... . . . . . 320
Coliiiton . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Dreghorn Castle . . . . . . . 324
MapoC the Environs of ...
Book 6 p. 402
(Score 2.74)
... beauty and boldness of contour. The fine pas-
DREGHORN CASTLE ,
Meantime it was very pleasant, and made ...
Book 6 p. 324
(Score 2.38)
![Colinton.] JUNIPER GREEN. 323
when the village was occupied on the 18th August
by ten companies of Monk?s Regiment (now the
Coldstream Guards), of which Captain Gough of
Berwick was lieutenant-colonel, and Captain
Holmes of Newcastle, major, prior to the storming
of the fortalices of Redhall and Colinton, before
the 24th of the same month. (?Records: Cold.
Guards.?) Redhall, in after years, was the patrimony
of Captain John Inglis, of H.M.S. Be&
pueux, who, at the battle of Camperdown, whq
confused by the signals of the admiral, shouted
with impatience to his sailing-master, ?? Hang it,
Jock ! doon wi? the helm, and gang iicht into the
middle o?t ! ? closing his telescope as he spoke.
Old Colinton House was, at the period of the
Protectorate, occupied by the Foulis family (now
represented by that of Woodhall in the same parish)
whose name is alleged to be a corruption of the
Norman, as their arms are azure, their bay leaves
uert, in old Norman called fed&. Be that as it
may, the family is older than is stated by Sir Bernard
Burke, as there were two senators of the College
of Justice, each Lord Colinton respectively-James
Foulis in 1532, and John Foulis in 1541; and
there was a James. Fodlis of Colinton, who lived
in the reigns of Mary and James VI., who married
Apes Heriot of Lumphoy, whose tombstone is yet
preserved in an aisle of Colinton Church, and
bears this inscription :-
HERE. LYES. ANE. HONORABIL. WOMAN. A. HERIOT.
SPOVS. TO . J. FOULIS . OF . COLLINT3VN. VAS. QUHA .
DEID . 8 . AUGUST. 1593.
They had four sons-James, who succeeded to
the estate; George, progenitor of the house of
Ravelston ; David, progenitor of the English family
of Ingleby Manor, Yorkshire ; and John, of ?he
Leadhills, whose granddaughter became ancestress
of the Earls of Hopetoun.
Alexander Foulis, of Colinton, was created a
baronet of Nova Scotia in 1634, and his son Sir
James, whose house was stormed by the troops of
Monk, having attended a convention of the estates
in Angus, was betrayed into the hands of the English,
together with the Earls of Leven, Crawford,
Marischal, the Lord Ogilvy, and many others, who
were surprised by a party of Cromwell?s cavalry,
under Colonel Aldridge, on August, 1651, and
taken as prisoners of war to London. He married
Barbara Ainslie of Dolphinton, but, by a case
reported by Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, in 1667,
he would seem to have been in a treaty of marriage
with Dame Margaret Erskine, Lady Tarbet, which
led to a somewhat involved suit before the Lords
of Council and Session. After the Restoration he
was raised to the-Bench as Lord Colinton, and was
succeeded by his son, also a Lord of Session, and
a member of the last Scottish Parliament in 1707,
the year of the Union.
he joined the Duke of Hamilton,
the Earl of Athol, and many others of the nobility
and gentry, in their celebrated protest made by the
Earl of Errol, respecting the most constitutional
defence of the house of legislature, He also
joined in the protest, which declared that an incorpotating
union of the two nations was inconsistent
with the honour of Scotland.?
Further details of this family will be found in
the account of Ravelston (p. 106).
The mansions and villas of many other families
are in this somewhat secluded district ; the principal
one is perhaps the modern seat of the late
Lord Dunfermline, on a beautifully wooded hill
overhanging the village on the south. Colinton
House was built by Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo,
Bart. Near it, the remains of the old edifice, of the
same name, form a kind of decorative ruin.
Dreghorn Castle, a stately modern edifice, with
a conspicuous round tower, is situated on the
northern slope of the Pentlands, at an elevation of
489 feet above the sea. John Maclaurin, son of
Colin Maclaurin, the eminent mathematician, was
called to the bench as Lord Dreghorn. A learned
correspondence, which took place in 17 go, between
him, Lord Monboddo, and M. Le Chevalier, afterwards
secretary to Talleyrand, on the site of Troy,
will be found in the Scots Magazine for 1810.
