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OUTLINE OF ITS GEOLOGY. I53
preserved tusk of the mammoth-an extinct hairy elephant-was disinterred
from the deposit.
Above the till lie accumuIations of sand and gravel, sometimes forming
the remarkable ridges known in Scotland as Kames. Good examples may
be seen between Burdiehouse and Lothianburn. Towards the sea-margin,
deposits of fine laminated clay occur, sometimes curiously contorted, as
if from the stranding of heavy icebergs when these clays were under the
sea. Foraminiferze and marine shells occur in the clays, together, sometimes
with quantities of drift-wood. The brick-pits of Portobello afford good sections
of these latest members of the glacial drift series of this neighbourhood.
At the close of the Ice Age our land was not so much out of water as it is
now. It has since then been pushed up several times, the intervals of rest
between these upheavals being marked by the lines of terrace known as Raised
Beaches. The most marked of these lines near Edinburgh is the twenty-five
foot terrace which forms a noticeable feature of the coast-line. It is well seen
between Granton and Newhaven, and again between Leith and Joppa. When
the level terrace is dug up it is found to consist.of layers of gravel and sand
like the deposits of the present beach, often with abundant shore-shells of the
common species. Here and there, as between Leith and Portobello, the inner
edge of the terrace is marked by a line of bluff or cliff. This represents the
bank against which the waves beat when the terrace was formed.
These deposits, together with the accumulations of peat and mar1 by which
former lakes, like those once covering the Meadows, have been filled up,
close the long geological record, and bring us into the time of the human
occupation, where the stone hatchet, flint arrowhead; and rude canoe are fossils
claimed alike by the geologist and the antiquary.
NEWHAVEN PER.
U ... OF ITS GEOLOGY. I53 preserved tusk of the mammoth-an extinct hairy elephant-was disinterred from the ...

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Holyrood. I KING DAVID?S CHARTER. 43
sake of trade ; and if it happen that they do no
come, I grant the aforesaid church from my ren
of Edinburgh forty shillings, from Stirling twentj
shillings, and from Perth forty shillings ; and ont
toft in Stirling, and the draught of one net foi
tishing ; and one toft in my Burgh of Edinburgh
free and quit of all custom and exaction ; and ont
toft in Berwick, and the draught of two nets ir
Scypwell ; one toft in Renfrew of five perches, tht
?draught of one net for salmon, and to fish thert
for herrings freely ; and I forbid any one to exact
from you or your men any customs therefor.
?? I moreover grant to the aforesaid canons from
my exchequer yearly ten pounds for the lights o
the church, for the works of that church, anc
repairing these works for ever. I charge, more
over, all my servants and foresters of Stirlingshirt
and Clackmannan, that the abbot and convent havt
free power in all my woods and forests, of taking
as much timber as they please for the building 01
their church and of their houses, and for any purpost
of theirs; and I enjoin that their men who take
timber for their use in the said woods have my
firm peace, and so that ye do not permit them tc
be disturbed in any way ; and the swine, the property
of the aforesaid church, I grant in all my
woods to be quit of pannage [food].
?? I grant, moreover, to the aforesaid canons the
half of the fat, tallow, and hides of the slaughter 01
Edinburgh ; and a tithe of all the whales and seabeasts
which fall to me from Avon to Coldbrandspath;
and a tithe of all my pleas and gains from
Avon to Coldbrandspath ; and the half of my tithe
of cane, and of my pleas and gains of Cantyre and
Argyll ; and all the skins of rams, ewes, and lambs
of the castle and of Linlithgow which die of my
flock ; and eight chalders of malt and eight of meal,
with thirty *cart-loads of bush from Liberton ; and
one of my mills of Dean; and a tithe of the mill
of Liberton, and of Dean, and of the new mill of
*Edinburgh, and of Craggenemarf, as much as I
.have for the same in my domain, and as much as
JVuieth the White gave them of alms of the same
Crag. I
? ?? I grant likewise to them leave to establish a
burgh between that church and my burgh.* And
. I grant that the burgesses have common right of
selling their wares and of buying in my market,
?freely and quit of claim and custom, in like manner
.as my own burgesses ; and I forbid that any one
take in this burgh, bread, ale, or cloth, or any ware
-by force, or without consent of the burgesses. I
grant, moreover, that the canons be quit of toll
. Here them is no mention of the town of Hcr6Crgrrs, alleged to haw
occupied the site of the Canongate.
and of all custom in all my burghs and throughout
all my land: to wit, all things that they buy
and sell.
?And I forbid any one to take pledge on the
land of the Holy Rood, unless the abbot of that
place shall have refused to do right and justice. I
will, moreover, that they hold all that is above
written as freely and quietly as I hold my own
lands ; and I will that the abbot hold his court as
freely, fully, and honourably as the Bishop of St.
Andrews and the Abbots of Dunfermline and
Kelso hold their courts.
?Witnesses tRobert Bishop of St. Andrews,
John Bishop of Glasgow, Henry my son, William
my grandson, Edward the Chancellor, Ilerbert the
Chamberlain, Gillemichael the Earl, Gospatrick the
brother of Dolphin, Robert of Montague, Robert
of Burneville, Peter of Brus, Norman the Sheriff,
Oggu, Leising, Gillise, William of Grahani, Turston
of Crechtune, Blein the Archdeacon, Aelfric the
Chaplain, Walerain the Chaplain.? l-
This document is interesting from its simplicity,
and curious as mentioning mzny places still known
under the same names. 1
The canons regular of the order of St. Augustine
were brought there from St. Andrews in Fifeshire.
The order was first established in Scotlayd
by Alexander I. in 1114, and ere long possessed
twenty-eight monasteries or foundations in tqe
So, in process of time, ?? in the hollow betweqn
two hills ? where King David was saved from the
white hart, there rose the great abbey house,
with its stately cruciform church, having three
:ewers, of which but a fragment now remainsT
i melancholy ruin. Till its completion the canods
Mere housed in the Castle, where they resided till
rbout 1176, occupying an edifice which had preiliously
been a nunnery.
The southern aisle of the nave is the only part
if the church on which a roof remains, and of the
whole range of beautifully clustered pillars on the
iorth side but two fragments alone survive. The
mtire ruin retains numerous traces of the original
vork of the twelfth century, though enriched by
he additions of subsequent ages. With reference
o the view of it in the old print which has been
:opied in these pages,$ it has been observed
hat therein ?the abbey church appears with a
econd square tower, uniform with the one still
tanding at the north of the great doorway. The
ransepts are about the usual proportions, but the
:hoir is much shorter than it is proved from other
kingdom. I
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t ?Charters relatiagta Cityof E&bwgh,?&u xr43-x5+ao. 4ta. 1871.
f see ante, vol. i, p. 5. ... I KING DAVID?S CHARTER. 43 sake of trade ; and if it happen that they do no come, I grant the aforesaid ...

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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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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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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd. 304
of the building, among these; on a buttress, at the
west angle of the southern transept, was a shield,
with the arms of Alexander Duke of Albany, who,
at Mary?s death, was resident at the Court of
the Duke of Gueldres. Among the grotesque
details of this church the monkey was repeated
many times, especially among the gurgoyles, and
crouching monsters, as corbels or brackets, seemed
in agony under the load they bore.
the entire teeth in the jaws, were found on the
demolition of the church in 1840. They were
placed in a handsome crimson velvet coffin, and
re-interred at Holyrood. Portions of her original
coffin are preserved in the Museum of Antiquities.
Edinburgh could ill spare so fine an example of
ecclesiastical architecture as this church, which was
long an object of interest, and latterly of regret;
for ?it is with some surprise,? says a writer,
TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, AND PART OF TRINITY HOSPITAL (TO THE RIGHT.
[Afn a Draw.ng @ Clerk of Eldin, 1780.1
Uthrogal, in Monimail, was formerly a leper
hospital, and with the lands of Hospital-Milne, in
the adjoining parish of Cults, was (as the Statistical
Account of Scotland says) given by Mary of
Gueldres to the Trinity Hospital, and after the
suppression, it went eventually to the Earls of
Leven. According to Sir Robert Sibbald, the
parish church of Easter Wemyss, in Fife, also
belonged ?? to the Collegiata Sancta Trinitis de
Edinburgh.?
,The parish churches of Soutra, Fala, Lampetlaw,
Kirkurd, Ormiston, and Gogyr, together with
the lands of Blance, were annexed to it in 1529.
The tomb of the foundress lay in the centre of
what was the Lady Chapel, or the sacristy of old,
latterly the vestry ; and therein her bones, with
?that the traveller, just as he emerges from the
temporary-looking sheds and fresh timber and
plaster-work of. the railway offices, finds himself
hurried along a dusky and mouldering collection of
buttresses, pinnacles, niches, and Gothic windows,
as striking a contrast to the scene of fresh bustle
and new life, as could well be ?conceived ; but the
vision is a brief one, and the more usual concomitants
of railways-a succession of squalid houses,
and a tunnel-immediately succeed it?
In 1502 the establishment was enlarged by the
addition of a dean and subdean, for whose support
the college received a gift of the rectory of the
parish church of Dunnottar; and owing to the
unsettled state of the country, it would appear that
Sir Edward Bonkel, the first Provost, had to apply ... AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd. 304 of the building, among these; on a buttress, at the west angle of the ...

