Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline, Volume 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1844 - Church records and registers Genealogical tables of the Wellwods and of Preston of Valleyfield. |
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abbacy abbey abbot of Dunfermline afterwards Alexander altar ancient annual bailie Balmule belonging bishop of St Bruce burgh chapel Chart charter Chartulary church coal Coldingham Colliery confirmed court Culdees deed died Dunferm Dunfermline Abbey Dury Earl of Dunfermline Earl of Elgin Earl of Fife east Edinburgh England erected father favour feet fermline Fife Fordun George Dury granted Halket Henry Wardlaw Hist honour inches Inverkeithing John King David King James King Robert King's Kirk lands latter Lord lordship Malcolm IV Margaret minister monastery monks Moray Musselburgh North Queensferry noticed palace parish Parliament period persons Perth Pitfirrane Pitreavie Pittencrieff Pope Pope Alexander III Pope Lucius III Presbytery present Printed Dunf priory Queensferry regality reign royal sandstone Scotland Scots Scottish side St Andrews Stirling stone tion town Urquhart wall Wardlaw Wellwood William
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Page 486 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine ? " — O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee, — " Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Page 258 - he and his Lords went to Dunfermline, a tolerably handsome town, where is a large and fair abbey of black monks, in which the Kings of Scotland have been accustomed to be buried. The King was lodged in the abbey, but after his departure, the army seized it and burnt both that and the town.
Page 496 - ... but if any one shall presume to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the indignation of Almighty God, and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul.
Page 281 - Having ascended from the coal-pit, and seeing himself, without any previous intimation, surrounded by the sea, he was seized with an immediate apprehension of some plot against his liberty or life, and called out ' Treason ! ' But his faithful guide quickly dispelled his fears, by assuring him that he was in perfect safety, and, pointing to an elegant pinnace that was made fast to the moat, desired to know whether it was most agreeable to his Majesty to be carried ashore in it, or to return by the...
Page 454 - An Act to amend an Act of the Twentieth Year of his Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service, and for other Purposes.
Page 268 - Prince's hand, to subscribe the declaration, he told him, ' that if he was not satisfied, in his soul and conscience, beyond all hesitation, of the righteousness of the subscription, he was so far from over-driving him to run upon that for which he had no light, that he obtested him, — yea, charged him in his Master's name, — not to subscribe that Declaration ; no, not for the three kingdoms !' To which the King answered :
Page 502 - He was early engaged in business, and continued in it to a great age. He understood all the interests and concerns of Scotland well : he had a great stock of knowledge, with a mild and obliging temper. He was of a blameless, or rather an exemplary life in all respects.
Page 278 - ... and the act of Parliament 1592, establishing presbyteries, is asserted to have been rescinded. In 1613 he built Pinkie House, near Musselburgh, or rather converted the old one, which was a country mansion belonging to the abbots of Dunfermline, who were at an early period superiors of Musselburgh, into its present shape, on the front of which is the following inscription, now hid by a portico, as translated into English, and which seems to savour a little of vanity : — " Lord Alexander Seton...
Page 14 - This species of stone, (says he) whether with sulphur, or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood, of which their country is destitute.
Page 159 - Scotus;2 and that, as early as 1233, the schools of St Andrews were under the charge of a rector. A remarkable instance of this is to be found in the Cartulary of Kelso, where Matilda, the Lady of Moll, in the year 1260, grants a certain rent to be paid to the abbot and the monks of this religious house, under the condition, that they should board and educate her son with the best boys who were intrusted to their care.3 In the Accounts of the Chamberlain of Scotland we find an entry of twenty shillings,...