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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 299
He was also connected with several literary and theological societies formed
among his fellow-students; and was a member of the Newtonian Society, instituted
in 1760, which for several years continued to meet weekly in one of the
rooms of the College, and which may be said to have been the precursor of the
present Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He was
at the time very young, and not sufficiently practised in the art of literary condensation.
When it came to his turn to produce an essay for the evening, he
had entered so sincerely and fully upon the subject that he appeared at the
forum with an immense bundle of papers under his arm, and commenced by
stating that his discourse consisted of twelve different parts ! This announcement
alarmed the preses for the night so much, that he interrupted him by
declaring that he had twelve distinct objections to the production of such a mass
of manuscripts. The preses accordingly stated his twelve reasons, and was followed
on the same side by six other members, who prefaced their observations
by a similar declaration, During this opposition the temper of the young theologian
remained unruffled ; and it was not till the last speaker had finished his
oration that he took up his papers, and, without deigning to reply, walked out
of the room.
In 1770 Dr. Hunter was presented to the New Church of Dumfries, and
soon afterwards became the purchaser of the estate of Barjarg in that county,
which had previously belonged to James Erskine of Barjarg and Alva-one of
the Senators of the College of Justice. He remained at Dumfries for nine years,
and was much esteemed by all classes of the community.
In 1779 he was presented to the New Greyfriars’ Church, Edinburgh; and
whilst there was appointed the colleague of Dr. Hamilton (father to the late
eminent physician), in the Divinity Professorship of the University ; and, until
the death of that gentleman, continued to teach his class without any remuneration.
In 1786 he was translated by the Magistrates to the Tron Church, where
he became associated with Dr. Drysdalel-a clergyman much esteemed for his
Dr. Drysdale, whose presentation to Lady Yester’s Church made much noise in Edinburgh, was
a native of Kirkcaldy. He received his early education at the village school taught by Mr. David
Miller, and was the intimate associate of Dr. Adam Smith, Janies Oswald of Dunnikier, and several
other distinguished men, to whom Mr. Miller had the honour of imparting instruction. Dr. Drysdale
waq presented to Lady Yester’s Church by the Town Council in 1763. For some time prior, the
election of ministers for the city having been allowed to remain with the general sessions, the resumption
of power by the Council in this instance gave rise to much cavil and commotion. A civil process
w &t~he consequence, which was ultimately decided in favour of the corporation. Notwithstanding
the unpleasant circumstances connected with his presentation, the great talents and natural
eloquence of Dr. Drysdale, together with his known character as a man, soon rendered him a popular
minister. In 1766, he was still farther honoured by the Town Council, in being translated to the
Tron Church on the death of Dr. Jardine. Dr. Drysdale was much esteemed by his brethren ; and.
in 1773, was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly. In the affairs of this court he took an
adive interest ; and was the steady supporter of his friend Dr. Robertson, on the moderate side.
In conjunction with his venerable colleague Dr. Wishart, he was appointed Clerk to the Court ic
1778 ; and, in 1784, had the peculiar honour of bcing a second time solicited to be put in nomina-
An anecdote is told of Dr. Hunter in connection with this Society.

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THE CANONGATE AND ABBEY SANCTUAR Y. 30 1
of Gosford House, near Edinburgh ; but his successors have continued to prefer the old
mansion, which stands only a few hundred yards from the modern pile; and it is left
accordingly in a more desolate state even than the deserted edifice in the Canongate, with
whose spoils it should have been adorned.
On the site now occupied by a brewery, a little to the eastward of Queensberry House,
formerly stood Lothian Hut, a small but very splendidly finished mansion, erected by
William, the third Marquis of Lothian, about 1750, and in which he died in 1767. His
Marchioness, who survived him twenty years, continued to reside there till her death, and
it was afterwards occupied by the Lady Caroline D’Arcy, Dowager Marchioness of the
fourth Marquis. The scene of former rank and magnificence would have possessed a
deeper interest had it now remained, from its having formed for many years the residence
of the celebrated philosopher, Dugald Stewart, and the place where he carried on many of
his most important literary labours.
At the head of Panmure Close, on the north side of the street, an ancient edifice of
the time of Queen Mary still exists. It has already been referred to as bearing the
earliest date on any private building in the Canongate. It consists, like other buildings
of the period, of a lower erection of stone with a fore stair leading to the first floor, and
an ornamental turnpike within, affording access to the upper chambers of the building.
At the top of a very steep wooden stair, constructed alongside of the latter, a very rich
specimen of carved oak panneling remains in good preservation, adorned with the
Scottish lion, displayed within a broad wreath, and surrounded by a variety of ornament.
The doorway of the inner t,urnpike bears on the sculptured lintel the initials I. H.,
a shield, charged with a cheveron and a hunting horn in base; and the date 1565,
which leaves little reason to doubt that its builder was John Hunter, a wealthy burgess,
who filled the office of treasurer of the burgh in 1568. The name of Panmure Close is
derived from its having been the access to Panmure House, an old mansion, part of
which still remains at the foot of Monroe’s Close, now occupied as an iron foundry.
It formed the town residence of the Earl of Panmure, who ww succeeded in it
towards the middle of last century by the Countess of Aberdeen. At that time it
was pleasantly surrounded by open garden ground, and was deemed a peculiarly
suitable mansion ; and towards the close of the century it was occupied by the celebrated
Dr Adam Smith, who spent there the last twelve years of his life. It is now
as melancholy a looking abode as could well be assigned for the residence even of a poor
author.
John Yaterson’s House, or the Golfer’s Land, as it is now more generally termed,
forms a prominent object among the range of ancient tenements on the south side of the
Canongate, and is associated with a romantic tale of the Court of James VII., during
his residence at Holyrood, as Duke of York. The story narrated in the ‘ I Historical
Account of the Game of Golf,” privately printed by the Leith Club of Golfers, bears that,
during the residence of the Duke in Edinburgh, the question was started on one occasion
by two English noblemen, who boasted of their own expertness in the game, as to
whether the ancient Scottish amusement was not practised at an equally early date in
England. The Duke’s fondness for the game has already been referred to,’ and he was
Ante, p. 104.

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 405
evidence remains to show that the choir and transepts were in existence filly a quarter of
a century later, and that had the necessary exertions been then made for its repair, we
might still have possessed the ancient building in its ori,oinal and magnificent proportions,
instead of the ruined nave, which alone remains to show what once had been. In (‘ the
heads of the accusation and chief offences laid to Adam, Bishop of Orknay, his charge,”
by the General Assembly of 1569, the fifth is, that “ all the said kirks, for the most part,
wherein Christ’s evangell may be preached, are decayed, and made, some sheepfolds, and
some so ruinous, that none darre enter into them for fear of falling; specially Halrudhouse,
although the bishop of Sanct Andrews, in time of papistry, sequestrate the whole
rents of the said abbacy, because only the glassen windows were not holden up and
repaired.” To this the Bishop replied, “ That the Abbay Church of Hdyrudhouse hath
been, these 20 years bygane, ruinous through decay of two principal1 pillars, so that none
were assured under it ; and two thousand pounds bestowed upon it would not be sufficient
to ease men to the hearing of the word, and ministration of the sacraments. But with
their consent, and help of ane established authority, he was purposed to provide the
means, that the superfluous ruinous parts, to wit, the Queir and Croce Kuk, might be
disponed be faithful1 men, to repair the remanent sufficiently.” The Bishop’s economical
plan was no doubt put in force, and the whole of the choir and transept soon after
demolished and sold, to provide funds for converting the nave into the Parish Kirk of
the Canongate. The two western pillars, designed to support a great central tower,
now form the sides of the east window constructed within the arch, and an examination
of the masonry with which the lower parts of this and the side arches are closed, shows
that it is entirely built with fragments of clustered shafts and other remains of the
ruins. It was at this time, we presume, that the new royal vault was constructed in
the south aisle of the nave, and the remains of the Scottish kings removed from their
ancient resting-place near the high altar of the Abbey Church. It is built against the
ancient Norman doorway of the cloisters, which still remains externally, with its beautiful
shafts and zigzag mouldings, an undoubted relic of the original fabric of St David.
The cloisters appear to have enclosed a large court, formed in the angle of the nave
and south transept. The remains of the north side are clearly traceable still, and the
site of the west side is now occupied by the Palace buildings. Here was the ambulatory
for the old monks, when the magnificent foundation of St David retained its pristine
splendour, and it remained probably till the burning of the Abbey after the death of
James V. We learn on the occasion of the marriage of James IT. with the Princess
Margaret of England, that “after all reverences doon at the Church, in ordere as
before, the Kyng transported himself to the Pallais, through the clostre, holdynge
always the Queen by the body, and hys hed bare, till he had brought hyr within her
chammer.”
The west front, as it now remains, is evidently the work of very different periods. It
has been curtailed of the south tower to admit of the completion of the quadrangle according
to the design of Sir William Bruce, and the singular and unique windows over the
great doorway are evidently additions of the time of Charles L, whose initials appear
1 Booke of the Umveraall Kirk of Scotland, p. 163. Ibid, p. 167.