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Restalrig.] DRURY?S TREACHERY. x3.z
on it now. Here it probably was that the powerful
Archibald Douglas, fifth Earl of Douglas, Lord
of Bothwell, Galloway, and Annandale, Duke of
Touraine aud Marshal of France, resided in 1440,
in which year he died at Restalrig, of a malignant
fever.
In 1444 Sir John Logan of Restalrig was sheriff
of Edinburgh ; and in 1508 James Logan, of the
same place, was Sheriff-deputy.
Twenty-one years before the latter date an
calsay lyand, and the town desolate.? In the
following year, Holinshed records that ? the Lord
Grey, Lieutenant of the Inglis? armie,? during the
siege of Leith, ?ludged in the town of Lestalrike,
in the Dean?s house, and part of the Demi-lances
and other horsemen lay in the same towne.?
A little way north-westward of Restalrig, midway
between the place named Hawkhill and the upper
Quarry Holes, near the Easter Road, there occurred
on the 16th of June, 1571, a disastrous skirmish, de-
~
RESTALRIG CHURCH IN THE PRESENT DAYEnglish
army had encamped at Restalrig, under the
Duke of Gloucester, who spared the city at the
request of the Duke of Albany and on receiving
many rich presents fiom the citizens, while James
III., in the hand of rebel peers, was a species of
captive in the castle of Edinburgh.
In 1559 the then secluded village was the scene
of one of the many skirmishes that took place between
the troops of the Queen Regent and those
of the Lords of the Congregation, in which the
latter were baffled, ?driven through the myre at
Restalrig-worried at the Craigingate ? (i.e., the
Calton), and on the 6th of November,? ? at even
in the nycht,? they departed ?? furth of Edinburgh
to Lynlithgow, and left their artailzerie on the
signated the BZack Saturday, or Drury?s peace,?
as it was sometimes named, through the alleged
treachery of the English ambassador.
Provoked by a bravado on the part of the Earl
of Morton, who held Leith, and who came forth
with horse and foot to the Hawkhill, the Earl of
Huntly, at the head of a body of Queen Mary?s
followers, with a train of guns, issued out of Edinburgh,
and halted at the Quarry Holes, where he
was visited by Sir William Drury, the ambassador
of Queen Elizabeth, who had been with Morton in
Leith during the preceding night. His proposed
object was an amicable adjustment of differences,
to the end that no loss of life should ensue between
those who were countrymen, and, in too ... DRURY?S TREACHERY. x3.z on it now. Here it probably was that the powerful Archibald Douglas, fifth ...

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The Old High School.] RECTORS AND TEACHERS, 291
, in use to teach in those mornings and forenoons.
And considering that the ordinary Latin rudiments
in use to be taught children at their beginning to
the Latin tongue is difficult and hard for beginners,
and that Wedderburn?s Rudiments are more plain
and easy, the Council ordain the said masters in
time coming, to teach and begin their scholars with
Wedderburn?s Rudiments in place of the Latin
Rudiments in use as taught formerly. Ro. CHIESLIE,
Provost.??
David Wedderburn, whose work is thus referred
to, was born about 1570, and was the accomplished
author of many learned works, and died, it is supposed,
about 1644, soon after the publication of
his ?? Centuria Tertia.?
In 1699 A40 Scots was voted by the magistrates
to procure books as a reward for the best scholars,
and when the century closed the institution was in
a most creditable condition, and they-as patrons
-declared that ?? not a few persons that are now
eminent for piety and learning, both in Church and
State, had been educated there.?
In the year I 7 I 6 there was an outbreak among
the scholars for some reason now unknown ; but
they seem to have conducted themselves in an outrageous
manner, demolishing every pane of glass
in the school, and also of Lady Yester?s church,
levelling to the earth even the solid stone wall
which enclosed the school-yard. About this time
the janitor of the institution was David Malloch, a
man distinguished in after life as author of the
beautiful ballad of ? William and Margaret,? a poet
and miscellaneous writer, and under-secretary to the
Prince of Wales in 1733; to please the English
ear, he changed his name to Mallet, and became
an avowed infidel, and a venal author of the worst
description. Dr. Steven refers to his receipt as
being extant, dated 2nd February, 1718, ?for
sixteen shillings and eight pence sterling, being his
full salary for the preceding half-year. That was
the exact period he held the office.?
In 1736 we again hear of the BZeis-siher, cca
profitable relic of popery, which it seemed difficult
to relinquish.? Heartburnings had arisen because
it had become doubtful in what way the Candlemas
offerings should be apportioned between the rector
and masters; thus, on the 28th January in that
year, the Council resolved that the rector himself,
and no other, shall collect, not only his own quarterly
fees, but also the fee of one shilling from
each scholar in the other classes. The Council
also transferred the right from the master of the
third, to the mzster of the first elementary class,
to demand a shilling quarterly from each pupil in
the rector?s class; and declared that the rector
and four masters should favourably receive from
the scholars themselves whatever benevolence or
Candlemas offerings might be presented.?
Thomas Ruddiman, the eminent grammarian and
scholar, who was born at Boyndie in 1674 and
who in 1724 began to vary his great literary
undertakings by printing the ancient Cdedonian
Mercqv, about I 737 established-together with
the rector, the masters, and thirty-one other persons-
a species of provident association for their
own benefit and that of their widows and children,
and adopting as the title of the society, ?The
Company of the Professors and Teachers of the
liberal arts and sciences, or any branch or part
thereof, in the City of Edinburgh and dependencies
thereof.?
The co-partners were all taxed equally; but
owing to inequalities in the yearly contributions, a
dissolution nearly took place after an existence of
fifty years; but the association rallied, and stcl
exists in a flourishing condition.
One of the most popular masters in the early
part of the eighteenth century was Mr. James
Barclay, who was appointed in June, 1742, and
whose experience as a teacher, attainments, and
character, caused him to be remembered by his
scholars long after his removal to Dalkeith, where
he died in 1765.
When Henry Mackenzie, author of the ?? Man of
Feeling,? was verging on his eightieth year, he
contributed to Dr. Steven?s CL History,? his reminiscences
of the school in his own early years,
between 1752 and 1757, which we are tempted to
quote at length :-
?Rector Lees, a very respectable, grave, and
gentlemanlike man, father or uncle, I am not sure
which, of Lees, the Secretary for Ireland. He
maintained great dignity, treating the other masters
somewhat de had a bar; severe, and rather too
intolerant of dulness, but kind to more promising
talents. It will not be thought vanity, I trust-for
I speak with the sincerity and correctness of a
third person-when I say that I was rather a
favourite with him, and used for several years after
he resigned his office to drink tea with him at his
house in a large land or building at the country
end of the suburb called Pleasance, built by one
Hunter, a tailor, whence it got the name of
? Hunter?s Folly,? or the Castle 0? Clouts.?
cc MAsrERs continued-Ersf, or youngest class,
when I was put to school, Farquhar, a native of
Banffshire, cousin-german of Farquhar, author of
admired-and indeed t h q may be called admirable-
sermons, and of Mr. Farquhar, the Vicar of
Hayes, a sort of Parson Adams,? a favourite ot ... Old High School.] RECTORS AND TEACHERS, 291 , in use to teach in those mornings and forenoons. And ...

