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Historical Notices of, and Documents relating to, the Monastery of St. Anthony at Leith
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The patriarch of monks, St Anthony, is one of the most notable saints in the Romish calendar. He was born A.D. 251, at Coma, or Great Heracleopolis, in Upper Egypt. His parents, who were Christians, kept him at home, fearing that through bad example his manners might be tainted. When he was under twenty his parents died, leaving him and an only sister, as their inheritance, an estate, in extent equal to a hundred and twenty British acres. Imperfectly instructed in sacred knowledge, Anthony was influenced by a strong religious enthusiasm. Inducing his sister to concur with him, he disposed of their inheritance, in the belief that he was thereby fulfilling the divine command. The money which he received for his land he distributed among the poor, and adopted the life of an ascetic. He did not eat before sunset, andoften fasted for two and three days together. He subsisted on bread, salt and water, abstained from washing his body, and clothed himself in a coarse shirt of hair.
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page 385 note † Edinb. Com., Reg., iii. 55.
page 386 note * Town Council Records of Edinburgh.
page 386 note † Ibid.
page 387 note * The sacristan had charge of the sacred utensils and vestments, and was bound to protect the churchyard from the intrusion of animals: he possessed the sole privilege of sleeping in the church.
page 387 note † A sum of very indefinite value.
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page 392 note † The Palace of Holyrood.
page 392 note ‡ The pathetic song from which these lines are quoted, beginning “O waly waly,” belongs to the reign of Charles II.
page 403 note * James I. of Scotland was born in 1394, and after a captivity of nine-teen years in England, commenced his actual reign in 1424. He was murdered on the 20th February, 1437. He married the Lady Joanna Beaufort, daughter of the Duke of Somerset. The monastery of St. Anthony was founded under the sanction of James I.
page 403 note † Bishop James Kennedy, of St. Andrews, an early promoter of St. Anthony's monastery, was a liberal and distinguished prelate. He founded St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews, and in the minority of James III. was chief administrator of public affairs. He died on the 10th May, 1466, aged sixty. His mother, the Countess of Angus, was a daughter of Robert III.
page 403 note ‡ Sir Robert Logan, of Restalrig, Was founder of the monastery. He, or his father, Sir Robert Logan, married a daughter of Robert II. by his queen EuphemiaRoss.
page 404 note * William Mudie was Bishop of Caithness in 1455.
page 404 note † Sir James Logan was probably the son and successor of Sir Robert Logan, founder of the monastery.
page 404 note ‡ A branch of the house of Strachan. or Strathauchin, of that ilk, and afterwards of Thornton, were early settlers in Edinburgh. During the fifteenth century Vincent Strathauchin was a deputy clerk of the city. John Strathauchin is named in 1463 as renting from the corporation a shop or booth.— Burgh Records of Edinburgh.
page 404 note § In 1211 Ricardus de Monypenny obtained the lands of Pitmilly, Fife-shire, which are still in possession of the family. Master David Mony-penny, rector of St. Andrews, was doubtless a member of this sept.
page 407 note * General Hutton's Collections, vol. v., Advocates Library.