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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 25
CLXXX.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
ADDRESSIXG THE EDINBURGH SPEARMEN.
THIS scene, with Duddingston Househis lordship's residencein the distance,
refers to what has been already related in our notice of Mr. Bennet, Lieut.-
Colonel Commandant of the battalion of Spearmen. The appointment of the
Earl to the Command in Scotland gave a new impulse to the warlike spirit of
the volunteers. The following graphic sketch of that stirring era occurs in
'' Lockhart's Life of Scott :I'
" Edinburgh Was converted into B camp : independently of a large garrison of regular troops,
nearly ten thousand Fencibles and Volunteen were almost constantly under arms. The lawyer wore
his uniform under his gown; the shopkeeper measured out his wares in scarlet; in short, the
citizens of all classes made more use for several months of the military than of any other dress ;
and the new Commander-in-Chief consulted equally his own gratification and theirs by devising a
succession of manceumes, which presented a vivid image of the art of war, conducted on a large and
scientific scale. In the sham battles and sham sieges of 1805, Craigmillar, Preston, Gilmerton, the
Crosscauseway, and other formidable positions in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, were the scenes
of many a dashing assault and resolute defence; and, occasionally, the spirits of the mock-combatants-
English and Scotch, or Lowland and Highland-became so much excited that there was
some difficulty in preventing the rough mockery of warfare from passing into its realities. The
Highlanders, in particular, were very hard to be dealt with; and once, at least, Lord Moira was
forced to alter, at the eleventh hour, his programme of battle, because a battalion of kilted Fencibles
could not, or would not, understand that it was their duty to be beat."
At one of the King's birth-day assemblages, which were then numerously
attended in the Parliament House, on the health of the Commander-in-Chief
being given, Lord Moira addressed the meeting, congratulating them on the
spirit and unanimity which pervaded the country, and concluded by proposing
the following toast :-" May that man never enjoy the land 0' cakes, who is not
willing to shed his blood in defence of it." During his stay at Edinburgh, his
lordship was highly popular ; and much gaitp prevailed. The following notice
of one of the entertainments we find in a journal of the day :-
" On Friday evening (June 14, 1805) the Countess of Loudon and Afoiral gave a grand fite at
Duddingston House, to above three hundred of the nobility and gentry in and about the cityamong
whom were, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Errol, Earl of Dalhousie, Earl of Roden, Lord
Elcho, Count Piper, Sir John Stuart, Sir William Forbes, Sir Alexander Pumes, Sir James Hall,
Countess of Errol, Countess Dowager of Dalhousie, Lady Charlotte Campbell, Lady Elizabeth
Rawdon, Lady Helen Hall, Lady Stuart, Lady Fettes, Admiral Vashon, and a great number of the
naval and military gentlemen, most of the judges, etc. The saloon was elegantly fitted up with
festoons of flowers, and embellished with an emblematical naval pillar, on which were the namw of
Hme, Duncan, St. Vincent, and Nelson. The dancing commenced at ten o'clock, and was
The Counted wm the first, north of the Tweed, to introduce those laconic invitation cards,
now common enough. Their concise style-"The Countess of London and Moira at home"-
astonished and puzzled several of the good folke of Edinburgh to whom they were forwarded.
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THE HIGH STREET. 233
of his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Craig, has been preserved by Sir James
Balfour, and is worth quoting as a sample of party rancour against the Whig statesman :-
Deed well ye deathe,
And burate the lyke a tune,
That took away good Elspet Craige,
And left ye knave her sone.
History and romance contend for the associations of the Scottish capital, not always
with the advantage on the dull side of fact. On a certain noted Saturday night, in the
annals of fiction, Dandy Dinmont and Colonel Mannering turned from the High Street
“ into a dark alley, then up a dark stair, and into an open door.” The alley was Writers’
Court, and the door that of Clerihugh’s tavern ; a celebrated place of convivial resort during
the last century, which still stands at the bottom of the court, though its deserted walls no
longer ring with the revelry of High Jinks, and such royal mummings as formed the sport
of Pleydell and his associates on that jovial night. The picture is no doubt a true one of
scenes familiar to grave citizens of former generations. Clerihugh’s tavern was the favourite
resort of our old civic dignitaries, for those douce festivities ” that were then deemed
indispensable to the satisfactory settlement of all city affairs. The wags of last century
used to tell of a certain city treasurer, who, on being applied to for a new rope to the Tron
Kirk bell, summoned the Council to deliberate on the demand ; an adjournment to Clerihugh’s
tavern it was hoped might facilitate the settlement of 80 weighty a matter, but
one dinner proved insufficient, and it was not till they had finished their third banquet in
Writers’ Court, that the application was referred to a committee of councillors, who spliced
the old bell rope and settled the bill I
We have already alluded to some of the most recently cherished superstitions in regard
to Mary King’s Close, associated with Beth’s Wynd as one of the last retreats of the
plague ; but it appears probable, from the following epigram ‘‘ on Marye King’a pest,”
by Drummond of Hawthornden, that the idea is coeval with the name of the close :-
‘
Turne, citizens, to God ; repent, repent,
And praye your bedlam frenziea may relent ;
Think not rebellion a trifling thing,
Thia plague doth fight for Mark and the Xing.’
Mr George Sinclair has furnished, in his “ Satan’s Invisible World Discovered,” an
account of apparitions seen in this close, and (‘attested by witnesses of undoubted veracity,”
which leaves all ordinary wonders far behind! This erudite work was written to confound
the atheists of the seventeenth century. It used to be hawked about the streets by the
gingerbread wives, and found both purchasers and believers enough to have satisfied even
its credulous author. Its popularity may account for the general prevalence of superstitioue
prejudices regarding this old close, which was, at best, a grim and gousty-looking place,
and appears, from the reports of property purchased for the site of the Royal Exchange,
to have been nearly all in ruins when that building was erected, most of the houses having
been burned down in 1750. The pendicle of Satan’s worldly possessions, however, which
1 Writers’ Court derives its name from the Signet Library having been kept there until ita removal to the magnificent
apartments which it now occupies adjoining the Parliament House.
a Drummond of Hawthorndeu’s Poems, Maitland Club, p. 395.
Originally published in 1685, by Mr George Siclair, Professor of Philosophy in Glasgow College, and afterwards
minister of Eastwood in Renfrewahire.
2Q

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48 BX 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCHES.
I‘ The History of Dover Castle. ~ By the Rev. William Darrell, Chaplain to
Queen Elizabeth.” In 4t0, the same size as the large and small
editions of the Antiquities of’ England and Wales; with ten views engraved
from drawings by Captain Grose.
“ A Provincial Glossary ; with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular
Superstitions.” Lond. 1788. 8vo.
. “Rules for Drawing Caricatures ; the subjectlillustrated with four copperplates;
with an Essay on Comic Painting.” Lond. 1788. 8vo. A second
edition 8ppeared in 179 1, Svo, illustrated with twenty-one copperplates, seventeen
of which were etched by Captain Grose.
After his demise was published “ The Olio ; being a collection of Essays,
Dialogues, Letters, Biographical Sketches, etc. By the late Francis Grose, Esq.,
F.R.S. and A.S. ;” with a portrait of the author.
There are dissertations by him in the Archseologia, the one “On an Ancient
Fortification at Christchurch, Hants,” and the other “ On Ancient Spurs,”
Although the verses written by Burns during Captain Grose’s peregrinations
through Scotland collecting its antiquities are sufficiently well known, we
cannot refrain from concluding this article with them :
1781.
Lond. 1796. 8vo.
Hear, Land 0’ Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groats,
If there’s a hole in a’ your coats,
A chiel’s amang you takin notes,
If in your bounds ye chance to light
Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight,
0 stature short, but genius bright,
An wow I he has an unco slight
By some auld, houlet-haunted biggin,
Or kirk deserted by its riggin,
It’s ten to ane ye’ll find him snug in
Wi’ deils, they say, - safe’s ! colleaguin
Ilk ghaist that haunts auld ha’ or chamer,
Ye gipsy-gang that deal in glamor,
And TOU deep-read in hell’s black grammar,
Ye’ll quake at his conjuiin hammer,
It’s tauld he was a sodger bred,
And ane wad rather fah than fled ;
Bnt now he’s quat the spurtle-blade,
An taen the-Antiquariaw, trade,
I reds you tent it ;
And, faith, he’ll prent it.
That’s he, mark weel-
0’ cauk and keel.
Some elllrich part,
At some black art.
Warlocks and witches,
Ye midnight -.
An dogskin wallet,
I think they call it.
He has a fouth 0’ add nick-nackets,
Rusty aim cap#, an jingling jackets,
Wad hand the Loudians three in tackets
A towmond gude,
And parritch pats, an auld sant-backets,
Before the flood.
0’ Eve’s first fire he has ae cinder ;
Auld Tubal-Cain’s fire-shoo1 and fender ;
That which distinyished the gender
0’ Balaam’s ass ;
A broom-stick 0’ the witch 0’ Endor,
Wee1 shod wi’ brass.
Forbye, he’ll &ape you aff fu’ gleg,
The cut 0’ Adam’s philibeg,
The knife that nicket Abel’s craig
It was a fauldin jocteleg,
But wad ye see him in his glee,
For meikle glee and fun has he,
Then set him down, an! twa or three
And port, 0 port I shine thou a wee,
Now, by the powers 0’ verse and prose !
Thou art a dainty chiel, 0 Grose I
Whae’er 0’ thee shall ill suppose,
I’d tak the rascal by the nose
He’ll prove you fully,
Or lang kail-gully.
Gude fellows wi’ him ;
And then ye’ll see him !
They sair misca’ thee,
Wad say, Shame fa’ thee.

... BX 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCHES. I‘ The History of Dover Castle. ~ By the Rev. William Darrell, Chaplain to Queen ...

