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152 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
death of his wife, which occurred in September 1807, is thus recorded in one
of the Edinburgh periodicals of the day :-'' Died on Monday last, with the
well-merited reputation of an honest, inoffensive woman, Mrs. Charteris, who
has been in this theatre for more than thirty years. She succeeded the muchadmired
Mrs. Webb, and, for many years after that actress left the city, was an
excellent substitute in Lady Dove, Juliet's Nurse, Debmah Woodcock, DOTCUMST,S .
Bundle, etc., etc."
To her succeeded Mrs. Nicol, whose merits are too well known to require
any comment from us. She retired from the stage in 1834, after a career of
twenty-seven years, and died the year following. Her daughter at present (1 837)
fills her range of characters in the Edinburgh theatre, and bids fair to become
as excellent and as popular an actress as her mother.
No. LXIV.
THE REV. JOSEPH ROBERTSON MACGREGOR,
FIRST iWINISTER OF THE EDINBURGH GAELIC CHAPEL.
THE old Gaelic Chapel at the Castlehill was erected in 1769, principally by
the exertions of Mr. William Dickson, then a dyer in Edinburgh, who set on
foot subscriptions, and purchased ground for the purpose, which was afterwards
conveyed to the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge. In the course
of seven years afterwards, owing to the rapid influx of people from the Highlands,
it was found necessary to enlarge the building, which was then done so as to
accommodate eleven hundred sitters ; and although in connection with the
Established Church, the subscribers and seat-holders chose their own minister,
and provided him with a salary of €100 a-year. The same method of choosing
a pastor still exists. The management of the chapel is placed in the hands of
elders, who pay over the seat-rents to the Society for Propagating Christian
Knowledge, and the Society takes the responsibility of making good the
minister's stipend, which is now considerably increased.
MR. JOSEPRHOB ERTSONM ACGREGORth, e first minister of the chapel,
was a native of Perthshire. For some time after he came to Edinburgh he
was employed as a clerk in an upholstery warehouse ; but in a few years was
enabled,' by great industry, to push himself forward. He became a licentiate
of the Church of England, but subsequently joined the Established Church
of Scotland.
Previous to the erection of the Gaelic Chapel he was employed as a Lecturer
and Catechist to the Highland families, who obtained the use of the Relief
Chapel, in South College Street, to assemble in after sermon, for the purpose of
instruction. Mr. Macgregor was originally known by the name of Robertson,

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THE OLD TOWN. 41
1845, Old Greyfriars Church was restored and reopened in 1857. What a
strange and varied history it has gone through!--'not a church, but a
caravanserai.' Here, after a sermon by Alexander Henderson of Leucbars in
1663, the Solemn League and Covenant was signed, laid out on a gravestone,
the parchment at length failing them, and many of the signatures being written
STONE ON WHICH TAB COVENANT WAS SIGNED.
in blood ! (In the Engraving the stone is enclosedaithin' the railing, and a
glimpse of light rests on it.) Here'"Dr>Robertson the historian rolled along
his splendid sentences in the morning, and Dr. John Erskine in the afternoon
pierced and scattered them by hii Presbyterian dagger ! the one contending that
virtue, were she coming to earth in human form, would be adored ; the other
announcing that sheshad come in the person of Christ, and had been crucified
and slain. Here Dr. Robert Lee, a reformer too, in his own way, discerning
perhaps his time as well as Henderson did his, introduced an organ and a
liturgy, and struck a chord of innovation which his successor, the sagacious
and daring Wallace-now Editor of the Scofsman-boIdIy and successfully
followed.
The Greyfriars Churchyard stands on the ruins of the Franciscan
Monastery, and strange it was that the first man of note buried in it should
be George Buchanan, the scourge of the Franciscans as well as of the other
orders of monks-described by Miiton as 'white, black, and grey, With all
their trumpery.' Buchanan's funeral was attended by a 'great company of
the faithful,' and, standing near a small tablet erected to his memory by a
working blacksmith-his only monument here,-let us recall for an instant into
honourable remembrance the greatest of Scottish Latin scholars and not the
least of Scottish poets, the noble, brave-hearted, outspoken, manly, and eloquent
F

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?54 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk.
belonged to different vehicles. It is standing opposite
the Tron Kirk. The warning bell rings a
quarter of an hour before starting ! Shortly a pair
of illconditioned and ill-sized hacks make their
appearance, and are yoked to it ; the harness, partly
of old leathern straps and partly of ropes, bears
evidence of many a mend. A passenger comes
and takes a seat-probably from the Crames or
Luckenbooths-who has shut his shop and affixed
a notice to the door, ?Gone to Leith, and will be
back at 4 of the clock, p.m.? The quarter being
up, and the second bell rung, off starts the coach
at a very slow pace. Having taken three-quarters
of an b u r to get to the Halfway House, the ? ?bus ?
sticks fast in a rut ; the driver whips up his nags,
when 10 ! away go the horses, but fast remains the
stage. The ropes being re-tied, and assistance procured
from the ? Half-way,? the stage is extricated,
and proceeds. What a contrast,? adds the writer,
? between the above pictures and the present ? ?bus ?
with driver and conductor, starting every five
minutes.? But to-day the contrast is yet greater,
the tram having superseded the ?bus.
The forty oil-lamps referred to would seem not to
have been erected, as in the Advertiser for Sep
tember, 1802, a subscription was announced for
lighting the Walk during the ensuing winter season,
the lamps not to be lighted at all until a sufficient
sum had been subscribed at the Leith Bank and
certain other places to continue them to the end
of March, 1803 ; but we have no means of knowing
if ever this scheme were camed out.
? If my reader be an inhabitant of Edinburgh of
any standing,? writes Robert Chambers, ? he must
have many delightful associations of Leith Walk
in connection with his childhood. Of all the streets
in Edinburgh or Leith, the Walk, in former times,
was certainly the street for boys and girls. From
top to bottom it was a scene of wonders and enjoyments
peculiarly devoted to children. Besides the
panoramas and caravan shows, which were comparatively
transient spectacles, there were several
shows upon Leith Walk which might be considered
as regular fixtures, and part of the countv-cousin
sghts of Edinburgh. Who can forget the waxworks
of ?Mrs. Sands, widow of the late G. Sands,?
which occupied a laigh shop opposite to the present
Haddington Place, and at the door of which,
besides various parrots and sundry Birds of Paradise,
sat the wax figure of a little man in the dress
of a French courtier of the ancien r&iaime, reading
one eternal copy of the Edinburgh Advertiser?
The very outsides of these wonderful shops was an
immense treat ; all along the Walk it was one delicious
scene of squirrels hung out at doors and
monkeys dressed like soldiers and sailors, with
holes behind them where their tails came through.
Even the halfpenny-less boy might have got his
appetite for wonders to some extent gratified.?
The long spaces of blank garden or nursery
walls on both sides of the way were then literally
garrisoned with mendicants, organ-grinders, and
cripples on iron or wooden legs, in bowls and
wheelbarrows, by ballad singers and itinerant
fiddlers. Among the mendicants on the east side
of the Walk, below Elm Row (where the last of
the elms has long since disappeared) there was one
noted mendicant, an old seaman, whose figure was
familiar there for years, and whose sobriquet was
? Commodore O?Brien,? who sat daily in a little
masted boat which had been presented to him by
order of George IV. ?The commodore?s ship,?
says the Week0 JournaZ for 1831, ? is appropriately
called the Royal Ggt. It is scarcely 6 f t
long, by 24 breadth of beam, and when rigged for
use her mast is little stouter than a mopstick, her
cordage scarcely stronger than packthread, and
her tonnage is a light burden for two men. In this
mannikin cutter the intrepid navigator fearlessly
commits himself to the ocean and performs long
voyages.? Now the character of the Walk is entirely
changed, as it is a double row of houses from
end to end.
During the railway mania two schemes were projected
to supersede the omnibus traffic here. One
was an atmospheric railway, and the other a subterranean
one, to be laid under the Walk A road
for foot-passengers was to be formed alongside the
railway, and shops, from which much remuneration
was expected, were to be opened along the line ;
but both schemes collapsed, though plans for them
were laid before Parliament.
In April, 1803, there died, in a house in Leith
Walk, James Sibbald, an eminent bookseller and
antiquary, who was educated at the grarnmarschool
of Selkirk, and after being in the shop of
Elliott, a publisher in Edinburgh, in I 78 I acquired
by purchase the library which had once belonged to
Allan Ramsay, and was thereafter long one of the
leading booksellers in the Parliament Square.
One terrible peculiarity attended Leith Walk,
even till long after the middle of the last century
this was the presence of a permanent gibbet at the
Gallow Lee, a dreary object to the wayfarer by
night, when two or three malefactors swung there in
chains, with the gleds and crows perching over
them. It stood on rising ground, on the west side
of the Walk, and its site is enclosed in the precincts
of a villa once occupied by the witty and beautiful
Duchess of Gordon. As the knoll was composed

