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son of Laurence, fourth Lord Oliphant, and father
of the sixth lord who bore that title. His elder
brother, the master, was one of the Ruthven conspirators
in 1582, and perished at sea when fleeing
from Scotland.
Beside it, a building of the same age was the
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM THE CANONGATE
only a portion of the walls of which were standing
in 1847. It is supposed to have been the abode
of Archibald, ninth Earl of Angus, who, as nephew
and ward of the Regent Morton, was involved in
his ruin, and fled the realm to England, where he
became, as Godscroft tells US, the favourite ?of
John, second Earl of Tweeddale (who was among
the first to join the royal standard at Nottingham
in 1642), and who granted that barony to the
former in 1687, at a time when he, the earl, was
oppressed by debts which compelled him to sell
his whole estate of Tweeddale to the Duke of
Queensberry.
Northward of this edifice, and partly on the site
now occupied by the Chapel of Ease in New Street,
was the ancient residence of the Earl of Angus,
his uncle, but no lesse for his own sake.? Moreover,
he adds that he became the friend of Dudley,
Walsingham, and Sir Philip Sidney, who was then
writing his Arcadia,? which ? hee delighted much
to impart to Angus, and Angus took as much
pleasure to be partaker thereot?
Returning to Scotland, he became involved in
many troubles, and died in I 588-the victim, it was .
alleged, of sorcery, by the spells, says Godscroft, of
Barbara Napier, in Edinburgh, ?? wife to Archibald ... of Laurence, fourth Lord Oliphant , and father of the sixth lord who bore that title. His elder brother, the ...

Book 3  p. 8
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THE CANONGATE TOLBOOTH.
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. -
CHAPTER I.
THE CANONGATE.
Its Origin-Songs concerning it-Records-Market Cross-St. Job?s and the Girth Crosses-Early Hktory-The Town of H~bcrgarc-
Canongate Paved-The Governing Body-Fbising the DeviL-Purchase of the Earl of Roxburgh?s ?? Superiority ?-The Foreign Settlement
-Gorge Heriot the Elder-Huntly?s House-Sir Walter Scott?s Story of a Fire-The Morocco Land-Houses of Oliphant of Nmland,
Ltrd David Hay, and Earl of Angus-Jack?s Land-Shoemakers? Lands-Marquiz of Huntly?s How-Nisbet of Dirleton?s Mansion-
Golfer?s Land-John and Nicol Patemn-The Porch and Gatehouse of the Abbey-Lucky Spence.
THE Canongate-of old the Court-end of Edinburgh-
takes its name from the Augustine monks
of Holyrood, who were permitted to build it by
the charter of David I. in I I 28, and to rule it as a
burgh of regality. ?The canons,? says Chalmers,
.<?? were empowered to settle here a village, and from
them the street of this settlement was called the
Canongate, from the Saxon gaet, a way or street,
40
according to?the practice of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries in Scotland and England. The
irnmunities which the canons and their villagers enjoyed
from David?s grant, soon raised up a town,
which extended from the Abbey to the Nether
Port of Edinburgh, and the townsmen performed
their usual devotions in the church of the Abbey
till the Reformation,? after which it continued to ... Scott?s Story of a Fire-The Morocco Land-Houses of Oliphant of Nmland, Ltrd David Hay, and Earl of ...

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THE CANONGA TE AND ABBE Y SANCTUAR Y. 283
an antique timber projection is thrown out as a covered gallery, within which there is
a very large fireplace on the external front of the stone wall, proving, as previously pointed
out, that the timber work is part of the original plan of the building. The first floor
is approached as usual by an outer stair, at the top of which a very beautifully moulded
doorway affords entrance to B stone turnpike, forming the internal communication to the
different floors. A rich double cornice encircles this externally, and beneath it is the
inscription in antique ornamental characters :-SOLI - DE0 * HONOR * ET - GLORIA.
Owing to the protection afforded by the deep mouldings and the timber additions, this
inscription has been safely preserved from injury, and remains nearly as sharp and fresh as
when cut. The character of the letters corresponds with other inscriptions dating early in
the sixteenth century, and the whole building is a very perfect specimen of the best cliss
of mansions at that period. The interior, though described in the titles as having “ a fore
chamber and gallery, a chamber of dais,” &c., has in reality accommodations only of the
very homeliest description, each floor consisting of a simple and moderately-sized single
apartment, subdivided by such temporary wooden partitions as the convenience of later
tenants has suggested. It appears to have been the mansion of John the second son of
Lawrence, fourth Lord Oliphant, an active adherent of Queen Mary. His elder brother,
who is styled Master of Oliphant, joined the Ruthven couspirators in 1582, and perished
shortly afterwards with the vessel and whole crew, when fleeing from the kingdom. The
other tenement, apparently of equal antiquity, and similar in style of construction, though
with fewer noticeable features, adjoins it on the west. It formed, at a somewhat later date,
the residence of Lord Daxid Hay of Belton, to whom that barony was secured in succession
by a charter granted to his father, John, second Earl of Tweeddale, in 1687. The
locality, indeed, appears from the ancient deeds to have been one of honourable resort
down to a comparatively recent period, as knights and men of good family occur among
the occupants during the eighteenth century. The boundaries of the house are defined on
the north “ by the stone tenement of land some time belonging to the Earl of Angus.”
Only a portion of the walls of this noble dwelling now remains, which probably was the
town residence of David, the eighth Earl, and brother of the Regent Morton. At the
latest, it must have formed the mansion of his son Archibald, ninth Earl of Angus, the
last of the Douglases who bore that title. As nephew and ward of the Regent Morton, he
was involved in his fall. After his death he fled to England, where he was honourably
entertained by Queen Elizabeth, and became the friend and confident of Sir Philip Sidney
while writing his Arcadia.‘ He afterwards returned to Scotland, and bore his full
share in the troubles of the time. He died in 1588, the victim, as was believed, of witchcraft.
Godscroft tells that Barbara Napier in Edinburgh was tried and found guilty,
though she escaped execution ; and ‘‘ Anna Simson, a famous witch, is reported to have
confessed at her death that a picture of wax was brought to her, having AD. written on it,
which, as they said to her, did signify Archibald Davidson ; and she, not thinking of the
Earl of Angus, whose name was Archibald Douglas, and might have been called Davidson,
because his father’s name was David, did consecrate, or execrate it after her form,
which, she said, if she had known to have represented him, she would not have done it
1 Hume of Qodscroft’s History of the Doughsea, p. 362. ... the mansion of John the second son of Lawrence, fourth Lord Oliphant , an active adherent of Queen Mary. His elder ...

Book 10  p. 307
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founder to his new monastery were the churches
of St. Cuthbert. and of the Castle, among which
one plot of land belonging to the former is marked
by ?? the fountain which rises near the king?s garden,
on the road leading to 3t. Cuthbert?s church,? i.e.,
the fountain in the Well-house Tower.
This valley-the future North Loch-was then
Castle, where, in the twenty-first year of his reign,
he granted a charter to the Abbey of Kelso, the
witnesses to which, apud Castrum PueZZarum, were
John, Bishop of Glasgow ; Prince Henry, his son ;
William, his nephew ; Edward, the Chancellor ;
?? BarthoZomeo $Zio Cornitis, et WiZZieZnza frateer
i u s ; Jordan0 Hayrum;? Hugo de Morville, thc
ST. MARGARET?S CHAPEL, EDINBURGH CASTLE,
the garden, which Malcolm, the son of Pagan, culjivated
for David II., and where tournaments were
held, 44 while deep pools and wide morasses, tangled
wood and wild animals, made the rude diverging
pathways to the east and westward extremely dangerous
for long after, though lights were burned at
the Hermitage of St. Anthony on the Crag and
the spire of St. John of Corstorphin, to guide the
unfortunate wight who was foolhardy enough to
travel after nightfall.?
In 1144 we find (King David resident in the
constable ; Odenell de Umphraville ; Robert Bruce ;
William of Somerville; David de Oliphant; and
William of Lindsay.
The charter of foundation to the abbey of
Holyrood-which will be referred to more fully in
its place-besides conferring valuable revenues,
derivable from the general resources of the city,
gave the monks a right to dues to nearly the same
amount from the royal revenues of the port of
Perth, which was the more ancient capital of
Scotland. ... ; Robert Bruce ; William of Somerville; David de Oliphant ; and William of Lindsay. The charter of ...

