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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 65
No. XXIX.
ALEXANDER CARLYLE, D.D., INVERESK.
THIS Print gives a very striking likeness of one of the chief leaders of the Court
party in our Church judicatures. From his repeated exertions in favour of the
law of patronage, and frequently styling the popular party “ Fanatics,” Kay
has given him the curious title at the bottom of the Print.
Dr. Carlyle (born January 26, 1722 ; died August 25, 1805) is memorable
as a member-though an inactive one-of the brilliant fraternity of literary men
who attractedattentionin Scotland during the latter half of the eighteenth century.
His father was the minister of Prestonpans. He received his education at the
Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Leyden. While he attended these
schools of learning, his elegant and manly accomplishments gained him admission
into the most polished circles, at the same time that the superiority of his
understanding and the refinement of his taste introduced him to the particular
notice of men of science and literature. At the breaking out of the insurrection
of 1745, being only twenty-three years of age, he thought proper to enrol1
himself in a body of volunteers, which was raised at Edinburgh to defend the
city. This corps was dissolved on the approach of the Highland army, when
he retired to his father’s house at Prestonpans, where the tide of war soon
followed him. Sir John Cope having pitched his camp in the immediate neighbourhood
of Prestonpans, the Highlanders attacked him early on the morning
of the 21st of September, and soon gained a decisive victory; Carlyle was
awoke by an account that the armies were engaged, when, in order to have a
view of the action, he hurried to the top of the village-steeple, where he arrived
only in time to see the regular soldiers flying in all directions to escape the
broadswords of the Highlanders.
Having gone through the usual exercises prescribed by the Church of Scotland,
he was presented, in 1748, to the living of Inveresk, near Edinburgh,
which he retained for the long period of fifty-seven years. His talents as
P preacher were of the highest order, and contributed much to int.roduce
into the Scottish pulpit an elegance of manner and delicacy of taste, to which
this part of the United Kingdom had been formerly a stranger, but of which
it has since afforded some brilliant examples. In the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland, Dr. Carlyle acted on the moderate side, and, next
to Dr, Robertson, was one of the most instrumental members of that party in
reducing the government of the Church to the tranquillity which it experienced
almost down to our own time. It was owing chiefly to his active exertions, that
the clergy of the Church of Scotland, in consideration of their moderate incomes,
and of their living in official houses, were exempted from the severe pressure of
.
K

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THE CASTLE. 127
of Scotland is kept. The apartment is a massive bombproof vault, and contains, along
with these national treasures, the old, iron-bound oak chest in which they were found in
the year 1817. The remarkably elegant crown is referred, with every probability, to the
era of Bruce, although it was not adorned with the graceful concentric arches of gold till
the r e i p of James V. It was further completed by the substitution of the present cap of
crimson velvet by James VIL for the former purple one, which had suffered during its
concealment in the civil wars. Next in interest to the crown is the beautiful sword of
state, presented by Pope Julius 11. to James IV. The scabbard is richly wrought with
filigree work of silver, representing oak boughs adorned with leaves and acorns,-an oak
tree being the heraldic device of that warlike Pontiff. In addition to the finely proportioned
sceptre, surmounted with statues of the Virgin, St Andrew, and St James, which
was made for James V., these interesting national relics are accompanied by the royal jewels,
bequeathed by Cardinal York, the last of the Stuarts, to George IV., including the George
and collar of the Order of the Garter, presented by Queen Elizabeth to James VI.-the badge
of .the Thistle of the same Monarch, containing a portrait of Anne of Denmark,-and the
coronation ring of Charles I.
The north side of this quadrangle now consists of a plain and uninteresting ra.nge of
barracks, erected about the middle of last century, previous to which time the site was
occupied by a church of large dimensions and great antiquity. It is described by Maitland
as “ a very long and large ancient church, which,” says he, “ from its spacious dimensions,
I imagine that it was not only built for the use of the small garrison, but for the service of
the neighbouring inhabitants, before St Giles’s Church was erected for their accommodation.”
Unfortunately, that laborious and painstaking historian, having little taste for
ecclesiastical remains, has furnished no account of the style of architecture by which to
judge of its probable date, though his idea of its having existed before the earliest church
of St Giles, shows his conviction of its very great antiquity, and would carry its foundation
back to a much earlier period than can be assigned to it. This most probabIy was a church
that appears to have been built shortly after the death of the pious Queen of Malcolm Canmore,
and dedicated to her.
‘‘ the Church of the Castle of Edinburgh,” a and is again confirmed to the Abbey of the
Holy Rood in that of Alexander III., as well as in successive Papal bulls.’ Robert II.
granted to St Margaret’s Chapel, within the Castle of Edinburgh, an yearly rent of eight
pounds sterling, out of the customs of Edinburgh; and this donation is confirmed by
Robert IIL’
In the bird’seye
view in Cordon’s map, the south elevation is shown ; it also forms a prominent object
in Sandby’s view of the Castle from the east, already referred to, and would seem to have
been a comparatively plain edifice, with crow-step gables and small windows, and was, in
d1 probability, an erection in the Norman style that prevailed at the period. From the
latter view, it would also appear to have been roofed with stone flags, and ornamented along
the ridge with carved pinnacles, auch as may still be seen on St MaFy’s Church at Leith.
This church seems to have been applied to secular purposes soon%fter the Reformation
It is mentioned by David I. in his charter of Holyrood,
Some idea of the form of the church may be gathered from old views.
1 Maitland, p. 145.
a Liber Cartarurn, pp. 64, 169, 186.
Liber Cartarurn, pp. 3-7.
* Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 693.

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HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 75
Pinkie, was the same who got built for himself the even more stately and
beautiful Castle of Fyvie.”
A good many years ago, the Society of Scottish Antiquaries memorialised
the Earl ‘of Wemyss, the proprietor of Seton Church, to restore the venerable
fane; and although the proposal has not been carried into effect, every effort ,
has been made to preserve the building from decay. In Lord Winton’s
answer to his impeachment in the year 1716 (State TrtizZs, xv. 805)~af ter
referring to the insults which he had experienced from those acting in the
name of the Government, he states that the most sacred places did not
escape their fury and resentment ; they broke into his chapel, defaced the
monuments of his ancestors, took up the stones of their sepulchres, thrust
irons through their bodies, and treated them in a most barbarous, inhuman,
and unchristian-like manner.’ Notwithstanding this outrageous sacrilege, a
number of interesting slabs and other monuments stiil exist in tolerably good
BELL OF SETON CHURCH.
condition. The curious bell, forged in Holland, which originally belonged to
the church, was long used in the parish kirk of Tranent, from which it was
removed, a few years ago, to Gosford House. It bears the following Dutch
inscription, of which only a portion appears in the annexed engraving, from a
careful drawing executed in 1851 :-Iacop eis mynen naem ghegoten van
Adriaen Steylaert int iaer MCCCCCLXXVII.’
Not the least interesting portion of the old walls and abutments ’ already
referred to, is the Roundle at the south-west corner of the old garden wall of
1 Billings’ Anfiguities ofScofZuRd, vol. iv.-Seton Church and Pinkie House. ‘The House
of Seton or Winton, on account of its great connections and ramifications, besides the antiquity
of its descent, would Seem now to be the noblest in Scotland. They were a fine specimen in many
respects of a high baronial family, from the magnificence and state they maintained at their
+p‘a lace of Seton “-expressly so called in royal grants under the Sign-manual, and identifted with
the memory of Queen Mary,-their consistency, loyalty, and superior advancement to their
countrymen in the arts and civilised habits of society.’-Riddell‘s Peemgc h,i. 4 9.

