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302 OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [Newhaven.
began in the Firth of Forth, and it is not very
creditable to the vigilance of the fishermen of Fife,
Newhaven, and elsewhere, that this great fund of
wealth was not developed earlier, as when the
herrings left the shore near the mouth of the Firth
it was supposed they had taken their departure
to other waters, and no attempts were made to
seek them farther up the estuary.
The discovery was made accidentally by Thomas
Brown, near Donnibristle, who had been for years
wont to fish with hook and line for haddocks and
podlies, near the shore, and who found the
herrings in such numbers that he took them up in
buckets. In 1793 the fishermen of the Queensfeny
began to set their nets with a result that astonished
them, though twenty years before it had been reported
to them in vain that when the mainsail of
a vessel fell overboard in Inverkeithing Bay, and
was hauled in, it was found to be full of herrings.
The success of the Queensferry boats excited attention
generally, and this fisheryhas been followedwith
perseverance and good fortune, not only by the
fishermen of Fife and Lothian, but of all the east
coast of Scotland.
During the old war with France the patriotism
of the Newhaven fishenhen was prominent on
more than one occasion, and they were among
the first to offer their services as a marine force
to guard their native coast against the enemy.
So much was this appreciated that the President
of the ? Newhaven Free Fishermen?s Society,?
instituted, it is said, by a charter of James VI.,
was presented with a handsome silver medal and
chain by the Duke of Buccleuch, in presence
of several county gentlemen. On one side this
medal, which is still preserved at Newhaven,
bears the inscription :-?: In testimony of the
brave and patriotic offer of the fishermen of Newhaven
to defend the coast against the enemy,
this mark of approbation was voted by the county
of Midlothian, November znd, 1796.?? On the
reverse is the thistle, with the national motto, and
the legend Agminc Remorum CeZeri.
The medal the box-master wears, in virtue of his
office, when the Society has its annual procession
through Leith, Edinburgh, Granton, and Trinity.
This body is very exclusive, no strangers or others
than lawful descendants of members inheriting
the privileges of membership-a distinguishing
feature that has endured for ages. The Society is
governed by a preses, a box-master, sec?retary, and
fifteen of a committee, who all change office
annually, except the secretary.
Their offer of service in 1796 shows that they
were ready to fight ? on board of any gunboat or
vessel of war that Government might appoint,?
between the Red Head of Angus and St Abb?s
Head, ?and to go farther if necessity urges?
This offer bears the names of fifty-nine fishermen
-names familiar to Newhaven in the present day.
In the January of the following year the Lord
Provost and magistrates proceeded to Newhaven
and presented the fishermen with a handsome
stand of colours in testimony of their loyalty, after
a suitable prayer by the venerable Dr, Johnston, of
North Leith.
Formed now into Sea Fencibles, besides keeping
watch and ward upon the coast, in 1806 two
hundred of them volunteered to man the TexeZ,
sixty-four guns, under Captain Donald Campbell,
and proceeding to sea from Leith Roads, gave
chase to some French frigates, by which the coast
of Scotland had been infested, and which inflicted
depredations on our shipping. For this service
these men were presented by the city of Edinburgh
with the rather paltry gratuity of Az50. An
autograph letter of George III., expressing his satisfaction
at their loyalty, was long preserved by the
Society, but is now lost.
With the TkxeZ, in 1807, they captured the
French frigate Neyda, and took her as a prize into
Yarmouth Roads, after which they came home to
Newhaven with great ZcZat; and for years afterwards
it was the pride of many of these old salts,
who are now sleeping near the ruined wall of Our
Lady?s and St. James?s Chapel, to recur to the
days ? when I was aboard the Ted.,?
It was an ancient practice of the magistrates of
Edinburgh, by way of denoting the jurisdiction of
the city, in virtue of the charter of James IV.,
to proceed yearly to Newhaven, and drink wine in
the open space called the square.
When a dreadful storm visited the shores of the
Firth, in October, 1797, the storm bulwark at
Newhaven, eastward of the Leith battery, was completely
torn away, and large boulders were ?rolled
towards the shore, many of them split,? says the
Herald, ?as if they had been blown up by gunpowder.?
The road between Newhaven and Trinity with
its sea-wall was totally destroyed. A brig laden with
hemp and iron for Deptford Yard, was flung
on shore, near Trinity Lodge. This must have
been rather an ill-fated craft, as the same journal
states that she had recently been re-captured by
H.M.S. Cobour- in the North Sea, after having
been taken by the French frigate, R@ubZicailu.
Another vessel was blown on shore near Caroline
Park, and the Lord Hood, letter of marque, was)
warped off, with assistance from Newhaven.

... OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [Newhaven. began in the Firth of Forth, and it is not very creditable to the ...

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Great King Street1 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. 195
Royal Circus, was built in 1820, and in the following
year it was proposed to erect at the west
end of it an equestrian statue to the memory of
George III., for which subscription lists had been
opened, but the project was never carried out.
In Great King Street have resided, respectively
in Nos. 3, 16, and 72, three men who are of mark
and fame-Sir Robert Christison, Sir William
Hamilton, and Sir William Allan.
When the future baronet occupied No. 3, he
was Doctor Christison, and Professor of medical
jurisprudence. Born in June, 1797, and son of the
late Alexander Christison, Professor of Humanity
in the University of Edinburgh, he became a student
there in 1811, and passed with brilliance through
the literary and medical curriculum, and after
graduating in 1819, he proceeded to London and
Paris, where, under the celebrated M. Orfila, he
applied himself to the study of toxicology, the
department of medical science in which he became
so deservedly famous.
Soon after his return home to Scotland he commenced
practice in his native capital, and in 1822
was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence
in the University, and was promoted in 1832 to
the chair of materia medica. He contributed
various articles to medical journals on professional
subjects, and wrote several books, among others
an exhaustive ? Treatise on Poisons,? still recognised
as a standard work on that subject, and of
more than European reputation.
At the famous trial of Palmer, in 1856, Dr.
Christison went to London, and gave such valuable
evidence that Lord Campbell cornplimented him
on the occasion, and the ability he displayed was
universally recognised and applauded. He was
twice President of the Royal College of Physicians,
Edinburgh-the first time being in 1846-and was
appointed Ordinary Physician to the Queen for
Scotland. He received the degree of D.C.L. from
Oxford in 1866, was created a baronet in 1871~ and
was made LL.D. of Edinburgh Universityin 1872.
He resigned his chair in 18.77, and died in 188%
In No. 16 lived and died Sir William Hamilton,
Bart., of Preston and Fingalton, Professor of Logic
and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh
from 1836 to 1856, and Fellow of the Scottish
Society of Antiquaries. He had previously resided
in Manor Place. He was called to the Scottish bar
in 1815, at the same time with Duncan McNeill,
the future Sir Archibald Alison, John Wilson, and
others, and in 1816 assumed the baronetcy as
twenty-fourth male representative of Sir John Fitz-
Gilbert de Hamilton, who was the second son of
Sir Gilbert, who came into Scotland in the time of
Alexander III., and from whom the whole family
of Hamilton are descended. The baronetcy is in
remainder to heirs male general, but was not assumed
from the death of the second baronet
in 1701 till 1806. It was a creation of 1673.
With his brother Thomas lie became one of the
earliest contributors to the columns of Blucku~oad?s
MRgazine.
Besides ?? Cyril Thornton,? one of the best military
novels in the language, Thomas Hamilton
was author of ?LAnnals of the Peninsular Campaign?
and of ? Men and Manners in America?
In ? Peter?s Letters? heis describedas ?afine-looking
young officer, whom the peace has left at liberty
to amuse himself in a more pleasant way than he
was accustomed to, so long as Lord Wellington
kept the field. He has a noble, grand, Spaniardlooking
head, and a tall giaceful person, which he
swings about in a style of knowingness that might
pass muster even in the eye of old Potts. The
expression of his features is so very sombre that
I should never have guessed him to be a playful
writer (indeed, how could I have guessed such
a person to be a writer at all?). Yet such is
the case. Unless I am totally misinformed, he is
the author of a thousand beautiful jeux $esprit
both in prose and verse, which I shall point out
to you more particularly when we meet.? He
had served in the 29th Regiment of Foot during
the long war with France, and died in his fiftythird
year, in 1842,
In April, 1820, when the chair of moral
philosophy in the University of Edinburgh fell
vacant by the death of Dr. Thomas Browne, the
successor of Dugald Stewart, Sir William Hamilton
became a candidate together with Johr:
Wilson. Others were mentioned as possible competitors,
among them Sir James Macintosh and
Mr. Malthus, but it soon became apparent that
the struggle-one which had few parallels even in
the past history of that University-lay between
the two first-named. ? Sir William was a Whig ;
Wilson was a Tory of the most unpardonable
description,? says Mrs. Gordon in her ?Memou,?
and the Whig side was strenuously supported in
the columns of the Srotsnian-?and privately,? she
adds, ?in every circle where the name of Blackl~
lood was a name of abomination and of fear.?
But eventually, in the year of Dr. Browne?s death,
Wilson was appointed to the vacant chair, and
among the first to come to hear, and applaud to
the echo, his earliest lectures, was Sir William
Hamilton.
In 1829 t k latter married his cousin, Miss
Marshall, daughter of hlr. Hubert Marshall, and

... King Street1 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON. 195 Royal Circus, was built in 1820, and in the following year it was ...

