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310 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Granton.
Scots now takefl this to be a prophecy of the
thing which has happened. ? The next day,
4th May, the army landed two miles bewest the
town of Leith, at a place called Grantaine Cragge,
every man being so.prompt, that the whole army
was landed in four hours.? As there was no opposition,
a circumstance unlooked for, and having
guides, ?? We put ourselves in good order of war,??
continues the .narrator, ?marching towards Leith in
three battayles (columns), whereof my lord admiral
led the vanguard, the Earl of Shrewsbury the rearguard,
the Earl of Hertford the centre, with the
artillery drawn by men. In a valley on the right
of the said town the Scots were assembled to the
number of five or six thousand horse, besides foot,
to impeach our passage, and had planted their
artillery at two straits, through which we had to
pass. At first they seemed ready to attack the
vanguard.? But perceiving the English ready to
pass a ford that lay between them and the Scots,
the latter abandoned their cannon, eight pieces in
all, and fled towards Edinburgh j the first to quit
the field was ? the holy cardynall, lyke a vallyant
champion, with him the governor, Therles of
Huntly, Murray, and Bothwell?
The.fame of Granton for its excellent freestone
is not a matter of recent times, as in the City
Treasurer?s accounts, 1552-3, we read of half an
ell of velvet, given to the Laird of Carube
(Carrubber?) for ?licence to wyn stones on his
lands of Granton, to the schoir, for the hale space
of a year.?
In 1579 a ship called the Jinas of Leith
perished in a storm upon the rocks at Granton,
having been blown from her anchorage. Upon
this, certain burgesses of Edinburgh brought an
action against her owner, Vergell Kene of Leith,
for the value of goods lost in the said ship ; but he
urged that her wrecking was the ?providence of
God,? and the matter was remitted to the admiral
and his deputes (Privy Council Reg.)
In 1605 we first find a distinct mention legally,
of the old fortalice of Wardie, or Granton, thus in
the ?Retours.? ? Wardie-muir cum turre et fortalicio
de Wardie,? when George Tours is served heir to
his father, Sir John Tours of Inverleith, knight,
14th May.
In 1685, by an Act of Parliament passed by
James VII., the lands and barony of Royston
were ?ratified,? in favour of George Viscount
Tarbet, Lord Macleod, and Castlehaven, then
Lord Clerk Register, and his spouse, Lady Anna
Sinclair. They are described as comprehending
the lands of Easter Granton with the manor-house,
dovecot, coalheughs, and quarries, bounded by
?
.
Granton Bum; the lands of Muirhouse, and
Pilton on the south, and the lands of Wardie and
Wardie Bum, the sea links of Easter Granton, the
lands of Golden Riggs or Acres, all of which had
belonged to the deceased Patrick Nicoll of Royston.
The statesmen referred to was George Mackenzie,
Viscount Tarbet and first Earl of Cromarty,
eminent for his learning and abilities, descended
from a branch of the family of Seaforth, and born
in 1630. On the death of his father in 1654, with
General Middleton he maintained a guerrilla warfare
with the Parliamentary forces, in the interests
of Charles 11. ; but had to leave Scotland till the
Restoration, after which he became the great confidant
of Middleton, when the latter obtained the
chief administration of the kingdom.
In 1678 he was appointed Justice-General for
Scotland, in 1681, a Lord of Session and Clerk
Register, and four years afterwards James VII.
created him Viscount Tarbet, by which name he is
best known in Scotland.
Though an active and not over-scrupulous agent
under James VII., he had no objection to transfer
his allegiance to William of Orange, who, in 1692,
restored him to office, after which he repeatedly
falsified the records of Parliament, thus adding
much to the odium attaching to his name. In
1696 he retired upon a pension, and was created
Earl of Cromarty in 1703. He was a zealous
supporter of the Union, having sold his vote for
A300, for with all his eminence and talent as a
statesman, he was notoriously devoid of principle.
He was one of the original members of the Royal
Society, and was author of a series of valuable
articles, political and historical works, too
numerous to be noted here. He died at New
Tarbet in 1714, aged eighty-four, and left a son,
who became second Earl of Cromarty, and another,
Sir James Mackenzie, Bart., a senator with the
title of Lord Royston. His grandson, George,
third Earl of Cromarty, fought at Falkirk, leading
400 of his clan, but was afterwards taken prisoner,
sent to the Tower, and sentenced to death. The
latter portion was remitted, he retired into exile,
and his son and heir entered the Swedish service;
but when the American war broke out he raised the
regiment known as Macleod?s Highlanders (latterly
the 71st Regiment), consisting of two battalions,
and served at their head in the East Indies.
Lord Royston was raised to the bench on the
7th of June, I 7 10 ; and a suit of his and the Laird of
Fraserdale, conjointly against Haliburton of Pitcur,
is recorded in ? Bruce?s Decisions ? for 17 15.
He is said to have been ?one of the wittiest

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90 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Bonnington.
In April, 1747, the Countess of Hugh, third Earl
of Marchmont (Anne Western of London), died in
Redbraes House; and we may add that ?Lord
Polwarth of Redbraes ? was one of the titles of Sir
Patrick Hume when raised to the Scottish peerage
as Earl of Marchmont.
We afterwards find Sir Hew Crawford, Bart. of
Jordanhill, resident proprietor at Redbraes. Here,
in 1775, his eldest daughter Mary was married to
General, Campbell of Boquhan (previously known
as Fletcher of Saltoun), and here he would seem
to have been still when another of his daughters
found her way into the caricatures of Kay, a subject
whichmade a great noise in its time as a local scandal.
In the Abbey Hill .there then resided an ambitious
little grocer named Mr. Alexander Thomson,
locally known as ?Ruffles,? from the long
loose appendages of lace he wore at his sleeves.
With a view to his aggrandisement he hoped to
connect himself with some aristocratic family, and
cast his eyes on Miss Crawford, a lady rather fantastic
in her dress and manners, but the daughter
of a man of high and indomitable pride. She kept
? Ruffles ? at a proper distance, though he followed
her like her shadow, and so they appeared
in the same print of Kay.
The lady did not seem to be always so fastidious,
as she formed what was deemed then a
terrible mbaZZiunce by marrying John Fortune, a
surgeon, who went abroad. Fortune?s brother,
Matthew, kept the Tontine tavern in Princes
Street, and his father a famous old inn in the High
Street, the resort of all the higher ranks in Scotland
about the close of the last century, as has already
been seen in an earlier chapter of this work.
Her brother, Captain Crawford, threatened to
cudgel Kay, who in turn caricatured hinz. Sir Hew
Crawford?s family originally consisted of fifteen,
most of whom died young. The baronetcy, which
dated from 1701, is now supposed to be extinct.
In their day the grounds of Redbraes were
deemed so beautiful, that mullioned openings were
made in the boundary wall to permit passers-by to
peep in.
In 1800 the Edinburgh papers announced proposals
?? for converting the beautiful villa of Redbraes
into a Vauxhall, the entertainment to consist
of a concert of vocal and instrumental music, to be
conducted by Mr. Urbani-a band to play between
the acts of the concert, at the entrance, &c. The
gardens and grounds to be decorated with statues
and transparencies ; and a pavilion to be erected to
serve as a temporary retreat in case of rain, and
boxes and other conveniences to be erected for
serving cold collations.?
This scheme was never carried out. Latterly
Redbraes became a nursery garden.
Below Redbraes lies Bonnington, a small and
nearly absorbed village on the banks of the Water
of Leith, which is there crossed by a narrow bridge.
There are several mills and other works here, and
in the vicinity an extensive distillery. The once
arable estate of Hill-house Field, which adjoins it,
is all now laid out in streets, and forms a suburb
of North Leith. The river here attains some
depth.
We read that about April, 1652, dissent began
to take new and hitherto little known forms. There
were Antitrinitarians, Antinomians, Familists (a
small sect who held that families alone were a
proper congregation), Brownists, as well as Independents,
Seekers, and so forth ; and where there were
formerly no avowed Anabaptists, these abounded
so much, that ? thrice weekly,? says Nicoll, in his
Diary, ?namely, on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, there were some dippit at Bonnington Mill,
betwixt Leith and Edinburgh, both men and
women of good rank. Some days there would be
sundry hundred persons attending that action, and
fifteen persons baptised in one day by the Anabap
tists. Among the converts was Lady Craigie-
Wallace, a lady in the west country.?
In the middle of the last century there resided
at his villa of Bonnyhaugh, in this quarter, Robert,
called Bishop Keith, an eminent scholar and antiquary,
the foster-brother of Robert Viscount Arbuthnot,
and who came to Edinburgh in February,
1713, when he was invited by the small congregation
of Scottish Episcopalians to become their
pastor. His talents and learning had already
attracted considerable attention, and procured him
influence in that Church, of which he was a zealous
supporter ; yet he was extremely liberal, gentle, and
tolerant in his religious sentiments. In January,
1727, he was raised to the Episcopate, and entrusted
with the care of Caithness, Orkney, and the
Isles, and in I 733 was preferred to that of Fife. For
more than twenty years after that time he continued
to exercise the duties of his office, filling a high and
dignified place in Edinburgh, while busy with
those many historical works which have given him
no common place in Scottish literature.
It is now well known that, previous to the rising
of 1745, he was in close correspondence with
Prince Charles Edward, but chiefly on subjects
relating to his depressed and suffering communion,
and that the latter, ?as the supposed head of a
supposed Church, gave? the con$ d?kZire necessary
for the election of individuals to exercise the epis.
copal office.?

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325 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Bristo Sheet.
g died; but Scotland was not then, nor for long
after, susjected to the incessant immigration of the
Irish poor, The government of this house was
vested in ninety-six persons, who met quarterly,
and fifteen managers, who met weekly. There
were also a treasurer, chaplain, surgeon, and other
officials.
This unsightly edifice survived the Darien House
for some years, but was eventually removed to
make way for the handsome street in a line with
George IV. Bridge, containing the Edinburgh Rifle
Volunteer Hall, and the hall of the Odd Fellows.
At the acute angle between Forrest Road and
Bristo Street is the New North Free Church,
erected in 1846. It presents Gothic fronts to both
thoroughfares, and, has a massive projecting front
basement, adorned with a small Gothic arcade.
In 1764 we first hear of something like a trade
strike, when a great number of journeyman masons
met in July in Bristo Park (on the open side of
the street, near Lord ROSS?S house), where they
formed a combination ?not to work in the ensuing
week unless their wages were augmented. This,
it seems, they communicated to their masters on
Saturday night, but had no satisfactory answer.
Yestcrday morning they came to work, but finding
no hopes of an augmentation, they all, with one
consent, went oft The same evening the mastermasons
of the city, Canongate, Leith, and suburbs,
met in order to concert what measures may be
proper to be taken in this affair.? (Edin. Adnert.,
They resolved not to increase the wages of the
men, and to take legal advice ?to prevent undue
combinations, which are attended with many bad
effects.? The sequel we have no means of knowing.
The same print quoted records a strike among the
sweeps, or tronmen, in the same park, and elsewhere
adds that ? an old soldier has lately come to town
who sweeps chimneys after the English manner,
which has so disgusted the society cif chimneysweepers
that they refuse to sweep any unless this
man is obliged to leave the town, upon which a
number of them have been put in prison to-day.
They need not be afraid of this old soldier taking
the bread from them, as few chimneys in this place
will admit of a man going through.them.? (Edin.
Adverf., Vol. 111.)
In the Bristo Port, or that portion of the street
so called, stood long the Old George Inn, from
whence the coaches, about 1788, were wont to set
forth for Carlisle and London, three weekly-fare
to the former, AI IOS., to the latter, A3 10s. 6dand
from whence, till nearly the railway era, the
waggons were despatched every lawful day to
Vol. 11.)
London and all parts of England ; ?? also every day
to Greenock, Glasgow, and the west of Scotland.?
Southward of where .this inn stood is now St.
Mary?s Roman Catholic school, formerly a church,
built in 1839. It is a pinnacled Gothic edifice, and
was originally dedicated to St Patrick, but was
superseded in 1856, when the great church in the
Cowgate was secured by the Bishop of Edinburgh.
Lothian Street opens eastward from this point
In a gloomy mZ-de-sac on its northern side is a
circular edifice, named Brighton Chapel, built in
1835, and seated for 1,257 persons. Originally, it
was occupied by a relief congregation. The continuation
of the thoroughfare eastward leads to
College Street, in which we find a large United
Presbyterian church.
In a court off the east side of Bristo Street, a few
yards south from the east end.of Teviot Row, is
another church belonging to the same community,
which superseded the oldest dissenting Presbyterian
church in Edinburgh. In a recently-published
history of this edifice, we are told that early in the
century, ?when the old church was pulled down,
within the heavy canopy of the pulpit ? (the sounding-
board) ?( were found three or four skeletons of
horses? heads, and underneath the pulpit platform
about twenty more. It was conjectured that they
had been placed there from some notion that the
acoustics of the place would be improved.?
The church was built in 1802, at a cost of
&,o84, and was enlarged afterwards, at a further
cost of A1,515, and interiorly renovated in 1872
for A~,300. It is a neat and very spacious edifice,
and was long famous for the ministry of the Rev.
Dr. James Peddie, who was ordained as a pastor of
that congregation on the 3rd April, 1783. On his
election, a large body of the sitters withdrew, and
formed themselves into the Associate Congregation
of Rose Street, of which the Rev. Dr. Hall
subsequently became minister ; but the Bristo
Street congregation rapidly recruited its numbers
under the pastoral labours of Dr. Peddie, and from
that time has been in a most flourishing condition.
In 1778, when six years of age, Sir Walter Scott
attended the school of Mr. Johu Luckmore, in
Hamilton?s Entry, off Bristo Street, a worthy preceptor,
who was much esteemed by his father, the
old Writer to the Signet, with whom he was for
many years a weekly guest. The school-house,
though considerably dilapidated, still exists, and
is occupied as a blacksmith?s shop. It is a small
cottage-like building with a red-tiled roof, situated
on the right-hand side of the court called Hamilton?s
Entry, No. 36, Bristo Street. As to the identity of
the edifice there can be no doubt, as it was

