Blair Collection > Place names in Strathbogie, with notes historical, antiquarian and descriptive

Dniinblade. 57
was convoyit to Sanct John the Evangelistis lyll,
or bishop Lichtoun's lyll, on the north syde of
Maucher churche, and thair bureit with gr\-tc
mvrning and lamentatioun. He (the ]\Iarquis)
maid choiss of this bureall place, and left the
auncient and honorabill bureall of his noble foir-
bearis and famous father, within the south lyll of
the Kathederall Kirk of Elgin, be south the queir
thairof, and coft this lyll fra the bischop, minister
and elderis of Old Abirdein, to remane a bureall
place for him and his posteritie, and quhilk he
resoluit to re-edifie for that effect, quhair I will
let this nobill Ladie, Dame Ann Campbell,
Alarchioness of Huntlie rest in peace.' Orem
says, the ^larquis, 'about anno 1630, bought
St. John's Aisle from Dr. Alexander Scroggy,
minister of St. Machar's church, and the session
thereof, for a burial-place to his family, for which
he paid 300 merks .... and upon this account
it is now called the Gordon Aisle. There was a
dike built, six quarters high, to distinguish it
from the church ' (Description of the Chanonry,
&c., p. 107). If there had been a previous right
of burial in St. Machar's it is not likely that the
Marquis would have made this new arrangement
without reference to the old right, even if it had
lapsed.
All doubt as to the church to which the
chaplainry, founded by Elizabeth of Gordon, be-
longed, is removed by the following entry in the