. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. CATHEDRAL OF EDINBURGH, SLLaurence. i. 5 I EDINBURGH.^ ST. GILES. The church was a cell of Dunfermline until re-founded out of consolidatedchapelries as a collegiate church in 1446, by the Lord Provost and magis-trates, and by King James IIL, Feb. 22, 1466. The plan of the cathedral, which has memories of Haddos imprisonmentand the funeral of Montrose, was cruciform, with a small transept, 1390—1412 ; it comprised a choir 88x67, with
. Scoti-Monasticon: the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland. CATHEDRAL OF EDINBURGH, SLLaurence. i. 5 I EDINBURGH.^ ST. GILES. The church was a cell of Dunfermline until re-founded out of consolidatedchapelries as a collegiate church in 1446, by the Lord Provost and magis-trates, and by King James IIL, Feb. 22, 1466. The plan of the cathedral, which has memories of Haddos imprisonmentand the funeral of Montrose, was cruciform, with a small transept, 1390—1412 ; it comprised a choir 88x67, with aisles, built in 1387, groined withbosses; external chapels on the north, erected 1437—1451; a nave of thetime of James VI., which retained a Norman door until 1760; and centraltower. The church was mainly built 1329—71. In 1393, Robert III. grantedit to Scone, and in 1387 the five altars and chapels on the south side of thechurch were in progress. In 1387, in 1390, and again in 1413, the Crown andmunicipal council contributed funds to the building, which had sufferedinjury from the English under the Duke of Gloucester in 1385. The finesinflicted by the guilds were also devoted to the wo
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