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282 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lord PmYoss.
tion of five new professorships. A few years after
his death a bust of him by Nollekens was erected
in their public hall by the managers of the Royal
Infirmary.
In 1754 the Lord Provost, dean of guild, bailies,
and city treasurer, appeared in November, for the
first time, with gold chains and medals, in lieu of
the black velvet coats, which were laid aside by all
save the provost, and which had been first ordered
to be worn by an Act of the Council in I 7 I 8.
In 1753, on the 17th February, died Patrick
Lindsay, Esq., late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and
Governor of the Isle of Man.
In 1768 the Lord Provost was James Stuart.
In the following year, during spring, the great Benjamin
Franklin and his son spent six weeks in Scotland,
and the University of St. Andrews conferred
upon him the honorary title of Doctor, by which he
has since been generally known. On his coming
to Edinburgh, Provost Stuart and the Corporation
bestowed upon him the freedom of the city, when
every house was thrown open to him, and the most
distinguished men of letters crowded round him.
Hume, Robertson, and Lord Kames, became his
intimate friends ; but Franklin was not unduly
elated, ?? On the whole,? he wrote, U I must say
the time I spent there (in Scotland) was six weeks
of the dearest happiness I have met with in any
part of my life.?
Stuart?s successor in ofice was John Dalrymple,
whose eldest son succeeded to the baronetcy of
Hailes (which is now extinct) on the death of Lord
Hailes, the distinguished judge and writer.
In the year 1774 there was considerable political
strife in the city, originating in the general parliamentary
election, when exertions were made to
wrest the representation from Sir Lawrence Dundas,
who unexpectedly found as opponents Loch of
Carnbie, and Captain James Francis Erskine of
Forrest. A charge of bribery being preferred against
Sir Lawrence, some delay occurred in the election,
and the then Lord Provost Stoddart came forward
as a candidate. The votes of the Council were-for
Sir Lawrence, twenty-three ; for Provost Stoddart,
six; and for Captain Erskine, three. One of the
Council, Gilbert Laurie (who had been provost in
1766) was absent. Messrs. Stoddart and Loch protested
that the election had been brought about by
undue influence.
The opposition to Sir Lawrence became still
greater, and a keen trial of strength took place when
the election of deacons and councillors came
in 1776, and many bitter letters appeared in the
public prints ; but the friends of the Dundas family
proved again triumphant, and united in the choice of
Alexander Kincaid, as Lord Provost, His Majesty?s
Printer for Scotland. He died in office in 1777,
in a house situated in the Cowgate, in a small court
westward of the Horse Wynd, and known as Kincaid?s
Land, and was succeeded by Provost Dalrymple.
Two years afterwards the city was assessed in
the sum of iC;1,500 to repay damage done by a mob
to the Roman Catholic place of worship, fo; the destruction
of furniture, ornaments, books, and altar
vessels. In this year, I 779, there were 188 hackney
sedan chairs in the city, but very few hackney
coaches; and the umbrella first appeared in the
streets. By 1783 there were 1,268 four-wheeled carriages
entered to pay duty, and 338 two-wheeled.
At Michaelmas, 1784, Sir James Hunter Blair,
Bart., was elected Lord Provost, in succession to
David Stuart, who resided in Queen Street, and
who was a younger son of Stuart of Dalguise. The
second son of Mr. John Hunter of Ayr, Sir James,
commenced life as an apprentice with Coutts and
Co., the Edinburgh bankers, in 1756, when Sir
William Forbes was then a clerk, and both became
ultimately the principal partners. He married the
eldest daughter of Blair of Dunskey, who left no
less than six sons at the time of this event, all of
whom died, and on her succession to the estates,
Sir James assumed the name and arms .of Blair.
As Lord Provost he was indefatigable in the
activity of his public spirit, and set afoot the great
operations for the improvement of Edinburgh, and
one object he had specially in view when founding
the South Bridge was the rebuilding of the
University.
Sir James lived only to see the commencement
of the great works he had projected in Edinburgh,
as he died of fever at Harrogate in July, 1787, and
was honoured with a public funeral in the Greyfriars?
churchyard. In private life he was affable
and cheerful, attached to his friends and anxious for
their success. In business and in his public exertions
he was upright, liberal, and, as a Scotsman,
patriotic; he possessed in no small degree those
talents which are requisite for rendering benevolence
effectual, uniting great knowledge of the
world with sagacity and sound understanding.
Sir James Stirling, Bart., elected Lord Provost,
after Elder of Forneth, had a stormy time when in
office. He was the son of a fishmonger at the
head of Marlin?s Wynd, where his sign was a
wooden Black BUZZ, now in the Antiquarian
Museum. Stirling, after being secretary to Sir
Charles Dalling, Governor of Jamaica, became a
partner in the bank of Mansfield, Ramsay, and Co.
in Cantore?s Close, Luckenbooths, and manied the

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The TolbOoth.1 PORTEOUS EXECUTED. 131
some proposed to slay hini on the spot, was told
by others to prepare for that death .elsewhere
which justice had awarded him ; but amid all their
fury, the rioters conducted themselves generally with
grim and mature deliberation. Porteous was allowed
to entrust his money and papers with a person who
was in prison for debt, and one of the rioters kindly
and humanely offered him the last consolation religion
can afford. The dreadful procession, seen
by thousands of eyes fiom the crowded windows,
was then begun, and amid the gleam of links and
;torches, that tipped with fire the blades of hundreds
of weapons, the crowd poured down the
West Bow to the Grassmarket. So coolly and
deliberately did they proceed, that when one 01
Porteous? slippers dropped from his foot, as he was
borne sobbing and praying along, they halted, and
replaced it In the Bow the shop of a dealer in
cordage (over whose door there hung a grotesque
figure, still preserved) was broken open, a rope
taken therefrom, and a guinea left in its stead.
On reaching the place of execution, still marked
byan arrangement of the stones, they were at a loss
for a gibbet, till they discovered a dyer?s pole in it:
immediate vicinity. They tied tbe rope round the
neck of their victim, and slinging it over the cross
beam, swung him up, and speedily put an end tc
his sufferings and his life ; then the roar of voicez
that swept over the vast place and re-echoed up the
Castle rocks, announced that all was over ! BUI
ere this was achieved Porteous had been twice le1
down and strung up again, while many struck him
with their Lochaber axes, and tried to cut off hi:
ears.
Among those who witnessed this scene, and nevei
forgot it, was the learned Lord Monboddo, who had
that morning come for the first time to Edinburgh.
When about retiring to rest (according to ? Kafi
Portraits ?) his curiosity was excited by the noise and
tumult in the streets, and in place of going to bed:
he slipped to the door, half-dressed, with a nightcap
on his head. He speedily got entangled in
the crowd of passers-by, and was hurried along with
them to the Grassmarket, where he became an
involuntary witness of the last act of the tragedy.
This scene made so deep an impression on his
lordship, that it not only deprived him of sleep foi
the remainder of the night, but induced him to
think of leaving the city altogether, as a place unfit
for a civilised being to live in. His lordship
frequently related fhis incident in after life, and
on these occasions described with much force the
effect it had upon him.? Lord Monboddo died
in 1799.
As soon as the rioters had satiated their venzeance,
they tossed away their weapons, and quietly
dispersed; and when the morning of the 8th September
stole in nothing remained of the event but
the fire-blackened cinders of the Tolbooth door, the
muskets and Lochaber axes scattered in the streets,
and the dead body of Porteous swinging in the
breeze from the dyer?s pole. According to the
Caledonian Mercury of 9th September, 1736, the
body of Porteous was interred on the second day
in the Greyfriars. The Government was exasperated,
and resolved to inflict summary vengeance
on the city. Alexander Wilson, the Lord Provost,
was arrested, but admitted to bail after three weeks?
incarceration. A Bill was introduced into Parliament
materially affecting the city, but the clauses for
the further imprisonment of the innocent Provost,
abolishing the City Guard, and dismantling the
gates, were left out when amended by the Commons,
and in place of these a small fine of Az,ooo
in favour of Captain Porteous? widow was imposed
upon Edinburgh. Thus terminated this extraordinary
conspiracy, which to this day remains a
mystery. Large rewards were offered in vain for
the ringleaders, many of whom had been disguised
as females. One of them is said to have been
the Earl of Haddington, clad in his cook-maid?s
dress. The Act of Parliament enjoined the proclamation
for the discovery of the rioters should be
read from the parish pulpits on Sunday, but many
clergymen refused to do so, and there was no power
to compel them ; and the people remembered with
much bitterness that a certain Captain Lind, of the
Town Guard, who had given evidence in Edinburgh
tending to incriminate the magistrates, was rewarded
by a commission in Lord Tyrawley?s South British
Fusiliers, now 7th Foot.
The next prisoner in the Tolbooth who created
an intensity of interest in the minds of contemporaries
was Katharine Nairn, the young and
beautiful daughter of Sir Robert Nairn, Bart, a
lady allied by blood and marriage to many families
of the best position. Her crime was a double
one-that of poisoning her husband, Ogilvie of
Eastmilne, and of having an intrigue with his
youngest brother Patrick, a lieutenant of the Old
Gordon Highlanders, disbanded, as we elsewhere
stated, in 1765. The victim, to whom she had
been mamed in her nineteenth year, was a man
of property, but far advanced in life, and her
marriage appears to have been one of those unequal
matches by which the happiness of a girl is sacnficed
to worldly policy. On her arrival at? Leith in
an open boat in 1766, her whole bearing betrayed
so much levity, and was so different from what
was expected by a somewhat pitying crowd, that a

