High StreetJ LORD BALMERINIO?S . HOUSE. 2?3
was promoted to the abbacy by James V. in 1539,
and was canonised two years afterwards at Rome,
according to Wilson; but no such name appears in
Butler?s ? Lives of the Fathers.?
Until within the last few years the whole of this
portion of the High Street was remarkable for its
ancient houses, all bearing unchanged the stamp
filled?with consternation, but all escaped without
injury. The ruins were removed, and on their
site was built, in 1850, a very handsome Gothic
church in connection with the Free Church body,
and named after the Reformer. Its foundationstone
was laid on the 18th of May, being a day
memorable in the annals of the great Non-intrusion
perfect longitudinal section through the edifice to
the people without, presenting suddenly a scene
as singular as some of those displayed by the
diabZe boiteux to the gaze of the student Don
Cleofas, when all the roofs of Madrid disappeared
before him.
Some of the inmates were seen in bed, others
were partaking of their humble morning meal, and
high up in the airy attic storey was seen an old
crone on the creepie stool, smoking at her ingle
Street, is an ancient stone land, on which is inscribed-
R.H. . HODIE . MIHI . CRAS . TIBI . CVR . IGITVR . CVRAS
There was a date, now unknown. This was the
property of Alison Bassandyne, daughter of Thomas
the printer, and spouse of John Ker, and by her
and others disposed of to John Binning in March,
1624; but the alley was long called Bassandyne?s
Close, till it took the name of Panmure, from the
residence therein of John Maule of Inverkeilory,