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 FOURTH PERIOD 122 GLAMIS CASTLE ing, but the circular aperture containing the bust is an original idea. Fig. 584 gives a view of the north side of the keep. It is very pictur- esque, though plain,, and forms a striking contrast with the south-west view,, Fig. 577. The former view shows the platform roof, terminated towards the east with a projecting circular parapet or balcony, flanked by a chimney on each side, instead of the open stone turrets which finish the parapet to the south and west. The chapel, measuring about 30 feet by 18 feet, forms part of the buildings called by Earl Patrick, in his Record, the " Back Close." It was erected by him, and the interior walls and ceiling were decorated with painted panels by Jacob de Witt, or de Wet, in 1688, an artist who was employed in this country in similar work at Holyrood Palace. Mr. Jervise, in his Memorials of Angus and Mearns, quoting the family papers at Glamis, nar- rates that it was agreed between the Earl and De Witt that each of the fifteen large panels in the roof of the chapel should contain " a full and distinct storie of our Blissed Saviour, con- forme to the cutts in a Bible here in the house, or the Service book." The lesser panels were to be filled " with the Angels as in the Skie, and such other things as he (De Witt) shall invent and be esteemed proper for the work." " The Crucifixion was to form the Altar piece, and the Doore piece the Ascenscione." In the panels around the chapel our Saviour was to be painted, and his twelve apostles, "in als full stature as the panels will permit," also " King Charles the Martyr," and St. Paul and St. Stephen, all con- form to the cuts in the books referred to. Each picture was to have the same name r painted above, and " at the foot a scroll containing the same words as are expressed in the cutt." Mr. A. H. Millar, in his admirable papers in the Dundee Advertiser on the Castles of Forfarshire and Perthshire, tells us that he finds from the family papers that De Witt was to receive " fourscore and ten pounds FIG. 583. Glamis Castle. View of Entrance Doorway.