. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. urch,and a little further on we have the lovely hedged road which takes usover Pauls Bridge to the Lodge, where the keys are kept. The Priory of Pluscardyn was erected under the French Order of VallisCaulium (Val des Choux) by Alexander II. in the year 1230, and continuedunder that body until 1454, when it became a cell of Dunfermline underthe Priory of Urquhart until the Reformation in 1560. In 1555 Mary,Queen of Scots, made ane god-bairne gift of the lands of Pluscalie inMurray to Alexander Seton, whose history is touc
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. urch,and a little further on we have the lovely hedged road which takes usover Pauls Bridge to the Lodge, where the keys are kept. The Priory of Pluscardyn was erected under the French Order of VallisCaulium (Val des Choux) by Alexander II. in the year 1230, and continuedunder that body until 1454, when it became a cell of Dunfermline underthe Priory of Urquhart until the Reformation in 1560. In 1555 Mary,Queen of Scots, made ane god-bairne gift of the lands of Pluscalie inMurray to Alexander Seton, whose history is touched upon at page then the property has passed through many hands, the buildingbecoming more of a ruin, and, like all similar church property in Moray,made a quarry of. A century ago it became the possession of theEarl of Fife, who spent many thousands of pounds upon it. In 1898 theestate was bought by the Marquis of Bute, who did much to show up thebeauties of the architecture and, but for his untimely death, had pur-posed (it is said) to restore the ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 275 As the keeper is not always in attendance it is as well to arrangeones visit through Mr A. F. Macdonald, Elgin, factor to Lord ColumCrichton Stuart. The architectural features of Pluscardin Priory are described in theEcclesiastical Architecture, Vol. II. p. 146. Its history, charters, andother particulars aregiven in The ReligiousHouse of Pluscardin bythe Rev. S. R. Mac-phail, or in its abridg-ment, the Guide toPluscardin Priory. Bythe way, in his preface toThe Religious House ofPluscardin Mr Macphailsays, Most of theillustrations of thePriory ruins are fromthe skilful pencil ofthe Authors friend, MrGalloway Mackintosh,Elgin (my brother),who had shown theliveliest concern, andhas taken not a littlegenerous trouble in theproduction of thishistory. As several heraldicand sculptured stones are .. -. \llf : Iflfft Y C£~ <z/ o 1 * © (A \ #??* 01 y > ^ o ¥ 2± H ~t icr *. T* ^m ^^-^
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