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Excerpt from Edinburgh and the Lothians At Holyrood; The Approach to Holyrood - Charm, Beauties and Memories of the Palace - The Entrance - The Gallery of Kings - The Crowd of Shadows - The Darnley Rooms - The Mary Stuart Rooms - The Secret Staircase - Comments of Visitors - The Graves in the Abbey - Lord Belhaven - Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney and Shetland - Royal Vault - A Legend of Holyrood - Queen Mary's Bath and Croft-an-Righ - The Gardens - The Precincts; The Story of Holyrood; The Legend of King David - The Foundation of the Abbey - Fate of the Black Rood of Scotland - The Right of Sanctuary of the Abbey and the Palace - The Thirty-one Abbots - Holyrood as Palace - Marriage of James IV. and Margaret Tudor - Other Royalties - Queen Mary's Reception - Her Happy Days - The Storm-cloud - Murders of Rizzio and Darnley - Wild Voices round the Palace - James VI. at Holyrood - The Bothwell Escapades - Holyrood after the Union of the Crowns - Palace burned down and rebuilt - The Last Riding of the Parliament - Royal Fugitives at Holyrood - Later Days; The Historic Mile; The High Street and Canongate - Its Divisions - Romantic Note in Scots Annals - The Old-time Aspect - The Great Invasion - The Closes - Their Strange History - Inscriptions on the Houses and their Meanings - The Changes Inevitable; Some Closes and Houses in High Street and Canongate; A Stroll from the Castle to Holyrood - The Palace of Mary of Guise - The Free Kirk College - Memories of James's Court - Libberton's Wynd - The Eventful History of Lady Stair - The Anchor Close - Guy Mannering - The Folk of Warriston's Close - The City Chambers and the City Museum - Round about the Tron Church - The Meeting of the Ways - John Knox's House - Its Traditions - Strichen's Close and the Bluidy Advocate Mackenzie - The Begbie Murder - World's End Close and the Netherbow Port - A Brief Chronicle of the Canongate - Morocco Land and its Legend - Golfer's Land - The White Horse Close - The Royal Tennis Court and the Early Theatre - Huntly House and Popular Tradition - Moray House and its Memories - St John Street - The Fall of the Canongate About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.