x x x v u i m gor.“, In her fon, James VI. adverfity remitted for a time the perfe-
ion of the face ; but refumed it with double fury againft his fuc-
y Charles. His fon experienced a long feries of misfortunes; and
bigotted.J^wrr fuffered the puniihment of his infatuation, and
jfmitted to his offspring, exile, and feclufion from the throne of
|r anceftors.
afs by an inclofure called the Friery, the fite of a houfe of Franks|
belonging to Roxburgh. Ford the Tivtot, which gives the
tor Tiviot-dale to all the fine country from Melros to this place,
Bjwithftanding it.is wafhed by the Tweed", fo that the old fong,
Hi propriety, calls its inhabitants
A ll men o f pleafant T iv io td a le ,
Fail: by the river Tweed*
Hire here a m o ft c h a rm in g v iew o f K e l s o , its an tien t c h u r c h , Mr.
pretty houfe, and the elegant bridge of fix arches over the
B td, near its jundtion with the Tiviot. On croffing it enter that
rcjt place built much after the manner of a Flemijh town, with a
(qfcre and town-houfe. It contains about twenty-feven hundred
Ms, has a very confiderable market, and great quantities of corn
Jrlfold here weekly, by darn pie. The parilh church is darkfome
■ inconvenient, being part of that belonging to the abby ; but a
J>ne is building, in an o&agonal form, eighty-two feet in diame-
fiipported by a circle of pillars,
[he abby-of Tyronenfians was a vaft pile, and to judge by the
fins, of venerable magnificence. The walls are ornamented
falfe round arches, interfefiting each other. Such interfeitions
i> a true Gothic arch, and'.may as probably have given rife to that
N n mode,
K e l s o .
A b b t .