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	Melrose Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melrose Abbey, located in Melrose, Scotland, was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks, on the request of King David I of Scotland.
		The abbey was built in the form of a St. John's cross (a Gothic style of architecture).
		In 1610, a portion of the abbey's church was converted into a parish church for the surrounding town, until 1810 when a new church was erected in the town of Melrose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melrose_Abbey (654 words)

	Melrose, Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melrose is a small, historic town in the Scottish Borders.
		Melrose is the location of the ancient Melrose Abbey (the supposed site of the burial of the heart of Scottish king Robert the Bruce).
		Nearby is the Roman fort of Trimontium and Dryburgh Abbey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melrose,_Scotland (147 words)

	Melrose Abbey: Mostly Medieval Exploring the Middle Ages
		Of the nine Cistercian houses in Scotland, Melrose was the first; founded in 1136 by David I as an invitation to the brethren at Rievaulx in Yorkshire to establish a settlement in Scotland.
		As with the other border abbeys, the first two hundred years were those of peace and productivity; an era which ended abruptly in 1296 as a new, unwelcome, era was ushered in from the south.
		In 1322 Melrose was sacked by Edward II's army and King Robert the Bruce assisted in the rebuilding of the abbey.
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	Abbey of Melrose
		Melrose Abbey suffered greatly from hostile incursions of more than one English monarch; the soldiers of Edward II desecrated, pillaged, and burned the church; Richard II in 1385 laid waste the surrounding country and set fire to the abbey.
		Cruciform in shape, built in English Perpendicular, Decorated, and Flamboyant styles, two hundred and fifty feet in length, Melrose was distinguished for the fairy-like lightness of its carvings and window-tracery, finished with exquisite care.
		The ruins were further devastated by a fanatical mob in 1569, when statues and carvings were ruthlessly destroyed; but more wanton still was the subsequent carting away of the sacred stones in great numbers to serve as building materials.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/melrose,abbey_of.html (420 words)

	BBC - History - Scottish History
		Melrose was the first Cistercian abbey in Scotland, founded in 1136 by King David I. Three miles away from the present abbey, Old Melrose had been a monastic settlement since the 7th centuary, founded by St Aedan of Iona, the man who also fouded Lindisfarne.
		The Melrose monks, being Cistercians or white monks, were one of the new wave of reformed monastic orders, and were founded in 1098 AD at Cîteaux, near Dijon in Burgundy, by a group of Benedictine monks.
		The abbey ceased to function, and its carvings were smashed by a Protestant mob during the Scottish Civil War which followed the deposition of Mary Queen of Scots.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/scottishhistory/earlychurch/trails_earlychurch_melroseabbey.shtml (761 words)

	Melrose Abbey Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Melrose Abbey was first staffed by an abbot and 12 monks from Rievaulx, who set to work constructing the abbey buildings.
		In 1610 part of the central portion of the nave of the Abbey Church was converted into a parish church for Melrose, with end walls and windows inserted into the existing structure.
		Melrose Abbey today comprises the fairly complete ruins of the truly remarkable Abbey Church with, to their north, the foundations of the extensive ranges of buildings which once comprised the rest of the abbey.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /melrose/melroseabbey (910 words)

	Melrose Abbey and the Heart of Robert the Bruce, Melrose Historical Society, Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the failure of the seige of Berwick and with the devastating Scots raiding, Edward II sought and obtained a two-year truce.
		It was during this truce that the rebuilding of Melrose abbey became a concern of the king's.
		Both Tweeddale and the Lothians were thus charged, literally, with the rebuilding of Melrose abbey and the temporary support of the convent, This was the very area that had borne the brunt of Bruce's scorched earth policy on Edward II's intrusion of !322 only three working years earlier.
	www.melrose.bordernet.co.uk /mha/5/bruce.html (3941 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Melrose, Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Melrose is a small, historic town on the Scottish (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Borders.
		Melrose is the location of the ancient Melrose Abbey (additional info and facts about Melrose Abbey) (the supposed site of the burial of the heart of Scottish king Robert the Bruce (King of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329))).
		King Arthur (A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot) is supposedly buried in the Eildon Hills, which overlook the town.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Me/Melrose,_Scotland.htm (235 words)

	Abbeys
		Melrose was so rich in lands and possessions that its annual revenue converts as approximately £100 000 of present money value.
		He endowed Melrose with a reputation for sanctity and learning which placed it on a par with houses such as Fountains and Rievaulx and made it the premier abbey in Scotland.
		In 1385 the abbey was burnt to the ground by Richard II and his army.
	cistercians.shef.ac.uk /abbeys/melrose.php (1263 words)