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132 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig.
oxen, and other things belonging to a field, by the
hands of him, namely, who is called Hood of Leith,
from me and my heirs for ever, as freely, quietly,
and honourably free from all service and secular
exactions as any other gifts more freely and quietly
given, are possessed in the Kingdom of Scotland.
And that this gift may continue, I have set my
seal to this writing.?
Among those who witnessed this document were
the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, Hugh de Sigillo,
In May, 1398, Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig
granted to the citizens of Edinburgh, by charter,
full liberty to carry away earth and gravel, lying
upon the bank of the river, to enlarge their port of
Leith, to place a bridge over the said river, to
moor ships in any part of his lands, without the
said port, with the right of road and passage,
through all his lands of Restalrig. ?All which
grants and concessions be warranted absolutely,
under penalty of A200 sterling to be uptaken
RESTALRIG CHURCH, 1817. (A / t e r m Etckirrg8y3amcr Skene of Rdislaw.)
Bishop of Dunkeld (called the ?Poor Man?s
Bishop lJ) ; Walter, Abbot of Holyrood, previously
Prior of Inchcolm, who died in 1217 ; W. de
Edinham, Archdeacon of Dunkeld ; Master R. de
Raplaw ; and Robert Hood, of Leith.
In 1366, under David II., Robert Multerer
(Moutray?) received a charter of lands, within the
barony of Restalrig, before pertaining to John Colti ;
and some three years afterwards, John of Lestalrick
(sic) holds a charter of the mill of Instrother, in
Fifeshire, granted by King David at Perth.
Towards the latter part of the fourteenth century
the barony had passed into the possession of the
Logans, a powerful family, whose name is insepsrably
mingled with the history of Leith.
by the said burgesses and community in the name
of damages and expenses, and LIOO sterling to
the fabric of the church of St. Andrews before
the commencement of any plea.? (Burgh Charters.)
In 1413-4 another of his charters grants to the
city, ?that the?piece of ground in Leith between
the gate of John Petindrich and a wall newly built
on the shore of the water of Leith, should be free
to the said community for placing their goods and
merchandise thereon, and carrying the same to and
from the sea, in all time coming.?
Westward of the village church, and on the
summit of a rock overhanging Loch End, are the
massive walls of the fortalice in which the barons of
Restalrig resided ; but a modem house is engrafted

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Pottobello.] CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. I47
burgh, Portobello returns one member to the
House of Commons.
The Established parish church was built in
1810 as a chapel of ease, at the cost of only
A2,650, but was enlarged in 1815. The Relief
Chapel, belonging to a congregation formed in
1834, was built in 1825, and purchased in the
former-named year by the minister, the Rev. David
Crawford. St. John?s Catholic chapel (once Episcopal)
in Brighton Place, was originally in 1826 a
school is situated in the Niddry Road, about
half a mile from the centre of the town, and was
erected in 1875-6 at the cost of L7,ooo. It is a
handsome edifice in the collegiate style for the
accommodation of about 600 scholars.
In form Portobello is partially compact or continuous.
Its entire length is traversed by the High
.Street (or line of the old Musselburgh Road), is
called at its north-west end and for the remaining
part Abercorn Street; and what-were the town an
PLAN OF PORTOBELLO.
villa, purchased in 1834 by the Bishop of Edinburgh
for A600. The United Secession chapel is of
recent erection, and belongs to a congregation
formed in 1834. The Independent chapel was
built in 1835, and belongs to the congregation
which erected it. St. Mark?s Episcopal chapel is
private property, and used to be rented at A40
yearly by the congregation, which was established
in 1825. It was consecrated by Bishop Sandford
in 1828. Another church, with a fine spire, has
recently been erected in the High Street, for
a congregation of United Presbyterians. A Free
church stands at the east end of the main street.
It was erected in 1876-7, and is a handsome
Gothic edifice with a massive tower. A public
old one and a marketing community-would be
the Cross, is a point at which the main thoroughfare
is divided into two parts, and where Bathgate
goes off to the sea, and Brighton Place towards
Duddingston.
The suite of hot and cold salt-water baths was
erected in 1806 at the cost of A4,000, and overlooks
the beach, between the foot of Bath Street
and that of Regent Street.
Much enlargement of the town eastward of the
railway station, and even past Joppa, to comprise
a crescent, terraces, and lines of villas, was planned
in the spring of 1876, and a projection of the new
Marine Parade, which is 26 feet wide, was planned
300 yards eastward about the same time. At right

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46 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. IHolyrood
these ecclesiastical foundations :-The Priory of St.
Mary?s Isle, in Galloway, gifted by Fergus, Lord of
Galloway, who died a monk of Holyrood in 1161 ;
the Priory of Blantyre, secluded on a rock above
the Clyde ; Kowadill, in Hemes, gifted by Mac-
Leod of Herries ; Oransay and Colonsay-in the
former still stands their priory, built by a Lord of
the Isles, one of the finest relics of religious antiquity
in the Hebrides; the church of Melgynch,
granted to them by Matthew, Abbot of Dunkeld,
in 1289; the church of Dalgarnock, granted to
them by John, Bishop of Glasgow, in 1322 j and
the church and vicarage of Kirkcudbright, by
of Haddington, mm ferra de Clerkynton, per rectas
divisas. In 1177 the monastery was still in the
Castle of Edinburgh. In 1180 Alexius, a subdeacon,
held a council of the Holy Cross near
Edinburgh, with reference to the long-disputed
consecration of John Scott, Bishop of St. Andrews,
when a double election had taken place.
VI. WILLIAM II., abbot in 1206. During his
time, John Bishop of Candida Casa resigned his
mitre, became a canon .of Holyrood, and was
buried in the chapter-house, where a stone long
marked his grave.
VII. WALTER, Prior of Inchcolm, abbot in
111. WILLIAM I. succeeded in 1152. He witnessed
several charters of Malcolm IV. and
William the Lion; and when he became aged and
infirm, he vowed to God that he would say his
Psalter every day. He enclosed the abbey with a
strong wall.
IV. ROBERT is said to have been abbot about
the time of William the Lion. ? He granted to
the inhabitants of the newly-projected burgh of the
Canongate various privileges, which were confirmed,
with additional benefactions, by David II., Robert
III., and James 111. These kings granted to the
bailies and community the annuities payable by the
burgh, and also the common muir between the ?
lands of Broughton on the west and the lands of
Pilrig on the east, on the north side of the road
from Edinburgh to Leith.?
V. JOHN, abbot in 1173, witnessed a charter of
Richard Bishop of St. Andrews (chaplain to
Malcolm IV.), granting to his canons the church
the chapel of St Mary.
XI, HENRY, the next abbot, was named Bishop
of Galloway in 1253; consecrated in 1255 by the
Archbishop of York,
XII. RADULPH, abbot, is mentioned in a gift of
lands at Pittendreich to the monks of St. Marie de
Newbattle.
XIII. ADAM, a traitor, and adherent of England,
who did homage to Edward I. in 1292, and for
whom he examined the records in the Castle of
Edinburgh. He is called Alexander by Dempster.
XIV. ELIAS 11. is mentioned as abbot at the
time of the Scots Templar Trials in 1309, and in a
deed of William Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrews,
in 1316. In his time, Holyrood, like Melrose and
Dryburgh, was ravaged by the baffled army of
Edward 11. in 1322.
XV. SYMON OF WEDALE, abbot at the vigil of
St. Barnabas, 1326, when Robert I. held a Parliament
in Holyrood, at which was ratified a concord

