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Hawthornden. 1 THE CAVERNS. 355 Druminond wrote most of his works in Hawthornden. In the year 1643 he met accidentally Elizabeth Logan, daughter of Sir Robert Logan of Restalng, who so closely resembled the girl he had loved and mourned so deeply, that he paid his addresses to and married her, When the civil war broke out Drummond espoused the cause of the king, not in the field with the sword, but in the closet with his pen. He was constantly exposed, in consequence, to hostility and annoyance from the Presbyterian party. On leaving the house visitors are conducted round the precipitous face of the rock on which it stands, by a mere ledge, to a species of cavern. There are seen an old table and seat. It was the poet?s favourite resort, and in it he composed him Cypress Grove,? after recovering from a danger. ous illness. No place could be better adapted foi poetic reveries. ? In calm weather the sighing oi the wind along the chasm, the murmur of the stream, the music of the birds around, above, beneath, and the uttqr absence of an intimation ol the busy world, must have often evoked the poet?: melancholy, and brought him back the delightful hopes that thrilled his youthful heart. There werz other times and seasons when it must indeed haw been awful to have sat in that dark and desolatt cavern: when a storm was rushing through tht glen, when the forked lightning was revealing it! shaggy depths, and when the thunder seemed tc shake the cliff itself with its reverberations.? Drummond was the first Scottish poet who wrotc in pure English ; his resemblance to Milton, whon he preceded, has often been remarked. Thc chivalrous loyalty that filled his heart and inspire( his muse received a mortal shock by the death o Charles I., and on the 4th of December, 1649, hi died where he was born, and where he had spen the most of his life, in his beautiful house of Haw thornden, and was buried in the sequestered ant Iree-shaded churchyard of Lasswade, on the soutl slope of the brae, and within sound of the murmu of his native Esk. An edition of his poems was printed in 165t 8vo ; another appeared at London in 1791 ; whil since then others have been published, notabl that under the editorship of Peter Cunninghau London, 1833, An edition of all his works, undc the superintendence of Ruddiman, was brougk out at Edinburgh in folio in 17 I I. Over the door of the modem house, which j defended by three loopholes for musketry, and is th only way by which the edifice can be approachec are the arms of the Right Reverend Williar Lbernethy, titular Bishop of Edinburgh ; and near hem is a panel with an inscription, placed there by the poet when he repaired his dwelling. ??DIVINO MUNERE GULIELYUS DRVYYONDUS JOHANNIS URATI FILIUS Ur HONESTO OTIO QUIESCERET SIB1 ET UCCESSORIBUS INSTAURAVIT, ANNO 1638.? In the house is preserved a table with a marble lab, dated 1396, and bearing the initials of King tobert 111. thereon, with those of Queen Anna- ,ells Drummond, and on it lies a two-handed word of Robert Bruce, which is five feet two nches in length, with quadruple guard which neasures eleven inches from point to point. There s also a clock, which is said to have been in the amily since his time; there are a pair of shoes md a silk dress that belonged to Queen Anna- Iella; the long cane of the Duchess of Lauderlale, so famous for her diamonds and her furious emper; and a dress worn by Prince Charles in 1745. Below the house are the great caverns for which 3awthomden is so famous. They are artificial, md have been hollowed out of the rock With xodigious labour, and all communicate with each ither by long passages, and possess access to a vel1 of vast depth, bored from the courtyard of he mansion. These caverns are reported by radition and believed by Dr. Stukeley to have xen a stronghold of the Pictish kings, and in three nstances they bear the appropriate names of the King?s Gallery, the King?s Bedchamber, and the Suard-room ; but they seem simply to have been hewn out of the solid rock, no one can tell when x by whom. They served, however, as ample and secret places of refuge and resort during the destructive wars between Scotland and England, especially when the troops of the latter were in possession of Edinburgh ; and, like the adjacent caves of Gorton, they gave shelter to the patriotic bands of Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie and the Black Knight of Liddesdale, and, by tradition, to Robert Bruce, as a ballad has it :- ?Here, too, are labyrinthine paths To caverns dark and low, Found refuge from the foe.? Wherein, they say, King Robert Bruce The profusion of beautiful wood in the opulent landscape around Hawthornden suggested to Peter Pindar his caustic remark respecting Dr. Johnson, that he ?Went to Hawthornden?s fair scenes by night, Lest e?er a Scottish tree should wound his sight.? Half a niile up the Esk is Wallace?s Cave-so called by tradition, and capable of holding seventy ... 1 THE CAVERNS. 355 Druminond wrote most of his works in Hawthornden. In the year 1643 he met ...

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High Street.] ST. MARY?S CHA4PEL. 247 made out by Latinising his name into Nz?choZaus Ea?wfirtus. It occupied the western side of Lockhart?s Court, and was accessible only by a deep archway. In an Act passed in 158r, ?<Anent the Cuinzie,? Alexander Clark of Balbirnie, Provost of Edinburgh, and Nicol Edward, whose houses were both in this wynd, are mentioned with others. The latter appears in 1585 in the Parliament as Commissary for Edinburgh, together with Michael Gilbert; and in 1587 he appears again in an Act of Parliament in favour of the Flemish craftsmen, whom James VI. was desirous of encouraging ; but, !est they should produce inferior work at Scottish prices, his Majesty, with the advice of Council, hes appointit, constitute, and ordainit, ane honest and discreit man, Nicolas Uduart, burgess of Edinburgh, to be visitor and overseer of the said craftsmen?s hail warks, steiks, and pieces . . . the said Nicolas sal have sic dueties as is contenit within the buke, as is commonly usit to be payit therfore in Flanderis, Holland, or Ingland ; I? in virtue of all of which Nicholas was freed froin all watching, warding, and all charges and impositions. In that court dwelt, in 17534761, George Lockhart of Carnwath One of the thirteen roonis in his house contained a mantelpiece of singular magnificence, that reached the lofty ceiling; but the house had a peculiar accessory, in the shape of (? a profound dungeon, which was only accessible by a secret trapdoor, opening through the floor of a small closet, the most remote of a suite of rooms extending along the south and west sides of the court. Perhaps at a time when to be rich was neither so common nor so safe as now, Provost Edward might conceal his hoards in this massy more.? The north side of Lockhart?s Court was long occupied by the family of Bruce of Kinnaird, the celebrated traveller. In Niddry?s Wynd, a little below Provost Edward?s house on the opposite side, stood St. Mary?s Chapel, dedicated to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to Arnot, in 1505. Its foundress was Elizabeth, daughter of James, Lord Livingstone, Great Chamberlain of Scotland, and Countess of Ross-then widow of John Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles, who, undeterred by the miserable fate of his father, drew on him, by his treasonable practices, the just vengeance of James III., and died in 1498. Colville of Easter U?emyss, and afterwards Richardson of Smeaton, became proprietors and patrons of this religious foundation ; and about the year 1600, James Chaliners, a macer before the Court of Session, acquired a right to the chapel, and in 1618 the Corporations of Wrights and Masons, known by the name of the United Incorporations of Mary?s Chapel, purchased this subject, ?where they still possess, and where they hold meetings,? says Arnot, writing in 1779. In the CaZedonian Mercury for 1736 we read that on St. Andrew?s Day the masters and wardens of forty masonic lodges met in St. Mary?s Chapel, and unanimously elected as their grand-master William Sinclair of Roslin, the representative of an ancient though reduced family, connected for several generations with Scottish freemasonry. For this ancient chapel a modern edifice was substituted, long before the demolition of Niddry?s Wynd; but the masonic lodge of Mary?s Chapel still exists, and we believe holds its meetings there. Religious services were last conducted in the new edifice when Viscountess Glenorchy hired it. She was zealous in the cause of religion, and conceived a plan of having a place of worship in which ministers of every orthodox denomination might preach; and for this purpose she had St. Mary?s Chapel opened on Wednesday, the 7th March, 1770, by the Rev. Mr. Middleton, the minister of a small Episcopal chapel at Dalkeith ; but she failed to secure the ministrations of any clergyman of the Established Church, though in 1779 the Rev. William Logan, of South Leith, a poet of some eminence in his time, gave his course of lectures on the philosophy of history in the chapel, prior to offering himself as a candidate for the chair of civil history in the University. On the east side of Niddry?s Wynd, nearly opp0- site to Lockhart?s Court, was a handsome house, which early in the eighteenth century was inhabited by the Hon. James Erskine, a senator, better known by his legal and territorial appellation of Lord Grange, brother of John Earl of Mar, who led? the great rising in 1715 on behalf of the Stuarts. He was born in 1679, and was called to the Scottish bar in 1705. He took no share in the Jacobite enterprise which led to the forfeiture of his brother, and the loss, ultimately of the last remains of the once great inheritance in the north from which the ancient family took its name. He affected to be a zealous Presbyterian and adherent of the House of Hanover, and as such he figures prominently in the ?? Diary? of the indus . trious \ffodrow, supplying that writer with many shreds of the Court gossip, which he loved so dearly ; but Lord Grange is chiefly remembered for the romantic story of his wife, which has long filled ... Street.] ST. MARY?S CHA4PEL. 247 made out by Latinising his name into Nz?choZaus Ea?wfirtus. It occupied the ...

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New Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5 Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that I descended into the deep hollow, where Bell?s Mills lie, and by Broughton Loan at the other end of the northern ridge. Bearford?s Parks on the west, and Wood?s Farm on the east, formed the bulk of this portion of the site; St. George?s Church is now in the centre of the former, and Wemyss Place of the latter. The hamlet and manor house of Moultray?s Hill arc now occupied by the Register House; and where the Royal Bank stands was a cottage called ?Peace and Plenty,? from its signboard near Gabriel?s Road, ? where ambulative citizens regaled themselves with curds and cream,?? and Broughton was deemed so far afield that people went there for the summer months under the belief that they were some distance from ?town, just as people used to go to Powburn and Tipperlinn fifty years later. Henry Mackenzie, author of ?The Man of Feeling,? who died in 1831, remembered shooting snipes, hares, and partridges upon Wood?s Farm. The latter was a tract of ground extending frGm Canon Mills on the north, to Bearford?s Parks on the south, and was long in possession of Mr. Wood, of Warriston, and in the house thereon, his son, the famous ?Lang Sandy Wood,? was born in 1725. It stood on the area between where Queen Street and Heriot Row are now, and ?many still alive,? says Chambers, writing in 1824, ?remember of the fields bearing as fair and rich a crop of wheat as they may now be said to bear houses. Game used to be plentiful upon these groundsin particular partridges and hares . . . . . Woodcocks and snipe were to be had in all the damp and low-lying situations, such as the Well-house Tower, the Hunter?s Bog, and the borders of Canon Mills Loch. Wild ducks were frequently shot in the meadows, where in winter they are sometimes yet to be found. Bruntsfield Links, and the ground towards the Braid Hills abounded in hares.? In the list of Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, Alexander Wood and his brother Thomas are recorded, under date 1756 and 1715 respectively, as the sons of ?Thomas Wood, farmer on the north side of Edinburgh, Stockbridge Road,? now called Church Lane. A tradition exists, that about 1730 the magistrates offered to a residenter in Canon Mills all the ground between Gabriel?s Road and the Gallowlee, in perpetual fee, at the annual rent of a crown bowl of punch; but so worthless was the land then, producing only whim and heather, that the offer was rejected. (L? Old Houses in Edinburgh.?) The land referred to is now worth more than A15,ooo per annum. . Prior to the commencement of the new town, the only other edifices. on the site were the Kirkbraehead House, Drumsheugh House, near the old Ferry Road, and the Manor House of Coates. Drumsheugh House, of which nothing now remains but its ancient rookery in Randolph Crescent, was removed recently. Therein the famous Chevaliei Johnstone, Assistant A.D.C. to Prince Charles; was concealed for a time by Lady Jane Douglas, after the battle of Culloden, till he escaped to England, in the disguise of a pedlar. Alexander Lord Colville of Culross, a distinguished Admiral of the White, resided there s u b sequently. He served at Carthagena in 1741, at Quebec and Louisbourg in the days of Wolfe, and died at Drumsheugh on the zIst of May, 1770. His widow, Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of Alexander Earl of Kellie, resided there for some years after, together with her brother, the Honourable Andrew Erskine, an officer of the old 71st, disbanded in 1763, an eccentric character, who figures among Kay?s Portraits, and who in 1793 was drowned in the Forth, opposite Caroline Park. Lady Colville died at Drumsheugh in the following year, when the house and lands thereof reverted to her brother-in-law, John Lord Colville of Culross. And so lately as 1811 the mansion was occupied by James Erskine, Esq.,. of Cambus. Southward of Drumsheugh lay Bearford?s Parks,. mentioned as ? Terras de Barfurd ? in an Act in. favour of Lord Newbattle in 1587, named from Hepburn of Bearford in Haddingtonshire. In 1767 the Earl of Morton proposed to have a wooden bridge thrown across the North Loch from these parks to the foot of Warriston?s Close, but the magistrates objected, on the plea that the property at the dose foot was worth A20,ooo. The proposed bridge was to be on a line with ?the highest level ground of Robertson?s and Wood?s Farms.? In the Edinburgh Adnediser for 1783 the magistrates announced that Hallow Fair was to be ?held in the Middle Bearford?s Park.? Lord Fountainhall, under dates 1693 and 1695, records a dispute between Robert Hepburn of Bearford and the administrators of Heriot?s hospital, concerning ?the mortified annual rents acclaimed out of his tenement in Edinburgh, called the Black Turnpike,? and again in 1710, of an action he raised against the Duchess of Buccleuch, in which Sir Robert Hepburn of Bearford, in I 633, is referred to, all probably of the same family. The lands and houses of Easter and Wester ... Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5 Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that I descended into the deep hollow, ...

