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60 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
under the influence of Henry 11. of France, assembled a considerable force at Kelso, and
sought, by all means, to persuade the nobility to unite with her in invading England.
But though the Borderers availed themselves, with their usual alacrity, of the first
symptoms of hostilities, to make a raid across the marches, the general sense of the
nobility was strongly opposed to thus rashly plunging into war, without any just cause ;
and so resolute were they against it, that the Queen Regent, after various ineffeciual
attempts to precipitate hostilities, was compelled to dismiss the army, and abandon all
further attempts at co-operation with France.’
From this occurrence may he dated the true rise of those divisions in this country
which alienated from the Queen Regent the Scottish party, on which she had most
depended, and ultimately led to the war of the Reformation ; and from this time forward
the ecclesiastical is intimately blended with the civil history of the country, mainly
influencing every important occurrence,
The continuation of war between France and Spain at this period, induced the French
Monarch to seek to hasten on the proposed alliance between the Dauphin and the Queen
of Scots, to which the Queen ,Regent lent all her influence. A Parliament accordingly
assembled at Edinburgh on the 14th of December 1557, before which a letter was laid
from the King of France, proposing khat the intended marriage should be carried into
effect without delay. Jamea Stewart, prior of St Andrews, afterwards the Regent Murray,
and others of the leaders of the Protestant party, were chosen by the Parliament as Commissioners,
empowered to give their assent to the marriage, on receiving ample security
for the preservation of the ancient laws and liberty of the kingdom. They accordingly
proceeded to Paris, and there, on the 24th of April 1558, were witnesses of the marriage,
which was solemnised with the utmost pomp and magnificence in the Cathedral of Notre
Dame.
Another Parliament was summoned immediately ob their return, and accordingly
assembled at Edinburgh in the beginning of December. It ratified the transactions of
the Commissioners, and agreed, at the same time, to confer on the Dauphin the Crown of
Scotland during the continuance of the marriage.
As the reformed opinions spread among the people, they manifested their zeal by
destroying images, and breaking down the carved work of the monasteries and churches.
It was the custom at this period for the clergy of Edinburgh to walk annually in grand
procession, on the.first of September, the anniversary of St Giles, the patron saint of the
town ; but in the year 1558, before the arrival of St Giles’s day, the mob contrived to
get into the church, and carrying off the image of the saint, which was usually borne in
procession on such occasions, they threw it into the North Loch-the favourite place for
ducking all offenders against the seventh commandment-and thereafter committed it to
the flames.’ The utmost confusion prevailed on its being discovered to be amissing.
The bishops sent orders to the Provost and Magistrates either to get the old St Giles, or
to furnish another at their own expense ; but this they declined to do, notwithstanding
the threats and denunciations of the clergy, alleging the authority of Scripture for the
destruction of I‘ idols and images.’’
Bishop Leslie’s Hint., pp. 260, 261. Calderwood’s Hist., vol. i. p. 344. ......

Book 10  p. 65
(Score 4.88)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 337
a powerful organ, and one of the very best performers, the music was long
famed for its excellence ; and it was universally admitted that the liturgy was
nowhere performed with so much solemnity and effect as in the Surrey Chapel.
The powerful eloquence, however, of Mr. Hill, and the occasional eccentricities
of his manner, were the chief attractions, His language was always glowing,
and his imagery of the richest and most fascinating description. Robert
Hall observes-“ No man has ever drawn, since the days of our Saviour, such
sublime images of nature ; here Mr. Hill excels every other man.” Fettered by
no system, and squared by no rule, he gave way to his feelings with a boldness
and freedom unknown to other preachers ; and, carried away by the impulse of
the moment, frequently indulged a vein of humour and coarseness of language
unsuited to the pulpit. Mr. Hill was himself sensible of his levity in this respect,
but felt utterly incapable of resisting it. In going into the Chapel slips of paper
were occasionally handed to him, announcing the conversion of individuals, and
other good tidings, or requesting the prayers of the congregation. These he was
in the habit of reading aloud. “ On one occasion,” says his biographer, “an
impudent fellow placed a piece of paper on the desk, just before he was going to
read prayers. He took it up and began-‘ The prayers of this congregation are
desired for-umph-for-umph-well, I suppose I must finish what I have
begun-for the Ileverend Rowland Dill, tldat he wiU not go riding about in his
carriage on a Sunday.’ This would have disconcerted almost any other man ;
but he looked up with great coolness, and said, ‘If the writer of this piece of
folly and impertinence is in the congregation, and will go into the vestry after
service, and let me put a saddle on his back, I will ride him home instead of going
in my carriage.’ He then went on with the service as if nothing had happened.”
Politics
and the war frequently engrossed his attention. In preaching to a band of
volunteers at his Chapel, in 1803, he introduced a hymn, written by himself, to
the tune of God save the King; and, on the same occasion, another hymnalso
of his own composition-to the popular air of Rule Britannia, was sung
by the congregation with great effect. The first stanza of this parody is as
follows :-
Neither were his pulpit orations strictly confined to religious topics.
“ When Jesus first, at heaven’s command,
Descended from his azure throne,
Attending angels join’d his praise,
Who claim’d the kingdoms for his own.
Hail Immanuel !-Immanuel we’ll adore !
And sound his fame from shore to shore.”
In this way were the eccentricities of Mr. Hill displayed ; but always original,
and accompanied with such genuine talent, that what in others would have
appeared ridiculous, was in him not only tolerated, but esteemed; while the
many benefits which resulted from his active labours, and the fervency of his zeal,
completely overshadowed any outrages upon decorum, which his strong imagination
occasionally led him to commit.
2x ......

Book 8  p. 471
(Score 3.81)

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 3
There on their brows the moonbeam broke,
Through the faint wreaths of silvery smoke,
And on the casements played,
And other light was none to see,
Save torches gliding far.'
We need here but allude to his prose touches of description-rapid and
decisive-of the view of the Firth of Forth and the northem part of Edinburgh,
in Guy Mannerhg, and of the city as seen in the morning froin Salisbury Crags,
in the Heart of Mik'Zuthian. Yet, with the exception of the first-mentioned
splendid burst in Ma?-mion, it is curious that Sir Walter Scott has painted no
scene in or about or near Edinburgh with half such a powerful pencil as he
has, in Rob Roy, the Cathedral and its environments in the ancient city of
St. Mungo-a passage we have always considered as among the most sublime
and suggestive pictures Scott ever drew, and as ranking among the first
masterpieces of descriptive composition in the world. Scott, indeed, as a
native of Edinburgh, could never have looked at it with the same fresh
and new enthusiasm with which it has been beheld by many strangers seeing
it for the first time. Haydon's exclamation when he saw it first was, "Tis a
giant's dream ! ' And such is the feeling of many who never dared to use the
words. It seemed as if it had been built to some unearthly music, or after a
model suspended in the clouds, and formed by the hands of Air and Sunshine.
Stone and Rock seemed here moulded into the express image of Genius, and
Nature and Art were apparently reconciled. Religion, too, had hung up
toward the glowing west the dome of St. George's, as if challenging the
whole proud city as her own. And the marriage of man's perfect work and
of God's ideal of beauty and grandeur had for witnesses the everlasting hills-
Arthur's Seat and the rest-seeming guardians, too, over a dream city, and
fixing what otherwise, like dreams, seemed ready to vanish away. We
believe that in these words and images we have not exaggerated the feelings
wherewith young imaginative minds were filled to ecstatic confusion on their
first visit to Edinburgh. There was at first all the delight and delirium of a
dream; nor did the disenchantment come soon, even after the bewildering
whole had been resolved into its component parts. The fragments, like those
of a cloud, were as aerial as the cloud itself.
From Arthur's Seat Edinburgh rather dwindles and is drowned in the
midst of its environments-the blue shores and indented hills of Fife; the
ocean stretching eastwards to enfold the Bass Rock and North Berwick Law;
the garden-land toward Berwick, dotted with little hills and half encircled by ......

Book 11  p. 3
(Score 3.48)

