... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No less remarkable for his wit and convivial powers, than for his more solid
qualities, ...
Book 8 p. 39
(Score 2.87)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
them every morning in his carriage, which was one of the most splendid description,
for ...
Book 8 p. 47
(Score 2.79)
... SKETCHES. 465
changes were effected in the forms of process j and the Jury Court, as a ...
Book 9 p. 620
(Score 2.59)
... SKETCHES. 35
of Edinburgh affords ; but, though the tacksman was willing, the noble proprietor
would ...
Book 8 p. 46
(Score 2.49)
... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Great Stuart Street.
shire, and of Amelia, daughter of Alexander Graham,
of Duntrune, ...
Book 4 p. 208
(Score 2.45)
... SKETCHES. 27
they succeeded in obtaining from him no less a sum, it is said, than one hundred
pounds ...
Book 8 p. 35
(Score 2.41)
... SKETCHES. 33
No. XII.
DR. JAMES GRAHAM LECTURING IN EDINBURGH.
IN Spring 1783, Doctor Graham again ...
Book 8 p. 44
(Score 2.39)
... SKETCHES. 31
June 1791. Mr. William Graham is still alive (July 1836), being eighty-one
years of ...
Book 8 p. 41
(Score 2.32)
... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
G
GALLOWAYE,a rl of, 463
Gardenstone, Lord, 8, 71, 137
Garrick, Mr,, 205
Garrow, ...
Book 9 p. 687
(Score 2.19)
![Craigcrook.] HISTORY OF CRAIGCROOK. 107
summer residence of Lord Jeffrey-deeply secluded
amid coppice.
The lands of Craigcrook appear to have belonged
in the fourteenth century to the noble family of
Graham. By a deed bearing date 9th April, 1362,
Patrick Graham, Lord of Kinpunt, and David
Graham, Lord of Dundaff, make them over to
John de Alyncrum, burgess of Edinburgh. He
in turn settled them on a chaplain officiating at
?Our Lady?s altar,? in the church of St. Giles,
and his successors to be nominated by the magistrates
of Edinburgh.
John de Alyncrum states his donation of those
lands of Craigcrook, was ? to be for the salvation
of the souls of the late king and queen (Robert
and Elizabeth), of the present King David, and of
all their predecessors and successors ; for the salvation
of the souls of all the burghers of Edinburgh,
their predecessors and successors ; of his own father
and mother, brothers, sisters, etc. ; then of himself
and of his wife; and, finally, of all faithful souls
deceased.?
The rental of Craigcrook in the year 1368 was
only A6 6s. 8d. Scots per annum; and in 1376 it
was let at that rate in feu farm, to Patrick and
John Lepars.
At an early period it became the property of
the Adamsons. William Adamson was bailie of
Edinburgh in 1513, and one of the guardians of
the city after the battle of Flodden, and Williim
Adamson of Craigcrook, burgess of Edinburgh
(and probably son of the preceding), was killed at
the battle of Pinkie, in 1547 ; and by him or his
immediate successors, most probably the present
castle was built-an edifice wbich Wood, in his
learned ?? History of Cramond Parish,? regards
as one of the most ancient in the parish.
In consequence of the approaching Reformation,
the proceeds of the lands were no longer required
for pious purposes, and the latter were made over by
Sir Simon Prestonof Craigmillar, when Provost, to Sir
Edward Marj oribanks, styled Prebend of Craigcrook.
They were next held for a year, by George Kirkaldy,
brother of Sir James Kirkaldy of Grange in
Fifeshire, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, who
engaged to pay for them A27 6s. 8d. Scots.
In June, 1542, they reverted again to Sir Edward
Majoribanks, who assigned them in perpetual feufarm
to William Adamson before-named. This
wealthy burgess had acquired much property in
the vicinity, including Craigleith, Cammo, Groat
Hall, Clermiston, Southfield, and part of Cramond
Regis. After Pinkie he was succeeded by his son
William, and Craigcrook continued to pass through
several generations of his heirs, till it came into
~~
the hands of Robert Adamson, who, in 1656, sold
to different persons the whole of his property.
Craigcrook was purchased by John Muir, merchant
in Edinburgh, whose son sold it to Sir John
Hall, Lord Provost of the city in 1689-92. He was
created a baronet in 1687, and was ancestor of the
Halls of Dunglass, on the acquisition of which, in
East Lothian, he sold Craigcrook to Walter Pringle,
advocate, from whose son it was purchased by John
Strachan, clerk to the signet.
When the latter died in 1719, he left the whole
of his property, with North Clermiston and the
rest of his fortune, both in land and movables
(save some small sums to his relations) ?? mortified
for charitable purposes,?
The regulations were that the rents should be
given to poor old men and women and orphans ;
that the trustees should be ?two advocates, two
Writers to the Signet, and the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
at the sight of the Lords of Session, and any
two of these members,? for whose trouble one
hundred merks yearly is allowed.