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' GENERAL INDEX.
Tytlm of Woodhouselee, William,
Tytler, the aeronaut, 111. 135
I. 155
U
Umbrella First use of the, 11. 282
Umptmvhe's cross I. 383
Union BankofScotlind 11.150,151
Unlon Bank Leith I d . 239
Union Canal, The,'I$. 99, 2x5, 219,
Union cellar, The, I. 164, * 165
Union Club, The, 111. 122
Union of Scotland and England,
Unpopularity of the I. 163-165,
178. 11. 37, 111. 19;; its dire effects
and ultimate good results,
I. 165 ; increase in wealth in spite
of the, I. 155' e&ct of 11. 15 ;
place where i; wns siined, 11.
'32, 33 : period when Edinburgh
seemed toarouse fromitslethargy,
11.175 ; rights of the University
defined, 111. 16
Union Jack first usedin Leith, 111.
182
UnitedCorporationofLeith,I17.218
United Incorporation of St. Mary's
226, Ill. 326
Chapel, The, 11.264
United Presbyterian Church, 11.
, 138, 185, 214
United Presbyterian Church of
Scotland, Offices of the, 11.152
United Presbyterian Theological
Hall, 11. zy.
United Secewon Chapel of the
Links Leith, 111. 265
United Secession Congregation, 11.
University buildin s 11. 356
University Club #de 11. 125
University Hall: 11. ;56
University library, The, 11. 356,
Ut%r%;B%alSchools, Lauriston,
11. 357
University ofedinburgh, I. ~ 5 5 , 11.
274, 282, 298 111. 8 - 2 7 ; its origin,
111.8: the first Regent3,III.
9; James VI.'svisitation, I l l . 10;
salanes of the professors, ib.:
magisterial visitation, 111.10, 11,
15;abolitionof thebirch 111.11;
Cromwelrsgifts, ib.; and-Popery
riots,III. 11-13; the quadrangle,
111. 25 : south side of, 111% * 13 ;
professors expelled, 111. 14 ; dw
section first practised, I I I . r 4 , 1 ~ ~
quarrel with the Town Council:
111. 15 ; the museum of rarities,
ib. ; a Greek professor appointed,
111. 16; s stem of educationpursued
by h-tcipal Rollock, ib. ;
early mode of education, I11.18:
achangein17p.111. 19; theold
hours of attendance, ib. ; the silver
mace, 111.~2. projects for a new
college ib . 0;iginaldesignforthe
new bdldlAg, 111. '20; original
plan of its principal storey, 111.
* 21 ; the foundation-stone laid,
11. 17~22; completionofthenew
college, 111. 2 . its corporation
after 1858, II?.' 24 : principals,
chaiis, and first holden thereof,
111. 24, 15: average number of
students, 111 2 5 . notable bequests
111. '26. 'income ib.;
1 1 4 , ib. ; the 1;brary hail, 111.
*z8; the museums, Ill. 27; the
new building Pink z~
215, 2 3 249
University prilting-office, 1. 116
Upper Baxter's Close, I. 106
Upper Bow Port, I. 217, zrg ; relics
Upper dean Terrace, 111. 75
Upper Quarry Holes 111. 128 158
Upper West BOW, ~ . ' q i , II.
Urbani, Signor Pietro 11. 178
Urquhart, Sir George,' I. 226
Urt, Jacob de, theartist, 11. 74
of, I. I0
V
Valleyfield House 111. p
Valleyfield Street,'III. 30
Vandenhoff the tragedian I. 350
Veitch, Wiham, the Gdenanting
Veitches,Clan rivalries of the, I. 1%
Veitch's Square, 111. 75
Vennel, The, I. 38, 258, 11. 221,
122 225, 226, 239, 362, 111. 30;
vie; of ~ t a t e 21
Vennel, $he, Newhaven 111. agg
Veteran A naval II. 22;
VictorilDock, L;ith, 111.284, *285
Victoria Jetty, Leith, Ill. 284, 312
Victoria Statueof Queen 11. 83
Victoria'street, I. 291, *'293. 310,
Victoiw. swing bridge, Leith, 111.
Victoria Terrace, I. 111, 291, agz,
Viewforth Free Church, 111. 30
Vinegar Close, Leith, 111. 226;
sculptured stone in, 111. *2z6
Virgin's Square, 111. 75
Vocat, David, 11. 287, 111. 2
Voght theGerman traveller, 11.120
Volunieer Light Dragoons, Ertab
lishment of 11. 342
Volunteer review in the Queen's
Park 11. 310-32z, 354, Phi< 23
Vyse, beneral, 1 ~ 3 7 2 , 3 7 3
minister, 11. 273
319 ,II. 230
"73.&6
*293r 310
W
Wade General 11. 354
Wagekg Clud The 11. 319
Wait the paintk 11; go
Walcer of Coatei. Sir Patrick. 11.
111, 116, 111. 2.j
Walker Bishop 11. 198
Walker)of Drukheugh, M k , 11.
138
Walker, Dr 1. 235
Walker, JGes, Clerk of Session,
Walker, Patrick, 111. 156
Walker Street 11. 210, arr
Walkers of CAtes, Misses, 11. 210
Walkers The 11. 265
Wall of 'lam& 11.. Excavation of
11. 217
the I I - z ~ .
Wallice k i r h l i a m , I. 24, III. 143
Wallace of Craigie, Si Thomas,
I. IOI
378
Wallace of Elderslie, ohn, 11. 344
Wallace, Dr. Kobert,l. go, 11. 180,
Wallace, Prof. William, 11. 13
I r Wallace's Cradle," 1. *z5
Wallace's Tower, 1. 36, 4g
Wallace's cave and camp, 111. 355,
Walter Comvn. I. 21
366
Wnller de H*unkrcokbe I 24
Walter, Earl of Monteitb. i. 13
Ward, hlrs., the actress, 11. 23, 24
Wardie, 111. 84,94, ~4 307
Wardie Bum 111.
Wardie Castl; I. 4 2 1 1 . 310
Wardie Crexe'nt, IIi. 307
Wardie Muir, 111. 98, 306
Wardie Point, Ill. 286
Wardieburn House 111. 307
Wardlaw Sir John: 111. 161
Wardlaw' Sir William 11. 23
Wardlaw: Portrait of br., 11. 92
Ward's Inn, 111. 140
Warlaw Hill 111. 331
Warren, SaAuel, the author, 11.
Warrender Sir George 111. 46,47
Warrende; Sir John, Lbrd Provost,
Warrender, Sir Patrick, 111. 46
Warrender of Lochend, Bailie Lord
Warrenddr Capt. John IIJ. 46
WarrenderlHouse 111.'45 +48
Warrender Lodgi, Meaddw Place,
Warrend& Park, Old tonib in, 111.
Warrender Park Crescent, 111. 46
Warrender Park Road, 111. 46
Warrenders of Lochend, The family,
111. 45
Warriston, Lord, I. 226, 111. 9;
Bishop Burnet's account of him,
111.99; hisson,III. IOI
loo
111. 46
Provost 111. 46
11. 348 111.29
46
Warriston, Abduction of Lady, 111.
WarASton, 111. 96, 306, 321; iu
Warriston cemetery, I. 155,111.57,
WarristoA'n Close I. 223 224 11.
1x5; Messrs. Cdmbers':printkig
office, I. zq, 226; Sir Thomas
Caig's house, I. 226
Warriston Crescent, 111.95, IO~,
Warriston House, 111. *97,98,101,
98. execution of 111. 9
hitsory, 111. 98
111. 83 10,) 307
125
Gallery, 11. 89
Warriston's Land 111. gg
Water-colour coliection, National
Water Gate, The, I. 43, 59. 11. z.
114, 182, 185, 191, 202. zog, 217,
751 77, 83,86, 87,907 91,1018 102,
103, 118, 132, 164, 165, 178, 251,
of, 111. 42 63 65 67 70 * 7 z .
valley of, f11. bz& its'flocds:
Water Port, The, Leith, 111. ~ g r
Water supply of the city, 1. 82, 326
Water Reservoir, The, Leith, 111.
Waterloo Bridge, 11. r g
Waterloo Place, I. 234, 339,II. 91,
Waterloo Rooms 1. 286
Water's Close, d i t h , 111. 234; old
house in 111. 189
Watson Gptain R.N. 11.91.
Watson: George,' the phinter, 11.
88, go, 91, 151, 19; his brother
Andrew, 111. 161
Watson George 11. 358, 359 (see
Watdn's Hoaiital)
Watson-Gordon, Sir John, 11. 88, rv 9% 1277 143, 15k, 111. 4
w rother's beouest to the dnii
238, 111. 63, 64,68, 71. ' 73, 74,
252, 270, 322, 333. 360; village
111. 71
213
'04, 1073 109
versity, 111. 26
of, 111. 26
p i t a l , d
Watson, Henry George, Bequest
Watson ohn 111. 68; his hos-
Watson of Muirhouse. Marmet. I. I - ,
366
papers, 111. 215
Watson, Robert, and the Stuart
Wawn, W i l l i i S.. the artist, 11.
9' '5'
Wa&n famil The 11. 91
Watson's Col?& Sihool for Boys,
Watson's (George) Hospital, 11.
11. 359,363
:533 347,355,358, 359, *360, 111.
-J- Watson's (John) Hospital, 111. 68;
view from Drumsheugh grounds,
111. "68
Watson's Merchant Academy, 11.
359
Watt, John, Deacon ofthe Trades,
Watt Institution and SchoolofArts,
Watt, Provost, 111. 286
Watt, StatueofJames, 1.380 1 1 . ~ 5
Watt, Kobert, Trial and exkcutiou
of for treason 11 236-238
Waks Hospirai L k h 111. 265;
its founder Ili. 365, :66
Wauchope, d r John h n , 111. 338
Wauchopes of Niddrie, 'lhe, 111.
3=71 30,339
Waverfey Bridge 11. rm
6' Waverley NOV&: I. 211,339.11.
341 ; their popularity on the
stage, 1. 354 351 ; their author
unknown 11. 26. Sir W. Scott
avows deir autdorship, I. 354
Waverley Station 111. 87
Wealth oftheSco;tishChurch,I. 24z
Webb Mrs theactress 1.347
Webs&, d. Alexande; I. go
Webster, the murderer, iI. 183
Webster's Close, I. go
Websten The 11. 2%
Weddal kapdin I. 52, 54
Wedde;burn, Laid Chancellor, 11.
111.29
1- "377, 3792 380, 11. 275
11. 150
287,293
39r
Wedderbum Alexander, Lord
Wedderburn, Patnck, Lord Ches-
Wedderdurn Sir David, I. 358
Wedderbum' Sir Peter I. 172
Wedderburn' David Ii. zgr
Weigh Ho&, Edirhrgh, The, I.
Loughbordugh, I. 271
terhall I. 271
55 5, 328, 334 331. *332 ; the.
L i t 1 111. 238
Weir dobert, themurderer, 111.99.
Weir) of Kirkton, the wizard, 1.3,
31-312, 11. 14, 230 (sec Major
'I'homas Weir)
Weir's Museum, 11. 12s
Well-home Tower, I. 20, 3q36,II.
1x5; ruins of, 1. + z9,.80
Wellington Placz, Leith, 111. 178,.
186
Wellington statue, Register House.
Wellington Street, 11. 218
Wells of Wearie, 11. 322
Welsh, Rev. Dr 11.98 145, 210
Welsh Fusiliers: Scots' dislike of,.
1. 12% 130
Wemyss, Earl of, 11. 27, 157, 170,
194 354 111.365, 366 ; Countess
Wemyss of Elcho Lard 111.94
~ e m v s s . Sir lam&. I.
I. 37% 373
of, t. Id
Wemiss; Sir john 1. 194
Wemyss, L i r d of'II. 65
Wemyss, the arcdtect, 111.88
Wemyss Place 11.115
Wesley John 'at Leith 111.227
Wesleyh Me;hodistCl$pel, 11.335
West, the comedian, 1.342
West Bow, The, I. 3, 4, 37, 3:' 94,
98, 131, m-321, 11. 230, 9 3 .
2371 35)r 375, 111. 34, 19; OlCf.
houses III, 1. * 324
Wesr Bush, The, aunken rock, 111.
307
West Church, I. 334 11. 82, I o-
138, 3+6, 111. %, 73; new o{II.
* 136
West Churchyard, 11.116, 111.156,
West Coates Establihed Church,
West College Street, 11. 274
West Craigmillar Asylum for Blinb.
WCst Cumberland Street, 11. 18%
Wet End Theatre, The, 11. 214
West Highland Fencibles, Mutiny-
West Kirk Act, 'lhe, 11. 133
Wat Kirk parish The 11.346
West Leith villaie, I d . 63
West Loan 111. 51
WestLondAnStreet 11.1 I 1 1 1 . 1 6 ~
West Maitland &et 19. &J
West Meadow, 11. 36:
West Nicolson S t e t , 11. 337
West Port, The, I. 38,42,47, so, 60.. 9 76, ~ v r 1 2 2 , ~ 3 0 , 146,330,334~
1 . 134, 135, 221--230, 241,.
259, 330,111.42, g $ ~ u , 135; old!
houses in the, 11. 224
West Port Street, 11. 226
West Preston Street 111. .p
West Princes S t r d Gardens, 11-
Wes; Regkter'street, I. 114 171,.
West'Kichmond Street, I. 384, 11.
11.214
Females, 111. 51
of the 111. 194, 195
82 *IOI 128 130
372 111. 78
WZer The district 11.221
WesteiCoates, Markon of, 11.116
Western Bank, The, 11. a67
Wetern Duddingston, 11. 316;
house where Prince Charles slept,
Westem hew TO^, The, 11. q-
221 111. ,--Irz
Wedrn or Queen's Dock, 111. 283
Western Reformatory 11.~18
Western Road 111. 1:s
Westhall, Lord, I. zzz
Wet Docks Leith 111. 283
Wettm-all Leut.-ken., 5u G. A.,
Whale fishery of Leith, The early,
Wharton, Duke of, I. 117
Wharton Lane, 11. 221
Wharton Place 11. 359
Whinny Hill ;'he 11. 319
Whim The '111.
WhitAeld, &rge,and the theatre,
11. 316 *317
11. 321,'3E2
111.275 ... GENERAL INDEX. Tytlm of Woodhouselee, William, Tytler, the aeronaut, 111. 135 I. 155 U Umbrella First ...

