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69 [No Header] [Macduff's Cross, Remarks, Continued]

...pardons indulged by and confered upon that girth". The cross is the oldest regality in this county whence we have the phrase The Kingdom of Fife an epithet certainly given to no other shire as if Macduff had enjoyed his estate much after they way of Hugh Lupus in his earldom of Chester of whom it is said he enjoyed that earldom from his uncle the Conqueror, "adeo libere ad gladirem siant ipse rex tenelat totam angliam ad coronam." The last who claimed the privilege of the sanctuary as being within the degrees of Kindred was according to Skeen de verb. Signif. voce Clan Macduff one Spence of Wormeston upon his killing an individual of the name of Kinninmonth. Sir W. Scott has made it the subject of a poem, " etc.