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have been particularly enumerated, defined, and confirmed to them 

 in the following year by a crown charter, dated at Edinburgh, 

 the 26th of February, 1509, wherein the motive, reason, and cause 

 of the gift is mentioned to have been on account of certain aids 

 afforded to King James the Second, his grandfather, when he was 

 engaged in the active and arduous service of the reduction of 

 Thrieve, the great castle and stronghold, key to the conquest of 

 the whole of the ancient noble and imperial lordship of Galloway 

 of old time. There were hardly less important services to King 

 James the Fourth himself in times of then still recent memory and 

 date, when that monarch was at open enmity and war with the 

 whole of the native nobility of his realm of Scotland at large. 



Copy of an original Letter from Richard Gough, Author of 

 " Sepulchral Monuments," Editor of " Campden's Britania," &c., 

 to George Paton, Antiquary H.M. Customs, Edinburgh, describ- 

 ing a remarkable oil painting of King James the Fourth, and his 

 Queen Margaret, the sister of King Henry the Eighth of England, 

 and who after the battle of Flodden married secondly Douglas, 

 Earl of Angus. We believe the picture is now at the Palace of 

 Holy rood. 



" Enfield, 29th July, 1784. 



" In the Queen's Library in the Green Park are two portraits 

 of James the Fourth of Scotland and Margaret of England, brot 

 from Kensington Palace. They are 7| feet high and three feet 

 wide, serving as doors to an altar piece. The outside of the right 

 hand door has Saint Andrew with his cross supporting a very rich 

 Crown over the King's head, who kneels with his book before him, 

 under a crimson canopy : a youth kneels in another part drest in 

 a scarlet robe, and rich ermine mantle, the arms and crest of Scot- 

 land over his head. Perhaps this is the King's younger brother. 

 On the inside of this door is the Trinity represented by the Deity 

 holding a dead Christ, and the dove above. On the other door a 

 Queen kneels in the same Church, richly crowned and coifed and 

 loaded in jewels exquisitely painted, habited in cloth of gold, a 

 book before her. Saint George waves the Banner of England over 

 her, in the foldings of which is an inscription. On the inside of 

 this door is a priest at his devotions, wearing a ring- on the fourth 

 finger of his left hand, though neither the King or Queen have 

 rings. An angel with a fillet or nimbus of precious stones round 

 his head plays, while a young man blows the bellows of an organ 