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138 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
bounded on the east by Brown’s Close, and forms a detached block of houses of various
dates and styles, all exhibiting considerable remains of former magnificence.
The house that now forms the kouth-west angle towards the Castle Hill bears, on the
pediment of a dormer window facing the Castle, the date 1630, with the initials A. M.,
M. N. ; and there still remains, sticking in the wall, a cannon ball, said to have been shot
from the Castle during the cannonade of 1745, though we are assured that it was placed
there by order of government, to indicate that no building would be permitted on that
side nearer the Castle. Through this land‘ there is an alley called Blair’s Close, leading
by several curious windings into an open court behind. At the first angle in the close,
a handsome gothic doorway, of very elegaut workmanship, meets the view, forming the
entry to a turnpike stair. The doorway is surmounted with an ogee arch, in the tympanum
of which is somewhat rudely sculptured a coronet with supporters,--‘( two deerhounds,”
says Chambers, ‘‘ the well-known supporters of the Duke of Goidon’s arms.” ’
This accords with the local tradition, which states it to have been the town mansion of
that noble family ; but the style of this doorway, and the substantial character of the
whole building, leave no room to doubt that it is an erection of a much earlier date
than the Dukedom, which was only created in 1684. Tradition, however, which is never
to be despised in questions of local antiquity, proves to be nearly correct in this case, as
we find, in one of the earliest titles to the property now in the possession of the City Improvements
Commission, endorsed, I-‘ Disposition of House be Sir Robert Baird to William
Baird, his second son, 1694,” it is thus defined,-“All and hail that my lodging in the
Caste1 Hill of Edinburgh, formerly possessed by the Duchess of Gordon.” This appears,
from the date of the disposition, to have been the first Duchess, Lady Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. She retired to a Convent in Flanders during the lifetime
of the Duke, but afterwards returned to Edinburgh, where she principally resided
till her death, which took place at the Abbey Bill in 1732, sixteen years after that of
her huaband.
In 1711, her Grace excited no small stir in Edinburgh, by sending to the Dean and
Faculty of Advocates, -‘aI silver medal, with a head of the Pretender on one side, and on
the other the British Isles, with the word Reddite.” On the Dean presenting the medal,
the propriety of accepting it was keenly discussed, when twelve only, out of seventyfive
members present, testxed their favour for the House of Hanover by voting its
rejection.s
The most recent of the interior fittings of this mansion appear old enough to have
remained from the time of its occupation by the Duchess. It is finished throughout with
wooden panelling, and one large room in particular, overlooking the Castle Esplanade, is
elegantly decorated with rich ‘carvings, and with a painting (one of old Norie’s pictorial
idornments) filling a panel over the chimney-piece, and surrounded by an elaborate piece
.
1 The term ImuZ, in this and similar instances throughout the Work, is used according to its Scottish acceptation,
* Traditionq vol. i p. 153.
* Norie, a house-decorator and painter of the last century, whom works are very common, painted on the panels of
Pinkerton remarks, in his introduction to the ‘‘ Scottish Gallery,” 1799,-“Norie’a
and signifies a building of several stories of separate dwellings, communicating by a common stair.
Douglas’s Peerage, vol. i. p. 654.
the older houaea in Edinburgh.
genius for landacapea entitles him to o place in the list of Scotch paintera”

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THE LA WNMARKET. 163
gable are the initials T. G. and B. G., while on a corresponding shield to the east a
curious device occurs, not unlike an ornamental key, with the 6it in the form of a crescent.
Many such fancy devices occur on the older buildings in Edinburgh, the only probable
explanation of which appears to be that they are merchants’ marks. This house is alluded
to in the divisions of the city for the sixteen companies formed in 1634, in obedience to
an injunction of Charles I,, where the second division, on the north side of the Castle Hill,
terminates at ‘‘ Thomas Gladstone’s Land.”’
Previous to the opening’of Bank Street, Lady Stair’s Close, the fird below this old
building, waa the chief thoroughfare for foot passengers taking advantage of the halfformed
earthen mound, to reach the New Town. It derives ita name from Elizabeth,
Dowager Countess of Stair, who, as the wife of the Viscount Primrose, forms one of the
most interesting characters associated with the romantic traditions of old Edinburgh.
Scott has made the incidents of Lady Primrose’s singular story the groundwork of Aunt
Margaret’s Mirror,” perhaps the most striking of all his briefer tales ; while the scarcely
less interesting materials preserved by the latest survivors of the past generation form
some of the most attractive pages of ‘‘ Chambers’s Traditions.” This story, with nearly
all the marvellous features of Aunt Margaret’s tale, received universal credit from the
contemporaries of the principal actors in its romantic scenes, as well as from many of the
succeeding generation.
The Countess Dowager of Stair was long looked up to as the leader of fashion, and
an admission to her select circle courted as one of the highest objects of ambition among
the smaller gentry of the period. One cannot help smiling now at the idea of the leader
of ton in the Scottish capital condescendingly receiving the dite of fashionable society
in the second flat of a common stair in a narrow close of the Old Town ; yet such were the
habits of Edinburgh society in the eighteenth century, at a period when the distinctions of
rank and fashion were guarded with a degree of jealousy of which we have little conception
now.
A characteristic sample of the manners of the period is furnished in the evidence of
Sir John Stewart of Castlemilk, in the celebrated Douglas Cause, affording a peep into the
interior of Holyrood Palace about the middle of last century. Sir John Stewart states
that, being on a visit to tlie Duke of Hamilton, at his lodgings in the Abbey, the Countess
of Stair entered the room, seemingly in a very great passion, holding in her hand a letter
from Thomas Cochrane, Esq., afterwards Earl of Dundonald, to the Duke of Douglas, in
which he affirmed that the Countess of Stair had declared, that, to her knowledge, the
children said to be those of Lady Jane Douglas were fictitious ; whereupon the Countess
struck the floor three times with a staff which she had in her hand, and each time that she
struck the floor, she called the Earl a damned villain, which her ladyship said was his
own expression in his letter to the Duke. One can fancy the stately old lady in her highheeled
shoes and hoop, flourishing her cane, and crushing the obnoxious letter in her
hand, as she applied to its author the elegant epithet of his own suggestion. ’
In the same close which bears her ladyship’s name also resided the celebrated bibliographer
and antiquary, Mr George Paton, the friend and correspondent of Lord Hailes,
Gough, Bishop Percy, Ritson, George Chalmers, Pennant, Herd, and, indeed, of nearly all
Maitland, p. 285. ’ Proof for Douglas of Douglas, Esq., defender, &c. Douglas Cause.

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90 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Mound,
Sculpture had its origin early in the present
century, though in past times the Scottish School
of ?Painters ranked among its number several
celebrities. Of these the most noted was George
Jameson, born at Aberdeen in 1586; he studied
under Rubens, and won himself the name of the
Scottish Vandyke. Charles I. sat to him for his
portrait, as did many other great Scotsmen of the
period. He was succeeded by the elder Scougal,
a painter of many works ; Scougal the younger ; De
Witte ; Nicolas Hude, a French Protestant refugee;
John Baptist0 Medina, a native of Brussels, whose
son John was a ?( Limner? in Hyndford?s Close
in 1784; Aikman; Wait; Allan Ramsay (son of
the poet); Norrie, the landscape painter;? the
Runcimans, Brown, and latterly David Allan,
Graham, Wilkie, Gibson, Thomson, Raeburn, and
the Watsons.
The first movement towards fostering native
art was, undoubtedly, the appointment by the
Board of Trustees, in 1760, of a permanent
master for the instruction of the youth of both sexes
in drawing, thus Iaying the foundation of a School
of Design. The second important organisation
was that named the ?Institution for the En.
couragement of the Fine Arts,? founded on the 1st
of February, 1819, on the model of the British
Institution of London, for the annual exhibition oi
pictures by old masters, and subsequently those
of living artists. It consisted chiefly of gentlemen,
who, on the payment of A50, became shareholders
or life-members. The first exhibition by the Institution
was in York Place, in March, 1819, but
owing to certain complications between it and
artists generally, they were, even if members, not
permitted to exercise the sliL!itest control over the
funds.
Prior to this time the leading artists resident in
Edinburgh had associated together for the purpose
of having an annual exhibition of their works,
which was also held in York Place. The first of these
occurred in 1808, and Lord Cockburn refers to it
as the most gratifying occurrence of the period, and
as one that ?proclaimed the dawn of modern
Scottish art.?
Among the pictures shown on that auspicious
occasion the catalogue records three by George
Watson, including the portrait of the celebrated
Bishop Hay; three by A. Nasmyth; two by
Douglas, one being a portrait of Mrs. Boswell of
Auchinleck ; three fancy pictures by Case ; ?? The
Fa1 of Buchan crowning Master Gattie,? by W.
Lizars; a black chalk landscape by Thomson;
and in the succeeding year, 1809, the catalogue
mentions, briefly noted, five by Raeburn, including
his Walter Scott; three by Gorge Watson, one
being the ?? Portrait of an Old Scots Jacobite;?
three by Thomson of Duddingston ; a fancy picture
of Queen Mary, by.John Watson, afterwards Sir J.
W. Gordon.
Carse, called the Teniers of Scotland, died early ;
but ?this exhibition did incalculable good. It
drew such artists as we had out of their obscurity;
it showed them their strength and their weakness :
it excited public attention: it gave them importance.?
During five exhibitions, between 1809 and 1813,
the members thus associated saved ,61,888, hut
not being sufficiently restricted by their laws from
dissolving at any time, the sum amassed proved a
temptation, and it was divided among the exhibitors.
The Society then broke up and dispersed, and it
was while they were in this state of disorganisation
that the Directors of the Institution, finding the
old masters not sufficiently attractive to the public,
made overtures to the artists for an exhibition of
modern pictures and sculpture under their auspices,
and to set the proceeds aside for the benefit of the
said artists and their families.
Thus the first exhibition of the works of living
artists under the direction of the Institution took
place in 1821, and it proved such a success that it
was repeated yearly till I 82 9.
The Institution had in 1826, besides one hundred
and thirty-one ordinary members, thirteen
honorary, five of whom were artists, under the title
of Associate Members, and the exhibitions were
held in the Galleries of the Royal Institution, for
which an attnual rent of A380 was paid; but as
great discontent was expressed by artists who
were Associate Members, because they were denied
all consideration in the inanagement in the year
mentioned, they resolved to found a Scottish
Academy.
It was in the summer of 1826 that the document
by which this important movement was inaugurated
went round for signature in the hands otillr. William
Nicholson. When published, twenty-four names
appeared to it : those of thirteen Academicians,
nii e Associates, and two Associate Engravers.
The first general meeting of ?The Scottish
Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture,?
was held on the 27th of May, 1826, Mr. Patrick
Syme in the chair, and the following gentlemen were
elected as office-bearers for the year :-George
Watson, President ; William Nicholson, Secretmy ;
Thomas Hamilton, Treamrn: The Council consisted
of four.
Mr. George Watson, who has been justly
deemed the founder of the Academy, was the son