2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Kirk-of-Field.
land of umyle Hew Berrie?s tenement and chamber
adjacent yr to, lying in the Cowgaitt, on the south
side of the street, betwixt James Earl of Buchan?s
land on the east, and Thomas Tod?s on ye west.?
This lady was a daughter of John Lord Kennedy,
and was the widow of the aged Earl of Angus, who
died of a broken heart after the battle of Flodden.
In 1450-1 an obligation by the Corporation of
Skinners in favour of St. Christopher?s altar in St.
Giles?s was signed with much fornialityon the 12th
of January, infra ecdesiam Beate &Iarie He Canzpo,
in presence of Sir Alexander Hundby, John
Moffat, and John Hendirsone, chaplains thereof,
Thomas Brown, merchant, and other witnesses.
((? Burgh Rec.?)
James Laing, a burgess of Edinburgh, founded
an additional chaplaincy in this church during the
reign of James V., whose royal confirmation of it is
dated 19th June, 1530, and the grant is made ? to
a chaplain celebrating divine service at the high
altar within the collegiate church of Blessed
Marie-in-the-Fields.?
When made collegiate it was governed by a provost,
who with eight prebendaries and two choristers
composed the college ; but certain rights appear to
have been reserved then by the canons of Holyrood,
for in 1546 we find Robert, Commendator of
the abbey, presenting George Kerr to a. prebend
in it, ?according to the force and form of the
foundation.?
There is a charter by James V., arst May, 1531,
confirming a previous one of 16th May, I 53 I, by the
lady before mentioned, ?Janet Kennedy Domina
de Bothvill,? of tenements in Edinburgh, and an
annual rent of twenty shillings for a prebendary to
perform divine service ?in the college kirk of the
Blessed Virgin Mary-in-the-Fields, or without the
walls of Edinburgh, pro sat& #sius Domini Regis
(JamesV.), and for the souls OP his father (James
IV.), and the late Archibald, Earl of Angus?
Among the most distinguished provosts of the
Kirk-of-Field was its second one, Richard Bothwell,
rector of Ashkirk, who in A4ugust and
December, 1534, was a commissioner for opening
Parliament. He died in the provost?s house in
1547.
The prebendal buildings were of considerable
extent, exclusive of the provost?s house, or
lodging. David Vocat, one of the prebendaries,
and master of the Grammar School of Edinburgh,
clerk and orator of Holyrood,? was a liberal
? benefactor to the church ; but it and the buildings
attached to it seem to have suffered severely at the
hands of the English during the invasion of 1544
or 1547. In the ?? Inventory of the Townis purchase
from the Marquis of Hamilton in 1613,?? with
a view to the founding of a college, says Wilson,
we have found an abstract of ?a feu charter granted
by Mr. Alexander Forrest, provost of the collegiate
church of the Blessed Xlary-in-the-Fields, near
Edinr., and by the prebends of the said church,?
dated 1544, wherein it is stated:-?Considering that
ther houses, especially ther hospital annexed and
incorporated with ther college, were burnt down
and destroyed by their add enemies of EngZand, so
that nothing of their said hospital was left, but they
are altogether waste and entirely destroyed, wherethrough
the divine worship is not a little decreased
in the college, because they were unable to rebuild
the said hospital. . . , Therefore they gave and
granted, set in feu forme, and confirmed to a magnificent
and illustrious prince, James, Duke of
Chattelherault, Earl of Arran, Lord Hamilton, &c.,
all and hail their tenement or hospital, with the
yards and pertinints thereof, lying within the burgh
of Edinburgh, in the street or wynd called School
House Wynd, on the east part thereof.?
The duke appears, it is added, from frequent
allusions by contemporaries, to have built an abode
for his family on the site of this hospital, and that
edifice served in future years as the hall of the first
college of Edinburgh.
In 1556 we find Alexander Forrest, the provost
of the kirk, in the name of the Archbishop of St.
Andrews, presenting a protest, signed by Mary of
Guise, to the magistrates, praying them to suppress
?? certain odious ballettis and rymes baith sett
furth ? by certain evil-inclined persons, who had
also demolished certain images, but with what end
is unknown. (?Burgh Records.?)
But two years after Bishop Lesly records that
when the Earl of Argyle and his reformers entered
Edinburgh, after spoiling the Black and Grey
Friars, and having their ? haill growing treis
plucked up be the ruittis,? they destroyed and
burned all the images in the Kirk-of-Field.
In 1562 the magistrates made application to
Queen Mary, among other requests, for the Kirk-of-
Field and all its adjacent buildings and ground,
for the purpose of erecting a school thereon, and
for the revenues of the old foundation to endow the
same ; but they were not entirely made over to the
city for the purpose specified till 1566.
The quadrangle of the present university now
occupies the exact site of the church of St. Mary-inthe-
Fields, including that of the prebendal buildings,
and, says Wilson-who in this does not quite accord
with Bell-to a certain extent the house of the provost,
so fatally known in history; and the main access
and approach to the whole establishment was ......

Book 5  p. 2
(Score 3.41)

YAMES VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES Ir. 87
the Nether Bow to be repaired-bonfires--“a propyne of ane jowell to the Quenis
grace,” &c. &c.
The King and Queen at length arrived at Leith on the 1st of May 1590, and remained
in “the King’s work there” till the 6th of the month, while the Palace of Holyrood was
getting ready. On the 17th of May the Queen was crowned in Holyrood Abbey, Mr
Robert Bruce pouring upon her breast bonye quantitie of oyll,” and “Mr Andro
Meluene, principal1 of the Colledge of the Theolloges, making ane oratione in tua hunder
Lateine verse !”
The second day they at length entered the capital, the manner of approaching which
from the Palace is worthy of notice, as a key to the usual route pursued on similar
occasions. <(At her comming to the south side of the yardes of the Canogit, along the
parke wall, being in sight of the Castle, they gave her thence a great voley of shot, with
their banners and ancient displays upon the walls.
where she was received with a Latin oration, EO that the royal procession must have skirted
along the whole line of the more modern city wall, where Lauriston now is. At the West
Port they were welcomed with even more than the usual costly display. The same variety
of allegories and ingenious devices had been prepared. An angel presented the keys to her
Majesty ; she rode in a chariot drawn by eight horses, decorated with velvet trappings,
richly embroidered with gold and silver, and was attended by sixty youths, as Moors, with
chains about their necks, and gorgeously apparelled with jewels and ornaments of gold.
The nine muses received them at the Butter Trone, with very excellent singing of psalms.
At the Cross she had another ‘( verie good psalme,” and then entered St Giles’s Church,
where a sermon was preached before their Majesties. Numerous allegories, goddesses, Christian
virtues, and the like, followed. Indeed, from the inventory furnished by a poet of the
period, the wide range of classic fancy would seem to have been ransacked for the
occasion :-
Thence she came to the West Port,”
To recreat hir hie renoun,
Of curious things thair wes all sort,
The stairs and houses of the toun
With Tapestries were spred athort,
Quhair Histories men micht behauld,
With Images and Anticks add.
It written wes with stories mae,
How VENTS, with a thuodring thud,
Inclos’d ACEATEaSn d ENAE,
Within a mekill mistie dud :
And how fair ANNA, wondrous wraith,
Deplors hir sister Dmoa daith.
Ixron that the quheill dois tarne
In Hell, that ugly hole, 80 mirk ;
And EBOSTRAqTuVha~ did b m e
The costly fair EPHESIAKNir k :
And BLIADESq, uho falls in aouo
With drawing buckets up and down.
* .. t
* *
1 Xarriage of James VI., Bann. Club, p. 39. ......

Book 10  p. 95
(Score 2.98)

YAMES l? TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MAR Y. 63
The reforming party now proceeded to those acts of violence, which led to the destmction
of nearly all the finest ecclesiastical buildings throughout Scotland. The Queen
Regent, on learning of their proceedings at Perth and elsewhere, wrote to the Provost and
Magistrates of Edinburgh, requiring them to defend the town, and not suffer the Earl of
Argyle and the Congregation to enter-offering the aid of her French troops for their
defence. But this the Magistrates declined, declaring that the entire populace were
prepared to favour that party, and could not be restrained by them. Upon receiving this
reply, the Regent thereupon withdrew with her French guard from Holyrood Abbey, and
retreated towards Dunbar.
The Magistrates, though unable to resist this popular movement, exerted themselves to
the utmost to restrain its violence. They sent a deputation to the leaders of the reforming
party, entreating them to spare both their churches and religious houses,-the former to be
continued in use as places of Protestant worship, and the latter as seminaries of learning.
They also placed a guard of sixty men for the protection of St Giles’s Church, and, as a
further security, removed the carved stalls of the choir-within the safer shelter of the
Tolbooth j’ and such was the zeal they displayed, that the Regent afterwards wrote them
a letter of thanks for their services. Yet their efforts were only attended with very partial
mccess. Upon the first rumour of the approach of the Earl of Argyle, the populace
attacked both the monasteries of the Black and Grey Friars, destroying everything they
contained, and leaving nothing but the bare walls standing2
When the Earl of Argyle entered the town with his followers, they immediately proceeded
to the work of purification, as it was styled. Trinity College Church, and the
prebendal buildings attached to it, were assailed, and some parts of them utterly destroyed ;
and both St Giles’s Church, and St Mary’s, or the Kirk of Field, were visited, their altars
thrown down, and the images destroyed and burnt. They visited Holyrood Abbey, overthrowing
the altars, and otherwise defacing the church, and removed also from thence
the coining irons of the Nint, compelling the treasurer to deliver up to them a considerable
sum of money in his hands.’
The Regent finding herself unable to resist this formidable party by force, entered into
negotiations with them, for the purpose of gaining time, while they, on the other hand,
corresponded with Queen Elizabeth and besought lier aid ; but the Engll’sh Queen was too
politic to commit herself by openly countenancing a fraction so recently sprung up, and
contented herself with evasive answers to their request, a d many of their adherents
meanwhile falling away, they were compelled to retreat as hastily from the town as they
had entered, on the sudden return of the Regent from Dunbar.
Commissioners from both parties met, and a mutual accommodation was agreed on
between them, and signed by the Earl of Arran and Monsieur d’oysel, on the 25th of
July, at Leith Links, and immediately thereafter the Queen Regent returned and took up
her residence in Holyrood Palace.
One of the chief clauses in this agreement required the dismissal of the French troops j
and with a special view to the enforcement of this, an interview took place on the following
day between the Earls of Arran and Hantly, and some of the leaders of the Congregation,
.
Maitland, p. 16. ’ Calderwood, vol. i. p. 475, ’ Bishop Lealie, p. 275. ......

