Traditions of Edinburgh . ess to the Blackfriars Monastery on theopposite slope, and being built on their land. PALACE OF ARCHBISHOP BETHUNE. At the foot of the wynd, on the east side, is a large mansionof antique appearance, forming two sides of a quadrangle, withdiporte cochere giving access to a court behind, and a picturesqueoverhanging turret at the exterior angle. This house was builtby James Bethune, archbishop of Glasgow (1508-15 24), chan-cellor of the kingdom, and one of the Lords Regent under theDuke of Albany during the minority of James V. Lyndsay, inhis Chronicles, speaks of it a
Traditions of Edinburgh . ess to the Blackfriars Monastery on theopposite slope, and being built on their land. PALACE OF ARCHBISHOP BETHUNE. At the foot of the wynd, on the east side, is a large mansionof antique appearance, forming two sides of a quadrangle, withdiporte cochere giving access to a court behind, and a picturesqueoverhanging turret at the exterior angle. This house was builtby James Bethune, archbishop of Glasgow (1508-15 24), chan-cellor of the kingdom, and one of the Lords Regent under theDuke of Albany during the minority of James V. Lyndsay, inhis Chronicles, speaks of it as his owen ludging quhilk he biggitin the Freiris Wynd. Keith, at a later period, says : Over the a^O TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. entry of which the arms of the family of Bethune are to beseen to this day. Common report represents it as the house ofCardinal Bethune, who was the nephew of the Archbishop ofGlasgow; and it is not improbable that the one prelate be-queathed it to the other, and that it thus became, what Maitland. Cardinal Bethunes House. calls it, the archiepiscopal palace belonging to the see of StAndrews, The ground-floor of this extensive building is arched overwith strong stone-work, after the fashion of those houses ofdefence of the same period which are still scattered over thecountry. Some years ago, when one of the arches was removedto make way for a common ceiling, a thick layer of sand, firmlybeaten down, was found between the surface of the vault and BOARDING-SCHOOLS OF THE LAST CENTURY. 251 the floor above. Ground-floors thus formed were applied informer times to inferior domestic uses, and to the storing ofarticles of value. The chief apartments for living in were onthe floor above—that is, the so-called first floor. And such isthe case in all the best houses of an old fashion in the city ofSt Andrews at this day. I shall afterwards have something to say of an event of theyear 1517, with which Archbishop Bethunes house was con-nected. It appears to have
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