Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline, Band 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1844 Genealogical tables of the Wellwods and of Preston of Valleyfield. |
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Seite 494 - THE king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine : "O where 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.
Seite 266 - 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.
Seite 531 - I kest on syd myne ee", And saw this writtin upoun a wall, Off quhat estait, man, that thow be, Obey, and thank thy God of all.
Seite 462 - 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.
Seite 510 - 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.
Seite 20 - This species of stone," he adds, "whether with sulphur or whatever inflammable substance it may be impregnated, they burn in place of wood." A description of Scotland, written in the beginning of the sixteenth century, says: "There are black stones also digged out of the ground, which are very good for firing; and such is their intolerable heat, that they resolve and melt iron, and therefore are very profitable for smiths and such artificers as deal with other metals.
Seite 243 - At a very early period, probably about the middle of the twelfth century, in the reign of Malcolm the Fourth, the land of Scotland began to be partially divided into royalty and regality. Those parts which were distinguished by the term royalty, were subjected to the jurisdiction of the king and his judges ; the districts, on the other hand, which were comprehended under the name of regalities, acknowledged the jurisdiction of those ecclesiastics or nobles, who had received a grant of lands from...
Seite 20 - the poor people, who in rags begged at the churches, receive for alms pieces of stone, with which they went away contented. 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.
Seite 167 - 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,...
Seite 74 - In 1809 appeared a Tract chiefly relative to Monastic Antiquities, with some Account of a recent Search for the Remains of the Scottish Kings interred in the Abbey of Dunfermline, the first of four or five thin octavos, in which Mr.