The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ected by an entablature, on the top of which, overthe pilasters, stood the statues—Justice on the southside, and Mercy on the north; between them the royalarms were placed in an architectural framework of pillarets,entablature, and pediment. Unfortunately all this latterwork does not appear to have been preserved. The armsof Edinburgh are carefully cut on a stone, 32|^ inches highby 27| inches wide, with the motto DOMINVS CVSTODITINTROITVM NOSTRVM. The dexter supporter, carvedwith spirit but wanting the head, remains—
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . ected by an entablature, on the top of which, overthe pilasters, stood the statues—Justice on the southside, and Mercy on the north; between them the royalarms were placed in an architectural framework of pillarets,entablature, and pediment. Unfortunately all this latterwork does not appear to have been preserved. The armsof Edinburgh are carefully cut on a stone, 32|^ inches highby 27| inches wide, with the motto DOMINVS CVSTODITINTROITVM NOSTRVM. The dexter supporter, carvedwith spirit but wanting the head, remains—the other supporter is gone. Thereis an interesting seal preserved in theAdvocates Library, on which a goodview of this old doorway of the Par-liament House is finely engraved. In the year 1824 the present fa9adewas built in front of the old walls, andthe building was greatly extended tothe form and shape it now presents,and only on the south and west sides are any of the ancient features to be seen, and only thoseof a minor kind; the old doorway was taken down and 2a. Seal showing Old Doorwayof Parliament House. 234 STATUES OF JUSTICE AND MERCY the architectural details were obliterated, destroyed, orobtained by collectors. Sir Daniel Wilson^ mentions thatBailie Henderson obtained as rubbish a cartload of carvedstones with the statues of Justice and Mercy, and took themto his villa near Trinity. How the statues and the othercarved stones came to be removed from Trinity to DrummondPlace we can only conjecture ; the house No. 37 was betweenthe years 1829 and 1859 in the possession of Mr. Adam GibEllis, Writer to the Signet, who was a well-known collectorof antiquities, and a member of the Society of Antiquariesfor thirty-five years previous to his death in 1864, in theseventieth year of his age. Sir Daniel Wilson refers to his collection in the Memorials of Edinburgh, from whichhe gives three sketches of old carved stones (p. 231).Mr. John Hutchison, , sculptor, rememb
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