... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
trifle in question has been honoured with public approbation for many years past, and ...
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PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES .
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Abercromby. Sir Ralph. K . B., giving ...
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... HIGH STREET. 229
Advocate’s Close, which bounds the ancient tenement we have been describing on the
east, ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. nvarrender Pam.
gables, covered with masses of luxuriant ivy, surrounded
by fine old ...
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... directly at the south-eastern base of Arthur's
Seat, and has long'been one of the daily ...
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... OLD .4ND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
park and ample stabling; and there are always
two batteries, with guns and ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street.
THE mansion of the Earls of Iiyndford immediately
adjoined that of the ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
TL ANCIENT MAPS AND VIEWS OF EDINBURGH.
1544.-The frequent reference to maps of ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Cunie.
East of St. Katherine?s is a rising ground now
called Grace Mount, and of old ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Cunie.
East of St. Katherine?s is a rising ground now
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![APPENDIX. 441
up and down the church till the end of the sermon. When sermon was done, Chiealy went out before the
President, and gained his closs head, where he saluted him going down, as the President did Chiealy. My
Lord Csstlehill and Daniel Lockhart convoyed [the President] a peace down the closs, and talked a while with
him, after which they both departed. The President called back the last, and whilst Daniel waa returning,
Dalrey approached, to whom Daniel said, ‘ I thought you had been att London,’ without receiving any other
answer than that He was there now.’ Daniel offered to take him by the hand, but the other shufaed by him,
and comeing close to the President‘s back discharged his pistol, before that any suspected his design: The
bullet going in beneath the right shoulder, and out att the left pap, was battered on the wall.
“ The President immediately turned about, looked the murderer grievously in the face ; and then finding himself
beginning to faile, he leant to the wall, and said, ‘Hold me, Daniel ; hold me,’ These were his last worda
He was carried immediately to his own house, and waa almost dead before he could reach it Daniel and the
President’s Chaplain apprehended, in the meantime, Ualrey, who own’d the fact, and never offered to fie. He
was carried to the guard, kept in the Weigh-house, and afkrwarda taken to prison%
“ The President’s Ladie, hearing the shot and a cry in the closs, got in her smock out of her bed, and took
the dead bodie in her arms, at which sight swounding she wa9 carried to her chamber. The corps were laid in
the same room where he used to consult, The first of Aprile a Meeting of the States was call’d, att nine of the
clock, anent the Murtherer. The Provost of Edinburgh and two Bailliffs, with the Earle of EmPs deputys,
were admitted to concurr if they pleased. Two of each bench of the meeting, viz the Earle of Eglinton and
Glencarne, Sir Patrick Ogilvy of Pqne and Blacbarroure, Barons, Sir John Dalrymple and Mr William
Hamilton, Burgesses, were impower’d to sit on the Assii, and to cause torture Dalrey, to know if any other waa
accessarie to the murther. The President’s friends, out of tenderness to the Ladie and childring, did not insiit
upon the crime of assassination of a Judge and Privy Counsellor. Calderwood, designed Writter in Edinburgh,
upon suspicion was imprisoned. He waa waiting at the closs head when the shot was given, and fled thereafter.
He had been likewise seen with Dalrey at the Abbey the Saturday before, following the President aa he came
from Duke Hamilton’s lodgeing.
‘‘ The Court sat down as the States rose. The Murtherer was brought in, who did not deny the fact, and
confesst that none was accessarie. He got the boots and the thumekins Dureing the torture he confessed
nothing. Cardross and Polwart were against the tortureing. Calderwood was brought in also, but confessed
nothing. Sir George was buried in the Gray Friers Church, upon the south side. He was a great favourer of
the King’s, no friend to the Romau Catholic& and an open enimie of Nelford’s, whom he regarded as the
author of all the troubles hrought upon the King and Country.”
The Lady Grange, the romantic story of whose captivity in the Island of St Kilda has since furnished
materials both for the novelist and the historian, was a daughter of the assassin, Chiedey of Dahy, and is said
to have owed her strange fate to the fierce and Findictive spirit she inherited from her father. Lord Grange
entered deeply into the politics of the time, and his wife is believed to have obtained possession of 8ome of the
secrets of hia party, the disclosure of which would have involved the leaders in great danger, if not in ruin.
This accounts for the ready co-operation he found from men otherwise unlikely to have shared in such an abduction.
Lady Grange is said to have accelerated the fate which her husband meditated for her, by reminding
him, in a fit of passion, “ that she was Chieslie’s daughter,” a threat that implied he might experience a fate
simiir to that of the Lord President if he provoked her anger, A curious account of the abduction and confinement
of Lady Grange in the Western Isles, will be found in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1817.
In the Archaeologia Scotica (voL iv. p. 18), Father Hay’s narrative is accompanied with the following
letter from Sir Walter Scott, addressed to E. W. A. Drummond Hay, Esq., Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries,
in reference to the finding of the assassin’s bones at Dalry. The reader will see that it greatly diEera
from the account we have given (page 179.) The latter is derived from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Eaq.,
a better authority, we have no hesitation in saying, on questions of fact and antkpzrian rureurch, than
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... 441
up and down the church till the end of the sermon. When sermon was done, Chiealy went out before ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
of Eglinton, resided during her latter years, and was visited by Lady Jane ...
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... CASTLE. 129
Mait.land’s time, and is divided into two stories by a floor which conceals the upper ...
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... 463
Douglas, Daunie, 239
Cause, 163
Douglas, Heron, & Co.’s Bank, 284
Dow Craig, Calton Hill, ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
any reasonable doubt entertahed, it shows that both King James VI. aud his Queen, Anne ...
