Guide to the Castle of Edinburgh: With an Historical Account of Queen Mary's Room, Mons Meg &c

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Armour, 1853 - 24 pages
 

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Page 10 - ... December, 1888, makes the following reference to the discovery of 1830: 'Nearly in a line with the Crown room and about six feet from the pavement to the Quadrangle the wall was observed to return a hollow sound •when struck. On being opened a recess was discovered measuring about 2 ft. 6 by i ft., containing the remains of a child enclosed in an oak coffin, evidently of great antiquity and very much decayed. The remains were found wrapped in a cloth believed to be woollen, very thick and somewhat...
Page 16 - I'll be proud, since I have sworn To hae a new cloak about me. In days when our King Robert rang, His trews they cost but...
Page 12 - Dundee,' but by that time (1689) it was incapable of speaking even ' twa words or three,' for it had burst in 1682 while firing a salute in honour of the Duke of York, afterwards James VII. In 1754 it was removed to the Tower of London, but it was restored to Edinburgh in 1829 at the request of Sir Walter Scott, to the joy of the Scottish people. The guncarriage is a reproduction of that used at Norham.
Page 14 - ... with an equal number of hoops, to represent the exact number of persons who contributed to defray the expense of making the piece.* As a recompense for the present of this extraordinary engine of war, and for the loyalty of the M'Lellans, the King, before leaving Galloway, erected the town of Kirkcudbright into a Royal Burgh, and granted to Brawny Kim, the smith, the lands of Mollance, in the neighbourhood of Threave Castle. It is still customary in Galloway to call people by the name of the...
Page 14 - Kim, the smith who made it, the lands of Mollance in the neighbourhood of Threave Castle. Hence the smith was called Mollance, and his wife's name heing Meg, the gun was called, in honour of her, Mollance Meg.
Page 6 - (Sie lauten," fiel bie ©räftn ein: ,lf to her lot some human errors fall Look to her face and you'll forget them all.
Page 14 - M'Lellans, when he arrived with an army at Carlingwark, to besiege William Earl of Douglas in the Castle of Threave.
Page 10 - Moor, on which the fanciful eye of cue familiar with the national history will summon up the Scottish hosts marshalling for southern war ; as when the gallant Jameses looked forth from these same towers proudly, and beheld them gathering around the standard of the ' Ruddy Lion,' pitched in the massive' bore stane' still remaining at the Borough Moor Head.
Page 15 - Edinburgh in 1822, Sir Walter Scott pointed out to him the spot on the chief bastion of the old fortress, formerly occupied by Mons Meg, and earnestly requested that she might be returned and placed there again.
Page 5 - Regalia of Scotland, consisting of a crown, sceptre, sword of state, and several other valuable articles of bijtuterie.

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