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His pictures, the ?? Sale of Circassian Captives to
a Turkish Bashaw,? purchased by the Earl of
Wemyss and March, and the Jewish Family in
Poland making merry before a Wedding,? were
among the first of his works that laid the foundation
of his future fame. His ?Murder of Archbishop
Sharp,? and other works are too well-known
to be referred to here; but the ?Battle of
Bannockburn,? the unfinished work of his old
THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES HOPE, COMMANDING THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. (A/?W Kay.)
able lawyer and brilliant pleader. After bring
junior counsel for the Crown, he was Sheriff of
Perth for ten years after 1824, and twice Solicitor-
General for Scotland before 1842. From 1842 to
1846 he was Lord Advocate. He was chosen
Dean of Faculty in November, 1843, and annually
thereafter, till raised to :he bench as a Lord bf
Session and Justiciary in 1851, by the temtorial
title of Lord Colonsay. In the following
age, has never been engraved, nor is it likely to
be so. Full of years and honour, he died on the
23rd of February, 1850, aged sixty-nine, attended
and soothed to the last by the tenderness and
affection of an orphan niece.
The house opposite, No. 73, was for some fifty
years the residence of Duncan McNeill, advocate,
and latterly a peer under the title of Baron Colonsay.
The son of John McNeill of Colonsay (one of
the Hebrides, at the extremity of Islay), by the
eldest daughter of Duncan McNeill of Dunmore,
Argyleshire, he was born in the bleak and lonely
isle of Colonsay in 1793, and after being educated
at the Universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh,
he was called to the Scottish Bar in 1816, and
very soon distinguished himself as a sound and
year he was appointed Lord Justice-General and
President of the Court, and was created a peer
of Britain on retiring in 1867. He was a Deputy-
Lieutenant of Edinburgh in 1854, and of Argyleshire
in 1848, and was a member of the Lower
House from 1843 to 1851. He died in February,
1874, when the title became extinct.
In the same street, in Nos. 24 and 25 respectively,
lived two other legal men of local note:
Lord Kinloch, a senator, whose name was William
Penny, called to the bar in 1824 and to the
bench in 1858 ; and W. B. D. D. Tumbull,
advocate, and latterly of Lincoln?s Inn,
barrister-at-law. He was called to the Bar in
~832, together with Henry Glassford Bell and
Thomas Mackenzie, afterwards Solicitor-Genera ... pictures, the ?? Sale of Circassian Captives to a Turkish Bashaw,? purchased by the Earl of Wemyss and March, ...

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124 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. princcs Street
came into her possession, the pocket-knife, fork,
and spoon which Prince Charles used in all his
marches and subsequent wanderings. The case is
a small one, covered with black shagreen ; for
pottability, the knife, fork, and spoon are made to
screw upon handles, so that the three articles form
six pieces for close packing. They are all engraved
with an ornament of thistle-leaves, and the fork
and spoon have the prince?s initials, C. s : all have
the Dutch plate stamp, showing that they were
manufactured in Holland.
It is supposed that this case, with its contents,
came to Lady Mary Clerk through Miss Drelincourt,
daughter of the Dean of Armagh, in Ireland, ,
While her mother was still confined to bed a
Highland party, under a chieftain of the Macdonald
clan, came to her house, but the commander, on
learning the circumstances, not only chivalrously
restrained his men from levying any contribution,
but took from his bonnet his own white rose or
cockade, and pinned it on the infant?s breast,
?that it might protect the household from any
trouble by others. This rosette the lady kept to
her dying day.? In after years she became the
wife of Sir James Clerk of Pennicuick, Bart., and
when he went off to the royal yacht to present him
with the silver cross badge, the gift of ?the ladies
of Scotland.?
From the king, the case, with its contents, passed
to the Marquis of Conyngham, and from him to
his son -4lbert, first Lord Londesborough, and they
are now preserved with great care amidst the
valuable collection of ancient plate and b2jbuien2 at
Grimston Park, Yorkshire.
Sir Walter Scott was a frequent visitor at
No. 100, Princes Street, as he was on intimate
terms with Lady Clerk, who died several years
after the king?s visit, having attained a green old
age. Till past her eightieth year she retained an
( ? I Book of Days.?)
who became wife of Hugh, third Viscount Pnmrose,
in whose house in London the loyal Flora
Macdonald found a shelter after liberation from
the long confinement she underwent for her share
in promoting the escape of the prince, who had
given it to her as a souvenir at the end of his
perilous wanderings.
In the Edinburgh Obsmw of 1822 it is
recorded that when George IV. contemplated his
visit to Scotland, he expressed a wish to have
some relic of the unfortunate prince, on which
PRINCES STREET, LOOKING EAST FROM SCOTT?S MONUMENT. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. princcs Street came into her possession, the pocket-knife, fork, and spoon which ...

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290 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. me Old High Schaol?
display the dresses so used should be given to the
poor.?
For many years the history of the school is little
more than a biographical list of the various masters
and teachers. A fifth class was established in I 614 for
the rudiments of Greek during the rectorship of
John Ray (the friend of Zachary Boyd), who after
being Professor of Humanity in the university for
eight years, regarded it promotion to leave it to
take full charge of the High School ; and when he
died, in February, 1630, his office was again conferred
upon a Professor of Humanity, Thomas
Crawford, who figured prominently amid the
pageants with which Charles I. was welcomed to
the city in 1633, and with Hawthornden and others
composed and delivered some of the bombastic
speeches on that occasion.
In his time the number of pupils fluctuated
greatly ; he complained to the Council that though
they had led him to expect ? 400 bairns at the least,?
he had only 180 when he began office. But there
is no authentic record of attendance at that early
period ; and it is curious that the abstract of the
annual enrolment of scholars goes no farther back
than the Session of 1738-9, while a general matriculation
register was not commenced till 1827.
In December, 1640, Crawford returned to the
university, and was succeeded by William Spence,
schoolmaster of Prestonpans ; but to give all the
successive masters of the institution would far
exceed our space. The masters and scholars had
very indifferent accommodation during the invasion
of Cromwell after Dunbar. His troops made a
barrack of the school-house, and while there broke
and burned all the woodwork, leaving it in such a
state of ruin that the pupils had to meet in Lady
Yester?s Church till it was repaired by funds drawn
from the masters of the Trinity Hospital at the foot
of Leith Wynd.
A library for the benefit of the institution was
added to it in 1658, and it now consists of many
thousand volumes. Among the first donors of
books were John Muir the rector, all the
masters, Patrick Scott of Thirlstane, and John
Lord Swinton of that ilk. At present it is sup
ported by the appropriation of one half of the
n?iatriculation fund to its use, and every way it is
a valuable classical, historical, geographical, and
antiquarian collection. The rector and masters,
with the assistance of the janitor, discharge in
rotation the duties of librarian.
Ap old periodical source of income deserves to
be noticed. In 1660, on the 20th January, the
Town Council ordered ? the casualty called the
b(rir-iZve? to be withheld until the 1st of March.
This was a gratuity presented to the masters by
their pupils at Candlemas, and he who gave the
most was named the King. ? Bleis? being the
Scottish word for blaze, the origin of the gratuity
must have been a Candlemas offering for the lights
and candles anciently in use ; moreover, the day
was a holiday, when the boys appeared in their best
apparel accompanied by their parents.
The roll was then called over, and each boy
presented his offering. When the latter was less
than the quarterly fee no notice was taken of it, but
if it amounted to that sum the rector exclaimed
with a loud voice, Vivat; to twice the ordinary
fee, FZoreai bis; for a higher sum, Fioreaf ter; for
a guinea and upwards, Gloriat! The highest
donor was named the fictor, or King.
The Council repeatedly issued injunctions
against the levy of any ?&is-syZver, or BentsyZver,?
but apparently in vain. The latter referred
to the money for collecting bent, or rushes, to lay
down on the clay floor to keep the feet warm and
dry; and so latelyas the commencement of the
seventeenth century, during the summer season,
the pupils had leave to go forth with hooks to
cut bent by the margins of Duddingston and
the Burgh lochs, or elsewhere. ?Happily,? says
Steven, of a later date, ? all exactions are now unknown
; and at four regular periods in the course of
each session, the teachers receive from their pupils
a fixed fee, which is regarded as a fair remuneration
for their professional labour.?
In those days the pupils attended divine service,
accompanied by their masters, and were frequently
catechised before the congregation. A part of
Lady Yester?s Church, was set apart for their use,
and afterwards the eastern gallery of the Trinity
College church.
In 1680, the Privy Council issued a proclamation
prohibiting all private Latin schools to be opened
within the city or suburbs, and thus the High
School enjoyed an almost undisturbed monopoly ;
and sixteen years after, in the proceedings of the
Town Council, we find the following enactment :-
?Edinbuqh, S@. 11, 1696.-The Council considering
that the High School of this city being
situate in a corner at some distance, many of the
inhabitants, whose children are tender, being unwilling
to expose them to. the cold winter mornings,
and send them to the said school before the hour
of seven, as use is ; therefore, the Council ordain
the masters of the said school in all time coming,
to meet and convene at nine of the clock in the
morning during the winter season, viz., from the
1st of November to the 1st March yearly, and to
teach the scholars till twelve, that which they were ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. me Old High Schaol? display the dresses so used should be given to the poor.? For ...

