ISBN: 1234485524

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781234485528], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...house which was founded by the Earl of Fife, and was joined to St. Monans. This house of St. Monans was founded on the seaside for Black friars. The east part and steeple remained in 1754, and then served for a parish church to the people of Abercromby. In St. Andrews was also a convent of observations which was established by Bishop Kennedy. At Balmerino there was founded a convent for Cistercians by Queen Ermengard, the mother of Alexander II., about the year 1229 (/"). At Crail was settled, by desire of the prioress of Haddington, a collegiate church in 1517, for a Provost, a Sacrist, and Treasurer, with ten Prebendaries (g). At Inchcolm, an islet in the Forth, about two miles from Aberdour, was an abbey which was founded by Alexander I. in 1123 A.D., which was dedicated to St. Columba of Iona. Walter Bower, one of the continuators of Fordun's history, was abbot of this house, and died about the year 1449. At Inverkeithing was an abbey of Franciscans. John Gray, a son of Lord Gray, was one of this religious order who lived long here, but upon the Reformation retired to Brussels, where he was murdered in the Franciscan Church by the Prince of Orange's soldiers. At Lindores, in the forest of Ernside on the Tay, was a convent of Tyronensians which was founded by David Earl of Huntingdon, the brother of William the Lion, upon David's return from the Holy Land (h). The Isle of May, at the mouth of the Forth, which belonged of old to the monks of Reading, was founded here as a cell by David I., and was dedicated to All Saints (i). Pittenweem was a religious house of canons regular, and was dedicated to the Virgin, and had many lands belonging to it, with the churches of Anstruther-Wester and others, which were all erected into the..., 4948, England, 9332123011, Great Britain, 4935, Europe, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11475, Dictionaries & Thesauruses, 8955557011, Dictionaries, 11488, English, 11495, Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, 11619, Slang & Idioms, 11621, Synonyms & Antonyms, 11623, Thesauruses, 21, Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 1234485524

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