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Parish of St Andrews

The Priory of St Andrews was founded by bishop during the reign of David l. Robert had been prior of the Canon regular of the order of St Augustine at Scone and he determined to found a monastery of the same order at St Andrews As soon therefore as the Cloister and part of the houses were built he brought some of the monks of Scone to his new foundation and he appointed Robert a Canon of the Church of St Oswald in England the first prior. Bishop Robert liberally endowed the monastery and he obtained from the King a grant to it of the Culdean monastery of Loch Leven. From its institution till the reformation there were in all twenty-five priors many of whom added to its buildings or procured additions to its revenues One of these William de Loudon covered says Fordun the whole dormitory with a magnificent roof beneath with polished planks and above with lead. He also roofed the old Church of St Regulus the eastern chamber, four sides of the Cloister and the south part of the refectory. James Bisset, prior during the time of bishop Thomas Stewart furnished according to the same authority the monastery with "New granaries mills calefactories piggeries barns and stables and provided the two apartments of the guest-hall with pillars and glass windows. He paved the exterior and interior court of the monastery and supplied its church as well as all the churches dependent upon it with vestries robes for the priests and other useful ornaments" James Haldenstown another prior furnished the vestry with fresh reliques repaired the old ones and erected presses for [continued]

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Continuation of Description for Site of Priory. Further continues on Page 18.

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