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, called Carsereguel, to which is thought Sir John belonged. It is also he was a covetous man, as many  his kind were, and some of them never ood at murder to accumulate wealth. establishment at Maybole continued encrease in wickedness, uninterrupted,  the famous John Knox, whose arguments with the Abbot of Carsereguel, may  seen in a work lately published.

The deception used by the Monks and in Carsereguel, in dipping weak and imed children in a well in the premises,  a certain day in the month of May, in  to restore health, was to help the ver orders of Friars, by the contribution de at the well. This superstition still, for on the first Sabbath of May, loaded with sick, of every description,  be seen driving, from every quarter,  20 miles round Maybole, to partake of  Holy Water.