[Illustration: FIG. 539.--Inchmahome Priory. Mouldings of West Doorway.] constructed and enclosed between two high walls leading up to it. This was, no doubt, erected with the materials of the demolished monastic buildings right through the centre of what was the cloister garth. This enclosure is said to have been erected in haste to receive the remains of Lord Kilpont, son of the first Earl of Menteith and Airth, who was assassinated in the camp of Montrose at Collace, in 1644, by Stewart of Ardvoirlich; a weird Highland story, on which Scott has founded his romance of _The Legend of Montrose_. The body was sent home to his father, then a State prisoner in his own castle of Talla, and was buried here. [Illustration: FIG. 540.--Inchmahome Priory. North-West Tower.] In the choir are the graves of some of the most distinguished men of the families of Comyn, Stewart, Drummond, and Graham, with numerous monuments, much defaced--amongst others, that of Walter Stewart, fifth Earl of Menteith and his Countess (Figs. 541 and 542). The Earl was one of the most historic men of his day. He was present at the battle of Largs, in 1263; he was a witness to the marriage of the Princess Margaret to Eric of Norway, 1281; and he was a distinguished crusader under Louis IX. [Illustration: FIG. 541.--Inchmahome Priory. Monument of Fifth Earl and Countess of Menteith. (Drawn from Sketch by Mr. R. B. Armstrong.)] In 1543 Queen Mary, as a child, found refuge here along with her mother after the battle of Pinkie, and she stayed here for some months until a favourable opportunity was found for sending her to France. Dr. John Brown has pointed out that amongst other interesting and suggestive relics in the garden may still be seen what seems to have been the young queen’s miniature or child’s garden--a small flower plot, the boxwood edging of which has now grown up into a thick shrubbery. [Illustration: FIG. 542.--Inchmahome Priory. Monument of Fifth Earl of Menteith. (Drawn from Sketch by Mr. R. B. Armstrong.)] At the south side of the island there is a high mound, called the “Nun’s Walk,” about which a romantic and tragic tale is told. This may, however, have been an artificial mote or mound, raised for the purpose of receiving an early wooden castle on its summit. There is a similar mound close to Lincluden College, Dumfriesshire. ELGIN CATHEDRAL, MORAYSHIRE.