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THE PARISH OF ORDIQUHILL. I

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PARISH OF ORDEQUHILL.

A.D. M.DCC.XXIV. 2

BY MR. WILLIAM OGILVY.

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RDEQUHILL parish, (in old, about the time of the reformation, ane part of Fordyce parish,) in the shire of Banff, hath to the north-west, the parish of Fordyce; to the south, Abirchirder, or St. Marnoch parish; to the east, the parishes of Banff and Boyndy; and to the west, the parish of Grange, from which it is divided by The Knockhill of Stryla, or Strathila.

The church stands half a myle from The Burn of Boyne, (there called The Burn of Corncairn,) and is six miles distant from the toun of Banf, to the west.

The House of Park, the mansion house of Sir James Gordone of Park, baronet, stands about one myle east of the church; five miles, south-west of Banf; and four, south of Cullen.

At a midle distance betwixt the church and the House of Park stands New Park, or Newton of Park, erected into a burgh of barony, in a charter granted to Sir Adam Gordon of Park by King James the Sixth, anno M.DC.XVII., with the privilege of a weekly mercat, and seven yearly fairs.

The church was of old but a chappel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, 3 in the

fowr hundreth and twenty yher in to the kyrke yharde of the chanounry off Rosmarkyng Willyame the Grame the sone and the hayr vmquhil of Henry the Grame" resigned his lands of the barony of Kerdale, in the sheriffdom of Inverness, in the hands of " a nobil lorde and a michty Thomas Erle of Mureff his ovyr lorde." (Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, p. 475.) See also as to the lords of Deskfurd, the same register, p. 246; above, pp. 98-100, 102; the Acta Dominorum Auditorum, pp. 170, 171, 173; the Acta Dominorum Concilii, p. 188.)]

1 [See Collections for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, p. 645.]

2 [From Macfarlane's Geographical Collections for Scotland, MSS. Adv. Bibl.]

3 ["The parish of Ordiquhill was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Fordyce, where public worship was performed once a month, and seems to have been erected into a separate parish about the year 1622. The church was built about the same time, on the spot where then stood St. Mary's chapel. A well in the parish, dedicated to the Virgin Mary,

parish of Fordyce; wherefor the Earle of Findlater, as patron of Fordyce, is patron of Ordequhill also.

The said whole parish doth now belong to the Gordons of Park, who now represent these of Cairnburrow in Glass. Park was built, anno M.D.XXX., by a lady dowager of the Lord Salton Abernethy, who was herself a daughter of Stuart, Earle of Buchan.

was formerly, at certain seasons, much resorted to by the superstitious as well as by the sick." (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. vi., pp. 348, 349. Edinb. 1793.)

The general assembly of the church of Scotland, which met at Linlithgow in July, 1608, recommended that, "for remedieing the growth of papistrie," "order be taken with the Pilgrimages, videlicet, The Chappell callit Ordiquhill, and The Chappell of Grace, and to ane well in the bounds of Enzie." (The Booke of the Universall Kirke of Scotland, p. 581. Mr. Peterkin's edit Edinb. 1839. 8vo.) In July, 1607, one of the parishioners of Rothiemay was accused, before the kirk session, "for passing in pilgrimage to Ordequhill." (Gordon's History of Scots Affairs from M.DC. XXXVI. to M.DC.XLI., vol. i., append. to pref., p. [lii.]) The Chapel of Grace stood on the western bank of the Spey, in the parish of Dundurcus. "The Chappelle of Our Ladye of Grace, in Murray land," writes Father Blackall, "two milles from the Bogge of Gight, had bein of old a very devote place; and many pillgrimages had bein made to it from al the partes in the northe of Scotland; but then ther was nothing standing of it but some brocken walles, which the minister made throw downe within the chappelle, to hinder the people to pray there a great devotion of their holy Covenant, rebellious both to God and their King! The Ladye Aboyne used to make that pillgrimage every year, so long as she had health to do it; a mater of threttie milles from her owne house, wherof she made two of them afoot, and barefooted, next to the chappell." (Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie, pref., p. xv., note. Aberd. 1843.) Pilgrims flocked to the ruined shrine even so lately as the end of the last century. Mr. Lachlan Shaw, writing in the year 1775, says. "in the north end of the parish [of Dundurcus] stood the Chapel of Grace, and near to it the Well of that name, to which multitudes, even from the Western Isles, do still resort, and nothing short of violence can restrain their superstition.” (History of the Province of Murray, p. 326. Edinb. 1775. 4to.)