	Melrose Abbey, Scotland, UK @ TREKtheUK.com
		The earliest Cistercian monastery established in Scotland, Melrose Abbey in the Borders of Southern Scotland was said at one time to be Scotland's richest abbey.
		Although a monastery at the site of Old Melrose had previously been established by St Aidan of Lindesfarne in around 650AD, the original was destroyed and in 1136 King David I oversaw the building of a new abbey two miles away in the town known today as Melrose.
		King Robert the Bruce assisted with the rebuilding, and his embalmed heart - commemorated with a plaque - is buried in the abbey (the rest of his body is buried at Dunfermline Abbey in Fife).
	www.trektheuk.com /melroseabbey.htm (304 words)

	Melrose Abbey on AboutBritain.com
		Arguably the finest of Scotland's four great Border Abbeys, Melrose Abbey is a magnificent Ruin on a grand scale with lavishly decorated masonry.
		The original abbey was founded during David Is reorganisation of the Scottish Church in 1136 for the Cistercian order which, while dedicated to poverty, contrived to create unprecedented wealth.
		Melrose abbey is thought to be the burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart, marked with a commemorative carved stone plaque within the grounds.
	www.aboutbritain.com /MelroseAbbey.htm (447 words)

	At Melrose Abbey: The Heart of Robert the Bruce
		Melrose Abbey and the mystery of Robert the Bruce's heart
		The casket containing the heart was not opened, and remained in Edinburgh until it was buried again during a private ceremony at Melrose Abbey on 22 June 1998.
		The heart was recovered and taken back to Melrose Abbey where the new king, David II (Bruce's son), had asked for it to be buried.
	www.aboutscotland.com /melbruce.html (587 words)

	The Border Abbeys - Melrose Abbey
		King Robert Bruce, who had close associations with Melrose, gave instructions for his heart to be taken on crusade and then brought to rest in the abbey, saying his heart had always been there.
		Enough of the abbey remains to gain an impression of the rich detail to be found on every wall and gable.
		That part of the abbey remained in use until 1810, when a new parish church was built and the ruins were abandoned.
	www.electricscotland.com /historic/melrose_abbey.htm (460 words)

	Melrose Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Melrose is an ancient settlement on the south side of the River Tweed.
		The town of Melrose suffered, like its abbey, from invading English armies in the 1300s and again in the 1540s, and the abbey's days finally came to an end with the Reformation in 1560.
		Best known is Melrose Abbey, which lies on the north east side of the centre of the town.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /melrose/melrose (706 words)

	Scottish Towns - Melrose Abbey - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At that period in Scotland's history the abbey at Melrose was inhabited by monks who had originally been on Iona and later the Holy Island (Lindisfarne).
		The abbey visitors to Melrose will see today is largely of 15th century construction, the earlier structure having suffered greatly during Scotland's struggle for independence in the 14th century.
		Twenty five years later Melrose Abbey was in the hands of one of Scotland's most powerful families - the Douglases; so powerful at one time that the Stuart throne itself was under threat.
	www.scottish-towns.co.uk /borders/melrose/history.html (482 words)

	Melrose Abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The history of Melrose Abbey begins not in the location of the present abbey ruins, but at Old Melrose, east of the town and in a loop of the River Tweed, like its neighbour at Dryburgh.
		The second Abbot of Melrose, David's step-son St.Waltheof, was buried in the Chapter House and it may be his finely decorated tomb stone excavated in the 1920's which is now on display in the Commendator's House.
		There would have been various side altars where Mass was said for the repose of the souls of the abbey's benefactors and deceased monks and a pulpitum or screen separating the monks in the presbytery from the lay-brothers in the nave.
	www.heritage.me.uk /religiou/melrose.htm (786 words)

	Melrose Abbey & Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1249, King Alexander II went against tradition and chose to be buried beside the high altar at Melrose instead of Dunfermline Abbey, which had become the royal mausoleum.
		The Bruces were strong supporters of the abbey and granted them exemptions from taxes and duties, letters of protection, and large sums for rebuilding the parts destroyed during the English raids.
		Mary herself may have visited the abbey during one of her progresses in the Borders.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /Castles/Melrose.htm (549 words)

	Encyclopedia: Melrose Abbey
		Alexander II (August 24, 1198 - July 6, 1249), king of Scotland, son of William I, the Lion, and of Ermengarde of Beaumont, was born at Haddington, East Lothian, in 1198, and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214.
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		Robert I, King of Scots, usually known as Robert the Bruce (July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329, reigned 1306 – 1329), was, according to a modern biographer (Geoffrey Barrow), a great hero who lived in a minor country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Melrose-Abbey (1613 words)

	GENUKI: Melrose
		The kirk session records for Melrose are held at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, reference CH2/386.
		Some records of the Melrose branch of the Educational Institute of Scotland (a teaching union) are held in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh.
		The Melrose hearth tax records (reference E69/21) are held at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, as are many other tax records for the parish.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/sct/ROX/Melrose (1625 words)

