Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ijiiiiiiiiiii^wniaff»i»iiiwiiiiiiii)wiiwiw>iiiinffiwiimiilip the family of Lennox acquired their first residence in the city, by thepurchase of a house in 1509 by Earl Matthew, afterwards provost ofGlasgow, from the rector of Stobo. It was in this house that the earlswidow, the granddaughter of James II.,resided after her husband had beenkilled at Flodden. Here also her de-scendant, the unfortunate Darnley, re-sided with his father during his recoveryfrom the effects of poison; and it washere that Q
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ijiiiiiiiiiii^wniaff»i»iiiwiiiiiiii)wiiwiw>iiiinffiwiimiilip the family of Lennox acquired their first residence in the city, by thepurchase of a house in 1509 by Earl Matthew, afterwards provost ofGlasgow, from the rector of Stobo. It was in this house that the earlswidow, the granddaughter of James II.,resided after her husband had beenkilled at Flodden. Here also her de-scendant, the unfortunate Darnley, re-sided with his father during his recoveryfrom the effects of poison; and it washere that Queen IMary visited him notlong before his murder. There hasbeen preserved a stone on which aresculptured arms, as shown in the cut,which formed part of that house. Thearms are those of Sir John Stewart,second son of Alexander, high-stewardof Scotland, from whom the family ofLennox was descended.^ The house which formerly stood to thesouth-west of the Cathedral, called Darnleys Cottage, was a compara-tively modern building.^ The Place of the Vicars was on the north side of the Cathedral
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