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Leith.! HARBOUR AND PIER 271
Hence all attempts, therefore, to obtain a good
or workable harbour at Leith have been, of a
necessity, limited to the constfuction of long limes
of piers, to divert the current of the tides, to give
the river mastery over them, and enable it, by the
weight of its downward and concentrated volume,
to sweep away, or at least diminish, the bar, and to
the excavation of docks for the reception of vessels
floated in at high water, and for retaining them safe
from the inexorable power of the receding tide.
From the GentZeman?s Magazine for May, I 786, we
learn that, owing to a long continuance of easterly
wind, the bar at the mouth of Leith harbour had attained
such a height, that vessels could scarcely pass
out or in with any chance of safety ; that many were
aground upon it ; and that the magistrates of Edinburghwere
considering how it could best be removed.
It is related that when, in the spring of the year
1820, Lord Erskine re-visited Edinburgh, after an
absence of nearly half a century, on which occasion
a banquet was given him in the Assembly
Rooms, at which all the then master spirits of the
Scottish bar were present, and Maxwell of Carriden
presided, he returned to London by sea from
Leith. He took his passage in the Favourite,
one of the famous old fighting-smacks, Captain
Mark Sanderson; but it so happened that she
either grounded on the bar, or there was not in the
harbour sufficient water to float her over it; thus
for days no vessel could leave the harbour. Lord
Erskine, with other disappointed passengers, was
seen daily, at the hours of the tide flowing, waiting
with anxiety the floating of the vessel; and
when at last she cleared the harbour, and stood
round the martello tower, he wittily expressed his
satisfaction in the following verse :-
?( Of depth profound, o?erfiowing far,
I blessed the Edinburgh Bar ;
While muttering oaths between my teeth,
I cursed the shallow Bar of Leith ! ? 1
In the cabin a motion was made, and unanimously
canied, that this impromptu stanza should
be printed on board by Mr. John Ruthven, who
was among the passengers, and whose name is so
well known as the inventor of the celebrated printing
press and other valuable improvements in
machines. With one of his portable printingpresses
he proceeded to gratify his companions,
and struck off several copies of the verse, to which
one of the voyagers added another, thus :-
? To Lord Erskme-
Nor lower us thus, 8s if at war;
We at our harbour placed a bar.?
? Spare, spare, my lord, your angry feelings, .
?Tm only to retain you with us
The first pier constructed at Leith was of wood,
)ut was destroyed in 1544, at the time of the
nvasion in that year, and we have no means of
ndicating its precise site. During the earlier years
if the seventeenth century another wooden pier
uas erected, and for two hundred and forty years
ts massive pillars and beams, embedded in a
:ompact mass of whinstone and clay, withstood
;he rough contacts of shipping and the long up
:oming rollers from the stormy Firth, and the last
races of it only disappeared about the year 1850.
Between the years 1720 and ?1730, a stone pier,
n continuatioii of this ancient wooden one, which
inly to a slight extent assisted the somewhat meagre
iatural facilities of the harbour, was carried seaward
for a hundred yards, constructed.pa+y of
nassive squared stones from a curious old coal-pit
it Culross ; and for a time this, to some degree, renedied
the difficulty and hazard of the inward navi-
:ation, but still left the harbour mouth encumbered
with its unlucky bar of unsafe and shifting sand.
The old pier figures in more than one Scottish
;ong, and perhaps the oldest is that fragment preierved
by Cromek, in his ?Remains of Nithsdale
ind Galloway Song? :-
?Were ye at the Pier 0? Leith?
Or cam ye in by Bennochie ?
Crossed ye at the boat 0? Cra.ig?-
Saw ye the lad wha courted me?
Short hose and belted plaidie,
Garters tied below his knee :
Oh, he was a bonnie lad,
The blythe lad wha courted me?
Contemporaneous, or nearly so, with this early
;tone pier was the formation of the oldest dock,
which will be referred to in its place.
So early as 1454, the improvement and main-
:enance of a harbour at Leith was the care of
lames 11. (that gallant king who was killed at the
iiege of Roxburgh) ; and in his charter granted in
that year, and which was indorsed !?Provost and BaS
yies, the time that thir letters war gottin, Alexmder
Naper, Andrew Craufurd, William of Caribas,
md Richart Paterson,? he gave the silver customs
md duty of all ships and vessels entering Leith for
:he purpose of enlarging and repairing the port
:hereof (Burgh Charters, No. XXXII.).
In 1620 we first read of several beacons being
Erected, when, as Sir James Balfour records, the
zoal-masters on both sides of the Forth, for the
xydit of the countrey and saftie of strangers trading
Lo them for cole and salte,? in the June of that
year, erected marks and beacons on all the craigs
md sunken rocks within the Eirth, above the Roads
st Leith, at their own expense.

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rrs PRISONERS. 7 127 The Talbooth.]
was sitting in the Tolbooth hearing the case of the
Laud of Craigmillar, who was suing a divorce
against his wife, the Earl of Bothwell forcibly
dragged out one of the most important witnesses,
and carrying him to his castle of Cricliton, eleven
miles distant, threatened to hang him if he uttered
a word.
On the charge of being a ? Papist,? among many
other prisoners in the Tolbooth in 1628, was the
Countess of Abercorn, where her health became
broken by confinement, and the misery of a
prison which, if it was loathsome in the reign of
George III., must have been something terrible in
the days orCharles I. In 1621 she obtained a
licence to go to the baths of Bristol, but failing
to leave the city, was lodged for six months in the
Canongate gaol. After she had been under restraint
in various places for three years, she was permitted
to remain ir. the earl?s house at Paisley, in March
1631, on condition that she ? reset no Jesuits,?
and to return if required under a penalty of 5,000
merks.
Taken seriatim, the records of the Tolbooth
contain volumes of entries made in the following
brief fashion :-
?1662, June 10.-John Kincaid put in ward
by warrant of the Lords of the Privy Council, for
? pricking of persons suspected of witchcraft anwarranfably.?
Liberated on finding caution not to
do so again.
?-June 10.-Robert Binning for falsehood ;
hanged with the false papers about his neck.
?--4ug. q.-Robert Reid for murder. His
head struck from his body at the mercat cross.
?- Dec. 4.-James Ridpath, tinker ; to be qhupitt
from Castle-hill to Netherbow, burned on the
cheek with the Toun?s common mark, and banished
the kicgdom, for the crime of double adultery.
?? 1663, March ~g.-ATexander Kennedy; hanged
for raising false bonds and aritts.
?-March z I.-Aucht Qwakers; liberated, certifying
if again troubling the place, the next prison
shall be the Correction House.
?- July 8.-Katherine Reid ; hanged for
theft.
?-July &--Sir Archibald Johnston of Wamston;
treason. Hanged, his head cut off and placed
on the Netherbow.
? - July I 8.-Bessie Brebner ; hansed for
murder.
?I -Aug. zS.-The Provost of Kirkcudbright ;
banished for keeping his house during a tumult.
? - Oct. 5.-William Dodds ; beheaded for
murder.?
And so on in grim monotony, till we come to
the last five entries in the old record, which is
quite incomplete.
1728, Oct. zs.-John Gibson; forging a
declaration, 18th January, 1727. His lug nailed
to the Tron, and dismissed.
?( 1751, March 18.-Helen Torrance :md Jean
Waldie were executed this day, for stealing a child,
eight or nine years of age, and selling its body to
the surgeons for dissection. Alive on Tuesday when
carried OK, and dead on Friday, with an incision in
the belly, but sewn up again.
? I 7 5 6, May 4.-Sir William Dalrymple of Cousland;
for shooting at Capt. Hen. Dalrymple of
Fordell, with a pistol at the Cross of Edinburgh.
Liberated?on 14th May, on bail for 6,000 merks,
to answer any complaint.
? 1752, Jan. 10.-Norman Ross ; hanged and
hung in chains between Leith and Edinburgh, for
issassinating Lady Bailie, sister to Home of
Wedderburn.
? I 1757, Feb. 4.-Janies Rose, Excise Officer at
Muthill ; banished to America for forging receipts
for arrears.?
It was a peculiarity of the Tolbooth, that through
clanship, or some other influence, nearly every
criminal of rank confined in it achieved an escape.
Robert fourth Lord Burleigh, a half insane peer,
who was one of the commissioners for executing
the office of Lord Register in 1689, and who
married a daughter of the Earl of hfelville about
the time of the Union, assassinated a schoolmaster
who had married a girl to whom he had paid improper
addresses, was committed to the Tolbooth,
and sentenced to death; and of his first attempt
to escape the following story is told He was
carried out of the prison in a large trunk, to be
conveyed to Leith, on the back of a powerful
porter, who was to put hini on board a vessel
about to sail for the Continent. It chanced that
when slinging the trunk on his back, the porter
did so with Lord Burleigh?s head doiwnnmost, thus
it had to sustain the weight of his whole body.
The posture was agony, the way long and rough,
but life was dear. Unconscious of his actual
burden, the porter reached the Netherbow Port,
where an acquaintance asked him ?whither he
was going?? ?:TO Leith,? was the reply. ? Is the
work good enough to afford a glass before going
farther?? was the next question. The porter said
it was; and tossed down the trunk with such
violence that it elicited a scream from Lord Burleigh,
who instantly fainted.
Scared and astounded, the porter wrenched open
the trunk, when its luckless inmate was found
cramped, doubled-up, and senseless. A crowd

... PRISONERS. 7 127 The Talbooth.] was sitting in the Tolbooth hearing the case of the Laud of Craigmillar, who ...

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1 MARRIAGE OF MARY AND BOTHWELL. 71
dragged through the bed-room to the door of the
presence-chamber, where the conspirators gathered . about him and completed the bloody outrage. So
eager were all to take part in the murder that
they frequently wounded each other, eliciting
greater curses and yells ; and the body of Rizzio,
gashed by fifty-six wounds, was left in a pool of
blood, with the king?s dagger driven to the hilt in
it, in token that he had sanctioned the murder.
After a time the corpse was flung down-stairs,
stripped naked, dragged to the porter?s lodge, and
treated with every indignity.
Darnley and the queen were meanwhile alone
together in the cabinet, into which a lady rushed
to announce that Rizzio was dead, as she had
seen the body. ?Is it so?? said the weeping
queen ; ? then I will study revenge ! ? Then she
swooned, but was roused by the entrance of
Ruthven, who, reeking with blood; staggered into
a chair and called for wine. After receiving
much coarse and unseemly insolence, the queen
exclaimed, ??I trust that God, who beholdeth all
this from the high heavens, will avenge my
wrohgs, and move that which shall be born of me
to root out you and your treacherous posterity ! ?
-a denunciation terribly fulfillkd by the total destruction
of the house of Ruthven in the reign of
her son, James VI.
In the middle of a passage leading from the
quadrangle to the ,chapel is shown a flat square
stone, which is said to mark the grave of Rizzio ;
but it is older than his day, and has probably
served for the tomb of some one else.
The floor at the outer door of Mary?s apartments
presents to this day a dark irregular
stain, called Rizzio?s blood, tlius exciting the ridicule
of those who do not consider the matter.
The floor is of great antiquity here-manifestly
alder than that of the adjacent gallery, laid in the
time of Charles I. ?We know,? says Robert
Chambers,in his ?Book of Days,? ? that the stain has
been shown there since a time long antecedent to
that extreme modern curiosity regarding historical
matters which might have induced an imposture,
for it is alluded to by the son of Evelyn as being
.shown in I 7 a a.?
Joseph Rizzio, who arrived in Scotland soon
after his brother?s murder, was promoted to his
vacant office by the queen, and was publicly named
as one of the abettors of Morton and Bothwell in
the murder of Darnley-in which, with true Italian
instinct, he might readily have had a hand. After
the tragedy at the Kirk of Field in 1567, the body of
Dmley was brought to Holyrood, where Michael
Picauet, the queen?s apothecary, embalmed it, by
her order; the treasurer?s accounts, dated Feb.
Izth, contain entries for ? drogges, spices-colis,
tabbis, hardis, barrelis,? and other matters
tiecessary ? for bowalling of King?s Grace,? who was
interred in the chapel royal at night, in presence
of only the Lord Justice Clerk Bellenden, Sir
James Tracquair, and others.
After Bothwell?s seizure of Mary?s person, at
the head of I,OOO horse, and his production of the
famous bond, signed by the most powerful nobles
in Scotland, recommending him as the most fitting
husband for her-a transaction in which her enemies
affirm she was a willing actor-their marriage ceremony
took place in the great hall of the palace
on the 15th of May, 1567, at four o?clock in the
morning, a singular hour, for which it is difficult to
account, unless it be, that Mary had yielded in
despair at last. There it was performed by the
reformed prelate Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney,
together with Knox?s coadjutor, Craig, according
to the Protestant form, and on the same day:in
private, according to the Catholic ritual. To the
Latter, perhaps, Birrel refers when he says they were
married in the chapel royal. Only five of the
nobles were present, and there were no rejoicings
in Edinburgh, where the people looked on with
grief and gloom j and on the following morning
there was fouiid affixed to the palace gate the
ominous line from Ovid?s Fasti, book v. : ?Mense
malus Maio nubere vuZgus aif.?
The revolt of the nobles, the flight oT Bothwell,
and the surrender of Mary at Carberry to avoid
bloodshed, quickly followed, and the last visit she
paid to her palace of Holyrood was when, under a
strong guard, she was brought thither a prisoner
from the Black Turnpike, on the 18th of June and
ere the citizens could rescue her ; as a preliminary
step to still more violent proceedings, she was
secretly taken from Holyrood at ten at night,
without having even a change of raiment, mounted
on a miserable hack, and compelled to ride at
th;rty miles an hour, escorted by the murderers
Ruthven and Lindsay, who consigned her a prisoner
to the lonely castle of Lochleven, where she signed
the enforced abdication which placed her son upon.
the throne.
Holyrood was one of the favourite residences of
the latter, and the scene of many a treaty and
council during his reign in Scotland,
In the great hall there, on Sunday, the 23rd
of October, he created a great number of earls
with much splendour of ceremony, with a corresponding
number of knights.
Another Earl of Bothwell, the horror of James
VI., now figures in history, eldest son of the

... 1 MARRIAGE OF MARY AND BOTHWELL. 71 dragged through the bed-room to the door of the presence-chamber, where the ...

