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

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307 - Trinity.] EASTER AND WESTER PILTON.
Now Trinity possesses a great number of handsome
villas in intersecting streets, a railway station,
and an Episcopal chapel called Christ Church,
which figured in a trial before the law courts of
Scotland, that made much noise in its time-the
Yelverton case.
At Wardie, not far from it, there died, in only
his thirty-eighth year, Edward Forbes, who, after
being a Professor in King?s College, London, was
appointed to the chair of Natural History in the
University of Edinburgh in May, 1854. He was
a man of distinguished talent and of an affectionate
nature, his last words being ? My own wife 1 ? when
she inquired, as he was dying, if he knew her.
Soon after she contracted a marriage with the
Hon. Major Yelverton, whose battefy of artillery
had just returned from Sebastopol, and was
quartered in Leith Fort. The marriage took place
in the little church at Trinity, and was barely
announced before the Major was arrested on a
charge of bigamy by the late Miss Theresa Longworth,
with whom he had contracted, it was
averred, an irregular marriage in Edinburgh. Before
this she had joined the Sisters of Chanty at T?arna,
and lived a life of adventure. Not satisfied with the
Scottish marriage, they went through another ceremony
before a Catholic priest in Ireland, where the
ceremony was declared legal, and she was accepted
as Mrs. Yelverton. She then endeavoured to
prove a Scottish marriage, by habit and repute, residence
at Circus Place, and elsewhere, but judgment
was given against her by the late Lord Ardmillan,
and after twenty years of wandering all over the
world, writing books of travel, she died at Natal in
September, 1881, retaining to the last the title of
Viscountess, acguired on old Lord Avonmore?s
death.
Horatio Macculloch, R.S.A., the well-known
landscape painter, lived latterly in a villa adjoining
Trinity Grove, and died there on the 15th June,
1867.
In 1836 some plans were prepared by Messrs.
Grainger and Miller, the eminent Edinburgh engineers,
and boldly designed for the construction of
a regular wet dock at Trinity, with a breakwater
outer harbour of twenty acres in extent, westward
of Newhaven pier and the sunken rock known as
the West Bush ; but the proposal met with no support,
and the whole scheme was abandoned.
On the noble road leading westward to
Queensfeny there was completed in April, 1880,
near the head of the Granton thoroughfare, a
Free Church for the congregation of Granton and
Wardie, which, since its organisation in 1876, under
the Rev. P. C. Purves, had occupied an iron building
near Wardie Crescent. The edifice is an ornament
to the swiftly-growing locality. The relative
proportions of the nave, aisles, and transepts, are
planned to form a ground area large enough tg
accommodate the increasing congregation, and
galleries can be added if required. This area is
nearly all within the nave, and is lighted by the
windows of the clerestory, which has flying buttresses.
The style is Early English, the pulpit is of
oak on a stone pedestal. This church has a tower
seventy-five feet high, and arrests the eye, as it
stands on a species of ridge between the city and
the sea.
Ashbrook, Wardieburn House, and other handsome
mansions, have been erected westward, and
ere long the old farmsteading of Windlestrawlee
(opposite North Inverleith Mains) will, of course,
disappear. It is called ?? Winliestraley ? in Kincaid?s
?? Local Gazetteer? for 1787, and is said to take its
name from ?? windlestrae (the name given to crested
dogstail grass- Cynosurus prisfatus), and applied
in Scotland to bent and stalks of grass found OII
moorish ground.?
An old property long known as Cargilfield, lay to
the north-east of it, and to the westward are Easter
and Wester Pilton, an older property still, which
has changed owners several times.
On the 16th of May, 1610, Peter Rollock, of
Pilton, had a seat on the bench as Lord Pilton.
He had no predecessor. He had been removed,
when Bishop of Dunkeld (in 1603), says Lord
Hailes, that the number of extraordinary lards
might be reduced to four, and he was restored by
the king?s letter, with a special proviso that this
should not be precedent of establishing a fifth extraordinary
lord. The lands-or a portion thereof
-afterwards became a part of the barony of Royston,
formed in favour of Viscount Tarbet; but
previous to that had been in possession of a family
named Macculloch, as Monteith in his ? Theatre
of Mortality,? inserts the epitaph upon the tomb on
the east side of the Greyfriars Church, of Sir Hugh
Macculloch, of Pilton, Knight, descended from the
ancient family of Macculloch of CadbolI. He died
in August, 1688, and the stone was erected by his
son James. About I 780 Pilton became the property
of Sir Philip Ainslie, whose eldest daughter Jean
was married there, in 1801, to Lord Doune, eldest
son of the Earl of Moray-a marriage that does not
appear in the ?Peerages ? generally, but is recorded
in the Edinburgh HeruZd for that year. She was his
second wife, the first being a daughter of General
Scott of Bellevue and Balcomie. Lord Doune
then resided, and for a few years before, in the old
Wrightshouse, or ?? Bruntsfield Castle,? as it is ... - Trinity.] EASTER AND WESTER PILTON. Now Trinity possesses a great number of handsome villas in intersecting ...

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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.? ... MONTEITH. . 3?5 Duddingston.] incumbent of Duddingston in 1805. His favourite subjects were to be found in ...

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

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

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102 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Galton Hill,
thirteenth century, it was not until 1518, when the
Provost James, Earl of Arran, and the Bailies of the
city, conveyed by tharter, under date 13th April, to
John Malcolme, Provipcial of the Carmelites, and
his successors, their lands of Greenside, and the
chapel or kirk of the Holy Cross there, The
latter had been an edifice built at some remote
period, of which no record now remains, but it
served as the nucleus of this CarmeIite monastery,
nearly the last of the religious foundations in
Scotland prior to the Reformation.
In December, 1520, the Provost (Robert Logan
.of Coatfield), the 3ailies and Council, again con-
Jerred the ground and place of ? the Greensyde to
the Freris Carmelitis, now beand in the Ferry, for
their reparation and bigging to be maid,? and Sir
Thomas Cannye was constituted chaplain thereof.
From this it would appear that the friary had
,been in progress, and that till ready for their
Teception the priests were located at the Queens-
.ferry, most probably in the Carmelite monastery
built there in 1380 by Sir George Dundas of
that ilk. . In October, 1525, Sir Thomas, chaplain
.of the pkce and kirk of the Rood of Greenside,
got seisin ?thairof be the guid town,?
.and delivered the keys into the hands of the
magistrates in favour of Friar John Malcolmson,
.??Jro mareraZZ (sic) of the ordour,?
In 1534, two persons, named David Straiton
and Norman Gourlay, the latter a priest, were
tried for heresy and sentenced to be burned at
the stake. On the 27th of August they were
d e d to the Rood of Greenside, and there suffered
.that terrible death. After the suppression of the
-order, the buildings mus, have been tenantless
until 1591, when they were converted into a
hospital for lepers, founded by John Robertson,
a benevolent merchant of the city, ?pursuant to
a vow on his receiving a signal mercy from God.?
? At the institution of this hospital,? says Arnot,
.?? seven lepers, all of them inhabitants of Edinburgh,
were admitted in one day. The seventy of the
lregulations which the magistrates appointed to be
.observed by those admitted, segregating them
from the rest of mankind, and commanding them
to remain within its walls day and night, demonstrate
the loathsome and infectious nature of the
distemper.? A gallows whereon to hang those
who violated the rules was erected at one end of
the hospital, and even to open its gate between
sunset and sunrise ensured the penalty of death.
It is a curious circumstance that, though not a
stone remains of the once sequestered Carmelite
monastery, there is still perpetuated, as in the case
of the abbots of Westminster, in the convent of the
Carmelites at Rome, an official who bears the title
of IZ Padre Priore rii Greenside. (?Lectures on
the Antiquities of Edin.,? 184s.)
In- the low valley which skirts the north-eastern
base of the hill, now occupied by workshops and
busy manufactories, was the place for holding
tournaments, open-air plays, and revels.
In 1456 King James 11. granted under his
great seal, in favour of the magistrates and community
of the city and their successors for ever,
the valley and low ground lying betwixt the rock
called Cragingalt on the east, and the common
way and passage on the west (now known as Greenside)
for performing thereon tournaments, sports,
and other warlike deeds, at the pleasure of the
king and his successors. This grant was &ted
at Edinburgh, 13th of August, in presence of the
Bishops of St, Andrews and Brechin, the Lords
Erskine, Montgomery, Darnley, Lyle, and others,
This place witnessed the earIiest efforts of the
dramatic muse in Scotland, for many of those pieces
in the Scottish language by Sir David Lindesay,
such as his ?? Pleasant Satyre of the Three Estaits,?
were acted in the play field there, ?when weather
served,? between 1539 and 1544 ; but in consequence
of the tendency of these representations to
expose the lives of the Scottish clergy, by a council
of the Church, held at the Black Friary in March,
1558, Sir David?s books were ordered to be burned
by the public executioner.
? The Pleasant Satyre ? was played at Greenside,
in 1544, in presence of the Queen Regent, ?as is
mentioned,? says Wilson, ?by Henry Charteris, the
bookseller, who sat patiently nine hours on the
bank to witness the play. It so far surpasses any
effort of contemporary English dramatists, that it
renders the barrenness of the Scottish muse in .
this department afterwards the more apparent.?
Ten years subsequent a new place would seem
to have been required, as we find in the ?Burgh
Records? in 1554, the magistrates ordaining their
treasurer, Robert Grahame, to pay ?? the Maister
of Werke the soume of xlij Zi xiij s iiij d, makand
in hale the soume of IOO merks, and that to
complete the play field, now bigging in the
Greensid.?
This place continued to be used as the scene of
feats of arms until the reign of Mary, and there,
Pennant relates, Bothwell first attracted her attention,
by leaping his horse into the ring, after
galioping ?down the dangerous steeps of the
the adjacent hill ?-a very apocryphal story. Until
the middle-of the last century this place was all
unchanged. ? In my walk this evening,? he writes
in 1769, ?I passed by a deep and wide hollow
? ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Galton Hill, thirteenth century, it was not until 1518, when the Provost James, Earl ...

