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Extract From New Statistical Account of Scotland
(Haddingtonshire) Page 38. [note] See Page 36
The Gospel was introduced into East Lothian in the sixth century. St Baldred, the disciple of Kentigern or St Mungo, being
the first Christian Apostle, fixed his cell at Tynninghame, where a monastery was afterwards erected, but his pious
labours extended far and wide, - the boundaries of his Pastoral care being thus described by Simeon of Durham,
"Tota terra qua pertinct ad monasterium sancti Baltheri quod vocatur Tyningham a Lambermore usque
ad Esceruuthe," so that his ministry embraced the whole length of the county, from Lammermoor to
InveresK. All accounts concur in representing this early and zealous propagator of the Christian faith
as being held in extreme veneration when living; and several of the conterminous parishes are said to have been contended
for his body when he was dead. But we leave the miracles ascribed to St Baldred, and the stories about his
boat and cradle, (rock on the shore and within sea marK) to those who are inclined to clear the obscurities,
and investigate the legends of the sixth century. Suffice it to say of him, what Archbishop Spottiswood
says of his instructor, St Mungo "That he appears to have been a man worthy to have been a subject of
truth to posterity, not of fables and fictions, as the legends of monks have made him." He died in the
year 606. Anlaf, the Dane, spoiled the Church of St. Baldred, and burnt the village of Tynninghame
in the year 941. "This, (says Chalmers,) is a very early notice of the KirK-town of Tynninghame
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