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298 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Mary?s Wynd.
the maintenance of the beads-+eople of that hospital ;
and every person who refused to collect thus, was
fined forty pence Scots, for the use of the poor.
At this period the chaplain?s salary was only six
shillings and eightpence per annum. Spottiswoode
tells us that in the chartularies of St. Giles,
?the nuns of St. Mary?s Wynd, in the city of
Edinburgh, are recorded,? and in the statutes of
the burgh, enacted during a terrible plague in
15~0, a reference to the chapel is made in the case
of Marion Clerk, who was convicted by an assize
of concealing her infection, and attending, with
many others, mass in ?? the chapell of Sanct Mary
Wynd, on Sonday,? and thereby risking the safety
of all. For this crime the poor woman was ordained
to suffer death by drowning at the Quarry
Holes, near the east end of the Calton Hill.
In 1562 great excitement was occasioned in the
city by an act of violence perpetrated by the
notorious Earl of Bothwell, who, with the aid of the
Marquis d?Elbeuf, Lord John of Coldinghame, and
other wild spirits, broke up the doors of Cuthbert
Ramsay?s house in St. Mary?s Wynd one night,
while searching, sword in hand, for his daughterin-
law, Alison Craig, a celebrated courtesan, who,
though living under the protection of ?? the godly
Er1 of Arrane,? as Knox records in very coarse
language, yet contrived to be on very good terms
with other nobles who were his avowed enemies.
A strong remonstrance was presented to the Queen
on this subject, beseeching her to punish the
perpetrators ; but as that was no easy matter, the
brawl was hushed up, and, thus emboldened, Both.
well and other gallants proceeded to play wildei
pranks in the streets during the night, till Gavin
Hamilton, Abbot of Kilwinning, who had joined
the Reformation party, resolved to curb thell
violence by the strodg hand. According to the his
tories of Knox and Keith, he armed all his followers.
sallied forth to oppose the revellers, and a seriour
conflict ensued in the street, between the Crosr
and Tron. Crossbow bolts and hackbut shots fie\\
far and near, while the alarm-bells summoned thc
burghers to ?the redding of the fray,? and riva
leaders came sallying forth as hate or humour lec
them, to join in the riot ; till the Earls of Murraj
and Huntley, who were then residing at Holyrood
by order of the Queen, marched up the Canongatt
with all the armed men they could muster, anc
crushed the tumult. Bothwell afterwards, by thc
mediation of Knox, effected a reconciliation witlthe
Earl of Arran, the Abbot of Kilwinning, anc
others who were his enemies.
In the subsequent conflicts of 1572, the house?
in Leith Wynd and St. Mary?s Wynd were unroofed
.
nd all the doors and windows of those on the west
ide of the latter were built up, among other prejarations
made by Sir William Kirkaldy to defend
he town against the king?s men. At a still later
Late in the same year all the houses at the head
if each of those wynds were ?tane doun,? and
10 doubt on this occasion the chapel of St. Mary
vould be ruined and dismantled with the rest.
Again in 1650, when preparations were made to
lefend the city against Cromwell, Nicoll records
n his quaint diary, that the magistrates demolished
ill the houses ?? in St. Marie Wynd, that the enymie
ould haif no schelter thair,? and that the cannon
nounted on the Netherbow might?have free pas-
?age for their shot.
At the foot of the wynd was situated the Cow-
;ate Port, a city gate constructed as a portion of
he second wall in 1513. At a subsequent date
tnother was erected across the wynd, at its junction
Kith the Pleasance; it figures in Rothiemay?s map as
he Portaplatea Sancte Marie, a large arched buildng
with gables at each end, and in Gordon?s day
t was seldom without the head, hands, or quarters
if some unfortunate, such as Garnock and other
Zovenanters, displayed on its spike?. On the approach
of the Highlanders in 1715, it was demolished,
the citizens believing themselves unable
to defend it; but a portion of its wall, with one
rusty spike thereon, remained until 1837,when it was
removed to make way for a new Heriot?s school.
The whole alley was long, and until quite recently
a species of great Rag Fair, where all manner of
cast-off garments were exposed for sale, the walls
literally appearing to be clothed with them from
end to end.
In a house which had its entrance from the east
side of the wynd, but the windows of which opened
to the Canongate, there long resided two maiden
ladies of the now extinct house of Traquair-the
Ladies Barbara and Margaret Stuart-twin sisters,
the children of Charles fourth Earl of Traquair
(who died in 1741), and his Countess, Mary Maxwell,
of the noble house of Nithsdale. The last of
these two, Lady Barbara, died on the 15th of
December, 1794, and they were among some of
the last of note who lingered in the Old Town.
? They drew out their innocent lives in this place,?
says Robert Chambers, ?where latterly one of
their favourite amusements was to make dolls, and
little beds for them to lie on-a practice not quite
uncommon in days long gone by, being to some
degree followed by Queen Mary.?
In the tenement opposite the site of SL Mary?s
chapel, on the east side of the wynd, and forming
the portion of it that led into Boyd?s Close, there ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Mary?s Wynd. the maintenance of the beads-+eople of that hospital ; and every ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 41
from the other circumstances, produced a great sensation. The people came out
in crowds to hear ; and while, doubtless much good was effected, not a little
irritation was awakened in other quarters. In the following summer the Rev.
Rowland Hill, the uncle of Lord Hill, visited Scotland with the view of preaching.
In his published journal he gives a graphic description of his first interview
with Mr. James Haldane. He had arrived at Langholm, where he met Mr. Haldane,
accompanied by Mr. Aikman, who were on an itinerating tour through the south
of Scotland. “ These gentlemen,” says Mr. Hill, “ were then unknown to me.
I was told, but in very candid language, their errand and design ; that it was a
marvellous circumstance, quite a phenomenon, that an East India Captain-a
gentleman of good family and coimections-should turn out an itinerant preacher ;
that he should travel from town to town, and all against his own interest and
character. I immediately sought out
the itinerants. When I inquired for them of the landlady of the inn, she told
me she supposed I meant the two pviests who were at her house; but she
could not satisfy me what religion they were of. The two priests, however, and
myself soon met ; and, to our mutual satisfaction, passed the evening together.”
The following extract from Mr. Hill’s dedication of part of his work to Mr.
Haldane is so characteristic that we insert it :-
“You was educated for a ‘maritime life ; and, from a situation creditable and Incrative,
commenced apeddlingpreacher, crying your wares from town to town at a low rate, indeed ‘without
money and without price,’ and scattering religious tracts as you travel from place to place ;
while it was my lot to be bred to the trade, and to serve a regular apprenticeship for the purpose ;
but, being spoilt in the manufacturing, I never received but forty shillings (a story too trivial to
relate) by my occupation as a churchman. Affluence is a snare ; a decent independent competency
is a blessing-a blessing, if thereby we can presch Jesus freely, and prove to the poor of the flock
that we can sacrifice our own profit if we can be profitable to them.”
Hitherto neither of the Messrs. Haldane had left the Church of Scotland ;
but the visits of Mr. Simeon and hlr. Rowland Hill had so much increased the
excitement which existed on the part of the General Assembly that a “ Pastoral
Admonition” was issued warning the people against the new preachers, and particularly
prohibiting Episcopal ministers from England, like Mr. Simeon or Afr.
Hill, to occupy the pulpits of the Scottish Church. This very soon compelled
the Messrs. H. and their friends to secede from the church. Mr. R. Haldane, at
an expense of upwards of 530,000, purchased or erected large chapels in Eclinburgh,
Glasgow, Dundee, Dumfries, Perth, and many other places. Mr. James
Haldane became the minister of the newly-erected chapel in Leith Walk, called
the Tabernacle j so named after Mr. Whitefield’s places of worship. To keep
up the interest of the people, eminent ministers from England were invited to
preach in the Tabernacle ; and, although it seated more people than any other
church in Edinburgh, it was for many years crowded to excess.
In the year 1808, however, certain changes being made in the mode of
conducting the divine service in the morning, which were very ill calculated to
attract popularity, the attendance fell off; and, the Tabernacle being too large
for the regular congregation, the lower part was converted to other purposes
This information was enough for me.
VOL. 11. G ... SKETCHES. 41 from the other circumstances, produced a great sensation. The people came out in crowds ...