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384 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
parts of the collegiate church, we feel little hesitation in assigning the erection of the
main portion of the fabric to the close of David’s reign, which extended from 1329 to
1371, or to that of his successor Robert 11. It is finished entirely in that simple and
comparatively plain style of pointed architecture, which Dallaway designates Pure Gothic,
and of which no specimen will be found later than the fourteenth century. It was a period
of almost incessant wars, involving the whole nation in misery’for years ; but it was no
less characterised by religious zeal, encouraged, no doubt, in some degree by the fact
that ecclesiastical property was the only species of possession that had any chance of
escaping the fury of the invaders. Edward IIL, however, carried on his Scottish invasion
with a ferocity that spared not even the edifices consecrated to religion. In 1355, he
desolated the country on to Edinburgh, and laid every town, village, and hamlet in ashes,
though not without suffering keenly from the assaults of the hardy Scots. This bloody
inroad wag peculiarly associated in the minds of the people with the unwonted sacrilege of
the invaders, and as it happened about the time of the Feast of Purification, it was
popularly known as the Burnt Candlemas.’ In this desolating invasion, St Giles’s Church,
no doubt, suffered greatly; but the misery of the people, and the uncertainty involved in
such a state of continual warfare, did not prevent the restoration of their churches, and
we accordingly find in the Burgh Records a contract made, in the year 1388, between
the Provost and some masons to vault over a part of the church. This was, no doubt,
speedily accomplished, as in 1384 the Scottish barons assembled there and resolved on a
war with England, notwithstanding the desire of Robert 11. for peace. The result was
that the whole town was exposed to another general conflagration by the invading army
of Richard II., and the Church of St Giles is expressly mentioned as involved in the
general destruction. There is no reason, however, to conclude from this, that the massive
walls of the old Gothic fabric were razed to the ground by the flames that consumed the
simple dwellings of the unwalled town. The cost of its restoration appears to have been
borne by the Government, and various entries occur in the accounts of the Great
Chamberlain of Scotland, rendered at the Exchequer between the years 1390 and 1413,
of sums granted for completing its re-edification. Nevertheless, the archives of the
city preserve authentic evidence of additions being made out of its own funds to the
original fabric in 1387, only two years after the conflagration, and an examination of such
portions of these as still remain abundantly confirms this idea; the style of decoration
being exactly of that intermediate kind between the simple forms of the old nave and the
highly ornate style of the choir, which is usually found in the transition from the one to
the other.
The contract for the additions made to St Giles’s Church from the revenues of the
town, and the contributions of its wealthier citizens at the time when the main fabric was
left to be restored from the general revenues of the kingdom, while it affords an insight
into the progress of the building at that date, cannot but be regarded as a curious proof
of that singular elasticity which the Scottish nation displayed during their protracted wars
with England; showing as it does, the general and local government vieing with one
another in the luxury of ornate ecclesiastical edifices almost as soon as the invaders had
retreated acrom the Borders. The agreement bears to be made at Edinburgh, November
Ddrymple’e Annals, pp, 237,8.

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ROBERT MONTEITH. . 3?5 Duddingston.]
incumbent of Duddingston in 1805. His favourite
subjects were to be found in the grand and sublime
of Nature, and his style is marked chiefly by
vigour, power, and breadth of effect-strong light
and deep shadow. As a man and a Christian
minister, his life was simple, pure, and irreproachable,
his disposition kind, affable, and benevolent.
He died of apoplexy in 1840, in his sixty-second
year.
The city must have had some interest in the loch,
as in the Burgh accounts for 1554 we read:-
?? Item : twa masons twa weeks to big the Park Dyke
at the loch side of Dudding?ston, and foreanent it
again on Priestfield syde, ilk man in the week xv?.
summa iijIi.
(?Item : for ane lang tree to put in the wall that
lyes far in the loch for outganging of ziyld beistis
v?.? ? (? Burgh Records.?)
The town or lands of Duddingston are included
in an act of ratification to James, Lord Lindsay of
the Byers, in 1592.
In the Acts of Sederunt for February, 1650, we
find Alexander Craig, in-dweller in the hamlet,
pilloried at the Tron of Edinburgh,. and placarded
as being a ? lying witness ? in an action-at-law
concerning the pedigree of John Rob in Duddingston;
but among the few reminiscences of this
place may be mentioned the curious hoax which
the episcopal incumbent thereof at the Restoration
played upon Cardinal de Retz.
This gentleman, whose name was Robert Monteith,
had unfortunately become involved in an
amour with a lady in the vicinity, the wife of Sir
James Hamilton of Prestonfield, and was cpmpelled
to fly from the scene of his disgrace. He
was the son of a humble man employed in the
salmon-fishing above Alloa ; but on repairing to
Paris, and after attaching himself to M. de la
Porte, Grand Prior of France, and soliciting employment
from Cardinal de Retz, he stated he was
?one of the Monteith family in Scotland.? The
cardinal replied that he knew the family well, but
asked to which branch he belonged. ?To the
Monteiths of Salmon-net,? replied the unabashed
adventurer.
The cardinal replied that this was a branch he
had never heard of, but added that he believed
it was, no doubt, a very ancient and illustrious
family. Monteith was patronised by the cardinal,
who bestowed on him a canonry in Notre Dame,
and made him his secretary, in which capacity he
distinguished himself by his elegance and purity,
in the French language. This strange man is
author of a well-known work, published in folio,
entitled, ? Hisfoa?re des TroubZes de &andBretap,
depuis Z?an 1633 juspu?a Z?an 1649, pur Robed
Menfet de Salmonet.
It was dedicated to the Coadjutor Archbishop of
Pans, with a portrait of the author; and a trans- .
lation of it, by Captain James Ogilvie, was published
in 1735 by G. Strachan, at the ?Golden Ball,?
in Cornhill.
In the year of the Revolution we find the
beautiful loch of Duddingston, as an adjunct to
the Royal Park, mentioned in a case before the
Privy Council on the 6th March.
The late Duke of Lauderdale having placed
some swans thereon, his clever duchess, who was
carrying on a legal contest With his heirs, deemed
herself entitled to take away some of those birds
when she chose; but Sir James Dick, now proprietor
of the %ch, broke a lock-fast place in
which she had put them, and set them once more
upon the water. The irate dowager raised an
action against him, which was decided in her
favour, but in defiance of this, the baronet turned
all the swans off the loch ; on which the Duke of
Hamilton, as Heritable Keeper of the palace, came
to the rescue, as Fountainhall records, alleging
that the loch bounded the King?s Park, and that
all the wild animals belonged to him ; they were,
therefore, restored to their former haunts.
Of the loch and the landsof Priestfield (orPrestonfield),
Cockburn says, in his ?Memorials? :-?I know
the place thoroughly. The reeds were then regularly .
cut over by means of short scythes with very long
handles, close to the ground, and this (system)
made Duddingston nearly twice its present size?
Otters are found in its waters, and a solitary
badger has at times provoked a stubborn chase.
The loch is in summer covered by flocks of dusky
coots, where they remain till the closing of the ice
excludes them from the water, when they emigrate
to the coast, and return With the first thaw.
Wild duck, teal, and water-hens, also frequent it,
and swans breed there prolifically, and form one
of its most picturesque ornaments. The pike, the
perch, and a profusion of eels, which are killed by
the barbed sexdent, also abound there.
In winter here it is that skating is practised as an
art by the Edinburgh Club. ?The writer recalls
with pleasure,? says the author of the ?Book of
Days,? ?skating exhibitions which he saw there early
in the present century, when Henry Cockburn,
and the philanthropist James Sipson, were conspicuous
amongst the most accomplished of the
club for their handsome figures and great skill in
the art. The scene of that loch ? in full bearing J
on a clear winter day, with its busy and stirring
multitude of sliders, skaters, and curlers, the snowy
Paris, 166 I.?

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 459
ability and fidelity of his pulpit ministrations, and beloved for the unwearied
diligence and affection with which he has devoted himself to the private and
domestic. exercises of his pastoral functions. By his parochial and congregational
visitations-by his stated catechetical and devotional meetings with the
young, and with the adults of his flock, as well as by his wise and zealous
attention to the interests of intellectual and moral education in his parish-he
showed himself ‘‘ a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” Besides these
administrations, he took a leading interest in most of the moral and religious
benevolent institutions in Edinburgh, and gave much time and labour in the
promotion of the important objects embraced in the Four Great Schemes of
the Church of Scotland, as well as in the furtherance of many other institutions
of kindred design, of various Christian denominations, which aim, by missionary
enterprise, and Bible diffusion, at the universal dissemination of the gospel.
Mr. Grey was known as an elegant writer ; and it was not unusual to find
selections from his compositions in the books of Collections and Extracts for
English schools of his day. His diffidence, however, seldom permitted him to
gratify his friends by the publication of those discourses which delighted them
from the pulpit. The following is a list of his few occasional sermons, separately
published :-“A sermon preached in St. George’s Church, 16th March 1815,
in behalf of the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum ”-“ The Diffusion of Christianity
dependent on the exertions of Christians,” a sermon preached in Lady
Glenorchy’s Chapel, 2d April 18 18, before the Edinburgh Missionary Society
-“The Vail of Moses done away in Christ,” a sermon preached in Lady
Glenorchy’s Chapel, 2d December 1819, at the baptism of Joseph Davis, a
converted Jew--“ Man’s Judgment at variance with God’s,” a sermon preached
in St. George’s Church, 5th February 1824, in behalf of the Edinburgh and
Leith Seamen’s Friend Society. His earliest and latest publications are on
the Two Sacraments of the Christian Church, Baptism and the Communion.
While at Stenton, in 1811, Mr. Grey published “A Catechism on Baptism:
in which are considered its Nature, its Subjects, and the Obligations resulting
from it ;” a small manual distinguished for the clearness and accuracy of the
theological statement, and the chasteness and precision of the language : it is
well adapted for popular instruction, and was long in general use and high
estimation. In 1832 he published a little volume on “The Duty and Desirableness
of Frequent Communion with Christ in the Sacrament of the Supper,
in three discourses,” preached in St. Mary’s, designed, more immediately, in
exposition and illustration of those views on the more frequent dispensation of
the Lord’s Supper generally entertained in his congregation ; but whose wishes,
from certain difficulties thrown in the way by the Presbytery of Edinburgh and
the General Assembly, have not been carried into effect. These latter sermons
are fine specimens of Mr. Grey’s ordinary pulpit eloquence, and have been much
esteemed for their various and characteristic merits.
It is not necessary, in these slight notices, to make more than momentary
reference to an incident in the history of Mr. Grey, which at one time bore