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Leith] MACKINTOSH OF BORLUM. 191
the further strengthened by the fact that the Speedy
Return, a Scottish ship, had been absent unusually
long, and the rumours regarding her fate were
very much akin to the confessions of the crew of
the Worcester.
A report of these circumstances having reached
the Privy Council, the arrest was ordered of Captain
Green and thirteen of his crew on charges of
piracy and murder. The evidence produced against
them would scarcely be held sufficient by a jury of
the present day to warrant a conviction; but the
Scots, in their justly inflamed and insulted spirit,
viewed the matter otherwise, and a sentence of
death was passed. This judgment rendered many
uneasy, as it might be an insuperable bar to the
union, and even lead to open strife, as the relations
in which the two countries stood to each other were
always precarious ; and even Macaulay admits ?that
the two kingdoms could not possibly have continued
another year on the terms on which they had been
during the preceding century.? The Privy Council
were thus reluctant to put the sentence into execution,
and respited the fourteen Englishmen ; but
there arose from the people a cry for vengeance
which it was impossible to resist. On the day appointed
for the execution, the 11th of April, the
populace gathered h vast numbers at the. Cross
and in the Parliament Square ; they menaced the
Lords?of the Council, from which the Lord Chancellor
chanced to pass in his coach. Some one
cried aloud that ? the prisoners had been reprieved.?
On this the fury of the people became boundless ;
they stopped at the Tron church the coach of the
Chancellor-the pitiful Far1 of Seafield-and
dragged him out of it, and had he not been rescued
and conveyed into Mylne Square by some friends,
would have slain him ; so, continues Arnot, it became
absolutely necessary to appease the enraged
multitude by the blood of the criminals. This was
but the fruit of the affairs of Darien and Glencoe.
Now the people for miles around were pouring
into the city, and it was known that beyond doubt
the luckless Englishmen would be tom from the
Tolbooth and put to a sudden death.
Thus the Council was compelled to yield, and
did so only in time, as thousands who had gathered
at Leith to see the execution were now adding to
those who filled the streets of the city, and at
eleven in the forenoon word came forth that three
would be hanged-namely, Captain Green, the first
mate Madder, and Simpson, the gunner.
According to Analecfu Scofica they were brought
forth into the seething masses, amid shouts and
execrations, under an escort of the Town Guard,
and marched on foot through the Canongate to the
Water Port of Leith, where a battalion of the Foot
Guards and a body of the Horse Guards were
drawn up. ? There was the greatest confluence of
people there that I ever saw in my life,? says
Wodrow; ?for they cared not how far they were
off so be it they saw.?
The three were hanged upon a gibbet erected
within high-water mark, and the rest of the crew,
after being detained in prison till autumn, were set
at liberty; and it is said that there were afterwards
good reasons to believe that Captain Drummond,
whom they were accused of slaying on the high seas,
was alive in India after the fate of Green and his
two brother officers had been sealed. (Burton?s
?? Crim. Trials.?)
On the site of the present Custom House was
built the Fury (a line-of-battle ship, according tb
Lawson?s ?Gazetteer?) and the first of that rate
built in Scotland after the Union.
In I 7 I 2 the first census of Edinburgh and Leith
was taken, and both towns contained only about
48,000 souls.
The insurrection of 1715, under the Earl of
Mar, made Leith the arena of some exciting scenes.
The Earl declined to leave the vicinity of Perth
with his army, and could not co-operate with the
petty insurrection under Forster in the north of
England, as a fleet under Sir John Jennings, Admiral
of the White, including the RqaC Anm, Pew4
Phnix, Dover Custk, and other frigates, held the
Firth of Forth, and the King?s troops under Argyle
were gathering in the southern Lowlands. But, as
it was essential that a detachment from Mar?s army
should join General Forster, it was arranged that
2,500 Highlanders, under old Brigadier Mackintosh
of Borlum-one of the most gallant and resolute
spirits of the age-should attempt to elude the fleet
and reach the Lothians.
The brigadier took possession of all the boats
belonging to the numerous fisher villages on the
Fife coast, and as the gathering of such a fleet as
these, with the bustle of mooring and provisioning
them, was sure to reveal the object in view, a
clever trick was adopted to put all scouts on a false
scent.
All the boats not required by the brigadier he
sent to the neighbourhood of Burntisland, as if he
only waited to cross the Firth there, on which the
fleet left its anchorage and rather wantonly began
to cannonade the fort and craft in the harbour.
While the ships were thus fully occupied, Mackintosh,
dividing his troops in two columns, crossed the
water from Elie, Pittenweem, and Crail, twenty miles
eastward, on the nights of the 12th and 13thOctober,
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278 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street
Close was seized, and a battery erected on the
summit thereof to assail the King?s men. In the
?Histone of James Sext? we are told that the
Regent Earl of Mar brought nine pieces of ordnance
up the Canongate to assail the Netherbow Port,
but changed their position to a fauxbourg of the
town, callit Pleasands, ? from whence to batter the
Flodden wall and to oppose a platform of guns
erected on the house of Adam Fullerton.
When this sharp but brief civil disorder ended,
Adam returned to his strong mansion in the Fountain
Close once more, and on the 4th of December,
1572, he and Mr. John Paterson appear together
as Commissaries for the city of Edinburgh, and
the supposition is, that the date, 1573, referred
to repairs upon the house, after what it had
suffered from the cannon of Mar. Thus, says
Wilson, ?the nincit veritu of the brave old
burgher acquires a new force, when we consider
the circumstznces that dictated its inscription, and
the desperate struggle in which he had borne a
leading part, before he returned to carve these
pious aphorisms over the threshold that had so
recently been held by his enemies.?
With a view to enlarging the library of the
College of Physicians, in 1704, that body purchased
from Sir James Mackenzie his house and
ground at the foot of the Fountain Close. The
price paid was 3,500 rnerks (A194 8s. Iod.). To
this, in seven years afterwards, was added an
adjoining property, which connected it with the
Cowgate, ? then a genteel and busy thoroughfare,??
and for which 2,300 merks (A127 15s. 6d.) were
given. From Edgar?s map it appears that the
premises thus acquired by the College of Physicians
were more extensive than those occupied
by any individual or any other public body in
the city. The ground was laid out in gardens
and shrubbery, and was an object of great admiration
and envy to the nobility and gentry, ta
several of whom the privilege of using the pleasure
grounds was accorded as a favour. Considering
the locality now, how strangely does all this
read !
The?whole of the buildings must have been in
a dilapidated, if not ruinous state, for expensive
repairs were found to be necessary on first taking
possession, and the same head of expenditure
constantly recurs in accounts of the treasurer 01
the College; and so early as 1711 a design was
pioposed for the erection of a new hall at the foot
of the Fountain Close ; and after nine years? delay,
2,900 merks were borrowed, and a new building
erected, but it was sold in 1720 for E%oo, as a site
for the new Episcopal Chapel.
Till the erection of St. Paul?s in York Place, the
Fountain Close formed the only direct communication
to this the largest and most fashionable
Episcopal church in Edinburgh, that which was
built near the Cowgate Port in 1771.
Tweeddale?s Close, the next alley on the east,.
was the scene of a terrible crime, the memory of
which, though enacted so long ago as 1806, is still.
fresh in the city. The stately house which gave
its name to the Close, and was the town residence
of the Marquises of Tweeddale, still remains,
though the ? plantation of lime-trees behind it,?
mentioned by Defoe in his ? Tour,? and shown in
seven great rows on Edgais map, is a thing of
the past.
Even after the general desertion of Edinburgh
by the Scottish noblesse at the Union, this fine old
mansion (which, notwithstanding great changes,
still retains traces of magniticence) was for a time
the constant residence of the Tweeddale family.
It was first built and occupied by Dame Margaret
Kerr Lady Yester, daughter of Mark first Earl of
Lothian. She was born in 1572, and was wife of
James the seventh Lord Yester, in whose family
there occurred a singular event. His page, Hepburn,
accused his Master of the Horse of a design
to poison him; the latter denied it; the affair
was brought before the Council, who agreed that
it should be determined by single combat, in 1595,
and this is supposed to have been the last of such
judicial trials by battle in Scotland.
By Lady Yester, who founded the church that
still bears her name in the city, the mansion, with
all its furniture, was bestowed upon her grandson,
John second Earl of Tweeddale (and ninth Lord
Yester), who joined Charles I. when he unfurled
his standard at Nottingham in 1642. Six years
subsequently, when a Scottish army under the
Duke of Hamilton, was raised, to rescue Charles
from the English, the Earl, then Lord Yester, commanded
the East Lothian regiment of 1,200 men,
After the execution of Charles I. he continued
with the regal party in Scotland, assisted at the
coronation of Charles II., and against Crornwell
he defended his castle of Neidpath longer than any
place south of the Forth, except Borthwick. With
all this loyalty to his native princes, he came
early into the Revolution movement, and in 1692
was created, by William III., Marquis of Tweeddale,
with the office of Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland, and died five years afterwards.
The next occupant of the house, John, second
Marquis, received LI,OOO for his vote at the
Union, and was one of the first set of sixteen
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net tells us that he was a man of such unflagging
zeal that he barely allowed himself three hours? sleep
out of the twenty-four. On the renewal of the
Covenant, in 1638, he and the celebrated Alexander
Henderson were appointed to revise and
adapt that national document to the circumstances
of the times; and at the memorable assembly
which met at Glasgow Johnston was unanimously
elected clerk, and was constituted Procurator for
the Church. ? He took a prominent share in resisting
the unjust interference of Charles I: in Scottish
affairs, and in 1638, on the royal edict being proclaimed
from the Cross of Edinburgh, which set at
defiance the popular opposition to Episcopacy, he
boldly appeared on the scaffold erected near it,
and read aloud the famous protest drawn up in
the name of the Tables, while the mob compelled
the six royal heralds to remain while this counterdefiance
in the name of Scotland was being read
In 1641, when Charles visited Edinburgh for the
second time, Johnston was knighted and made a
Lord of Session, and after sitting in the Parliament
of Scotland in 1644, he attended, as one of the
Commissioners, the assembly of divines at Westminster.
In the following year he was Lord Advocate;
and in 1649 he performed one of his last
official duties, proclaiming Charles 11. King of
Scotland, on the 5th of February, 1650.
After the battle of Dunbar he was weak enough
to accept ofice under the Protectorate, as Clerk
Registrar; and after the death of Cromwell he
acted as one of the Committee of Public Safety,
when the feeble and timid Richard Cromwell withdrew
from public life ; and this last portion of his
career, together with the mode in which he had
prosecuted and persecuted the fallen Cavaliers, and
refused to concur in the treaty of Breda, sealed
his doom when the Restoration came. He was
forfeited in exile and condemned to death on the
15th of May, 1651.
An emissary of the Scottish ministry discovered
his retreat at Rouen, and, with the aid of the
French authorities, he was sent to the Tower, and
from thence to Edinburgh, where, with every mark
of indignity, he was publicly executed on the same
spot where, five-and-twenty years before, he had
defied the proclamation of Charles I. This was
on the n2nd of July, 1663, and he died with the
utmost constancy and Christian fortitude. And
now the busy establishment of one of the most
enterprising of Scottish publishing firms occupies
the site of the old mansion, in which he must many
a time have entertained such men as Alexander
Henderson, the Marquises Argyle, Rothes, and Callander,
the gallant Sir Alexander Leslie, the somewhat
double-dealing Monk, perhaps Cromwell too.
CHAPTER XXVI.
HIGH STREET (continued).
Mary King?s Close-Who was Mary ?-Scourged by the Plague of 1645-Its Mystery-Drummond?s Epigram-Prof. Sinclair?s ?I Satan?s Invisible
World Discovered?--Mr. and Mrs. Coltheart?s Ghostly Visitors-The Clox finally abandoned to Goblins-Craig?s Close-Andro Hart,
Bookseller and Printer-Andro?s Spear-A Menagerie in Craig?s CIosc-The Isle of Man Arms--The Cape Club-Its Mysteries and O f f i c a ~
--Installation of a Knight-ProvinciaI Cape Clubs-The Poker Club-How it Originated-Members-Office-bearers-Old Stamp Office
Court-Fortune?s Tavern-The beautiful Countess of EgIinton-Her Patronage of Lettters-Her Family-Interview with Dr. Johnson-
Murderous Riot in the Close-Removal of the Stamp Office.
MARY KING?S Close was long a place of terror to
the superstitious, as one of the last retreats of the
desolating plague of 1645. ?Who Mary King
was is now unknown, but though the alley is roofless
and ruined,? says one, writing of it in 1845,
?with weeds, wall-flowers, grass, and even little
trees, flourishing luxuriantly among the falling
walls, her name may still be seen painted on the
street corner.?
For some generations after the plague-in which
most of itsinhabitants perished-its houses remained
closed, and gradually it became a place of mystery
and horror, the abode of a thousand spectres and
nameless terrors, for superstition peopled it with
inhabitants, whom all feared and none cared to
succeed. ?Those who had been foolhardy enough
to peep through the windows after nightfall saw
the spectres of the long-departed denizens engaged
in their wonted occupations ; headless forms danced
through the moonlit apartments ; on one occasion
a godly minister and two pious elders were scared
out of their senses by the terrible vision of a raw
head and blood-dripping arm, which protruded
from the wall in this terrible street, and flourished
a sword above their heads ; and many other terrors,
which are duly chronicled in ?Satan?s Invisible
World;?? yet it was down this place that the wild
young Master of Gray dragged the fair Mistress
Carnegie, whom, sword in hand, he had abducted
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241 CoWgab.1 THE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL.
to preach openly, by taking the oaths to Govemment,
had been founded in Edinburgh by Baron
Smith, and two smaller ones were founded about
1746, in Skinner?s and Carrubber?s Closes; but as
these places were only mean and inconvenient
apartments, a plan was formed for the erection of
a large and handsome church. The Episcopalians
of the city chose a committee of twelve gentlemen
to see the scheme executed. They purchased from
the Royal College of Physicians the area of what
had formerly been the Tweeddale gardens, and
opened a subscription, which was the only resource
they had for completing the building, the
trifling funds belonging to the former obscure
chapels bearing no proportion to the cost of so
expensive a work. But this impediment was removed
by the gentlemen of the committee, who
generously gave their personal credit to a considerable
amount.
The foundation stone was laid on the 3rd of
April, 1771, by the Grand Master Mason, Lieutenant-
General Sir Adolphus Oughton, K.B.,
Colonel of the 31st Foot, and Commander of the
Forces in Scotland. The usual coins were deposited
in the stone, under a plate, inscribed thus :-
EDIFICII SAC. ECCLESIW EPISC. ANGLIB,
PRIMIlM POSUIT LAPIDEY,
I. ADOLPHUS OUGHTON,
CURIO MAXIMUS,
MILITUM PRWFECTUS,
REONANTE GEORGIO 111.
TERTIO APR. DIE,
A.D. MDCCLXXI.
IN ARCHITECTONICA storm RFPUB.
Towards this church the Writers to the Signet
subscribed zoo guineas, and the Incorporation
of Surgeons gave 40 guineas, and on Sunday, the
9th of October, 1774, divine service was performed
in it for the first time. ?This is a plain,
handsome building,? says Arnot, ? neatly fitted up
in the inside somewhat in the form of the church
of St. Martin?s-in-the-Fields, London. It is 90
feet long by 75 broad pver the walls, and is omamented
with a neat spire of a tolerable height. In
the spire hangs an excellent bell, formerly belonging
to the Chapel Royal at Holyrood, which is
permitted to be rung for assembling the congregation,
an indulgence that is not allowed to the
Presbyterians in England. This displays a commendable
liberality of sentiment in the magistrates
of Edinburgh ; but breathes no jealousy for the
dignity of their national Church. In the chapel
there is a fine organ, made by Snetzler.of London.
In the east side is a niche of 30 feet, with a
Venetian window, where stands the altar, which is
adorned with paintings by Runciman, a native of
Edinburgh. In the volta is the Ascefision; over
the small window on the right is Christ talking
with the Samaritan woman ; on the left the Prodigal
returned. In these two the figures are halflength.
On one side of the table is the figure of
Moses ; on the other that of Elias.?
At the time Arnot wrote L6,Soo had been spent
on the building, which was then incomplete. ? The
ground,? he adds, ?? is low ; the chapel is concealed
by adjacent buildinis ; the access for carriages inconvenient,
and there is this singularityattending it,
that it is the only Christian church standing north
and south we ever saw or heard of. . . . . . . . . There are about I,ooo persons in this
congregation. Divine service is celebrated before
them according to all the rites of the Church of
England. This deserves to be considered as a
mark of increasing moderation and liberality among
the generality of the people. Not many years ago
that form of worship in all its ceremonies would
not have been tolerated The organ and paintings
would have been downright idolatry, and the
chapel would have fallen a sacrifice to the fury of
the mob.?
Upon the death of Mr. Can; the first senior
clergyman of this chapel, he was interred under its
portico, and the funeral service was sung, the voices
of the congregation being accompanied by the
organ. In Arnot?s time the senior clergyman was
Dr. Myles Cooper, Principal of New York College,
an exile from America in consequence of the revolt
of the colonies.
In the middle?of February, 1788, accounts
reached Scotland of the death and funeral of Prince
Charles Edward, the eldest grandson of James VII.,
at Rome, and created a profound sensation among
people of all creeds, and the papers teemed with
descriptions of the burial service at Frascati ; how
his brother, the Cardinal, wept, and his voice broke
when singing the office for the dead prince, on
whose coffin lay the diamond George and collar of
the Garter, now in Edinburgh Castle, while the
militia of Frascati stood around as a guard, with
the Master of Nairn, in whose arms the prince
expired.
In the subsequent April the Episcopal College
met ?at Aberdeen, and unanimously resolved that
they should submit ? to the present Government of
this kingdom as invested in his present Majesty
George III.,? death having broken the tie which
bound them to the House of Stuart. Thenceforward
the royal family was prayed for in all their
churches, and the penal statutes, after various
modifications, were repezled in 1792. Eight years
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Merchiston.] THE NAPIERS OF MERCHISTON. 35
likeness of the founder, painted by Sir James
Foulis of Woodhall, Bart.
In 1870 the original use to which the foundation
was put underwent a change, and the hospital
became a great public school for boys and girls.
At the western extremity of what was the Burghmuir,
near where lately was an old village of that
name (at the point where the Colinton road diverges
from that which leads to Biggar), there stands, yet
unchanged amid all its new surroundings, the
ancient castle of Merchiston, the whilom seat of a
race second to none in Scotland for rank and talent
-the Napiers, now Lords Napier and Ettrick. It
is a lofty square tower, surmounted by corbelled
battlements, a ape-house, and tall chimneys. It
was once surrounded by a moat, and had a secret
avenue or means of escape into the fields to the
north. As to when it was built, or by whom, no
record now remains.
In the missing rolls of Robert I., the lands of
Merchiston and Dalry, in the county of Edinburgh,
belonged in his reign to William Bisset, and under
David II., the former belonged to William de
Sancto Claro, on the resignation of Williani Bisset,
according to Robertson?s ?Index,? in which we find
a royal charter, ?datum est apud Dundee,? 14th
August, 1367, to John of Cragyof the lands of
Merchiston, which John of Creigchton had resigned.
So the estate would seem to have had several
proprietors before it came into the hands of
Alexander Napier, who was Provost of Edinburgh
in 1438, and by this acquisition Merchiston became
the chief title of his family.
His son, Sir Alexander, who was Comptroller of
Scotland under James 11. in 1450, and went on a
pilgrimage to St. Thomas of Canterbury in the
following year-for which he had safe-conduct from
the King of England-was Provost of Edinburgh
between 1469 and 1471- He was ambassador to
the Court of the Golden Fleece in 1473, and was
no stranger to Charles the Bold ; the tenor of his
instructions to whom from James II., shows that he
visited Bruges a d the court of Burgundy before
that year, in 1468, when he was present at the
Tournament of the Golden Fleece, and selected a
suit of brilliant armour for his sovereign.
Sir Alexander, fifth of Merchiston, fell at Flodden
with James IV.
John Napier of Merchiston was Provost 17th
of May, 1484, and his son and successor, Sir Archibald,
founded a chaplaincy and altar in honour of St.
Salvator in St. Giles?s Church in November, 1493.
His grandson, Sir Archibald Napier, who married
a daughter of Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, was
slain at the battle of Pinkie, in 1547.
Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston and Edinbellie,
who was latterly Master of the Mint to
James VI., was father of John Napier the
celebrated inventor of the Logarithms, who was
born in Merchiston Castle in 1550, fgur years after
the birth of Tycho Brahe, and fourteen before that
of Galileo, at a time when the Reformation in
Scotland was just commencing, as in the preceding?
year John Knox had been released from the
French galleys, and was then enjoying royal
patronage in England. His mother was Janet,
only daughter of Sir Francis Bothwell, and sister
of Adam, Bishop of Orkney. At the time of his
birth his father was only sixteen years of age. He
was educated at St. Salvator?s College, St. Andrews,
where he matriculated 1562-3, and afterwards spent
several years in France, the Low Countries, and
Italy; he applied himself closely to the study of
mathematics, and it is conjectured that he gained
a taste for that branch of learning during his residence
abroad, especially in Itily, where at that
time were many mathematicians of high repute.
While abroad young Napier escaped some perils
that existed at home. In 150s a dreadful pest
broke out in Edinburgh, and his father and family
were exposed to the contagion, ? by the vicinity,?
says Mark Napier, ?? of his mansion to the Burghmuir,
upon which waste the infected were driven
out to grovel and die, under the very walls of
Merchiston.?
In his earlier years his studies took a deep theological
turn, the fruits of which appeared in his
? Plain Discovery of the Revelation of St John,?
which he published at Edinburgh in 1593, and
dedicated to James VI. But some twenty years
before that time his studies must have been sorely
interrupted, as his old ancestral fortalice lay in the
very centre of the field of strife, when Kirkaldy
held out the castle for Queen Mary, and the savage
Douglas wars surged wildly round its walls.
On the 2nd April, 1572, John Napier, then in his
twenty-second year, was betrothed to Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir ; but as he
had incurred the displeasure of the queen?s party
by taking no active share in her interests, on the
18th of July he was arrested by the Laid of Minto,
and sent a prisoner to the Castle of Edinburgh,
then governed by Sir TVilliam Kirkaldy, who in the
preceding year had bombarded Merchiston with
his iron guns because certain soldiers of the king?s
party occupied it, and cut off provisions coming
north for the use of his garrison. The solitary
tower formed the key of the southern approach
to the city ; thus, whoever triumphed, it became the
object of the opponent?s enmity.

