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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1852)

Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · London, Published by the author · leaf 216

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bot.J The temporalities of the Church were dispersedat the Reformation, a portion falling into the hands of lay improprietors, and other parts beingtransferred to educational, and to other ecclesiastical institutions. The old parish church wasdemolished in 1644, and the collegiate establishment, in… … COXTON. Not one fragment of history has heen preserved relating to the small but picturesque towerdelineated in the two accompanying illustrations; and so little attention does it seem to haveexcited, that it is not even mentioned in any of the numerous descriptions of Scotland, although itstands…

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