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502 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Seton, Sir Reginald Macdonald
Stewart, Bart., 299
Shade, Mr., 471
Sharpe, Archbishop, 162
Sharpe, Sir William, 241
Shaw, Mr. James, 387
Shelburne, Earl of, 257
Sheridan, Richard B., 256, 260
Shenvin, John K., 377
Sibbald, Mr. James, 216
Siddons, Mrs., 111, 204
Sidmouth, Bight Hon. Lord, 36
Simeon, Sir John, Bart., 296
Simeon, Rev. Charles, 39, 41
Sinipson, Rev. Yr., 245
Simson, Dr. Thomas, 53
Sinclair, George, Esq., 61
Sinclair, Mr. James, 61
Sinclair, Miss Helen, 61
Sinclair, Miss Mary, 61
Sinclair, Miss Jsnet, 61
Sinclair, Sir John, 110, 148, 217
sinclair, Lady, 71
Sinclair, Miss Hannah, 71
linclair, Miss Janet, 71
3inclair, Sir Gcorge, M.P., 71
linclair, Mr. Alexander, 71
ginclair, Rev. John, A.M., 71
ginclair, Captain Archibald,
linclair, Rev. William, 71
jinclair, Mr. Godfrey, 71
iinclair, Miss Diana, 71
iinclair, Miss Margaret, 71
linclair, Miss Catharine, 71
linclair, Sergeant, 67, 273
linclair, Mr. Robert 162
linclair, Miss, of Balgregie, 197
litwell, Francis, Esq., 91
,kelton, Lieut.-General, 125
kene, George, 227
kene, Mr., of Skene, 428
kene, George, Esq., 452
kinner, Mr. William, 402, 410
kinner, Lucky, 402, 403, 404,
kirving, Mrs. Janet, 378
308
R.N., 71
409, 410
Small, Bailie, 201
3mal1, -, 426
Smellie, Mr. William, 65, 135,
136, 180, 416
Jmellie, Mr. Alexander, printer,
44,188, 189, 213, 319, 363
jmith, Dr. Adam, 62, 75, 140,
141, 457
Rowan, Mr. Frederick Hamilto
Rowlandson, Thomas, 377
Royston, Lord, 72
Runciman, Alexander, 238, 23:
Russell, Rev. Dr. David, 42
Russell, Mr. James, 384
Russell, Mr. R. A., 455
Russia, Emperor Alexander o
Russia, Emperor and Empress c
Rutherford, John, Esq., 79
Rutherford, Mr., 405
175
2 43
301
S
SANDILANDMSrs,. , 74
Sandilands, Andrew, 342
Sassan, Madame Lina Talina, 5
Sayer, Mr., 360, 364
Sceales, Mr., 213
Schwerin, Duke of Mecklenbuq
Scoltock, John, 359, 360, 362
Scotland, Mr. Robert, 404, 405
Scotland, Mr. John, 404, 405
Scotland, Mr. David, 404, 405
Scots, Mary Queen of, 178, 342
Scott, General, 22
Scott, Mr. Walter, W.S., 163
463
Scott, Sir Walter, 69, 95, 99
100, 163, 264, 274, 319, 320
370, 391, 398, 441, 454, 456
465
356
354
Scott, Rev. Alexander, 76
Scott, Lieut. Francis, R.N., 76
Scott, Rev. Robert, 76
Scott, John, Esq., 78
Scott, Miss Susan, 78
Scott, Mr. Robert, 98
Scott, Mr. William, 167
Scott, Colonel, 273
Scott, Mr., 285, 287
Scott, Miss Marion, 286
Scott, Rev. Thomas, 299
Scott, William, 322, 325
Scott, Mr. David, senior, 378,
Scott, Mr. Andrew, W.S., 424,
Scott, Mr. David, junior, 425
Seafield and Findlater, Earl of,
Sedgwick, Mr., 295
424
425
433
Smith, Mr. R. A., 100
Smith, Rev. Mr., 134
Smith and Co., Messrs., 263
Smith, George, 286
Smith, Donald, Esq., 352, 441
Smith, Miss Barbara, 352
Smith, Rev. Sydney, 388, 391
Smith, Dfr. John, 403, 407
Smith, Alexander, Esq., 421
Smyth, James, Esq., W.S., 363
Smyth, Dr. Carmichacl, 452
Smyth, Miss, 452
Smythe, David, Esq., 325
Smythe, Robert, Esq., 326
Smythe, William, Esq., 326
Smythe, Rev. Patrick &I., 326
Smythe, George, Esq., 326
Smythe, Miss CamUa, 418
Somerset, Lady, 303
South, Sir James, Knight, F. R.S.,
gouthey, Robert, Esq., 391
3peir, Daft Will, 132
jpencer, General, 163
Spens, Dr., 268
3penser, Lord, 292
Spittal, Sir James, Knight, 455
Stabilini, Hieronymo, 110
3tae1, Madame de, 64
gtaines, Sir William, 292
ltark, Mr. James, 309
Steel, George, Esq., 443
Steele, Mr. Thomas, 175
rteele, Mr., 285, 287
%even, Rev. Charles B., A.M.,
jkvens, Mr. G. A., 258
itevenson, Dr., 417
itevenson, Miss Juliana, 417
Itewart, Stair Hawthorn, Esq.,
kewart, Sir James, 79
Itewart, Mr. William, 100
Itewart, Frederick Campbell,
'tewart, Mr. Charles, 181
tewart, Colonel David, 263, 274
tewart, Archibald, Esq., 294
tewart, Dr. Alexander, 297
tewart, Professor Dugald, 351,
tewart, Mrs., 359, 363
tewart, Mr. David, 374
tewart, Miss, 374
tewart, Robert, Esq., 379, 424
tiding, Alexander, 263
142
66
71
Esq., 151
352, 384

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Coweate.1 VERNOUR?S
from the two bridges named, it seems to cower in
its gorge, a narrow and dusky river of quaint and
black architecture, yet teeming with life, bustle,
and animation. Its length from where the Cowgate
Port stood to the foot of the Candlemaker
Row is about 800 yards.
. I t is difficult to imagine the time when it was
probably a narrow country way, bordered by hedgerows,
skirting the base of the slope whereon lay
the churchyard of St. Giles?s, ere houses began to
appear upon its lie, ,and it acquired its name,
which is now proved to have been originally the
Sou?gate, or South Street.
One of the earliest buildings immediately adjacent
to the Cowgate must have been the ancient chapel
of the Holyrood, which stood in the nether kirkyard
of St. Giles?s till the Reformation, when the
materials of it were used in the construction of the
New Tolbooth. Building here must have begun
early in the 15th century.
In 1428 John Vernour gave a land (i.e., a tenement)
near the town of Edinburgh, on the south
side thereof, in the street called Cowgate, to
Richard Lundy, a monk of Melrose,? for twenty
shillings yearly. He or his heirs were to have the
refusal of it if it were sold. (?Monastic Ann,?
Tevio tdale.)
In 1440 William Vernour, according to the
same authority, granted this tenement to Richard
Lundy, then Abbot of Melrose, without reserve, for
thirteen shillings and fourpence yearly; and in
1493, Patrick, Abbot of Holyrood, confirmed the
monks of Melrose in possession of their land called
the Holy Rood Acre between the common Vennel,
and another acre which they had beside the highway
near the Canongate, for six shillings and eightpence
yearly.
On the 31st May, 1498, James IV. granted to
Sir. John Ramsay of Balmain (previously Lord
Bothwell under James 111.) a tenement and
orchard in the Cowgate. This property is referred
to in a charter under the Great Seal, dated 19th
October, 1488, to Robert Colville, director of the
chancery, of lands in the Cowgate of Edinburgh,
once the property of Sir James Liddell, knight, ?et
postea johannis Ramsay, oZim nunntpafi Domini
BoifhveZe,? now in the king?s hands by the forfeiture
first of Sir James Liddell, and of tenements
of John Ramsay.
Many quaint timber-fronted houses existed in
the Cowgate, as elsewhere in the city. Such
mansions were in favour throughout Europe generally
in the 15th century, and Edinburgh was only
influenced by the then prevailing taste of which
so many fine examples still remain in Nuremberg
.
TENEMENT. 239
and Chester ; and in Edinburgh open piazzas and
galleries projecting from the actual ashlar or original
front of the house were long the fashion-the
former for the display of goods for sale, and the
latter for lounging or promenading in; and here
and there are still lingering in the Cowgate mansions,
past which James 111. and IV. may have
ridden, and whose occupants buckled on their mail
to fight on Flodden Hill and in Pinkey Cleugh.
Men of a rank superior to any of which modem
Edinburgh can boast had their dwellings in the
Cowgate, which rapidly became a fashionable and
aristocratic quarter, being deemed open and airy.
An old author who wrote in 1530, Alexander
Alesse, and who was born in the city in 1500, tells
us that ?the nobility and chief senators of the
city dwell in the Cowgate-via vaccarum in qud
hrabifanf pdfriXi et senafores urbis,? and that U the
palaces of the chief men of the nation are also
there ; that none of the houses are mean or vulgar,
but, on the contrary, all are magnificent-ubi nihJ
Aunt& aui rusticum, sed omnia magzzjfca P
Much of the street must have sprung into existence
before the wall of James 11. was demolished,
in which the High Street alone stood; and it was
chiefly for the protection of this highly-esteemed
suburb that the greater wall was erected after the
battle of Flodden.
A notarial instrument in 1509 cpncerning a
tenement belonging to Christina Lamb on the
south side near the Vennel (or wynd) from the Kirk
of Field, describes it as partly enclosed with pales
of wood fixed in the earth and having waste land
adjoining it.
In the division of the city into three quarters in
I 5 I 2, the 6rst from the east side of Forester?s Wynd,
on both sides of the High Street, and under the
wall to the Castle Hill, was to be held by Thomas
Wardlaw. The second quarter, from the Tolbooth
Stair, ?? quhak Walter Young dwellis in the north
part of the gaitt to the Lopley Stane,? to beunder
the said Walter; and the third quarter from the
latter stone to Forester?s Wynd ?in the sowth
pairt of the gaitt, with part of the Cowgate, to be
under George Dickson.?
In 1518, concerning the ?Dichting of the
Calsay,? it was ordained by the magistrates, that
all the inhabitants should clean the portion thereof
before their own houses and booths ?als weill in
the Kowgaitt venellis as on the Hie Gaitt,? and
that all tar barrels and wooden pipes be removed
from the streets under pain of escheat. In 1547
and 1548 strict orders were issued with reference
to the gwds at the city gates, and no man who was
skilled in any kind of gunnery was to quit the tom

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366 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Moultray?s Hill.
-
dedicated to him,?) but by whom founded or when,
is quite unknown ; and from this edifice an adjacent
street was for ages named St. Ninian?s Row. ?The
under part of the building still remains,? to quote
Arnot; (?it is the nearest house to the RegisteI
Office on the south-east, except the row of houses
on the east side of the theatre. The lower storey
was vaulted, and the vaults still remain. On these
a mean house has been superstructed, and the
whole converted into a dwelling-house. The baptismal
font, which was in danger of being destroyec
was this year (1787) removed to the curious towel
built at Dean Haugh, by Mr. Falter ROSS, Write
to the Signet.? The ?? lower part ? of the building
was evidently the crypt, and the font referred to,
neatly-sculptured basin with a beautiful Gothi
canopy, is now among the many fragments built b:
Sir Walter Scott into the walls of Abbotsford. Thi
extinct chapel appears to have been a dependenc:
of Holyrood abbey, from the numerous notice
that appear in licences granted by the abbots o
that house to the Corporations of the Canongate
for founding and maintaining altars in the church
and in one of these, dated 1554, by Robert Stewart
abbot of Holyrood, with reference to St. Crispin?,
altar therein, he states, ?? it is our will yat ye Cor
dinars dwelland within our regalitie. . .
besyde our chapel1 of Sanct Ninian, out with Sanc
Andrews Port besyde Edinburcht, be in brether
heid and fellowschipe with ye said dekin anc
masters of ye cordinar craft.?
In 1775 one or two houses of St. James?s Squart
were built on the very crest of Moultray?s Hill
The first stone of the house at the south-eas
corner of the square was laid on the day that news
reached Edinburgh of the battle of Bunker?s Hill
which was fought on the 17th of June in that year.
? The news being of coul?se very interesting, wa:
the subject of popular discussion for the day, and
nothing but Bunker?s Hill was in everybody?s
mouth. It so happened that the two buildeE
founding this first tenement fell out between
themselves, and before the ceremony was concluded,
most indecorously fell to and fought out
the quarrel on the spot, in presence of an immense
assemblage of spectators, who forthwith conferred
the name of Bunker?s Hill upon the place, in
commemoration of the combat, which it retains to
this day. The tenement founded under these
curious circumstances was permitted to stand by
itself for some years upon the eminence of Bunker?s
Hill; and being remarkably tall and narrow, as
well as a solitary Zana?, it got the popular appellation
of ?Hugo Arnot? from the celebrated historian,
who lived in the neighbourhood, and whose
slim, skeleton-looking figure was well known to the
public eye at the period.?
So lately as 1804 the ground occupied by the
lower end of Katharine Street, at the north-eastem
side of Moultray?s Hill, was a green slope, where
people were wont to assemble, to watch the crowds
returning from the races on Leith sands.
In this new tenement on Bunker?s Hill dwelt
Margaret Watson of Muirhouse, widow of Robert?
Dundas, merchant, and mother of Sir David Dun- ?
das, the celebrated military tactician. ?We
used to go to her house on Bunker?s Hill,? says?
Lord Cockbum, when boys, on Sundays between
the morning and the afternoon sermons, when we
were cherished with Scottish broth and cakes, and
many a joke from the old lady. Age had made
her incapable of walking even across the room;
so, clad in a plain silk gown, and a pure muslin
cap, she sat half encircled by a high-backed blackleather
chair, reading, with silver spectacles stuck
on her thin nose, and interspersing her studies and
her days with much laughter and not a little
sarcasm. What a spirit! There was more fun
and sense round that chair than in the theatre or
the church.?
In 1809 No. 7 St. James?s Square was the residence
of Alexander Geddes, A.R.Y.A., a well-known
Scottish artist. He was born at 7 St. Patrick Street,
near the Cross-causeway, in 1783. In 1812 he removed
to 55 York Place, and finally to London,
where he died, in Berners Street, on the 5th of May,
1844. His etchings in folio were edited by David
Laing, in 1875, but only IOO copies were printed.
A flat on the west side of the square was long
the residence of Charles Mackay, whose unrivalled
impersonation of Eailie Nicol Jarvie was once the
most cherished recollection of the old theatre-going
public, and who died on the 2nd November, 1857.
In
1787 Robert Bums lived for several months in
No. z (a common stair now numbered as 30)
whither he had removed from Baxter?s Close
in the Lawnmarket, and from this place many
3f the letters printed in his correspondence are
dated. In one or two he adds, ?Direct to me
xt Mr, FV. Cruikshank?s, St. James?s Square, New
Town, Edinburgh.? This gentleman was one of
;he masters of the High School, with whom he
passed many a happy hour, and to whose daughter
ie inscribed the verses beginning-
This square was not completed till 1790,
? Beauteous rosebud, young and gay,
Blooming in thy early May,? &c.
It was while here that he joined most in that
irilliant circle in which the accomplished Duchess ?

