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No. 130 -- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS -- No. 130

[Plan Inserted]
CAMBUSKENNETH ABBEY
BLOCK PLAN

Fig. 49. Cambuskenneth Abbey (No. 130); block plan

later, during another Parliament at Cambuskenneth,
there was drawn up the well-known indenture whereby
the earls, barons, burgesses and free tenants of Scotland
granted a "tenth penny" to the king. ¹ In the 14th
century the Abbey was frequently visited by Scottish
kings, and in 1488 became the burial place of James III,
who was killed during his flight from the battlefield of
Sauchieburn. The most notable of the abbots of
Cambuskenneth, who had received the mitre in 1406, ²
were Patrick Pantar, Secretary to James V, and Alexander
Mylne, the first President of the College of Justice. In the
middle of the 16th century the Abbey passed into the
hands of the Erskine family and, with the Abbey of
Dryburgh and the Priory of Inchmahome, was erected
into a temporal lordship for John, 2nd Earl of Mar, in
1604 and 1606. ³
The paucity of the surviving structural remains (Fig.
49 and the inadequacy of the documentary evidence
make it impossible to say much of the architectural
development of the site. No doubt a temporary church
and some domestic buildings were erected soon after the
foundation of the Abbey, but such remains as exist today
suggest that the main period of building activity lay
within the 13th century. The church, now represented

1 Ibid., 175 ff.
2 Easson, op. cit., 74.
3 Ibid.

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