The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ^, St. John the Evangelist, and all saints. Itwas a period of national happiness and prosperity, in which learningand the arts met with the most ample encouragement. Only onebrief month thereafter all this was at an end. James and thechief of his nobles lay dead on Flodden Field ; Scotland was at themercy of Henry VIII.; the Crown devolved to an infant; andfaction, ignorance, and bigotry replaced all the advantages of thewise and beneficent rule of James IV. It is not by slow degrees,but abruptly, like the unfinished page of a mutilated chro
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ^, St. John the Evangelist, and all saints. Itwas a period of national happiness and prosperity, in which learningand the arts met with the most ample encouragement. Only onebrief month thereafter all this was at an end. James and thechief of his nobles lay dead on Flodden Field ; Scotland was at themercy of Henry VIII.; the Crown devolved to an infant; andfaction, ignorance, and bigotry replaced all the advantages of thewise and beneficent rule of James IV. It is not by slow degrees,but abruptly, like the unfinished page of a mutilated chronicle, that MEDIEVAL EtCLESlDLOGY. 637. Ambry. Kennedy s Clc tlie history of Scottish medieAal art comes to an end. Yet thefavourite forms and mouldings of theDecorated Period lingered long afterin the domestic architecture of thecountry. The ornamental ambriesfound in the castellated mansions,and even in the wealthier burghaldwellings of the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries, partake so much ofthe character of earlier ecclesiasticalfeatures, that they are frequently de-scribed as fonts, stoups, or piscinae;and even when standing, as is theirusual wont, by the side of the hugeold fashioned fire-place, they have been assumed to afford evidencethat the domestic halls and kitchens of our ancestors were theirchapels or baptistries. Some few of these relics of obsolete tastesand manners still linger about the old closes of Edinburgh, thoughnow rapidly disappearing before the ruthless strides of modern inno-vation. The vignette shews the form of one of these ornamental ambries from a singular antiquemansion in the Old Town ofE
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