1230 by King Alexander II., and in its earliest charters
named Mansio Re@, as he had bestowed upon
the monks a royal residence as their abode.
The church built by Alexander was a large cruufsrm
edifice with a central rood-tower and lofty
spire. It was renowned for king the scene of the
SIR JAMES PALSHAW, BART., AND H.m. LIEUTENANT OP EDINBURGH.
(Fmm a Photograph ay 3~ha Meffat.)
bishop of Glasgow and Lord High Chancellor,
fled from the Douglases during the terrible street
conflict or tulzie in 1519, and, as Pitscottie records,
was dragged ? out behind the altar, and his rocki:
riven aff him, and had been slake,? had not Gavin
Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, interceded for him:
in the realm, summoned in 1512 by the Pipal
Legate, Cardinal Bagimont, who presided. In
this synod, says Balfour, all ecclesiastical benefices
exceeding forty pounds per annum were taxed in
the payment of ten pounds to the Pope by way of
pension, and to the King of Scotland such a tax as
he felt disposed to levy. This valuation, which
is still known by the name of Bagimont?s Roll,
was made thereafter the standard for taxing the
Scottish ecclesiastics at the Vatican.
It was to this church that James Beaton, Archcrate
bishop.? And here we may remark that the
Scottish word fulzie, used by us so often, is derived
from the French t&ifi--n; to confuse, or to mix
The monastery was destroyed by an accidental
fire in 1528, but the church would seem to have
been uninjured by the view of it in 1544, though
no doubt it would suffer, like all the others in the
city, at the hands of the English in that year.
In 1552 the Provost and Council ordered Alex.
Park, city treasurer, to deliver to ?the Dene of
Gild x li., that he may thairwith pay the Blak