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412 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
respective literatures. These young men are said to have entered into an agreement
to promote the advancement of one another in life to the utmost of their
power ; and though there was a degree of singularity in the compact, and perhaps
no real increase from it in the disposition to serve each other, it is certain
that individually all the three parties mentioned could ascribe important advantages
to the good offices of one or other in that association.
The merits of Mr, Baird early secured for him the friendship and patronage
of the Professors. In 1784 he was recommended by Professor Dalzel as tutor
to the family of Colonel Blair of Blair ; but this situation he relinquished on
obtaining, through the influence of his former class-fellow, Mr. Finlayson, the
more important one of minister of Dunkeld-a step which, resulting from the
honourable circumstances connected with his career at College, was the fortunate
precursor of others of greater consequence.
In 1786 Mr. Baird received license from the Presbytery of Linlithgow;
and the following year was ordained to the parish of Dunkeld, to which charge
he had been presented by the Duke of Atholl. Here he remained for several
years, living as an inmate of the Duke’s family, and at the same time superintending
the education of his Grace’s three sons, the last survivor of whom was
the late Lord Glenlyon. In 1789 he received an unsolicited presentation to
the parish of Lady Yester’s, Edinburgh, which, upon the earnest entreaty of the
Duke and Duchess of Atholl, he declined. He was transferred, however, to
the New Greyfriars’ Edinburgh in 1’792 ; and, at the same time, appointed to
the Chair of Oriental Languages in the University. In 1779 he was translated
to the New North Church, as successor to Dr. Hardie, and colleague to Dr.
Gloag ; and to the High Church, in 1801, as successor to Dr. Blair, and colleague
to Dr. Finlayson j and in this charge he officiated with Dr. Gordon as colleague.
No. CCCX
PROVOST ELDER AND PRINCIPAL BAIRD.
AN important event in the life of Dr. Baird was his appointment to the
Principality of the University of Edinburgh in 1793. The presidency of such
an institution, requiring less the vigour and enterprise of youth, than that the
established reputation of the seminary should be upheld by the wisdom of
years, naturally associates itself with grey hairs and ripened experience. The
nomination of a young man, not more than thirty-three years of age, did not
well accord with this view, and was the more offensive when it was recollected
that so venerable a person as Dr. Blab was connected with the University; ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. respective literatures. These young men are said to have entered into an agreement to ...

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336 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Stret.
brated chemist, Dr. Joseph Black, who, as we have
elsewhere stated, was found dead in his chair in
November, 1799, and whose high reputation contributed
so largely in his time to the growing fame
of our University.
The institution was first suggested by the celebrated
Dr. Thomas Blacklock, who lost his sight
before he was six months old, and by Mr. David
Miller, also a sufferer from blindness ; but it was
chiefly through the exertions of Dr. David Johnsales
of the above kinds of work have in some years
amounted to ;C;IO,OOO, and in 1880 to &18,724 8s.,
notwithstanding the general depression of trade ;
but this was owing to the Government contract for
brushes.' Hence the directors have been enabled
to make extensive alterations and improvements to
a large amount.
The asylum has received a new and elegant
fapde, surmounted by stone-faced dormer windows,
a handsome cornice, and balustrade, with a large
THE MAHOGANY LAND, POTTERROW, 1821. (Ajtecr a Paintinc ay W. McEwan, in the #osscsaim of Dr. ].A. Sidey.)
stone, the philanthropic minister of North Leith,
aided by a subscription of only A20 from the great
Wilberforce, that the asylum was founded in 1793,
ip one of the dingy old houses of Shakespeare
Square, into which nine blind persons were received;
but the public patronage having greatly increased,
in 1806 the present building, No. 58, was purchased,
acd in 1822 another house, No. 38, was
bought for the use of the female blind.
The latter are employed in sewing the covers
for mattresses and feather beds, knitting stockings,
Src. The males are employed in making mattresses,
mats, ,brushes, baskets of every kind, in weaving
sacking, matting, and " rag-carpets.'' No less than
eighteen looms are employed in this work. The
central doorway, in a niche above which is a bust
of Dr. David Johnstone, the founder, from the
studio of the late Handyside Ritchie.
The inmates seem to spend a very merry life,
for though the use of their eyes has been denied
them, they have no restriction placed upon their
tongues ; thus, whenever two or three of them are
together, they are constantly talking, or singing
their national songs.
A chapel is attached to the works, and therein,
besides regular morning worship, the blind hold
large meetings in connection with the various
benefit societies they have established among
themselves. The younger lads who come from the
Blind School at Craigmillar, and are employed here, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Nicolson Stret. brated chemist, Dr. Joseph Black, who, as we have elsewhere stated, ...

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Here some stone coffins, or cists, were found by
the workmen, when preparing the ground for the - -
erection of Oxford Terrace, which f&es the north,
and has a most commanding site; and in October,
1866, at the foundations of Lennox Street, which runs
southward from the terrace at an angle, four solitary
ancient graves were discovered a little below the
surface. ?They lay north and south,? says a local
annalist, ?and were lined with slabs of undressed
stone. The length of these graves was abou!
four feet, and the breadth little beyond two feet,
so that the bodies must have been buried in a
sitting posture, or compressed in some .way. This
must have been the case in the short cists or coffins
made of slabs of stone, while in the great cists,
which were about six feet long, the body lay at full
length.?
On both sides of the Water of Leith lies Stockbridge,
some 280 yards east of the Dean Bridge.
Once a spacious suburb, it is now included in the
growing northern New Town, and displays a
curious mixture of grandeur and romance, with
something of classic beauty, and, in more than
one quarter, houses of rather a mean and humble
character. One of its finest features is the double
crescent called St. Bernard?s, suggested by Sir David
Wilkie, constructed by Sir Henry Raeburn, and
adorned with the grandest Grecian Doric pillars
that are to be found in any other edifice not a
public one.
Here the Water of Leith at times flows with
considerable force and speed, especially in seasons
of rain and flood. Nicoll refers to a visitation in
1659, when ?the town of Edinburgh obtained an
additional impost upon the ale sold in its boundsit
was now a full penny a pint, so that the liquor rose
to the unheard of price of thirty-two pence Scots,
for that quantity. Yet this imposition seemed not
to thrive,? he continues superstitiously, ? for at the
same instant, God frae the heavens declared His
anger by sending thunder and unheard-of tempests,
storms, and inundations of water, whilk destroyed
their common mills, dams, and warks, to the toun?s
great charges and expenses. Eleven mills belonging
to Edinburgh, and five belonging to Heriot?s Hospital,
all upon the Water of Leith, were destroyed on
this occasion, with their dams, water-gangs, timber
and stone-warks, the haill wheels of their mills,
timber-graith, and haill other warks.?
In 1794-5 there was a ?spate? in the river,
when the water rose so high that access to certain
houses in Haugh Street was entirely cut off, and a
mamage party-said to be that of the parents of
David Roberts, R.A.-was nearly swept away. In
1821 a coachman with his horse was carried down
the stream, and drowned near the gate of Inverleith ;
and in 1832 the stream flooded all the low-lying
land about Stockbridge, and did very considerable
damage.
This part of the town annot boast of great
antiquity, for we do not find it mentioned by
Nicoll in the instance of the Divine wrath being
excited by the impost on ale, or in the description
of Edinburgh preserved in the Advocates? Library,
and supposed to have been written between 1642
and 1651, and which refers to many houses and
hamlets on the banks of the Water of Leith,
The steep old Kirk Loan, that led, between
hedgerows, to St. Cuthbert?s, is now designated
Church Lane; where it passed the grounds of
Drumsheugh it was bordered by a deep ditch. A
village had begun to spring up here towards the
end of the seventeenth century, and by the year
1742, says a pamphlet by Mr. C. Hill, the total
population amounted to 574 persons. Before the
city extended over the arable lands now occupied
by the New Town, the village would be deemed as
somewhat remote from the old city, and the road
that led to it, down by where the Royal Circus
stands now, was steep, bordered by hawthorn
hedges, and known as ?Stockbrig Brae.?
It is extremely probable that the name originated
in the circumstance of the first bridge having been
built of wood, for which the old Saxon word was
sfoke; and a view that has been preserved of it,
drawn in 1760, represents it as a structure of beams
and pales, situated a little way above where the
present bridge stands.
In former days, the latter-like that at Canonmills-
was steep and narrow, but by raising up
the banks on both sides the steepness was removed,
and it was widened to double its original breadth.
The bridge farther up the stream, at Mackenzie
Place, was built for the accommodation of the
feuars of St. Bernard?s grounds ; and between these
two a wooden foot-bridge at one time existed, for
the convenience of the residents in Anne Street.
The piers of it are still remaining.
St. Bernard?s, originally a portion of the old
Dean estate, was acquired by Mr. Walter ROSS,
W.S., whose house, a large, irregular, three-storeyed
edifice, stood on the ground now occupied by the
east side of Carlton Street; and this was the
house afterwards obtained by Sir Henry Raeburn,
and in which he died. Mr. Ross was a man of
antiquarian taste, and this led him to collect many
of the sculptured stones from old houses then in
the process of demolition in the city, and some
of these he built into the house. In front of one
projection he built a fine Gothic window, and ... some stone coffins, or cists, were found by the workmen, when preparing the ground for the - - erection of ...

