318 Edward I. at Sweetheart Abbey. 



20th November, 1903. 



Chairman — Mr R. Service, V.P. 



Exhibits. — By Mr G. Irving, printed rules, dated 7th Oct., 

 1788, for the House of Correction in Dumfries. From Mr 

 Service, shrubs in full flower, viz., Laurustinus, or strawberry 

 tree, from garden at Portmary ; common whin; Arbutus unedo. 



I. — Edward I. at Sweetheart Abbey. Excerpt from a 

 Letter to Pope Boniface VII. from Robert of 

 WiNCHiLSEY, Archbishop of Canterbury. Dated 

 OCford, Oct. 8, 1300. Extracted from Annales Lon- 

 doniensis; edited from the Lambeth MS. by Bishop 

 Stubbs. 



By Dr Chinnock. 



" When at last, after careful enquiry, I heard that the same 

 lord the King, with his army, returning towards the castle of 

 Carlaverock, which he had previously taken, in Scotland, had 

 pitched his camp near the new abbey of Sweetheart (Dulce Cor, 

 or Douzquer), in Galloway, preferring to expose myself, my 

 men, and my possession to danger rather than thus any longer 

 to languish in such remote regions in a certain manner un- 

 inhabited, beyond my own diocese and province, I lurked in 

 certain secret places near the sea, which divides England from 

 Galloway, and taking the opportunity of the ebb of the tide, 

 under the guidance of those who had a perfect knowledge where 

 to cross, I made the passage in the course of four tides, with 

 the horses and their trappings, there being great danger in 

 entering and departing, not more by reason of the depth of the 

 water than by reason of the shore and the quick-sands. On 

 the next Friday after the feast of St. Bartholomew the apostle, 

 which was already at last concluded, I came, as if unexpectedly, 

 to the said King, who was then at dinner in the midst of his 

 army. And because he said he could not find any leisure on that 

 day, he informed me late on that day through two of the 

 greater earls who were then attending him that he would be 

 kind enough to hear me on the morrow, to wit, the Sabbath 

 following. Therefore, the Sabbath day itself arriving, in the 

 presence of the very devout young lord Edward, son of my lord 