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INDEX. 471
St Ninian’s Chapel, North Leith, 307, 365
Calton, 353
Row, 354
Alter, House of the Chaplain of, 146
St Paul’s Chapel, Carrubber’s Close, 251
St Peter’s Close, Cowgate, 323
St Roque’s Chapel, on the Borough Muir, 415
St Thomas’s Hospital, 25, 85, 245, 305
St Triduana’s Tomb, Reatalrig Church, 398
Surrey, Earl of, 26-28
Swinton, Alexander, Lord Mewington, 208
Sydserff, Sir Thomas, 287
Sglvius, aneas, 15
Syme, A., Advocate, 139
Symson, Andrew, the Printer, 324
Tables, The, 93
Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate, 93,287,325-327
Mrs, 328
Carrubber’s Close, 431
Portsburgh, 291
Corporation of, 431
Talfar, Samuel, 160
Tantallon Castle, 13
Tarbat, Sir James, a Priest, mobbed, 74
Taylor, the Water Poet, 197, 221, 407
Telfer of Scotgtown, Mrs, 289
Templar Lands, 340, 341
Tennis Court, 103, 286,287, 308
Thackeq, Major-General, 126
Theatre. See Drama, Tennis Cozcrt, Plays, Tailors’
Threave Castle, 130
Thynne, Lady Isabella, Portrait of, 410
Tiding Pin, 317
Todrick‘s Wynd, 88, 268, 315
TOTS Close, Castlehill, 146, 148, 149, 151, 153
Tolbooth, or Heart of Midlothian, 63, 71, 84, 85, 106,
New, or Council House, 72, 202,203
Kirk, 194, 392
Leith, 82, 364
Wynd, Leith, 364
Hall, Cowgate, &.
109,183
Tolbooth, Canongate, 216, 292
Topham, Captain, 161,197
Torture, 81,216
Touris, Qeorge of, 34
Tournaments, 23, 43,136
Tours of Innerleith, 117
Town Guard, 35, 219, 248
House, 115, 189, 247
Tranent, 51,234
Train, Joseph, the Antiquary, 129
Traquair, John, 1st Earl of, 243
Charles, 4th Earl of, 285
Trinity College Church, 18, 63, 96, 353, 394-417
Hospital, 50, 117, 396, 397
House, Leith, 359
Tron, Butter, 50, 87, 157. iee W&h-house
Salt, 91,249. See Pi4lory
Church, 428
Leith, 359
Trunk’e Close, 256 .
Tumuli, Ancient, 370
Turner, J. M. W., the Painter, 197
Tweeadale, John, 2d Earl of, 274, 283
William, a Witness, Porteoua Mob, 195
Charles, 3d Marquis of, 180, 274
Gleorge, 6th Marquis of, Mansion of, 180
Marquirr of, Mansion of, 311, 314
Close, 273
Tytler, William, of Woodhouselee, 199
Udward, Nicol, 89, 177,260
Omfraville’s Crow, 213, 442
Union, The, 107, 211
Cellar, 108
Unreason, Abbot of, 68
Urban II., Pope, 20
Vallence, Bishop of, 67, 68
Vennel, The, 91,117
Victoria, Queen, 298
Villeganon, Monsieur, receives Queen Yary at Dum-
Violante, Signora, 287
Virgin Mary’s Chapel, West Port, 136, 415
Wallace of Craigie, Sir Thomas, 162
barton, 53
Lady, 162
Captain, 208
Walla, Town, 17, 35, 36, 91, 116, 117, 132
Warbeck, Perkin, 25
Wardie, 131, 369
Warrender, George, Bailie, 207
House, 165
Warriston, Lord. See Johwton of Wam’ston
Warriston’s Close, 230
Warwolf, A, 328
Water Qate, 50, 94, 295, 305
Water’s Close, Leith, 362
Watt, Deacon, 202, 256
Weaponshaws, 23, 412
Webster, Dr, 140
Webster’s Close, 140
Weigh-house, 96, 97,112, 157, 195
Lane, Leith, 360, 362, 363
Executed for Treason, 123
Old, demolished by Cromwell, 96
Leith, 364
Weir, Major, 101, 167, 335338, 438
. Orisel, 116-118,213, 336-338, 438
Well-House Tower, 85,116, 132
Weymss, 2d Earl of, 275
Francis, 5th Earl of, 211, 300 .
Countess of, 188, 210
Laird of, 69
West Bow, I f , 85,113,117, 131,132,333-342,438
Westhall, Lord, 229
West Port, 38, 40, 44, 65, 85, 87, 90, 91, 136, 217, 344
Wharton, Duke of, 178
White, Martha, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine
166
White Friars, or Ca;melites, 411, 444
Whitefield, Rer. Oeorge, 288
Whiteford House, 303 ... 471 St Ninian’s Chapel, North Leith, 307, 365 Calton, 353 Row, 354 Alter, House of the Chaplain of, ...

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

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158 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk.
On the east side of the walk, overlooking the
steep and deep Greenside ravine, the huge and
hideous edifice named the ?? Tabernacle,? was long
the scene of the ministrations of the Rev. James
Alexander Haldane, who there, for more than forty
years, devoted himself, gratuitously, and with exemplary
assiduity, to preaching the Gospel. He was
the son of Captain James Haldane of Airthrey, a
descendant of the family of Gleneagles, and his
mother was a sister of Admiral Viscount Duncan.
He commenced life as a midshipman on board
the Dukeof Morztrose, Indiaman, made four voyages
to the East, and in his twenty-fifth year became
captain of the MeZviZZe CasfZe, and was distinguished
for his bravery amid many perils incident to life at
sea. During the mutiny at Spithead, the spirit of
the revolt was spread to the Dutton, a vessel alongside
of Haldane?s, by the captain of fle former
sending a man-ofiwar?s boat to have some of his men
arrested for insubordination. The mutiny broke
out on a dark night-shots were fired, and a man
killed, Oh this, the future pastor of the Tabernacle
lowered a boat with an armed crew, and went off
to the Button, the crew of which threatened him
with death if he did not sheer off; but he boarded
her, sword in hand, and, driving the mutineers forward,
addressed them on the folly of their conduct,
the punishment that was certain to follow, and
eventually overcame them without more bloodshed.
Soon after this he resigned his command in the
East India Company?s Service, and meant to adopt
the life of a country gentleman ; but an intimacy
with Mr. Black, minister of Lady Yester?s, and
Mr. Buchanan, of the Canongate Church, led to a
graver turn of thought, and, resolving to devote his
life to the diffusion of the Gospel, he sold his beautiful
estate at Airthrey to Sir Robert Abercromby,
and failing in a missionary plan he had formed for
India, he began to preach at home, first at Gilmerton
in 1797, and afterwards on the Calton Hill,
where the novelty of a sea-captain addressing them
collected not less than 10,000 persons on more
than one occasion.
Eventually he became minister Of the then recently
erected Tabernacle on the east side of Leith
Walk, and so named from Mr. Whitefield?s places
of worship. Eminent preachers from England frequently
appeared here, and it was always crowded
to excess. The seats were all free, and he derived
no emolument from his office.
At the period he commenced his public career,
towards the end of the. last century, evangelical
d0ctrir.e was at a low ebb, but through the instrumentality
of Mr. Haldane and his brother, also a
preacher, a considerable revival took place.
The Tabernacle has long since been converted
into shops.
Immediately adjoining it on the south is a low
square, squat-looking tower, with a fapde in the
Tudor style forming a new front on an old house,
pierced with the entrance to Lady Glenorchy?s Free
Church, which stands immediately behind it.
Where now we find the New London Road,
running eastward from Leopold Place to Brunton
Place, Ainslie?s plan of 1804 shows us in dotted
line a ? Proposed new road to Haddington,? passing
on the north a tolerably large pond, on the Earl of
Moray?s property near the Easter Road-a pond
only filled up when Regent Place and other similar
streets were recently built at Maryfield-and on
the south the Upper Quarry Holes-hollows still
traceable at the east end of the Royal Terrace
Gardens. A street of some kind of buildings occupied
the site of the present Elm Row, as shown
by a plan in I 787 ; and in the CaZedonian Merncry
for 1812 a premium of three hundred guineas is
offered for the best design for laying out in streets
and squares, the lands in this quarter, on the east
side of the walk, consisting of 300 acres.
Here now we find Windsor Street, a handsome
thoroughfare, built of white freestone, in a simple
but severe style of Greek architecture, with massive
fluted columns at every doorway. No. 23, in the year
1827 became the residence of the well-known Mrs.
Henry Siddons. Previously she had resided at No.
63, York Place, and No. 2, Picardy Place. Three
years after she came to Windsor Street, her twentyone
years? patent of the old Theatre Royal, which
she had camed on with her brother, W. H. Murray,
as stage manager, came to a close, and on the 29th
of March, 1830, this popular and brilliant actress
took her farewell of the Edinburgh stage, in the
character of Lady Towneley in The Provoked NUSb
a d , meaning to spend the remainder of her life
in retirement, leaving the theatre entirely to Mr.
Murray.
She was a beautiful woman, and a charming actress
of a sweet, tender, and pathetic school.
When she took up her residence in Windsor
Street the ground was nearly all meadow land, from
there to Warriston Crescent, says Miss F. A-Kemble,
in her recent ? Reminiscences,? which is rather a
mistake ; but she adds, ?? Mrs. Siddons held a peculiar
position in Edinburgh, her widowhood, condition,
and personal attractions combining to win the
sympathy and admiration of its best society, while
her high character and blameless conduct secured
the respect and esteem of her theatrical subjects
md the general public, with whom she was an
object of almost affectionate personal regard, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk. On the east side of the walk, overlooking the steep and deep Greenside ...

