Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ! Largesse! Lar- THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73 gesse ! Then the castle fired a salute, whilesilver was scattered to the multitude. Three yearsafterwards the king and court had departed, andHolyrood was consigned to silence and gloom. On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, thepalace was fitted up for him with considerablesplendour, but his project of putting up statuesof the apostles in the chapel caused great in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was•at Holyrood in the following year,
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . ! Largesse! Lar- THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73 gesse ! Then the castle fired a salute, whilesilver was scattered to the multitude. Three yearsafterwards the king and court had departed, andHolyrood was consigned to silence and gloom. On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, thepalace was fitted up for him with considerablesplendour, but his project of putting up statuesof the apostles in the chapel caused great in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was•at Holyrood in the following year, states that he the gardens known as Queen Marys sun-dial,although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, andeldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartereda body of his infantry in the palace, and by acci-dent they set it on fire, on the 13th November,1650, when it was destroyed, all save the Tower ofJames V., with its furniture and this palace a drawing by Gordon of; Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows theI main entrance to have been where we find it. IIOLVROOD PALACE AND ABBEY CHURCH, THE SOUrH-EAST. saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate : ^ JVobis hcec invicta miscrunt 106 proavi. I in-<iuired what the English of it was. It was told meas foUoweth, which I thought worthy to be recorded :— 106 forefathers have lift this to us inuoiiijiiered. When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633,the magistrates employed the famous Jameson topaint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and,imitative of his master Rubens, lie wore hishat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probablethat after the latters last visit, in 1641, the palacemust have become somewhat dilapidated, other-wise Cromwell would have taken up his residencethere. The improvements effected by Charleswere considerable, and among other memorials ofhis residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in58 now. Round embattled towers Hank it, with bowwindows in them, and above the grand ga
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