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High Street.] CONSTABLES SHOP. 211 .
Oxford ; Mr. Alexander Campbell, author of the
(? History of Scottish Poetry ?; Dr. Alexander
Murray, the famous self-taught philologist ; Dr.
John Leyden, who died at Java; Mr. (afterwards
Sir Walter) Scott ; Sir John Graham Dalzell ; and
many others distinguished for a taste in Scottish
literature and historical antiquities, including I)r.
Jarnes Browne, author of the ?History of the
Highland Clans,? and one of the chief contributors
to Constable?s Edinburgh Magazine.
The works of some of these named were among
the first issued from Constable?s premises in the
High Street, where his obliging manners, professional
intelligence, personal activity, and prompt
attention to the wishes of all, soon made him
popular with a great literary circle ; but his actual
reputation as a publisher may be said to have
commenced with the appearance, in October, I 802,
of the first number of the Edihburgh Rtwiew.
His conduct towards the contributors of that
famous quarterly was alike discreet and liberal,
and to his business tact and straightforward
deportment, next to the genius and talent of the
projectors, much of its subsequent success must
be attributed.
In 1804 he admitted as a partner Mr. Hunter
of Blackness, and the firm took the name of
Constable and Co. ; and after various admissions,
changes, and deaths, his sole partner in 1812 was
Mr. Robert Cadell. In 1805 he started 2%
Edinburgh Medical and Surgicd Journal, a work
nrojected in concert with Dr. Andrew Duncan;
and in the same year, in conjunction with Longman
and Co., of London, he published ? The Lay
of the Last Minstrel,? the first of that long series of
romantic publications in poetry and prose which
immortalised the name of Scott, to whom he gave
LI,OOO for ?Marmion? before a line of it was
written. In conjunction with Messrs. Millar
and Murray, and after many important works, including
the ? Encyclopzedia Britannica,? had issued
from his establishment in 1814, he brought out the
first of the ? Waverley Novels.?
Constable?s shop ?? is situated in the High Street,?
says Peter in his ?Letters to his Kinsfolk,? ?in
the midst of the old town, where, indeed, the
greater part of the Edinburgh booksellers are still
to be found lingering (as the majority of their
London brethren also do) in the neighbourhood of
the same old haunts to which long custom has
attached their predilections. On entering, one
sees a place by no means answering, either in point
of dimensions or in point of ornament, to the
notion one might be apt to form of the shop from
which so many mighty works are every day issuing
-a low, dusky chamber, inhabited by a few clerks,
ind lined with an assortment of unbound books and,
stationery-entirely devoid of all those luxurious
attractions of sofas and sofa-tables and books of
prints, &c., which one meets with in the superb
nursery of the Quarter+ Revim in Albemarle
Street. The bookseller himself is seldom to be
seen in this part of his premises ; he prefers to sit
in a chamber immediately above, where he can
proceed with his owo work without being disturbed
by the incessant cackle of the young Whigs who
lounge beiow ; and where few casual visitors are
admitted to enter his presence, except the more
important members of the great Whig Corporation
-reviewers either in esse, or at least supposed to
be so in posse-contributors to the supplement of
the ?Encyclopxdia Britannica.? . . . . The
bookseller is himself a good-looking man, apparently
about forty, very fat in his person, with a
face having good lines, and a fine healthy complexion.
He is one of the most jolly-looking
members of the trade I ever saw, and, moreover,
one of the most pleasing and courtly in his address.
One thing that is?remarkable about him,
and, indeed, very distinguishingly so, is his total
want of that sort of critical jabber of which most
of his brethren are so profuse, and of which custom
has rendered me rather fond than otherwise. Mr.
Constable is too much of a bookseller to think it
at all necessary that he should appear to be
knowing in the merits of books. His business is
to publish books ; he leaves the work of examining
them before they are published, and criticising
them afterwards, to others who have more leisure
on their hands than he has.?
In the same ?Letters? we are taken to the
publishing establishment of Manners and Millar,
on the opposite side of the High Street--(? the true
lounging-place of the blue-stockings and literary
beau monde of the Northern metropolis,? but long
since extinct.
Unlike Constable?s premises, there the anterooms
were spacious and elegant, adorned with
busts and prints, while the back shop was a veritable
btjbu ; ?its walls covered with all the?most
elegant books in fashionable request, arrayed in
the most luxurious clothing of Turkey and Russia
leather, red, blue, and green-and protected by
glass folding doors from the intrusion even of the
little dust which might be supposed to threaten a
place kept so delicately trim. The grate exhibits
a fine blazing fire, or in its place a fresh bush of
hawthorn, stuck all over with roses and lilies, and
gay as a maypole,? while paintings by Turner,
Thomson, and Williams meet the eye on every?

... Street.] CONSTABLES SHOP. 211 . Oxford ; Mr. Alexander Campbell, author of the (? History of Scottish Poetry ...

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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.

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464 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Frendracht, Viscount, 191
Froissart, 9, 12
Fullerton, Adam, 152, 272
Gabriel, the Archangel, Chapel of, 386
Qabriel’s Road, 371
Gallow Lee, 179, 275, 355
Galloway, Earl of, 324
Countess of, 324
House, 324
Gay, the Poet, 199, 300
Geddes, Jenny, 92,250,391
General‘s Entry, 345
George IL, 109
IV., 97, 133
Wilkie’s Portrait of, 410
Gill Bells, 211
Gillespie, Wdliam, Tobacconist, 350
Gillon, James, 69
Girth Cross, 306
Gladstone, Thomas, 162
Gladstone’s Land, 163
Olamis, Lady, 43,133
Glass, Ancient Painted, 387, 400
Glasgow, 49
Glencairn, Earl of, 69, 64, 67
Qlenlee, Lord, 332
Gloucester, Duke of, 19
Golden Charter, 19
Goldsmith, Oliver, 243, 323
Golf, 104, 301
Golfer’s Land, 135, 301
Gordon, George, 1st Duke of, 106, 123, 144, 169,179
Sir John, of Fasque, 357
Archbishop of, 27, 36
Duchess of, 138,192,308
Lady Ann, 296
Lady Catherine, 25
Lady Jane, 295
of Haddo, Sir John, 387
of Braid, 140
Hon. Alexander, 141
C. H., 141
Gosford‘s Close, 179
Gourlay, David, 177,178
John, 173
Norman, burnt at Greenside, 411
Robert, 172
Gowry, Earl of, 89
Grame, Tower of, 244
Graham, Robert, 15
Grange, Lady, 174, 441
Grassmarket, 26, 69, 101,109,195, 342, 343
Grant, Sir Francis, 171
Gray, Lord, 28, 164
Residence of the Daughters of, 144
Sir William, 164, 281
Andrew, 280
Egidia, 164, 281
John, 282
Gray’s Cloae, North, 254
Greenfield, Dr, 140 ’
South, See Hint Close
Greenside, 23, 285, 375, 411, 444
Uregory IX., Pope, 6
Greyfriars, 26, 269
Greyfriam’ Church, 96, 411
The Rood of, 111
Churchyard, 73, 83,169,206,411, 462
Monastery, 63, 342, 400, 443
Port, 117, 331, 454
Grieve, John, Provost, 139
Urymanus, Marcq Patriarch of Aquileig 48
Guard-Houae, 115,189, 247
Tom, 219,247, 431
Town, the Origin of, 36
Gueldere, Mary of, 17,18, 342, 381, 394
Guest, General, 111, 339
Guise, Duke of, 43
Mary of, 43,44, 48,62,65,67,146-167
Mary of, Portrait of, 202
Palace, 139, 146-157
Leith, 360
Guthrie, James, 216
Guy, Count of Namur, 7
Haddington, Sir Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 327,331
Thomas, Zd Earl of, 227
The Earl of, 341
Lord, the 7th Earl, 195
Haddow’s Hole Kirk, 387
Hailee, Lord, 284, 316, 370
Haliburton, Provost, of Dundee, 65
Provost George, 339
Master James, 261
Haliday, Sir John, 41
Halkerston’s Wynd, 117,118,242,250
Halton, Lord, 298, 454
Hammermen, Corporation of, 387, 400, 401
Hamilton, James, 4th Duke of, 106,108, 163, 183
Lord Claud, 370
Sir Patrick, 24,36,37,136
Sir Jamee, 314
Abbot, Gavin, 73
Gavin, his Model of the Old Town, 439
Port, 250
Hangman’s House, 243
Hanna, Jamea, Dean of St Qiea’s Church, 391
Hare Stane, 124
Harper, Sir John, 160
Hart, Andrew, the Printer, 235, 236
Hartfield, Lady, 208
Harviston, Lady, 208
Hastings, Marchioness of, 180
Haunted Close, West Bow. See Stinking CZosc
Hawkhill, 131, 177
Hawthornden, 7
Hay, Father, 3
Lord David, 283
Bishop, 265
Lady Ann, 180
Lady Catherine, 180
E. k Drummond, 154
Heathfield, Lord, 256
Heigh, Jock, 190
Henderson, of Fordel, 253

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THE TOWER 327 Liberton.]
between 1124 and 1153, according to the Lih
Cartarvm Sanchz Crwis.
Macbeth of Liberton also granted to St. Cuth
bert?s Church the tithes and oblations of Legbor
nard, a church which cannot now be traced.
The name is supposed to be a corruption o
Lepertoun, as there stood here a hospital fo
lepers, of which all vestiges have disappeared ; bu
the lands thereof in some old writs (according tc
the ?New Statistical Account?) were called ?Spital
town.?
At Nether Liberton, three-quarters of a mile nortl
of the church, was a mill, worked of course by thc
Braid Burn, which David I, bestowed upon tht
monks of Holyrood, as a tithe thereof, ??wit1
thirty cartloads from the bush of Liberton,? gift!
confirmed by William the Lion under the Grea
Seal circa I I 7 1-7.
The Black Friars at Edinburgh received fivc
pounds sterling annually from this mill at Nethei
Liberton, by a charter from King Robert I.
Prior to the date of King David?s charter, thc
church of Liberton belonged to St. Cuthbert?s
The patronage of it, with an acre of land adjoining
it, was bestowed by Sir John Maxwell of that iik
in 1367, on the monastery of Kilwinning,pro sahh
aniiiim SUE et Agnetis sponsiz SUE.
This gift was confirmed by King David 11.
By David 11. the lands of Over Liberton,
?( quhilk Allan Baroune resigned,? were gifted tc
John Wigham ; and by the same monarch the land:
of Nether Liberton were gifted to William Ramsay,
of Dalhousie, knight, and Agnes, his spouse, 24th
October, 1369. At a later period he granted a
charter ?to David Libbertoun, of the office of
sergandrie of the overward of the Constabularie of
Edinburgh, with the lands of Over Libbertoun
pertaining thereto.? (? Robertson?s Index.?)
Adam Forrester (ancestor of the Corstorphine
family) was Laird of Nether Liberton in 1387, for
estates changed proprietors quickly in those troublesome
times, and we have already reterred to him
as one of those who, with the Provost Andrew
Yichtson, made arrangements for certain extensive
additions to the church of St. Giles in that year.
William of Liberton was provost of the city in
1429, and ten years subsequently with William
Douglas of Hawthornden, Meclielson of Herdmanston
(now Harviston), and others, he witnessed
the charter of Patrick, abbot of Holyrood, to Sir
Yatrick Logan, Lord. of Restalrig, of the office of
bailie of St. Leonard?s. (? Burgh Charters,? No.
At Liberton there was standing till about 1840
a tall peel-house or tower, which was believed to
XXVI.)
have been the residence of Macbeth and other
barons of Liberton, and which must not be confounded
with the solitary square tower that stands
to the westward of the road that leads into the
heart of the Braid Hills, and is traditionally said to
have been the abode of a troublesome robber
laud, who waylaid provisions coming to the city
markets.
The former had an old dial-stone, inscribed
?? God?s Providence is our Inheritance.?
Near the present Liberton Tower the remains
of a Celtic cross were found embedded in a wall in
1863, by the late James Drummond, R.S.A. It
was covered with knot-work.
The old church-or chapel it was more probably
-at Kirk-Liberton, is supposed to have been dedicated
to the Virgin Mary-there having been a
holy spring near it, called our Lady?s Well-and
it had attached to it a glebe of two oxgates of
land.
In the vicinity was a place called Kilmartin,
which seemed to indicate the site of some ancient
and now forgotten chapel.
In.1240 the chapelry of Liberton was disjoined by
David Benham, Bishop of St. Andrews and Great
Chamberlain to the King, from the parish of St.
Cuthbert?s, and constituted a rectory belonging to
the Abbey of Holyrood, and from then till the
Reformation it was served by a vicar.
For a brief period subsequent to 1633, it was a
prebend of the short-lived and most inglorious
bishopric of Edinburgh ; and at the final abolition
thereof it reverted to the disposal of the Crown.
The parochial registers date from 1639.
When the old church was demolished prior to
:he erection of the new, in 1815, there was found
very mysteriously embedded in its basement an
ron medal of the thirteenth century, inscribed in
xncient Russian characters ? THE GRAND PRINCE
3 ~ . ALEXANDER YAROSLAVITCH NEVSKOI.?
The old church is said to have been a picuresque
edifice not unlike that now at Corstor-
Ihine ; the new one is a tolerably handsome semi-
Gothic structure, designed by Gillespie Graham,
,eated for 1,430 persons, and having a square
ower with four ornamental pinnacles, forming a
)leasing and prominent object in the landscape
outhward of the city.
Subordinate to the church there were in Catholic
imes three chapels-one built by James V. at
3rigend? already referred to ; a second at Niddrie,
ounded by Robert Wauchope of Niddrie, in 1389,
.nd dedicated to ? Our .Lady,? but which is now
inly commemorated by its burying-ground-which
ontinues to be in use-and a few faint traces of

