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INDEX TO VOL . I1 .
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES .
A’
No . Page
ADVOCATES. Twelve. with wigs on .... cccxx 436
Advocates. Twelve. without wigs ... cccxxvi 462
Alls. The Five ........................... clxxxvii 46
Anderson. Mr . Francis. W . S ............. ccli 241
Angouleme. Duc d‘... ........................ ccxl 198
Austin.Mr . John. author of a “System
of Stenographic Music .............c cxcvii 376
Aytoun. Major-General Roger. ............c. cxl 196
B
BAILLIE, William. Lord Polkemmet ... ccxliii 216
Baillie. William. Lord Polkemmet ........ ccc 380
Baine. Rev . James. A.M., first minister
of the Relief Congregation. South
College Street .............................. cc 82
Baird. Rev . George Husband Baird.
D.D. Principal of the University.
and one of the ministers of the
High Church ........................... cccix 411
Bannatpe ............................. ccxciv 370
Barclay. John. M.D. ..................... cccxxii 448
Beggar’s Feast .............................. cccliii 480
Baird Rev . Principal ........................ cccx 412
Bannatpe. Sir W . M‘Leod. Lord
Bannatyne. Sir W . M‘Leod. Lord
Bannatyne .... ..........................c. cc 380
Bell. Mr . Benjamin, surgeon ..........c lxxxvi 45
Bell, Mr . Hamilton. W.S., carrying s
vintner’s boy from Edinburgh to
Mnsselburgh ........................... cclxiv 282
Bell, Mr. Hamilton. W.S ...............c. clxVi 289
Bell. Robert. Esq., Procurator for the
Bell, George Joseph. Profeasor of the
Law of Scotland .................... cccxxvi 464
Billair. Captain. and his Wife .......... ccxcix 379
Kirk ..................................... c c c a 437
No . Page
Black. Rev . David, of Lady Yester’s
Church .............................. ccxxxviii 192
Black. Donald. chairman ................. ccxcii 367
Blucher. Field.Marahal ................... ccclxi 477
Booksellers, Two ........................... clxxxii 30
Boswell. Claud Irvine. Lord Balmuto cclxii 277
Boswell. Claud I n h e . Lord Balmuto .... ccc 380
14
Boyle, Right Hon . David. Lord Justice-
Clerk ..................................c.c. cxii 417
Braidwood. Mr . Francis. cabinet-maker ccxiii 122
Breadalbane. John first Marquis of .. ccxlviii 233
Breadalbane, Lady ......................c cxlviii 23 4
Brown. Dr . John. alias “the Devil
Killer” .................................... cccv 394
Browne. Citizen M.C., one of the delegates
to the British Conventionccxxd 177
Buchanan. Rev . Dr., of the Canongate
Church .................................. ccxxii 152
Burnet. Captaii James. the last captain
of the City Guard ................... ecxxxv 185
Burnett, John. Esq., advocate ........... cccxx 436
Bums, Miss, a celebrated beauty ......... cxcii 60
Burns, Miss, a celebrated beauty ........c ccvi 399
Butler. Hon . Simon ...................... ccxbx 176
Butter. Mr . William .................... clxxxiii 32
Boyd. Mr . George. clothier ............. c l d
Brougham. Henry .................... cccxxxviii 478
a
CAMPBELLC,o lin. Esq., of Kd berry ... chxii 5
Campbell, Sir James, Bart. of Ardkinglass
.................................. clxxxix 61
Campbell, Sir Ilay. Bart., Lord President
of the Court of Seasion ................. ccii 89
Campbell, Sir Ilay. Lord PreSide .nt ....... ccc 380
Campbell, Mr . John. precentor ............ cciii 92
Campbell, ldr . Alexander .................. cciv 95

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474 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
peared on the 10th October 1S02. His intimacy with Sir Walter Scott, which
continued until death with little interruption, was attended by large results. The
first work that was the harbinger of a series of literary productions destined to
astonish the world was the Minstrelsy of the Xcottish Border, which appeared in
January 1802, and the publication of which he shared with Messrs. Longman
of London. This was afterwards followed up by the other poems, and by the
Waverley Novels. Besides these there were books of a more solid and learned
character which engaged his attention. Among them were that useful work of
reference The Annual Register, and the philosophical and scientific works of Dugald
Stewart, Brown, Playfair, and Leslie (all of whom were friends and habitues of
the High Street rendezvous), and last, though not least, came the Encyclopcedia
Brilannica, the copyright of which he purchased in 1812. This great work was
as yet in its infancy, but he added six supplementary volumes containing the
celebrated scientific dissertation by Stewart, Playfair, and Brande. He took
special interest in Scottish literature, and issued many rare works in t,hat
department including those of his friend Sir John Graham Dalzell, of whom
Kay has given a biography in this volume. Passing over many other literary
adventures, it may be sufficient here to notice one of his latest projects, Constable’s
Miscellany, a work set on foot in 1825, and intended to popularise wholesome
literature-a result it attained with no small measure of success. It was soon
after this that the cloud of pecuniary difficulties which had been gathering overhead
culminated and broke, obliging the firm to stop payment under a pressure
of liabilities exceeding 3250,000. How such a calamity could have befallen so
fair a structure it is difficult to conjecture. Possibly it can be accounted for by
the supposition that the huge vessel was overweighted, and sunk under the
burden of its precious cargo-a cargo the dismembered portions of which were
sufficient to enrich others who succeeded to them. But the architect does not
always live t,o see the accomplishment of his great design. So Constable was
doomed to take the last view of his splendidly constructed business with feelings
of disappointment. From this time his health gave way, the hitherto robust
frame broke up, and he died of a dropsical complaint, from which he had for some
time suffered, at his house in Park Place on the 21st July 1827. His death
was felt as a great blow to Edinburgh, as shown by the numerous obituary
notices which appeared after his decease, and from one of which we make the
following extract :-
“We are concerned to learn that Mr. Constable, our late eminent Publisher, who had for
some time suffered severely under a dropsical complaint, expired suddenly, at his house in Park
Place, on the afternoon of Saturday. This event has, we confess, excited in our minds a train
of melancholy recollections and regrets ; and we cannot refrain from thus publicly expressing
our respect for the memory of a man who, notwithstanding the disastrous termination of his
professional career, must long be remembered as a liberal friend of literary merit, and active
promoter of those literary enterprises which, during the last twenty-five years, have redounded
so much to the advantage and fame of this city. We do not scruple to say, that we have
nationality enough to have derived B lively satisfaction from seeing it become an object of
desire among the literati of the south to contribute to its literary undertakings, and to resort to
it as an advantageous mart of publication ; and, convinced BS we are, that this was in no small

