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Detail of inscribed stone above doorway-"doom dying stone"

SC 426689

Description Detail of inscribed stone above doorway-"doom dying stone"

Catalogue Number SC 426689

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 10558 PO

Scope and Content Carved lintel from Bailie Fyfe's Close, High Street, Edinburgh Bailie Fyfe's Close, so narrow 'that there is hardly space for fresh air', dates from 1572. Formerly Trotter's Close, it was named after Gilbert Fyfe, merchant and Bailie of the City in the 17th century. The rhymed couplet over a ground floor doorway reads: 'ENEMEIS OF GOD AND THE KING, TO EARTH DID ME DOVN DING' and the date 1572. It translates as 'I brought down the enemies of God and the King' and upholds the owner's allegiance to James VI. During the civil war between the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots, and those of her young son, James VI, the focus of the war centred in Edinburgh in 1571. A truce was called between the opposing factions in 1572. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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