The name of this locality is very old, as among
the missing crown charters of Robert II., is one
confirming a lease by Alexander Meygners of
Redhall, to Robert, Earl of Fife and Menteith, of
the barony of Redhall in the shire of Edinburgh,
except Dreghorn and Woodhall; and of the barony
of Glendochart in Perthshire, during the said Earl?s
life. In the early part of the eighteenth century
it was the property of a family named Home.
Near Woodhall, in the parish of Colinton, is the
little modern village of Juniper Green, chiefly
celebrated as being the temporary residence of
Thomas Carlyle, some time after his marriage at
Comely Bank, Stockbridge, where, as he tells us in
his ?? Reminiscences ? (edited by Mr. Froude), ?his
first experience in the difficulties of housekeeping
began.? Carlyle?s state of health required perfect
quiet, if not absolute solitude; but at Juniper
Green, as at Comely Bank, their house was much
frequented by the literary society of the day; and,
among others, by Chalmers, Guthrie, and Lord
Jeffrey, whose intimacy with Carlyle .rapidly increased
after the first visit he paid him at Comely
Bank. ?He was much taken with my little
-4fter that](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v6p142.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI Page 323")
... old edifice, of the
same name, form a kind of decorative ruin.
Dreghorn Castle , a stately modern edifice, ...
Book 6 p. 323
(Score 2.3)
... SKETCHES. 387
the (‘Daft Captain ;” while others, affecting greater knowledge, supposed ...
Book 8 p. 539
(Score 2.15)
... SKETCHES. 93
No. XLI.
THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” ...
Book 8 p. 133
(Score 1.56)
... the apostolic Wesley, and of the great work which God had wrought in his day
never failed to inspire him ...
Book 9 p. 217
(Score 1.53)
![400 BIO GRAPH T C AL SKETC €I E S.
tracted a ruinous second marriage, his elder children’ were in a manner thrown
destitute upon the world. This account may not be entitled to much credit j
but that the circumstances of her early life had been respectable, was in some
degree evinced by a superior education and a personal demeanour, which, notwithstanding
her misfortunes, betokened an acquaintance with the better class
of society.
Miss Burns came to Edinburgh about 17S9, at which period she had scarcely
completed her twentieth year. Her youth, beauty, and handsome figuredecked
out in the highest style of fashion-attracted very general notice as she
appeared on the “ Evening Promenades ;” and the fame of her charms having
at length brought her before the Magistrates, on a complaint at the instance of
some of her neighbours: the case excited an unusual sensation. Banishment
“forth of the city,” under the penalty, in case of return, of being drummed
through the streets, besides confinement for six months in the house of correction,
was the severe decision of Bailie Creech, who happened to be the sitting
Magistrate.’ Against this sentence Miss Burns entered an appeal to the Court
of Session, by presenting a bill of suspension to the Lord Ordinary (Dreghorn),
which was refused ; but, on a reclaiming petition, the cause came to be advised
by the whole Court, when one of the private complainers acknowledged that he
had been induced to sign the complaint, for which he was sorry, in ignorance of
any ‘‘ riot or disturbance having been committed in the [petitioner’s] house.”
This statement had no doubt its due weight, and the Court was pleased to remit
to the Lord Ordinary to pass the bill.
While the cause was pending, Burns the Poet is said to have written an
inimitably humorous letter to his friend the late Peter Hill, bookseller, inquiring
the fate of his namesake. In the published works of the Poet, the following
‘‘ Lines ” are given, as having been “ written under the Portrait of the celebrated
Miss Burns : ”-
“ Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing,
Lovely Burns has charms-confess ;’
Had a woman ever less ! ’’
True it is, she had one failing-
After a few years of unenviable notoriety, Miss Burns fell into a decline ;
Miss Burns had two siuters, both nearly as handsome and pretty as herself.
a She lived in Rose Street, directly opposite the back windows of Lord Swinton’s house.
