. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. g of the sixteenth century it washeld by Robert Cairncross, who holds an unenviable reputation in Buchananshistory, by the manner in which he obtained the preferment of the abbacy otHolyrood, without subjecting himself to the law against simony. Having, it issaid, ascertained that the Abbot was on the point of death, he laid a considerablewager with the King, that he would not be offered the first vacant benefice, andlost his bet by being appointed the next The temporalities of theChurch were dispersed at the Reformation, a por
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. g of the sixteenth century it washeld by Robert Cairncross, who holds an unenviable reputation in Buchananshistory, by the manner in which he obtained the preferment of the abbacy otHolyrood, without subjecting himself to the law against simony. Having, it issaid, ascertained that the Abbot was on the point of death, he laid a considerablewager with the King, that he would not be offered the first vacant benefice, andlost his bet by being appointed the next The temporalities of theChurch were dispersed at the Reformation, a portion falling into the hands oflay impropriators, and other parts being transferred to educational, and to otherecclesiastical institutions. The old parish church was demolished in 1644, and thecollegiate establishment, in which the minister had for some time previously beenaccustomed to officiate, became the regular parish Church. ? New Statistical Account, Edinburgh, 224. f lb. 226. J Buchanani Hist. chap. xiv. § 35. ANTIQUITIES OK SCOTLAND 87 Coxton. ,OT one fragment of history has been preserved relating tothe small but picturesque tower delineated in the twoaccompanying illustrations ; and so little attention does itseem to have excited, that it is not even mentioned inany of the numerous descriptions of Scotland, although itstands out a conspicuous object in the landscape near the great northroad from Aberdeen to Inverness, and is little more than two milesdistant from the town of Elgin. There is, however, little reason tobe surprised in this instance ; for the rugged buildings of the north ofBritain, instead of having been watched over or preserved, were, untilrecently, too frequently only so many stone quarries and stores of ready preparedtimber to their proprietors, and even to strangers. But notwithstanding theneglect of history, and the want of the long pedigree, we do not fear anylack of interest for our few remarks on Coxton. For our own part we are not sorry that
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