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 F e Tolbooth. 124
as the- martlet did in Macbeth?s castle. Of
later years .these booths have degenerated into
mere toy-shops, where the little loiterers chiefly
interested in such wares are tempted to linger, enchanted
by the rich display of hobby-horses, babies,
and Dutch toys, arranged in artful and gay confusion,
yet half scared by the cross looks of the
withered pantaloon by whom these wares are
superintended. But in the times we write of the
hosiers, glovers, hatters, mercers, milliners, and all
of a hearse, it was calculated to impress all beholders
wit!i a sense of what was meant in Scottish law
Situated in the very heart of the ancient city, it
stood at the north-west corner of the parish church
of St. Giles, and so close to it as to leave only a
narrow footway between the projecting buttresses,
while its tall and gloomy mass extended so far
into the High Street, as to leave the thoroughfare
at that part only 14 feet in breadth. ?Reuben
Butler,? says Scott, writing ere its demolition had
been decreed, ?stood now before the Gothic en-
, by the spudor carccris.?
?
I a collegiate church, and the chapter-house thereof
being of sufficient dimensions, would naturally
lead to the meeting-place of parliaments, though
many were held in Edinburgh long before the
time of James III., especially in the old hall of the
Castle, now degraded into a military hospital.
The first Parliament of James 11. was held in
the latter in 1437 ; in 1438 the second Parliament
was held at Stirling, but in the November of the
same year another in pretonk burgi de Edinburgh,
tnnce of the ancient prison,
which, as is well known to
all men, rears its front in
the very middle of the High
Street, forming, as it were,
the termination to a huge
pile of buildings called the
Luckenbooths, which, for
some inconceivable reason,
our ancestors had jammed
. into the midst of the principzl
stteet of the town,
leaving for passage a narrow
street on the north and on
the south, into which the
. prison opens, a narrow,
cxooked lane, winding betwixt
the high and sombre
walls of the Tolbooth and
the adjacent houses on one
side, and the buttresses and
projections of the old church
upon the other. To give
some gaiety to this sombre
passage (well known by the
name of the Krames), a
number of little booths or
shops, after fhe fashion of
who dealt in the miscellaneous wares now termed
haberdashers? goods, were to be found in this narrow
alley.?
By the year 156r the Tolbooth, or Preforium
burgi de Edinburgi, as it is named in the early Acts
of the Scottish Parliament, had become ruinous,
and on the 6th of February Queen Mary wrote a
letter to the magistrates, charging the Provost to
take it down at once, and meanwhile to provide
accommodation elsewhere for the Lords of Session.
Since the storm of the Reformation the Scottish
revenues had been greatly impaired ; money
and materials were alike
JOHN DOWIE. (After h-uy.)
cobblers? stalls, are plastered, as it were, against
the Gothic projections and abutments, so that it
seemed as if the traders had occupied with
nests-bearing about the same proportion to the
building-every buttress and coign of vantage,
scarce ; hence the magistrates
were anxious, if possible,
to preserve the old
building ; accordingly a new
onewas erected, entirelyapart
froin it, adjoining the southwest
corner of St. Giles?s
church, and the eastern portion
of t!ie old Tolbooth
bore incontestable evidence
of being the work of an age
long anterior to the date of
Queen Mary?s letter, and the
line of demarcation between
the east and west ends of the
edifice is still apparent in all
views of it. The more
ancient portion, which had
on its first floor a large and
deeply-embayed square window,
having rich Gothic
niches on each side, is supposed
to have been at one
time the house of the Pravost
of St. Giles?s church, or some
such appendage to the latter,
while the prebends and
other members of the colleges were accommodated
in edifices on the south side of the church, removed
in 1632 to make way for the present Parliament
House. Thus it is supposed to have been built
about 1466, when James 111. erected St. Giles?s into ... F e Tolbooth. 124 as the- martlet did in Macbeth?s castle. Of later years .these booths have degenerated ...

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YAMES l? TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MAR Y. 63
The reforming party now proceeded to those acts of violence, which led to the destmction
of nearly all the finest ecclesiastical buildings throughout Scotland. The Queen
Regent, on learning of their proceedings at Perth and elsewhere, wrote to the Provost and
Magistrates of Edinburgh, requiring them to defend the town, and not suffer the Earl of
Argyle and the Congregation to enter-offering the aid of her French troops for their
defence. But this the Magistrates declined, declaring that the entire populace were
prepared to favour that party, and could not be restrained by them. Upon receiving this
reply, the Regent thereupon withdrew with her French guard from Holyrood Abbey, and
retreated towards Dunbar.
The Magistrates, though unable to resist this popular movement, exerted themselves to
the utmost to restrain its violence. They sent a deputation to the leaders of the reforming
party, entreating them to spare both their churches and religious houses,-the former to be
continued in use as places of Protestant worship, and the latter as seminaries of learning.
They also placed a guard of sixty men for the protection of St Giles’s Church, and, as a
further security, removed the carved stalls of the choir-within the safer shelter of the
Tolbooth j’ and such was the zeal they displayed, that the Regent afterwards wrote them
a letter of thanks for their services. Yet their efforts were only attended with very partial
mccess. Upon the first rumour of the approach of the Earl of Argyle, the populace
attacked both the monasteries of the Black and Grey Friars, destroying everything they
contained, and leaving nothing but the bare walls standing2
When the Earl of Argyle entered the town with his followers, they immediately proceeded
to the work of purification, as it was styled. Trinity College Church, and the
prebendal buildings attached to it, were assailed, and some parts of them utterly destroyed ;
and both St Giles’s Church, and St Mary’s, or the Kirk of Field, were visited, their altars
thrown down, and the images destroyed and burnt. They visited Holyrood Abbey, overthrowing
the altars, and otherwise defacing the church, and removed also from thence
the coining irons of the Nint, compelling the treasurer to deliver up to them a considerable
sum of money in his hands.’
The Regent finding herself unable to resist this formidable party by force, entered into
negotiations with them, for the purpose of gaining time, while they, on the other hand,
corresponded with Queen Elizabeth and besought lier aid ; but the Engll’sh Queen was too
politic to commit herself by openly countenancing a fraction so recently sprung up, and
contented herself with evasive answers to their request, a d many of their adherents
meanwhile falling away, they were compelled to retreat as hastily from the town as they
had entered, on the sudden return of the Regent from Dunbar.
Commissioners from both parties met, and a mutual accommodation was agreed on
between them, and signed by the Earl of Arran and Monsieur d’oysel, on the 25th of
July, at Leith Links, and immediately thereafter the Queen Regent returned and took up
her residence in Holyrood Palace.
One of the chief clauses in this agreement required the dismissal of the French troops j
and with a special view to the enforcement of this, an interview took place on the following
day between the Earls of Arran and Hantly, and some of the leaders of the Congregation,
.
Maitland, p. 16. ’ Calderwood, vol. i. p. 475, ’ Bishop Lealie, p. 275. ... l? TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MAR Y. 63 The reforming party now proceeded to those acts of violence, which led ...

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392 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
The change8 effected .on the north transept, though equally radical with any we have
described on other parts of the church, were accompanied with some beneficial effects, calculated
to atone in a slight degree for the destruction of its ancient features. This transept
remained in ita original state, extending no further than the outer wall of the north aisle
of the choir. Beyond this, and within the line of the centre aisle of the transept, was the
belfry turret, with its curious and picturesque stone roof, which is accurately represented
in the view from the north-west. This turret was entirely removed and built anew, with
a crocketed spire in lieu of the more unique though rude form of the old roof, in a
position to the west of the transept, so as so admit of the latter being extended aa far north
as the outer wall of the old building. This was accomplished by the demolition of an aisle
which had been added to the old transept, apparently about the end of the fifteenth century,
and which, though equally richly finished with groined roof and sculptured bosses
and corbels, wa.s used till very shortly before its demolition as the offices of the town-clerk.
The appropriation, indeed, of the centre of the ancient Collegiate Church, was perhaps an
act of as disgraceful and systematic desecration as ever was perpetrated by an irreverent
age. The space within the great pillars of the centre tower was walled off and converted
into a stronghold for the incarceration of petty offenders, and the whole police establishment
found accommodation within the north transept and the adjoining chapels. The
reverent spirit of earlier times, which led to the adornment of every lintel and fapade with
its appropriate legend or Scripture text, had long disappeared ere this act of sacrilege was
so deliberately accomplished, otherwise a peculiarly suitable motto might have been found
for St Giles’s north doorway in the text : ‘( My house shall 6e called the louse of prayer,
but ye lave made it a den of thieves ! ”
In the subdivision of the ancient church for Protestant worship, the south aisle of
the nave, with three of the five chapels built in 1389, were converted into what was called
the Tolbooth Eirk. Frequent allusions, however, by early writers, in addition to the
positive evidence occasionally furnished by the records of the courts, tend to show that
both before the erection of the new Tolbooth, and after it was found inadequate for the
purposes of a legislative hall and court house, the entire nave of St Giles’s Church was
used for the sittings of both assemblies, and is frequently to be understood as the place
referred to under the name of the Tolbooth. In the trial, for example, of ‘‘ Mr Adame
Colquhoune, convicted of art and part of the treasonable slaughter and murder of umqIe
Robert Rankin,” the sederunt of the court is dated March 16, 1561-2, “ In Insula, vocat.
Halie-blude Iill, loco pretorii de Edr.,” and nearly a century later, Nicoll, the old diarist,
in the midst of some very grave reflections on the instadilitie of man, and the misereis
of kirk and stait in his time, describes the frequent changes made on “the Eirk callit
the Tolbuith Kirk, quhilk we8 so callit becaus it we8 laitlie the pairt and place quhair the
criminal1 court did sitt, and quhair the gallous and the mayden did ly of old ; lykewyse,
this K&k alterit and chayngit, and of this one Kirk thai did mak two.’’4 During the
interval between the downfall of Episcopacy in 1639, and its restoration in 1661, a constant
succession of changes seem to have been made on the internal subdivision of St Giles’s
Church, though without in any way permanently affecting the original features of the
building.
Pitcairn’s Crim. Trials, Supplement, p. 419. ’ Nicoll’s Diary, p. 170. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The change8 effected .on the north transept, though equally radical with any we ...