3 Bailie Creech was greatly annoyed in consequence of this decision ; and as his antipathy to the
“fair but frail” victim of his magisterial indignation wm well known, various squibs were circulated
at his expense. Among others, it was announced in a London journal that “Bailie Creech, of
literary celebrity in Edinburgh, was about to lead the beautiful and accomplished Miss Burns to the
hymeneal altar.” The Bailie was exceedingly wroth, and only abandoned his threatened action
against the editor, on the promise of a counter-statement being given in next publication. The per
contra accordingly appeared, but in a way by no means calculated to allay the irritation of the civic
functionary. It was to the following effect :-“Iu a former number we noticed the intended
marriage between Bailie Creech of Edinburgh, and the beautiful Miss Burns of the same place. We
have now the authority of that gentleman to say that the proposed marriage is not to take place,
matters having been otherwise arranged to the mutual satisfaction of both parties and their respective
friends I ”](images/thumbs/kays_thumb_pages/kays_v2__Page_543.gif "Kay's Originals Vol. 2 Page 535")
... BIO GRAPH T C AL SKETC €I E S.
tracted a ruinous second marriage, his elder children’ were in a manner ...
Book 9 p. 535
(Score 1.41)
... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
In addition to the small vignette of the eavtern wing of Merchiston Castle
at page ...
Book 11 p. 109
(Score 1.34)
... not correspond in paint of date with the
shirts they accompanied.? Lord Napier died in
1823.
His house, ...
Book 3 p. 158
(Score 1.32)
... OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
--c-
THE OLD CHURCH OF ST . CUTHBERT?S AND THE NORTH LOCH (after CZffSh of ...
Book 2 p. 392
(Score 1.32)
... QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
interesting and beautiful mansion, and from which issued that sweet little
volume ...
Book 11 p. 143
(Score 1.29)
... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. tThe Castle Hill.
the steep flight of steps that descend to Johnston
Terrace, we find a ...
Book 1 p. 88
(Score 1.27)
... QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
baronial dignity and lordly importance, eIoquent of the wonderful tales of ...
Book 11 p. 139
(Score 1.27)
... 18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [cogs.
p. baronet of Nova Scotia by James VII., in
1687.
The close of the family is ...
Book 6 p. 318
(Score 1.26)
![1745.1 GENERAL- PRESTON, 329
the operations subsequent to his council of war,
though the inscription on his tomb in Westminster
CHARLES EDWARD IN HIS YOUTH,
(Frm t@ Portrait 6y Torque.)
when " besieged by the rebels."
The officers of state had now fled from Edinburgh
to defend which he instantly adopted the most
vigorous measures. He wrote to the Secretary of
State, acquainting him that if not soon relieved he
would be compelled to surrender, as his stock of
provisions was so small. This letter fell into the
hands of the Prince, by whom the Castle was
never formally summoned. Preston had now been
seventy years in the service. He was in his eighty,
seventh year, and was so enfeebled by time and
wounds as to be unable to walk j yet so constant
was his vigilance, that every two hours he was
wheeled round the posts to see that his sentinels
were on the alert, and whenever a Highlander could
be seen, a gun loaded with grape was fired at him
CHAPTER XLI.
EDINBURGH IN 1745 (concluded).
General] Guest's '' Bravery "-Popularity of the Prince-Castle Blockaded-It Fires on the City-kith Bombarded-End of the Blockade-
Departure of the Highland Army for England-Prisoners in the Castle-Macdopald of Teindreich-Duke ofCurnberlan'd in Edinburgh-
Burning of the Standards.](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v2p149.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II Page 329")
... GENERAL- PRESTON, 329
the operations subsequent to his council of war,
though the inscription on his tomb ...
Book 2 p. 329
(Score 1.25)
... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
De Quincey’s Grave, . . . 35
Hamilton’s Entry, . . . 36
Scott’s first ...
Book 11 p. xviii
(Score 1.25)
... ; theCalton
Hill plays 11. IDrawbridge'lhe
Leith 111. I 8
Dreghorn, iord, '11. 156,166, ...
Book 6 p. 375
(Score 1.24)
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