Sir Walter Scott and Earl Haig are buried here. Scott in Sep 1832, 26th, Haig in 1928.
Cartulary survives.
1544 devastated by earl of Hertford’s men, and then 4 Nov the abbey was burnt.
1560 reformation: commendator David Erskine, sub-prior and remaining 8 canons became protestant, but no new canons were admitted. By 1580: 4 canons; 1584: 2; 1600: all dead.
1786: abbey bought by David Steuart Erskine, 11th earl of Buchan, who preserved it and made it into a garden. (RICHARDSON AND WOOD)