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the enlightened character of its inhabitants, or
more probably from its lofty quire being constantly
lighted up, and seen at a distance by the
lonely pilgrim during the night.
This sumptuous church was early used as
a place of sepulchre for the noble & the pious. It
is thus noticed in the appendix to Keith's Catalogue:
"At Haddington there was also a monastery of Friars,
where William, first Lord Seton, was buried, to whom
he founded six laid of coals to be tane to his Coalpit
of Tranent weeKly, and forty shillings of Annual, to be tane
of 'the Barnis'. This place of Sepulchre according to
Sir Richard Maitland, who lived the neighbourhood, in
his M.S. History of the house of Seton, was the "Cordelere
Frieris".
About the time that the celebrated Captn, [Captain Grose] (the
bon vivant of Burns) published his Antiquities of
Scotland, it had become a matter of doubt, whether
or not the present venerable pile now used as a
parish Church, was in reality that of the Franciscans,
or one erroneously supposed to have belonged to the
nunnery founded by Ada. To satisfy these doubts,
this acute antiquarian published a letter which
he recd [received] from a clergyman resident near the place:
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