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SIR WILLIAM FETTES. ?73 Charlotte Square.]
Canongate, after which he removed to Charlotte
Square, and finally to that house in George Street
in which he died. He was resident in Charlotte
Square before 1802, as was also the Earl of Minto.
John Lamond of Lamond and that ilk, in Argyleshire,
whose son John commanded the second
He was for many years a contractor for military
stores, and in 1800 was chosen a Director of the ? British Linen Company, in which he ultimately held
stock-the result of his own perseverance and
honest industry-to a large amount. He had in
the meantime entered the Town Council, in which
CHARLOTTE SQUARE, SHOWING ST. GEORGB?S CHURCH.
to the bar in 1822 and raised to the bench in May,
1854. Mrs. Oliphant of Rossie had No. 10, and No.
13 was at the same time (about 1810) the residence
of Sir William Fettes, Bart., of Comely Bank, the
founder of the magnificent college which bears his
name. He was born at Edinburgh on the 25th of
June, 1750, and nine years afterwards attended the
High School class taught by Mr. John Gilchrist.
At the early age of eighteen he began business as
a tea and wine merchant in Smith?s Land, High
Street, an occupation which he combined for twenty
years with that of an underwriter, besides being
connected with establishments at Leeds, Durham,
and Newcastle. His name appears in Wiiliamson?s
Directory for 1788-90 as ? William Fettes, grocer,
ofice he held for the then usual period of two years,
and for a second time in 1805 and 1806. In 1804
between the two occasions, on the 12th May he
was created a baronet. In 1787 he married Mark,
daughter of Dr. John Malcolm of Ayr. The only
child of this marriage was a son, William, born in
1787. He became a member of the Faculty of
Advocates in 1810, and gave early promise of future
eminence, but died at Berlin on the 13th of June,
1815.
Retiring from business in 1800, Sir William took
up his abode in Charlotte Square, and devoted
himself to the management of several estates which
he purchased at different times, in various parts of
The principal of these were Comely ~ Scotland. ... bar in 1822 and raised to the bench in May, 1854. Mrs. Oliphant of Rossie had No. 10, and No. 13 was at the ...

Book 3  p. 173
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364 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, [Newton.
gift ratified by Bishop Richard and Pope Gregory.
There are many places in Scotland of the name
of Newton.
In 1612 a Sir William Oliphant of Newton (but
which is not very apparent) was appointed King?s
Advocate, and held the office till 1626. ? He conquered
the lands of Newton, the barony of Strabroke,
and the Murrows, near Edinburgh,? says Scott of
Scotstarvit ; ?? but was unfortunate in his children
as any of the rest. For his eldest son, Sir James,
populous villages, consisting of long rows of red-tiled
cottages that border the wayside, which are chiefly
inhabited by colliers, and are known by the classical
names of Red Raw, Adam?s Raw, Cauld Cots, and
Cuckold?s Raw.
The present parish comprehends the ancient
parishes of Newton, on the south-east, and Wymet
-now corrupted, as we have said, into Woolmetwhich
also belonged to the abbey of Dunfermline,
and were incorporated with the lordship and
was expelled therefrom for having shot his own
gardener dead with 3 hackbut. His eldest sonnamely,
Sir James, by Inchbraikie?s daughter-in his
drunken humours stabbed his mother with a sword
in her own house, and for that fled to Ireland. He
disposed and sold the whole lands, and died in
@eat penury. The second brother, Mr. William,
lay many years in prison, and disposed that barony
of Strabroke and Kirkhill to Sir Lewis Stewart,
who at this day (about 1650) enjoys the same.?
Newton parish is finely cultivated, and forms
part of the beautiful and fertile district between
Edinburgh and the town of Dalkeith.
It abounds with coal, and there are numerous
wch James the Sith?s princely grant to Lord
Thirlstane.
Three-quarters of a mile north of Newton Church
is Monkton House, belonging to the Hopes of
Pinkie, a modem edifice near the Esk, but having
attached to it as farm offices an ancient structure,
stated to have been the erection and the favourite
residence of General Monk. Here is a spring
known as the Routing WeZZ, which is said, by the
peculiar sound it makes at times, to predict a
coming storm.
?The case is,? according to the ?Old Statistical
Account? (Vol. XVI.), ? that this well being dug
many fathoms deep through a rock in order to get ... Scotland of the name of Newton. In 1612 a Sir William Oliphant of Newton (but which is not very apparent) was ...

Book 6  p. 364
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356 OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [North Bridge.
night. for his journey there and back, the channel
of the Gala, which, for a considerable distance was
parallel with the road, being, when not flooded,
the track chosen as most level and easy for the
traveller. At this period and long before, there
was a set of horse ?cadgers,? who plied regularly
between different places, and in defiance of the
laws, carried more letters than ever passed through
the Edinburgh office in those days.
In 1757 the revenue amounted to A10,623,
accorcling to Arnot ; in that year the mail was upon
the road from London 87 hours, and, oddly enough,
from Edinburgh back 131 hours ; but by the
influence of the Convention of Royal Burghs,
these hours were reduced to Xz and 85 respec-
Postmaster-General, and nine years after, the mails
began to be conveyed from stage to stage byrelays
of fresh horses, and different post-boys, to the
principal places in Scotland; but the greater
pxtion of the bags were conveyed by foot-runners j
far the condition of the roads from Edinburgh
would not admit of anything like rapid travelling.
The most direct, at times, lay actually in the
channels of streams. The common carrier from
Edinburgh to Selkirk, 38 miles, required a fortburgh
staff consisted of ten persons, exclusive of
the letter carriers.
In 1776 the first stagecoach came to Edinburgh
on the 10th April, having performed the journey
from London in sixty hours. In the same year
the penny post was established in Scotland by
Peter Williamson, to whom we have referred elsewhere.
This man was the Rowland Hill of his
day, and the postal authorities seeing the importance
of such a source of revenue, gave him a pension for
the goodwill of the business, and the Scottish
penny posts were afterwards confirmed to the
General Post by an Act of Parliament in 1799.
In 1781 the number of post-towns in Scotland
consisted of 140, and the staff at Edinburgh
tively; and 1763 beheld a further improvement,
when the London mails were increased from three
to five. Previously they had travelled in such a
dilatory manner, that in the winter the letters I
which left London on Tuesday night were not
distributed m Edinburgh till the Sunday following,
between sermons.
In 1765 there was a penny postage for letters
borne one stage; and in 1771, when Oliphant of
Rossie was Deputy Postmaster-General, the Edin ... postage for letters borne one stage; and in 1771, when Oliphant of Rossie was Deputy Postmaster-General, the ...

Book 2  p. 356
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as for sale, ?together with those new subjects
lying in Water Lane, adjoining Messrs. Elder and
Archibald?s vaults.?
Many years ago Mr. Macfie was a well-known
sugar refiner in Leith. His establishment stood
in Elbe Street, South Leith, when it was destroyed
by fire; and about 1865 there was started the
extensive and thriving Bonnington Sugar Refining
Company in Breadalbane Street, I.eith, which was
described in a preceding chapter.
THE BANK OF LEITH, 1820. (AferStowr.)
of the incidental allusions to it. It is, however,
supposed to have included a royal arsenal, with
warehouses and dwellings for resident officials,
and according to Robertson?s map seems to have
measured about a hundred feet square.
?( The remains of this building,? says Amot,
writing in 1779, ?with a garden and piece of
waste land that surrounded it, was erected into a
free barony by James VI., and bestowed upon
Bernard Lindsay of Lochill, Groom of the Chamber
The Broad Wynd opens westward off Water
Lane to the shore. The first number of n e Leith
and Edinburgh TeZegrajh and General Adveriiser,
published 26th July, 1808, by William Oliphant,
and continued until September, 1811, appeared,
and was published by a new proprietor, William
Reid, in the Broad Wynd, where it was continued
till its abandonment, 9th March, 1813,
comprising in all 483 numbers. It was succeeded
by me fiith Commercid List. An extensive
building, of which frequent mention is made by
early historians as the King?s Wark, seems to have
occupied the whole ground between this and the
present Bernard Street, but the exact purpose for
which it was maintained is not made clear in any
(or Chamber CheiZd, as he was called) to that prince.
This Lindsay repaired or rebuilt the King?s Wark,
and there is special mention of his having put its
anci?enf imer in full repair. He also built there
a new tenniscourt, which is mentioned with
singular marks of approbation in the royal charter
? as being built for the recreation of His Majesty,
and of foreigners of rank resorting to the kingdom,
to whom it afforded great satisfaction and delight j
and as advancing the politeness and contributing
to the ornament of the country, to which, by its
happy situation on the Shore of Leith, where there
was so great a concourse of strangers and foreigners,
it was peculiarly adapted.??
The reddendo in this charter was uncommon, ... Adveriiser, published 26th July, 1808, by William Oliphant , and continued until September, 1811, ...

