The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 515
filled with statues of a pope to repre-sent the Church; a knight to indicate the Gentry; and a labouring manto symbolise the Commons—each having a scroll above his head, on whichwere inscribed a few words of legend, now irretrievably lost. This group,continues Mr. Robertson, together with the group… … LINLITHGOW PALACE 497 THIRD PERIOD A good deal of the external work seems to have been painted andgilded as late as the time of James vi. There is an entry in I629, Forpainting and laying over with oyle cullom-, and for gelting with gold thehaill foir face of the new wark —the north side. The south…
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