Two other stones in this Chapel are worthy of a passing notice. At the
West entrance there lies, in a sadly broken condition, portions of a stone
intended to mark the resting-place of two men of the name of Lyel. We
have already found this name among, those of monks of the House. The name
of Robert Lyel is introduced as ^'honorabilis VirP The other name is James,

who died " bHi |bus. ^prilb.J ^wwr- Sirgittk in. ptt ru. 'j^^vxa^.*' This

date shows the stone we are now examining to be the oldest in the Lady
Chapel. Near the pedestal of the cross which runs along the length of the
stone there are a shield on the one side, and a skull on the other. The shield
is quartered first and fourth a cross patSe ; second and third a star with six points.
* We owe the extract from the "Feme Kalendar," and the above reading of the date, to A. H.
Dunbar, Esq.
t Forbes' Kalendars, p. 72. Notwithstanding the presence of Jane 10th as the commemoration
day of Qneen Margaret in the Menologium Scoticum (Forbes, ut supra, p. 202), as weU as in the
" Feme Kalendar/' it seems right to state that authority seems to lean to the belief that this day for
commemorating the saintly Queen was only 6xed at the instance of King James VTJ. , in 1693. (Forbes,
p. 390.) If this be so, then the suggestion of the text will be necessarily valueless.
t April 6th.
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