142 On Armorial Bearings, <&c. By Walter Laid] aw. 



On the front of Blackhills house in Castlegate, is the appear- 

 ance of armorial bearings. Having examined it I found two 

 rather peculiar sun-dials with an inscription on an iron scroll, 



"FUERAT ClJNCTA NOVANTHUS." 



There are other inscriptions and arms in the Abbey worthy of 

 notice. In the centre of a Norman arch, partly built up, in the 

 east side of the north transept, is the inscription : 

 "I. H. S. 

 MAEIA 

 JOH HAL." 



His name is also on the south-east pier and other places in the 

 Abbey. John Hall was appointed abbot in 1478. On the south- 

 west pier are the arms of Cranston, on which are the three cranes 

 with two pastoral staves and "T.C." His name "Abbas Thomas 

 Cranstoun," is near the spring of the high arch opposite. His 

 initials are also on the north-west pier and on the arch above. 

 Cranston succeeded Hall as abbot in 1484. Close to the balus- 

 trade on the north-west corner, and also on the same side under 

 the central window, are the arms of Robert Blackadder, Bishop 

 of Glasgow, afterwards Archbishop. On the shield is the chevron 

 bearing three roses ; above is the cross, on one side is the letter 

 E, on the other the letter B. In memorial of their services at 

 Bosworth, King James granted the family permission to carry 

 on the shield the roses of York and Lancaster. Eobert was the 

 son of Sir Patrick Blackadder of Tuliallan. Eobert had so much 

 favour at Eome, that he obtained from the Pope the creation of 

 the See of Glasgow into an Archbishopric. Archbishop Black- 

 adder died in 1508. 



In Pitcairn's Criminal Trials is given in full a special respite, 

 granted by James the Fourth, on 28th August 1504, in favour of 

 the "men, kin, tenentis, factouris, and servandis of Eobert, 

 Archbishop of Glasgow," then about to proceed to Eome on the 

 King's business, and " especially for the slauchter of umquhile 

 Thomas Euthirfurde within the Abbaye of Jedworthe." 



Above the large window of the north transept have been arms, 

 but they are now very much obliterated. The only thing we 

 can trace out is the appearance of a bishop's mitre. On a but- 

 tress which supports the south side of the choir chapel is a shield 

 bearing a bull's head, said to be the arms of Bishop Turnbull, 

 who was Bishop of Glasgow. Jedburgh being within the See 

 of Glasgow, accounts for the arms of Turnbull and Blackadder 



