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68 Parish of Newburgh
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"The other is the celebrated cross of Macduff which stands at the distance of about a mile to the south in an opening of the Ochil Hills on the confines of Strathearn where it overlooks that beautiful valley and far distant Grampians. It consists of one large block of freestone rudely indented in several places. According to a description given in 1712 these consisted of nine each cntaining an iron staple and ring and intended according to tradition for the benefit of the kindred of the powerful tane of that name amounting to precisely the same number who claimed protection even against the penalties of murder upon te payment of "nine Kie and Colpendach or young Kow" The upright pillarwhich stood upon this liase stone was destroyed by thee reformers on their way from Perth to the Abbey of Lindores in 1559"

"The inscription upon it as taken about that period by the son of Sir James Balfour of [Dens mill] the celebrated annalist is as follows"

Maldraradum dragos mairia laghslita largos
Spelando spados Sive nig fig Knighthite gnaros
Lothea lendiscos laricingen lairia liscos
Et colovurtos sic fit tibi bursia burtus
Exitus et bladadrum sive lim sive lam sive labrum
Propter Magridim et hoc oblatum
Aecipe Smeleridem super limthide lamthida labrum.

Mr Cunningham in his learned essay upon this singular inscription regards the words as Saxon intermixed with Latin and the whole" aped in a Latin dress" being a charter from Malcolm Canmore to Macduff with the benefits he enjoyed by virtue thereof or immunities freedoms and

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