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358 OLD -4KD NEW EDINBURGH. ELauristollr - _ .. . . . whom were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl 01 Stair, and Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, of Pollock and Keir, with an acting committee, at the head of whom were the Lord Provost, the Principal, Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., and Professor Sir Robert Christison, Bart., D.C.L. The project was started in 1874, and commenced fairly in 1878. The architect was Mr. R. Rowand Anderson, and the cost of the whole, when finished, was estimated at about ,t;250,000. The first portion erected was the southern block, comprising the departments of anatomy, surgery, practice of physic, physiology, pathology, midwifery, and a portion of the chemistry. The frontage to the Meadow Walk presents a bold and semicircular bay, occupied by the pathology and midwifery department. An agreeable variety, ,but general harmony of style, characterises the buildings as a whole, and this arose from the architect adhering strictly to sound principle, in studying first his interior accommodation, and then allowing it to express itself in the external elevations. The square block at the sjouthem end of the Meadow Walk, near the entrance to George Square, is chiefly for the department of physiology ; whilst the south front is to a large extent occupied by anatomy. . The hall for the study of practical anatomy is lighted by windows in the roof and an inner court facing to the north, a southern light being deemed unnecessary or undesirable. The blank wall thus left on the south forms an effective foil to the pillared windows of the physiology class-room, at one end, and to some suitable openings, similarly treated, which serve to light hat and coat rooms, &c., at the other. In the eastern frontage to Park Place, where the departments of anatomy, physic, and surgery, are 'placed, a prominent feature in the design is produced by the exigencies of internal accommodation. As it was deemed unnecessary in the central part of the edifice to carry the groundfloor so far forward as the one immediately above, the projecting portion of the latter is supported by massive stone trusses, or brackets, which produce a series of deep shadows with a bold and picturesque effect. The inner court is separated from the chief quadrangle of the building by a noble hall upwards of IOO feet long, for the accommodation of the University anatomical museum. It has two tiers of galleries, and is approached by a handsome vestibule with roof groined in stone, and supported by pillars of red sandstone. The quadrangle is closed in to the west, north, and east, by extensive rmges of apartments for the accommodation of chemistry, materia medica, and medical jurisprudence. The north front faces Teviot Row, and in it is the chief entrance to the quadrangle by a massive gateway, which forms one of the leading architectural features of the design. When the building devoted to educational purposes shall have been completed, there will only remain to be built the great college hall and campanile, which are to complete the east face of the design. Including the grant of &3o,ooo obtained from Government, the whole amount at the disposal of the building committee is about &18o,ooo. For the erection of the hall and tower a further sum of about &5o,ooo or ~60,000 is supposed to be necessary. The new Royal Infirmary, on the western side Ff the Meadow Walk, occupies the grounds of George \.Vatson's Hospital, and is engrafted on that edifice. The latter was bnilt in what was then a spacious field, lying southward of the city wall. The founder, who was born in 1650, the year of Cromwell's ipvasion, was descended from a family which for some generations had been merchants in Edinburgh; but, by the death of his father, John Watson, and the second marriage of his mother, George and his brother were left to the care of destiny. A paternal aunt, Elizabeth Watson, or Davidson, however, provided for their maintenance and education ; but George being her favourite, she bound him as an apprentice to a merchant in the city, and after visiting Holland to improve his knowledge of business, she gave him a small sum wherewith to start on his own account. He returned to Scotland, in the year 1676, when he entered the service of Sir James Dick, knight, and merchant of Edinburgh, as his clerk or book-keeper, who some time after allowed him to transact, in a mercantile way, certain affairs in the course of exchange between Edinburgh and London on his own. behalf. In 1695 he became accountant to the Bank of Scotland, and died in April, 1723, and by his will bequeathed ;~;IZ,OOO to endow a hospital for the maintenance and instruction of the male children and grandchildren of decayed merchants in Edinburgh ; and by the statutes of trustees, a preference was given to the sons and grandsons of members of the Edinburgh Merchant Company. The money left by the prudent management of the governors was improved to about &20,000 sterling befort they began the erection of the hospital in 1738, in a field of seven acres belonging to Heriot's Trust. George Watson, in gratitude for the benefits conferred upon him in his friendless boyhood by his ... OLD -4KD NEW EDINBURGH. ELauristollr - _ .. . . . whom were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl 01 Stair, and ...

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*lEe %we.] THE LORDS ROSS. 339 long, from where the north-east end of Teviot Row was latterly. There were the stable offices; in front of the house was a tree of great size, while its spacious garden was bordered by Bristo Street. When offered for sale, in March, 1761, it was described in a newspaper of the period as ?ROSS House, with the fields and gardens lying around it, consisting of about twenty-fou acres, divided as follows : About an acre and a half in a field and court about the house; seventeen acres in one field lying to the south-west, between it and Hope Park j the rest into kitchen-gardens, running along Bristo Street and the back of the wall. The house consists of dining, drawing, and dressing rooms, six bed-chambers, several closets and garrets; in the ground storey, kitchen, larder, pantry, milkhouse, laundry, cellars, and accommodation for servants, &c? This house, which was latterly used as a lying-in hospital, was occupied for some time prior to 1753 by George Lockhart of Carnwath, during whose time it was the scene of many a gay rout, ball, and ridotto ; but it was, when the family were in Edinburgh, the permanent residence of the Lords Ross of Halkhead, a family of great antiquity, dating back to the days of King Willmm the Lion, 1165. In this house died, in June, 2754, in the seventy third year of his age, George, twelfth Lord ROSS, Commissioner of the Customs, whose body wa taken for interment to Renfrew, the burial-place 01 the family. His chief seats were Halkhead and Melville Castle, He was succeeded by his son, the Master of Ross, who waa the last lord of that ilk, and who died in his thirty-fourth year, unmarried, at Mount Teviof the seat of his uncle, the Marquis of Lothian, in the following August, and was alsa taken to Renfrew for purposes of interment. His sister Elizabeth became Countess of Glas gow, and eventually his heiress, and through he1 the Earls of Glasgow are also Lords Ross of Halkhead, by creation in 1815. Another sister was one of the last persons in Scotland supposed to be possessed of an evil spirit-Mary, who died unmarried. A correspondent of Robert Chambers states as follows:- ??A person alive in 1824 told me that, when a child, he saw her clamber up to the top of an oldfashioned four-post bed. In her fits it was impossible to hold her.? At the time-Ross House was offered for sale the city was almost entirely confined within the Flodden Wall, the suburbs being of small extent- Nicolson Street and Square, Chapel Street, the southern portion of Bristo Street, Crichton Street, - . Buccleuch Street, and St. Patrick Square; though some mere projected, the sites were nearly alI fields and orchards. The old Statistical Account says that Ross Park was purchased for ;GI,ZOO, and that the ground-rents of the square yield now (i.e., in 1793) above LI,OOO sterling per annum to the proprietor. James Brown, architect, who built Brown Square, having feued from the city of Edinburgh the lands of Ross Park, built thereon most of the houses of the h?ew Square, which measures 220 yards by 150, and is said to have named it, not for the king, but Brown?s elder brother George, who was the Laud of Lindsaylands and Elliestown. It speedily became a more popular place of residence than Brown Square, being farther from town, and possessing houses that were greatly superior in style and accommodation. Among the early residents in the square in 1784, and prior to that year, were the Countesses of Glasgow and Sutherland, the Ladies Rae and Philiphaugh, Antliony, Earl of Kintore, eighth Lord Falconer of Halkertoun, Sir John Ross Lockhart, and the Lords Braxheld, Stonefield, and Kennet; and in 1788, Major-General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, who died of his wounds in Egypt It has been recorded as an instance of Lord Braxfield?g great nerve that during the great political trials in 1793-4, when men?s blood was almost at fever heat, after each day?s proceedings closed, usually about midnight, he always walked home, alone and unprotected, through the dark or illlighted streets, to his house in George Square, though he constantly commented openly upon the conduct of the Radicals, and more than once announced in public that ?? They wad a? be muckle the better 0? bein? hung ! Here, too, resided in 1784 the Hon. Henry Erskine (brother of the Earl of Buchan), the witty advocate, who, after being presented to Dr. Johnson by Mr. Boswell, and having made his bow in the Parliament House, slipped a shilling into Boswell?s hand, whispering that it was for the sight of his English bear. To those named, Lord Cockburn, in his ?Memorials,? adds the Duchess of Gordon, Robert Dundas of Amiston, Lord Chief Baron of Exchequer, the hero of Camperdown, Lord President Blair, Dr. John Jamieson, the Scottish lexicographer, and says, ?a host of other distinguished people all resided here. The old square, with its pleasant trim-kept gardens, has still an air of antiquated grandeur about it, and retains not a few traces of its former dignity and seclusion.? Aniong the documents exhibited at the Scott ... %we.] THE LORDS ROSS. 339 long, from where the north-east end of Teviot Row was latterly. There were the ...

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Lauriston.] JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON. 111 tisement announces, ? that there was this day lodged in the High Council House, an old silver snuff-box, which was found upon the highway leading from Muttonhole to Cramond Bridge in the month of July last. Whoever can prove the property will get the box,.upon paying the expense incurred; and that if this is not done betwixt this and the roth of November next, the same will be sold for payment thereof.? . In the time of King David 11. a charter was given t9 John Tennand of the lands of Lauriston, with forty creels of peats in Cramond, in the county of Edinburgh, paying thirty-three shillings and fourpence to the Crown, and the same sum sterling to the Bishop of Dunkeld. The present Castle of Lauriston-which consisted, before it was embellished by the late Lord Rutherford, of a simple square three-storeyed tower, with two corbelled turrets, a remarkably large chimney, and some gableted windows-was built by Sir Archibald Kapier of Merchiston and Edenbellie, father of the philosopher, who, some years before his death, obtained a charter of the lands and meadow, called the King?s Meadow, 1?587-8 and of half the lands of ?& Lauranstoun,? 16th November, 1593. On two of the windows there yet remain his initials, S. A N., and those of his wife, D. E. M., Dame Elizabeth Mowbray, daughter of Mowbray of Banibougle, now called Dalmeny Park. Tie tower gave the title of Lord Launston to their son, Sir Alexander Napier, who became a Lord of Session in 1626. Towards the close of the same century the tower and estate became the property of Law, a wealthy gddsmith of Edinburgh, descended from the Laws of Lithrie, in Fifeshire ; and in the tower, it is said, his son John, the great financier, was born in April, 1671. There, too, the sister of the latter, Agnes, was married in 1685 to John Hamilton, Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, where she died in 1750. On his father?s death Law succeeded to Lauriston, but as he had been bred to no profession, and exhibited chiefly a great aptitude for calculation, he took to gambling. This led him into extravagances. He became deeply involved, but his mother paid his debts and obtained possession of the estate, which she immediately entailed. Tall, handsome, and addicted to gallantry, he became familiarly known as Beau Law in London, where he slew a young man named Wilson in a duel, and was found guilty of murder, but was pardoned by the Crown. An appeal being made against this pardon, he escaped from the King?s Bench, reached France, and through Holland returned to Scotland (Robertson?s Index.) in 1700, and in the following year published at Glasgow his ? Proposals and Reasons for Constituting a Council of Trade in Scotland.? He now went to France, where he obtained an introduction to the Duke of Orleans, and offered his banking scheme to the hfinister of Finance, who deemed it so dangerous that he served him with a police notice to quit Paris in twenty-four hours. Visiting Italy, he was in the same summary manner banished from Venice and Genoa as a daring adventurer. His success at play was always great; thus, when he returned to Pans during the Regency of Orleans, he was in the possession of &IOO,OOO sterling. On securing the patronage of the Regent, he received letters patent which, on the 2nd March, I 7 16, established his bank, with a capital of 1,200 shares of 500 livres each, which soon bore a premium. To this bank was annexed the famous Mississippi scheme, which was invested with the full sovereignty of Louisiana for planting co1onie.s and extending commerce-the grandest and most comprehensive scheme ever conceived-and rumour went that gold mines had been discovered of fabulous and mysterious value. The sanguine anticipations seemed to be realised, and for a time prosperity and wealth began to pre vail in France, where John Law was regarded as its good genius and deliverer from poverty. The house of Law in the Rue Quinquempoix, in Pans, was beset day and night by applicants, who blocked up the streets-peers, prelates, citizens, and artisans, even ladies of rank, all flocked to that temple of Plutus, till he was compelled to transfer his residence to the Place VendBme. Here again the prince of stockjobbers found himself overwhelmed by fresh multitudes clamouring for allotments, and having to shift his quarters once more, he purchased from the Prince de Carignan, at an enormous price, the HBtel de Soissons, in the spacious gardens of which he held his levees. It is related of him, that when in the zenith of his fame and wealth he was visited by John the ?great Euke of Argyle,? the latter found him busy writing. The duke never doubted but that the financier was engaged on some matter of the highest importance, as crowds of the first people of France were waiting impatiently an audience in the suites of ante-rooms, and the duke had to wait too, until &It. Law had finished his letter, which was merely one to his gardener at Lauriston regarding the planting of cabbages at a particular spot ! In 1720 he was made Comptroller-General ot the Finances, but the crash came at last. The amount of notes issued by Law?s bank more ? ... JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON. 111 tisement announces, ? that there was this day lodged in the High Council ...

