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Parish of Kennethmont

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Scene for St. Andrews; but the idea is altogether absurd, and opposed to the poem itself, which
clearly conveys the impression of a landward town, not the seat of a university, like St. Andrews.
Besides, it is not likely that, on such an occasion, the King would burlesque what must have been to
him a matter of considerable gratification. Chalmers says - "When Lyndsay wrote his ludicrous account
of the Justing between those royal medicinars for the King's amusement, in 1538, he appears to have
had before him the King's sentiment and style, with design to please James V. on the occasion
of his marriage, by seeing his own merriment, and his own language, again brought before him
on a somewhat different occasion."
We are thus compelled to adopt Christ's Kirk in the Garioch as the scene of the poem, not because, as Tytler
and Pinkerton would have it, that there are more northern words in it than "Peblis to the Play," a very
extraordinary and unfounded opinion upon the part of the writers maintaining, at the time (for Pinkerton,
at least, shifted his ground), that both poems were written by James I., as if that King could, or
did, write South-County Scotch at Peebles and and northern in Aberdeen."
From "James The Fifth; or the "Gudeman of Ballangeich:" His Poetry and adventures. by James Paterson - Page 136

"In the east end of this Parish, about three miles from the church, and a mile to the west of Insch, is
an old Chapel, called Christ's Kirk, where is to be seen the ruins of the Chapel, and a dyke encompassing
it where they are yet in use of burying their dead. To this Chapel belongs a glebe, possessed at present
by the incumbent of Kennethmont." Collections of the Shires.