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MAYBOLE , a See also:

burgh of See also:barony and See also:police burgh of See also:Ayrshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 5892. It is situated 9 M. S. of See also:Ayr and 5oa m. S.W. of See also:Glasgow by the Glasgow & See also:South-Western railway. It is an See also:ancient See also:place, having received a See also:charter from See also:Duncan II. in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, but for generations it remained under the subjection of the Kennedys, afterwards earls of Cassillis and marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful See also:family in Ayrshire. Of old Maybole was the See also:capital of the See also:district of Carrick, and for See also:long its characteristic feature was the family mansions of the barons of Carrick. The See also:castle of the earls of Cassillis still remains. The public buildings include the See also:town-See also:hall, the Ashgrove and the See also:Lumsden fresh-See also:air fortnightly homes, and the Maybole See also:combination poorhouse. The leading manufactures are of boots and shoes and agricultural implements.

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miles to the south-See also:west are the ruins of Crossraguel (See also:Cross of St See also:Regulus) See also:Abbey, founded about 1240. KIRKOSWALD, where See also:Burns spent his seventeenth See also:year, learning See also:land-See also:surveying, lies a little farther west. In the See also:parish See also:churchyard See also:lie " See also:Tam o' Shanter " (See also:Douglas See also:Graham) and " Souter Johnnie " (See also:John See also:Davidson). Four miles to the west of Maybole on the See also:coast is Culzean Castle, the See also:chief seat of the See also:marquess of Ailsa, dating from 1777; it stands on a basaltic cliff, beneath which are the Coves of Culzean, once the See also:retreat of outlaws and a resort of the fairies. Farther south are the ruins of Turnberry Castle, where See also:Robert See also:Bruce is said to have been See also:born. A few miles to the See also:north of Culzean are the ruins of Dunure Castle, an ancient stronghold of the Kennedys. he was made a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's, and in the following year See also:dean. His favourable See also:report on the See also:Cambridge colleges saved them from See also:dissolution. He was dispossessed during the reign of See also:Mary, but restored to the deanery on See also:Elizabeth's See also:accession. He died on the See also:day of his See also:election to the archbishopric of See also:York.

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