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126 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Convivialia
party by appointment, especially in winter, after
evening closed in, and took their carriages as near
as they could go conveniently, to these subterranean
abysses or vaults, called Zu&h shops, where
the raw oysters and flagons of porter were set out
plentifully on a table in a dingy wainscoted room,
lighted, of course, by tallow candles. The general
surroundings gave an additional zest to the supper,
and one of the chief features of such entertainments
would seem to have been the scope they afforded
to the conversational powers of the company.
Ladies and gentlemen alike indulged in an unrestrained
manner in sallies and witticisms, observations
and jests, that would not have been tolerated
elsewhere; but in those days it was common for
Scottish ladies, especially of rank, to wear black
velvet masks when walking abroad or airing in the
carriage ; and these masks were kept close to the
kce by a glass button or jewel which the fair
wearer held by her teeth.
Brandy or rum punch succeeded the oysters and
porter ; dancing then followed; and when the ladies
had departed in their sedans or carriages the gentlemen
would proceed to crown the evening by an
unlimited debauch.
?It is not,? says Chambers, writing in 1824,?
? more than thirty years since the late Lord Melville,
the Duchess of Gordon, and some other
persons of distinction, who happened to meet in
town after many years of absence, made up an
Dyster cellar party by way of a frolic, and devoted
me winter evening to the revival of this almost forgotten
entertainment of their youth. It seems diffixlt,?
he adds, ? to reconcile all these things with
the staid and somewhat square-toed character which
3ur country has obtained amongst her neighbours.
The fact seems to be that a kind of Laodicean
3rinciple is observable in Scotland, and we oscillate
letween arigour of manners on one hand, and a
axity on the other, which alternately acquires a
iaram ount ascendency. ?
In 1763 people of fashion dined at two o?clock,
ind all business was generalIy transacted in the
:vening ; and all shop-doors were locked after one
or an hour and opened after dinner. Twenty
rears later four or five o?clock was the fashionable
linner hour, and dancing schools had been estadished
for servant girls and tradesmen?s apprentices.
We may conclude this chapter on old manners,
~y mentioning the fact, of which few of our readers
are perhaps aware, that Edinburgh as a dukedom
is a title much older than the reign of Queen Victoria.
GeorgQ III., when Prince of Wales, was
Duke of Edinburgh, Marquis of Ely, and Earl of
Chester.
when silver medals were given for rifle-shooting
throwing a hammer 16 pounds in weight, single
stick, &c. On these occasions, Sir Walter Scott
Professor Wilson, and the Ettrick Shepherd, werc
frequently present, and often presided. In 182l
we find the club designated the Guard of Honou
to the Lord High Constable of Scotland. Its chair
man was termed captain, and Sir Walter Scott wa!
umpire of the club.
The SHAKESPEARE CLUB was, as its name im
ports, formed with a view to forward dramatic art anc
literature, yet was not without its convivial feature!
also, Among its members, in 1830, were W. D
Gillon of Walhouse, M.P., the Hon. Colonel Ogilv)
of Clova, Patrick Robertson, afterwards the well
known and witty Lord Robertson, Mr. Pritchard 0.
the Theatre Royal, and other kindred spirits.
Edinburgh now teems with clubs, county anc
district associations, and societies ; but in tone, anc
by the change of times and habits, they are verj
different from most of the old clubs we have enume.
rated here, clubs which existed in ? the Dark Age
of Edinburgh,? when a little fun and merrimeni
seemed to go a long way indeed, and when grim
professional men appeared to plunge into madcaF
and grotesque roistering and coarse racy humour,
as if they were a relief from, or contrast to, the
general dull tenor of life in those days when, aftei
the Union, the gloom of village life settled ovei
the city, and people became rigid and starched in
their bearing, morose in their sanctimony, and the
most grim decorum seemed the test of piety and
respectabiIity.
Many who were not members of clubs, by the
occasional tenor of their ways seemed to protest
against this state of things, or to seek relief from it
by indulging in what would seem little better than
orgies now.
In the letters added to the edition of Arnot?s
?History in 1788,? we are told that in 1763 there
were no oyster cellars in the city, or if one, it was
for the reception of the lowest rank; but, that
in 1783, oyster cellars, or taverns taking that name,
had become numerous as places of fashionable
resort, and the frequent rendezvous of dancing
parties or private assemblies. Thus the custom
of ladies as well as gentlemen resorting to such
places, is a curious example of the state of manners
during the eighteenth century.
The most famous place for such oyster parties
was a tavern kept by Lucky Middlemass in the
Cowgate, and which stood where the south pier of
the first bridge stands now. Dances in such
places were called ?? frolics.?
In those days fashionable people made up a

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the N ~ S , attracted by the dampness of the soil,
where for ages the artificial loch lay. A few feet
eastward of the tower there was found in the bank,
in 1820, a large coffin of thick fir containing three
skeletons, a male and two females, supposed to be
those of a man named Sinclair and his two sisters,
who were all drowned?in the loch in 1628 for a
horrible crime.
Eastward of this tower of the 15th century are the
remains of a long, low archway, walled with rubble,
but arched with well-hewn stones, popularly known
as ?the lion?s den,? and which has evidently formed
a portion of that secret escape or covered way
from the Castle (which no Scottish fortress was ever
without), the tradition concerning which is of general
and very ancient belief; and this idea has been still
further strengthened by the remains of a similar
subterranean passage being found below Brown?s
Close, on the Castle Hill. At the highest part of
the latter stood the ancient barrier gate of 1450,
separating the fortress from the city. This gate
was temporarily replaced on the occasion of the
visit of George IV, in 1822, and by an iron
chuaux de fdse-to isolate the 82nd Regiment and
garrison generally-during the prevalence of Asiatic
cholera, ten years subsequently.
There stood on the north side of the Castle
Hill an ancient church, some vestiges of which were
visible in Maitland?s time, in 1753, and which he
supposed to have been dedicated to St, Andrew the
patron of Scotland, and which he had seen referred
to in a deed of gift of twenty merks yearly, Scottish
money, to the Trinity altar therein, by Alexander
Curor, Vicar of Livingstone, 20th December, 1488.
In June, 1754, when some workmen were levelling
this portion of the Castle Hill, they discovered a
subterranean chamber, fourteen feet square,
wherein lay a crowned image of the Virgin, hewn
of very white stone, two brass altar candlesticks,
some trinkets, and a few ancient Scottish and French
coins. By several remains of burnt matter and two
large cannon balls being also found there, this
edifice was supposed to have been demolished
durbg some of the sieges undergone by the Castle
since the invention of artillery. Andin December,
1849, when the Castle Hill was being excavated
for the new reservoir, several finely-carved stones
were found in what was understood to be the
foundation of this chapel or of Christ?s Church,
which was commenced there in 1637, and had
actually proceeded so far that Gordon of Rothiemay
shows it in his map with a high-pointed spire,
but it was abandoned, and its materials used in
the erection of the present church at the Tron.
Under all this were found those pre-historic human
remains referred to in our first chapter. This was
the site of the ancient water-house. It was not
until ~ 6 2 1 that the citizens discovered the necessity
for a regular supply of water beyond that which
the public wells with their watef-carriers afforded.
It cannot be supposed that the stagnant fluid of the
north and south lochs could be fit for general use,
yet, in 1583 and 1598, it was proposed to supply
the city from the latter. Eleven years after the
date above mentioned, Peter Brusche, a German
engineer, contracted to supply the city with water
from the lands of Comiston, in a leaden pipe of three
inches? bore, for a gratuity of 650. By the year
1704 the increase of population rendered an additional
supply from Liberton and the Pkntland Hills
necessary. As years passed on the old water-house
proved quite inadequate to the wants of the city.
It was removed in 1849, and in its place now stands
the great reservoir, by which old and new Edinburgh
are alike supplied with water unexampled in
purity, and drawn chiefly from an artificial lake
in the Pentlands, nearly seven miles distant. On
the outside it is only one storey in height, with a
tower of 40 feet high; but within it has an area I 10
feet long, go broad, and 30 deep, containing two
millions of gallons ofwater, which can be distributed
through the entire city at the rate of 5,000 gallons
per minute,
Apart from the city, embosomed among treesand
though lower down than this reservoir, yet
perched high in air-upon the northern bank of the
Esplanade, stands the little octagonal villa of Allan
Ramsay, from the windows of which the poet would
enjoy an extensive view of all the fields, farms, and
tiny hamlets that lay beyond the loch below, with
the vast panorama beyond-the Firth of Forth,
with the hills of Fife and Stirling. ?The sober
and industrious life of this exception to the race
of poets having resulted in a small competency,
he built this oddly-shaped house in his latter days,
designing to enjoy in it the Horatian quiet he had
so often eulogised in his verse. The story goes:
says Chambers in his ?? Traditions,? ? that, showing
it soon after to the clever Patrick Lord Elibank,
with much fussy interest in its externals and accommodation,
he remarked that the vyags were already
at work on the subject-they likened it to a goosepie
(owing to the roundness of the shape). ? Indeed,
Allan,? said his lordship, ?now I see you in it I think
the wags are not far wrong.? ?
Ramsay, the author of the most perfect pastoral
poem in the whole scope of British literature, and
a song writer of great merit, was secretly a
Jacobite, though a regular attendant in St. Giles?s
Church. Opposed to the morose manners of his

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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,
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.
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