"The only person of eminence in literature whom the parish of Ordiquhill has produced, is Mr. Walter Goodall, author of a defence of Mary Queen of Scots." (The New Statistical Account of Scotland, number xi., p. 81. Edinb. 1836; The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. vi., p. 352.) "Walter Goodal was the eldest son of John Goodal, a farmer, at Acres of Culfin, by Margaret Taylor, the sister of James Taylor, who was parochial schoolmaster, in Ordiphul. In this parish, Walter was born, about the year 1706. He died on the twenty-eighth of July, 1766." (George Chalmers' Life of Thomas Ruddiman, pp. 127-132. Lond. 1794. 8vo.)] ·

Carta domini Walrami de Normanuille1. (A.D. 1242.)

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Alexander Dei gracia Rex Scottorum Omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue Salutem. Sciant presentes et futuri nos dedisse concessisse et hac carta nostra confirmasse Walramo de Normanuille militi nostro pro homagio et seruicio suo terras de Correncrare Tulichule Inchefode. Thulihernache Rune Waltyr in uasto foresti nostri de Banfe per has diuisas videlicet sicut Henricus Prat tunc vicecomes noster de Banfe vna cum aliis probis hominibus patrie de precepto nostro eas perambulauerunt et eidem assignauerunt scilicet sicut Siketug qui cadit ascendendo de Diueryn inter Rathe Mackingy et Tolachherene usque ad diuisas monachorum de Kynlos subtus le Chnoc. Et sic per diuisas monachorum de Dere. Et sic per diuisas de Abberkerdouyr sicut Alanus senescallus tunc justiciarius noster Scocie eas perambulauit usque ad uadum de Hachendauererhe. Et sic per riuulum ascendendo usque ad maresium de le Mongaual. Et sic extransuerso maresij usque ad riuulum descendendo de le Mongaual usque ad uiam quadrigarum Et sic per illam uiam usque in Diuerne. Et sic Diuerne ascendendo usque ad diuisas inter Rathe Mackyngy et Tholiheryne · Tenendas et habendas. eidem Walramo de Normanuille et heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate per predictas diuisas suas in boscho et plano in terris et aquis in pratis et pascuis in moris et maresiis in stagnis et molendinis cum socco et sacca cum furca et fossa cum tol et theme et infangandthefe et cum omnibus aliis iustis pertinenciis et libertatibus ad easdem terras pertinentibus libere quiete plenarie et honorifice Faciendo inde nobis et heredibus nostris seruicium quinte partis vnius militis Testibus Alexandro Cumyn Willelmo de Marr Johanne de Vallibus. Roberto de Meyners Roberto Byset ·

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Roberto Cumyn Jacobo de Lascelys. Apud Forfare Octauo die Aprilis Anno regni Domini Regis vicesimo Octauo.

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Decreitt aganis Currour for the spuilye of the Place of Inchetomoche .2 (10 February, 1492.)

The lordis auditouris decrettis and deliueris that George Currour sone and apperand are to Johnne Currour burges of Banff sall restore deliuer

[From a facsimile of the original in the charter chest at Park.]

2 [From the Acta Dominorum Auditorum, p. 161.]

and pay to Issabell laidy Abirnethy in Rothimay thir gudis vndir writtin or the avale of thaim that is to say vj oxin price of the pece twa merkis a hors price xxx schillingis ane boll of quhete price x schillingis xij bollis of aitis price of the boll iiij schillingis quhilkis gudis wer spuilyeit and takin fra the said Issabell out of hir Place of Inchetomoch as wes sufficiently preffit before the lordis And ordinis oure Souerane Lordis lettrez be direct to distrenye the said George his landis and gudis herfore and for thre pundis to the costis and expense of the said Issabell and for xx schillingis to the expensis of the twa witnes that deponit in this actioune And the said George wes summonde to this actioune oft tymmes callit and nocht comperit.