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192 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CCXXXVIII.
REV. DAVID BLACK,
MINISTER OF LADY YESTER'S CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
THIS popular preacher was born at Perth, 23d May 1762. Both his father
and grandfather ' were distinguished clergymen of that town, and his mother
was a daughter of the Rev. Neil M'Vicar, of the West Kirk, Edinburgh, who,
when the Pretender took possession of the city in 1745, displayed uncommon
zeal in the discharge of his duty-being the only clergyman who had courage
enough to enter the pulpit on the Sabbath following. After praying for King
George in the usual manner, Mr. M'Vicar thus adverted to the claims of the
Prince :_'' As for this young man who is come amongst us, seeking an eaithly
s'own-grant him, 0 Lord, a crown of glory 1''
In his early years Mr. Black was remarkable for piety, having his mind constantly
fixed on the ministry as a profession. At the age of sixteen he commenced
keeping a diary-a practice which he regularly continued. His studies
were chiefly prosecuted at the University of Edinburgh ; and on their completion,
after undergoing the usual trials-in which he acquitted himself with the highest
approbation-he was licensed by the Presbytery of Perth, August 25, 1784.
As a preacher, his first appearance fully equalled the expectations of his
friends ; and, the following year, he was presented by the patron, Mr. Richardson
of Pitfour, to St. Madoes-a small country parish in the neighbourhood of
Perth. Here he remained until 1794, when Lady Yester's Church becoming
vacant, the Magistrates and Town Council, concurring in the sentiments of the
congregation, gave him the presentation of that important charge.
Possessing all the qualities essential in the ministerial character-sincere piety,
zeal, a fluent and impressive delivery-Mr. Black speedily acquired the reputation
of one of the most attractive preachers in Edinburgh ; and his church was
usually so much crowded, that it was with considerable difficulty an occasional
hearer could obtain a seat. In discharging the private duties of his office, he
was equally faithful and respected ; and, in the propagation of the gospel, he
displayed the most lively interest-aiding with great alacrity in forming the
Edinburgh Missionary Society, of which he continued a zealous member.
During his incumbency, in consequence of the decayed state of Lady Yester's
The Rev. Thomas Black w8s presented, in 1707, to the Profasorial Chair of Divinity in the
University of St. Andrews ; but the importunate solicitations of his flock, by whom he was greatly
beloved, induced him to forego the appointment. He was the intimate friend of Professor
Halyburton of St. Andrews, and edited a posthumous volume of aermona by that well-known
author. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CCXXXVIII. REV. DAVID BLACK, MINISTER OF LADY YESTER'S CHURCH, ...

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82 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
eclipse of the sun, when a countryman accosted him, requesting to be informed
whether the eclipse would take place that day. “No,” said the Secretary,
probably recollecting the reply of Dean Swift, “it has been put off till
to-morrow ! ” The clown went away apparently perfectly satisfied with the
information.
The following anecdote is told of the worthy Secretary. One night he was
seated solus by his own parlour fire, head of the West Bow. A bottle of
genuine Edinburgh ale-a beverage in which he greatly delighted-stood on
the hearth, to take the “ chill air off it,” while, with a foot extended on each
side of the cheering grate, and his head inclining gently forward, he was dosing
away the time till supper should be prepared. From this state of pleasing
half-unconsciousness, he was suddenly roused by a smart hit on the proboscis,
the cork having sprung with great force from the overheated bottle. The
drowsy Secretary, probably dreaming of another rencontre with the Grand
Clerk, demanded in a rage to know the cause of quarrel, and involuntarily
applying his foot, dashed the luckless bottle in a hundred pieces !
As an assistant clerk in the
Court of Session he was succeeded first by his son, and afterwards by his
grandson Mr. Hector Mason.
Mr. Mason died on the 26th September 1795.
No. CC.
REV. JAMES BAINE, A.M.
FIRST MINISTER OF THE RELIEF CONGREGATION, SOUTH COLLEGE STKEET.
THE REV. JAMESB AINE,w hose name holds a distinguished place in the
annals of the Presbytery of Relief, was the son of the minister of Bonhill, in
Dumbartonshire, where he was born in 17 10. His education was begun at the
parish school, and having been completed at the University of Glasgow, he
became a licentiate of the Church of Scotland. On account of the respectability
of his father, and his own promising talents, he was presented by the Duke of
Montrose to the Church of Killearn, the parish adjoining that in which his
father had long been minister, In this sequestered and tranquil scene he spent
many years ; and in after life, he has been often heard to say they were the
happiest he had ever experienced. He was here married to Miss Potter,
daughter of Dr. Michael Potter, Professor of Divinity in the University of
Glasgow, by whom he had a large family.’
His son, the Rev. James Baine, in early life became a licensed preacher in the Established
Church, but afterwards received Episcopal ordination, and was appointed to a chaplaincy in one of
our distant colonies. He latterly returned to his native country, and died at Alloa. Another aon
became a captain in the army, served abroad during the American and Continental wars, and was
aftemards, we believe, proprietor of an estate in Stirlingshire. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. eclipse of the sun, when a countryman accosted him, requesting to be informed whether ...

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104 BI 0 GRAPH1 CdL SKETCHES,
No. CCVI.
DR. THOMAS SNELL JONES,
MINISTER OF LADY GLENORCHY’S CHAPEL.
THE REV. THOMASS NELLJ ONEDS.D, ., was born in the city of Gloucester on
the 1 lth of May 1754, He lost both his parents when a child ; but Providence,
on whose care alone he was thus so early cast, speedily brought forward other
friends to take an interest in his welfare., Amongst those who showed him
kindness was one gentleman, a Wesleyan Methodist, through whom he became
acquainted with many individuals of that denomination of Christians ; and it
was by them he was induced to think of devoting his life to the ministry. The
Countess of Huntingdon was at that time a liberal supporter of the Methodists ;
and Dr. Jones having been recommended to her notice, was, at the age of
eighteen, admitted into the academy which she had established at Trevecca; in
the vicinity of Brecknock, in South Wales, for training up young men for the
ministry. He continued there for four years, prosecuting his studies; and after
these were finished he was for some time engaged in preaching to various
dissenting congregations. In this employment he was occasionally assisted by
his fellow-students, the Rev. Mr. Clayton, of London, and the Rev. Sir Harry
Trelawney, Bart., who afterwards became a dignitary, and obtained considerable
preferment, in the Church of England.
In 1776, Dr. Jones received and accepted an invitation to become assistant
to the Rev. Mr. Kinsman at Plymouth Dock. This situation he held for
two years, during which period he became known to Lady Glenorchy, who
having a short time before completed, at her own expense, the erection of a
church in Edinburgh; was anxiously endeavouring to procure for it the services
This academy was opened in 1768 ; and, during the life of Lady Huntingdon, was maintained
at her expense. In 1792, soon after her death, it was by her trustees removed to Cheshunt, in
Hertfordshire, where it now continues to flourish. The revenues, exceeding E1200 per annum, are
devoted to the education of students for the ministry, who are left entiyely free in the choice of the
denomination of Christians amongst whom they will exercise their ministry. ’ It is well known that, in 1775, some of the ministers of the Edinburgh Presbytery were by no
means friendly to the erection of this Chapel ; and the footing on which it was admitted into connection
with the Church appearing to them not sufficiently broad and explicit, they brought the
matter before the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. Here a long and angry debate ensued, in the
course of which Lady Glenorchy was very roughly handled. It terminated in a resolution, discharging
a11 ministers and probationers within the bounds of the Synod from officiating in the Chapel ;
a resolution, however, which was ultimately reversed by the Assembly. The following doggerel
verses, to which was prefixed this introductory notice, were composed on that occasion :-
“The very extraordinary scene which happened in the Synod upon - has called the attention ... BI 0 GRAPH1 CdL SKETCHES, No. CCVI. DR. THOMAS SNELL JONES, MINISTER OF LADY GLENORCHY’S CHAPEL. THE REV. ...