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People don't play riddle games with Giants, or get tricked by Faerie Queens. They don't follow Blind Maniacs into Futures, or have their Lives saved by Death.

Timothy Hunter in The Books of Faerie

54 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holymd
under his great seal, granted to David, Abbot of
Holyrood, a piece of land within the Castle of
Edinburgh whereon to erect a house, to which the
monks, their servants and families, might repair in
time of peace and war. This piece of ground
was eighty feet in length and eighty in breadth,
wherever the abbot might choose, ?beyond the
site of our manor? (the royal lodging?); ?the
said abbot and his successors paying therefor to
us and to our heirs a silver penny at the said
castle on Whitsunday yearly, if asked only, so
that the foresaid abbot and his successors and
their servants shall be bound to take the oath
of fidelity for the due security of the said castle
to the keeper thereof, who may be for the time,
have free ish and entry to the said castle at accustomed
and proper hours.?
On the 5th April, 1391, King Robert III., undei
his great seal, granted a charter to the Abbey of
Holyrood, confirming the charter of David 11. to
the abbey, dated 30th December, 1343. It is dated
at Edinburgh. When the abbey became a species
of palace has never been distinctly ascertained,
but Robert 111. appears sometimes to have made
Holyrood his residence. James I. occasionally
kept his court there; and in the abbey his queen
was delivered of twin princes, on the 16th October,
14 I 6-Alexandeq who died, and James, afterwards
second of that name.
In 1428 a remarkable episode occurred in the
abbey church. Alexander, Lord of the Isles, who
had been in rebellion against James I., but had
been utterly defeated by the royal troops in
Lochaber, sent messengers to the king to sue for
mercy. But the latter, justly incensed, refused to
enter into .my negotiations with an outlawed
fugitive. Alexander, driven to despair, and compelled
to fly from place to place, was compelled at
last to trust to the royal clemency. Travelling
secretly to Edinburgh, he suddenly presented himself,
upon a solemn festival, before the high altar 01
Holyrood, and holding his?drawn sword by the
point, he presented the hilt to the astonished king,
in token of his unconditional submission, and
falling on his knees, in presence of Queen Jane
and the whole court, implored the royal mercy.
The ill-fated James granted him his life, at the
tender intercession of his royal consort, but sent
him a prisoner to the sequestered castle of
Tantallon, on its sea-beat Tock, under the charge
of his nephew, the Earl of Angus. The island
chief eventually received a free pardon, was restored
to all his honours, castles, and estates, and stood
as sponsor for the twin princes, Alexander and
James, at the font
.
In 1437 the Parliament met at Edinburgh, on
the 25th March, after the murder of James I., and
adopted immediate measures for the government of
the country. Their first act was the coronation of
the young prince, in his sixth year, on whose head
at Holyrood, as James II., the crown was solemnly
placed by James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews,
in presence of a great concourse of the nobles,
clergy, and representatives of towns, amid the usual
testimonies of devotion and loyalty.
On March 27th, 1439, Patrick Abbot of Holyrood
and his convent granted a charter to Sir Robert
Logan of Restalrig, and his heirs, of the ofice of
bailie over their lands of St. Leonard?s, in the town
of Leith, ?from the end of the great volut of
William Logane, on the east part of the common
gate that passes to the ford over the water of Leith,
beside the waste land near the house of John of
Turyng on the west part, and common Venale
called St. Leonard?s Wynd, as it extended of old
on the south part, and the water of the port OF
Leith on the north, and . . . . in the ninth year of
the pontificate of our most holy father and lord,
Eugenius IV., by Divine Providence Pope.?
Chronologically, the next event connected with
the abbey was the arrival of Mary of Gueldres in
1449. In company with John Railston, Bishop
of Dunkeld, and Nicholas Otterburn, official of
Lothian, the Lord Chancellor Crichton went to
France to seek among the princesses of that
friendly court a suitable bride for young James
11.; but no match being suitable, by the advice
of Charles VII. these ambassadors proceeded to
Burgundy, and, with the cordial concurrence of
Duke Philip the Good, made proposals to his
kinswoman, hlary, the only daughter and heiress
of Arnold, Duke of Gueldres, and in 1449 the
engagement was formally concluded. Philip promised
to pay _f60,boo in gold as a dowry, while
James, on the other hand, settled IO,OOO crowns
upon her, secured on land in Strathearn, Athole,
Methven, and East Lothian, while relinquishing all;
claim to the Duchy of Gueldres, in the event of
an heir male being born to Duke Arnold ; and the
Parliament met at Stirling, resolved that the royal
nuptials should be conducted on a scale of splendour
suited to the occasion.
The fleet containing the bride anchored in June
in the Forth. She was ?young, beautiful, and of a
masculine constitution,? says Hawthornden, and
came attended by a splendid train of knights and
nobles from France and Burgundy, including tlie
Archduke Sigisniund of Austria, the Duke of
Brittany, and the Lord of Campvere (the three
brothers-in-law of the King of Scotland), togetho ... don't play riddle games with Giants, or get tricked by Faerie Queens. They don't follow Blind ...

