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and burned, and ?? that ilk mail in Edinburgh have
his lumes (vents) full of watter in the nycht, under
pain of deid !? (I? Qiurnal.?) This gives us a graphic
idea of the city in the sixteenth century, and of the
High Street in particular, ?with the majority of the
buildings on either side covered with thatch, encumbered
by piles of heather and other fuel
accumulated before each door for the use of the
inhabitants, and from amid these, we may add
the stately ecclesiastical edifices, and the substantial
mansions of the nobility, towering with all the
more imposing effect, in contrast to their homely
neighbourhood.?
Concerning these heather stacks we have the
following episode in ?Moyse?s Memoirs :?--?On the
2nd December, 1584, a b.kxteis boy called Robert
Henderson (no doubt by the instigation of Satan)
desperately put some powder and a candle to his
father?s heather-stack, standing in a close opposite
the Tron, and burnt the same with his.father?s
house, to the imminent hazard of burning the whole
Sown, for which, being apprehended most marvellously,
after his escaping out of town, he wus n~xt
day burnt pick at the cross of Edinburgh as an
example.?
There was still extant in 1850 a small fragment
.of Forrester?s Wynd, a beaded doorway in a ruined
wall, with the legend above it-
?? O.F. OUR INHERITANCE, 1623.?
?In all the old houses in Edinburgh,? says
Amot, ?it is remarkable that the superstition of
the time had guarded each with certain cabalistic
characters or talismans engraved upon its front.
These were generally composed of some texts of
Scripture, of the name of God, or perhaps an
emblematical representation of the crucifixion.?
Forrester?s Wynd probably took its name from
Sir Adam Forrester of Corstorphine, who was twice
chief magistrate of the city in the 14th century.
After the ?Jenny Geddes? riot in St. Giles?s,
Guthrie, in his ?Memoirs,? tells us of a mob, consisting
of some hundreds of women, whose place
.of rendezvous in 1637 was Forrester?s Wynd, and
who attacked Sydeserf, Bishop of Galloway, when
.on his way to the Privy Council, accompanied by
Francis Stewart, son of the Earl of Bothwell,
.?with such violence, that probably he had been
torn in pieces, if it had not been that the said
Francis, with the help of two pretty men that
attended him, rescued him out of their barbarous
hands, aud hurled him in at the door, holding back
the pursuers until those that were within shut the
door. Thereafter, the Provost and Bailies being
assembled in their council, those women beleaguered
them, and threatened to burn the house about their
ears, unless they did presently nominate two commissioners
for the town,? Src. Their cries were :
?? God defend all thdse who will defend God?s cause!
God confound the service-book and all maintainers
thereof !?
From advertisements, it wonld appear that a
character who made some noise in his time, Peter
Williamson, ?I from the other world,? as he called
himself, had a printer?s shop at the head of this
wynd in 1772. The victim of a system of kidnapping
encouraged by the magistrates of Aberdeen,
he had been c?arried off in his boyhood to America,
and after almost unheard-of perils and adventures,
related in his autobiography, published in 1758, he
returned to Scotland, and obtained some small
damages from the then magistrates of his native
city, and settled in Edinburgh as a printer and
publisher, In 1776 he started The Scots Spy, published
every Friday, of which copies are now
extremely rare. He had the merit of establishing
the first penny post in Edinburgh, and also published
a ?? Directory,? from his new shop in the
Luckenbooths, in 1784. He would appear for
these services to have received a small pension
from Government when it assumed his institution
of the penny post.
The other venerable alley referred to, Beith?s
Wynd, when greatly dilapidated by time, was nearly
destroyed by two fires, which occurred in 1786 and
1788. The former, on the 12th Decernher, broke
out near Henderson?s stairs, and raged with great
violence for man), hours, but by the assistance of
the Town Guard and others it was suppressed, yet
not before many families were burnt out. The
Parliament House and the Advocates? Library
were both in imminent peril, and the danger appeared
so great, that the Court of Session did not
sit tha? day, and preparations were made for the
speedy removal of all records. At the head of
Beith?s Wynd, in 1745, dwelt Andrew Maclure, a
writing-niaster, one of that corps of civic volunteers
who marched to oppose the Highlanders, but
which mysteriously melted away ere it left the West
Port. It was noted of the gallant Andrew, that
having made up his mind to die, he had affixed
a sheet of paper to his breast, whereon was written,
in large text-hand, ?This is the body of Andrew
Maclure j let it be decently interred,? a notice that
was long a source of joke among the Jacobite
wits.
With this wynd, our account of the alleys in
connection with the Lawnmarket ends. We have
elsewhere referred to the once well-known Club
formed by the dwellers in the latter, chiefly woc!!en
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 27
from which they had been absent for many years. On this auspicious occasion
considerable interest was excited in the neighbourhood ; and a party-of the Ayrshire
Cavalry, with the Kilmarnock Volunteers, marched out in military array
to pay their respects to the Earl on his arrival, The following extract from a
letter to the Editor of the Free Press upon occasion of his lordship’s visit, is too
interesting to be omitted :-
“ Never having seen that renowned warrior and statesman, the Marquis of Hastings, and being
in the neighbourhood of Loudon Castle, we were exceedingly auxious to behold with our own eyes
the man who has done so much for his country and his friends, and so little for himself. Being
provided at Kilmamock with a ‘guid-gaun’ vehicle, we set out ; and it was not very long untii the
turreta of the Castle were, with delight, beheld by us, towering above the mighty oak and elm of
many hundred years’ standing, and the ‘bonnie woods and braes,’ so justly celebrated by Tamhii.
We were at the village of Galston by nine o’clock, and learned, with much pleasure, that the
Marquis and family were going to Newmilns to hear a sermon in the parish church. From Galston
to Newmilns it ia two miles ; a road level and enchanting, overshadowed by lofty trees ; on the left,
the Castle, with its beautiful avenues and pleasure-grounds ; on the right, the water of Irvine. On
the same side, at the end of this road, and before entering Newmilns, is the Mill, rendered clasaic
from having given birth to Ranisay’s celebrated song of ‘The Lass of Patie’s Mill, so bode, blyth,
and gay.’ Newmilns in a small, neat, clean town ; the new part of it divided from the old by the
water of Irvine, communicating by two bridges. It lies in a beautiful vale, surmunded by braes
covered with rich planting. At the extremity of the vale, four miles east, is Loudon Hill, ‘round
as my shield’ We drove to the residence of Mr. Loudon, the chief magistrate, at the east end of
the town, where we had an Ayrshire breakfast in all its glory, and a hearty welcoma At eleven
the bell summoned us to church. When we arrived at the church door, the Marquis’s family and
suit were just at hand, in two carriages and a gig. In the h t were the Marquis, Marchioness, and
four daughters. The other contained my young Lord Rawdon ; and the factor, Yr. Hamilton, was
in the gig. Every eye was eager to see them alight ; and it was done with that ease and becoming
dignity inherent in true nobdity. In passing the plate of collection, the poor were not neglected.
It is said that the Castle is beset ezrery day with poor persons from thirty miles round, none of
whom are allowed to depart without a good awmw. Before we entered the church, the noble family
were all seated in the gallery in front of the pulpit, being the family seat, which is formed of a
large enclosed compartment. We were in the gallery right of the pulpit, and had a good view.
His lordship is seventy-one years of age ; and, although he has been in camp and field in all sorts
of climate, is stout and healthy. His bold, dwk countenance, with frame erect, gives a most complete
idea of the warrior ; and he possesses all that suavity and dignity of manner, with a countenance
beaming with intelligence, which are ao characteristic of the statesman, wamior, and
philanthropist. He was very plainly dressed-dark-green coat, coloured vest, and dark wsimere
trowsen. The Marchioness is aged
forty-six, and seems to have suffered little from the scorching climat+looks well, and in excellent
health. The
young ladies may be characterised in the same way. Lady Flora is a young lady of mod amiable
dispositions, mild and attractive manners. They have more the cast of the Marqnk’s countenance,
particularly in the upper part of the face. The young lord, aged twenty, is a most promising
young man-no fudge nor frippery about him, aping outlandish airs with an ostentatious consciousness
of his high station in life. His person is tall, handsome, good-looking ; and his manners most
amiable, with every appearance to possess the virtues of his father, During the sermon, they all
,paid the most profound attention, and seemed deeply impressed with the force of the truths propounded
by the Rev. Dr. Laurie, who discharged his duty much to our satisfaction. He has a
good delivery and address, joined with sound sense, and is a sincere lover of the truths of the gospel,
which he delivers in a plain, neat, and impressive manner. We remarked that the Marchionesa
was. most attentive to the Doctor’s discourse, examining every text which was alluded to in the
course of the lecture. During the prayer she and the Marquia seemed much affected when the
Doctor very delicately alluded to the noble family then present. We were much pleased with the
appearance of all the hearers in the church-a healthy, sober, and good-looking people ; all well
dressed, with a deportment suitable to the house of God.”
On his breast hung a gold insignia of one of his many Orders.
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JAMES VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES 11. 91
In the following year, the Common Council purchased the elevated ground lying to the
south of the city, denominated the High Riggs, on part of which Heriot’s Hospital was
afterwards built, and the latest extension of the city wall then took place for the purpose
of enclosing it. A portion of this wall still forms the western boundary of the Hospital
grounds, terminating at the head of the Vennel, in the only remaining tower of the ancient
city wall. The close of the succeeding year was signalised by the visit of Ben Jonson, on
his way to Hawthornden, the seat of the poet Drummond, where the memory of his
residence is still preserved.
The accession of Charles I. was marked by demands for heavy contributions, for the
purpose of fitting out ships, and erecting forts for securing the coasts of the kingdom.
The Common Council of Edinburgh entered so zealously into this measure, that the King
addressed to them a special letter of thanks ; and as a further proof of his gratitude, he
presented the Provost with a gown, to be worn according to King James’s appointment,
and a sword to be borne before him on all public occasions.
The citizens were kept for several years in anticipation of another royal visit, which
was at length accomplished in 1633. The same loyalty was displayed, as on similar occasions,
for receiving the King with suitable splendour. The celebrated poet, Drummond
of Hawthornden, was appointed to address him on this occasion, which he did in a
speech little less extravagant than that with which the town-clerk had hailed his royal
father’s arrival.
The King was received at
the West Port by the nymph Edina, and again at the Overbow by the lady Caledonia, each
of whom welcomed him in copious verse, attributed to Drummond’s pen. The members
of the College added their quota, and Mercury, Apollo, Endymion, the Moon, and a whole
host of celestial visitants made trial of the royal patience in lengthy @ymes !
Fergus I. received the King at the Tolbooth, and “in a grave speech gave many
paternal and wholesome advices to his royal successor ; ” and Mount Parnassus was
erected at the Trone, “with a great variety of vegetables, rocks, and other decorations
peculiar to mountains,’’ and crowded with all its ancient inhabitants. The whole fantastic
exhibition cost the city upwards of 3241,000 Scottish money!’ The most interesting
feature on the occasion was a series of the chief works of Jamesone, the famous Scottish
painter, with which the Nether Bow Port was adorned. This eminent artist continued to
reside in Edinburgh till his death, in 1644. He was buried in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard,
but without a monument, and tradition has failed to preserve any record of the
spot.
This hearty reception by the citizens of Edinburgh was followed by his coronation, on
the 18th of June, in the Abbey Church of Holyrood, with the utmost splendour and pomp ;
but the King was not long gone ere the discontents of the people were manifested by murmuring
and complaints. Under the guidance of Laud, Charles had resolved to carry out
the favourite project of his father, for the complete establishment of Episcopacy in Scotland
; but he lacked the cautious prudence of James, no less than the wise councillors of
Elizabeth. He erected Edinburgh into a separate diocese, taking for that purpose a portion
of the ancient Metropolitan See of St Andrews, and appointed the Collegiate Church
The orator’s poetical skill was nest called into requisition.
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xiv LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
De Quincey’s Grave, . . . 35
Hamilton’s Entry, . . . 36
Scott’s first School, . . . 36
Buccleuch Place, Jeffrey’s House, 37
Hugh Miller’s Grave, . . 39
Chalmers’s Grave, . I . 39
Merchiston Castle, . . . . 40
Stone on which the Covenant
was signed, . . . . 41
Buchanan’s Grave, . . . 42
Grave of the Regent Morton, . 42
Covenanters’ Prison, . . . 43
Mackenzie’s Tomb-Moonlight, 43
Old Well, West Port,. . . 4
Magdalene Chapel-Interior, . 45
Lord Brougham’s Birthplace, . 46
Middle Walk, Meadows, . . 47
North-east Towers, New Royal
Infirmary, . . . . 48
Armorial Bearings of Sir James
Y. Simpson, Bart., . . . 53
Scott’s House, Castle Street, . 54
Cellar in which the Union was
George Square, . . . * 35
signed, . . . . * 58
Anchor Close, . . . - 58
Craig‘s Close, . . . . 58
North Bridge in 1876, . . 59
North Bridge in 1778, . . 59
Tweeddale Court, , . . 60
Great Hall in the Parliament House, 61
Edinburgh Academy, , . 63
Cairn at St. Bennet’s, . . 65
Entrance to St. Margaret’s Convent,
. . . . 6 5
Slab at Chamberlain Road, .
Knoll near Bruntsfield House, .
The Napier Room, Merchiston
Castle, in which Logarithms
were invented, . . ,
Room in which Chalmers died, .
New Royal Blind Asylum,. .
High School Wynd, . . .
Old High School, . . .
The Mint, . . . , .
St. Paul’s, Carrubber‘s Close, .
Playhouse Close, from Dr. Sidey’s
Collection of Drawings, .
White Horse Inn, do. do., .
Panmure Close, . . . .
Adam Smith‘s Grave, . .
Whiteford House, . . .
Bell of Seton Church, . .
The Roundle, . . . .
The Old Yew Tree, Botanic
Gardens, . . . .
Tablet formerly at Niddry Castle,
Barnbougle Castle, . . .
Craigcrook Castle, . . .
Granton Pier, . . . .
Leith Pier, . . . . .
Musselburgh, Old Bridge, . .
Pinkie House, . . . .
Musselburgh, New Bridge, .
Roslin Chapel, . . . .
Dalkeith Palace, . . .
Geological Diagram, . . .
Newhaven Pier, . . . .
View from above Dunsappie Loch
on Arthur‘s Seat, . . .
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54 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
that upwards of two hundred thousand patients had derived benefit from the
Institution.
br. Duncan entered warmly into every proposal which had for its object the
promotion of medical science. He projected, in 1773, a new work to be published
annually, originally under the name of “ Medical Commentaries,” but subsequently
under the title of “Annals of Medicine,” which regularly made its
appearance f0r.a series of more than thirty years.
The celebrated Dr. Cullen, through old age and extreme debility, having
resigned, Dr. James Gregory was elected to the professorship of the ,Practice of
Physic on the 30th December 1789. Upon the same day Dr. Duncan was
chosen Dr. Gregory’s successor j and lie taught this class-“ The Theory of
Medicine ”-till within a few months of his death.
No. CXCI.
DR. ANDREW DUNCAN
IN 1797.
THIS portrait represents the Professor at a later period of life than the former,
although, from the difference of attitude, and the adoption of the modern round
hat, his appearance may be deemed younger. He invariably carried an umbrella
under his arm in the manner figured.
In 1807 Dr. Duncan proposed the erection of a Lunatic Asylum at
Morningside, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, the want of which had been long
felt in Edinburgh. He had many difficulties to encounter. Subscriptions at
first came in slowly, but at last the object was effected ; and a royal charter
for its erection was obtained. The year following, the Lord Provost, Magistrates,
and Town Council presented him with the freedom of the city, in testimony of
the sense they entertained of the services he had rendered to the community
by the establishment of the Public Dispensary and Lunatic Asylum.
Dr. Duncan delighted much in the pleasure of a garden, and having for
many years entertained an opinion that the science of horticulture might be
greatly improved, he succeeded, in 1809, in establishing the Caledonian
Horticultural Society. . It is incorporated by royal charter ; and, by exciting
a spirit of emulation among practical gardeners, has been productive of the best
effects. Upon the death of Dr. Gregory) he was appointed, in 1831, First
Physician to his Majesty for Scotland.
Dr. Duncan was a member of the Harveian, Gymnastic, and other clubs of a ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. that upwards of two hundred thousand patients had derived benefit from ...

