penitential days of abftinence from animal food, to whofe obfervation they were 
folemnly bound. 
On Grange Hill there was a cell of Monks belonging to this priory, who u 
about doing good,” not being confined as the clauftral ones. Each of thefe, befid° s 
cloathing, and money to purchafe feparate articles, had an allowance of aben^ 
twenty bolls of meal yearly; fo that, as their vow of a final relinquilhment of 
the vanities and delights of life could not admit of that extravagance which the de- 
fire of luxuries occafions, they would have abundance to give to the ftranger and 
the fatherlefs, while, after the example of their Divine Inftrudtor, they adminiftere 0 
the confolations of the gofpel to the poor. It will give fome idea of the extend 
revenue dedicated to this priory, to remark, that, befides monied rent nearly equah 
they were yearly ferved with feventy chaldersof vittual, and two hundred barrels 01 
falmon. 
At the Reformation, the Earl of Dunfermline obtained the fuperiority, rent, an 
patronage of Flufcardin , 1595 ; the property was difpofed to the Earl of Caithnef> 
1662; and, being purchafed, in the beginning of the following century, by his an' 
ceftors, continues in the pofleflion of the Earl of Fife , who is at all manner of pai° s 
to prevent the venerable remains of that ruined pile of facred buildings from falli 0 ^ 
into farther decay — a circumftance of refpedt to thefe fplendid monuments of ^ 
•original eftabliihments of Chriftianity in the country, which has been too li^ 6 
ftudied. 
