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I 1 A n gles a houfe of the Maxwells, and a rich vale towards
I tW iih e abby of Lincluden, about half a mile diftant, feated on
1 water of the Cluden, which is another boundary o f Galloway
■ that fide This religious houfe is feated on a pleafant bank,
1 < in a rich country : and was founded and filled with Beneditlms
“ I the time of Malcolm IV. * by Uthred, father to Roland,
lord’ of Galloway. Thefe were expelled by.the Earl of Douglas
(known by the titles of Archibald the black, or grim, and the
t e r r i b l e ) probably, as Major infinuates, on account of the impurity
of their lives f , for the Earl was a man in piety Angular through his
life, and moil: religious according to thofe times. He fixed in their
laces a provoftry, with twelve beadfmen, and changed the name to
that of the xollege. .. r ,
■Part of the houfe and chancel, and fome of the South wall of the
¿lurch-are the foie remains of this antient ftrufture : in the
chancel-is the elegant tomb of Margaret, daughter of Robert III
A r c h i b a l d Ezrt o f Douglas, firft Duke of Terouan, and
fon of Archibald the grim. Her effigy at full length, lay on the
tone, her head refting on two cufhions; but the figure is now
mutilated I and her bones, till lately, were fcattered about in a
ttoft indecent manner by fome wretches wlw broke -open t e re
pofitory in fearch of treafure. The tomb is in form o an arc ,
Jvith all parts moft beautifully carved: on the middle of the arch
is the heart, the Douglas’s arms, guarded by three chalices, fet
j . * Hope’s minor prattics. 511« Malcolm died 1165*
f Major de geft, Scot, 283» Archibald died A. D# I400*
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