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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROYAL BURIAL PLACE | Royal Burying Place Royal Burying Place Royal Burying Place |
Rev [Reverend] P. Chalmers Mr KIlgour (Town clerk) Provost Beveridge |
035 | [Situation] At the N. [North] side Abbey New church Six plain Sandstone slabs. forming the floor of the north transept of the Abbey New Church, mark the place where some of the Kings and royal Personages of Scotland were interred. "If the testimony of Borce can be credited, and far older authorities, as the Chronicon de Mailres Chronicon de Lanercost Fordun and Winton Malcolm the third decreed that instead of Iona, Dunfermline Church should be thenceforward the common cemetery of the Kings and royal personages of Scotland", Mr Chalmers in his history of Dunfermline P. [Page] 133 gives a list of those interred here from Malcolm the third [...] |
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[Notes] -- See Note attached to page 69. from which it could appear
that the Royal burial place was not confined to one particular
Spot. -- [Initialled JS]
"The Abbey church was long the place of Sepulture of our Scottish Kings. Here Malcolm
Canmore & his Queen Margaret were interred, also their eldest son, Edward who was Killed in Jedwood
Forest, Edmond their second Son, and another named Ethelrade, who was Earl of Fife. King Edgar
Alexander with his two wives, Malcolm IV. and Alexander III. with Margaret and his Alexander
were also here entombed. The great Bruce, too, the Saviour of his Country was here laid at rest
from his many toils, with his Queen Elizabeth and his daughter Christina. the widow of Sir Andrew
Murray". -- Full, [Fullarton's] Gazetteer of Scotland. Sibbald's Hist, [History] of Fife Corroborates the same)
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