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?The West Chum.: MR. ROBER?T PONT. 13x1
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBERT.
Iiirtory and Antiquity-Old Views of it Described-First Protestant Incumbeqts-The Old hlanse-Old Communion Cups-Pillaged by Cmmwdi
-Ruined by the Siege of 1689, and again in ~g+~-Deaths of Messrs. McVicar and Pitcairn-Early Body-snatchem-Demolition of the Old
Church-Erection of the Ncw-Cax of Heart-bud-Old Tombs and Vaults-The Nisbets of Deau-The Old Poor How-Kirkbraehud
Road-Lothian Road-Dr. Candlish?s Church-Military Academy-New Caledonian Railway Station.
IN the hollow or vale at the end of which the North
Loch lay there stands one of the most hideous
churches in Edinbutgh, known as the West Kirk,
occupying the exact site of the Culdee Church of
St. Cuthbert, the parish of which was the largest
in Midlothian, and nearly encircled the whole of
the city without the walls. Its age was greater than
that of any record in Scotland. It was supposed
to have been built in the eighth century, and was
dedicated to St. Cuthbert, the Bishop of Durham,
who died on the 20th of March, 687.
In Gordon of Rothiemay?s bird?s-eye view it
appears a long, narrow building, with one transept
or aisle, on the south, a high square tower of three
storeys at the south-west corner, and a belfry.
The burying-ground is square, with rows of trees
to the westward. On the south of the buryingground
is a long row of two-storeyed houses, with a
gate leading to the present road west of the Castle
rock, and another on the north, leading to the
pathway which yet exists up the slope to Princes
Street, from which point it long was known as the
Kirk Loan to Stockbridge.
A view taken in 1772 represents it as a curious
assorlment of four barn-like masses of building,
having a square spire of five storeys in height in
the centre, and the western end an open ruinthe
western kirk-with a bell hung 011 a wooden
frame. Northward lies the hare open expznse, or
ridge, whereon the first street of the new town was
built.
After the Reformation the first incumbent settled
here would seem to have been a pious tailor, named
William Harlow, who was born in the city about
1500, but fled to England, where he obtained
deacon?s orders and became a preacher during the
reign of Edward VI. On the death of the, latter,
and accession of Mary, he was compelled to seek
refuge in Scotland, and in 1556 he began ?pub
,licly to exhort in Edinburgh,? for which he was
excommunicated by the Catholic authorities, whose
days were numbered now; and four years after,
when installed at St. Cuthbert?s, ? Mr. Harlow attended
the meeting of the first General Assembly,
held in Edinburgh on the 20th of December, 1560.
He died in 1578, but four years before that event
Mr. Robert Pont, afterwards ah eminent judge and
miscellaneous writer, was ordained to the ministry
of St. Cuthbert?s in his thirtieth year, at the time
he was, with others, appointed by the Assembly
to revise all books that were printed and published.
About the saiiie period he drew up the Calendar,
and framed the rule to understaqd it, for Arbuthnot
and Bassandyne?s famous edition of the Bible. In .
1571 he had been a Lord of Session and Provost
of the Trinity College.
On Mr. Pont being transferred in 1582, Mr.
Nicol Dalgleish came in his place ; but the former,
being unable to procure a stipend, returned to his
old charge, conjointly with his successor. IVhen
James VI. insidiously began his attempts to introduce
Episcopacy, Mr. Pont, a zealous defender of
Presbyterianism, with two other ministers, actually
repaired to the Parliament House, with the design
of protesting for the rights of the Church in the face
of the Estates; but finding the doors shut against
them, they repaired to the City Cross, and when
the obnoxious ?Black Acts ? were proclaimed, pub.
licly denounced them, and then fled to England,
followed by most of the clergy in Edinburgh.
Meanwhile Nicol Dalgleish, for merely praying
for them, was tried for his life, and acquitted, but
he was indicted anew for corresponding with the
rebels, because he had read a letter which one of
the banished ministers had sent to his wife. For
this fault sentence of death was passed upon him ;
but though it was not executed, by a refinement of
cruelty the scaffold on which he expected to die was
kept standing for several weeks before the windows
of his prison.
While Mr. Pont remained a fugitive, William
Aird, a stonemason, ? an extraordinary witness,
stirred cp by God,? says Calderwood, ?Land
mamed, learned first of his wife to speak English,?
was appointed, in the winter of 1584, colleague to
Mr. Dalgleish, who, on the return of Mr. Pont in
1585, ? was nominated to the principality of Aberdeen.?
Aware
of the igqorance of most of their parishioners concerning
the doctrines of the Protestant faith, and
that many had no faith- whatever, they offered to
devote the forenoon of every Thursday to public
tzaching, and to this end a meeting was held on
Pont?s next colleague was Mr. Aird.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.. . 237
consist of a blue coat, with a red cape and cuff, white lining turned up in the
skirts, two gold epaulets, and a button bearing the name of the corps and arms
of the city ; white cassimere vest and breeches, and white cotton stockings ;
short gaiters of black cloth ; a round hat with two black feathers and one white ;
and black cross-belts.’ The two grenadier companies had a bear-skin and a
grenade on the hat, and grenades at the joining of the skirts of the coat ; while
the officers of the corps were only distinguished by their swords. The regiment,
being assembled in Heriot’s Green on the 26th September 1794, was presented
with a stand of colours by the Lord Provost (Sir James Stirling), attended by
the two senior Magistrates, the Principal of the University, and the whole
Members of the Town Conucil, in their robes. The colours were very handsome ;
the one elegantly embroidered with a crown and the letters G.R.; and the
other with the city arms. A vast crowd of spectators attended to witness the
presentation.
.
The original officers of the corps were-
LIJWTENANT-COLONELS.
Thomas Elder, Old Provost.
William Maxwell, Colonel in the Army (now General Sir William Maxwell).
MAJORS.
Roger Aytoun, Leiut.-Colonel in the Army.
Patrick Crichton, a Captain in the Army.
Clarles Rem, late Captain 43d Foot.
Andrew Houston, late Lieutenant of the Car-
John Anstruther, late Lieutenant 17th Foot.
Arch. Erskine, late Major of 22d Foot.
Robert Hamilton, late Lieutenant 82d Foot.
William West, Captain in the Army.
Robert Arbuthnot, Lieutenant in the Army.
Thomas Armstrong, late Lieutenant 80th Foot.
Captain-Lieutenant George Abercromby.
Thomas Hewen, late Captain in 4th Dragoons.
Archibald Campbell, late Lieut. in the Army.
David Bume, late Lieutenant of Marines.
Henry Jardine (now Sir H. Jardine), W.S.
Robert Dundas (the late Sir Robert Dundas,
CAPTAINLI.
bmeers.
LIEUTENANTS.
Baine Whyt, W.S.
William Coulter.*
Malcolm Wright.
John Clork.
David Reid.
John F’ringle. Baronet, of Dunira).
Robert Hodgson Cay, Advocate.
ENSIONS
John Dundas. James Brown.
John Menzies. James Dickson.
John Wood, Charles Phin.
Lachlan Mactavkh. Morris West.
CHAPLAIN-ReVereUd a. Baird. TmbBmm-Hugh Robertaon.
hJuTANT-Patrick Crichton. SECRETAItY-HeIWy Jardine.
QUARTERHASTER-David Hunter. SUMiEON--ThOmM Hay.
~IElTmT-~oRGEONS-~ohRna e and James Law.’
The belts of the Edinburgh Volunteers were afterwards painted white, which soon gave the
corps an awkward appearance, on account of the paint scaling off, and leaving portions of white and
black alternately. They were accordingly soon laid wide, and the common buff belt substituted
The uniform underwent many other changes. ’ Afterwards Lord Provost, who, dying while holding that office, received the honour of 8 public
funeral.
In a pamphlet, entitled “View of the Establishment of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteem,”
published in June 1795, an alphabetical list of all the members is given, amounting tu 785 ; which,

