a
magnificent wall, which, starting at the north-east corner of the
cathedral, passed round by the harbour and along behind the houses, till
it joined the walls of St. Leonard's College on the south-west.

This, about a mile in extent, is all that now remains, but it is
thought at one time to have passed back from the college to the
cathedral. The wall has thirteen turrets, and each has a canopied
niche for an image. The portion towards the shore has a parapet on
each side, as if designed for a walk. There were three gateways, the
chief of which, on the S.W., is known as the Pends, and of which
considerable ruins still remain. Another gateway is near the
harbour, and the third was on the S. side. Martine in his _Reliquiae
Divi Andreae_ mentions that in his time fourteen buildings were
discernible besides the cathedral and St. Rule's Chapel. Among these
were the Prior's House or the old inn to the S.E. of the cathedral,
of which only a few vaults now remain; the cloisters, W. of this
house, and now the garden of a private house, in the quadrangle of
which the Senzie Fair used to be held, beginning in the second week
of Easter, and continuing for fifteen days; the Senzie House, or
house of the sub-prior, subsequently used as an inn, but now pulled
down and the site occupied by a private house. The refectory was on
the S. side of the cloister, and has now disappeared, as well as the
dormitory between the Prior's House and the cloister, and from which
Edward I. carried off all the lead to supply his battering machines
at the siege of Stirling. The Guests' Hall was within the precincts
of St. Leonard's College, S.W. of Pend's Lane; the Teinds' Barn,
Abbey Mill, and Granary were all to the S.W. The new inn, the latest
of all the buildings, was erected for the reception of Magdalene,
the first wife of James V. The young queen, of delicate
constitution, was advised by her physicians to reside here; she did
not live to occupy the house, as she died on 7th July 1537, six
weeks after her arrival in Scotland. It was for a short time the
residence of Mary of Guise when she first arrived in Scotland, and
after the priory was annexed to the archbishopric in 1635 the
building became the residence of the later archbishops. Several of
its canons had sympathies with the Scottish Reformation. The prior
of St.