. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. beautifully carvedstones were removed, and built up into the walls of an adjacent property, andare still in excellent preservation. Among the sacred altars erected by pious donation at this period we findthe little Chapel of St. John the Baptist, at the eastern end of the Burghmuir. This Chapel was even more closely allied to the Grange of St. Giles thanthe shrine of St. Roque, being built upon part of the farm-lands, eighteen acresof the lands of Sanct Gelegrange, and the quarry-land, and an acre and
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. beautifully carvedstones were removed, and built up into the walls of an adjacent property, andare still in excellent preservation. Among the sacred altars erected by pious donation at this period we findthe little Chapel of St. John the Baptist, at the eastern end of the Burghmuir. This Chapel was even more closely allied to the Grange of St. Giles thanthe shrine of St. Roque, being built upon part of the farm-lands, eighteen acresof the lands of Sanct Gelegrange, and the quarry-land, and an acre and a 14 THE CHAPEL OF ST. JOHN quarter of the muir-land, having been made over to it by Sir John Crawford,a prebendary of St. Giles, on the 15th of February 1512. In the charter ofconfirmation of this mortification, as these charitable donations were thencalled, the position of the land is clearly set forth as lying at the east side ofthe common muir, betwixt the lands of John Cant^ on the west, and thecommon muir on the east and south parts, and the Mureburgh, recently built,on the Everything tends to show that this Chapel of St. John the Baptist was notbuilt for a public place of worship, but rather as a hermitage chapel for someholy recluse, whose ministration was that of offering up perpetual prayers forthe dead. Hence its perfect seclusion, away from the beaten cit}- track, hedgedin by trees on all sides, with only one officiating chaplain of advanced age, wholived like a hermit, clothed in a long white garment, bearing the representationof the patron saint on his breast, and for whose support an acre of ground wasallotted, with a house and garden adjoining. The monks of this order weresometimes called Studitcs, and were supposed to live without sleep, beingemployed night and day chanting and praying for the dead, an office of nosmall emolument at that epoch in Scottish history. That such was the ex- .\t ihat tiniL- possessor of .Sancl Geilio-Grangc THE CONVENT OF ST
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