PALACE OF ARCHBISHOP BETHUNE—BOARDING-SCHOOLS OF THE LAST
CENTURY—THE LAST OF THE LORIMERS—LADY LOVAT.
Those who now look into Blackfriars Wynd—passing through it is out of
the question—will be surprised to learn that, all dismal and wretched
as it is in all respects, it was once a place of some respectability
and even dignity. On several of its tall old _lands_ may be seen
inscriptions implying piety on the part of the founder—one, for
example:
PAX INTRANTIBUS,
SALUS EXEUNTIBUS;
another: