in their original position. From the heraldic coats on the monument (see Fig. [1133]) it is obvious that the knight was a Douglas, and that the lady was of royal descent. On a lozenge at the head of the knight are the
Fig. 1131.—The Collegiate Church of Dalkeith. South Doorway.
arms of Douglas of Dalkeith, viz., two stars on a chief. And on a similar lozenge at the head of the lady are the same arms impaled with those of Scotland (Fig. [1135]). The same arms are also repeated at the sides of
Fig. 1132.—The Collegiate Church of Dalkeith. North-East Side of Apse.
the monument (see Fig. [1133]), with what appear like coronets above them, from which Mr. James Drummond[97] gives it as his opinion that the persons represented are James, 4th Lord of Dalkeith, who was created Earl of Morton in 1457, and his wife Johan, third daughter of King James I. The former died about 1498. Mr. Drummond supposes the lady survived her husband, but the Lady Johanna must have died before the year 1490.[98] The facts on which that view is founded are the presence of the royal and Douglas arms impaled, and “the male figure being sculptured with an earl’s coronet, to which none of the previous lords of Dalkeith had a right, although they were allied to royalty.”[99]
