. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . ^_y/ifi///yiJ^//r/f^(S:h>y,. oft /tfi&Uea This View of the PRIORY CHURCH at llABDIHGTO^is Infcnted , - ) f/ £ajt/:. _. The Priory of Haddington in Eafl Lothian Was founded in 1178 by Ada or Adhema, Countefs of Northumber-land, wife to Prince Henry, only fon of David King of Scotland,and mother to Malcom IV. and King William : it was appropriatedto females, called confecrated virgins, or ciftertian nuns; and dedicatedto the Virgin Ma
. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . ^_y/ifi///yiJ^//r/f^(S:h>y,. oft /tfi&Uea This View of the PRIORY CHURCH at llABDIHGTO^is Infcnted , - ) f/ £ajt/:. _. The Priory of Haddington in Eafl Lothian Was founded in 1178 by Ada or Adhema, Countefs of Northumber-land, wife to Prince Henry, only fon of David King of Scotland,and mother to Malcom IV. and King William : it was appropriatedto females, called confecrated virgins, or ciftertian nuns; and dedicatedto the Virgin Mary. This Convent was handfomely endowed by its foundrefs, whoconferred upon it the lands of Clerkington and Nunlands, with theChurches of Athelftanford and Crail in Fife. It appears by a preceptof Dame Ifabel Hepburn, Priorefs of this Monaftery, that their pof-feffions were not confined to thofe already mentioned, for (he therebydire&ed her bailif, Richard Cranfton, to infeoff William Maitland, theyounger, of Ledington, in the lands of Haddington, denominatedMortoun, Weft-hopes, Eaft-hopes, Wadende, Newlands, Windiflaw,Snowdown, Carfrae, and Little New-Town, with their tenths, whichihe granted him in feu, with the confent of her Chapter, dated at herMonaftery of Hadding
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