. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER II THE CHAPELS OF ST. ROQUE AND ST. JOHN, AND THE CONVENTOF ST. KATHERINE OF SIENA The whilst the bell, with distant chime,Merrily tolled the hour of thus the Lindesay spoke :— Thus clamour still the war-notes whenThe King to mass his way has taen,Or to St. Catherines of Sienne,Or Chapel of Saint To you they speak of martial fame,But me remind of peaceful gameWhen blither was their cheer. Nor less, said he, I moanTo think what woe mischance may bringAnd how these merry bells
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. CHAPTER II THE CHAPELS OF ST. ROQUE AND ST. JOHN, AND THE CONVENTOF ST. KATHERINE OF SIENA The whilst the bell, with distant chime,Merrily tolled the hour of thus the Lindesay spoke :— Thus clamour still the war-notes whenThe King to mass his way has taen,Or to St. Catherines of Sienne,Or Chapel of Saint To you they speak of martial fame,But me remind of peaceful gameWhen blither was their cheer. Nor less, said he, I moanTo think what woe mischance may bringAnd how these merry bells may ringThe death-dirge of our gallant king. Ma7-mioii. ^^^^^ a lonely spot at the west end ofW ■ the Burghmuir, within half aI W mile of the old Grange House,jPL Ifi) this ancient shrine of the Holy Confessour, Sanct Rok,was erected. It is not known by whomit was founded, nor the exact dateof the building; but from the BurghRecords it is evident that it was a well-frequented shrine early in thereign of James IV., who madea special offering in person tothis chapel on St. RoquesDay, August isth, 1507. In1501 there had also been adonation; but it was in themonth of September 1513 thatthe shrine of St. Roque won itslasting title to historic fame—the day on which King James,flushed with chivalrous expecta-tion, knelt there in lowly de-votion ere he marched with theill-fated Flowers of the Forestto the fata
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