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3 99 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
. Stirling-Maxwell, Sir Wm., 11. 86,
. Stitchill, Laird of I. 169
.Stockbridge, 11. ;31, 188, 189, 1x1.
74 719 742 75, 78, 79, 8% 8% 83,
92,9ji chinamanufactory,III. 75
Stockbrig tlrae, 111. 71
.Stocks from the uld Canongate
lolbooth 11. *31
Stoddart, Provost. 11. 1 0 5 , 2 8 ~
Stone Cross The 111. '87
Stonefield, hrd,' I. 273, 11. 339,
Stonyhill House 111. 365, 366
Storm in Leith 'harbour, Terrible,
358, 111. 24
111. $7
111. 18a. 202
,Stowell ib;d I a 9
~ t r a c ~ Prdf. j o i n 111.14
.Straiton,'Colonel Chkles, 11. 243
.Straiton's Loch, 11. 347,
Strange phantasmagoria, A, I. 103
.Strathalkn Imprisonment of the
Viscount& I. 69
Strathmore Ikrd 11. 303, 111. rgz
.Strathnave:, Lord, 11. 17, 65
Street disturbances by boys, 11.259
Streets of Leith, Cleauslng and
lighting of the, 111. 194
Strjchen, Lord, 1. 254, 255, 257
Str!chen'h Close, I. 253, 254, 255
Strike among workmen, I h e first,
11.264,326
Struthers William . his quarrel
with Piof. Keid IiI. 10
-Stuart Abbot KoLert 11. 48
Stuart' an Provos; 11.279
Stuart: Lord james, li. 66,67,101,
.Stuart,LordRobert,lI.67,7q, 111.4
.Stuart of Grantully Sir George,
I. mzs~ (see Stewartj
S t u n Sir James I. 43
.Stuariof Fetterdim, Sir John, 11.
111. 174
'43
Duke of Lennox, 11.243
Stuart, Sir John, II. 318
Stuart, Esme, Lord DAubigneand
Stuart, Sir Robert, 1. 243
. h a r t of Dunearn, am-, I. 173,
Charles 11. 343
.Smart of balguise, David, Provost,
11.282
. S t u n Colonel 1.66 67 6g
stuart: ~mes iordAovbst,11.z8a
Stnart John Sobieski 11. 159
Stuarr)of Allanbank, Lady, 11. 89
Stuart, Lady Grace, I. 273
Stuart Lady Margaret, I. 35
. S t ~ $ s , Dr., " Sculptured Stones,'
181, 339. 3792 IT 1. 4 2 , 343
11. 99
the 11. *zzo
111,228
Suburbs of the West Part, Map 01
Succdth, Lord, 11. 344
Sugar House Close, The old, Leith
.Summerhall brewery, The, 111. 51
.Sumptuary laws of 1457 1 a8
Surgeon square, I. * 3L,' 383, II
Surgeons, Royal College Or, I. 383
.Surgeons and apothecaries, Unior
:Surgeons' Hall, 11. 330, 334, 335
'27, "75, 302, 303, 335
11. 300. 301. 302, 289
of the, 1. 382
".._
Sur:% Hospital, The, 11. zg6
.Surgical mstrument-maker, Thq
%me;, Earl of 11. 61, 62
Sutherland, Fail of, I. 237, 238, II
375, 111. 298; C o u n t s of, I
.Sutherland Duke of 11. 123
. .Sutherland: James, bkanist, I. 362
3.59, 364.362, 379
first 11. 263
238, 339 11. 35
363 Suttie, Sir George, 11. 272; Lady
'Sutton, Sir Thomas, I. 49; Ladj
:Swanston, 111. 326
Sweating Club The, 111.123
Sweeps, Strikdamoug, 11. 326
'Swift's Wynd 11. 242
swine in the L e t s , I. 27511.23
Swinton, John Lord, 11. z p
Swimon Lord 11. 35, 158 111.36,
Swinton( of Dhmdryan, 'Captain'
Swinton, Margaret (Si. W. Scott'r
11. 26
Dowager, 11. 274
111. 30
grand-aunt), Curious storyrelated
Sword formerly used for beheading
criminals 11. a31
Sydeserf, dishop of Galloway, Attack
on, I. 122
Sydney Smith, 11. 347
Sydserff, Sir Thoma5, 11.40
Syme, Geordie, the Dalkeith town-
Syme, Professor James, surgeon,
Symons, Dr., and the ruffian Boyd,
Symson, Andrew, the printer, 11.
by. 11. 244
piper, 11. 170
11.274, 359
11. 268
256 ; his house, 11. * a57
T
Tabernacle, Rev. James Haldane's,
Leith Walk 111. 158
Tailor, An enarprising, 11. 27r
axlors' Hall, The, 1. ajg, 240 I1
T;z5z,. 258, 31 ; ornamentaaj in:
scnptions, d. 258 ; the drama in
the 11.23 258
Tail/=. Thk. 11. 166
Tait LrchbLhop, 11.344, 111. 86
Tait)of Glencross, 11.
Tally-stickof 1692 1 '20886
Talmash of Helinaha;n, Sir Lionel. - .
11. 3'7
111.87 f 89, 95
11.74 ,
Tam 0' the Cowgate, 11. 259, 260,
Tanfihd Hall, Canonmills, 11. 146,
Tannahih, Robert, 11. 127
Tanner'sClose, II.226,227,229, a30
Tapestry Room, Holyrood Palace,
Tarbat, Viscount, 11. 353, 111. 307,
Tarbat Sir Jam- I. 151
Tarbet' Masterof'III. 214
Tas+'James and William, model-
Taverns, Demand for, in former
330 111. 83
3x0
lers, 11. 89
times, I. 255
Tax Ofice, The, 11. 123
Tavlor, the Water-wet, I. IW. 11. - . ,,. 73, 111. 183 237
Tea. First im&rtiltion of. 111. 276
Tei&mouth,'Lord, 11. 165, 212 '
Teind Court The 111. 83
Teller, Mrs.,'Smoliett's sister, 11.26
Telford, the engineer, 111. 63, 70
Templar Knights, Houses of the, I.
310,321, 11. "232
Templar lands I. 321
Temple Close 'I. ar, 11. 231
Temple Lands, Erassmarket, 11.
'232
Temple ofHealth 11. 242
Tenducci, the sinker, I. z51
Tennis Court The 11. 3 ' the
theatre attdhed thereto, Pi. 39:
40; Shakespeare at the, 11. 40,
other plays ib.
Tennis-court,'The old, Leith, 111.
Territorial Church, The, 11. 224
Terrot, Hishop, 11.198, rgg
Terry theactor, I. 350, 11. 26
Tevio;, Earl of, 111. 26
Teviot Row, 1.38,II. 323,326, 338,
344 345, 346, 356,358
%cleray, W. M., 11. 150
Thatch House, Portobello, 111. 145
Theatre of Varieties, 11. 176
Theatre Royal, I. 340 *349, 350,
351s 35% 11. 179. 953 158,
163 ; building of the, I. 341, 11.
25, 26 : riot in the, I. 346 ; the
last performance 1. 352 ; demo.
lition of the old bhding, 1. +953 ;
the present theatre 11. 178
Theatres, I. 83; Wktefield on, I.
340,341; royal patent for, I. 341 ;
the early performances I. 342
343 ; popularity of Mrs.'Siddou:
1.3457 346
238
Thicket Burn, The, 111.143
Thieves' Hole, The, I. 48
Thirlestane, Lord, I. 246, 111. x49,
Thirlestane Road, 111.46
Thistle Street, 11. 158, 159, 111.
Thomson, the poet, 11. 117, 127 ;
150, 339, 364
I10
his nephew, Craig the architect,
11. 117
Thornon, Alexander (" Ruffles "),
111.90
Thornon of Duddingston Sir
