. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . now entered. We passed from court to court of the Priory, and along to the far end, where the oldfish-pond still remains in all itscompleteness, with a plentifulsupply of fish, which evidentlyovercrowd it in these non-monastic days. To the rightand beyond there are on theascent the remains of a Chapelto which the brothers retiredon high days, and when theyformed great processions. Itis now an utter ruin, as, indeed,are most of the buildings of astrictly devotional character. As we returned, our host,M. Alker, brought us a hand-some quarto volume
. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . now entered. We passed from court to court of the Priory, and along to the far end, where the oldfish-pond still remains in all itscompleteness, with a plentifulsupply of fish, which evidentlyovercrowd it in these non-monastic days. To the rightand beyond there are on theascent the remains of a Chapelto which the brothers retiredon high days, and when theyformed great processions. Itis now an utter ruin, as, indeed,are most of the buildings of astrictly devotional character. As we returned, our host,M. Alker, brought us a hand-some quarto volume bearing thetitle, HlSTOIRE DES PRINCIPALIS Foundations Religieuses du Bailliage de la Montagne, en BouRGOGNE.* The fly-leaf bore the name of Madame Alker. inidations we found that of Val DES Choux, with the here copied by the kind permission of the author, M. ive ventured on a few slight alterations. Left for ? time with thi made ourselves acquainted with the fact that •j was not only inch a place extant as the Priory of Val des Choux, and. i. viku 01 vai, on ciiorx, Compiled from Ihotoqrapl*.? lustration is not intended to give more, than a generalideaof the present state ol the buildings. I volume wm printed in 1804, tho edition containing only 120 copies. We have beenugh the of tho author,ono of 30 printed on papier dell ollande. INTRODUCTION. 7 that it was not so gloomy as Mr Chisholm Batten asserted, for we could notwell bear the bright sun-heat which fell so strongly on our heads; but, be-sides, we learned that there was a very considerable history of the house andits affiliations, brought down to date, for the book was written in 1864, and thematerials got from the chartularies and muniments of the Order, still carefullypreserved, as will appear later on. Returning to us, M. Alker kindly led us through the entire range ofbuildings, beginning at the ruins of the cells and cloister court next the pond,thence to the ground where stood the church, whi
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