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260 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
be considered its culminating point. It descended thereafter to Bellevue House in
Drummond Place, built by General Scott, the father-in-law of Mr Canning, which house
was demolished in 1846, in completing the tunnel of the Edinburgh and Leith Railway ;
and now, we believe, the exciseman no longer possesses a ‘ I local habitation ” within the
Scottish capital.
On the southern side of the High Street, below “the Tron,” some few remains of
antiquity have escaped the ruthless hand of destruction, though the general character of
the buildings partakes largely of modern tameness and insipidity. Previoua to the
commencement of the South Bridge in 1785, the east end of the Tron Church, which has
since been considerably curtailed, abutted on to a large and stately range of building of
polished ashlar, with an arched piazza, supported on stone pillars, extending along nearly
the whole front. A large archway in this building, immediately adjoining the church,
formed the entrance to Marlin’s Wynd, in front of which a row of six stones, forming
the shape of a coffin, indicated the grave of Marlin, a Frenchman, who, having first paved
the High Street in the sixteenth century, seems to have considered that useful work his
best public monument ; but the changes effected on this locality have long since oblite- ‘
rated the pavior’s simple memorial. The same destructive operations swept away the whole
of Niddry’s Wynd, an ancient alley, abounding with interesting fabrics of an early date,
and associated with some of the most eminent citizens of former times. Here was the
civic palace of Nicol Udward, Provost of Edinburgh in 1591, a large and very handsome
quadrangle building, of uniform architectural design and elegant proportions, in which
King James VI. and his Queen took up their residence for a time in 1591.‘ This
building appears, from the description of it, to have been one of the most magdcent
private edifices of the Old Town.’ In the same wynd, a little further down on the
opposite side, stood St Mary’s Chapel, an ancient religious foundation dedicated to the
Virgin Mary. It was founded and endowed by Elizabeth, Countess of Ross, in 1504,
the widow of John, Lord of the Isles, who was outlawed and forfeited by James III. for
treasonable correspondence with Edward IV. of England. She was the eldest daughter
of James, Lord Livingston, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, and appears to have held
considerable property by special charters in her own behalf. A modern edifice has been
substituted for the ancient chapel before the demolition of Niddry’a Wynd, which formed
the hall of the corporation of wrights and masons. It was acquired by them in 1618,
since which they have borne the name of the United Incorporations of May’s Chapel.
The modern erection appeared from it,s style to have been built early in the eighteenth
century, and its name is now transferred to their unpretending hall in Bell’s Wynd.
On entering Dickson’s Close, a little farther down the street, the first home the visitor
comes to on the left hand is a neat and very substantial stone edifice, evidently the work
of Robert Mylne, and built about the period of the Revolution. Of its first occupants
we can give no account, but one of its more recent inhabitants is calculated to give it a
peculiar interest. Here was the residence of David Allan, ‘‘ our Scottish Hogarth,” as
he was called, an artist of undoubted genius, whose fair fame has suffered by the tame
insipidity which inferior engravers have infused into his illustrations to Ramsay and
Burna. The satiric humour and drollery of his well-known ‘‘ rebuke scene ” in a country
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I74 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
surmounted by the initials R G.; the arrangement of the interior seemed to have
been designed with a view to its occasional subdivision for the separate lodgment of
illustrious occupants. A projecting turret, which appears in our engraving, enclosed
a spiral stone stair, each of the steps of which was curiously hollowed in front into the
segment of a, circle. This stair afforded access to a small room in the highest floor of
the house, which tradit.ion, as well as the appearance of the apartment, pointed out as
the place of durance of the various noble captives that found a prison within its old walls.
An adjoining closet was also shown, where the lockman waa said to have slept, while in
waiting to do his last office on such of them as spent there the closing hours of life.
Popular rumour even sought to add to the number of these associations, by assigning the
former apartment as that in which the Earl of Argyle spent the last night before his
execution ; where one of his unprincipled and lawless judges was struck with astonishment
and remorse on finding his victim in a sweet and tranquil slumber only a few hours
before passing to the scaffold.
At the period of Argyle’s execution, however, A.D. 1685, this private stronghold of
James VI. had passed out of the hands of subservient customars, into the possession of
the descendants of Sir Thomas Hope,-one of the most resolute opponents of the aggressions
of royalty,-who were little likely to suffer their dwelling to be converted into the
state prison of the bigoted James VII. ; while it is clearly stated by Wodrow, that the
unfortunate Argyle was brought directly from the Castle to the Laigh Council Room,
thence to be conducted to execution.
Very soon after the erection of Gourlay’s house, it became the residence of Sir William
Durie, governor of Berwick, and commander of the English auxiliaries, during the memorable
siege of the Castle in 1573; and thither,-on its surrender, after the courageous
defence, of which a brief account has already been given,‘-the gallant Sir William
Kirkaldy of Grange, and his brother, with the Lord Hume, Lethington, Pittadrow, the
Countess of Argyle, the Lady Lethington, and the Lady Grange, were conducted to await
the bloody revenge of the Regent Morton, and the heartlessness of Queen Elizabeth, that
consigned Sir William Kirkaldy and his brother to the ignominious death of felons.’
David Moyses, who himself held an office in the household of James VI., informs us
that on the 27th of. May 1581, the very year succeeding that of the royal mandates in
favour of Gourlay, the Earls of Arran and Montrose passed from Edinburgh with a body
of armed men, to bring the Earl of DIorton from Dumbarton Castle, where he was in ward,
to take his trial at Edinburgh ; and “ upon the 29th of May, the said Earl was transported
to Edinburgh, and lodged in Robert Gourlay’s house, and there keeped by the waged men.”’
The Earl was held there in strict durance, until the 1st of June, and denied all intercourse
with his friends. On that day the citizens of the capital were mustered in arms on the
l Ante, p. 84.
“ The noblemen past to the said lieutennentis lugeing, callit Goudayes lugeing, thair to remayne quhill farder
aduertisement come fra the Quene of Ingland.”-Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. 333. Calderwood, who furnishes the list of
noble captives, mentions the Laird of Grange as hrought with others from the Abbey to the Cross for execution. Sir
William Durie, we may presume, declined to be hia gaoler, after his death was determined on.-“ When he aaw the
scaffold prepared at the Croce, the day faire, and the aunne ahping cleere, his countenance waa changed,” &c. The
whole narrative is curious and minute, though too long for inserting here.-Calderwood, vol. iii. p. 284.
Hoyses’ Memoira, p. 63. .

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Leith.] REPULSE OF THE ENGLISH AND SCOTS. I77
Cornelle, Shelly, Littleton, Southworthe, and nine
other officers, with 2,240 men.
To keep the. field (i.~., the Reserve), Captain
Somerset, and eight other captains, with 2,400
men.
?Item ; it is ordered that the Vyce Admyralle
of the Queen?s Majesty?s schippes shall, when a
token is given, send Vc. (500) men out of the
Navye into the haven of Leythe, to give an assaulte
on the side of the towne, at the same instant when
the assaulte shal be gevene on the breche.?
Captain Vaughan was ordered to assault the
town near Mount Pelham, and the Scots on the
westward and seaward.
The assault was not made until the 7th of May,
when it was delivered at seven in the morning on
dead they could find, and suspended the corpses
along the sloping faces of the ramparts, where they
remained for several days. The failure of the
attempted storm did not very materially affect the
blockade. On the contrary, the besiegers still continued
to harass the town by incessant cannonading
from the mounds already formed and others they
erected One of the former, Mount Falcon, must
have been particularly destructive, as its guns swept
the most crowded part of Leith called the Shore,
along which none could pass but at the greatest
hazard of death. Moreover, the English were
barbarously and uselessly cruel. Before burning
Leith mills they murdered in cold blood every
individual found therein.
The close siege had now lasted about two months,
PROSPECT OF LEITH, 1693. (Reduced Facainrilc aftw Grernvillr Coil us.)
four quarters, but, for some reason not given, the
fleet failed to act, and by some change in the plans
Sir James Crofts was ordered, with what was deemed
a sufficient force, to assail the town on the north
side, at the place latterly called the Sand Port,
where at low water an entrance was deemed easy.
For some reason best known to himself Sir James
thought proper to remain aloof during the whole
uproar of the assault, the ladders provided for
which proved too short by half a pike?s length;
thus he was loudly accused of treachery-a charge
which was deemed sufficiently proved when it was
discovered that a few days before he had been seen
in conversation with the Queen Regent, who addressed
him from the walls of Edinburgh Castle.
The whole affair turned out a complete failure,
English and Scots were alike repulse2 r%Ah slaughter,
?and singular as it may appear,? says a writer,
? the success of the garrison was not a little aided
by the exertionsof certain ladies, whom the French,
with their usual gallantry to the fair sex, entertained
in their quarters.? To these fair ones Knox
applies some pretty rough epithets.
The French now made a sally, stripped all the
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without any prospect of a termination, though
Elizabeth continued to send more men and more
ships ; but the garrison were reduced to such dire
extremities that for food they were compelled to
shoot and eat all the horses of the. officers and
gens Zurmes. Yet they endured their privations
with true French sung froid, vowing never to surrender
while a horse was left, <?their officers exhibiting
that politeness in the science of gastronomy
which is recorded of the Margchal Strozzi, whose
maifre de cuisine maintained his master?s table with
twelve covers every day, although he had nothing
better to set upon it now and then except the
quarter of a carrion horse, dressed with the grass
and weeds that grew upon the ramparts.?
The discovery, a few years ago, of an ancient
well filled to its brim with cart-loads of horses?
heads, near the head of the Links, was a singular
but expressive monument of the resolution with
which the town was defended
The unfortunate Queen Regent did not live to
see the end of these affairs. She was sinking
fast. She had contemplated retiring to France,
and had a commission executed at Blois by Francis

