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Aberlady and Gullane Links. — By Mr George Fortune, 

 Duns. 



The Fourth Meeting was held at Aberlady, on Wednesday, 

 29tli August. The day being fine one party met at 

 Longniddrie, and drove to Seton Castle and Church. The 

 first portion visited being the Collegiate Church, Colonel 

 Barstow, the tenant, along with Colonel Milne Home, led 

 the way to the church. Colonel Milne Home read a short 

 notice of the church prepared by George Seton, Esq., 

 Edinburgh, one of the descendants of the Setons, describing 

 the church, from which it appears that the church was in 

 existence in 1390, at which date Katherine Sinclair, wife of 

 William Seton, " Biggit ane yle on the south side of the 

 Paroch Kirk of Seton of fine estlar, pendit and theckit with 

 stane with ane sepulchar thairin quhair she lyes." 



"Further, George, second Lord Seton, in 1493, made the 

 church collegiate. He built the Sacristy in the reign of 

 James the IV., and died in 1507, and was buried near the 

 High Altar. 



"George, third Lord Seton, who was slain at Flodden, 

 covered the ' queir ' of the church with stone, and Jane 

 Hepburn, his widow, took down the ' Yll Kirk ' built by 

 Dame Katherine Sinclair, and 'biggit the steeple as ye see 

 it now to ane great height swa that it wants little of 