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378 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Duddingston. were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Errol, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of Roden, Lord Elcho, Couqt Piper, Sir John Stuart, Sir William Forbes, Admiral Purves, Sir James Hall, the Countesses of Errol and Dalhousie, Lady Charlotte Campbell (the famous beauty), Lady Elizabeth Rawdon, M y Helen Hall, Lady Stuart, Lady Fettes, Admiral Vashon (who conquered the Jygate pirates), and a great number of naval and military gentlemen, most of the judges, &c. The saloon was brilliantly fitted up with festoons of flowers, and embellished with a naval pillar, on which were the names ol Howe, Duncan,?.% Yincent, and NeZsun. The dancing commenced at ten dclock, and was continued till two in the morning.? In this year the earl also had a residence in Queen Street (where Lady Charlotte Campbell also resided in Argyle House), but whether it was there or at Duddingston that his daughter, the celebrated Lady Flora Hastings, was born, there are now nc means of ascertaining, as no other record of he1 birth seems to remain but its simple announcemeni in the Scots Magazine: ?At Edinburgh, 11th March,. 1806, the Countess of Loudon and Moira of a daughter.? The story of this amiable and unfortunate lady, her poetical talent, and the inhumanity with which she was treated at Court, are toc well known to need more than mention here, On his appointment as Govemor-General? of India, in 1813, the earl, to the regret of all Scotland, bade farewell to it, and, as the song has it, tc ?( Loudon?s bonnie woods and braes,? whither he did not return till the summer of 1823 ; he was then seventy-one years of age, but still erect and soldierly in form, ?The marchioness is forty-six,? says the editor of the Free Press on this occasion, :?and seem: to have suffered little from the scorching climate. She has all the lady in her appearance-modest, dignified, kind, and affectionate. Lady Flora is a young lady of most amiable disposition, miid and attractive manners.? The earl died and was buried at Malta ; but Lady Flora lies beside her mother in the family vault at Loudon, where she was laid in 1839, in her thirty-third year. An edition of he1 poems, seventy in number, many of them full 01 touching pathos and sweetness, was published in 1842 by her sister, who says in her preface thal the profits of the volume would be dedicated ?? tc the service of God in the parish where her mother?s family have so long resided . . . . to aid in the erection of a school in the parish of Loudon, a an evidence of her gratitude to Almighty God and her good will to her fellow creatures.? Prior to the purchase of Sandringham, the estate of Duddingston, it is said, would have been pur. chased by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, but for some legal difficulties that were in the way. At the south-east end of Duddingston Loan, where the road turns off tqwards the Willow Brae and Parson?s Green,. stands, at the point of the eastern slope of Arthur?s Seat, Cauvin?s Hospital, the founder of which, Louis Cauvin (Chauvin or Calvin),was a teacher of French in Edinburgh, whose parents were Louis Cauvin and Margaret Edgar. ? It is not correctly ascertained,? says Kay?s editor, ?? on what account the father was induced to leave his native country and settle in the metropolis of Scotland. According to some accounts, he was forced to expatriate himself, in consequence of the fatal issue of a duel in which he had been implicated. According to others, he was brought over to Edinburgh as a witness in the ?Douglas Cause,? having seived in the capacity of a fcotman in the family of Lady Jane Douglas for a considerable time during her residence in Paris. A portrait of him in his youth, in military garb, is still preserved.? After teaching for a time, he became tenant of a small farm near the hamlet of Jock?s Lodge, where he died in 1778, and was buried in Restalrig. His son Louis, after being educated at the High School and the Universities of Edinburgh and of Paris, became a teacher of French in the former city, where he retired from work in 1818 with a handsome fortune, realised by his own exertions. Imitating his father, for twenty years before relinquishing his scholastic labours he rented a large farm in Duddingston, now named the Woodlands, and during his occupation of it he built, on the opposite side of the Loan, then, as now, wooded and bordered by hedges, the house of Louisfield, which forms the central portion of his hospital. He died in 1824, and was laid beside his father in Restalrig. By a codicil to his will, dated Duddingston Farm, 28th April, 1823, he thus arranges for his sepu1ture:-?My corpse isto bedeposited in Restalrig churchyard, and watched for a proper time. The door of the tomb must be taken off, and the space built up strongly with ashlar stones. The tomb must be shut forever,and never to be opened There is a piece of marble on the tomb door, which I put up in memory of my father ; all I wish is that there may be put below it an inscription mentioning the time of my death. I beg and expect that my trustees will order all that is written above to be put in execution.? The hospital he founded resembles a large and elegant villa, and was opened in 1833, for the maintenance of twenty boys, sons of teachers and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Duddingston. were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Errol, the Earl of Dalhousie, ...

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222 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. rLeith He adds that the most striking feature is the curiously decorated doorway, an ogee arch, filled in with rich Gothic tracery, surmounting a square lintel, finished with the head of a lion, which seems to hold the arch suspended in its mouth. ?On either side is a sculptured shield, on one of which a monogram is cut, characterised by the usual inexplicable ingenuity of these riddles, with the date 1631.? The other shield bears, 1st and 4th the lion rampant, 2nd and 3rd a ship, a smaller shield with a chevron, and a motto round the whole, Sic Pvit est Et erit. The monogram is distinctly the four initial fetters of John Stewart, Earl of Carrick. The arms, says Wilson, are neither those of Lord Balmerino, ?? nor of his ancestor, James Elphinstone (Lord Coupar), to whom the coroneted ?C? might be supposed to refer. The Earls of Crawford are also known to have had a house in Leith, but the arms in no degree correspond with those borne by any of these families.? On the 13th September, ~643, John, Earl of Carrick, sold the house and grounds to John, Lord Balmerino, whose family retained it as a residence till the attainder of the last peer in 1746. In 1650, during the defence of the city against Cromwell, Charles II., after being feasted in the Parliament House on the 29th of July, ?thairafter went down to Leith,? says Nicoll, in his ?Diary,? ? t o &e ludging belonging to the Lord Balmerinoch, appointit for his resait during his abyding in Leith.? Balfour records in his ?Annals ? that Anna Kerr, hdow of John, Lord Balmenno, second sister of Robert, Earl of Somerset, Viscount Rochester, ? deprted this lyffe at Leith,? on the 15th February, 1650, and was solemnly interred at Restalrig. The part borne in history by Arthur, sixth and last lord of this family, is inseparably connected with the adventures of Prince Charles Edward. He .was born in the year of the Revolution, and held a captain?s commission under Queen Anne in Vis- -count Shannon?s Foot, the 25th, or Regiment of Edinburgh, This he resigned to take up arms under the Earl of Mar, and fought at Sheriffmuir, after which he, entered the French service, wherein he remained till the death of his brother Alexander, who, as the Gentfernan?s Magazine records, expired at Leith in October, 1733. His father, anxious for his retum home, sent him a free pardon from Government when he was residing at Berne, in Switzerland, but he would not accept it until ? he had obtained the permission of James VIII. to do so ; ?? after which, the twenty years? exile returned, and was joyfiully received by his aged father. When Prince Charles landed in the memorable year, 1745, Arthur Elphinstone was among the first to join him, and was appointed colonel and captain of thc second troop of Life Guards, under Lord Elcho, attending his person. He was at the capture of Carlisle, the advance to and retreat from Derby, and was present with the Corps de Reserve at the victory of Falkirk. He succeeded his brother as Lord Balmerino on the 5th January, 1746, and was taken prisoner at Culloden, committed to the Tower, and executed with the Earl of Kilmarnock in the August of the same year. His conduct at his death was marked by the most glorious firmness and intrepidity. By his wife, Margaret (whom we have referred to elsewhere), daughter of Captain Chalmers of Leith, he left no issue, so the male line of this branch of the house of Elphinstone became extinct. His estates werC confiscated, and the patronage of the first &arge of South Leith reverted to fhe Crown. In 1746, ?? Elizabeth, dowager of Balmerino? (widow of James, fifth lord), applied by petition to ?? My Lords Commissioners of Edinburgh? for the sum of A97 ss., on the plea U that your petitioner?s said deceast lord having died on the 6th day of January, I 746, the petitioner did aliment his ?family from that time till the Whitsunday thereafter.? And the widow, baroness of Arthur-decdatus-was reduced to an aliment of forty pounds a year, ?graciously granted by the House of Hanover,? adds Robertson, who, in a footnote, gives us a touching little letter of hers, written in London on the day after her husband?s execution, addressed to her sister, ME. Borthwick. In 1755 the house and lands of Balmerino were purchased by James, Earl of Moray, K.T., from the Scottish Barons of Exchequer, and six months afterwards the noble earl sold them to Lady Baird of Newbyth. She, in r762, was succeeded by her brother, General St. Clair ot St. Clair ; and after being in possession of Lieutenant-General Robert Horne EIphinstone of Logie-Elphinstone, the Leith property was acquired by William Sibbald, merchant there, for ?LI1475. The once stately mansion was now subdivided, and occupied by tenants of the humblest class, until it was acquired by the Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh in 1848, for the purpose of erecting a chapel an4 schools, for the sum of ;61,8oo. On thewest sideof the Kirkgate, the first old edifice of note was the Block House of St. Anthony, built in 1559, adjoining St. Anthony?s Port, and in the immediate vicinity of St. Anthony?s Street and Lane. This is the edifice which Lindsay, in his When Chronicles,? confounds with the ?? Kirk.? ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. rLeith He adds that the most striking feature is the curiously decorated doorway, an ...

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500 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. M'Kenzie, Bliss Jan.net, 336 M'Kinlay, Andrew, 432 M'Kinnon, Mr. Roderick, 334 M'Knight, Dr. Thomas, 141, l! M'Lachlan, Rev. Mr., 331 M'Lean, Mr., 77 M'Lean, Adjutant, 79 M'Lean, Mr. Donald, 213 M'Lellan, Mr., 332 M'Leod, Rev. Dr. Norman, 114 M'Leod, Colonel Norman, 168 N'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334 M'Leod, Mr. Donald, 334 M'Leod, Mr. Alexander, 334 M'Leod, Mr. Angus, 334 M'Leod, Mr. Lachlan, 334 BI'Leod, Roderick, Esq., W.S. BI 'Leod, Mr., of Muiravonsidc M'Lure, -, 128 M'Millan, Jeanie, 366 N'Millan, Neil, 406, 407 M'Nab, Mr., W.S., 466 Sf'Queen, Robort, Lord Justice Clerk, 47, 163, 217 M'Queen, Miss Mav, 163 K'Queen, Robert Dundas, Esq. E'Yicar, Rev. Neil, 192 L'Whirter, Mr., 287 370 370 133 N TAIRNE, Catharine, 156 Taismith, Mr., 260 Teale, John, Esq., 475 iecker, James, Prime Afinistei Tecker, Madame, 64 iecker, Mademoiselle, 64 ieil, Tarn, 34, Seil, Mary, 169 relson, Lord, 292, 293 leville, Captain, 379 lewton, Rev. Isaac, 40 rewton, Sir Isaac, 309 rewton, Lord, 402, 418, 462 kol, Mr. Wm., of the High School, 1 of France, 64 Nicolas, Sir N. H., 142 Nisbet, William, Esq., of Dirle- Yisbet, Archibald, Esq., 424 Yisbet, Hamilton, Esq., 458 Yisbet, Mrs., 458 Tiven, Mr. David, 98 ton, 22 Muir, Thomas, Esq., younger Huntershill, 47, 112, 121, 1 168 Munro, President, 164 Nunro, -, 369 Munro, John, 419 Murphy, the Irish piper, 273 Murray, Archibald, Esq., 91 Murray, Miss Susan-Mary, 91 Murray, Lord John, 101 Murray, Mr., 141 Murray, John, Esq., 150 Murray, Miss Mary, 150 Murray, Dr. Alexander, 269,41 Murray, General Lord John, 25 Murray, Lady Augusta, 304 Murray, Sir Robert, Bart., 325 Afurray, Miss Elizabeth, 325 Murray, lfungo, Esq., 325 Murray, Miss Enphemia Ameli llurray, Sir William, of Ochte Murray, William, Esq., 330 Murray, William, Esq., of 11 'Auslin and Austin, DIcssrs N'Cleish, Dr., 470 If 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., senio M 'Cormick, Samuel, Esq., junioi N'Crie, Rev. Dr., 245 M'Donald, Rev. Patrick, 100 M'Donald, Lieut.-Colonel, 226 M'Donell, Ranald, Esq., 100 M'Dougal, Sir H. H., 295 M'Dowell, Alexander, 174 M'Dowell, William, 174 M'Ewan, Peter, senior, 216 M'Ewan, Peter, junior, 211 M'Fadyen, Nr. J., 100 M'Farlan, J. F., Esq., 105 M'GilI, Rev. Dr., of Ayr, 313 M'Glwhan, Donald, 367 M'llquham, Messrs., 377 M'Intosh, William, Esq., 467 M'Eay, Mr., of Strathy, 162 M'Hay, Niss Margaret, 162 N'Kellar, Mrs., 215 M'Kenzie, Alexander, 6 M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr., 266 M'Kenzie, Rev. Mr. Neil, 335 M'Kenzie, Kenneth, Esq., 336 j 435 325 tyre, 325 Henderland, 389 378 437 438 Noble, Rev. Mr., 310 North, Lord, 63, 158 North, Mr., 437 Northumberland, Duchess of, 469 Norton, Hon. Fletcher, 99 0 O'CONNELLD, aniel, Esq., 345 Ogilvie, Mr. Alexander, 93 Ogilvie, Miss Margaret, 93 Ogilvie, Captain, 156 Ogilvie, Sir William, Bart. 433 Ogilvy, Captain, 389 O'Eeeffe, John, 92, 261 Oliphant, Charles, Esq., 450 Oliver and Boyd, Messrs., 99,357 Oman, Mr. 310 Orkney, Bishop of, 162 Ormelie, John Earl of, 234 3rr, John, Esq., 444 Isborne, Alex., Esq., 197, 457 Iswald, Richard Alexander, Esq., lughterson, Rev. Arthur, 448 lughterson, Miss Anne, 448 lusely, Sir Gore, Bart., 300, 301, 133, 426 303, 304, 306 P 'AINE, Mr. Thomas, 50 'almer, Rev. Thomas Fyshe, 121 'almerston, Lord, 226, 432 'anmure, Lord, 22, 164, 165 'anmure, Patrick first Earl of, 'anmure, James fourth Earl of, 'anmure, William Earl of, 427 'ardon, Monsieur, 171 'arker, Miss, 316 'arker, John, Esq., S.S.C., 425 'arry, Captain, 453 'aterson, Dr. 42 aterson, Deacon James, 372,373 aterson, Adam, Esq., W.S., 425 aterson, Miss Deborah, 436 atersone, John, 208, 209 aton, Mr. George, 1, 3 aton, Mr. John, 35 %ton, Mr. John, 66 Iton, Mr., 202 aton, Rev. John, 266 ml, Rev. William, 290, 311, 434 iul, R., Esq., 105 tul, Rev. John, 105, 435 427 427 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. M'Kenzie, Bliss Jan.net, 336 M'Kinlay, Andrew, 432 M'Kinnon, Mr. ...

