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This space is reserved as a
repository of family memorials of the House of Seton.
Alexander Seton, Chancellor of
Scotland and 1st Earl of Dunfermline: On a marble monument of the Seton family, in Seton Church, Tranent,
are the
words, "Fermelinodvnum Comes et Regni Scotiae factus est Cancellarius," in
allusion to the first Earl of Dunfermline and his status. In 1821,
while repairs were being made in Dalgety Church, Fifeshire, a closed vault
was discovered, in which were six coffins; one of these, from the
inscription on it, contained the remains of the Earl - viz., "Alexander
Setonius, Fermelinoduni Comes, Scotiae Cancellarius," &c. (See Annals, date
1622.)
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