60 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LHol~lrood.
and intriguing apostbte as one of the greatest and
best men of his time.?
In the churchyard, now all turned into flowerbeds
and garden ground, there long remained a
, .few plain gravestones, the inscriptions on some of
range is of a very singular nature to be in the
vicinity of a populous city, being little else than
an assemblage of hills, rocks, precipices, morasses,
and lakes.? It includes Arthur?s Seat and Salisbury
Craigs, and, of course, as a refuge, originated in
which are preserved by Menlteith
in his ?Theatre of Mortality,?
and by Maitland in
his C?History.?l One alone remains
now, that of Mylne
(the builder of the palace),
which was removed from its
ald site (the north-east angle
-of the ancient choir) in 1857,
and placed against the eastern
,wall of the church.
The extent of the ruin as it
now remains is 127 feet in
tlength by 39 feet in breadth,
within the walls; and there
.still exist nominally six deans
.and seven chaplains of the
Chapel Royal, all, of course,
clergymen of the Church of
.Scotland.
The whole ruin has an air
.of intense gloom and damp
THE BELHAVEN MOAUMENT, HOLYROOD
CHURCH.
desolation ; the breeze waves the grass and rank
weeds between the lettered grave-stones, the ivy
rustles on the wall, and by night the owl hoots
in the royal vault and the roofless tower where
.stands the altar-tomb of Belhaven.
For a considerable space around the church and
palace of Holyrood-embracing a circuit of four
miles and a quarter-the open ground has been,
since the days of David I., a sanctuary, and is so
mow, from arrest on civil process. This spacious
the old ecclesiastical privilege
of sanctuary, with the exemptions
of those attached to a
monarch?s court. When the
law of debtor and creditor
was more stringent than it
is now, this peculiarity brought
many far from respectable
visitors to a cluster of houses
round the palace-a cluster
nearly entirely swept away
about I 85 7-as varied in their
appearance as the chequered
fortunes of their bankrupt
inmates j and it is believed
to have been in a great measure
owing to some private
claims, likely to press heavily
upon him, that Charles X.
in his second exile sought
a residence in deserted Holyrood.
The House of Inchmurry, formerly called Kirkland,
in the parish of St. Martin?s, was a country
residence of the abbots of Holyrood.
One of the bells that hung in the remaining tower
was placed in the Tron church steeple, another
in St. Cuthbert?s chapel of ease, and the third in
St. Paul?s, York Place, the congregation of which
had it in their former church in the Canongate,
which was built 1771-4. This last is sniall, and
poor in? sound.
CHAPTER IX.
HOLYROOD PALACE.
F i ~ t Notice of its History-Marriage of James 1V.-The Scots of the Days of Flodden-A Brawl in the Palace-Jams V.?s. Tower-The Gudeman
of Ballengeich-His Marriage-Death of Queen MagdalentThe Council of November, 1-A Standing Army Proposed-The Muscovite
Ambassadors Entertained by the Queen Regent,
THE occasional residence of so many of his kingly
ancestors at the abbey of Holyrood, and its then
sequestered and rural locality, doubtless suggested
to James IV. the expediency of having a royal
dwelling near it ; thus, we find from the Records of
the Privy Seal the earliest mention of a palace at
Holyrood occurs on the 10th of September, 1504,
when ?( to Maister Leonard Log, for his gude and
thankful service, done and to be done, to the kingis
hienis, and speciallie for his diligent and grete
laboure made be him in the building of the palace
beside the Abbey of the Holy Croce,? of (( the soume
of forty pounds.? This is the first genuine notice
of the grand old Palace of Holyrood.
In 1503 the then new edifice witnessed the
marriage festival of James IV. and Mzgaret Tudor,
