It lay thus scandalously neglected until 1824, when John Shanks, a "drouthy" cobbler, was appointed keeper.
A tablet, let into the wall, contains an epitaph by Lord Cockburn, recording Shanks's services to the venerable pile, which has since been entrusted to the custody of the commissioners of woods and forests.
The project is funded by landfill tax credits from Shanks First.
Hershel Shanks is a magazine editor, who feels he has to defend the historicity of the bible against the attacks of scholars.
Monotheism Shanks now feels he has to defend monotheism Shanks now feels he has to defend monotheism in the tendentious history of the bible.