. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. TJERTH is the gateway to the Highlands. St. Johns Kirk is-to perpetrate a shocking mixedP meuphor-the hub of it. Everybody who knows the Highlands, therefore, should knowSt JoS and lt is well worth knowing, both for its lovely medieval fabric crowned by*unusual octagonal spire, and for Us rare distinction as a possessor of plate. Two of the Perth cups belong to the time of Mary Queen of Scots. One of them s. even called Queen Marys cup. Tradition has it that she received this cup as a gift from thePope, a
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. TJERTH is the gateway to the Highlands. St. Johns Kirk is-to perpetrate a shocking mixedP meuphor-the hub of it. Everybody who knows the Highlands, therefore, should knowSt JoS and lt is well worth knowing, both for its lovely medieval fabric crowned by*unusual octagonal spire, and for Us rare distinction as a possessor of plate. Two of the Perth cups belong to the time of Mary Queen of Scots. One of them s. even called Queen Marys cup. Tradition has it that she received this cup as a gift from thePope, and gave it to St. Johns. Saint Johnstoun, as Knox calls it in his History, was the scene of some of the worstrioting in the Reformation—the town was the object of Mary of Guises enmity, as its altarswere targets for the stones of the mob—and the story goes that on May 11, 1559, the cup nowcalled Queen Marys was cast into the street. A woman is said to have found the cup and hiddenit in her fathers grave, later bringing it back to the church from which it had been thrown out. There is nothing to support this story, but there can be no doubt that the present cover ofthe cup is not the original one. for its style is different, and it has the Dundee town-mark and thepunch of Robert Gairdyne. who worked in Dundee about the middle of the seventeenth century. As to the connection with Mary, she did notarrive in Scotland until 1561, and did not seteyes on Perth for another four years; but is
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