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The Bulletin
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 73—No. 3779
Fix this textWednesday, July 16,1952
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Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
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Fix this textVENERABLE EVEN IN RUIN IS ELGIN'S ANCIENT CATHEDRAL
Fix this textON the south bank of the River Lossie in Moray stands the county town
Fix this textand Royal Burgh of Elgin, famous for its thirteenth-century Cathedral.
Fix this textElgin has a long and stirring history, and at one time it played a consideraoie
Fix this textpart in national affairs; its charter, granted by Alexander II in 1234, is
Fix this textstill P^ e^ e v^ ars independence the men of Elgin were among the staunchest
Fix this textsuDDorters of the nationalist cause when William Wallace raised the banner ot
Fix this textrevolt against the rule of Edward I. During the Jacobite risings of 1715 and
Fix this text1745, Elgin took the Hanoverian side. A few weeks before the Battle of
Fix this textCulloden in 1746 and the final overthrow of the Stewarts, Prince Charles spent
Fix this texteleven days at Thunderton House in Elgin. .
Fix this textApart from these great national events the history of the burgh is largely
Fix this textbound up with that of its great Cathedral, which was founded in 1224. Forty-
Fix this textsix veara later it was seriously damaged by fire. In 1390, however, it suffered
Fix this texta worse disaster when the “Wolf of Badenoch,” brother of Robert HI.
Fix this textdescended on it with a company of “Wyld, wykked Hieland-men and set it
Fix this texton fire. The reason for this iconoclastic deed was because the Bishop,
Fix this textAlexander Barr, had incurred the Wolf’s displeasure by reporting some of his
Fix this textmisdemeanours to the king. Within a few hours the lovely lanthorn of the
Fix this textNorth” was a heap of smouldering ruins. Wolf was excommunicated from
Fix this textthe Church, but did penance at his father’s command, and promised to make
Fix this textreparation the scene anot her dark deed in 1554, when,
Fix this textduring vespers on New Year’s Eve, a long-standing blood feud flared up
Fix this textbetween the Dunbars and the Inneses, two powerful Moray families. Swords
Fix this textS daggers glittered in the flickering candlelight, and before the combatants
Fix this textrould he separated many had died during these “Bloody Vespers.”
Fix this textI n 1569 by order of the Privy Council, the roof was stripped of its lead
Fix this textto nav the troops, and in 1640 the General Assembly ordered the interior to
Fix this textbe Snantled. Gradually the great Cathedral fell into rums, which today are
Fix this textcarefully tendered as an ancient monument
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