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| Remains of DUNFERMLINE ABBEY | 035 | Description of the Abbey continued [from Page 57] and partly from the magnitude and splendour of its buildings and its great wealth, It seems to have attained its highest repute about the middle and close of the 13th century, when it had become one of the most magnificent and opulent monastic establishments in Scotland, Mathew of Westminster an English historian of that period, says, in regard to its extend, that its limits were so ample as to contain within its precincts three Carucates of land, And that there were so [many] Princely edifices as might accommodate three sovereigns and their retinue with lodgings, without the least inconvenience to one another. Like all other establishments of the same nature, it had an enormous [revenue] derivable from lands including almost all the western, southern and eastern districts of Fifeshire and various lands in other counties, and at one time the barony of Musselburgh, besides the [patronage] of many churches. The Abbots had an exclusive civil and criminal jurisdiction over the occupiers of the lands, and Such was the power of his Court, that if any accused person, residing within the territory of the [regality] was taKen to another Court he could or his procurator appear before that other Court, even the Kings justiciar and judicially demand bacK the delinquent, to be tried before the tribunal of his own district, All that now remain of the abbey are the southern and eastern walls of the Frater Hall (see description) and the ground walls of the south transept, In Henderson's chronological table the date of the Abbey is fixed at 1070, Abridged from Chalmers Hist [History] of Dunfermline Pages 857 to 861 in New stat [statistical] account |
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