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pike stairs compelled the use of taverns more than
now. There the high-class advocate received his
clients, and the physician his patients-each practitioner
having his peculiar how$ There, too,
gentlemen met in the evening for supper and conversation
without much expense, a reckoning of a
shilling being deemed a high one, so different then
were the value of money and the price of viands. In
1720 an Edinburgh dealer advertises his liquors at
the following prices :-? Neat claret wine at I Id.,
strong at 15d.; white wine at ~ z d . ; Rhenish at
16d.; old hock at zod., all per bottle; cherrysack
at 28d. per pint; English ale at 4d. per
bottle.?
In those days it was not deemed derogatory for
ladies of rank and position to join oyster parties in
some of those ancient taverns; and while there
was this freedom of manner on one hand, we are
told there was much of gloom and moroseness on
the other; a dread of the Deity with a fear of hell,
and of the power of the devil, were the predominant
feelings of religious people in the age subsequent
to the Revolution; while it was thought, so says
the author of ? I Domestic Annals ? (quoting Miss
Mure?s invaluable Memoirs), a mark of atheistic
tendencies to doubt witchcraft, or the reality of
apparitions and the occasional vaticinative character
of dreams.
A country gentleman, writing in 1729, remarks
on ?? the increase in the expense of housekeeping
which he had seen going on during the past twenty
years. While deeming it indisputable that Edinburgh
was now much less populous.than before the
Union, yet I am informed,? says he, ? that there is
a greater consumption since than before the Union
of all -provisions, especially fleshes and wheat.
bread. The butcher owns that he now kills thret
of every species for one he killed before the Union.
. . . . Tea in the morning and tea in tht
evening had now become established. There
were more livery servants, and better dressed.
and more horses than formerly.?
Lord Strichen did not die in the house in thf
close wherein he had dwelt so long, but at Stricher
in Aberdeenshire, on the 15th January, 1775, ir
his seventy-sixth year, leaving behind him the repu
tation of an upright judge. ? Lord Strichen was i
man not only honest, but highly generous; for
after his succession to the family estates, he paic
a large sum of debts contracted by his prede
cessor, which he was not under any obligation tc
pay.?
One of the last residents of note in Strichen?!
Close was Mr. John Grieve, a merchant in thc
Royal Exchange, who held the office of Lorc
?rovost in 1782-3, and again in 1786-7, and who
ras first a Town Councillor in 1765. When a
nagistrate he was publicly horsewhipped by some
r Edinburgh bucks ? of the day, for placing some
emales of doubtful repute in the City Guard
Xouse, under the care of the terrible Corporal
ihon Dhu--an assault for which they were arrested
.nd severely fined.
The house he 6ccupied had an entrance from
itrichen?s Close ; but was in reality one that beonged
to the Regent hlorton, having an entrance
rom the next street, named the Blackfriars Wynd.
3e afterwards removed to a house in Princes
street, where he became one of the projectors of
he Earthen Mound, which was long-as a mistake
n the picturesque-justly stigmatised as the RIud
Brig,? the east side of which was commenced a
ittle to the eastward of the line of Hanover Street,
ipposite to the door of Provost Grieve?s house,
ong ago turned into a shop.
John Dhu, the personage refTrred to, was a wellmown
soldier of the C;ty Guard, mentioned by Sir
Walter Scott as one of the fiercest-looking men he
lad ever seen. ?That such an image of military
violence should have been necessary at the close of
:he eighteenth century to protect the peace of a
British city,? says the editor of ?( Kay?s Portraits,?
?presents us with a strange contrast of what we
lately were and what we have now become. On
me occasion, about the time of the French Revolution,
when the Town Guard had been signalising
the King?s birthday by firing in the Parliament
Square, being unusually pressed and insulted by
the populace, this undaunted warrior turned upon
one peculiarly outrageous member of the democracy,
and, by one blow of his battle-axe, laid him
lifeless on the causeway.?
The old tenement, which occupied the ground
between Strichen?s Close and the Blackfriars Wynd
(prior to its destruction in the fire of zznd February,
18zj), and was at the head of the latter,
was known as ?Lady Lovat?s Land.? It was
seven storeys in height. There lived Primrose
Campbell of Mamore, widow of Simon Lord
Lovat, who was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1747,
and there, 240 years before her time, dwelt Walter
Chepman of Ewirland, who, with Miller, in 1507,
under the munificent auspices of James IV., introduced
the first printing press into Scotland, and on
the basement of whose edifice a house of the Revolution
period had been engrafted.
Though his abode was here in the High Street,
his printing-house was in the Cowgate, from whence,
in 1508, ?The Knightly Tale of Golagras and
Gawane ? was issued ; and this latter is supposed
He died in 1803.

