Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

The Dominicans had a convent in this City, with-
out the west-port of the north-gate, founded by Wil-
liam Wishart, Bishop of that See, in 1274 ; nothing
now remains of this edifice, but a part of the garden wall.
The Grey-friars had a convent in South Street,
founded by Bishop Kennedy, and finished by his suc-
cessor Patrick Graham, about the year 1478, and de T
dicated to St Francis. The only remains of these
buildings is a small fragment, with an arched roof, in
the Gothic stile, extremely elegant, supposed to
have been the north cross aisle of the Chapel, There
was another religious house, called the Provostry of
Kirk-heugh, situated on the high ground, above the
harbour, said to be the most ancient religious esta-
blishment in St Andrews, now wholly destroyed.
To the north of the Town stands the ruins of the
Castle, said to be buijt by Bishop Roger, about the
year 1200. It was repaired and enlarged by Bishop
Lamberton, about 1328. It sustained several sieges
in the wars with England, and continued in a ruinous
state, until it was repaired by Bishop Trail, about
the end of the fourteenth century, who died here in
1401. It appears to have been a quadrangular build-
ing, surrounded by the sea, on the east and north, and
defended on the land side by a fosse. Cardinal Bea-
ton resided in this Castle, and the window is still
shewn, out of which he glutted his eyes with the mar-
tyrdom of George Wishart, on the 1st March 1545,
attended with circumstances of peculiar barbarity ;
and in this castle, the Cardinal met a deserved death,
from the hands of the Reformers, on the 29th May
1546.
Many of the most remarkable events recorded in
the History of Scotland, have been transacted in St