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ro MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
mix with water their ;atmeal ; and when the plate is heated, put a little of the paste upon
it, and make a thin cake, like a cracknell or biscuit, which they eat to warm their stomachs :
it is therefore no wonder that they should perform a longer day’s march than any other
Boldiers I ”
VIGNETTE-corbel, from Sh Qiles’s Church,

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 415
cularly by the gift from Macbeth of Liberton, of the tithes and oblations of Legbernard
-a church of which all traces are now lost-onferred on it in the reign of David I., previous
to the foundation of Holyrood Abbey. The Chapels of Corstorphine and Liberton
pertained to it. The Crown lands surrounding the Castle were bestowed on it by David
I., and it claimed tithes of the fishing on the neighbouring coast ; so that it was then the
wealthiest church in Scotland, except that of Dunbar ; but from the date of the foundation
of St David‘s Abbey of Holyrood it became a vicarage, while the Abbey drew the
greater tithes. Besides the high altar, there were in St Cuthbert’s Church several altars,
dedicated to the Holy Trinity, to St Anne, and other saints, of most of which no very
accurate account is preserved. The ancient church was subjected to many viciseitudes, and
greatly modified by successive alterations and repairs, so that comparatively little of the
original fabric remained when the whole was demolished about the middle of last century,
and the present huge, unsightly barn erected in its stead. In Gordon’s bird‘s-eye view it
appears as a large cross church, with a belfry at the west gable, and a large square tower,
probably of great antiquity, standing unroofed at the south-west corner of the nave. The
ancient church was nearly reduced to a heap of ruins by the Duke of Cordon, during the
siege of the Castle in 1689; and little attempt was likely to be made at that period to
preserve any of its early features in the necessary repairs preparatory to its again being
used as the parish church.
Among the dependencies of the ancient Church of St Cuthbert there were the Virgin
Mary’s Chapel, Portsburgh, of which nothing more is known than its name and site; and
St Roque’s and St John’s Chapels on the Borough Muir. About half a mile to the west
of Grange House there stood, till the commencement of the present century, the ruins-of
the ancient Chapel of St Roque, dedicated to the celebrated saint of that name. A later
writer derives its title from the unconsecrated surname of its supposed founder, Simon La
Roque, French ambassador,’ but without assigning any authority. In the treasurer’s
accounts for March 20th, 1501-2, the following entry occurs :-“Item, to the wrichtis of
Sanct Rokis Chapell xiiij a.” This, it is exceedingly probable, indicates the erection of
the chapel, as it corresponds with the apparent date suggested by its style of architecture.
It cannot, however, be certainly referred to the chapel on the Borough Muir, as a subsequent
entry in 1505, of an offering (‘ to Sanct Rowkis Chapell,” describes the latter as
at the end of Stirling Bridge. Of the following, however, there can be no doubt:-
‘( 1507, Augt 15. The Sanct Rowkis day to the kingis offerand in Sanct Rowkis Chapell
xiiij s.” That this refers to the chapel on the Borough Muir of Edinburgh is proved
by the evidence of two charters signed by the king at Edinburgh on the same day. The
shrine of St Roque was the special resort of aflicted outcasts for the cure of certain
loathsome diseases. Lindsay, in The Monarchie, describes the saint as himself bearing
a boil or ulcer as the symbol of his peculiar powers :-
Sanct Roche, weill seisit, men may see,
Ane byill new broki on his knee.
1 HiSt. of Weat Kirk, p. 11. Possibly Monsieur Lacrak, ambaeaador in 1567, here meant. It is, at any rate,
without doubt, an error, originating probably in the similarity of the namea

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450 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
XVIIL ST GILES’S CHURCH.
THE accompanying ground-plan of St Giles’s Church is designed to illustrate the description of the EUCCeBsive
additions to the ancient Parish Church of Edinburgh, given in the concluding chapter (pp. 377-394). It
exhibits it as it existed previous to the alterations of 1829, and with the adjacent buildings which have been
successively removed during the present century. We are indebted for the original drawing to the Rev, John
She, chaplain of Trinity Hospital, whose ingenipue model of the Old Church, with the Tolbooth, Luckenbooths,
&c., haa already been referred to.
REFERENOETOS THE GROUND-PLAN.
The light subdivisions between the pillars mark the party walls with which the ancient church was partitioned
off into several places of worship. The large letters of reference in each mark the earliest sites of the pulpits.
H shows the old position of Dr Webster’s pulpit in the Tolbooth Church, from which it was removed about the
year 1792 to its latter position against the south wall, in front of the old turnpike, now demolished. K indicates
the site of the old pulpit of the High Kirk, from whence it was removed about the years 1775-80, to its present
position in front of the great east window. Previous to this alteration, the king’s seat projected in front of the
pillar directly opposite the pulpit, so that his Majesty, or the successive representatives of royalty who occupied
it, were within a convenient convereational distance of the preacher. This throws considerable light on the
frequent indecorous colloquies that were wont to ensue between James VI. and the preachers in the High Kirk ;
and shows how very pointed and irritating to royalty must the rebukes and personalities have been, in which
the divines of that day were accustomed to indulge, seated as his Majesty thue was &-a-& with his uncourtly
chaplain, like a culprit on the stool of repentance. King James, however, used to bandy words with the
preacher with a tolerably good-natured indifference to the dignity of the crown.
The following references will enalde the reader to find without difficulty the chief objects of interest in St
Giles’s Church, alluded to in the course of the work :- .
a The Preston, or Assembly Aisle, where the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland held its
b The Montrose Aisle.
c The Tomb of John, fourth Earl of Atholl.
d The Tomb of the Regent Murray.
e Door which stood always open during the day, approached by a flight of steps from the Parliament
f Ancient Tomb (deecribed on page 386), said to be that of William Sinclair, Earl of Orhey, ckated
Earl of Caithness by James II., in 1455. The whole of this chapel to the west of the buttress and centre
pillar is now’removed.
g The South Porch, built in 1387. The beautiful doorway has been rebuilt between the south pillars
of the tower, as an entrance to the Old Kirk. Above this porch was the Painted Chamber (vide page
385), in which a number of ancient charters were discovered in 1829, which, with the turret staircase
indicated in the plan, and the beautiful little dormer window that lighted the Priest’s Chamber, all diaappeared
under the hands of the restorerr
annual sessions previous to 1829.
Close.
A The five Chapels built in 1387.
i The Pillar of the Albany Chapel (vide p. 388), decorated with the arms of Robert Duke of Albany,
The two west ones are now demolished.
and the Earl of Douglas..

