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Title: Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing.
Year: 1807 (1800s)
Authors: Hearne, Thomas, 1744-1817 Byrne, William, 1743-1805
Subjects: Monasteries Castles Architecture
Publisher: London: : Printed by J. Phillips... and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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The MONASTERY of KELSO, Was an Abbey of Tironenfian Monks, who were brought from Franceby David, Earl of Cumberland, during the reign of his brother Alex-ander the Fierce. He iirffc eftablifhed them at Selkirk, and affigned theman ample provifion of lands and revenues, and appointed the Abbot tothe office of his Chaplain. David, after his acceffion to the crown, re-moved them to Roxburgh, as a place more commodious, and finally, toKelfo, as a place ftill more eligible for their refidence; where, by the ad-vice of John, Bifhop of Glafgow, he founded this Monaftery, in honour ofthe Virgin Mary, and St. John the Evangelift, upon the 2d of May, in theyear 1128. King David afterwards made great additions to his former en-dowments of this Monaftery, and gave it an ample grant of immunity fromtolls and fervices; he likewife procured for it many great and valuableprivileges from feveral of the Popes. This royal foundation was con-firmed by Pope Innocent the fecond ; and Alexander the third gr

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