[86] Royal Institute of British Architects, 19th June 1871, p. 196.
[87] It has, however, been suggested that, as the parish was anciently very large, and included Kincardine, possibly the old parish church, which is about a mile off in the country, was used for the landward district, while that of the abbey was the parish church of the town.
[88] The Priory of Beauly, by E. Chisholm-Batten, from which the following historical notes are taken.
[89] Stewart’s Records of Kinloss, XLIX.
[90] For particulars of this abbey see Registrum Sancte Marie de Newbotle, edited for the Bannatyne Club by Professor Cosmo Innes.
[91] Ibid. pp. xv. xx.
[92] Ibid. p. xxxix.
[93] Registrum Sancte Marie de Newbotle, p. xi.
[94] Ibid. pp. xv., xx.
[95] Diplom. Coll. Adv. Libr. MSS., quoted in the Registrum, p. xxiv. Father Hay, so well known in connection with Rosslyn, appears to have had access to papers relating to Newbotle which are not now in existence.