Glenluce Abbey With Music On History Visit To Wigtownshire Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipe music, of Glenluce Abbey on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Wigtownshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Glenluce Abbey is located 15 miles west of Newton Stewart and 10 miles east of Stranraer. It is a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis and founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland. On 23 January 1497, James IV erected Ballinclach in Glenluce into a burgh of barony in favour of the abbey, although there is no record of the burgh operating. In 1560, after the Scottish Reformation, John Gordon of Lochinvar took possession of Glenluce Abbey. His servant Cuthbert Kirkpatrick refused entry to the abbot, Thomas Hay. Lochinvar removed himself and his servants in November 1561, and gave the key to Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis. Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis persuaded one of the monks of the abbey to counterfeit the necessary signatures to a deed conveying the lands of the abbey to him and his heirs. To ensure that the forgery was not discovered he employed a man to murder the monk and then persuaded his uncle, the laird of Bargany, to hang his paid assassin on a trumped up charge of theft. The success of these actions encouraged him to obtain the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure. In March 1587 the king's tutor Peter Young tried to find manuscripts of Caesar's Commentary and a Greek Hegisippus that the last Abbot of Glenluce had promised to him.. The ruins were consolidated and partly restored in 1898 by the Glasgow architect, Peter MacGregor Chalmers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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