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County of Elgin -- Parish of Rothes

_ "Advancing still farther, we reach on the right, another large farm, called
Orbliston but as we advance, The attention is attracted, on the opposite Side, by a
Mausoleum, which occupies the site of a chapel well. which formerly enjoyed
a high reputation for curing various diseases, and whose reputed virtues as
in most other places, were most powerfull on the first Sabbath of May. There were
also vessels at the well, hollowed out of stone for holding the water, some for
head and others for the feet. and in order to give full effect to the water
It was necessary that these vessels should be thrice turned "wither shins or with
or with the Sun, as in many other sites of superstition. -

An interesting architectural fragment was discovered here, which has thus
been described by the late Mr T. McKenzie, architect "I may mention that in
clearing out the foundations of St Mary's Chapel at Orton, the property of
A. T. H Duff Esq. we discovered among other interesting objects, a small fragment
of a fret ornament, which has all the characteristics of the Anglo Norman
style, and which proves the chapel to have been built about this period
(from 1066 to 1135) The Mausoleum was built by Richard Wharton Duff Esqr of
Orton and bears the following inscription

Quo primum loco
Moravienses Christiani Sacellum
Mariae Virginis in Honorem
Posurrunt
Hoc Mausoleum
Ibi Sub ejus tecto Reliquiae
Sui ipsius Sourum que requiescant in pace
Sepulchri Memor
Extruendeum
Curavit
Ricardius Wharton Duff de Orton Armiger
Anno Salutis
1844

Spey Side Guide

[signed]
John Duncan
Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]

Transcriber's notes

The Latin Inscription in Full reads:
'Quo primum loco Moravienses
Christiani sacellum Mariae Virginis in honorem psourent
curus ad nostrum usque memoriam non nisi ruinae pervenerunt.
Hoc mausoleum utsub tecto ujus reliiqule sui ipsius svorumque requiescant in pace.
Sepulchri memor extruendum curavit
Ricardus Duff de Orton armiger. Anno salut 1844'.