as it nedis.” He was to have 6 “markis” yearly with his meat and drink, a house with 2½ acres of land; further, the Lord Abbot “promised to give him yearly one of his old albs reaching to the ankles.” He was to instruct the “prentys” in all “craft of masonry.”[203] In 1485 John, the mason, and his son are continued in the service of the abbey. In 1468 Thomas Bel was hired “for the constant carpentry” of the abbey; he had workmen under him and apprentices. There are also agreements with smiths, as John Lutare, smith, who “was hired (in 1484) for the common work of the monastery in the forge,” and next year David Smyth is hired to succeed William Byning, who was formerly in the same service. John Duncanson, tiler, in 1492, was to labour in his trade and in every other work which he knew. Nine years earlier John Sclater was hired as apprentice to work at his trade of tiler (_tegulator_). Patrick Dog (in 1490) was the abbey sawyer, with three workmen under him, who each day were to turn out “fourteen draughts for each saw.”[204] DRON CHURCH, PERTHSHIRE. A ruin situated on the braes of the Carse of Cowrie, in the parish of Longforgan, about two miles distant from Fowlis Church. It is in a very fragmentary condition (Fig. 1454), only the chancel arch remaining in anything like a perfect state, together with the foundations of the side [Illustration: FIG. 1454.--Dron Church. View from South-West.] walls and part of the east wall. As shown in Fig. 1455, the chancel is about 28 feet long by 19 feet wide inside. The width of the chancel arch is about 11 feet, and from the ground to the top of the cap is about 7 feet 2 inches. The jambs and arch mouldings (Fig. 1456) are of a simple character, and they are separated by a moulded cap, shown in Fig. 1457. From the form of the base of the jambs and the section of arch and jamb, it may be [Illustration: FIG. 1455.--Dron Church. Plan.] inferred that the building is not earlier than the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. It will be seen from the Plan that the base of the east wall of the nave [Illustration: FIG. 1456.--Dron Church. Jamb and Arch Mouldings.] [Illustration: FIG. 1457.--Dron Church. Base and Cap Mouldings.] extends a considerable distance northwards from the arch, which is suggestive of the idea that the church had a transept. There appears to have been at one time a churchyard beside the church, which has now disappeared, having been absorbed into a neighbouring farm. The Church of Dron belonged to the Abbey of Coupar, which was distant about six miles, in a north-westerly direction. ECCLESIAMAGIRDLE OR EXMAGIRDLE CHAPEL, PERTHSHIRE. A small ruined chapel situated on the north side of the Ochil Hills, about three miles south-west from the Bridge of Earn. It is surrounded by an old burial-ground, and adjoins the picturesque seventeenth century mansion of Glenearn.