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69 [No Header] [Macduff's Cross, Remarks, Continued]
...pardons indulged by and confered upon that girth". The cross is the oldest regality in this county whence we have the phrase The Kingdom of Fife an epithet certainly given to no other shire as if Macduff had enjoyed his estate much after they way of Hugh Lupus in his earldom of Chester of whom it is said he enjoyed that earldom from his uncle the Conqueror, "adeo libere ad gladirem siant ipse rex tenelat totam angliam ad coronam." The last who claimed the privilege of the sanctuary as being within the degrees of Kindred was according to Skeen de verb. Signif. voce Clan Macduff one Spence of Wormeston upon his killing an individual of the name of Kinninmonth. Sir W. Scott has made it the subject of a poem, " etc.
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 49 - Parishes of Abdie and Newburgh, OS1/13/49
This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Abdie and Newburgh.
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the counties of Fife in the east of Scotland and Kinross in central Scotland. The boundaries of these counties were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.
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