RELIC OF FRENCH ATTACK
Workmen recently discovered a 400-year-old cannon ball embedded in the rafters of an old house ’at St. Andrews, Scotland, which they were demolishing. According to Dean of Guild Linskill, the Jocal authority on antiquarian matters; the ball belongs to the sixteenth century. Abouo 1547. a French fleet attacked the castle and bombarded it. razing it. Members of the garrison, who included John Knox, were carried off as galley slaves. The cannon ball may have been one used in this siege.. The building in which the ball was found is being converted into a bakery establishment. The walls are extraordinarily thick, measuring at parts almost 4ft, and many the stones bear signs of having originally belonged to St. Andrews Cathedral. The Imilding at one time formed part of a ’mous hostelry, the Black Bull Inn.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 12
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138RELIC OF FRENCH ATTACK New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12604, 15 November 1926, Page 12
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