Book 6  p. 236
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C0NTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE CANONGATE.
@AGE
I& Origin-Songs concerning it-Reaords-Market Cross-St. John's and the G i h Crosses-Early History-The Town of Her-
Canongate Paved-The Governing Body-Raising the Devil-Purchase of the Earl of Roxbwgh's "Superiority"-The Foreign
Settlement-George Heriot the Elder-Huntly's HouseSu Walter Scott's Story of a Fire--The Mo- Land-How of Oliphant
of Newland, Lord David Hay, and Earl of Angus-Jack's Land-Shoemaker's Lands-Marquis of Huntly's House-Nisbet of Duleton'd
Mansion-Golfers' Land-John and Nicol Paterson-The Porch and Gatehouse of the Abbey-Lucky Spellcc . . . . . . I
CHAPTER 11.
THE CANONGATE (continwd).
Execution of the Marquis of Montrose-The First Dromedary in Scotland-The streets Cleansed-Raxbugh House--London Stages of r71a
and 175+-Religious Intolerance-Declension of the Burgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CHAPTEK 111.
THE CANONGATE (con#i+vwd).
Closes and AlleF on the North Side-Fiesh-market and Coull's Cloxs-Canongate High School-&e's Close--Riillach's Lodging-New
Street and its Residents-Hall of the Shoemakers-Sir Thos Ddyell-The Canongate Workhouse-Panmure HousbHannah
Robertson-The White Horse Hostel-% Water Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CHAPTER IV.
THE CANONGATE (continued).
Closes and Alleys on the South Side-Chessel's Court-The Canongate Theatre-Riots Therein-"Douglas" Performed-Mr. Diggea and Mra.
Bellamy-St. John's Close-St. John's Street and iks Residents-The Haaunennan's Clo~-Horse Wynd, Abbey-House of Lord Napier 22
CHAPTER V.
THE CANONGATE (roniinued).
Separate or Detached Edifices therein-Sir Walter Scott in the Canongate--The Parish C%urch-How it came to be built-Its Official
Position- Its Burying Ground-The Grave of Fergusson-Monument to Soldiers interred the-Ecceotric Henry PrentiaThe
Tolbth-Testimony as to its Age-Its latu uses-Magdakne Asylum-Linen Hall-Many House-Its Hstorical Associari ons-The
WiotooXo-Whiteford Howe-The Dark Story of Queuriberry House . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7
CHAPTER VI.
THE CANONGATE (coduded).
mthiin H u t - M PalmerstowSt. Thomas's Hospita-The Tennis Court and its Theawe4&wen Mq's --The Houxr of Croftan-
Righandclock-mill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHAPTER ' VII.
HOLYROOD ABBEY.
Foundation of the Ahbey-Text of King David's Charter-Original Extent of the Abbey Char&-The sc-alled Miracdau b - T h e
Pawnages of the Canons-Its Tbirtyanc Abbots-Its Relics and Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ... the Elder-Huntly's HouseSu Walter Scott's Story of a Fire--The Mo- Land-How of Oliphant of Newland, ...

Book 4  p. 385
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450
of the " Arteries of the Human Body," both of which are inestimable performances.
The last work he lived to publish was an " Inquiry into the
Opinions, Ancient and Modern, concerning Life and Organisation"-a subject
which had formed liis thesis on taking the degree of M.D. He left several
unfinished manuscripts, particularly the biographies of Aristotle and Harvey.
Dr. Barclay married, in 1811, Eleanor Campbell, daughter of Sir James
Campbell of Aberuchill, by whom he had no issue. This lady afterwards
married Charles Oliphant, Esq., W.S.
Of the late DR. GREGORY-who is urging his friend to proceed and
'' fear nothing"-a memoir has already appeared in volume i., page 339.
DR. THOMAS CHARLES HOPE, Professor of Chemistry in the University
of Edinburgh, was the third son of Dr. John Hope (of whom a portrait
and memoir have been given), for many years Professor of Botany in the
University, and founder of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. Dr. Thomas
Hope was born in 1'166. He commenced his attendance at the High School
of Edinburgh in 17'12; and in 1779 entered upon his studies in the University,
where he graduated in 1787. In October of that year he was
appointed to the Chemical Chair in the University of Glasgow ; and, proceeding
to France in the course of the following summer, passed a short season
in the capital of that country. In 1'189 he became Assistant-Professor of
Medicine in the Glasgow College, and taught at same time chemistry and the
theory and practice of physic. He afterwards succeeded to the chair as sole
Professor of Medicine, and relinquished the chemical department.
In October 1795 Dr. Hope was elected conjunct Professor of Chemistry
with the celebrated Dr. Black, in the University of Edinburgh, on whose death,
in 1799, he became sole Professor. Dr. Hope had thus been engaged for upwards
of half a century in the arduous duties of imparting instruction in an
important branch of science ; and it may be stated, without fear of contradiction,
that he was decidedly one of the best teachers of chemistry of his day.
Of the estimation in which he was held he received a gratifying proof in
an entertainment given him on completing the fifty-first year of his academic
labours. The meeting took place in the Assembly Rooms, on the evening of
Tuesday, 15th May 1838, and was attended by more than two hundred
gentlemen of rank and learning. Lord Meadowbank was in the chair; and
from the speech of his lordship, in proposing the health of Dr. Hope, we quote
the following particulars :-
'' My honourable friend in the same way (alluding to his predecessors, Cullen and Black)
began his public career as a public lecturer in the University of Glasgow in the year 1787, and he
very soon had an opportunity of exhibiting his peculiar sagacity and penetration, by new
theories and discoveries, by his readily distinguishing that which was tnie from that which was
erroneous ; and thoroughly regardless of the reputation which he might immediately possessconfident
in his own opinion-he disregarded the sneers, the doubts, and the difficulties of
those who surrounded him, and openly taught what he believed to be true. [His lordship here
referred to the dispute respecting the phlogistic and anti-phlogistic theories, and to Dr. Hope
openly espousing the latter, when it had not another public or professorial advocate in Great
Britain.] In 1795 (he continued) Dr. Hope was brought to Edinburgh; but before that he
B I 0 G RAP I1 I CA L S K ET C HE S. ... Aberuchill, by whom he had no issue. This lady afterwards married Charles Oliphant , Esq., W.S. Of the late DR. ...

Book 9  p. 601
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Greyfriars Church.] DR ERSKINE. 379
I manhood was a sitter in the Old Greyfriars, and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott,? says an old tutor of
Sir Walter, writing to Lockhart, ? every Sabbath,
when well and at home, attended with their fine
young family of children and their domestic servants-
a sight so amicable and exemplary as
often to excite in my breast a glow of heart-felt
satisfaction.?
In ? Guy Mannering,? Scott introduces this old
church-now, with St. Giles?s, the most interesting
place of worship in the city-and its two most distinguished
incumbents. When Colonel Mannering
came to Edinburgh (where, as we have already
said, Romance and History march curiously side
from all quarters for the first service, a mass of
. blackened ruins. It has since been repaired at
considerable expense, adorned with several beautiful
memorial windows, the triplet one in the
south aisle being to the Scottish historian, George
Buchanan.
Among the ancient tombs within the church
were those of Sir William Oliphant, King?s Advocate,
who died in 1628 ; and of Sir David Falconer,
of Newton, Lord President of the Court of Session,
who spent the last day of his life seated on the
bench in court.
The antiquity of our Scottish churchyards, and the
care taken of them, greatly impressed Dr. Southey
strangely contrasted with a black wig, without a ?
grain of powder ; a narrow chest and stooping
posture; hands which, placed like props on each
side of the pulpit, seemed necessary rather to support
the person than to assist the gesticulation of
the preacher ; a gown (not even that of Geneva), a
tumbled band, and a gesture which seemed scarcely
voluntary, were the first circumstances which struck
a stranger.?
Dr. Erskine, previously minister of the New
Greyfriars, was the author of voluminous theological
works, which are known, perhaps, in Scotland
only. After ministering at the Greyfriars for fortyfive
years, he died in January, 1803, and was buried
in the churchyard
Principal Robertson pre-deceased him. He died
in June, 1793, in the seventy-first year of his age,
and was interred in the same burying-ground.
The Old Greyfriars was suddenly destroyed on
the morning of Sunday, 19th January, 1845, by a
fire, and presented to the startled people, assembling
greatest, grandest, and most renowned, who have
lived during a period of three hundred years.
In the year 1562 the Town Council made an
application to Queen Mary to grant them the site
and yards of the Greyfriars Monastery, to form a
a new burial-place, as ?? being somewhat distant
from the town.? Mary, in reply, granted their request
at once, and appointed the Greyfriars yard,
or garden, to be devoted in future to the use specified,
and as St Giles?s Churchyard soon after began
to be abandoned, no doubt interments here would
proceed rapidly ; all the more so that the other
burial-places of the city had become desecrated.
?? Before the Reformation,? says Wilson, ?there
were the Blackfriars Kirkyard, where the Surgical
Hospital or old High School now stands ; the
Kirk-of-Field-now occupied by the college,
Trinity College, Holyrood Abbey, St. Roque?s ?
and St. Leonard?s Kirkyards. In all these places
human bones are still found on digging to any
depth.? ... tombs within the church were those of Sir William Oliphant , King?s Advocate, who died in 1628 ; and of Sir ...