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264 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street.
before them with licht torches,? on which Powrie,
as if consciencestricken, exclaimed to Wilson,
? Jesu ! Pate ! What na gate is this we are ganging
?
About 1780-9 the cardinal?s house was the
residence of Bishop Abernethy Drummond, whom
we have ,noticed as the theological opponent of
Bishop Hay, and hither he must have brought his
I trow it be not gude.?
wife, -the -heiress of
Hawthornden. This
divine occupied a high
place in the society of
his time, and was particularly
active in obtaining
the repeal of
the penal statbtes
against his church in
Scotland. Latterly the
house was divided, like
all its neighbours, into
a multitude of small
lodgings, where squalid
poor folks-chiefly Irish
-pined on parochial
allowance, and slept on
beds of straw mingled
with rags-?the terrible
exponent of our peculiar
phasis of civilisation.?
But very different was
the aspect of society
at the time when the
Edinburgh Gazette of
19th April, 1703, put
forth the following advertisement
:-
?There is a boarding-
school to be set up
in Blackfriars Wynd, in
/------
the 1st of August, 1877, the total expenditure was
A442,621 18s. 6d. ; receipts, A265,599 18s. gd. j
the unrecovered outlay, A177,ozz os. gd. ; and
the amount to the credit of the sinking fund account,
g6,752 14s. Iod.
Blackfriars Wynd was among the places ? improved;?
the east side was swept away and replaced
by buildings in the old Scottish style, one
CARDINAL BEATON?S nousE.
Robinson?s Land, upon the west side of the Wynd,
near the middle thereof, in the first door of the
stair leading to the said land, against the latter end
of May, or first of June next, when young ladies
and gentlemen may have all sorts of breeding that
is to be had in any part of Britain, and great care
taken of their conversation.?
Nearly all that we have described here has
been swept away by the trustees of the Edinburgh
Improvement Act, and the ancient Wynd is now
designated Blackfriars Street. By that Act, passed
in 1867, a tax was imposed, not exceeding fourpence
:n the pound, for a period of twenty years, and the
trustees were authorised to borrow, on the security
of that assessment, a total sum of g;35o,ooo. At
of which is the Ediuburgh
Industrial School,
instituted in July, 1847;
but, by a somewhat
shartsighted policy perhaps,
the west was left
untouched,andthe footway
there was found to
be so far below the
level of the street as
to necessitate its being
fenced off from
the camage-way by an
open railing, thus imparting
an incomplete
aspect to the thoroughfare.
Between these
old houses on the west
an extensive area was
thrown open betwyeen
Cant?s and Dickson?s
Closes, thus greatly enhancing
the value of
the sites, but at the
sacrifice of much that
belonged to the past
and the picturesque.
The United Industrial
School in Blackfriars
Street exhibits in
a manner perhaps unexampled,
the successful
application and development of that great
problem, a comprehensive unsectarian system of
national education. To those to whom its name
may be scarcely known it must appear that there
is surely something striking in the character of a
ragged school among whose founders were such
men as the Earls of Minto and Elgin, Lords
Dunfermline, Murray, and Jeffrey, Sir William G.
Craig, Adam Black, and William Chambers.
In 1847 Dr. Guthrie first drew attention to the
condition of the juvenile beggars of Edinburgh,
and his noble proposal to establish a ragged school
to be supported by ? Christians of all denominations
and parties,? was eagerly taken up. The lines
upon which the suggestion was practically carried

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THE WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 351
over the principal door were those of Britain after the Union of the Crowns.
stones, above the windows, were five emblematical representations :- .
On triangular
And in these five, such thing8 their form expresa’d.
As we can touch, taste, feel, or hear, or see.
A variety of the Virtues also were strewed upon different parts of the building. In one
place was a rude representation of our h s t parents, and underneath the well-known old
proverbial distich :-
When Adam delved and Eve Bpan,
Quhair war a’ the gentlea than !
In another place was a head of Julius Csesar, and elsewhere a head of Octavius Secundus,
both in good preservation.” Many of these sculptures were recklessly defaced and
broken, and the whole of them dispersed. Among those we have examined there is one,
now built over the doorway of Gillespie’s School, having a tree cut on it, bearing for
fruit the stars and crescents of the family arms, and the inscription DOMINUS EST ILLU-
~ A T I OME A ; another, placed over the Hospital Well, has this legend below a boldly
cut heraldic device, CONSTANTIA ET LABORE . 1339. On two others, nom at Woodhouselee,
are the following, BEATUS VIR QUI SPERAT IN DEO . 1450 . and PATRIB ET POSTERIS . 1513 .
Altogether there were probably included in the decorations of this single building more
quaint and curious allegories and inscriptions than are now left to reward our investigation
among all the antiquities of the Old Town. The only remains of this singular mansion
that have escaped the general wreck, are the sculptured pediments and heraldic carvings
built into the boundary walls of the Hospital; and a few others, referred to above, which
were secured by the late Lord Woodhouselee, and now adorn a ruin on Mr Tytler’s
estate at the Pentlands. An examination of these s&ces to show that no dependence
can be placed on the date referred to by Cadmon in fixing the age of the building, as the
whole are in the florid style that prevailed in the reign of James VI., and were no doubt
cut at one period as a durable memorial of the family tree.’ Maitland, after refuting the
popular derivation of the name of Wrychtishousis, from the supposed fact of the mights
or carpenters having dwelt there while cutting down the oaks of the Borough Muir,
assigns it as the mansion of the Laird of Wite.’ That, however, is merely reasoning in
a circle, and deriving its name from itself; but no better explanation seems now discoverable.
Only one other suburban district remaina to be included in our sketch of the old Scottish
Capital. Villages and hamlets have indeed been embraced within its modern exten-
1 A minute account of these, with accurate facsimiles of sevend of them, will be found in “The History of the Partition
of the LennoL” The author shows that from the earliest records no evidence leads to the idea of any connection
between the ownem of Merchiaton and Wrychtiihouaie, notwithstanding their common name. Their arms are quite
distinct, until 1513-the memorable year of Flodden-when one of the heraldic sculpturea shows an alliance between
the Laird of Wrychtishousis and a daughter of Merchiston. The author, however, does not notice the fact that on the
family vault in St Oiles’e Church, the arms of both families are cut, not impaled, but on two distinct, though attached
shields, and with the Merchiaton crest. He h a been driven to some very ingenious and learned theories to account
for a shield bearing three crescents on the field, which he found-where it ought to b-t Woodhouselee, Mng the
arms of the present owner of t h how.
a Maitland, p. 508.-Thia derivation is deduced erroneously from the boundaries of the Borough Muir, aa given by
himself, where he has printed in the possessive case and aa two worda, what should evidently read, “The Laird of
Wryteshouse,” a~ in the previous sentence, “ The Laird of Marchiston.”-Ibid, p. 177.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 363
north-east corner, through Charles’ Street, and proceeded through the Square in slow time, passing
Lord Duncan’s house, before which his lordship stood uncovered, saluting them as they passed.
Here the procession was joined by a naval car, on which was placed the British and his lordship’s
flag, flying above that of Admiral de Winter, attended by a body of seamen; then followed, in
carriages, Lord Adam Gordon and his Staff-Lord Viscount Duncan-Captain Inglis of Redhall-the
Lord Provost. and the eldest Bailie. The troops marched round the Square, filing off by Windmill
Street, Chapel Street, Nicolson Street, across the South and North Bridges-the infantry leading,
and the cavalry closing the procession. At the end of the North Bridge the populace took the
homes from Lord Dimcan’s carriage, and drew it during the remainder of the procession, which
proceeded through the principal streets of the New Town. The arrangement of the niilitary procession,
which in beauty and grandeur ww far beyond any eFer seen in this country, did honour to
those who planned it. It was one of those happy, but rare instances, in which expectation is
exceeded by reality. An elegant entertainment was given to his lordship, in Fortune’s tavern, bg’
the Lord Provost and Magistrates, at which he was presented with the freedom of the city in a gold
box of elegant workmanship. ”
Lord Duncan retired from the command of the North Sea Squadron in 1800,
being desirous of spending the remainder of his days in private life; but he
did not long enjoy his retirement. He died of apoplexy at Cornhill, on his way
from London, in 1804.
In a brief sketch such as the present, it would be out of place to dilate on
the character of one so generally known as Admiral Duncan, or to advert to
the importance of those services which his superior genius enabled him to perform.
As a naval officer he is entitled to every credit, both for the soundness
of his tactics, and the novel daring and decisive nature of his movements ; while
in domestic life he was remarkable for those amiable qualities which ever accom;
pany true greatness. , ’
His Lordship married, in 1777, Henrietta, daughter of Lord President
Dundas, by whom he had four Sons and five daughters. Robert, the second son,
in consequence of the demise of his elder brother, Alexander, succeeded to the
titles and estates, and was created Earl of Camperdown in 1831. He married,
in January 1805, Janet, daughter of the late Sir Hugh Hamilton Dalrymple of
Bargeny and North Berwick, Bart., by whom he has issue. The third son)
Henry, afterwards Sir Henry, entered the navy, and rose to the rank of Post-
Captain. He was considered a
bright ornament to the navy, and one of the most promising officers. A magtg.
nificent monument to his memory has recently been erected in the neighbourhood
of London by those who served with him during the war.
The widow of Admiral Duncan survived him many years, and died in her
house in George Square: November 1832, lamented by all who knew her. She
was a lady of the most bland and attractive manners, and of eminent piety. ’
He died suddenly on 1st November 1835.
1 This house, which is now occupied as the Southern Academy, still remains the property of the
Earl. The celehrated painting of the Battle of Camperdown, by Copely-which cost L1000, and to
which the inhabitants of Edinhurgh had access annually for niany years on the anniversary of the
victory-hw, since the death of the Dowager, been removed to Camperdown House, Forfarshire.

