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 DevonJohn Miller, 1828 - 329 pages |
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Page 296 - Dollar, for the endowment of a " Charity or School" for the poor of the parish of Dollar. The executors having placed this part of the estate in Chancery, in order that it might be disposed of according to law, the destination to the Ministers and Elders was confirmed by Decretal order of the Lord Chancellor pronounced in June 1818.
Page 260 - At anchor now in death's dark road. Rides honest Captain Hill, Who served his king and feared his God, With upright heart and will. In social life sincere and just, To vice of no kind given; So that his better part, we trust. Hath made the Port of Heaven.
Page 304 - Lord's day, which was the day of their profane mirth, not being in the works of their calling, which was the caus...
Page 62 - Edinburgh they quartered themselves for five days, and on their departure burnt everything to the ground except the castle, which was very strong and well guarded. From Edinburgh King Richard and his lords went to Dunfermline, a tolerably handsome town, where there was a large abbey of black monks'; in which the kings of Scotland have been accustomed to be buried. The king lodged in this abbey, and as soon as he left it the army burnt both it and the town.
Page 27 - 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 251 - There is a tradition, that the corpse of one of the family was thrown overboard in a storm, which gives the name of Mortimer's Deep to the channel between the island and the shore. This western part of Aberdour, together with the lands and barony of Beath, are said to have been acquired from an Abbot of Inchcolm, by James, afterwards Sir James Stuart, second son of Andrew Lord Evandale, grandfather by his daughter to the admirable Crichton, and by his second son, Lord Doune, to Sir James Stuart,...
Page 31 - They were so far," says Toland, " from pretending to do more good than they were obliged [to do], much less to superabound in merit for the benefit of others (but such others as should purchase these superfluities of grace from their executors the priests,) that they readily denied all merit of their own ; and solely hoped for salvation from the mercy of God, through faith in Jesus Christ...
Page 229 - IN. 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 a boatman, whether he acted as master or mariner, or in a great boat, or in a yawl. Next the aged...
Page 29 - 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.
Page 5 - The masters of the fairest and most wealthy climates of the globe turned with contempt from gloomy hills assailed by the winter tempest, from lakes concealed in a blue mist, and from cold and lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of naked barbarians.