. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. The Bishops Palace in 1890 and 1913. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 29 were three rooms in the front house and one in each wing. Whatappears to have been the principal room had been ornamented withfresco paintings, the remains of which were visible until the recent preservation. The rooms of the first floor were 11 feet high, butotherwise of moderate size. The second floor had also three roomsin front and one in each wing. They were about 8 feet high andof the same dimensions as those on the first floor. The arrangementof the at
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. The Bishops Palace in 1890 and 1913. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 29 were three rooms in the front house and one in each wing. Whatappears to have been the principal room had been ornamented withfresco paintings, the remains of which were visible until the recent preservation. The rooms of the first floor were 11 feet high, butotherwise of moderate size. The second floor had also three roomsin front and one in each wing. They were about 8 feet high andof the same dimensions as those on the first floor. The arrangementof the attics cannot now be ascertained. There were two stone stairs,one in each wing. I have been thus particular in the description ofthe Bishops Town House that the reader may form some idea of theaccommodation afforded in an earlier age, to the dignitaries of theCathedral Church. Shortly after the Reformation the Palace was granted by theCrown to Alexander Seton, who had received the lands of Pluscarden asa god-bairne gift from Queen Mary when he was six years was ed
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