Book 10  p. 68
(Score 2.84)

HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TZON. =OS
In consequence of this, a popular tumult waa excited; a rabble of apprentices and
others watched the return of some of the chief oficers of state from public attendance at
mass. The ChancelIor’s lady, and other persons of distinction, were insulted, and the
utmost indignation excited in the minds of these dignitaries against the populace. A
baker, who had been active in the riot, was apprehended and tried before the Privy Council.
He was condemned to be publicly whipped through the Canongate; but the populace
rescued him from punishment, chastised the executioner, and kept the town in a state of
uproar and commotion throughout the night. The military were at length called out, and
fired on the rioters, by which three of them lost their lives. Two others were apprehended
and afterwards convicted, seemingly on very insufficient evidence, one of whom was hanged
and the other shot.
In July 1687, the King wrote to the Privy Council “that the Abbey Church was the
chapel belonging to his Palace of Holyrood House, and that the Knights of the noble Order
of the Thistle, which he had now erected, could not meet in St Andrew’s Church,’ being
demolished in the rebellion, as they called our Reformation, and so it was necessary for
them to have this church ; and the Provost of Edinburgh was ordained to see the keys of
it given to them.” ’ Some opposition was made to this by the Bishop of Edinburgh, but
it was agreed to with little difficulty, and the inhabitants of the Canongate, whose parish
church it had been, were ordered to seek accommodation in Lady Pester’s Church, till
better could be provided. The Canongate Church was shortly afterwards built from funds
that had been left by Thomas Moodie, a citizen of Edinburgh, for the purpose of providing
an additional place of worship.
Holyrood Chapel was now magnificently fitted up with richly carved stalls for the
Knights of the Thistle. “ An altar, vestments, images, priests, and their apurtents,”
arrived at Leith, by the King’s yacht, from London, for the purpose of completing the
restoration of the Abbey to its ancient uses. A college of priests was established in Holyrood,
and daily service performed in the Chapel. Fresh riots were the consequence of this
last procedure, and two of those who had been most zealous in testifying their abhorrence
of such religious innovations, were executed, while others were publicly whipped through
the streets.
The feeble
representative of that long line of Kings was already anticipating an invasion from Holland;
in the month of September 1688, orders were issued for ‘raising the militia, and
these were speedily followed by others for erecting beacons along the coast. But James,
who, by his rashness, had forced on the crisis, was the first to desert his own cause ; and
the Scottish Parliament, with more consistency than that of England, availed themselves
of this to declare that he had forfeited the throne.
The news of the arrival of the Prince of Orange Wed the Presbyterian party in Scotland
with the utmost joy. The Earl of Perth, who wan Chancellor, hastily quitted Edinburgh,
and the mob made it the signal for an attack on Holyrood Chapel. A body of an
hundred men defended it with firearms, which they freely used against their assailants,
killing twelve of them, and wounding many more, But this only mcremed the fury of the
mob; the armed defenders were at length overpowered, and the Chapel delivered up to
The fall of the ancient house of the Stuarts was now rapidly approaching.
1 i.e., The Cathedral of St Andrewe. * Fountainhall, voL i p. 466.
0 ......

Book 10  p. 115
(Score 2.83)

192 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. lThe High S e e a
and Sweden, tells us, at the storming of Boitzenburg,
there was ? a Scottish gentleman under the
enemy, who, coming to scale the walls, said aloud,
?Have with you, gentlemen ! Thinke not now
you are on the streel of Edhlburgh bravading.? One
of his own countrymen thrusting him through the
body with a pike, he ended there.?
In the general consternation which succeeded
* the defeat of the army at Flodden a plague raged
within the city with great violence, and carried off
great numbers. Hence the Town Council, to prevent
its progress,
ordered all shops
and booths to be
closed for the space
of fifteen days, and
neither doors nor
windows to be
opened within that
time, but on some
unavoidable occasion,
and nothing
to be dealt in but
necessaries for the
immediate support
of life. All vagrants
were forbidden
to walk in the
streets without hiving
each a light;
and several houses
that had been occupied
by infected
persons were demolished.
*
In 1532 the
High Street was
first paved or causewayed,
and many of
the old tenements
?These, however,? says Arnot, ?are not to be
considered as arguing any comparative insignificancy
in the city of Edinburgh. They proceeded
from the rudeness of the times. The writers of
those days spoke of Edinburgh in terms that show
the respectable opinion they entertained of it. ? In
this city,? says a writer of the sixteenth century-
Braun Agrippinensis--? there are two spacious
streets, of which the principal one, leading from
the Palace to the Castle, is paved with square
stones. The city itself is not built of bricks,
ANDREW CROSBY. (Fmm the Portrait in tkePadiament Haii.)
[The orkinal ofCuunseZZnr PLydelZ in ? Guy Mamneiing.?]
renovated. The former was done under the superintendence
of a Frenchman named Marlin, whose
name was bestowed on an alley to the south. The
Town Council ordered lights to be hung out by
night by the citizens to light the streets, and Edinburgh
became a principal place of resort from all
parts of the kingdom.
Till the reign of James V., the meal-market, and
also the flesh-market, were kept in booths in the
open High Street, which was also encumbered by
stacks of peat, heather, and other fuel, before every
door; while, till the middle of the end of the seventeenth
century, according to Gordon?s map, a fleshmarket
was kept in the Canongate, immediately
below the Nether Bow.
but of square freestones,
and so
stately is its app
ear an c e, that
single houses inay
be compared to
palaces. From the
abbey to the castle
there is a continued
street, which on
both sides contains
a range of excellent
houses. and the
better sort are built
of hewn stone.?
There are,? adds
Amot, ?? specimens
oT the buildings of
the fifteenth century
still (1779) remaining,
particularly
a house on
the south side of
the High Street,
immediately above
Peeble?s Wynd,
having a handsome
front of hewn stone,
and niches in the
walls for the images of saints, which may justify
our author?s description. The house was built
about 1430 (temp. James I.) No private building
in the city of modern date can compare
with it.?
The year 1554 saw the streets better lighted,
and some attempts made to clean them.
The continual wars with England compelled the
citizens to crowd their dwellings as near the Castle
as possible ; thus, instead of the city increasing in
limits, it rose skyward, as we have already mentioned
; storey was piled on storey till the streets
resembled closely packed towers or steeples, each
house, or ?land,? sheltering from twenty to thirty
families within its walls. This was particularly thc ......

Book 1  p. 192
(Score 2.71)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 39 1
tion of an impartial and unbiassed guardian of public opinion. ‘( He is a Scotsmn,”
says a Cockney writer, “without one particle of hypocrisy, of cant, or
servility, or selfishness in his composition [I I] He has not been spoiled by
fortune-has not been tempted by power-is firm without violence, friendly
without weakness-a critic and even-tempered-a casuist and an honest man ;
and, amidst the toils of his profession, and the distractions of the world, retains
the gaiety, the unpretending carelessness and simplicity of youth.”
The strictures of the Review, however, were in many instances too severe,
or too honest and candid, to be palatable. Moore was provoked to demand
the (‘ satisfaction of a gentleman ;”l and Byron, smarting under the castigation
inflicted on his (‘ Hours of Idleness,” produced the well-known tirade entitled
“English Bards and Scots Reviewers ;” while, among the many pasquinade5 by
offended authors of less degree, the following epigramic description of the
Editor has no little merit :-
“ Witty as Horatius Flaccus ;
As great a democrat as Gracchus ;
As short, but not so fat m Bwchus-
Here rides Jeffrey on his Jack-nss/”’
Sir Walter Scott was at the outset a contributor to the Review, but he
gradually became estranged on account of its politics. In 1809 he was among
the first to lend his aid in establishing the London Quurterly, a journal of
avowed Conservative principles ; and, though still continuing friendly with
Jeftrey, their intimacy was on more than one occasion disturbed by the critical
remarks of the latter.
The bitterness of offended authorship however, in as far as regards Lord
Jeffrey, became a thing of the past, Byron read his recantation-Moore became
“On Monday morning, August 11 (1806) two gentlemen met at Chalk Farm, near London,
with an intention to fight a duel, when they were immediately seized by three Bow Street officers, .
disarmed, and carried before Justice Read, at the Police Office, who admitted them to bail to keep
the peace, themselves in 2400 each, and two sureties in $200 each. The parties were, Francis
Jeffrey, Esq., advocate, of Edinburgh, and Thomas Moore, Esq., known by the appellation of
Anacreon Moore.” The cause of this meeting originated in a critique of the “Epistles, Odes, and
other Poems,” by Thomas Moore ; in which the Reviewer commented with much severity on the
corrupt tendency of the author’s writings. ’ “ There is nothing, it will be allowed, more indefensible,”
says the article, “than a cold-blooded attempt to corrupt the purity of an innocent heart ; and we
can scarcely conceive any being more truly despicable than he who, without the apology of unruly
passion, or tumultuous deaires, sits down to ransack the impure place of his memory for inflammatory
images and expressions, and commits them laboriously to writing, for the purpose of insinuating
pollution into the minds of unknown and unsuspecting readers. It seems to be hi (Nr. Moore’s)
aim, to impose corruption upon his readers, by conceding it under the mask of refinement. It is
doubly necessary to put the law in force against this deZinquent, ainca he has not only indicated a
disposition to do mischief, but seems unfortunately to have found an opportunity. * * Such
are the demerits of ‘this work, that we wish to see it consigned to universal reprobation.” Mr.
Moore, greatly offended, sought the author of the article, and Nr. Jeffrey, then in London, came
forward boldly, and avowed himself the writer.
The lines are attributed to the Rev.
Sydney Smith ; and were suggested, it is said, from the circumstaucea of Mr. Jeffrey having been
found on one occasion, greatly to the amusement of his friend’s children, actually mounted on the
back of one of that much vilified race of animals-a donkey.
.
3 By the jack-ess is meant the Edinburgh Review. ......

