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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1887)
712 THE WEST SHORE. sovereign crowned at Scone was Charles ner next the wynd, in which a small to. IL inlCoL ageof St Bartholomew, the patron saint The beautiful pleasure grounds of the of the Glover incorporation, used to the North and South inches, spacious stand. We know this saint was flayed public parks, are highly prized by the alive. Was he so honored for the value citizens. In the North inch, which is of his skin by those of his craft? The larger than the South, the Perthshire building is in a neglected condition, and hunt meets annually, and the Caledoni- having the advantage of not being mod. an hunt onco in every four years. It ernized, looks, except for its latticed has also its historic associations. The windows, very much as we may suppose year 1390 witnessed there that desper- it to have looked when occupied by ate clan battle, so graphically described Samuel Glover and his noble minded in the "Fair Maid," and here, at the daughter. The parliament sometimes west of the statue of Prince Albert, stood meets in the dominion monastery church, the summer house, called the "Gilten and here it was that James I., (me of the Armour," belonging to the grounds wisest and best of the Scottish kings, of Blackfriar'a monastery, from which was assassinated, in 1437, through the King Itobert III. and his suite viewed jealousy of the aristocracy. The monas the bloody scene, llero the Old Pre- tery of Grayfriars was destroyed with tender reviewed his troops before and the Dominican and the Carthusian, a arter the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715, great ornament to the city, and the only and in 1745, the " Young Chevalier " re- one the Carthusians had in Scotland at viewed his soldiers on the same ground, the time of the reformation. The stat Asking information as to the locality, ue of Sir Walter Scott, the work of a our hostess of Cuthbcrt cottage told me local sculptor, stands on the South inch. I should recognize the site of the old The county buildings and jail occupy monastery as being that of "a self-con- the far-famed Gowrie house, within tained" house, opposite the statue on the which was enacted that daik tragedy of other tide of Tay street, by which she August 5th, 1G00, familiar to all readers meant, I presume, the house I saw by of Scottish history. I never passed a itself, within an enclosure, bronze tablet of the Gowrie house, by Under St John's church there is a Sir John Stocl, II A., placed in a blank burial ground, which has belonged for window of a building, without stopping many centuries to tho Mercers of Aldi. to admire it The Gowrie family were It was obtained by the gift of the North held in the highest esteem by the citi and South inches to the city; hence the zens, and the " conspiracy " with which couplet the king charged tho last earl, actuated Hume nay tho Miwr tr'n-.l the town to clwat, by unfounded jealousy, was disbelieved When for to imhc they did git nix ftt. at the time in the town, and is 6till It was in St John's church that, on viewed with suspicion. There were too tho 11th of May, 1559, John Knox many contradictions in the royal narra preached the sermon " vehement against tivo for general belief, and Osburn, an idolatry," which led to the demolition English writer of tho period, says, " No of the monasteries. At tho head of Scotchman yon could meet beyond seas Ulackfriar's wynd, through Curfew row, but laughed at it" That the memory wo come to an old tenement the house and character of Gowrie, considered the of Samuel Glover, father of the Fair " handsomest and properest " man of his Maid of Perth, with a niche in the cor- time, were very dear, is a certain fact,