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Rase Street.] HUG0 ARNOT. ?59
announced that Bailie Creech, of literary celebrity,
was about to lead Miss Burns of Rose Street ?? to
the hymeneal altar.? In hiswrath, Creech threatened
an action against the editor, whose contradiction
made matters worse :-? In a former number we
noticed the intended marriage between Bailie
Creech of Edinburgh and the beautiful Miss Bums
of the same place. We have now the authority of
that gentleman to say that the proposed marriage
is not to take place, matters having been otherwise
arranged, to the mutual satisfaction of both parties
and their respective friends.? After a few years of
unenviable notoriety, says the editor of *? Kay,?
Miss Burns fell into a decline, and died in 1792 at
Roslin, where a stone in the churchyard records
her name and the date of her demise.
In the same year of this squabble we find a
ball advertised in connection with the now unfashionable
locality of Rose Street, thus :-? Mr.
Sealey (teacher of dancing) begs to acquaint his
friends and the public that his ball is iixed for the
20th of March next, and that in order to accommodate
his scholars in the New Town, he proposes
opening a school in Rose Street, Young?s Land,
opposite to the Physicians? Hall, the 24th of that
month, where he intends to teach on Tuesdays
and Fridays from nine in the morning, and the
remainder of the week at his school in Foulis?s
Close, as formerly.? In 1796 we find among
its residents Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh, Knight, of
South Carolina, whose lady ? was safely delivered
of a son on Wednesday morning (16th March) at
her lodgings in Rose Street.?
Sir Samuel was the second son of Sir Egerton
high, His Majesty?s AttorneyGenerd for South
Carolina, and he died at Edinburgh in the ensuing
January. He had a sister, married to the youngest
brother of Sir Thomas Burnet of Leya
This son, born at Edinburgh in 1796, succeeded
in ISIS to the baronetcy, on the death of his uncle,
Sir Egerton, who married Theodosia (relict of
Captain John Donellan), daughter of Sir Edward,
and sister of Sir Theodosius Edward Boughton,
for the murder of whom by poison the captain was
executed at Warwick in 1781,
It was in Dr. John Brown?s Chapel in Rose
Street, that Robert Pollok, the well-known author
of ?The Course of Time,? who was a licentiate of
the United Secession Church, preached his only
sermon, and soon after ordination he was attacked
by that pulmonary disease of which he died in
1827.
In 1810 No. 82 was ?Mrs. Bruce?s fashionable
boarding-school,? and many persons of the greatest
respectability occupied the common stairs, particularly
to the westward ; and in Thistle Street were
many residents of very good position.
Thus No. z was the house, in 1784, of Sir
John Gordon, Bart. ; and Sir Alexander Don, Bart.,
of Newton Don, lived in No. 4, when Lady Don
Dowager resided in No. 53, George Street (he had
been one of the d h u s in France who were seized
when passing through it during the short peace of
1802), and a Mrs. Colonel Ross occupied No. 17,
Under the name of Hill Street this thoroughfare
is continued westward, between Fredenck Street
and Castle Street, all the houses being ?selfcontained.?
The Right Hon. Charles Hope of
Granton, Lord Justice Clerk, had his chambers in
No. 6 (now writers? offices) in ~808 ; Buchanan of
Auchintorlie lived in No. I I, and Clark of Comrie
in No. 9, now also legal offices. In one of the houses
here resided, and was married in 1822, as mentioned
in Bkrckwoad?s Magazine for that year, Charles
Edward Stuart, styled latterly Count d?Albany
(whose son, the Carlist colonel, married a daughter
of the Earl of Errol), and who, with his brother, John
Sobieski Stuarf attracted much attention in the city
and Scotland generally, between that period and
1847, and of whom various accounts have been
given. They gave themselves out as the grandsons
of Charles Edward Stuart, but were said to be
the sons of a Captain Thomas Allan, R.N., and
grandsons of Admiral John Carter Allan, who died
in 1800.
Seven broad and handsome streets, running south
and north, intersect the great parallelogram of the
New Town. It was at the corner of one of those
streets-but which we are not told-that Robert
Burns first saw, in 1787, Mrs. Graham, so celebrated
for her wonderful beauty, and whose husband
commanded in the Castle of Stirling.
From the summit of the ridge, where each of
these streets cross George Street, are commanded
superb views : on one side the old town, and on
the other the northern New Town, and away to the
hills of Fife and Kinross.
According to ? Peter Williamson?s Directory,?
Hugo Arnot, the historian, had taken up his abode
in the Meuse Lane of South St. Andrew Street
in 1784. His own name was Pollock, but he
changed it to Arnot on succeeding to the estate of
Balcormo, in Fifeshire. In his fifteenth year hC
became afflicted with asthma, and through life was
reduced to the attenuation of a skeleton. Admitted
an advocate in 1772, he ever took a deep interest
in all local matters, and published various essays
thereon, and his exertions in promoting the
improvements then in progress in Edinburgh were
which is now the New Town dispensary. c

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370 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriot?s Hospital
the four blocks at each angle of the quadrangle
are furnished with corbelled turrets, having cupola
roofs and vanes. Each of these is four storeys in
height; the other parts are three.
On the south, opposite the entrance, and facing
Lauriston, is the chapel, 61 feet by 22, neatly fitted
up, and occasioning a projection, surmounted by
a small spJe, which balances the tower on the
north For a long period it remained in a comparatively
unfinished state, when it was fitted up in
what Dr. Steven calls a ?flimsy species of Italian
architecture,? excepting the pulpit and end galleries,
which were a kind of Early English, but meagre in
their details. But forty years ago or so, Mr.
Gillespie Graham, the architect, suggested that the
chapel should be entirely renovated in a style
worthy of the building, and he offered to prepare
the designs gratuitously. This generous offer was
accepted, and it was fitted up in its present
elegant style. It has a handsome pulpit, a richly
adorned ceiling, and many beautiful carvings of oak.
In an architectural point of view this famous
hospital is full of contradictions, but when viewed
from distant points, its turrets, chimneys, and pipnades
stand up against the sky in luxuriant confusion,
yet with singular symmetry, though no two
portions are quite alike. A professional writer
says, ? we know of no other instance in the works
of a man of acknowledged talent, where the operation
of changing styles is so evident. In the chapel
windows, though the outlines are fine Gothic, the
mouldings are Roman. In the eatrance archways,
although the principal members are Roman, the
pinnacles, trusses, and minute sculptures partake
of the Gothic.??
This building has another marked peculiarity,
in the segment of an octagonal tower in frontthat
of the chapel-lighted through its whole extremity
by a succession of Gothic windows divided
by mullions alone, which produce a singularly rich
and pleasing effect.
The hospital is surroundedby a stately and magnificent
balustraded terrace, from which noble flights
of at least twelve steps descend to the ground.
In the wall over the gateway is a statue of
George Heriot, the founder, in the?costume of the
time of James VI. This, the boys on ?? Heriot?s
Day,? the first Monday of June, decorate with
flowers, in honour of their benefactor, of whom
several relics are preserved in the hospital, particularly
his bellows and cup. There is also a portrait
of him, said to be only the copy of an original.
It represents him in the prime of life, with a
calm, thoughtful, and penetrating countenance, and
about the mouth an expression of latent humour.
Heriot?s foundation has continued to flourish
and enjoy a well-deserved fame. (?With an
annual revenue,? says a writer in 1845, ? of nearly AI 5,000, it affords maintenance, clothing, and
education for, also pecuniary presents to, one hundred
and eighty boys, such being all that the house
large as it is, is able conveniently to accommodate.
Instead of increasing the establishment in correspondence
with the extent of the funds, it was suggested
a few years ago, by Mr. Duncan Machen,
one of the governors, to devote an annual ovcrplus
ofabout L3,ooo to the erection and maintenance of
free schools throughout the city, for the education
of poor children, those of poor burgesses being
preferred, and this judicious proposal being forthwith
adopted and sanctioned by an Act of Parliament
(6 and 7 William IV,), there have since
been erected, and are now (1845) in operation, five
juvenile and two infant schools, giving an elementary
education to 2,131 children.? This number
has greatly increased since then.
The management of the hospital is vested in
the Lord Provost, Bailies, and Council of the city,
and the clergy of the Established Church, making
in all fifty-four governors, with a House Governor,
Treasurer, Clerk, Superintendent of Property, Physician,
Surgeon, Apothecary, Dentist, Accountant,
a matron, and a staff of masters.
In 1880 the revenue of the hospital amounted
to &24,000. In it are maintained 180 boys,
of whom 60 are noh-resident. The age of admission
is between 7 and 10 years, though in exceptional
cases, non-residents may be taken at 12. All
leave at 14, unless they pass as ? hopeful scholars.?
They are taught English, French, Latin, Greek, and
all the usual branches of a liberal education, with
music and drawing.
Those who manifest a desire to pursue the
learned professions are sent to the adjacent University,
with an allowance for four sessions of A30
per annum; and apprentices may also receive
bursary allowances to forward them in their trades ;
while ten out-door bursaries, of;t;zo each yearly, are
likewise bestowed on deserving students at college.
On leaving the hospital the ?poore fatherless
boyes, freemen?s sonnes,? as Heriot calls them in
his will, are provided with clothes and suitable
books; and such of them as become apprentices
for five years or upwards, receive A50 divided into
equal annual payments during their term of service,
besides a gratuity of jC;5 at its end. Those who
are apprenticed for a shorter term than five years
receive a correspondingly less allowance.
One master is resident, as is the house governor,
but all the rest are non-resident.