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Leith.] HOME-COMING OF MONS MEG. 209
by the foot o the Calton Hill towards the Palace
of Holyrood.
As a souvenir of this event, on the first anniversary
of it a massive plate was inserted on the
Shore, in the exact spot on which the king first
placed his foot, and there it remains to this day,
with a suitable inscription commemorative of the
event.
In 1829, Mons Meg, which, among other ord
nance deemed unserviceable, had been transmitted
by the ignorance of an officer to London, and retained
there in the Tower, was, by the patriotic
efforts of Sir Walter Scott, sent home to Scotland.
This famous old cannon, deemed a kind of Palladium
by the Scots, after an absence of seventy-five
years, was landed from the Happy Janet, and after
lying for a time in the Naval Yard, till arrangements
were made, the gun was conveyed to the Castle by
a team of ten horses decked with laurels, preceded
by two led horses, mounted by boys clad in tartans
with broadswords. The escort was formed by a
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grooms and esquires; Sir Patrick Walker, as
Usher of the White Rod; a long alternation of
cavalry and infantry, city dignitaries, and Highlanders,
followed.
At the end of the vista, preceded by ten royal
footmen, two and two, sixteen yeomen of the
Scottish Guard, escorted by the Royal Archers,
came the king, followed by the head-quarter staff,
three clans of Highlanders, two squadrons of Lothian
yeomanry, three of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, Scots
Greys, and the Grenadiers of the 77th regiment;
and after some delay in going through the ceremony
of receiving the city keys-which no monarch
had touched since the days of Charles I.-the
magnificent train moved through the living masses
Lochend to the latter on the east, tA-e middle of
Leith Walk on the south, and Wardie Bum on the
west.
Adam White was the first Provost of Leith after
the passing of the Burgh Reform Bill in 1833;
and it is now governed by a chief magistrate, four
bailies, ten councillors, a treasurer, town clerk, and
two joint assessors.
Powers have since then been conferred upon the
Provost of Leith as admiral, and the bailies as
admirals-depute. There are in the town four
principal corporations - the Shipmasters, the
Traffickers, the Malt-men, and the Trades. The
Traffickers, or Merchant Company, have lost their
charter, and are merely a benefit society, without
the power of compelling entries ; and the Ship
masters, ordinarily called the Trinity House, vi11
be noticed in connection with that institution.
The Trades Corporation is multifarious, and
independently of it there is a body called ? The
Convenery,? consisting of members delegated from
troop of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and detachments
of the Koyal Artillery and Highlanders. In the
evening the Celtic Society, all kilted, IOO strong,
dined together in honour of the event, Sir Walter
Scott in the chair; and on this occasion the old
saying was not forgotten, that Scotland would
never be Scotland till Mons Meg cam hame.?
The gun was then on the same ancient carriage
on which it had been taken away.
It was not until 1827 that the precise limits of
Leith as a town were defined, and a territory given
to it which, if filled, would almost enable it to vie
with the metropolis in extent, More extensive
boundaries were afterwards assigned, and these
are the Firth of Forth on the north, a line from
SIGNAL TOWER, LEITH PIER, 1775. (ABw Ckrk ofEUin.)

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APPENDIX. 443
all these oppressive exactions is imposed on INGELBDEA UMPF BAVILLEa, nd a proportinnately severe tine is
required from hie vassals.-(Lord Hades’s Annals, vol. i p. 288.) This, therefore, indicates one of the chief
leaders of the Scota against their English invaders. His fine was to extend over a perid of ten yeara, long
before which Edwad was in his grave, and nearly every place of strength in Scotland had been wreated from
his imbecile son, There seems little reason to doubt that Ingelram de Umtravile would early avail himself of
an opportunity to renounce a foreign ydce burdened by such exactions, and to bear his part in expelling the
invaders from the kingdom. The following, however, is the very different account of Nisbet, in hie ‘‘ Historical
and Critical remarks on the Ragman Roll” (p. 11), if it refer to the eame person :-
“Ingelramus de Umphravile was a branch of the Umfraville family that were Englishmen, but posRessed
of 8 great estate in Angus, and elsewhere, which they lost, because they would not renounce their allegiance
to England, and turn honest Scotsmen. In the rolls of King Robert I., there are charters of lands granted by
that Prince, upon the narratix-e that the lands had formerly belonged, and forfeited to the Crown, by the
attainder of Ingelramus de Umphramk.”
At an early date the Scottish Umfradles occupied a high rank. In 1243, Gilbert de Umfraville, Lord of
Pmdhow and Herbottil, in Northumberland, became Earl of Angus, by right of his marriage with Matilda,
Countess in her own right. The name of Cilleberto de Umframuill appears aa a witnew to a confirmation
of one of the charters of Holyrood Abbey, granted by William the Lyon (Liber Cartarurn Sancte Crucis, p.
24) ; and in a Rubsequent charter in the same reign he appears as bestowing a carukate of land in Kinard on the
w e Abbey (Ibid, p. 34). These notes can afford at best only grounds for surmise as to the knight whose
memorial cross was not altogether demolished till the year 1810. The base of it, which remained on ita ancient
site till that recent date, was a mass of whinstone, measuring fully five feet square, by about three feet high
above ground. There was a square hole in the centre of it, wherein the shaft of the cross- had been inserted.
We are informed that it was broken up and used for paving the road.
The poet Claudero, of whom some account is given in a succeeding note, haa dedicated an elegy to the
“Tun efield Nine,’’ On the Pollution of St Lemrd’s Hill, a conseerated and ancient burial-place, near EdinburgLn
The following stanzas will be sufficient to account for the complete eradication of every vestige of its hospital
and graves from the ancient site :- .
“ The High Priest there, with art and care,
Hath purg’d with gardner‘a skill,
And trench‘d out bones of Adam’s sons,
Repoa’d in Leonard’s Hill !
“ Graves of the dead, thrown up with spade,
Where long they slept full s t i
And turnips grow, from human POW,
Upon St Leonard’a Hill 1 ”
XIV. GREYFRIARS’ MONASTERY.
THE residence of Henry VI. of England, as well as his heroic Queen and their son, at the Greyfriars
Monastery in the Grassmarket, after the total overthrow of that unfortunate monarch’s adherents at the Battle
of Towton, i a referred to in the description of the Grassmarket (pages 17 and 342). Thevisit of Henry
to the Scottish capital has, however, been altogether denied by aome writers. The following note by Sir W,
Scott, on the fifth canto of Marmion, ought to place this at least beyond doubt :-

