He shall build ane house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his Kingdom for ever. BASILICAM HANC SEMI RUTAM CAROLUS REX OPTIMUS INSTAURAVIT ANNO DONI CIↃ I^{Ↄ}XXXIII. [Illustration: DRYBURGH ABBEY] The seven buttresses which support the south wall from the outside were built by Abbot Crawfurd in the 15th century. Of the entire range of conventual buildings devoted to the domestic uses of the canons, not a vestige has been left. It is concluded, however, that the wall of the south aisle of the nave of the church, and the west wall of the adjoining transept formed, as was not uncommon in monastic edifices, two sides of the great cloister, leaving the others to the chapter house, refectory, and other principal apartments of the establishment. Doorways led into the cloister from the eastern and western extremities of the south aisle, one of these entrances being still in excellent preservation. The existing royal palace undoubtedly covers to a great extent the site of the domestic buildings of the abbey; but a large portion of these extended further towards the east than any part of the present great quadrangle. The choir and transepts of the abbey church have, as we have already seen, also disappeared, and the nave as it now stands, ruined and roofless, is itself almost the sole record of that which is gone--that sacred edifice which, when entire, was an august and magnificent building. DRYBURGH (_Præmonstratensian Canons_) _c._ 1150, Founded by David I., and granted many liberties and immunities--Colonised by monks from Alnwick--_c._ 1322, Burnt by the soldiers of Edward II.’s retreating army but rebuilt shortly after--Set on fire by Richard II. during one of his forays--1545, Burnt by Sir G. Bowes and Sir B. Layton; the church only saved--1832, Sir Walter Scott buried here. In a sunny little glade, fringed around by great oaks, clothed in verdure and luxuriant foliage, and reposing midst an almost unnatural calm, all that is left of this Præmonstratensian abbey basks in the sun. Trees not only shade it from without but also from within,--actually growing out of the walls themselves. Dryburgh, signifying “oak growth,” is a town in Berwickshire delightfully situated amidst varied scenery, a few miles only from Kelso and Melrose. A convent was founded here in the 6th century, and, on its site, St Mary’s Abbey for White canons was built in the 12th century. The ruins are beautiful both in situation and construction. Flowing past them, the Tweed takes a crescent-like course and engirts the woods in which the red walls of the abbey stand. A suspension bridge spans the river and a sloping wooded lawn stretches away in front of the ruins.