...donation of land. " For several ages," the author tells us, " the possessions of these abbies enjoyed the calm light of peace and immunity, while the rest...scene of confusion, blood, and unremitted outrage." At the time, however, which the author has chosen for his story, the patrimony of the church was no...

...respected, even amidst the rage of a frontier war. In this manner alone had the King some chance of ensuring protection and security to the cultivators of the...country, occupied by wild clans and marauding barons, was oho dark scene of confusion, blood, and unremitted outrage. But these immunities did not continue down...

...In this manner alone had the King some chance of ensuring protection and security to the cnltivators of the \ soil ; and, in fact, for several ages the possessions of i these Abbeys were each a sort of Goshon. enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity, while the...

...'of some of the Scotch monasteries, and no douht generally true of all the rest, Scott observes, " For several ages, the possessions of these Abbeys...scene of confusion, blood, and unremitted outrage." There are few districts of England where an abbey has not been located, and the remains yet visible....

...respected, even amidst the rage of a frontier war. In this manner alone had the King some chance of ensuring protection and security to the cultivators of the...the possessions of these Abbeys were each a sort of Goschen, enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity, while the rest of the country, occupied by...

...protection and security to the cultivators of the soil ; and, in fact, for several ages the posseseions of these Abbeys were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying...barons, was one dark scene of confusion, blood, and unro milled outrage. But these immunities did not continue down to th« union of the crowns. Long before...

...which the Abbeys of the Scottish Border at one time enjoyed, even during the ravages of a frontier war. "For several ages the possessions of these Abbeys...scene of confusion, blood, and unremitted outrage." Preparatory to leaving the land of their oppression, the people of Israel were instructed through Moses...

...something purer, more refined, And mightier than ourselves." And, says Sir Walter Scott, " For several ages abbeys were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying the calm...scene of confusion, blood, and unremitted outrage." No. 1. Obverse. No. 1. Reverse. SEAL OF MAI.VKRN PRIORY, TWKT.FTH CENTURY. CHAPTER V. SEALS, CHARTERS,...

...even amidst the rage of a frontier war. In this manner alone had the King some chances of ensuring protection and security to the cultivators of the soil ; and, in fact, for several ages the possess ion of these Abbeys were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying the calm light of peace and immunity,...

...Scotsman, of the cen tnries preceding the Reformation: "In fact, for several ages the pos sessions of these Abbeys were each a sort of Goshen, enjoying...scene of confusion, 'blood, and unremitted outrage." miles south of Wigtown Bay ; and in the churchyard of Wigtown, close to the old Agnew burying-ground,...