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190 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Laith.
escape by a mast that fell between the wreck and
the shore.
In I 692 Leith possessed twenty-nine ships, having
a tonnage of 1,702 tons.
Six years later saw the ill-fated Darien Expedition
sail from its port on the 26th of July, consis:
ing of four frigates-the Rising Sun, Captain
Gibson ; the Companies? Hope, Captain Miller ; the
HamiZton, Captain Duncan ; the Nape, of Borrowtounness,
Captain Dalling-having on board I, 200
men, exclusive of 300 gentlemen volunteers, with
a great quantity of cannon and other munition of
war. They must have gone ?North about,? as
their final departure to the scene of their valour,
sufferings, and destruction was from Rothesay Bay
on the 24th September, 1699.
In the last year of the seventeenth century the
proprietors of the Glass Works at Leith made a
strong complaint to the Scottish Privy Council concerning
a ruinous practice pursued by the proprietors
of similar works at Newcastle of sending great
quantities of their goods into Scotland. These
English makers had lately landed-it was stated in
the February of 1700-no less than two thousand
six hundred dozen of bottles at Montrose, thus
overstocking the market ; and on their petition the
Lords of the Privy Council empowered the Leith
Glass Company to seize all such English wares and
bring them in for his Majesty?s use.
In July, 1702, a piteous petition from Leith was
laid before the Lords of Council, stating that ?It had
pleased the great and holy God to visit this town, for
their heinous sins qgainst Him, with a very suhden
and temble stroke, which was occasioned by the
firing of thirty-three barrels of powder, which dreadful
blast, as it was heard even at many miles distance
with great terror and amazement, so it hath caused
great ruin and desolation in this place.? By this
explosion seven or eight persons were killed on the
spot, the adjacent houses had their roofs blown 0%
their windows destroyed, and were reduced to
ruinous heaps, while portions of their timber were
carried to vast distances. ?Few houses in the
town did not escape some damage, andall this ina
moment of time ; so that the merciful conduct of
Divine Providence hath been very admirable in the
preservation of hundreds of people whose lives
were exposed to manifold dangers, seeing that they
had not so much previous warning as to shift a foot
for their own preservation, much less to remove
their plenishing.?
The petition alleged that damage had been done
to the amount of A36,936 Scots ?by and attour,?
the injuries done to several back-closes and lofts,
household furniture, and merchants? goods. The
proprietors of the houses wrecked were, for the most
part, unable to repair them ; thus the petitioners
entreated permission to make a charitable collection
throughout the kingdom at the doors of the
churches ; and the Lords granted their prayer.
Two years after the Lords had to adjudicate
upon a case of trade despotism. In the January
of 1704, Charles, Earl of Hopetoun, stated that
during his minority his guardians had built a windmill
in Leith for the purpose of grinding and refining
the ore from his mines in the Leadhills of
Lanarkshire; but the mill had been unused until
now, and was found to require repair. John Smith,
who had set up a saw-mill in Leith, being the only
man able to do this kind of work, was employed
by the Earl to repair his windmill ; but the wrightburgesses
of Edinburgh arose in great wrath, and
with violence interfered with the work, on the
ground that it was a violation of their privileges as
a corporation, although not one of them had been
bred to the work in question, ?or had any skill
therein.?
Indeed, it was shown that some part of the work
done by them had to be taken down as useless.
The Earl argued that it was plainly to the public
detriment if such a work was brought to a standstill;
and the Council, adopting his views, gave
him a protection against the irate wrights of Edinburgh.
In the year 1705 Leith was the scene of those
stormy episodes connected with the execution of
the captain and two seamen of the English ship
Worcester.
The oppressive clauses of an Act of the English
Parliament concerning the proposed union had
roused the pride of the Scots to fever heat, and
tended to alienate the minds of many who had
been in favour of the measure ; and the incidents
referred to occurred just at a time to exasperate the
mutual jealousies of both countries.
The Darien Company, notwithstanding the ruin
that had befallen their enterprise, still traded with
the East, and at this time one of their vessels,
called the Annaadak, being seized in the Thames,
was sold by the English East India Company, to
whom the owners applied in vain for restitution
or repayment.
Shortly afterwards the Worcester, an English East
Indiaman, requiring repairs, put into Burntisland,
where she was at once seized by way of reprisal.
Meanwhile some of her crew, when in liquor, had
let fall in their irritation some unguarded admissions
which led to a suspicion that they had cap
tured a Darien ship in Eastern waters, and murdered
her captain and entire crew; and this suspicion was ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Laith. escape by a mast that fell between the wreck and the shore. In I 692 Leith ...