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200 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
alone, but even, it is said, the honest discharge of commercial obligations.’ For forty
years Mr Creech carried on the most extensive publishing concern in Scotland, and during
the whole of this long period nearly all the valuable literary productions of the time
passed through his hands. He published the writings of the celebrated judge and
philosopher, Lord Kames, who appears to have regarded him with friendship and esteem.
He was also the publisher of the works of Drs Blair, Beattie, Campbell (the opponent of
Hume), Cullen, Gregory, Adam Smith, Henry Mackenzie (the Man of Feeling), Lord
Woodhouselee, Dugald Stewart, and Burns, besides many others of inferior note ; all of
whom resorted to the old land in the Luckenbooths, or to the more select assemblies that
frequently took place at his breakfast table, designated by the wits Creech‘s levees. The
old bibliopolist is the subject of Burns’ amusing poem, “ Willie’s amz,’’ written on the
occasion of a long visit he paid to London in 1787, and forwarded to him by the poet at
the time. One or two of its stanzas are very lively and characteristic :-
0 Willie was a witty wight,
And had 0’ things an uuco slight ;
Auld Reekie aye he keepit tight,
And trig and braw ;
But now they ’11 busk her like a fright,
Willie ‘s awa,.
Nae mair we see his levee door,
Philosophers and poets pour,
And toothy critics by the score
The adjutant of a’ the core,
In bloody raw ;
Willie ’a awa.
From the same classic haunt the Mirror and Lounger were originally issued, the appearance
of which formed a new era in the literature of Edinburgh. The first paper of the
Mirror appeared on Saturday, 23d January 1779, aud created quite a sensation among the
blue-stocking coteries of the capital, The succeeding numbers were delivered at Mr Creech’s
shop every Wednesday and Saturday, and afforded a general source of interest and literary
amusement. Mr Mackenzie was the conductor and principal writer, but the chief contributors
latterly formed themselves into the ‘‘ Mirror Club,” which consisted of Henry
Mackenzie, Lord Craig, Lord Abercromby, Lord Bannatyne, Lord Cullen, George Home
of Wedderburn, William Gordon of Newhall, and George Ogilvie, advocates.’ Mr
Creech, like his predecessor, bore his share in the civic government, and twice filled
the office of Lord Provost. His reputation is still preserved by his “ Fugitive Pieces,” a
work of considerable local celebrity, although affording a very imperfect idea of the wit
Some curious illustrations, both of the wit and penuriousness of this old city bookseller, will be found scattered
through the pages of “ Ray’s Portraits.” ’ Lord Craig, then an advocate, was the originator, and, next to Mackenzie, the greatest contributor to the Mimr. The
Club previously existed under the name of the Tabernacle, but assumed that which had been adopted for their periodical,
The namea of the writers were carefully concealed, and in order to avoid observation, the Club held its weekly meetings
in no fixed place. ‘‘ Sometimes in Clerihugh’s, in Writer‘s Court, sometimes in Somer’s, opposite the Guard House,
in the High Street, sometimea in Stewart’s Oyster House, in the Old Fishmarket Close,” &c., when one of the most
interesting occupations of the evening was the examination of the contents of the Contributors’ box, which stood open
for all correspondents, at Yr Creech’s door.--Vide Scot. Biog. Dictionary,-Article “ Craig.”

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THE LA WNMARKET. 167
. An ancient land in Johnston’s Close, on the south side of the Lawnmarket, immediately
behind the West Bow, exhibits an unusually picturesque character in its gloomy
interior, abounding with plain arched recesses and corbelled projections, scattered throughout
in the most irregular and lawless fashion, and with narrow windows thrust into the
oddest corners, or up even above the very cornice of the ceiling, in order to catch every
wandering ray of borrowed light, amid the jostling of its pent-up neighbourhood. A view
of the largest apartment is given in the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels, under
the name of ‘‘ Hall of the Knights of St John, St John’s Close, Canongate.” We have
failed in every attempt to obtain any clue to the early history of the building, which
tradition has associated with this ancient order of soldier-priests.
In the first and smaller court of Riddle’s Close, immediately to the east of this, there
is a lofty land with a projecting turret stair, bearing the date 1726, although a portion
of the building to the south belongs to a much earlier period. This lofty tenement
derives an interest from the fact of its having been the first residence of David Hume, as
an independent householder in Edinburgh,-adding another link to the associations with
which the Lawnmarket abounds in connection with the great philosopher. He removed
thither from Ninewells in 1751, from whence he writes, shortly after, to Adam Smith,
‘‘ Direct to me in Riddal’s Land, Lawnmarket.” He thus facetiously describes to the great
political economist, his own first attempts at domestic economy +‘ I have now at lastbeing
turned of- forty, to my own honour, to that of learning, and to that of the present age,
-arrived at the dignity of being a householder. About seven months ago I got a house
of my own, and completed a regular family, consisting of a head-viz., myself, and two
iuferior members-” maid and a cat. BIy sister has since joined me, and keeps me company.
With frugality, I can reach, I find, cleanliness, warmth, light, plenty, and contentment.
What would you have more ? Independence ? I have it in a supreme degree.
Honour? That is not altogether wanting. Grace? That will come in time. A wife?
That is none of the indispensable requisites of life. Books ? That is one of them, and I
have more thau I can use,” &c.’ The titles of this property include “ an express servitude
upon the tenement of land called Major Weir’s Land, sometime belonging to James
Riddle of Caister, in the county of Norfolk, in England ; that the same shall not be built
higher than it is at present, lest it may anywise hurt or prejudice the said subject.”
From a comparison of dates, no doubt can exist that Hume commenced his History of
England in Riddle’s Land, though the bulk of it was written after his removal to Jack’s
Land, Canongate.
An interesting mansion, of a much earlier date, but of equally lofty character, occupies
the opposite side of this narrow court. Entering the doorway under a corbelled angle,
whGh adapts the projecting staircase to its narrow site, the visitor ascends a substantial
stone stair to a broad landing on the second floor, Here the stair seems to terminate,
but, on proceeding along the dark passage a little way, he will be surprised to stumble
on another equally substantial, though somewhat narrower, rather puzzling him to conjecture
by what species of substructure it reaches a foundation on terra-firm& Without
ascending this second stair, however, he will reach a large apartment, now occupied as
a bookbinder’s workshop, although retaining the proscenium and other requisites for
Burton’a Life of Hume, vol. i. p. 377.

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416 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
And again, in speaking of domestic pilgrimages, he assigns to this saint the virtues for
which he was most noted by the citizens of Edinburgh in early times :-
Sa doith our commoun populare,
Quhilk war to lang for till declare,
Thair superstitious pilgramagie,
To monie divers imagis :
Sum to Sanct Roche, with diligence,
To naif thame from the pestilence :
For thair teith to Sanct Apollene ;
To Sanct Tredwell to mend thair em.
The Chapel of St Roque has not escaped the notice of the Lord Lyon King’s poetic eulogist,
among the varied features of the landscape that fill up the magnificent picture, as Lord
Marmion rides under the escort of Sir .David Lindsay to the top of Blackford Hill, in his
approach to the Scottish camp, and looks down on the martial array of the kingdom covering
the wooded links of the Borough Muir. James IT. is there represented as occasionally
wending his way to attend mass at the neighbouring Chapels of St Katherine or St Roque ;
nor is it unlikely that the latter may have been the scene of the monarch’s. latest acts of
devotion, ere he led forth that gallant array to perish around him on the Field of Flodden.
The Church of St John the Baptist, which was afterwards converted into the Chapel of the
Convent of St Katherine de Sienna, was then just completed; but Geoge Lord Setoun,
whose widow founded the convent a few years later, and Adam Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell,
her father, were among the nobles who marshalled their followers around the Scottish
standard, to march to the fatal field where both were slain. In accordance with the attributes
ascribed by Lindsay to St Roque, we find his chapel resorted to by the victims of
the plague, who encamped on the Borough Muir during the prevalence of that dreadful
scourge in the sixteenth century ; and the neighbouring cemetery became the resting-place
of those who fell a prey to the pestilence. Among the statutes of the Burgh is the following
for December 1530, “We do yow to wit, forsamekle a8 James Barbour, master and
gouernour of the foule folk on the Mure, is to be clengit, and hes intromettit with sindry
folkis gudis and clais quhilkis ar lyand in Sanct Rokis Chapell, Thairfor al maner of personis
that has ony clame to the said gudis that thai cum on Tysday nixt to cum to the officiaris,
and thar dais to be clengit, certyfyand thaim, and thai do nocht, that all the said clais gif
thai be of litill avail1 sal be brynt, and the laif to be gevin to the pure folkis.”’ k n o t
relates that this ancient chapel-an engraving of which is given in the re-issue of the
quarto edition of his history-narrowly escaped the demolition to which its proprietor had
doomed it about the middle of last century, owing to the superstitious terrors of the workmen
engaged to pull it down. The march of intellect, however, had made rapid strides ere
its doom was a second time pronounced by a new proprietor early in the present century,
when the whole of this interesting and venerable ruin was swept away, as an unsightly
encumbrance to the estate of a retired tradesman !
The teinds or tithes of the Borough Muir belonged of old to the Abbey of Holyrood;
but this did not interfere with the acquirement of nearly the whole of jts broad lands by
private proprietors, aud their transference to various ecclesiastical foundations. The name
Acta and Statutes, Burgh of Edinburgh. Mait. Misc, vol ii. p. 117.

