The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-09-27

EDISDURG, SCOTLAND, July 2, 1855.

continue my sketch OF Holyrood by the
last steamer as per promise /; but I now
resume my pen for the purpose of doing
so. Having disposed of Mary, we will
now proceed with the history of the ven-
cradle pile under which was next occu-
pied by her son and successor, James
vi. About the end of September, 1879,
the King, then in his fourteenth year,
made his first public entry into Edin-
burgh and proceeded direct to Holyrood.
In 1890, James brought his Queen,
Anne of Denmark, to Holyrood, where
she was soon after crowned in the Chap
el Royal. The palace seems from this
period, for long time, to have cen a
scene of conspiracies, crimes, and vii
lianies, brought about in a great meas
ure, by the desire of one Of the two
prominent religious parties-l lPresby-
terian and Catholic for the ascendan-
cy. The death Of Queen Elizabeth, on
the 24th of March, 1903, obtained for
James W., the great object of his am
bition, the crown of England, and incor-
porated another party into the strife
which had so long been raging in various
parts of his kingdom, namely, the Church
Of England. The matter was finally
compromised by the service of the
Chapel being sort of mougrcl between
the Church of England and the Kirk Of
Scotland. On the 9th Of April, the
King left Holyrood for England, where
he remained until 1917.
Before the Kings arrival in Edin-
burgh, in 1917, he sent workmen from
London to repair the Church of Holy
rood, and ornament its interior. Among
other decorations there was certain car
we'd and gilt woodwork, consisting of
figures of the apostles, and an organ was
also ordered to be erected. These
measures threatened to excite popular
commotion, insomuch that the decora-
tions were not introdue ed though the
organ was soon after. One Of the old
chroniclers speaks of his Majestie's
Chappell in Halyrudhous, builded up of
new, with all ornaments, and due furni-
tour which might be required in ane
royal chappell, and maist magnifcklie
deckt and set furth, quherin wis glo-
rious altar sett up, with two closed by
blcs, two Enlightened candles, aud two
basins without water, sett thereon. :
This looks as if the King still had n
hankering after the Scarlet Lady, not
withstanding the severe training he had
been subjected to by some of his sub
jects, of which history gives full ac-
couut, and l will n OF therefore recount
it here.
In 1858, the Palace of Holyrood re-
ceived another occupant in the person
of Charles l., whose coronation took
place in the Chapel Royal, on the 10th
day of June, of that year, with great
ceremony and rejoicings. The strife
between the different religious orders
continued to increase until the final re-
suit to arms. After the execution of
Charles l., the Covenanters induced
Charles H., TO appear in Scotland, pro-
claimed him King, and brought him to
Edinburgh but the English army under
Cromwell prevented him from residing
in Holyrood. After the battle of Dun
bar, on the Sd of September, 1850,
Cromwell quartered part of his forces
in the Palace. While thus occupied,
the ediicO was, either by accident or
design, set on fire and destroyed, ex-
cept lytill,' as contemporary diarist
expresses it. The portion Of the Palace
which was left standing must have been
soon in habitablc state, for it appears
to have been used as place of confne-
ment in 1865. In 1868, Cromwell or
dered the edi6cc to be restored, but no
portion of the Protectors erection now
remains. In 1871, Charles H., deter
mined to rebuild the Palace of his fore
fathers, and before 1879 the present
Royal House Of Edinburgh was compile
ted.
From the union of the two Kingdoms
till l745, Holyrood was almost entirely
neglected and abandoned to solitude,
disturbed only by the occasional meet
ings of the Scottish nobility, for the
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