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414 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
the Earl of Hertford in 1544. No other evidence, however, exists in support of this
than the general inference deducible from the burning of Leith by the English, immediately
before their embarkation ; a procedure which, unless accompanied by more violent
modes of destruction, must have left the remainder of the church in the same condition
as the nave which still exists. Such evidence as may still be gleaned from contemporary
writers leaves little reason to doubt that it was not demolished until the siege of Leith in
1560, when it was subjected to much more destructive operations than the invaders’ torch.
It stood directly exposed to the fire of the English batteries, cast up on the neighbouring
downs, and of which some remains are still left.‘ “In thia meintyme,” says Bishop
Lesley, “the Inglismen lying encamped upoun the south est syd of the tom, besyd
Mount Pellam, schot many gret schottis of cannonis and gret ordinances, at the parrishe
Kirk of Leyth, and Sanct Anthoneis steple, quhilk was fortefiit with mounted artailyerie
thairupoun be the Frenchmen, and brak doun the same.”2 An anonymous historian of
the same period relates still more explicitly :-‘‘ The 15th of Aprill, the fort wes cast and
performed, scituate upon the clay-hills, east from the Kirk of Leith, about twoe fflight
shott; where the greate ordinance being placed, they beganne to shoote at St Antonyes
steeple in Leith, upon the which steeple the Frenchmen had mounted some artillerie,
which wes verie noifiome to the campe ; bot within few howers after, the said steeple was
broken and shott downe, likewise they shott dome some part of the east end of the Kirk of
Leith.’” St Mary’s Church, as it existed at the time our drawing was made, showed at
the east end two of the four great central pillars of the Church, and was otherwise
finished by constructing a window in the upper part of the west arch of the central tower,
much in the same style as was adopted in converting the nave of Holyrood Abbey into a
parish church. The date 1614, which was cut on the east gable, probably marked the
period at which the ruins of the choir were entirely cleared away. The side aisles appear
for the most part to be the work of the same period. A range of five dormer windows
was constructed at that date above both the centre and side aisles, and though a novel
addition to a Gothic Church, must have had a very picturesque and rich effect. The whole
of these, with the exception of the two western ones on the south side of the Church, were
taken down in 1747,” and the remaining ones were demolished in 1847, along with the
east and west gables of the Church, and, in fact, nearly every feature that was worth
preserving ; the architect having, with the perverse ingenuity of modern restorers, preserved
only the more recent and least attractive portions of -the venerable edifice. As
some slight atonement for this, the removal of the high-pitched roof of the side aisles has
brought to light a range of very neat square-headed clerestory windows, which had
remained concealed for upwards of two centuries, and which it is fortunately intended to
retain in the restoration of the building.
The only other ancient parish church that remains to be noticed is that of St Cuthbert.
Its parish appears to have been one of the earliest and most extensive districts set apart
as a parochial charge. ‘( The Church of St Cuthbert,” says Chalmers, (‘ is unquestionably
ancient, perhaps aa old as the age which followed the demise of the worthy Cuthbert,
towards the end of the seventh century.” It was enriched by important grants, and parti-
Ante, p. 66. ’ A Hietorie of the Estate of Scotland, Wodrow Misc., vol. i. p. 84.
Lesley, p. 285.
+ Maitland, p. 494.

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LEITH. 1'3
on the site of the old building, erected in 1555 during the regency of Mary
of Guise, and possesses several pictures of great merit-particularly an interesting
view of Leith in the olden times, an admirable portrait of Admiral Lord
Duncan, a very truthful and highly finished likeness of the Queen-Regent by
Mytens, with Scott's grand and graphic painting of Vasco de Gama passing
the Cape of Good Hope. So the Custom House is another erection of a
large and interesting character, of the same description of building, with
pillars and pediment in front, and having in the tympanum of its pediment a
rather ostentatious sculpture of the Royal Arms. It is situated in North
Leith, just at the west end of the lower drawbridge leading from Bernard
Street into Commercial Place, with its back to the harbour, from which it is
separated by a narrow strip of pier, where small craft are usually found
moorkd.
The Ecclesiastical structures, however, are perhaps still more deserving of
attention, of which there are not a few rather stately fabrics. South Leith
Church which stands on the east side of the Kirkgate, moved back from the
thoroughfare about twenty yards, and surrounded by a graveyard, very neatly
arranged and beautifully kept, in which many af the famed and influential of
the district sleep their long deep sleep, is a noble edifice of the early Gothic
type. It has a very handsome tower, rising from the ground in the north-west
corner, and terminating in an elegant Gothic balustrade, on the right of which,
in the gable of the church fronting the street, is a magnificent window of richly
stained glass, which, when lit up by the rays of the setting sun or by the lights
within, produces a fine effect. The old church, which this has displaced,
was perhaps a still more imposing fabric. In its style it was likewise Gothic,
but cruciform in its construction, with a turret or spire of wood and metal
springing from its summit. It suffered in the conflagration of 1544, cadsed
by the invasion of the Earl of Hertford, and was diminished to the nave.
We may add that on the suppression of the church at Restalrig in 1609, this
became the parochial place of worship, and was originally dedicated to
St. Mary. St. John's Church, at first a chapel of ease, but now erected into
a separate charge, is likewise an interesting building. It has a tower of two
stages, the first quadrangular and adorned with pinnacles at the angles, the
other octangular and surmounted by a balustrade and numerous pinnacles.
Altogether the fabric is rather of the showy or flowery type, and when seen at
a distance has a somewhat gingery or fantastic appearance. Another structure
of the kind, not very far from it but in a different street, is perhaps a still
better specimen of ecclesiastical architecture: we refer to Free St. John's.
P

