In the grounds of the existing school of St. Leonard’s, which lie on the south side of the road leading from the “pends” to the harbour, was formerly situated St. Leonard’s Hospitium, or Guests’ Hall, for the reception of pilgrims and strangers visiting St. Andrews. This Hospitium was an ancient foundation, but according to Martine it was rebuilt by Prior John White in the middle of the thirteenth century. Of this structure there still survive the ruins of the east wall, and by recent excavations made to the westwards, it has been discovered that the building consisted of a large hall, having a central nave and two side aisles. The foundations disclosed show that there were four bays in the length of the hall. The following translations from Bower’s continuation of Fordun’s _Scotichronicon_,[5] which Lord Bute has been good enough to send us, together with his own valuable notes, throw some light on the dates of parts of the cathedral and other matters connected with it, especially the work done by Prior Halderston, 1418-1443, viz.:-- “This Lord [prior] James Halderston [inducted in 1418], master in Divinity, was extremely eloquent and of a good presence, and very careful and neat in his person and dress. After he had ruled his house well for twenty-four years, he died at his monastery on July 18, and was honourably buried in the north wall of the Chapel of our Lady, in the cathedral church, A.D. 1443. In connection with above, Lord Bute mentions that Bower (p. 366) states that Bishop Henry Wardlaw, who died April 6th, 1440, “was buried in the Church of St. Andrew, with greater pomp than his predecessors, in the wall between the choir and the Chapel of our Lady,” thus making it evident that the Chapel of our Lady was the chapel on the north side of the choir. “He [Prior Halderston] adorned the church of his monastery with wonderful and remarkable beauty, both in the carving of the stalls and in the painting of figures. The nave of this church had been erected by his predecessor, the Lord [prior] James Bisset, of worthy memory [who sat from 1393 to 1416], in a sumptuous manner, with rafters and ceilings [_tignis et tecturis_], but inside it was an empty, vast, and deserted synagogue. He [Halderston] fitted it throughout in becoming manner with glass windows, along with the erection of altars, figures, and decorations and polished pavements.” Lord Bute asks--“Did he add the altar against the screen which crosses the south aisle just west of the eastmost door into the cloister?”