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[Page] 17 \nParish of Newburgh \n\nLINDORES ABBEY.- \nNortheast of the town and at the extremity of the parish on gentle rise in \nin the middle of the rich clay land near the Tay stand the ruins of the ancient abbey of \nLindores. This monstery was founded in 1178 by David Earl of Huntingdon brother of William \nthe Lion and heir-presumptive to the Scottish throne after his return from a Crusade in the \nHoly Land in commemoration of his escape from Shipwreck and of his having taken Ptolemais \nfrom the Saracens. He planted it with monks of St Benedict of the order of Lyronensis \nand dedicated the church to the virgin mary and St. Andrew the apostle. The monks were brought \nfrom the Abbey of Kelso. The monks of Lindores drew the tithes of twenty two parish churches\nwhich belonged. In 1208, Sibbald says, he finds that there resided in the monastery an abbot \nand 26 monks. The site of the monastery of Lindores on the fine Carse-land which here bor-\nders the Tay and was formerly part of the forest of Black Earnside must have peculiarly \nbeautiful commanding a view of the valley of Strathearn and the Several buildings it Contained \nwere no doubt in a Style of grandeur Commensurate with its wealth and importance. The \nlatter however is a great matter of conjecture as little of the ruins now remains to \ngive any idea of its extent or the beauty of its architecture. The first outburst of the Reformation \nwas no doubt attended with an equally destructive attack on the monastery of Lindores as \nthat experienced by many other venerable buildings throughout the Kingdom but Lindores abbey \n[Continued on Page 18]