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 elaborate scale, something of the same arrangement at Stobhall in Perthshire, already illustrated.

To the south and west of the chapel there are remains of walls, and particularly of what is called the hermitage (see Fig. 1066); but these are very fragmentary, and so intermixed with the natural rock, which crops up everywhere, that not much can be made out in connection with them.

Of the origin of the chapel nothing appears to be known, and almost the same may be said of its history. One of the earliest notices of it—if not the earliest—occurs in the Treasurer's Accounts of 1473, as follows—"Item, vj^{to} Februarij, to offir in Sanct Antonis in the crag, to the King, xijs." In the same accounts it is again referred to in 1491 and 1496—"Item,

—St. Anthony's Chapel. Plans, Section, and North Elevation of Existing Structure.

at he laid down for the King, on Sanct Anthonis day in Sanct Anthonis chapel, besid Edinburgh, to the Kings offerand ixs." Again in 1498, the King (James ) made an offering in "Sanct Anthonis of the crag of xjs. viijd."

An exhaustive review of the present condition of the chapel and hermitage, and an account of the various references to them by different writers, has been prepared by Mr. Fred. R. Coles. Mr Coles gives reproductions of various old views, with notes on all the earlier known drawings, as also observations on St. Anthony and churches dedicated to