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I 68 OLD. AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Andrew Square.
Natural Phenomena,? and many other scientific
and geographical works that have won the firm
more than European reputation, including the
? Royal Atlas of General Geography,? dedicated tc
her Majesty, the only atlas for which a prize medal
was awarded at the International Exhibition oi
London, 1862. Alexander Keith Johnston, LL.D.,
F.R.S., died on the 9th of July, 1877; but the
firm still exists, though removed to more extensive
premises elsewhere.
No less than twenty-three Societies and Associa.
tions of various kinds have chambers in No. 5,
including the Obstetrical, Botanical, Arboricultural,
and Geological Societies, together with the Scottish
branch of the Army Scripture Readers and Soldiers
Friend Society, the mere description of which would
require a volume to themselves.
In the entire square there are above twenty
insurance societies or their branches, and several
banks, and now it is one of the greatest business
centres in the city.
No. 6 was till 1879 the Scottish Provident In.
stitution, established in I 838, and incorporated
ten years subsequently. It is a mutual assurance
society, in which consequently the whole profits
belong to the assured, the policy-holders at the
same time, by the terms of? the policies and by the
deed of constitution, being specially exempt from
personal liability.
No. 9 was in 1784 the house of Sir Michael
Bruce, Bart., of Stenhouse, in Stirlingshire. He
married a daughter of General Sir Andrew Agnew
of Lochnaw, heritable sheriff of Galloway, and
died in 1795. The whole site is now covered by
the Scottish Widows? Fund ofice.
No 12, once the residence of Campbell of Shawfield,
is now the office of the London Accident
Company; and No. 14, ?which no longer exists,
was in 1810 the office of the Adjutant-General for
Scotland.
In No. 19 (now offices) according to one authority,
in No. 21 (now also offices) according to Daniel
Wilson, was born on the 19th of September, 1779,
Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the future Lord
Chancellor of Great Britain, son of Henry Brougham
.of Scalis Hall, Cumberland, and Brougham Hall,
Westmoreland, by Eleanor, daughter of the Rev.
James Syrne, and maternal niece of Robertson the
Scottish historian.
A. and C Black?s ?? Guide ? assigns the third floor
of No. ZI as the place where Brougham was born.
The birth and existence of this illustrious statesman
depended upon a mere chance circumstance, which
has in it much that is remarkable. His father was
about to be married to a young lady resident near
~ ~ ~
his family seat, to whoni he was passionately attached,
and every preparation had been made for
their nuptials, when the lady died. To beguile his
sorrow young Brougham came to Edinburgh, where,
when idling on the Castie Hill, he chanced to
inquire of a person where he could find a suitable
lodging. By this person he was not directed to
any fashionable hotel, for at that time scarcely such
a thing was known in Edinburgh, but to Mrs.
Syme, sister of Principal Robertson, widow of the
Rev. Mr. Syrne, yhilom minister of Alloa, who
then kept one of the largest boarding-houses in the
city, in the second flat of MacLellan?s Land, at the
Cowgate Head, the windows of which looked up
Candlemaker Row.
There he found quarters, and though it does not
appear that he intended to reside permanently in
Edinburgh, he soon found occasion to change that
resolution by falling in love with Miss Syme, and
forgetting his recent sorrow. He married her, and
after living for a little space with Mrs. Syme, removed
to st. Andrew Square.*
The future Lord Brougham received the first
seeds of his education at the High School, under
Mr. Luke Fraser, and afterwards under Dr. Adam,
author of the ?Roman Antiquities;? and from
there he passed to the University, to become the
pupil of Dugald Stewart, Black, Robertson, and
other well-known professors, prior to his admission
to the Scottish bar in 1800.
No. 22, now the office of the Scottish National
Fire and Life Assurance Company, was for years
the residence of Dr. James Hamilton, who died in
1835, and whose figure was long remarkable in the
streets from his adherence to the three-cornered hat,
the collarless coat, ruffles, and knee-breeches, of a
past age, with hair queued and powdered; foryears
too he was in every way one of the ornaments of
the metropolis.
His grandfather, the Rev. William Hamilton (a
branch of the house of PreSton) was Principal of
the University in 1730, and his father, Dr. Robert
Hamilton, was a distinguished Professor of theology
in I 754.. At an early age the Doctor was appointed
one of the physicians to the infirmary, to Heriot?s,
the Merchant-maiden and Trades-maiden Hospitals,
and he was author of one or two of the most
elegant professional works that have been issued
by the press. The extreme kindliness of his disposition
won him the love of all, particularly of
the poor, With the costume he retained much of
the gentle courtesy and manly hardihood of the
In one of his earlier publications, Robert Chambm states that
Brougham was born at No. 8 Cowgate, and that his father afterwards
moved to No. 7 George Street.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 105
public dinner given in honour of that event. Of this we find the following
notice in the Courant newspaper :-
" On Monday afternoon, 8th June 1828, about a hundred gentlemen belonging to Lady
Glenorchy's Chapel gave an entertainment, in the Waterloo Tavern, to their highly respected
clergyman, on occasion of his entrance on the fiftieth year of his ministry over that congregation.
Several friends of the Rev. Doctor were present, among whom we noticed the Lord Provost
(Walter Brown), Rev. Dr. Gordon, Dr. Dickson, &. Paul, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Purves,
J. S. More, Esq., and R. Paul, Esq. The chair was ably filled by John Tawse, Esq., who, in
an eloquent speech, in which he paid a high and deserved compliment to Dr. Jones for the
fidelity with which he had discharged his dutiea as a minister, concluded by presenting him
with an elegant silver vase, as a tribute of the respect and esteem which the people entertained
for the uniform uprightness of his conduct during the long period they had enjoyed his ministry.
The Rev. Doctor made a feeling and appropriate reply, assuring the chairman and gentlemen
present that he required no token or mark of respect to bind him to a congregation to whom he
was so sincerely attached. John Bonar, Esq., of Ratho,l and J. F. M'Farlan, Esq., acted as
croupiers. "
Besides a funeral sermon 011 the death of Lady Glenorchy, and a volume of
sermons, Dr. Jones published a Life of Lady Glenorchy, which is much esteemed.
No. CCVII.
WILLIARI FORBES, ESQ.
OF CALLENDAR.
THISI ' son of fortune " was a native of Aberdeen, and brought up as a tinsmith.
Having gone to London in early life, he was at length enabled to enter into
business for himself, and was struggling to rise into respectability, when, by a
fortunate circumstance, the path to opulence was invitingly opened to him.
In the course of the year 1780, various plans were proposed to preserve
vessels from the effects of sea-water. The late Lord Dundonald, who died at
Paris in 1831, having directed his attention to the subject, invented a species
of coal-tar, which, on trial, was found to answer the purpose ; and the ingenious
Mr. Bonar died on the 26th November 1838, a few months previous to Dr. Jones. His father,
the late Alexander Bonar, Esq., one of the partners of the long-established firm of Ramsays, Bonars,
and Co., bankera in Edinburgh, was among the earliest and most intimate friends of Dr. Jones in
Scotland ; and was so highly esteemed by Lady Glenorchy for his Christian principles, his prudence,
integrity, and iinobtrusive worth, that she nominated him as one of her trustees to manage the
affairs of her Chapel upon her death. His son continued to take a lively interest in all that belonged
to this Chapel ; and his death, which was very unexpected, was felt as a severe loss by the friends
of that Institution. This event was also much lamented by the public at large, as Mr. Bonar was
universally respected for the kindness and frankness of his disposition, and for his readiness on all
occasions to promote the interests of those around him. In 1826-7, he was in the magistracy of the
city, and there conducted himself in a manner that secured him the approbation of men of all parties.
He was subsequently named one of the trustees for the city creditors ; and although in this capacity
he did not unnecessarily obtrude his own views on others, he devoted his time cheerfully to the
duties of the ofice, and understood 80 well the practical bearing of the different points from time
to time occurring, that his opinion was always received with much respect.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 389
Smith, the late Professor Thomas Brown, Francis Horner, and Henry (afterwards
Lord) Brougham, he was one of the original projectors of the Edinburgh Reeriew,
begun in 1802, and was for many years the editor, as well as a chief contributor,
to that celebrated work.
While thus wielding the editorial wand of criticism with a felicity and
power that astonished and subdued, Mr. Jeffrey daily rose in eminence at the
bar. Brief poured in on brief; and amid so much business, of a description
requiring the exercise of all the faculties, it was matter of astonishment how
he found convenience for the prosecution of his literary pursuits. The following
lively skktch of the Scottish advocate, in the hey-day of his career, is from
Peter’s Letters to htk Kinsfolk :-
‘I When not pleading in one or other of the Coiirts, or before the Ordinary, he may commonly
be seen standing in some corner, entertaining or entertained by such wit aa suits the-atmosphere
of the place ; but it is seldom that his occupations permit him to remain long in any such position.
Ever and anon his lively conversation is interrupted by some undertaker-faced solicitor,
or perhaps by some hot, bustling exquisite clerk, who comes to announce the opening of some
new debate, at which the presence of Mr. Jeffrey is necessary ; and away he darts like lightning
to the indicated region, clearing his way through the surronnding crowd with irresistible alacrity
-the more clumsy, or more grave doer, that had set him in motion, vainly puffing and elbowing
to keep close in his wake A few seconds have scarcely elapsed, till you hear the sharp, shrill,
but deep-toned trumpet of his voice, lifting itself in some far-off corner, high over the discordant
Babe1 that intervenes-period following period in one unbroken chain of sound, aa if ita links
had no beginning, and were to have no end.
t t t t c
“ It is impossible to conceive the existence of a more fertile, teeming intellect. The flood
of his illustration seems to be at all times rising up to the very brim ; yet he commands and
restrains with equal strength and skill ; or if it does boil over for a moment, it spreads such a
richness around, that it is impossible to find fault with its extravagance. Surely never waa such
a luxuriant ‘ copia fundi’ united with so much terseness of thought and brilliancy of imagination,
and managed with so much unconscious, almost instinctive ease. If he be not the most
delightful, he is by far the moat wonderful of speakers.”
In 1821 Mr. Jeffrey was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow,
an honour the more gratifying that it was obtained in opposition to powerful
political interest. In 1829 he was unanimously chosen Dean of the Faculty
of Advocates, on which occasion, we understand, he gave up all charge of the
Edinburgh Reukw.
In December 1830 Mr. Jeffrey was appointed Lord Advocate for Scotland,
and returned to Parliament, in January following, for the Forfar district of
burghs. In the course of his canvass he was well received, especially by the
inhabitants of Dundee, four hundred of whom sat down to a public dinner
given to the Lord Advocate and his friends, Sir James Gibson-Craig, Mr.
Murray of Henderland, etc. ; but at Forfar, where his opponent, Captain Ogilvy
of Arley, was a favourite, he was so roughly handled by the mob as to have
been in danger of his life. At the general election in 1831 he stood candidate
for the city of Edinburgh, in opposition to Robert Adam Dundas, Esq. Great
excitement prevailed on this occasion. Besides memorials from most of the
Trades’ Incorporations, a petition to which were appended seventeen thousand
signatures, was presented to the Town Council in favour of Mr. Jeffrey; and

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money than brains and ambition. In Charles Street (No. 7), which lies
betyeen Bristo Street and George Square, Lord Jeffrey was born (the house
is seen in the engraving of Hamilton’s Entry as you look th;ough the pend,
while in the rear there stood, till the autumn of 1875, Sir Walter Scott’s first
school,’ so that this little archway binds together early memories of two of
Scotland’s most gifted sons), and in the third flat of No. 18 Buccleuch PIace
(close at hand), JeKrey, Sydney Smith, and Lord Brougham first projected
the Edivburgh Rmim. Long before, a few yards from this, in the ‘‘Hole
.BUCCLEUCH PLACE.
in the Wa’” of Buccleuch Fend, a certain Lucky PringIe kept an. alehouse
much frequented by William Nicol of the High School (who lived near it),
Burns’s friend, and by Burns himself. At the east end of Sciennes Hillthe
seat of the ancient Convent of St. Catherine of Siena (corrupted into
‘ Sciennes,’ and now pronounced Sheens ’)-stood Adam Fergusson’s house,
where, at a breakfast party, Scott, a boy, met and interchanged courteous
words with the Peasant Poet of Scotland. This altogether may be called
the classic region of Edinburgh, every inch of it bristIing with literary
recollections.
We now approach the Meadows, one of the oldest and finest promenades
in Edinburgh, originally a part of the old Borough Loch. A strip at the
west end of the East Meadow is used as a practice-grouna for the Royal Company
of Archers (Archers’ Hall), while Bruntsfield Links, to the south of
1 The accompanying drawing was made during the process of demolition.

