Continued entries/extra info

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Extract from Miller's
Lamp of Lothian

Franciscan Monastery
and
Lucerna Laudoniae, or the Lamp of Lothian

"There was a monastery of Franciscans or
Grey Friars in Haddington, who were also called Minorite
(Fratres minores), or Cordeliere Friars. Their superiors
were called Custoders or Wardens. This orders was established
by their patriarch St Francis in 1206, and they came
into Scotland during the reign of Alexander the 2nd. The
precise time of the foundation of the monastery
is unKnown. According to the Revd Dr [Reverend Doctor] Barclay it
stood on the same spot where a house was built
by John Henderson, Esqr of Leaston about 1785 (now called
Elm House). That the monastery was not only richly
endowed, but of considerable antiquity, is evident
from their Church being so magnificent, when it
was almost destroyed by Edward 3 in 1355,
that we are told by Fordun and John Major, (who
flourished at that period) it was styled "Lucerna
Laudonia", either from its beautiful structure, and
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