. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. n the collection of documents connected with the See ofMoray, called the Registrum Moraviense ; but few readers would really careto know how its tithes, which are the object of these notices, were allocated oneach occasion, or would even feel much interest in the most important of themall, which relates to a question whether the precentor or sub-chanter of thecathedral church is the titular of certain revenues from the estate. We are toldthat, in later years, the edifice belonged to the Dunbars of Grange, a branchof the Dunbars of Moch
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. n the collection of documents connected with the See ofMoray, called the Registrum Moraviense ; but few readers would really careto know how its tithes, which are the object of these notices, were allocated oneach occasion, or would even feel much interest in the most important of themall, which relates to a question whether the precentor or sub-chanter of thecathedral church is the titular of certain revenues from the estate. We are toldthat, in later years, the edifice belonged to the Dunbars of Grange, a branchof the Dunbars of Mochrum. The domain was attached to the neighbouringAbbey of Kinloss, and it seems to have passed to a private family, through aprocess of lay impropriation which it would neither be easy nor interesting toinvestigate. It appears that it came into the possession of Alexander Dunbar,who in 1567 married Catherine Reid, niece of Robert Reid, Abbot of Kinloss.*Dunbar, who was sub-chanter of Moray, was appointed a Judge of the Court * Shaws History of Moray, ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 57 of Session in the year 1560, the epoch of the Reformation, and of the secularisingof the ecclesiastical estates. Neither his ecclesiastical nor his judicial office seemsto have saved the owner of Burgie from being compromised in the deadly feudsof his neighbours, and finding it necessary to keep within the walls of his tower,instead of attending to his duties in the Court of Session. Thus itappears on therecord of that tribunal, that in the year 1579, his fellow judges excused him asnow absent, and dare not repair to thir partis throw deidlie feid and enmitystanding betwein him and his chief, the Laird of Cumnok, and utheris, thefriendis of the surname of Innes, conform to his supplication direct to the LordPresident. * The buildings of the ecclesiastical institution to which Burgie was attached,might have formed an interesting feature in this work, had not rude hands beenrecently laid on them. The A
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