. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. to have been discovered in this tomb in the year1683, along with five others of inferior workmanship, two of which arepreserved in the Divinity College of St. Marys, at St. Andrews, while theother three were respectively presented to the Universities of Aberdeen,Glasgow and Edinburgh. This species of corporate generosity is not acommon occurrence, and would require some confirmation ; but whatever maybe the real history of the six maces collectively, that preserved in at once attests its intimate connexion with the tomb by
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. to have been discovered in this tomb in the year1683, along with five others of inferior workmanship, two of which arepreserved in the Divinity College of St. Marys, at St. Andrews, while theother three were respectively presented to the Universities of Aberdeen,Glasgow and Edinburgh. This species of corporate generosity is not acommon occurrence, and would require some confirmation ; but whatever maybe the real history of the six maces collectively, that preserved in at once attests its intimate connexion with the tomb by aremarkable similarity of design—towers, pinnacles, crockets, niches, and otherarchitectural devices, bristling in the silver as they do in the marble, withthe advantage that a portion of the statuary, which must have given graceand variety to both, still remains to the mace. Among these little silverfigures, mixed with others of the most solemn character, there aresome, probably intended to be demoniacal, which exemplify the singular w ;t IT , -7-rii. llMrM
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