. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. ks tended their fruitful orchard. The author ofthe Statistical Account, writing in 1842, may be left to tell the subsequent fate ofthis interesting ruin :— Violent hands have committed depredations on it atvarious times ; and in fact, it has formed a quarry for almost all the old housesand granaries in the neighbourhood. Still, notwithstanding these attacks, thesides and gable wall of the abbacy stood entire, until they were, within thesefew years past, recklessly levelled with the ground, and disposed of for buildingdykes. Not one sto
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. ks tended their fruitful orchard. The author ofthe Statistical Account, writing in 1842, may be left to tell the subsequent fate ofthis interesting ruin :— Violent hands have committed depredations on it atvarious times ; and in fact, it has formed a quarry for almost all the old housesand granaries in the neighbourhood. Still, notwithstanding these attacks, thesides and gable wall of the abbacy stood entire, until they were, within thesefew years past, recklessly levelled with the ground, and disposed of for buildingdykes. Not one stone would have been left on another to mark the spot, hadnot the trustee on the estate, a gentleman of antiquarian tastes and attainments,interdicted the spoliation, and caused the east gable, that narrowly escapeddestruction, to be propped by a buttress of mason-work : and there it stands—the sad and solitary fragment of a mansion, wherein the mitred abbot once heldhis sumptuous banquets, and even princes were his guests. * Stat. Account, Elgin, ***.i
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