Liber cartarum Sancte CrucisMunimenta ecclesie Sancte Crusis de Edwinesburg . 502, 1503, and 1504. Thefollowing entries show that during the same period otherartisans were employed on the building or embellishingof Holyrood. 1502, Oct. 20. Item, to Walter Merlioun, mason, in part payment of his task of the foirweik and the new hall in Halvrndhous, xl lib. 1502-3, Jan. 2. Item, to William Tnrnbull, mason, in part of his task of the gal lory and boss windocs in Haly- rudhous, .... ix lib. vj s. viij d. 1502-3, March 15. Item, to John Brown, mason, his quar-ter lee for himself and his man, quhen
Liber cartarum Sancte CrucisMunimenta ecclesie Sancte Crusis de Edwinesburg . 502, 1503, and 1504. Thefollowing entries show that during the same period otherartisans were employed on the building or embellishingof Holyrood. 1502, Oct. 20. Item, to Walter Merlioun, mason, in part payment of his task of the foirweik and the new hall in Halvrndhous, xl lib. 1502-3, Jan. 2. Item, to William Tnrnbull, mason, in part of his task of the gal lory and boss windocs in Haly- rudhous, .... ix lib. vj s. viij d. 1502-3, March 15. Item, to John Brown, mason, his quar-ter lee for himself and his man, quhen he com fraFaukland to wirk in Halvrndhons, . x lib. PREFACE. lvii 1503, July 15. Item, for vij punschionis of plaister to theturatis of the foryet in Halyrudhous, ilk punscheon xiiij s Summa iiij lib. xviij s. The foir-werk, or for-yet was perhaps the longvaulted gateway leading from the place in front of thePalace to the Canongait, described by Father Hay.(1)It existed, though in a dismantled state, in the middleof the last century, when it was engraved for Ci Areaante palatium suburbanum est. Et portae imponitur versus vicum qui a Canouicismiles in fornice oblongo et paulo obscuriore nomen habet, The Canongate.—Scotia Sacra, 286. hiii PREFACE. In the Register of the Privy Seal, under date 10 Sep-tember, 1504, we find—A precept maid to Maister Leo-narde Logy for his gude and thankfull service done andto be done to the Kingis hienes, and specialie for hisdiligent and grete lauboure maid be him in the biggingof the palace beside the Abbay of the Haly croce, of thesoume of fourty poundis of the usuale money of thellealme, to be pait to him of the Kingis eofferis yerliefor all the dayis of his life, or quhil he be benefitit of anehundreth merkis.(1) And again, in the Treasurers books,—1501, Nov. 17. Item, to Jolme Yorkstoun, mason, in histask of the aiding and topping of the ehimmais ofHalyrudhous, at tua diners tymes, xxj lib. vij s. 1505, July 18. Item, to
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