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Earl's Palace (continued)
who assumed the power and status of petty sovereigns".Peace's Hand Book to the Orkney Islands.
Sir Walter Scot tin his novel of "The Pirate" says, "The palace is impressive, as exhibiting vestiges of the mutations both in Church and State which have affected Orkney, as well as countries more exposed to such convulsions. Several parts of these ruinous buildings might be selected (under suitable modifications) as the model of a Gothic mansion, provided Architects would be contented rather to imitate what is really beautiful to that species of building, than to make a medley of the caprices of the order, confounding the military ecclesiastical, and domestic styles of all ages at random, with additional fantasies and combinations of their own device, all formed out of the builder's brain."