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Title: The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Mackie, Charles, d. 1864
Subjects: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Castles Palaces
Publisher: London : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ufactured iinto valuable articles. When Prince Leopold, now King of the Belgians, \visited Glasgow, he was presented by the magistrates with the freedom ?of that city enclosed in an elegantly ornamented box composed of the >celebrated yew, with which and by its romantic history the prince ex-pressed himself highly gratified and deeply interested. ; In Pollock House is preserved a most interesting memorial of the iCrookston Yew. It is a perfect model of the castle, executed, as the ,inscription bears, by a self-taught genius of the name of Finlay. The ;model is formed of the yew wood, cut into square pieces to resemble \stones about the eighth part of an inch square, and built with masonic ^precision, glue having been used instead of mortar. Every stone in the \ » A device was the skilful coupling of a few expressive woi-ds, with an engraved figure orpicture, an art intimately connected with the science of heraldry, and which probably suggestedthe modem seal and motto.—Bell. -r T
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1568.) QUEEN MARYS LETTER TO THE LAIRD OF POLLOCK. 375 ruin is here represented with a minuteness and fidelity which astonishedus, exhibiting both the exterior and interior of the castle ; we weretold that it cost the ingenious artist four years labour to complete it. The family of Maxwell were always sincerely attached to the royalhouse of Stuart: the very name of Maxwell, the most numerous perhapsof all surnames, has proved proverbial for loyalty and fidelity. In theshire of Galloway, the Macdeules, Mackays, Macquhys, Maxwells,Maclellans, and Maclurgs are so common, that gentlemen are nevercalled by their own names, but, as in France, by those of their estates.Nicolson, in his historical traditions, stiitcs, as an example for thenecessity of adopting this mode of distinction where so many gentlemenof the same name live in the same county, that he knew six gentlemenof the name of John Maxwell in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright; andwhen you ask for any one of them, you must name him by

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