Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . est,and oftered him the paper ; but he, loving a bonerather than it, absolutely refiised it. Then theyrubbed it over with butter (which they called anExplication of the Test in imitation of Argile), andhe licked off the butter and did spit out the paper,for which they held a jurie on him, and in derisionof tlie sentence against Argile, they found the dogguilty of treason, and actually hanged him. In 1692 the Council Records refer to the aboli-tion of the cupolas, the api)earancc of which in oldviews of the hosjiital hav
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . est,and oftered him the paper ; but he, loving a bonerather than it, absolutely refiised it. Then theyrubbed it over with butter (which they called anExplication of the Test in imitation of Argile), andhe licked off the butter and did spit out the paper,for which they held a jurie on him, and in derisionof tlie sentence against Argile, they found the dogguilty of treason, and actually hanged him. In 1692 the Council Records refer to the aboli-tion of the cupolas, the api)earancc of which in oldviews of the hosjiital have caused some discussionamong anticjuaries. The council having visited the fabric of thehospital, and found that the south-east cpiarterthereof is not yet finished and completed, and thatthe south-west quarter is finished ami completed bya pavilion turret of lead, and that the north-eastand corners of the said fabric arecovered with a [)avilion roof of lead ; therefore,and for makinic the wliole fabric of the said 368 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Henots Hospital,. Heriols Hospital.] THE GATEWAY. 369 hospital regular and uniform, and for the more easyfinishing and completing thereof, they give warrantand order, to the present treasurer, to finish andcomplete the south-west quarter of the said hospitalwith a platform roof, in the same way and manner nished by Inigo Jones; and yet, as a whole, thebuilding is remarkable for its bold beauty andsymmetry. The windows are two hundred in number, andrichly ornamented with curious devices ; and not-
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