	Melrose Abbey - Great Britain And Ireland
		Robert Bruce, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, granted a revenue to restore the abbey; and betwixt this period and the Reformation arose the splendid structure, the ruins of which yet charm every eye.
		During the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, the abbey was continually suffering from their inroads, in which the spirit of vengeance against the Scots who resisted their schemes of aggression was mixed strongly with that of enmity to Popery.
		The abbey stands on a broad level near the Tweed, but is surrounded by hills and fields full of beauty, and peopled with a thousand beings of romance, tradition, and poetry.
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	RAMBLES OF OLD BROOKLYN
		The doors of Melrose Hall were battered down, but the colonel was not there, having previously gone to New York.
		Melrose Hall was confiscated by the government and advertised to be sold by public auction.
		It was purchased on October 21, 1784, by Colonel Aquila GILES, who led his bride over the threshold from which he had been turned away, into the Hall where she when a girl, his betrothed, waited for him during the weary days of the war.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Town/Rambles/MelroseAbbey2.html (535 words)

	History
		From Melrose he followed the monastery's founder St Aidan to Lindisfarne and was the Prior of Lindisfarne, then the Bishop of Hexham before returning as Bishop of Lindisfarne.
		It was not until 1136 that the Abbey and monastery of Melrose were built by Cistercian Monks from Rievaulx with the encouragement of King David I, son of Queen (Saint) Margaret.
		The Abbey that was home to St Cuthbert was on Lindisfarne and after his death it remained in use until the Danes invaded the Island in 875.
	www.stcuthbertsway.fsnet.co.uk /history.html (1111 words)

	Melrose Abbey
		Melrose Abbey was built by David I for Cistercian monks from Rievaulx, near York, whom he encouraged to settle in Melrose.
		Melrose became one of the richest monasteries in Scotland, its second Abbot being the son of Queen Matilda of England.
		The heart of King Robert Bruce was probably buried here and Melrose Abbey was a particular favourite of Sir Walter Scott who is buried at nearby Dryburgh Abbey.
	www.scotcolour.com /castles/melrose.htm (126 words)

	Marriage in Melrose Abbey and other Scottish Abbey Wedding Venues
		The death of James V in 1542 and the accession of James Stewart's half-sister, Mary to the throne led to the 'War of the Rough Wooing'.
		The lordship of Melrose went to the Earls of Haddington, and from them it was bought by Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, widow of the ill-fated Monmouth.
		With the erection in 1810 of a new parish Kirk on the Weirhill, elsewhere in the town, the story of Melrose Abbey finally came to a close.
	www.scottishweddingconsultants.co.uk /ruins/melrose/melros3.htm (543 words)

	Melrose - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded in 1136, Melrose was the first Cistercian settlement in Scotland and grew rich selling wool and hides to Flanders, but its prosperity was fragile: the English repeatedly razed Melrose, most viciously under Richard II in 1385 and the Earl of Hertford in 1545.
		The sculptural detailing at Melrose is of the highest quality, but it's easy to miss if you don't know where to look, so taking advantage of the free audioguide, or buying yourself a guidebook, is a good idea.
		The site is dominated by the Abbey Church, which has lost its west front, and whose nave is reduced to the elegant window arches and chapels of the south aisle.
	www.hotelnear.com /3495/3597/Scotland-Melrose.html (562 words)

	Melrose Abbey, Medieval abbey at Melrose,Scotland
		Work started on the complete rebuilding of the abbey almost as soon as Richard's forces had left, and it is the remains of this new building which we see today.
		There is much of interest in the abbey precinct including the Burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart (brought back from the crusades), and the Commendators House of 1590, now a museum.
		Today the abbey is in the care of Historic Scotland, and is open to the public:
	www.aboutscotland.com /mel.html (385 words)

	The Sherpa Van Project
		Melrose nestles between the River Tweed and the Eildon hills.
		Set in Melrose's picturesque 18th century Market Square, Burts was built in 1722 as a comfortable home for a local dignitary and still reflects much of the period charm of that time.
		Melrose is one of the prettiest small towns in Scotland, and an ideal base from which to explore the Scottish Borders south of Edinburgh.
	www.sherpavan.com /accomm_booking/queryhotels.asp?location=Melrose (1112 words)

	The Battle of Otterburn. How the Scots Departed and Carried with Them the Earl Douglas Dead, and Buried Him in the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is an abbey of fl monks on the border between both realms.
		When these Scots had been at Melrose abbey and done there all that they came thither for, then they departed each from other and went into their own countries, and such as had prisoners, some led them away with them and some were ransomed and suffered to return.
		When the French king and all his army were past the river of Meuse at the bridge of Morsay, they took the way of Ardennes and of Luxembourg, and always the pioneers were before, beating woods and bushes and making the ways plain.
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