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 193
Church (founded by Dame Margaret Her, Lady Yester, in 1647), it was found
necessary to rebuild it. While the work was in progress, an arrangement was
entered into, by which Mr. Black obtained permission to officiate every Sabbath
forenoon in the Chapel of Ease belonging to St. Cuthbert’s parish.
The new church having been completed with as little delay as possible, was
opened for worship on the 8th December 1805. This was a consummation to
which Rlr. Black had no doubt anxiously looked forward ; but he was permitted
little more than to witness its accomplishment. About the middle of February
following, he was seized with a fever, and died on the 25th of the same month.
On the evening previous, a large body of the congregation and other friends
assembled in Lady Yester’s Church, and offered up prayer for his recovery-a
circumstance strongly indicative of the peculiar estimation in which he was held.
His habits of life were simple, his temper mild, and his manners gentle.
In compliance with a reiterated desire on the part of the public, a volume
of his sermons, with a brief memoir of the author, was given to the public a
short time after his demise. A second edition
was published in 1812 ; and the work is now, we believe, seldom to be met with.
Mr. Black married, in 1795, Miss Agnes Wood, daughter of George Wood
of Warriston, Esq., and left six children.
These were much esteemed.
No. CCXXXIX.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, ESQ.,
PRESIDENT OX THE UNITED STATES OF AVERICA.
THISP ortrait of PRESIDENJTE FFERSOwNho, died on the 4th July 1826, was
etched by the artist from an original miniature forwarded to him from America.
Mr. Jefferson, descended from a family of consideration in Virginia, was born
in 1743. He received an excellent classical education-studied law-was well
acquainted with geography; natural history, and astronomy-and devotedly
attached to literature and the fine arts. Elected in his twenty-fifth year a
member of the Virginia Assembly, he was early distinguished by his abilities,
and for the decided tone of hostility he assumed towards the mother country.
He next became a member of the Old Congress, and was an active promoter of
those measures which led to the Revolution. From 1777 till 1779 he was
engaged with Mr. Pendleton and Mr. White in the construction of a code of laws
abridged from the English statutes; and, in 1780, he was chosen Governor of
Virginia, which office he held during the remainder of the War of Independence.
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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 383
burnt as a heretic. Only two years before, the Dean of Guild paid 6s. (‘ for papthg of
Sant Geile ; ” and for mending and polishing Saint Gelis arme, 12d.,” but his honours
were rudely put an end to by the rioters of 1558; and only four years thereafter the
Saint’s silver-work, ring, and jewels, and all the vestments wherewith his image and his
arm bone were wont to be decorated on high festivals of the Church, were sold by authority
of the Magistrates, and the proceeds employed in repairing the Church. Sir David
Lindsay deserves more credit than has yet been ascribed to him for the irreverent handling
of the saint on this occasion. His Monarchie was finished in 1553, and had then had
time to have produced its influence on the popular mind. His description of the honours
paid by the citizens of Edinburgh to their Patron Saint is sufEciently graphic ; nor does
he hesitate to forewarn the clergy of the recompense that so speedily followed :-
Of Edinburgh, the p i t idolatrie,
And manifest abhominatioun,
On thair feist day, all creature may see,
Thay beir ane auld stok image throuch the toun,
With talbrone, trumpet, schahe, and clarioun ;
Quhilk hea bene usit mony ane yeir bygone,
With priestis, and freiris, into processioun,
Siclyke, as Bell wes borne throuch Babylone.
Fy on yow, freiris ! that usis for to preiche,
And dois assist to sik idolatrie :
Quhy do ye nocht the ignorant pepill teiche,
How ane deid image carvit of ane tre,
As it war haly, suld nocht honourit be ;
Nor borne on burges backis, up and doun :
Bot, ye schaw planelie your hypocrisie,
Quhen ye pas formest in processioun.
Fy on yow, fosteraria of idolatrie I
That till ane deid stok, dois aik reverence,.
In presens of the pepill publicklie ;
Feir ye nocht God, to commit sik offence
I coundl yow do yit your diligence,
To gar suppresse sik greit abusioun :
Do ye nocht sa, I dreid your recompense,
Sall be nocht ellis, bot clene confusioun.
The arm bone of the Patron Saint, procured at so great a cost, and heretofore commanding
the devout admiration of the faithful, was most probably flung out into the neighbouring
churchyard, soon after the discomfiture of his adherents, to mingle unheeded with the
ashes of forgotten generations. One fact, however, we learn, from the charter granted
by the Magistrates to Preston of Gortoun, as to the appropriation of different parts of
the church at that period-viz., that the Lady Aisle, where the altar of the blessed Virgin
Mary stood, was part of what now forms the south aisle of the choir, or High Church. To
this altar we find one of the earliest recorded gifts bestowed, in the reign of David IL,
when the first mention of distinct chantries in St Giles’s Church is found-viz., “Carta to
the Lady Altar of St Geille’s, of ane tenement in Edinburgh, given by William Here,
burges of Edinburgh.” From the style of architecture which prevails through the older
1 Robertaon’e Index, 1798, temp. David IL, p. 66. The date of the charter is 1365. Regist. Mag. Sigil4 p. 54.
The deed of gift to St &therinds Altar in the =me reign is dated 1359.

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404 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
foundation of St David’s Abbey has already been referred to, with the picturesque
legend from whence it derives its name. The beautiful fragment of the Abbey Church
which still remains, forming the nave of the ancient building, retains numerous traces
of the original work of the twelfth century, though enriched by the additions of a
later age. The earliest drawing of the Abbey and Palace that exists is the bird’s-eye
view of 1544, where it is marked by its English draughtsman as “ the King of Skotts
palis,” although the sole claimant to the throne at that date was the infant daughter
of James V. A comparison of this with the portions still remaining leaves little doubt
of its general accuracy. The Abbey Church appears with a second square tower at
the west front, uniform with the one still standing to the north of the great doorway.
The transepts are about the usual proportions, but the choir is much shorter than it
is proved from other evidence to have originally been, the greater part of it having,
perhaps, been reduced to ruins before the view was taken. During the levelling of the
ground around the Palace, and digging a foundation for the substantial railing with
which it was recently enclosed, the workmen came upon the bases of two pillars, in a
direct line with the nave, on the site of the east railings, proving that the ancient choir
had been of unusual length. A mound of earth which extends still further to the east,
no doubt marks the foundationa of other early buildings, and from their being in the direct
line of the building, it is not improbable that a Lady Chapel, or other addition to the
Abbey Church, may have stood to the east of the choir, as is frequently the case in larger
cathedral and abbey churches. A curious relic of the ancient tenants of the monastery
was found by the workmen already referred to, consisting of a skull, which had no
doubt formed the solitary companion of one of the monks. It had a hole in the top
of the cranium, which served most probably for securing a crucifix; and over the brow
was traced in antique characters the appropriate maxim, Memento Mori. This solitary
relic of the furniture of the Abbey was procured by the late Sir Patrick Walker, and is
still in the possession of his family. The English army that “brent the abbey called
Holyrode house, and the pallice adjonynge to the same,” in 1544, returned to complete
the destruction of the Abbey in 1547, almost immediately after the accession of Edward
VI. to his father’s throne. Their proceedings are thus recorded by the English chronicler :
-(( Thear stode south-westward, about a quarter of a mile from our campe, a monasterie :
they call it Hollyroode Abbey. Sir Water Bonham and Edward Chamberlayne gat
lycense to suppresse it ; whearupon these commissioners, making first theyr visitacion
thear, they found the moonks all gone, but the church and mooch parte of the house well
covered with leade. Soon after, thei pluct of the leade and had down the bels, which
wear but two ; and according to the statute, did somewhat hearby disgrace the hous. As
touching the moonkes, bicaus they wear gone, thei put them to their pencions at large.”‘
It need hardly excite surprise, that the invaders should not find matters quite according
to the statute, with so brief an interval between such cisitacions. The state in which they
did find the Abbey, proves that it had been put in effectual repair immediately after their
former visit.
The repeated burnings of the Abbey by the Englieh army were doubtless the chief
cause of the curtailment -of .the church to its present diminished size; yet abundant
Patten’s Expedition to Scotland. Frag. of Swt. Hiet.