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LEZTH, AND THE NEW TOWN. 373
stairs and loop-hole windows, contrasted most strangely with the ailjoining fashionable
streets and squares.
This ancient barony and the surrounding lands comprehended within its jurisdiction
were granted by James VI. in 1568 to Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, in whose time
the Tolbooth of the burgh appears to have been erected. The bishop surrendered the lands
to the Crown in 1587, in favour of Sir Lewis Bellenden of Auchnoul, Lord Justice-clerk ;
who obtained a charter from the king uniting them into a free barony and regality. Broughton
is reputed to have been notorious in old times as the haunt of witches, who were frequently
incarcerated in its Tolbooth. An execution of these victims of superstition, which
occurred there under peculiarly horrible circumstances, during the period of its possession
by the Bellendens, is thus noticed in the minutes of the Scottish Privy Council :-'' 1608,
December 1.-The Earl of Mar declared to the Council that some women were taken in
Broughton as witches, and being put to an assize, and convicted, albeit they persevered
constant in their denial to the end, yet they were burned quick, after such a cruel manner
that some of them died in despair, renouncing and blaspheming [God] ; and others, halfburned,
brak out of the fire, and were cast quick in it again, till they were burned to the
death." Sir William Bellenden, the grandson of Sir Lewis, disposed of the whole lands
to Robert, Earl of Roxburgh, in 1627, and by an agreement between him and Charles I.,
this ancient barony passed by purchase to the Governors of Heriot's Hospital in 1636, to
whom the superiority of Broughton was yielded by the Crown, partly in payment of
debts due by Charles I. to the Hospital. Thenceforward the barony was governed by
a bailiff nominated by the Governors of the Hospital, who possessed even the power
of life and death, the privilege of pit and gallom, which every feudal baron claimed
within his own bounds. In 1721, the Treasurer of the Hospital complains of the expense
incurred in prosecuting offenders in the case of some murders committed witkin the
regality ; but these onerous and costly privileges were at length abrogated in 1746, by the
act abolishing heritable jurisdictions, and the Governors a few years afterwards granted
the use of the Tolbooth to one of their tenants as a store-house, " reserving to the Hospital
a room for holding their baron courts when they shall think fit"2 The last occasion
on which Old Broughton was directly associated with any event of public importance,
was during the memorable campaign of 1650, which preceded the Battle of Dunbar,
when General Leslie made it his head-quarters, while he threw up the line of defence
from the base of the Calton Hill to Leith, which we have already described as the origin
of the great roadway that now forms the chief thoroughfare between Edinburgh and
Leith.
Beyond the village of Broughton lies that of Canonmills, on the Water of Leith, which
owes its origin to the same eource as the Burgh of Canongate, having been founded by
the Augustine Canons of Holyrood, doubtless for the use of their own vassals on the lands
of Brough'tbn; and their neighbouring possessions. Above this, on the Water of Leith,
are the villages of Stockbridge, Bell's Mills, and the Dean, all of considerable antiquity,
and now joined to the extended capital, or disappearing before the encroachments of its
modern streets. King David L grants to the Abbey of Holyrood, in its foundation
1 Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Sir Walter Scott, p. 315. ' Dr Steven's History of Heriot's Hospital, pp. 118, 119.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 389
Smith, the late Professor Thomas Brown, Francis Horner, and Henry (afterwards
Lord) Brougham, he was one of the original projectors of the Edinburgh Reeriew,
begun in 1802, and was for many years the editor, as well as a chief contributor,
to that celebrated work.
While thus wielding the editorial wand of criticism with a felicity and
power that astonished and subdued, Mr. Jeffrey daily rose in eminence at the
bar. Brief poured in on brief; and amid so much business, of a description
requiring the exercise of all the faculties, it was matter of astonishment how
he found convenience for the prosecution of his literary pursuits. The following
lively skktch of the Scottish advocate, in the hey-day of his career, is from
Peter’s Letters to htk Kinsfolk :-
‘I When not pleading in one or other of the Coiirts, or before the Ordinary, he may commonly
be seen standing in some corner, entertaining or entertained by such wit aa suits the-atmosphere
of the place ; but it is seldom that his occupations permit him to remain long in any such position.
Ever and anon his lively conversation is interrupted by some undertaker-faced solicitor,
or perhaps by some hot, bustling exquisite clerk, who comes to announce the opening of some
new debate, at which the presence of Mr. Jeffrey is necessary ; and away he darts like lightning
to the indicated region, clearing his way through the surronnding crowd with irresistible alacrity
-the more clumsy, or more grave doer, that had set him in motion, vainly puffing and elbowing
to keep close in his wake A few seconds have scarcely elapsed, till you hear the sharp, shrill,
but deep-toned trumpet of his voice, lifting itself in some far-off corner, high over the discordant
Babe1 that intervenes-period following period in one unbroken chain of sound, aa if ita links
had no beginning, and were to have no end.
t t t t c
“ It is impossible to conceive the existence of a more fertile, teeming intellect. The flood
of his illustration seems to be at all times rising up to the very brim ; yet he commands and
restrains with equal strength and skill ; or if it does boil over for a moment, it spreads such a
richness around, that it is impossible to find fault with its extravagance. Surely never waa such
a luxuriant ‘ copia fundi’ united with so much terseness of thought and brilliancy of imagination,
and managed with so much unconscious, almost instinctive ease. If he be not the most
delightful, he is by far the moat wonderful of speakers.”
In 1821 Mr. Jeffrey was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow,
an honour the more gratifying that it was obtained in opposition to powerful
political interest. In 1829 he was unanimously chosen Dean of the Faculty
of Advocates, on which occasion, we understand, he gave up all charge of the
Edinburgh Reukw.
In December 1830 Mr. Jeffrey was appointed Lord Advocate for Scotland,
and returned to Parliament, in January following, for the Forfar district of
burghs. In the course of his canvass he was well received, especially by the
inhabitants of Dundee, four hundred of whom sat down to a public dinner
given to the Lord Advocate and his friends, Sir James Gibson-Craig, Mr.
Murray of Henderland, etc. ; but at Forfar, where his opponent, Captain Ogilvy
of Arley, was a favourite, he was so roughly handled by the mob as to have
been in danger of his life. At the general election in 1831 he stood candidate
for the city of Edinburgh, in opposition to Robert Adam Dundas, Esq. Great
excitement prevailed on this occasion. Besides memorials from most of the
Trades’ Incorporations, a petition to which were appended seventeen thousand
signatures, was presented to the Town Council in favour of Mr. Jeffrey; and

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THE STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF YAMES ur. 19
prison, down to the accession of James VI. to the English throne; and often, as in the
present case, fulfilled the double purpose at once. Not only was he held in a sort of honourable
durance there by his rebellious barons ; having, according to Drummond, ‘‘ all
the honour which appertained to a Prince, save that he could not come abroad, and none
were permitted to speak unto him, except in the audience of his lord-keeper ; his chamber
doors were shut before the setting of the sun, and long after the rising opened ; such who
only heard of him could not but take him to be a free and absolute Prince; yet when
nearly viewed, he was but a King in phantasy, and his throne but a picture ! ” but, at the
same time, there lay within its dungeons the King’s own prisoner, the Earl of Douglas ;
to whom, in this extremity, he at last made unsuccessful overtures of reconciliation.
The King having at length appealed, through the Duke of Albany, to Edward IV. of
England, the Duke of Gloucester marched to Edinburgh at the head of ten thousand men,
and encamped with them on the Borough Muir, at the very time when the rebellious barons
were assembled in council, in the Tolbooth. Here the Duke of Albany, who continued to
assume a very specious show of loyalty, joined them, attended by thepuke of Glouceater,
and about a thowand English and Scottish gentlemen ; and the parties having come to
terms, two heralds-at-arms were commanded to pass with them, to charge the captain of
the Castle to open the gates, and set the King’s grace at liberty; who, if Lindsay is to be
relied upon, somewhat contrary to our modern notions of kingly dignity, forthwith “lap on a
hackney to ride down to the Abbay : but he would not ride forward, till the Duik of Albanie
his brother lap on behind him ; and so they went down the geat to the Abbey of Hallyruid
hous, quhair they remained ane long tyme in great mirrines ; ” and, as Abercromby
adds, he “would needs make him a partner in his bed, and a comrade at his table.” On
the following day, William Bertraham, the Provost of Edinburgh, and with him the
whole fellowship of merchants, burgesses, and community of the said town, loyally and generously
obliged themselves to repay to the King of England, under certain circumstances,
the dowry to his daughter, the Lady Cecil ; or otherwise, (( undertook for the King of Scotland,
their Sovereign Lord, that he should concur in hiR former obligations, provided he
or they, the said provosts and merchants, were informed of the King of England’s pleasure,
by the next Feast of All Saints ; ” which obligations they afterwards fulfilled, repaying the
money, amounting to 6000 merks sterling, upon the demand of Garter King-at-Arms, the
King of England‘s messenger. In acknowledgment of this loyal service, the King granted
to the city a deed, in 1492, by which the provost and bailies were created sheriffs within
all- the bounds of their own territories, and rewarded with other important privileges‘contained
in that patent, which is known by the name of the Golden Charter.’ He also conferred
upon the craftamen the famoua banner, long the rallying po&t of the burgher ward
in every civil commotion, or muster for war, which is still preserved by the incorporated
trades, and known by the popular title of the Blue Blanket. The history of this famoua
banner has been written hy Alexander Pennycuik, an enthusiastic guild brother of the laat
century, who begins the record-“ When the Omnipotent Architect had built the glorious
fabric of this world ! ” and after recording for the consolation of his brother craftsmen, that
‘( Adam’s eldest aon was educate a plowman, and his brother a grazier,” with many other
flattering instmees of ‘‘ god'^ distinguishing honour put upon tradesmen,” he tells that
Pitacottie, voL i p. 200. * ’ Drum. of Hawthorn. p. 52.