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196 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGR, [High Street. Torthorwald could defend himself, ran him through the body, and slew him on the spot. Stewart fled from the city, and of him we hear no more ; but the Privy Council niet twice to consider what should be done now, for all the Douglases were taking arms to attack the Stewarts of Ochiltree. Hence the Council issued imperative orders that the Earl of Morton, James Commendator of Melrose, Sir George and Sir Archibald Douglas his uncles, William Douglas younger of Drumlanrig, Archibald Uouglas of Tofts, Sir James Dundas of Arniston, and others, who were breathing vengeance, should keep within the doors of their dwellings, orders to the same effect being issued to Lord Ochiltree and all his friends. ? There is a remarkable connection of murders recalled by this shocking transaction,? says a historian. ?? Not only do we ascend to Torthorwald?s slaughter of Stewart in 1596, and Stewart?s deadly prosecution of Morton to the scaffold in 1581 ; but William Stewart was the son of Sir William Stewart who was slain by the Earl of Bothwell in the Blackfriars Wynd in 1588.? A carved marble slab in the church of Holyrood, between two pillars on the north side, still marks the grave of the first lord, who took his title from the lonely tower of Torthonvald on the green brae, between Lockerbie and Dumfries. It marks also the grave of his wife, Elizabeth Carlyle of that ilk, and bears the arms of the house of Douglas, quartered with those of Carlyle and Torthorwald, namely, beneath a ch2f charged with three pellets, a saltire proper, and the crest, a star, with the inscription :- ? Heir lyis ye nobil and poten Lord Jarnes Dovglas, Lord of Cairlell and Torthorall, vlm maned Daime Eliezabeth Cairlell, air and heretrix yalof; vha vas slaine in Edinburghe ye xiiii. day of Ivly, in ye zeier of God 1608-vas slain in 48 ze. The guide daily reads this epitaph to hundreds of visitors ; but few know the series of tragedies of which that slab is the closing record. In the year 1705, Archibald Houston, Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, was slain in the High Street. As factor for the estate of Braid, the property of his nephew, he had incurred the anger of Kennedy of Auchtyfardel, in Lanarkshire, by failing to pay some portion of Bishop?s rents, and Houston had been ?put to the horn? foithis debt. On the 20th March, 1705, Kennedy and his two sons left their residence in the Castle Hill, to go to the usual promenade of the time, the vicinity of the Cross. They met Houston, and used violent language, to : which he was not slow in retorting. Then Gilbert Kennedy, Auchtyfardel?s son, smote him on the L. I. D. E. C.? face, while the idlers flocked around them. Blows with a cane were exchanged, on which Gilbert Kennedy drew his sword, and, running Houston through the body, gave him a mortal wound, of which he died. He was outlawed, but in time returned home, and succeeded to his father?s estate. According to Wodrow?s ? Analecta,? he became morbidly pious, and having exasperated thereby a servant maid, she gave him some arsenic with his breakfast of bread-and-milk, in 1730, and but for the aid of a physician would have avenged the slaughter gf Houston near the Market Cross in 1705. One of the last brawls in which swords were drawn in the High Street occurred in the same year, when under strong external professions of rigid ?Sabbath observance and morose sanctity of manner there prevailed much of secret debauchery, that broke forth at times. On the evening of the 2nd of February there had assembled a party in Edinburgh, whom drinking and excitement had so far carried away that nothing less than a dance in the open High Street would satisfy them. Among the party were Ensign Fleming of the Scots Brigade in the Dutch service, whose father, Sir James Fleming, Knight, had been Lord Provost in 1681 ; Thomas Barnet, a gentleman of the Horse Guards ; and John Galbraith, son of a merchant in the city. The ten o?clock bell had been tolled in the Tron spire, to warn all good citizens home; and these gentlemen, with other bacchanals, were in full frolic at a pzrt of the street where there was no light save-such as might fall from the windows of the houses, when a sedan chair, attended by two footmen, one of whom bore a lantern, approached. In the chair was no less a personage than David Earl of Leven, General of the Scottish Ordzance, and member of the Privy Council, proceeding on his upward way to the Castle of which he was governor. It was perilous work to meddle with such a person in those times, but the ensign and his friends were in too reckless a mood to think of consequences; so when Galbraith, in his dance reeled against one of the footmen, and was warned off with an imprecation, Fleming and his friend of the Guards said, ? It would be brave sport to overturn the sedan in the mud.? At once they assailed the earl?s servants, and smashed the lantern. His lordship spoke indignantly from his chair ; then drawing his sword, Fleming plunged it into one of the footmen ; but he and the others were overpowered and captured by the spectators. The young ?rufflers,? on learning the rank of the man they had insulted, were naturally greatly alarmed, and Fleming dreaded the loss of his corn ? ... 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306 QLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Arthur?s Seat. name of Arthur?s Seat were anciently covered with wood. The other eminences in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh had similar appellations. Calton, or Culdoun, is admitted to be the hill covered with trees.? But there is another hill named thus- ChoiZZedm, near the Loch of Monteith. The rough wild path round the base of the Salisbury Craigs, long before the present road was formed, was much frequented for purpose of reverie by David Hume and Sir Walter Scott Thither Scott represents Reuben Butler as resorting on the morning after the Porteous mob :-?? If I were to choose a spot from which the rising or setting sun could be seen to the greatest possible advantage, it would be that wild path winding round the foot of the high belt of semicircular rocks, called Salisbury Craigs, and marking the verge of the steep descent which slopes down into the glen on the southeastern side of the city of Edinburgh. The prospect in its general outline commands a close-built high-piled city, stretching itself out beneath in a form, which to a romantic imagination may be supposed to represent that of a dragon; now a noble ?arm of the sea, with its rocks, isles, distant shores, and boundary of mountains; and now a fine and fertile champaign country varied with hill and dale. . . . . This path used to be my favourite evening and morning resort, when engaged with a favourite author or a new subject of study.? The highest portion of these rocks near the Catnick, is 500 feet above the level of the Forth; and here is found a vein of rock different in texture from the rest ?This vein,? says a writer, ?has been found to pierce the sandstone below the footpath, and no doubt fills the vent of an outflow of volcanic matter from beneath. A vein of the same nature has probably fed the stream of lava, which forced its way between the strata of sandstone, and formed the Craigs.? A picturesque incident, which associates the unfortunate Mary with her turbulent subjects, occurred zt the foot of Arthur?s Seat, in 1564. In the romantic valley between it and Salisbury Craigs there is still traceable a dam, by which the natural drainage had been confined to form an artificial lake ; at the end of which, in that year, ere her wedded sorrows began, the beautiful young queen, in the sweet season, when the soft breeze came laden witb the perfume of the golden whin flowers from the adjacent Whinny Hill, had an open-air banquet set forth in honour of the nuptials of John, fifth Lord Fleming, Lord High Chamberlain, and Elizabeth the only daughter and heiress of Robert Master of Ross. In 1645, when the dreaded pestilence reached ? Edinburgh, we find that in the month of April the rown Council agreed with Dr. Joannes Paulitius that for a salary of A80 Scots per month he should visit the infected, a vast number of whom had been borne forth from the city and hutted in the King?s Park, at the foot of Arthur?s Seat; and on the 27th of June the Kirk Session of Holyrood ordered, that to avoid further infection, all who died in the Park should be buried there, and not within any churchyard, ? except they mor4 tified (being able to do so) somewhat, adpios usus, for the relief of other poor, being in extreme indigence.? (? Dom. Ann.,? Vol. 11.) In November, 1667, we find Robert Whitehead, laud of Park, pursuing at law John Straiton, tacksman of the Royal Park, for the value of a horse, which had been placed there to graze at 4d per night, but which had disappeared-no uncommon event in those days ; but it was ulged by Straiton that he had a placard on the gate intimating that he would not be answerable either for horses that were stolen, or that might break their necks by falling over the rocks. Four years afterwards we read of a curious duel taking place in the Park, when the Duke?s Walk, so called from its being the favourite promenade of James Duke of Albany, was the common scene of combats with sword and pistol in those days, and for long after. In the case referred to the duellists were men in humble life. On the 17th June, 1670, William Mackay, a tailor, being in the Castle of Edinburgh, had a quarrel with a soldier with whom he was drinking, and blows were exchanged. Mackay told the soldier that he dared not use him so if they were without the gates of the fortress, on which they deliberately passed out together, procured a couple of sharp swords in the city, and proceeded to a part of the King?s Park, when after a fair combat, the soldier was run through the body, and slain. Mackay was brought to trial ; he denied having given the challenge, and accused the soldier of being the aggressor ; but the public prosecutor proved the reverse, so the luckless tailor-not being a gentleman-was convicted, and condemned to die. A beacon would seem to have been erected on the cone of Arthur?s Seat in 1688 to communicate with Fifeshire and the north (in succession from Garleton Hill, North Berwick, and St. Abb?s Head) on the expected landing of the Prince of Orange. On one occasion the appearance of a large fleet of Dutch fishing vessels off the mouth of the Firth excited the greatest alarm, being taken for-a hostile armament. -- ... QLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. 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Cmongate.1 THE CANONGATE THEATRE. 23 the morning;?? and of the sanitary state of the community in those days some idea may be gathered from the fact that swine ran loose in the Canongate till 1583, when an attempt was made to put down the nuisance. In the city this was done earlier, as we find that in 1490 the magistrates ordain ?the lokman, quhairwer he fyndis ony .swyne betwk the Castell and the Netherbow upon the Gaitt,? to seize them, with a fine of fourpence .upon each sow taken. Again, in 1506, swine found in the streets or kennels are to be slaughtered by the ?lokman? and escheated ; and in 15 13 swine were again forbidden to wander, under pain of the owners being banished, and each sow to be escheat. At the same time fruit was forbidden to be sold on the streets, or in crames, ?? holden thairupon, under the pain oi escheitt ?-that is, of forfeit. In 1562 no flesh was to be eaten or even cooked on ,Friday or Saturday, under a penalty of ten pounds; and in 1563 all markets were forbidden .in the streets upon Sunday. Among the first operations of the Improvement ?Trust were the demolitions at the head of St. Mary?s Wynd, including with them the removal 01 -the Closes of Hume and Boyd, the first alleys a1 the head of the street on the south side, and the erection on their site of lofty and airy tenements in A species of Scottish style. Four,alleys to the eastward, Bell?s, Gillon?s, Gibbs? and Pine?s Closes, all narrow, dark, and filthy, have been without history or record j but Chessel?s Court, numbered as 240, exhibits a very superior style of architecture, and in 1788 was the scene 01 that daring robbery of the Excise Office which brought to the gallows the famous Deacon Brodie .and his assistant, thus closing a long career of secret villainy, his ingenuity as a mechanic giving him every facility in the pursuits to which he addicted himself. ? It was then customary for the shopkeepers of Edinburgh to hang their keys upon a nail at the back of their doors, or at least to take no pains in concealing them during the day. Brodie used to take impressions of them in putty or clay, a piece of which he used to carry in the palm of his hand. He kept a blacksmith in his pay, who forged exact copies of the keys he wanted, and with these it was his custom to open the shops of his fellow-tradesmen during the night.? In a house of Chessel?s Court there died, in I 854, an aged maiden lady of a very ancient Scottish stock-Elizabeth Wardlaw, daughter of Sir William Wardlaw, Bart., of the line of BalmuIe and Pitreavie in Fifeshire. In the Playhouse Close, a cdde-mc, and its neighbour the Old Playhouse Close, a narrow and gloomy alley, we find the cradle of the legitimate drama in Edinburgh. In the former, in 1747, a theatre was opened, on such a scale as was deemed fitting forthe Scottish capital, where the drama had skulked in holes and corners since the viceregal court had departed from Holyrood, in the days of the Duke of Albany and York. From 1727 till after 1753 itinerant companies, despite the anathemas of the clergy, used with some success the Tailors? Hall in the Cowgate, which held, in professional phraseology, from ;E40 to ;E45 nightly.? In the first-named year a Mr. Tony Alston endeavoured to start a theatre, in the same house which saw the failure of poor Allan Ramsay?s attempt, but the Society of High Constables endeavoured to suppress his ? abominable stage plays;? and when the clergy joined issue with the Court of Session against him, his performances had to cease. But, accqding to Wodrow, there had been some talk of building another theatre as early as 1728. In 1746 the foundation of the theatre within a back area (near St. John?s-Cross), now called the Playhouse Close, was laid by Mr. John Ryan, a London actor of considerable repute in his day, who had to contend with the usual opposition of the ignorant or illiberal, and that lack of prudence and thrift incidental to his profession generally. The house was capable of holding A70 ; the box seats were halfa-crown, the pit one-and-sixpence ; and for several years it was the?kcene of good acting under Lee, Digges, Mrs. Bellamy, and Mrs. Ward. After the affair of 1745 the audiences were apt to display a spirit of political dissension. On the anniversary of the battle of Culloden, in I 749, some English officers who were in the theatre commanded the orchestra, in an insolent and unruly manner, to strike up an obnoxious air known as CulZoden ; but in a spirit of opposition, and to please the people, the musicians played (? You?re welcome, Charlie S h u t ? The military at once drew their sworQs and attacked the defenceless musicians and players, but were assailed by the audience with tom-up benches and every missile that couid be procured. The officers now attempted to storm the galleries ; but the doors were secured. They were then vigorously attacked in the rear by the Highland chairmen with their poles, disarmed, and most ignominiously drubbed and expelled ; but in consequence of this and similar disturbances, bills were put up notifying that no music would be played but such as the management selected. Another disturbance ensued soon after, occasioned by the performance of Garrick?s farce, ?? High I ... THE CANONGATE THEATRE. 23 the morning;?? and of the sanitary state of the community in those days some ...