Book 9  p. 522
(Score 2.67)

386 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
An aisle appears to have bLen added at a later period to the south of the two last
chapels, the beautifully groined roof bf which was fully as rich as any portion of the choir.
This appears to be the chapel referred to in a I‘ charter of confitmation of a mortification
by Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Knight, Provost of Edinburgh, to ane altarage of St
Gilles Kirk,” dated 17th August 1513; by which he founded a “ chaplainry in the New
Chapel, near the south-western corner of the church, in honour of God, the Virgin xarj+,
and Gabriel the Archangel.” ’ It consisted of two arches extending between the porch
and the south transept, and in the south wall, between the two windows, a beautiful altar
tomb was constructed under a deep recess, on which a recumbent figure had, no doubt, been
originally placed, although it probably disappeared along with the statues, and other ancient ’
decorations, that fell a prey to the reforming zeal of 1559, when ‘( The Black and Gray
Freris of Edinburgh were demolissed and castin doun aluterlie, and all the chepellis and
collegis about the said burgh, with thair zairds, were in lykwyise distfoyit ; and the images
and altaris of Banctgeilis kirk distroyit and brint, be the Erlis bf Ergyle ahd Glencarne,
the pryour of Sanctandrois and Lord Ruthvene, callit the cotlgregatioun.” The principal
ornaments of this fine tomb suggest its having been erected for some eminent ecclesiastic.
Underneath the corbels from which the crocketed arch spriugs, two shields are cut, bearing
the emblems of our Saviour’s passion, the one on the right having the nails, spear, and
teed with the sponge, and the other the pillar and scourges. The pinnacle with which the
arch terminates is adorned with the beautiful emblem of a heart within the crown of
thorns, and on eithei- side of it a lion and dragon are sculptured as snpportercl, On the
top of this an ornamental corbel €ormerly supported a clustered pillar, from the capital of
which the rich groining of the roof spread out its fan-like limbs towards the fine bosses of
the centre key-stones. All this, however, which combined to form one of the finest and
most unique features of the Old Church, has been sacrificed to secure that undesirable
uniformity which ruins the Gothic designs of’ modern architects, and is scarcely ever found
in the best ancient examples. One-half of the aisle has been demolished, and a wall built
across where the clustered pillar formerly supported the beautiful roof of the chapel, in order
to give it the appeatance externally of an aisle to the south transept. The altar tomb
has been removed in a mutilated state to this fragment of the ancient chapel, now degraded
to the mean oEce of a staircase to the Montrose aisle on the east side of the same
transept, which, with a floor half way up its ancient pillars, serves for a vestry to the Old
Church.
On the north side of the nave a range of chapels appears to have been added at a somewhat
later date than those built on the south side in 1387, judging from the style of ornament
and particularly the rich groining of the roof. These consisted of two small chapels
on each aide of the ancient Norman porch, while above it there was an apartment known
as the Priest’s Room. This had, no doubt, served as a vestry for some of the clergy officiating
at the numerous altars of the church, though Maitland gives it the name of the
Priest’s Prison, as the place of durance in olden times for culprits who had incurred the
1 Inventar of Pious Donationa M.8. Ad. Lib. Alexander Lauder filled the oflice of Provost in the years 1bOj-3,
and again in 1508-10. The Earl of Angus waa the Provost in 1513, and marched with the burgher fmcd t6 Flodden
Field.
9 Maitland, p. 271. Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. ’269. ......

Book 10  p. 424
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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 397
1593, she leaves “ to ewerie ane of the pure folkis in the Hospitall of the Trinitie College,
and of the Toun College of the west end of the College Kirk, iij S. iiij d.”’
One other collegiate church was enclosed within the walls of the ancient capital, known
as that of St Nary in-the-Fields, or, more commonly, the Hirk-of-Field. We have
already referred to it as the scene of one of the most extraordinary deeds of violence that
the history of any age or country records-the murder of Darnley, the husband of Queen
Mary, perpetrated by Bothwell and his accomplices on the night of the 9th of February
1567, when the Provost’s house, in which he lodged, was blown into the air with pnpowder,
involving both Darnley and his servant in the ruins.’ When young Roland
Graeme, the hero of the Ahbot, draws near for the first time to the Scottish capital, under
the guidance of the bluff falconer, Adam Woodcock, he is represented exclaiming on a
sudden-“ Blessed Lady, what goodly house is that which is lying all in ruins so close to
the city? Have they been playing at the Abbot of Unreason here, and ended the gambol
by burning the church ? ” The ruins that excited young Graeme’s astonishment were none
other than those of the Kirk-of-Field, which stood on the sight of the present University
buildings. It appears in the view of 1544, as a large cross church, with a lofty central
tower ; and the general accuracy of this representation is in some degree confirmed by the
correspondence of the tower to another view of it taken immediately after the murder of
Da.mley, when the church was in ruins. The latter drawing, which has evidently been made
in order to convey an accurate idea of the scene of the murder to the English Court, is preserved
in the State Paper Office, and a fac-simile of it is given in Chalmers’ Life of Queeu
Mary. The history of the Collegiate Church of St Mary in-the-Fields presents scarcely
any other feature of interest than that which attaches to it as the scene of so strange and
memorable %tragedy. Its age and its founder are alike unknown. It was governed by a
provost, who, with eight prebendaries and two choristers, composed the college, with the
addition of an hospital for poor bedemen ; and it is probable that its foundation dated no
earlier than the ateenth century, as all the augmentations of it which are mentioned in
the “ Inventar of Pious Donations,” belong to the sixteenth century. Bishop Lesley
records, in 1558, that the Erle of Argyle and all his cumpanie entered in the toune of
Edinburgh without anye resistance, quhair thay war weill receaved; and suddantlie the
Black and Gray Freris places war spulyeit and cassin doune, the hail1 growing treis plucked
up be the ruittis; the Trinitie College and all the prebindaris houses thairof lykewise
cassin doun ; the altaris. and images within Sanct Gelis Kirke and the Kirk-of-Field
destroyed and brint.”’ It seems probable, however, that the Collegiate church of St
’ Nary-in-the-Field was already shorn of its costliest spoils before the Reformers of the
Congregation visited it in 1558. In the ‘( Inventory of the Townis purchase from the
Marquis of Hamilton, in 1613,” with a view to the founding of the college, we have
found a.n abstract of a feu charter granted by Mr Alexander Forrest, provost of the
Collegiate Church of the blessed Mary in-the-Fields‘near Edin’., and by the prebends of
the said church,” bearing date 1554, wherein, among other reasons speciiied, it is
stated : ‘‘ considering that ther houses, especialy ther hospital annexed and incorporated
with ther college, were burnt doun and destroyed by their auld enemies of England, so
that nothing of their said hospital was left, but they are altogether waste and entirely
‘
I Bannatyne Misc., vol. ii p. 221. ante, p. 78. a Lesley, p, 275. ......

Book 10  p. 436
(Score 2.52)

130 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig.
By interdict the directors were compelled to give
access to the well, which they grudgingly did by a
species of drain, till the entire edifice was removed
to where it now stands.
Near the site of the well is the ancient church of
Restalrig, which, curiously enough, at first sight has
all the air of an entirely modern edifice ; but on a
minute inspection old mouldings and carvings of
great antiquity make their appearance in conjunction
with the modern stonework of its restoration.
It is a simple quadrangular building, without aisles
or transept.
The choir, which is the only part of the building
that has escaped the rough hands
of the iconoclasts of the sixteenth
century, is a comparatively small,
though handsome, specimen of
Decorated English Gothic ; and
it remained an open ruin until
a fev years since, when it was
restored in a manner as a chapel
of ease for the neighbouring district.
But a church existed here long
before the present one, and it
was celebrated all over Scotland
for the tomb of St. Triduana,
who died at Restalrig, and whose
shrine was famous as the resort
of pilgrims, particularly those
who were affected by diseased
eyesight. Thus, to this day, she
is frequently painted as carrying
her own eyes on a salver or the
point of a sword. A noble virgin
of Achaia, she is said to have
come to Scotland, in the fourth
century, with St. Rule. Her name
inferred that the well afterwards called St. Margaret?s
was the well of St. Triduana.
Curiously enough, Lestalric, the ancient name of
Restalrig, is that by which it is known in the present
day; and still one of the roads leading to it from
Leith is named the Lochsterrock Road
The existence of a church andparish here, long
prior to the death of King Alexander 111. is proved
by various charters ; and in 1291, Adam of St.
Edmunds, prior of Lestalric, obtained a writ, addressed
to the sheriff of Edinburgh, to put him
in possession of his lands and rights. The same
ecclesiastic, under pressure, like many others at
SEAL OF THE COLLEGIATE cnmcn
OF RESTALRIG.
is unknown in the Roman Breviary; but a recent
writer says, ?? S t Triduana, with two companions,
devoted themselves to a recluse life at Roscoby, but
a Pictish chief, named Nectan, having been attracted
by her beauty, she fled into Athole to
escape him. As his emissaries followed her there,
and she discovered that it was her eyes which had
entranced him, she plucked them out, and, fixing
them on a thorn, sent them to her admirer. In
consequence of this practical method of satisfying
a lover, St. Triduana, who came to Restalrig to
live, became famous, and her shrine was for many
generations the resort of pilgrims whose eyesight
was defective, miraculous cures being effected by
the waters of the well.?
Sir David Lindsay writes of their going to ? St.
Trid well to mend their ene;? thus it has been
the time, swore fealty to Edward
I. of England in 1296.
Henry de Leith, rector of Restalrig,
appeared as a witness
against the Scottish Knights of
the Temple, at the trial in Holyrood
in 1309. The vicar, John
Pettit, is mentioned in the charter
of confirmation by James III.,
under his great seal of donations
to the Blackfriars of Edinburgh
in 1473..
A collegiate establishment of
considerable note, having a dean,
with nine prebends and two singing
boys, was constituted at Restalrig
by James III., and completed
by James V. j but it seems
not to have interfered with the
parsonage, which remained entire
till the Reformation.
The portion of the choir now
remaining does not date, it is
supposed, earlier than from the
fourteenth century, and is much
plainer, says Wilson, than might be expected in
a church enriched by the contributions of three
pious monarchs in succession, and resorted to by
so many devout pilgrims as to excite the special
indignation of one of the earliest assemblies of the
Kirk, apparently on account of its abounding with
statues and images.
By the Assembly of 1560 it was ordered to be
? raysit and utterly casten doun,? as a monument
of idolatry; and this order was to some extent
obeyed, and the ?? aisler stanis ? were taken by
Alexander Clark to erect a house with, but were
used by the Reformers to build a new Nether Bow
Port. The parishioners of Restalrig were ordered
in future to adopt as their parish church that of
St. Mary?s, in Leith, which continues to the present
day to be South Leith church. ......

