASTLE, GALLOWAY. THE information of Robert Smith, formerly of the pariſh of Duit ſcore, in the ſheriffdom of Dumfries : THÀt as we were paſſing by the Old Caſtle of Treve (where his late Majeſty of bleſſed memory had a garriſon in the beginning of the unhappy troubles of his reign) old - Gordon of Earlſtown (who in a few days after was killed at Bothwell Bridge) in my hearing ſpoke to the officers that were about him as followeth—“ Gentlemen, I was the man that commanded the party which took this caſtle from the late king, who had in it about two hundred of the name of Maxwell, of whom the greateſt part being papiſts, we put them all to the ſword, and demoliſhed the caſtle as you ſee it: and now (though an old man) I take up arms againſt the ſon, whom I hope to ſee go the fame way that his father went : for we can never put truſt in a covenant-breaker : ſo gentlemen your cauſe is good, you need not fear to fight againſt a forſworn king."-Rye-houſe Plot. AD. 306 A D D E N D A. ADDENDA TO CASTLE CAMPBELL, PERTHSHIRE. w THE name of this caſtle was originally the Caſtle of Gloom, which was changed by act 39 Parl. James IV. anno 1489: “Our fouvrane Lord of his royal autoritie, at the defyre and ſupplicatioun of his cou- fing and traiſt counfallour Colone Erle of Argyle, lord Campbell, and of Lorne his chancellor, hes changeit the name of the caſtell and place quhik was callit the Glume, perteining to his faid couſing, and in this parliainent makis mutation and changeing of the ſaid name, and ordanis the famin caſtell to be callit in tyme to cum Campbell.”—Black Aēts, p. 89. THE ABBEY OF CAMBUSKENNETH, STIRLINGSHIRE. THE Abbey of Cambuſkenneth is, in fact, ſituated in the ſhire of Clackmanuan ; yet, on account of its large poſſeſſions in Stirlingſhire, was commonly deemed of that county: it ſtood on the border thereof, and its abbots were frequently denominated Abbots of Striveling. This abbey, once the richeſt in Scotland, ſtands half a mile N. E. of the town of Stirling, upon the north bank of the Forth, and in a fort of peninſula formed by that winding river. The adjacent fields had been the ſcene of ſome tranſaction, in which one of the Scottiſh mo- narchs, who bore the name of Kenneth, had been concerned, and from thence the place received the name of Cambuſkenneth, which fignified the field or creek of Kenneth. The monaſtery was founded by David I. in the year 1147, and filled with canons regular of the order of St. Auguſtine, brought from Aroiſe, near Arras, in the province of Artois in France, DURING the ſpace of two hundred years after its erection, this abbey was almoſt every year acquiring freſh additions of wealth and, power, by the donations of diverſe Noblemen, Biſhops and Barons, be- fides many rich oblations daily made by perſons of every rank. Among diveric Hubert RU 500 PRO BEATS KERETA GORIALE W LIHAT FOTO WW. JOS LL TE Son NU 27 URUNG Pud, Marck. 99,1792, by chooper: CAMETSKINDLE THE FIHY A D D E N D A. 307 diverſe remarkable dovations of fiſheries, paſturage, &c. was one granted by the founder King David, of half the ſkins and tallow of all the beaſts ſlain for the king's uſe at Stirling. DURING the wars with England, in the reign of David Bruce, this monaſtery was pillaged of its moſt valuable furniture. To replace this lofs, William Deladel, Biſhop of St. Andrew's, made a grant to this community of the vicarage of Clackmannan. In 1559, the inonaſtery was ſpoiled, and great part of the fabric caſt down by the Reformers : ſeveral of the monks embraced the reformation, but on that account had their portions prohibited by the Queen Regent.. MR. DAVID PANTHER was the laſt eccleſiaſtic, who poſſeſſed this lucrative abbotſhip. During the commotions attending the reformation, church benefices were often ſeized on by thoſe in power, without any lawful authority. John, Earl of Marr, afterwards Regent, (according to Mr. Nimmo) affumed the difpofil of the revenues of this abbey, if he did not actually poileſs a conſiderable part of them: he had, during the reign of James V. been appointed commendator of Inch Mahome Priory, which, together with that of Roſneth in Dunbartonſhire, were dep ndent on Cambuſkenneth. After the reformation had taken place, we find Adam Ertkine, one of his nephews, commendator of Cam- buſkenneth. Moreover the earl himſelf carried off the ſtones of the fabric to build his own houſe, ſtiil called Marr's work, in the town of Stirling. . In 1562, by virtue of an order from Queen Mary and the privy council, an account was taken of all the revenues belonging to cathe- drals, abbies, priories, and other religious houſes, that ſtipends might be modified to the reformed clergy, who were to have a third of the be- nefices. According to that account, the revenues of Cambuſkenneth were as follows : 9301. 135. 4}d. Scots money ; II chalders, 11 bolls, 2 firlots of wheat ; 28 chalders, 12 bolls, 3 firlots, 3 pecks, 2 lippies of bear; 31 chalders, 6 bolls, 3 ficlots, 3 pecks, 2 lippies of Ineal; 19 chalders, 15 bolls, 3 firlots, 3 pecks, 2 lippies of oats: in whole, 91 chalders, 15 bolls, i firlot, 2 pecks, 2 lippies. After the acceſſion of James VI. to the crown of Evgland, the temporality of Cambuſkenneth, together with that of Dryburgh and the K k k priory OV 303 A D D E N D A. priory of Inch Mahome, were conferred to John Earl of Marr, ſon to the regent, that, to uſe the terms of the grant, he might be in a better condition to provide for his youngeſt ſons, whom he had by a lady, Mary Stewart, daughter of the Duke of Lennox, and a relation to his Majeſty. The barony of Cambuſkenneth, in which the mo- naſtery was ſituated, was ſettled by the Earl on Alexander Erſkine, one of his ſons, who dying without iſſue, it came to Charles Erſkine, of Alva, his brother, whoſe poſterity continued in the poffeffion of it till about the year 1737, when it was purchaſed by the town-council of Stirling, for the benefit of Cowan's hoſpital, to which it ſtill belongs. This abbey was once an extenſive building, but nothing of it at preſent remains, except a few broken walls, the bell tower, and ſtair- caſe, which tower has lately been barbarouſly ſmeared over with whiting; ſome remains of the garden are alſo to be ſeen, and the burial place of K. James and his Queen: po traces of the church remain. One of the bells belonging to the monaſtery is ſaid to have been for ſome time in Stirling; but as tradition goes, the fineſt was loſt in the river, as they were tranſporting it. SEVERAL parliaments were held in this monaſtery, and here in 1326 the clergy, earls, and barons, with a great number of an interior rank, ſwore fealty to David Bruce; and at the ſame time here was ſolcmnized the marriage between Andrew Murray, of Bothwell, and Chriſtian Bruce, fiſter to King Robert. i MANY of the abbots of this houſe were men of eminence in the po- litical as well as literary line. THE END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. ม ร