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498 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETq. Lockhart, Mr. C. B., 25 Lockhart, President, 332 Logan, the Laird of, 128 Lombe, Miss Sarah, 110 Long, Walter, Esq., 431 Lorimer, Robert, 139 Loudon, Countess of, 24, 25, 27, Loughborough, Lord Chancellor, Louis, Monsieur, 115 Louis XIV., 324 Louis XV., 182, 183 Louis XVI., 184, 198 Love, blr, Gavin, 403 Low, Mr., 231 Low, Professor, 452 Lowson, Mr. James, 403, 407 Lucas, Mr. I’., of Mathias, P. Lucas and Co., 306, 307 Ludborough, Mr., 36 Lunardi, Vincent, 113, 151 Lundie, Mr., 311 Lushington, Mr., 291 Lynch, Edward, Esq., 177 ,ynedoch, Lord, 295 A-, Adani, 344 M 320 277 JUtz, -, 272 ~ACADAH, Ur., 66 ifacadam, Miss, 109 dacarthur, Mr., 150 dacarthur, John, Esq., 151 lacdonald, Lord, 64, 273 lacdonald, Lady Diana, 64 lacdonald, Jlrs., 101 lacdonald, Mr., 265 facdonald, Ronald, Esq., 393 Iacdonald, John, Esq., 411 lacdonell, Colonel George, 201 lacfarlan, Dr., patrick, 93 lacfarlane, Mr. Robert, 98 lacfarlane, Dugald, Esq., 444 Lacfarlane, George, of Glensalloch, 444 [acgachen, Captain, senior, 461 Macgachen, Captain, junior, 461 blacgachen, George, Esq., 461 Macgachen, Rev. John, 462 Macgill, Rev. Dr., 269 Nacgrath, the giant, 115 Kacharg, Captain John, 5, 6, 7 Kacharg, James, Esq., of Keirs, 202 6, 7 Johnston, Miss Catherine, 76 Johnston, Miss Agnes, 76 Johnston, Captain, 168 Johnston, Rev. Dr., 224, 34, Johnston, RobeFt, 315 Johnston, Mrs. Henry, 316 Johnston, Mr. Robert, 454 Johnstone, Dr. Bryce, 119 Johnstone, James, Esq., 189 Johnstone, William, of Grantor 225 Johnstone, Hon. Andrew Cock rane, 403, 406, 407, 409, 410 Johnstone, Mr. John, 424 Johnstone, Mr. John, 446 Jollie, Deacon, 115 Jones, Rev. Mr., 16 Jones, Rev. Dr., 224, 311 Jones, Sir Harford, 300 Jordan, Mrs., 262 K KAMES, Lord, 381 Kay, hlr. Robert, 56 Kay, blrs., 379 Kay, Charles, Esq., 428 Keir, Sir Willim, 24 Keith (Old Ambassador), 75 Keith, Rev. Dr. Skene, 114 Keith, Marischal, 135 Keith, Mr., of Ravelston, 211 Keith, Sir Alexander, 463 Kellie, Earl of, 57, 58 Kemble, Mr. Stephen, 258, 259 260, 261, 316 Kemble, Mr. John, 259 Kemble, Mrs., 260 Kennett, Lord, 76 Kent, His Royal Highness thc Duke of, 226 Ker, Dame Margaret, Lady Yes. ter, 193 Her, James, Esq., of Blackshiels, 381 Khan, Mirza Abu Taleb, 292 Kilkenny, Earl of, 176, 177 Kilmarnock, Earl of, 106 Kilmarnock, Countess of, 106 Kincaid, Alexander, Lord Provost, 29, 236, 374 Kinnear, Mr., 425 Kinneder, Lord, 277, 431 Kinnoul, Earl of, 140 Kinsman, Rev. Mr., 102 Kirk, Mr. John, 403 344,454 Knapp, Thomas Georgr, Esq Knight, Mr. George, 424 Knox, Mr. John, 56 Knox, Miss Elizabeth, 56 Knox, Dr. Robert, 449 Kyles, Mr., 294 420 L LAW, Laird of, 139 Laidlaw, Mr., 213 Laing, Nr. James, saddler, 44 Laing, Mr. Malcolm, 419 Laing, Mr. James, 188, 469 Lake, Lord, 467 Lancey, Sir ’William Howe c l c Landaff, Bishop of, 184 Lang and Chapman, Messrs., 23 Lausdowne, Marquis of, 413 Lauderdale, Earl of, 180, 234, 41 Laurie, Rev. Dr., 27 Laurie, Mr., 236 Law, Alexnnder, 406, 408 .aw, Mr. George, 425 Jawrie, Deacon Alexander, 373 Jawreme, Sir Thomas, 309 lawson, Nr. William, 11 ,awsoii, Alexander, 97 learmonth, Provost, 202 ,ee, Colonel, 261 heal, Professor, 110 Jennox, Colonel, 24 ,eopold, Prince, 233, 294, 375 mlie, Lady Mary Anne, 79 ,eslie, Afr. Alexander, 140 ,eslie, Hon. Mrs., 151 ,even and Melville, Earl of, 78 ,ewis, William, 261 (ewvis, Monk, 317 ightfoot, John, A. M., 180 imont, Rev. Mr., 134 indsay, Rev. Mr. Jameq 120 indsay, Rev. John, 278 indsay, Colonel, 403 inlithgow, Earl of, 107, 109 iston, Professor, 452 itchfield and Coventry, Bishop of, 349 ittle, William, Esq., 8 ittle, William Charles, Esq., 8, ittle, Yr. John, 189 wingston, Mr., 289 .vingstone, Sir James, Bart., 61 ~ch,D avid, Esq., 236 348 151, 401 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETq. Lockhart, Mr. C. B., 25 Lockhart, President, 332 Logan, the Laird of, 128 Lombe, ...

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liferent, and to his children in fee, and a dispute in law occurred about the division of the property. Buccleuch Place, branching westward off the old Carlisle Road, as it was named, was formed between 1766 and 1780, as part of a new and aristocratic quarter, and in rivalry to the New Town. Among the first residents there was Elizabeth Fairlie, dowager of George, fifth Lord Reay, who?died in 1768. She died in Buccleuch Place on,the 10th November, 1800. The street is of uniform architecture, 270 yards long, but has a chilling and forsaken aspect. The large and isolated tenement facing the south-east entrance to GeorgeSquare was built, and used for many years as Assembly Rooms for the aristocratic denizens of this quarter. ?In these beautiful rooms,? says Lord Cockburn, ?were to be seen the last remains of the stately ball-room discipline of the preceding age.? Now they are occupied as dwelling-houses. Jeffrey, on marrying a second cousin of his own in 1801, began housekeeping in the third flat of a - - - - common stair here, No. 18, at a time when, as he wrote to his brother, his profession had never brought in a hundred a year; and there he and his wife were living in 1802, when in March, Brougham and Sydney Smith niet at his house, and it was proposed to start the Edinburgh Xeview; and these, the first three, were joined in meeting with Murray, Honier, Brown, Lord Webb Seymour, and John and Thomas Thomson, and negotiations were opened with Manners and Millar, the publishers in the Parliament Close ; and-as is well known-Jeffrey was for many years the editor of, as well as chief contributor to, that celebrated periodical. Where the Meadows now lie there lay for ages a loch coeval with that at Uuddingstone, some threequarters of a mile long from Lochrin, and where the old house of Drumdryan stands on the west, to the road that led to the convent of Sienna on the east, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth * -a sheet of water wherein, in remote times, the Caledonian bull, the stag, and the elk that roamed in the great oak forest of Drumsheugh, were wont to quench their thirst, and where, amid the deposit of mar1 at its bottom, their bones have been found from time to time during trenching and draining operations. The skull and horns of one - gigantic stag (Cetvus eZ@has), that must have found a grave amidst its waters, were dug up below the root of an ancient tree in one of the Meadow Parks in 1781, and are now in the Antiquarian Museum. In 1537 the land lying on its south bank was feued by the sisters of the Cistercian convent, and in July, 1552, the provost, bailies, and council, ordered that no person should ?wesch ony claithis at the Burrow Loch in tyrne cummyng, and dischargis the burnmen to tak ony bum at ony wells in the burgh under sic pains as the jugis ples imput to them? On the 25th of May, 1554, the magistrates and council ordained that the Burgh Loch should be inclosed, ? biggit up ? in such a manner as would prevent its overflow (Ibid). In April, 1556, they again ordained the city treasurer to build up the western end of it, ?and hold the watter thairof,? though in the preceding January they had ordered its water ?to be lattin forth, and the dyke thairof stoppit, so that it may ryn quhair it ran before? (? Burgh Records.?) Dr. J. A. Sidey kindly supplieo a description of the original of the engraving on p. 349, taken from the Merchant Company?s Catalogue. ? View of George Watsan?s hospital and grounds from the south, with the castle and a portion of the town of Edinburgh in the distance One of the two fine fresoos which originally adorned the walls of the Governor?s Board Roomin said hospital. . . The paints is believed to have ken Alexander Runciman, the celebrated Scottish artist. He died on the zxst October, 1785. His younger brother John dicd in 1768, pged *? Pasche nixt to cum,? when they should consider whether the water, which seemed to occasion some trouble to the bailies, ?be lattin furth or holden in as it is now.? In 1690 the rental of the loch and its ?broad meadows? is given at A66 13s. 4d. sterling, in common good of the city. Early in the seventeenth century an attempt was boldly made to drain this loch, and so far did the attempt succeed that in 1658 the place, with its adjacent marshes, was let to John Straiton, on a lease of nineteen years, for the annual rent of LI,OOO Scots, and from him it for a time received the name of Straiton?s Loch, by which it was known in 1722, when it was let for L80o Scots to Mr. Thomas Hope of Rankeillor, on a fifty-seven years? lease. Hope was president of U The Honourable Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland,? who met once a fortnight in a house near what is now called Hope Park, where they re. ceived and answered queries from country people on fanning subjects. Mr. Hope had travelled in Holland, France, and England, where he picked up the best hints on agriculture, and was indefatigable in his efforts to get them adopted in Scotland. In consideration of the moderate rent, he bound himself to drain the loch entirely, and to make a walk round it, to be enclosed with a hedge, a row of lime-trees, and a narrow canal, nine feet broad, on each side of it; and in this order the meadows remained unchanged till about 1840, always a ... and to his children in fee, and a dispute in law occurred about the division of the property. Buccleuch ...

Book 4  p. 347
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493 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Bellaniy, Mrs., 33 Bennet, Mr., surgeon, 25 Berri, Due de, 198 Berri, Duchesse de, 199 Bertrani, Rev. Mr., 107, 108 Reugo, the engraver, 411 Beveridge, Mr. David, 403, 407 Binning, Lord, 125 Birnie, Patie, 410 Bisset, Mr., 124 Blacas, Due de, 201 Black, Rev. Mr., 39 Black, Dr., 75, 450, 451 Black, Rev. Thomas, 192 Black, Rev. Mr., 245 Black, Air. John, 407 Black, Alr. John, junior, 407 Black, Mr., surgeon, 471 Blackenay, General, 271 Blacklock, Dr., 136 Blackwood, air. Jsmes, 403 Hair, Sir James Hunter, 56, 29f Blair, Robert, Esq., of $ventor (afterwards Lord President), 91 251, 380, 433, 439 Blair, Rev. Hugh, D.D., 93, 41: Blair, Villiam, Esq., 130 Blair, Colonel, of Blair, 412 Blakeman, -, 362 Blncher, hiarshall, 296 Bogue, Kev. Dr., 39 Eonaparte, Napoleon, 51, 52, 67. Ronar, Mr. John, 19 Bonar, John, Esq., of Ratho, 10: Bonar, Alexander, Esq., 105 Bond, Oliver, 176, 177 Bordeaux, Due de, 198, 202 Boswell, James, Esq., 20, 57, 58, Boswell, Sir Alexander, 99, 277, Boswell, John, Esq., 277 Boue, Dr., 454 Boyd, Mr. George, 10 Boyd, Dr., 14 Boyd and Oliver, Messrs., 99, 357 Boyd, Justice, 173 Boyle, Hon. David, Lord Justice- Boyle, Hon. Patrick, 417 Boyle, John, Esq., 418 Boyle, Patrick, Esq., 418 Bradford, Sir Thomas, K.B., 307 Braidwood, Mr., 11 Braidwood, Nr. William, 122 68, 198, 261 380 463 Clerk, 326 Braidwood, Mr. William, of th Baptist Congregation, 124 Braidwood, Dir. James, 124 Braidwood, Mr. William, 124 Brain, George, 43 Bransby, Professor, 452 Ereadalbane, Earl of, 411 Bremner, Mr. James, 121 Breton, Eliab, Esq., 246 Brewster, Sir David, 142, 453 Briggs, Dr., 134 Bright, Dr., 452 Brodie, Deacon, 8, 120, 121, 28t Brothers, Richard, 309 Brongham, Lord, 21, 142, 388 413, 414, 432, 447 Brown, Mr., 9 Brown, Dr., 33 Brown, -, carter, 78 Brown, Mr. Robert, 87 Brown, Rev. Dr. William Law Brown, Walter, Esq., 105 Brown, Dr. Andrew, 110 Brown, Rev. John, 237, 279, 35: Brown, Rev. Robert, 279 Brown, Rev. Dr. John, 280, 281 Brown, Archibald, 323, 325 Brown, Professor Thomas, 388 Brown, Nr., 454 Brown, William Henry, Esq., 45: Browne, Citizen M. C., 191 Browne, James, LL.D., advocate Rrownlee, James, Esq., 322 Bruce, Professor John, 19 Bruce, Captain, 76 Brnce, Mr., of Kennett, 76 Bruce, Rev. Professor, 244 Bruce, Nessrs., 286 Bruce, King Robert, 317, 328 Brnce, John, 406 Bnice, James, the Abyssinian traveller, 466 Brune, General, 189 Brunswick, Duke of, 115 Bryce, Mr., 124 Bryce, Rev. Dr., 458 hccleuch, Duke of, 25, 45, 139, 140, 239, 273, 341 hccleuch, Duchess of, 138 3uchan, Mr. John, W.S., 4 hchan, Earl of, 65, 154,195, 449 k h a n , Mr., 334 hchanan, Rev. Dr., 39, 311, 223 luchanan, George, 191 rence, 104 202 Buchanan, Pipe-Major, 273 Buchanan, James, 368 Bugon, Dr., 199 Bulloch, Miss Isabella, 278 Burgoyne, General Sir John, 467 Burke, Edmund, 184 Burn, Mr. Robert, 94 Burns, Robert, the poet, 1, 59, 93, 94, 128, 132, 136, 313, 325, 384, 400, 422, 423, 430 Burns, Rev. Dr. George, 134 Bnrnside, Rev. Mr., 223 Burnett, Mrs., 135 Rurnett, Miss, 135, 136, 137 Burnett, William, Esq., 436 Burnett, Miss Elizabeth, 436 Burnett, Miss Anne, 436 Burnett, Miss Robert Dundas, Burnett, Birs., 437 Rurt, Dr., 101 Bustard, Mr., 13 Bute, James second Earl of, 72 Bute, John third Earl of, 72, 181 Butler, Hon. Sirnon, 121, 168, Butler, Hon. Edwnrd Lynch, I77 Butter, Mr., senior, 32, 92 Butter, Miss Helm, 35 Butter, Miss Anne, 35 Butter, Miss Janet, 35 Butter, Miss Jane, 35 3yron, Admiral, 106 3yron, Lord, 391 C :ADELL, Robert, publisher, 475 >adelk Mr. of Tranent, 446 >ajan, the giant, 115 hllander, John, Esq., of Craig- >allander, Colonel Janies, 51 :allander, air., 361 :allender, Dr., 447 hllender, Miss, 447 hlvin, John, 420 :amage, William, 177 hmeron, Jean, 218 lameron, Colonel, 273 lameron, Messrs. J. and P., 314, 'ameron, Chief of Lochiel, 349 hmpbell, Major-General, 7 !ampbell, Lady Charlotte, 25 'ampbell, Captain John, 35 !ampbell, Archibald, Esq., 35 437 171 forth, 51 315 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Bellaniy, Mrs., 33 Bennet, Mr., surgeon, 25 Berri, Due de, 198 Berri, Duchesse de, ...

