History of Scotland, Volume 2William Tait, 1829 |
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Page 235 - ... (Mr. Tytler ought to have noticed the candid admission of his authority, that, if not of solid plate, the vessels were at least lackered with gold or silver.) ' Under the reign of Alexander the First, the intercourse of Scotland with the east, and the splendid appearance of the sovereign, are shown by a singular ceremony which took place in the High Church at St.
Page 365 - Scots, a nation in whose veins the blood of all those ancient races is mingled, should, at a remote period, have evinced an enthusiastic admiration for song and poetry; that the harper was to be found amongst the officers who composed the personal state of the sovereign ; and that the country maintained a privileged race of wandering minstrels, who eagerly seized on the prevailing superstitions and romantic legends, and wove them, in rude but sometimes expressive versification, into their stories...
Page 4 - Roslin, whom he saw in jeopardy. In attempting this, he was inextricably involved with the enemy. Taking from his neck the casket which contained the heart- of Bruce, he cast it before him, and exclaimed with a loud voice, " Now pass onward as thou wert wont, and Douglas will follow thee or die...
Page 386 - ... with great danger, they possessed themselves of the inner ballia, through a chink ; at the fourth assault, the miners set fire to the tower, so that the smoke burst out, and the tower itself was cloven to that degree, as to show visibly some broad chinks, whereupon the enemy surrendered.
Page 207 - ... the lord of the soil. Thus, by a similar process, which we find took place in England under the Normans, and which is very clearly to be traced in Domesday Book, the greater feudal barons were possessed not only of immense estates, embracing within them field and forest, river, lake, and mountain, but of numerous and flourishing villages, for which they received a regular rent, and of whose wealth and gains they always held a share, because they were frequently the masters of the persons and...
Page 304 - As the commercial intercourse with the East increased, the rich Oriental pearl, from its superior brilliancy and more perfect form, excluded the Scottish pearls from the jewel market ; and by a statute of the Parisian goldsmiths, in the year 1355, we find it enacted that no worker in gold or silver shall...
Page 352 - Seotus;4 and that, во early as 1233, the schools of St Andrews were under the charge of a rector. A remarkable instance of this is to be found in the Cartulary of Kelso, where Matilda, the Lady of Moll, in the year 1260, grants a certain rent to be paid to the abbot and the monks of this religious house, under the condition that they should board and educate her son with the best boys who were intrusted to their care.5 In the Accounts of the Chamberlain l Cartulary of Kelso, pp.
Page 206 - Cartularies, that at this period, upon the large feudal estates belonging to the nobles or to the church, were to be found small villages, or collections of hamlets and cottages, termed...
Page 392 - The Pope created several corporations of Roman and Italian Architects and Artisans, with high and exclusive privileges; especially with a power of settling the rates and prices of their labour by their own authority, and without being controlled by the municipal laws of the country where they worked. To the various northern countries where the churches had fallen into a state of decay, were these artists deputed...
Page 393 - Italians (among which were yet some Greek refugees), and with them French, Germans, and Flemings, joined into a fraternity of architects; procuring papal bulls for their encouragement, and particular privileges : they styled themselves freemasons, and ranged from one nation to another as they found churches to be built (for •very many in those ages were every where in building, through piety or emulation).