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 440
EDINBURGH — 423 FOURTH PERIOD the inhabitants would be in a tolerably defensible position. Fig. 1008shows the interior of this archway and the principal entrance to the houseon the left. It is not known by whom the building was erected, but it is … Fio. 1008.—The Speaking House. Interior of Courtyard. FOURTH PERIOD 424 JOHN KNOxs HOUSE dated 1570. The origin of the name is peculiar. Chambers supposes theowner to have felt an apprehension of the popular talk on the subject ofhis buikling so large a house, and he took a method of deprecating…
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