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QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
It was erected only a few years ago in consequence of the congregation being
ejected from their old place of worship by a decree of the Law Courts in favour
of the Auld Kirk. The building is of a composite character, has a very
handsome tower topped by an open crown-like spire, after the manner of St.
Giles’ in Edinburgh, and is a great ornament to the town. The Episcopal
Church, however, is decidedly the finest structure of the kind in the parish.
It is in ihe light Gothic style, and cruciform, With buttresses along its side
walls, and a fine semicircular apse on the east gable. On the south-east side
is a massive and well-Groportioned tower, springing from the ground and
terminating in a spire of a peculiarly airy and graceful appearance. The
windows are all of stained glass, with beautiful figures of Scripture scenes and
characters painted on them; the furnishings are of the most handsome
description ; and it is said to possess a peal of bells the finest in Scotland.
The churches of the United Presbyterian denomination and the other Nonconforming
bodies in this quarter are all of an humbler character, although
that of St. Andrew’s Place in the Links, and Great Junction Street, on the
margin of that broad and much frequented thoroughfare, are both very large
and massive structures, and internally not quite destitute of very comely and
effective ornamentation.
In North Leith, likewise, there are a few very stately and attractive
ecclesiastical fabrics. The United Presbyterian Church in Coburg Street,
near the Citadel, is a conspicuous erection, with a Gothic front, central
pediment and balustrade, and flanked with embrasured turrets. St. Ninian’s,
a little further to the north-west, looking into Dock Street, and quite adjacent
to the old Saxon arch which formed one of the entrances into the Citadel,
is also an interesting structure. It is of the early Gothic, with handsome
doorway and main window, sided by two small octangular towers with
pinnacles. The history of this church, if we were at liberty to give it, is well
worth relating. The North Leith Free Church in Ferry Road, too, is a
characteristic building. Not that we are quite pleased with it in many ways,
for it has always appeared to us rather dumpy and out of proportion,-the
faGade being far too heavy and massive for the rest of the edifice. Still, if
viewed quite in front, with its fine Gothic entrance, noble window of exquisite
tracery and stained glass, and tall stately tower and spire, i! produces a good
effect. The North Leith Parish Church, however, is confessedly the most
imposing structure of the kind in this quarter. Not that it has much to boast
of in the way of ornateness or elaboration ; it is rather a plain building, of an
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458 B I0 GRAPH I C AL S K E T C II E S.
commenced his studies in Latin and Greek ; but at the end of two years, this
gentleman having been appointed a minor canon in the Cathedral of Durham,
his pupil returned for a year to Alnwick; and afterwards passed a year and a
half at Newcastle, under the tuition of the Rev. William Turner-a gentleman
of literary reputatibn. Little events in youth [often have powerful and
permanent influence over the future character and destinations of life. During
Mr. Grey’s residence at Newcastle he attended a course of lectures on Natural
Philosophy, by the late ingenious Dr. Moyes (of whom a portrait and memoir
have already appeared in vol. I.), who, though blind from infancy, made great
attainments in literature and science. Mr. Grey wrote an account of these
lectures, which was so satisfactory to his instructor, that Dr. Moyes was induced
strongly to recommend the pursuit of a learned profession for his youthful
friend.
Mr. Grey felt and expressed a decided choice of the ministry of the gospel ;
and having a preference for the forms of the Church of Scotland, his mother
removed with him, in the close of the year 1793, to Edinburgh; where, during
the seven or eight succeeding years, he attended the various classes in literature,
philosophy, and theology, in the University, required in a candidate for
the ministry ; besides other classes, literary and medical, not included in the
prescribed academical course. He was licensed as a probationer by the Presbytery
of Edinburgh in November 1800. Very soon after, through the interest
of the Rev. Dr. Davidson of Edinburgh with the late Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton
Nisbet of Dirleton, he was presented to the parish of Stenton, in the Presbytery
of Dunbar, where he was ordained in September 1801. Though repeatedly
invited elsewhere, he remained in this rural charge, much esteemed and loved,
till November 1813, when he was translated to the Chapel of Ease of St.
Cuthbert’s ; and at once took his station in Edinburgh among the most distinguished
and accomplished preachers and ministers of the Church. Innumerable
and invaluable were the subsequent testimonies to the excellence and success
of his faithful and popular ministrations. His tried and enduring fidelity and
eminence at St. Cuthbert’s marked him out for preferment to be one of the
ministers of the city; and, in 1820, after a keen contest in the Town-Council
(Provost rtlanderson espousing the cause of Dr. Eryce of Aberdour), he was
appointed to succeed the late Rev. David Dickson, as minister of the New
Xorth Church, to which he was inducted on the 11th January 1821. He was
introduced to this charge by Dr. David Dickson of St. Cuthbert’s, son of the
gentleman whom he was called to succeed. Not long after, the new church of
St. Mary’s having been erected, Mr. Grey’s continued pre-eminence induced the
Magistrates and Council to present him as the fittest person for this new and
important charge; and he was translated to St. Mary’s on the 13th of January
1825, and introduced to his congregation, on the following Sunday, by Dr.
Robert Gordon, then of the High Church, who had succeeded Mr. Grey in the
Chapel of St. Cuthbert’s ; and again, was appointed his successor as minister
of the New North Church. Here Mr. Grey remained admired, for the sustained

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-48 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. WolJlmd
mted with several mouldings, partly circular and
partly hexagonal. The eagle stands upon a globe,
and the shaft has been originally supported on
three feet, which are now gone. The lectern at
present is five feet seven inches in height, and is
inscribed :-?GEORGIUS CREICHTOUN, EPISCOPUS
DUNKENENSIS.?
He died on January 24th, 1543, and the probability
is that the lectern had been presented to
Holyrood on his elevation to Dunkeld as a farewell
? 1523. He had been previously provost of the
collegiate church of Corqtorphine, and was twice
High Treasurer, in 1529 and 1537. In 1538 he
was elected Bishop of KOSS, and held that office,
together with the Abbacy of Ferne, till his death,
jrst November, 1545.
XXIX ROBERT STUART, of Strathdon, a son.of
James V. by Eupham Elphinstone, had a grant of
the abbacy when only seven years of age, and in
manhood he joiiied the Reformation party, in 1559.
THE ABBEY CHURCH. (From an Engravitigin Maitlads ?History of Edinbaq-4.?)
gift, and that it had been stolen from the abbey
by Sir Richard Lea of Sopwell, who accompanied
the Earl of Hertford in the invasion of 1544, and
who carried off the famous brazen font from Holy-
TOO^, and presented it to the parish church of St.
Albans, with a magniloquent inscription. ?? This
font, which was abstracted from Holyrood, is no
longer known to exist, and there seems no reason
to doubt that the lectern, which was saved by
being buried during the Civil Wars, was abstracted
at the same time, and given to the church of St.
hlbans by the donor of the font.??
XXVII. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, Prior of Coldingham,
was the next abbot.
XXVIII. ROBERT CAIRNCROSS,abbot September
He died in r5z8.
He married in 1561, and received from his sister,
Queen Mary, a gift of some Crown lands in
Orkney and Shetland in 1565, with a large grant
out of the queen?s third of Holyrood in the following
year. In 1569 he exchanged his abbacy with
Adam Bishop of Orkney for the temporalities of
that see, and his lands in Orkney and Shetland
were erected into an earldom in his favour 28th
October, 1581.
XXX. ADAM BOTHWELL, who acquired the
abbacy in commendam by this strange and lawless
compact, did not find his position a very quiet one,
and several articles against him were presented in
the General Assembly in 1570. The fifth of these
stated that all the twenty-seven churches of the

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was restored, but in somewhat doubtful taste, by
Thomas Hamilton, architect, and a new square
tower, terminating in a richly cusped open Gothic
balustrade, was erected at its north-western corner,
while the angles of the building were ornamented
ST. MARK?S (SOUTH LEITH) CHURCH, 1882.
by buttresses finished with crocketed finials,
scarcely in accordance with the severe simplicity
of the old time-worn and war-worn church of St.
Mary, the beautiful eastern window of which was
preserved in form.
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY feet north-westward of
St. Mary?s church, and on the same side of the
Kirkgate, opens the ancient alley named Coatfield
Lane, which, after a turn to the south in Charlotte
Lane, led originally to the Links. Dr. Robertson
gives a quotation from the I? Parish Records ? of
South Leith, under date 25th May, 1592, as
showing the origin ? of Coatfield Lane : ?the
quhilk day, the Provost, Johnne Amottis, shepherd,
was acted that for every sheep he beit in ye Kirkyeard
suld pay ix merks, and everie nyt yat carried
(kept) thame betwix the Coatfield and ye. Kirk
style he should pay v. merk.?
But the name is older than the date given, as
Patrick Logan of Coatfield was Bailie of Leith
10th September, 1470, and Robert Logan of the
same place was Provost of the city in 1520-I, as
the ?Burgh Records show ; and when ruin began
to overtake the wily and powerful Baron of Restalrig,
his lands of Mount Lothian and Nether Gogar
were purchased from him by Andrew Logan of
Coatfield in 1596, as stated in the old ?? Douglas
Peerage.?
At the corner of Coatfield Lane, in the Kirkgate,
there stands a great mansion, having a handsome
front to ?the east, exhibiting some curious exampIes