... Street.] STRICHEN?S CLOSE. 255 pike stairs compelled the use of taverns more than now. There the high-class ...

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2 14 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. . [Castle Terrace.
Place, and now chiefly used as a coal dep8t.
Some of the merchants having coal offices here
are among the oldest and most extensive firms in
the city, one having been established so far back
as 1784 and having now business ramifications so
ample as to require a complete system of private
telegraphs for the transmission of orders between
their various offices and coal stores throughout
Edinburgh and the suburbs.
This station is reached from the East Princes
Street Gardens by a tunnel 3,000 feet in length,
passing under the West Church burial ground
and the foundations of several streets, and serves
as a port for the North British system at the West
End.
In its vicinity, on the north side of the way, is
a large Winter Garden at the corner between the
Glasgow Road and Coates Gardens. It was
formed in 1871, and has a southern front 130 feet
in length, with a main entrance 50 feet wide, 30
feet long, and surmounted by a dome 65 feet in
height.
A little westward of it is West Coates Established
Church, built in the later Pointed style, in
1869, with a tower and spire 130 feet in height.
It cost &7,500, and is seated for go0 persons.
The United Presbyterian Churches in Palmerston
Place (the old line of Bell's Mills Loan) and
Dalry Road were opened in 1875, and cost respectively
,f;13,000 and 'L5,ooo. The former is
an imposing edifice in the classic Italian style,
with a hexastyle portico, carrying semicircular
headed arches and flanked by towers IOO feet in
height.
On the gentle swell of the ground, about 600
yards westward of the Haymarket, amid a brilliant
urban landscape, stands Donaldson's Hospital, in
magnitude and design one of the grandest edifices
of Edinburgh, and visible from a thousand points
all round the environs to the westward, north,
and south. It sprang from a bequest of about
~210,000 originally by James Donaldson of
. Broughton Hall, a printer, at one time at the
foot of the ancient Rest Bow, who died in the
year 1830.
It was erected between the years 1842 and 1851,
after designs by W. H. Playfair, at a cost of about
~IOO,OOO, and forms a hollow quadrangle of 258
feet by 207 exteriorly, and 176 by 164 interiorly.
It is a modified variety of a somewhat ornate
Tudor style, and built of beautiful freestone. It
has four octagonal five-storeyed towers, each IZO
feet in height, in the centre of the main front,
and four square towers of four storeys each at the
corners; and most profuse, graceful, and varied
-
ornamentations on all the four fapdes, and much
in the interior.
It was speciallyvisited and much admired by
Queen Victoria in 1850, before it was quite completed,
and now maintains and ' educates poor
boys and girls. The building can accommodate
150 children of each sex, of whom a considerable
per centage are both deaf and dumb. According
to the rules of this excellent institution, those
eligible for admission are declared to be-'' I. Poor
children of the name of Donaldson or Marshall, if
appearing to the governors to be deserving. 2. Such
poor children as shall appear to be in the most destitute
circumstances and the most deserving of admission."
None are received whose parents are able
to support them. The children are clothed and
maintained in the hospital, and are taught such
useful branches of a plain education as will fit the
boys for trades and the girls for domestic service.
The age of admission is from seven to nine, and
that of leavhg the hospital fourteen years. The
Governors are the Lord Justice-General, the Lord
Clerk Register, the Lord Advocate, the Lord Provost,
the Principal of the University, the senior
minister of the Established Church, the ministers
of St. Cuthbert's and others ex-officio.
The Castle Terrace, of recent erection, occupies
the summit of a steep green bank westward of
the fortress and overhanging a portion of the old
way from the West Port to St. Cuthbert's. A
tenement at its extreme north-western corner is
entirely occupied by the Staff in Scotland. Here
are the offices of the Auxiliary Artillery, Adjutant-
General, Royal Engineers, the medical staff, and
the district Con~missariat.
Southward of this stands St. Mark's Chapel,
erected in 1835, the only Unitarian place of
worship in Edinburgh. It cost only Lz,ooo, and
is seated for 700. It has an elegant interior, and
possesses a iine organ. Previous to 1835 its congregation
met in a chapel in Young Street.
Near it, in Cambridge Street, stands the new
Gaelic Free Church, a somewhat village-like erection,
overshadowed by the great mass of the
United Presbyterian Theological Hall. The latter
was built in 1875 for the new Edinburgh or West
End Theatre, from designs by Mr. Pilkington, an
English architect, who certainly succeeded in
supplying an edifice alike elegant and comfortable.
In its fiqt condition the auditorium measured
70 feet square within the walls, and the accommodation
was as follows-pit and stalls, 1,ooo ;
dress circle and private boxes, 400; second
circle, 600; gallery, 1,000; total, 3,000. The
stage was expansive, and provided with all the

... 14 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. . [Castle Terrace. Place, and now chiefly used as a coal dep8t. Some of the merchants ...