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I N D E X .
[IN Part I. of this Work, the incidents are related in chronological order; and in Part 11. (p. 119), according to a
systematic arrangement indicated in the headings of the several Chapters. By a reference to the Contents, any
historical event, or the description of a particular locality, may be readily found. The Index is intended as a, guide to
incidental notices throughout the volume ; and, to render it more complete, all noblemen mentioned merely by their
titles in the course of the work. are here distin-g uished from one another by their proper names, and other individuals generally by some distinctive title or descript,ion.]
Abbey Hill, 138, 309
Abbotsford, 154, 185, 348, 353
Aberdeen, William 2d Earl of, 141
Aberuchill, Lord, 178
Acheson, Sir Archibald, House of, 297
Adam of St Edmunds, Parson of Restalrig, 399
ddvocate’s Library, 182, 210
African Company, 107
Aikenhead, Sir Patrick, 208
Airth, Earl of, the Mansion of, 309
Albany, Alexander Duke of, 19, 20
Close, 229
Arms of, 395
John Duke of, 38, 39
Robert Duke of, 388
Isabell, Duchess of, 382
Alesse, Alexander, 314, 424
Alexander I., 3 .
II., 5, 377
III., 5, 356
VI., Pope, 23
Sir William. See Stirling, Earl of
Alison Sqnare, 346
Allan, David, the Painter, 260
Allen, Janet, the Witcb, 305
Allison’s CIose, Cowgate, 329
Alva, Lord, 193, 195
Amiens, Bishop of, 64, 68
Anand, Sir David de, 7
Anchor Close, 238
Ancrum, Battle of, 53
Angus, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of, 36, 37, 40, 61,
319
Archibald, 8th Earl of, 84
Archibald, 9th Earl of, 283
dune, the Lady, 102, 206,287,341
Queen, 133
of Denmark, 86, 315, 341
Street, Stockbridge, 98
Anatruther, Sir Philip, 284
Antiquaries of Scotland, the Society of, 140,180, 376
Argyle, Bishop of, 78
Archibald, 5th Earl of, 63, 64, 67, 84
Archibald, Marquis of, 100, 123, 141, 188, 2953
Archibald, 9th Earl of, 123, 174, 203, 216, 305,
403
316
Lodging of, 316
Countess of, 75, 174
Duke of, 109
Armstrong, Johnnie, 41
Will., 244
Armada, Spanish, 369
Arnot, Hugo, 142
Arran, James, 1st Earl of, 36, 37, 40, 318
James, 2d Earl of, 48, 51, 56, 63, 67, 68, 82, 151
James, 3d Earl of, 174
James Stewart, Earl of, 176
Assembly Aisle, St Qiles’s Church, 390. See Prestm
Aisle.
Rooms, Assembly Close, 243
Bell’s Wynd, 243
West Bow, 243, 338
Atholl, Duke of, 145, 183
Walter Stewart, Ear1 of, the execution of, 15
John, 4th Earl of, 389
Burial Place of, 389, 390
Auchinleck, Lord, 161
Austin, Dr, 145, 332
Bagimont’s Roll, 31
Baijen Hole, 183
Bailie’s Court, Cowgate, 329
Bailie Fife’s Close, 264
Baird, Dr, 143
Sir David, the Birth Place of, 139
Sir Bobert, 138
Bakehouse Close, Canongate, 296
Balcanquall, Dr, 170
Walter, If0

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224 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The next figure, in the centre, represents MR. WILLIAM JAMIESON,
mason and architect, whose father, Mr. Patrick Jamieson, built the Royal Exchange,’
which was begun in 1753. He was elected one of the Deacons of
Mary’s Chapel in 1767 j and, like his friend Mr. Orlando Hart, was very successful
in avoiding those political quicksands which, in the good old days of
corporate omnipotence, were so dangerous to individual prosperity. As a reward
for his steadily having “shoulder kept to shoulder,” he possessed for many
years the sinecure office of Engraver to the Mint in Scotland, with a salary of
$50 a year,-in which appointment he succeeded Convener Simpson. This
sinecure is now abolished ; and no wonder, when the duties of the office could
be sufficiently performed by a stone-mason.
The most memorable public performance of Mr. Jamieson was the renovation
of the Tron Kirk, which he accomplished much to the satisfaction of the public.
The steeple was built principally of wood, and existed until the great fire in
November 1824, when some of the embers from $he burning houses having
lodged in it, and the wind blowing hard, the steeple was set on fire and destroyed,
along with the bell, which had been hung in 1673, and cost 1490 merks. The
steeple was rebuilt in 1828, and the bell recast and placed in its old situation,
where it now again performs its usual functions.
Mr. Jamieson was also contractor for making the public drains of the city, at
an estimate of no less than 3100,00O,-the rubbish from the excavations of
which was to be carted to Portobello, without being subject to the dues leviable
at the toll of Jock‘s Lodge, the bar being partly under the management of
the Town Council. The toll-keeper, however, having taken it into his head
that he ought to be paid the regular dues, on one occasion closed the gate
against the carts ‘of the contractor. The circumstance being made known to
Mr. Jamieson, “ Weel, weel,” said he to the carters, “just coup the carts at
the toll-bar ;” which was accordingly done, to the grievous annoyance of the
toll-keeper, who never afterwards refused the right of egress and ingress.
The greater part of Portobello was the Deacon’s property at one period, and
feued out by him. He himself latterly resided there, although, when this
print was done, his house was in Turk’s Close.
Mr. Jamieson married, about the year 1759, Miss Christian Nicholson, sister
of the late Sir William Nicholson of Jarvieswood, by whom he had six sons
and six daughters. The eldest daughter married James Cargyll, Esq., W. S. ;
The parties in the agreement for erecting this building wer+the Right Honourable William
Alexander, Lord Provost ; David Inglis, John Carmichael, Andrew Simpson, and John Walker,
Bailies ; David Inglis, Dean of Guild ; Adam Fairholm, Treasurer, etc., on the part of the City,-
and Patrick Jamieson, mason ; Alexander Peter, George Stevenson, and John Moubray, wrights ;
John Fergus, architect-all burgesses, freemen, members of Mary’s Chapel of Edinbnrgh-undertakers.
In the contract, the sum to be laid out in purchasing houses and grounds whereon to erect
the Exchange is stated at f11,749 : 6 : 8, and the cost of erection at f19,707 : 16 : 4,-amounting,
in all, to 231,457 : 3s. sterling. The first stone was laid in 1753, by George Drnmmond, Esq., at
that time Grand Master of the Freemasons. A triumphal arch, and theatres for the Magistrates,
and galleries for the spectators, were erected on the occasion. The work, however, was not fully
entered upon till the year following, and WBS Wished in 1761.

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ECCLESIA S TICA L ANTIQUITIES. 419
rials of the olden time. An unpicturesque fragment of the ruins of the Convent of St
Katherine de Sienna still remains, and serves as a sheep-fold for the flocks that pasture in
the neighbouring meadow ; and the name of the Sciennes, by which the ancient Mure-burgh
is now known, preserves some slight remembrance of the abode of I‘ the Sisters of the
Schenis,” where Chastitie found hospitable welcome, at a time when the bold Scottish
satirist represents her as spurned from every other door. A few notes, in reference to
more recent ecclesiastical erections, are reserved for the Appendix ; but there is something
in the flimsy and superficial character of our modern religious edifices, which, altogether
apart from the sacred or historical associations attached to them, deprives them of that
interest with which we view the architectural remains of the Middle Ages. Instead of
stuccoed ceilings and plaster walls, we h d , in the old fabrics, solid ribs of stone, and the
arched vaulting adorned with intricate mouldings and richly sculptured bosses. The
clustered piers below, that range along the solemn aisles, are like the huge oaks of the
forest, and their fan-like groinings like the spreading boughs, from whence their old builders
have been supposed to have drawn the first idea of these massive columns and the o’erarching
roof.
After all, the olden time with which we have dealt is a comparatively modern one.
‘She relics even of St Margaret’s Chapel, and St David‘a Monastery, and the Maiden
Castle, which Chalmera ranks only as “ first of modern antiques,” mould possess but poor
claims to our interest, as mere antiquities, beside the temples of Egypt or the marble
columns of the Acropolis. The Castle, indeed, is found to have been occupied as a stronghold
as far back as any trustworthy record extends ; and beyond this our older British
chroniclers relate, as authentic, traditions which assip to it an origin nearly coeval with
the Temple of Solomon, and centuries before the founding of Rome I Wyntoun records
of the renowned Kyng Ebrawce,” who flourished 989 years before the Christian era :-
“ He byggsd EDYNBWBwGyEth t-alle,
And gert thaim Allynclowd it calle,
The Maydyn castell, in Bum place
The sorowful Hil it callyd waa.”
Coming down a little nearer our own day, we arrive at the era of Fergus the First, the
famed progenitor of one hundred and eighteen sovereigns, ‘( of the same unspotted blood
and royal line,” who began his reign 330 years before Christ. Fergus, however, was no
plebeian upstart. He again traced his descent from Mileaius, who reigned in Ireland 1300
years before. the Christian era, and “ who makes the twenty-sixth degree inclusively from
Noe ; the twenty-first from Niul, a son of Fenius-farsa, king of Scythia, a prince very
knowing in all the languages then spoken ; the twentieth from Gaedhal-Glass, a contemporary
with Moses and Pharaoh ; the seventeenth inclusively from Heber-Scot, an excellent
bow-man I ” a Upon the whole, we are put in the fair way of tracing King Fergus’s genealogy
back to Adam,-a very satisfactory and credible beginning, in case anyeof its more recent
steps should be thought to stand in need of additional proof. Leaving such famous
worthies of the olden time, we come thereafter to Edwin, king of Northumbria, of whom we
possess trustworthy historic account, and who, there seems no reason to doubt, gave his
Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 669. ’ Dr Matthew Remedy, Ahercromby’a Martial Achievements, voL i p. 4.

