Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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UiiNid tlic rir.-l. A year later the sajiie Club v\-a3 successful in obtaining a
tliird jn'csentri 1 ion of tlie "Lilier de Dribu'rcjli " f roip. tlic late. Job.n 8i)Ottiswoodp,
Esquire of Spottiswoodc. Of the fomtli P-ordcr Abbey of Jcdburgli no
carLuiary is known to exist. But the noble owner, tlie JJarquis of Lolliian,
K.T., who, with enlightened taste and patriotic liberality, has done so mnch
to imjirove and piv-erve the reniains of tiiis splendid ecelesiaslical Ijuilding,
has made collections of ancient charters connected willi the abl^ey, with tlic
view of preserving them in a record similar to tlic volume relating to his
separate Abbey of Xcwbatile, which was presented by the late ^larrjuis to
the Eannatyue Club.
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