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The Water of Leith.] DANIEL STEWART. 67
with sword and sash, wig and cocked hat, queue
and ruffles. After looking at him steadily, but sadly,
the figure melted away; and, as usual with such
spectral appearances, it is alleged young Nisbet was
shot at the same moment, in an encounter with the
colonists.
In 1784 the Dean House was the residence of
Thomas Miller, Lord Barskimming, and Lord
Justice Clerk. In 1845 it was pulled down, when
the ground whereon it had stood so long was
acquired by a cemetery company, and now-save
the sculptured stones we have described--no relic
remains of the old Nisbets of Dean but their burial
place at the West Church-a gloomy chamber of
the dead, choked up with rank nettles and hemlock.
By 1881 the old village of Dean was entirely
cleared away. Near its centre stood the blacksmith?s
forge of Robert Orrock, who was indicted for
manufacturing pikes for the Friends of the People
in 1792. He and his friend, Arthur McEwan,
publican in Dean Side, Water of Leith village,
were legally examined at the time, and it is supposed
that many of the pikes were thrown into the
World?s End Pool, below the waterfall at the
Damhead. South of the smithy was the village
school, long taught by ? auld Dominie Fergusson.?
North of it stood the old farmhouse and steading
of the Dean Farm, all swept away like the quaint
old village, which?was wont to be a bustling place
when the commander-in-chief of the forces in
Scotland tenanted the Dean, and mounted orderlies
came galloping up the steep brae, and often reined
up their horses at the ?Speed the Plough? alehouse,
before the stately gate.
Somewhere in the immediate vicinity of this
old village a meeting-house was erected in 1687
for the Rev. David Williamson, of St. Cuthbert?s,
who was denounced as a rebel, and intercommuned
in 1674 for holding conventicles, but was sheltered
secretly in the Dean House by Sir Patrick Nisbet.
In 1689 he was restored to his charge at the West
Church, and was one of the commissioners sent to
congratulate King William on his accession to the
throne.
Now all the site of the village and farms, and
the land between them and the Dean Bridge, is
covered by noble streets, such as Buckingham
Terrace and Belgrave Crescent, the position of
which is truly grand. In 1876 a movement was
se: on foot by the proprietors of this crescent, led
by Sir James Falshaw, Bart, then Lord Provost,
which resulted in the purchase of the ground between
it and the Dean village, at a cost of about
A5,ooo. In that year it was nearlyall covered by
kitchen gardens, ruinous buildings, and brokendown
fences. These and the irregularities of the
place have been removed, while the natural undulations,
which add such beauty to the modem
gardens, have been preserved, and the plantations
and walks are laid out with artistic effect,
The new parish church-which was built in
1836, in the Gothic style, for accommodation of
the inhabitants of the Water of Leith village1 and
those of the village of Dean-stands on the western
side of the old Dean Path.
Farther westward is Stewart?s Hospital, built in
1849-53, after designs by David Rhind, at a cost
of about ~30,000, in a mixture of the latest
domestic Gothic, with something of the old castellated
Scottish style. It comprises a quadrangle,
about 230 feet in length by IOO feet in minimum
breadth, and has two main towers, each 120 feet
high, with several turrets.
Mr. Daniel Stewart, of the Scottish Exchequer,
who died in 1814, left the residue of his property,
amounting (after the erection and endowment of a
free school in his native parish of Logieraitj to
about ;G13,000, with some property in the old
town, to accumulate for the purpose of founding a
hospital for the maintenance of boys, the children
of honest and industrious parents, whose circumstances
do not enable them suitably to support and
educate their children at other schools. Poor boys
of the name of Stewart and Macfarlane, resident
within Edinburgh and the suburbs, were always
to have a preference. The age for admission was
to be from seven to ten, and that for leaving at
fourteen .
The Merchant Company, as governors, taking
advantage of the powers given them by the provisional
order obtained in 1870, opened the hospital
as a,day school in the September of that
year. The education provided is of a very superior
order, qualifying the pupils for commercial
or professional life, and for the universities. The
course of study includes English, Latin, Greek,
French, German, and all the usual branches, including
drill, fencing, and gymnastics.
The Orphan Hospital at the Dean was erected
in 1833, after elegant designs by Thomas Hamilton,
at a cost of A16,000, in succession to the
older foundation, which we have already described
as standing eastward of the North Bridge, on the
site of the railway terminus. It comprises a large
central block, with two projecting wings, a portico
of Tuscan columns, and two light, elegant quadrangular
towers with arches, and has within its
clock-turret on the summit of its front the ancient
clock of the Nether Bow Port.
Its white facade stands boldly and pleasingly

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280 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Lord Provosts.
burgh of great numbers of? His Majesty?s subjects
and strangers, there should be three weekly market
days for the sale of bread, when it should be
lawful for dealers, both buyers and landward, to
dispose of bread for ready money; three market
days for t k sale of meat under the same circumstances,
were also established-Sunday, Monday,
and Thursday.
In I 5 28 the Lord Maxwell became again provost
of Edinburgh, and when, some years after, his
exiled predecessor, Douglas of Kilspindie, became
weary of wandering in a foreign land he sought in
vain the clemency of James V., who, in memory of
all he had undergone at the hands of the Douglases,
had registered a vow niver to forgive them.
The aged warrior-who had at one time won the
affection of the king, who, in admiration of his
stature, strength, and renown in arms, had named
him ?? Greysteel,? after a champion in the romance
of ?? Sir Edgar and Sir Guion ?-threw himself in
lames?s way near the gates of Stirling Castle, to seek
pardon, and ran afoot by the side of his horse, encumbered
as he was by heavy armour, worn under
his clothes for fear of assassination. But James
rode in, and the old knight, sinking by the gate in
exhaustion, begged a cup of water. Even this was
refused by the attendants, whom the king rebuked
for their discourtesy ; but old Kilspindie turned
sadly away, and died in France of a broken heart.
In the year 1532 the provost and Council furnished
James V. with a guard of 300 men, armed
on all ?pointts for wayr,? to serve against his
? enimies of Ingland,? in all time coming.
In 1565, when Mary was in the midst of her
most bitter troubles, Sir Simon Preston of Craigiiiillar
and that ilk was provost, and it was in his
house, the Black Turnpike, she was placed a
prisoner, after the violated treaty of Carberry Hill ;
and four years after he was succeeded in office by
the celebrated Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange.
In 1573 Lord Lindsay was provost, the same
terrible and relentless noble who plotted against
Kizzio, led the confederate lords, conducted Mary
to Lachleven, who crushed her tender arm with
his steel glove, and compelled her under terror of
death to sign her zbdication, and who lived to
share in the first Cowrie conspiracy.
In 1578 the provost was George Douglas of
Parkhead, who was also Governor of the Castle ; a
riot having taken place in the latter, and a number
of citizens being slain by the soldiers, the Lords of
the Secret Council desired the magistrates to remove
him from office and select another. They
craved delay, on which the Council deposed
Douglas, and sent a precept commanding the city to
choose a new provost within three hours, under pain
of treason. In obedience to this threat Archibald
Stewart was made interim provost till the usual
time of election, Michaelmas ; previous to which,
the young king, James VI., wrote to the magistrates
desiring them to make choice of certain
persons whom be named to hold their offices for
the ensuing year. On receiving this peremptory
command the Council called a public meeting of
the citizens, at which it was resolved to allow no
interference with their civic privileges. A deputation
consisting of a bailie, the treasurer, a councillor,
and two deacons, waited on His Majestyat Stirling
and laid the resolutions before him, but received no
answer. Upon the day of election another letter was
read from James, commanding the Council to elect
as magistrates the persons therein named for the
ensuing year ; but notwithstanding this arbitrary
command, the Council, to their honour, boldly u p
held their privileges, and made their own choice of
magistrates.
Alexander Home, of North Berwick, was provost
from 1593 to 1596. He was a younger son of
Patrick Home of Polwarth, and his younger sister
was prioress of the famous convent at North Berwick,
where strange to say she retained her station
and the conventual lands till the day of her death.
In 1598 a Lord President of the College of
Justice was provost, Alexander Lord Fyvie, afterwards
Lord Chancellor, and Earl of Dunfermline
in 1606. Though the time was drawing near for
a connection with England, a contemporary writer
in 1598 tells us that ?in general, the Scots would
not be attired after the English fashion in anysort;
but the men, especially at court, followed the
French fashion.?
Sir William Nisbet, of Dean, was provost twice
in 1616 and 1622, the head of a proud old race,
whose baronial dwelling was long a feature on the
wooded ridge above Deanhaugh. His coat of
arms, beautifully carved, was above one of the doors
of the latter, his helmet surmcunted by the crest of
the city, and encircled by the motto,
? HIC MIHI PARTrVS HONOS.?
It was in the dark and troublesome time of
1646-7, when Sir Archibald Tod was provost, that
James Cordon, the minister of Rothiemay, made his
celebrated bird?s-eye view of Edinburgh-to which
reference has been made so frequently in these
pages, and of which we have engraved the greater
Part.
James Cordon, one of the eleven sons of the
Laird of Straloch, was born in 1615. He was
M.A. of Aberdeen, and in April, 1647, he submitted

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496 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
G
GALLOWAYE,a rl of, 463
Gardenstone, Lord, 8, 71, 137
Garrick, Mr,, 205
Garrow, Robert, 247, 249
Garvold, Jeanie, 366
Gavin, David, Esq., 234
GeddPs, Patrick, Esq., 409
Gentle, Bailie, 94
George III., 235, 245, 266, 290
George IT., 24, 243, 296, 327
Gerrald, Joseph, 47, 191, 446
Gib, Rev. Adam, 318
Gibb, Mr., 437
Gibbons, Bill, 359, 364
Gibson, Rev. Mr., 311
Gilchrist, John, Esq., 409
Gillespie, William, 6
Gillespie, Rev. Thomas, 84, 85
Gillespie, Deacon Alexander, 371
Gilli, the giant, 115
Gillies, Rev. Dr., 84
Gillies, Lord, 363
Gillies, Robert, Esq., 418
Gillies, John, LL.D., 418
Gillis, Bishop, 202
Gladstone, Lieut. -Colonel, 197
Glasgow, secorid Earl of, 417
Glasgow, fourth Earl of, 308
Glasgow, Countess of, 71
Glass, Miss Narion, 415
Glencairn, Earl of, 60, 125, 277
Glenlee, Lord, 158, 380, 417
Glenlyon, Lord, 412
Glenorchy, Lady, 102, 103, 105
Gloag, Rev. Dr., 49, 149, 311,
Gordon, Duke of, 55, 427
Gordon, Duchess of, 93,108,110,
Gordon, Lord Adam, 79, 107,468
Gordon, Rev. Dr., 105, 412, 458
Gordon, Xr. Robert, 141,
Gordon, Sir Charles, 202
Gordon, Mr. Watson, 253
Gordon, Miss Isabella, 284
Gordon, Gilbert, Esq., 430
Gordon, Niss Patricia Heron, 430
Gould, Sergeant-3lajor, 457
Gould, Mrs., 44
Gourlay, Mr. William, 211
Gourlay, Mr. Douglas, 211, 216
Gow, Mr. Nathaniel, 100, 108,
163
360
412
330
241, 273
Graham, Lieut. -General, 263
Graham, Miss Jean, 263
Graham, Colonel, 273, 423
Graham, H., Esq., 423
Graham, Mr., of Airth, 310
Graham, -, 369
Graham, J., 419
Graham, Professor, 452
Grahame, Robert, Esq., 8
Grahame, Right Hon. Lucy, 469
Grant, Mrs., of Lagan, 99
Grant, Colquhonn, Esq., 109
Grant, Sir Archibald, 110, 447
Grant of Rothiemurcus, 110
Grant, Mr. Archibald, 110
Grant, Rev. Johnson, 110
Grant, Sir James, Bart., of Grant
Grant, Isaac, Esq., 150
Grant, Sir J. P., Knight, 362
Grant, William, Esq., 409
Grant, Sir George M., Bart., 41:
Grant, Sir Lewis Alexander
Grant, Fiancis William, Esq.
Grant, Mr., 436
Grant, Lady, 447
Grant, Dr., 454 :
Grasse, Admiral d?, 62
Grattan, Right Hon. Henry, 171
Gray, Mr. John, 4
Gray, Mr. James, 239
Green, General, 23, 78
3reenwich, Lady, 340, 341
Jreig, James, Esq., W.S., 294
Jregory, Dr. James, 54, 136
Jregory, Dr. John, 75
3renville, Lord, 26
Jrenville, General, 301
3rey, Lord, 26
3rey, Countess de, 233
Jrey, Rev. Henry, 435
hey, Eail, 460
?rey, Miss Margaretta, 460
Xeve, Provost, 9
hieve, Rev. Dr., 103
kieve, Bailie, 463
hose, Captain, 116
hose, Edward, Esq., 290
hild, John, 43
hise, Mary of, 312
hthrie and Tait, Messrs., 31,
iyfford and Co., Messrs., 291
110, 433
363
Bart., 433
434
32
H
HADDIBCTONE, arl of, 44
Hafiz, the Bard of Shirah, 302
Hailes, Lord, 90, 209
Haldane, Robert, 6
Haldane, Robert, Esq., 37, 39,
Haldane, Captain James, 37
Halket, Sir John, 93
Hall, Mr. Robert, 13
Hall, Sir James, 25
Hall, Lady Helen, 25
Hall, Mrs., 244
Hall, Brr. James, 278
Hall, Rev. Robert, 278
Hall, hfks Mary, 278
Hall, Miss Helen, 278
Hall, Miss Isobel, 278
Hall, Rev. Dr. James, 351
Hall and Co., Messrs. William,
Hall, Dr., 452
Halyburton, Professor, 192
Hamilton, Mr., 27
Hamilton, Dr. Robert, 46, 79
Hamilton, Rev. William, 79
Hamilton, Dr. James, senior, 88
Hamilton, Dr. James, junior, 81
Hamilton, John, of Bargamy, 128
Yamilton, Robert, Esq., 132
LIamilton, Miss Eleanore, 132
Tamilton, Archibald, Esq., of
landton, “Sweep Jack,” 155
lamilton, Adjutant Thomas, 160
3amilton, Lieutenant William,
lamilton,. Colonel James, 160
iamilton, DIr. Francis, 160, 161
Jaruilton, Captain Gawk Wm.,
iamilton, Duke of, 308
Iamilton, Dr., 351
lamilton, James, Esq., W.S.,
Tamilton, Lord Archibald, 432
-Iamilton, llliss Joanna, 438
Iamilton, Sir William, 464
Iardie, Mr. Andrew, 13
Iardie, Mrs. Andrew, I1
Iardie, Mr. Henry, 12
Iardie, Rev. Thomas, 48
Iardie, Bev. Dr. Thomas, 119,
Iardie, Rev. Charles Wilkie, 50
Iardie, Mrs., 379
41, 42
374
Blackhouse? 133
160
C.B., 175
370
412