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ECCLESIA S TICAL ANTIQUITIES.
themselves to the restoration of the ancient palace of their fathers, would almost seem
to imply the forethought of securing a fit retreat for them in the ancient capital of the
Stuarts, in case of their being again driven from the English throne. On the north-west
pier of the piazza, within the quadrangle of the Palace, the following inscription, in large
Roman characters, marks the site of the foundation-stone of the modern works :--FVN
BE RO MYLNE MM * IVL * 1671
The chief popular interest which attaches to the Palace arises from its associations
with the eventful reign of Queen Mary, and the romance that clings to the name of her
unfortunate descendant Prince Charles, though there is a nameless charm about the grey
ruins of the Abbey, and the deserted halls of the Palace of our old kings, which no Scotsman
can resist. A noble and a doomed race have passed away for ever from these scenes
of many a dark iragedy in which they acted or suffered, yet not without leaving memories
to haunt the place, and all the more vividly that no fortunate rival intrudes to break the
spell. In the accompanying engraving of thk interior of the Chapel, a point of view has
been chosen which shows the royal vault, the cloister door behind it, the Roxburgh vault,
and the monument of Adam, Bishop of Orkney, attached to one of the pillars-a group
including some of the most interesting features of the ruined nave. The royal vault was
broken into by the revolutionary mob that spoiled the Chapel Royal in 1688, and it was
again raed after the fall of the roof in 1768, in consequence of the folly of those employed
to repair it, who loaded it with a covering of huge flagstones, of a weight altogether disproportioned
to the strength and age of the walls. On the latter occasion, the head of
Queen Magdalene-which, when seen by Arnot in 1766, was entire, and even beautiful
-and the skull of Darnley were carried off. The latter having come into the possession
of Mr James Cummyng of the Lyon Office, the eccentric secretary of the Society of the
Antiquaries of Scotland, his life was rendered miserable thereafter by the persecutions
of the shrewdish cicerone of the Chapel, who haunted him like the ghost of the murdered
Darnley, and lived on his terrors by constant threats of exposure to the Barons of
Exchequer. After his death the skull was traced to the collection of a statuary in Edinburgh,
but all clue to it seems now lost.
A few old portraits, with sundry relics of the various noble occupants of the Palace in
earlier times, form the only other objects of attraction to the curious visitor. Among the
pictures in the Duke of Hamilton’s apartments is one of the many questionable portraits
of Queen Nary. It claims to be an original, in the dress in which she was executed,
though, if the latter statement be true, it goes far to discredit its originality. Another fair
lady, dressed as a shepherdess, and described as the work of Vandyke, though probably only
a copy, is 8 portrait of Dorothy, Countess of Sutherland-Waller’s SacAurissa. Here,
too, are the portraits of two celebrated royal favourites, Jane Shore and Ne11 Gwynne, as
the ciceroni of the Palace invariably persist in styling the latter, though in reality a portrait
of her frail rival Moll Davies, and bearing a striking resemblance to her engraved portrait.
It corresponds also to the latter in having black hair, whereas that of Ne11 was fair; but
it is usual to confer the name of Ne11 Gwpne on all portraits of such frail beauties.’
From Ne11 Cfwynne’s will, dated Oct. 18,1687, and preserved at Doctors Commons, it appears that her red name
was Margaret Symoott ; EO that the story of her decent from an ancient Welsh family is a spurious invention of courtly
peerage writers, for the gratification of her illwtriouS descendadb.
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HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 59
situated the Waverfey Bridge and East Princes Street Gardens ; here, from
a littIe above the Imperial Hotel, the accompanying view of the North Bridge
is taken. The castellated turrets of the Jail tell in relief against the eastern
NOKI’H BRIDGE IN la*.
sky ; down the slope the Royal High School is diinty seen in the morning
haze; in the middle distance rises the North Bridge, with its nngraceful
modem parapet, contrasting unfavourably with the original structure. The
. . .. . . . .
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alterations which have gradually taken pIace here within the last twenty years
are very marked. On the site of the old Green Market rises the new spacious
station of the North British Railway, on the north side of which is situated
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with little change of system, save that in 1809
their number was increased from twenty-one to
twenty-eight, and out of that number the Crown
was empowered to appoint seven to be Commissioners
for the Herring Fishery j and from that
time the Fishery Board and the Board of Manufactures
have virtually been separate bodies.
Regarding the Royal Institution, in which it now
has chambers, Lord Cockburn says :-? Strictly, it
ought to have been named after the old historical
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION AS IT WAS IN 1829. (From a Drawkg ay S h @ M )
mental art, and also in taste and design -in manufacture.
In the same year Sir John Shaw Lefevre
was sent down by Government to report on the
constitutionand management of the Board and the
erection of the Galleries of Art in Edinburgh.
Since the Board began to give premiums for the
encouragement of the .linen trade, that branch of
business has made giant strides in Scotland. ?It
takes about six months,? says David Bremner,
?? from the purchase cif the raw material before the
board of trustees, because it was by their money
and for their accommodation chiefly it was made,
and ?the Trustees? Hall? had been the title ever
since the Union, of the place in the old town where
they had met.?
In 1828 new letters patent were issued, giving to
the trustees a wider discretion; and empowering
them to apply their funds to the encouragement not
only of manufactures, but also of such other undertakings
in Scotland as should most conduce to the
general welfare of the United Kingdom.
In 1847 an Act was passed by which the
Treasury was enabled to direct the appropriation
of their funds towards the purposes of education in
the fine arts generaliy, in decorative and ornagoods
can be manufactured and the proceeds drawn,
so that the stock-in-trade of manufacturers and
merchants will amount to ~t;5,ooo,ooo. It would
thus appear that a capital of ~ ~ z , o o o , o o o is required
for carrying on the linen trade of Scotland.?
It was under this Board of Manufactures that
the quality of Scottish linen was improved. One
of their earliest acts was to propose to Nicholas
d?Assaville, a cambric weaver of St. Quintin, in
France, to bring over ten experienced weavers in
cambric, with their families, to settle in Scotland
and teach their art to others. The proposal was
accepted, and the trustees purchased from the
governors of Heriot?s Hospital five acres of ground
eastward of Broughton Loan, whereon were built
- ... little change of system, save that in 1809 their number was increased from twenty-one to twenty-eight, and ...

