Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s, that extended up theslope towards the town wall, were bestowedon the citizens as a cemetery by QueenMary. That the monastery was a sumptuousedifice according to the times, is provedby its being assigned for the temporaryabode of the Princess Mary of Gueldres, who afterher arrival at Leith in June, 1449, ode thither ona pillion behind the Count de Vere, and was visitedby her future husband, James H., on the followingday. In 1461, after tlie battle of Towton, its roofafiorded shelter to the luckless Henry VI. of Eng-la
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s, that extended up theslope towards the town wall, were bestowedon the citizens as a cemetery by QueenMary. That the monastery was a sumptuousedifice according to the times, is provedby its being assigned for the temporaryabode of the Princess Mary of Gueldres, who afterher arrival at Leith in June, 1449, ode thither ona pillion behind the Count de Vere, and was visitedby her future husband, James H., on the followingday. In 1461, after tlie battle of Towton, its roofafiorded shelter to the luckless Henry VI. of Eng-land when he fled to Scotland, together with hisheroic Queen Margaret and their son PrinceEdward. The fugitives were so hospitably enter-tained by the court and citizens, that in requital78 thereof, Henry granted to them a charter empower-ing the latter to trade to any [lart of England^subject to no other duties than those payable bythe most highly favoured natives of that country,,in acknowledgment, as he states, of the humaneand honourable treatment he met with from the. A --^^ ^-ms:
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