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Title: Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church of Scotland
Publisher: London, Virtue
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ectacles of wrecks andterrible apparitions, spoilers in horror hewing their own flesh, and impotentlycasting crags and huge stones when fire was quenched by unseen hands;but nevertheless the canons could not live on the island from 1421, in summeror autumn, for fear of the English seamen undeterred by idle rumours, untilit received substantial fortifications. Three times the whole convent, exceptthe church, was burned; and once all its sacristy was deprived of vestmentsof burnished silk and gold, books and bells, and ornaments of the altar. Here Sueno is represented by Shakspeare as buying, for 10,000 dollars,the right to bury his Danes from Macbeth ; and into Mortimers Deep, itwas said, the wicked ferrymen at night cast the leaden coffin which boreinside the body of the chief benefactor of the abbey, Alan Mortimer.Bishops Richard (1200) and Leycester (1214), of Dunkeld, were buried in thechoir. Walter Bower, the continyator of Fordun, died abbot here in 1449. JEDBURGH. Austin Canony.
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C.\MBUSKENNKTH. AUSTIN CANONS.

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