Identifier: baronialecclesia08bill (find matches)
Title: The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874
Subjects: Architecture Church architecture
Publisher: Edinburgh, London, Pub. for the author by W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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rtant personages. In the beginning of the sixteenth century it was held by Robert Cairn-cross, who holds an unenviable reputation in Buchanans history, by the manner in which heobtained the preferment of the abbacy of Holyrood, without subjecting himself to the law againstsimony. Having, it is said, ascertained thatthe Abbot was on the point of death, he laid aconsiderable wager with the King, that he would not be offered the first vacant benefice, and losthis bet by being appointed the next Abbot. % The temporalities of the Church were dispersedat the Reformation, a portion falling into the hands of lay improprictors, and other parts beingtransferred to educational, and to other ecclesiastical institutions. The old parish church wasdemolished in 1644, and the collegiate establishment, in which the minister had for some timepreviously been accustomed to officiate, became the regular parish Church. * New Statistical Account. Edinburgh, 224. f lb. 22G. J Uuchanani Hist. chap, xvi § 35.
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