Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . hestnut tree of extraordinary age and Alley stands on a richly wooded haugh, roundwhich thelliver Tweed makes a circuitous sweep.* The situationis eminently beautiful, and both the Abbey and the modern man-sion-house are embosomed in wood. The best view of the ruinsis from the Braeheads, behind the village of Lessuden. Dry-burgh Abbey was founded in 1150, during the reign of DavidI., by Hugh de Moreville, Lord of Lauderdale, Constable ofScotland, upon a site which is supposed to have been originallya place of Druidical worship. The monk
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . hestnut tree of extraordinary age and Alley stands on a richly wooded haugh, roundwhich thelliver Tweed makes a circuitous sweep.* The situationis eminently beautiful, and both the Abbey and the modern man-sion-house are embosomed in wood. The best view of the ruinsis from the Braeheads, behind the village of Lessuden. Dry-burgh Abbey was founded in 1150, during the reign of DavidI., by Hugh de Moreville, Lord of Lauderdale, Constable ofScotland, upon a site which is supposed to have been originallya place of Druidical worship. The monks were of the Premon-stratensian order, and were brought from the Abbey foundedat Alnwick a short time before. Edward II., in his retreat fromthe unsuccessful invasion of Scotland in 1322, encamped in thegrounds of Dryburgh, and, setting fire to the monastery, burntit to the ground. Robert I. contributed liberally towards its Tlie ^uide lives in a cottiige neur the The usual gratuity is Is. forparties not exceeding six. %? M. 116 EXCURSIONS FROM MELROSE. repair, but it has been doubted whether it was ever fully restoredto its original magnificence. In 1544, the Abbey was againdestroyed by a hostile incursion of the English, under Sir GeorgeBowes and Sir Brian Latoun. In 1604, James VI. grantedDryburgh Abbey to John, Earl of Mar, and he afterwards erectedit into a temporal lordship and peerage, with the title of LordCardross, conferring it upon the same Earl, who made it overto his third son, Henry, ancestor of the Earl of Buchan. TheAbbey was subsequently sold to the Haliburtons of Mertoun,from whom it was purchased by Colonel Tod, whose heirs soldit to the Earl of Buchan in 1786. The Earl at his death,bequeathed it to his son, Sir David Erskine, at whose death, in1837, it reverted to the Buchan family. The principal remainsof the building are, the western gable of the nave of the church,the ends of the transept, part of the choir, and a portion of thedomestic buildi
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