Book 4 p. 214
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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 437
Clarkson, Major, 196
Clavering, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm.,
Clavering, Miss Mark-Margaret,
Cleeve, Rev. Mr., 261
Cleghorn, Mr. Thomas, 261
Clerk, Sir George, of Penycuik,
Clerk, John (Lord Eldin) 53
Clerk, Lieutenant-Colonel, 212
Clive, Lord, 378, 379
Coalston, Lord, 75, 168, 366
Cochrane, William, Esq. of Ochil-
Cochrane, Euphemia, 29
Cochrane, Sir John, of Oehiltree,
Cochrane, Mrs., 385
Cockburn, Mr., 263
Cockburn, Baron, 383
Cockburn, Lord, 383, 390
Cockburn, Mrs., 396
Collins, Mr., 66
Colman, Mr., 147, 149
Colquhoun, Sir George, 327
Colquhoun, Lady, 283
Colquhoun, Sir James, 283, 284
Colquhoun, Rev. Mr., 300
Compagni, Chevalier Gerardo, 83
Constable, Mr. Archibald, 137,
144, 210, 220, 221, 245, 304
Cope, Sir John, 22, 65, 93
Corbett, Mr., 258
Cornwallis, Lord, 95, 187
Corriand Sutherland, Messrs., 16,
Coulter, Provost William, 237,
Courtenay, Mr., 376
Courtenay, William,Viscount,381
Coutts, Mr. John, 62
Coutts, Messrs., 180, 181
Coventry, Dr., 250
Covington, Lord, 202, 378
Cowan, Rev. Mr., 156
Craig, Messrs., 284
Craig, Dr. William, 302
Craig, Miss, of Dalmair, 413
Craig, Sir James, 413
Crawford, Sir Hew, 98
Crawford, Miss Mary, 99
Crawford, Miss Lucken, 99
Crawford, Captain, 99
Crawford, Mrs., 114
Crawford, Mr. James, 355
409
409
53
tree, 29, 384
385
293, 294
390
Crawfurd, Nisses, 316
Creech, Bailie, 111, 121, 127,
141, 158, 223, 246, 261, 343
Crichton, Captain Patrick, 237
Crichton, Mr, Alexander, 390
Crichton, Sir Alexander, 392
Crichton, Gall, and Thomson,
Messrs., 391
Cringletie, Lord, 260
Cripps, Mr., 147
Cromwell, Oliver, 96, 280
Crosfield, R. T., 227
Cross and Barclay, Messrs., 22
Cruickshanks, Mr., 58, 249
Culbertson,zRev. Mr., 300
Cullen, Dr., 15, 52, 53, 58, 59,
Cullen, Dr. Henry, 255
Cullen, Lord, 254, 255, 303
Cumberland, Duke of, 81,385,425
Cumming, Miss Sarah, 58
Cumming, Charles, of Roseisle,
131
Gumming, Mr. James, of the
Lyon Office, 246
Currie, Dr., 278
Cutler, Sir John, 409
60, 163, 339, 340
D
DAENDELLG, eneral, 107
Dalhousie, Earl of, 27, 193
Dalhousie, Countess of, 225
Dalkeith, Lord, 214
Dalling, Sir Charles, 373
Ddrymple, David, of Westhall, 72
Dalrymple, Lord Provost, 105
Dalrymple, Mr. William, 307
Dalrymple, Sir Hugh Hamilton
Dalrymple, Miss Janet, 363
Dalrymple, Sir James, Bart., 364
Dalzel, Professor, 44,256, 300
Darrell, Rev. William, 48
Daschkow, Prince, 104
Davidson, John, Esq., 205
Davidson, Rev. Dr., 173, 282, 305,
Davidson, Mr. William, 388
Davidson, Captain William, 390
Davie, Mr. John, 55
Davies, Mr., 228
Dawson, John, Esq., 3811
Dawson, Miss Betty Anne, 381
Degravers, Dr. Peter, 262, 263
Dempster, Mr. George, 217
223, 366
363
320
lempster. Mr. James, 402
levonshire, Duke of, 110, 329
3evonshire, Duchess of, 329
Jhu, John, 119, 305
Dick, Professor Robert, 52
lickenson, -, 172
Dickson, Mr. William, 152
Dickson, Mr. James, 237.
Dickson, Maggie, 263
Dickson, Mr. James, 307
Dickson, Rev. Dr., 373
Digges, Ivlr, 150
Dockray, Eenjamin, 35
Doig, Dr., 323
Donaldson, hfrs. Sophia, 252
Donaldson, Mr. Robert, 261
Donaldson, Mr. James, 261
Donaldson, Rev. Mr., 427
Douglas, Margaret, 73
Douglas, Mr., of Strathenry, 73
Douglas, Sir James, 81
Douglas, Mrs. Major, 105
Douglas, Lord, 169, 170
Douglas, Mr., 271
Douglas, Rev. Neil, 427
Douglas Cause, the, 20, 379
Dowie, Johnnie, 246
Dreghorn, Lord, 387
Drennan, Dr., 427 .
Drummond, Bishop Abernethy,
Drummond, Rev. William Aureol
Drummond, John, Esq., 213
Drummond, Jane, 213
Drummond, George, Esq., 224
Drummond, Mr. Home, 233
Drummond, Provost, 244
Drysdale, Rev. Dr., 299,300, 321,
Dumfries and Stair, Countess of,
Duff, Alexander, Esq., 279
Duff, Miss Jane, 279
Dun, Dr. Patrick, 339
Dunbar, Mr., advocate, 155
Dunbar, Sir James, Bart., 30
Dunbar, Miss, 30
Duncan, Alexander, Esq., 360
Duncan, Sir Henry, 363
Duncan, Lord Viscount, 375
Duncan, Dr., 44, 255
Dundag Sir Laurence, 42,119,285
Dundas, Thomas, 42
Dundaa, Lord, of Aske, Yorkshire,
Dundas, Miss Dorothea, 75
Hay, 179
322
72
42

... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 437 Clarkson, Major, 196 Clavering, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm., Clavering, Miss ...

Book 8 p. 610
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Augustus seems peculiarly applicable to the Edinburgh
of Jsmes V., and still more to that of
James 11.
?He imprisoned Paris in a Circular chain of
great towers, high and solid,? says the author of
(? Notre Dame j ? ?for more than a century after
this the houses went on pressing upon each other,
accumulating and rising higher and higher. They
.got deeper and deeper; they piled storeys on
storeys j they mounted one upon another j they
shot up monstrously tall, for they had not room to
grow breadthwise; each sought to raise its head
above its neighbour to have a little air ; every open
space became filled up, and disappeared. The
houses at length leaped over the wall of Philip
Augustus, and scattered themselves joyously over
the plain. Then they did what they liked, and
cut themselves gardens out of the fields.?
And of the old walled city the welI-known lines
of Scott are most apposite :-
? Such dusky grandeur clothed the height,
When the huge castle holds its state,
Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky,
Piled deep and massy, close and high,
And all the steep slope down,
Mine own romantic town ! ?
New Edinburgh appeals to us in a different
sense. It tells peculiarly in all its phases 01
modern splendour, wealth, luxury, and all the arts
of peace, while ?in no other city,? it has been
said, ?? will you find so general an appreciation oi
books, arts, music, and objects of antiquarian
interest. It is peculiarly free from the taint of the
ledger and counting-house. It is a Weimar with.
out a Goethe-Boston without its twang.?
This is the Edinburgh through the noble street:
of which Scott limped in his old age, white-haired
and slow, leaning often on the arm of Lockhari
.or the greyplaided Ettrick Shepherd; the Edin.
burgh where the erect and stalwart form of thr
athletic ?? Christopher North,? with his long lock:
of grizzled yellow-his ?tawny mane,? as hr
called them-floating on the breeze, his keen blur
eyes seemingly fixed on vacancy, his left hanc
planted behind his back, and his white neck
cloth oft awry, strode daily from Gloucester Plaa
to the University, or to ?Ebony?s,? to meet Jefiey
Rutherford, Cockbum, Delta, Aytoun, Edwarc
Forbes, and Carlyle ; the Edinburgh where Simpson
the good, the wise, and the gentle, made his dis
covery concerning chloroform, and made his mark
too, as ?the grand old Scottish doctor,? whosi
house in Queen Street was a focus for all thi
learned and all the Ziterati of Europe and Americi
-the Edinburgh of the Georgian and Victorian age
We propose to trace the annals of its glorious
University, from the infant establishment, founded
by the legacy of Robert Bishop of Orkney, in
1581, and which was grafted on the ancient edifice
n the Kuk-of-Field, and the power of which, as
years went on, spread fast wherever law, theology,
medicine, and art, were known. The youngest
znd yet the noblest of all Scottish universities,
:nrolliug yearly the greatest number of students, it
ias been the dma mater of many men, who,
n every department of learning and literature,
iave proved themselves second to none; and
?kom the early days when Rollock taught, to those
when it rose into repute as a great school of
medicine under the three Munroes, who held with
honour the chair of anatomy for 150 years, and
when, in other branches of knowledge, its fame
yew under Maclaurin, Black, Ferguson, Stewart,
Hamilton, Forbes, Syme, and Brewster, we shan
;race its history down to the present day, when
its privileges *cl efficiency were so signally aukmented
by the Scottish University Act of 1858.
Nor shall we omit to trace the origin and development
of the stage in Edinburgh, from the
time when the masks or plays of Sir David Lindsay
of the Mount were performed in the open
air in the days of James V., ?when weather
served,? at the Greensidelwell beneath the Calton
Hill, and the theatre at the Watergate, when ?his
Majesty?s servants from London ? were patronised
by the Duke of Albany and York, then resident
in Holyrood, down to the larger establishments in
the Canongate, under the litigious Tony Astdn,
and those of later years, which saw the performances
of Kean, Kemble, and Mrs. Siddons, and
the production of the Waverley dramas, under the
auspices of Terry, who, as Scott said, laughingly,
had ?? temfied ? his romances into plays.
Arthur?s Seat and the stupendous craigs, the
name of which is so absurdly and grotesquely
corrupted into Salisbury,? alone are unchanged
since those pre-historic days, when, towering amid
the wilderness, they overlooked the vast forest of
oaks that stretched from :he pastoral hills of Braid
to the sea-the wood of Drumsheugh, wherein
roamed the snow-white Caledonian bull, those
ferocious Caledonian boars, which, as Martial tells
us, were used to heighten the torments of unhappy
sufferers on the cross; the elk, the stag, and the
wolf; and amid which rose the long ridgy slopethe
&?in-that formed the site of the future old
city, terminating in the abrupt bluff of the Castle
rock. There, too, rose the bare round mass of
the Calton, the abode of the fox and hare, and
where the bustard had its nest amid the gorse;

... seems peculiarly applicable to the Edinburgh of Jsmes V., and still more to that of James 11. ?He ...

Book 1 p. 7
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Princes Street. THE sco-rr MONUMENT. 127
- -
Beattie, James Thomson, and John Home, adorn
the west front j those of Queen Mary, King James
features of this beautiful and imposing structure,
the design of a self-taught Scottish artisan, The
four principal arches supporting the central tower
resemble those beneath the rood-tower of a cruciform
church, while the lower arches in the dia-
! gonal abutments, with their exquisitely-cut details,
resemble the narrow north aisle of Melrose.
? The groined roof over the statue is of the same
design as the roof of the choir of that noble abbey
church so niuch frequented and so enthusiastically
admired by Sir Walter. The pillars, canopies
of niches, pinnacles, and other details, are chiefly
copied from the same ruin, and magnificent views
of the city in every direction are to be had from
its lofty galleries.
It cost A15,650, and from time to time statuettes
of historical and other personages who figure
in the pages of Scott have been placed in its
numerous niches. Among these are Prince Charles
Edward, who directly faces Princes Street, in the
Highland dress, with a hand on his sword; the
Lady of the Lake; the Last Minstrel and Meg
Merrilies-these are respectively ou the four
centres of the first gallery; Mause Headrigg,
Dominie Sampson, Meg Dods, and Dandie
Dinmont, are respectively on the south, the west,
the north, and the east, of the fourth gallery ; King
James VI., Magnus Troil, and Halbert Glendinning,
occupy the upper tier of the south-west
buttress ; Minnie Trofi, George Heriot, and Bailie
Nicol Jarvie, are on the lower tier of it; Amy
Robsart, the Earl of Leicester, and Baron
Bradwardine, are on the upper tier of the northwest
buttress ; Ha1 0? the Wynd, the Glee Maiden,
and Ellen of Lorn, are on the lower tier thereof;
Edie Ochiltree, King Robert I., and Old Mortality,
are on the upper tier of the north-east buttress;
Flora MacIvor, Jeanie Deans, and the Laird of
Dumhiedykes, are on the lower tier of it; the
Sultan Saladin, Friar Tuck, and Richard Cceur de
Lion, are on the upper tier of the south-east buttress
; and Rebecca the Jewess, Diana Vernon, and
Queen Mary, are on its lower tier.
On the capitals and pilasters supporting the roof
are some exquisitely cut heads of Scottish poets :
those of Robert Bums, Robert Fergusson, James
Hogg, and Allan Ramsay, are on the west front;
those of George Buchanan, Sir David Lindsay,
Robert Tannahill, and Lord Byron, are on the
south front; those of Tobias Smollett. Tames sonal form of memorial-namely, great genius,
distinguished patriotism, and the stature and
figure of a demi-god.? To his contemporaries
chisel of Sir John Steel, procured at the cost of
;62,000, was inaugurated under the central arches
in 1846.
Sir Walter is represented sitting with a Border
plaid over his left shoulder, and his favourite highland
staghound, Maida, at his right foot.
A staircase in the interior of the south-west
cluster of pillars leads to the series of galleries to
which visitors are admitted on the modest payment
of twopence. It also gives access to the Museum
room, which occupies the body of the tower, and
therein a number of interesting relics were
deposited at its inauguration in April, 1879.
These are too numerous to give in detail, but
among them may be mentioned a statuette of Sir
Walter, by Steel, a bust of George Kemp, the illfated
architect, with his first pencil sketch of the
monument, and a number of models and paintings
of historical interest ; and on the walls are placed
eight alto-relievo portraits in bronze (by J.
Hutchison, R.S.A.) of Scottish characters of
mark, including James V., James VI., Queen
Mary, John Knox, George Buchanan, the Regent
Moray, the Marquis of Montrose, and Charles I.
In the cdlection are some valuable letters in
the handwriting of Sir Walter Scott ; and the walls
are adorned with some of the old flint muskets,
swords, and drums of the ancient City Guard.
The statue of Professor John Witson, ?? Christopher
North,? at the western corner of the East
Gardens, is the result of a subscription raised
shortly after his death in 1854. A committee for
the purpose was appointed, consisting of the Lord
Justice General (afterwards Lord Colonsay), Lord
Neaves, Sir John Watson Gordon, and others,
and three years after Sir John Steel executed the
statue, which is of bronze, and is a fine representation
of one who is fresh in the recollection of
thousands of his countrymen. The careless ease
of the professois ordinary dress is adopted; a
plaid which he was in the habit of wearing
supplies the drapery, and the lion-like head and
face, fill of mental and muscular power, thrown
slightly upward and backward, express genius,
while the figure, tall, massive, and athletic, corres
ponds to the elevated expression of the countenance..
At its inauguration the Lord President Inglis said,
happily, that there was ?in John Wilson every
element which gives a man a claini to this per-
I., King James V., and Drummond of Hawthornden,
are on the north front.
The white marble statue of Scott, from the
this statue vividly recalls Wilson in his every-day
aspect, as he was wont to appear in his class
room or on the platform in the fervour of his