There are also allowed to the advocates, poor
fifty merks Scots, and to those of the writers to the
signet one hundred merks ; also twenty pounds
annually for a Bible to one of the members of the
Presbytery, beginning with the moderator and
going through the rest in rotation.
This deed is dated the 24th September, 1712.
The persons constituted trustees by it held a meeting
and passed resolutions respecting several
points which had not been regulated in the will. A
clerk and factor, each with a yearly allowance of
twenty pounds, were appointed to receive the
money, pay it out, and keep the books.
They resolved that no old person should be
admitted under the age of sixty-five, nor any orphan
above the age of twelve; and that no annuity
should exceed five pounds.
Among the names in a charter by William
Forbes, Provost of the Collegiate Church of St.
Giles, granting to that church a part of the ground
lying contiguous to his manse for a burial-place,
dated at Edinburgh, 14th January, 1477-8, there
appears that of Ricardus Robed, jrebena?anks de
Cragmk mansepropie (? Burgh Charters.?)
Over the outer gate of the courtyard a shield
bore what was supposed to have been the arms of
the Adamsons, and the date 1626 ; but Craigcrook
has evidently been erected a century before that
period. At that time its occupant was Walter
Adamson, who succeeded his father Willian~
Adamson in 1621, and whose sister, Catharine,
married Robert Melville of Raith, according to
the Douglas Peerage.](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v5p118.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Page 107")
... HISTORY OF CRAIGCROOK. 107
summer residence of Lord Jeffrey-deeply secluded
amid coppice.
The lands ...
Book 5 p. 107
(Score 2.17)
... SKETCHES, 295
Hunter Blair, and the authority of an act of Parliament procured ; but in ...
Book 9 p. 393
(Score 2.17)
... SKETCHES. 423
to receive him at that hour, three times a week, and Burns gladly availed himself
of ...
Book 9 p. 566
(Score 2.16)
![Canongate.] MONTROSE.
OF all the wonderful and startling spectacles witnessed
amid the lapse of ages from the windows
of the Canongate, none was perhaps more startling
and pitiful than the humiliating procession which
conducted the great Marquis of Montrose to his
terrible doom.
On the 18th of May, 1650, he was brought across
the Forth to Leith, after his defeat and capture by
:he Covenanters at the battle of Invercarron, where
he had displayed the royal standard; and it is
THE GOLFERS? LAND.
impossible now to convey an adequate idea of the
sensation excited in the city, when the people became
aware that the Graham, the victor in so
many battles, and the slayer of so many thousands
of the best troops of the Covenant, was almost at
their gates.
Placed on a cart-horse, he was brought in by the
eastern barrier of the city, as it was resolved, by
the influence of his rival and enemy, Argyle, to
protract the spectacle of his humiliation as long as
CHAPTER 11.
THE CANONGATE (continpud).](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v3p025.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III Page 13")
... MONTROSE.
OF all the wonderful and startling spectacles witnessed
amid the lapse of ages from the ...
Book 3 p. 13
(Score 2.15)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
good fortune and the happiness of hearing the celebrated lecture, and of seeing
the ...
Book 8 p. 42
(Score 2.06)
... 0 GRAPH1 CAL SKETCHES. 263
and again, in 1794-5, when he was also chosen Deacon Convener of the Trades.
He ...
Book 9 p. 350
(Score 2.06)
... AND DFSCRIPTIVE NOTES. 67
escutcheon, confirm the tradition in question, the armorial bearings ...
Book 11 p. 108
(Score 1.98)
... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 439
Gibson, Nr. George, 300
Gibson, Mr. Joseph, 330
Gibson, Rev. Mr., 415
Gilchrist, ...
Book 8 p. 612
(Score 1.92)
... OLD AED NEW EDINBURGH. [Hanover Street.
in yhich David Hume died the Bible Society oi
Edinburgh was many ...
Book 3 p. 162
(Score 1.86)
... SKETCHES. 285
THE MARQUIS OF GRAHAM was born in 1755, and succeeded his
father in 1790. He entered ...
Book 8 p. 400
(Score 1.86)
... as a spy from Elizabeth. ?He was next
visited, in a pretended friendly manner, by Sir
Williain Drury, ...
Book 1 p. 48
(Score 1.85)
... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Murray, Amelia Jane, 244
Murray, Mr., 326
Murray, Sir Patrick, 575
Murray, Lord ...
Book 8 p. 615
(Score 1.84)
... B1,OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The Marquis married, in 1793, MARY TURNER GAVIN, eldest daughter
and co-heiress of ...
Book 9 p. 311
(Score 1.6)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the source of much wealth; and, by his judicious management, he otherwise
greatly ...
Book 8 p. 437
(Score 1.52)
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