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

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MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
and nation would suffer every disaster before they would submit to his ignominious
terms, he marched immediately with his whole forces upon Edinburgh. The citizens,
being taken by surprise, and altogether unprepared for resisting so formidable a force,
sent out a deputation, with Sir Adam Otterburn, the Provost, at its head, offering to
evacuate the town and deliver up the keys to the commander of the English army, on
condition that they should be permitted to carry off their effects, and that the city should
be saved from fire. But nothing would satisfy the English general but an unconditional
surrender of life and property. He made answer-That his commission extended to the
burning and laying waste the country, unless the governor would deliver the young Queen
to his master. The Provost replied-;; Then it were t5etter the city should stand on its
defence.’’
The English army entered by the Watergate
without opposition, and assaulted the Nether Bow Port, and beat it open on the second
day, with a terrible slaughter of the citizens. They immediately attempted to lay siege to
the Castle. ‘‘ Seeing no resistance, they hauled their cannons up the High Street, by force
of men, to the Butter-Trone, and above, and hazarded a shot against the fore entrie of the
Castle. But the wheel and axle-tree of one of the English cannons was broken, and some
of their men slaine by a shot of ordnance out of the Castle ; so they left that rash enterprise.”
’
Ba%led in their attempts on the fortress, they immediately proceeded to wreak their
vengeance on the city. They set it on fire in numerous quarters, and continued the work
of devastation and plunder till compelled to abandon it by the smoke and flames, as weli
as the continual firing from the Castle. They renewed the work of destruction on the following
day ; and for three successive days they returned with unabated fury to the smoking
ruins, till they had completely effected their purpose.
The Earl of Hertford then proceeded to lay waste the surrounding country with fire
and sword. Craigmillar Castle, which was surrendered on the promise of being preserved
scatheless,’ was immediately devoted to the flames. Roslyn Castle shared the same fate.
Part of the army then proceeded southward by land, burning and destroying every abbey,
town, and village, between the capital and Dunbar. The remainder of the army returned
to Leith, which they plundered and set fire to ip many places ; and then embarking their
whole force, they set sail for England.
. This disastrous event forms an important era in the history of Edinburgh ; if we except
a portion of the Castle, the churches, and the north-west wing of Holyrood Palace, no
building, anterior to this date, now exists in Edinburgh. One other building, Trinity
Hospital, the oldest part of which bore the date 1462, has been swept away by the operations
of the North British Railway, during the past year (1845), unquestionably, with the
exception of the Castle aud churches, at once the most ancient and perhaps interesting
building that Edinburgh possessed8
Such was the means adopted by Henry VIIL to secure the hand of the Scottish Queen
for his son, a method somewhat analogous to the system of wooing he practised with such
An immediate attack was thereupon made.
8 Cdderwood’s History, Wod. Soc. vol. i p, 177. ’ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 32.
A remarkably interesting view of Edinburgh, previous to ita destruction at this period, is still preserved in the British
Museum ; a careful fac-simile of this is given in a volume of the Bannatyne Club’s Miscellany, some sccount of which win
be found in a later part of this work.

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152 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
. -
Regent’s time, or almost immediately afterwards, a distinct mansion, occupied by Edward
Hope, son of John de Hope,-the ancestor of the celebrated Sir Thomas Hope, and of
the Earls of Hopetom,-who came from France in 1537, in the retinue of Magdalen, Queen
of James V. The earliest title-deeds are wanting, which would fix the date of its acquirement
by Edward Hope, and determine the question as to whether he succeeded the Queen
in its occupancy, or was its first possessor.
Edward Hope was one of the most considerable inhabitants of Edinburgh in the reign
of Queen Nary, and the old mansion, such as we have described it, retained abundant
evidence of the adornments of a wealthy citizen’s dwelling. He appears to have been a
great promoter of the Reformation, and was accordingly chosen, in 1560, as one of the
Commissioners for the Metropolis to the first General Assembly ; and again we find him,
in the following year, incurring Queen Mary’s indignation, as one of the magistrates of
Edinburgh most zealous in enforcing I‘ the statuts of the toun ” against any ‘‘ massemoonger,
or obstinat papist, that corrupted the people, suche as preests, friers, and others
of that sort, that sould be found within the toun.” The Queen caused the provost, Archibald
Douglas of Kilspindie, along with Edward Hope and Adam Fullerton, 1‘ to be charged
to waird in the Castell, and commanded a new electioun to be made of proveist and
baillaes ; ’’ but after a time her wrath was appeased, and civic matters left to take their
wonted course.’ Within this house, in all probability, the Earls of Murray, Morton, and
Glencairn, John Knox, Erskine of Dun, with Lords Boyd, Lindsay, and all the leading men
of the reforming party, have often assembled and matured plans whose final accomplishment
led to results of such vast importance to the nation. The circumstances of that
period may also suggest the probable use of the secret chamber we have described, which
was discovered at the demolition of the building.
The close continues to bear the name of Edward Hope’s through all the title-deeds
down to a very recent period; and in 1622 it appears by these documents to have been
in the possession of Henry Hope, grandson of the above, and younger brother of Sir
Thomas, from whom, also, there is a disposition of a later date, entitled, “ by Sir Thomas
Hope of Craighall, Knight Baronet, his Majesty’s Advocate,” resigning all right or claim
to the property, in favour of his niece, Christian Hope. This appears to have been a
daughter of his brother Henry, who was little less celebrated in his own time than the
eminent lawyer, as the progenitor of the Hopes of Amsterdam, “the merchant-princes” of
their day, surpassing in wealth and commercial enterprise any private mercantile company
ever known. From Henry Hope it passed by marriage and succession through several
hands, until in 1691 it lapsed into the poasession of James, Viscount Stair, in lieu of a
bond for the sum of “three thousand guilders, according to the just value of Dutch
money,” probably some transaction with the great house at Amsterdam. The property
was transferred by him to hia son, Sir David Dalrymple, who in 1702 sold it to
John Wightman of Msuldsie, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh: and the founder
*
1 Calderwood‘s Hiat., Wod. Soc., vol. ii. p. 44.
a It may not be out of place here to correct an error of Maitland. He remarks (Hist. of Edinburgh, p. 227) that
“the title of Lord, annexed to the Provost, being by prescription, and not by grant, every Provost in the kingdom has
an great a right to that epithet ae the Provost of Edinburgh hath.” It appears, however, from Fountainhall’s Decisions
(Folio, YOL i p. 400), that “ The town, in a competition betwixt them and the College of Justice, got a letter from the
King [Charles 11.1 in 1667, by Sir Andrew Ramsay, then their Provost procurement, determining their Provost should
* Ibid, vol. ii. p. 155. Ante, p. 70.

