. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. 8th March 1851, knocks this pettheory on the head. I had the Templars Cross replaced on myturret instantly after the old rust-eaten one was thrown down, by astout one that may stand the battle and breeze a hundred years tocome. Later the property is said to have belonged to the Abbey of Arbroathand is described in the Black Book of Arbroath as follows : Unamparticatam seu rudam terrse jacentem in dicto Burgo (Elgin) ex parteboreali ejusdem in opposite cruris fori. The tower is now the only portionof the old building, bui
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. 8th March 1851, knocks this pettheory on the head. I had the Templars Cross replaced on myturret instantly after the old rust-eaten one was thrown down, by astout one that may stand the battle and breeze a hundred years tocome. Later the property is said to have belonged to the Abbey of Arbroathand is described in the Black Book of Arbroath as follows : Unamparticatam seu rudam terrse jacentem in dicto Burgo (Elgin) ex parteboreali ejusdem in opposite cruris fori. The tower is now the only portionof the old building, built in 1634 by Andrew Leslie of the Glen of Rothes, ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 221 then a merchant and magistrate of the burgh, from whom it passedinto the hands of David Stewart, Provost of Elgin, whose son Jameswas also a merchant and magistrate of the burgh, and later wasthe representative for the burgh in the Scotch Parliament of family declined, and the property changed hands more than once,coming into the possession in 1744 of Mr Alexander Forsyth, the father. i-iuij n Forsyths Library. of Mr Isaac Forsyth, who in 1811 purchased the property from hisniece. In these premises Mr Isaac Forsyth for many years carried ona large bookselling business, having a circulating library as early as1789—the first in the North of Scotland. Mr Forsyth died in 1859,and shortly thereafter Dr Mackay bought the property, preservingthe tower while remodelling the house. It is now a Temperance into the old tower is a stone with moulded border (Fig. 61) bearingarms :—Quarterly, 1st and 4th, On a bend three buckles (Leslie) ; 2ndand 3rd, A lion rampant (intended for Abernethy),initials and , 222 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT with date beneath, 1634, which is no doubt the true period of erectionas there is also a dormer stone with the initials A. L. and same stone spoken of in the Annals of Elgin as being in a prominentpart is, with one of the bow yett pillars, i
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