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Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097830
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097830
65. Carved Stones, Bailie Fyfe's Close, 107 High Street.
Above the modern entrance to the Close a 17th-century heraldic panel has been inserted. The shield, which is flanked by the initials I P and M H, is parted per pale and charged: Dexter, a chevron between three mullets, probably for Parley*; sinister, a mullet between three escutcheons, for Hay of Murnsyde. The carved lintel over the E. window on the second floor seems to be modern.
A moulded lintel said to have come from the third floor of the tall tenement that formerly stood upon the E. side of the Close (1), and now inserted over a doorway in the modern brick building that occupies the same site, bears a rhymed couplet
ENEMEIS OF GOD AND THE KING
TO THE EARTH DID ME DOVN DING
together with the date 1572. This was the year of the five months' truce between the King's and the Queen's parties.
RCAHMS 1951
(1) O.E.C., xv, pp. 118 f.