Thomas, 11. 316 ; Sir Willi&, ib.
Thornson, Rev. Andrew, 11. 126,
1357 175, 210 Thornson George musician I. 251
l'homsoi of Duhdingston: Rev.
John, the painter, 11. 89, p, 314,
111. 84
Thornson, John and Thomas, 11.347
Thornson, Thomas, I. 374 375,II.
Thornson, Dr. William 111. 27
Thornson's Green, I. 3;8, 11. 260
Thornson's Park 11. 338
Thorneybank, ?he, 11.218
Three battles in one day, 111. 351
Three Thorns of the Carlinwark, I.
Thnepland, Sir Stuart, I. 208 ; his
191
748 75
son. ib
Thizbikin The,,,[. *62
Tilting-ground &I the West Port,
Tihbie FAwler 111. 247
The. 11. 224
Tilts h d tournaments near the
Timber Bush,'or ?%our&., 1 he, Leith
Calton Hill 11. 102 103.
111. a31
Timber-fronted houses in the Cowgate,
11. 239, qo
Timber trade, The Leith, 111. 231
Tinwald, Lord, I. 273
Tipperlinn hamlet, 111. 39
Tirlia, The, 11. 3rx
Tirling- ins I 271 I1 253 26 .
from fad; L&at'; house, hlaci!
friars Wynd, I. *258
Titiens Madame I. 35r
Tod, Sir Archibah, Provost, 11.280
Tod SirThomas Provost I1 279
T d i g ' s or Toddrick's Wynd, 11.
269, 111. 6 : incidents in, 11. 241
Tal s Close, I. 2,
Todshaugh, II? 15
Tolbooth, The Edinburgh, I. 40,42'
5% 597 701 95, 1 ~ ) 123-1381 157,
158, 175, P I , 219, 24% 11. 237,
2 8 246, 248, 062, 3% 323. 324,
111; 6 I, 136, 142, 156 186, 191
zz 247 277. its demblition and
re8;ildihg, 1: 124 146, 111. 7,
o p : records of thi, I. 127 ; relicri
of the, 1. * 129 ; view of the I.
133. 197, PLatc 5 : descripkon
of the, I. 134; its final demoli.
tion, ib.: attempted escape from,
1.383 ; executions at the, 11. 238
Tolbooth, The Canongate, 11. I, 2
Tolbooth Kirk The I. 129, 144
Tolbooth Stair: 11. ;3
T$booth, The Leith, 111. 179. 192,
!93.227, 228, 229, 235.277 ; im
orironers. 111. 220 : trooos ouar. . iered there, ib.; ';is deAol&iun,
111. 230: the new Tolbcoth ib.;
Queen Mary's letter to the &din.
burgh Town Council, 111. 228
Tulbooth, The new 11. 239
TolboothWynd If. *zo
Tolbooth Wynd, Le?i, 111. 166,
167, *zz5, 216 227 228 234, 246,
247, 25 , 273 f curhs'tablet on
the, 111 228, * 229
Tolcroce, 111.94
Toll Cross, 11. 346, 111. 30, 42
Tonnage of Leith, III.z75,~77,178
Toutine,The,George Street, 11.139
Toole, J. L., the actor 1. 351
Torphichen Lord I &o 21, 327
Torphin, P h a n d HiIk,'dI. 324
Torphine Hill 111. 113
Torthorwald, 'Murder ef Lord, I.
Tourhope Laird of I. 194
Toun-end' The 11.'13~
Touris ofinverieith, Family of, 11.
330 111. 947 3'01 3'7
Touriaments Chivalrous II.55,225
Tower, The, Portobello, i I I . 146
Tower of Jama V 11. 0, 73
Tower Street Ixiii I l l 244, 245
Tower Street Portdbello, 111. I48
Towers of Idverleith, George, 111.
195. 196
28, 29
Town Council The I. 157; their
visitation of 'the dniversity, 111.
15, 16
Town Guard, The, I. 38, 11. 341,
Town Hall, Leith, 111. 228, 043,
Town Hall, Portobello, 111. 148,
Tracquair, Sir James 11.71 111. 7
Trade despotism at I k t h i11. 1p0
TradeofLeith,Aglancea; the,III.
Trades' corporations of Leith, 111.
111. 191
244
* '53
289
Trades-Maiden Hospital, 11. 168,
"Traditions of Edinburgh," I. I%,
1187 225, 2591 263, 377,
Trained Bands, The Edinburgh, 11.
r+75,III. 192; theleith, 111.188
Training College of the Church of
Scotland 11. 176
Training institute of the Scottish
Episcopal Society, I. p
Trayuair, Charles Earl of, 11.270;
hard case of I. zm, 242, z98
Travelling in (he last century 1. 6
11. 22 ; by the Leith stage: 111:
15% '54
Treaty of Union, Unpopularity of
the I. 163 165' bribery of the
Scdttish mekkrs) of Parliament,
I. 163, 164
Tree, Miss M., actress, I. 3 o
Tria1,Theearlieyt Edinburgz, I. 256
Trials and executions for high
treamn, 11.23.5-238
Trinity, 111. 306, 307
Trinity Church, I. 214
Trinity Church, StockbridgeJII.70
Tr;tnity
Cullege Church, 1. *z88,
289, P r 303, *304, *305,
j4 31% 338, 34% 3592 362,
collegiate seals, I. *303: the
charter, 1. 303 ; provision for the
inmates, I. 307 ; ground plan, 1.
* 30s
Trinity Grove, 111. 307
Trinity Hospital,I. 290," 304,*305, a+, 339 *312r 362
Trinity Ouse, Leith, 111. 223, * 214, za6, 279 ; sculptured stone
in theeast wingof, 111. '223; its
earlyhistory, 111. 223
*2727 2737 301, 111. 55
11, 18
111.7;
3073
I. 74, 101, 234, 290, 379; old
Trinity Lcdge, 111. pz, 306
Tron Church, 1. 82, 187-191, zo+,
benefactions to thechurch I. 187,
188 ; the fire of 1824, I. 188-191 ;
New Year's Eve at the, Plafc 8 ;
the old Tron Church, I. *193.
111. 252
Tron, 'I he, Leith, 111. 238
Tron, The, I. 188, 219,298, 11. 62,
Trotter, the architect, 11. 95
Trunk's Close I. 2x0
Trustees' Acahemy, 111. 83, 84
Trustees' Hall, The, 11.84
Tucker's re rt on the condition of
Tulloch, Colonel Alexander, 111.
Turdulence of 'the High School
Turk's Close I. 121 282
Turnbull, D.'W. B.,'advocate, 11.
197, 198.
Turnbull of Airdrie, William, 111.
34
Turner Sir ames 11.31
Tweedhale, i a r l s Af, I. 63, 119, 278,
279, 11. 8, 286
Tweeddale, Marquis of, I. 214,278,
$32, 333, 11. 246; house of, 1.
Tweeddale's Close I. 278 280, 297
Tweedies, The fdmily df the, 1.
Twelve o Clock Coach, The, 111.
"Twooennv Custom." The. 11.
376,11.64309.I1I. 154.r9r1306;
Y', 3 5 111- 7
Leith, IIr187, 188
74. IS father 16.
boys, 11. 289
277, 281, 11. 246
'94. '95.
227, 282
'4 Eo'i;adows id Cinvem;ionT
Tyburn of Edinburgh, The, 111.38
Tynecastle toll 11. 218
Tytler, Tomb df Alexander, II.38b
111. ma, ~2 218
Tytler, Patric Fraser, Lord Woodhouselee,
11. 210
11. '161 ... 99 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. . Stirling-Maxwell, Sir Wm., 11. 86, . Stitchill, Laird of I. 169 .Stockbridge, 11. ...