Book 4  p. 379
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GENERAL INDEX. 385 -
Nisbet Lord 111. 67
Nisbet: Sir .&exander. 111. 136
Nisbet Sir Henry 111. 136
Nisbet: Sir John,?II. 10, 111. 66,
Nisbet, Sir Patrick. 111. 66, 67. 136
Nisbet, Henry, 111. 66; manumentto
I1 134 135
Nibet df bear;, Provost Sir
William, 11. 280. 111. 26. 65, 66 ;
Lady, I!. 335. 111. 66
Nisbetmuir Battle of (see Battles)
Nisbets of Craigantinnie, The, 111.
136 138
Nisbdts of Dalzell The 111. 65
Nisbets of Dean,?rhe, ?111. 65,67,
136, 137
138
Nisbets of Dirleton, 11. 335, 111.
135, 138 ; houseoithe. 11. IO.*IZ
Nisbett, Execution of Sergeant
John. 11. 231
Noble Place, Leith, 111. 266
Noel, Miss, the vocalist, I. 350
Nollekens the sculptor 11. z8a
Non-jura& The, 11. ;46 ; burialplace
of, 111.131
Normal ghool of the Church 01
Scotland I. 2 5 296
Norman Rks, t$?assassin of Lady
Baillie 111. 156, 157
Norrie John !he decorator I. zgg
Norrie: the ;inter, I. 89, li. go
North Bank Street 11.95
North Bridge, I. 3ir 238, 245, 302,
334-344 358, 11. 2% 94, 99. Im,
111. 67 150 152 ; view of, Platd
12; con&udtionof, I. 337, 338,II.
281 ; fall of, I. 338; widening 01
the. I. $60: east side of the. I.
No-Pope riots of 1779, I. a61
120, 126, 177, 178, 706, 283, 338,
34636;? .
North Bridge Street I. 338
North British and hercantile In.
surance Company, 11. 123
North British Investment Cam.
I28
North British Rubber Company,
11.219, azo
Pro!. John)
North Christopher (see Wilson,
North College Street, 11. 174, 111.
178
Home?s residence ib.
North Hanover Street, 111. 242
North Inverleith Mains. 111. w6 . -
N%h Leith, 11. 3,336,111. p, 9%
165, 166, 187. 188,. 193, 197.=g,
~51159, 295. Brid e of 11. 7
111. 167 : th; old ciurci, of 6,?
Ninian, 111. 251-255; the neu
church 111. 255, fa57
Nort Lkth Free Church, 111. z5!
Nortk Leith Sands, 111. 258
North Leith United Preshyteriat
North Ldch, I. 10, 20, 31, 38, 103
118,182, III.86,162; the botanic
garden, I. 61 6 accidenrs U
the North k? 21: 81, 82
North Quay Leith, 111. 210
North ueeAsferry 111. 282
North Zt Andrcw htreet 11. 1b0
Northern?Club The II.?151
Northern New?TowA, The, 11. 18;
North&, Earl of, 11. 166,111. p
NorthumberlLd, Imprisonment o
Northumberland Street II.198,1p
Norton, The Hon. Flktcher, 111
Church 111. 255
119, 183, ZP, 234 238, 3 4 335
337. 358,II. % 81, 99, 1 1 4 , w
-189
Countess of 11. 21
the Earl of, 11. 242
127, 128
School 111: 1z8
11.168
Norton Place 111. 165 ; the Boar<
Nottingtkn Place 11. 103
Numerous societi& in one house
0
Oakbank grounds 111. 54
Oakeley, Prof. Sd Herbert, 11.34
145
lbservatory, The old, 11. IW, 106;
lchiltree, Lord, I. 195, 196, 214,
khterlony, The family of, 11. 165
Jdd Fellows? Club, 111. 123
3dd Fellows? Hall, 11. 326
lffensive weapons, hlanufactun of,
Jgilvie Sir Alexander, I. 236
3gilvie: Imprisonment of Lady, I.
? 70
Dgilvie, Colonel, 11.310
Dgilvie, Gorge, 1. 121
3gilvie Thomas, Family of, 1. 70
311-paihings in the National Gal-
D?Keefe?s ?? Recollections,? 1. rgr
31d and New lawn, Scheme for
31d Assembly Close, I. 245 ; ruins
31d As2ernbly Hall I. 190
31d Assembly RooAs, I. 242
31d Babylon, Leith, 111. 227 230
31d Bank Close, I. 117, I,& 282,
31d Broughton, Remains of the
Old Canonrhls House, 111. 88
Dld Dea?haughHouse, 111. 77
Old fighting mannersol Leith, 111.
Old Fishmarket Close, I. 189, 190,
the new, 11. 14, 111. 270
215, 111. 174
11. 263
lery, 11. 88, 89
joining the, 11. 95
ofthe 1. *244
11. 95
villap of 11. 1%
199
241
Dld High School Wynd, 11. 284,
111. 12
Old High School Yard, 11, 286
Old houses in the West Port near
the haunts of Burke and hare,
1869 11. *224
Dld hduses, Society,185z, 11. *272
Old G.rk St Giles?s Cathedral
Meetiniof b General Assembli
in the Phte 13
Dld Plaihouse Close 11. 23,?s
DldSchool The II.?rrr
Old ScienAes HAuse, 111. 54
Dld Stamp Office Clox I. 231,275
Old 6urgeon?s Hall I. ;8r
Old timber-fronted? houses, Lawnmarket,
I. ?108, IIO
Old Toll Cross 11. 345
Old Town, Views of the, I. 16;
Plate 4 ; Plate 16
Old Weigh-house, Leith, I. 186,188
Old West Bow I. 295
Oliphant Lord 11. 8
Oliphant?of Ndwton, Sir William,
11. 47, 379, 111. 364; his family,
111. 364
Oliphant of Newland, House of,
Oliphant of Rossie MR
Oliphant, Than&, P&ost, 41.
Oliver and Boyd Messrs., 1. 281
O?Neill Miss adtress I. 108, 34
Orange: ExGcted dnding of t\e
Oratory of Mary of Guise, I. *97
Orde. Chief Baron. 11. xcz: anec-
11. 7
11. 17
278
Prince of. 11. 306
do& of hisdaaglker, 11; I&
Ordnance, The Castle, 1. 35, 36
Organ in St. Giles?s Cathedral, I.
C47 ; in the music-class room, 11.
Original Seceder Congregation, 11.
?335
_.
119, 1 8 2 , ~ 7 . 348, 350 --
Ornuston trd of, I I I . 4 , 6 , 150
Omond ?Duchess of 111.62
Orphan hospital The, I. 2x8, 340,
359, 364 *361,?365 111- 67. *68
Orphan Hospital Park, I. 338
O r Captain John 11. 138, 35
Orrbck, Robert, blacksmiti, 11.
Osborne, Alexander, the volunteer,
Osborne Hotel The 11. 125
Otterburn, .%?A&, I, 43, 111.
237, 238, 111.67
11. IQ
43, 58
Otway, Admiral, 11. 171
Otway Silvester I. 179
Ought&, SirAdhphus, II.z+j?,pg,
3101 111. 195, 196
?Our Lady?s altar,? St. Giles?s
Church, 111. 107
?Our Lady?s Port of Grace,? ancient
name of Newhaven 111. 295
?Our Lady?s Steps,? SL Giles?s
Church I. 147
3utram h e r of Sir James 11.126
3ver Idw, The, 11.64, 22:
Dxenford, Viscount, I. 378
Oxford Terrace 111. 71
Oyster parties patronised by ladies,
I. 255, 111. 126
P
Paddle ship, Curious, exhibited at
Palace Gate, &e, 11. 40
Palace Yard 11. 310
Palfrefs In; 11.241
Palliser Capiain Sir Hugh, Amst
and ikprisonment of, 111. 277
Palmer?s Lane, 11. 337
Palmerston, Lord, 11. 39
Palmenton Place 11. 211,214
Panmure, Earls of, I. 214, 11. 20
Panmure Close, 11. 20, 21; lintel
of lohn Hunter?s house. 11. *ZI
Leith, 111. I 8
PanGurc House, 11. 20, ZI
Pantheon Club, The, I. 239
Pantheon The, 11. r79
Paoli?s v i h to Edinburgh, I. a99
? Pap-in,? an old-fashioned dnnk,
Papists Prosecution of I. 215
Pardodie of I. ;z
Paris, a&mplice bf Bothwell in
Darnley?s murder 111. 4, 6
Park Bum Gilmer&n 111. 351
Park Plac:, 1 1 . ~ ~ 3;6, 358 ;view
Parkstde, I 355
Park Vale, Leith, 111. 266
Parliament Clcse, I. 132, 136, 143,
170, 174-182, zoo, 358, 11. 236,
243,271, 347,III.46,76 ; descnption
of, 1. 174; view of the, I.
*r68 ; proposed statue of Oliver
Cromwell 111. 72
1. ?79
of, 1?. *p
Parliament ?bun, Leith, 111.227
Parliament Hall, I. 158, 159, Pbtr
6; narrow escape from fut in
1700, I. 161
Parliament House, I. 56, 122, 124,
157-173, 174.178, 181, 187, 190,
zrs. 223, 334 336,374.11. v , 7 5 ,
13% 24% 246 270 282 293, 339,
!11. 113, 186: 2.z: th<old building,
I. ?160,+*161; its present
condition, 1. 164 ; plan of the,
I. * .hn
P&i& House, The ancient,
Parliament, Riding of the, I. 162
Parliament Square, I. 175,178, 181,
Parliament Square Ieith, 111. a47
Parliament stairs, i. 17gr +II.
k i t h , 111. Yz4g
182, 19o92s5,I1. 78,10g2 1% 228,
260, 111. 31. -4, I I
?-Q
PL&ments held at Holyrood, 11.
Parsons, Anthony, the quack, 11.
Parson?sGreen,II.318 I 111.165
Passenger stages, EstaLUnent of,
Patemn House of Bishop 11. 22
Patersodthe blacksmith, Ih. 345 ;
Paterson?s Court, I. 102
Patehn?s House, Bailie fohn, 11.
Paterson?s Inn, 11. 267, 268
Paton, Lord Justice-Clerk 11. 153
Paton. Si Noel. the pint& 11.9 ;
Paton, the antiquarian, I. rrg
Paton, Miss, the actress, I. 350
Patrick Cockburn. governor 01
Edinbumh Castle, 1. 31
Paulitius, Dr. John 11. pa
Paul Jones, the p k t e , 111. I*,
4647
260
1. m
his sculptured abode, ib.
10, 11, 111.261
his sister, 11. IF
196 197, agZ
Paul Street, 11. 337..
Paul?s Work. I. *xii.. -I. w. 11. .- _ ? .
1 6 111. IS
Paul?s Work, Leith Wynd, 111.1%
Paunch Market, Leith, Ill. a p
Paving of the Grassmarket 11. z p
Paynq Henry Neville, SAfferings
Peat Neuk. The, Leith, 111. 147
Peddie, Rev. Dr., 11. 3a6, 111. 101
Peehles Wynd, I. 192, zd, 219, 245,
of, I. 66
374, 382
Peel Tower, The, I. 36,49
Peffer Mill 111. 61.62
Peffermiln.?II. 231
Pennant, the topographer, 11.101
Pennicuik, Alexander, the poet,
111.35
burgh I. 122 56 11. 28
Penny post, The first, in Edin-
Pentlad Hill; h.*314. d1. 324:
gold found in the, I. 269; k t t l e
of the (we Battles)
Perth Duke of 1. 326 330
Perth: Earl of,?II. 281: 111. 57
Perth, ImprisonmentoftheDuchess
of, I. 69
Pestilence, Edinbur h visited with
a, 111.29.35 (scc-%?gu=)
?Peter?s Letters to his Kinsfolk,?
1. 173s 1748 211s 375 11. 14% 175,
18a, 186. 190, 195,111. 110
Pettycur, 111. 211
?Peveril of the Peak,?? Curious
story in, 11. 244
Pewterer, The first, 11. 263
Philiphaugh, Lord, I. 223 ; Lady,
11. 339
Phillip, John, pahter, 111. 84
Philliside, 111. 138
Philosopher?s Stone The 11.~5
Philosophical 1nsti;ution: The, ?I.
Phrenological Museum, 11. 275
Physic Gardens, The old, 1. 308,
Physicms, College of, I. 278, 11.
Pliysicians &U,,The old, 11. q6,
149, 159. ~ t s library 11. 146
Picardie $illage and Gayfielrj
House 11. *185
PicardieiTilage, II. 177, 186, III.
342
Picardy Gardens 11. 186
Picardy Place ?11. 85, 185, 1%
111. 63, 158, i61
Pier Place Newhaven 111. q.7
Piers de Lbmbard Sir? I. 24
Piershill barracks?III: 138,qa
Piersnill HO~X 1?11. 142
Piershill Tollbai, 11. 319 111. I@
Pilkington the architect,? 11.114
Pilrig, I d . 88, 91. 92, 165; its
loul history 111. gr ; the manorhouse
111. $92 163
Pilrig F;ee Churdh, 111. 163, *.I+
Pilrig Model Buildings Asoaation,
PiEikZreet 111.163
Pillans, Jaies, the High School
Pilton Lord 111.
PinkeAon, john, advocate, 111. 5 4
199, 200, 2O21 315
Pinkie Battle of (see Battlesh
PinkiiHouse, I. 331
Pinmaker The first 11. 263
Pious (PiAhouse) dub, 111. 124
Pipes, The (watarcservoir), Lath,
152
335, 962, 363, 111. 162
153. !55,,2 8
rector, 1. 379, 11. 194, 294, wr
296
I l l . 213
Piracy in the Scottish waters, 111.
182
Piratical murder of three Spaniards
by Scotsmen 111. 184
Pine?s close 1?1. z
Pmieiield, I h h , ill. 266
Pitarm, Lady, I.
Pitcairn, Dr. h%d, I. *18r,
182, 251, 311, 11. 11~3% 382,111.
P,&m, Rev. ?humas, II.133,IW
Pitfour, Lord, I. 170, 241
Pitrnilly, Lord 11. 174, 227
pitsottie, ~ & n i c ~ e of I. 15o,r5r,
262, 11. 61, 6&65, d 7 , 285, 111.
Pitskgo Lord I. 164,180
Pitt, cl$ntre;?s statue of W i ,
Pitt Street 11. 19
Plaa of G:!menon Ill. 343,
Plague, Edmburgh)infeaed mth a, .
15 4% 54, sa 267
28 59, =
11. q r
I. 19% 242, 298, II.6,7.306, 33%
380, II1.65,1* 186, ... 16; Plate 4 ; Plate 16 Old Weigh-house, Leith, I. 186,188 Old West Bow I. 295 Oliphant Lord 11. 8 Oliphant ...

