The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-09-30

was carried off by his mother in q
chest in order to save him from fac.
ton of the mobiles who wanted the
control of the kingdom. Here took
place the treacherous slaughter of the
two young Douglases, which gave rise
to the lines:
Edinburgh CASTLE, town and tower,
God grant thou sink for sin:
And that even for the black dinous
Earl Douglas gat therein"
The Doug,ases had come to the cas-
tie by invitation, and were banquet
ing with the king, when suddenly the
Black Bulls Head" the signal OF
death, was set on the table The king
flames H. tried to save the youths,
but Livingstone and Crichton, who
were responsible for the plot, had
them carried to the courtyard and be-.
headed.
With the exception of st. Margaret's
chapel and the portion of the castle
in which Queen Mary's rooms are sit.
uated, the buildings on the Castle
Rock are subsequent to this period
All earlier buildings (other than those
mentioned) were destroyed at the
time of this siege.
Charles |. slept in the castle on the
night before his coronation as king OF
the Scots in Hollywood, and from here
he rode in state down the High street
and the Canongate to the Chape
Royal on the morning of the cere
mony. He also held his coronation
banquet in the great hall of the castle
Besleged by Cromwell.
A few years later the castle was be
sieged by Cromwell At the revolu
ton of 1888 it held out for James. But
the tables were turned in 1745, wheI
the garrison fired on the troops o.
Prince Charles Edward. Although
Prince Charlie held state at Hollywood
the castle continued to be occupied
by the government troops, and every
now and again the Jacobites were re
| minded of the fact. Not much dam
age was done, but imbedded in thu
wall on the Castlehill is one of thu
last balls fired from this ancient fort
ress.
The Scottish regalia-the crown
the sword of state and the scepter-
| which were used at the coronation o
the Scottish kings down to that O.
| Charles l. In Holyrood and Charles II
at Scone (the last coronation in Scot
| land) are preserved in the castle
where for many years they were hiG
den away until, largely through tn,
| efforts of Sir Walter Scott, they wer,
| discovered.
The Castlehill was long used TO
executions, and 1t has been estimated
that about 1000 persons were burned
here for witchcraft. Among them wer,
several persons of distinction
At later date the soil of the Cas-
tlehill was. by curious legal fiction
held to be the soil of Nova Scotia
| Those who were created baronets O
Nova Scotia and who received grant
Of land there had to have "seisin
but 1t was felt to be a rather bi.
1 undertaking to cross the Atlantic 70
! the purpose. The device adoptei
waved this. Between 1926 and 1874
over sixty baronets of Nova Scots
took 'seisin" here Of the lands whicl
had been granted to them in America
There Is a tradition Robert Loui
Stevenson fifty characterizes 1t as :"
silly story') of subterranean pas
sage between the castle and IIolyroo,
and of piper who volunteered to es
plore It and never returned Simila
legends are common In Scotland
There is said to be passage between
| the abbey and cliffs at Arbroath
and lost piper figures in that story
too. Secret passages are said to es
list between the castle and the cathe
dral In st. Andrews, and also in cor
| nection with Elgin cathedral.