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200 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Etreet.
the gentlemen?s mansions and goodliest houses are
obscurely founded in the aforesaid lanes. The
walls are eight or ten feet thick, exceeding strong,
not built for a day, a week, a month, or a year, but
from antiquity to posterity-for many ages. There
I found entertainment beyond my expectation or
merit; and there is fish, flesh, bread, and fruit in
such variety, that I think I may offenceless call it
superffuity or satiety.?
The ? PennileSs Pilgrim? came to Scotland in a
more generous and appreciative mind than his
countryman did, 150 years subsequently, and all
he saw filled him with wonder, especially the mountains,
to which he says : ?Shooter?s Hill, Gad?s
Hill, Highgate Hill, and Hampstead Hill, are but
molehills.?
Varied indeed have been the scenes witnessed in
the High Street of Edinburgh. Among these we
may mention a royal banquet and whimsical procession,
formed by order of James VI., in 1587.
Finding himself unable to subdue the seditious
spirit of the ecclesiastics, whom he both feared and
detested, he turned his attention to those personal
quarrels and deadly feuds which had existed for
ages among the nobles and landed.gentry, in the
hope to end them.
After much thought and preliminary negotiation,
he invited the chiefs of all the contending parties
to a royal entertainment in Holyrood, where he
obtained a promise to bury and forget their feudal
dissensions for ever. Thereafter, in the face of
all the assembled citizens, he prevailed upon them
to walk two by two, hand in hand, to the Market
Cross, where a banquet of wines and sweetmeats
was prepared for them, and where they all draIzk
to each other in token of mutual friendship and
future forgiveness. The populace testified their
approbation by loud and repeated shouts of joy.
? This reconciliatione of the nobilitie and diverse
of the gentry,? says Balfour in his Annales, ? was
the gratest worke and happiest game the king
had played in all his raigne heithertills ;? but if
his good offices did not eradicate the seeds of
transmitted hate, they, at leas{ for a time, smothered
them.
The same annalist records the next banquet
at the Cross in 1630. On the birth of a prince,
afterwards Charles II., on the 29th of May, the
Lord Lyon king-at-arms was dispatched by Charles
from London, where he chanced to be, with orders
to carry the news to Scotland. He reached Edinburgh
on the 1st of June, and the loyal joy of the
people burst forth with great effusiveness. The
batteries of the Castle thundered forth a royal
salute ; bells rang and bonfires blazed, and a table
was spread in the High Street that extended half
its entire length, from the Cross to the Tron,
whereat the nobility, Privy Council, and Judges, sat
down to dinner, the heralds in their tabards and
the royal trumpeters being in attendance.
In that same street, a generation after, was seen,
in his old age begging his bread from door to door,
John Earl of Traquair, who, in 1635, had beerk
Lord High Treasurer of Scotland and High Commissioner
to the Parliament and General Assembly,
one of the few Scottish nobles who protested against
the surrender of King Charles to the English, but
who was utterly ruined by Cromwell. A note
to Scotstarvit?s ? Scottish Statesmen,? records that
?he died in anno 1659, in extreme poverty, on the
Lord?s day, and suddenly when taking a pipe of
tobacco; and at his funeral had no mortcloth,
but a black apron; nor towels, but dog?s leishes
belonging to some gentlemen that were present ;
and the grave being two foot shorter than his body,
the assistants behoved to stay till the same was
enlarged, and be buried.?
? I saw him begging in the streets of Edinburgh,?
says another witness, James Fraser, minister of
Kirkhill; ?? he was in an antique garb, wore a
broad old hat, short cloak and panier breeches,
and I contributed in my quarters in the Canongate
towar s his relief. The Master of Lovat, Culbockie
(FraseY), Glenmonston (Grant), and myself were
there, and he received the piece of money from my
hand as humbly and as thankfully as the poorest
supplicant. It is said, that at a time he had not
(money) to pay for cobbling his boots, and died
in a poor cobbler?s house.?
And this luckless earl, so rancorously treated,
was the lineal descendant of James Stuart the
Black Knight of Lome, and of John of Gaunt Duke
of Lancaster.
Nicoll records in his curious diary that in the
October of 1654 a vast number of hares came into
the city, penetrating even to its populous and
central parts, such as the Parliament Close and
the High Street; and in the latter, a few years
subsequently, 1662, we read in the Chronicle qf
Fie of a famous quack doctor setting up his
public stage in the midst of that thoroughfare for
the third time.
John Pontheus was a German, styling himself
professor of music, and his modus operandi affords
a curious illustration of the then state of
medical science in Great Britain, and of what
our forefathers deemed the requisites to a good
physician. On the stage mentioned Pontheus had
one person to play the fool, another to dance
upon a tight rope, in order to gather and amuse
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I 86 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
The ancient prison of Edinburgh had its EAST and WEST ENDS, known to the last by
these same distinctive appellations, that mark the patrician and plebeian districts of the
British metropolis. The line of division is apparent in our engraved view, showing the
western and larger portion of the building constructed of coarse rubble work, while
the earlier edifice, at the east end, was built of polished stone. This distinction was
still more apparent on the north side, which, though much more ornamental, could
only be viewed in detail, owing to the narrowness of the street, and has not, as far
as we are aware, been represented in any engraving.’ It had, on the first floor, a large
and deeply splayed square window, decorated on either side with richly carved Gothic
niches, surmounted with ornamental canopies of varied designs. A smaller window
on the floor above was flanked with similar decorations, the whole of which were, in all
probability, originally filled with statues. Maitland mentions, and attempts to refute, a
tradition that this had been the mansion of the Provost of St Giles’s Church, but there
seems little reason to doubt that it had been originally erected as some such appendage
to t,he church. The style of ornament was entirely that of a collegiate building attached
to an ecclesiastical edifice ; and its situation and architectural adornments suggest the
idea of its having been the residence of the Provost or Dean, while the prebends and
other members of the college were accommodated in the buildings on the south side
of the church, removed in the year 1632 to make way for the Parliament House. If this
idea is correct, the edifice was, in all probability, built shortly after the year 1466, when
a charter was granted by King James III., erecting St Giles’s into a collegiate church ;
and it may further have included a chapter-house for the college, whose convenient
dimensions would lead to its adoption as a place of meeting for the Scottish Parliaments.
The date thus assigned to the most ancient portion of the “ Heart; of Midlothian,”
receives considerable confirmation from the style of the building ; but
Parliaments had assembled in Edinburgh long before that period ; three, at least, were
held there during the reign of James I., and when his assassination at Perth, iu 1437, led
to the abandonment of the Fair City as the chief residence of the Court, and thh ’capital of
the kingdom, the first general council of the new reign took place in the Castle of Edinburgh.
We have already described the remains of the Old‘ Parliament Hall still existing
there; and this, it is probable, was the scene of all such assemblies as were held at
Edinburgh in earlier reigns.
The next Parliament of James 11. was summoned to meet at Stirling, the following
year, in the month of March; but another was held that same year in the month of
November, “ in pretorio burgi de Edinburgh.” The same Latin term for the Tolbooth is
repeated in the minutes of another Assembly of the Estates held there in 1449 ; and, in
1451, the old Scottish name appears for the first time in “ the parleament of ane richt hie
and excellent prince, and our soverane lorde, James the Secunde, be the grace of Gode,
King of Scotts, haldyn at Edinburgh the begunyn in the Tolbuth of the samyn.”2 A
much older, and probably larger, erection must therefore have existed on the site of the
We have drawn the view at the head of the Chapter from a slight aketch taken shortly before ita demolition, by
Mr D. Somerville ; with the assistance of a most ingenious model of St Giles’s Church and the aurroonding buildings,
made by the Rev. John She, about the year 1805, to which we were also partly indebted for the south view of the aame
building.
Acts of Scottish Parliaments, folio, vol. ii.