... Street. THE sco-rr MONUMENT. 127 - - Beattie, James Thomson, and John Home, adorn the west front j those ...

Book 3 p. 127
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442 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Murray, Amelia Jane, 244
Murray, Mr., 326
Murray, Sir Patrick, 575
Murray, Lord George, 420
lfurray, Lady, 420
M'Allister, Rev. John, 154
Ivf'Callum, Miss, 242
M'Cleish, T., 426
M'Cuaig, Rev. Duncan, 154
M'Cubbin, Rev. Dr., 170
M 'Dallagh, Patrick, 346
M'Dallagh, Mrs. Bridget, 346
M'Donald, Rev. John, 154
M'Donald, John, Esq., 170
M'Donnell, Mrs., 183
M'Dowall, Patrick, Esq., 225
M'Dowall, James, Esq., 225
M'Dowall, Colonel Robert, 226
M'Dowall, Mr. William, 226
M'Dowall, Mr. Charles, 226
M'Dowall, Williani, Esq., 312
M'Dowall, Miss Elizabeth, 312
M'Dowall, William, Esq., o
M'Domall, Miss Graham, 396
M'Farquhar, Mr., 210
M'Grugar, Mr., 15
M'Eay, Hon. Miss, 173
M'Eenzie, Mrs., 183
M'Kenzie, Murray Kenneth, 295
M'Kenzie, Mr. Henry, 302, 303
M'Lauchlan, Rev. James, 154
M'Lean, Mr., of Ardgower, 196
M'Lean, Mr. William, 300
M'Lehose, Mrs., the Clarinda oj
M'Leod, -, Esq., of Drimnin, 96
M'Phail, Miles, 205
M'Queen, John, Esq., 167
M'Queen, Lord Justice-clerk,
M'Queen, Robert Dundas, 170
M'Queen, Miss Mary, 170
M'Queen, Miss Catherine, 170
M'Ritchie, John, Esq., 359
Garthland, 396
29 6
Burns, 304
307, 350, 351, 392
N
NAIRN, Lord, 420
Nairne, Sir William, Bart., 217
Nairne, Mr., Alexander, 217
Nairne, Catherine, 218, 219
Napier, William sixth Lord, 302
Napier, Lady Marion Shaw, 302
Napier, Francis Lord, 196, 211,
409, 423
Napier, Professor, 210
Napier, John, of Merchiston, 286
Napier, Captain Charles, R.N.
Neil, Mr. John, 241
Newton, Lord, 169, 209,261,39
Nicol, Mrs., 152
Nicol, Andrew, 427
Nicholai, the celebrated Germa
bookseller, 173
Bicholson, Sir William, 234
Nicholson, Miss Christian, 224
Nisbet, William, Esq., of Dirk
Nisbet, Miss Wilhelmina, 212
Nisbet, Rev. Mr., 93
Nisbet, Miss Mary, 93
Nisbet, Rev. Dr., 94
Nisbet, Lord, 364
Nivernois, Duc de, 70
North, Lord, the caddy, 96
North, Lord, 100, 119
Northesk, Earl of, 197, 283
Norton, Lieutenant, 410
Nutter, Robert, Esq., 192
404
409
ton, 2, 82, 212, 234
0
~CHILTREE, Edie, 189
3gilvie, Thomas, Esq., 218
3gilvie, Lieut. Patrick, 219
Igilvie, Sir William, Bart., 279
Igilvie, Mr. George, 303
)@vie, Captain, 309
Igilvie, Lady, 420
l0dvy, James, of Auchiries, 252
I'Hara, General, 235
)Idbuck, Jonathan, 417
YNeilI, John, 278
)range, Prince of, 107, 298
I d , Lord Chief Baron, 170, 191
hd, Miss Elizabeth, 170
Mow, Count, 104
hock, Robert, 353
Isborne, Alexander, Esq., 344
hwald, James, Esq., 299
Iswald, Mrs., 206
Iughton, Sir Adolphus, 295
P
'AGAN, William, 141
'aganini, Signior, 293
'almer, Mr., 147, 149
'almer, Rev. Thomas Fyshe, 168,
307, 309, 427
'almer, Miss, 399
Panmure, Lord, 402, 403
Paoli, General, 184
Paterson, Mr. Alexander, 261
Paton, Mr. Hngh, 193
Paton, Mr. John, 244
Paton, Mr. George, 288
Patoun, John, Esq., 312
Patoun, Miss Elizabeth, 312
Pattison, Mr. William, 300
Paul, Robert, Esq., 415
Paul, Rev. John, 415
Paul, Williani, Esq., 415
Paul, Henry, Esq., 415
Peddie, Rev. Dr. Jarnes, 300,
Peebles, Peter, 427
Peel, Sir Robert, 351
Pembroke, Lord, 71
Pennant, Thomas, 245
Penney, Williani, Esq., 373
Percy, Thomas, D.D., 245, 288
Perth, Duke of, 420
Peter, Mr. Alexander, 224
Phin, Mr. Charles, 237
Phipp, Colonel, 91
Pickering, Miss Mary, 31
Pinkerton, hIr. John, 247
Pitcairn, David, Esq., 93
Pitcairn, Miss Eleanor, 93
Pitcairn, Mr. John, 300
Pitcairn, Mr. Alexander, 300
Pitsligo, Lord, 180, 251,252, 253,
420
Pitt, Hon. William, 74, 101, 183,
222, 285, 308, 380, 381
Playfair, Professor, 56, 79
Plenderleith, Rev. Mr., 282
Poland, King of, 328, 329
Polkemrnet, Lord, 298
Pollock, Mr., 16
Portland, Duke of, 381
Portland, Duchess of, 390
'ortmore, Lord, 191
'orteous, Captain, 19
'otter, Sir John, 260
'otter, Bishop, 275
'ratt, Samuel Jackson, 122
'riestley, Dr., 340
'ringle, Sir John, F.R.S., 21, 81,
'ringle, Sir James, 81
'ringle, Mr. John, 237
'ringle, Mr. Dunbar, 261
'ringle, Mr. Sheriff, 806, 375
'ringle, Mark, Esq., 317, 319
'rovence, Count de, 215
334
249

... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Murray, Amelia Jane, 244 Murray, Mr., 326 Murray, Sir Patrick, 575 Murray, Lord ...

