. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. •Arms of Sutherlandof Duffus. 112 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT (Chisholm), which had belonged to this old house, is now preserved inthe grounds at Ladyhill House. At a later period the manse seems to have been occupied by a personof some taste, who erected in one of the rooms a quaint and elegantmantlepiece bearing date 1679. When the old manse was taken. IJii-. ?* Unthank Manse down about 1840 this mantlepiece was re-erected as one of the gardengates at Gordonstoun House. Immediately opposite, on the site of Croham Hurst, sto
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. •Arms of Sutherlandof Duffus. 112 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT (Chisholm), which had belonged to this old house, is now preserved inthe grounds at Ladyhill House. At a later period the manse seems to have been occupied by a personof some taste, who erected in one of the rooms a quaint and elegantmantlepiece bearing date 1679. When the old manse was taken. IJii-. ?* Unthank Manse down about 1840 this mantlepiece was re-erected as one of the gardengates at Gordonstoun House. Immediately opposite, on the site of Croham Hurst, stood theDuflus Manse, where Edward I. on his second visit to Elgin in 1303 took uphis quarters. It was then the manse of John Despanyding, a canon of theCathedral. This is ascertained from the Rolls of Parliament,1., 469, whereis recorded a petition written in Norman-French, with the reply to it inLatin. The translations read :— To our Lord the King—prays hishost of Elgin, John Despanyding, by the Grace of God, Canon ofElgin, that he would please to give twenty oaks in his forest of Lang-morn to repair his church of Duffus, of which he is canon. Answer. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 113 The King wills that he may have them. The circumstanceof Edward I. having taken up his quarters in this manse wouldseem to indicate that it was at that period the best residencein the town. The house had been built at Despanydings own
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