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G d Stuart St~et.1 PROFESSOR AYTOUN. 207
of sixteen feet there spring curves which bend
round into the arms, while between those arms and
the upright shaft are carried four arcs, having a
diameter of six feet.
On each of its main faces the cross is divided
into panels, in which are inserted bronze basreliefs,
worked out, like the whole design, from
drawings by R. Anderson, A.R.S.A. Those occupying
the head and arms of the cross represent the
various stages of our Lord?s Passion, the Resurrection
and the Ascension; in another series of six,
placed thus on either side of the shaft, are set forth
the acts of charity, while the large panels in the
base are filled in with sculptured ornament of the
fine twelfth-century type, taken from Jedburgh
abbey.
Three senators of the College of Justice have
had their abodes in Ainslie Place-Lord Barcaple,
raised to the bench in 1862, Lord Cowan, a judge
of 1851, and George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse,
the brother of Mrs. Dugald Stewart, who resided
in No. 12. This admirable judge was the son of
the Hon. George Cranstoun of Longwarton, and
Miss Brisbane of that ilk. He was originally intended
for the army, but passed as advocate in
1793, and was Dean of Faculty in 1823, and
succeeded to the bench on the death of Lord
Hermand, three years after. He was the author
of the famous Court of Session jeu rFespn2, known
as ?The Diamond Beetle Case,? an amusing and
not overdrawn caricature of the judicial style, manners,
and language, of the judges of a bygone
time.
He took his judicial title from the old ruined
castle of Corehouse, near the Clyde, where he had
built a mansion in the English style. He was an
excellent Greek scholar, and as such was a great
favourite with old Lord Monboddo, who used to
declare that Cranstoun was the only scholar in
all Scotland,? the scholars in his opinion being all
on the south side of the Tweed.
He w& long famed for being the beau-ideal of
a judge; placid and calm, he listened to even
the longest debates with patience, and was an
able lawyer, especially in feudal questions, and
his opinions were always received with the most
profound respect.
Great Stuart Street leads from Ainslie Place
into Randolph Crescent,which faces the Queensfeny
Road, and has in it3 gardens some of the fine old
trees which in former times adorned the Earl of
Moray?s park.
In No. 16 of the former street lived and died,
after his removal from No. I, Inverleith Terrace, the
genial and. patriotic author of the Lays of t h e
.
Scottish Cavaliers,? a Scottish humourist of a very
high class. William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Professor
of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh,
was born in 1813, of a fine old Fifeshire family,
and in the course of his education at one of the
seminaries of his native capital, he became dis
tinguished among his contemporaries for his powers
of Latin and English composition, and won a prize
for a poem on ?( Judith.? In his eighteenth year
he published a volume entitled Poland and other
Poems,? which attracted little attention ; but after
he was called to the bar, in 1840, he became one
of the standing wits of the Law Courts, yet, save
as a counsel in criminal cases, he did not acquire
forensic celebrity as an advocate.
Five years afterwards he was presented to the
chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University,
and became a leading contributor to
Blackwoofls Magazine, in which his famous LL Lays,?
that have run through so many editions, first
appeared. Besides these, he was the author of
many brilliant pieces in the Book of Ballads,? by
Bon Gaultier, a name under which he and Sir
Theodore Martin, then a solicitor in Edinburgh,
contributed to various periodicals.
In April, 1849, he married Jane Emily Wilson,
the youngest daughter of Christopher North,? in
whose class he had been as a student in his early
years, a delicate and pretty little woman, who predeceased
him. In the summer of 1853 he delivered
a series of lectures on ?Poetry and Dramatic
Literature,? in Willis?s Rooms, to such large and
fashionable audiences as London alone can produce
; and to his pen is ascribed the mock-heroic
tragedy of Firrnilian,? designed to ridicule, as it
did, the rising poets of ?? The Spasmodic School.?
With all his brilliance as a humourist, Aytoun was
unsuccessful as a novelist, and his epic poem
?Bothaell,? written in 16 Great Stuart Street, did
not bring him any accession of fame.
In his latter years, few writers on the Conservative
side rendered more effective service to their
party than Professor Aytoun, whom, in 1852, Lord
Derby rewarded With the offices of Sheriff and
Vice-Admiral of Orkney.
Among the many interesting people who frequented
the house of the author of ?The Lays?
few were more striking than an old lady of
strong Jacobite sentiments, even in this prosaic
age, Miss Clementina Stirling Graham, of Duntrune,
well worthy of notice here, remarkable for her
historical connections as for her great age, as she
died in her ninety-fifth year, at Duntrune, in 1877.
Born in the Seagate of Dundee, in 1782, she was
the daughter of Stirling of Pittendreich, Forfar

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59 -- Edinburgh Castle. THE EARL OF ARGYLE
which he received the sentence of death. His
guards in the Castle were doubled, while additional
troops were marched into the city to enforce order.
He despatched a messenger to Charles 11. seeking
mercy, but the warrant had been hastened. At
six in the evening of the 20th December he was
informed that next day at noon he would be conveyed
to the city prison ; but by seven o?clock he
had conceived-like his father-a plan to escape.
. Lady Sophia Lindsay (of Balcarres), wife of his
son Charles, had come to bid him a last farewell ; on
her departure he assumed the disguise and office
of her lackey, and came forth from his prism at
eight, bearing up her long train. A thick fall of
snow and the gloom of the December evening
rendered the attempt successful ; but at the outer
gate the sentinel roughly grasped his arm. In
agitation the earl dropped the train of Lady Sophia,
who, with singular presence of mind, fairly slapped
his face with it, and thereby smearing his features
with half-frozen mud, exclaimed, ?Thou careless
loon ! ??
Laughing at this, the soldier permitted them to
pass. Lady Sophia entered her coach; the earl
sprang on the footboard behind, and was rapidly
driven from the fatal gate. Disguising himself completely,
he left Edinburgh, and reached Holland,
then the focus for all the discontented spirits in
Britaia. Lady Sophia was committed to the
Tolbooth, but was not otherwise punished. After
remaining four years in Holland, he returned, and
attempted a3 insurrection in the. west against
King Jarnes, in unison with that of Monmouth in
England, but was irretrievably defeated at Mu&-
dykes.
Attired like a peasant, disguised by a long beard,
he was discovered and overpowered by three
militiamen, near Paisley. ? Alas, alas, unfortunate
Argyle ! he exclaimed, as they struck him down j
then an officer, Lieutenant Shaw (of the house 01
Greenock), ordered him to be bound hand and fool
and sent to Edinburgh, where, by order of the
Secret Council, he was ignominiously conducted
through the streets with his hands corded behind
him, bareheaded, escorted by the horse guards, and
preceded by the hangman to the Castle, where, foi
a third time, he was thrust into his old chamber.
On the day he was to die he despatched the fol.
lowing note to his son. It is preserved in the
Salton Charter chest :-
? Edr. Castle, 30th June, ?85.
? DEARE JAMES,-hrn to fear God ; it k the only wag
Love and respecl
I am
to make you happie here and herealter.
my wife, and hearken to her advice.
your loving father, ABGY LE
The Lord bless
The last day of his life this unfortunate noble
passed pleasantly and sweetly ; he dined heartily,
and, retiring to a closet, lay down to sleep ere the
fatal hour came. At this time one of the Privy
Council arrived, and insisted on entering. The door
was gently opened, and there lay the great Argyle
in his heavy irons, sleeping the placid sleep of
infancy.
The conscience of the aenegade smote him,?
says Macaulay; ??he turnea kck at heart, ran
out of the Castle, and took tefuge in the dwelling
of a lady who lived hard by. There he flung
himself on a couch, and gave himself up to an
agony of renwrse and shame. His kinswoman,
alarmed by his looks and groans, thought he had
been taken with sudden illness, and begged him to
drink a cup of sack. ?Na, no,? said he, ?it will
do me no good? Sheprayed him to tell what had
disturbed him ? I have been,? he said, ? in hgyle?s
prison 1 have seen him within an hour of eternity
sleeping as sweetlyas ever man did. But as for
m-1,-
At noon on the 30th June, 1685, he was escorted
to the market aoss to be ?beheaded and have
his head affixed to the Tolbooth on a high pin
of iron.? When he saw the old Scottish guillo- .
tine, under the terrible square knife of which his
father, and so many since the days d Morton, had
perished, he saluted it with his lips, saying, ?( It is
the sweetest maiden I have ever kissed.? ?My
lord dies a Protestant !? cried a clergyman aloud
to the assembled t!iousands. Yes,? said the. Earl,
stepping forward, ? and not only a Protestant, but
with a heart-hatred of Popery, Prelacy, and all superstition.?
k e made a brief address to the people,
laid his head between the grooves of the guillotine,
and died with equal courage and composure. His
head was placed on the Tolbooth gable, and his
body was ultimately sent to the burial-place of his
family, Kilmun, on the shore of the Holy Loch in
Argyle.
While this mournful tragedy was being enacted
his countess and family were detained prisoners in
the Castle, wherein daily were placed fresh victims
who were captured in the West. Among these
were Richard Rumbold, a gentleman of Hertfordshire,
who bore a colonel?s commission under
Argyle (and had planted the standard of revolt
on the Castle of Ardkinglass), and Mr. William
Spence, styled his ? servitour.?
Both were treated with temble seventy, especially
Rumbold. In a cart, bareheaded, and heavily
manacled, he was conveyed from the Water Gate
to the Castle, escorted by Graham?s City Guard,
with drums beating, and on the 28th of June he

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348 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGN.
is on the west side of the square, No. 25, and there the lively and curious boy grew up to
manhood under the kindly surveillance of the good old pair. The little back room still
remains, ‘( That early den,” with the young antiquary’s beginnings of the future Abbotsford
collection, described so piquantly in Lockhart’s life of him, by the pen of a female
friend ; and where Lord Jeffrey found him on his first visit, long years ago, “ surrounded
with dingy books.’’ Though shorn of all the strange relics that young Walter Scott
gathered there, it possesses one valuable memento of the boy. On one of the window
panes his name is still seen, inscribed with.a diamond in a school-boy hand; and other
panes of glass, which contained juvenile verses traced in the same durable manner, have
been removed to augment the treasures of modern collectors. On the east side of George
Square lies Windmill Street, the name of which preserves the record of an earlier period
when a windmill occupied its site, and raised the water from the Borough Loch to supply
the brewers of the Society. The Incorporation of Brewers has long been dissolved, and
the Borough Loch now forms the rich pasturage and the shady walks of the Meadows ;
while along its once marshy margin has since been built Buccleuch Place, where the
exclusive faRhionable5 of the southern district long maintained their own ball-room and
assemblies.
The impossibility of converting this pendicle of the Borough Nuir to any useful purpose
as private property, while it continued in its original state as a Loch, fortunately
prevented its alienation, while nearly every other portion of the valuable tract of land that
once belonged to the borough passed into private hands. At the western extremity of
the Borough Muir, the venerable tower of Merchiston still stands entire, the birth-place
of John Napier, the inventor of the Logarithms, to whom, according to Hume, the title
of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced.
The ancestors of the great Scottish philosopher were intimately connected with Edinburgh.
The three first Napiers of Nerchiston successively filled the office of provost in
the reigns of James 11. and III., and other connections of the family rose to the same
civic dignity. Their illustrious descendant was born at Merchiston Castle in the year
1550, on the eve of memorable changes whereof even the reserved and modest student
had to bear his share. The old fortalice of Merchiston, reared at an easy distance from
the Scottish capital, lay in the very field of strife. Round its walls the Douglas wars raged
for years, and the most striking incidents of the philosopher’s early life intermingle with
the carnage of that merciless feud. On the 2d of April 1572, he was betrothed to Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir, and on the 5th of the following month,
“ The cumpany of Edinburgh pad furth and seigit Merchingstoun ; quha wan all the
pairtis thairof except the dungeoun, in the quhilk wes certane suddartis in Leith; the
hail1 houssis wes spoulzeit and brunt, to haue amokit the men of the dungeoun out ; but
the cuntrie seand the fyre, raise with the pover of Leith and put the men of Edinburgh
thairfra without slauchter, bot syndrie hurt.” The keep of Merchiston formed, indeed, the
key of the south approach to the capital, so that whoever triumphed it became the butt of
their opponents’ enmity. It lay near enough to be bombarded from the Castle walls by
Sir William Kirkaldy, though a cousin of its owner, because ~omoef the king’s men held
it for a time, and intercepted the provisions coming to the town. Again and again were the
1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 295.