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OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craigmillar.
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competition, the first prize for the chapel, &c., was
awarded to James Grant, Hope Park End.
Skirting the cemetery on the west, the Powburn
here tums south, and running under Cameron
Bridge, after a bend, turns acutely north, and
flows through the grounds of Prestonfield towards
Duddingston Loch.
Out of his lands of Cameron, Sir Simon Preston
of Craigmillar, in 1474, gave an annual rent of
ten marks to a chaplain in the church of Musselburgh.
Craigmillar Park and Craigmillar Road take
their name from the adjacent ruined castle ; and at
Bridge-end, at the base of the slope on which it
stands, James V. had a hunting-lodge and chapel,
some traces of which still exist in the form of a
stable.
On the summit of an eminence, visible from the
whole surrounding country-the crazg-moiZwd of
antiquity (the high bare rock, no doubt, it once was)
-stands the venerable Castle of Craigmillar, with a
history nearly as long as that of Holyrood, and
which is inseparably connected with that of Edinburgh,
having its silent records of royalty and
rank-its imperishable memories of much that has
perished for ever.
The hill on which it stands, in view of tile
encroaching city-which ? bids fair some day to
surround it-is richly planted with young wood ;
but in the immediate vicinity of the ruin some of
the old ancestral trees remain, where they have
braved the storms of centuries. Craigmillar is
remarkable as being the only family mansion in
Scotland systematically built on the principles
of fortification in use during the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. In the centre tower, the square
donjon keep is of the earliest age of baronial architecture,
built we know not when, or by whom, and
surrounded now by an external wall, high and strong,
enclosing a considerable area, with round flanking
towers about sixty feet apart in front, to protect the
curtains between-all raised in. those ages of strife
and bloodshed when our Scottish nobles-
?Carved at the meal with gloves of steel,
And drank aeir wine through the helmet barredr?
Its lofty and stately vaulted hall measures
thirty-six feet long by twenty-two feet in breadth,
with a noble fireplace eleven feet wide, and on the
lower portions of it some remnants of old paintings
may be traced, and on the stone slab of one 01
the windows a diagram for playing an old knightly
game called ?Troy.? There are below it several
gloomy dungeons, in one of which John Pinkerton,
Advocate, and Mr. Irvine, W.S., discovered in
1813 a human skeleton, built into the wall upright.
What dark secrets the old walls of this castle could
tell, had their stones tongues ! for an old, old
house it is, full of thrilling historical and warlike
memories. Besides the keep and the older towers,
there is within the walls a structure of more modern
sppearance, built in the seventeenth century. This
is towards the west, where a line of six handsome
gableted dormer windows on each side of a projecting
chimney has almost entirely disappeared ;
one bore the date MDC. Here a stair led to the
castle gardens, in which can be traced a large
pond in the form of a p, the initial letter of the
old proprietor?s name. Here, says Balfour, in
I 509, ?? there were two scorpions found, one dead,
the other alive.?
There are the dilapidated remains of a chapel,
measuring thirty feet by twenty feet, with a large
square and handsomely-mullioned window, and a
mutilated font. It was built by Sir +John Gilmour,
who had influence enough to obtain a special
?? indulgence ? therefor from King James VII. It
is a stable now.
?? On the boundary wall,? says Sir Walter Scott,
?may be seen the arms of Cockburn of Ormiston,
Congalton of Congalton, Mowbray of Barnbougle,
and Otterbum of Redford, allies of the Prestons
of Craigmillar. In one corner of the court, over
a portal arch, are the arms of the family: three
unicorns? heads coupid, with a cheese-press and
barrel, or tun-a wretched rebus, to express their
name of Preston.?
This sculptured fragment bears the date 1510.
The Prestons of Craigmillar carried their shield
above the gate, in the fashion called by the Italians
smdopmdente, which is deemed more honourable
than those carried square, according to Rosehaugh?s
? Science of Heraldry.?
On the south the castle is built on a perpendicular
rock. Round the exterior walls was
a deep moat, and one of the advanced round
towers-the Dovecot-has loopholes for arrows
or musketry.
The earliest possessor of whom we have record
is ?Henry de Craigmillar,? or William Fitz-
Henry, of whom there is extant a charter of gift
of a certain toft of land in Craigmillar, near the
church of Liberton, to the monastery of Dunfermline,
in I z I 2, during the reign of King Alexander 11.
The nearer we conie to the epoch of the long and
glorious War of Independence, the more generally
do we find the lands in the south of Scotland in
the hands of Scoto-Nbrman settlers. John de
Capella was Lord of Craigmillar, from whose
family the estate passed into the hands of Simon
Preston, in 1374, he receiving a charter, under

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138 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
bounded on the east by Brown’s Close, and forms a detached block of houses of various
dates and styles, all exhibiting considerable remains of former magnificence.
The house that now forms the kouth-west angle towards the Castle Hill bears, on the
pediment of a dormer window facing the Castle, the date 1630, with the initials A. M.,
M. N. ; and there still remains, sticking in the wall, a cannon ball, said to have been shot
from the Castle during the cannonade of 1745, though we are assured that it was placed
there by order of government, to indicate that no building would be permitted on that
side nearer the Castle. Through this land‘ there is an alley called Blair’s Close, leading
by several curious windings into an open court behind. At the first angle in the close,
a handsome gothic doorway, of very elegaut workmanship, meets the view, forming the
entry to a turnpike stair. The doorway is surmounted with an ogee arch, in the tympanum
of which is somewhat rudely sculptured a coronet with supporters,--‘( two deerhounds,”
says Chambers, ‘‘ the well-known supporters of the Duke of Goidon’s arms.” ’
This accords with the local tradition, which states it to have been the town mansion of
that noble family ; but the style of this doorway, and the substantial character of the
whole building, leave no room to doubt that it is an erection of a much earlier date
than the Dukedom, which was only created in 1684. Tradition, however, which is never
to be despised in questions of local antiquity, proves to be nearly correct in this case, as
we find, in one of the earliest titles to the property now in the possession of the City Improvements
Commission, endorsed, I-‘ Disposition of House be Sir Robert Baird to William
Baird, his second son, 1694,” it is thus defined,-“All and hail that my lodging in the
Caste1 Hill of Edinburgh, formerly possessed by the Duchess of Gordon.” This appears,
from the date of the disposition, to have been the first Duchess, Lady Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. She retired to a Convent in Flanders during the lifetime
of the Duke, but afterwards returned to Edinburgh, where she principally resided
till her death, which took place at the Abbey Bill in 1732, sixteen years after that of
her huaband.
In 1711, her Grace excited no small stir in Edinburgh, by sending to the Dean and
Faculty of Advocates, -‘aI silver medal, with a head of the Pretender on one side, and on
the other the British Isles, with the word Reddite.” On the Dean presenting the medal,
the propriety of accepting it was keenly discussed, when twelve only, out of seventyfive
members present, testxed their favour for the House of Hanover by voting its
rejection.s
The most recent of the interior fittings of this mansion appear old enough to have
remained from the time of its occupation by the Duchess. It is finished throughout with
wooden panelling, and one large room in particular, overlooking the Castle Esplanade, is
elegantly decorated with rich ‘carvings, and with a painting (one of old Norie’s pictorial
idornments) filling a panel over the chimney-piece, and surrounded by an elaborate piece
.
1 The term ImuZ, in this and similar instances throughout the Work, is used according to its Scottish acceptation,
* Traditionq vol. i p. 153.
* Norie, a house-decorator and painter of the last century, whom works are very common, painted on the panels of
Pinkerton remarks, in his introduction to the ‘‘ Scottish Gallery,” 1799,-“Norie’a
and signifies a building of several stories of separate dwellings, communicating by a common stair.
Douglas’s Peerage, vol. i. p. 654.
the older houaea in Edinburgh.
genius for landacapea entitles him to o place in the list of Scotch paintera”