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130 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig.
By interdict the directors were compelled to give
access to the well, which they grudgingly did by a
species of drain, till the entire edifice was removed
to where it now stands.
Near the site of the well is the ancient church of
Restalrig, which, curiously enough, at first sight has
all the air of an entirely modern edifice ; but on a
minute inspection old mouldings and carvings of
great antiquity make their appearance in conjunction
with the modern stonework of its restoration.
It is a simple quadrangular building, without aisles
or transept.
The choir, which is the only part of the building
that has escaped the rough hands
of the iconoclasts of the sixteenth
century, is a comparatively small,
though handsome, specimen of
Decorated English Gothic ; and
it remained an open ruin until
a fev years since, when it was
restored in a manner as a chapel
of ease for the neighbouring district.
But a church existed here long
before the present one, and it
was celebrated all over Scotland
for the tomb of St. Triduana,
who died at Restalrig, and whose
shrine was famous as the resort
of pilgrims, particularly those
who were affected by diseased
eyesight. Thus, to this day, she
is frequently painted as carrying
her own eyes on a salver or the
point of a sword. A noble virgin
of Achaia, she is said to have
come to Scotland, in the fourth
century, with St. Rule. Her name
inferred that the well afterwards called St. Margaret?s
was the well of St. Triduana.
Curiously enough, Lestalric, the ancient name of
Restalrig, is that by which it is known in the present
day; and still one of the roads leading to it from
Leith is named the Lochsterrock Road
The existence of a church andparish here, long
prior to the death of King Alexander 111. is proved
by various charters ; and in 1291, Adam of St.
Edmunds, prior of Lestalric, obtained a writ, addressed
to the sheriff of Edinburgh, to put him
in possession of his lands and rights. The same
ecclesiastic, under pressure, like many others at
SEAL OF THE COLLEGIATE cnmcn
OF RESTALRIG.
is unknown in the Roman Breviary; but a recent
writer says, ?? S t Triduana, with two companions,
devoted themselves to a recluse life at Roscoby, but
a Pictish chief, named Nectan, having been attracted
by her beauty, she fled into Athole to
escape him. As his emissaries followed her there,
and she discovered that it was her eyes which had
entranced him, she plucked them out, and, fixing
them on a thorn, sent them to her admirer. In
consequence of this practical method of satisfying
a lover, St. Triduana, who came to Restalrig to
live, became famous, and her shrine was for many
generations the resort of pilgrims whose eyesight
was defective, miraculous cures being effected by
the waters of the well.?
Sir David Lindsay writes of their going to ? St.
Trid well to mend their ene;? thus it has been
the time, swore fealty to Edward
I. of England in 1296.
Henry de Leith, rector of Restalrig,
appeared as a witness
against the Scottish Knights of
the Temple, at the trial in Holyrood
in 1309. The vicar, John
Pettit, is mentioned in the charter
of confirmation by James III.,
under his great seal of donations
to the Blackfriars of Edinburgh
in 1473..
A collegiate establishment of
considerable note, having a dean,
with nine prebends and two singing
boys, was constituted at Restalrig
by James III., and completed
by James V. j but it seems
not to have interfered with the
parsonage, which remained entire
till the Reformation.
The portion of the choir now
remaining does not date, it is
supposed, earlier than from the
fourteenth century, and is much
plainer, says Wilson, than might be expected in
a church enriched by the contributions of three
pious monarchs in succession, and resorted to by
so many devout pilgrims as to excite the special
indignation of one of the earliest assemblies of the
Kirk, apparently on account of its abounding with
statues and images.
By the Assembly of 1560 it was ordered to be
? raysit and utterly casten doun,? as a monument
of idolatry; and this order was to some extent
obeyed, and the ?? aisler stanis ? were taken by
Alexander Clark to erect a house with, but were
used by the Reformers to build a new Nether Bow
Port. The parishioners of Restalrig were ordered
in future to adopt as their parish church that of
St. Mary?s, in Leith, which continues to the present
day to be South Leith church. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig. By interdict the directors were compelled to give access to the well, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 171
No. LXXIII.
THE REV. DR. JOHN ERSKINE,
LATE OF THE OLD GREYFRLARS’ CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
THISis a very faithful representation of the above worthy man and no less excellent
divine. The attitude in which he is delineated is that which he invariably
assumed on entering upon his discourse, and is remarkably in unison with the
description of the “ colleague of Dr. Robertson,” furnished by the graphic pen
of Sir Walter Scott, in the novel of Guy 8fannering.l
DK ERSKINEb,o rn on the 2d of June 1721, was the eldest son of John
Erskine, Esq. of Carnock, Professor of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh,
and well known as the author of the Institutes of the Law of Scotland.
The early education of young Erskine was conducted with a view to the legal
profession, of which his father was so much’an ornament; and although he
had almost from infancy discovered a more than common seriousness of temper,
and, as he advanced in years, manifested a strong predilection in fayour of the
pulpit, he repressed his aspirations so far as to submit to the usual course of
, discipline formerly prescribed in Scotland for those who intended to become
advocates.
He entered the University of Edinburgh towards the end of the year 1734,
where he acquired a thorough classical knowledge, and became acquainted with
the principles of philosophy and law. Among other youths of great promise at
that time at the college, was the late Principal Robertson, with whom young
Erskine formed an intimate friendship, which, notwithstanding the shades of
opinion in matters of church polity, and even in some doctrinal points mutually
entertained by them in after life, continued to be cherished, amid their public
contests, with unabated sincerity. While in the ardent pursuit of his classical
acquirements, however, Dr. Erskine by no means neglected the study of theology ;
on t’he contrary, his predilections in favour of the pulpit had increased, and so
strong was his conviction of the duty of devoting his talents to the service of
religion, that he resolved to acquaint his parents with his determination, and
to endure their utmost opposition. The comparativelypow Presbyterian Church
of Scotland had never been an object of aristocratical ambition ; besides this
pecuniary objection, the friends of young Erskine conceived that the profession
of the law, while it presented awider field, was more adapted for the display of
A remarkably fair complexion, strangely
contrasted with a black wig, without a grain of powder ; a narrow cheat and a stooping posture ;
hands which, placed like props on either side of the pulpit, seemed neceasary rather to support the
person than to assist the gesticulation of the preacher ; a gown (not even that of Geneva), a tumbled
band, and a gesture, which seemed scarcely voluntary, were the fist circumstances which strnck a
stranger.”
1 “ His external appearance was not prepossessing. ... SKETCHES. 171 No. LXXIII. THE REV. DR. JOHN ERSKINE, LATE OF THE OLD GREYFRLARS’ CHURCH, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 93
No. XLI.
THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” AND “CHARLES v.”
THIS eminent divine resided within the old College, at the south gate, nearly
on the spot where the centre of the library now is. He was born in the year
1721, in the manse of Borthwick, of which parish his father, also called William,
was then minister, but who was afterwards presented to the Old Greyfriars’
Church, Edinburgh. His mother was Eleanor, daughter of David Pitcairn,
Esq. of Dreghorn ; by the father’s side he was descended from the Robertsons
of Gladney in Fife, a branch of the ancient house of Strowan. Dr. Robertson
received the first rudiments of his education at Dalkeith, under Mr. Leslie ; and,
in 1733, when his father removed to Edinburgh, he commenced his course of
academical study, which he completed at the University of Edinburgh in 1741.
In the same year he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Dalkeith ; and
in 1743 was, by the Earl of Hopetoun, presented to the living of Gladsmuir in
East Lothian. Soon after this, his father and mother died within a few hours
of each other, when six sisters,’ and a younger brother,” were left almost wholly
dependent on him. He immediately took them home to his humble residence
at Gladsmuir, where his stipend amounted to little more than 260 a year, and
devoted his leisure hours to the superintendence of their education. After
seeing them all respectably settled in the world, he married, in 1751, his cousin
Mary, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Nisbet, one of the ministers of Edinburgh.
In the Rebellion of 1745, when Edinburgh was threatened by the Highlanders,
he hastened into the city, and joined a corps of Volunteers raised for its
defence ; and when it was resolved to deliver up the city without resistance, he,
with a small band, tendered his assistance to General Cope, who lay with the
royal army at Haddington-an offer which the General (fortunately for the
Doctor and his party) declined. He then returned to the sacred duties of his
parish, where he was much beloved ; and soon afterwards began to display his
talents in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, where he became
the object of universal attention and applause. It was about this time that Dr.
Robertson so ably defended his friend Mr. Home, the author of the tragedy of
Douglas, from the proceedings adopted against him in the clerical courts.
The first publication of Dr. Robertson was a sermon, which was preached by
him before the Society for propagating Christian Knowledge, in 1755 ; and to
it may be attributed the unanimity of his call to the charge of Lady Yester’s
Church in Edinburgh, to which he was translated in 1758. InFebruary 1759,
One of his sisters, Mrs. Syme, who lived at the head of the Cowgate, waa the grandmother of
’ Mr. Patrick Fbbertaon, who was bred a jeweller, and was very successful in businaw in Edinburgh.
Lord Brougham and Vaux. ... SKETCHES. 93 No. XLI. THE REV. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D., AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,” ...

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THE OLD TOWN. 25
in Parliament Square, is supposed to be under the stone shown in the
Engraving.) The Edinburgh Reviewers-Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Brougham,
KNOWS GRAVE
Dr. Thomas Brown, Francis Horner, and the rest,-are cultivating the
Muses ,on a little oatmeal, moistened by not a littre usquebaugh. Walter
Scott is getting up his Border MinstreZsy. Leyden is gulping down
languages like Behemoth rivers. Thomas Campbell is completing the
incubation of his PZeasures of Hope. Hector MacNeil is resting under
the little laurels of his WiZZ a d l e a n and Mary of CasfZecary. Dr. John
Jarnieson has come from Forfar to preside over an Anti-Burgher congregation
in Nicolson Street, and to issue his stupendous Dictwmzy of the
ScottzX hnpuge. Mrs. Grant of Laggan is publishing her Bters from fhe
Mozintatits. James Grahame is singing with sweet though rather sepulchral
notes his Sabbat/r and Birds of ScotZad. Mrs. Hamilton is brimful of her
exquisite novel, 23~C offagerso f GZenbumL; and Mrs. Brunton has secretly
prepared a surprise for the world, and her husband too, in her stirring and
animated Se(f-ControZ. In the Edinburgh pulpit, Dr. John Inglis, Dr. Brunton,
and other magnates, are propping up the Established Church, while in the
Relief body Struthers of College Street is gathering together such crowds as
have rarely been seen in Edinburgh before, and are not to be seen again till
the advent of Chalmers, and is, by his sermon on the battle of Trafalgar, to
electrify his audience as much as the news of the great victory had done,
while Alison and afterwards Morehead and Sandford are sustaining the credit of
the Episcopalian Church. But the period between the year 1815 and 1830 or
1835 may perhaps be called the culmination of Fdinburgh's intellectual- glory.
During that time was commenced ihe immortal series of the Waverley Novels,
in Iieu of, but a vast stride before, Scott's highly popular Poems. (The
D ... OLD TOWN. 25 in Parliament Square, is supposed to be under the stone shown in the Engraving.) The Edinburgh ...