Book 6  p. 385
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Canongate.] , THE MOROCCO LAND. 7
per month. A number of the ailing were hutted
in the King?s Park, a few were kept at home, and
aid for all was invoked from the pulpits. The
Session of the Canongate ordained, on the 27th of
June, that, ?to avoid contention in this fearful
time,? all those who died in the park should be
buried therein ; for it would seem that those who
perished by the plague were buried in places apart
from churchyards, lest the infection might burst
forth anew if ever the graves were reopened.?
Maitland records. that such was the terror prevailing
at this period that the prisoners in the
Tolbooth were all set at liberty, and all who were
not free men were compelled,
under severe penalties, to quit
the city, until at length, ? by the
unparalleled ravages committed by
the plague, it was spoiled of its
inhabitants to such a degree that
there were scarcely sixty men left . capable of assisting in the defence
of the town in case of an
attack,?
At this crisis a large armed
vessel of peculiar rig and aspect
entered the Firth of Forth, and
came to anchor in Leith Roads.
By experienced seamen she was
at once pronounced to be an
Algenne rover, and dismay spread
over all the city. This soon
reached a culminating point when
a strong band landed from her,
and, entering the Canongate by
Moors. After some conference with his men he
intimated his possession of an elixir of wondrous
potency, and demanded that the Provost?s daughter
should be entrusted to his skill, engaging that if he
did not cure her immediately to embark with his
men, and free the city without ransom. After considerable
parley the Provost proposed that the
leader should enter the city and take up an abode
in his house.?
This was rejected, together with higher offers of
ransom, till Sir John Smith yielded to the exhortations
of his friends, and the proposal of the Moor
was accepted, and the fair sufferer was borne to a
house at the head of the Canongate,
wherein the corsair had taken
up his residence, and from thence
she went forth quickly restored
and in health.
The most singular part of this
story is its denouement, from
which it would appear that the
corsair and physician proved to
be no other than the condemned
fugitive Andrew Gray, who had
risen high in the favour and service
of the Emperor of Morocco.
?He had returned to Scotland,?
says Wilson, ?? bent on revenging
his own early wrongs on the magis-.
trates of Edinburgh, when, to his
surprise, he found in the destined
object of his special vengeance
relation of his own. He married
the Provost?s daughter, and settled EFFIGY OF THE MOOR, MOROCCO LAND.
the.Water Gate, advanced to the
Netherbow Port and required admittance. The
magistrates parleyed with their leader, who demanded
an exorbitant ransom, and scoffed at the
risk to be run in a plague-stricken city.
The Provost at this time was Sir John Smith, of
Groat Hall, a small mansion-house near Craigleith,
and he, together with his brother-in-law, Sir William
Gray, Bart., of Pittendrum, a staunch Cavalier,
and one of ?the wealthiest among the citizens, to
whom we have referred in our account of Lady
Stair?s Close, agreed to ransom the city for a
large sum, while at the same time his eldest son
was demanded by the pirates as a hostage. ? It
seems, however,? says Wilson, ?that the Provost?s
only child was a daughter, who then lay stricken
of the plague, of which her cousin, Egidia Gray,
had recently died. This information seemed to
work an immediate change on the leader of the
-
?Dom. Ann.,? Vol. 11.
down a wealthy citizen in the burgh
of Canongate. The house to which his fair patient.
was borne, and whither he afterwards brought
her as his bride, is still adorned with an effigy
of his royal patron, the Emperor of Morocco,
and the tenement has ever since borne the name
of the Morocco Land. . . . . We have had
the curiosity to obtain a sight of the title-deeds
of the property, which prove to be of recent
date. The earliest, a disposition of 1731, so far
confirms the tale that the proprietor at that date is
John Gray, merchant, a descendant, it may be, of
the Algerine rover and the Provost?s daughter.
The figure of the Moor has ever been a subject of
pcapular admiration and wonder, and a variety of
legends are told to account for its existence. Most
of them, though differing in almost every other
point, seem to agree in connecting it with the last
visitation of the plague.??
Near this tenement, a little to the eastward, was
the mansion of John Oliphant of Newland, second ... the plague.?? Near this tenement, a little to the eastward, was the mansion of John Oliphant of Newland, ...

