MONUMENTS in the MAUSOLEUM of the 
EARL of FIFE, &c. &c. 
T HESE Monuments afford a good idea of the progrefs which the arts had made 
in Scotland at a very early period. 
They were removed along with the remains from the burying place in the ifle of 
Cullen, and depofued in the family maufoleum in Duff House Iark, anno 1790. 
John Duff, of Maldavat, who died July , 1404, &c. was an anceftor of the family, 
imeallydefeended from David Duff, of Maldavat, grandfon of Duncan the Thir- 
teenth, Earl of Fife. 
Tins Mausoleum is beautifully fuuated on an eminence in the Park overlooking 
the ier Dm about a mile from DuffHoufe. It ts unbounded with a variety of 
trees, which forms a diltinguilhed ornament to the Park. It ts bu.lt to the Gothic 
ftile. 
Many refneHable monuments of the family are arranged in the Maufoleum, 
CT 'he form of a chapel. The remains are depofited tn the vaults 
below. 
u the weft end Bands the monument of Maldavat in the year i4o 4 .-Abovc it. 
an open book of Bone, containing dates of the burials of the family from the tmrtcent 
generation, back, through a period of more than four hundred years. 
Upon thefouth-fide, an elegant marble monument, to Alexander Duff, ofBracco, 
created 1705. 
Also a white marble monument to Lady Janet Ogilvie Daughter to the Chan- 
cellor the Earl of Seafield, and the late Earl of Fife s firft wife, who died in he 
year 1721. 
In the eafl end, a very beautiful and futnptuous monument isereSed in memory 
of William Earl of Fife, Vifcount Macduff, &c. and Jean Countefs of Fife. 
The divifions of the windows are formed of ftone filled with painted glafs exhibit- 
ing the arms of the family’s numerous relations, and other devices rutted To the nature 
of the place. Above the door are placed two very elegant ftatues of Faith and Hope. 
This Mausoleum is ereHed in the place where flood a chapel dedicated to the 
Rifled Virgin by King Robert Bruce anno 1324. The adjacent grounds were 
alfo devoted by his royal charter, for the building andfupport of a Monaftery of the 
holy brethren of Mount Carnel. 