Book 5  p. 130
(Score 2.41)

Moming+3c] THE ROYAL EDINBURGH ASYLUM. 39
sions and villas seem to crowd and jostle each other,
till it has become an integral part of Edinburgh;
but the adjacent hamlet of Tipperlinn, the abode
chiefly of weavers, and once also a summer resort,
has all disappeared, and nothing of it now remains
but an old draw-well The origin of its name is
evidently Celtic.
Falcon Hall, eastward of the old village, is an
elegant modem villa, erected early in the present
century byawealthy Indian civilian, named Falconer;
but, save old Morningside House, or Lodge, before
that time no other niansion of importance stood
here.
In the latter-which stands a little way back kom
the road on the west side-there died, in the year
1758, William Lockhart, Esq., of Carstairs, who
had been thrown from his cliaise at the Burghmuir-
head, and was so severely injured that he expired
two days after. Here also resided, and died
in 1810, William Coulter, a wealthy hosier, who was
then in office as Lord Provost of the city, which
gave him a magnificent civic and military funeral,
which was long remembered for its grandeur and
solemnity.
On this occasion long streamers of crape floated
from Nelson?s monument ; the bells were tolled.
Mr. Claud Thompson acted as chief mourner-in
lieu of the Provost?s only son, Lieutenant Coulter,
then serving with the army in Portugal-and the city
arms were borne by a man seven feet high before
the coffin, whereon lay a sword, robe, and chain
of office.
Three volleys were fired over it by the Edinburgh
Volunteers, of which he was colonel. A portrait
of him in uniform appears in one of Kay?s
sketches.
In 1807 Dr. Andrew Duncan (already noticed
in the account of Adam Square) proposed the
erection of a lunatic asylum, the want of which
had long been felt in the city. Subscriptions came
in slowly, but at last sufficient was collected, a
royal charter was obtained, and on the 8th of June,
1809, the foundation stone of the now famous and
philanthropic edifice at Morningside was laid by
the Lord Provost Coulter, within an enclosure, four
acres in extent, south of old Morningside House
Towards the erection a sum of LI,IOO came from
Scotsmen in Madras.
The object of this institution is to afford every
possible advantage in the treatment of insanity.
The unfortunate patients may be put under the
care of any medical practitioner in Edinburgh
(says the Scots Magmine for that year) whom the
relations may choose to employ, while the poor
will be attended gratis by physicians and surgeons
appointed by the managers. In every respect,
it is one of the most efficient institutions of the
kind in Scotland, It is called the Royal Edinburgh
Asylum, and has as its patron the reigning
sovereign, a governor, four deputies, a board of
managers, and another of medical men.
The original building was afterwards more than
doubled in extent by the addition of another, the
main entrance to which is from the old road that
led to Tipperlinn. This is called the west department,
where the average number of inmates is
above 500. It is filled with patients of the humbler
order, whose friends or parishes pay for them 6 1 5
per annum.
The east department, which was built in 1809, is
for patients who pay not less than A56 per annum
as an ordinary charge, though separate sitting-rooms
entail an additional expense. On the other hand,
when patients are in straitened circumstances a
yearly deduction of ten, or even twenty pounds, is
made from the ordinary rate.
In the former is kept the museum of plaster
casts from the heads of patients, a collection continually
being added to ; and no one, even without
a knowledge of phrenology, can behold these lifeless
images without feeling that the originals had
been afflicted by disease of the mind, for even the
cold, white, motionless plaster appears expressive
of ghastly insanity.
In the west department the patients who are
capable of doing so ply their trades as tailors,
shoemakers, and so forth; and one of the most
interesting features of the institution is the
printing-office, whence, to quote Chambers?sJournal,
?is issued the Morningside Mirror, a monthly
sheet, whose literary contents are supplied wholly
by the inmates, and contain playful hits and puns
which would not disgrace the habitual writers of
facetious articles.??
From the list of occupations that appear in the
annual report, it would seem that nearly every
useful trade and industry. is followed within the
walls, and that the Morningside Asylum supplies
most of its own wants, being a little world complete
in itself.
Occupation and amusement here take the place
of irksome bondage, with results that have been
very beneficial, and among the most extraordinary
of these are the weekly balls, in which the patients
figure in reels and in country dances, and sing
songs.
At the foot of Morningside the Powburn takes the
singular name of the Jordan as it flows through a
farm named Egypt, and other Scriptural names
abound close by, such as Hebron Bank, Canaan ......

Book 5  p. 39
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240 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith
is in the Gothic style, with a tower 130 feet high,
surmounted by an open crown.
On the east side of this street, and near its
northern end, stood the house in which John
Home, the author of ?( Douglas ? and other tragedies,
was born, on the 13th September, 1724. His
father, Alexander Home, was Town Clerk of Leith,
and his mother was Christian Hay, daughter of a
writer in Edinburgh. He was educated at the
Grammar School in the Kirkgate, and subsequently
succeeded in carrying Thomas Barrow, who had
dislocated his ankle in the descent, to Alloa, where
they were received on board the YuZture, sloopofwar,
commanded by Captain Falconer, who landed
them in his barge at the Queen?s Ferry, from
whence Home rFturned to his father?s house in
Leith.
Subsequently he became the associate and friend
of Drs. Robertson and Blair, David Hume, Adam
Fergusson, Adam Smith, and other eminent Ziterati
ST. JAMES?S CHAPEL, 1820. (Aftcr Stow.)
at the university of the capital. His father was a
son of Home of Flass (says Henry Mackenzie, in
his ? Memoirs ?1, a lineal descendant of Sir James
Home of Cowdenknowes, ancestor of the Earls of
Home. He was licensed by the Presbytery of
Edinburgh on the 4th of April, in the memorable
year 1745, and became a volunteer in the corps so
futilely formed to assist in the defence of Edinburgh
against Prince Charles Edward Serving as a
volunteer in the Hanoverian interest, he was taken
prisoner at thevictory of Falkirk, and committed to
the castle of Doune in hlonteith, from whence,
with some others, he effected an escape by forming
ropes of the bedclothes-an adventure which he
details in his own history of the civil strife. They
of whom the Edinburgh of that day could boast ;
and in 1746 he was inducted as minister at Athelstaneford,
his immediate predecessor being Robert
Blair, author of ? The Grab-e," and there he produced
his first drama, founded on the death of
Agis, King of Sparta, which Gamck declined when
offered for representation in I 749.
In 1755 Home set off on horseback to London
from his house in East Lothian, with the
tragedy of ?Ilouglas? in his pocket, says Henry
Mackenzie. ?? His habitual carelessness was strongly
shown by his having thought of no better conveyance
for this MS.-by which he #vas to acquire
all the fame and future success of which his friends
were so confident-than the pocket of the great-
. ......