Book 6  p. 390
(Score 0.38)

370 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
pilgrimage to on May Day, I. 379
geology of the hill 11. 303, 304
origin of the name: 11.304, 305
plan of, I I. * 304
Articles of Union, The, I. 163
Artillery Park, The, 11. 41
Artois, Count d', I. 162,11.76,78,75
Ashbrook House 111.307
Assay Office and'(;oldmths' Hall
I* 376
dral, 1. IM
Assembly aisle, St. Giles's Cathe
Assemblv Close. The old. I. I@U I . 242, II. 254 '
Assembly Hall, I, go, g6, 337, I1
Assembly House The I. a43
Assembly of Birds Club, 111. 123
Assemblyof the Freechurch, Firs1
meeting of the, 111. 87
k m b l y of the Kirk of Scotland
Plate 13
Assembly Rooms, The, 11.148,150
111. 271 283; rules of, 11. 149
Assemblykooms Leith 111. 1y8
Aaociation of dorters,' Tablet o
the, Tolbmth Wynd, Lith, 111
AstroLomicaI Institution, 11.106
Athens, Edinburgh the modern, I
Athol, Earls of, I. ag, 3, 54 143
111.180, 3a3 ; Countess of, I. 46
Athole, Duke of, 11. log, 151.111
95. '99, 111. 123
228 'aa9
2,111.324
W5
Athole, Marquis OK 11.352
Athole Crescent, 11. z q , 210, 213
Athole Street, 111. 75
Auchindicny, 111. 359
Auchiuleck. Lord, 1. gg, 181, z g
Auchtyfardel, Kennedy of, I. 1y6
Audience Chamber, Hol-
Audley, ' h d , 11. 283
Augustine Canons of St., 11. 47 '' Auld 'Camcranian Meeung
Auld Kirk Style 1. '53
"Auld Reekie "'111. 122
Austin, Dr. A&m I. 91 11. p a
Avenue, The, B r k d l d L i k s
Avonmore Lord 111.307
Aytoun, h e & r I. 88 11. 140,
158, m , *d, IiI. 68, 'as, 95
Aytoun, lady, 1 1 . p
Aytounsof Inchdaunie, The. 1. d
11. I66
Palace 11. 74
house," 1. 259
111. * 33
B
U, Worship of, 11.311
Baberton 111.31 334
Back Ro;, The, PI. 338, 111. 54
Back Stairs, The. 11. 247. a 4 ~ 246, . . . -. . -. . .
274 274
Baddeley, Mrs., the actress, I. 34C
Bagimont, Cardinal, 11. 285; hh
roll ib.
Baije; Hole The I. 175
Bailie Fyie';Cl& I. 240 243 262
II. 173 ; fall ot i stone'tene'mei
in, I. 240, *a41
Bailie Grants Close, I. y r
Bailie Kyd, 11. IZI
Bailie's Court, 11. 242
Baillie, Charles, Lord Jerviswde,
Baillie Colonel Alexander, 11. 172
Baillie: Sir William, I. 186
Baillie, Murder of Lady, 111. 156
Baillie Robert 111. Sg
Bainfiild, 11. dxg ; its mdia-rubber
manufactories, ib.
Bain Whyt, Songs in memory of,
11.219
Baud, Sir David I. Sg
b i r d of Saughtdn, Su Robert, I.
88, 226
Baird Principal 11. 206, 238
Bairds of Newbyth, The, I. go,
III.122
Bairdsof Sanghton, The, 111. 319
Baird's Close, I. 98, gg
Bakehouse Close, 11. 9,27
Balc?nquall. Dr.. Heriot'sexecutor.
11. d, log
II.3&,367 -
Balcamq, Earl of, I. 66, 11. 143 ;
Countess of, 11. 143
Balcarres James Earl of, I. 275,
276 ; wke of I. 276
Bale-fires, EAction of, I. 31, 78,
Ralerno villaee, 111. 162
Balfour, Jamie, 1. 179
Bdfour Sir Andrew I
11. "5
62, 363;
the Eknburgh bo&i$ garden,
I. 362
Balfour, Sir James, I. 47, 51, 55,
1232 '958 2 0 9 q. '220 270, 3718
11. 222, 233, 285, 111. j, 7, 29, 56,
58, 59, 99, 178, 183, zaz, 263, 272,
2757 2Yt 291, 3351 351
Balfour, Dr., the botanist, 111. 98
Halfour, ohn, 111. 92
Balfour iobert, 111. 3, 7
Balfouiof Pilrig, James, 111. 91
Balfour Street 111. 163
Balgonie, LA, III. 250
BaIgmy, Lord. 11. 343
Ballantine, James, the glassstainer,
Ballnnt$e Atbot 11. II his
172,
Ballantyne, the printer, 11. 26, 30,
Ballahyne's Close, Gnssmarket,
Balloon ascents 111. 135
Balls, Old S c o t h , 1. 243
Balmuto, Lord, I. 175 173
Balmerino, Lord, 1. 5 5 z q , 2r3,
327, 11. 101, 103, 191. 111. 128,
131. 135. 186 186, 222,317 ; his
brother 111. z6a
Balmerinb House, 111. * 221
Baltic Street, Leith, 111. 239
Banff, Lord, I. 165
Hangholm Bower, 111.
Bankclose, I. ~oa, 116, F;617r, 186,
111.99
Bank of Leith, 111. I 52. * a36 239
Bank of Scotland, I. 176, 4, 11.
1 3 , ~ s . * y6, P+r 12 ; i u charter,
I. 93, 91; view from Princes
Street, Plate '7
Bank Street, I. 101, 107, 219, 292,
11. 82, 93 95 139 111. 78
Bankton, Lrd: 1.
Bannatyne, Sir Robert, I. IW
Bannatyne, Sir William Macleod,
II 348 111. 8
bridge a; Leith, iII. 161,
'51,273
122 111.74
11. *azg
11.35
111. '87
Bannatyne, Lad, I. 1~1.111. 127
Bannatyne Club, The, I. 260, 375,
Banner Place, 111. a8
Bannockburn (see Battles)
Banquets at the Croy I. 1 ~ )
Barber, A contumacious, 11. 331
Barben. The 11.267
Barber-surge&, The, 11. 266
Barcaple, Lord, 11. z q
Barclay, t m e s teacher of the
High Sc 001 il. 191
Barclay, Rev.' Dr. Thomas, 111.
337
239
Buchy, John, and the Bereans, 1.
Barclay Free Church, The, 111.
B a r e s The 11. 225
Barganie,L.o;d,III.4); hoaseof, ib.
Harker's panorama, 111. xr)
Barnard, Sk Andrew, I. 276 ; Lady
Anne, wife of, author of "Add
Barnes Nook, Leith Harbour. 111.
34 *32
Robin Gray," ib.
210
Barnton, Sir Robert, 111. 3r7
Barnton House, III.316,317,~3~0;
its suoCe5sive ownem 111. 317
ISaron-tFlilie, Office of,'II. IB~, 183
Baron Grant's Close, I. y x ; his
h o w , ib.
Baron Made's Close, I. 082
Baron Norton(wcNorton, Fktcher)
Baron of Spittalfield, Provost bir
Barony Street, 11. 181, 183
Barracks for the troops, I. 78
Barrier-gateway,Edinburgh Castle,
Patrick, 11. 263, 278
I. *A6 gy 'the actor I. 343
Bartons The, merchants of Leith,
am imming, Lkd, 111. 67
111.199, 204 =t m3, w =4
2'4
Rass the comedian, 11. 179
Baskdyne, Thomas, the typm
grapher, I. q, 111, 213, 2x5,
277 ; his Bible I. q. 11. 131
Bassandyne's Clbse I. 213, 359