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the end we might pass to Heaven with all this
gear! But fie on the knave Death !-that will
come whether ye will or not; and when he hath
laid on the arrest, then foul worms will be busy
with this flesh, be it ever so fair and tender, and
the silly soul, I fear, shall be feeble, that it can
neither carry with it gold, garnishing, targating,
pearl, nor precious stone.? In the midst of these
speeches the Laird of Dun came out of the queen?s
HOLYROOD PALACE, THE REGENT MORAY?S HOUSE (ADJOINING THE PALACE, ON THE NORTH), THE ROYAL
GARDENS, AND ANCIENT HOROLOGE. (From U Drawinz6y Bh6,$pu6Zishedh 1826.)
created Duke of Albany, but he looked forward to
wearing the crown. His headstrong, dissolute,
foolish, and in many instances brutal disposition,
soon weakened the affections of the queen, and
her imprudent love for him, which had at one time ,
been so violent and generous, was-especially after
the murder of Rizzio-converted into abhorrence.
The appointment of the latter-said by Rymer to
be a pensioner of the Pope-to the important and
-cabinet, and requested him to go home; nor does
it appear that Mary took any further notice of his
.officious and uncalled - for, interference with her
-marriage.?
Soon after, another mob broke into the chapel
.royal during mass, but was driven out by the Provost,
the Laird of Pitarrow, and others, an event
which led to a futile trial of Knox before the Privy
Council.
Great events now followed each other fast, and
.on the 29th of July, 1565, Mary was married to
her wretched and dissipated cousin, the handsome
Darnley, at Stirling Castle, in which an apartment
.had been fitted up as a Roman Catholic chapel by
David Rizzio.
Three days before this Darnley had been
confidential office of secretary to the queen had
given great offence to the haughty noble$ of
Scotland ; and such was his influence over her, that
it has been more than once supposed that he
was her confessor in disguise, which, could it be
proved, would throw a new light on his history
and that of Mary, by accounting for his influence
over her, and her horror of his murderers. A footnote
to Actq Regia, vol. iv., says that ?he was
an old, crabbed, and deformed fellow, and that?twas
his loyalty and sagacity which made him so dear
to the queen.?? Thuanus too, says that notwithstanding
his mean origin she made him sit at
table with her every day. He certainly fitted up
the chapel for her marriage, and is known to
have had a brother, Joseph, said to be in holy? ... end we might pass to Heaven with all this gear! But fie on the knave Death !-that will come whether ye will ...

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Leith] BUILDING OF THE WESTERN DOCKS. 283
I Government advanced A25,ooo to the city of
Edinburgh on security of the future dock revenues,
imd on the 14th of May, 1801, the foundation-stone
of the wet docks was laid by Robert Dundas, of
Melville, Deputy Grand Master, in absence of
Charles, Earl of Dalkeith, Grand Master of Scotland.
An immense concourse of masonic brethren
and spectators attended this ceremony, and the
procession left the Assembly Rooms, and proceeded
along the quay to the southeast corner of the first
dock, where the first stone was laid.
When the procession reached that spot, the substitute
Grand Master, after the usual formula, placed
in the cavity of the stone a large phial, containing
medals ?of the first characters of the present age,?
coated with crystal, and two plates, whereon were
engraved inscriptiohs so long that they occupy each
half a column of the ChronicZe.
A salute of twenty-one guns was fired by the
squadron in the roads, under Captain Clements,
R.N., and the militia formed the escort for the
Grand Lodge ; and the Dumfries-shire militia and
other corps stationed in Edinburgh and its vicinity
contributed largely by their manual labour, being
employed by companies, and even battalions, in the
excavation and general formation of these docks,
the first of which, called now the old dock, was
opened to the shipping in 1806 ; and in the preceding
year a further sum of A;25,000 had been
advanced by Government on the dock property.
The Western, or Queen?s Dock, begun in 1810,
was finished in 1817, the suite being at a cost of
about Az85,ooo.
These two are each 250 yards long, and IOO wide,
with three graving docks on their north side, and
all protected from the sea by a retaining wall of
enormous strength, composed of vast blocks of
stone. The third, or largest dock of all, designed
to reach nearly,to Newhaven, was then projected;
but this and all kindred matters which accorded
hith the magnificence of Mr. Rennie?s design, and
the intentions of his employers, the magistrates of
Edinburgh, were thrown into abeyance during his
We by a total failure of funds.
On the occasion of the jubilee of the 25th of
October, 1809-the anniversary of the accession of
George 111. to the throne-the foundation-stone of
what was named ? King George?s Bastion ?? was
laid by the Earl of Moira, in the north-west angle
of the western dock, amid a magnificent assemblage,
and followed by a procession, including all the
tnagnates of Edinburgh, escorted by the troops and
volunteers, under a grand salute of heavy guns,
fired by the crew of H.M.S. Egeria, on the west
side of the basin, followed by a general salute of
fifty rounds from all the shipping in the roads, and,
as the Sots Magazine has it, ?the acclamations
of twenty thousand people ;? and a grand banquet
was given in the Assembly Rooms, George Street.
The gates of the old dock were renewed, and
the sill deepened in 1844.
The Western, or Queen?s Dock, when the George
Bastion had been built, was for some years mostly
used by the naval service for repairing and fitting
out
In 1S25 the city of Edinburgh borrowed from
Government A240,ooo more on security of the
dock dues (after there had been a proposal to sell
the whole property to a joint-stock company, a
proposal successfully opposed by the inhabitants of
Leith) j and after Mr. W. Chapman, of Newcastle,
hadmade surveys and plans for further improve
ments, as the result of his report and of subsequent
voluminous correspondence with Govemment
on the subject of a naval yard and store
yard, it was decided to extend the eastern pier
about 1,500 feet, so as to have an entire length
there of 2,550 feet, or more than half a mile.
The ceremony of driving the first pile took place
on the 15th of August, 1826, the fourth anniversary
of the landing of George IV. at Leith, and was
made the occasion, as usual, of an imposing
demonstration. All the vessels in port were gdy
decorated, and the various public bodies, accompanied
by three regimental bands and escorted by
Hussars, proceeded from the Assembly Rooms to
the end of the old pier, where the Dock Commissioners
and Lord Provost occupied a platform.
The Provost having cut a rope, and allowed a
heavy weight to fall upon the upright pile, wine,
oil, and corn, were placed upon it, and the company
then embarked in a tug and crossed to the other
pier, where the same ceremony was repeated, and
a banquet followedl
A western pier and breakwater were next erected,
to the extent of r,Soo feet, terminating within 200
feet of the other.
The insolvency of the city of Edinburgh in 1833
led to important re-arrangements in connection with
the management of their now valuable docks ; and
by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed in 1838,
the care of the docks and harbour was vested in
eleven Commissioners-five appointed by the Lords?
of the Treasury, three by the city of Edinburgh,
and three by the town of Leith.
In the winter of 1838-9, Messrs. Walker and
Cubbitt, two eminent engineers of London, were
sent down by the Lords of the Treasury to undertake
jointly the duty of providing their lordships
?with such a plan as will secure to the Port of ... BUILDING OF THE WESTERN DOCKS. 283 I Government advanced A25,ooo to the city of Edinburgh on security of ...

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82 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch.
whose windows perhaps the accident occurred
?that the fox will not set his foot on the ict
after Candlenias, especially in the heat of the sun
as this was, at two o?clock; and at any time tht
fox is so sagacious as to lay his ear on the icf
to see if it be frozen to the bottom, or if he heal
the murmuring and current of the water.?
In I 7 I 5, when the magistrates took measures foi
the defence of the city, the sluice of the loch was
completely dammed up to let the water rise, a pre.
caution omitted by their successors in 1745. Ir
Edgar?s plan, twenty years later, the bed of thc
loch is shown as ?? now devised,? measuring 1,70c
feet in length, from the foot of Xamsay Garden tc
the foot of Halkerston?s Wynd, and 400 feet broad
at the foot of the gardens below the Advocate?s
Close. From the upper point to the West Church
the bed is shown as ?bog or marsh.?
? Yet many in common with myself,? says
Chambers, ?must remember the by no means
distant time when the remains of this sheet oi
water, consisting of a few pools, served as an ex.
cellent sliding and skating ground in winter, while
their neglected, grass-grown precincts too fre
quently formed an arena whereon the high and
mighty quarrels of the Old and New Town cowZie3
were brought to lapidarian arbitration j ? and until
a very recent period woodcocks, snipe, and waterducks
used to frequent the lower part of the West
Princes Street Gardens, attracted by the damp oi
the locality.
?? The site of the North Loch,? says a writer in
the Edinburgh Magazine for 1790, ?is disgusting
below as well as above the bridge, and the balus
trades of the east side ought to be filled up like
those of the west, as they are only meant to show
a beautiful stream, not slaughter-houses.?
The statute for the improvement of the valley
westward of the mound was not passed until 1816 ;
but Lord Cockburn describes it as being then an
impassable fetid marsh, ?open on all sides, the
Teceptacle of many sewers, and seemingly of all the
worried cats, drowned dogs, and blackguardism of
the city, Its abomination made it so solitary that
the volunteers used to practise ball-firing across it.
The men stood on its north side, and the targets
were set up along the lower edge of the castle
hiil, or rock. The only difficulty was in getting
across the swamp to place and examine the targets,
which could only be done in very dry weather and
at one or two places.?
In the maps of 1798 a ?new mound? would
seem to have been projected across it, at an angle,
from South Castle Street to the Ferry Road, by
the western base of the castle rock-a design, fortunately,
never carried out. One of the greatest
mistakes committed as a matter of taste was the
erection of the Earthen Mound across the beautiful
valley of the loch, from the end of Hanover
Street to a point at the west end of Bank Street.
It is simply an elongated hill, like a huge railway
embankment, a clumsy, enormous, and unreniovzble
substitute for a bridge which should have been
there, and its creation has been deplored by every
topographical writer on Edinburgh.
Huge as the mass is, it originated in a very
accidental operation. When the bed of the loch
was in a state of marsh, a shopkeeper, Mr. George
Boyd, clothier, at Gosford?s Close, in the old town,
was frequently led from business or curiosity to
visit the rising buildings of the new, and accommodated
himself with ?? steps ? across this marsh,
and he was followed in the construction of this
path by other persons similarly situated, who contributed
their quota of stone or plank to fill up,
widen, and heighten what, in rude compliment to
the founder, was becoming known as ?Geordie
Boyd?s Mud Brig.? The inconvenience arising
from the want of a direct communication between
the old town and the new began to be seriously
felt about 1781, when the latter had been built as
far west as Hanover Street.
Hence a number of residents, chiefly near the
Lawnmarket, held a meeting in a small publichouse,
kept by a man called Robert nunn, and
called in burlesque, ?Dunn?s Hotel,? after a
lashionable hotel of that name in Princes Street,
and subscriptions were opened to effect a communication
of some kind ; but few were required,
zs Provost Grieve, who resided at the corner of
Hanover Street, in order to fill up a quarry before
his house, obtained leave to have the rubbish from
the foundations of the various new streets laid
down there. From that time the progress of the
Mound proceeded with iapidity, and from 1781
till 1830 augmentations to its breadth and height
were continually made, till it became the mighty
mass it is. By the latter date the Mound had bezome
levelled and macadamised, its sides sown
with grass, and in various ways embellished so as to
issume the appearance of being completed. It is
ipwards of 800 feet in length, on the north upwards
if 60 feet in height, and on the south about IOO feet.
[ts breadth is proportionally much greater than its
ieight, averaging about 300 feet. It is computed
:o contain more than z,ooo,ooo of cartloads of
ravelled edrth, and on the moderate supposition
:hat each load, if paid for, was worth Gd., must
iave cost the large sum of ~ 5 0 , 0 0 0 .
It was first enclosed by rough stone walls, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch. whose windows perhaps the accident occurred ?that the fox will not set his ...

