His name is embalmed with those of other poets of his day, Chaucer, Wyntoun, Blind Harry, Barbour; but it is doubtful if a line of his writings has come down to us.[52] When we enter the old church where he officiated, we shall be sadly disappointed. The requirements of a Presbyterian place of worship have altered it so much from its original form, that we must shut our eyes, and throw our minds back into former days, before we can picture it, or even understand it at all. What is now the porch was then the chancel, but the altar-tombs have been spared, with their recumbent effigies. [52] There is a poem in the Bannatyne MS. termed "Rowll's Cursing." Whether written by him, or only in his name, is not known. "The following passage in it," writes the learned Lord Hailes, "determines the era at which he lived:-- ----and now of Rome that beiris the rod, Undir the hevin to lowse and bind, Paip Alexander. The Pontiff here meant must have been the virtuous Alexander VI., who was _Divine Vicegerent_, from 1492 to 1503." In _Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland_, printed by Dr. Laing in 1822, the poem is given, and entitled The cursing of Sir John Rowlis Upoun the steilars of his fowlis; but to which of the two Rowlls this refers is unknown. "Two of the altar-tombs," to quote Wilson's vivid description, "occupy arched recesses in the chancel, one of them being the monument of Sir John Forester, the founder of the collegiate church, and his lady, apparently a St. Clair of Orkney, judging from the arms impaled with the Foresters' on one of the sculptured shields. The knight and lady are in armour and dress of the fifteenth century, and the latter clasps her breviary in her hands. In the other monument, supposed to represent the son of the founder and his wife, the lady's hands are meekly crossed over her breast. The supposed Crusader lies apart on his altar-tomb in the south transept, with his dog at his feet. He is traditionally affirmed to be Bernard, Lord of Aubigny, who died at the castle of Corstorphine, while on an embassy to the court of James IV. in 1508; but the monument is of older date, and the shield bears the Foresters' own heraldic hunting horns stringed."[53] One shield impaled with Forester bears the _fesse cheque_ of Stuart,--perhaps for Marion Stewart, Lady Dalswinton, wife of the second Sir John Forester. [53] Wilson's _Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh_. [Illustration: _Tomb in Corstorphine Church_.]