Book 9  p. 683
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226 OLD AKD NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street, Europe or America as a handy yet comprehensive book of ready reference, and of which the learned and ingenious Dr. Andrew Findlater acted as editor. In 1849 William purchased the estate of Glenormiston, and ten years after made a valuable gift to his native town, in the form of a suite of buildings, including a public reading-room, a good library, lecture-hall, museum, and art gallery, designated the ?Chambers Institution ;? and in 1864 he issued his ?History of Peeblesshire,? an able example of local annals. In 1865 he was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and inaugurated the great architectural improvements set afoot in the more ancient parts of the city ; and in 1872 the University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. I In 1860-1 the brothers projected that important work which gave Robert Chambers his death-blow -? The Book of Days : a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar, including Anecdote, Biography, History, Curiosities of Literature, &c., SLc.,? a large work, in two volumes of 840 pages each. Disappointed in promised literary aid, Robert wqs compelled to perform the @eater part of this work alone, and during the winter of 186r-2 ?he might be seen every day in the British Museum, working hard at this fatal book; The mental strain broke him down; domestic bereavements aggravated the effects of ill-health, and with it, though he lived to finish his ?Life of Smollett,? his literary career closed. He died at St. Andrews in the beginning of the year 1870.? Still hale and healthy, and as full of intellectual vigour as when he handled the old printing press in his little shop in Leith Walk, William?s pen was yet busy, and produced, in 1860, ?The Youth?s Companion and Counsellor;? in 1862, ?? Something of Italy: in 1870, ?Wintering at Mentone p in 1871, ?? France, its History and Revolutions f and, in 1872, an affectionate ?Memoir? of his brother Robert, and ?Ailie Gilroy,? a simple and pathetic little story. ? In reviewing the life of this eminent publisher,? says a writer in the Nafiond Forfraif GaZlery, <? one may say that he has so lived as to teach the world how the good old-fashioned commonplace virtues can be exalted into the loftiest range of moral heroism ; that he has left on record a grand and manly example of self-help which time can never obliterate from the admiring memory of succeeding generations. Life has to him been a sacred trust, to be used for helping on the advancement of humanity, and for aiding the diffusion of knowledge. The moral to be drawn from his biography is that, with macly self-trust, with high and noble aims, with fair education, and with diligence, a man may, no matter how poor he be at the outset of his career, struggle upwards and onwards to fill a high social position, and enjoy no ordinary share of earthly honours and possessions.? At the establishment of the Messrs. Chambers fully two hundred hands are constantly employed, and their premises in Warriston Close (which have also an entrance from the High Street) form one of the interesting sights in the city. Lower down the-Close stood a large and handsome house, having a Gothic niche at its entrance, which was covered with armorial bearings and many sorely obliterated inscriptions, of which onlythe fragment of one was traceable-Gracia Dei Thomas 1: This was the town residence of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, a man of eminent learning and great nobility of character, and who practised as a lawyer for fully forty years, during the stormy reigns of Mary and James VI. In 1564 he was made Justice Depute, and found time to give to the world some very able poems-one on the birth of James, and another on his departure for England, are preserved in the DeZifiG Poefamm Scofurwi. He steadily refused the honour of knighthood, yet was always called Sir Thomas Craig, in conforniity to a royal edict on the subject. He wrote a treatise on the independent sovereignty of Scotland, which was rendered into wretched English by Ridpath, and published in 1675. He was Advocate for the Church, when he died at Edinburgh, on the 26th of February, r608, and was succeeded in the old house, as well as his estate, by his eldest son, Sir Lewis Craig, born in 1569, and called to the bench in 1604, as Lord Wrightslands, while his father was still a pleader at the bar. After his time his house had as occupiers, first Sir George Urquhart of Cromarty, and next Sir Robert Baird, Bart., of Saughton Hall, who died in 1714. But by far the most celebrated residenter in this venerable alley was he who gave it the name it bears, Sir Archibald Johnston Lord Warriston, whose estate, still so named, lies eastward of Inverleith Row. The son of Johnston of Beirholm (once a merchant in Edinburgh), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Craig (above mentioned), this celebrated lawyer, subtle statesman, and somewhat juggling politician, was called to the bar in 1633, and would appear to have purchased from his cousin, Sir Lewis Craig, a house in the close, adjoining his own. In 1637 he began to take a prominent part in the bitter disputes of the period, and Bishop Bur ... OLD AKD NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street, Europe or America as a handy yet comprehensive book of ready reference, ...

Book 2  p. 226
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436 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Beard, Mr. John, 147 Beaton, Serjeant, 278 Beattie, James, LL.D., 183, 30 Beddoes, Dr., 61 Begbie, Mr., 30 Bell, John, 162 Bell, Mr. Benjamin, 255 Bell, Mr. John, 341 Bellenden, Lord, 58 Bennet, Rev. Mr., 300 Bennet, Mr. John, surgeon, 391 Bennet, Mrs., 402, Bennet, Captain, 404 Bertram, Mr. James, 229 Binning, Lord, 251 Black, Dr., 20, 66, 75, 177, 255 Black, Mr. John, 52 Black, E. John, clothier, 105 Black, Rev. Mr., 300, 304 Black, Messrs. Adam and Charler Blacklock, Dr., 303, 372 Blackstone, Judge, 308 Blair, John, Esq., 62 Blair, Jane, 62 Blair, Rev. Dr., 66, 70, 292, 347 Blair, Sir James H., 92,181, 222 Blair, Lord President, 102, 302 Blair, Robert, 120 Blair, Rev. Robert, 313 Blake, Jaseph, Esq., 204 , Bligh, General, 212 Blyth, E.,10 5 Boaz, Hermand, 177 Boerhaave, 59, 162, 339 Rogue, Rev. Dr. David, 194 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 205, 240 Bonar, Mr. Thomson, 210 Bonnar, Mr. Jameq 258, 259 Bosville, Louisa, 199 Boswell, James, 15, 168, 365 Boswell, Sir Alexander, 163 Bourdeaux, Duc de, 215 Boyd, James Lord, 203 Boyd, Mr., 418 Braidwood, Isaac, 83 Rreadalbane, Earl of, 350 Breteuil, Baron de, 328 Bremner, Mr. James, 219 Brisbane, Mr., 253 Brodie, Convener Francis, 256 Brodie, Deacon, 96, 119, 141,399 Brodie, Alexander, Esq., 187 Brodie, Miss Elizabeth, 187 210 348, 349, 382 226 Brougham, Lord, 12,93, 220 Brown, Mr., 34 Brown, Sir William, 91 Brown, Dr. John, 204 Brown, John, 210 Brown and Kay, Messrs., 222 Brown, Mr. James, 237 Brown, John, 257, 258, 259, 262 Brown, William, 353, 354 Brown, Miss Anne, 366 Bruce, David, 128 B&e, Helen, $28 Bruce, Sir Alexander, 128 Bruce, King Robert, 203 Bruce, Messrs. John and Andrev Bruce, Lord, 327 Brune, General, 108 Bruce, Michael, the poet, 303 Brunton, Rev. Dr., 302, 402 Bryce, Rev. Dr., 320 Brydone, Patrick, Esq., 95 Buccleuch, Duke of, 67, 74, 83 99, 141,204, 214,238, 295,39 Buccleuch, Duchess of, 83, 238 Buchan, Earl of, 105, 124, 128 183, 208, 225, 298 Buchan, Mr. John, 344 Buchanan, Rev. Mr., 300 Buffon, Count de, 206, 207, 210 Burgoyne, General, 267, 404 Burke, Edmund, 174, 379 Bums, Rev. Mr., 67 Burns, the poet, 19, 46, 48, 85 202, 206, 209, 216, 238, 246 278, 287, 303, 304 Burnes Lieutenant, 130 Surnett, Mr. John, 393, 426 Burton, Robert, 399 3ute, Earl of, 351, 379 3utter, Mr., 105 3yng, Hon. Mr., 151 264, 265 264, 265 367, 417, 287 C >ADELL, Mr., 121 >airns, Mr. John, 88 hllander, John, Esq., of Craig :allander, Colonel, of Graigforth, :allender, preface, vii !allender, Bailie William, 43 !ameron and Cargill, 28 lampbell,&Tohn, precentor, 28 forth, 245 128, 403, 427 Campbell. Rev, Colin, 67 Campbell, Principal, 76 Campbell, Sir William, 94 Campbell, Sir Ilay, Bart., 103, 125, 260, 302, 314, 375 Campbell, Rev. Mr., 154 Campbell, Henry Fletcher, 236 Campbell, Lieut. Archibald, 237 Campbell, Mr. Thomas, 261 Campbell, Lieut.-Colonel, 266,267 Canipbell, Major, 291 Campbell, Mr. John, 300 Campbell, Miss, 318 Campbell, James, Esq., 383 Campbell, Archibald, Esq., 384 Campbell, Captain John, 283 Campbell, Mr. Thomas, 427 Camperdown, Earl of, 363 Cuming, General Gordon, 99 Cant, Mr., of Thurston, 424 Car, Miss, 81 Cardross, Henry Lord, 105 Cardross, Miss Jane, 105 Carfrae, Mr. James, 261 Cargyll, Jilmes, Esq., 224 Carlisle, Bishop of, 336 Carlyle, Dr. Alex., 53, 320, 321, Carmichael, Bailie John, 224 Carnegie, Lady Mary Anne, 283 Zarrick, Dr., 242 Zarroll, Mr., 145 Classels, Mr., 242 Clatherine, Empress of Russia, 95, :ay, Robert Hodgson, Esq., 237 :halmem, E.5,4 >hahers, Mr., plumber, 84 >hdmers, George, Esq., 161 :hdrners, Miss Veronica, 161 :hahers, Mr. George, 245 :hambers, Mr., 3 2harles I., 106, 286, 353 :harles II., 187, 286, 385 :harteris, Mrs., 152 :harteris, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 298 :hatham, Earl of, 187 :hisholm, Mr. and Mrs., 81 >hristie, Captain, 42 :hristie, Mr. Robert, 80 :hurchill, Charles, 382 >lark, Dr., 130 :lark, Jean, 197 :lark, Mr. John, 237 >lark, Dr. David, 254 >lark, James, 264, 265 366 104 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Beard, Mr. John, 147 Beaton, Serjeant, 278 Beattie, James, LL.D., 183, 30 Beddoes, ...

