Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . In 1609, the Abbeyand its possessions wereerected into a temporallordship for Sir John Ram-say, who had been createdViscount Haddington, for his services in preserving JamesVI. from the treasonable attempt of the Earl of Gowrie. * The following verse, from a once popular ballad, shows that, at the time of thelU-tin-mation, the inmates of this Abbey shared in the general reproaeli of seusiinlit!/and irrei/uUiritii tlirown upon the Homish churchmen ;— The monks of Metrose made gude kailOn Fridays when they fasted;Nor wanted they gude beef an
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . In 1609, the Abbeyand its possessions wereerected into a temporallordship for Sir John Ram-say, who had been createdViscount Haddington, for his services in preserving JamesVI. from the treasonable attempt of the Earl of Gowrie. * The following verse, from a once popular ballad, shows that, at the time of thelU-tin-mation, the inmates of this Abbey shared in the general reproaeli of seusiinlit!/and irrei/uUiritii tlirown upon the Homish churchmen ;— The monks of Metrose made gude kailOn Fridays when they fasted;Nor wanted they gude beef and ale,As langs their neighbours lasted.+ The same remark is applicable to the dilapidations of the other monasteries ofIeWotdale. In some instances the heritors seem to have availed themselves of thevenerable ruins as a quarry for materials to build or repair modern churches andschools. Fragments of scixlptured stones frequently occur in jirivate dwellings. Abetter spirit now generally prevails. % Monastir Annals of Teviotdale, p. SEAL OF ilELEOSK AliliEV. 104 MELROSE ABBEY. Lord Haddington, who was afterwards created Earl of IIol-derness, appears to have disposed of the possessions belong-ing to the Icrdship of Melrose, since we find that they weregranted by charter to Sir Thomas Hamilton ( Tarn o theCowgate), a celebrated lawyer, who was created Earl of Mel-rose in 1619, and afterwards Earl of Haddington. Part of thelands were conferred upon Walter Scott, Earl of Buccleuch ; andhis descendants, about the beginning of the eighteenth century,acquired by purchase the remainder of the Abbey lands in-cluded in the lordship of Melrose, which still form a part ofthe extensive possessions of the same noble family. At the abolition of heritable jurisdictions in 1747, the LadyIsabella Scott was allowed the sum of ^1200 sterling as com-pensation for her right to the bailiery of Melrose. When King David I. laid the foundations of Melrose Abbey,the ground on which Melrose now stan
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