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unguarded ; and, as he turned the corner of the street, waa stabbed to the heart by Roache, who
stood with his sword ready drawn for the barbarous purpose. He received repeated stabs before he
had time to lift even his cane in his defence ; and, when faint with loss of blood, and the many
wounds he had received, he attempted to draw his sword, which he had not now strength to guide.
Roache seized upon it, broke it, and scrupled not to stab him when falling and disarmed, and
instwtly made his escape ; availing himself of the darkness which had SO much assisted him in the
perpetration of this hase and inhuman murder. Captain Fergusson received no fewer than nine
wounds, and all upon the left side, which must have been received when off his guard. Indeed, it
appears from a principal witness, whose evidence waR taken by the court of justice at the Cape, that,
after Captain Fergusson had drawn his sword, he showed not the least activity or motion, but, in the
twiukling of an eye, reeled, and fell to the ground, and expired in a few moments. About six days
after the murder, Captain Roache was appreheuded in the woods by the peasant8 of the country, and
was instantly racked on the wheel by order of the Governor. In vlrin he pleaded to be tried by his
countrymen, the Governor remarking-‘ that a foreigner who violates the law of another country
must abide by the penalties awaiting such violation.’ As a proof of which, he pointed out the
situation of a Dutchman in England under Roache’s unhappy circurartances.” 1
Roache was afterwards tried in England ; but, from a deficiency of evidence,
the murder could not be substantiated.
Adam, who accompanied Captain Fergusson, died of a fever soon after his
arrival in India. James, the second son, was greatly devoted to literary pursuits.
He followed no profession, but lived much on the Continent, where he travelled
some years with Lord Bruce, son of the Earl of Aylesbury; and afterwards with
the Earl of Morton. He died in middle life at Bath.
NEILt,h e third son, and the subject of this sketch, was born in 1750. Having
completed his academical studies at the University of St. Andrews, he made
choice of the law as a profession ; and, after undergoing the usual preparatory
courses, he was admitted to the bar in 1773, where, as we have already menl
tioned, he practised with equal honour and success. He filled the situation of
Sheriff-depute of the county of Fife for several years, and was on the eve of
being elevated to the bench, when a fatal disease terminated his valuable life in
1803, to the deep regret of all who knew him.
*By his wife, a daughter of Sir George Colquhoun of Tillychewan, he had
three sons and three daughters. His widow survived him nine years.
Mr. Fergusson is represented as leading by the hand JOSWH BORUWLASKI,
a Polish Count. In a Memoir of his life, published in 1788; the
Count says of himself:-
“ I waa born in the environs of Chaliez, the capital of Pekucia, in Polish Russia, in November
1739. My parents were of the middle size ; they had five sons and one daughter ; and by one of
those freaks of nature which it is impossible to account for, or perhaps to find another iwtance of in
the annals of the hnman species, three of these children grew to above the middle stature, whilst the
two others, like myself, reached only that of children in general at the age of four or five years.
“ I am the thiid of this astonishing family. My eldest brother, who at this time is about sixty,
The Cape of Good Hope was then in possession of the Dutch.
8 Memoirs of the clebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman ; containing a faith-
ful and curious account of his Birth, Education, Marriage, Travels, and Voyages. Written by
himself. 8v0, 7s. 6d. Becket, &c., to pe had likewise of the author, No. 162 Strand.

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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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many other lands, included those of ?Lochflatt,
Pleasance, Se Leonards, Hillhousefield, Bonnytoun,
and Pilrig,? &c.
This ancient barony and the surrounding lands
comprehended within its jurisdiction were granted
by James VI., in 1568, to Adam Bothwell, Bishop
of Orkney, in whose time the village tolbooth
would seem to have been erected; it remained
intact till 1829, and stood at the east of the present
Barony ?Street, a quaint edifice, with crowstepped
gables and dormer windows. Over its north door,
to which a flight of thirteen steps gave access, was
the date 1582. It was flanked on one side by a
venerable set of stocks, a symbol of justice rare in
Scotland, where the ironjougs were always used.
The bishop surrendered these lands to the
Crown in 1587, in favour of Sir Lewis Bellenden of
and -his successors had the power of appointing
bailies and holding courts within the limits of the
barony. Sir Lewis, a noted trafficker with yizards,
died on the 3rd of November, 1606, and was succeeded
by his son Sir William Bellenden, as Baron
of Broughton, which in those days was notorious
as the haunt of reputed witches and war!ocks, who
were frequently incarcerated in its old tolbooth.
An execution of some of these wretched creatures is
thus recorded in the minutes of the Privy Council :
?? 1608, December I. The Earl of Mar declared
to the Council that some women were taken in
Broughton as witches, and being put to an assize
and cmvicted, albeit they persevered in their
denial to the end, yet they were burned quick
(alive) after such a cruel manner that some of them
died in despair, renouiicing and blaspheming (God) ;
Broughton was the
scene of some encounters between the Queen?smen
and King?s-men in the time of the Regent
Morton. The latter were in the habit of defying
Kirkaldy?s garrison in the Castle, by riding about
the fields in range of his guns with handkerchiefs
tied to the points of their swords. One of these
parties, commanded by Henry Stewart, second
Lord Methven, in 1571, ?being a little too forward,
were severely reprimanded for their unreasonable
bravery ; for, as they stood at a place called
Broughton, a cannon bullet knocked his lordship
and seven men on the head; he was reputed
a good soldier, and had been more lamented had
he behaved himself more wisely.? (Crawford of
Drumsoy.)
Like other barons, the feudal superior of
Broughton had powers of ?pit and gallows? over
his vassals-so-called from the manner in which
criminals were executed-hanging the men upon a
gibbet, and drowning women in a pit as it was not
deemed decent to hang them. Sir Lewis Bellenden
In October, 1627, as
the Privy Council was sitting in its chamber at
the palace of Holyrood, a strange outrage took
place. John Young, a poulterer, attacked Mr.
Richard Bannatyne, bailiedepute of Broughton, at
the Council-room door, and struck him in the
back with his sword, nearly killing him on the
spot. In great indignation the Council sent off
Young to be tried on the morrow at the tolbooth,
with orders : ? If he be convict, that his Majesty?s
justice and his depute cause doom to be pronounced
against him, ordaining him to be drawn upon ane
cart backward frae the tolbooth to the place of
execution at the market cross, and there hangit to
the deid and quartered, his head to be set upon the
Nether Bow, and his hands to be set upon the
Water Yett.?
Sir William Bellenden, in 1627, disposed of the
whole lands to Robert, Earl of Roxburgh, and by
an agreement betweed hini and Charles I. this
ancient barony passed by purchase to the Governors
of Heriot?s Hospital in 1636, to whom the

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which is of great height, contains a large painting
over the stone fireplace of the Adoration of the
Vise Men.
A few steps from this was the old Bank Close
(so-called from the Bank of Scotland having
been in it), a blind alley, composed wholly
of solid, handsome, , and massive houses, some
of which were of great antiquity, and of old
named Hope?s Close, from the celebrated Sir
Thomas Hope, King?s Advocate in the time
of Charles I., prior to whom it had borne the
name of Mauchine?s Close, about the year 151 I.
Here, on the site of
the present Melbourne
Place, stood a famous old
mansion, almost unique
even in Edinburgh,
named Robert Gourlay?s
House, with the legend,
above its door, ?0 Lord
in fhe is a2 my fraift
1569?; and it is somewhat
singular that the owner
of this house was neither
a man of rank nor of
wealth, but simply a messenger-
at-arms belonging
to the Abbey of Holyrood,
an office bestowed upon
him by the Commendator,
Adam Bothwell,
Bishop of Orkney. In
I 5 74 Robert Gourlay
was an elder of the kirk,
and in that year had
to do his public penance
therein ?(for franqorfing
wheat out of the counfrie.?
In 1581, when the Regent
Morton was about to
suffer death, he was placed in Gourlay?s house
for two days under a guard; and there it was
that those remarkable conferences took place
between him and certain clergymen, in which,
while protesting his innocence of the murder of
Darnley, he admitted his foreknowledge of it.
Among many popular errors, is one that he invented
the ? maiden? by which he suffered ; but it
is now known to have been the common Scottish
guillotine, since Thomas Scott was beheaded by it
on the 3rd of April, 1566.
On the 7th of January, 1582, Mopse tells us in
his Memoirs, ?there came a French ambassador
through England, named La Motte (Fenelon), he
was lodged in Gourlay?s house near Tolbooth, and
had an audience of his Majesty; with him there
also came another ambassador from England,
named Mr. Davidson, who got an audience also
that same day in the king?s chamber of presence.?
This was probably a kinsman of De la Motte,
the French ambassador, who was slain at Flodden.
He !eft Edinburgh on the 10th of February.
Herein resided Sir William Drury during the siege
of the Castle in 1573, and thither, on its surrender,
was brought its gallant defender before death, with
his brother Sir James Kirkaldy and others ; and it
was here that in later years the great Argyle is said to
. .
DEACON BRODIE. (After Kay.)
havhpassed his last hours
in peaceful sleep before
his execution. So Robert
Gourlay?s old house had
a terrible history. By
this time the house had
passed into the possession
of Sir Thomas Hope.
Hence it has been conjectured
that Argyle?s last
sleep took place in the
high Council Room,
whither, Wodrow says, he
was brought before rxecutim.
John Gourlay, son of
Robert, erected a house
at the foot of this ancient
close. It bore the
date I 588, with the motto,
Spes aZtera vife. Herein
was the Bank of Scotland
first established in 1695,
and there its business
was conducted till 1805,
when it was removed to
their new office, that stupendous
edifice . at the
head of the entrance to the Earthen Mound. Latterly
it was used as the University printing-office ;
and therein, so latelyas 1824, was in use, as a proof
press, the identical old wooden press which accompanied
the Highland army, in 1745, for the publication
of gazettes and manifestoes.
Robert Gourlay?s house passed from the possession
of Sir Thomas Hope and Lord Aberuchill into that
of Sir George Lockhart (the great legal and political
rival of Sir George Mackenzie), Lord President of
the Session in 1685, and doomed to fall a victim to
private revenge. Chiesly of Dalry, an unsuccessful
litigant, enraged at the president for assigning
a small aliment of A93 out of his estate-a fine one
south-westward of the city-to his wife, from whom

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