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202 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
.armorial he adopted was argent, a tree or, with two
ships under sail.
It was still time of truce when Henry, mortified
by the defeat of his five ships, exhorted his most
.able seamen ? to purge away this stain cast on the
English name,? and offered the then noble pension
of &I,OOO per annum to any man who could
accomplish Wood?s death or capture ; and the task
was taken in hand by Sir Stephen Bull (originally
a merchant of London), who, with three of Henry?s
largest ships manned by picked crews, and having
on board companies of crossbowmen, pikemen, and
many volunteers of valour and good birth, sailed
from the Thames in July, 1490, and entering the
Firth of Forth, came to anchor under the lee of
the Isle of May, there to await the return of Wood
from Sluys, and for whose approach he kept boats
scouting to seaward.
On the morning of the 18th of August the two
ships of Wood hove in sight, and were greeted with
exultant cheers by the crews of Bull, who set
some inlets of wine abroach, and gave the orders
to unmoor and clear away for battle.
Wood recognised the foe, and donninghis armour,
gave orders to clear away too ; and his brief ha-
Iangue, modernised, is thus given by Lindesay of
Pitscottie and others :-
? My lads, these are the foes who would convey
us in bonds to the foot of an English king, but by
your courage and the help of God they shall fail !
Repair every man to his station-charge home,
gunners-cross-bowmen to the tops-two-handed
swords to the fore-rooms-lime-pots and fire-balls in
the tops ! Be stout, men, and true for the honour
of Scotland and your own sakes. Hurrah!?
Shouts followed, and stoups of wine went round.
His second in command was Sir David Falconer,
who was afterwards slain at Tantallon. The result
of the battle that ensued is well known. It was
continued for two days and a night, during which
the ships were all grappled together, and drifted
into the Firth of Tay, where the English were all
taken, and carried as prizes into the harbour of
Dundee. Wood presented Sir Stephen Bull and
his surviving officers to Jarnes IV., who dismissed
them unransomed, with their ships, ? because they
fought not for gain, but glory,? and Henry dissemkled
his rage by returning thanks.
For this victory Wood obtained the sea town as
well as the nether town of Largo, and soon afteI
his skilful eye recommended the Bay of Gourock ta
James as a capable harbour. In 1503 he led a
fleet against the insurgent chiefs of the Isles. Hi$
many brilliant services lie apart from the immediate
history of Leith. Suffice it to say that he was pre.
I
sent at the battle of Linlithgow in 1526, and
wrapped the dead body of Lennox in his own
scarlet mantle. Age was coming on him after this,
and he retired to his castle of Largo, where he
seems to have lived somewhat like old Commodore
Trunnion, for there is still shown the track of a
canal formed by his order, on which he was rowed
to mass daily in Largo church in a barge by his
old crew, who were all located around him, He is
supposed to have died abodt 1540, and was buried
in Largo church. One of his sons was a senator
of the College of Justice in 1562 ; and Sir Andrew
Wood, third of the House of Largo, was Comptroller
of Scotland in 1585.
Like himself, the Bartons, the shipmates and
friends of Sir -4ndrew, all attained high honour
and fame, though their origin was more distinguished
than his, and they were long remembered
among the fighting captains of Leith.
John Barton, a merchant of Leith in the time of
James III., had three sons : Sir Andrew, the hero
of the famous nautical ballad, who was slain in the
Downs in 151 I, but whose descendants still exist ;
Sir Robert of Overbarnton in 1508, Comptroller
of the Household to James V. in 1520; John, an
eminent naval commander under James 111. and
James IV., who died in t 5 13,and was buried at Kirkcudbright.
The Comptroller?s son Robert married
the heiress of Sir John Mowbray of Barnbougle, who
died in 151 y ; and his descendants became extinct
in the person of Sir Robert of Overbarnton, Barnbougle,
and Inverkeithing. Our authorities for these
and a few other memoranda concerning this old
Leith family are a ?Memoir of the Familyof Barton,
&c.,? by J. Stedman, Esq., of Bath (which is scarce,
only twelve copies having been printed), Tytler,
Pinkerton, and others.
For three generations the Bartons of Leith seem
to have had a kind of family war with the Portuguese,
and their quarrel began in the year 1476,
when John Barton, senior, on putting to sea froin
Sluys, in Flanders, in a king?s ship, the ]iZiai?nnn,
laden with a valuable cargo, was unexpectedly
attacked by two armed Portuguese caravels, commanded
respectively by Juan Velasquez and Juan
Pret. The JiZiana was taken ; many of her crew
were slain or captured, the rest were thrust into a
boat and cut adrift. Among the latter was old John
Barton, who proceeded to Lisbon to seek indemnity,
but in vain; and he is said by one account to
have been assassinated by Pret or Velasquez to put
an end to the affair. By another he is stated to have
been alive in 1507, and in command of a ship
called the Liun, which was seized at Campvere, in
Zealand-unless it can be that the John referred to ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. .armorial he adopted was argent, a tree or, with two ships under sail. It was ...

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300 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Infirmary Street.
He had, moreover, to say prayers twice weekly,
and be ever ready to attend the dying when summoned
by them.
In 1763 a number of Scottish soldiers disbanded
on the great reduction of the army in that year, sick,
lame, and destitute, applied for admission to the
hospital. On this, an extraordinary meeting of the
managers was summoned, and their application was
granted, though the former did not consider themselves
bound in any way to do so ; and in that year,
Three were struck down ; two recovered, but one
became delirious.
The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons had
been in the habit of giving medical attendance
in monthly rotation; but the managers, finding
this to prove inconvenient, selected two regular
physicians and four expert surgeons, to whom
various departments were committed. The four
latter were named substitutes, and divided the
year equally, so that each had his own quarter.
(Sot. Ma,a Vol. XXX.)
THE OLD ROYAL INFIRMARY. (After & Drawing by Paul Sandby, in Muiflands ?History of Edinburglr.?)
in pursuance of an order he received from the Commander-
inchief, Dr. Adam Austin commenced a
regular visitation of the military wards, on the state
of which he was bound to report to the Adjutant-
General in Scotland. The Doctor was a Fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons. He married Anne,
daughter of Hugh Lord Semple, and left a daughter
who died so lately as March, 1864, aged IOO years
and more. (Scotsman,qth March, 1864.)
In 1768 the whole edifice narrowly escaped
destruction, apparently not .being provided with a
lightning conductor. On the 30th of July the south
wing was struck furiously by lightning; many of
the windows were destroyed and the building much
damaged; several of the patients felt the shock.
The other surgeons, or ordinaries of the Incorporation,
attended by monthly rotation. The four
substitutes, besides their quarterly attendance, had
their monthly tour of duty with the rest; ?and
when the month of any of the four fell in with his
quarter, then, either the next substitute in order
was to become his assistant, or he was to apply for
the assistance of another for that month, thzt the
attendance of two might at no time be wanting in
the Infirmary,?
Such was . the organised system of attendance ;
besides all this, the managers enjoined these substitutes?
to be present at all consultations, to take
charge of all dresses and dressings, of the record
of surgical cases kept by the surgeons? clerks, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Infirmary Street. He had, moreover, to say prayers twice weekly, and be ever ready to ...

