The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . Pit- 1 Tack—Mr, Francis Grant to David Lindsay, 17th Feb. 1756, in possession ofhis descendant, the present tenant. EDZELL—CASTLE OF AUCHMULL. 71 arrow, to whom he was married sometime before November1597, and who died in 1646, having survived her unfortunatehusband for the space of three So late as 1854, a goldfinger-ring, with a blue precious stone, was found in the diggingof a garden at Auchmull. It is said to have been given to aMartha Gall, his paramour, by the last Lind
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . Pit- 1 Tack—Mr, Francis Grant to David Lindsay, 17th Feb. 1756, in possession ofhis descendant, the present tenant. EDZELL—CASTLE OF AUCHMULL. 71 arrow, to whom he was married sometime before November1597, and who died in 1646, having survived her unfortunatehusband for the space of three So late as 1854, a goldfinger-ring, with a blue precious stone, was found in the diggingof a garden at Auchmull. It is said to have been given to aMartha Gall, his paramour, by the last Lindsay of Edzell; andon its recovery, after being lost, it was purchased by the lateLord Panmure. Truly, it may be said, that heartless man,together with [Old] Time, hath done his work of illOn statues, fount, and hall ;Ruind, and lone, they year by year,Fragment by fragment, fall. 1 Crawford Case, pp. 181, 187. This stone had been built into the wall of a neigh-bouring cottage, and was found in the summer of 1854, when the cottage wasdemolished. It is now placed within the flower garden at Edzell Sculptured Stone at Edzell. CHAPTER I. The little churchyard by the lonely lake,All shaded round by heath-clad mountains hoar ; With ruined fane in which the pious met,And raised the supplicating prayer of yore. There sleeps the Poet who tutted his magic lyreAnd sung the curious freaks of days gone by ; There, too, lie those who tilled the lazy soil,And held the cots that ?wiv in ruins lie. Glenesk—St. Drostan—Neudos—Old church of Lochlee—Origin of parish—Itsministers—Mr. Ross as session-clerk—Episcopacy in the parish—Rev. DavidRose, the illegal meeting-house keeper—Illiberality of parish ministers—Changeof views —Chapel built on the Rowan—Rev. Peter Jolly—New churches atTarfside—Free church at the Birks of Ardoch—Memorial windows—Descriptionof old parish church—Ross the author of Helenore—His abode, biography, andpoetry—Prese
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