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Buccleuch Place. 346
way, and from thence along the Gibbet Street
northward, to where it is divided from the burgh of
the Canongate, to be the Cross Causeway district.
By a subsequent -4ct of George 111. there was
added to it all the tract?on the north-east of the
road leading from the Wright?s-houses to the
Grange Toll-bar, and from thence along the Mayfield
Loan to the old Dalkeith Road, and from
thence in a straight line eastward to the March
Dyke of the King?s Park nearest to the said loan ;
and the whole ground west of the dyke to where
it joins the Canongate-all to be called the Causeway-
side district.
VI. From the east end of the Cross Causeway
southward to the Gibbet Toll, including the Gibbet
Loan, to be called Gibbet Street district
VII. From the chapel of ease south to the
Grange Toll, including the Sciennes, to be the
Causeway-side district.
VIII. From the south end of the property of
the late Joseph Gavin on the west, and that of
John Straiton in Portsburgh on the east of the road
leading from the Twopenny Custom southward to
the Wright?s-house Toll, to be the Toll Cross district
The chapel of ease in Chapel Street, originally
a hideous and unpretending structure, was first
projected in January, 1754, when the increasing
population of the West Kirk parish induced the
Session to propose a chapel somewhere on the south
side of it. The elders and deacons were furnished
with subscription lists, and these, by March, 1755,
showed contributions to the amount of A460 ; and
in expectation of further sums, ?( a piece of ground
at the Wind Mill, or west end of the Cross Causeway,
was immediately feued,? and estimates, the
lowest of which was about A700, were procured
for the erection of a chapel to hold 1,200 perscns.
By January, 1756, it was opened for divine service,
and a bell which had been used in the West
Church was placed in its steeple in 17?3; it
weighs nineteen stone, cost L366 Scots, and
bears the founder?s name, with the words, ??FOP
the Wast Kirk, I 7 00.?
In 1866 this edifice was restored and embellished
by a new front at the cost of more thzn .42,090,
and has in it a beautiful memorial window, erected
by the Marquis of Bute to the memory of hi5
ancestress, FloraMacleod of Raasay, who lies in
teFed in the small ?and sbmbre cemetery attached
to the building. There, too, lie the remains 0.
Dr. .Thomas . Blacklock ? the Blind P,oet,? Dr
Adam of the Higli, School, Mrs Cockburn tht
poetess, and others.
-. Bucykuch :Free Church is situated at the junc
fion ?f {he Ctoss-causeway acd .Chapel Street, I
.
i n s built in 1850, and has a fine octagonal spire,
erected about five years after, from a design by Hay
3f Liverpool,
Lady Dalrymple occupied one of the houses in
Chapel Street in 1784 ; Sir William Maxwell,Bart.,
3f Springkell, who died in 1804, occupied another;
and in the same year Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
was resident in the now obscure St. Patrick Street,
close by.
In this quarter there is an archway at the top of
what is now called Gray?s Court, together with an
entrance opposite the chapel of ease. These
were the avenues to what was called the Southern
Market, formed about 1820 for the sale of butchermeat,
poultry, fish, and vegetables ; but as shops
sprang into existence in the neighbourhood, it came
to an end in a few years
The Wind Mill-a most unusual kind of mill in
Scotland-from which the little street in this quarter
takes its name, was formed to raise the water
from the Burgh Loch to supply the Brewers of the
Society, a company established under James VI. in
1598; andnear it lay a pool or pond, named the
Goose Dub, referred to by Scott in the ? Fortunes
of NigeL? From this mill the water was conveyed
in leaden pipes, on the west side of Bristo Street as
far as where Teviot Row is now, and from thence
in a line to the Society, where there was a reservoir
that supplied some parts of the Cowgate. In
1786, when foundations were dug for the houses
from Teviot Row to Charles Street, portions of
this pipe were found. It was four-and-a-half inches
in diameter and two-eighths of an inch thick. The
Goose Dub was drained about 1715? and converted
into gardens.
In the year 1698 Lord Fountainhall reports a
case between the city and Alexander Biggar,
brewer, heritor of ?? the houses called Gairnshall,
beyond the Wind Mill, and built in that myre
commonly called the Goose-dub,? who wished t3
be freed from the duties of watching and warding,
declaring his immunity from ?all burghal prestations,?
in virtue of his feu-charter from John
Gairns, who took the land from the city in 1681,
?(bearing a redhdu of ten merks of feu-dutypru
omni aZio onere, which must free him from watching,
tRarding, outreiking militia, ?or train bands, &c.?
The Lords found that he was not liable to the
former duties, but as regarded the militia, ?ordained
the parties to be further heard.?
In.February, 1708, he reports another case connected
with this locality, in which Richard Hoaison,
minister at Musselburgh, ? having bought
some acres near the Wind-milne of Edinburgh,?
took the rights thereof to himself and his wife

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 503
Stirling, Gilbert, Esq. , 263
Stirling, Major, 272, 273
Stocks, Johnnie, 410
Stonefield, Lord, 233, 382
Stoddart, Provost, 236
Strathnaver, William Lord, 61
Struthers, Rev. James Syme,
Struthers, Ivlr. John Pitcairn,
Stuart, Sir John, 25
Stuart, Lady, 25
Stuart, Lady Grace, 72
Stuart, Dr. Charles, 19, 231
Stuart, James, Esq., 231, 277
Stuart, Hope, Esq., 443
Stuart, Sir James, 452
Sultan, Tippoo, 72
Sutherland, Earl of, 18, 22
Sutherland, Duchess of, 151
Sutherland, Lady Janet, 61
Sutherland, Alexander, 79
Sutherland, William, the giant,
Sunly, -, 426
Suttie, Sir Jaines, 112
Suttie, Margaret, 166
Swan, Mr. George, 403, 407
Sweetman, Mr., 174
Swift, Dean, 82
Swinton, Lord, 336, 370, 400
Sym, Rev. John, 457
Syme, Mr., 284
Syme, Professor, 452
D.D., 134
134
115 *
T
TABEEBM,i rza Jiafer, 307
Taggart, Robert, 408
Tait and Guthrie, Messrs., 31,
Tait, Crawford, Esq., 91
Tait, Swaney, the poet, 126
Tait, Mr., 140
Tait, John, Esq., W.S. , 144, 145,
Tait, William, Esq., 410
Talleyrand, Prince, 164
Tallib, MZirzaAbu, 306
Tandy, James Napper, 171, 172,
Tannahill, Robert, the poet, 27,
Tannoch, Rev. J., 435
Tawse, John, Esq., 105
Taylor, Rev. Joseph, 159
Taylor, James, 162
32
146
174
99, 100
Taylor, John, Esq. , 446
Teignmouth, Lord, 301
Telford, Mr. Thomas, 130
Tenducci, the vocalist, 93
Thallon, Elizabeth, 227
Thomas, Colonel, 348
Thomson, Dr. Andrew, 10, 311,
Thomson, Dr. William, 141
Thomson, John, 227
Thomson, Rev. Dr. John, 311
Thomson, Mr. Robert, 377
Thomson, Mr. Henry, 403
Thomson, Rev. Mr., 404, 405
Thorpe, Dr., 110
Thym, M. Berbiguier de Terreneuve
du, 399
Tone, Wolfe Theobald, 174, 176
Tooke, Horne, 390
Topham, Edward, 213
Topham, Miss Anne, 467
Touch, Dr., 434, 435
Townsend, Mr., 262
Traill, Professor, 451, 452
Trelawney, Rev. Sir Harry, 102
Trollope, Mrs., 309
Trotter, General Alexander, 466
Trotter, Miss, 466
Trotter, Mr., of Mortonhall, 466
Troup, John, Esq., 467
Tullidelph, Walter, Esq., 79
Turgot, A. K. J., 386
Turnbull, Yr., 132
Turnbull, Xr. George, 163
Turner, Dr., 451, 452, 454
Turner, Rev. William, 458
Tytler, William, Esq., 178, 208,
Tytler, J. F., Esq., 322
Tytler, Alex. Fraser, Lord Wood.
houselee, 380, 386, 417
Tytler, William F., Esq., 381
Tytler, Patrick F., Esq., 382
Tweedie, John, Esq., W.S., 424
Twopenny, Captain, 436
436, 460
380
U
URQUHARTD,a vid, Esq., 244
V
VASHONA, dmiral, 25
Vaughan, Mr., 301
Venters, Jamea, 227
Vernon, Jamie, 166
VICTORIAH, er Majesty Queen,
253
Vyse, General, 273
Vyse, Archdeacon, 349
W
WADE,M arshal, 270
Waite, David, 74
Wales, Prince of, 22,24,26,66,67
Walker, Rev. Mr., 206
Walker, Rev. Dr. John, 452
Walker, Rev. Robert, 93
Walker, Mr. George, 195
Walker, Rev. David, 278
Walker, Mr. James, 349
Walker, Mr. Josiah, 411
Walkinshaw, blr. , 360
Wallace, Mr., of Ellerslie, 89
Wallace, Miss Helen, 89
Wallace, Sir William, 320
Wallace, Lady, 93, 330
Walpole, Lord, 304
Ward, Mrs., 33
Ward, Mr., 402
Wardlaw, Mr. Thomas, 403
Wardlaw, Mr. James, 403
Washington, General, 71, 194,
Water Willie, 36
Watson, Mr. George, 44
Watson, Joseph, 74
Watson, Hobert, Esq., 320
Watt, Robert, 104, 419
Wauchope, Yr. , of Niddry, 181
Webster, David, 398
Weddell, Mr., 287, 289
Weddell, Mm. , 287
Wedgwood, Mr. Thomas, 141
Wellesley, Marquis, 300, 302
Wellington, Duke of, 57, 160,
Wellwood, Robert, Esq., 20
Wellwood, Miss Elizabeth, 20
Wellwood, Rev. Sir Henry Moncreiff,
Bart., 118, 141, 141,
230, 290, 311, 413, 435,436
Wemyss, Mr. Robert, 28
Wemyas and Blarch, Earl of, 109,
Wemyss, Lady Louisa, 109
Wemyss, Earl of, 137, 200
Wemyss, Captain James, M.P.,
Wemyss, William, Esq., 406,
Werner, Professor, 452
Wesley, Rev. John, 159, 161
Wheeler, Captain, 159
195
274, 275, 295, 326
242
151
407, 408

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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

