. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. — 375 — exceeding beauty of the view, for when the church was restored, the Gothic stylo of architecture had reached its finest development. The original church must have been a rude erection, when the whole monastery was built in ten years, for work was not done at rail- way speed in those days, but it would not be easy to say how many years were required to build the one whose very ruins delight every eye. In the year 1384, <he English, under Richard II, ma
. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. — 375 — exceeding beauty of the view, for when the church was restored, the Gothic stylo of architecture had reached its finest development. The original church must have been a rude erection, when the whole monastery was built in ten years, for work was not done at rail- way speed in those days, but it would not be easy to say how many years were required to build the one whose very ruins delight every eye. In the year 1384, <he English, under Richard II, made an inroad to Scotland, and on their return the King lodged one night in the Abbey, and set tire to it in the morning. He made several grants to the Al)bey afterwards, which leads us to hope that his majesty repented the ungratuful and sacrilegeous act. It may be that the cliancel of the church was destroyed at that time, for the style of architecture there is the ]»er|)endi- cular (lothic, which commenced in the reign of liichurd II. The stone used in this part of the building is diiferent from that in the transepts. The transepts may well be considered as the oldest ])ortion of what now conijjrises Melrose Abbey. The monastery at Mehxtsc was destroyed in 1545 by the Earl of Iletford. There is a tradition that the English, on their way back to England at that time, had actually passeil the monas- teries of Melrose and Dryburg, when the bells at one of these places were rung to express the joy of the inmates. The English, hearing the sound, wtn'e not slow to come back, when the joy was changed into mourninij. The Scottish Ileformatiou following shortly after, tiie Abbey never recovered from the destruction perpetrated at that time. After the Keformation, James Douglas, coinmendator, took down a great part of the ruin to build houses. Thtj date on one of the M'indows in 1590. The statues were demolished in 1640; and for a long ])eriod the Abbey was used as a quarry by the
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