Arabic figures on the same line. And it is a curious circumstance, that on again closely inspecting this part of the stone, while writing this account of it, I have discovered the same date twice given in very small Arabic figures, immediately below the line containing the larger ones, within a space about an inch in length. And the stone being probably placed in its present position during the abbotship of Dury, the last abbot, he might wish his arms to be put on it, which are immediately above the date. Where the stone, with its device, had previously been, if elsewhere, it is needless to conjecture. It is even not unlikely, according to the opinion last expressed by me in 1844 (vol. i. p. 486), that the stone had been sculptured, as well as ornamented with Dury's arms, and the puzzling ancient date inserted on it, all at the same period.

Adjoining the north extremity of the west gable of the Palace there are the foundations of what was probably a small structure, to which Queen Anne of Denmark, spouse of James VI., might resort for a view of the Glen, and other purposes-having access to it through her yard or garden, situated between the Palace-yard and her separate dowry-house, which stood partly on the public road, with pend underneath, and partly on the presently enclosed policy-ground of Pittencrieff. Between it and the Abbey Church were the houses of the Palace Constabulary, and Bailie of Regality. All these, along with the west end of the church, dormitory of the monks, beautiful window of the Frater-hall, &c., are well shown in a conjunct view, taken from a position near the Abbey Pended Gateway, in Plate No. VI. of the present volume. For the draught of most of this view I am indebted to Dr E. Henderson, who had some old sketches of these edifices, with which he obligingly favoured me.

The view of the Palace, No. V., was drawn and engraved for this volume by Mr Banks, Waterloo Place, and I have confidence in saying, from the pains taken with every portion of it, in the sketching, engraving, and examination, that it is the most full and accurate which has ever been published. It includes, towards the right, a window of the Refectory, and upper portion of the intermediate gateway.

A good plan of the ground, at present in dispute between the Crown and Mr Hunt of Pittencrieff, around the Palace, and in

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cluding it, as well as of the Abbey, churchyard, &c., was prepared, under remit from the Hon. Lord Mackenzie, of date 17th March 1855, by Henry J. Wylie, C.E., and is appended to the Record and Appendix in the action, printed by W. Blackwood & Sons.

The broad roadway, mentioned as forming the continuation of the regular entry into the town by the wynd, was not between, but on the west side of the Constabulary and Regality Bailie houses. These houses, which are represented in Plate VI. of the present volume, were removed, not in 1753, as stated in Mercer's Chronological Table, but in 1797. The former date was that of the removal of an old building to make way for a stable on the south side of the new tower or steeple.

The Marquess of Tweeddale, the successor of the Earl of Dunfermline in his heritable offices and rights, had a tenement at the head of St Catherine's Wynd, fronting the gate of the old churchyard, as seen by me in an old title-deed in the possession of a writer in Dunfermline, of date 1704. The site of it is marked in the new ground-plan, Plate No. I.

I have noticed, in the note p. 110, a narrow street leading west from Queen Anne Street, called Rottenrow, but which, from being a continuation of it, has lately received the same name. Rejecting the vulgar derivation of the name from "rats" (or "rattons," Scotticè), as if the neighbourhood were peculiarly infested with such animals, I suggested, as a probable derivation, that it was from the route or course taken in some of the processions of the Romish Church, whence also a street in Glasgow, near the Cathedral Church there, might have been similarly named. I find that this was the opinion of a writer in the London periodical, Notes and Queries, (September 7, 1850), as to the origin of the name of the Glasgow street, who says, inter alia, "although, in 1458, the Vicus Rattonum is the term actually used in the Archbishop of Glasgow's chartulary," the circumstance of the Rotten Row Port having perhaps the more classic origin of the Ratumena Porta in ancient Rome, and "having stood at the west end of this street, and the Stable Green Port near the east end, which also led to the Archbishop's castle, it is probable not only that it was the street through which processions would generally proceed, but that the port alluded to, and