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lies directly at the south-eastern base of Arthur's
Seat, and has long'been one of the daily postal
districts of the city.
Overhung by the green slopes and grey rocks ok
Arthur's Seat, and shut out by its mountainous
mass from every view of the crowded city at its
further base in Duddingston, says a statist, writing
in 1851, a spectator feels himself sequestered from
the busy scenes which he knows to' be in his
immediate vicinity, as he hears their distant hum
upon the passing breezes by the Willow Brae on
the east, or the gorge of the Windy Goule on the
south; and he looks southward and west over a
glorious panorama of beautiful villas, towering ,
'
From the style of the church and the structure of
its arches, it is supposed to date from the epoch of
the introduction of Saxon architecture. A semicircular
arch of great beauty divides the choir from
the chancel, and a Saxon doorway, with fantastic
heads and zig-zag mbuldings, still remains in the
southern face of the tower. The entrance-gate to
its deep, grassy, and sequestered little buryingground,
is still furnished with the antique chain and
collar of durance, the terror of evildoers, named
the jougs, and a time-worn Zouping-on-stone, for the
use of old or obese horsemen.
Some interesting tombs are to be found in the
burying-ground ; among these are the marble obelisk
castles, rich coppice,
hill and valley, magnificent
in semi-tint, in
light and shadow, till
the Pentlands, or the
1 on e 1 y Lam m er m u i r
ranges, close the distance.
The name of this
hamlet and parish has
been a vexed subject
amongst antiquaries,
but as a surname it is
not unknown in Scotland
: thus, among the
missing charters of
Robert Bruce, there is
one to John Dudingstoun
of the lands of
Pitcorthie, in Fife; and
among the gentlemen
GATEWAY OF DUDDINGSTON CHURCH, SHOWING TIIE
JOUCS AND LOUPING-ON-STONE.
slain at Flodden in I 5 I 3
there was Stephen Duddingston of Kildinington,
also in Fife. Besides, there is another place of the
same name in Linlithgowshire, the patrimony of the
Dundases.
The ancient church, with a square tower at its
western end, occupies a green and rocky peninsula
that juts into the clear and calm blue loch. It is
an edifice of great antiquity, and belonged of old
to the Tyronensian Monks of Kelso, who possessed
it, together with the lands of Eastern and Western
Duddingston ; the chartulary of that abbey does not
say from whom they acquired these possessions, but
most probably it was from David I.
Herbert, first abbot of Kelso, a man of great
learning and talent, chamberiain of the kingdom
under Alexander I. and David I., in 1128, granted
the lands of Eastern and Western Duddingston to
Reginald de Bosco for an annual rent of ten marks,
to be paid by him and his heirs for ever.
erected to the memory
of Patrick Haldane of
Gleneagles by his unfortunate
grandson, whose
fate is also recorded
thereon; and that of
James Browne, LLD.,
Advocate, the historian
of the Highlands and
Highland clans, in the
tower of the church.
In the register of
assignations for the
minister's stipends in
the year 1574, presented
in MS. by
Bishop Keith to the
Advocates' Library,
Duddingston is said to
have been a joint dependence
with the
Castle of Edinburgh
upon the Abbey of Holyrood. The old records
of the Kirk Session are only of the year 1631, and
in the preceding year the lands of Prestonfield
were disjoined from the kirk and parish of St.
Cuthbert, and annexed to those of Duddingston.
On the r8th'of May, 1631, an aisle was added
to the church for the use of the Laird of Prestonfield,
his tenants and servants.
David Malcolme, minister here before I 741,
was an eminent linguist in his time, whose writings
were commended by Pinkerton, and quoted with
respect by Gebelin in his Monde Plillit$ and
Bullet in his Mkmoirrs Celtiques; but the church is
chiefly famous for the incumbency of the Rev. John
Thomson, a highly distinguished landscape painter,
who from his early boyhood exhibited a strong
predilection for art, and after being a pupil of
Alexander Nasmyth, became an honorary member
of the Royal Scottish Academy. He became ... directly at the south-eastern base of Arthur's Seat, and has long'been one of the daily ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 211
No. LXXXVII.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DAVID EARL OF LEVEN
AND MELVILLE.
DAVID, sixth EARL of LEVEN and fifth of MELVILLE, was the only son
of Alexander, fifth Earl of Leven, by Mary, daughter of Colonel Erskine of
Carnock, and was born in 1722. His lordship entered the army in 1744, and
held a company in the 16th Regiment of Foot ; but he left the military service
on succeeding to the family titles and estates, by the demise of his father, in
1751. For a series of years his lordship seems to have interfered little in
public matters. In 1773 he was appointed one of the Lords of Police-an
office which he held till the abolition of that Board in 1782. In the following
year he became Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly.
In those days the “pomp and circumstance” of the Commissioner’s office
were matters of much greater moment than they are at present. The levees ’
were then numerously attended by the nobility ; and the opening procession
to the Assembly, in particular, created feelings of great excitement : the streets
were thronged with people, and the windows crowded with all the beauty and
fashion of the town, while the retinue of the Commissioner was generally
numerous and imposing. The Sunday processions to church were also very
attractive. In addition to the usual attendance of the military on such occasions,
bands of music were in requisition, which, to the great annoyance of
many a sturdy Presbyterian, struck up the moment the procession issued from
the place where his Grace held his levee, and while it proceeded towards the
High Church. The Commissioner was always preceded by the heralds, and
followed by a long train of noblemen and gentlemen, both lay and clerical,
besides ladies in full court dress.’
The Earl continued to act as Commissioner for nearly twenty years, and
took much pleasure in the annual display of official greatness. The leader
of the Assembly, during the greater part of that time, was the celebrated
Principal Robertson, on the moderate side; his opponent being his own colleague
in the Old Greyfriars’ Church, Dr. John Erskine of Carnock (cousin
to the Earl), who led what was then called the dZd party.
In 1801, the Earl (then in his 80th year) was succeeded in the Commissionership
by Lord Napier ; and it may be mentioned, as an instance of the enthu-
They were held in Fortune’s Tavern, Old Stamp-Office Close ; and when Fortune removed to . Princes Street, the levees took place in the King’s Arms Tavern, New Assembly Close, where the
public dancing assemblies were held-afterwards the site of the Commercial Bank.
The old Town Guard, who were always furnished with new unifoims for the occaaion, were
allowed the honour of precedency, by takiug the right-hand side of the procession, in preference to
the military. ... SKETCHES. 211 No. LXXXVII. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DAVID EARL OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE. DAVID, sixth ...

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I44 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Street. --
already been made in the account of that institution,
of which he was the distinguished head.
Opposite is a new building occupied as shops and
chambers ; and the vast Elizabethan edifice near it
is the auction rooms of Dowel1 and Co., built
in 1880.
The Mercaitile Bank of India, London, and
China occupies No. 128, formerly the mansion of
Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Bart., a man in his
time eminent for his high attainments in geological
and chemical science, and author of popular but
peculiar works on Gothic architecture. By his
wife, Lady Helena Douglas, daughter of Ddnbar,
Earl of Selkirk, he had three sons and three
daughters-his second son being the well-known
Captain Basil Hall, R.N. While retaining his
house in George Street, Sir James, between 1808
and 1812, represented the Cornish borough of St.
Michael?s in Parliament. He died at Edinburgh,
after a long illness, on the z3rd of June, 1832.
Collaterally with him, another distiiiguished
baronet, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, was long the
occupant of No. 133, to the print of whom Kay
appends the simple title of ?The Scottish Patriot,?
and never was it more appropriately applied. To
attempt even an outline of his long, active, and
most useful life, would go far beyond our limits ;
suffice it to say, that his ? Code of Agriculture?
alone has been translated into nearlyevery European
language. He was born at Thurso in 1754, and so
active had been his mind, so vast the number of
his scientific pursuits and objects, that by 1797 he
began to suffer seriously from the effects of his
over-exertions, and being thus led to consider the
subject of health generally, he published, in 1803,
a quarto pamphlet, entitled ? Hints on Longevity?
-afterwards, in 1807, extended to four volumes
8vo. In 1810 he was made a Privy Councillor,
and in the following year, under the administration
of the unfortunate Mr. Perceval, was appointed
Cashier of Excise for Scotland. On retiring from
Parliament, he was succeeded as member for
Caithness by his son. He resided in Edinburgh
for the last twenty years of his life, and died at
his house in George Street in December, 1835, jn
his eighty-first year, and was interred in the Chapel
Royal at Holyrood.
By his first wife he
had two children j by tbe second, Diana, daughter
of Lord Macdonald, he had thirteen, one of whom,
Julia, became Countess of Glasgow. All these
attained a stature like his own, so great-being
nearly all above six feet-that he was wont playfully
to designate the pavement before No. 133 as
?? The Giants? Causeway.?
Sir. John was twice married.
St. Andrew?s church stands zoo feet westward
if St. Andrew?s Square; it is a plain building of
ival form, with a handsome portico, having four
;reat Corinthiafi pillars, and built, says Kincaid,
iom a design of Major Fraser, of the Engineers,
whose residence was close by it. It was erected
.n 178s.
It was at first proposed to have a spire of some
iesign, now unknown, between the portico and thc
body of the church, and for a model of this a
young man of the city, named M?Leish, received a
premium of sixty guineas from the magistrates, with
the freedom of the city j but on consideration, his
design ? was too great in proportion to the space left
for its base.? So the present spire, which is 168 feet
in height, and for its sky-line is one of the most
beautiful in the city, was designed by Major
Andrew Fraser, who declined to accept any
premium, suggesting that it should be awarded to
Mr. Robert Kay, whose designs for a square
church on the spot were most meritorious.
The last stone of the spire was placed thereon
on the 23rd of November, 1787. A chime of bells
was placed in it, 3rd June, 1789, ?to be rung in
the English manner.?
The dimensions of this church, as given by
Kincaid, are, within the walls from east to west
eighty-seven feet, and from north to south sixtyfour
feet. ?The front, consisting of a staircase
and portico, measures forty-one feet, and projects
twenty-six and a half feet.? The entrance is nine
feet in height by seven feet in breadth.
This parish was separated from St. Cuthbert?s in
1785, and since that date parts of it have been
assigned to other parishes of more recent erection
as the population increased.
The church cost A7,000, and is seated for about
1,053. The charge was collegiate, and is chiefly
remarkable for the General Assembly?s meeting in
1843, at which occurred the great Disruption, or
exodus of the Free Church-one of the most
important events in the modern history of Scotland
or of the United Kingdom.
It originated in a zealous movement of the
Presbyterian Church, mainly promoted by the great
Chalmers, to put an end to the connection between
Church and State. In 1834 the Church had passed
a law of its own, ordaining that thenceforth no
presentee to a parish should be admitted if opposed
by the majority of the male communicants-a law
which struck at the system of patronage restored
after the Union-a system involving importint1
civil rights.
When the Annual Assembly met in St. Andreds
Church, in May, 1843, it was generally understood ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Street. -- already been made in the account of that institution, of which he ...

