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 the organs at Stirling and Edinburgh, are to be found in the Treasurer's Books, of which the following are specimens:

"1507, January 12. Item to the chanoun of Holyrudhous that mendit the organis in Strivelin and Edinburgh, vijli."

"1511. Item to Gilleam, organist, maker of the Kingis organis, for expenses maid be him at the sayd organis, in gait skynnis, and parchment for the belles, in naillis and sprentis of irne, in glew, papir, candill, coill, etc., viijli. iiijs."

The reintroduction of organs, episcopal vestments, decorations, etc, by James VI, into the chapel at Holyrood Palace, during his visit to Scotland in 1617, were regarded with great horror by his Scottish lieges.

"The Scots," says one of their own historians, "are in all acts of religious devotion, simple, rude and naked of ceremonial. The King, accustomed to the use of the organ and church ritual, commanded them to be used in his chapel of Holy Rood, and in the moment of joy occasioned by the general expectation of his arrival, did that, by exertion of