A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . Besides stating that Lady Seton built the bridge of Mussel-burgh, Nisbet describes her armorial bearings as they were impaled with those of her Lord on theroof of the south hall of Setoun, andalso on a large stone above the Seton died in the Convent of in the year 1558, and wastransportit honorablie be her oy (grand-son) George (7th) Lord Seytoun, the fyftof that name, and buried in the choir ofSeton Church, be
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . Besides stating that Lady Seton built the bridge of Mussel-burgh, Nisbet describes her armorial bearings as they were impaled with those of her Lord on theroof of the south hall of Setoun, andalso on a large stone above the Seton died in the Convent of in the year 1558, and wastransportit honorablie be her oy (grand-son) George (7th) Lord Seytoun, the fyftof that name, and buried in the choir ofSeton Church, beside her 1 An account of the Convent is given in a paperwhich I read before the Architectural Instituteof Scotland in 1867, and which was privatelyprinted four years afterwards, when the lastvestige of the ancient fabric was removed, tomake way for a villa in St. Catherines Place,Grange. I lost no time in placing an iron plateon a stone boulder in front of the villa, to com-memorate the interesting edificeâthe inscriptionrelative to its demolition, in 1871, being accom-panied by the following lines from Marmion : And thus the Lindsay spoke:â Thus clamour still the war-notes whenThe King to mass his way has taen,Or to Saint Catherines of Sienne,Or Chapel of Saint Rocque. I also erected within the grounds of St. Bennets,my late abode at Morningside, a small cairn,with a short inscription, consisting of a fewstones of the demolished establishment, whichis engraved in Ballingalls Edi?iburgh, Past andPresent, from a drawing by my eldest cairn is now picturesquely overgrown withivyâ
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