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THE TOWER 327 Liberton.]
between 1124 and 1153, according to the Lih
Cartarvm Sanchz Crwis.
Macbeth of Liberton also granted to St. Cuth
bert?s Church the tithes and oblations of Legbor
nard, a church which cannot now be traced.
The name is supposed to be a corruption o
Lepertoun, as there stood here a hospital fo
lepers, of which all vestiges have disappeared ; bu
the lands thereof in some old writs (according tc
the ?New Statistical Account?) were called ?Spital
town.?
At Nether Liberton, three-quarters of a mile nortl
of the church, was a mill, worked of course by thc
Braid Burn, which David I, bestowed upon tht
monks of Holyrood, as a tithe thereof, ??wit1
thirty cartloads from the bush of Liberton,? gift!
confirmed by William the Lion under the Grea
Seal circa I I 7 1-7.
The Black Friars at Edinburgh received fivc
pounds sterling annually from this mill at Nethei
Liberton, by a charter from King Robert I.
Prior to the date of King David?s charter, thc
church of Liberton belonged to St. Cuthbert?s
The patronage of it, with an acre of land adjoining
it, was bestowed by Sir John Maxwell of that iik
in 1367, on the monastery of Kilwinning,pro sahh
aniiiim SUE et Agnetis sponsiz SUE.
This gift was confirmed by King David 11.
By David 11. the lands of Over Liberton,
?( quhilk Allan Baroune resigned,? were gifted tc
John Wigham ; and by the same monarch the land:
of Nether Liberton were gifted to William Ramsay,
of Dalhousie, knight, and Agnes, his spouse, 24th
October, 1369. At a later period he granted a
charter ?to David Libbertoun, of the office of
sergandrie of the overward of the Constabularie of
Edinburgh, with the lands of Over Libbertoun
pertaining thereto.? (? Robertson?s Index.?)
Adam Forrester (ancestor of the Corstorphine
family) was Laird of Nether Liberton in 1387, for
estates changed proprietors quickly in those troublesome
times, and we have already reterred to him
as one of those who, with the Provost Andrew
Yichtson, made arrangements for certain extensive
additions to the church of St. Giles in that year.
William of Liberton was provost of the city in
1429, and ten years subsequently with William
Douglas of Hawthornden, Meclielson of Herdmanston
(now Harviston), and others, he witnessed
the charter of Patrick, abbot of Holyrood, to Sir
Yatrick Logan, Lord. of Restalrig, of the office of
bailie of St. Leonard?s. (? Burgh Charters,? No.
At Liberton there was standing till about 1840
a tall peel-house or tower, which was believed to
XXVI.)
have been the residence of Macbeth and other
barons of Liberton, and which must not be confounded
with the solitary square tower that stands
to the westward of the road that leads into the
heart of the Braid Hills, and is traditionally said to
have been the abode of a troublesome robber
laud, who waylaid provisions coming to the city
markets.
The former had an old dial-stone, inscribed
?? God?s Providence is our Inheritance.?
Near the present Liberton Tower the remains
of a Celtic cross were found embedded in a wall in
1863, by the late James Drummond, R.S.A. It
was covered with knot-work.
The old church-or chapel it was more probably
-at Kirk-Liberton, is supposed to have been dedicated
to the Virgin Mary-there having been a
holy spring near it, called our Lady?s Well-and
it had attached to it a glebe of two oxgates of
land.
In the vicinity was a place called Kilmartin,
which seemed to indicate the site of some ancient
and now forgotten chapel.
In.1240 the chapelry of Liberton was disjoined by
David Benham, Bishop of St. Andrews and Great
Chamberlain to the King, from the parish of St.
Cuthbert?s, and constituted a rectory belonging to
the Abbey of Holyrood, and from then till the
Reformation it was served by a vicar.
For a brief period subsequent to 1633, it was a
prebend of the short-lived and most inglorious
bishopric of Edinburgh ; and at the final abolition
thereof it reverted to the disposal of the Crown.
The parochial registers date from 1639.
When the old church was demolished prior to
:he erection of the new, in 1815, there was found
very mysteriously embedded in its basement an
ron medal of the thirteenth century, inscribed in
xncient Russian characters ? THE GRAND PRINCE
3 ~ . ALEXANDER YAROSLAVITCH NEVSKOI.?
The old church is said to have been a picuresque
edifice not unlike that now at Corstor-
Ihine ; the new one is a tolerably handsome semi-
Gothic structure, designed by Gillespie Graham,
,eated for 1,430 persons, and having a square
ower with four ornamental pinnacles, forming a
)leasing and prominent object in the landscape
outhward of the city.
Subordinate to the church there were in Catholic
imes three chapels-one built by James V. at
3rigend? already referred to ; a second at Niddrie,
ounded by Robert Wauchope of Niddrie, in 1389,
.nd dedicated to ? Our .Lady,? but which is now
inly commemorated by its burying-ground-which
ontinues to be in use-and a few faint traces of ... TOWER 327 Liberton.] between 1124 and 1153, according to the Lih Cartarvm Sanchz Crwis. Macbeth of Liberton ...

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manor, and the founder?s own mother and wife, and
of all the faithful dead, was specially directed, at
the commencement of each season of Lent, to exhort
the people to say one Pater Noster and the
salutation of the angel to the blessed Virgin Mary
for the souls of the same persons.? (? New Stat.
Account.?)
The provostry of Corstorphine was considered
a rather lucrative office, and has been held by
several important personages. In the beginning of
the sixteenth century it was held by Robert Cairn-
CORSTORPHINE CHURCH, 1817. (After a# Efcking 6 /a?nes SRnv of Rdishw.)
present state of affairs.? Cairncross was Treasurer
of Scotland in 1529 and 1537.
In 1546, John Sandilands, son and heir of Sir
Janies Sandilands, knight of Calder (afterwards
Preceptor of Torphichen and Lord $t. John of
Jerusalem), found surety, under the pain of ten
thousand pounds, that he would remain ?in warde,
in the place of Corstorphine, colege, toun, and
yards yairof, until he passed to France.? His
grandmother was Mariotte, a daughter of Archibald
Forrester of Corstorphine.
cross, whose name does not shine in the pages of
Buchanan, by the manner in which he obtained the
Abbacy of Holyroed without. subjecting himself to
the law against simony.
one meanly
descended, but a wealthy man, bought that preferment
of the king who then wanted money, eluding
the law by a new sort of fraud. The law wasthat
ecclesiastical preferments should not be sold j
but he laid a great wager with the king that he
would not bestow upon him the next preferment
of that kind which fell vacant, and by that means
lost his wager but got the abbacy.? This was in
September, 1528, and he was aware that the Abbot
William Douglas was, as Buchanan states, ? dying
of sickness, trouble of mind, and grief for the
Robert Cairncross,? he states,
In March, 1552, the Provost of Edinburgh, his
bailies, and council, ordered their treasurer, Alexander
Park, topay the prebendaries of Corstorphine
the sum of ten pounds, as the half of twenty owing
them yearly (? furth of the commoun gude.?
In 1554, James Scott, Provost of the Church of
Corqtorphine, was appointed a Imd of Session,
and in that year he witnessed the marriage contract
of Hugh Earl of Eglinton and Lady Jane Hamilton
daughter of James Duke of Chatelherault.
Conspicuous in the old church are the tombs of
the Forrester family. TEe portion which modem
utility has debased to a porch contains two altar
tombs, one of them being the monument of Sir
John Forrester, the founder, and his second lady,
probably, to judge by her coat-of-arms, Jean Sinclair ... and the founder?s own mother and wife, and of all the faithful dead, was specially directed, at the ...

