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| Ruins of CHAPEL ROYAL Formerly Nave of Abbey Church | [continued from page 13] night while asleep in the Castle of Edinburgh, David was instructed in a dream to found an establishment for the Canons regular of St Augustine on the spot where his life was saved. Accordingly the abbey was built and liberally endowed by a royal charter which still exists in the archives of the town council. By this charter were bestowed on the abbey the church of Edinburgh Castle, those of St. Cuthberts, Corstorphine, Liberton and Airth in Stirlingshire; the priories of St. Mary's Isle in Galloway. of Blantyre in Clydesdale, of Rowadill in Ross, and of Crusay, Oronsay, and Colonsay in the western Islands, The charter also granted to thee Canons the privilege of erecting a borough between Holyrood and the town of Edinburgh, forming the Canongate with the right to hold marKets in it. They had also grants of lands in other places, with a most extensive jurisdiction, and a right of trial by duel, and fire and water ordeal. They had also certain revenues payable out of exchequer and other funds, with the fishings and the privilege of erecting mills on the Water of Leith which are still called Canonmills. The Canongate arms are a hart's head, surmounted by a cross in allusion to the legend already mentioned. Besids these original grants, others were added by succeeding Sovereigns, So that this became the most opulent religious foundation in Scotland. In 1177 a national council was held in this abbey, on the arrival of a legate to taKe Cognizance of a dispute between the English and Scotch clergy regarding the Submission of the latter to the church of England. In 1332 it was plundered by the English and in 1335 it was burnt by the same people. It was again destroyed in 1544 by the Earl of Hertford when the choir and transept of the church were entirely destroyed and nothing was left standing but the nave the portion of which now exists as a ruin. At the reformation, the church was stripped of its ornaments and Converted into the parish church [continued on page 15] |
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[Page] 14Parish of Canongate
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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 31OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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