Book 3  p. 7
(Score 1.14)

278 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lord Prowsta
the city, Berwick, Roxburgh, and Stirling, met in
Holyrood Abbey.
After a gap of forty-eight years we find John
Wigmer aZdermm in 1344. Thirteen years subsequently
certain burgesses of Edinburgh and other
burghs are found negotiating for the ransom of
King David II., taken in battle by the English.
In 1362 WilliamGuppeld was alderman, 9th April,
and till 1369, in which year a council sat at Edinburgh,
when the king granted a charter to the
abbey of Melrose.
In 1373 the dderman was Sir Adam Forrester,
.said to be of Whitburn and Corstorphine, a man
possessed of immense estates, for which he obtained
no less than six charters under the great seal of
Robert II., and was several times employed in
-treaties and negotiations with the English, between
In 1377 John of Quhitness first appears as
Pmost, or Prepositus, on the 18th of May, and in
the following year Adam Forrester was again in
office. In 1381 John de Camera was provost,
and in 1387 Andrew Yutson (or Yichtson), between
whom, with ?Adam Forster, Lord of Nether
Libberton,? the Burgh of Edinburgh, and John of
-Stone, and John Skayer, masons, an indenture was
made, 29th November, for the erection of five new
-chapels in St. Giles?s, with pillars and vzulted roofs,
-covered with stone, and lighted with windows.
These additions were made subsequent to the
burning of the city by the invaders under Richard
of England two years before.
In 1392 John of Dalrymple was provost, and
*the names of several bailies alone appear in the
Burgh Records (Appendix) till the time of Provost
Alexander Napier, 3rd October, 1403, whom
Douglas calls first Laird of Merchiston. Under him
Symon de Schele was Dean of Guild and KeepeI
.of the Kirk Work, when the first head guild was
held after the feast of St Michael in the Tolbooth.
Man of Fairnielee was provost 1410-1, and
again in 1419, though George of Lauder was provost
So lately as 1423 John of Levyntoun was styled
alderman, with Richard Lamb and Robert of
Bonkyl bailies, when the lease of the Canonmills
was granted by Dean John of Leith, sometime
Abbot of Holyrood, to ? the aldermen, baylyes, and
dene of the gild,? 12th September, 1423. His
successor was Thomas of Cranstoun, Preporitus,
when the city granted an obligation to Henry VI.
of England, for 50,000 merks English money, on
account of the expenses of James I., while detained
in England by the treasonable intrigues of his
.uncle. William of Liberton, George of Lauder,
1 3 9 4 4 1404-
hl 1413.
and John of Levyntoun, appear as provosts successively
in 1425, 1427, and 1428.
In 1434 Sir Henry Preston of Craigmillar wag
appointed provost; but no such name occurs in
the Douglas peerage under that date. After John
of Levyntoun, Sir Alexander Napier appears as
provost after 1437, and the names of Adam Cant
and Robert Niddry are among those of the magistrates
and council. Then Thomas of Cranstoun
was provost from 1438 till 1445, when Stephen
Hunter succeeded him.
With the interval of one year, during which
Thomas Oliphant was provost, the office was held
from 1454 to 1462 by Sir Alexander Napier of
Merchiston, a man of considerable learning, whom
James 11. made Comptroller ofScotland. In 1451
he had a safe-conduct from the King of England
to visit Canterbury as a pilgrim, and by James 111.
he was constituted Vice-Admiral. He was also
ambassador to England in 1461 and 1462.
In succession to Robert Mure of Polkellie, he
was provost again in 1470, and until the election of
James Creichton of Rothven, or Rowen, in 1477,
when the important edict of James 111. concerning
the market-places and the time of holding markets
was issued.
In 1481 the provost was Rilliarn Bertraham,
who, in the following year, with ?the whole fellowship
of merchants, burgesses, and community ? of?
Edinburgh, bound themselves to repay to the King
of England the dowry of his daughter, the Lady
Cecil, in acknowledgment for which loyalty and
generosity, James 111. granted the city its Golden
Charter, with the banner of the Holy Ghost, locally
known still as the Blue Blanket. In 1481 the
provost was for the first time allowed an annual
fee of A z o out of the common purse ; but, some
such fee would seem to have been intended three
years before.
His successor was Sir John Murray of Touchadam,
in 1482; and in the same year we find Patrick
Baron of Spittlefield, under whose rt?gime the
Hammermen were incorporated, and in 1484 John
Napier of Merchiston, eldest son of Provost
Alexander Napier. He was John Napier of
Rusky, and third of Merchiston, whom James III.,
in a letter dated 1474, designates as OUY Zouift
fandiar sqwiar, and he was one of the lords
auditors in the Parliament of 1483. Two of his
lineal heirs fell successively in battle at Flodden
and Pinkie.
The fourth provost in succession after him was
Patrick Hepburn, Lord Hailes, 8th August. He
was the first designated ?? My h r d Provost,? pre
bably because he was a peer of the realm. He had ... the interval of one year, during which Thomas Oliphant was provost, the office was held from 1454 to ...

Book 4  p. 278
(Score 0.99)

according to Bellenden, was now standing boldly
at bay, and, with its branching antlers, put the life
of the pious monarch in imminent jeopardy, as he
and his horse were both borne to the ground.
With a short hunting-sword, while fruitlessly endeavouring
to defend himself against the infuriated
animal, there appeared-continues the legend-a
silver cloud, from the centre of which there came
forth a hand, which placed in that of David a
sparkling cross of miraculous construction, in so far
that the material of which it was composed could
never be discovered. Scared by this interposition,
the white stag fled down the hollow way between
the hills, but was afterwards slain by Sir Gregan
Crawford, whose crest, a stag?s head erased with
a cross-crosslet between the antlers, is still borne
by his descendants, the Crawfords of Kilbirnie,
in memory of that eventful day in the forest of
Drurnsheugh.
Thoughtful, and oppressed with great awe, the
king slowly wended his way through the forest to
the Castle ; but the wonder did not end there, for
when, after a long vigil, the king slept, there appeared
by his couch St. Andrew, the apostle of
Scotland, surrounded by rays of glory, instructing
him to found, upon the exact spot where he had
been miraculously saved, a fwegfh monastery for
the canons regular of St. Augustine ; and, in obedience
to this vision, he built the noble abbey
of Holyrood, ?in the little valley between two
mountains ?-i.e., the Craigs and the Calton.
Therein the marvellous cross was preserved till
it was lost at a long subsequent period; but, in
memory of St. David?s adventure on Rood-day, a
stag?s head with a cross between the antlers is still
boqe as the arms of the Canongate. Alfwin was
appointed first abbot, and left a glorious memory
for many virtues.*
Though nobly endowed, this famous edifice was
not built for several years, during which the
monks were received into the Castle, and occupied
buildings which had been previously the abode
of a community of nuns, who, by permission of
Pope Alexander III., were removed, the monks,
as Father Hay tells us, being deemed ?as fitter
to live among soldiers.? Abbot M7illiard appears,
in 1152, as second superior of the monks in the
Castrum Puellarum, where they resided till I I 76.
A vehement dispute respecting the payment of
tithes having occurred between Robert bishop of
St. Andrews and Gaufrid abbot of Dunfermline,
it was decided by the king, apud Casielum
PueZZamm, m presence of a great convention, con-
? ? Memorials of Ediiburgh Castle.?
sisting of the abbots of Holyrood and Stirling,
Gregory bishop of Dunkeld, the Earls of Fife and
March, Hugo de Morville the Lord High Constable,
William Lord of Carnwath, David de
Oliphant a knight of Lothian, Henry the son of
Swan, and many others, and the matter in debate
was adjudicated on satisfactorily.
David--?< sair sanct for the crown ? though King
James I. is said to have styled him-was one of
the best of the early kings of Scotland. ?I have
seen him,? remarks Aldred, ?quit his horse and
dismiss his hunting equipage when any, even the
humblest of his subjects, desired an audience ; he
sometimes employed his leisure hours in the culture
of his garden, and in the philosophical amusement
of budding and engrafting trees.?
In the priory of Hexham, which was then in
Scottish territory, he was found dead, in a posture
of devotion, on the 24th of May, 1153, and was
succeeded by his grandson Malcolm IV. who,
though he frequently resided in the Castle, considered
Scone his capital rather than Edinburgh.
In 1153 he appointed Galfrid de Melville, of
Melville in Lothian, to be sheriff of the fortress,
and became a great benefactor to the monks
within it.
In 1160, Fergus, Lord of Galloway, a turbulent
thane, husband of the Princess Elizabeth daughter
of Henry I. of England, having taken arms against
the Crown, was defeated in three desperate battles
by Gilbert de Umfraville ; after which he gave his
son Uchtred as a hostage, and assumed the cowl
as an Augustine friar in the Castle of Edinburgh,
where-after bestowing the priory of St. Marie de
Tray11 as a dependant on Holyrood-he died, full
of grief and mortification, in IIGI.
Malcolm died in 1165, and was succeeded by
William the Lion, who generally resided at Haddington;
but many of his public documents are dated
?Ajud Monasienicnt San& Crzmi de CasteZZo.?
In 1174 the Castle fell, for the first time,
into the hands of the English. William the Lion
having demanded the restitution of Northumberland,
Henry of England affected to comply, but
afterwards invaded Scotland, and was repulsed.
In turn William entered England at the head of
80,ooo men, who sorely I ravaged the northern
counties, but being captured by treachery near
Alnwick, and treated with wanton barbarity and
indecency, his vast force dispersed. A ransom of
AIoo,ooo-an enormous sum in those dayswas
demanded, and the Castle was given, with
some others, as a hostage for the king. Fortunately,
however, that which was lost by the chances of
war was quickly restored by more pleasant means, ... High Constable, William Lord of Carnwath, David de Oliphant a knight of Lothian, Henry the son of Swan, and ...

