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| Monastery or Friary of Franciscans (Continued) | [continued from page 64] Of this, as well as of the other religious fraternities which existed here at and before the era of the Reformation, little beyond the situations which they occupied remains. The Houff, or common burying-place was the site of a monastery of Franciscan Friars rather of that division of them denominated "fratrum conventualium," "fratres conventualis", or "fratres minores" - " Friars Conventual," or "Friars Minor" - and of the orchards and gardens belonging to it. This house was erected about 1260, by Devorgilla daughter of Allan Lord of Galloway and grand-daughter of David Earl of Huntingdon who erected the Church of Our Lady. Devorgilla was also mother of King John Baliol who competed for the crown with Robert Bruce of Annandale, grandfather of Robert I. Lady Beatrice Douglas Countess of Errol donated to this house the sum of £100 Scots in aid of the Common funds, and for the necessary repairs of the Convent as on account of the general poverty of all occasioned by a famine the brethren being scarce able even though they sold and pawned their valuable property Church utensils and the like to maintain themselves the Convent had become greatly dilapidated. For this donation from Lady Errol the Friars bound themselves and their successors to give her ladyship the benefit of a daily mass at the high altar. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A very small part of the convent remains consisting of a low dead wall enlivened however by a small door which opens into the Houff. This wall extends from the south gate of the [continued on page 66] |
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