OS1/20/154/116

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No. 136.
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List of Names collected by Archibald Craig Pte. [Private] R. S. and M. [Royal Sappers and Miners] 1st Examiner
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Plan and Trace--Received Names--Object--Description--Parish--Authority for spelling Name--Address
--Dundrennan Abbey (In Ruins)----mail armour with a buff coat above, a belt across the shoulder, and another round the waist. There is also a tombstone, bearing the figure of an Abbot in his canonicals, in tolerable preservation, but the inscription upon it is so much decayed as to be illegible.
The King appointed the Abbots of Dundrennan for it was one of the Monasteries of which the Pope had not the nomination of the superiors. The income of the Abbey exclusive of that derived from its landed property amounted to £500. The Abbots and monks of Dundrennan had a regality over their land. The Lords Maxwell were the heritable bailies and received as a fee the five pound lands of Mullock and Heston. The Abbey of Dundrennan is remarkable in Scottish history as having been the resting place of the beautiful and unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots, on her retreat after the Battle of Langside in the year 1568.

[Signed Collector]
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Archibald Craig Pte. [Private] R. S. [and M.] [Royal Sappers and Miners]
23 January 1849

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