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Leith Walk.] ANDREW MACDONALD. J 59
in whose favour, so long as she exercised her profession,
she continued to hold the first place in
spite of their temporary enthusiasm for the great
London stars, who visited them at stated seasons.
? Our Mrs. Siddons? I frequently heard her called
in Edinburgh, not at all with the idea of comparing
her with the celebrated mother-in-law j but rather
as expressing the kindly personal goodwill with
which she was regarded by her own townsfolk who
were proud and fond of her.?
She was not a great actress, according to this
writer, for she lacked versatility, or power of assumption
in any part that was opposed to her nature
or out of her power, and she was destitute
of physical strength and weight for Shaksperian
heroines generally; yet Rosalind, Viola, Imogen,
and Label, had no sweeter exponents ; and in all
pieces that turned on the tender, soft, and faithful
Mary Stuart,?she gave an unrivalled impersonation.?
On leaving Edinburgh, after 1830, she carried
with her the good wishes of the entire people, ? for
they had recognised in her not merely the accomplished
actress, but the good mother, the refined
lady, and the irreproachable member of society.?
Northward of Windsor Street, in what was once
a narrow, pleasant, and secluded path between
thick hedgerows, called the Lovers? Loan, was
built, in 1876, at a short distance from the railway
station, the Leith Walk public school, at a cost of
L9,ooo; it is in the Decorated Collegiate style,
calculated to accommodate about 840 scholars, and
is a good specimen of the Edinburgh Board schools.
In the Lovers? Loan Greenside House was long
the property and the summer residence of James
Marshal, W.S., whose town residence was in Milne
Square, so limited were the ideas of locomotion
and exaggerated those of distance in the last century.
He was born in 1731, says Kay?s Editor,
and though an acute man of business, was one of
the most profound swearers of his day, so much so
that few could compete with him.? He died in the
then sequestered house of Greenside in 1807.
In the year 1802 the ground here was occupied
by Barker?s ? famous panorama,? from Leicester
Square, London, wherein were exhibited views of
Dover, the Downs, and the coast of France, with
the embarkation of troops, horse and foot, from ten
till dusk, at one shilling a head, opposite the
Botanical Garden.
Lower down, where we now find Albert, Falshaw,
and Buchanan Streets, the ground for more
than twenty years was a garden nursery, long the
feu of Messrs. Eagle and Henderson, some of whose
advertisements as seedsfnen go back to nearly the
middle of the last century.
At the foot of the Walk there was born, in 1755,
Andrew Macdonald, an ingenious but unfortunate
dramatic and miscellaneous writer, whose father,
George Donald, was a market-gardener there. He
received the rudiments of his education in the
Leith High School, and early indicated such literary
talents, that his friends had sanguine hopes
of his future eminence, and with a view to his
becoming a minister of the Scottish Episcopal
communion he studied at the University of Edinburgh,
where he remained till the year 1775, when
he was put into deacon?s orders by Bishop Forbes
of Leith. On this account, at the suggestion of the
latter, he prefixed the syllable Mac to his name.
As there was no living for him vacant, he left his
father?s cottage in Leith Walk to become a tutor
in the family of Oliphant of Gask, after which he
became pastor of an Episcopal congregation in
Glasgow, and in 1772 published ?Velina, a Poetical
Fragment,? which is said to have contained
much genuine poetry, and was in the Spenserian
stanza.
His next essay was ?? The Independent,? which
won him neither profit nor reputation ; but having
written ?Vimonda, a Tragedy,? with a prologue
by Henry Mackenzie, he came to Edinburgh, where
it was put upon the boards, and where he vainly
hoped to make? a living by his pen. It was received
with great applause, but won him no advantage,
as his literary friends now deserted him.
Before leaving Glasgow he had taken a step which
they deemed alike imprudent and degrading.
?This was his marrying the maid-servant of the
house in which he lodged. His reception, therefore,
on his return to Edinburgh from these friends
and those of his acquaintances who participated in
their feelings, had in it much to annoy and distress
him, although no charge could be brought against
the humble partner of his fortunes but the meanness
of her condition.? Thus his literary prospects,
so far as regarded Edinburgh, ended in total disappointment
; so, accompanied by his wife, he betook
him to the greater centre of London.
There the fame of ?Vimonda? had preceded
him, and Colman brought it out with splendour to
crowded houses in the years 1787 and 1788; and
now poor Macdonald?s mind became radiant with
hope of affluence and fame, and he had a pretty
little residence at Brompton, then a sequestered
place.
He next engaged with much ardour upon an
opera, but made his subsistence chiefly by writing
satirical papers and poems for the newspapers,
under the signature of ?Mathew Bramble.? At
last this resource failed him, and he found himself
* ... in Leith Walk to become a tutor in the family of Oliphant of Gask, after which he became pastor of an ...

