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DescriptionScoti-Monasticon- the ancient church of Scotland, a history of the cathedrals, conventual foundations, collegiate churches, and hospitals of Scotland (1874) (14782573424).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: orth side was erected by Abbot Ballantyne. The east window, of fivelights, is Decorated, and is a reconstruction, c. 1633, ^d again in 1795 ; itmeasures 36 x 20 feet: the shafts of the western pillars of the crossing remainon either side. There were chapels of St. Andrew and St. Catharine,founded by Bishop Crichton, south of the choir; St. Anne, maintained bythe tailors guild; and of SS. Crispin and Crispinian by the cordwainers ofthe Canongate; as in similar instances at Brecon. Until the beginning ofthe sixteenth century the Scottish kings resided in the abbey as guests, andthe coining irons of the mint were kept within it. In the nave there was acrown of brass, hung from the roof by chains, and filled with tapers on festi-vals. Before the altar stood a brazen tree, studded with gems, and lampspendent from the branches. An altar of St. Stephen, on the north;side of theparish altar, had a vaulting above it, which was made the model for that offive chapels added at St. Giless in 1387. Text Appearing After Image: THE AXCIE.XT CHURCH OF SCOTLAXD. 303 In 1332 Edward II. plundered, and in 1385 Richard II. burned, theabbey. In May, 1544, and in September, 1547, the choir. Lady Chapel, thetransept, and conventual buildings were destroyed by the English, whenthe Protector Somerset sent two commissioners to suppress the foundation.They unleaded the fabric, stole the bells, and pensioned off the canons whohad fled away. The great bells and the goodly font of solid brass, whereinthe children of the king were wont to be baptized, were added by AbbotBellenden. Sir Richard Lee brought the font to St. Albans Abbey in 1543,but it was carried away in the civil wars by a vile ironmonger, anddestroyed. Its form, Browne Willis says, was preserved in one still remain-ing. Henry IV. had spared the abbey because it had given shelter to hisfather, the Duke of Lancaster, in 1400, when he fled from Jack Straw andthe rising of the peasants; but the Scotch fanatics under the Earl of Glen-cairn sacked it on June 18,1567
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