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THE OLD THEATRE ROYAL, IN PROCESS PP DEMOLITION.
CHAPTER XLV.
EAST SIDE OF THE NORTH BRIDGE (cotttinued).
Memorabilia of the General Post Office-First Postal System in Scotland-First Communication with Ireland-Sanctions given by the Scotti, I
Parliament-Expenses of the Establishment at various Periods-The Horse Posts-Violation of Letter Bags-Casualties of the Period-Tht
First Stage Coach-Peter Williamsop-The Various Post Office Buildings-The Waterloo Place Office-Royal Arms Removed-New Office
Built-S&C and Fiscal Details.
THE demolition of the old theatre was proceeded
with rapidly, and with it passed away Shakespeare
Square, on its southern and eastern sides, a semirectangle,
alike mean in architecture and disreputable
in character; and on the sites of both,
and of Dingwall?s ancient castle, was erected the
present General Post Office, a magnificent building,
prior to describing which we propose to give some
memorabilia of the development of that institution
in Edinburgh.
The year 1635 was the epoch of a regular postal
system in Scotland, under the Scottish ministry of
Charles I. This systeni was probably limited to
the road between Edinburgh and Berwick, the
main object being to establish a regular communication
with London. Mails were despatched once
and sometimes twice weekly, and the postage of a
single letter was 6d. From Rushworth?s ? Collec-
45
tions? it appears that in that year Thomas Wither
ings, his Majesty?s Postmasterof England and foreign
parts, was directed to adjust ?one running post
or two, to run day and night between Edinburgh
and London, to go thither and back again in six
days, and to take with them all such letters as shall
be directed to any post town on the said road.?
Three years after these posts became unsafe ; the
bearers were waylaid and robbed of their letters,
for political reasons.
In 1642, on the departure of the Scottish troops
to protect the Ulster colonists, and put down the
rebellion in Ireland, a line of posts was established
between Edinburgh and Port Patrick, where John
M?Caig, the postmaster, was allowed by the Privy
Council to have a ?post bark?; and in 1649 the
posts were improved by Cromwell, who removed
many, if not all the Scottish officials j and in 1654 ... OLD THEATRE ROYAL, IN PROCESS PP DEMOLITION. CHAPTER XLV. EAST SIDE OF THE NORTH BRIDGE ...

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302 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ? [Surgeon Square.
We may close our notice of the Old Royal
Infirmary by a reference to the Keith Fund, established
by the late ME.. Janet Murray Keith and
her sister Ann for the relief of incurable patients
who have been in the house. These generous ladies
by trust-deed left a sum of money, the interest of
which was to be applied for the behoof of all who
were discharged therefrom as incurable by the loss
of their limbs, or so forth. The fund, which consists
of Bank of Scotiand stock, is held for this
purpose by trustees, who are annually appointed
by the managers of the Royal Infirmary, the
annual dividend to which amounts to Lz50. In
1877 there were on the list of recipients IOI
patients receiving allowances varying from AI to
A4; and in their deed of settlement the donors
express a hope that the small beginning thus made
for the relief of such sufferers, if well managed,
may encourage richer persons to follow theiI
example. Although this trust is appointed to be
kept separate for ever from the affairs of the Royal
Infirmary, the trustees are directed to publish
annually, with the report of the managers, an abstract
of the fund, with such other information %
they may deem desirable.
In the account of the west side of the Pleasance
we have briefly adverted to the ancient hall of the
Royal College of Surgeons,* which, bounded by the
eastern flank of the city wall, was built by that
body when they abandoned their previous place ol
meeting, which they rented in Dickson?s Close foi
L40 yearly, and acquired Cumehill House and
grounds, the spot within the angle of the wall
referred to. This had anciently belonged to the
Black Friars, but was secularised, and passed suc.
cessively into the hands of Sir John and Sir Jamer
Skene, judges of the Court of Session, both undei
the title of Lord Cumehill. Sir James Skene
?l succeeded Thomas, Earl of Melrose, as Presidenl
on the 14th Feb., 1626, in which office he con.
tinued till his death, which took place on the 15tk
October, 1633, in his own lodging beside thc
Grammar School of Edinburgh.?
After them it became the property of Samue
Johnstoun of the Sciennes ; and after him of thr
patrons of the university, who made it the housc
I of their professor of divinity, and he sold it to thc
surgeons for 3,000 merks Scots in 1656.
This house, which should have been described ir
its place, is shown by Rothiemay?s plan (see p. 241:
in 1647 to have been a large half-quadrangular four
storeyed house, with dormer windows, a circulai
turnpike stair with a conical roof on its north front
Vol. I., pp. 381-3.
md surrounded by a spacious garden, enclosed on
he south and east by the battlemented wall of
he city, and having a doorway in the boundary
wall of the High School yard on the north. On
he site of this edifice there was raised the future
Royal College of Surgeons, giving still its name to
he adjacent Square.
On the west side of that square stood the hall of
.he Royal Medical Society, which, Amot says, was
:oeval with the institution of a regular school of
iiedicine in the University ?by the establishment
if professors in the different branches of that
science. Dr. Cullen, Dr. Fothergill, and others
if the most eminent physicians in Britain, were
imong the first of its members. None of its
records, however, of an earlier date than A.D.
1737, have been preserved.?
Since that year the greater number of the students
of medicine at the University, who have
been distinguished in after years by their eminence,
diligence, and skill, have been members of this
Society, to which none are admitted until they have
made some progress in the study of physic.
In May, 1775, the foundation stone of their new
hall in Surgeon Square was laid by Dr. Cullen in
the presence of the other medical professors, the
presidents of the learned societies, and a large
audience.
This Society was erected into a body corporate by
5 royal charter grantedon the 14th of December,
1778, and lC is intended,? says Amot, writing of it
in his own time, ? l as a branch of medical education,
and a source of further discoveries and improvements
in that science, and those branches of
philosophy intimately connected with it. The
members at their weekly meetings read in rotation
discourses on medical subjects, which, at least Six
months previous to their delivery, had been assigned
to them by the Society, either at their own request
or by lot. And before any discourse be publicly
read it is communicated in writing to every member,
three of whom are particularly appointed to
impugn, if necessary, its doctrines. From these
circumstances the author of every discourse is induced
to bestow the utmost pains in rendering it as
complete as possible ; and the other members have
an opportunity of coming prepared to point out
every other view in which the subject can be rendered.
Thus, emulation and industry are excited,
genius is called forth, and the judgment exercised
and improved. By these means much information
is obtained respecting facts and doctrines already
published ; new opinions are often suggested, and
further inquiries pointed out. -4nd it is acknowledged
by all who are acquainted with the Univer ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ? [Surgeon Square. We may close our notice of the Old Royal Infirmary by a reference ...

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The Mound.] THE EQUIVALENT MONEY. 85
houses for the French weavers, who, in memory of
their native land, named the colony Little Picardy,
.and thereon now stands Picardy Place. This was
in 1729. The men taught weaving, their wives
and daughters the art of spinning cambric yarn ;
and by the trustees a man well skilled in all the
branches of the linen trade was at the same time
brought from Ireland, and appointed to travel the
country and instruct the weavers and others in the
best modes of making cloth.
'' Secondly, to indemnify for any losses they
might sustain by reducing the coin of Scotland to
the standard and value of England ; and thirdly, in
bribing a majority of the Scottish Parliament when
matters came to the Zasf push.
" Of the whole equivalent, therefore, ono
~40,000 was left for national purposes ; and so lost
to public spirit and to all sense of honour were the
representatives of Scotland, three gr four noblemen
alone excepted, that this balance was supposed to
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.
Before proceeding further, we shall here quote the
comprehensive statement concerning the Board ot
Trustees which appears in Knox's "View of the
British Empire," London, 17Sg :-
" By the Treaty of Union it was stipulated that
;6398,085 should be paid to the Scots as an
equivalent for the customs, taxes, and excises to be
levied upon that kingdom in consequence of the
English debt, jC~o,ooo,ooo, though estimated at
~17,000,000. This equivalent, if it may be so
called, was applied in the following manner :-
"Firstly, to pay off the capital of the Scottish
India Company, which was to be abolished in
favour of the English Company trading to the East
Indies.
be useless in the English Treasury till the year
1727, when the royal burghs began to wake from
their stupor, and to apply the interest of the
~40,000 towards raising a little fund for improving
the manufactures and fisheries of the country."
'' An Act of Parliament " (the Act quoted before)
'' now directed the application of the funds to the
several purposes for which they were designed, and
appointed twenty-one commissioners, who were
entrusted with the management of the same and
other matters relative thereto."
In Lefevre's Report of July zoth, 1850, it is stated
that "having regard to the origin of this Board as
connected with the existence of Scotland as a
separate kingdom, and to the unbroken series of ... Mound.] THE EQUIVALENT MONEY. 85 houses for the French weavers, who, in memory of their native land, named ...