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AND THE VALE OF THE ESK. '37
Charles I., and his despondency over the state of the times, the evidence is
sufficient ; but that Charles's death in any way occasioned Dkmmond's no
one is bound to believe. There was an interval of ten months between the
two events ; and Drummond had at any rate .reached the limit of life that
might have been anticipated. He had passed, by seven years, the age attained
by his father; and he had outlived all his brothers and sisters, except his
brother James, the next to him in age, who is heard of as surviving him for a
year or two.'
. Drummond's grave is still to be seen. It is in the churchyard of Lasswade,
the parish in which Hawthornden is situated.
LASSWADE VILLAGE.
' The Church and Churchyard of Lasswade are on a height overlooking the
village, and about two miles and a half from Hawthornden. The present
church was built about a hundred years ago ; but, in a portion of the well-kept
churchyard, railed in separately from the rest, as more select and important,
there is the fragmentaj outline of the smaller old church, with some of the
sepulchral monuments that belonged to it. Drummond's own aisle, abutting
from one part of the ruined wall, is still perfect, a small arched space of stonework,
with a roofing of strong stone slabs; and a grating of iron for door-way.
Within that small arched space Drummond's ashes certainly lie, though there
is no inscription to mark the precise spot as distinct from the graves of some
of his latest descendants who are also buried there, and to one of whom there
is a commemorative tablet. The small arched aisle itself is his monument,
and it is a'sufficient one. There could hardly be a more peaceful rustic
burying-ground than that in which it stands, the church and the manse close
to it on the height, with only steep descending lanes from them to Lasswade
village and to the road leading from Lasswade to Edinburgh.'
The Village of Lasswade lies in a leafy hollow, through which runs the Esk.
In its churchyard, besides the poet Drummond and other notable Scotchmen of
his century; lies Henry Dbdas, first Viscount Melville, ' the colleague and
friend of Pitt, and from 1775 to 1805 the virtual king of Scotland.' His seat,
Melville Castle, lies farther down the Esk, between Lasswade and Dalkeith.
It was in the summer of 1798 that Scott and his wife, when they had been
a few months mamed, hired a pretty little cottage at Lasswade. ' It is a small
house,' says Lockhart, 'but with one room of good dimensions, which ME.
Scott's taste set off at very humble cost-a paddock or two, and a garden
(commanding a most' beautiful view), in which Scott delighted to train his
S

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66 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
their forces with the English, for the purpose of expelling the French garrison.from Leith.
The Council of Edinburgh manifested their sympathy by contributing the sum of sixteen
hundred pounds Scots to maintain four hundred men engaged in their service for one
month, for the reduction of that town.’
The English force landed, and took up their station around Restalrig Church, casting
up trenches and securing themselves from the danger of surprise.’ The forces of the Congregation
had now acquired both experience and discipline, and with the aid of such
auxiliaries, the tables were speedily turned.
The French troops began the attack by a sudden sally on the camp at Restalrig, by
which the English auxiliaries were taken at a disadvantage ; but they speedily rallied, and
chased them to the walls of Leith, killing above three hundred, though with a still greFter
loss to themselves. In order more closely to press the siege, they removed their camp, a
few days after, to Pilrig, a rising ground still known by that name, lying directly between
Edinburgh and Leith.3
Early in May, a general
assault was made, but the scaling ladders were discovered to be too short when applied
to the walls, and the besiegers were driven back with great slaughter.
The ordnance of the French garrison were mounted along the walls, and on every
available point within the town of Leith. A battery that was erected on the tower of the
preceptory of St Anthony proved particularly annoying and destructive to the besiegers ;
and as they were unable, from their distance, to produce any effect on it, they advanced
their cannon to the Links of Leith, where they threw up mounds of earth, and erected a
battery of eight guns. With these they kept up 80 constant and destnctive a firing, that,
in a few days, they not only dismounted the ordnance placed by the French in t$e steeple,
but greatly injured it and the adjoining buildings.‘
On the 14th of April, being Easter Sunday, a constant firing was kept up by the
assailants, particularly at St Mary’s Church, where the people were assembled for divine
service, so that a bullet was shot through the great east window, passing right over the
altar, during the celebration of high mass, and just before the elevation of the host.
Two of the mounds thrown up by the besiegers on this occasion still remain on Leith
Links, and almost directly opposite the east end of the church. One of them is on the
extreme east side of the Links ; the other, which lies considerably nearer the High School,
is locally designated the Giant’s Bra. As there existed, till very recently, no houses
between the church and these open downs on which the batteries were erected, it must
have lain completely exposed to the fire of the besiegers. Some obscurity exists in the
narratives of the different historians of this period, as to which church is spoken of.
Bishop Leslie mentions their having “shot many great schottis of cannonis and gret
ordinances at the parrishe kirk of Leyth and Sanct Anthoneis steple.” St Mary’s Church
was not converted into the parish church, until the destruction, at a later period, of that
of Restalrig, to which Leith was parochially joined ; yet its position, agreeing so well with
the accounts of the siege, leaves no doubt that it is intended by this designation. As all
the historians, however, uuite in speaking of St Anthony’s steeple as that whereon the
French garrison had erected their ordnance, there seems no reason to question that it was
The united forces continued to press the siege at Leith.
Maitland, p. 19. Diurnal of Oocurrenta, p. 57. a Ibid, p. 58. ‘ Bishop Lealie, p. 285.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 331
No. CCLXXXL
REV. JOHN M'DONALD,
OF THE GAELIC CHAPEL, CASTLE WYND, EDINBURGH.
MR. M'DONALD, son of a small farmer at Rae, in Caithness, was born there
on the 12th of November 1779. Having acquired the rudiments of education
at the parish school, he commenced his theological studies at King's College,
Aberdeen, in 1797, and was licensed to preach in 1805. For some time thereafter
he was employed as a missionary in his native district ; and in 1807 was
chosen successor to the Rev. Mr. M'Lachlan in the Gaelic Chapel, Edinburgh.
Here he continued about six years, and was greatly esteemed by his congregation
as a sound preacher and an amiable man.
In July 2813 he was translated to the parish of Urquhart, where he long
continued to discharge the duties of the pastoral office. In his zeal for the cause
of the Gospel, Mr. M'Donald was in the habit of making occasional excursions
into the adjacent parishes, onlitting no opportunity of preaching to a widely-scattered
and ill-supplied people. In doing so he probably had not calculated on the
danger to which he exposed himself, by exciting the displeasure of the Church.
The Presbyteries of Strathbogie and Aberlour took up the matter ; but refusing
to bow to their decision, or to acknowledge his error, an appeal was of course
made to a higher court. The case, which was brought before the General
Assembly in 1818, created an unusual interest in the public mind. After a
protracted discussion, a motion to the following effect was made and carried :--
" That having considered the reference [from the Presbyteries of Strathbogie and Aberlour],
the Assembly declare, as it is hereby declared, that the performance of divine service, or any
part of public worship or service, by members of this Church, in meeting-houses of dissenters,'
is irregular and unconstitutional, and ought on no occasion to take place, except in cases in
which, from the peculiar circumstances of the parish, its minister may occasionally find it necessary
for conducting the ordinaly religious instruction of his people ; and the Assembly farther
declare, that the conduct of any minister of the Church, who exercises his pastoral functions iu
a vagrant manner, preaching during his journeys from place to place, in the open air, in other
parishes than his own, or officiating in any meeting for religious exercises, without the special
invitation of the minister in whose parish it shall be held, and by whom such meeting shall
be called, is disorderly, and unbecoming the character of a minister of this Church, and calculated
to weaken the hands of the minister of the parish, and to injure the interests of sound
religion ; and the Assembly enjoin Presbyteries to take order, that no countenance be given by
ministers within their bounds to such occasional meetings, proposed to be held for divine service,
or other pious purposee, as many, under the pretext of promoting religion, injure its interests,
and so disturb the peace and order of the Church ; and in case such meetings take place, the
Presbyteries within whose bounds they are held, are enjoined to report the same to the Assembly
next ensuing."
Mr. M'Donald preached in a dissenting meeting-house on one occasion, and but one, at a time
when the parish church was under repair, and not even then without the consent of the parochial
miniater.