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opinions were formed by the religious public regarding the conduct of Mr.
Baine, Whatever might be his motives in still seeking communion with the
Church-whether from a lingering affection for a body with whom he had long
associated, or from a desire to test its tolerance to the utmost, we shall not
attempt to divine.l His formal deposition at the ensuing General Assembly,
while it produced a strong sensation in the country, had the effect of exciting
the warmest sympathy in his new congregation, who not only gave him a kind
reception as their pastor-eagerly attending on his ministrations-but afforded
him a salary equal to the income he had enjoyed at Paisley.
During the more vigorous period of an active life, one distinguishing feature
in the character of Mr. Baine was his bold and determined resolution in condemning
and exposing, on proper occasions, whatever he considered to be a
violation of public morality. While in Paisley, he published a sermon preached
before the Society for Reformation of Manners in that town (instituted under
his auspices), in which he testified in strong terms against the prevailing vices
of the age; and, when prosecuting his labours in the metropolis in 1770, the
amusements of the stage called forth a similar manifestation of his zeal. This
discourse-the first edition of which was sold off in the course of a few dayswas
occasioned by the performance of the comedy of the Minor, written by Foote,
in which the characters of Whitefield, and other zealous ministers, were held up
to profane and blasphemous ridicule. The sermon was entitled “ The Theatre
Licentious and Perverted,” and had prefixed to it the following curious and
rather singular dedication :-
’
“TO SAMUEL FOOTE, ESQ.
“ Uncommon, or rather outre, productions (witness your diinor) suit the times. This dedication
pretends to be of that quality, and entirely out of the beaten track. Instead of adulation and fulsome
flattery, it is the reverse, and plain. Christianity is certainly worth something ; and you may
be assured, Sir, that in North Britain it has its admirers still. To
insult it, therefore, was neither pious nor prudent. An Aristophanes, worthless as he and his comedy
were, compassed the death of a great man. It was fond and foolish, if you aimed at the same success
against our holy religion, or what is most venerable in it; and wicked aa foolish. When I recollect the
whole of the horrid scene, Mr. Foote and his spruce band of actors performing their part, it has once
and again brought to my mind the day when the Saviour of our world was enclosed in an assembly of
the great and gay, dressed in a gorgeous robe, an ensign of mock-royalty, to be laughed at. In some
such manner have you treated what is most interesting in revelation, and dear to believen of it. Culpable
complaisance would not have told you the one-half of this. Genuine charity, perhaps, would
have said much more than I have done. Wishing, with all my heart, that you may speedily become as
conspicuous a penitent aa you have done despite to the Spirit of Grace, I am, Sir, your faithful servant.”
It has the countenance of law.
1 The circumstance of Mr. Baine aid some of his hearers having gone over to the Old Greyfriarg
for the purpose of communicating at the Lord’s Supper, is explained by his friends on the ground
that, though the Church in South College Street had been opened for public worship, it ww not then
in such a state of forwardness as to admit of the dispensation of the sacrament : that Mr. Baine had
not been formally cut off at that period by the Church of Scotland ; and therefore, though he himself
had taken a decided step towards ecclesiastical separation, he was willing to evince a friendly feeling
for the Establishment, in matten of Church fellowship, so long &s the Church should evince a similar
feeling towards him. Relief principles, then. as well as now, are not inimical to occasional communion
with those who may be regarded as true followers of Christ, though on some points a difference
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St. Giles?s Church. The whole were contained in
twenty large boxes, and amounted to several tons
in weight. Dr. William Chambers having been exceedingly
anxious to discover, if possible, the
mutilated remains of the Marquis of Montrose,
which had been interred in St Giles?s in 1661,
MONOGRAM OF tiEORGE HERIOC?S NAM k.
?Made on a Chimwy-piece in lht Xosfitul.)
for this purpose prior to their removal to the Greyfriars.
This examination was most carefully carried
out under the direction of Professors Maclagan and
Turner, of the Edinburgh University, but no trace
of those lost and interesting remains could be discovered.

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432 MEMORIALS OF EDIiVBURGI%
v. WRYCHTISHOUSIS.'
IN the description attached to a view of Wrichtishousis, in '' An elegant collection of interesting views iii
Scotland," printed by Oher & Co., Nether Bow, 1802, the western wing is described as the most ancient part of
the edifice, while the eastern wing is affirmed to have been built in the reign of King Robed III., and the centre
range connecting the two in that of James VI. There was probably, however, no other authorit7 for this than
the dates and armorial bearings, the whole of which we conceive to be the work of the latter monarch's reign.
Arnot furnishes the very laconic account of it, that it is said to have been built for the reception of a mistress
of King James 1V. That it was built for such a purpose cannot admit of any credit ; but it is possible that that
gay and gallant monarch may have entertained special favour for some of the fair scions of the old Napier
stock.
Allusion is made in a foot-note, on page 351, to '' The History of the Partition of the Lennox ; " we find,
however, that the author had not only pointed out the shields of the Merchiston and mTrychtishousis Napiers on
the old tomb at St Giles's, in his Memoirs of Napiers of Merchiston, but we believe he was the first to detect
that the bearings on one of these shields waa the Wrychtishouais arms, and not those of Scott of Thirlestane, as
they had previously been presumed to be ; these tTo families having been united in the person of Francis fifth
Lord Napier, son of the Baroness Napier and Sir William Scott, Bart., of Thirlestane. These arms, placed
above the tablet marking the tomb of the Napier family, on the north wall of the choir of St Giles's Church,
were removed, in the recent alterations, from the interior of the church, where they formerly stood above an
altar-tomb, underneath the same window, on the outside of which the tablet was placed. There is no reason
for believing them to be of the same date. The style of ornament round the border of the tablet can hardly be

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50 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Edinburgh Castlc.
brother Sir James, with two burgesses of the City,
were drawn backwards in carts to the market
cross, where they were hanged, and their heads
were placed upon the ruined castle walls. Within
the latter were found twenty-two close carts for
ammunition, and 2,400 cannon balls.
The whole gamson were thrust into the dungeons
of adjacent castles in the county; and four soldiers-
Glasford, Stewart, Moffat, and Millar-?declared
traitors ? for having assisted Kirkaldy ? in
the demolishing and casting down of the bigginis,
showting great and small peissis, without fear of
God or remorse of conscience,? had to do public
penance at one of the doors of St. Giles?s for
three days ?? cleid in sack cleith.? *
The Regent made his brother, George Douglas
of Parkhead (one of the assassins of Rizzio),
governor, and he it was who built the present half- . moon battery, and effected other repairs, so that
a plan still preserved shows that by 1575 the fortress
had in addition thereto eight distinct towep,
facing the town and south-west, armed by forty
pieces of cannon. exclusive of Mons Meg, arquebusses,
and cut-throats. Over the new gate Morton
placed, above the royal arms, those of his own
family, a fact which was not forgotten when he lost
his head some years after.
In 1576, Alexander Innes of that ilk being
summoned to Edinburgh concerning a lawsuit with
a clansman, Innes of Pethknock, met the latter
by chance near the market cross-then the chief
promenade-and amid high words struck him dead
with his dagger, and continued to lounge quietly
near the body. He was made prisoner in the
Castle, and condemned to?lose his head; but procured
a remission from the corrupt Regent by
relinquishing one of his baronies, and gave an
entertainment to all his friends. ?If I had my
foot once loose,? said he, vauntingly, ??I would
fain see if this Earl of Morton dare take possession
of my land!? This, though a jest, was repeated
to Morton, who retained the bond for the barony,
but, according to the history of the Innes family,
had the head of Innes instantly struck off within
the fortress.
So odious became the administration of Morton
that, in 1578, James VI., though only twelve years
of age, was prevailed upon by Argyle and Athole
to summon the peers, assume the government, and
dismiss Morton, an announcement made by heralds
at the cross on the 12th of March, under three
salutes from the new half-moon ; but it was not
until many scuffles with the people, culminating in
Keith?s ?Register?; ?Maitknd Club nIiiellury.?
a deadly brawl which roused the whole city in arms
and brought the craftsmen forth with morions,
plate sleeves, and steel jacks, and when the entire
High Street bristled with pikes and Jedwood axes,
that Parkhead, when summoned, gave up the fortress
to the Earl of Mar, to whom the Ezrl of Morton
delivered the regalia and crown jewels, conformably
to an ancient inventory, receiving in return a
pardon for all his misdemeanours-a document
that failed to save him, when, in 1580, he was condemned
and found guilty of that crime for which
he had put so many others to death-the murder
of Darnley-and had his head struck off by the
?Maiden,? an instrument said to be of his own adop
tion, dying unpitied amid the execratidns of assembled
thousands. Calderwood relates that as he
was being conducted captive to the Castle, a woman,
whose husband he had put to death, cursed him
loudly on her bare knees at the Butter Tron. His
head was placed on a port of the city.
From this period till the time of Charles I. little
concerning the Castle occurs in the Scottish annals,
save the almost daily committal of State prisoners
to its dungeons, some of which are appalling
places, hewn out of the living rock, and were then
destitute nearly of all light. From one of these,
Mowbray of Barnbougle, incarcerated in 1602 for
slaying a servant of James VI. in the palace of
Dunfermline, in attempting to escape, fell headlong
through the air, and was dashed on the stony
pathway that led to the Royal Mews 300 feet
below. His body was quartered, and placed on the
Cross, Rether Bow, Potter Row, and West Ports.
In May, 1633, Charles I. visited the capital of?
his native country, entering it on the 16th by the
West Port, amid a splendour of many kinds ; and
on the 17th, under a salute of fifty-two guns, he
proceeded to the Castle attended by sixteen.
coaches and the Horse Guards. He remained in
the royal lodgings one night, and then returned
to Holyrood. On the 17th of June he was again
in the Castle, when the venerable Earl of Mar gave
a magnificent banquet in the great hall, where
many of the first nobles in Scotland and England
were, as Spalding states, seated on each side
of Charles. To that hall he was conducted next
morning, and placed on a throne under avelvet
canopy, by the Duke of Lennox, Lord High
Chamberlain of Scotland. The peers of the realm
then entered in procession wearing their crimson
velvet robes, each belted with his sword, and with
his coronet borne before him. The Chancellor,
Viscount Dupplin, addressed him in the name of the
Parliament. Charles was then conducted to the gate,
from whence began a procession to Holyrood

