The History of Dunfermline, from the Earliest Records, Down to the Present Time, Including Historical Notices and Present State of the Parishes of Inverkeithing, Dalgety, Aberdour, Beath, Torryburn, Carnock, & Saline: With a Descriptive Sketch of the Scenery on the Devon |
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Page 197 - M'Nabb of Mile-end, Old Town, in the parish Saint Dunstan's, Stepney, and County of Middlesex, considering the great uncertainty of this life, and to prevent any dis-pute that may arise after my decease, concerning any effects that I may leave after my decease, I make this my last will and testament. I recommend my soul to God who gave it me, my body to the dust from whence it came, there to await the call of its dear Redeemer, and that it meet its dear Redeemer with that hearty welcome, Come, ye...
Page 44 - ALLONE as I went up and doun in ane abbay was fair to se, Thinkand quhat consolatioun Was best in to adversitie, On caiss I kest on syd myne E, And saw this writtin upoun a wall : ' off quhat estait, man, that thow be, Obey and thank thy god of all.
Page 200 - Sathane had a most fair name among them, stirring many of them up to dancing, playing at foot-ball, and up to sore drinking, falling out and wounding one another, which was ye merits of ye younger sort, and ye elder sort played at gems, and the marks yr calling withoute any difference of the weeke day from ye day of ye Lord ; and thus they continued as said is the space of 80 yeeres : this poore kirk being sua bleakt and ban-one — a sheepe hons in the night.
Page 7 - ... of piety and purity. Hence it has been said that " for several generations, — with the errors which at that time prevailed in the Church of Rome they seem not to have been in the least tainted.
Page 188 - A great part of this monastery is still remaining : the cloisters, with rooms over them, enclosing a square area, are pretty entire ; the prison is a 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...
Page 11 - ... the dead. They neither prayed to dead men, nor for thtm. In their public worship they made honourable mention of holy persons deceased ,• offering a sacrifice of thanksgiving for their exemplary life and death, but not by way of propitiation for sins. Seventh, they rejected the doctrine of works of supererogation. They were so tar from pretending to do more good than they were obliged to do, much less to superabound in merit for the benefit of others, that they readily denied all merit of their...
Page 40 - 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 181 - Dunfermline ; and they have always held, from generation to generation, the Ferry as a sort of property or inheritance. On the evening of every Saturday the earnings, of the week were collected into a mass ; one fortieth part of the whole was set apart for the proprietors of the passage ; and the remainder was divided into shares, called deals, according to the number of persons entitled to a share of it. One full deal was allotted to every man of mature age, who had laboured during that week as...
Page 44 - Bot as the wind will wend away ; Thy gold and all thy gudis gay, quhen fortoun list will fra the fall ; Sen thow sic sampillis seis ilk day, Obey and thank thy god of all.
Page 9 - Moray, soon after founded a re-ligious house in gratitude for his victory. There was another at Monimusk; and at Portmoak, near Lochleven, a religious house was founded at an early period. It has been supposed, with much reason, that when the fatal stone was transferred, by Kenneth the son of Alpin from Argyle to Scone, a similar foundation would be established here. It has been conjectured, that there was a college of Culdees at Kirkcaldy, which was, and should be called Kirk-culdee, and that the...