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Chruch on the site of St Bridget's [continued from page 9] "part of the Parish. This is said to have been the origin of the present place of worship, which is pleasantly situated upon a knoll on the west bank of the river Carron, nearly a mile north west of the town of Stonehaven. This church was dedicated to St Bridget, and the burial ground contains some interesting sepulchral monuments, among which is the burial vault of the Keith Marischals, bearing the initials G,K, and the date of 1582. These refer to George fifth Earl Marischal, the founder of the Marischal College of Aberdeen, who succeeded his grandfather the year before the Aisle was built, and was himself buried in it in 1623. But perhaps the most generally interesting relic is in the tombstone of the Martyrs of the seventeenth century of whom there were from a hundred and sixty to a hundred and seventy confined in the castle of Dunnottar, in a narrow damp cell, still called the Whig's Vault. It need therefore only be said that the monument owes its presentation chiefly to David Paterson, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Old Mortality". It was here, in the summer of 1788 while Scott was spending a few days with the late Mr Walker minister of the parish, that he met with Paterson busily employed in restoring the inscription on this tomb, and it was his singular taste and veneration for the Covenanters that suggested long afterwards, the idea of one of the best of Scott's many excellent works." (memorials of Angus Mearns p. [page] 445-6)

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