. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. , the lair,and the barge, he knew not quhilk of thrie was costliest ; for it was rekonedfor the tyme, be honest men of consideratioun, that the least of thrie costhim ten thousand pund sterling.! Besides their share of damage at the Reformation, the bishops churchand mausoleum suffered from an untoward incident, little more than eightyyears ago. From the massive character of the roof, some wise people beganto dread that it would fall by its own weight, and proposed to anticipatesuch a catastrophe by taking it down. They found, however,
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. , the lair,and the barge, he knew not quhilk of thrie was costliest ; for it was rekonedfor the tyme, be honest men of consideratioun, that the least of thrie costhim ten thousand pund sterling.! Besides their share of damage at the Reformation, the bishops churchand mausoleum suffered from an untoward incident, little more than eightyyears ago. From the massive character of the roof, some wise people beganto dread that it would fall by its own weight, and proposed to anticipatesuch a catastrophe by taking it down. They found, however, after it wastoo late to preserve it, that it was too compact to be taken to pieces ; andthey were compelled, by severing its juncture with the wall plates, to let itfall in one mass. The effect on the monument, and all the interiordecorations, can easily be conceived.^ *Tytlers Scotland, 3d edit., iii. 331. Lyons History of St. Andrews, i. , 167-8. t Lyons History of St. Andrews, ii. 195. 7 42 THE BARONIAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL Balveny Castle. JHIS massive and quaint ruin stands on a high bank over-looking the Fiddoch—a stream unknown to fame, whichtumbles from the mountains down to the lowlands ofBanffshire. The parish of Marnoch, in which it stands,has many curious antiquities, traditionally connected with?^i the Danish wars. These ancient, and mostly fabulous legends, have even embraced the object of these remarks, though^^^ the oldest portion of the building can be no older than the fifteenthcentury. A writer of the early part of the eighteenth centurysays— Balvanie (in Irish Bal-Beni-Mor, ///e house of Si. Beyne the Great,the first bishop of Murthlack), the old castle of which (though rebuilt bythe Stewarts, Earls of Atholl, Lords of Balvenie), having been built (tissaid) by the Danes, has a large parlour in it now called the Danes hall. *In the plate and between two of the quaint projecting windows, f can beread the motto of the Atholl family, which, in it
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