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THE SCHOOL OF ARE. 379 South Bridge.]
called Adam Square. In those days the ground
in front of these was an open space, measuring
about 250 feet one way by zoo the other, nearly
to Robertson?s Close in the Cowgate, which was
concealed by double rows of trees.
In one of these houses there resided for many
years, and died on the 28th July, 1828, Dr. Andrew
Duncan, First Physician to His Majesty for Scotland;
and an eminent citizen in his day, so much
so that his funeral was a public one. ?The custom
of visiting Arthur?s Seat early on the morning
of the 1st of May is, or rather was, observed with
great enthusiasm by the inhabitants of Edinburgh,?
says the editor of ? Kay?s Portraits.? ? Dr.
younger son of Hope of Rankeillour, in Fife. Of
Stewart and Lindsay, the former was the son of
Charles Stewart of Ballechin, and the latter a
younger son of Lindsay of Wormiston. Among the
leading drapers : In the firm of Lindsay and Douglas,
the former was a younger son of Lindsay of Eaglescairnie,
and the latter of Douglas of Garvaldfoot.
Of Dundas, Inglis, and Callender, the first was a son
of Dundas of Fingarth, in Stirlingshire, the family
from which the Earl of Zetland and Baron Amesbury
are descended ; the second was a younger
son of Sir John Inglis of Cramond, and succeeded
to that baronetage, which, it may be remarked,
took its rise in an Edinburgh merchant of the
seventeenth century. Another eminent clothdealiog
firm, Hamilton and Dalrymple, comprehended
John Dalrymple, a younger brother of the wellknown
Lord Hailes and a grandson of the first
Lord Stair. He was at one time Master of the
Merchant Company. In a fourth firm, Stewart,
Wallace, and Stoddart, the leading partner was a
.son of Stewart of Dunearn.?
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and
Manufactures is an offshoot of the old Merchant
Company in 1786, and consists of a chairman and
deputy,with about thirty directors and other officers,
and has led the van in patronising and promoting
liberal measures in trade and commerce generally.
The schools of the Edinburgh Merchant Company
are among the most prominent institutions
of the city at this day.
More than twenty years behre the erection of the
South Bridge, the celebrated Mr. Robert Adam, of
Maryburgh in Fifeshire, from whose designs many of
the principal edifices in Edinburgh were formed, and
who was appointed architect to the king in 1762,
built, on that piece of ground whereon the south-west
end of the Bridge Street abutted, two very large
and handsome houses, each with large bow-windows,
which, being well recessed back, and having the
College buildinas on the south, formed what was
at an expense within {is reach; and the idea was
the more favourably entertained because such a
scheme was already in full operation at Anderson?s
Institution in Glasgow, and the foundation of the
Edinburgh School of Art in the winter of 1821
was the immediate result.
With Mr. Horner many gentlemen well-known
in the city cordially co-operated ; among these were
Sir David Brewster, Principal of the University,
Dr. Brunton, Mr. (afterwards Lord) Murray, Professor
Pillans, Mr. Playfair, architect, Mr. Robert
Bryson, and Mr. James Mylne, brassfounder.
To enable young tradesmen to become acquainted
with the principles or chemistry and
Duncan was one of the most regular in his devotion
to the Queen of May during the long period of
fifty years, and to the very last he performed his
wonted pilgrimage with all the spirit, if not the
agility, of his younger years On the 1st of May,
1826, two years before his death, although aged
eighty-two, he paid his annual visit, and on the
summit of the hill read a few lines of an address to
Alexander Duke of Gordon, the oldest peer then
alive.? The Doctor was the originator of the Caledonian
Horticultural Society, and the first projector
of a lunatic asylum in Edinburgh
Latterly the houses of Adam were occupied by
the Edinburgh Young Men?s Christian Association,
and the Watt Institution and School of Arts,
which was founded by Mr. Leonard Horner,
F.R.S., a native, and for many years a citizen, of
Edinburgh, the son of Mr. John .Horner, of Messrs.
Inglis and Horner, merchants, at the Cross. The
latter years of his useful life were spent in London,
where he died in 1864, but he always visited Edinburgh
from time to time, and evinced the deepest
interest in its welfare. In 1843 he published the
memoirs and correspondence of his younger brother,
the gifted Francis Horner (the friend of Lansdowne,
Jeffrey, and Brougham), who died at Pisa,
yet won a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.
To an accidental conversation in 1821, in the
shop of Mr. Bryson, a watchmaker, the origin of
the school has been traced. Mr. Horner asked
whether the young men brought to Mr. Bryson?s
trade received any mathematical education, and
the latter replied that, ?it was seldom, if ever,
the case, and that daily experience showed the
want of this instruction; but that the expense
and usual hours of teaching mathematical classes
put it out of the power of working tradesmen to
obtain such education.? The suggestion then
occurred to Mr. Horner to devise a plan by which
such branches of science as would benefit the
mechanic might be taught at convenient hours and
. . ... SCHOOL OF ARE. 379 South Bridge.] called Adam Square. In those days the ground in front of these was an open ...

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I 06 QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
Streets, up Leith Walk, through York Place and St. Andrew Square, into
Princes Street, then turning eastward, proceeded by Regent Bridge and
Waterloo Place, rounding the foot of the Calton Hill, amid shout and cheer,
the roar of cannon, the roll of drum, and the shrill scream of pibroch--a_ll
the route lined with a well-dressed, well-behaved, and loyal people-and
reaching Holyrood at last, when a salute was fired from all the batteries in
intimation of the fact, which made the heavens ring again, echoing far and
near, hill answering to hill, and vale to vale. In the evening there was a
grand display of fireworks. Arthur’s Seat, crowned with flames, glorious as
another sun rising upon midnight, looked down upon a city actually ablaze ;
while Leith, hardly less so, was brilliantly lighted up with a profusion of
lamps and beautifully transparent devices. It is estimated that no fewer than
300,000 people were eye-witnesses that day of the most magnificent and
imposing spectacle ever before beheld in Scotland.
‘ The news has flown from mouth to mouth,
, The North for ance has banged the South ;
Carle, noo the King’s come !
The de’il a Scotsman ’U die 0’ drouth,
Squire and knight and belted peer,
Lowland chief and mountaineer,
The best, the bravest, all are here,
Carle, noo the King’s come !’
In general, the inhabitants of Leith were an industrious and hard-working
people. Life with them was an earnest thing, and to provide for themselves,
and especially for those of their household, a sacred duty. Still, they had
their days of amusement and recreation likewise j and these days, when freed
from toil and care, they did enjoy, although occasionally in rather a boisterous
and extravagant manner. Particularly was this the case during the week of
their long-famed horse-races, an institution which dates back to the period of
the Restoration. These races usually took place on the last week of July, or
the first week of August, and continued for four or five days. Edinburgh and
Leith were then crowded with people of wealth and fashion from all quarters,
to witness the sports of the race-ground, as well as to attend the balls and the
assemblies which were held in the city in the evenings. The sands, over
which the races, during the recess of the tide, were run, were on these days,
but especially on the Saturday, the scene of the most disorderly and drunken ... 06 QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH. Streets, up Leith Walk, through York Place and St. Andrew Square, into Princes ...

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. X.l.l.l
SHAFT OF THE CITY CROSS, . . . . . . . Facing p. 59
RENOVATEDCH OIR, ST. GILES’C ATHEDRAL, 5, 61
UPPER HALL, SIGNETLI BRARY, Y, 62
BLACKFRIARWS YND, ’7 71
HOUSEO F CARDINAL BEATONA, ND THE COWGATE, 77 71
WATER OF LEITHA ND ST. BERNARD’WS ELL, >7 79
MODERND WELLINGOSF THE PEOPLE, 9, 79
EDINBURGFRHO M ‘REST AND BE THANKFUL,’ 9, 83
CUTTER AND BRIG OFF QUEENSFERRY, 9, 84
DUDDINGSTONLEO CH, 6 119
CRAIGMILLACRA STLE, 99 127
HAWTHORNDEN, $2 132
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PARK PLACE, AND MUSIC CLASSROOM OF THE UNIVERSITY, . . ,, 64
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LETTERPRESS ILLUSTRATIONS. I1
PAGE
Albert Memorial, . . . iv
City Arms,. . . . . v
BonalyTower, . . . . . vi
The Scottish Regalia, . . vii
Chest in which the Regalia were
found, . . . . . vii
Bailie Macmoran’s House-
Bank of Scotland-Moonlight, . I
The OldTownat Night, , . 7
Old Doorway, High School Wynd, 10
Riddel’s Court, Lawnmarket, where
David Hume commenced his
History of EngZund, . . I I
Mons Meg, . . . . 14
Advocates’ Close, . , . 15
Writers’ Court, . . . 16
Register House at Night, . . 17
Interior, . . . . . vii i
The Mound-Moonlight, . * 5
Old Infirmary Tower, . . 9
Warriston Close, . . . 16
PAGE
Post-Office at Night, . . 17
Queen Mary‘s Bath House, . 17
Staircase, Holyrood Palace, . 18
St. Anthony’s Chapel-Moonlight, 19
College and South Bridge Street, 20
Knox’s Study, . . . . 21
David Hume’s Grave, . . 24
25
Paul’s Work, . . . . 26
Ballantyne’s House, St. John’s
Paul Street, where Sir David
Wilkie commenced his career
as a Painter,. . . . 27
College Quadrangle at Night, . 28
Alison. Square and Potterrow, . 32
Chambers Street-Moonlight, 33
College Wynd, Birthplace of
Fergusson’s Grave, . . . 2 3
Knox’s Grave, . . . .
Street, . . . . . 26
Surgeons’ Hall, . . . 30
Sir Walter Scotf . . . 3 4 ... I! -1- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. X.l.l.l SHAFT OF THE CITY CROSS, . . . . . . . Facing p. 59 RENOVATEDCH OIR, ...