Book 8  p. 609
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386 OLD AND NEW' EDINBURGH. 'Plague in Leith, The 111. 180,186 Plainstane's close ~ i . 235 Playfair, Dr. Lyo;, 111. 24 Playfair, Professor, 1. 339, 11.106, 1% 1p,z70' monument to,II.rro Playfaii, W. H., architect, I. 379, 11. 83 88, 97, 106, 110, 2x41 335, 111. ;3, 68, 83 Playhouse Close 11. 23 Pleasance, he, i. 38, 253,278,295. 298, 335, 382-384, 11. 3, 218 135, 240, 301, 3247 330, 337, 3383 345, 111.54 ; origin of thename, I. 382 Plewlands, The, 111. 42 Pocketsleve 111.92 PokerCluh ?he, I . ~ O , Z ~ T , I I I . I ~ ~ Police of Ehinburgh, 11. 120 Police Office, I. 242 Political unions. Illegality of the, . - - 11. 236, 237 Pollok. Robert. 11. ICO Polton Lord iII. 3;6 PolwAh d d y 11. aog Pont, dkrt, dinister of St. Cuthbert's Church 11. 131 I 2 Pont, Robert, hrovost 'o?Trinity Pontheus, John, the quack doctor, Poole's Coffee-house, 11. xza Popular songs of 1745, I. 325 Port Hopetoun, 11.~15~226 ; Edinbur h Castle from, 11. *a16 Port .ft. Nicholas, 111. 171 Portmus Captain I. 130 111.262 263 ; hHnged b;the mdb, I. 130: College, 1.305, 307 I. zoo, 201 ~. z3i, 11. 2 I, 232 Porteous john, herald painter, 111.4: Porreou~ riots I. 4 123, 128-1 I 178, 218, 3:g; h n t i n g ~f t2: 111. III .___ ._ Portland, Henrietta Duchess of, Portland,'Duke of, 111.42 Portland Place 11. zza Portobello, I. h3, 111. 138, 143- 154165; Romanroadnear I. 10, fro; view of Portobed, III. :IN, *152, *r53: plan of, 111. . 147: churchesandchawls. 111. II.rg1 111.42 - . 147; * 153 Portobello Hut. 111. IM Portobello review lhe' '111. 146 Portobello Koad '111. ;38 Portobello Sand; 111.145, Plate p Rortsburgh CO& House, 11. *=I. - 2=4 Porbburgh, The Eastern, I. 3 8 , k l p , I I . 222 224 226 227,22gr 334 33s ; anciehtly H htirgh, 11. 103 Post Office, The old, I. 274 338, *356; the new I. 340, 351, 353, *357,358.364; ;he Scottishpostal system, I. 353- 58 : itsexpenses at various periJs, I. 355,356; its posf-ten 1.354,355,39; the vanous po&office buildings, I. 358 Post Office Close, I. 358 Potato, The introducer of the, 11. p Potterrow, The, 1. p, 335,II. 135, 231, =4=r 274. 327, 330, 33% 332, Potterrow ort, 11. 257, 334 331, 111.3 Poulterer The King's 111.66 Poultry AndS. Dean,'III. 65, 66 Poultry Market The old I. 373 Powburn, The ' 11. 267 ' 111. 29 I 58; its otier names: Powburn House 111. 51 Powderhall III:88 8g *g3 Powrie, di1liaq 'ac<ornplice ot Bothwell in the murder of Darnley, 1. 263, 276, 111. 4, 6 Prayer, An ambiguous, 11. 133 Preaching Friar's Vennel, The, I. Preaching Window," Knox'r house, I. 214 3331 3 3 4 , p 345, 111. 51 81.:; ' '( p7,258 Pre-historic Edinburgh, I. 9-14 Prendergast's revenqe, 11. 52, 53 .Prentice, Henry, the introducer 01 Presbyterian Church, Re-establish. .Preston, John, Lord Fentonbams, the potato, 11. 30 ment of the, 11.246 -1.206 - Preston, Sir Michael, I. q &ton of Craigmillar Provost Sir ?reston of Craignillar. Sir Richard. Henry, 11. 242, 278,'III. 61 111.61 ?reston of Craigmillar, Provost Sir Simon, I. w, 305, 11.279.111. 58, 59, 61, 62, 107 'reston of Valleyfield, Sir Charles, 11. 26, 335 326, 330. ,331: 332. ?reston, Lieut.-General, I. 322,323. ?redon relic, bt. Giles's Cathedral, I. 140 ?restonAeld manor-house, 111. *56, 57, 58 ?restongrange, Lord, 11.242, 272, 111.10 ?restonpans, 11. 283 16,.340, 111. IM, 174, a63; the' ishermen of, 111. 300 ; battle of (see Battles) ?reston Street, 111. 50 ?retender, Defence of the, 111.194 ?rice, Sir Magnus, 1. 117 ?nestfield or Prestonfield, I. 3 2 6 3 . Primrose, Viscount, I. m3,II. 124; Primrose, Si Archibald, I. 91,111. ?rimrose Lady Dorothea, I. 257 Primus 'khe title 11. 246 Prince 'Anne of benmarks Dragoons I. 64 Prince kharley's house, Duddmgston 11. *317 Princ;Consort, The, I. 358,II. 79; memorial to, 11. 175, '77, a84 PrinceofWales, Marrageof, 11.284 Prince of Wales's Graving Dock, Leith, 111. 286, q8g 358, 3647372r 11- 93, 95, 99s 100, 14, 1x0, 114, 117, 118, 119-130, 176, 182, 191 no6, zog, ?XI, 213, 372, 383,111.'146, 295 ; view from Scott'smonument, 11.*124: view looking west, 11. * '25 hinale, Andrew Lord Haining, I. 315, III.5p Viscountess, I. 104 I06 Princes Street, I.39,a55,295, 339. 131,136, 139, 151, 163, 165, 175, 27; Pringle, Sir Walter, I. 1% Pringle, Thomas 11. 140 Pringle of Stichel, Colonel, 111.45; Printed, Number of, in Edinburgh Printing-press, The first, in Scot- Prison& of 'war in Edinburgh Privy C&ud, Imd Keeper of the, Proctor John thecartoonist,III. 82 Project' for :urprising Edinburgh Promisc;ous dancing, Presbyterian Property Investment Society, I. 123 Protestant Institute, I. zg , 11. z6a Provost of Edinburgh, Salary and privileges of the, 11. 281, 111. 270; his first appearance in official decorations, 11. 282 Provost Stewart's Land. West Bow, Lady 11. 163 in 1779, I. 318 land I. 142 255 Castle 11. a48 1. 370. 372 Castle I. 67 abhorrence of, I. 315 I. 325 Provosts of Leith, The, 111. q, Provat's Close, 11. 277 Provost's House. Kirk+f-Field, 219, zm, 270 111.3 Publicopinionin Edinburgh, Weak. ness of formerly I. 285 PuirFolks'Purses:The,I. 138, 11.6 Pulteney, Sir ames 1. 106 '' Purging *' o/ the Scottish army, Furitan g&ner,Anecdote ofa, 1.56 Pye, Sir Robert, 111. 260, 261 111. 186 187 Q Quadrangle, The, Holymod Palace, Quality Street. Leith, III.2~1,235, 11. '76 . . Q,';?ity Wynd, Rotten Row, Leith Quarry Holes, The, 11. 101, zw Queen Mary (sec Mary Stuart) 111. 173 111. 128, 133, 151 Queen Mary's Apartments, Holyrood Palace 11. 66, * 67, 74 ; h u bedchambei, ib. Queen Mary's Bath, 11. 40, 41 !&.en Mary's Bower, Moray House 11. *32 33 &een Mary's r&m Dungeon in Edinburgh Castle below, I. *ZI, ,R Q&en Mary's room, Rmeburn House, 111. 103 Queen Mary's sundial 11. 68, 73 Queen Marys tree i1. 316; her pear.tree, Mercdiston Castle, Plate 26 ; her tree at Craigmillar Castle 111. 59 *60 . Queen itreet, iI. 115, 151-158, *16o 162 175 186 18 ,194, 199, Que& d e e t Gardens, 11.185~194. &eenptreet, k i t h , III.r73,qo, Queen's Dock Leith 111. 283 285 Queen's Drivi, The, \. XI, 11.'303. ZW ;U2 d83, iI8, i72, III. 74,106 am ueen Street Hall 111. 88 231, 232 312 Brigade, 1. 286 the, Ptate 23 turret near the I. * 49, 78 11. 17 Queen's Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Queen's Park, Volunteer review in Queen.s Post, Ancient postern and Queen's Theatre k d Opera Houl, Queen $ctoria'svisit to Edinburgh, 11. 354, 362 Queensberry, Duke of, I. 162. 164, 11. 8, 35, 38, 225, 226, 351, 111. Queensberry Duchess of I 155, 11. 37 ; herleccentric habh,.II. 38 Quernsbeny Earl of, 11. a53 Queensberry'House, Canongate, I. 1058 1'55, 327. 11. 10, 357 36, 37, 38; its present use, 11. 38 Queensberrv Lodge, 11. 38 Queensferry, I. 16, 19,II. 101. I!I. Q u e e n 2 4 Road, 11. 115,185,sm, Qneensferry Street, 11. 136 Qqhitncss John of, Provost, 11.278 Quince? +hornas de, 11. 135, 140, 246, 265,365 63,211, 306,307,314 ; theherrug fishe at 111. p 207, 111. 255 - II.74,359 R Rae Sir David 11. 26 203 ~ a e l Sir Wildm 11. ;27, III. 33c Rae: Lady, !I. &, 339 &burn, Sir Henry, I. 119, 159, a y , 384, 11. 88, go. gz, xzz,1z6, his stepdaughter, 111. 77 Hadical Road," The, 11. II I. 285 11. 188 187. 188, 111. 7lr 74, 6, 77, 140; Raeburn Place, 111.79 Railston Bishop of Dunked, 11.54 Railway;, their influence foreseen, Ramsay, Allan (see Allan Ramsay: Ramsay, Allan, the painter, 1. 83, Ramsay, Sir Alexander 11. 206 Ramsay, Sir Alexander,'Provost, I. Ramsay of Dalhousie. Sir Alex. y s Close, 11. I8 '99 ande;, I. 24, 25, 111.354, 355 Ramsay of Abbotshall, Sir Andrew. I. 311, 11. 74 ; Lord Provost, 11. ,281 Ramsay, Sir George I. 162 Ramsay, Sir John, IiI. 42 Ramsay of Balmain, Sir John, 11. Ramsay, Sir William 11. 166 Ramsay of Dalhousii, Sir W i l l i i 239 111.94 Ramsay, William, banker, 11. 362 111. 124 Ramsay, Cuthbert, I. 258 Ramsay Dean 11. 126, 205, 206 portrait of, 1;. * 128 Ramsay, Duel between Sir Georgq and Capt. Macrae, 111. 13-14, Ramsay, General John, I. 83, I1 I28 camsay, Lady, and Capt. Macrae, <amay Lady Elizabeth 111.32 Zamsay: Miss Christian,'her fondcamsay, The Misses, 111. 138 camsay Garden, I. 83, 11.82 ; view camsay Lane, 1. 87. 91 camsay Lane, Portp,bello 111. *153 <amsnpS, Peter, White Horse <am$y's Fort, Leith, 111. 171 tandolph Earl of Moray 11.47 candolph' Sir Thomas ; successful re-captlre of the Castle by, 1. 24 candolph Cliff, 111. 70,75. f'tate 28 candolph Crescent, I. 237, 11. 11.5, ZW, 2057 2071 20% 209 bnkeillor Street 11. 39 cankenion Club,'The, 11.180 lavelrig, 111. 334 tavelrig Hill, 111. 331 <avelston, I. 331, Ill. 79, 106 tavelston House 111. 106, 108 <wen's Craig ri. 307 <awdon Lad;Elizabeth, 11. 18 <ay Jdhn rectur of the high Sc~ool, Ii. 290 <eade,Charles, thenovelist, 111.303 ieay George Lord II. 272, 111.8 <ay: Lady ElLabTeth Fairlie, 12 tecord of Entails, I. 372 cedbraes manor-house, 111. 88, 89. * 93. its changes, 111. p ' !&gauhet," References to, 11. <edhallCastle, 111.313; themanor tedheughs, 'I he 111. 114,31g,33r <ed House The' 11. 330 teed. Robert. K'inp's architect. 11. 111. 139--14I ness for cats, 11. 18 from Princes Street, Pidr 17 Inn ' 1. zgg 272, 346 270 house, 11.43 R&rig, KLdS of, 111. 134, 135, Restalrig Lwh, 111. 13 Keston Lord, 11. 199 Restodtion festivals 11. 334 Restoration of Cha;les II., Popularity of the, I. 55, '59, 176, 11. 334 Restoration of James VII., Plots for the I. 66 Review dfScottish Volunteers, 1860, 11. 284.354 ; Plate 23 RevoliitionClub,The, 111. s a 3 ; i t ~ meLI, I. *63 . 168 ... OLD AND NEW' EDINBURGH. 'Plague in Leith, The 111. 180,186 Plainstane's close ~ i . ...

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368 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. "The edition said to be nndertaken with his approbation : obsolete words altered, with corrections in spelling and punctuation." A specimen of a book entitled Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spintual Sangs, collectit out of enndrie parts of the Scripture, with sundrie of other Bailates changed out of Prophaine Sanges, for avoyding of Sin and Harlotrie, with augmentation of sundrie Gude and Qodly Ballates, not contained in the 8rst edition. Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart, 12mo. Edinburgh, 1765, pp. 42 ; with a Glossary of four pages. Meniorials and Letters relating to the History of Britain in the reign of Charles I., published from the Originals. Glasgow, 1766, pp. 189. Chiefly eoliectedfrom the manuscripts of the Rev. Robert Wodrow, author of the History of the Church of Scotland. Inscribed to Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session. An Account of the Preservation of Charles 11. after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself; to which are added, his Letters to seveyal persona. Glasgow, 1766, pp. 190, from the MSS. of Mr. Pepys, dictated to him by the King himself, and communicated by Dr. Sandby, Mnster of Magdalen College. The Letters are collected from various sources, and some of them are now first published. Dedicated to Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Some copies havexa reprinted title page, dated Edinburgh, 1801, with one OT two additional Letters, and a Portrait prefixed of General Thomas Dalziel. The Secret Correspondence between Sir Robert Cecil and James VI. 12mo. 1760. A Catalogue of the Lords of Seasion from the Institution of the College of Justice, in the year 1532, with Historical Notes. Suum cuique-rependet posteritas. Edinburgh, li67,4to, pp. 26. A Specimen of Notes on the Statute Law of Scotland. No date, 8v0, very rare. A Specimen of similar Notes during the Reign of Mary Queen of Scots. No date, Svo, very rare. The Private Correspondence of Dr. Franris Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, and his friends, in 1725, never before published. Printed ip 1768, 4to. Advertisement pp. 2. Letters, pp.pO. fac-simile of the firat letter from Bp. Atterbury to John Camemn of Lochiel prefixed. An Examination of some of the Arguments for the high Antiquity of Regiam Majestatem; and au Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Leges MaZcolmi. Edinburgh, 1769, 4t0, pp. 52. Historical Memorials concerning the Provincial Councils of the Scottish Clergy, from the earliest accounts to the era of the Reformation. Edinburgh, 1769, 4t0, pp. 41.-Nota, Having no high opinion of the popularity of his writings, he prefixes to this work the following motto :-"Si delectamur quum scrihimus, qui8 est tam invidus qui ab eo nos abducat P sin labotamus, qui8 est qui aliena modum atatuat industriaP"4icero. Canons of the Church of Scotland, drawn up in the Provinrial Councils held at Perth, A.D. 1242, and 1269. Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the MS. of George Bannatyne, 1568. Edinburgh, 1770, I2mo. Preface, six pages. Poems, pp. 221, very CW~OUS Notes, pp. 92. Qlossary, and list of passages and words not undemtood, pp. 14. Edinburgh, 1769, ate, pp. 48. The Additional Case of Elizabeth, claiming the title and dignity of Countess of Sutherland. By her Guardians. Wherein the facts and argumenta in support of her claim are more fully stated, and the errors iu the additional cases for the claimants am detected, 4to. . This singularly learned and able case Was subscribed by Alexander Wedderbnrn (afterwards Lord Chancellor and Earl of Rosslyn) and Sir Adam Fergnsson, but is the well-known work of Lord Hailes. It ought not to be regarded merely as a Law Paper of great ability, but as a Treatise of profound research into the history and antiquity of many important and general points of succession and family history. Introduction, pp. 21. The first four chapters, pp. 70 The 6fth and sixth ohapters, pp. 177. Remarks on the History of Scotland. By Sir David Dalrymple. " Utinam tam facile vera invenire possem, qnani falsa convincere."-C&To. Edinburgh, 1773. Inscribed to George Lord Lyttleton, in nine chapters, pp. 264, l h o . Specimen of a Glossary of the Scottish Language. No date, 8vo. Remarks on the Latin Poems of Dr. Pitcairn, in the Edinburgh Magazine for February 1774. Huberti Langueti Epistole ad Philippum Sydneium Equitem Anglum. Accurante D. Dalrymple de Hniles. Eq. Edinburgh, 1776, 8vo. Inscribed to Lord Chief Baron Smythe.-Virorum Eruditorum testimonia de Langueto, pp, 7. Epistolz, 289. Index Nominum, pp. 41. Aunals of Scotland, from the Accession of Malcolm HI., surnamed Canmore, to the Accession of Rohert I. By Sir David Dalrymple. Edinburgh. 1776, pp. 311. Appendix, pp. 51. Tables of the Succession of the Kings of Scotland from Malcolm 111. to Robert I., their marriages, children, and time of their death; and also of the Kings of England and France, and of the Popes who were their contemporaries. Chronologlcsl Abridgment of the Volume, pp. 30. The Appendix contains eight Dissertations. 1. Of the Law of Evenw and Mercheta Mulierum, 2. A Commentary on the 22d Statute of William 3. Of the 16th Statute of Alexander IIL, pp. 6. 4. Bull of Pope Innocent IV., pp. 6. 6. Of Walter Stewart, Earl oP Menteth, 1296, 6. Of M'Duff, slain at Falkirk in 1298, pp. 3. 7. Of the Death of John Comyn, 10th February 8, Of the Origin of the. House of Stewart, pp. 6. pp. 17. the Lion, pp. 8. PP, 7. 1305, pp. 4. - Snnals of Scotland, from the Accession of Robert I. surnamed Bruee, to the Accession of the House of Stewart. By Sir David Dalrymple. Edinburgh, 1779, 4t0, pp. 277. Appendix, pp. 54. containing- 1. Of the Manner of the Death of Marjory, 2. Journal of the Campaign of Edward 111.. 1327, daughter of Robert I., pp. 7. PP. 9. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. "The edition said to be nndertaken with his approbation : obsolete words altered, ...

