Pitscottie is a village in the Parish of Ceres, Fife , situated on the Ceres Burn at a road junction to the south of Dura Den and 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Cupar . The nearby Pitscottie Moor was a favourite meeting place of Covenanters during the late 17th century and during the 1820s the village became a centre of flax spinning. There is an 18th-century bridge over the Ceres Burn.
6-474: It was the home of Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , who wrote the first vernacular prose history of Scotland entitled The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland, 1436 - 1565. In 1882–4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Pitscottie like this: "Pitscottie, a hamlet in Ceres parish, Fife, on the right bank of Ceres Burn, 1½ mile NE of Ceres village and 3 miles ESE of Cupar. It takes its name, signifying
12-526: A mere chronicle of short entries, it is not without passages of great picturesqueness. Sir Walter Scott made use of it in his narrative poem Marmion ; and, in spite of its inaccuracy in details, it is useful for the social history of the period. Lindesay's share in the Historie was generally supposed to end with 1565; but Dr Aeneas Mackay considers that the frank account of the events connected with Mary, Queen of Scots , between 1565 and 1575 contained in one of
18-423: The 'little hollow,' from its position between two confronting rising-grounds at the entrance to Dura Den; and two flax spinning-mills were erected at it in 1827. A 'countrie hous covered with strae and ried,' which stood on a small adjoining plateau, now occupied by the modern farmstead of Pitscottie, was the residence of Robert Lindsay, author of the quaint Chronicles of Scotland from 1436 to 1565. Pitscottie Moor, in
24-615: The first history of Scotland to be composed in Scots rather than Latin . Of the family of the Lindsays of the Byres, a grandson of Patrick Lindsay, 4th Lord Lindsay , Robert was born at Pitscottie , in the parish of Ceres , Fife , which he held in lease at a later period. His Historie , the only work by which he is remembered, is described as a continuation of that of Hector Boece , translated by John Bellenden . Although it sometimes degenerates into
30-542: The immediate neighbourhood, was a frequent meeting-place of the Covenanters for field preachings; and is named in a decree of 1671 against certain ousted ministers." 56°18′N 2°56′W / 56.300°N 2.933°W / 56.300; -2.933 Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (also Lindesay or Lyndsay ; c. 1532–1580) was a Scottish chronicler , author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436–1565 ,
36-538: The manuscripts is by his hand and was only suppressed because it was too faithful in its record of contemporary affairs. The Historie was first published in 1728. A complete edition of the text, based on the Laing MS. No. 218 in the university of Edinburgh , was published by the Scottish Text Society in 1899 under the editorship of Aeneas Mackay. The manuscript, formerly in the possession of John Scott of Halkshill,
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