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Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh: Their History and Annals
Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh Their History and Annals Author:Alexander Laing, George Seton, Anthony Hamilton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Edmonston and Douglas Subjects: Newburgh (Scotland) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acce... more »ss to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE ROMAN INVASION. An iron race, who bent or broke Surrounding nations to their sway! From Rome branch out to distant lands, Roads, straight as the arrow to the mark, Which still remain on mountain heights, Memorials of unswerving aims and power On strong foundations laid. Upon these roads, for war prepared, Followed the apostles of the Cross, Proclaiming "Peace on earth, goodwill to men!" Bringing a light so strong and pure, That men may see that " (iod is love." ' Anon. With the advent of the Romans we come upon the domain of written history. At the time of the invasion of Scotland under Agricola, A. D. 80-85, the inhabitants were known as Caledonians. This name disappeared, and they became known as Picts. Dr John Stuart, in his work on the Sculptured Stones of Scotland, says, ' We learn it was the custom of the Britons to stain their bodies before the Roman settlement.' Herodian (who flourished in the middle of the third century) says, ' They puncture their bodies with pictured forms of every sort of animal.' Thomas Inues (the learned author of the Critical Essay on the A ncient Inhabitants of Scotland, 1729), supposes that those of them (the Britons) in the south, under the Roman sway, having given up the custom, the term 'Picti' -- the painted -- came to be applied to those in the north, who ' continued the practice towards the end of thethird century.'1 The Historia Britonum, a work composed in the course of the seventh or eighth centuries, says : From their tetooing their fair skins ...« less