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334 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Sheet
There was then in Edinburgn a merchant, named
Charles Jackson, to whom Charles 11. had acted
as godfather in the Kirk of Keith, and Jackson
was a name assumed by Charles after his escape
in the Royal Oak. In consideration of all this,
by an advertisement in the Courant, Mr. Jackson,
as being lineally descended from a stock of
royalists, ?invited all such to solemnise that
memorable day (29th May) at an enclosure called
Charles?s Field, lying a mile south from this city
(where he hath erected a very useful bleachingfield),
and there entertained them with a diversity
of liquors, fine music, 8rc.?
He had a huge bonfire lighted, and a tall pole
erected, with a large banner displayed therefrom,
and the royal oak painted on it, together with
the bark in which his sacred majesty made his
escape, and the colonel who accompanied him
?The company around the bonfire drank Her
Majesty Queen Anne?s health, and the memory ot
the happy Restoration, with great mirth and demonstrations
of loyalty. The night concluded with
mirth, and the standard being brought back to Mr.
Jackson?s lodgings, was carried by ZoyaZ gentlemen
bareheaded, and followed by several others with
trumpets, hautboys, and bagpipes playing before
them, where they were kindly entertained.? (Reliquiz
Scofia.)
CHAPTER XXXIX.
NICOLSON STREET AND SQUARE.
Lady Nicolson-Her Pillar-Royal Riding School-M. Angelo-New Surgeons? Hall-The Earl of Leven-Dr. Barthwick Gilchrist-The Blind
Asylum-John Madmen-Sir David WilkicRaxburgh Parish-My Glenorchy?r Chapel.
NICOLSON STREET, which runs southward to the
Cross Causeway, on a line with the South Bridge,was
formed about the middle of the eighteenth century,
on the grounds of Lady Nicolson, whose mansion
stood on an area now covered by the eastern end
of North College Street ; and a writer in a public
print recently stated that the house numhered as
82 in Nicolson Street, presently occupied as a
hotel, was erected for and occupied by her after
the street was formed.
In Shaw?s ? Register of Entails ? under date of
Tailzie, 7th October, 1763, and of Registration, 4th
December, 1764, is the name of Lady Nicolson
(Elizabeth Carnegie), relict of Mr. Tames Nicolson,
with note of the lands and heritable subjects in
the shire of Edinburgh that should belong to her
at her death.
In Edgar?s plan for 1765, her park, lying eastward
of the Potterrow, is intersected by the ?New
Road,? evidently the line of the present street, and
at its northern end is her mansion, some seventy
feet distant from the city wall, with a carriage gate
and lodge, the only other building near it being the
Royal Riding School, with its stables, on the site of
the present Surgeons? Hall.
On the completion of Nicolson Street, Lady
Nicolson erected at its northern end a monument
to her husband. It was, states Amot, a fluted
Corinthian column, twenty-five feet two inches in
height, with a capital and base, and fourteen inches
diameter. Another account says it was from
thirty to forty feet in height, and had on its pedestal
an inscription in Latin and English, stating that
Lady Nicolson having been left the adjacent piece
of ground by her husband, had, out of regard for
his memory, made it to be planned into ?? a street,
to be named from him, Xicolson Street.?
On the extension of the thoroughfare and ultimate
completion of the South Bridge, from which
it was for some years a conspicuous object, it was
removed, and the affectionate memorial, instead
of being placed in the little square, with that barbarous
want of sentiment that has characterised
many improvements in Edinburgh and elsewhere in
Scotland in more important matters, was thrown
aside into the yard of the adjacent Riding School,
and was, no doubt, soon after broken up for
rubble.
One of the first edifices in the newly-formed
thoroughfare was the old Riding School, a block of
buildings and stables, measuring about one hundred
and fifty feet each way.
The first ?master of the Royal Riding Menage?
was Angelo Tremamondo, a native of Italy, .as his
name imports, though it has been supposed that it
was merely a mountebank assumption, as it means
the tremor of the world, a universal earthquake;
but be that as it may, his Christian name in Edmburgh
speedily dwindled clown to Aimhe. He was
in the pay of the Government, was among the earliest
residents in Nicolson Square, and had a salary of
Lzoo per annum. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Sheet There was then in Edinburgn a merchant, named Charles Jackson, to whom ...

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334 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Sheet
There was then in Edinburgn a merchant, named
Charles Jackson, to whom Charles 11. had acted
as godfather in the Kirk of Keith, and Jackson
was a name assumed by Charles after his escape
in the Royal Oak. In consideration of all this,
by an advertisement in the Courant, Mr. Jackson,
as being lineally descended from a stock of
royalists, ?invited all such to solemnise that
memorable day (29th May) at an enclosure called
Charles?s Field, lying a mile south from this city
(where he hath erected a very useful bleachingfield),
and there entertained them with a diversity
of liquors, fine music, 8rc.?
He had a huge bonfire lighted, and a tall pole
erected, with a large banner displayed therefrom,
and the royal oak painted on it, together with
the bark in which his sacred majesty made his
escape, and the colonel who accompanied him
?The company around the bonfire drank Her
Majesty Queen Anne?s health, and the memory ot
the happy Restoration, with great mirth and demonstrations
of loyalty. The night concluded with
mirth, and the standard being brought back to Mr.
Jackson?s lodgings, was carried by ZoyaZ gentlemen
bareheaded, and followed by several others with
trumpets, hautboys, and bagpipes playing before
them, where they were kindly entertained.? (Reliquiz
Scofia.)
CHAPTER XXXIX.
NICOLSON STREET AND SQUARE.
Lady Nicolson-Her Pillar-Royal Riding School-M. Angelo-New Surgeons? Hall-The Earl of Leven-Dr. Barthwick Gilchrist-The Blind
Asylum-John Madmen-Sir David WilkicRaxburgh Parish-My Glenorchy?r Chapel.
NICOLSON STREET, which runs southward to the
Cross Causeway, on a line with the South Bridge,was
formed about the middle of the eighteenth century,
on the grounds of Lady Nicolson, whose mansion
stood on an area now covered by the eastern end
of North College Street ; and a writer in a public
print recently stated that the house numhered as
82 in Nicolson Street, presently occupied as a
hotel, was erected for and occupied by her after
the street was formed.
In Shaw?s ? Register of Entails ? under date of
Tailzie, 7th October, 1763, and of Registration, 4th
December, 1764, is the name of Lady Nicolson
(Elizabeth Carnegie), relict of Mr. Tames Nicolson,
with note of the lands and heritable subjects in
the shire of Edinburgh that should belong to her
at her death.
In Edgar?s plan for 1765, her park, lying eastward
of the Potterrow, is intersected by the ?New
Road,? evidently the line of the present street, and
at its northern end is her mansion, some seventy
feet distant from the city wall, with a carriage gate
and lodge, the only other building near it being the
Royal Riding School, with its stables, on the site of
the present Surgeons? Hall.
On the completion of Nicolson Street, Lady
Nicolson erected at its northern end a monument
to her husband. It was, states Amot, a fluted
Corinthian column, twenty-five feet two inches in
height, with a capital and base, and fourteen inches
diameter. Another account says it was from
thirty to forty feet in height, and had on its pedestal
an inscription in Latin and English, stating that
Lady Nicolson having been left the adjacent piece
of ground by her husband, had, out of regard for
his memory, made it to be planned into ?? a street,
to be named from him, Xicolson Street.?
On the extension of the thoroughfare and ultimate
completion of the South Bridge, from which
it was for some years a conspicuous object, it was
removed, and the affectionate memorial, instead
of being placed in the little square, with that barbarous
want of sentiment that has characterised
many improvements in Edinburgh and elsewhere in
Scotland in more important matters, was thrown
aside into the yard of the adjacent Riding School,
and was, no doubt, soon after broken up for
rubble.
One of the first edifices in the newly-formed
thoroughfare was the old Riding School, a block of
buildings and stables, measuring about one hundred
and fifty feet each way.
The first ?master of the Royal Riding Menage?
was Angelo Tremamondo, a native of Italy, .as his
name imports, though it has been supposed that it
was merely a mountebank assumption, as it means
the tremor of the world, a universal earthquake;
but be that as it may, his Christian name in Edmburgh
speedily dwindled clown to Aimhe. He was
in the pay of the Government, was among the earliest
residents in Nicolson Square, and had a salary of
Lzoo per annum. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Sheet There was then in Edinburgn a merchant, named Charles Jackson, to whom ...

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THE STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF YAMES 111 17
The increasing importance which the royal capital was now assuming, speedily drew
attention to its exposed situation. In the reign of Robert IL the singular privilege had
been conceded to the principal inhabitants, of building dwellings within the Castle, so as
to secure their families and wealth from the constant inroads of the English; but now, in
the year 1450, immediately after the battle of Sark, the ancient city was enclosed within
fortified walls, traces of which still exist. They extended along the south declivity of the
ridge on which the older parts of the town are built; after crossing the West Bow, then
the principal entrance to the city, from the west; and running between the High Street,
and the hollow where the Cowgate was afterwards built, they crossed the ridge at the
Nether Bow, and terminated at the east end of the North Loch. Within these ancient
limits the Scottish capital must have possessed peculiar means of defence ; a city set on a
hill, and guarded by the rocky fortress-“ There watching ‘high the least alarms,”-it only
wanted such ramparts, manned by its burgher watch, to enable it to give protection to its
princes, and repel t.he inroads of the southern invader. The important position which it
now held, may be inferred from the investment in the following year of Patrick Cockburn
of Newbigging, the Provost of Edinburgh, in the chancellor’s oEce as governor of the
Castle ; as well as his appointment along with other commissioners, after the-defeat of the
English in the battle of Sark, to treat for the renewal of a truce. To this the young
King, now about twenty years of age, was the more induced, from his anxiety to see his
bride, Mary of Gueldera,--“ a lady,” says Drummond, “ young, beautiful, and of a masculine
constitution,”-whose passage from the Netherlands was only delayed till secure
of hindrance from the English fleet,
She accordingly arrived in Scotland, accompanied by a
numerous retinue of princes, prelates, and noblemen, who
were entertained with every mark of royal hospitality, and
witnessed the solemnisation of the marriage, as well as the
coronation, of the young Queen thereafter, both of which
took place in the Abbey of Holyrood, with the utmost pomp
and solemnity.
The first fruit of this marriage seems to have been the
rebellion of the Earl of Douglas, who, jealous of the influence
that the Lord Chancellor Crichtou had acquired with the
Queen, almost immediately thereafter proceeded to revenge
his private quarrel with fire and sword ; so that in the beginning
of the following year, a- Parliament was assembled at
Edinburgh, whose first enactmenta were directed against. such
encroachments on the royal prerogative. His further deeds of blood and rapine, at length
closed by a hasty blow of the King’s dagger in Stirling Castle, belong rather to Scottish
history ; as well as the death of the Monarch himself shortly after, by the bursting of the
Lyon, a famous cannon, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle, in the year 1460.
At this time, Henry VI., the exiled King of England, with his heroic Queen and son,
sought shelter at the Scottish Court, where they were fitly lodged in the monastery of the
Greyfriars, in the Grassmarket ; and so hospitably entertained by the court and citizens of
VIQNETTE-M~V of Gueldera’ Armefrom her -1.
C ... STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF YAMES 111 17 The increasing importance which the royal capital was now assuming, ...

