OS1/11/105/159
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Remains of the PALACE AND CHAPEL OF MARY DE GUISE QUEEN REGENT | Remains of the Palace and Chapel of Mary de Guise (Queen Regent) Remains of the Palace and Chapel of Mary de Guise (Queen Regent) |
Mr. Morrison Lawn MarKet Mr. Laing Librarian |
[Situation] At the South side of the New College The remains of the Palace and Chapel of Mary de Guise widow of James V, nothing of the former remains but a small arched door way, over which is a [---], it [---] besides an armorial device flanked by the initial A.A. The legend Nosce Teipsum, and the date 1557, and [nothing] of the latter but an [---] wall, having been taken away to make room for the Free Church College. "The restrictions imposed upon a City requiring defence appear as one of the forms of misery leading to strange associations. We become in a special degree sensible of this truth when we see the house of a royal personage sunK amidst the impurities of a narrow close in the old town of Edinburgh. Such was literally the case of an aged pile of buildings on the north side of the Castle Hill behind the front line of the street and accessible by Blyth's Nairn's and Tod's Closes which declared by tradition to have been the residence of Mary de Guise the Widow of James V. and from 1554 to 1560 regent of "this realm. Descending the first of these alleys about 30 yards we came to a dusKy half-ruinous to the left hand side presenting one or two lofty Windows and a doorway surrounded by handsome mouldings; the whole building bearing appearance which says There is here something that has been of consequence all haggard & disgraced though it now be Glancing to the opposite side of the Close where stood another portion of the same building the impression was confirmed by further appearances of a goodly style of architecture. These were in reality the principal portions of the palace of the Regent Mary; the former being popularly described as her house the latter as her oratory or Chapel". &c. &c. Chambers Traditions of Edinburgh |
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[Page] 159Parish of the City of Edinburgh
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Words lost in foldThis Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
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