THE PARISHES OF BANFF AND INVERBOYNDIE, (OR

BOYNDIE.)1

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PARISH OF BANFF.

A.D. M.DCC.XXIV. 2

BY MR. WILLIAM OGILVY.

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HE parish of Banff hath the parish of Boyndy to the west; the parish of Alva to the south-south-east; the parish of King Edward to the south-east; and the parish of Gemrie to the east.

1 [See Collections for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, pp. 645-647.]

2 [From Macfarlane's Geographical Collections for Scotland, MSS. Adv. Bibl.

"The parishes of Banff and Inverboindie continued united till the year 1634, when Mr. Alexander Seton, then minister of Banff, brought an action of valuation and modification of the teinds against the heritors, by which the union was declared void, and each holden to be a separate parish." (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xx., p. 333. Edinb. 1798.) "The boundaries of the two parishes are thus fixed in the decreet of disjunction, 1635: The said parochine of Banff to have includit thairintill the toune of Banff, with the pendicles of the samyn, as it had of before; and to have adjoyned thairto, out of the said parochine of Inverboyndy, the landis of Ord, Inchdrower, with the pen. dicles thairof; the lands of Blairshinnoch, Kilbeuchlie, Paddocklaw, and Cullinorttis; the whilk haill landis and parochine lyes on the eist side of the burne of Inverboyndy: And the said parochine of Inverboindy to have includit thairin, as the particular boundis of the parochine of the samyn, the haill landis lyand betwixt the burne of Boyne at the west, the burne of Inverboyndy at the east, the sea on the north, and the landis of Park of Corn

The church is in the toune of Banff, 2 which is the head burgh of the shyre, standing on the west side of the river of Doveron, where is plenty of salmond, where there are fishings by boats and cruves.

cairn at the south pairtis.'" (The New Statistical Account of Scotland, number xi., p. 38. Edinb. 1836.)]

1 [" It appears that the old kirk of Banff, (which was taken down in the year 1797,) was rebuilt by the town-council in the year 1471, when Sir James Ogilvie of Deskford was provost. They endowed a chaplain, with ten merks of stipend, besides a living out of the common fund. Of this edifice there now remains nothing, excepting an ancient vaulted aisle, on the south side, now a burying place of Lord Banff's family. In this aisle is a monument, with the following inscription: 6 ANNO DOMINI • 1558 29 NOVEMBRIS

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REQVIESCANT IN PACE. (The Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xx..

pp. 333, 335, 341; Wood's Douglas' Peerage of Scotland, vol. i., p. 191.)]

2 ["Bamfia.

Bamfia juncta mari, parvis tu cedis Hypaepis,
Nec minor urbs Apinae, Trica nec ipsa fuit.
Te tamen agnoscit dominam contermina tellus,
Paret et imperio terra Boëna tuo.

Nec tibi vel desunt segetes vel pascua laeta,

Grandia nec solitae lintea ferre rates.
Te quoque templa Deûm decorant, et nobilis aedes
Virginis Astraeae, Pieridumque domus.
Proximus est collis, manibus congestus avorum,
Hic prius, ut perhibent, nil nisi campus erat.
Hunc mare, dum refluit, Dovernaque ditibus undis
Alluit, arx ingens culmina summa tegit.
Hanc coluit Bellona prius, jam sola supersunt

Rudera, delevit caetera tempus edax.
Tecta forum juxta Pariis stant fulta columnis,
Haec habitat priscae nobilitatis eques.

Bamfia te populus nulli virtute secundus

Incolit, hoc reliquis praeripit omne decus."

"In obitum Georgii Ogilvii, Equitis Banfii.

Vixit Olympiades ter septem Banfius; aetas
Ter fuit illustri posteritate minor.

Virtutes numera, paucos liquisse nepotes
Comperies, paucos evoluisse dies."

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