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348 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGN.
is on the west side of the square, No. 25, and there the lively and curious boy grew up to
manhood under the kindly surveillance of the good old pair. The little back room still
remains, ‘( That early den,” with the young antiquary’s beginnings of the future Abbotsford
collection, described so piquantly in Lockhart’s life of him, by the pen of a female
friend ; and where Lord Jeffrey found him on his first visit, long years ago, “ surrounded
with dingy books.’’ Though shorn of all the strange relics that young Walter Scott
gathered there, it possesses one valuable memento of the boy. On one of the window
panes his name is still seen, inscribed with.a diamond in a school-boy hand; and other
panes of glass, which contained juvenile verses traced in the same durable manner, have
been removed to augment the treasures of modern collectors. On the east side of George
Square lies Windmill Street, the name of which preserves the record of an earlier period
when a windmill occupied its site, and raised the water from the Borough Loch to supply
the brewers of the Society. The Incorporation of Brewers has long been dissolved, and
the Borough Loch now forms the rich pasturage and the shady walks of the Meadows ;
while along its once marshy margin has since been built Buccleuch Place, where the
exclusive faRhionable5 of the southern district long maintained their own ball-room and
assemblies.
The impossibility of converting this pendicle of the Borough Nuir to any useful purpose
as private property, while it continued in its original state as a Loch, fortunately
prevented its alienation, while nearly every other portion of the valuable tract of land that
once belonged to the borough passed into private hands. At the western extremity of
the Borough Muir, the venerable tower of Merchiston still stands entire, the birth-place
of John Napier, the inventor of the Logarithms, to whom, according to Hume, the title
of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced.
The ancestors of the great Scottish philosopher were intimately connected with Edinburgh.
The three first Napiers of Nerchiston successively filled the office of provost in
the reigns of James 11. and III., and other connections of the family rose to the same
civic dignity. Their illustrious descendant was born at Merchiston Castle in the year
1550, on the eve of memorable changes whereof even the reserved and modest student
had to bear his share. The old fortalice of Merchiston, reared at an easy distance from
the Scottish capital, lay in the very field of strife. Round its walls the Douglas wars raged
for years, and the most striking incidents of the philosopher’s early life intermingle with
the carnage of that merciless feud. On the 2d of April 1572, he was betrothed to Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir, and on the 5th of the following month,
“ The cumpany of Edinburgh pad furth and seigit Merchingstoun ; quha wan all the
pairtis thairof except the dungeoun, in the quhilk wes certane suddartis in Leith; the
hail1 houssis wes spoulzeit and brunt, to haue amokit the men of the dungeoun out ; but
the cuntrie seand the fyre, raise with the pover of Leith and put the men of Edinburgh
thairfra without slauchter, bot syndrie hurt.” The keep of Merchiston formed, indeed, the
key of the south approach to the capital, so that whoever triumphed it became the butt of
their opponents’ enmity. It lay near enough to be bombarded from the Castle walls by
Sir William Kirkaldy, though a cousin of its owner, because ~omoef the king’s men held
it for a time, and intercepted the provisions coming to the town. Again and again were the
1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 295.

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I74 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Charlotte Square.
Bank, near Edinburgh; Arnsheen, in Ayrshire ;
Redcastle, Inverness-shire ; Denbrae, Fifeshire; and
Gogar Bank in Midlothian. He died on the 27th
of May, 1836, Lady Fettes having pre-deceased him
on the 7th of the same month.
By his trust disposition and settlement, dated
5th July 1830, and several codicils thereto, the last
being dated the 9th of March, 1836, he disponed his
whole estates to and in favour of Lady Fettes, his
sister Mrs. Bruce, Mr. Corrie, Manager of the
British Linen Company, A. Wood, Esq. (afterwards
Lord Wood), and A. Rutherford, Esq. (afterwards
Lord Rutherford), as trustees ; the purposes of the
trust, which made ample provision for Lady Fettes
in case of her survival, being :-(I) The payment of
legacies to various poor relations ; ( 2 ) Bequests to
charitable institutions ; and (3) The application of
the residue to ?? form an endowment for the maintenance,
education, and outfit of young people
whose parents have either died without leaving
syfficient funds for that purpose, or who from innocent
misfortune during their own lives are unable
to give suitable education to their children.?
The trust funds, which at the time of the
amiable Sir William?s death amounted to about
&166,000, were accumulated for a number of years,
and reached such an amount as enabled the
trustees to carry out his benevolent intentions in a
becoming manner ; and, accordingly, in 1864 contracts
were entered into for the erection of the superb
college which now very properly bears his name.
Lord Cockburn, that type of the true old Scottish
gentleman, ?? whose dignified yet homely manner
and solemn beautygave his aspect a peculiar grace,?
and who is so well known for his pleasant and gossiping
volume of ?? Memorials,? and for the deep interest
he took in all pertaining to Edinburgh, occupied
No. 14 ; and the next house was the residence
of Lord Pitmilly. James Wolfe Murray, afterwards
Lord Cringletie, held No. 17 in 1811; and the
Right Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, and
afterwards Lord Justice General, occupied the same
house in 1830.
Lieutenant-General Alexander Dirom, of Mount
Annan, and formerly of the 44th regiment, when
Quartermaster-General in Scotland, rented No. I 8
in I 8 I I. He was an officer of great experience, and
had seen much service in the old wars of India, and,
when major, published an interesting narrative of
the campiign against Tippoo Sultan. Latterly his
house was occupied by the late James Crawfurd,
Lord Ardmillan, who was called to the bar in 1829,
and was raised to the bench in Jacuary, 1855.
At the same time No. 31 was the abode of the
Right Hon. Wlliam Adam, &ord Chief Commissioner
of the Jury Court, the kinsman of the
architect of the Square, and a man of great
eminence in his time. He was the son of Adam
Blair of Blair Adam, and was born in July, 1751.
Educated at Edinburgh, he became a member of
the bar, but did not practise then ; and in 1774 and
1794 he sat for several places in Parliament. In
the latter year he began to devote himself to his
profession, and in 1802 was appointed Counsel for
the East India Company, and four years afterwards
Chancellor for the Duchy of Cornwall. After being
M.P. for Kinross, in 18 I I he resumed his professional
duties, and was deemed so sound a lawyer that he
was frequently consulted by the Prince of .Wales
and the Duke of York.
In the course of a parliamentary dispute with
Mr. Fox, about the first American war, they fought
a duel, which happily ended without bloodshed,
after which the latter remarked jocularly that had
his antagonist not loaded his pistols with Government
powder he would have been shot. In 1814
he submitted to Government a plan for trying civil
causes by jury in Scotland, and in the following
year was made a Privy Councillor and Baron of the
Scottish Exchequer. In I 8 I 6 an Act of Parliament
was obtained instituting a separate Jury Court in
Scotland, and he was appointed Lord Chief Commissioner,
with two of the judges as colleagues,
and to this court he applied all his energies, overcoming
by his patience, zeal, and urbanity, the many
obstacles opposed to the success of such an institution.
In 1830, when sufficiently organised, the
Jury Court was, by another Act, transferred to the
Court of Session, and when taking his seat on the
bench of the latter for the first time, complimentary
addresses were presented to him from the Faculty
of Advocates, the Society of Writers to the Signet,
and that of the solicitors before the Supreme
Courts, thanking him for the important benefits .
which the introduction of trial by jury in civil cases
had conferred on Scotland. In 1833 he +red
from the bench, and died at his house in Charlotte
Square, on the 17thFebruary, 1839, in his 87th year.
? In 1777 he had married Eleanora, daughter of
Charles tenth Lord Elphinstone. She died in
1808, but had a family of several sons-viz., John,
long at the head of the Council in India, who died
some years before his father; Admiral Sir Charles,
M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; William
George, an eminent King?s Counsel, afterwards
Accountant-General in the Court of Chancery;
and Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick, who held a
command at the battle of Waterloo, and was afterwards
successively Lord High Commissioner to the
Ionian Isles and Governor of Madras.

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last recorded noble occupants are mentioned by Chambers as ((two ancient spinsters,
daughters of Lord GraF.” Over the main entrance of the next land, there is a defaced
inscription, with the date 1621. The house immediately below this is worthy of notice,
as a fine specimen of an old wooden fronted land, with the timbers of the gable elegantly
carved. During the early part of the last century, this formed the family mansion of
David, the third Earl of Leven, on whom the title devolved after being borne by two
successive Countesses in their own right. He was appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle
by William and Mary, on its surrender by the Duke of Gordon in 1689 ; and shortly after
he headed his regiment, and distinguished himself at the battle of Killicrankie by running
away! To the east of this there formerly stood, at the head of Sempill’s Close, another
wooden fronted land, ornamented with a curious projecting porch at the entrance to the
close, and similar in general style to those taken down in 1845, of which we furnish an
engraving. It hung over the street, story above story, each projecting further the higher
it rose, as if in defiance of all laws of gravitation, nntil at length it furnished unquestionable
evidence of its great age by literally tumbling down about the ears of its poor inmates,
happily without any of them suffering very serious injury.
Immediately behind the site of this house stands a fine old mansion, at one time
belonging to the Sempill family, whose name the close still retains. It is a large and
substantial building, with a projecting turnpike stair, over the entrance to which is the
inscription, PRAISED BE THE LORD MY GOD, MY STRENGTH, AND MY
REDEEMER. ANN0 DOM. 1638, and a device like an anchor, entwined with the
letter S. Over another door, which gives entrance to the lower part of the same house,
there is the inscription, SEDES MANET OPTIMA CGLO, with the date and device
repeated. On the left of the first inscription there is a shield, bearing party per fesse, in
chief three crescents, a mullet in base. The earliest titles of the property are wanting, and
we have failed to discover to whom these arms belong. The house was purchased by
Hugh, twelfth Lord Sempill, in 1743, from Thomas Brown and Patrick Manderston, two
merchant burgesses, who severally possessed the upper and under portions of it. By him it
was converted into one large mansion, and apparently an additional story added to it, as
the outline of dormer windows may be traced, built into the west wall.
Lord Sempill, who had seen considerable military service, commanded the left wing of
the royal army at Culloden. He was succeeded by his son John, thirteenth Lord Sempill,
who, in 1755, sold the family mansion to Sir James Clerk of Pennycuik.
The ancient family of the Sempills is associated in various ways with Scottish song.
John, son of Robert, the third Lord, married Mary Livingston, one of ‘I the Queen’s
Maries.” Their son, Sir James, a man of eminent ability and great influence in his day,
was held in high estimation, and employed as ambassador to England in 1599 ; he was the
author of the clever satire, entitled “ The Packman’s Paternoster.” His aon followed in
his footsteps, and produced an “ Elegy on Habbie Simsou, the piper of Kilbarchan,” a
poem’ of great vigour and much local celebrity; while his grandson, Francis Sempill of
Beltrees, is the author both of the fine old song, “ She rose and let me in,” and of a curious
poem preserved in Watson’s collection, en titled ‘‘ Banishment of Poverty,” written about
Watson’8 Collection of Scots Poems, 1706, part i. p. 32.

