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[Page] 18 \nParish of Newburgh Fullarton Vol 2 p [Volume 2 page] 436\n\n[Continued from Page 17]\nhas been peculiarly unfortunate as it seems long afterwards to have formed a quarry from \nwhich the inhabitants of Newburgh obtained stones for repairing or erecting their houses. \nThe consequence is that the whole of the polished ashler stones with which the walls of the church \nand other buildings were faced both outside and inside have been removed and almost nothing \nnow remains of the walls but the internal packing of small stones and lime which filled up the \nspace between the ashler fronts. A thick matting of ivy serves however in part to conceal the long\ncontinued dilapidations which ruthless have made on these interesting ruins. If we might be \nallowed to form any conjecture as to the style of the church, we should suppose it to have been \nwhat is now usually styled the early English that is the first and simplest form in which the \npointed style is anywhere found. The appearance of the groinings on the roof of two small vaulted \ncrypts which are yet entire would seem to favour this Conjecture. It may however have been in \nthe Norman Style which immediately preceded the early English and was for a time Coeval with it\nindeed both of these styles were practised about the era of the erection of this monastery. The wall which \nsurrounded the precinct of the abbey is still pretty entire, and within it and in its immediate vicinity, are still to be seen \nmany of the " vastly big old pear trees" mentioned by Sibbald. One of these is particularly worthy of \nnotice for its great size and age although it is now, from the breaKing down of one of its principal branches \na third less than it was a few years ago. When we saw it in 1839, it was, notwithstanding its age, and that it is begin\n-ginning to decay internally literally loaded with fruit. It is said that David, Duke of Rothsay, eldest son of \nRobert II, who was barbarously murdered at Falkland, by the contrivance of his uncle, the Earl of Fife, and Sir \nJohn Ramorney was buried here but this is doubtful as it is also said he was buried in the old church of \nKilgour near Falkland. A stone coffin is pointed out at Lindores, which is said to have been that of the Prince but this \nis mere vague conjecture. for any thing that appears, it may have been the resting place of some of the abbots of the monastery \nThe last of the Earls of Douglas after a life of trouble & turmoil, found a peaceful retreat for his old age and died within \nthe walls of the monastery in 1488." \nFullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland 1845.