Infcribed certain Macaronic verfes, a ftrange jargon, preferved both
L fibbald* and Gordon+. Mr. Cunningham, who wrote an effay on
Wr crofs tranilates the lines into a grant o f Malcolm Canmore, to
It. Pari' of Fife, o f feveral emoluments and privileges; among
lirhers he allows it to be a fanftuary to any o f Macduff’s kindred,
Lithin the ninth degree, * h o ihall be acquitted o f any man-
iaughter, o n ' flying to this crofs, and paying nine cows and a
I Defcend the Ochil hills, and arrive in a pretty valley, called the
Iftrath of Eden, bounded on the fouth by the Lawmond hills, and
fcatered by the river. Eden. Go through a fmall town, and after
■rolling the vale, reach
I F a l k l a n d •, another fmall town, made a royal burgh by James
III in 1458. Here flood one o f the feats o f the Macduff's, Earls
I f Fife. On the attainder o f Murdo Stuart, feventeenth Earl, it became
forfeited to the Crown in 1424- J ames V - w ho § rew very fond
I f the place, enlarged and improved it. T h e remains evince its
■former magnificence and elegance, and the fine tafte o f the princely
iarchitea. The gateway is placed between two fine round towers ;
Ion the right hand joins the chapel, whofe roof is o f wood, hand-
Homely gilt and painted, but in a moft ruinous condition. Beneath
[re feveral apartments. T h e front next to the court was beaut.-
Kully adorned with ftatues, heads in bas-relief, and elegant co-
[lumns, not reducible to any order, but o f fine proportion, with
(capitals approaching the Ionic fcrol. Beneath fome o f thefe pillars
twas infcribed I. R . M. G . 1537» or Jacobus Rex. Maria de Guife.
* Sibbald F ife , 92, 93.’ 4 Gordon, 164.
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J Camden, 12 3 6 .
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F a l k l a n d .
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