Book 6  p. 240
(Score 2.04)

Holyrood.] THE ABBEY CHURCH IN RUINS. 59
and cannon were two ship?s masts, fully rigged,
one on the right bearing the Scottish flag, another
on the left bearing the English. ?? Above all these
rose the beautiful eastem window, shedding a flood
of light along the nave, eclipsing the fourteen
windows of the clerestory. The floor was laid
with ornamental tiles, some portions of which are
yet preserved.?
In the royal yacht there came to Leith from
London an altar, vestments, and images, to complete
the restoration of the church to its ancient uses.
As if to hasten on the destruction of his house,
James VII., not content with securing to his
Catholic subjects within the precincts of Holyrood
that degree of religious toleration now enjoyed
by every British subject, had mass celebrated there,
and established a college of priests, whose rules
were published on the zznd of March, 1688, inviting
people to send their children there, to be
educated gratis, as Fountainhall records. He also
appointed a Catholic printer, named Watson (who
availed himself of the protection afforded by the
sanctuary) to be ? King?s printer in Holyrood ;?
and obtained a right from the Privy Council
to print all the ? prognostications at Edinburgh,?
an interesting fact which accounts for the number
of old books bearing Holyrood on their
title-pages. Prior to all this, on St. Andrew?s
Day, 30th November, the whole church was
sprinkled with holy water, re-consecrated, and a
sermon was preached in it by a priest named
Widerington.
Tidings of the landing of William of Orange
roused the Presbyterian mobs to take summary vengeance,
and on being joined by the students of the
University, they assailed the palace and chapel royal.
The guard, IOO strong-? the brats of Belia1?-
under Captain Wallace, opened a fire upon them,
killing twelve and wounding many more, but they
were ultimately compelled to give way, and the
chapel doors were burst open. The whole interior
was instantly gutted and destroyed, and
the magnificent throne, stalls, and orgab, were
ruthlessly tom down, conveyed to the Cross, and
there consigned to the flames, amid the frantic
shrieks and yells of thousands. Not content with
all this, in a spirit of mad sacrilege, the mob, now
grown lawless, burst into the royal vault, tore some
of the leaden coffins asunder, and, according to
Amot, camed off the lids.
By the middle of the eighteenth century the rooG
which had become ruinous, was restored with flagstones
in a manner too ponderous for the ancient
arches, which gave way beneath the superincumbent
weight on the 2nd of December, 1768; and again
the people of Edinburgh became seized by a spirit
of the foullest desecration, and from thenceforward,
until a comparafively recent period, the ruined
church remained open to all, and was appropriated ?
tu the vilest uses. Grose thus describes what he
saw when the rubbish had been partly cleared
away :-? When we lately visited it we saw in the
middle of the chapel the columns which had been
borne down by the weight of the roof. Upon
looking into the vaults which were open, we found
that what had escaped the fury of the mob at the
Revolution became a prey to the mobwho ransacked
it after it fell. In A.D. 1776 we had seen the body
of James V. and others in their leaden coffins;
the coffins are now stolen. The head of Queen
Margaret (Magdalene?), which was then entire, and
even beautiful, and the skull of Damley, were also
stolen, and were last traced to the collection of a
statuary in Edinburgh.?
In 1795 the great east window was blown out
in a violent storm, but in 1816 was restored from
its own remains, which lay scattered about on the
ground. In the latter year the north-west tower,
latterly used as a vestry, was still covered by an
ogee leaden roof.
The west front of what remains, though the W0i-k
perhaps of different periods, is in the most beautiful
style of Early English, and the boldly-cut heads
in its sculptured arcade and rich variety of ornament
in the doorway are universally admired.
The windows above it were additions made so
latelyas the time of Charles I., and the inscriptions
which that upfortunate king had carved on the
Ornamental tablet between them is a striking illustration
of the vanity of human hopes. One runs :-
Ultimately this also fell.
?Basiluam ham, Carolus Rex, @firnus imtaxravit, 1633.?
The other :-
?HE SHALL ESTABLISH ANE HOUSE FOR MY NAME, AND I
WILL ESTABLISH THE THRONE OF HIS KINGDOM FOR
EVER.?
In the north-west tower is amarble monument to
Robert, Viscount Belhaven, who was interred there
in January, 1639. His nephews, Sir Archibald and
Sir Robert Douglas, placed there that splendid
memorial to perpetuate hisvirtues as a man and
steadiness as a patriot. A row of tombs of Scottish
nobility and others lie in the north aisle. The
Roxburgh aisle adjoins the royal vault in the
south aisle, and in front of it lies the tomb of the
Countess of Errol, who died in 1808. Close by.
it is that of the Bishop of Orkney, already referred
to. ? A flattering inscription enumerates the.
bishop?s titles, and represents this worldly hypocrite ......

