Liber cartarum Sancte CrucisMunimenta ecclesie Sancte Crusis de Edwinesburg . l. And in the nichtfollowing, he was admonist be ane vision in his sleip, tobig ane Abbay of channonis regular in the same placequhare he gat the Croce. Als sone as he was awalkinnithe schew his vision to Alkwine his confessour. And hena thing suspendit his gud mind, bot erar inflammit himwith maist feruent deuotion thairto. The kyng inconti-nent send his traist seruandis in France and Flanderis, PREFACE. xv and brocht rycht crafty masonis to big this Abbay, synededicat it in the honour of this haly Croce. This croce
Liber cartarum Sancte CrucisMunimenta ecclesie Sancte Crusis de Edwinesburg . l. And in the nichtfollowing, he was admonist be ane vision in his sleip, tobig ane Abbay of channonis regular in the same placequhare he gat the Croce. Als sone as he was awalkinnithe schew his vision to Alkwine his confessour. And hena thing suspendit his gud mind, bot erar inflammit himwith maist feruent deuotion thairto. The kyng inconti-nent send his traist seruandis in France and Flanderis, PREFACE. xv and brocht rycht crafty masonis to big this Abbay, synededicat it in the honour of this haly Croce. This croce re-manit continewally in the said Abbay to the tyme of kyngDauid Bruce, quhilk was unhappely tane with it at Durame,quhare it is halden yit in gret veneration. The Rood well is not now known by that name. Butat no great distance from the Abbey, is one which bearsthe marks of ancient reverence, and which is yet some-times visited by a pilgrim of the old religion. This isSt. Margarets Well, which still flows as clear as in thedays of Saint David. If ?IlMi ?--? .iw* HI. xvi PREFACE. The Canons must have soon found the Castle, howeverdesirable as a place of security, a narrow and inconvenientresidence. There is no reason to doubt that the year1128, was the date of the commencement of the buildingof the Abbey on its present site. Dipl. 293. Coenobium regium Sanetae Crucis ad niuros Edinburgh longe magnificen-tissimum excitavit David Malcoini tertii filius, anno 11 28 juxta clironiconde Mailros et codicem M. S. dc Cupro:!1) quod et loci opportunitate etoperis magnificentia et censuum copia et reliquarum rerum commoditate])rimas Europae ecelesias et monasteria, si non vincit, facile tameu humili planitie, uliginosa, atque ex viciui montis impedimento minuspervia ventis, ponitur, eoque ad salutem minus apta, at Sancti olim quae-sivisse viderentur virtutem acquirendam ex institute, sed in infirmitate per-ficiendam. Templam augustum in tres partes erat divisum; Sanctuariumad
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