p I N I E CASTLE. 
"J ^ P ' . 0: Moray was one of the largeft in Scotland , extending from the 
count- riV f C1 „ Cdli “ eu> which Separates Rofs from Invernejsjhire, to the confines of the 
u unry ot Mar* 
ordalr ^ a j' ietira ^ °^ dds diocefe, in the beginning of the thirteenth century, was 
Cathor^ 1 ' 1C ° rder Pope Innocent t0 be at Spittle. On an application of the 
St A efta * 3li ^ ied ln Moray , he deputed the Bilhops of Brechin and 
,c the” l ^° t0 tiie placej and the promulgation, « that the church of 
■ ° J, d ' rxnxt y at Spinie be the cathedral of the diocefe, in all 
coming.” 
time 
Spinie Jl ‘7™ B - fl T °J M ° ray ' anno l2U> re P re ^ ente d to his Holinefs, that 
licited * 00 reClred a fixation for the chief houfe of prayer ; and therefore fo- 
feconded J 0 eftabll{h the cathedral at Elgin. Alexander King of Scotland 
the Abhor of V ? d ° rder Came > de P utin S the Bifhop of Caithnejs and 
,1 of T, * inl0/S 5 ° f ? Cmnize the defired Nation ; and accordingly, on the 
are fuch noble and ^ f ° c Undatlon ftone of that tem P^ was laid, of which there 
cathedral was cn rd ag " ,ficc “ t remains - Soon as the building of that fumptuous 
the dignified der" ' ^ ^ advanced J a concomitant objeft, next in importance to 
they Wd tr A' T * P f ° r the Bilh ° P > in whofe honours and opulence 
to that purDofe Th^/* Pait the ample trealures of the church was dedicated 
where the building d ^ fiXed ° n a m ° re deli S htful Nation than 
'accompanying thffc n ° W fta “ “ preft " ted “ tl,e P 1 *" 
ground ““min* Z ° f r S“arc, extends over the declivity of a riling 
ing **■ d< >»" *° -he ; the fl,rr0U " d ' 
ofTometTtTe molhT 10 " ° f ‘c'Z’r E ’ 1VeS “ corn:mnd an extenfive profpeft 
through, 1m r v ie m r' f a °J river Lojic winding 
fetching along the hori'Z™ ' 7 *' m ° ft fubUme of a11 objcfts, the ocean 
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