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 LINLITHGOW PALACE 493 THIRD PERIOD glass being thirteen pence a foot both sums of course being Scotch money. The five images cost altogether less than 10,, the plain glass in which they were set costing 15. The painted glass of the five windows of the Lion Chamber (the Parliament Hall}, executed in the same year, 1535, cost 7, the common glass costing less than 4>." Many of the other entries in the Records are most interesting in con- nection with the furnishing of the building. Thus we find that here, as in England, the floors were strewn with rushes, and the walls hung with arras. The glass in the windows was evidently a fixture, but the arras was carried backwards and forwards between Edinburgh and Lin- lithgow. The furnishings for the chapel, the plate-chests, cupboards, etc., were also carried about as the King changed his residence. The King's organ, or " pair of organs," for use in the chapel, also accompanied him when he moved from one palace to another. On the west side of the quadrangle are the King's dining-room and drawing-room. The private stair from the dining-room to the wine- cellars has already been referred to. The window, from the ingoing of which this is entered (Fig. 423), was altered in the time of James vi., as is evident from its design. The small room at the south-west angle is apparently a private room, to which parties might retire from the anteroom or dining-room, or it may have been used as a kitchen or pantry in connection with the dining-room. The dining-room and drawing-room have stone seats in FIG. 424. Liulithgow Palace. Fireplace in Drawing-Room. the window recesses. The drawing-room is usually called Queen Mary's Room, and it is said that she was born there. The fireplace (Fig. 424) is interesting from being very similar to those of the palace at Stirling,