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628 ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH, DOUGLAS.
a vault under the castle, where it lay till the new vault in the parish church was
finished.
In addition to the tombs of the Douglases in St. Bride's Church, Douglas, there
are others in other parts of Scotland, and in France. William, first Earl of Douglas
and Mar, and his son James, second Earl of Douglas and Mar, are both buried within
the Abbey of Melrose. Archibald, third Earl of Douglas, lies at Both well. The first
Duke of Touraine and his younger son were interred at Tours in France, while his
Duchess, the Princess Margaret Stewart, lies in Lincluden Abbey. William, eighth
Earl of Douglas, who was slain by King James the Second, is said to be buried at
Stirling, and his brother James, ninth Earl, lies within the precincts of Lindores.
Abernethy is reputed the burial-place of several of the earlier Douglas Earls of
Angus ; but the fifth Earl, Bell the Cat, lies at Whithorn ; the ninth Earl, with his im-
mediate ancestors and others, at Glenbervie ; and the tenth, with two of his grandsons,
in the Abbey of St. Germain-des-Pre's, Paris. Other distinguished members of the
family are interred in Holyrood Abbey, while not a few, who died abroad or at a
distance from their native land, repose in graves now forgotten and obscure.