Book 3  p. 59
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 249
gentleman of our acquaintance relates that he one day happened -to pounce upon
him at his seat of Tarlogie. Lord Ankerville had then reached his seventy-fifth
year. Being alone, he had just sat down to dinner ; and not having expected a
strauger, he apologised for his uncropped beard. Our friend was, of course,
welcomed to the board, and experienced the genuine hospitality of a Highland
mansion. After having done ample justice to the table, and when his lordship
had secured a full allowance of claret under his belt, he went to his toilette, and,
to the astonishment of his guest, appeared at supper cleanly and closely shaved,
to whom he remarked, that his hand was now more steady than it would have
been in the morning.
Lord Ankerville died at his seat of Tarlogie on the 16th August 1805, in the
seventy-eighth year of his age. His residence in Edinburgh was in St. Andrew
Square.
No. CI.
FRANCIS HOME, M.D.,
PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA IN THE UNIVERSITY OB EDINBURGH!
AND ONE OF THE KING’S PFIYSICIANS FOR SCOTLAND.
DR. HOME was born on the 17th November 1719. He was the third son of
Mr. Home of Eccles, an advocate, and author of fieveral works, professional and
historical. He placed his son under the charge of Mr. Cruickshanks of Dunse,
then esteemed one of the best classical scholars and teachers, and who had the
faculty of inspiring his scholars with a taste for classical learning. Mr. Home
having chosen medicine as a profession, served an apprenticeship with Mr.
Rattray, then the most eminent surgeon in Edinburgh. He afterwards studied
under the medical Professors of the University of Edinburgh of the period ;
and applied with so much zeal and assiduity as frequently to obtain the approbation
of his teachers. He contracted friendships with many of his fellow students,
which lasted through life ; and he was among the few who founded the Royal
Medical Society, which has continued to the present day, and has contributed
greatly to the celebrity of the Edinburgh school of medicine. After finishing
his studies Mr. Home obtained a commission of surgeon in a regiment of
dragoons, and joined it on the same day with his friend the late Sir William
Erekine. He served in Flanders with that regiment during the whole of the
“ seven-years’ war.” Amidst the din of arms, and the desultory life of soldiers,
Mr. Home did not spend his time in idleness. He discharged his duty so faithfully
that he often received the approbation of his superior officers, and especially
of Sir John Pringle, the head of the medical department of that army ; and he
laid up a store of medical facts, many of which he afterwards published. At the
end of several campaigns, instead of partaking of the relaxation and dissipation
. of winter quarters, Mr. Home, as often as he could obtain leave of absence, went
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coat in which he rode, Dr. Carlyle turned a little
out of the road to procure from a clergyman of their
acquaintance the loan of a pair of saddlebags,
in which to deposit the MS.?
The latter was also rejected by Garrick, ?with
the mortifying declaration that it was totally unfit
for the stage.? Yet it was brought out at Edinburgh
by Digges, on the 14th December, 1756,
and produced that storm of fanaticism to which
we have referred in a former part of this work. It
had a run then unprecedented, and though a rather
dull work, has maintained a certain popularity
almost to the present day.
To escape the censiires of the kirk, he resigned
HOME. 241
his living, and published several other tragedies;
and after the accession of George 111. to the
throne he received a pension of A300 per
annum. In 1763 he obtained the then sinecure
appointment of Conservator of Scottish Privileges
at Campvere (in succession to George Lind, Provost
of Edinburgh)] and also the office of Commissioner
for Sick and Wounded Seamen. In 1779 he removed
to Edinburgh, where he spent the latter
years of his life, and married a lady of his own
name, by whom he had no children.
Home?s ?? Douglas? is now no longer regarded
as the marvel of genius it once was ; but the author
was acknowledged in his lifetime to be vain of it,
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The title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother, as that of Earl
of Kintore has since fallen to his descendants.
Catherine Falconer had the misfortune to lose her husband, when her two
boys, John and David, and a daughter, Catherine, were still infants ; and on
her, in consequence, the sole charge and tutelage of them devolved. But they
suffered in these circumstances less disadvantage than might have been expected ;
for their mother was a woman of singular merit, who, though young and handsome,
and but slenderly endowed as a widow, devoted herself entirely to the
rearing and educating of her children.
The principal circumstances of the historian’s life may be learned from his
own narrative, published soon after his death. His elder brother, John, preferred
the life of a country gentleman, and employed himself for many years,
judiciously and successfully, in the improvement of his paternal estates of Ninswells,
Hornden, etc., in Berwickshire, which had been in the possession of the
family for several generations. In the latter part of his life he gave up his
more extensive farming concerns, and went to reside in Edinburgh during half
of the year, for the education of his family.
In 1740 John Home built a mansion-house at Ninewells, in place of the
old one, which had been partly burned. But this was done on a very limited
scale, for he was singularly cautious and moderate in all his notions and wishes,
even in matters of income-insomuch that, to the end of his life, he never could
be induced to follow the example of other landlords, and accept the highest rent
that might be got for his lands. In 1764 he acquired, by purchase from Sir
James Home, the lands of Fairneycastle, in the adjoining parish of Coldinghame.
He had an absolute abhorrence of the contracting of debt of any sort
or degree ; and he thus missed the opportunity of at leastone other advantageous
purchase of land, on which his friends strongly advised him to venture.
In 1751, John Home married Apes Carre, daughter of Robert Carre, Esq.,
of Caverse, in Roxburghshire, by Helen Riddell, sister of Sir Walter Riddell,
of Riddell, an ancient and honourable family in the same shire. Mrs. Home’s
only brother had been in possession of Caverse; but died of consumption,
unmarried, and in early youth. On that event, an old settlement of entail, in
favour of heirs-male, carried off the estate (excepting only the patronage of the
Kirk of Bedrule) from Mrs. Home, his only sister, to a more distant male relation,
whose posterity have since held and now possess it.
John Home was highly esteemed by all who knew him, as an honourable,
just, and most conscientious gentleman-a strict observer of truth and of his
word-respectful to the ordinances of religion-and one who acquitted himself
unexceptionably in all the relations of domestic life. His children, in
particular, had reason to be grateful to him for the inestimable benefit of a
thorough and liberal education, on which, economical as he was, he spared no
expense; as, indeed, he was throughout life uniformly, and even anxiously,
provident for their welfare, in everything that might contribute to form their
morals or advance their fortune. Possessed as he was of these recommenda-
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to Leyden, which still retained a high reputation as a medical school ; and he
studied there under the medical teachers of that time.
At the termination of the war Mr. Home settled in Edinburgh, and graduated
in the year 1750, choosing for the subject of his inaugural dissertation, the
remittent fever which had prevailed very severely in the army- a treatise which
is yet quoted as one of the best on the disease, In 1768 he obtained the
Professorship of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, the duties of
which he executed for thirty years with great industry, zeal, and reputation.
During this period he contributed, along with his other eminent colleagues, to
maintain the high character of the University of Edinburgh as a medical school.
He died on the 15th of February 1813, at the very advanced age of ninety-four,
preserving his faculties entire till within a short period of his death.
Few physicians have done more to promote the advancement of medicine,
as a science and as an art, than Dr. Home. He published several valuable and
esteemed works. His " Principia Jledicinar I' contains a very excellent and
scientific history of diseases. It is written in correct and elegant Latinity,
showing his intimate acquaintance with the best ancient classical authors. This
work contributed materially to raise his reputation, especially on the Continent,
where.it was soon adopted by several professors as a text-book. It has undergone
several editions ; and even now, after the lapse of three-fourths of a century,
and notwithstanding the great improvements in medicine, it is still one of the
best and most useful compendiums on the subject. Dr. Home added numerous
and very important facts to the history and treatment of many diseases, and
contributed much to establish the art of medicine on the basis of experience and
observation. He was the first who described " the Croup " as a separate and
distinct disease ; and his account of it first called the attention of physicians to
it. Although, since its first publication, much has been added to its pathology,
yet Dr. Home's treatise still remains as a standard and much esteemed work on
the history and treatment of this very fatal disease. His works, entitled " Medical
Facts and Experiments," and his " Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissertations,"
cqntain a most valuable collection of very important factls regarding the
history of diseases and their treatment ; and they introduced several new remedies,
many of which still stand the test of the experience of more than half a century.
Dr. Home did not confine his observations and publications to medicine
alone. His work, entitled " Experiments on Bleaching," for which he obtained
a gold medal from the Honourable Board of Trustees for the Improvement of
Manufactures in North Britain, was published in the year 1756, by request of
the Board ; and he received many testimonies of eminent manufacturers, whose
art it had much improved. His treatise on Dunse Spa, published in 1751,
brought that mineral spring into much notice. His Essay on the Principles of
Agriculture long continued to be the best scientific account of that most
important art, and obtained for him the first Professorship of Agriculture in the
University of Edinburgh, which he afterwards resigned in' favour of the late
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36 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Merchistom
captain named ScougaL
After a hard struggle, during which several were
killed and wounded, they stormed the outworks,
and set them on fire to smoke the defenders out of
the donjon keep ; but a body of the king's men
veyed to Leith, and hanged, while he had a narrow
escape, his horse being killed under him by a shot
from Holyrood Palace, Another conflict of a
more serious nature occurred before Merchiston
on the last day of the same month.
attack by firing forty guns from the Castle of Edinburgh.
The men of Scougal (who were mortally wounded)
fled over the Links and adjacent fields in all
directions, hotly pursued by the Laird of Blairquhan.
On the 10th of the subsequent June the
queen's troops, under George, Earl of Huntly, with
a small train of artillery, made another attack upon
Merchiston, while their cavalry scoured all the
fields between it and Blackford-fields now covered
with long lines of stately and beautiful villas-bringing
in forty head of cattle and sheep. By the time
the guns had played on Merchiston from two till
four o'clock p.m., two decided breaches were made
in the walls. The garrison was about to capitulate,
when the assemblage of a number of people, whom
the noise of the cannonade had attracted, was
mistaken for king's troops ; those of Huntly be,came
party of twenty-four men-at-arms rode forth to
forage. The well-stocked fields in the neighbourhood
of the fortalice were the constant scene of
enterprise, and on this occasion the foragers
collected many oxen, besides other spoil, which
they were driving triumphantly into town. They
were pursued, however, by Patrick Home of the
Heugh, who commanded the Regent's Light
Horsemen. The foraging party, whom hunger
had rendered desperate, contrived to keep their
pursuers, amounting to eighty spears, at bay till
they neared Merchiston, when the king's garrison
issued forth, and re-captured the cattle, the collectors
of which '' alighted from their horses, which they
suffered to go loose, and faught CreauZZ'iee," till succoured
from the town, when the fight turned in
their favour. In this conflict, Home of the Heugh,
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73 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
been thirty-nine years a Judge of the Supreme Court. It is somewhat remarkable
that he and his two immediate predecessors occupied the same seat on the
bench for a period of ninety years; Lord Ropton having been appointed a
judge in 1710, and Lord Tinwald in 1744.
By his wife, Lady Grace Stuart, daughter of James second Earl of Bute,
and sister of the Prime Minister, John the third Earl, his lordship had seven
sons, all of whom predeceased him. The second of these was Lieutenant-
Colonel John Campball, whose memorable defence of Mangalore, from May 1783
to January 1784, arrested the victorious career of Tippoo Sultan, and shed a
lustre over the close of that calamitous war.
Lord Stonefield resided at one time in Elphinstone’s Court, and latterly in
George Square. Of his lordship’s professional history no record has been
preserved. As a scholar, his attainments were considerable, and as a judge, his
decisions were marked by conciseness of expression and soundness of judgment.
He was a zealous and liberal supporter of every scheme tending to promote the
welfare and improvement of his native country.
No. cxcv.
JOHN HOME, ESQ.,
OF NINEWELLS.
JOHHNO MEo, r HUME,o f Ninewells (for they are truly the same name) was
the elder and only brother of Da,vid Hume, the historian.’ They were the
children of Joseph Home of Ninewells and Catherine Falconer, who was a
daughter of Sir David Falconer, Lord President of the College of Justice.
There were two subjects of playful controversy between the historian and his kind friend John
Home, author of the Tragedy of Douglas, etc. One waa about the preference of port or claret as
the better liquor. David was an advocate for port ; John was strenuous for the honour of claret, aa
the approved and genuine beverage of the old Scottish gentleman, in untaxed times, before the
union of the kingdoms. The other controversy related to the just spelling of the surname, Home or
Hum. David inclined, though with due temperance, for Hume, for which he found authority in
the inscription on an old tombstonr, and in some other memorials of past times. John rejected
this opinion of David’s as heterodox, and stood up stoutly on all occasions aa the hed of the
How faction.
With reference to these two matters, the historlan, in a codicil to his settlement, written with
his own hand, expresses himself as follows :-‘‘ I leave to my friend John Home of Kilduff ten dozen
of my old claret, at his choice, and one single bottle of that other liquor, called port. I also leave to
him six dozen of port, provided that he attests, under his hand, signed John Humq that he haa himself
alone finished that bottle at two sittinge. By this concession, he will at once terminate the only
two differences that ever arose between as concerning temporal mattera.” This writing ie preeerved,
but not entered on record. Mr. Humo died on the 25th of the
same month. On one
occasion, David jocularly proposed to John, that they should terminate the controvenry about the
name, by casting lots. “Nay, Mr. Philosopher,” said John (for so he often addressed him), “that
is a most extraordinary proposal indeed i for if you lose, you take your own name ; and if I lose, I
take another man’s name.”
It is dated 7th August 1776.
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with the Dukes of Savoy and Burgundy. She
landed at Leith amid a vast concourse of all
classes of the people, and, escorted by a bodyguard
of 300 men-at-arms, all cap-d+e, with
the citizens also in their armour, under Patrick
Cockburn of Nevtbigging, Provost of Edinburgh
and Governor of the Castle, was escorted to the
monastery of the Greyfriars, where she was warmly
welcomed by her future husband, then in his
twentietb year, and was visited by the queenmother
on the following day.
The week which intervened between her arrival
and?her marriage was spent in a series of magnificent
entertainments, during which, from her great
beauty and charms of manner, she won the devoted
affection of the loyal nobles and people.
A contemporary chronicler has given a minute
account of one of the many chivalrous tournaments
that took place, in which three Burgundian nobles,
two of them brothers named Lalain, and the thud
HervC Meriadet, challenged any three Scottish
knights to joust with lance, battle-axe, sword, and
dagger, a defiance at once accepted by Sir James
Douglas, James Douglas of Lochleven, and Sir
John Ross of Halkhead, Constable of Renfrew.
Lances were shivered and sword and axe resorted
to with nearly equal fortune, till the king threw
down his truncheon and ended the combat.
The royal marriage, which took place in the
church at Holyrood amid universal joy, concluded
these stirring scenes. At the bridal feast the first
dish was in the form of a boar?s head, painted and
stuck full df tufts of coarse flax, served up on an
enormous platter, with thirty-two banners, bearing
the arms of the king and principal nobles ; and the
flax was set aflame, amid the acclamations of the
numerous assembly that filled the banquet-hall.
Ten years after Holyrood beheld a sorrowful
scene, when, in 1460, James, who had been slain
by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh
on the 3rd August, in his thirtieth year, was
laid in the royal vault, ?with the teares of his
people and his hail1 army,? says Balfour.
In 1467 there came from Rome, dated zznd
February, the bull of Pope Paul II., granting, on
the petition of the provost, bailies, and community
of the city, a con~mission to the Bishop of Galloway,
?et dilectojZio Abbafi Monasterii Sancta Cmcis mini
viuros de Rdynburgh,? to erect the Church of St.
Giles into a collegiate institution.
Two years afterwards Holyrood was again the
scene of nuptial festivities, when the Parliamen!
met, and Margaret of Norway, Denmark, and
Sweden, escorted by the Earl of Arran and a
gallant train of Scottish aad Danish nobles, landed
at Leith in July, 1469. She was in her sixteenth
year, and had as her dowry the isles of Orkney
and Shetland, over which her ancestors had hitherto
claimed feudal superiority. James III., her
husband, had barely completed his eighteenth
year when they were married in the abbey church,
where she was crowned queenconsort. ?? The marriage
and coronation gave occasion to prolonged
festivities in the metropolis and plentiful congratulations
throughout the kingdom. Nor was the
flattering welcome undeserved by the queen ; in the
bloom of youth and beauty, amiable and virtuous,
educated in all the feminine accomplishments of
the age, and so richly endowed, she brought as
valuable an accession of lustre to the court as of
territory to the kingdom.?
In 1477 there arrived ?heir in grate pompe,?
says Balfour, ?Husman, the legate of Pope
Xystus the Fourth,? to enforce the sentence of
deprivation and imprisonment pronounced by Hjs
Holiness upon Patrick Graham, Archbishop of St.
Andrews, an eminent and unfortunate dignitary of
the Church of Scotland. He was the first who
bore that rank, and on making a journey to Rome,
returned as legate, and thus gained the displeasure
of the king and of the clergy, who dreaded his
power. He was shut up in the monastery of Inchcolm,
and finally in the castle of Lochleven. Meanwhile,
in the following year, William Schivez, a
great courtier and favourite of the king, was
solemnly consecrated in Holyrood Church by the
papal legate, from whose hands he received a pall,
the ensign of archiepiscopal dignity, and with great
solemnity was proclaimed ?? Primate and Legate of
the realm of Scotland.? His luckless rival died
of a broken heart, and was buried in St. Serf?s
Isle, where his remains were recently discovered,
buried in a peculiar posture, with the knees drawn
up and the hands down by the side.
In 1531, when Robert Cairncross was abbot,
there occurred an event, known as ? the miracle of
John Scott,? which made some noise in its time.
This man, a citizen of Edinburgh, having taken
shelter from his creditors in the sanctuary of Holyrood,
subsisted there, it is alleged, for forty days
without food of any kind.
Impressed by this circumstance, of which some
exaggerated account had perhaps been given to
him, James V. ordered his apparel to be changed
and strictly searched. He ordered also that he
should be conveyed from Holyrood to a vaulted
room in David?s Tower in the castle, where he was
barred from access by all and closely guarded.
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294 MEMURIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Moray House, which is one of the most remarkable objects of interest in the Canongate,
formed until 1835 part of the entailed estate of the noble house of Moray, in whose
possession it remained exactly two hundred years, having become the property of Margaret,
Countess of Moray, in 1645, by an arrangement with her younger sister, h u e ,
then Countess of Lauderdale, and co-heiress with her of their mother, the Countess of
Home, by whom Moray House was built.’ This noble mansion presents more striking
architectural features than any other private building in Edinburgh, and is associated with
some of the most interesting events in Scottish history. It was erected in the early part
of the reign of Charles I. by Mary, Countess of Home, the eldest daughter of Edward,
Lord Dudley, and then a widow. Her initials, M. H., are sculptured over the large
centre window of the south gable, surmouuted by a ducal coronet; and over the corresponding
window to the north are the lions of Home and Dudley, impaled on a lozenge,
in accordance with the ancient laws of heraldry. The house was erected some years
before the visit of Charles I. to Scotland, and his coronation at Holyrood in 1633. It
can scarcely, therefore, admit of doubt that its halls ’have been graced by the presence of
that unfortunate monarch, though the Countess soon after contributed largely towards the
success of his opponents, as appears by the repayment by the English Parliament, in
1644, of seventy thousand pounds which had been advanced by her to the Scottish
Covenanting Government-an unusually large sum to be found at the disposal of the
dowager of a Scottish earl.
On the first visit of Oliver Cromwell to Edinburgh, in the summer of 1648, he took
up his residence at “ the Lady Home’s lodging, in the Canongate,” as it then continued to
be called; and entered into friendly negotiations with the nobles and leaders of the extreme
party of the Covenanters. According to Guthrie, ‘‘ he did communicate to them his design
in reference to the King, and had their assent thereto ; ” in consequence of which (‘ the
Lady Home’s house, in the Canongate, became an object of mysterious curiosity, from
the general report at the time that the design to execute Charles I. was there first discussed
and approved.”a This, however, which, if it could be relied on, would add so
peculiar an interest to the mansion, must be regarded as the mere cavalier gossip of the
period. Even if we could believe that Cromwell’s designs were matured at that time, he
was too wary a politician to hazard them by such premature and profitless confidence j but
there can be no doubt of the future measures of resistance to the King having formed a
prominent subject in their discussions.
In the year 1650, only two years after the Parliamentary General’s residence in the
Canongate, the fine old mansion was the scene of joyous banquetings and revelry on the
occasion of the marriage of Lord Lorn-afterwards better known as the unfortunate Earl of
Argyle-with Lady Mary Stuart, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Moray. The weddingfeast
took place on the 13th of May, and the friends were still celebrating the auspicious
the cmce of this bruche, thair to remane the space of ane houre.” On the 6th October 1572, the treasurer is ordered
“to vpput and big sufficiently the corce,” which had probably suffered in some of the reforming mobs, and may
have been then, for the first time, elevated on a platform.-Canongate Burgh Register, Mait. Wit. vol. ii. pp. 303, 326.
l The entail was broke by a clause in one of the Acts of the North British Railway Company, who had purchased
the ancient Trinity Hospital for their terminus, and proposed to fit up Moray House in ita stead; an arrangement which
it is to be regretted has not been carried into effect. The name of Regent blul.ray’a House, latterly applied to the old
mansion, is a spurious tradition of very recent origin. - ’ (tuthrie’s Memoira, p. 298. 3 Napier’s Life of Montrose, p, 441. ......

