There is a charter which shows that, in 1569, Gavin Walker, "Chapline of the Chaplainerie of Loretto",[201] restored to the town the ground originally granted by it to Thomas Duthie. According to the brief notice contributed by "Jupiter" Carlyle to the old _Statistical Account_, the Chapel was demolished in 1590, and the materials were utilized for the building of a new tolbooth. He states that "this is said to have been the first religious house in Scotland whose ruins were applied to an unhallowed use". That is not improbable. But when "Jupiter" goes on to record that for this act "the good people of Musselburgh are said to have been annually excommunicated, till very lately, at Rome", he helps to perpetuate a tradition of which his own common sense might have shown him the improbability--not to use a harsher term. FOOTNOTES: for LORETTO [191] _History of the Regality of Musselburgh_, p. 95. [192] Item, for xxxvj elnis and ane quarter blechit bertane canwes to be thre albis, thre ametis, and thre altar towellis to oure Lady Chapell of Laureit, price of the elne iijs. iiijd.; summa ... ... ... vj_li._ x_d._ Item, to be thre croces to the chesabillis and to paill the fruntale, v-1/2 elnis quhite satyne, price of the elne xxxijs.; summa ... ... ... viij_li._ xvj_s._ Item, to be armes apoun the thre chesabillis and fruntell, ane quarter yallow satyne, price ... ... ... viij_s._ Item, to be frenzeis to the fruntell, ij unces silk, price thairof ... ... ... x_s._ Item, for bukrem, rubanis, making and uthir furnessing of the thre vestimentis, fruntell, stoill and parolis ... ... ... iiij_li._ v_s._ Item, to the broidstar for brodering of the Kingis armes apoun the saidis thre vestimentis and fruntell ... ... xxvj_s._ viij_d._ Item, for weving of the frenzeis to the fruntell, sewing of the albis, and croces to the towellis ... ... ... xxvj_s._ viij_d._ --Vol. vi, pp. 200-1. [193] _Accounts_, vol. vi, p. lxij. [194] _Accounts_, p. 299. [195] _Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour_, ll. 2661, _et seq._ [196] _Ibid._, l. 2665. [197] _Ibid._, ll. 2690-2. [198] "In these tymes there was besyde Mussilburgh, St. Allarit's chapell, and in these tymes of ignorance and superstition, it was believed that if women that were in hard labour did sent ane offering to the Preist and Freirs there, they wold get easy delyverance."--_History of the Regality of Musselburgh_, p. 101.