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of the Grave Yard as well as the remains of the church. This church was a parish church
the parish being called Mount Lothian. In Chalmers Caledonia vol. [volume] 2, P. [Page] 811 is the following
notice. "The church of old was granted to the monks of Holyrood though by whom
"Cannot now be known. In 1240 Bishop David Confirmed to those monks the church of
"Mount-Lothian which they had for some years enjoyed. It continued to belong to the same
"monks till thy reformation swept away such connections; and the cure was meantime served
"by a vicar. In 1635 the church of Mount Lothian with all its right and reserves were
"transferred to the episcopate of Edinburgh. And this establishment being set aside in 1638
"the parish of Mount-Lothian was afterwards annexed to the adjoining district of Penycuik.
"The ruin of the church may still be seen. The name in the chartulary is Monte Laodonioe
"and in the ancient taxatio there is the ecclesia de Monte Laodonie. A part of the lands of Mount Lothian
"was granted to the monks of Newbattle in the 12th century and this grant was confirmed to them by William
"the lion Chart. Newbattle, 176. And from those circumstances the place has been sometimes called monk-
"Lowden."
In the new Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] is the following remark. "Mount Lothian (Mons Laodinioe)
"frequently but as appears from the Latin erroneously written Monks Lothian was a chapelry belonging
"to the Abbey of Holyrood whose monks kept their flocks on its rich and extensive
"pasturage."