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62 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
vestments, bearing the arm-bone of the saint ; then
they passed the Cross, the fountain of which flowed
with wine, ? whereof all might drink,? says Leland.
Personages representing the angel Gabriel, the
Virgin, Justice treading Nero under foot, Force
bearing a pillar, Temperance holding a horse?s
bit, and Prudence triumphing over Sardanapalus,
met them at the Nether Bow; and from there,
preceded by music, they proceeded to Holyrood,
where a glittering crowd of ecclesiastics, abbots,
and friars, headed by the Archbishop of St. Andrews,
conveyed them to the high altar, and after
Te Deum was sung, they passed through the
cloisters into the new palace. Fresh ceremonies
took place in a great chamber thereof, the arras
of which represented Troy, and the coloured windows
of which were filled with the arms of Scotland
and England, the Bishop of Moray acting
as master of the ceremonies, which seems to have
included much ?? kyssing ? all round.
On the 8th of August the marriage took place,
and all the courtiers wore their richest apparel,
James sat in a chair of crimson velvet, ?the pannels
of that sam gylte under hys cloth of estat, of blue
velvet figured with gold.? On his right hand was
the Archbishop of York, on his left the Earl of
Surrey, while the Scottish prelates and nobles led
in the girl-queen, crowned ?with a vary nche
crowne of gold, garnished with perles,? to the high
altar, where, amid the blare of trumpets, the Archbishop
of Glasgow solemnised the marriage. The
banquet followed in a chamber hung with red and
blue, where the royal pair sat under a canopy of
cloth of gold ; and Margaret was served at the first
course with a slice from ? a wyld borres hed gylt,
within a fayr platter.? Lord Grey held the ewer
and Lord Huntly the towel.
The then famous minstrels of Aberdeen came
to Holyrood to sing on this occasion, and were
all provided with silver badges, on which the arms
of the granite city were engraved.
Masques and tournaments followed. James,
skilled in all the warlike exercises of the time,
appeared often in the lists as the savage knight,
attended by followers dressed as Pans and satyrs.
The festivities which accompanied this mamage
indicate an advancement in refinement and splehdour,
chiefly due to the princely nature kindness,
and munificence of James IV.
?? The King of Scotland,? wrote the Spanish ambassador
Don Pedro de Ayala, ?is of middle
height ; his features are handsome ; he never cuts
his hair or beard, and it becomes him well. He
expressed himself gracefully in Latin, French, German,
Flemish, Italian, and Spanish. His pronunciation
of Spanish was clearer than that of other
foreigners. In addition to his own, he speaks
the language of the savages (or Celts) who live
among the distant mountains and islands. The
books which King James reads most are the Bible
and those of devotion and prayer. He also studies.
old Latin and French chronicles. . . . , . .
He never ate meat on Wednesday, Friday, or
Saturday. He would not for any consideration
mount horseback on Sunday, not even to go to
mass, Before transacting any business he heard twa
masses. In the smallest matters, and even when
indulging in a joke, he always spoke the truth. . . . . The Scots,? continues De Ayala, ?are
often considered in Spain to be handsomer, than the
English. The women of quality were free in their
manners and courteous to strangers The Scottish
ladies reign absolute mistresses in their own. houses,
and the men in all domestic matters yield a.
chivalrous obedience to them. The people live
well, having plenty of beef, mutton, fowl, and fish.
The humbler classes-the women especially-are of
a very religious turn of mind. Altogether, I found,
the Scots to be a very agreeable and, I must add,,
an amiable people.?
Such, says the author of the ?? Tudor Dynasty,??
was the Scotland of the sixteenth century, a period
described by modem writers as one of barbarism,
ignorance, and superstition ; but thus it was the
Spanish ambassador painted the king and his,
Scots of the days of Flodden.
? In the year 1507,? says Hawthornden, ?James,
Prince of Scotland and the Isles, was born at
Holyrood House the 21st of January,? and the
queen being brought nigh unto death, ?the king,
overcome by affection and religious vows,? went
on a pilgrimage to St. Ninian?s in Galloway, and
(? at his return findeth the queen recovered.?
In 1517 we read of a brawl in Holyrood, when
James Wardlaw, for striking Robert Roger to the
effusion of blood within ?? my Lord Governor?s chalmer
and palace of pece,? was conveyed to the
Tron, had his hand stricken through, and was.
banished for life, under pain of death.
The governor was the Regent Albany, who took
office after Flodden, and during his residence at
Holyrood he seems to have proceeded immediately
with the works at the palace which the fatal battle
had interrupted, and which James IV. had continued
till his death. The accounts of the treasurer
show that building was in progress then, throughout
the years 1515 and 1516 ; and after Albany
quitted the kingdom for the last time, James V.
came to Holyrood, where he was crowned in 1524,
and remained there, as Pitscottie tells, for ?the

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64 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
including the Earls of Argyle and Glencairn, and the Lord James Stewart. The place of
meeting was the Quarry Holes, or as it is not inappropriately styled by the writers of the
time, the Quarrel Holes ; a famous place of meeting for duels and private rencontres, at
the east end of the Calton Hill, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Palace of Holyrood-
and there the two first-named Earls engaged, that should the Regent fail to fulfil
the conditions of agreement, and especially that of the dismissal of the French troops, they
would willingly join forces with them to enforce their fulfilment.‘
Although the main body of the reformers had withdrawn from
Edinburgh, Nome of the leaders continued to reside there, and the
people refused to yield up St Giles’s Church to be again used for
means, to recover it. She had already received notice of further
assistance coming from France, and did not choose to provoke a
quarrel till thus reinforced. As one means of driving them from
the church, the French soldiers made it a place of promenade during
the time of service, to the great disturbance of the Congregation. But though the preacher,
Mr Willocks, denounced them in no measured terms from the pulpit, and publicly prayed
God to rid them of guch locusts, the people prudently avoided an open rupture, (‘ except
that a horned cap was taken off a proud priest’s head, and cut in four quarters, because
he said he would wear it in spite of the Congregation.”
In the month of September 1559, Sir Ralph Sadler arrived at Berwick from Queen
Elizabeth, and entered into secret negotiations with the reformers, paying over to them,
for their immediate use, the sum of two thousand pounds, with the promise of further
pecuniary assistance, for the purpose of expelling the French from Scotland, so that it
could be managed with such secrecy as not to interfere with the public treaties between
the two nations.
The Queen had
already received a reinforcement of a thousand French troops, who disembarked at Leith
in the end of August, and with their aid she immediately proceeded to enlarge and complete
the fortifications of that port, while she renewed her entreaties to the French Court
for further aid.
Shortly after, the Bishop of Amiens arrived at Edinburgh, aN legate from the Pope, and
earnestly laboured to reconcile the reformers to the Church ; but any little influence he
might possibly have had, was destroyed in their eyes by the discovery that he had arrived
in company with a second body of French auxiliaries.
The Congregation at length marched to Edinburgh, towards the end of October, with
a force amounting to twelve thousand men, resolved to dislodge the French garrison from
Leith ; and the same day the Regent hastily retreated from Holyrood Palace, and took up
her residence within the protection of the fortifications at Leith.
The Congregation proceeded in the most systematic manner,-conmittees were chosen
for the direction of civil and religious affairs, and a letter was immediately addressed to the
,
I the service of the mass, although the Regent sought, by various
The preparations for war were now diligently pursued by both parties.
* Bishop Keith, vol. i. p. 224. * Calderwood, vol. i. p. 502.
VIQNETTE--COFbel from the old south door of St ailea’a Church.