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it wad be a treat for her to see the inside like other strangers ! ” The renovators of
the old hall seem to have taken the &ft laird’s hint,-Justice has vanished from the
porch, to reappear in a most gaudy and tasteless fashion in the painted glass of thegreat
window.’ An incident, however, in connection with the fate of these ancient
warders of the Parliament porch, will best illustrate the taste of its beautifiers. Shortly
after the modernisation of the old Trent, the late Bailie Henderson observed a cart
conveying along the South Bridge a load of carved stones, among which the statues of
Justice and Mercy formed the most prominent objects. On inquiring at the carter as to
their destination, he learned that one of the Professors, who kept a Polar bear, had
applied to the Magistrates for stones to erect a bear’sdouse within the College quadrangle,
and he accordingly obtained a gift of these old rubbish for the purpose. The
Bailie gave the carter a fee to turn his horse’s head, and deposit them at his own villa near
Trinity, from whence he sent him back with his cart full of stoneg equally well adapted
for the Professor’s bear’s house. On the death of Bailie Henderson, the statues, along
with other ornamental portions of the old building, were procured by A. G. Ellis, Esq., in
whose posqession they now are.
The great hall measures 122 feet long, by 40 broad, and although its windows have
recently been altered, its curious, open-timbered oak roof remains, springing from a
series of grotesquely sculptured corbels of various designs. Long after it had been forsaken
by the Scottish Estates it retained the high throne at its southern end, where the
Sovereign, or his Commissioner, was wont to preside over their deliberations, and on
either side a range of benches for the nobles and barons, with lower ones in the centre
for the Commissioners of Burghs, the Scottish Estates having formed to the last only
one deliberative assembly. Without thia area a pulpit was erected for sermons to the
Parliament,-the same, we believe, that is now preserved in the Nuseum of the Society
of Antiquaries under the name of ‘(John Knox’s pulpit.” Along the walls there hung
a seriea of portraits of sovereigns and eminent statesmen, including paintings by
Sir Godfrey Kneller ; but some of these were the first of its decorations that disappeared,
having, it is said, been bestowed by Queen Anne on her Secretary, the Earl of Mar.:
Others, however, of these paintings adorned the walls, and are now, we believe,
among the miscellaneous collection at Holyrood House. Portions also of early decorations,
including fragments of ancient tapestry, were only removed in the latter end
of last century,-the same hangings, in all probability, as were put up during the Protectorate.
Nicoll tells us, ‘‘ The Preses and the remanent memberis of the great counsall
did caus alter much of the Parliament Hous, and did calm hing the Over hous with riche
hingeris, in September 1655, and removit these roumes thairintill appoyntit for
passing of the billis, and signeting of letters. So wes also the Lower HOUS, diligatlie
hung.’’ Nor should we omit to mention the Creed and Ten Commandmenta, once 80
In 1868, this window was replaced by a magnificent stained one, representing the inauguration of the College of
Justice, or the Supreme Court of Scotland, by King Jarnes V., in 1532.
The following are mentioned in Brown’s “ Stranger’s Guide,” for 1820 +“ The outer
hall is ornamented by full Iength portraita of King William III., Queen Mary, his consort, and Queen Anne, all done
by Si Godfrey Kneller ; also of George I., John Duke of Argyle, and Archibald Duke of Argyle, by Mr Aikman of
Carney.
’ Minor Antiquities, p. 187,
Nicoll’s Diary, p. 216.

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Pleasance. ST. LEONARD?S CHAPEL. 383
entirely to act as barbers. In consequence, the
council, on the 26th July, 1682, recommended the
new corporation to supply the city with a sufficient
number of persons qualified ?to shave and cut
hair,? and who should continue to be upon it ; but
in 1722 it ceased to have all connection with the
barbers, save that the latter were obliged to enter
all their apprentices in a register kept by the
surgeons. By a charter of George III., dated 14th
March, 1778, the corporation was erected into ?The
Royal College of Surgeons of the City of Edinburgh,?
a document which established a scheme of
provision for the widows and children of members.
In the old edifice overlooking the Pleasance the
College held all its
Castle of Clouts,? in the spirit of that talent which ,
the Scots have of conferring absurd sobriquets.
By the wayside to Duddingstone, south of the
Pleasance, a rising piece of ground or slight eniinence
is called Mount Hooly, a corruption of
Mount Holy, which marks the site of the chapel
of St. Leonard and of a hospital dedicated to the
same saint. As is the case with most of the
ecclesiastical edifices in Edinburgh, nothing is
known as to when or by whom either the chapel or
hospital was built, and not a vestige remains of
either now.
The chapel, ere it became a ruin, rva?s the scene
of a remarkably traitorous tryst, held by the
_.
~ - -- -- - meetings till the erec- ~ ~ ~ --/ -
tion of the new hall,
to be referred to in its
place; but the name of
the first establishment
still survives in the adjacent
Surgeon Square.
In it was a theatre for
dissection, a museum,
in which a mummy
was long the chief
curiosity, and the hall
was hung with portraits
Qf surgeons who had
grown to eminence
after it was built.
W i 11 i am S m e 11 i e,
F.R.S. and F.A.S., an
eminent printer, and
DAVIE DEANS? COTTAGE.
known as the (FTOIIZ a Vzpette by &oars, #ubZrs/red I- the Fzrsf Edition of Robert
author of the ?Philo- Chambers?s ? Tradrho~rso~Ed~irbsrgh,? 1825 )
sophy of Natural His-
Douglas faction on the
2nd of February, 1528,
having nothing less in
view than the assassination
of their sovereign,
James V., ?the
Commons King,? who
was the idol of his
people. They were to
enter the palace of
Holyrood by a window
near the head of the
king?s bed in the night,
and under the guidance
of Sir James
Hamilton, one the monarch
loved and trusted
much; but the dastardly
plot was discovered
in time, and
by the energetic measures
taken to crush the
devisers of it, peace
of the quaint old houses of the Pleasance in 1740.
A quaint three-storeyed edifice, having a large
archway, peaked gables, and dormer windows,
bearing the date of 1709, stood on the south
side of the Pleasance, and was long known as
? Hamilton?s Folly,? from the name of the proprietor,
who was deemed unwise in those days to hiild
a house so far from the city, and on the way that led
to the gibbet on which the bodies of criminals were
hung. But the latter would seem to have been in -
use till a much later period, as in the Cournnt for
December, 1761, there are advertised for sale four
tenements, ?lying at the head of the Pleasance, on
the east side of the road leading to the gibbet.?
Here still stands a goodly house of three storeys,
which was built about 1724 bya wealthy tailor, and
which in consequence has been denominated ?(the
for a period.
At St. Leonard?s Loan, which bounded the
property of the abbots of Holyrood on the south,
separating it on the side from the western flank of
the vast Burghmuir, there stood in ancient times a
memorial known as Umphraville?s Cross, erected
in memory of some man of -rank who perished
there in a conflict of which not a memory remains.
The cross itself had doubtless been demolished
as a relic of idolatry at the Reformation ; but in
1810, its base, a mass of dark whinstone, with a
square hole in its centre, wherein the shaft had
been fixed, was still remaining on the ancient site,
till it was broken up for road metal!
In his ? Diary,? Birrel records that on the 2nd
April, 1600, ? being the Sabbathday, Robert
Achmuty, barber, slew James Wauchope at the com

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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

... Provost?.] THE DUNDAS RIOTS. 281 daughter of the head of the firm. When he took ofice politics ran high, The ...

