. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . ound in his friends to bury him close to the EastGate, -as on the resurrection morning/ he said, there will be an unco thrang,and as lm cripple, if ye dinna bury me close to the gate and Ill win outamang the first, they will ca me oer and tramp me, so that Ill be left have heard the story told as though Anderson were buried within thePriory itself. Fortunately topographical accuracy does not now endanger thefulfilment of the promise. It seems generally believed that the last person who frequented thePriory for purposes of Roman Catholic
. History of the religious house of Pluscardyn . ound in his friends to bury him close to the EastGate, -as on the resurrection morning/ he said, there will be an unco thrang,and as lm cripple, if ye dinna bury me close to the gate and Ill win outamang the first, they will ca me oer and tramp me, so that Ill be left have heard the story told as though Anderson were buried within thePriory itself. Fortunately topographical accuracy does not now endanger thefulfilment of the promise. It seems generally believed that the last person who frequented thePriory for purposes of Roman Catholic observances was a Mrs Gordon ofWesterton, who on certain days repaired thither with her servant girl toworship. This was about 1753. The only other notice of this good ladywhich has survived is, that after dining together she bought a mare on aSunday from John Smith, tenant of the farm of Croy. This circumstance hasstamped them both in local tradition as persons by the certain end of whoseevil ways others should be deterred from like Jfj CHAPTER XIX. SDIje fiteriwts anb |Uthrs of % $ riorg. In this chapter we shall adopt very much the character of a cicerone. Theplan—prepared from careful measurements which we took on the spot, and laidout by the deft pencil of Mr Galloway Mackintosh—will be found a sufficientguide to our descriptions. Additional information, given with much morearchitectural knowledge than we can command, will be found in the Appendix.* There seem to have been two principal entrances to the precincts. One,still easily discoverable in the enclosing wall, was on the East, an old roadfrom Elgin coming directly up to it. This road then swept round to a Northentrance, under the farms of Easter and Wester Hillside. By reference to themap of the Glen, it will be seen that a smithy existed not far from theNorth entrance. • From the East gate, a magnificent avenue of trees, andalmost complete at the beginning of this century, extended to the Priory,pa
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