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viii LIST OF ILL USTRA TIONS,
74. OLD ASSEMBLYR OOM&W ESTB ow,
75. Clamshell Turnpike, .
76. Lochaber Axes, .
77. Ancient Inacriptiong, from Blackfriars’ Wynd,
78. Allan Ramsay’s Shop, opposite Niddry‘s
79. Ancient Gothic Corbel, North Gray’s Cloae, .
80. Ancient Sculpture, the Offering of the Wise
Men, from Sandiland’s Close, .
81. JOHKNNO X’BH OWBNEE, THERBOW,.
82. Ancient Doorway, Blackfriars’ Wynd,
83. CARDINABLE ATON’HS OUSEC,O WGATE,
84. Ancient Doorways, Fountain Close, .
85. NETHERBOPWO RTF,R OM THE EAST, .
86. Canongate Tolbooth, .
87. Gothic Niche, Old Fleshmarket Close, Canon-
88. SYOLLET’HS OUSE,S T JOHSNT RF.ETC, ANON.
89. Canongate Cross, .
WPd, .
,.
gate, .
OATE, .
90. MANSION OF aEOUCiE FIRST NARQUIS OF
HUNTLYB, AKEHOUSCEL OSE,C ANOXGATE.,
91. .NISBETO F DIRLETON’HS OUSEC, ANONGATE.,
92. Jenny Ha’s Change-House, Canongate, .
93. BACKO F TEE WHITE HORSEC L OC~AN ON-
94. Ancient Turnpike Stair, Symson’s House,
95. Tirling Pin, Mint Close, .
96. Ancient Inscription, Cowgate,
97. Initials from an Ancient Doorway, Cow-
GATE,
Cowgate, .
gate, *
98. SYMSON’B (THE PRINTER’S) HOUSE, COWGATE, .
PACE
232
244
246
249
251
254
256
257
264
265
272
273
276
278
288
293
293
297
300
304
310
317
321
323
324
PAOB
99. Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate, . . 326
100. FRENCAHM BASSAIIOBC’HBA PELC, OWGATE,. 328
101. BROWNSQ UAREFR, OM THE SOCIETY., . 332
102. Uothic Niche, College Wynd, , 332
103. Major Weir’s House, West Bow, . . 333
104. THE WEST BOW, ENTRANCE TO MAJOR WEIR’S
HOUSE, . . 336
105, Ancient Finials, from the Grassmarket, . 343
106, THE POTTERROW, . . 344
107. HOSPITAOFL OUR LADY, PAUL’8 WORK, 352
108. ST NIKIAN’SR ow, 1845, . . 356
109. Sculpture Arms, Vinegar Close, Leith, . 356
110. ANCIERTCO UNCIL-HOU8E, COALHILL, LEITH, . 361
111. ANCIENTS IGNALT OWERT, OLBOOTWH YND,
LEITH, . 365
112. Cinerary Urn, dug np at the Dean, . . 370
113. The Tolbooth of Broughton, . . 372
114. Chapel of Robert, Duke of Albany, St Giles’s
Church, . . 377
115. Norman Doorway, North Porch, St Giles’a
Church, . . 379
116 ST GILES’S CHURCH, FROM THE NORTHWest,
. 384
117. Sculptured BOSBf, rom St Eloi‘s Chapel, St
Giles’s Church, . . . 387
118. Ornamental Details, from Trinity College
Church, . . 395
119. TRINITHYO SPITAL,W OMEN‘RW ARD,, 396
120. Abbot Crawford’s Arms, from Holyrood
Abbey, . , 406
121. OLDG REYFRIARCS’H URCH, . . 412
122. Wrychtishousis, . . 432
123. GROUNDPL ANO F STG ILE~’Cs HURCH, 452
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 457
Few men ever enjoyed a course of uninterrupted good health equal to Mr. Sym.
When confined to the house for a few days in the latter part of his life, he used
to say that no medical man had ever felt hispulse, and that he did not remember
having ever in his life taken 6reakfast in bed. Truly B favoured son of Hygeia,
he attributed his exemption from disease chieffy to regular living, and to his
fondness for early morning exercise.
He and
Osborne (formerly noticed) were the right-hand men of the grenadiers; and
from his stature (six feet four inches), the former had to procure a firelock
considerably longer than the common regimental ones. He acted for some time
as fugleman to the first regiment; and it is told that, in his anxiety on one
occasion to perform his part well, he so twisted his body, while his arms were
poised above his head, as to be completely Zoclce&incapable of movement. In
tliis painful predicament he stood a few moments, till aided by the famous
Major Gould, who, on observing the circumstance, ran to his assistance.
Mr. Sym belonged to the old school of Tories, and was intimate with Lord
Melville, Chief Baron Dundas, and the other contemporary leaders of the
party. The well-known Editor of Blackwood’s Magazine, Professor Wilson, was
his nephew; as were also Robert Sym Wilson, Esq., Secretary to the Royal
Bank ; James Wilson, Esq., of Woodville, the eminent Ornithologist ; and the
Rev. John Sym, one of the ministers of the Old Greyfriar’s Church, Edinburgh.
Though in his younger years a gallant of no mean pretension, and in high
favour with the ladies, Mr. Sym continued all his life a bachelor. At one
period he resided in the buildings denominated “ The Society,” Brown Square,
but for the last forty years and upwards he was an inhabitant of George
Square.
Mr. Sym was a member of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.
No. CCCXXIV.
REV. HENRY GREY, AM.,
MINISTER OF ST. MARY’S CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
MR. GREY was born at Alnwick, in the county of Northumberland, in the year
1778. In early life
he was left to the care of a kind and pious mother, who watched over her son
with the most tender and anxious assiduity, and lived to receive the reward of
her love and devotedness in her son’s clerical reputation and unceasing affection.
Mr. Grey received the elements of English education at a private school in his
native town. When eight years old he was placed at a seminary in Highhedgely,
conducted by an intelligent curate of the Church of England, where he
His father was a gentleman of the medical profession.
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256 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Cowgate.
Mr. Andrew Anderson, printer to the King?s most
Excellent Majesty, for Mr. Andrew Symson, and
which must unhesitatingly be pronounced to be
superior in elegance to almost any other doors
given to modem houses either in Edinburgh or in
London. On a frieze between the mouldings is a
legend in a style of lettering and orthography which
speaks of the close of the fifteenth century :-
GIF . YE . DEID . AS , YE . SOULD . YE
MYCHT . HAIF . AS ,,YE , VULD,
In modem English, ?If we died as we should, we
might have as we would.? There is unfortunately
no trace of the man who built the house and put
upon it this characteristic apophthegm; ,but it is
known that the upper floors were occupied about
(before?) 1700 by the worthy Andro Syrnson, who
having been ousted from his charge as an episcopal
minister at the Revolution, continued to make a
living here by writing and printing books.?
Symson had been curate of Kirkinner,inGalloway,
a presentation to him by the earl of that title, and
was the author of an elaborate work, and mysterious
poem of great length, issued from his printinghouse
at the foot of the Horse Wynd,- entitled,
?Tripatriarchicor; or the lives of the three patriarchs,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, extracted forth of
are to be sold by him in the Cowgate, near the
foot of the Hose Wynd, Anno Dom. 1699.?
The Horse Wynd which once connected the
Cowgate with the open fields on the south of the
city, and was broad enough for carriages in days
before such vehicles were known, is supposed to
have derived its name from an inn which occupied.
the exact site of the Gaelic church which was
erected there in 1815, after the building in the
Castle Wynd was abandoned, and which ranked
as a quoad suoa parish church after 1834, though
it was not annexed to any separate territory. It
was seated for 1,166, and cost ;t;3,000, but was
swept away as being in the line of the present
Chambers Street. ,
COLLEGE WYND. (From a Drawinf 6y Willinffl Channing.)

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 269
also wrote a “ Life of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Murray: Professor of Oriental
Languages in the University of Edinburgh,” which was prefixed to a work by
the Professor, entitled “ Researches into the Mnity and Origin of the Greek
and Teutonic:Languages.” A Treatise on the Constitution of the Church of
Scotland, which had formed an appendix to the Life of Erskine, was reprinted ;
and another volume of Sermons was published posthumously. These were
well received by the public ; and prove the author to have been a writer of no
common ability.
Sir Henry married in 1773, Susan, daughter of Mr. James Robertson Barclay,
of Keavil, W.S., who was his cousin. She died in 1826, and Sir Henry
only survived her one year.
So highly sensible was the General Assembly of the services of this excellent
divine, that a character of him was drawn up at their unanimous request,
by the Rev. Dr. Macgill, Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow,
and ordered to be inserted in the records of Court, ‘‘ an honour which has been
bestowed on but few individuals in the Scottish Church.” Amongst other traits
of his amiable disposition, it is stated that “pious young men were always
sure of his protection j and he left nothing unessayed to promote their improvement
and their success in life.”
He died in the month of August 1827;
No. CCLXI.
SERGEANT WILLIAM DUFF,
OF THE 4 2R~EG IMENT, OR ROYAL EIGHUNDERS.
THE 42d Regiment, or, as it is commonly called in Scotland, the “Forty-
Twa,” was originally formed about the year 1729, and obtained the name of
the ‘‘ Black Watch,” from the nature of the duty, and the appearance of the
soldiers, whose Celtic dress was of a mo,& sombre description than the showy
scarlet uniform of the regular troops.
The corps consisted
of six independent companies, raised by gentlemen favourable to constitutional
principles, and was scattered over the Highlands in small detachments, for the
purpose of averawing the disaffected, and checking plunder and ‘‘ lifting of
Dr. Mmay was altogether unknown and destitute of patronage ; notwithstanding, he became,
in very early youth, and entirely by his own exertion, completely master of the Greek, Latin, and
Hebrew languages. While living in an ohscure situation in the country, almost without any
assistance whatever, and hardly able to procure the most ordinary elementary books, he is said to
have made himself proficient in aeven languages before he was twenty years of age. ’ A very elegant tablet was erected in the weat porch of St. Cuthbert’s Church by the kirksession
and congregation in 1841, on which there is inscribed a rare specimen of composition.
The services of the (‘ Black Watch ” were strictly local,

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