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&rnbers Street.] INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM. 275
metalhrgy and constructive materials, for ceramic
.and vitreous manufactures, the decorative arts,
guise of various animals, seek to aid 0; hinder its ' ascent.
textile manufactures, food, education, chemistry,
materia medica, photography, &c.
The whole floor is covered with articles illustrative
of the arts of construction, such as products
.of the clay-fields, fire and brick clays, and terra-
-cottas. Cements and artificial stones stand next
in order, followed by illustrations of the mode of
quarrying real stone ; adjoining these are stones
dressed for building purposes, and others carved
for ornamental uses.
Oriental stone carving is illustrated by a set of
magnificent plaster casts from one of the- most
famous gates of Delhi, made by order of the
Indian Government. The sanitary appliances used
in building are likewise exhibited here ; also slate
.and its uses, with materials for surface decorations,
.and woods for house timber and furniture.
Among the more prominent objects are large
.models of Scottish lighthouses, presented by the
Commissioners of Northern Lights, of St. Peter's at
Rome, St Paul's at London, and the Bourse in
Berlin, together with a singularly elegant carton-
.pierre ceiling ornament, and finely designed mantelpiece,
that were originally prepared for Montagu
House.
In the centre of the hall are some beautiful
.specimens of large guns and breechloading fieldpieces,
with balls and shells, and a fine model of
-the bridge over the Beulah in Westmoreland.
A hall devoted to the exhibition of flint and clay
products, and illustrations of glass and pottery, is
in the angle behind the great and east saloons.
'The art Potteries of Lambeth are here represented
by beautiful vases and plaques, and other articles
in the style of old Flemish stoneware. There are
.also fine examples of the Frenchfuiencr, by Deck
-of Paris, including a splendid dish painted by
Anker, and very interesting samples of Persian
-pottery as old as t b fourteenth century.
There is a magnificent collection of Venetian
.glass, comprising nearly 400 pieces, made by the
Abbot Zanetti of Murano, in Lombardy; while
modern mosaic work is exemplified by a beautiful
,reredos by Salviati, representing the Last Supper.
The beauty of ancient tile work is here exhibited
in some exquisite fragments from Constantinople,
These formed, originally, part of the
.several decorations of the mosque of Broussa, in
Anatolia, which was destroyed by an earthquake.
In rich blue on a white ground they display a
variety of curious conceptions, one of which represents
the human soul shooting aloft as a tall
=cypress tree, while good and evil spirits, under the
Near these are placed, first, illustrations of colliery
work, then of metallurgical operations, and lastly,
the manufacture of metals. The first, or lower
gallery of this hall, contains specimens of the arts
in connection with clothing, and the textile fabrics
generally and their processes ; wood, silk, cotton,
hemp, linen, jute, felt, silk, and straw-hat making,
leather, fur, and also manufactures from bone, ivory,
horn, tortoise-shell, feathers, hair-gut, gutta-percha,
india-rubber, &c. ; and the upper gallery contains
the collection illustrative of chemistry, the chemical
arts, materia medica, and philosophical instruments.
The department of machinery contains a speci
men, presented by the inventor. of Lister's wool
combing machine, which, by providing the means
of combing long wools mechanically, effected an
enormous change in the worsted trade of Yorkshire.
*
In the front of the east wing is the lecture
room, having accommodation for 800 sitters
Above it is a large apartment, seventy feet in
length by fifty broad, containing a fine display of
miner'als and fossils. One of the most interesting
features in this department is the large and valuable
collection of fossils which belonged to Hugh
Miller.
The ethnological specimens are ranged in hahdsome
cases around the walls. The natural his.
tor). hall contains on its ground floor a general
collection of mammalia, including a complete
grouping of British animals. The first gallery
contains an ample collection of birds and shells,
&c; the upper gallery, reptiles and fishes. In
the hall is suspended the skeleton of a whale
seventy-nine feet in length.
On the north side of Chambers Street is the new
Watt Institution and School of Arts, erected in
lieu of that of which we have already given a history
in Adam Square. (VoL I., pp. 379, 380.) It was
erected in 1872-3 from designs by David Rhind,
and is two storeys in height, with a pavilion at
its west end, and above its entrance porch the
handsome statue of James Watt which stood in
the demolished square.
Beside this institution stands the Phrenological
Museum, on the north side, forming a conjoint
building With it, and containing a carefully assorted
collection of human skulls some of them being of
great antiquity. It was formerly in Surgeon Square,
High School Yard.
The new Free Tron Church stands here, nearly
Sec "Great Industries of Great Britain." VoL I., pp. 107-8;
II., b

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was restored, but in somewhat doubtful taste, by
Thomas Hamilton, architect, and a new square
tower, terminating in a richly cusped open Gothic
balustrade, was erected at its north-western corner,
while the angles of the building were ornamented
ST. MARK?S (SOUTH LEITH) CHURCH, 1882.
by buttresses finished with crocketed finials,
scarcely in accordance with the severe simplicity
of the old time-worn and war-worn church of St.
Mary, the beautiful eastern window of which was
preserved in form.
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY feet north-westward of
St. Mary?s church, and on the same side of the
Kirkgate, opens the ancient alley named Coatfield
Lane, which, after a turn to the south in Charlotte
Lane, led originally to the Links. Dr. Robertson
gives a quotation from the I? Parish Records ? of
South Leith, under date 25th May, 1592, as
showing the origin ? of Coatfield Lane : ?the
quhilk day, the Provost, Johnne Amottis, shepherd,
was acted that for every sheep he beit in ye Kirkyeard
suld pay ix merks, and everie nyt yat carried
(kept) thame betwix the Coatfield and ye. Kirk
style he should pay v. merk.?
But the name is older than the date given, as
Patrick Logan of Coatfield was Bailie of Leith
10th September, 1470, and Robert Logan of the
same place was Provost of the city in 1520-I, as
the ?Burgh Records show ; and when ruin began
to overtake the wily and powerful Baron of Restalrig,
his lands of Mount Lothian and Nether Gogar
were purchased from him by Andrew Logan of
Coatfield in 1596, as stated in the old ?? Douglas
Peerage.?
At the corner of Coatfield Lane, in the Kirkgate,
there stands a great mansion, having a handsome
front to ?the east, exhibiting some curious exampIes

... restored, but in somewhat doubtful taste, by Thomas Hamilton, architect, and a new square tower, terminating ...

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

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3 20 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
below renders it probable that the Episcopal residence in the ckpital, thus permanently
attached to the See of Dunkeld, was the lodging on the south side of the Cowgate; and
the same ecclesiastical biographer already referred to mentions as one of the good works
of Bishop Brown, the predecessor of Douglas, that he built the south wing of the house
at Edinburgh belonging to the Bishops of Dunkeld.’ It cannot be doubted that the
mansion thus gifted and enlarged was a building well suited by its magnificence for the
abode of the successive dignitaries of the Church who were promoted to that exalted
station, and that it formed another striking feature in this street of palaces. Its vicinity
both to the Archiepiscopal residence and to the Blackfriars’ Church-the later scene of
rescue of Archbishop Beaton by Gawin Douglas-affords a very satisfactory illustration
of one of the most memorable occurrences during the turbulent minority of James V.
The poet, after his ineffectual attempt at mediation, retired with grief to his own
house, and employed himself in acts of devotion suited to the danger to which his friends
were exposed; from thence he rushed out, on learning of the termination of the fray,
in time to interpose effectually on behalf of the warlike priest, who had been personally
engaged in the contest, and, according to Buchanan, “flew about in armour like a firebrand
of sedition.” This old Episcopal residence has other associations of a very
dXerent nature; for we learn from Knox’s history that, when he was summoned to
appear in the Blackfriars’ Church on the 15th of May 1556, and his opponents deserted
their intended attack through fear, “ the said Johne, the same day of the summondis,
tawght in Edinburgh in a peattar audience then ever befoir he had done in that toune :
The place was the Bischope of Dunkellis, his great loodgeing, whare he continewed
in doctrin ten dayis, boyth befoir and after nune.”a A modern land now occupies
the site of Bishop Douglas’s Palace; and the pleasure grounds wherein the poet
was wont to stray, and on which we may suppose him to have exercised his refined
taste and luxurious fancy in realizing such a 46 gardyne of plesance ” as he describes
in the opening stanzas of his Pallis of Honor, is now crowded with mean dwellings
of the artizan and labourer-too much engrossed with the cares of their own
domestic circle to heed the illustrious memories that linger about these lowly habitations.
The range of buildings extending from the Cowgate Port to the Old High School Wynd,
on the south side of the street, still includes several exceedingly picturesque timber-fronted
tenements of an early date ; but none of them possess those characteristics of former magnificence
which were to be seen in the Mint Close. A finely. carved lintel, which surmounted
the doorway of one of a similar range of antique.tenements to the west of the High School
Wpd, has been replaced over the entrance to the modern building, erected on the same
site in 1801. The inscription, of which we furnish a sketch, is boldly cut in an unusual
lain in St Geiles Kirk in Edinburgh, of au annual rent of 6 merks out of the tenement of Donald de Keyle on the N.
nide of the gaite . . . au annual rent. of 40 sh. out of his own house lyand in the Cowgaite, betwixt the land of the
Abbot of Melroa on the east, and of George Cochran on the west,” &c.-23d Jan. 1449 ; MS. Advoc. Lib. “A mortification
made by James [Livingston] Bishop of Dunkeld, to a chaplain of St Martin and Thomas’s Altar, in St Geiles Kirk
of Edinburgh, of an annual rent of E10 out of his tenement lying in the said burgh, on the north side of the Hie
Street,” &.-Ibid. “Confirmation of a charter granted be Thomas [Lauder] Bishop of Dunkeld, to a chaplain of the
Holy Cross Isle, in St Geiles Kirk in Edinburgh,” of divers annual rents, dated 17th March 1480.-Ibid.
.
Vitae Dunkeld. Episc. p. 46. f Knox’s W-orks, Wodrow Soc., vol. i p. 251.