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Robertson, Mr., 142
Robertson, Miss Katherine, 142
Robertson, Rev. Joseph, 154
Robertsoo, Miss Jam, 206
Robertson, Rev. Dr., 225
Robertson, Mr. Hugh, 237
Robertson, Mr. George, 246
Robertson, Mr. Archibald, 287
Robertson, Dr. James, 322
Robison, Professor, 64
Rockville, Lord, 204
Rocheid, James, Esq. , 307
Rodney, Sir George, 360
Roebuck, Dr., 53
Rogerson, Dr., 95
Rogerson, -, 427, 428
Romney, Mr., 403
Koscoe, William, F.L.S., 221
Ross, Mr., 76
Ross, David, of Inverchadey, 248
Row Mr., 348
Ross, Mr., of Pitcalnie, 421
Ross, George, the pugilist, 427,
Row, Rev. Mr. Williani, 120
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton,
Roxburghe, Duke of, 58
Runciman, Alexander, thepainter,
Ruasell, Professor, 52
Russell, John, Esq., 95
Itussell, Mr., 228
Ruthven, Mr. John, 86, 367
Rutland, Duke and Duchws of,
428
Esq., 307
143, 289
151
S
SABDIITIAK, ing of, 215
Sassen, Madame, 427
Sawbridge, Alderman, 30
Schetkey, Mr., 405
Schomberg, Dr., 147
Scott, General, 75
Scott, Mr., advocate, 155
Scott, Sir Walter, 162, 165, 171,
181, 188, 221, 317, 393, 408,
412
Scott, Miss Margaret, 2
Scott, Robert, Esq., 192
Scott, Miss Margaret, 192
Scotf, Yr. James, 300
Scott, William, of Raeburn, 317
Scott, J., Eq., of Logie, 404
Scott, Mrs., of Logie, 402
Selby, Mr., 84
Q
QUEENSBERBY, Duke of, 192
R
RADCLIFFE, Mrs. Anne, 122
Rae, Dr., 82
Rae, Mr. John, 237, 424
Rae, Rev. David, 350
Rae, Lieut.-Colonel David, 351
Rae, Sir William, 351
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 199, 303,
359, 401, 403
Ramage, Mr., 397
Ramsay, Sir George, 37, 38, 39
Ramsay, Lady, 37
Ramsay, Sir William, Bart., 39
Ramsay, Mr. Peter, 184
Ramsay, Willism, Esq., 184
Ramsay, Lady Elizabeth, 193
Ramsay, Dr., 208
Ramsay, William, Esq., 373
Ramsay, Bonar, and Co., 373
Ramsay, Allan, the poet, 412
Randall, Rev. Thomas, 388
Rankeillor, Lord, 311
Rannie, David, Esq., 103
Rannie, Miss Elizabeth, 103
Rattray and Congalton, Messrs.,
Rattray, Mr., surgeon, 249
Rawdon, Lord, 90, 91
Reay, Lord, 173
Redman, Mr., 71
Reid, Mr. David, 237 :
Reid, Miss, 332
Reid, Mr., 384
Reid, Commissioner, 387, 388
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 74,183,289
Richardson, Professor, 303
Richmond, Duke of, 187, 308
Riddel, -, Esq., of Glenriddel,
Riddell, Mrs., 278
Ritchie, Yr. John, printer, 334
Ritchie, Mr. James, 429
Ritson, Josepk, Esq., 245
Roache, Captain, 326, 327
Robertson, Mr., 11
Robertaon, Principal, 65, 66, 78,
122, 171, 172, 174, 211, 215,
243, 245, 256, 299, 322, 382,
405, 406
161
' Reston, Lord, 75
245
Robertson, Mr. Patrick, 93
Robertson, Lieut.-General James,
95
Sharp, Mr. Francis, 261
Sharpe, C. K,, Esq., 234
Shaw, Mr. Fredeiick, 379
Shelburne, Lord, 101
Sheridan, Mr., 149, 374
Sheriff, Mr. Matthew, 260, 263
Sheriff, Rev. Mr., 400
Shiells, Mm., 219
Sibbald, Mr. William, 412
Siddons, Mm., 148, 150, 165
Sidmouth, Lord, 74
Sidney, Rev. Edwin, 334
Simond, the French traveller,
Simpson, Convener, 224
Simpson, Bailie Andrew, 224
Simpson, Rev. Dr., 301
Simpson, Miss, 283
Sinclair, Sir John, 67, 208
Sinclair, Mr., the vocalist, 410
Singleton, Anketil, Esq., 47
Skene, Es., of Rubislaw, 183
Skene, Mr., of Skene, 294
Skene, General, 295
Skirving, William, 168,169,309,
Smellie, Yr. William, 20, 44,
Smellie, Mr. Alexander, 20, 424
Smellie, John, 206
Smith, Mr., 30
Smith, Mr., 112
Smith, Dr., 128
Smith, O., 147
Smith, Dr. Adam, 299, 382, 386
Smith, Yr. Donald,123,307,398,
Smith, Alexander, Esq., 399
Smith, Mr. Robert, 331
Smith, George, 257, 258, 259,
Smollett, Dr. Tobias, 66
Smythe, David, Lord Methven,
Snell, Yr., 73
Sommerville, Rev. Dr., 298
Sommers, Mr. Thomas, 143,229,
Sommers, Mr. Thomas, vintner,
Southey, Dr., 274
Spencer, Earl, 361, 407, 408
Syens, Miss Janet, 274
Spittal, Si James, 241, 317
Stair, Viscount, 364
Stephena, Mm., 53
201
351, 352, 353
202, 226, 286, 366, 417
399
261, 262, 264
200
403
418
443

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Holyrood.] SUCCESSION. OF ABBOTS. 47
between Randolph the famous? Earl of Moray and
Sir William Oliphant, in connection with the forfeited
estate of William of Monte Alto. Another
species of Parliament was held at Holyrood on
the 10th of February, in the year 1333-4, when
Edward 111. received the enforced homage of his
creature Baliol.
XVI. JOHN II., abbot, appears as a witness to
three charters in 1338, granted to William of
Livingston, William of Creighton, and Henry of
Brade (Braid?).
XVII. BARTHOLOMEW, abbot in 1342.
XVIII. THOMAS, abbot, witnessed a charter to
William Douglas of that ilk, Sir James of Sandilands,
and the Lady Elenora Bruce, relict of Alexander
Earl of Carrick, nephew of Robert I., of the
lands of the West Calder. On the 8th of May,
1366, a council was held at Holyrood, at which the
Scottish nobles treated with ridicule and contempt
the pretensions of the kings of England, and sanctioned
an assessment for the ransom of David II.,
taken prisoner at the battle of Durham. That
monarch was buried before the high altar in 1371,
and Edward 111. granted a safe conduct to certain
persons proceeding to Flanders to provide for the
tomb in which he was placed.
XIX. JOHN III., abbot on the 11th of January,
~372. During his term of office, John of Gaunt
Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward III., was
hospitably entertained at Holyrood, when compelled
to take flight from his enemies in England.
XX. DAVID, abbot on the 18th of January, in
the thirteenth year of Robert 11. The abbey was
burned by the armyof Richard 11. whose army
encamped at Restalrig; but it was soon after
repaired. David is mentioned in a charter dated
at Perth, 1384-5.
XXI. JOHN (formerly Dean of Leith) was abbot
on the 8th of May, 1386. His name occurs in
several charters and other documents, and for the
last time in the indenture or lease of the Canonmills
to the city of Edinburgh, 12th September,
1423. In his time Henry IV. spared the monastery
in gratitude for the kindness of the monks to
his exiled father John of Gaunt.
XXII. PATRICK, abbot 5th September, 1435.
In his term of office James II., who had been born
in the abbey, was crowned there in his sixth year,
on the 25th March, 1436-7; and anothet high
ceremony was performed in the same church when
Mary of Gueldres was crowned -as Queen Consort
in July, 1449. In the preceding year, John Bishop
of Galloway elect became an inmate of the abbey,
and was buried in the cloisters.
XXIII. JAMES, abbot 26th April, 14~0.
XXIV. ARCHIBALD CRAWFORD, abbot in 1457.
He was son of Sir William? Crawford of Haining,
and had previously been Prior of Holytood. In
1450 he was one of the commissioners who treated
with the English at Coventry concerning a truce ;
and again in 1474, concerning a marriage between
James Duke of Rothesay and the Princess Cecile,
second daughter of Edward IV. of England. He
was Lord High Treasurer of Scotland in 1480.
He died in 1483. On the abbey church (according
to Crawford) his arms were carved niore than
thirty times. ?He added the buttresses on the
walls of the north and south aisles, and probably
built the rich doorway which opens into the north
aisle.? Many finely executed coats armorial are
found over the niches, among them Abbot Crawford?s
frequently- fesse ermine, with a star of five
points, in chief, surmounted by an abbot?s mitre
resting on a pastoral staff.
XXV. ROBERT BELLENDEN, abbot in 1486,
when commissioner concerning a truce with
England. He was still abbot in 1498, and his
virtues are celebrated by his namesake, the archdean
of Moray, canon of ROSS, and translator of
Boece, who says ?? he left the abbey, and died ane
Chartour-monk.? In 1507 the Papal legate presented
James IV., in the name of Pope Julius II.,
in the church, amid a brilliant crowd of nobles,
with a purple crown adorned by golden lilies, and
a sword of state studded with gems, which is still
preserved in the Castle of Edinburgh. He also
brought a bull, bestowing upon James the title of
Defender of the Faith. Abbot Bellenden, in 1493,
founded a chapel in North Leith, dedicated to St.
Ninian, latterly degraded into a victual granary
The causes moving the abbot to build this chapei,
independent of the spiritual wants of the people,
were manifold, as set forth in the charter of
erection. The bridge connecting North and South
Leith, over which he levied toll, was erected at the
same time.
XXVI. GEORGE CRICHTOUN, abbot in 1515,
and Lord Privy Seal, was promoted to the see of
Uunkeld in 1528. As we have recorded elsewhere,
he was the founder of the Hospital of St. Thomas,
near the Water Gate. An interesting relic of his
abbacy exists at present in England.
About the year 1750, when a grave was being
dug in the chancel of St Stephen?s church, St.
Albans, in Hertfordshire, there was found buried
in the soil an ancient lectern bearing his name, and
which is supposed to have been concealed there at
some time during the Civil Wars. It is of cast
brass, and handsonie in design, consisting of an eagle
with expanded wings, supported by a shaft deco-
The piers still remain.

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Lord Provost?.] THE DUNDAS RIOTS. 281
daughter of the head of the firm. When he took
ofice politics ran high, The much-needed reform
of the royal burghs had been keenly agitated
for some time previous, and a motion on the subject,
negatived in the House of Commons by a
majority of 26, incensed the Scottish public to a
great degree, while Lord Melville, Secretary of
State, by his opposition to the question, rendered
himself so obnoxious, that in many parts of Scotland
he was burned in effigy. In this state of excitement
Provost Stirling and others in authority at
Edinburgh looked forward to the King?s birthdaythe
4th of June, 1792-with considerable uneasiness,
and provoked mischief by inaugurating the festival by
sending strong patrols of cavalry through the streets
at a quick pace with swords drawn. Instead of
having the desired effect, the people became furious
at this display, and hissed and hooted the cavalry
with mocking cries of ?Johnnie Cope.? In the
afternoon, when the provost and magistrates were
assembled in the Parliament House to drink the
usual loyal toasts, a mob mustered in the square, and
amused themselves after a custom long peculiar to
Edinburgh on this day, of throwing dead cats at
each other, and at the City Guard who were under
arms to fire volleys after every toast.
Some cavalry officers incautiously appeared at this
time, and, on being insulted, brought up their men
to clear the streets, and, after considerable stonethrowing,
the mob dispersed. Next evening it
re-assembled before the house of Mr. Dundas in
George Square, with a figure of straw hung from a
pole. When about to burn the effigy they were
attacked by some of Mr. Dundas?s friends-among
others, it is said, by his neighbours, the naval hero
of Camperdown, and Sir Patrick Murray of
Ochtertyre. These gentlemen retired to Dundas?s
house, the windows of which were smashed by the
mob, which next attacked the residence of the
Lord Advocate, Dundas of Amiston. On this it
became necessary to bring down the 53rd Re$-
ment from the Castle ; the Riot Act was read, the
people were fired on, and many fell wounded, some
mortally, who were found dead next day in the
Meadows and elsewhere. This put an end to the
disturbances for that night ; but on Wednesday
evening the mob assembled in the New Town with
the intention of destroying the house of Provost
Stirling at the south-east corner of St. Andrew
Square, where they broke the City Guards? sentry
boxes to pieces. But, as an appointed signal, the
ancient beacon-fire, was set aflame in the Castle,
the Bind frigate sent ashore her marines at Leith,
and the cavalry came galloping ih from the eastward,
an which the mob separated finally.
By this time Provost Stirling had sought shelter
In the Castle from the mob, who were on the point
Jf throwing Dr. Alexander Wood (known as Lang
Sandy) over the North Bridge in mistake for him.
For his zeal, however, he was made a baronet of
Great Britain. The year 1795 was one of great
listress in the city ; Lord Cockbum tells us that
16,000 persons (about an eighth of the population)
were fed by charity, and the exact quantity of food
each family should consume was specified by public
proclamation. In 1793 a penny post was established
in Edinburgh, extending to Leith, Musselburgh,
Dalkeith, and Prestonpans. Sir James
Stirling latterly resided at the west end of Queen
Street, and died in February, 1805.
Sir William Fettes, Lord Provost in 1800 and
1804, we have elsewhere referred to ; but William
Coulter, a wealthy hosier in the High Street, who
succeeded to the civic chair in 1808, was chiefly remarkable
for dying in office, like Alexander Kina
i d thirty years before, and for the magnificence
with which his funeral obsequies were celebrated.
He died at Morningside Lodge, and the cortkge
was preceded by the First R E. Volunteers, and
the officers of the three Regiments of Edinburgh
local militia, and the body was in a canopied
hearse, drawn by six horses, each led by a groom in
deep mourning. On it lay the chain of office, and
his sword and sash as colonel of the volunteers.
A man of great stature, in a peculiar costume,
bore the banner of the City. When the body was
lowered into the grave, the senior herald broke and
threw therein the rod of office, while the volunteers,
drawn up in a line near the Greyfriars? Church,
fired three funeral volleys.
Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost in
1813, was the son of Marjoribanks of Lees, an
eminent wine merchant in Bordeaux, and his
mother was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, Lord
Provost of the city in the memorable ?45. Sir John
was a partner in the banking-house of Mansfield,
Ranisay, and Co., and while in the civic chair was
the chief promoter of the Regent Bridge and Calton
Gaol, though the former had been projected by Sir
James Hunter Blair in 1784 When the freedom
of thedty was given to Lord Lynedoch, ?the gallant
Graham,? Sir John gave h k a magnificent dinner,
on the 12th of August, I815-two months after
Waterloo. There were present the Earl of Morton,
Lord Audley, Sir David Dundas, the Lord Chief
Baron, the Lord Chief Commissioner, Sir James
Douglas, Sir Howard Elphinstone, and about a
hundred of the most notable men in Edinburgh,
the freedom of which was presented to Lord
Lynedoch in a box of gold ; and at the conclusion