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232 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
of a royal order that every one should give him that title. He was succeeded in the old
mansion by his son, Sir Lewis Craig, and had the satisfaction of pleading as advocate while
he presided on the bench under the title of Lord Wrightslands. The house in Warriston’s
Close was subsequently occupied by Sir George Urquhart, of Cromarty, and still later by
Sir Robert Baird, of Sauchton Hall. But the most celebrated residenter in this ancient
alley is the eminent lawyer and statesman, Sir Archibald Johnston, of Warriston, the
nephew of its older inhabitant, Sir Thomas Craig. He appears from the titles to have
purchased from his cousin, Sir Lewis Craig, the house adjoining his own, and which is
entered by a plain doorway on the west side of the close, immediately below the one last
described. Johnston of Warriston took an early and very prominent share in the resistance
offered to the schemes of Charles I., and in 1638, on the royal edict being proclaimed
from the Cross of Edinburgh, which set at defiance the popular opposition to the hated
Service Book, he boldly appeared on a scaffold erected near it, and read aloud the celebrated
protest drawn up in name of the Tables, while the mob compelled the royal heralds
to abide the reading of this counter-defiance. It is unnecessary to sketch out very minutely
the incidents in a life already familiar to the students of Scottish history. He was
knighted by Charles I., on his secondvisit to Scotland in 1641, and assumed the designation
of Lord Warriston on his promotion to the bench. He was one of the Scottish Commissioners
sent to mediate between Charles I. and the English Parliament ; and after filling
many important offices he sat by the same title as a peer in Cromwell’s abortive House of
Lords ; and, on the death of the Protector, he displayed his keen opposition to the restoration
of the Stuarts by acting as President of the Committee of Safety under Richard Cromwell.
On the restoration of Charles 11. he became an object of special animosity, and having
boldly refused to concur in the treaty of Breda, he escaped to Hamburgh, from whence he
afterwards retired to Rouen in France. There he was delivered up to Charles by the French
King, and after a tedious imprisonment, both in the Tower of London and the old Tolbooth
of Edinburgh, he was executed with peculiar marks of indignity, on the spot where
he had so courageously defied the royal proclamation twenty-five years before. His own
nephew, Bishop Burnet, has furnished a very characteristic picture of the hardy and politic
statesman, in which he informs us he was a man of such energetic zeal that he rarely allowed
himself more than three hours sleep in the twenty-four. When we consider the leading
share he took in all the events of that memorable period, and his intimate’intercourse with
the most eminent men of his time, we cannot but view with lively interest the decayed and
deserted mansion where he has probably entertained such men as Henderson, Argyle,
Rothes, Lesley, Monck, and even Cromwell ; and the steep and straitened alley that still
associates his name with the crowded lands of the Old Town.’
The following quaint and biting epitaph, penned by some zealous cavalier on the death
The importance which waa attached to this close 88 one of the most fahionable localities of Edinburgh during the
last century appears from a propoaitiou addressed by the Earl of Morton to the Lord Provost in 1767, in which,
among other conditions which he demands, under the threat of opposing the extension of the royalty to the
grounda on which the New Town is built, he requires that a timber bridge shall be thrown over the North Loch,
from the foot of Warriston’s Close to Bereford‘s Parks, and the public Register Offices of Scotland, built at the coat of
the town, “on the highest level ground of Robertson’s and Wood‘e farms.” To this the magistrates reply by stating,
among other objections, that the value of the property in the close alone is f,ZO,OOO !-Proposition by the Earl of
Yorton, fol. 5 pp. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. of a royal order that every one should give him that title. He was succeeded in the ...

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182 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
a sum of money for the purposes of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Walker was succeeded in the Chair of Natural History by the eminent
Professor Jameson, who was his pupil, and afterwards his assistant.
No. CCXXXIII.
BI. DE LATOUR,
PAINTER TO THE KING OF FRANCE, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY
OF PAINTING AT PARIS, etc.
M. DE LATOURa,n eminent French painter, who died at St. Quentin, the place
of his nativity, in 1789, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, was remarkable,
even in boyhood, for his efforts with the pencil j and the caricatures of the pedagogue,
at whose seminary he acquired the rudiments of learning, frequently prgcured
for him the reward of the birch.
After attending the instructions of a drawing-master, under whom he made
great progress, he improved himself by a journey to the Netherlands, where he
had an opportunity of studying the productions of the Flemish school. Cambray
happened to be at that time the seat of a negotiation, where the representatives
of the various powers interested were assembled. Portraits of several
of the ministers having been successfully painted by young Latour, the English
Ambassador prevailed on him to accompany him to London, where he received
the most flattering encouragement.
On his return to France, an extreme irritability of the nervous system forbidding
him the use of oil-colours, he was obliged to confine himself to crayons,
a mode of painting to which it is difficult to give any degree of force. The
obstacles he had hence to encounter served but to animate his zeal ; and he
sought every means of perfecting his art, by the constant study of design.
Admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting at the age of thirty-three, it
was not long before he was called to Court. His free and independent spirit,
however, led him to refuse what most as eagerly covet. At length he submitted
to the Monarch’s commands. The place in which Louis XV. chose to sit for
his picture was a tower surrounded with windows. (‘What am I to do in this
lantern ?” said Latour : (( painting requires a single passage for the light.” (‘ I
have chosen this retired place,” answered the king, (‘ that we may not be interrupted.’’
‘( I did not know, Sire,” replied the painter, ‘‘ that a king of France
was not master of his own house.”
Louis XV. was much amused with the salliea of Latour, who sometimes
carried them pretty far, as may be conceived from the following anecdote:
Being sent for to Versailles, to paint the portrait of Madame de Pompadour, ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. a sum of money for the purposes of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. ...

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Echo Bank.] THE DICK-CUNNINGHAMS. 57
Albany and York, and his having adopted energetic
measures with some of the students of the college,
for their Popery not in 1680, was supposed to
have excited a spirit of retaliation in their companions
; hence a suspicion arose that the fire was
designed and executed by them. The Privy Council
were so far convinced of this being the case, that they
closed the university, and banished the students till
they could find caution for their good behaviour.
Sir James?s house was rebuilt by the Scottish
Corstorphine, in 1699, to the second and younger
sons of his only daughter, Janet, who was married
to Sir William Cunningham, Bart, of Caprington,
by whom he was succeeded at his decease, in
1728.
His son, Sir Alexander Dick (paternally Cunningham),
had attained under the latter name a
high repute in medicine, and became President of
the Royal College at Edinburgh; and he it was
who entertained Dr, Johnson and Boswell for
OLD HOUSES, ECHO BANK.
Treasury as it now exists. When he was coming
from London in 1.682 with the duke, in the
Gloucester mankf-war, she was cast away upon a
sandbank, twelve leagues from Yarmouth, and then
went to pieces. Sir James relates in a letter that
the crew were crowding into a boat set apart for
the royal duke, on which, the Earl of Winton and Sir
George Gordon of Haddo had to drive them back
with drawn swords. Sir James, with the Earls of
Middleton and Perth, and the Laird of Touch,
escaped in another boat; but the Earl of Koxburgh,
the Laid of Hopetoun, and 200 men, were
drowned.
As Sir James Dick died without male issue, he
made an entail of his estates of Prestonfield and
104
several days at Prestoniield, where he died, in his:
eighty-second year, in 178s.
The Mayfield Estate, which belongs to Mr..
Duncan McLaren, was laid out for feuing by the.
late Mr. David Cousin; and more? recently the,
adjacent lands of Craigmillar, the property of Mr.
Little Gilmour, and all are now being rapidly
covered with houses.
Proceeding along the old Dalkeith Road, near
Echo Bank, a gate and handsome lodge lead to
Newington Cemetery, with a terrace and line of
vaults. This was the second that was opened
after that of Warriston, and was ready for interments
in 1846. It was laid out by Mr. David
Cousin; but as the designs were open to public ... Bank.] THE DICK-CUNNINGHAMS. 57 Albany and York, and his having adopted energetic measures with some of the ...

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Canongate.] MONTROSE.
OF all the wonderful and startling spectacles witnessed
amid the lapse of ages from the windows
of the Canongate, none was perhaps more startling
and pitiful than the humiliating procession which
conducted the great Marquis of Montrose to his
terrible doom.
On the 18th of May, 1650, he was brought across
the Forth to Leith, after his defeat and capture by
:he Covenanters at the battle of Invercarron, where
he had displayed the royal standard; and it is
THE GOLFERS? LAND.
impossible now to convey an adequate idea of the
sensation excited in the city, when the people became
aware that the Graham, the victor in so
many battles, and the slayer of so many thousands
of the best troops of the Covenant, was almost at
their gates.
Placed on a cart-horse, he was brought in by the
eastern barrier of the city, as it was resolved, by
the influence of his rival and enemy, Argyle, to
protract the spectacle of his humiliation as long as
CHAPTER 11.
THE CANONGATE (continpud). ... MONTROSE. OF all the wonderful and startling spectacles witnessed amid the lapse of ages from the ...

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