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Corstorphine.] CORSTORPHINE CHURCH. 115
was no side road into which he could have disappeared.
He returned home perplexed by the
oddness of the circumstance, when the first thing
he learned was, that during his absence this friend
had been killed by his horse falling in the Candlemakers
Row.??
The church of Corstorphine is one of the most
interesting old edifices in the Lothians. It has
been generally supposed, says a writer, that Scotland,
while possessed of great and grand remains
of Gothic architecture, is deficient in those antique
rural village churches, whose square towers and
ivied buttresses so harmonise with the soft landscape
scenery of England, and that their place is
too often occupied by the hideous barn-like structure
of times subsequent to the Reformation. But
among the retiring niinor beauties of Gothic architecture
in Scotland, one of the principal is the
picturesque little church of Corstorphine.
It is a plain edifice of mixed date, says Billings
in his ?? Antiquities,? the period of the Decorated
Gothic predominating. It is in the form of a cross,
with an additional transept on one of the sides;
but some irregularities in the height and character
of the different parts make them seem asif they
were irregularly clustered together without design.
A portion of the roof is still covered with old-&ey
flagstone. A small square belfry-tower at the west
end is surmounted by a short octagonal spire, the
ornate string? mouldings on which suggest an idea
of the papal tiara
As the church of the parish, it is kept in tolerably
decent order, and it is truly amazing how it
escaped the destructive fury of the Reformers.
This edifice was not the original parish church,
which stood near it, but a separate establishment,
founded and richly endowed by the pious enthusiasm
of the ancient family whose tombs it contains,
and whose once great castle adjoined it.
Notices have been found of a chapel attached to
the manor of Corstorphine, but subordinate to the
church of St. Cuthbert, so far back as 1128, and
this chapel became the old parish church referred
to. Thus, in the Holyrood charter of King DavidI.,
1143-7, he grants to the monks there the two
chapels which pertain to the church of St. Cuthbert,
?? to wit, Crostorfin, with two oxgates and six
acres of land, and the chapel of Libertun with two
oxgates of land.?
In the immediate vicinity of that very ancient
chapel there was founded ancther chapel towards
the end of the fourteenth century, by Sir Adam
Forrester of Corstorphine; and that edifice is sup
posed to form a portion of the present existing
church, because after its erection no mention whatever
has been found of the second chapel as a
separate edifice.
.The building with which we have now to do
was founded in 1429, as an inscription on the wall
of the chancel, and other authorities, testify, by Sir
John Forrester of Corstorphine, Lord High Chamberlain
of Scotland in 1425, and dedicated to St.
John the Baptist, for a provost, five prebendaries,
and two singing boys. It was a collegiate church,
to which belonged those of Corstorphine, Dalmahoy,
Hatton, Cramond, Colinton, &c. The tiends
of Ratho, and half of those of Adderton and Upper
Gogar, were appropriated to the revenues of this
college.
?Sir John consigned the annual rents of one hundred
and twenty ducats in gold to the church,? says
the author of the ?New Statistical Account,? ?on
condition that he and his successors should have the
patronage of the appointments, and on the understanding
that if the kirk of Ratho were united to
the provostry, other four or five prebendaries
should be added to the establishment, and maintained
out of the fruits of the benefice of Ratho.
Pope Eugenius IV. sanctioned this foundation by a
bull, in which he directed the Abbot of Holyroodhouse,
a$ his Apostolic Vicar, to ascertain whether
the foundation and consignation had been made in
terms of the original grant, and on being satisfied
on these points, to unite and incorporate the church
of Ratho with its rights, emoluments, and pertinents
to the college for ever.?
The first provost of this establishment was
Nicholas Bannatyne, who died there in 1470, and
was buried in the church, where his epitaph still
remains.
When Dunbar wrote his beautiful ? I Lament for
the Makaris,? he embalmed among the last Scottish
poets of his time, as taken by Death, ? the gentle
Roull of Corstorphine,? one of the first provosts of
the church-
?( He has tane Rod1 of Aberdeen,
A d gentle Rod1 of Corstorphine ;
Twa better fellows did nae man see :
Timor mortis conturbat me.?
There was, says the ? The Book of Bon Accord,?
a Thomas Roull, who was Provost of Aberdeen in
1416, and it is conjectured that the baid was of the
same family ; but whatever the works of the latter
were, nothing is known of him now, save his name,
as recorded by Dunbar.
In the year 1475, Hugh Bar, a burgess of Edinburgh,
founded an additional chaplaincy in this
then much-favoured church. ? The chaplain, in
addition to the performance of daily masses for
the souls of the king andqueen, the lords of the

