The nave of Glasgow Cathedral appears to have been completed in the early part of the fourteenth century, and the west end of St. Andrews Cathedral was also to some extent repaired and rebuilt about that time. Elgin Cathedral was in a large measure rebuilt after the great destruction by the “Wolf of Badenoch” in 1390, and the Northern Cathedral of Ross, at Fortrose, was enlarged about the same period. Of the ancient monasteries, those in the Border lands were much destroyed. Melrose Abbey now retains not a single portion of the original church. It had been completely demolished in the first part of the fourteenth century, but was partly rebuilt, through the liberality of Robert I., after the middle of that century; only to be again destroyed by Richard II. during his raid in 1385. To that savage raid was due the destruction of most of the sacred edifices of the south-east of Scotland. Richard’s troops penetrated as far as Edinburgh, when the town and church of St. Giles were consumed; and, in their retreat, the invaders set fire to the abbeys of Newbattle, Dryburgh, and Melrose. Paisley Abbey, in Renfrewshire, and Crosraguel and Kilwinning Abbeys, in Ayrshire, were also greatly injured during the contest with England. Jedburgh was likewise much damaged in the Border warfare, and Holyrood and Arbroath Abbeys show signs of having required restorations in the fifteenth century. When all the adverse circumstances of the country during the fourteenth century are considered, it is not astonishing to find that examples of the decorated style which prevailed in England at that time are rare in Scotland. The representatives of that style are not only scanty in number, they are also late in date. When building in Scotland revived, the decorated style had been superseded in England by the perpendicular; but the two countries being no longer in unison, the former style did not reach Scotland till it had passed away in England. It was, however, ultimately adopted in the northern part of the island, and the architecture of Scotland, during the early part of the fifteenth century, was carried out in a style which approaches nearer to the decorated than any other style. This style, as we shall see, passes gradually into a later and somewhat debased style, which, while it exhibits many features borrowed both from France and England, yet possesses some interesting peculiarities which render it a distinctly Scottish style, and will be treated of as the third or late pointed style of Scotland. The decorated structures of Scotland, though somewhat belated and inferior in size, are yet in many respects not unworthy in point of design to take their place beside those of the later part of that period in the sister country.