-48 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. WolJlmd
mted with several mouldings, partly circular and
partly hexagonal. The eagle stands upon a globe,
and the shaft has been originally supported on
three feet, which are now gone. The lectern at
present is five feet seven inches in height, and is
inscribed :-?GEORGIUS CREICHTOUN, EPISCOPUS
DUNKENENSIS.?
He died on January 24th, 1543, and the probability
is that the lectern had been presented to
Holyrood on his elevation to Dunkeld as a farewell
? 1523. He had been previously provost of the
collegiate church of Corqtorphine, and was twice
High Treasurer, in 1529 and 1537. In 1538 he
was elected Bishop of KOSS, and held that office,
together with the Abbacy of Ferne, till his death,
jrst November, 1545.
XXIX ROBERT STUART, of Strathdon, a son.of
James V. by Eupham Elphinstone, had a grant of
the abbacy when only seven years of age, and in
manhood he joiiied the Reformation party, in 1559.
THE ABBEY CHURCH. (From an Engravitigin Maitlads ?History of Edinbaq-4.?)
gift, and that it had been stolen from the abbey
by Sir Richard Lea of Sopwell, who accompanied
the Earl of Hertford in the invasion of 1544, and
who carried off the famous brazen font from Holy-
TOO^, and presented it to the parish church of St.
Albans, with a magniloquent inscription. ?? This
font, which was abstracted from Holyrood, is no
longer known to exist, and there seems no reason
to doubt that the lectern, which was saved by
being buried during the Civil Wars, was abstracted
at the same time, and given to the church of St.
hlbans by the donor of the font.??
XXVII. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, Prior of Coldingham,
was the next abbot.
XXVIII. ROBERT CAIRNCROSS,abbot September
He died in r5z8.
He married in 1561, and received from his sister,
Queen Mary, a gift of some Crown lands in
Orkney and Shetland in 1565, with a large grant
out of the queen?s third of Holyrood in the following
year. In 1569 he exchanged his abbacy with
Adam Bishop of Orkney for the temporalities of
that see, and his lands in Orkney and Shetland
were erected into an earldom in his favour 28th
October, 1581.
XXX. ADAM BOTHWELL, who acquired the
abbacy in commendam by this strange and lawless
compact, did not find his position a very quiet one,
and several articles against him were presented in
the General Assembly in 1570. The fifth of these
stated that all the twenty-seven churches of the
?? are decayit, and made some sheep-folds, and some
sa ruinous that none dare enter into thame for
fear of falling, especially Halyrud HOUS, althocht
the Bishop of Sanct Androw?s, in time of Papistry,
INTERIOR OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL OF HOLYROOD HOUSE, 1687- (AflW Wyck a d p. Mad;.)
abbacy in favour of his son before 1583, and died
in 1593. He was interred near the third pillar
from the south-east corner, on the south side of the
church.
up and repairt.? To this Bothwell answered that
the churches referred to had been pillaged and
ruined before his time, especially Holyrood I
Church, ?quhilk hath been thir tnintie yeris 1
bygane ruinous through decay of twa principal
pillars, sa that none wer assurit under it,? and that
two thousand pounds would not be sufficient for
24th February, 1581, and was a Lord of Session
in 1593. In 1607 part of the abbey property,
together with the monastery itself, ,vas converted
into a temporal peerage for him and his heirs, by
the title of Lord Holyroodhouse. John Lord
Bothwell died without direct heirs male, and
though the title shouldhave descended to his brother
