The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1310.—The Montgomery Aisle, and Monument of Boyle of Kelbnni, Ijargs. with coats of arms blazoned on them. Of these decorations only a fewwith the arms faintly coloured, together with some helmets (as seen inSketch), now remain. In the vault beneath are deposited the remains ofSir Robert Montgomery and his wife, Margaret Douglas, eldest daughterof Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig. When Sir Robert succeeded to Skelmorlie he likewise succeeded to alegacy of family feuds. The murder of his fa
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1310.—The Montgomery Aisle, and Monument of Boyle of Kelbnni, Ijargs. with coats of arms blazoned on them. Of these decorations only a fewwith the arms faintly coloured, together with some helmets (as seen inSketch), now remain. In the vault beneath are deposited the remains ofSir Robert Montgomery and his wife, Margaret Douglas, eldest daughterof Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig. When Sir Robert succeeded to Skelmorlie he likewise succeeded to alegacy of family feuds. The murder of his father and brother, and alsothat of the chief of the Montgomeries, Hugli, fourth Eai-1 of Eglinton,gave him half the families of the district as subjects for his revenge. To FOURTH PERIOD 196 THE MONTGOMERY MONUMENT the fulfilment of this object he seems to have devoted the strength of hismanhood, but in later years he is said to have suffered extreme remorse
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