. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. monastery was founded for brethren of the Premonstratensian order who camefrom Alnwick, and their superior held the rank of Abbot. Of the successiveabbots, the first of whom was named Robert, an account may be found, so faras anything is known of their personal history, in the preface of the Chartularyof the abbey, known as Liber Murine de Dryburgh, printed for theBannatyne Club, and in Mortons Monastic Jtinals of Teviotdale. In the year 1322, the fraternity, then richly endowed among thesurrounding lands, and lodged in a magni
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. monastery was founded for brethren of the Premonstratensian order who camefrom Alnwick, and their superior held the rank of Abbot. Of the successiveabbots, the first of whom was named Robert, an account may be found, so faras anything is known of their personal history, in the preface of the Chartularyof the abbey, known as Liber Murine de Dryburgh, printed for theBannatyne Club, and in Mortons Monastic Jtinals of Teviotdale. In the year 1322, the fraternity, then richly endowed among thesurrounding lands, and lodged in a magnificent edifice, received an unpleasantvisit from the retreating army of Edward II. It is said that the fugitivesexpected food, and were irritated by the attenuated condition to which themiseries of hostile invasion had reduced the monastic larder, with everythingelse that had been rich and prosperous in the land. Tradition says that thebrethren vented their jeers on the retreating troops. However it may have * Hailes Annals, i. 97. Chalmers Cal., i. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY
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