House and Garden 
HOLYROOD AND ARTHUR’S SEAT 
Lawnmarket, and Canongate give many a clue 
to an historic episode. 
Near the castle are the Parliament Build¬ 
ings in whose hall Sir Walter, with many 
another of lesser fame, walked a briefless 
barrister. Here, 
too, I witnessed, 
under the guidance 
of a Writer to the 
Signet, the opera¬ 
tion of the Great 
Seal of Scotland 
upon two docu¬ 
ments with which 
my legal friend had 
professional con¬ 
cern. Not faraway 
tothesouth ward are 
Greyfriars’ Church 
and the Hospital 
of “ ] ingling Geor- 
die.” In the Neth- 
erbow is John 
Knox’s house 
whence he issued 
on more than one 
occasion to with¬ 
stand Queen Mary. 
How those nineteen 
months of labor as a French galley slave 
must have reinforced the blasts of Knox’s 
“Trumpet Against the Monstrous Army of 
Women.” 
As we pass down to Holyrood note the 
Canongate Tol- 
booth, and here 
and there unmis¬ 
takable remains of 
the fine town houses 
of the Marian and 
Jacobean courtiers. 
This same High 
Street (for so it was 
collectively called 
from the castle to 
the Palace) was in 
its day deemed one 
of the finest streets 
in Europe, hut its 
modern successor 
in the New Town 
makes it seem un¬ 
speakably shabby. 
The Palace lies 
at the bottom of 
the incline and 
though mostly re¬ 
built after the fire 
THE HOLYROOD FOUNTAIN 
A facsimile restoration of a ruined fountain at Linlithgow Palace 
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