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![Waniston.] LORD WARRISTON. 99
family, the Laird of Dunipace ; but, owing to some
alleged ill-treatment, she grew estranged from him,
and eventually her heart became filled with a
deadly hatred.
An old and attached nurse began to whisper of
a means of revenge and relief from her married
thraldom, and thus she was induced to tamper
with a young man named Robert Weir, a servant
or vassal of her father at Dunipace, to become her
instrument.
At an early hour in the morning of the 2nd of
July, Weir came to the place of Warriston, and
being admitted by the lady to the chamber of her
husband, beat him to death with his clenched fists.
He then fled, while the lady and her nurse remained
at home. Both were immediately seized,
subjected to a summary trial of some kind before
the magistrates, and sentenced to death ; the lady
to have ? her heade struck frae her bodie ? at the
Canongate Cross.
In the brief interval between sentence and execution,
this unfortunate young girl, who was only
twenty-one, was brought, by the impressive discourse
of a good and amiable clergyman, from a
state of callous indifference to a keen sense of
her crime, and also of religious resignation. Her
case was reported in a small pamphlet of the day,
entitled, ?Memorial of the Conversion of Jean
Livingston (Lady Waniston), with an account of
her carriage at her execution ?-a dark chapter of
Edinburgh social history, reprinted by Charles
Kirkpatrick Sharpe. ?She stated, that on Weir
assaulting her husband, she went to the hall, and
waited till the deed was done. She thought she
still heard the pitiful cries uttered by her husband
while struggling with his murderer.? She tried to
. weep, but not a tear could she shed, and could
only regard her approaching death as a just expiation
of her crime.
Deeply mortified by the latter and its consequences,
her relations used every effort to secure
as much privacy as was possible for the execution;
hence it was arranged that while her nurse
was being burned on the Castle Hill at four o?clock
in the morning, thus attracting the attention of
all who might be out of bed at that time, Lady
Waniston should be taken to the Girth Cross, at
the east end of the town, and there executed by
the Maiden.
?The whole way as she went to the place,?
says the pamphlet referred to, ? she behaved herself
so cheerfully as if she was going to her
wedding, and not to her death. When she came
to the scaffold, and was carried up upon it, she
looked up to the Maiden with two longsome looks,
for she had never seen it before.
of her, to which all that saw her will bear record,
that her only countenance moved [sic, meaning
that its expression alone was touching], although
she had not spoken a word; for there appeared
such majesty in her countenance and visage, and
such a heavenly courage in gesture, that many
said, ?That woman is gifted with a higher spirit
than any man or woman?s! ??
She read an address to the spectators at the four
corners of the scaffold, and continued to utter
expressions of devotion till the swift descent of
the axe decapitated her. Balfour, in his ?Annals,?
gives the year 1599 as the date of this tragedy.
Four years after Weir was taken, and on the
26th January, 1606, was broken on the wheel, a
punishment scarcely ever before inflicted in Scotland.
In the year 1619 Thomas Kincaid of Wamston
was returned heir to his father Patrick Kincaid of
Warriston, in a tenement in Edinburgh. This was
probably the property that was advertised in the
Couranf of 1761, as about to be sold, ?that
great stone tenement of land lying at the head of
the old Bank Close, commonly called Warriston?s
Land, south side of the Lawn Market, consisting
of three bedchambers, a dining-room, kitchen, and
garret.? There is no mention of a drawing-room,
such apartments being scarcely known in the Edinburgh
of those days.
In 1663 another proprietor of Warriston came
to a tragic end, and to him we have already referred
in our account of Waniston?s Close.
This was Sir Archibald Johnston, who was known
as Lord Warriston in his legal capacity. He wag
an advocate of 1633. In 1641 he was a Lord of
Session. He was made Lord Clerk Register by
Cromwell, who also created him a peer,under the title
of Lord Wamston, and as such he sat for a time
in the Upper House in Parliament. After the
Restoration he was forfeited, and fled, but was
brought to Edinburgh and executed at the Marke
Cross, as we have recorded in Chapter XXV. ct.
Volume I.
Wodrow, in his ?History of the Church of
Scotland,? states that Wamston?s memoirs, in his
handwriting, in the form of a diary, are still extant ;
if so, they have never seen the light. His character,
admirably drawn in terse language by his nephew,
Bishop Burnet, is thus given in the U History of his
Own Times,? Vol. 1.:-
? Waniston was my own uncle. He was a man of
great application ; could seldom sleep above three
hours in the twenty-four. He studied the law
carefully, and had a great quickness of thought,
This I may say ,
.
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family, the Laird of Dunipace ; but, owing to some
alleged ill-treatment, she grew ...
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GEORGE1 11.-Appendix ....... ... .. .. .. cccxxx 477
George IIL, ...
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... Captain Matthew, 252
Bailie, 214
Qeorge, 192
Henry L of England, 377,378
.II. of England, ...
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... THE SCOTTISH TEMPLARS. 51
ances of the order from the Master of England,
who received them from the ...
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... MEMORIALS UP
Congregation, The, 61-70, 386
Constable, Archibald, 235
Constitution Street, Leith, ...
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... KATHERINE OSWALD, WITCH. 339
The same Sir John seems to have possessed
property in East Lothian.
In ...
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... made the ornate edifice we find it now, with
?oriel windows and clustering turrets. He was
author of ?The ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Mound,
Sculpture had its origin early in the present
century, though in past times ...
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