S i n g u l a r .
CLOISTER«
In a fide chapel, beneath an arch, lies an abbot, of the name ofl
Mac-dufie, with two of his fingers elated, in the attitude of benedicj
tion : in the fame place is a .ftone enriched with foliage, a ftag furJ
rounded with dogs, and a ihip with full fail: round is infcribedl
hic jacet Murchardus Mac-dufie de Collonfa, An. Do. 1539, *»/<■
mart, ora me ille. ammen.
This Murchardus is faid to have been a great oppreifor, and that!
lie was executed, by order of the Lord of the files, for his tyranny;!
Near his tomb is a long pole, placed there in memory of the eniim-l
Half o f the family, which had been preferved miraculoufly for twol
hundred years : on it (report fays) depended the fate of the Mac-w
dufian race, and probably the original periihed with this Mut\
chardus.
Adjoining to the church is the cloifter : a fquare o f forty-one feet. I
one o f the fides of tne inner wall is ruined -, on two of thè others atei
feven low arches, one feven feet high including the columns; which 1
are nothing more than two thin ftones *, three feet high, with a fiat ■
ftone on the top o f each, ferving as a plinth ; and on them twol
other thin ftones, meeting at top, and forming an acute angle, by I
way of arch: on the fore-fide are five fmall round arches ; thefé 1
furround a court of twenty eight feet eight inches. This formisi
peculiar (in our part o f Europe) to this place -, but I am told that the 1
fame is obferved in fome of the religious houfes in thé iflands of tk I
Archipelago.
Several other buildings join this, all in. a ruinous ftate; buta 1
* On one o f thefe there is an infcription, which was copied, but by fome acci" j
dent loth
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