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Title: Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Campbell, James. cn
Subjects: Balmerino Abbey
Publisher: Edinburgh London : William Blackwood and Sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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their birth receivedHaifa millenniuni since the date of thine. (2) A very large walnut tree. (3) Another old Spanisli chest-nut fixrther south. (4) Two very large beech trees, one ofwhich has a circumference of 15 feet above the spreading outof the roots. The other was greatly damaged during thetremendous storm of 17th November 1893, which proved sodisastrous throughout Scotland, In 1775 Lord Hailes thuswrote to James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson :—The gentleman at St. Andrews who said that there werebut two trees in Fife ought to have added, that the elms ofBalmerino were sold within these twenty years to make pumpsfor the fire-engines. ^ This statement shows that the trees ofBalmerino were already celebrated for their size before woodAvas plentiful in Fife—at least in its eastern parts. The thoughtful reader who has • perused the foregoingnarrative may feel disposed to agree with the sentiments * Crokers ed. of Boswells Life of Jolniaov, vol, iii. p. loo (cil. 1S31),
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.\.\cii;.\r siANisii tiii-.sTNri lUKh; at hai.mkkixo ap.kia. (IaKKS in WiNllCK.) THE AHliEY imiLDINGS 305 of Wordsworth, wliose Ecclesiastical Sonnets have been quotedill it so frequently in reference to Monks and Abbeys:— Monastic Domes ! followinf^ my ddwinvard w;iy,Untouclied by due rei^ret I marked your fall !Nov\-, ruin, beauty, ancient stillness, allDispose to jndjrments temperate as we layOn our past selves in lifes declining day ;For as, by discipline of Time made wise,A\e learn to tolerate tbe infirmitiesAnd faults of otliers—frently as lie may.So with our own the mild Instructor deals,Tcachinii^ us to fori.fet them or fori;ive.lVr^■ersely curious, then, for bidden ill.Why sliould we l>reak Jimes charitable seals?Once ye were holy, ye are holy still ;Your spirit freely let me drink, and live ! V TART III HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANT MINISTERS x\ND PEOPLE \ CHAPTER I THE REFORMED CHURCH ; MR. ARCHIBALD KETTH,MR. PATRICK AUCHINLECK Willi what entire affection do they priz

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