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TRANENT.] -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. -- [TRANENT.

embroidered with gold, of white damask, of
green cloth of silk and of black double worsted,
"with uther certaine cheissebillis (chasubles)
and vestimentis of sundré silkis"; in addition
to a great cross of silver, "ane eucharist of
silver," a silver-gilt chalice, and hangings of
tapestry ("arres") for the alter.6 But in 1544

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 164.-Elphinstone Tower (No. 192).

[marginal note]
Note that in the
hall the stair from
below enters at the
[service] and that to
the upper rooms enters
from the [?], is that
[? ?] up [?]
have to [?] the
whole length of the hall
and has monuments carved
[? ?] from the cornice
above part at A.
Note also that the lord's
private room, B,
had no [?]
approach via the
gallery C ([?]
[?] ) also
the lords room would
benefit by the heat
from the kitchen flue.
The gallery, besides
giving an impressive
approach, would pass
as a waiting room.
These are the main
[? ?] of the plan,
all there is [?]
of accessories.

the English invaders spoiled the church, took
away the bells, organ, and other portable things
and burnt the timber work in the building.7
After the Reformation Seton was treated at
first as an independent charge but in 1580 was
united with Tranent. William Seton "preten-
dit provost of Seton" was in 1592 summoned

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before the Presbytery of Haddington with a
view to his deposition for non-residence. His
defence was that Seton was not " ane benefice
of cure or ane parish kirk."8 The Commission
for the Plantation of Kirks in 1650 ordered the
erection of Seton as a parish, but Lord Winton
delayed and finally compromised by building

[illustration continued]
FIG. 164.-Elphinstone Tower (No. 192).

a new church. In 1715, Lord Winton being a
Jacobite, the place was entered by the Lothian
militia, who defaced the monuments.8

1 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. xxii. p. 175; 2 Theiner's
Vet. Mon. No. cclxiv. ; 3 History of Seytoun,
p. 34-40 ; 4 Family of Seton i., p. 105 ;