Qualla: Argyll's Lodging https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/argyll-s-lodging-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Argyll's Lodging https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging Argyll's Lodging: Introduction https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging/ Photo credit kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0. Above the main entrance, an armorial tablet shows a shield supported by a Native American and a mermaid. The motto below reads per mare per terras — 'by sea and by land' — the motto of Nova Scotia, which exists because Sir William Alexander persuaded King James VI to give him a charter for a chunk of North America in 1621 and then named it for his own ancestral country. The crest above is believed to be the first armorial representation of a beaver in heraldry. The house behind that doorway is, in the careful judgement of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 'the most important surviving town-house of its period in Scotland' — a Renaissance palace in miniature, perched on Castle Wynd just below the rock of Stirling Castle, decorated to receive a king who came north only once.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/argyll-s-lodging-wp/gcvp-argylls-lodging-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Argyll's Lodging: The Merchant, the Abbey, and Sir William https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. The first house on the site was probably built by John Traill, a wealthy Stirling merchant, sometime in the early sixteenth century — two storeys, a hall above and a kitchen below. In 1559 Traill sold it to Adam Erskine, the Commendator (lay administrator) of nearby Cambuskenneth...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/argyll-s-lodging-wp/gcvp-argylls-lodging-the-merchant-the-abbey-and-sir-william.mp3 0:06 2 full Argyll's Lodging: Decorated for a King Who Barely Came https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1633 Charles I planned to come to Scotland for his Scottish coronation. Sir William, anticipating that the King might lodge with him, had the house remodelled into a small Renaissance palace. He built suites of public and private rooms. He commissioned exterior decoration on a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/argyll-s-lodging-wp/gcvp-argylls-lodging-decorated-for-a-king-who-barely-came.mp3 0:06 3 full Argyll's Lodging: Argyll's Escape https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging/ Photo credit Jamesmcmahon0, CC BY-SA 4.0. Archibald Campbell, born in 1629, was a complicated figure — a staunch supporter of the monarchy who nevertheless ended his life as a rebel against it. He bought the house in 1666 and extended it outward to the north and south, enclosing the courtyard behind a screen wall with an...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/argyll-s-lodging-wp/gcvp-argylls-lodging-argylls-escape.mp3 0:06 4 full Argyll's Lodging: Hospital and Museum https://qualla.com/argyll-s-lodging/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Campbells held the house for most of the next century. In 1746, during the Jacobite rebellion, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland — soon to be 'the Butcher' for his actions at Culloden — stayed here on his way north. In 1764 the fourth Duke of Argyll sold it. Around 1800 the ...

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