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I 16 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. p e w Town,
himself and his lady. This lintel was removed by
the late Sir Patrick Walker, who had succeeded to
the estate, and was rebuilt by him into the present
ancient house, which is destined long to survive as
the deanery of St. Mary?s cathedral. Into the
walls of the same house were built some fragments
of sculpture from a mansion in the Cowgate, traditionally
known as the residence of the French
embassy in Mary?s time. They are now in the
north wing.
On the eastern side of the mansion of Coates are
two ancient lintels, one dated 1600, with the initials
C. C. I. and K. H. The other bears the same
initials with the legend,
I PRAYS YE LORD FOR
ALL HIS BENEFErIS, 1601.
Coates lay westward of Bearford?s Parks and the
old Ferry Road. The form?er edifice, a picturesque
old mansion, with turrets, dormer windows, and
crowstepped gables, in the Scoto-French style, still
remains unchanged among its changed surroundings
as when it was built, probably about 1611, by
Sir John Byres of Coates, whose, town residence was
in Byres? Close, in the High Street, and over the
door of which he inscribed the usual pious legend,
? Blksif be God ia aC his g$%$? with the initials of
?
1 On the west a dormer gable bears the date 1615,
with the initials J. B. and M. B., and a stone built
above the western door bears in large letters the
word IEHOVA, with the city motto and the date
1614
According to the inscription on the tomb of
? the truly good and excellent citizen John Byres
of Cokes,? in the Greyfriars churchyard, as given
by Monteith, it would appear that he was two
years city bailie, two years a suburban bailie, six
THE MANYION OF EASTER COATLS.
years Dean of Guild, and that he died on the
24th of November, 1629, iri his sixtieth year.
Prior to the time of the Byres the property had
belonged to the Lindsays, as in the ratification
by Parliament to Lord Lindsay, in 1592, are mentioned
?the landis of Dene, but the mylnes and
mure thereof, and their pertenents lyand within
the Sherifdom of Edinburgh, the manes of Drym,
the lands of Drymhill, the landis of Coittis and
Coitakirs, &c? (Acta Parl., Jacobi VI.)
The mansion of Wester Coates, advertised in the
Edinburgh papers of 1783 as ? the House of Coates,
or White House, belonging to the heirs of the
deceased James Finlay of Walliford, and as lately
possessed by Lord Covington, situated on the
highway leading to Coltbridge,? was removed in ... 16 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. p e w Town, himself and his lady. This lintel was removed by the late Sir Patrick ...

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EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 3i5
He had just sat down to dinner, when feeling himself unwell, he rose hurriedly,
and had only time to get the length of another room, where he expired.‘
The figure to the left, displaying a sum of money in a bag,’and exclaiming,
“ Cabbage, Willie-mair cabbage,” is intended for the then City Chamberlain,
MR. THOMAS HENDERSON. He was formerly a Russia merchantthat
is, a dealer in coarse linens and yarns-and had his shop on the south side
of the High Street. He first appeared in the Council in 1796; and, after
having filled’ the various civic offices of Bailie, Dean of Guild, and Treasurer,
was appointed City Chamberlain, on the death of Dr. Thomas Hay, in 1810.
Thereafter, in accordance with a resolution of the Council, he gave up his business
as a Russia merchant, devoting his whole attention to the duties of his office,
His salary as Chamberlain was then augmented from 2600 to 2800.
Mr. Henderson died on the 22d December 1822, in the sixty-second year
of his age, much regretted by all who knew him.
The figure behind the sippost, tendering advice to the Laird to “ Keep the
halter tight fear she turn,” will easily be recognised by many of our Edinburgh
readers as the well-known city officer, ARCHIE CAMPBELL, of whom a
portrait and memoir has yet to be given.
No. CCXCVI.
JOHN STEELE.
THE sturdy beggar, of whom this is a likeness at the advanced age of one
hundred and nine years, resided, as intimated on the Print, in the parish of
Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. He was a man of uncommon strength, and was
usually designated Steele Dhu, or Black Steele. He lived in a manner at free
quarters-helping himself without scruple to whatever he required-few of his
neighbours daring to come into angry collision with him. He was originally,
we believe, a sort of blacksmith or tinker, and used to frequent fairs and
markets, vending fire-irons and other articles of his own manufacture.
His children, like himself, were remarkable for their strength. He had two
daughters, each of whom, it is said, could cany a load of turf from the hill
sufficient for the back of a horse.
It may be mentioned that, while holding the office of Chief Magistrate, Mr. Mackenzie had the
honour of entertaining at dinner, at his house in Gayfield Square, tkst the Russian Prince, Michael,
and on a subsequent occasion, Prince Leopold ; both of these distinguished persouages having visited
this country during the years 1818-19.
Mr. Mackenzie had a sister married to the present Mr. Balliigall, who, it is believed, has been
factor on the Balbirnie estate upwards of seventy years. ... SKETCHES. 3i5 He had just sat down to dinner, when feeling himself unwell, he rose hurriedly, and ...

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260
I
OLD AND NEW EDtNEURGH. [The Cowgate.
Full of years and honours, Tam 0? the Cowgate
died in 1637. At Tynninghame, his family seat,
:here are two portraits of him preserved, and also
his state dress, in the crimson velvet breeches of
which there are no less than nine pockets. Among
many of his papers, which remain at Tynninghame
House, one contains a memorandum which throws
a curious light upon the way in which political
matters were then managed in Scotland. This
paper details the heads of a petition in his own
each way, and had a border of trees upon its east
and south sides. Latterly it bore the name of
Thomson?s Green, from the person to whom it
was leased by the Commissioners of Excise.
The Hammerman?s Close, Land, and Hall, adjoined
the site of this edifice on the westward.
The Land was in I 7 I I the abode of a man named
Anthony Parsons, among the last of those who
followed the ancient practice of vending quack
medicines on a public stage in the streets. In the
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S CHAPEL. (From a Drawing by W. Geikie.)
hand-writing to the Privy Council with a prayer to
?gar the Chancellor? do something else in his behalf
The Excise Office was removed about 1730 from
the Parliament Square to the houge so long occupied
by the Earl of Haddington, which afforded excellent
accommodation for so important a public
institution. The principal room on the second
floor, the windows of which opened to the Cowgate,
was one of great magnificence, having a stucco
ceiling divided into square compartments, each of
which contained an elegant device, and there was
also much fine paneling. At the back of the
house, extending to where the back of Brown
Square was built, and entered by a gate from the
Candlemaker Row, it measured nearly zoo feet
October of that year he advertised in the Scofs Postman-?
It being reported that Anthony Parsons
is gone from Edinburgh to mount public stages in
the country, this is to give notice that he hath left
off keeping stages, and still lives in the Hammerman?s
Land, near the head of the Cowgate, where
may be had the Orvicton, a famous antidote against
infectious distempers, and helps barrenness,? &c
Four years subsequently Parsons-an Englishman,
of course-announced his design of bidding adieu
to Edinburgh, and in that prospect offered his quack
medicines at reduced rates, and likewise, by auction,
?a fine cabinet organ.?
The last of these English quacks was Dr. Green,
gauger, of Doncaster, who made his appearance in ... AND NEW EDtNEURGH. [The Cowgate. Full of years and honours, Tam 0? the Cowgate died in 1637. At ...

