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
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
