66 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF cbap. III. 



\vas demolished by tlie Reformers, In the days 

 of Mr John Knox. It is matter of regret, that 

 zeal, employed in so noble a cause as the over- 

 throw of papal superstition and tyranny, should 

 have unfortunately, in its course, destroyed such 

 a valuable monument of the taste and skill, as 

 well as the opulence, of our country in former 

 times. The original grandeur of the fabric, 

 however, the style of architecture, and the ex- 

 cellence of the workmanship, may still be traced 

 in the parts that remain. 



On the north side of the town, and on a per- 

 pendicular roc!:, stand the ruins of a castle called 

 Cardinal Btihunes^ in which he resided, and in 

 which he was slain. It has been a spacious and 

 strong building ; but was almost wholly demo- 

 lished, in consequence of an act of council, after 

 the Cardinal's death. Here is still shewn the 

 window from which he beheld, with barbarous 

 pleasure, the execution of Wishart, and from 

 which also his own body was afterwards expos- 

 ed, when he was put to death by Norman Leslie, 

 in the year 1545. 



Near the west end of the south street, and on 

 the south side, is a convent of Grey Friars. 

 The ruins of the chapel are still to be seen, and 

 are esteemed a great curiosity. And at the 

 west end of the north street was a convent of 

 the Black Friars, of which nothing now remains 

 but a part of the garden wall. 



In Dunfermline, too, we meet with the vesti- 

 ges and ruins of many ancient buildings of great 

 extent and magnificence. Here are still to be 

 seen the ruins of the Abbey founded by Malcolm 

 Canmore, and finished by his son Alexander L 



