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PARISH OF PAISLEY. 417
In the churchyard Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie
of Broadly, "who died in 1819, aged twenty-seven, is commemorated
thus : —
" Kind to the poor, here virtue's path she trod,
Now robed in white she stands before her God."
These lines are from the tombstone of Hugh Montgomerie, who
died in 1819, aged sixty-eight : —
" Of judgment clear, of firm decided mind.
The lover and the friend of human kind,
Spotless through life he steer'd his onward way.
His death the evening of a beauteous day."
A handsome monument, reared by public siibscription, comme-
morates Dr. Andrew Crawfurd, a local antiquary, who died at
Lochwinnoch on the 27th December, 1854.
PAKISH OF PAISLEY.
Malcolm IV., on attaining his majority in the summer of 1163,
visited his Castle of Fotheringay, in Northamptonshire; and on
the 1st of Jvdy of that year met his second cousin, Henry II. of
England, at Woodstock. The King of Scots was accompanied by
Engelram his chancellor, Walter his steward, Eichard his chap-
lain, and a retinue of attendants becoming his dignity. During his
residence at Fotheringay, Walter the High Steward sealed a chart^er
establishing a house of devotion at Paisley of Cluniac monks from
Wenlock, Shropshire, the county of his progenitors. The house
was founded as a priory ; fifty-six years afterwards, in 1219, it was
constituted an abbey by Pope Honorius III.
The priory consisted of a chancel, choir, transept, and nave, and
was munificently endowed by the Steward and his successors. The
abbey biiildings were burned and destroyed by the English in
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