The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1901)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874, Burton, John Hill, 1809-1881 · Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd · leaf 226
Mr Leslie with it, holding it above his head, saying,— If, MrWilliam, I had a commission or permission, I wad brain you with this. And so it evanished.f This was a sufficiently startling occurrence, and those who believe in it will not be at all astonishedto hear that, as the poor clergyman… … is SETON CHURCH. It is now upwards of fifty years since the old mansion or Palace of Seton, one of the glories ofthe Lothians, has been swept away, and we know it only in the rude engraving preserved byGrose, where it appears in the form of a vast cluster of round and square towers, curtains,…