Newbattle

Over the low-arched gateway which led into the yard there was a carved stone, exhibiting some attempt at armorial bearings; and above the inner entrance hung, and had hung, for many years, the mouldering hatchment, which announced that umquhile Laurence Dumbie of Dumbiedikes had been gathered to his fathers in Newbattle kirkyard.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

Cistercian monks often took the lead in establishing mines: iron (Furness in Lancashire, Igny in Champagne), coal (Newbattle in Scotland, Grünhain in Bohemia), salt (Wachock near Kraków in Poland, Aussee in Austria), and silver (Grünhain, Altzelle in Saxony).

3. Western Europe and the Age of the Cathedrals, 1000-1300 2001

Newbattle, 1973; 2. 5-8 are conjectural only: recited by informant's grandmother, Perthshire, c.

There Was a Wee Bit Poussie 1998

[27] I am happy to find that the attention of the noble proprietor of the Newbattle coal works is now directed to this subject.

An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar

_Cistercian_ order had also abbeys at Newbattle, Dundrennan, Kinloss,

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

[664] Newbattle, in the parish of that name in Mid-Lothian, was the site of an Abbey founded by David the First, in the year 1140.

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

Richard sacked Edinburgh and burned the great religious houses of Dryburgh, Melrose, and Newbattle, but was forced to retire without having made any real conquest.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Newbattle, in the ancient Diocese of St. Andrews, about seven miles from Edinburgh, was founded about 1140, being the second of the six

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Newbattle suffered much from English incursions at various times, particularly in 1385, when the monastery and church were burned, and the religious either carried away, or forced to flee to other monasteries; it required forty years to repair these losses.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The carved finial at the top resembles those at Newbattle.

The Book of Sun-Dials 1900