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of 6 1 0 each. The benefits of the endowments are
still destined to burgesses, their wives or children
not married, nor under the age of fifty years.? Ten
others have pensions of 6 1 0 each out of the funds
I
whole area occupied by the church and collegiate
buildings of the Holy Trinity was then included
in the original termini of the. Edinburgh and
Glasgow, the North British, the Edinburgh, Perth,
GROUND PLAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE CHURCH, 1814
following succinct account in the Scofs Magazine
for 1805:-
?In 1741 Captain Alexander Horn, of thecity of
London, by his last will bequeathed &3,500, old
and new South Sea Annuities, to be disposed of at
the discretion of the Lord Provost, Bailies, Dean
of Guild, and Treasurer of the city of Edinburgh,
on account of their early appearance and noble
stand in the cause of liberty (was this a reference
to the Porteous mob ?) as follows :-The interest
of &1,5oo on Christmas-day yearly, to such day
labourers of Edinburgh as by the inclemency of the
weather may be set idle and reduced to want;
interest of &I,OOO to day labourers as aforesaid,
in the Potter Row, Bristo, and West Port; and
I
boundary-wall of its garden, in which he shows
parterres and three rows of large trees, and also a
square lantern and vane above the roof of the large
hall; and in Edgar?s map, a hundred years later,
the waters of the loch came no farther eastward
than the line of the intended North Bridge, between
which and the hospital lay the old Physic Gardens.
?Its demolition brought to light many curious
evidences of its former state,? says Wilson. .?? A
beautiful large Gothic fireplace, with clustered
columns and a low, pointed arch, was disclosed in
she north gable, and many rich fragments of Gothic
ornament were found built into the walls, remains
no doubt of the original hospital buildings, used in
the enlargement and repair of the college.? The ... 6 1 0 each. The benefits of the endowments are still destined to burgesses, their wives or children not ...

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398 NEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
destroyed; wherethrough the divine worship is not 8 little decreaced in the college,
because they were unable to rebuild the said hospital; . . Therefore they gave,
granted, set in feu farme, and confirmed to a magnificent and illustrious Prince, James
Duke of Chattelarault, Earl of Arran, Lord Hamilton, &c., all and hail their tenement or
hospital, with the yards and pertinent8 thereof; lying within the burgh of Edinburgh in
the street or wynd called School-House Wynd, on the east part thereof.” The Duke of
Chatelherault appears, from frequent allusions by contemporary annals, to have built a
mansion for his own use on the site of the Hospital of St Mary’s Collegiate Church,
which afterwards served as the first hall of the new college. The Town Council proceeded
leisurely, yet with hearty zeal, in the gradual extension of the college; and frequent
notices in the Council Records prove the progress of the buildings. On the 25th June
1656, the following entry occurs ;-(( For the better carieing on of the buildinges in the
colledge, there is a necessetie to break down and demolishe the hous neirest to the Patterraw
Port, quich now the Court du Guaird possesseth ; thairfoir ordaines the thesaurer,
with John Milne, to visite the place, and to doe therein what they find expedient,
as weill for demolishing the said hous, as for provyding the Court du Gnaird uterwayis.”
Private citizens largely promoted the same laudable object, not only by pecuniary contributions,
but by building halls and suits of chambers at their own cost. No regular plan, however,
was adopted, and the old college buildings at the time of their demolition presented
s rude assemblage of edifices of various dates and very little pretension to ornament.
Beyond the walls of the capital the ancient Parish Church of Restalrig was erected by
Jameg 111. into a Collegiate Church for a dean and canons; and the college was subsequently
enlarged both by Jamea IT. and V., as well as by numerous contributions
from private individuals. It must have been a large church, with probably collegiate
buildings of considerable extent attached to it, if we may judge from the uses to
which its materials were app1ied.l The village also appears to have been a place
of much greater size and importance than we can form any conception of from its
present remains. It was no doubt in early times the chief town of the barony, and a
much more extensive one than the Port of Leith. During the siege of the latter in
1559-60, Bishop Lesley informs us that “the Lord Gray, lieutennent of the Inglis
army, ludged in Lestalrig tom, in the Deanis hous, and mony of all thair hors and
demi-lances.” ‘ The choir, which is the only part. that has escaped demolition, is a
comparatively small, though very neat specimen of decorated English Gothic. It
remained in a ruinous state until a few years since, when it was restored and fitted
up with some degree of taste A
church is believed to have existed here at a very early period, as it was celebrated for the
tomb of Saint Triduana, a noble virgin who is said to have come from Achaia in the
fourth century, in company with St Rule, and to have died at Restalrig. Her tomb was
the reaort of numerous pilgrims, and the scene as was believed of many miracles.* By a
a Chapel of Ease for the neighbouring district.
I Ante, p. 83. ’ Lealey, p. 284.
The miracles ascribed to St Triduana were chiefly wrought on diseased eyes ; and she ia accordingly frequently
painted carrying her eyes on a salver or on the point of a sword Lindsay speaks of pilgrims going “ to St Tredwell
to mend their ene ; ” and again in his curious inventory of saints in The Mmrchie .--
Sanct Tredwdl, als, thare may be sene,
Quhilk on ane prick hea baith her ene. ... NEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. destroyed; wherethrough the divine worship is not 8 little decreaced in the ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 127
He had an inveterate propensity for puns. A person once said to him that
punning was the lowest species of wit, to which he replied, ‘‘ Then it must be
the best species, since it is the foundation of the whole.”
Mr. Erskine meeting an old friend one morning returning from St. Bernard’s
Well, which he knew he was in the habit of daily visiting, exclaimed, “Oh,
U !
Being told that Knox, who had long derived his’livelihood by keeping the
door of the Parliament-House, had been killed by a shot from a small cannon
on the King’s birthday, he observed that “it was remarkable a man should
live by the civil and die by the cannon law.”
Lord Kellie was once amusing his company with an account of a sermon he
had heard in a church in Italy, in which the priest related the miracle of St.
Anthony, when preaching on shipboard, attracting the fishes, which, in order to
listen to his pious discourse, held their heads out of the water. “ I can well
believe the miracle,” said Mr. Henry Erskine. “How so’?”-‘‘When your
lordship was at church, there was at least one fish out of the water.”
Mr. Erskine of Alva, a Scotch Advocate, afterwards one of the Senators of
the College of Justice, and who assumed the title of Lord Barjarg, a man of
diminutive stature, was retained as counsel in a very interesting cause, wherein
the Hon. Henry Erskine appeared for the opposite party. The crowd in court
being very great, in order to enable young Alva to be seen and heard more
advantageously, a chair was brought him to stand upon. Mr. Erskine quaintly
remarked, “That is one way of Thing at the bar.”
An English nobleman, walking through the New Town in company with Mr.
Erskine, remarked how odd it was that St. Andrew’s Church should so greatly
project, whilst the Physicians’ Hall, immediately opposite, equally receded.
Mr. Erskine admitted that George Street would have been, without exception,
the finest street in Europe, if the forwardness of the clergy, and the backwardness
of the physicians, had not marred its unqormity.
One day Mr. Erskine was dining at the house of Mr. William Creech, bookseller,
who was rather penurious, and entertained his guests on that occasion
with a single bottle of Cape wine, though he boasted of some particularly fine
Madeira wine he happened to possess. Mr, Erskine made various attempts to
induce his host to produce a bottle of his vaunted Madeira, but to no purpose ;
at length he said, with an air of apparent disappointment, “Well, well, since we
can’t get to Madeira, we must just double the Cape.”
In his latter years Mr. Erskine was very much annoyed at the idea that his
witticisms might be collected together in a volume. Aware of this, a friend of
his resolved to tease him, and having invited him to dinner, he, in the course of
the evening, took up a goodly-looking volume, and, turning over the pages, began
to laugh heartily. “What is the cause of your merriment?” exclaimed the
guest. ‘‘ Oh, it’s only one of your jokes, Harry.”-“ Where did you get it ?”-
“Oh, in the new work just published, entitled The Nezo Complete Jester, or
I see you never weary in well-doing.”
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Holyrood. I KING DAVID?S CHARTER. 43
sake of trade ; and if it happen that they do no
come, I grant the aforesaid church from my ren
of Edinburgh forty shillings, from Stirling twentj
shillings, and from Perth forty shillings ; and ont
toft in Stirling, and the draught of one net foi
tishing ; and one toft in my Burgh of Edinburgh
free and quit of all custom and exaction ; and ont
toft in Berwick, and the draught of two nets ir
Scypwell ; one toft in Renfrew of five perches, tht
?draught of one net for salmon, and to fish thert
for herrings freely ; and I forbid any one to exact
from you or your men any customs therefor.
?? I moreover grant to the aforesaid canons from
my exchequer yearly ten pounds for the lights o
the church, for the works of that church, anc
repairing these works for ever. I charge, more
over, all my servants and foresters of Stirlingshirt
and Clackmannan, that the abbot and convent havt
free power in all my woods and forests, of taking
as much timber as they please for the building 01
their church and of their houses, and for any purpost
of theirs; and I enjoin that their men who take
timber for their use in the said woods have my
firm peace, and so that ye do not permit them tc
be disturbed in any way ; and the swine, the property
of the aforesaid church, I grant in all my
woods to be quit of pannage [food].
?? I grant, moreover, to the aforesaid canons the
half of the fat, tallow, and hides of the slaughter 01
Edinburgh ; and a tithe of all the whales and seabeasts
which fall to me from Avon to Coldbrandspath;
and a tithe of all my pleas and gains from
Avon to Coldbrandspath ; and the half of my tithe
of cane, and of my pleas and gains of Cantyre and
Argyll ; and all the skins of rams, ewes, and lambs
of the castle and of Linlithgow which die of my
flock ; and eight chalders of malt and eight of meal,
with thirty *cart-loads of bush from Liberton ; and
one of my mills of Dean; and a tithe of the mill
of Liberton, and of Dean, and of the new mill of
*Edinburgh, and of Craggenemarf, as much as I
.have for the same in my domain, and as much as
JVuieth the White gave them of alms of the same
Crag. I
? ?? I grant likewise to them leave to establish a
burgh between that church and my burgh.* And
. I grant that the burgesses have common right of
selling their wares and of buying in my market,
?freely and quit of claim and custom, in like manner
.as my own burgesses ; and I forbid that any one
take in this burgh, bread, ale, or cloth, or any ware
-by force, or without consent of the burgesses. I
grant, moreover, that the canons be quit of toll
. Here them is no mention of the town of Hcr6Crgrrs, alleged to haw
occupied the site of the Canongate.
and of all custom in all my burghs and throughout
all my land: to wit, all things that they buy
and sell.
?And I forbid any one to take pledge on the
land of the Holy Rood, unless the abbot of that
place shall have refused to do right and justice. I
will, moreover, that they hold all that is above
written as freely and quietly as I hold my own
lands ; and I will that the abbot hold his court as
freely, fully, and honourably as the Bishop of St.
Andrews and the Abbots of Dunfermline and
Kelso hold their courts.
?Witnesses tRobert Bishop of St. Andrews,
John Bishop of Glasgow, Henry my son, William
my grandson, Edward the Chancellor, Ilerbert the
Chamberlain, Gillemichael the Earl, Gospatrick the
brother of Dolphin, Robert of Montague, Robert
of Burneville, Peter of Brus, Norman the Sheriff,
Oggu, Leising, Gillise, William of Grahani, Turston
of Crechtune, Blein the Archdeacon, Aelfric the
Chaplain, Walerain the Chaplain.? l-
This document is interesting from its simplicity,
and curious as mentioning mzny places still known
under the same names. 1
The canons regular of the order of St. Augustine
were brought there from St. Andrews in Fifeshire.
The order was first established in Scotlayd
by Alexander I. in 1114, and ere long possessed
twenty-eight monasteries or foundations in tqe
So, in process of time, ?? in the hollow betweqn
two hills ? where King David was saved from the
white hart, there rose the great abbey house,
with its stately cruciform church, having three
:ewers, of which but a fragment now remainsT
i melancholy ruin. Till its completion the canods
Mere housed in the Castle, where they resided till
rbout 1176, occupying an edifice which had preiliously
been a nunnery.
The southern aisle of the nave is the only part
if the church on which a roof remains, and of the
whole range of beautifully clustered pillars on the
iorth side but two fragments alone survive. The
mtire ruin retains numerous traces of the original
vork of the twelfth century, though enriched by
he additions of subsequent ages. With reference
o the view of it in the old print which has been
:opied in these pages,$ it has been observed
hat therein ?the abbey church appears with a
econd square tower, uniform with the one still
tanding at the north of the great doorway. The
ransepts are about the usual proportions, but the
:hoir is much shorter than it is proved from other
kingdom. I
-
t ?Charters relatiagta Cityof E&bwgh,?&u xr43-x5+ao. 4ta. 1871.
f see ante, vol. i, p. 5. ... I KING DAVID?S CHARTER. 43 sake of trade ; and if it happen that they do no come, I grant the aforesaid ...