Bathheld Leith IiI. 19
Bathgate: Portdhello, 111. 147
UathStreet Portobello 111. r ~ ! 4 8
Bathing-michines, d o f , in irh,
11. 1x9, 111. 166
Battle or Camus Stone, The, 111.
326
Battles :-
Antrum, 111. 170
Bannockburn, II.@, 92,197,111.
Burghmuir, I. 297.111. 33
Corrichie, 11. 58
Culloden, I. 69, 11. 23, 27. 34,
Drumclog 11. 231
Dunbar, i. 2% 55, 159, 11. 182,
32k 367,3837 111- 4% 1877 338
Dun lane 1.40
Durham i. 26 11.47
Falkirk,'I. 13&, 11. 298, 3 8 ~ 1 1 1 ,
222 a 6 111. 107, 310
Flodden, I. 36, 38, 142, 1% 151,
191, 382,II. 155, 178, 279, 111.
enlivat I. a46
Halidon kill 11. 216
Homildon Hill, 111. xIg
Invercarron 11. 13
Linliihgow bridge, I. 42, 111. mz
Melrose I. I
Nisbetduir, #I. 91
Otterbourne, 111. 338
Pentland, I. %I, 11. 131
Pinkie, I. 43, 310, 11. 57, 65, 66,
244 2781 111. 35, 107, '74 218,
339
Preston ans, I. 327, 11. 281
Sark, I. 31, Ill. 346
Sauchiebum, I. 35, 111. px)
Bavelaw Burn 111. '64
Baxter's close: I. 106,366
Baxter's House, I. 107
Baxter's Lands 111. 9(
Baxters, The, dr bakers, 11. 266
hyll's, or Bayle's, Tavern, John,
Beach and sands of North Leith,
Bcaca newspaper The 11. 242
Beacons, Ligbtmgbf th: 11.371374
Bearford's Parks 11. 1;5 rr6,idz
Beaton, Cardinai, I. 4?, 11. 64
III. 1% 1% ; armor!al bwingl
of 1. *z6r 263' his house I.
a?\, *At; kurdirof, I. 263, h I .
150 ; portrait of, 111. 45
Beaton, James, Archbishop of Gla4
gow, 11. 285, 287
hattie Dr., 1. 101, IZX, 156, 236,
Beattre's Close, 11. 235
Bedford, Paul, the actor, I. 351
Bedford Street, 111. 7p
Beechwood 111. 1% 105
Hegbk lviysterious murder 01
Beggars' aenison, Order of the,
" Beggar's Opcra," The, 11. 38
Lkggar's Row I. 340
Heggaq Rulks for the riddance 06
Beith'r Wynd, I. I Z I , I ~ Z , 123
Belgrave Crescent 111.67
Belhaven Lord Ii.139; hiswife,ib.
Llelhaven: Rodrt Viscount, 11.59;
monument to IL 6u
Belhawn. the 'Earl Marischal, I.
354
115. 1637 279, 354, 111. 243
G~ 29, 35, 51, 56, 317, 346
Ro&, PII. 351,352
IJJ. 125, 140
111.258, 159
11. ,a;,
wiilikm, I. 280
111. 123
11. 241
67, 163. 271
?haven, Lady Penelope, 111. p
Belhaven's Vision," 1. 178
Bell, Andrew engraver originator
of the 'I dncyclopdia Hritan.
nica," I. 223, 11. IZI
Bell, Dr. Benjamin. 111. 140
Bell. Dr. John, anatomist, 11.303
Bell, Prof. George Joseph, I. 15%
Bell, Henry Glassford, 11. rm
Bell and Bradfute, Messrs., 11. 139
Bell, the antiquary, 111.2, 3
Bell Close, 1. 91, 11. 23
Bell-house The I. 119
Bell Rock'lightLoux, 111. 224
Bell, The ten o'clock, I. I*
Bell's Brewery, 1. 382
11. 157, 218
Bell's Mills, I, 324, 11. 115,111.63;
the bridge. 111. 63. *64
Bell's Mills Loan, 11. 214
Bell's Wynd I. 149 240 i 5
Bellamy, th:actor, i. 34; ; ?us wife,
Bellenden Lord 11. IT
Hellenden: Lord' Justice-Clerk, 11.
11. 23, 24, 25
71 111. 7
Bellinden, Sir Lewis, 11. 3, 181
Hellenden, Sir William, 11. 181
Bellevue 11. 191, a6g
Bellevud Crescevt, 11. 191, III.
RR
Biievue Gardens 11. 191
Bellevue H O ~ Z f. 217. III. 12)
Bellevue Street'III. 88
Bells and clock), St. Giles's Cathedral,
I. 146
Bcnf-syylvrr, or rushes, 11. zyo
Bequests to Edinburgh University,
111. 26
BernardStrect, Leith, III.171,208.
234. 235, 936 * ~ 3 7 ~ 238, 23% 144
Bernards NooL Leith 111.238,17r
Berri, Duc de h Hol;rood 11. 76
Bertraham, Piovort, I. - 7 , ' ~ . 278
Bess Wynd, 1, 48
Beth's Wynd, 1, 175
kkthune James Archbiihop of
Ghgdw, 1. 26;
Bible Society, Room where it was
inaugurated 11. 161
Bider, or st&t disturbances. 11.
Binnie Craigi 1. 86-
Binnie's C I ~ , St. Gies's street,
Binning, Su William I. 378
Binny, Sir William, Aovost, I. p,
Leith, 111. 226
11 "Rw --. -"-
Birrel, the historian, I. 246,383,II.
Bishdp's Land I. 208 11. 38
Hisset Wi11iA I I I . ; ~
Black,' Adam, iond Provost, I. a85>
Black, hr., 1.136,271, 274,II. 120,
168, '54s 2558 298, 30% 334 383 ;
his house, 11. *340
Black John of Ormiston 1 . 7
Black, John, the Do&- friar,
Black Acts, The 11. I I
Blackadder Sir batri& 1. 36
Blackadder: Rev. John,' the Cow.
nanter, 11. 19, 111. 18g
!lackadder Castle 1.40
Black Bull" inn' 11.177
Black dinner," The 1. 30
Bkckford, Hills of, IiI. I, 36,38,41,
Blackfrars Church 111. 223
Blackfriars Garden& 1. IIO
Blackfriars Kirkyard 11.379
Blackfriam Monasteh, I. 266, 11.
284, 285, 286, 288, 302, 327; destruction
of the 11. 286
Blackfriars Stree: I. 264
Blackfriars Wynd, I. 3, 38, 39, 75,
19% -8 4 119, 4 2537 255
*257, "258, 2;g1261,262,263 264:
3741 11: 24% 1.r9, 287,. 2931 lil. 4,
la ; aristocratic farmlies formerly
resident therein, I. 258, 11. 118;
Catholic chapels in 1. 261
Black Friary 1.258 '11. 234
Blackie, Pro;, 11. z;8, 111. p '
Black Knight of Liddesdale. 111.
7 5 7% 034, 364, 374. 111. '34,
182 275
2942 ',339,*346 1I.128,194,284
11. 186
;lack craig, lhe,'II. 103
499 32.6
354, 355
Blacklock. Dr. Thomas. the blind
poet, I.'106 11. 330, 356, 346
Blacklock's dose I1 242
Black Murdoch oi Khtail, 11.
Black rappee. I n d u c t i o n of, E.
~
-. .
'91 Black Rocks, Leith Harbour, 111.
'7 I m, 01
Blaci & d o f Scotland, 1. a3
" Black Saturday," The, 111. 133
BlackTom and theghost 111. 34
Black Turnpike The I. 136, m+,
bitter reception of Queen Mary
at, I. 204
206, 11. 71. ;Is, ;&, 111. 62; ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. pilgrimage to on May Day, I. 379 geology of the hill 11. 303, 304 origin of the name: ...