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George Street.] THE BLACKWOODS. I39
CHAP,TER XIX.
GEORGE STREET.
Major Andrew Faser-The Father of Miss Femer-Grant of Kilgraston-William Blackwoad and his Magazine-The Mother of Sir Waltn
Scott-Sir John Hay, Banker-Colquhoun of Killermont-Mrs. Murray of Henderland-The Houses of Sir J. W. Gomon, Sir Jam-
Hall. and Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster-St. Andrew's Church-Scene of the Disruption-Physicians' Hall-Glance at the Histcry of thecollege
of Physicians-Sold and Removed-The Commercial Bank-Its Constitution-Assembly Rooms-Rules of 17+Banquet to Black
Watch-" The Author of Waverley"-The Music Hall-The New Union Bank-Its Formation, &c.-The Mlasonic Hall-Watsoa'E
Pictureof Bums-Statues of George IV., Pitt, and Chalmers. .
PREVIOUS to the brilliant streets and squares
erected in the northern and western portions of
new Edinburgh, George Street was said to have no
rival in the world ; and even yet, after having undergone
many changes, for combined length, space,
uniformity, and magnificence of vista, whether
viewed from the east or west, it may well be
pronounced unparalleled. Straight as an arrow
flies, it is like its sister streets, but is 1x5 feet
broad. Here a great fossil tree was found in 1852.
A portion of the street on the south side, near
the west end, long bore the name of the Tontine,
and owing to some legal dispute, which left the
houses there mfinished, they were occupied as
infantry barracks during the war with France.
Nos. 3 and 5 (the latter once the residence of
Major Andrew Fraser and cf William Creech the
eminent bookseller) forni the office of the Standard
Life Assurance Company, in the tympanum of
which, over four fine Corinthian pilasters, is a
sculptured group from the chisel of Sir John Steel,
representing the parable of the Ten Virgins. In
George Street are about thirty different insurance
offices, or their branches, all more or less ornate
in architecture, and several banks.
In No. 19, on the same side, is the Caledonian,
the oldest Scottish insurance company (having
been founded in June, 1805). Previously the
office had been in Bank Street. A royal charter
was granted to the company in May, 1810, and
twenty-three years afterwards the business of life
assurance was added to that of fire insurance.
No. 25 George Street was the residence (from
1784 till his death, in 18zg), of Mr. James Ferrier,
Principal Clerk of Session, and father of Miss
Susan Ferrier, the authoress of " Marriage," &c.
He was a keen whist player, and every night of his
life had a rubber, which occasionally included Lady
Augusta Clavering, daughter of his friend and client
John, fifth Duke of Argyll, and old Dr. Hamilton,
usually designated " Cocked Hat " Hamilton, from
the fact of his being one of the last in Edinburgh
who bore that head-piece. When victorious, he
wcdd snap his fingers and caper about the room,
to tbe manifest indignation of Mr. Ferrier, who
would express it to his partner in the words, "Lady
Augusta, did you ever see such rediculous leevity
in an auld man 7 " Robert Burns used also to be
a guest at No. 25, and was prescnt on one occasion
when some magnificent Gobelins tapestry arrived
there for the Duke of Argyll on its way to Inverary
Castle. Mrs. Piozzi also, when in Edinburgh, dined
there. Next door lived the Misses Edmonstone,
of the Duntreath family, and with them pitched
battles at whist were of frequent nightly occurrence.
These old ladies figure in " Marriage " as
Aunts Jacky, Grizzy, and Nicky; they were grandnieces
of the fourth Duke of Argyll. The eldest
Miss Ferrier was one of the Edinburgh beauties in
her day ; and Bums once happening to meet her,
while turning the corner of George Street, felt suddenly
inspired, and wrote the lines to her enclosed
in an elegy on the death of Sir D. H. Hair. Miss
Ferrier and Miss Penelope, Macdonald of Clanronald,
were rival belles ; the former married
General Graham ot Stirling Castle, the latter Lord
Belhaven.
In No. 32 dwelt Francis Grant of Kilgraston,
father of Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal
Academy, born in 1803 ; and No. 35, now a shop,
was the town house of the Hairs of Balthayock, in
Perthshire.
No. 45 has long been famous as the establishment
of Messrs. Blackwood, the eminent publishers.
William Blackwood, the founder of the magazine
which stills bears his name, and on the model of
which so many high-class periodicals have been
started in the sister kingdom, was born at Edinburgh
in 1776, and after being apprenticed to the
ancient bookselling firni of Bell and Bradfute, and
engaging in various connections with other bibliopoles,
in 1804 he commenced as a dealer in old
books on the South Bridge, in No. 64, but soon
after became agent for several London publishing
houses. In 1S16 he disposed of his vast stock of
classical and antiquarian books, I 5,000 volumes in
number, and removing to No. 17 Princes Street,
thenceforward devoted his energies to the business
of a-general publisher, and No. 17 is to this day a
bookseller's shop.

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146 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Portoklla
Portobello once belonged, Mr. James Cunningham,
W.S., one of the earliest feuars there, procured the
piece of ground to the westward, whereon he
erected, in the first years of the present century,
the eccentric and incongruous edifice named the
Tower, the window-lintels and cornices of which
were formed of carved stones found in the houses
that were pulled down to make way for the South
Bridge, from the cross of the city, and even from
the cathedral of St. Andrews. For many years
it remained an unfinished and open ruin.
The editor of Kay tells us that Mr.Jamieson,
to whom this locality owes so much, was also contractor
for making the city drains, at an estimate
of LIO,OOO. The rubbish from the excavations was
to be carted to Portobello free of toll at Jock?s
Lodge, as the bar belonged to the Towh Council.
The tollman, insisting on his regular dues, closed
the gate, on which Mr. Jamieson said to the carters,
?? Weel, weel, just coup the carts against the tollbar,?
which was done more than once, to the inconceivable
annoyance of the keeper, who never after
refused the carters the right of free passage.
Portobello, in spite of its name, is no seaport,
and neither has, nor probably ever will have, any
seaward trade. At the mouth of the Figgate Bum a
small harbour was constructed by the enterprising
Mr. Jamieson after his discovery of the clay bed ;
but it was never of any use except for boats. It
became completely ruinous, together with a little
battery that formed a portion of it ; and now their
vestiges can scarcely be traced.
The manufactures, which? consist of brick, lead,
glass, and soap works, and a mustard manufactory,
are of some importance, and employ many hauds,
whose numbers are always varying. Communication
with Princes Street is maintained incessantly
by trains and tramway cars.
On the sands here, in 1822, George IV. reviewed
a great body of Scottish yeomanry cavalry, and a
picturesque force of Highland clans that had come
to Edinburgh in honour of his visit. On the mole
of the little harbour-now vanished-the royal
standard was hoisted, and a battery of guns posted
to fire a royal salute.
On that day, the 23rd of August, the cavalry
were the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the Glasgow Volunteer
Horse, the Peebles, Selkirkshire, Fifeshire,
Berwickshire, East and West Eothian, Midlothian,
and Roxburgh Regiments of Yeomanry, with the
Scots Greys, under the veteran Sir James Stewart
Denholm of Coltness, latterly known as ? the father
of the British army.?
The whole, under Sir Thomas Bradford, formed
a long and magnificent line upon the vast expanse
ofyeliow sands, with the broad blue Firth, Prestos
Bay, and Berwick Law as a background to the
scene, and all under a glorious sunshine. The
King more than once exclaimed, ? This is a fine
sight, Dorset ! ? to the duke of that name, as his
open carriage traversed it, surrounded by a glittering
staff, and amid the acclamations of a mighty
throng. .After the march past and salute, His
Majesty expressed a desire to see the Highlanders ;
and the Duke of Argyle, who commanded them,
formed them in open column, Sir Walter Scott
acting as adjutant-general of the ?Tartan Con- ?
fderacy,? as it was named.
The variety of the tartans, arms, and badges on
this occasion is described as making the display
?? superb, yet half barbaric,? especially as regarded
the Celtic Society, no two of whom were alike,
though their weapons and ornaments were all
magnificent, being all gentlemen of good position.
The clans, of course, were uniform in their own
various tartans.
The Earl of Breadalbane led the Campbells of
his sept, each man having a great badge on his
right arm. Stewart of Ardvoirlich and Graham of
Airth marched next with the Strathfillan Highlanders.
After them came the Macgregors, all in
red tartans, with tufts of pine in their bonnets, led
by Sir Evan Macgregor of that ilk ; then followed
Glengany, with his men, among whom was his tall
and stately brother, Colonel Macdonnel, whose
powerful hand had closed the gate of Hougomont,
all carrying, in addition to targets, claymores, dirks,
and pistols, like the rest, antique muskets of extraordinary
length. The Sutherland Highlanders wore
trews and shoulder plaids. The Drumrnonds, sent
by Lady Gwydir, marched with sprigs of holly in
their bonnets. ?TO these were to have marched
the clans under the Dukes of Athole and Gordon,
Macleod of Macleod, the Earl of Fife, Farquharson
of Invercauld, Clanranald, and other high
chiefs; but it was thought that their numbers
would occasion inconvenience.?
The King surveyed this unusual exhibition with
surprise and pleasure, and drove off to Dalkeith
House under an escort of the Greys, while the
Highlanders returned to Edinburgh, Argyle marching
on foot at the head of the column with his claymore
on his shoulder.
In 1834 Portobello, which quoad CiZliZia belongs
to the parish of Duddingston, was separated from
it by order of the General Assembly.
ceding year, by an Act of William IV., it had been
created a Parliamentary burgh, and is governed Ly
a Provost, two bailies, seven councillors, and other
officials In conjunction with Leith and Musselg
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302 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd.
In 1650 it was used as a hospital for the wounded
soldiers of General Leslie?s army, after his repulse
of Cromwell?s attack on Edinburgh. The building
was decorated with the city arms, and many carved
devices on the pediments of its dormer windows,
while above the doorway was the legend-GoD .
BLIS . THIS. WARK . 1619.
In February, 1696, Fountainhall reports a
?? Reduction pursued by the town of Edinburgh
against Sir William Binny (ex-Provost) and other
partners of the linen manufactory, in Paul?s Work,
of the tack set them in 1683. Insisted, that
this house was founded by Thos. Spence, Bishop
of Aberdeen, in the reign of James II., for discipline
acd training of idle vagabonds, and dedicated
to St. Paul; and by an Act of Council in 1626,
was destinate and mortified for educating boys in a
woollen manufactory ; and this tack had inverted
the original design, contrary to the sixth Act of
Parl. I 633, discharging the sacrilegious inversion of
all pious donations.? Sir William Binny, Knight,
was Provost of the city in 1675-6. It bearsa prominent
place in Rothiemay?s map, and stood partly
within the Leith Wynd Port. In 1779 it was occupied
by a Mr. Macdowal, ?the present proprietor,?
says Arnot, ?who carries on in it an extensive
manufacture of broad cloths, hardly inferior to the
English.? The whole edifice was swept away by
the operations of the North British Railway; and
two very ancient keys found on its site were
presented in 1849 to the Museum of Antiquities.
It was?at the foot of this wynd that, in February,
1592, John Graham, a Lord of Session, was slain
in open day, by Sir James Sandilands of Calder,
and others, not one of whom was ever tried or
punished for the outrage.
By an Act of the seventh Parliament of James
V., passed in 1540, the magistrates were ordained
to warn all proprietors of houses on the west side
of Leith Wynd that were ruinous, to repair or rebuild
them within a year and a day, or to sell the
property to those who could do so; and if no one
would buy them, it was lawful for the said magistrates
to cast down the buildings, ?and with the
stuffe and stanes thereof, bigge ane honest substantious
wall, fra the Porte of the Nether-bowto
the Trinity College ; and it shall not be lawful in
tyme cumming, to any manner of person to persew
them, nor their successoures therefore. . . . . And
because the east side of the said wynd pertains to
the Abbot and Convente of Holyrude House, it is
ordained that the baillies of the Canongate garre
siklike be done upon the said east side,? &c.
The line ot this wall on the west side is distinctly
.
shown in Rothiemay?s map of 1647, and also in
Edgar?s plan of Edinburgh. In both the east side
presents a row of closely-built houses, extending
from the head of the Canongate to the site of the
Leith Wynd Port, at Paul?s Work.
In January, 1650, ?John Wilsone, tailyour, in
St. Marie Wynd, and John Sinclere, dag-maker
(i.e., pistol-maker) in Leith FTynd,? were punished
as false witnesses, in a plea between James Anderson,
merchant in Calder, and John Rob in Easter
Duddingston, for which they were sentenced by the
Lords in Council and Session to be set upon the
Tron, with a placard announcing their crime to the
people pinned on the breast of each, and to have
thair eares nailed to the Trone, be the space of
ane hour.?
On the Leith Wynd Port, as on others, the
quarters of criminals were displayed. In September,
1672, the Depute of Gilbert Earl of
Errol (High Constable of Scotland) sentenced
James Johnstone, violer, who had stabbed his wife,
to be hanged, ?? and to have his right hand, which
gave the stroak, cut off, and affixed upon Leithwind
Port, and ordained the magistrats of Edinburgh
to cause put the sentence to execution upon
the 9th of that month.?
In February, 1854, the wall of James the Fifth?s
time, on the west side of the wynd gave way, and
a vast portion of it, which was about twenty feet
high and four feet thick, fell with a dreadful crash,
smashing in the doors and windows on the oppm
site side, and blocking the whole of the steep
narrow thoroughfare, and burying in its dibris four
children, two of whom were killed on the instant.
and two frightfully mangled.
Its fall was supposed to have been occasioned
by a new wall, seven feet in height, raised upon
its outer verge, to form the outer platform in front
of a building known as St. Andrew?s Hall, and
afterwards the Training Institute of the Scottish
Episcopal Society.
As St. Mary?s Street, which lies in a line with
this wynd, is in a direct line also from the Pleasance,
to render the whole thoroughfare more completely
available, it was deemed necessary by the
Improvement Trustees to make alterations in Leith
Wynd, by forming Jeffrey Street, which takes a,
semccircular sweep, from the head of the Canongate
behind John Knox?s house and church,
onwards to the southern end of the North Bridge.
Thus the whole of the west side of Leith Wynd
and its south end have disappeared in these operations.
One large tenement of great antiquity, and
known as the cc Happy Land,? long the haunt of
the most lawless characters, has disappeared, and

