OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd. 304
of the building, among these; on a buttress, at the
west angle of the southern transept, was a shield,
with the arms of Alexander Duke of Albany, who,
at Mary?s death, was resident at the Court of
the Duke of Gueldres. Among the grotesque
details of this church the monkey was repeated
many times, especially among the gurgoyles, and
crouching monsters, as corbels or brackets, seemed
in agony under the load they bore.
the entire teeth in the jaws, were found on the
demolition of the church in 1840. They were
placed in a handsome crimson velvet coffin, and
re-interred at Holyrood. Portions of her original
coffin are preserved in the Museum of Antiquities.
Edinburgh could ill spare so fine an example of
ecclesiastical architecture as this church, which was
long an object of interest, and latterly of regret;
for ?it is with some surprise,? says a writer,
TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, AND PART OF TRINITY HOSPITAL (TO THE RIGHT.
[Afn a Draw.ng @ Clerk of Eldin, 1780.1
Uthrogal, in Monimail, was formerly a leper
hospital, and with the lands of Hospital-Milne, in
the adjoining parish of Cults, was (as the Statistical
Account of Scotland says) given by Mary of
Gueldres to the Trinity Hospital, and after the
suppression, it went eventually to the Earls of
Leven. According to Sir Robert Sibbald, the
parish church of Easter Wemyss, in Fife, also
belonged ?? to the Collegiata Sancta Trinitis de
Edinburgh.?
,The parish churches of Soutra, Fala, Lampetlaw,
Kirkurd, Ormiston, and Gogyr, together with
the lands of Blance, were annexed to it in 1529.
The tomb of the foundress lay in the centre of
what was the Lady Chapel, or the sacristy of old,
latterly the vestry ; and therein her bones, with
?that the traveller, just as he emerges from the
temporary-looking sheds and fresh timber and
plaster-work of. the railway offices, finds himself
hurried along a dusky and mouldering collection of
buttresses, pinnacles, niches, and Gothic windows,
as striking a contrast to the scene of fresh bustle
and new life, as could well be ?conceived ; but the
vision is a brief one, and the more usual concomitants
of railways-a succession of squalid houses,
and a tunnel-immediately succeed it?
In 1502 the establishment was enlarged by the
addition of a dean and subdean, for whose support
the college received a gift of the rectory of the
parish church of Dunnottar; and owing to the
unsettled state of the country, it would appear that
Sir Edward Bonkel, the first Provost, had to apply