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388 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
2307 33O7 3447.3501 359s
at er, 11. 255; hls fat er
house, 11. 340, *PI; his mdkk
11. 142, 340; his various resi
dences, 11. 163 -164, 165 111.
359; @~study,'II. 163; las; resi
dence in bdtnburgh, 11.210 ; hi!
birthplace, 11.251~255 ; his par
trait, 11. 254; his arms, 11. *a54
his school Me, 11. 293, 294, 326
111. 8 ; his childhood 11. 30
burial-place ofhisfamil;, 11. 383
hls first love ib.; his son, 11,
294 ; his dauihter 11.165
Scott, Anne (sir &alter Scott'!
daughter), 11. 165
Scott of Balcomie, General, 11.191,
201, 269, 111. 42, 307; anecdote
of, 11. 191 ; his wife, 111. 124
Scott of Bavelaw 111. 331
Scott of Branxhoim, Sir Water, I.
194
ScottofBuccleuch Sir Waiter,]. zz:
Smtt of Cauldhou& 11. 2.9
Scott of Harden, Slr Wllliam, I.
Scott'of Kirkstyle I. 210
Scott ofMalleny;i.hefamiIyof, 111.
a02 111. 136
. .
334,335
Scott of Scotstanit, Sir John, I.
167, zm, 11. 3, 223, Ill. 135,199,
ScottbfThirlstane SirFrancis,I.z71
Scott ofThirlstan;, Patrick, 11. a y
Swtt. Lieut.-Col. (Sir Walter'sson),
2903 317. 343, 364
11. 294
Scott, David, the painter, 11. 92,
111. 68, 78, 223
Scott ohn Miracle of, 11. 55, 56
Scottl dicLe1, ?1.
Scott: William. Greek professor.
111; 15 .
16~
k t t centenary, The first, 11. 150,
scb;'is Close, 11.271
kott's monument, I. *r 11. 126,
127, *12g ; statnetteson'it II. 1z1
Scottlsh Academv of Paint& 11. -.
90s 9'
Scottish Antiquar$n Society, 1.
Scottlsh Baptist meeting-house,
Scottrsh Barrack office 11.42
Scottish Chamber ofA&ulture, I.
Scottish currency, Value of the, in
258, 270
+le Square, 11.274
291
1707, 1.270
Scottish Episcopal chapels, I. 278
Scottish Episcopalians, The, I. 239,
Scottish Equitable Asurance Sc-
Scottish Hentable Security Com-
111. 231
ciety, 11. 170
PanY 11. I53
Scottish Horse Guards The I. 5'
Scottish judge+ Emhent, i. 167,
Scottish Liberal Club 11. 125
Scottish matrons, S& spirit of,
169-173
Sck?sh Miniitem' Widows' Fund,
ScottLhmonarchs, Portraits of the,
11. 378
11. 73, 74,177
Scottish National Fire and Life
Scottish Naval anh Militarv
Assurance Company 11.168
Academy, 11. 138
Scottish MV~, Formation of a, 111.
Sc%h Provident Institution, 11.
168
Scottish Records State of I. 367
11. 119 ; the& removal' to thi
Register House, I. 368
Scottish ReformationSocietp I. 294
Scottish Rights Association i1. 150
Scottish Roscius, The, I. ;47 ; his
Scottiih School of Design 11. 86
ScottishTemplars, Trialsifthe, 11.
ScotkhTreacury Room, The, 1.178
Scottish Union and National Inwife
ib.
46 50, 51, 111. 130
surance Company, 11. 170, 171 * 172
Scottish Universities Act, 111.24
Scottish Vulcanite Company, I1
Scotttsk Widows' Fund, 11. 1%
Scou&l, John, the painter, I. 22:
Sculptured stone, Newhaven, I1
Sea Penctbles The 111. 303
Seafield Cha&ello: I. 163
Seafield' Earl of 11: 33 111. 191
Seafield' Leith ill. 14; 263 266
Seafie1d'Hous;and B a d , Hi. 26c
Seafield Toll 111. 286
Sea-fight in k i t h harbour. A. 111
219, 220
168 172
223, 11. 90
299 *3?
duel on the site of rb.
, . r83,-184
the, 11. 307-310
Seaforth Highlanders, Revolt (
Seaforth, Kenneth Mackenzie. Ea
of 11. 307, 3 9
Seaiorth, Franci Lord, 111. IOI
Seal of Edinburgh, The Commox
his son, i6.
1. *a
Se&an'sHospital, Leith, 111.22:
Seamen, Wages of the Leith. 111
278
Leith 111. 278
Seamen's Friendly Society, Th
Seaton,'Sir Alexander, I. 167
Seceders, 'lhe, 1. 323,325, 333
Secession and Relief Church=
Union of the 111. 88
Secret subtenahean pLssages,Edii
burgh Castle, I. 82
Secretary's Register The I. 370
Sedan chairs, Use o( in Edinburgl
11. 120, 343 ; number of in 1775
11. 282 ; fracas resulting from th
useof, 111. 13
Sederunt, ~ c t s oP I. IW 11.315
Seqave, Sir Johdde, Ilk 351
Selkirk. Earl of, I. 274, 373 11.144
166,205,III. 122; mansion ofthc
1. *273, 274, '276, 11. 246, 249
Selkirk Countess of, 11. 335
Sellars"Ciose, I. 55
Semple, Lords, I. 91,92,11.3oo,35
Semple's Close I. 91
Senate Hall, Edinburgh University
111. 23, 24, 27
Session, Court of, I. 166, 167, 337
11. 174; probable extinction a
the, I. 174
Seton, Lord, 11. 35, 52 ; Lady, 111
52, 53.
Seton, Sir Alexander, III.49,318
Seton family, The, 111. 53, 54, 24
>ton House I1 35
Seven sist2;s oi Borthwick."The
I. 36
%mow Lord Webb 11.347
SbakesGe Club Tie, 111.126
Shakespeare in dinburgh, 11.39
Shakespeare Square, I. 218, 340
343, 336, 47, 3531 11. 176, 336
337 ;new 20, the back of, 1. *34!
Shandwick Place, 11. z q , 210
Shank I. 254
Sharp:, James, Archbishop of St
Andrews, 1. 215 259; his son':
residence, 111. 385
Sharpe of Hoddam Charles Kirk
patrick, 11.191, I&, 193, 243,342
111.99, IZO, 131, 230 ; saleofhir
curiosities, 11. 193
Sharpe of Hoddam, Mrs., 11. 26
Shearsmith, The first, 11. 26
Sheephead Wynd, Leith, 113 227
Shellycoat, The demon, Ill. 282
Shepherds' Ha' 111. 144
Sheridan, the a&, I.
Sheriff Brae, or Shirra &ge, Leith,
111. 247 248 250 ~51,*253,zBs
Sheriff Coirt, i. 166
Sheriff Court Buildings, I. 294, 29:
Sheriff Hall, 111. 16 , 963
ship Hotel,Theold,fxtth, III.rg5,
245 246. the new 111. 245 246
;hipduildiAg at LeAh, Newkven,
&c. 111.281
jhip&ng, Numberof, in Leith, 111.
188 'go 276 277; lawsrespening'the
i11. ;75
jhipmast'ers' Widows' Fund, The,
111. 278
jhoemakers' C!ose, 11. 10, 19
Shoemakers' Lands 11. g 10
Shore, The, Leith,' 111. '177, 184
'94, 1959 207, 209, 21% 227. 22g
Short'Sanh The 111. 282
Short's O&rvat&y, I. 87, 91, I1
'05
ShrubHill 111. 155 163
Sibbald- Si Rohert i 123 167 201
304,&, 363,II. ;4;, I I i . r6;,33:
Sibbald, James, booksellexand anu
quary, I. 181 111. 154
Siddons Mrs.: 1. 108, 343, 344
amusing anecdote of, 111. 24a
Siddons, Henry, 1. 348, 11.125~17:
Siddons, Mrs. Henry, I. 348, 349
350,351,111. 158,159 ; her grand
father, I. 351
Sidey Dr. J. A. 11. 305,347
Signe;, Keeper df the I. 367, $8
librarian of the (sm Ikng, David
Silvermills, The, 11. 117, 182, 111
Sd~~nrulls House, 111.
Sirnon Master of Lovat, 9.3z57, 251
Simon'square, 11.337
Simond, theFrenchtraveller, 11.18:
Simony, Practice of 111. 116
Simple, Robert, the'player, 11. 9
Simpson, Professor Sir Jame
'156, &,170,315,362, III.79,xa
Simpson the architect, 111. 339
Sinclair 'EVI w i l l i I. 661 ; hi
prince& I.&?,III.&7; hisstyb
oflivini ib.
Sinclair(o; St. clair) family, E ~ I !
history of the, 11. 247,111. 34
Sinclairof Dunbeath, Sir John, If1
63 ; Dame, 111. 62, 63
Siclair, Si John, the agriculturist
11. 17, 120, 126, 144, 172; hi
daughter Catherine 11. 126 165
Sinclau, Sir William, k d the kigt
School affray of 1595, I. no
111 297.
Siucl;ir of Roslin, Sir William, 111
354
Sinclair, Henry first Lord, 11. 251
Sinclair ot Ulbster George 11.30:
Sinclair of Murkle: Lady, iI. 188
Sinclair, John, Bishop of Brechin
Sinclair, Lady Janet, 11. 17~ IM
Sinclair ofstevenaon, Lady, 11. 33:
Sinclair, Catherine, 11. 126, 165
Kinclair, Margaret, 11. 165
Sinclair, the actor, I. 350
Sinclair Fountain, The, 11. 126
Kiclair's, Professor, " Satan's In.
viribleWorld Discovered."I.~z8.
236 238 245,246, 247, PhtC 31
345 ; $er popularity, 1. 345, 346
8- 84.
Young 11. 130. 153, 154, 155
I. 121
Street 11. *r64
Six FeeiClub The 111. 125. 326
jkene, M a j o r h d r a l Robert, 11.
310
jkene of Rubislaw Sir W. Scott's
friend 11.98 163'III.86,145,3jq
jkenes :f CurAehiil, The, 111.334,
Sir Jam- and Sir John, 11.302,
4kinners The 11. 264,111. z
jkinner'i Cl&, I. 139, 266, 167,
3aney's Hotel, I. 222
ilnteford, I. 323, 111. 326
jlaughterhousea, The city 11. 218
ilezer, Captain, author ofl" Theatrum
Scotire," 11. ,367, 111. 350
heaton's Clore Leith 111. 226
hellie, Williad, thepkter, I. 235,
236,383.11. 87, 1p0 111.31
imellie, the naturalist: 11. 311
imith, Provost Sir John, I. 102, no,
11 "
I.II.334, 335
11.247
i%h; Lord Chief Baron, Episcopal
chapel founded by I. 262 11.247
imith, Adam, I. 114 156, i36, 273,
11. 17, 21, 161, 194, 111. 240;
residence of, 11. 21 ; graye of,
with, Alexander, the poet, 111.
102, 30!
Nmith George, I. 113 *117; rob- be4 in concern whh Deacon
Hrodie, I. 113-115
mith, Sydney, 11. 203
11. 29
Smith, Dr. John, the physician, 11,
SZA the banker, Deathof, 11.18,
Smollett, Tobu., I.@, 155,239,lI.
26 127, 111. 262. his sister 11.
26'; his wife, ib. f his h o d , 11.
-e '"
Smythe Sir Jeremiahand theDutch
Snuff-taking in church, an offence,
fleet, i. 58,111. re8
11. 133
Society Close, I. 213, -14
SocietyofEdiburghGolfers III.31
Society for the PropagaAon of
Chrlstian Knowledge, I. 214, 359
Society Port, The, II.231,234,268,
2% 274, 346
Soldiersof EdinburghCastle, Tomb
in memoryof 11. 30
Soldiers first iuartered in Leith,
III. '931 I94
Solicitors before the Supremecourt,
Library of I. 123
Solway, ad of 11.37
Solway, Rout &, 11. 64,65
Sothern the actor, 1. 351
Somers"tavern I. 120
Somerset Dulce of I, 43
Somervilie, Lards,'I. 150, 155,183.
316,II. 161 111. 346
Somervjlle fai!nily, The, 111. 346
Somerville Bartholomew, I. 97, 314
Somerville: Major, and Capt. Crawford
Encounter between I. 95
Somerhle mansion The i. 314
Sounding-boards I i 32d
South back of ;he Longate, 11.
238, 245
South Blacket Place 111. 55, 56
South Bridge, I. 24;. 373-382, 11.
139,238 251 274 282 2 8, 334,
359, I d . I&; %e ;or8 commenced,
I. 374; valueof thesite,
ib.
South Bridge Street I 374 111.23
South Castle Street '11: 82 '165
South Clerk Street,'III. 5;
SouthCollegeStreet 1I.330,111.23
South Foulis' Close,'I. 276
South Frederick Street 11. 92
South Gray's C l m 1. ;673 274
South Leith, 111. r&, 165, 166,188,
South Leith, b+dge of, 11. 47
South Leith bunal-ground, 111.171
South Leith Freechurch, 111.1~8,
South Leith Poor-house 111.249
South Lach,The, 1. 8, h . 2 7
South Hanover Street, 11. 162, 192
South Niddry Street, 11. 251
South St.Andrew Street II.99,159
South St. David Street.'II. oz. 160
193, 210, 21
266
, ~. -162
Southern Market The, 11. 346
Southfield 111. I&
Spalding Pund. The, 11. 92
Spalding Peter 11. 92
Spaldina: the dtorian. 11. 10. 111. . _. . .
211
Spence, Thomas, Bishop of Aber-
Spence Willim I. 59 6a
Spendthrift Clud, I.he,'III. r z ~
Spjttal, Sir James, 11. 215
Spittal Street, 11. 215, 223
Spattiswc.de, Archbishop, I. 287,
298, 11. 39, 111. 2x9 ; hls house,
I. 208
Spottigwoode I. 166
Sputtkwood 'John, Superintendent
of Lothid I. 46 208
Spottkwood Road,'I11. 46
Springfield, 111. 356, 360
Springfield Street, 111. 163
Spur, The, Edinburgh Castle, 1.36,
Spylaw 111. 34
Spynie'Lord I. mg IIZ. 113
St. Andrew the Apoitle I. 261
St. Asdrew'saltar. Hol;rwd. 11. z8
deen, I. 300, 301
49, 5x1 52, 54, 86, 218
St. Andrew's Chapel, 'Carrubbeis
St. Andrew's Church. Geom
Close, I. 239.11. 242
Street, 11. 120, 144, *145, 14,
17' ; interior of, 11. 148
9t. Andrew's Hall, 1. 302
St. Andrew's Lane, 11.160
3t. Andrew's Port, I. 366
3. Andrew's Square, I. 2r7, 222,
267, 279, 11. 110, 118, 136, 161, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. 2307 33O7 3447.3501 359s at er, 11. 255; hls fat er house, 11. 340, *PI; his ...

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