305 Leith Wynd.1 THE DUCHESS OF LENNOX
Pont, an illustrious Venetian who came to Scotland
in the train of Mary of Guise-the last Provost of
Trinity, in 1585, sold all the remaining rights that
he had in the foundation, which James VI. confirmed
by charter two years afterwards. When the
old religion was abolished, the revenues of the
church amounted to only A362 Scots yearly.
Its seal, Scotland and Gueldres quarterly, is
beautifully engraved among the Holyrood charters.
In May, 1592, Sophia Ruthven, the young Duchess
of Lennox, was buried with great solemnity at the
east end of the church. She wss a daughter of the
luckless Earl of Gowrie, who died in 1584 andwas
forcibly abducted from a house in Easter Wemyss,
where she had been secluded to secure her from
the violence of the Duke?s passion. But he carried
to Parliament for assistance, to enforce the payment
of his rents in Teviotdale.
In June, 1526, its Provost sat in Parliament. In
1567 the Earl of Moray, then Regent of Scotland,
gave to Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar, then
Provost of the City, the Trinity College church with
all that belonged to it ; and the latter bestowed it
on the city. Robert Pont-an eminent churchman,
judge, and miscellaneous writer, the son of John de
18th of December, 1596, by her will, dated 9th of
that month, bequeathed IOO merks to the Trinity
College church, for a ?burial1 place there.
The church and other prebendal buildings
suffered with the other religious houses in the city
during the tumults of the Reformation, and, according
to Nicoll, in later years, at the hands of Cromwell?s
sordiers. While trenching the edifice, seeking
for the remains of the Queen, those of many others,
all Iong before violated and disturbed, were found,
together with numbers of bullocks? horns, and an
incredible quantity of sheep-head bones, and fmgments
of old Flemish quart bottles, the de?bris
doubtless of the repasts of the workmen of 1462 ;
and every stone in the building bore those marks
with which all freemasons are familiar.
~ her OE on his own horse in the night, and married i her in defiance of king and kirk. This was on
the 19th of April, 1591, consequently she did not
long survive her abduction.
Lady Jane Hamilton, youngest daughter of the
Duke of Chatelherault, and Countess of the Earl of
Eglinton, from whom she was divorced, in consequence
of the parties standing in the fourth degree
of consanguinity, who died at Edinburgh on the
