arge
vaulted apartment with central pillars. These pillars were continued
up through the kitchen, and probably to the room, now gone, which
stood over the kitchen. Another arched passage led from this
apartment through below St. Catherine's Wynd and up to the
monastery. The building known as the palace was doubtless intimately
connected with the monastery, and the kitchen may have been used in
connection with both."[354] Within the "Pend Tower" on the first
floor is a five-sided room with a fire-place, and it appears to have
been a sort of guard room. It is vaulted and has irregularly placed
ribs. Over this, and entering from the circular stair adjoining, is
another groin-vaulted room, which had a fire-place of good design.

The passage and staircase are additions made at the time when the
tower was built, and the arches were thrown between the already
existing buttresses of the refectory, and in the second bay the arch
is at a low level to permit of the descending stair, while the
builders have just managed to save a very beautiful doorway
belonging to the earlier building, and now hardly seen in the shadow
of the overhanging addition.[355] To the east of the refectory is a
narrow chamber with the remains of a two-light window in the south
wall, and projecting southwards from this is the lower part of the
wall of the fratery, reaching as high as the floor of the refectory.
On the east side of the fratery extends the south wall of a building
called the Baillery Prison.[356] These fragmentary structures
exhaust the remains of the monastic buildings. The chapter-house was
on the east side of the cloister garth. The monastery was burned by
Edward I. in 1303-4, but Tytler says the church escaped.[357]
Froissart states that in 1385 Richard II. burned the abbey and town,
and it is doubted if any of the existing monastic buildings belong
to an earlier date than that last mentioned.[358] "William Schaw,
Master of Works, besides the buildings already referred to,[359]
erected in 1594 certain of the immense buttresses which form such
conspicuous features in all the views of the abbey. He likewise
built, and doubtless designed, the Queen's House and the Bailie and
Constabulary House. In connection with the latter houses there are
considerable remains of buildings still existing to the north-wes