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16171,782 283, 335, 343 343
III, 140; dew of, II. 169
vanous buildings in, 11. 172; it!
early residents, 11. 166
St. Andrew Street 11. I 160, 161
St. Andrew's Stree;, LeitcIII. 226
m71228 234
St. Ann, the tailors' patron saint, I.
23
St. Rnne-s altar Holyrood 11. 58
in St. Giles'sbhurch I1.'266
St. Anne's altar, St.' Cuthbert'r
Church, 111. 94
St. Anne's Yard, 11. 76,79,3~3,3q
St. Anthony's Chapel Arthur s Seat,
I. 3 6 ; ruinsof, li. *3m *321
St. Anthony's Fire, or &ipelas,
111. 215 216
St. Anthoiy's Hermitage, I. m, 11.
303, 19, 111. 216
St. Ant%ony's Port, Leith, 111.151
SI. Anthonys preceptory, Leith,
its seal,
St. Anthonir Street, Leith, 111.
St. Anthony's Well, 11. 312, 319,
St. Anthony's Wynd,Ldth,III.z~s
St. Augustine Chapel of 11.53
St. Augustine4 Church i. zgz.zg4
St. Bennet's, Greenhill,' 111. 54
SL Bernard's Chapel, 111.75
St. Bernard's Church, 111. 75
St. Bernard's Crescent, 111. 71. p,
St. Bernard's parish, 11. 92, 135,
St. Bernard's Row, 111. 94, 97
St. Bernard's Well, III.74,75. *76,
178, 17% 2yi, ~2
111. 131, 175, 176, 215
111. '216 217 298
"178 V a
322
73, 79,81
111.77
78
58,251. !II. 49
0s LI. #5
St. Catharine's altar, Holymod, 11.
St. Cathenne of Sienna, Convenl
St. Cecilii hall, I. 151, *a5z, II.
St. Christopher's altar, St. Giles's
St. Clair Lord 1. 16g
St. Clai;of St.'Clair, General, 111.
175
Church, 11. 264, 111. a
n z
St. Clair of Roslin William, 11.
354 (sec sinclair dar~ William)
St. colme Street '11. 105
St. Columba's Ekcooal Church. I. . *
9 5 .
Church, 11. 6 3 , 264
St. Crispin's altar, St. Giles's
St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham,
11. 13r
295
St. Cuthben's chapel of ease, 11.
St. Cuthben's Church. Pkatc I. I.
incumbents, 11. 131;. the old
manse, 11. 132 ;demolition of the
old church, 11. 134, 136 ; erection
of the new building, 11. 134 ; the
old and new churches, 11. 131
'133, * 136, * 137 ; burials unde:
thesteeple 11. 135; theoldpoorhouse,
11.'135, 111. 83
St. Cuthbert's Free Church, 11.225
St. Cuthbert's Lane, 11. 335
St. David Street, 11. 16r, '65
St. David's Church, 11. ar6
St. Eligius, patron of the hammermen,
11.962
St. Eloi, 11. 263: carved groin
stone from Chapel of, St. Giles's
Church, I. * 147, 11. 262
St. Eloi's eo-. 11. 262
St. George's 'Church: Charlotte
St. Georie's Episco$l chapel, 11.
Square 11. 115, 126 173, 175
'90
St. Geor e's Free Church, 11. 138,
St. George's Well 111. 75
St. Giles, the pation saint of Edinburgh,
I. 138, 141, 254: seal of,
I. * 140 ; procgsiou of the saint's
relics I. 140
St. GilehChurch, 1. *I, 42,47, so,
51, 52.55, ~ 6 7 8 ~ 9 4 , IV. xm, Iax,
123, 138-147, 152, 18% 186, rga,
11. 15, 957 234, 3167 37% 111. 31,
z10,115. 75
GENERAL INDEX.
51, 173, 184; its early history
I. 138 139; the Norman door
way, i. 139, 141' the Preston
relic, I. 140; Sir DAvid Lindesaj
on the rocessionists, I. 141,
chapel ofsobert Duke of Albany:
I. 142; funeral of the Regent
Murray, I. 143; the "gude
Regent's aisle," rb. ; the Assem.
blyaisle, I. 144; disputes between
am- VI. and the Church party, I. 144,146'departureofJamesVI.
I. 146 ; Haddo's hole, ib. ; thi
Napier tomb, id. ; the spire and
lantern, I. '144, 146; theclock
and bells, I. 146 ; the Krames, I.
147 ; restorations of 1878 ib. ;
the or an, ib. ; plan of St. kiles's
Churcf I. *1452 the High
Church' 1. *I 8 149; removal
of hone;: from f f. 384
3t. Giles's Chdchyard, I. 148, 149,
157 11. 379
31. Ghes's Grange, 111. 47, 49, 52,
54 ;, its vicar, 111. 49
3t. Giles's Kirkyard, 11. 239
3t. GilesStreethow PrincaStreet).
I. 286 11. 11;
3t. Gd&s Street, Leith, 111. 223,
226 234
3t. Jimes's chapel, Newhaven, 111.
216, 295, 298, p; remains of,
3t. James'schapel,Leith, III.*240,
111. 297
243
3t. ams'sOpw=opalchapel 11.184
jt.jame~'sEp~opalChurcd,Leith,
111. *241, 243
3t. James's Square, I. 366. 11. 176, . _ _ . .~
19.
3t, lohn the Baotist's Chaoel. 111. . . si, 53
St. John's altar, St. Giles's Church,
II.26?,65
3t.John sCatholicChapel, Brighton
St. Johks chapel, Burghmuir, 111.
Place 111. 147
126, 134, d, 338, 383
3t. John's Established Church, I.
291
Leith 111. *n44
jt. John's Established Church,
jt. Johr;'s Free Church I. z 5, 314
Zt. John's Free Church,'Leiti, 111.
j t T p Hill I. 82
It. ohn's Stdet, 1. 325, 11. 2, 9,
jt. Katherine of Scienna, Convent
2, 53, 329 ; ruins of,
jt. Kathanne's altar, Kmk-of-Field,
jt. Katharine's altar, St. Margaret's
It. Katherine's chapel, Currie, 111.
jt. Katherine's estate, 111. 330
it. Katharine's Place, 111. 54
it. Katharine's Thorn, 11. 363,
it. Katherine's Well, Liberton, 111.
25, 26 27, 31, 111. 63
of 111. 51
IiI. *S4 ; 12 history, ib. ; seal of,
111. *55.
111. I
chapel, Libaton, 111. 53
332
111.54
328, 3291 330
chapel of I 383, 384
it. Leonard, Suburb of, I. 382;
it. Leonard's 'craigs, I. 75, III. 27,
142
it. Leonard's Hill, I. 55, 384, 11.
34 ; combat near, I. 383
it. Leonard's, Leith, 111. 227
it. Leonard's Kirkyard, 11.379
it. Leonards Loan, I. 383
it. Leonard's Well, 111. 89
it. Leonard's Wynd, 11. 54
it. Luke's Free Church, II.r53,.r55
it. Magdalene's Chapel, I. 240
it. Margaret, I. 16, 18, I
it. Margaxet's Chapel, adinburgh
Castle, I. 19, *zo, 76; chancel
arch of I. *24
it. Margset'sconvent, III.45,'48
it. Margaret's Loch, 11. 319
it. Margaret's Tower, Edinburgh
it. Margaret's Well, Edinburgh
Cade. I. 36, 48, 78
Castle, I. 49
St. Margaret's Well, Restalrig, 11.
St. LIC~ chapel &nLtarian), II.
11, 313, 111. I2 131
214
St. Mark's Episcopal chapel, Port*
bello 111. 147 *153
St. M L j Magdhene chapel, New
Hailes 111. 149, 366
St. M& Magdalene's Chapel, 11.
258, 261, 26a *a64' mterior 11.
264 : tabled on the walls,' 11.
262 *268
St. MkMagdalene's Hospital, 11.
26r, 262
St. Mary's Cathedral 11. 116, 211;
exterior and interior, 11. *ZIZ,
'213
St. Mary'sChapel, Niddry's Wynd,
St. M&s Ckpel, broughton
Street, I. z6z
St. Mary's Church, South Leith,
111. 130, 135, 182, 196, *217,218,
* z ~ o 222 244 ; its early hatory,
I. 247 251, 298 11. 26
III.;I8 :19
St. Mary'; Convent I. 107,382
St. Mary's Free Ch$ch 11. 184
St. Mary's Hos ita1 I. :97
St. Mary's-in-t\e-$ield 11. '34
251, 252, III. 1 7 ; its history:
111. I, a
St. Mary's parish church, 11. 191 ;
school-house, 111. 87
St. Mary's Port, 1. 382
St. Mary's Roman Catholic chapel,
St. Maryi Street' I. p 11. 238
St. Mary'sWynd,' 1.38, A, 217,219,
274. 275 * 29.298,2 I 335,375
382, 11. ;3, 249.~84~1%. 6 ; door!
head in 1. *3m
St Matth:w'sWell, Roslio,III. 3 I
St. Michael's Church, Inveres?c,
St. Nicholas Church North Leith,
111. 168, 176, 187 :its demolition
by Monk, 111. 187 255
St. Nicholas Wyud, fII. 256
St. Ninian's altar, St. Giles's
Church, 111. 119
St. Ninian's Chapel, I. 364, 111.72
St. Ninian's Church, North Leith,
11. 47, 111. 167 *I# 251 aga;
pe,tv tyrann in, iii. 25;; its
ministers IIE 254, 2 5 5 ; now a
g r a n a r y , ' ~ ~ ~ . 254,255
St. Niuian's Churchyard 111. *256
Sc. Ninian's Free Churih, North
Leith, 111.255
Si. Ninian's Row, I. 366,II. 103,176
St. Patrick Square, 11. 339
St. Patrick Street, I. 366, 11. 346
St. Patricks Romao Catholic
Church, 1. 278, 11. 249
St.Paul's Chapel,CarmbWsClo,
I. 239 *a40
St. Pads Episcopal Chapel, I. 278
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, York
Place, 11.60,188,198,248
St. Paul's Wark, 11. 101
St. Peter'sChurch,RoxburghPlace,
11. '79' school 11. 326
111.149
11. 338
St. Peter's Close 11. 255
St. Peter'sEpiscdpal Church,II1.51
St. Peter's Pend, 11. 255
St. Roque, 111.47 ; legends of, 111.
46,47
St. Roque's Chapel, Rurghmuir,
111.47, ?g : ruins of, Ill. *48
St. Roque s Day 111. 47
St. Roque's KirI&rd, 11. 379
St. Salvator's altar, St. Giles's
St. Staphhs Church, 111. * 81,83,
St. Thomas's Epkopal Chapel, 11.
Church 111. 35
85
. . - .
St?homas's Church, Leith, 111.
St. Tkdudna, 111. r p ; Church of,
St. Vincen't strhet, III. 83
Stafford Street, 11. 211
Stage, The, in Edinburgh, I.
247 248 '253
III.rz8 130 '3'
352
Stagesoaches, Establiihment of,
11.15, 16,235,236; the Glasgow,
11.121
Stained-glass window P a r l i i e n t
House 1. 159 Plati6
stainh0u;e. La;d of, I. 1:9*
389
Stair, Earlof, I. p, 94,37 , 11. 38,
95, 167, 327, 348, 358, h. 3%
367
E.W~ Stair, I. 103,
Stair, Eliiheth Countess of 1. xrn
-106 17r, 111. 41 ; the "Iavic
mirrd "1.103; hermarriagewrth
Stamp duty, In0uence of the, on
newspapers, I. 284,285
Stamp Office, I. 234,267
Stamp Office Close, I. *ng, 231,
232 ; execution there, 1.2%
Standard Life Assurance Company,
11. '3
Stantied tragedy The I. 281
ztanley, Star and the Garter" acto:, 1. tavern ;30 I. 187
Steam communication iivd~eith to
Stedman Dr. John 11.301
Steele, sir Richard,,l: 106
Steil Pate, the musicin, I. 251
Stenkor Stenhouse, 111.339
Steveu Rev. Dr,, the historm of
the high School, 11.11 287, a88,
289, 291:296,35Sr 3&?11- 135
Stevenlaws Close 11.242
Stevenson, Dr. Ahibald, 11. 144
147
Stevenson, Duncan, and the Beacm
newspaper, I. 181, 182 11.241
Stevenson Dr. John I d 18 19~27
Stewart &hibald 'Lord Phvost,
I. 318, 322, 32;) 11. 280, 283;
house of I. 318 * 325
Stewart ojAllanbLk, Sir John, 11.
26
Stewart Sir Alexander, I. 195
Stewart' of Colmess, Sir J ~ C S ,
Provost, 11. 281,111. 340
Stewart, Sir ames, I. 1r7
stewart of &trees Sir Jmi-
I. 229, 111. 34-3;~ ; his h o d
in Advocate's Close, I. *223, Ill.
30' Sir Thomas ib.
Stewah Sir Lewis '111. 364
Stewariof Monk&, Sir Williim,
Murder of I. 196,258, 259, 74
Stewart of 'Grantully, Sir john,
Stewart of Grantully, Sir George,
11. 350; his marriage, 111.90
Stewart, Dugald, I. 106, 156, 11.
17, 39, 120, 168, 195, m~r 2 3,
111.20,55; gray of II. 29 ; his
father, 111.20 ; h e cife, 11. 206 :
her brother, 11. 207; Dugalds
monument 11. III
Stewart Jades 111.79
Stewart'of Gariies, Alexander, 11.
225
Stewart Belshes of Invermay, Sir
John, 11. 383.
Stewart, Daniel, 111. 67; hospital
of, id.; ne* from Drumsheugh
London, 111. 2x1
11. 97 117, 128,13 , 151,175, ZIO
Steel, si; John,scuiptor, I. 159,372.
11. 351
grounds, 111. *68
road, 'I. 3%
3 d
111.221
Stewart Robert, Abbot of Holy-
Stewart of Castle Stewart 11. 157
Stewart ofGarth, Genera;, 11. 150,
Stewart of Strathdon, Sir Robert,
Stewart Colonel ohn, 11. 350
stewart' hptain Eeorge, 11.257
Stewart: Lieut.Colone1 Matthew,
Stewart, Captain James, I. 195, I@
Stewart of W t r e e s , I. 6a
Stewart, Execution of Alexander,
Stewart Lady Margaret 111. n I
Stewart'of lsle Mn., 11.' 162
Stewart, Nichblson, the actor, I.
Stewartfield manor-how, 111. 88,
Stewart s Hospital, 11. 63, 111.67
Stewarth oysteehouse, i. I m
Stirling, Enrls "f T I ? E
Stirliig
stirling gi ~ e w a I. 44 42 11.223
stirliig: sir w&, Lord Rovost,
Stirling of Kek, Sir William, 11.
158 ; h e daughter, 111.35
Stirling, General Graham, I I. 153
Stirling, Mrs., actRsq I. 35f
11. d
a youth, 11. 231
343
91, * 93
11. ~ $ 2 283, 391
I. 374

... 283, 335, 343 343 III, 140; dew of, II. 169 vanous buildings in, 11. 172; it! early residents, 11. ...

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