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 119
ripen a plan of augmentation of the parochial stipends, and to use all prudent
and proper means to learn the sentiments of the members of the Church, and of
the landed proprietors of Scotland ; and to report to next Assembly.”
In accordance with this resolution, a bill was prepared by the Lord Advocate
(Robert Dundas, Esq. of Arniston), and introduced into Parliament in
1793 ; but, from the little countenance extended towards it by the ministry, and
the strong opposition of the landed proprietors, he was under the necessity of
withdrawing the measure. Adverting to the subject in the ensuing General
Assembly, the Lord Advocate stated that “ the bill brought into Parliament for
defining and regulating the powers of the Commission of Teinds, was not to be
considered as losf; but was withdrawn by him at the desire of a great body of
the landholders of Scotland, who had stated that they had not considered the
same with sufficient attention, and who requested delay.”
The zeal displayed by the Lord Advocate, for the interests of the Church,
was acknowledged in a vote of thanks; and the Moderator (the Rev. Dr.
Hardie), and several other gentlemen, were added to the former committee,
“with instructions that they should attend to the subject, and take such steps
as should appear to them conducive to the interest of the Church,”’ But in
the discussion to which the unexpected failure of the bill gave rise, notwithstanding
the explanation of the Lord Advocate, some of the members-especially
those of the moderate party-were led into warm expressions of dissatisfaction
with the little sympathy manifested for them by the administration ;
and among others, DRS. CARLYLE of Inveresk and GRIEVE* of Edinburghwhose
heads adorn the necks of the two JACKASSES-went the length of
charging the ministry with ingratitude to those who had proved themselves
their best friends ; who had laboured in every way to uphold their government ;
and who, as the latter reverend gentleman asserted, had even risked the friendship
of their flocks, and their own usefulness as pastors, in their efforts to serve
them.
Such language as this could not fail to be displeasing to a portion of the
Assembly. Shortly after Dr. Grieve had finished his harangue, Dr, Bryce Johnstone
rose and remarked, that the complaint of his reverend brother had recalled
to his mind an incident that occurred some years before in that part of the country
where his lot wars cast. At the ordination of a young minister, the charge
happened to be delivered by one who had been some considerable time in the
The exertions of the clergy were ultimately successful in procuring an augmentation of their
incomes by the passing of an Act of Parliament, which provided that each pastor is entitIed to a
manse and glebe, of the value of 240 a year, besides a salary of 2.150 ; and when the tithes of the
parish cannot supply this sum, the deficiency is to be made good by the Exchequer. * Dr. Henry Grieve-formerly of Dalkeith-was then one of the ministen of the Old Church,
Elinburgh; and, along with Dm. Robertson and Carlyle, had uniformly given his influence tu
maintain the ascendency of the moderate, or Government party in the Church courts. He died in
1810. The following notice occurs of his death :-“ Feb: 10. ’ At Canaan House, in the seventyfourth
year of his age, Dr. Henry Grieve, Senior Minister of the Old Church of Edinburgh, one of
the Deans of the Chapel Royal, and one of His Majesty’s Chaplains in Ordinary for Scotland. ,

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CHAPTER XXXIV.
INCHKEITH.
PAGE
The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
' .338 Stewarts of Goodtrees-The Buckstane-Burdiehoux-Its Limekilns and Fossils . . . . , I . . . , .

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INCHKEITH.
PAGE
The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
' .338 Stewarts of Goodtrees-The Buckstane-Burdiehoux-Its Limekilns and Fossils . . . . , I . . . , .

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INCHKEITH.
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The Defences of Leith-Inchkeith Forts-%. Serf-The Pest-stricken in 1497-Experiment of James lV.-The Old Fort-Johnson and
Boswell-The New Chanuel -Colonel Moggridge's P l a n j T h e 'I hree New Forts-Magazines and Barracks-The Lighthouse . . 290
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEWHAVEN.
Cobbett on Edinburgh-Jam- IV.'s Dockyard -His Gift of Newhaven to Edinburgh-The GYCQ~ Michapl-Embarkation of Mary of Guise
-Woc.ks at Newhaven in the Sixteenth Century-The Links-Viscount Newhaven-The Feud with Prestonpans-The Sea Fencibles
--Chain Pier-Dr. Fairhirn-The E ishwives-Superstitions . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . 295
CHAPTER XXXVI.
WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTO~.
Wardie Muir-Human Remqins Found-Bangholm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Pilton
-Royston-Caroline Park-Granton-The Piers and Harhuun-Morton's Patent Slip , . . . . . . , . . 306
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH.
Cramond-Origin of the Name-Cramond of that Ilk-Ancient Charters - Inchmickery-Lord Cramond--Bdrnton -Goer and its Proprietors-
Saughton Hall--Riccarton . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . . . , . . 3'4
CH AI'TE R XXXVI 11.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (confinzed).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghom -The Pentlands-View from Tqhin-Comiston-Slateford-
Grnysmill-Liberton -The Mill at Nether Liberton-Liberton Tower-The Chiirch-The Balm Well of St. Katherine-Grace
Mount-The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St Katherine's-The Kaime-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little 01 Lihrton . 322
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE EXVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continued).
Cnrrie-Origin of the Name-Roman Camps-The Old Church and Temple Lands-Lennox Tower-Curriehill Castle and the Skenes-
Scott of Malleny-James Andelson, LL.D.--"Camp Meg" and her Story . . . . . . . . . . , . 130
CHAPTER XL.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDIXBURGH (coalinued).
The Inch House-The WinramcEdmonstone and the Edmon.;tones of ttat Ilk-Witches-Woolmet-The Stenhouse-Moredun-The
' .338 Stewarts of Goodtrees-The Buckstane-Burdiehoux-Its Limekilns and Fossils . . . . , I . . . , .

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 311
Gibson of St. Cuthbert’s, for whom, as well as for Sir Henry Moncreiff, he had
frequently preached, he was brought forward as a candidate for the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the former in 1785, but was subsequently withdrawn
by h;s friends, in order to ensure the appointment for Mr. Paul, in preference
to a third candidate, who, though there was every reason to apprehend that he
would have been anything but acceptable to the congregation, might otherwise
have obtained it. In 1792 he was urgently solicited to become colleague to
Dr. Jones in Lady Glenorchy’s Chapel, a situation to which the Rev. Greville
Ewing was soon after appointed ; but, on mature consideration, he felt it his
duty to decline the invitation, though strongly urged by all concerned to accept
of it. The Chapel of Ease in New Street, Canongate, having, however, been
erected and opened in the summer of 1795-chiefly through the pious and
beneficent exertions of the late Dr. Buchanan, then one of the ministers of that
parish, and who had not only been an early and esteemed class-fellow of Mr.
Dickson at Glasgow, but afterwards, while at Stirling, one of his most intimate
and endeared friends as well as co-presbyters-on being unanimously elected
by the managers and congregation, he accepted their call, and was admitted to
the pastoral office, as the first minister of that place of worship, in the month of
October the same year.
Under his ministry there, which continued very nearly three years and a
half, the chapel was completely filled, and even crowded ; and by the affectionate
earnestness, uncompromising faithfulness, and winning attract,iveness, a bond of
spiritual union was formed betwixt him and many of his flock of the tenderest
and the most enduring kind. A vacancy having occurred in the College Church,
Edinburgh, by the resignation of Mr. Lundie, he was, without the slightest solicitation,
either on his own part, or that of any relative or friend, who might
have had influence with the Town Council, then under the provostship of Sir
William Fettes, unanimously presented to that charge, to which he was inducted
in March 1799. And thither he was followed by a numerousIbody of his
former congregation, many of whom indeed became so increasingly attached to
him, that they again followed him to the New North or Little Church, to
which he was translated in November 1801, as successor to Principal Baird, and
colleague to Dr. Gloag. Dr. John Thomson, at that time in the New Greyfriars’,
having succeeded Dr. Gloag in 1803, Mr. Dickson and he continued associated
in the ministry as colleagues till October 1814, when, in consequence of Dr.
Andrew Thomson having been translated to St. George’s, and the New North
Church being uncollegiated, his father, Dr. J. Thomson, returned to his former
charge in the New Greyfriars’, having a stated assistant provided for him at the
expense of the Town Council j while Mr. Dickson, receiving at the same time
the promise of a similar assistant, should he afterwards find himself unable to
undertake the whole duties of the church and parish, remained sole minister of
the New North Church during the subsequent years of his life. Of the mutual
affection and Christian fellowship which subsisted between the Doctor and Mr.
Dickson, during the period of their collegiate labours, both of them used to