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310 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Arthur?s L t .
General Robert Skene, the Adjutant-General there,
summoned all the troops they could collect to
attack ? the wild Macraas,? and next day the I Ith
Dragoons, under Colonel Ralph Dundas, zoo of
the Fencible Regiment ofHenry Duke of Buccleuch,
and 400 of the Royal Glasgow Regiment of Volunteers,
or old 83rC Foot, commanded by Colonel
Alexander Fotheringham Ogilvie, all marched into
Edinburgh, and were deemed sufficient to storm
Arthur?s Seat.
On that day the Earl of Dunmore, Duncan Lord
Macdonald and General Oughton, visited the revolters,
who received them with military honours,
while they ceased not to inveigh against their officers,
whom they accused of peculation, and of having
basely sold them to the India Company.
In their ranks at this time there was an unfortunate
fellow named Charles Salmon, who had been
born in Edinburgh about 1745, and had filled a
subordinate position in the Canongate theatre,
after being in the service of Ruddiman the printer.
He was a companion of the poet Fergusson, and
became a local poet of some note himself, He
was laureate of the Jacobite Club, and author of
many Jacobite songs; but his irregular habits
led to his enlistment in the Seaforth Highland
Regiment.
His superior education and address now pointed
him out as a fit person to manage for his comrades
the negotiations which ultimately led to a peaceful
sequel to the dispute ; but after the corps went to
India poor Stmayf Salmon, as he called himself,
was heard of no more. On the 29th of September
this revolt, which promised to have so tragic an
end, was satisfactorily adjusted by the temperate
prudence of the Duke of Buccleuch and others.
The Earl of Dunmore again visited the revolters,
presented them with a bond containing a pardon,
and promise of all arrears of pay. They then
formed in column by sections of threes, and with
the Earl and the pipers at their head,they descended
by the Hunter?s Bog to the Palace Yard, where they
gave Sir Adolphus Oughton three cheers, and threw
all their bonnets in the air. He then formed them
in hollow square, and addressed them briefly, but
earnestly exhorting them to behave well and
obediently. On that night they all sailed from
Leith to Guernsey, from whence they were soon aftei
despatched toIndia-a fatal voyage to the poor 78th,
for Lord Seaforth died ere St. Helena was in sight,
then a great grief, with the maC du pays, fell upon
his clansmen, and of 1,100 who sailed from Ports.
mouth, 230 perished at sea, and only 390 were able
to any arms, when, in April 1782, they began the
march for Chingleput.
In 1783 an eccentric named Dr. James Graham,
then lecturing in Edinburgh, in Carrubbeis Close
chiefly, the projector of a Temple of Health, and a
man who made some noise in his time as a species
of talented quack, who asserted that our diseases
were chiefly caused by too much heat, and who
wore no woollen clothes, and slept on a bare
mattress with all his windows open, was actually in
terms with the tacksman of the King?s Park for
liberty to build a huge house on the summit of
Arthur?s Seat, in order to try how far the utmost
degree of cold in the locality of Edinburgh could
be borne ; but, fortunately, he was not permitted
to test his cool regimen to such an extent.
Two localities near Arthur?s Seat, invariably
pointed out to tourists, are Muschat?s Cairn, and
the supposed site of Davie Deans? cottage, where
an old one answering the description of Scott still
overlooks the deep grassy and long sequestered dell,
where gallants of past times were wont to discuss
points of honour with the sword, and where Butler,
on his way to visit Jeanie, encounters Effie?s lover,
and receives the message to convey to the former
to meet him at Muschat?s Cairn ? when the moon
rises.?
Muschat?s Cairn, a pile of stones adjacent to
the Duke?s Walk, long marked the spot where
Nicol Muschat of Boghall, a surgeon, a debauched
and profligate wretch, murdered his wife in 1720.
On arraignment he pled guilty, and his declaration
is one of the most horrible tissues of crime imaginable.
He mamed his wife, whose name was Hall,
after an acquaintance of three weeks, and, soon
tiring of her, he with three other miscreants, his
aiders and abettors in schemes which we cannot
record, resolved to get rid of her. At one time it
was proposed to murder the hapless young woman
as she was going down Dickson?s Close, for which
the perpetrators were to have twenty guineas.
Through Campbell of Burnbank, then storekeeper
in Edinburgh Castle, one of his profligate friends,
Muschat hoped to free himself of his wife by a
divorce, and an obligation was passed between
them in November, 1719, whereby a claim of
Burnbank, for an old debt of go0 merks, was to be
paid by Muschat, as soon as the former should be
able to furnish evidence to criminate the wife.
This scheme failing, Burnbank then suggested
poison, which James Muschat and his wife, a
couple in poor circumstances undertook to administer,
and several doses were given, but in vain.
The project for criminating the victim was revived
again, but also without effect.
Then it was that James undertook to kill her in
nickson?s Close, but this plan too failed. These

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9d OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Castle HX
one going plump down a vent they set up a shout
of joy. Sir David laughed, and entreated the
father of the lads ?? not to be too angry ; he and
his brother,? he added with some emotion, ?when
CANNON BALL IN WALL OF nowE IN CASTLE KILL.
living here at the same age, had indulged in precisely
the same amusement, the chimneys then, as
now, being so provokingly open to attacks, that
there was no resisting the temptation.? From
the Bairds of Newbyth the house passed to the
Browns of Greenbank, and from them, Brown?s
Close, where the modern entrance to it is situated,
On the same side of the street Webster?s Close
served to indicate the site of the house of Dr.
Alexander Webster, appointed in 1737 to the
Tolbooth church.. In his day one of the most
popular men in the city, he was celebrated for his
wit and socid qualities, and amusing stories are
still told of his fondness for claret With the a s
sistance of Dr. Wallace he matured his favourite
scheme of a perpetual fund for the relief of
widows and children of the clergy of the Scottish
Church; and when, in 1745, Edinburgh was in
possession of the Jacobite clans, he displayed a
striking proof of his fearless character by employing
all his eloquence and influence to retain the
people in their loyalty to the house of Hanover.
He had some pretension to the character of a poet,
2nd an amatory piece of his has been said to rival
-the effusions of Catullus. It was written in allusion
to his mamage with Mary Erskine. There is
one wonderfully impassioned verse, in which, after
describing a process of the imagination, by which
?he comes to think his innamarata a creature of more
. derives its name.
than mortal purity, he says that at length he clasps
her to his bosom and discovers that she is but a
woman after all !
?? When I see thee, I love thee, but hearing adore,
I wonder and think you a woman no more,
Till mad with admiring, I cannot contain,
And, kissing those lips, find you woman again ! ?
He died in January, 1784.
Eastward of this point stands a very handsome
old tenement of great size and breadth, presenting
a front of polished ashlar to the street, surmounted
by dormer windows. Over the main entrance to
Boswell?s Court (so named from a doctor who resided
there about the close of the last century)
there is a shield, and one of those pious legends
so peculiar to most old houses in Scottish burghs.
0. LORD. IN. THE. IS. AL. MI. TRAIST. Andthis
edifice uncorroborated tradition asserts to have
been the mansion of the. Earls of Bothwell.
A tall narrow tenement immediately to the west
of the Assembly Hall forms the last ancient building
on the south side of the street. It was built in
1740, by hfowbray of Castlewan, on the site of ?
a venerable mansion belonging to the Countess
Dowager of Hyndford (Elizabeth daughter of
John Earl of Lauderdale), and from him it passed,
about 1747, into the possession of William Earl of
Dumfries, who served in the Scots Greys and Scots
Guards, who was an aide de camp at the battle of
Dettingen, and who succeeded his mother, Penelope,
countess in her own right, and afterwards, by the
death of his brother, as Earl of Stair. He was succeeded
in it by his widow, who, within exactly a
year and day of his death, married the Hon.
Alexander Gordon (son of the Earl of Aberdeen),
who, on his appointment to the bench in 1784,
assumed the title of Lord Rockville.
He was the last man of rank who inhabited this
stately uld mansion ; but the narrow alley which
gives?access to the court behind bore the name
of Rockville Close. Within it, and towards the
west there towered a tall substantial edifice once
the residence of the Countess of Hyndford, and
sold by her, in 1740, to Henry Bothwell of Glencome,
last Lord Holyroodhouse, who died at his
mansion in the Canongate in 1755.
The corner of the street is now terminated by
the magnificent hall built in 1842.3, at the cost
of &16,000 for the accommodation of the General
Assembly, which sits here annually in May, presided
over by a Commissioner, who is always a
Scottish nobleman, and resides in Holyrood Palace,
where he holds royal state, and gives levCes in the
gallery of the kings of Scotland. The octagonal

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Holyrood.] ROYAT, MARRIAGES. 55
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.
Daily a small allowance of bread and water were
placed before him, but he abstained from both for

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