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Robert Bruce and the invasion of Richard II. It should be mentioned
that Bruce's bequest was not all received till 1399, and the
operations also probably proceeded slowly. The doorway in the south
wall of the south transept is apparently an insertion in older
work."[462] The south chapels of the nave have apparently been added
during the repairs in the earlier part of the fifteenth century; the
buttresses were probably executed towards the middle of that
century, and the east one contains the arms of Abbot Hunter.[463]
There is a distinct change in the transept's design from that of the
nave, as if the former had been added to the latter at a later
period.[464] The east wall and the other eastern parts of the choir
are more recent than the nave, and probably this portion of the
church had been more damaged by Richard II. than the nave, and
required to be almost wholly rebuilt. The style here corresponds
closely with the "perpendicular" of England which prevailed in the
fifteenth century.[465] The great eastern window is exceptional and
unique, and has more of the character of perpendicular than any
other style. Scott, referring to it, has described the moon as
shining

Through slender shafts of shapely stone,
By foliaged tracery combined;
Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand,
Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand,
In many a freakish knot, had twined;
Then framed a spell, when the work was done,
And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.

The design of the west wall of the north transept is different from
that of the other parts of the building, but the clerestory windows
are of the same design as the rest of the older church. "The wall
ribs of the vaulting include two windows in each; and the space
between the windows is occupied by two niches, each carried up from
a shaft--with late canopies, containing statues of St. Peter and St.
Paul, the former having the keys and the latter holding his sword.
These are the best preserved statues in the church, but they are not
of very remarkable workmanship."[466] The building or restoration of
the eastern part of the edifice is regarded as indicating, from its
style, work of the middle of the fifteenth century, and the vaulting
of the south transept appears to have been erected by Abbot Hunter
about the same