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St. Giles?s Churchyard.
INTERIOR OF THE HIGH CHURCH, ST. GILES?S.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. GILES?S.
St. Giles?s Churchyard-The IIaison Dieu-The Clam-shell Turnpike-The Grave of Knox-The City Cross--The Summons ot Pluto-
Executions : Kirkaidy, Gilderoy, and others-The Caddies--The Dyvours Stane-The Luckenbooths-The Auld Kirk S~yle-Eym?o
Lodging-Lard Coalstoun?s Wig-Allan Ramsay?s Library and ?Creech?s Land?-The Edinburgh Halfpenny.
DOWN the southern slope of the hill on which St.
Giles?s church stands, its burying-ground-covered
with trees, perchance anterior to the little parish
edifice we have described as existing in the time of
David 1.-sloped to the line of the Cowgate, where
it was terminated by a wall and chapel dedicated
to the holy rood, built, says Arnot, ?in memory of
?hrist crucified, and not demolished till the end of
the sixteenth century.? In July, 1800, a relic ot
this chapel was found near the head of Forrester?s
Wynd, in former days the western boundary of the
churchyard. This relic-a curiously sculptured
grouplike a design from Holbein?s ?Dance of
Death,? was defaced and broken by the workmen.
Amid the musicians, who brought up the rear,
was an angel, playing on the national bagpipe-a

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390 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
solemnly taking farewell of the public concerns of the church on earth, with
the glory of the church of heaven full in his view ; and to perceive that, while
the frail tabernacle of the body was evidently coming down, there was no want
of mental vigour, and no want of deep interest in what respected the spiritual
improvement of the community with which he had been so long connected.”
Dr. Davidson died at Muirhouse on the evening of Sabbath, 28th October
1827, and was succeeded in the Tolbooth Church by the Rev. James Marshall,
sometime minister of the Outer Church of Glasgow.
Only three of Dr. Davidson’s sermons were published, and these were
delivered on public occasions. One of them, preached before the Synod of
Glasgow and Ayr, on the propitiation of Christ, has been much admired.
By his first wife, a sister of the late
Provost Anderson, bookseller in Stirling, among other children, he had a son,
Captain William Davidson, who succeeded him in his estates. By his second
wife, a sister of Lord Cockburn, he had several children.
Besides the estate of Muirhouse, Dr. Davidson was proprietor of the Old
Barony of Hatton, which had belonged to the Lauderdale family, and which,
having been acquired by the Duchess of Portland, was sold in lots; and a
considerable portion of it, including the old mansion-house and patronage of the
parish of Ratho, was purchased by him. The residence of Dr. Davidson in
Edinburgh was successively in Windmill Street, Princes Street, and Heriot Row.
Dr. Davidson was twice married.
No. CLV.
COLONEL PATRICK CRICHTON,
OF THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS, WITH A VIEW OF THE AWKWARD SQUAD.
THE principal figure in this scene at Bruntsfield Links gives an excellent
portrait of COLONELP ATRICCKR ICHTONi,n the attitude of directing the
movements of a body of Volunteers. The stout personage in the background,
to the rear of the Colonel, is Captain Coulter, afterwards Lord Provost, who
obtained great celebrity for a declaration which he made on one occasion, at a
civic feast. His health having been drunk, he embraced the opportunity, in
returning thanks, of placing his martial avocations in oppostiion to his civic
ones, and wound up the harangue by exclaiming-“ Although I am in body a
stocking-weaver, yet I am in soul a Sheepyo !” (Scipio). He retained the name
of Sheepyo ever afterwards. The left hand man of the grenadiers is Robert
Sym, Esq., W.S.
Colonel Crichton, whose father, Alexander Crichton, carried on the business
of coach-building in the Canongate for many years, was a gentleman well known

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THE LA WNMARKE T. I59
the latter building, consisted of a rudely executed ogee pediment, containing the city
arms, and surmounted by three tron weights. On Queen Mary’s entry to Edinburgh in
1561, this was the scene of some of the most ingenious displays of civic loyalty. Her
Majesty dined in the Castle, and a triumphal arch was erected at the Weigh-house, or
“ butter trone,” where the keys of the city were presented to her by “ane bony barne,
that descendit doun fra a cloude, as it had bene ane angell,” and added to the wonted
gift a Bible and Psalm-book-additions which some contemporary historians hint were
received with no very good grace.’ Cromwell established a guard in the older building
there, while the Castle was held out against him in 1650, and prudently levelled it with
the ground on gaining possession of the fortress, lest it should afford the same cover to
hiis assailants that it had done to himself. The latter erection proved equally serviceable
to the Highlanders of Prince Charles in 1745, when they attempted to blockade the Castle,
and starve out the garrison by stopping all supplies. The first floor of the large done
land, in front of Milne’s Court, was occupied at the same period as the residence and guardroom
for the officers commanding the neighbouring post ; and it is said that the dislodged
occupant,--a zealous Whig,-took his revenge on them after their departure by advertising
for the recovery of missing articles abstracted by his compulsory guests. The court
immediately behind this appears to have been one of the earliest attempts to substitute
an open square of some extent for the narrow closes that had so long afforded the sole
town residences of the Scottish gentry. The main entrance is adorned with a Doric entablature,
and bears the date 1690. The principal house, which forms the north side of the
court, has a handsome entrance, with neat mouldifigs, rising into a small peak in the
centre, like a very flat ogee arch. This style of ornament, which frequently occurs in
buildings of the same period, seems to mark the handiwork of Robert Milne, the builder
of the most recent portions of Holyrood Palace, and seventh Royal Master Mason, whose
uncle’s tomb,-erected by him in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard,-records in quaint rhymes
these hereditary &onours :-
.
Reader, John Milne, who maketh the fourth John,
And, by descent from father unto son,
Sixth Master-Mason, to a royal race
Of seven succesaive kings, sleeps in thia place.
The houses forming the west side of the court are relics of a much earlier period, that
had been delivered from the durance of a particularly narrow close by the march of fashion
and improvement in the seventeenth century. The most northerly of them long formed
the town mansion of the lairds of Comiston, in whose possession it still remains ; while that
to the south, though only partially exposed, presents a singularly irregular and picturesque
Ante, p. 71. “Quhen hir grace come fordwart to the butter trone of the said burgh, the nobilitie and convoy foirsaid
precedand, at the quhilk butter trone thair waa ane port made of tymber, in maiat honourable maner, cullorit with
fyne cullouris, hungin with syndrie armem ; upon the quhii port w88 singand certane barneia in the maiat hevinlie via;
under the quhilk port thair wea ane cloud opynnand with four levis, in the quhik waa put and bony barna And quhen
the queues hienes waa cumand throw the said port, the said cloud opynnit, and the barne dscendit doun as it had beene
ane angell, and deliuent to her hienes the keyis of the toun, togidder with ane Bybd and ane Paalme Buik, couerit with
fyne purpourit veluot ; and efter the said b eha d spoken aome small speitches, he deliuerit alsua tu her hienea thw
writtin@, the tennour thairof is vncertane. That being done, the barne ascendit in the cloua, and the said dud stekit j
- and thairefter the quenia grace come doun to the to1bnith.”-Diurnal of Ocurrenta, p. 68.

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