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OLD AND NEW EDINBUKGH. [Heriot?s Hospital. 366
with the idea of founding an institution in his native
city, somewhat like Christ?s Hospital, and in
the arrangements for this he was assisted by his
cousin Adam Lautie, a notary in Edinburgh. Having
thus set his house in order, he died peacefully
in London on the 12th of February, 1Gz3, a year
before his royal master James VI., and was buried
at St. Martins-in-the-Fields,
The whole of his large property, the legacies
excepted, was by him bequeathed to the civic
authorities and clergy of Edinburgh, for the eiection
and maintenance of a hospital ?for the education,
nursing, and upbringing of youth, being
puir orphans and fatherless children of decayet burgesses
and freemen of the said burgh, destitute, and
left without means.?
Of what wealth Heriot died possessed is uncertain,
says Arnot ; but probably it was not under
~50,000. The town council and clergy employed
Sir John Hay of Barns, afterwards Lord Clerk
Register, to settle accounts with Heriot?s English
debtors. Among these we find the famous Robin
Carr, Earl of Somerset, the dispute being about a
jewelled sword, valued at between g400 and As00
by the Earl, but at A890 by the executors.
Heriot had furnished jewels to Charles I. when
the latter went to Spain in 1623, and whenhe ascended
the throne, his debt for these, due to Heriot,
was paid to the trustees in part of the purchasemoney
of the Barony of Broughton, the crown
lands in the vicinity of the city.
The account settled between Sir John Hay and
the Governm of the Hospital, 12th of May, 1647,
and afterwards approved by a decree of the Court
of Session, after deducting legacies, bad debts, and
compositions for debts resting by the Crown,
amounted to A23,625 10s. 34d. sterling (Amot),
and on the 1st July, 1628, the governors began to
rear the magnificent hospital on the then open
ridge of the High Riggs; but the progress of the
work was interrupted by the troubles of subsequent
years.
Who designed Heriot?s Hospital has been more
than once a vexed question, and though the edifice
is of a date so recent, this is one of the many architectural
mysteries of Europe. Among other fallacies, a
popular one is that the architect was Inigo Jones,
but for this assertion there is not the faintest
shadow of proof, as his name does not appear in any
single document or record connected with Heriot?s
Hospital, though the names of several ?? Master
Masoq? are commemorated in connection with
the progess of the work, and the house contains a
portrait of William Aytoun, master mason, engraved
in Constable?s memoir of Heriot, published in 1822,
8
a cadet of the house of Inchdairnie in Fifes!
iire.
When the edifice was first founded the master cf
works was William Wallace, who had under him
an overseer. 0; foreman named Andrew Donaldson,
who, says Billings, seems to have been in reality
the master mason, while William Wallace was the
architect.
On his death the Governors recorded their high
sense of ?his extraordinay panes and grait a i r he
had in that wark baith by his advyce, and in the
building of the same.? , l h e contract made in the
year 1632, with William Aytoun, his successor, has
been preserved ; and it appears to bc just the sort
of agreement that would be made with an architect
in the present day, whose duty it was to follow
up, wholly or in part, the plans of his predecessar.
?lhs, Aytoun became bound (? to devyse, plott, and
sett down what he sal1 think meittest for the decornient
of the said wark ?and pattern thereof
alreddie begun, when any defect is found; and
to make with his awin handis the haill mowlds,
alsweil of tymber, as of stane, belanging generally
to the said wark, and generally the said William
Aytoun binds and obliges him to do all and quhatsumevir
umquihle William Wallace, last Maister
Maissone at the said wark, aither did or intended
to be done at the same.?
The arrangements for the erection of the building
were onginally conducted by a Dr. Balcanquall, a
native of the city, one of the executors under
Heriot?s last will, and who drew up the statutes.
He had been a chaplain to James VI., and Master
of the Savoy in the Strand. The edifice progressed
till 1639, when there was a stoppage from want uf
funds ; the tenants of the lands in which the property
of the institution was vested being unable to
pay their rents amid the tumult of the civil war. In
the records, however, of the payments made about
this period, we find the following extraordinary
items :-
aut Murch.-?I?o ye 6wemen yt drew ye cairt xxviijs
wit ye chainyeis to zame vii lib. ijs.
iiij lib iiijs. ond yair handis
in ye cairt xijs.
For 6 shakellis to ye wemeinis hands,
Mair for 14 lokis for yair waists
For ane qwhip for ye gentlwemen
What species of ?gentlwemen? they were who
were thus shackled, chained, whipped, and harnessed
to a cart, it is difficult to conceive.
In 1642 the work was recommenced in March,
and there is an instruction that the two front
towers be plat-formed, with ane bartisane about
ilk ane .of them.? -4nd in July, 1649, ? George ... AND NEW EDINBUKGH. [Heriot?s Hospital. 366 with the idea of founding an institution in his native city, ...

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Fanester?s Wynd.] THE ?MIRROR? CLUB. rzr
i ?The Diurnal of Occurrents? records, that in
1566, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin, Dean of
Restalrig, and Lord President of the College of
Justice, died in Forrester?s Wynd, in the house of
James Mossman, probably the same man who was a
goldsmith in Edinburgh at that time, and whose
father, also Jarnes Mossrnan, enclosed with the
present four arches the crown of Scotland, by
order of James V., when Henry VIII. closed
the crown of England. In consequence of the
houses being set on fire by the *Castle guns under
Kirkaldy, in 1572, it was ordered that all the
thatched houses between Beith?s J7ynd and St.
Giles?s should be unroofed, and that all stacks of
heather should be carried away from the streets
Fleshmarket Close ; but oftener, perhaps, in Lucky
Dunbar?s, a house situated in an alley that led
between Liberton?s Wynd and that of Forrester?s
Wynd. This Club commenced its publication of
the Mirror in January, 1729, and terminated it in
May, 1780. It was a folio sheet, published weekly
at three-halfpence. The *Lounger, to which Lord
Craig contributed largely, was commenced, by the
staff of the Mirror, on the 6th ot February, 1785,
and continued weekly till the 6th of January, 1787.
paid to their morals, behaviour, and every branch
of education.?
In this quarter Turk?s Close, Carthrae?s, Forrester?s,
and Beith?s Wynds, all stood on the slope
between Liberton?s Wynd and St. Giles?s Church ;
but every stone of these had been swept away many
years before the great breach made by the new
bridge was projected. Forrester?s Wynd occurs so
often in local annals that it must have been a place
of some consideration.
JOHN DOWIE?S TAVERN. (Fs~m fk Engraving in How?$ YearBwk.?)
Among the members of this literary Club were Mr.
Alexander Abercrombie, afterwards Lord Abercrombie
; Lord Bannatyne ; Mr. George Home,
Clerk of Session ; Gordon of Newhall ; and a Mr.
George Ogilvie ; among their correspondents were
Lord Hailes, Mr. Baron Hurne, Dr. Beattie, and
many other eminent literary men of the time ; but
of the IOI papers of the Lounger, fifty-seven are
the production of Henry Mackenzie, including his
general review of Burns?s poems, already referred to.
In Liberton?s Wynd, we find from the Ediduygh
Advertiser of 1783, that the Misses Preston,
daughters of the late minister of Narkinch, had a
boarding school for young ladies, whose parents
?may depend that the greatest attention will be
18 ... Wynd.] THE ?MIRROR? CLUB. rzr i ?The Diurnal of Occurrents? records, that in 1566, John Sinclair, ...

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84 QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH.
the year 1636, when it was disjoined and erected into a parish and royal
burgh. The reasons which led to this we have not been able to learn ; but
no doubt they were quite satisfactory to the movers in the matter of that day.
As a regality its magistracy consists of a provost, a land bailie, two sea bailies,
a dean of guild, and a towncouncil. How these worthies demeaned themselves
in their ‘sage devisings for the public weal’ in days long gone by is
very amusing, as the burgh records relate ; but hardly less so than their more
distant successors, especially on the occasion of the election of a parishminister
or parliamentary representative. It is but a year or two since this
little sea-side town bulked very largely in the‘ public eye in these respects ; and
really, the way in which ‘those then in authority’ conducted themselves on
both occasions was ludicrously picturesque. We remember reading the
reports of their sayings and doings at the period, as given in the journals,
with the intensest zest-the Scotsman and the Dati‘y Revkw, for the time
being, actually taking the place of Punch and Fun, and affording almost as
great an amount of real hearty, laughable enjoyment. Not that we thought
meanly of the little burgh then, 01‘ wouId speak depreciatingly of it now : we
merely felt how absurdly funny it was that ‘honest folks,’ as a douce towncouncil,
should so entirely lose their heads, and break with common sense,
as to make themselves the 4pl dif of the nation in that very unenviable sense
of the phrase. -
The surroundings of this breezy little seaside town are very interesting.
A little to the west is a place called the Binks, rendered historical by the
landing of Edgar Atheling,. with his mother Agatha, and his sisters Margaret
and Christina, when driven forth by Norman conquest from home and
country ; Port Edgar, farther westward still, is hardly less memorable from
the twofold circumstance, of being the rock on which the same Saxon prince
landed a year after,-when again driven to seek safety in flight from the highhandedness
of dynastic usurpation, and the place selected, a few centuries
later, for the embarkation of his Majesty George IY., on his return, from his
visit to Scotland, into England ; then on the right again, and nearly half-way
to the other ferry, stands ‘ old Garvey’s castled cliff,’ abruptly lifting its huge
black back from the waters of the Firth, and threatening ‘ with its teethed
embrasures every daring foe,’ a bold and picturesque object; while on the
opposite shore, and within tidal mark, as sung by Cririe-
-
Rosyth
Lifts high her towering head, in ruins now,
Of noble Stuarts once the fortress strong,’ ... QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH. the year 1636, when it was disjoined and erected into a parish and royal burgh. ...

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448 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Grant was called away from Edinburgh to a charge, we believe, in
‘Westmoreland. From that period he constantly resided in England, where he
died in December 1837, at an advanced age. In the obituary of the Church of
England Magazine he is described as “ the Rev. J. F. Grant, Rector of Wrabness,
Essex, and Morston, Sussex.”
Mr. Grant married, in 1795, Miss Anne Oughterson, youngest daughter of
the Rev. Arthur Oughterson, minister of Wester Kilbride. She was a beautiful
woman ; and the union, though not approved of by his friends, is understood to
have been one of peculiar happiness to both parties. They had several children,
some of whom still survive. While in Edinburgh hlr. Grant resided in
Broughton Street.
No. CCCXXII.
THE CRAFT IN DANGER.
THIS Print affords a partial view of the Old College of Edinburgh and its
entrance. The skeleton of the elephant was prepared by Sir George Ballingall
while serving as assistant-surgeon with the second battalion of the Royals in
India ; was subsequently presented by him to his old master, Dr. Barclay ; and
ultimately bequeathed by the Doctor, along with the rest of his collection, to
the Royal College of Surgeons, in whose valuable Museum it forms a conspicuous
object.
The Plate refers to the proposed institution of a Professorship of Comparative
Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, in 1817, for which DR. BARCLAY
was at the time considered to be an eligible candidate. He is represented as
riding in at the College gate on the skeleton of the elephant, supported by the
late DR. GREGORYa, nd welcomed by his friend, the late RVBERTJ OHNSTON,
Esq., who were supposed to be favourable to the proposed Professorship, and to
Dr. Barclay’s pretensions to the Chair. He is opposed by DR. HOPE, who fixes
his anchor in the strontian, and resists the entrance of the elephant by means
of the cable passed round his forelegs. He is also opposed with characteristic
weapons, by DR. MONROa nd PROFESSJOARM ESOoNn, whose respective departments
the intended Professorship was supposed to be an encroachment.
JOHN BARCLAY, M.D., long known as an eminent lecturer on anatomy
in this city, was the son of a respectable farmer in Perthshire, and nephew of
John Barclay, the Berean. He was born at Cairn, near Drummaquhance, in
that county, about the year 1760. After acquiring the rudiments of education
at the parish school of Muthill, he studied with a view to the ministry at the
qniversity of St. Andrews, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Mr. Grant was called away from Edinburgh to a charge, we believe, in ‘Westmoreland. ...

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