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224 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
quhill ane hour efter dinner ; and the saidis dyvoris, before thair libertie and cuming furth
of the tolbuith, upon thair awn chairges, to cause mak and buy ane hat or bonne‘t of yellow
colour, to be worn be thame all the tyme of their sitting on the said pillery, and in all tyme
thairefter, swa lang as they remane and abide dyvoris.”l Sundry modifications of this
singular act were afterwards adopted. In 1669 ‘‘ The Lords declare that the habite is to
be a coat and upper garment, which is to cover their cloaths, body and arms, whereof, the
one half is to be of yellow, and the other half of a brown colour, and a cap or hood, which
they are to wear on their head, party coloured, as said is,” a coloured, as is enacted at a
subsequent period, “conform to a pattern delivered to the magistrates of Edinburgh to
be keeped in their Tolbooth.” The effect of such a custom, if revived in our day, amid
the bustle and fever of railway schemes, and ‘‘ bubble speculations” of all kinds, could
not fail to exercise a very pleasing influence in diversifying the monotony of our unpicturesque
modern attire, and giving some variety to our assemblies and promenades ! How
far commercial solvency would be promoted by the frequenters of the Stock Exchange being
thus compelled to wear their credit on their sleeve, we must leave these shrewd speculators
to determine at their leisure. Cowper, in his ‘‘ Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq.,” discusses a
somewhat analogous device, adopted by an Eastern sage, for distinguishing hone& men from
knaves, and which consisted in the convicted defaulter wearing only half a coat thereafter ;
but he adds for the comfort of all contemporaries :-
0 happy Britain ! we have not to fear
Such hard and arbitrary measures here ;
Else could a law, like that which I relate,
Once have the sanction of our triple state,
Some few, that I have known in days of old,
Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold !
In the steep and narrow closes that diverge on each side of the High Street, were once
the dwellings of the old Scottish nobility, and still they retain interesting traces of faded
grandeur, awaking many curious associations which well repay the investigator of their intricate
purlieus. Dunbar’s Close, of which we furnish a view, has already been mentioned
as the place pointed out by early tradition where Cromwell’s ‘( Ironsides ” were lodged,
and its whole appearance is both unique and singularly picturesque. Over the entrance to
the Rose and Thistle Tap,-the traditional guard-room of the victors of Dunbar,-there is
a beautifully carved inscription, bearing one of the oldest dates now left on any private
building in Edinburgh. The stone is rebuilt into a new portion of the house, but is still
nearly as sharp as when fresh from the chisel ; the inscription is :-
FAITH * IN - GRIST a ONLIE a SAVIT * 1567.
1 Acts of Sederunt, 17th May 1606.
4 The following Act of Sederunt, for 13th December 1785, describes the latest version of the Edinburgh Cross,
if we except the radiated pavement that marks its site :-“ The Lords having considered the representation of the Lord
Provost and Magistrates of the city of Edinburgh, setting forth, that when the Cross was taken away in the year 1756,
a stone was erected on the side of a well on the High Street, adjacent to the place where the Cross atood, which,
by Act of Sederunt, was declared to be the Market Cross of Edinburgh from that period. That since removing the
city guard, the aforesaid well was a great obstruction to the free passage upon the High Street, which therefore they
intended to remove, and instead thereof to erect a stone pillar, a few feet distant from the said well, on the same side
of the High Street, opposite to the head of the Old Assembly Close. Of which the Lords approve, and declare
the new pillar to be the Market Cross.” We suppose the more economical marking of the pavement was the only
result.
Ibid, 26th February 1669. Ibid, 18th July 1688.

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MUSSELBURGH. 1 23
Pinkie House, too, towards the east of the town and on the south side of
the road, is a place of great historic interest. ‘ It consists of two sides of a
quadrangle, the square formerly completed by a wall now removed, in the
centre of which was a well or fountain of elaborate and beautiful architecture,
coeval with the house, but which is now disused.’ Originally, this mansion
was the country-house of the Abbot of Dunfermline; and after various
changes of fortune and proprietorship, passed into the hands of Alexander
Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, a man of eminent ability and influence, who in
the beginning of the seventeenth century altered it into its present form, and
made it the principal seat of his residence. But other and more noble men
than the Earl seem to have slept under its roof, as a room in it, of great
curiosity, from its elaborate and fanciful dedorations, usually called the King’s
Room, woul’d indicate : at any rate it is certain that Prince Charles, 4 the
PINKIE HOUSE.
night after his victory at Preston, as well as that of the last day of October,
when on his march from Edinburgh into EngIand, found a lodging in it.
Indeed, there are few houses in the county of greater interest than this fine
old mansion of Gothic architecture, with its air-of-eld look, rich, well-wooded
groves through which the Scottish muse has sent its thrilling notes, and
adjacent fields and heights with their hallowed associations of battle, defeat,
and victory, dear to the heart and sacred to the memory of every lea1 son of
‘the land of the bluebell and the heather.’ The Jail also is an interesting
object, arresting the step and fixing the attention of the stranger, as he
saunters on through the streets, by its quaint appearance and antique structure.
In like manner, the Morrison’s-Haven Masonic Lodge, if not calling for any
special remark in itself, is yet worthy of notice from the fact that it is built
upon the site of that odd Flemish-looking house, with its buttressed front and
conical windows, each surmounted by a rose carved in stone, in which the

... 1 23 Pinkie House, too, towards the east of the town and on the south side of the road, is a place ...

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354 BIOGRAPHICAf, SKETCHES.
stated that Downie accompanied Watt to his place at the W-ater-of-Leith, when
the order was given for the pikes. William Brown said he made fifteen
pikes by Watt’s order, to whom he delivered them ; and that, on a line from
Watt, Downie paid him twenty-two shillings and sixpence for the fifteen.
Margaret Whitecross, who had been at one time a servant of Mr. Downie, on
being shown one of the pikes, “declared that she saw a similar one in Mr.
Downie’s house one morning when she was dressing the dining-room : that Mr.
Downie had come home late the previous night : that Mr. Downie’s son, Charles,
came out of an adjoining closet, where he slept, as soon as he heard her in the
room, and took it away ; and at this time he had only part of his clothes on, and
did not seem to have any other business in that room: that she remembers
hearing Mrs. Downie ask her husband what he had done with the large dividingknije
which was found in the dining-room?-to which he answered, that he had
locked it by : that she never heard her master speak of having such weapons to
defend himself; and when she saw it, she thought she never saw such a dividing-
knife before.” A verdict of guilty was returned on both occasions ; and
sentence of death passed upon the prisoners.
Watt suffered the extreme punishment of the law according to the form
usual in treasonable cases.‘ Previous to his execution, he made a confession of
the extent and purport of the measures contemplated by the Committees.
Downie was pardoned, on condition of banishing himself from the British
strength. The play--“ Which is the Man ”-was allowed to go on to the end without interruption.
A few minutes of ominous silence followed, when a voice at last called out for I‘ God save the King,”
and “ off hats.” A general melee ensued, which put an
entire stop to the husiness of the stage, and created the utmost alarm. “ It is difficult to say,”
observe3 the Couraiit of that period, “ which party made the first attack ; it was furious beyond
exaniple ; each party had prepared for the contest by arming themselves with bludgeons ; and while
the affray lasted, the most serious consequences were apprehended, as both parties fought with
determined resolution, Many dreadful blows were given, which brought several individuals to the
ground; and the wounded were in danger of being trampled to death in the general confnsion.
The party, however, who insisted on keeping on their lists, being at length overcome, left the house,
and the wounded were carried out. A considerable
mob was congregated ont of doors anxiously waiting the result.
The execntion of Watt, which took place at the west end of the Luckenbooths, was conducted
with much solemnity. He was conveyed from the Castle on a black-painted hurdle, drawn by a
white horse, amid a procession of the magistracy, guarded by a strong military force, The prisoner,
who wag assisted in his devotions by the Rev. Principal Baird, exhibited a picture of the most
abject dejection. He was wrapped in a great-coat, a red nightcap, (which, on the platform, he
exchanged for a white one), with a round hat, his stockings hanging loose, and hi3 whole appearance
wretched in the extreme. He wax about the age of thirty-six, and was the natural aon of 8
gentleman of fortune and respectability, in the county of ‘Angus, but, as is usiial, took the name of
his mother. At about ten years of age he was sent to Perth, where he received a good education ;
and at sixteen he engaged himself with a lawyer ; but, from Home religious scrnples, took a disgust
at his employment ; and, removing to Edinburgh, was engaged as a clerk to Mr. E. Balfour, bookseller
(whose shop was afterwards occupied hy the Journal Office), with whom he lived for mome
pears, without any other complaint than the smallness of his salary. Being desirous of becoming a
partner of the business, he, by the inflnence of some friends, prevailed on his father to advance
money for that purpose ; and then made proposals to his employer ; but his oEer was rejected.
Having money in posaession, he entered into the wine and spirit trade, and for some time had
tolerable success ; but waa ruined, it was said, on the commencement of the war with France.
This seemed to be the signal for attack.
The pit was the principal scene of action.”

... BIOGRAPHICAf, SKETCHES. stated that Downie accompanied Watt to his place at the W-ater-of-Leith, when the ...

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