Old travel Blog photograph of Lindores Abbey on ancestry visit to Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. The earliest record of scotch whisky cited by the exchequer roll for 1494 is a commission from King James IV to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey. The abbey was sacked by a mob from Dundee in 1543, and again by John Knox and his supporters in 1559. The abbey was sacked by a mob from Dundee in 1543, and again by John Knox and his supporters in 1559. In the following years the Abbey buildings were quarried as a source of building stone for Newburgh, and a number of architectural fragments are visible built into later structures in the town. James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, 3rd Earl of Avondale, born 1426, died 1488, was a Scottish nobleman, last of the Black earls of Douglas. In 1484 he was taken prisoner at the battle of Lochmaben Fair, and was relegated to Lindores Abbey, where he died in 1488.
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