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16171,782 283, 335, 343 343 III, 140; dew of, II. 169 vanous buildings in, 11. 172; it! early residents, 11. 166 St. Andrew Street 11. I 160, 161 St. Andrew's Stree;, LeitcIII. 226 m71228 234 St. Ann, the tailors' patron saint, I. 23 St. Rnne-s altar Holyrood 11. 58 in St. Giles'sbhurch I1.'266 St. Anne's altar, St.' Cuthbert'r Church, 111. 94 St. Anne's Yard, 11. 76,79,3~3,3q St. Anthony's Chapel Arthur s Seat, I. 3 6 ; ruinsof, li. *3m *321 St. Anthony's Fire, or &ipelas, 111. 215 216 St. Anthoiy's Hermitage, I. m, 11. 303, 19, 111. 216 St. Ant%ony's Port, Leith, 111.151 SI. Anthonys preceptory, Leith, its seal, St. Anthonir Street, Leith, 111. St. Anthony's Well, 11. 312, 319, St. Anthony's Wynd,Ldth,III.z~s St. Augustine Chapel of 11.53 St. Augustine4 Church i. zgz.zg4 St. Bennet's, Greenhill,' 111. 54 SL Bernard's Chapel, 111.75 St. Bernard's Church, 111. 75 St. Bernard's Crescent, 111. 71. p, St. Bernard's parish, 11. 92, 135, St. Bernard's Row, 111. 94, 97 St. Bernard's Well, III.74,75. *76, 178, 17% 2yi, ~2 111. 131, 175, 176, 215 111. '216 217 298 "178 V a 322 73, 79,81 111.77 78 58,251. !II. 49 0s LI. #5 St. Catharine's altar, Holymod, 11. St. Cathenne of Sienna, Convenl St. Cecilii hall, I. 151, *a5z, II. St. Christopher's altar, St. Giles's St. Clair Lord 1. 16g St. Clai;of St.'Clair, General, 111. 175 Church, 11. 264, 111. a n z St. Clair of Roslin William, 11. 354 (sec sinclair dar~ William) St. colme Street '11. 105 St. Columba's Ekcooal Church. I. . * 9 5 . Church, 11. 6 3 , 264 St. Crispin's altar, St. Giles's St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham, 11. 13r 295 St. Cuthben's chapel of ease, 11. St. Cuthben's Church. Pkatc I. I. incumbents, 11. 131;. the old manse, 11. 132 ;demolition of the old church, 11. 134, 136 ; erection of the new building, 11. 134 ; the old and new churches, 11. 131 '133, * 136, * 137 ; burials unde: thesteeple 11. 135; theoldpoorhouse, 11.'135, 111. 83 St. Cuthbert's Free Church, 11.225 St. Cuthbert's Lane, 11. 335 St. David Street, 11. 16r, '65 St. David's Church, 11. ar6 St. Eligius, patron of the hammermen, 11.962 St. Eloi, 11. 263: carved groin stone from Chapel of, St. Giles's Church, I. * 147, 11. 262 St. Eloi's eo-. 11. 262 St. George's 'Church: Charlotte St. Georie's Episco$l chapel, 11. Square 11. 115, 126 173, 175 '90 St. Geor e's Free Church, 11. 138, St. George's Well 111. 75 St. Giles, the pation saint of Edinburgh, I. 138, 141, 254: seal of, I. * 140 ; procgsiou of the saint's relics I. 140 St. GilehChurch, 1. *I, 42,47, so, 51, 52.55, ~ 6 7 8 ~ 9 4 , IV. xm, Iax, 123, 138-147, 152, 18% 186, rga, 11. 15, 957 234, 3167 37% 111. 31, z10,115. 75 GENERAL INDEX. 51, 173, 184; its early history I. 138 139; the Norman door way, i. 139, 141' the Preston relic, I. 140; Sir DAvid Lindesaj on the rocessionists, I. 141, chapel ofsobert Duke of Albany: I. 142; funeral of the Regent Murray, I. 143; the "gude Regent's aisle," rb. ; the Assem. blyaisle, I. 144; disputes between am- VI. and the Church party, I. 144,146'departureofJamesVI. I. 146 ; Haddo's hole, ib. ; thi Napier tomb, id. ; the spire and lantern, I. '144, 146; theclock and bells, I. 146 ; the Krames, I. 147 ; restorations of 1878 ib. ; the or an, ib. ; plan of St. kiles's Churcf I. *1452 the High Church' 1. *I 8 149; removal of hone;: from f f. 384 3t. Giles's Chdchyard, I. 148, 149, 157 11. 379 31. Ghes's Grange, 111. 47, 49, 52, 54 ;, its vicar, 111. 49 3t. Giles's Kirkyard, 11. 239 3t. GilesStreethow PrincaStreet). I. 286 11. 11; 3t. Gd&s Street, Leith, 111. 223, 226 234 3t. Jimes's chapel, Newhaven, 111. 216, 295, 298, p; remains of, 3t. James'schapel,Leith, III.*240, 111. 297 243 3t. ams'sOpw=opalchapel 11.184 jt.jame~'sEp~opalChurcd,Leith, 111. *241, 243 3t. James's Square, I. 366. 11. 176, . _ _ . .~ 19. 3t, lohn the Baotist's Chaoel. 111. . . si, 53 St. John's altar, St. Giles's Church, II.26?,65 3t.John sCatholicChapel, Brighton St. Johks chapel, Burghmuir, 111. Place 111. 147 126, 134, d, 338, 383 3t. John's Established Church, I. 291 Leith 111. *n44 jt. John's Established Church, jt. Johr;'s Free Church I. z 5, 314 Zt. John's Free Church,'Leiti, 111. j t T p Hill I. 82 It. ohn's Stdet, 1. 325, 11. 2, 9, jt. Katherine of Scienna, Convent 2, 53, 329 ; ruins of, jt. Kathanne's altar, Kmk-of-Field, jt. Katharine's altar, St. Margaret's It. Katherine's chapel, Currie, 111. jt. Katherine's estate, 111. 330 it. Katharine's Place, 111. 54 it. Katharine's Thorn, 11. 363, it. Katherine's Well, Liberton, 111. 25, 26 27, 31, 111. 63 of 111. 51 IiI. *S4 ; 12 history, ib. ; seal of, 111. *55. 111. I chapel, Libaton, 111. 53 332 111.54 328, 3291 330 chapel of I 383, 384 it. Leonard, Suburb of, I. 382; it. Leonard's 'craigs, I. 75, III. 27, 142 it. Leonard's Hill, I. 55, 384, 11. 34 ; combat near, I. 383 it. Leonard's, Leith, 111. 227 it. Leonard's Kirkyard, 11.379 it. Leonards Loan, I. 383 it. Leonard's Well, 111. 89 it. Leonard's Wynd, 11. 54 it. Luke's Free Church, II.r53,.r55 it. Magdalene's Chapel, I. 240 it. Margaret, I. 16, 18, I it. Margaxet's Chapel, adinburgh Castle, I. 19, *zo, 76; chancel arch of I. *24 it. Margset'sconvent, III.45,'48 it. Margaret's Loch, 11. 319 it. Margaret's Tower, Edinburgh it. Margaret's Well, Edinburgh Cade. I. 36, 48, 78 Castle, I. 49 St. Margaret's Well, Restalrig, 11. St. LIC~ chapel &nLtarian), II. 11, 313, 111. I2 131 214 St. Mark's Episcopal chapel, Port* bello 111. 147 *153 St. M L j Magdhene chapel, New Hailes 111. 149, 366 St. M& Magdalene's Chapel, 11. 258, 261, 26a *a64' mterior 11. 264 : tabled on the walls,' 11. 262 *268 St. MkMagdalene's Hospital, 11. 26r, 262 St. Mary's Cathedral 11. 116, 211; exterior and interior, 11. *ZIZ, '213 St. Mary'sChapel, Niddry's Wynd, St. M&s Ckpel, broughton Street, I. z6z St. Mary's Church, South Leith, 111. 130, 135, 182, 196, *217,218, * z ~ o 222 244 ; its early hatory, I. 247 251, 298 11. 26 III.;I8 :19 St. Mary'; Convent I. 107,382 St. Mary's Free Ch$ch 11. 184 St. Mary's Hos ita1 I. :97 St. Mary's-in-t\e-$ield 11. '34 251, 252, III. 1 7 ; its history: 111. I, a St. Mary's parish church, 11. 191 ; school-house, 111. 87 St. Mary's Port, 1. 382 St. Mary's Roman Catholic chapel, St. Maryi Street' I. p 11. 238 St. Mary'sWynd,' 1.38, A, 217,219, 274. 275 * 29.298,2 I 335,375 382, 11. ;3, 249.~84~1%. 6 ; door! head in 1. *3m St Matth:w'sWell, Roslio,III. 3 I St. Michael's Church, Inveres?c, St. Nicholas Church North Leith, 111. 168, 176, 187 :its demolition by Monk, 111. 187 255 St. Nicholas Wyud, fII. 256 St. Ninian's altar, St. Giles's Church, 111. 119 St. Ninian's Chapel, I. 364, 111.72 St. Ninian's Church, North Leith, 11. 47, 111. 167 *I# 251 aga; pe,tv tyrann in, iii. 25;; its ministers IIE 254, 2 5 5 ; now a g r a n a r y , ' ~ ~ ~ . 254,255 St. Niuian's Churchyard 111. *256 Sc. Ninian's Free Churih, North Leith, 111.255 Si. Ninian's Row, I. 366,II. 103,176 St. Patrick Square, 11. 339 St. Patrick Street, I. 366, 11. 346 St. Patricks Romao Catholic Church, 1. 278, 11. 249 St.Paul's Chapel,CarmbWsClo, I. 239 *a40 St. Pads Episcopal Chapel, I. 278 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, York Place, 11.60,188,198,248 St. Paul's Wark, 11. 101 St. Peter'sChurch,RoxburghPlace, 11. '79' school 11. 326 111.149 11. 338 St. Peter's Close 11. 255 St. Peter'sEpiscdpal Church,II1.51 St. Peter's Pend, 11. 255 St. Roque, 111.47 ; legends of, 111. 46,47 St. Roque's Chapel, Rurghmuir, 111.47, ?g : ruins of, Ill. *48 St. Roque s Day 111. 47 St. Roque's KirI&rd, 11. 379 St. Salvator's altar, St. Giles's St. Staphhs Church, 111. * 81,83, St. Thomas's Epkopal Chapel, 11. Church 111. 35 85 . . - . St?homas's Church, Leith, 111. St. Tkdudna, 111. r p ; Church of, St. Vincen't strhet, III. 83 Stafford Street, 11. 211 Stage, The, in Edinburgh, I. 247 248 '253 III.rz8 130 '3' 352 Stagesoaches, Establiihment of, 11.15, 16,235,236; the Glasgow, 11.121 Stained-glass window P a r l i i e n t House 1. 159 Plati6 stainh0u;e. La;d of, I. 1:9* 389 Stair, Earlof, I. p, 94,37 , 11. 38, 95, 167, 327, 348, 358, h. 3% 367 E.W~ Stair, I. 103, Stair, Eliiheth Countess of 1. xrn -106 17r, 111. 41 ; the "Iavic mirrd "1.103; hermarriagewrth Stamp duty, In0uence of the, on newspapers, I. 284,285 Stamp Office, I. 234,267 Stamp Office Close, I. *ng, 231, 232 ; execution there, 1.2% Standard Life Assurance Company, 11. '3 Stantied tragedy The I. 281 ztanley, Star and the Garter" acto:, 1. tavern ;30 I. 187 Steam communication iivd~eith to Stedman Dr. John 11.301 Steele, sir Richard,,l: 106 Steil Pate, the musicin, I. 251 Stenkor Stenhouse, 111.339 Steveu Rev. Dr,, the historm of the high School, 11.11 287, a88, 289, 291:296,35Sr 3&?11- 135 Stevenlaws Close 11.242 Stevenson, Dr. Ahibald, 11. 144 147 Stevenson, Duncan, and the Beacm newspaper, I. 181, 182 11.241 Stevenson Dr. John I d 18 19~27 Stewart &hibald 'Lord Phvost, I. 318, 322, 32;) 11. 280, 283; house of I. 318 * 325 Stewart ojAllanbLk, Sir John, 11. 26 Stewart Sir Alexander, I. 195 Stewart' of Colmess, Sir J ~ C S , Provost, 11. 281,111. 340 Stewart, Sir ames, I. 1r7 stewart of &trees Sir Jmi- I. 229, 111. 34-3;~ ; his h o d in Advocate's Close, I. *223, Ill. 30' Sir Thomas ib. Stewah Sir Lewis '111. 364 Stewariof Monk&, Sir Williim, Murder of I. 196,258, 259, 74 Stewart of 'Grantully, Sir john, Stewart of Grantully, Sir George, 11. 350; his marriage, 111.90 Stewart, Dugald, I. 106, 156, 11. 17, 39, 120, 168, 195, m~r 2 3, 111.20,55; gray of II. 29 ; his father, 111.20 ; h e cife, 11. 206 : her brother, 11. 207; Dugalds monument 11. III Stewart Jades 111.79 Stewart'of Gariies, Alexander, 11. 225 Stewart Belshes of Invermay, Sir John, 11. 383. Stewart, Daniel, 111. 67; hospital of, id.; ne* from Drumsheugh London, 111. 2x1 11. 97 117, 128,13 , 151,175, ZIO Steel, si; John,scuiptor, I. 159,372. 11. 351 grounds, 111. *68 road, 'I. 3% 3 d 111.221 Stewart Robert, Abbot of Holy- Stewart of Castle Stewart 11. 157 Stewart ofGarth, Genera;, 11. 150, Stewart of Strathdon, Sir Robert, Stewart Colonel ohn, 11. 350 stewart' hptain Eeorge, 11.257 Stewart: Lieut.Colone1 Matthew, Stewart, Captain James, I. 195, I@ Stewart of W t r e e s , I. 6a Stewart, Execution of Alexander, Stewart Lady Margaret 111. n I Stewart'of lsle Mn., 11.' 162 Stewart, Nichblson, the actor, I. Stewartfield manor-how, 111. 88, Stewart s Hospital, 11. 63, 111.67 Stewarth oysteehouse, i. I m Stirling, Enrls "f T I ? E Stirliig stirling gi ~ e w a I. 44 42 11.223 stirliig: sir w&, Lord Rovost, Stirling of Kek, Sir William, 11. 158 ; h e daughter, 111.35 Stirling, General Graham, I I. 153 Stirling, Mrs., actRsq I. 35f 11. d a youth, 11. 231 343 91, * 93 11. ~ $ 2 283, 391 I. 374 ... 283, 335, 343 343 III, 140; dew of, II. 169 vanous buildings in, 11. 172; it! early residents, 11. ...

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