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Parish of Kennethmont

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"of such meetings; and it is rather curious that no notice of it occurs in "Smith's Kalendar, imprentit at
Edinburgh in 1599." The only fair in Aberdeenshire there recorded is set down for December.
Christ's Church was the name of the Monastery of Red Fryars at Peebles, and the fair there was, and
still is, held in May. But the poem of "Peblis to the play." forbids the idea of that locality having also
been the scene of "Christ's Kirk on the Green". There is, to be sure, a Leslie in Fife, where, according
to "Smith's Kalendar," a fair was of old held in September. Now there are two fairs, one in April and the
other in October; but there is no record of there ever having been a Christ's Church connected with it.
Yet Ramsay, not thinking of Leslie in Aberdeenshire, made Leslie in Fife the scene of his continuation of
the poem Sibbald, in his, "Chronicle of Scottish Poetry" (1802), advances very strong arguments in favour
of James V. being the Author of this poem, and in fact assigns him the undoubted credit of it. Yet, when
the question comes to the matter of locality, it is curious to observe how prejudice, or some other feelings,
runs away with his judgment. In the poem, entitle "the Justing between James Watson and
John Barbour, Servitours to King James the Fifth," written by Sir David Lyndsay, in burlesque
of the tournaments and jousting held at St. Andrews, in Midsummer 1530, where festivities were
maintained for forty days in honour of the King's second marriage, he found various passages
almost in the very words of "Christ's Kirk" and Concluded that the Coincidence was too striking to
be accidental. He therefore supposes that "Christs Kirk" was written in burlesque of one of the
day's amusements, and the "Justing" of another; and that the author might have given the
name of "Christ's Kirk" to the College Kirk of St. Salvador. Sibbald thus claims the honour of the scene
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