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ROSLIN CHAPEL AND CASTLE. I53
he knocked out the lad’s brains with his hammer. The figure
of the ’prentice is pointed out on the top of another pillar,
and not far off is a buff, faid to be that of his mother, who is
looking at his dead body and weeping. The pillar is of
exquifite workmanfhip, being covered with the moft delicate
tracery, which runs fpirally round it. Such alegendisnot con-
ROSLIN : ’prentice pillar.
fined to Rollin; there is a ’prentice pillar in one of the churches
at Rouen, and of a fimilar nature is the legend of the celebrated
aftronomical clock in Strafburg Cathedral, that the inventor
had no fooner completed it than the corporation had his eyes
put out, that he might not make another like it.
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he knocked out the lad’s brains with his hammer. The figure
of the ’prentice is pointed out on the top of another pillar,
and not far off is a buff, faid to be that of his mother, who is
looking at his dead body and weeping. The pillar is of
exquifite workmanfhip, being covered with the moft delicate
tracery, which runs fpirally round it. Such alegendisnot con-
ROSLIN : ’prentice pillar.
fined to Rollin; there is a ’prentice pillar in one of the churches
at Rouen, and of a fimilar nature is the legend of the celebrated
aftronomical clock in Strafburg Cathedral, that the inventor
had no fooner completed it than the corporation had his eyes
put out, that he might not make another like it.
x