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conceiving that he might, in the course of events, become serviceable to his
views, resolved upon making him his friend. Lovat then lived in a villa somewhere
about the head of Leith Walk, and often observed young Home pass up and
down between Edinburgh and Leith. Presuming upon very slight acquaintance,
his lordship one day ran out, and, clasping the advocate in his arms, began to
administer some of those compliments which he used to call his weapons-
“My dear Henry,” he cried, “how heartily do .I rejoice in this rencontre.
How does it come to pass that you never look in upon me 3 Almost every day
I see you go past my windows, as if for the purpose of inflaming me with a
more and more passionate desire for your company. Now, you are so finelooking-
so tall, and altoget,her so delightful in your aspect, that unless you
will vouchsafe me some favour, I must absolutely die of unrequited passion.”
“ My Lord,” cried Home, endeavouring to extricate himself from his admirer’s
arms, “ this is quite intolerable ; I ken very wee1 I am the coarsest and most
black-a-vised b-h in a’ the Court 0’ Session. Hae dune-hae dune!”
“ Well, Henry,” said Lovat, in an altered tone, “ you are the first man I have
ever met with who had the understanding to withstand flattery.” “My dear
Lord,” said Home, swallowing the compliment with avidity, and returning the
embrace, “ I am rejoiced to hear you say so.”
The following anecdote is told of the other “ shadow,” HUG0 ARNOT,
and Mr. Hill, afterwards Professor of Humanity (Latin), who was then tutor to
the Lord Justice-clerk‘s son. Arnot met him returning from the Grassmarket
on one occasion when three men were executed there, and inqukng where he had
been, Mr. Hill replied that “ he had been seeing the execution.” ‘<W hat ! ” said
Hugo, “ you, George Hill, candidate for the Professor’s chair of Humanity /”
“Yes,” said Mr. Hill. “Then, by G-d,” continued the indignant Hugo,
“ you should rather be Professor of Barbarity ; and you are sure of the situation,
for it is in the gift of my Lord Justice-clerk ! ”
Mr. Arnot’s celebrated ‘( Essay on Nothing,” so full of quaint humour itself,
and the subject of several good sayings by his contemporaries, is now, perhaps,
only familiar in name to the generality of readers. As a epecinien of the
nervous style of the author, the following quotation from the preface may not
be unamusing :-“ I do not communicate this treatise,” says Hugo, ‘( to promote
directly piety, morality, meekness, moderation, candour, sympathy, liberality,
knowledge, or truth ; but indirectly, by attempting to expose and to lash pride,
pedantry, violence, persecution, affectation, ignorance, impudence, absurdity,
falsehood, and vice. Besides the stilts of Preface and Dedication, I intended
to have procured some recommendatory verses, which may be called ‘ Passports
for begging civility and favour from the Christiun reader.’ But as I know
no person living (at least in the British realms), who is endued with any
share of poetic fire ; and, besides, am persuaded, if there were any such, none
of them would be so fool-hardy as to recommend this performance, I hope,
instead of these, the reader mill accept the following verses, written in praise of
. ......

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