Aberbrothock

I am well aware that the abbot of Aberbrothock hath made some ill advised complaints, that I suffered not his beeves to become too many for his pastures, or his stock of grain to burst the girnels of the monastery, while my followers lacked beef and their horses corn.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

But bethink you, the pastures and cornfields which produced that plenty were bestowed by my ancestors on the house of Aberbrothock, surely not with the purpose that their descendant should starve in the midst of it; and neither will he, by

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Commendatory of Arbroath, or Aberbrothock, reserving to himself, during life, the half of its revenues.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Aberbrothock, says, he "not only did postulate it, but apprehended it also, and used it as his own."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Rover, 'who, hoping doubtless that the wrecked ships might fall into his own piratical hands, cut the bell which the good monks of Aberbrothock had placed on the fatal rock, and who, by merited justice, was for lack of the bell himself, on his return voyage, lost on that very spot!

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

He was alive in 1227, when he attested the record of the perambulation of the boundaries of the lands of the Abbey of Aberbrothock, [5] and in the

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Most notable of these was the abbey of Aberbrothock, raised, within seven years after the martyrdom, to the memory of the saint by

The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908

He was a member of the Parliament held at Aberbrothock in 1320, and subscribed along with some other Scottish Barons the famous letter to the Pope, which so nobly asserted the independence of Scotland.

Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

But bethink you, the pastures and cornfields which produced that plenty were bestowed by my ancestors on the house of Aberbrothock, surely not with the purpose that their descendant should starve in the midst of it; and neither will he, by St. Bride!

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

I am well aware that the abbot of Aberbrothock hath made some ill advised complaints, that I suffered not his beeves to become too many for his pastures, or his stock of grain to burst the girnels of the monastery, while my followers lacked beef and their horses corn.

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801