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gesse !?? Then the castle fired a salute, while
silver was scattered to the multitude. Three years
afterwards the king and court had departed, and
Holyrood was consigned to silence and gloom.
On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, the
palace was fitted up for him with considerable
splendour, but his project of putting up statues
of the apostles in the chapel caused great excitement
in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was
at Holyrood in the following year, states that he
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the gardens known as Queen Mary?s sundial,
although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, and
eldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartered
a body of his infantry in the palace, and by accident
they set it on fire, on the 13th November,
1650, when it wzs destroyed, all save the Tower of
James V., with its furniture and decorations.
Of this palace a drawing by Gordon of
Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows the
main entrance to have been where we find it
HOLYROOD PALACE AKD ABBEY CHURCH, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate :
CC4Nobis hec invicta misanf 106 proovi.? I inquired
what the English of it was. It was told me
as followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded :
-6 106 foreJ&%ws h i e I& this to ux unconpumed..? ?
When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633,
the magistrates employed the famous Jameson to
paint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and,
imitative of his master Rubens, he wore his
hat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probable
that after the latter?s last visit, in 1641, the palace
must have become somewhat dilapidated, otherwise
Cromwell would have taken up his residence
there. The improvements effected by Charles
were considerable, and among other memorials of
his residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in
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now. Round embattled towers flank it, with bow
windows in them, and above the grand gate are
the royal arms of Scotland. On either side is a
large range of buildings having great windows ;
and the now empty panels in the Tower of James V.
appear to have been filled in with armorial bearings,
doubtless destroyed by Cromwell. In his map of
1657 the same artist shows a louyingdn-stone in
the centre of the palace yard.
The palace was rebuilt to a certain extent, by
order of Cromwell, in 1658, but the whole of his
work, at the Restoration, was pulled down by
royal warrant two years after, as the work ? built
by the usurper, and doth darken the court?
Engrafted on the part that survived the conflagration,
and designed, it is said, after the noble
