A.

17 APR 1959

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

ST. ANDREW's-concerning the Religious Houses, Cathedral, &c.—A slight
Outline of the History of the University of St. Andrew's-Encroachment of
the Sea on the Shore on which this ancient City stands-Natural History of
Parts adjacent-St. Andrew's as a Boyal Burgh-Population-Trade, &c.

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DEPARTURE from St. Andrew's-Kinkell-Cameron-State of Agriculture-
Short Leases hurtful to Rural Economy, and Agricultural Speculations-
Doctor Alexander Turnbull's Rules relative to Leases-Kingsbarns-Crail-
Dane's Dyke-Kilrenny, &c.-Easter and Wester Anstruthers-Pitten-
weem-St. Monance-Kellie-Law- Carnbie- Macduff's Cave- Earl's-
Ferry-Largo-Law-Upper and Lower Largo, and Largo-Bay-Robinson
Crusoe (Alexander Selkirk) a Native of this Parish-Captain James Durham
(afterwards a Preacher), and the celebrated Scotish Admiral Sir Andrew
Wood, were Natives of Largo-Bay-Naval Engagements in the Reign of
James IV. and Henry VII. between the Scotish and English Fleets, in which
the former proved victorious-Lundin-Mill-Leven-Parochial School of
Leven; at which the ingenious and learned Jerome Stone, Rector of the
School of Dunkeld, was first educated-Sketch of the Life and Writings of
that singular Man-Wemyss-Dysart, &c.

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KIRKALDY, a Town of considerable Enterprise in Trade-Value of Shipping
belonging to Kirkaldy-Manufactures, &c.-Of the Sett, or Constitution, of
the Royal Burgh of Kirkaldy-School of that Parish; at which the celebrated
Author of "The Theory of Moral Sentiment," and "An Inquiry into the
Causes of the Wealth of Nations," was first educated-Biographical Sketch
relative to the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, LL.D.; together with a

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CONTENTS OF THE ADDITIONAL NOTES.

adapted for Store-Farins-From this Neighbourhood the Sheep-system was
first introduced into the Grampian Mountains by one James Yule, or Gulen,
a Shepherd, about the Year 1749-Singular Instance of the Fruitfulness of
two married Women belonging to the neighbouring Parish, one of whom had
four Children at a Birth-Interesting Peeps of the Windings of the Forth
as we proceed from Aloa along its North Bank up to Stirling,
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STIRLING A Royal Residence in the tenth Century (by some Antiquaries

supposed to be the " Snadoun" mentioned in Sir David Lindsay's Poems, vide

"Hapingo" toward the end)-This ancient Town experienced frequently

the Miseries of War-Sieges and Battles of Stirling-Castle-Trial by Jury in

Scotland according to Buchanan's Account, in the Case of the Duke of Albany

and his two Sons, A. D. 1425-Some other Particulars respecting the

History of Stirling, in addition to what belongs to the Account given of that

Town in Volume First, particularly with respect to the King of Kippen and

the King of the Moors, who reigned in the Neighbourhood of Stirling con-

temporary with James V. with whom they lived on good Terms,

369, Note (B), vol. i. p. 91

GLENFINGLASS-Inhabited by People of the Name of Stuart, said to be descended

of James Beg Stuart, a natural Son of Murdoch Duke of Albany-Tradi-

tional History concerning James Beg and Broilan Beg Macintyre,

373, Note (C), vol. i. p. 108.

Concerning an Error with respect to Rob Roy the celebrated Free-Booter,

375, Note (D), vol. i. p. 125

Au Account of the first Introduction of the Sheep Store-Farms into the High-

lands,
375, Note (E), vol. i. p. 142

Narrow Escape of M'Laren of Wester Invernenty, a Highland Rebel, con-

cerned in the last fruitless Attempt to restore the House of Stuart,

576, Note (F), vol. i. p. 151

A Tour from Locherin-head along the Borders of the Lake, and Windings of

the River Erin to its Junction with the Tay, recommended; and a few

of the leading Objects in the Course of this Tour pointed out: together with

some incidental Circumstances, local History, and Antiquities respecting the

Stretch of Country through which the Erin winds its Course to the Frith of

Tay, near the ancient City of the Picts, Abernethy. Note (G), vol. i. p. 152

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LIST OF THE PLATES

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VOLUME THE SECOND.

RUINS of St. Andrew's Cathedral, and Chapel of St. Rule (Frontispiece to

Ruins of the Chapel of Holyrood-House.

N.B. This Plate is the Frontispiece to Volume the First.

eloquence of John Knox, displaying, in a sermon preached at Crail, in the neighbourhood of St. Andrews, the whoredom and blind idolatry of the holy Catholic church, the mother of saints. This cathedral was built in the form of a cross. Its dimensions were 370 feet in length: the breadth within the walls 65 feet. The appearance of the whole, when entire, must have been grand. Its lofty cupola and corresponding pinnacles, its vast roof covered with massy copper, and the elegant and magnificent structure of all its parts, could not fail of striking the beholder with reverential awe and pleasing terror. The venerable remains of this edifice in a very few years will belevelled with the dust; the texture of the stones being very soft, and susceptible of decomposition by the atmosphere. The south wall of the nave is pretty entire*, so also is the east gable with its pinnacles: the west gable has suffered much; but one of its pinnacles is almost entire ; its appearance is highly picturesque. This cathedral was founded about the middle of the twelfth century by bishop Arnold, and finished by bishop Lamberton in the year 1318+. It was accidentally burnt, in 1378, and repaired by sir Stephen Pai, Pay, or Pahedy, the fifteenth prior of St. Andrews, in the time of bishop William Landells (de Lanalis), who enjoyed the metropolitan see during the long period of forty-four years, and died 15th October, 13851. It is said of this bishop, that he obtained liberty from king David

The four easternmost windows that remain, are different in their order from those nearer the west gable.

↑ The west end of the cathedral had been blown down by a tempest, and was rebuilt by bishop William Wishart, who died on the 5th of June, 1279. Vide Keith, p. 13.. + Fordan's Scotichron. lib. vi. cap. 45. See Keith, Martine, Sibbald's State of Fifeshire, and Slezer's Theatrum Scotia.