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170 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Andrew Square.
old Scottish school. His habits were active, anc
he was fond of all invigorating sports. He wa
skilled as an archer, golfer, skater, bowler, ant
curler, and to several kindred associations of thosc
sports he and ol$ Dr. Duncan acted as secretarie!
for nearly half a century. For years old EbeI
Wilson, the bell-ringer of the Tron Church, had thc
reversion of his left-off cocked hats, which he wore
together with enormous shoe-buckles, till his deatl
in 1823. For years he and the Doctor had been thc
only men who wore the old dress, which the latte
retained till he too died, twelve years after.
No. 24 was the house of the famous millionaire
Gilbert Innes of Stowe.
The Scottish Equitable Assurance Society occu
pies No. 26. It was established in 1831, and war
incorporated by royal charter in 1838 and 1846
It is conducted on the principle of mutual as
surance, ranks a~ a first-class office, and has accumu
lated funds amounting to upwards of ~ 2 , 2 5 0 , 0 0 0
with branch offices in London, Dublin, Glasgow
and elsewhere.
No. 29 was in 1802 the house of Sir Patrick
Murray, Bart., of Ochtertyre, Baron of the Ex
chequer Court, who died in 1837. It is now thc
offices of the North British Investment Corn
PanYNo.
33, now a shop, was in 1784 the house oi
the Hon. Francis Charteris of Amisfield, afterwards
fifth Earl of Wemyss. He was well known during
his residence in Edinburgh as the particular patron
of ?Old Geordie Syme,? the famous town-piper
of Dalkeith, and a retainer of the house of Buccleuch,
whose skill on the pipe caused him to be
much noticed by the great folk of his time. 01
Geordie, in his long yellow coat lined with red,
red plush breeches, white stockings, buckled shoes
and blue bonnet, there is an excellent portrait in
Kay. The earl died in 1808, and was succeeded
by his grandson, who also inherited the earldom
of March.
Nos. 34 and 35 were long occupied as Douglas?s
hotel, one of the most fashionable in the city, and
one which has been largely patronised by the royal
families of many countries, including the Empress
EugCnie when she came to Edinburgh, to avail
herself, we believe, of the professional skill of Sir
James Simpson. On that occasion Colonel Ewart
marched the 78th Regiment or Ross-shire Buffs,
recently returned from the wars of India, before
the hotel windows, with the band playing Padant
pour Za Syrie, on which the Empress came to
the balcony and repeatedly bowed and waved her
handkerchief to the Highlanders.
In this hotel Sir Walter Scott resided for a few
days after his return from Italy, and just before his
death at Abbotsford, in September, 1832.
No. 35 is now the new head office of the Scottish
Provident Institution, removed hither from No. 6.
It was originally the residence of Mr. Andrew
Crosbie, the advocate, a well-known character in
his time, who built it. He was the original of
Counsellor Pleydell in the novel of ? Guy Mannering.?
In 1754 Sir Philip Ainslie was the occupant of
No. 38. Born in 1728, he was the son of George
Ainslie, a Scottish merchant of Bordeaux, who,
having made a fortune, returned home in 1727,
and purchased the estate of Pilton, near Edinburgh.
Sir Philip?s youngest daughter, Louisa, became the
wife of John Allan of Errol House, who resided in
No. 8. Sir Philip?s mother was a daughter of
William Morton of Gray.
His house is now, with No. 39, a portion of the
office of the British Linen Company?s Bank, the
origin and pro?gress of which we have noticed in
our description of the Old Town. It stands immediately
south of the recess in front of the Royal
Bank, and was mainly built in 1851-2, after designs
by David Bryce, R.S.A., at a cost of about
~30,000. It has a three-storeyed front, above
sixty feet in height,.with an entablature set back
to the wall, and surmounted above the six-fluted
and projecting Corinthian columns by six statues,
each eight feet in height, representing Navigation,
Commerce, Manufacture, Art, Science, and Agricu!
ture; and it has a splendid cruciform tellingroom,
seventy-four feet by sixty-nine, lighted by a
most ornate cupola of stained glass, thirty feet in
diameter and fifty high. With its magnificent
columns of Peterhead granite, its busts of celebrated
Scotsmen, and its Roman tile pavement,
it is all in perfect keeping with the grandeur of
the external facade. This bank has about 1,080
partners.
Immediately adjoining, on the south, is the
National Bank of Scotland, presenting a flank to
West Register Street. It was enlarged backward
;n 1868, but is a plain almost unsightly building
mid its present surroundings. It is a bank of
:omparatively modem origin, having been estabished
on the zIst March, 1825. In terms of a
:ontract of co-partnership between and among the
iartners, the capit31 and stock of the company were
ixed at &,ooo,ooo, the paid-up portion of which
s ~I,OOO,OOO. In the royal charter granted to
he National Bank on the 5th August, 1831, a
ipecific declaration is made, that ? nothing in these
resents ? shall be construed to limit the responsiility
and liability of the individual partners of the

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 441
Leslie, Professor, Aberdeen, 78,i
Leslie, Mr., Dalkeith, 93
Leslie, Bailie, 119 '
Letham, Colonel, 410
Letham, Captain, 410
Leven, Earl of, 120, 331, 407
Leyden, Dr., 417
Lindsay, Sir Alexander, 244
Lindsay, Miss Catherine, 244
Liston, Sir Robert, 298
Little, Mr., of Libberton, 58, 22
Liverpool, Earl of, 410
Livingston, Lord, 128
Livingstone, Mr. James, 231
Livingstone of Parkhall, 350
Livingstone, Admiral Sir Thos.
Lockhart, Alex., Lord Covington
Lockhart, J. G., 408
Logan, Rev. J., the poet, 44, 12
Longman and Co., Messrs., 221
Lothian, Richard, 43
Lothian, George, Esq., 43
Lothian, Dr. William, 44
Lothian, Marquis of, 184, 415
Louis XVI., 129, 215, 372
Lovat, Lord, 323, 324
Lovit, Mr., 145
Luc, M. de, 56
Luke, Mr. Adam, 399
Lumsdaine, John, Esq., 99
Lunardi, Vincent, 87, 89
Lundie, Captain, 422
377
202
M
MABONM,r ., 210
Macalister, Lieut. -Colonel, 236
Macalister," Miss, 23 6
Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine, 30
Macdonald, Dr., 60
Macdonald, Lord, 199
Macdougall, A., 307
Macfarlan, Rev. Dr. John, 225
Macfarlan, John, Esq., 225
Macfarlan, Hev. Dr. Patrick, 22!
Macgregor, Rev. J. Robertson, 29!
Machrie, William, 96, 97
Mackay, James, 309
Mackay, Alexander, Esq. , 412
Mackinlay, Messrs., 241
Maclaren, Captaiv, 153
Maclean, Donald, Esq., 419, 420
Macleod, Donald, Esq., 341
282
422
Macpherson, James, 121
Macrae, Captain, 318
Macme, Mrs., 40
Mactavish, Mr. Lachlan, 237
Mair, Mr., of Gretna Hall, 43
Mair, Mrs., 43
Maitland, Lady Janet, 131
Maitland, Lord, 392
Maitland, Lady Jean, 392
Maitland, Thomas, Esq., 396
Malcolm, Deacon, 223
Nalone, Mr., 151
Manfredo, Signior, 143
Mansfield, Earl of, 122, 379
Mansfield, Miss, 374
bfargarot, Maurice, 168,169, 309,
Marjoribanks, General, 118
Marshall, James, Esq., 225
Marshall, Rev. James, 390
Martin, Captain, 141
Martin, Mrs., 141
Martin, Thomas, Esq., 240
Martin, Lieutenant, 326
Masters, Miss, 70
Mather, Mr. John, 242
Matheson, Rev. Dr., 195
Maxwell, Sir John, Bart., 195
Maxwell, General Sir William,
Maule, Baron, 284
Maxwell, General, 298
Maxwell, Miss Grisel, 298
Meadowbank, Lord, senior, 394
Meadowbank, Lord, junior, 316,
Mealmaker, George, 309, 356
Meckel, Professor, 281
Medwyn, Lord, 182, 183
Meldrum, Rev. Mr., 28
Melville, Lord, 74, 110, 125, 168,
183, 209, 238, 244, 274, 285,
286, 290, 313, 315, 343, 374,
376, 381, 387, 407, 410, 415
351, 353, 358
237
351
Sfelville, Mr,, 80
Menou, General, 108
Kenzies, John, Esq., 109
Kenzies, Miss Anne, 109
Slenzies, Captain Charles, 216
Menzies, Mr. John, 237
Kerry, Jarues, 37
Killar, Walter, 353
Miller, Maximilian, 12
Miller, William, Esq., younger of
Killer, the oculist, 69
Barskimming, 42, 119
3 L
Miller, Mr. David, 73, 299
Mills, Mrs., 228
Milliken, Sir William Napier,
Milne, Mr. John, 261
Minto, Countess of, 95
Minto, Dr. Walter, 286
Mitchell, Admiral, 107
Moffat, &. William, 309, 310
Moffat, Mr. Thomas Muir, 310
Moira, Earl of, 112, 403
Monboddo, Lord, 350
Moncreiff, Sir William, 415
Moncreiff, Miss Susan, 415
Moncreif, Sir Thomas, Bart.,
Monro, Sir Alexander, 280
Monro, Dr. Alexander, primus,
Monro, Dr. Alexander, lortius,
bTontgomery, Chief Baron, 103
Montgomery, Lady Lilias, 170
LvIontgomery, Sir James, 182
Montgomery, William, Esq., 190
Montgomery, Colonel William,
Montgomery, Sir James, 192
Montgomery, Archibald, Esq.,
Montgomery, Robert, Esq., 192
Ilontrose, Marquis of, 286
Montrose, James Duke of, 288
Koor, Professor, Glasgow, 322
Eoore, Sir John, 108, 186
bforay, Earl of, 351
#orris, Miss, 228
#orrison; Mr., of Bogny, 180
Korrison, Mr. aneas, 261
dorton, Earl of, 120, 161, 238,
doubray, Mr. John, 224
dudie, Mrs. Hay, 202
bfuir, Thomas, younger of
Huntemhill, 168
Luirhead, Rev. George, D.D., 389
dundell, Mr., 298
rlunro, Miss, 128
dunro, Rev. John, 154
durray, Mr. John, 61
durray, Sir Alexander, Bart., 191
durray, Lady, 191
durray, Archibald, Esq., 244
durray, William, Esq., 244
lurray, John Archibald, Esq., '
404
193
280, 367
281
192
192
327
244

... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 441 Leslie, Professor, Aberdeen, 78,i Leslie, Mr., Dalkeith, 93 Leslie, Bailie, 119 ...

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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, ...

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