Fairshiels Memories of a Lammermoor Parish (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Fairshiels Memories of a Lammermoor Parish The name of Fairshiels, like the castle in Spain, will be found on no map. But on the highest borderland of the Lothians, where the Lammermoors begin, those who are well read in the obscurities of geography will know the quiet hillside parish of Fala and Soutra, with its rural capital at Blackshiels. Here, in ancient dasrs, the Black Friars from Soutra Monastery had their shieling - hence the name Blackshiels. The village, although but a clachan, is known by the two names of Fala and Blackshiels - and the fact that the one half containing the inn was called Blackshiels, while the other half containing the kirk was called Fala, shows how firmly the old villagers drew the line between the church and the world. But as there is no longer an inn at Blackshiels, where the postboys shout and the red-coated guards wind their horns, the distinction has lost its meaning. That these memories, therefore, of the happiest days, when Laetus sorte mea was engraven above the manse door, should lead to no misunderstanding, I have called the village of my heart - Fairshiels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.