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500 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
M'Kenzie, Bliss Jan.net, 336
M'Kinlay, Andrew, 432
M'Kinnon, Mr. Roderick, 334
M'Knight, Dr. Thomas, 141, l!
M'Lachlan, Rev. Mr., 331
M'Lean, Mr., 77
M'Lean, Adjutant, 79
M'Lean, Mr. Donald, 213
M'Lellan, Mr., 332
M'Leod, Rev. Dr. Norman, 114
M'Leod, Colonel Norman, 168
N'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Donald, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Angus, 334
M'Leod, Mr. Lachlan, 334
BI'Leod, Roderick, Esq., W.S.
BI 'Leod, Mr., of Muiravonsidc
M'Lure, -, 128
M'Millan, Jeanie, 366
N'Millan, Neil, 406, 407
M'Nab, Mr., W.S., 466
Sf'Queen, Robort, Lord Justice
Clerk, 47, 163, 217
M'Queen, Miss Mav, 163
K'Queen, Robert Dundas, Esq.
E'Yicar, Rev. Neil, 192
L'Whirter, Mr., 287
370
370
133
N
TAIRNE, Catharine, 156
Taismith, Mr., 260
Teale, John, Esq., 475
iecker, James, Prime Afinistei
Tecker, Madame, 64
iecker, Mademoiselle, 64
ieil, Tarn, 34,
Seil, Mary, 169
relson, Lord, 292, 293
leville, Captain, 379
lewton, Rev. Isaac, 40
rewton, Sir Isaac, 309
rewton, Lord, 402, 418, 462
kol, Mr. Wm., of the High
School, 1
of France, 64
Nicolas, Sir N. H., 142
Nisbet, William, Esq., of Dirle-
Yisbet, Archibald, Esq., 424
Yisbet, Hamilton, Esq., 458
Yisbet, Mrs., 458
Tiven, Mr. David, 98
ton, 22
Muir, Thomas, Esq., younger
Huntershill, 47, 112, 121, 1
168
Munro, President, 164
Nunro, -, 369
Munro, John, 419
Murphy, the Irish piper, 273
Murray, Archibald, Esq., 91
Murray, Miss Susan-Mary, 91
Murray, Lord John, 101
Murray, Mr., 141
Murray, John, Esq., 150
Murray, Miss Mary, 150
Murray, Dr. Alexander, 269,41
Murray, General Lord John, 25
Murray, Lady Augusta, 304
Murray, Sir Robert, Bart., 325
Afurray, Miss Elizabeth, 325
Murray, lfungo, Esq., 325
Murray, Miss Enphemia Ameli
llurray, Sir William, of Ochte
Murray, William, Esq., 330
Murray, William, Esq., of
11 'Auslin and Austin, DIcssrs
N'Cleish, Dr., 470
If 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., senio
M 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., junioi
N'Crie, Rev. Dr., 245
M'Donald, Rev. Patrick, 100
M'Donald, Lieut.-Colonel, 226
M'Donell, Ranald, Esq., 100
M'Dougal, Sir H. H., 295
M'Dowell, Alexander, 174
M'Dowell, William, 174
M'Ewan, Peter, senior, 216
M'Ewan, Peter, junior, 211
M'Fadyen, Nr. J., 100
M'Farlan, J. F., Esq., 105
M'GilI, Rev. Dr., of Ayr, 313
M'Glwhan, Donald, 367
M'llquham, Messrs., 377
M'Intosh, William, Esq., 467
M'Eay, Mr., of Strathy, 162
M'Hay, Niss Margaret, 162
N'Kellar, Mrs., 215
M'Kenzie, Alexander, 6
M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr., 266
M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr. Neil, 335
M'Kenzie, Kenneth, Esq., 336
j 435
325
tyre, 325
Henderland, 389
378
437
438
Noble, Rev. Mr., 310
North, Lord, 63, 158
North, Mr., 437
Northumberland, Duchess of, 469
Norton, Hon. Fletcher, 99
0
O'CONNELLD, aniel, Esq., 345
Ogilvie, Mr. Alexander, 93
Ogilvie, Miss Margaret, 93
Ogilvie, Captain, 156
Ogilvie, Sir William, Bart. 433
Ogilvy, Captain, 389
O'Eeeffe, John, 92, 261
Oliphant, Charles, Esq., 450
Oliver and Boyd, Messrs., 99,357
Oman, Mr. 310
Orkney, Bishop of, 162
Ormelie, John Earl of, 234
3rr, John, Esq., 444
Isborne, Alex., Esq., 197, 457
Iswald, Richard Alexander, Esq.,
lughterson, Rev. Arthur, 448
lughterson, Miss Anne, 448
lusely, Sir Gore, Bart., 300, 301,
133, 426
303, 304, 306
P
'AINE, Mr. Thomas, 50
'almer, Rev. Thomas Fyshe, 121
'almerston, Lord, 226, 432
'anmure, Lord, 22, 164, 165
'anmure, Patrick first Earl of,
'anmure, James fourth Earl of,
'anmure, William Earl of, 427
'ardon, Monsieur, 171
'arker, Miss, 316
'arker, John, Esq., S.S.C., 425
'arry, Captain, 453
'aterson, Dr. 42
aterson, Deacon James, 372,373
aterson, Adam, Esq., W.S., 425
aterson, Miss Deborah, 436
atersone, John, 208, 209
aton, Mr. George, 1, 3
aton, Mr. John, 35
%ton, Mr. John, 66
Iton, Mr., 202
aton, Rev. John, 266
ml, Rev. William, 290, 311,
434
iul, R., Esq., 105
tul, Rev. John, 105, 435
427
427 ... Rev. Mr., 310 North, Lord, 63, 158 North, Mr., 437 Northumberland, Duchess of, 469 Norton, ...

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Holyrood.] SUCCESSION. OF ABBOTS. 47
between Randolph the famous? Earl of Moray and
Sir William Oliphant, in connection with the forfeited
estate of William of Monte Alto. Another
species of Parliament was held at Holyrood on
the 10th of February, in the year 1333-4, when
Edward 111. received the enforced homage of his
creature Baliol.
XVI. JOHN II., abbot, appears as a witness to
three charters in 1338, granted to William of
Livingston, William of Creighton, and Henry of
Brade (Braid?).
XVII. BARTHOLOMEW, abbot in 1342.
XVIII. THOMAS, abbot, witnessed a charter to
William Douglas of that ilk, Sir James of Sandilands,
and the Lady Elenora Bruce, relict of Alexander
Earl of Carrick, nephew of Robert I., of the
lands of the West Calder. On the 8th of May,
1366, a council was held at Holyrood, at which the
Scottish nobles treated with ridicule and contempt
the pretensions of the kings of England, and sanctioned
an assessment for the ransom of David II.,
taken prisoner at the battle of Durham. That
monarch was buried before the high altar in 1371,
and Edward 111. granted a safe conduct to certain
persons proceeding to Flanders to provide for the
tomb in which he was placed.
XIX. JOHN III., abbot on the 11th of January,
~372. During his term of office, John of Gaunt
Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward III., was
hospitably entertained at Holyrood, when compelled
to take flight from his enemies in England.
XX. DAVID, abbot on the 18th of January, in
the thirteenth year of Robert 11. The abbey was
burned by the armyof Richard 11. whose army
encamped at Restalrig; but it was soon after
repaired. David is mentioned in a charter dated
at Perth, 1384-5.
XXI. JOHN (formerly Dean of Leith) was abbot
on the 8th of May, 1386. His name occurs in
several charters and other documents, and for the
last time in the indenture or lease of the Canonmills
to the city of Edinburgh, 12th September,
1423. In his time Henry IV. spared the monastery
in gratitude for the kindness of the monks to
his exiled father John of Gaunt.
XXII. PATRICK, abbot 5th September, 1435.
In his term of office James II., who had been born
in the abbey, was crowned there in his sixth year,
on the 25th March, 1436-7; and anothet high
ceremony was performed in the same church when
Mary of Gueldres was crowned -as Queen Consort
in July, 1449. In the preceding year, John Bishop
of Galloway elect became an inmate of the abbey,
and was buried in the cloisters.
XXIII. JAMES, abbot 26th April, 14~0.
XXIV. ARCHIBALD CRAWFORD, abbot in 1457.
He was son of Sir William? Crawford of Haining,
and had previously been Prior of Holytood. In
1450 he was one of the commissioners who treated
with the English at Coventry concerning a truce ;
and again in 1474, concerning a marriage between
James Duke of Rothesay and the Princess Cecile,
second daughter of Edward IV. of England. He
was Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in 1480.
He died in 1483. On the abbey church (according
to Crawford) his arms were carved niore than
thirty times. ?He added the buttresses on the
walls of the north and south aisles, and probably
built the rich doorway which opens into the north
aisle.? Many finely executed coats armorial are
found over the niches, among them Abbot Crawford?s
frequently- fesse ermine, with a star of five
points, in chief, surmounted by an abbot?s mitre
resting on a pastoral staff.
XXV. ROBERT BELLENDEN, abbot in 1486,
when commissioner concerning a truce with
England. He was still abbot in 1498, and his
virtues are celebrated by his namesake, the archdean
of Moray, canon of ROSS, and translator of
Boece, who says ?? he left the abbey, and died ane
Chartour-monk.? In 1507 the Papal legate presented
James IV., in the name of Pope Julius II.,
in the church, amid a brilliant crowd of nobles,
with a purple crown adorned by golden lilies, and
a sword of state studded with gems, which is still
preserved in the Castle of Edinburgh. He also
brought a bull, bestowing upon James the title of
Defender of the Faith. Abbot Bellenden, in 1493,
founded a chapel in North Leith, dedicated to St.
Ninian, latterly degraded into a victual granary
The causes moving the abbot to build this chapei,
independent of the spiritual wants of the people,
were manifold, as set forth in the charter of
erection. The bridge connecting North and South
Leith, over which he levied toll, was erected at the
same time.
XXVI. GEORGE CRICHTOUN, abbot in 1515,
and Lord Privy Seal, was promoted to the see of
Uunkeld in 1528. As we have recorded elsewhere,
he was the founder of the Hospital of St. Thomas,
near the Water Gate. An interesting relic of his
abbacy exists at present in England.
About the year 1750, when a grave was being
dug in the chancel of St Stephen?s church, St.
Albans, in Hertfordshire, there was found buried
in the soil an ancient lectern bearing his name, and
which is supposed to have been concealed there at
some time during the Civil Wars. It is of cast
brass, and handsonie in design, consisting of an eagle
with expanded wings, supported by a shaft deco-
The piers still remain. ... Randolph the famous? Earl of Moray and Sir William Oliphant , in connection with the forfeited estate of ...

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