feat abroad to be manufa&ured. It alfo employs many hands il
dreffing of flax, .and in wool-combing: for the laft, the wool I
brought from the borders. Its port was formerly Blacknefs, but
fince the decline of that place, Bunowjlonefs, about two miles diftanl
from Linlithgow.
The caftle was founded by Edward I. who refided in it for a who!
winter. But in 1307 we find that it was taken, and demolifhed b|
one Birny, a Scotfinan. In the reign of Edward III. the Englijh poll
felled it again ; for there is extant, an order for the cuftody of thl
hofpital to John Swanland *.
I cannot difcover by whom it was re-built. It is at prefent 1
magnificent-edifice, of a fquare form, finely feated: above the lakl
James V . and VI. ornamented it greatly. The infide is much_ea|
belliihed with fculpture : over an inner gate are niches, in form*
times holding the ftatues of a pope and a cardinal; erefted, astral
dition fays, by James V. in compliment to his holinefs for a prefe*
pf a confecrated fword and helmet f . On an outward gate, im
tached from the building, are the four orders of knighthoo«
which his majefty bore, the garter, thiftle, holy-ghoft, and golderM
fleece.
Within the palace is a handfome fquare : one fide is more m o d e *
than the others, having been built by James VI. and kept in gool
repair, till 1746, when it was accidentally burnt by the king’s for«
The pediments over the windows are neatly carved, and dat^
1619.
* Calendar o f Charter«, by Sir JoJ. Aylojft, i6 a ,
t Lcjly, Hift, Scot. 353.
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