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DRYBURGH See also:ABBEY , a monastic ruin in the extreme See also:south-See also:west of See also:Berwickshire, See also:Scotland, about 5 M. S.E. of See also:Melrose, and r t m. E. of St Boswells station on the See also:North See also:British railway's Waverley route from See also:Edinburgh to See also:Carlisle. The name has been derived from the Gaelic darach bruach, " See also:oak See also:bank, " in allusion to the fact that the See also:Druids once practised their See also:rites here. The abbey occupies the spot where, about 522, St Modan, an Irish Culdee, established a sanctuary—a secluded position on a See also:tongue of See also:land washed on three sides by the See also:Tweed. Founded in 1150 by See also:David I.—though it has also been ascribed to See also:Hugh de Morville (d. 1162), See also:lord of See also:Lauderdale and See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable of Scotland —it enjoyed See also:great prosperity until 1322, when it was partially destroyed by the See also:English under See also:Edward II. It suffered again at the hands of See also:Richard II. in 1385, and was reduced to ruin during the expedition of the See also:earl of See also:Hertford in 1545. After the See also:Reformation the See also:estate was erected into a temporal lordship and given (,1604) by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. to See also:John See also:Erskine, 2nd earl of See also:Mar. At a later date it was sold, but reverted to a See also:branch of the Erskines in x786, when it was acquired by the x rth earl of See also:Buchan. In 1700 the abbey lands belonged to See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Haliburton, See also:Scott's great-grandfather, and, but for an extravagant See also:grand-See also:uncle who became bankrupt and had to See also:part with the See also:property, they would have descended to See also:Sir See also:Walter by See also:inheritance. " We have nothing See also:left of Dryburgh," he said, ".but the right of stretching our bones there." The See also:style in See also:general is See also:Early English, but the west See also:door and the restored entrance from the See also:nave to the cloisters are See also:fine examples of transitional See also:Norman. Though in various stages of decay, nearly every one of the monastic buildings is represented by a fragment. Of the cruciform church—190 ft. See also:long by 75 broad at the transepts—there remain some of the See also:outer walls, a segment of the See also:choir, the See also:east See also:aisle of the north See also:transept, the stumps of some of the pillars of the nave, the west gable, the south transept and its adjacent See also:chapel of St Modan. The most beautiful of these See also:relics is St See also:Mary's aisle of the north transept, in which were buried Sir Walter Scott (1832), his wife, son, his son-in-See also:law John See also:Gibson See also:Lockhart, and his ancestors, the Haliburtons of New Mains. Sir Walter's See also:tomb is a See also:plain See also:block of polished See also:Peterhead See also:granite, inscribed only with his name and the See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death. The next aisle is the See also:burial-See also:place of:the Erskines of Shielhill and the Haigs of Bemersyde. On the south See also:side of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, at a See also:lower level, stand the cloisters, about Too ft. square, bounded on the west by the dungeons, on the south-west by the cellars and See also:refectory, in the west See also:wall of which is an exquisite See also:ivy-clad See also:rose window, and on the east by the See also:chapter-See also:house, on a still lower level. The chapter-house, a lofty See also:building with vaulted roof, is the most See also:complete structure of the See also:group, and adjoining it on the south are, first the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot's parlour and then the library, the three apartments communicating with each other, and constituting the See also:oldest portion of the abbey. In the grounds are many See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable trees, a See also:yew near the chapter-house being at least coeval with the abbey.
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