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GENERAL INDEX. 371
118-121 ; tomb of, Corstorphine
Church, 111. 121
Forrester?s Wynd, I. 121. 122, 148,
219, 11. 105 239 111. 118 124
Forster Geheh i11. I I &Z
Forth And Bredtford. k r l of. I.
54
The, 111. 292-294
brother, ib.
the, 11. 346, 363
111. 90, 124
11. 176, 111. go
111. 311
288 111. 318, 323
111. 106, 323
Forth Street, 11. I, 185 ?go
Fortifications of fnchkeith Island,
Fortune, Matthew, 111. go; hk
?I Fortunes of Nigel,? Allusions tc
Fortune?s I?avern, I. 231, 234, 267>
Fortune?s Tontine, Princes Street,
Fothergll, Dr., physician, 11. 3oa,
Foulis of Colinton, Sir James, 11.
Fouli of Ravelston, Family of,
Foulis of Ravelston, Sir James,
Foulis of Woodhall, Sir Jurres, the
Foulis &ily, ??he, 111. 323
Foulis?s Close 11. 159
Fountain bedre Holyrood Palace,
Fountakbridge, 11. 132, 215, 218,
Fountain Close, I. 276, 277, 11. 147
Fountain Well, The, I. 144, ZIO
Fountainhall, Lord, I. 58, 60, 97,
146, 160, 169, 170, 202, 238, 251,
270, 11. 28, 34, 35. 44 59, 75, 81,
2x7, 223, 225, aa6, Sa1, 315,
111. 267
painter 111. 5
11. 79 *81
2x9, 221, 222
346, 367, 111. 13, 42, 46, 1201 150s
?55,330
Fawkes, Brigadier, I. 32% 111.
Fowler, W i l l i , House of, I. 102
236 .
Fowler?s Close, 1. 276
Fox?s Holes, The, 11. 313
Franc& Bell?s Close, 11. 241
Frank, Capture of Edinburgh
Castle by William, I..z+
Franklin?s, Benjamin, visit to Edinburgh
11. 282
Fraser, hexander, Lord Strichen,
Fraser, Alexander (see Gilles ie)
Fraser, Luke, of the High &hool,
Fraser Major Andrew 11. 139 ~t)
Fraser? Tytler, Lard Woodhduse-
F&r Simon 111. 351
Frase;of Beahrt, I. 66
Fraser of Strichen Mrs 11, 163
Fraser the music& I.?;~o
Frederkk Street 11. 151, 162;
famous reside&, 11. 162
Free Assembly Hall 11. 97
Free Church Colleg;?, I. 86, 11. 95
s6, 97, IF Phte 18 ; library oi
the, 11. 97, 9; its donors, 11.
1.054
11. 2 9 4 7 295, 327
lee U. 110
98
Free Church of Scotland, Offices of
FreeChurcR, Founding of the, I I. 144
Free Church of St. John 1. 310
Free Gardeners of bmughton
Free General Assembly 11. I
FIK St. Cuthbert?sChirch, 41. 215
Fw Tron Church, 11. 275
French ambassador?s chapel, Cowgate,
11. 258 *z60
French influe;= in the Scottish
court, 1. 44
French prisoners, The Castle a
receptacle for 1. 71,78; attempted
escape oc II.?248
Friars? Wynd, I. 219
Friends of the People, Treasonable
practices of the, 11. 236,237, 343,
111. 67, 278.
Friends? meeting-house I. 381
Fullertan, Mansion oi Adam, I.
Fynd Marison on the manners of
Fynie, Agnes, the supped witch,
Fyvie, Alexander Lord, I. 167;
the, 11. 5
barony, 11. 183
277 278
I1.330,331
Provost, 11. a80
the Edinburgh people, I. 198
G
Gabriel?r Road 11. 114, 115, 117,
Gace,?M.de, and Edinburgh Castle,
Gaelic church, The, 11. 184, 235
171 182, I I I . ? ~ ~
I. 67
25+ 274
Gaelic Free Church 11. 214
Gainsborough, the hinter, 11. 89
Gairdner Dr. 11. 335
Gairns o/Gre&hill Adam 111. 47
Galachlaw Hill, Liberton, h I , 33c
Gallery of the kings, Holyrood
Galloway, Alexander Oar1 of, 11.
257; his wife?s ostentatious dis.
play, ib.
Galloway House, 11. 257
Callowlee, The, 1-117,118, 11. 115,
111. 151, 154, 1551 15% 157
Gallows The 11. *z 3
Galt, tie ndvelist, 41. 142, 2o0,
111. 74
?Garb of Old Caul,? the air, 11.
Gardenstone, Lord, I. 171.172 11.
rza, III. 75 ; his passion foriigs,
Palace, 11. 74, 76, 77. 79
244, 111. 26
1. 172
Gardiner, Colonel I. 324
Gardiner?s CresceAt 11. 215
Gamock the CoLenanter and
others? I. 160 161, 298, IIi. 156
Garrick?David?II. 23 III.z4o,z41
Gas, F k t ?use?of, in? Edinburgh,
I. 203
GateTower I. g
Gavin Do&, %ishopofDunkid,
I. 39 263, 11. 251 255 285
Gavin kamilton, Aibot bf Kilwinning,
I. 298
Gavinloch?s Land, I. 327
Gawin Dunbar I. 42 15
Gay, the wt?I I& J? , 38;
house wRere?h; lived k $\7
Gayfie? House, II.136,161, 185,
111. 165
Gaytield Place 111. 161 162
Gaytield Squak 11. 284, 111. SI,
Ged, ;he inventor of stereotyping,
Geddes, Alexander, artist, I. 366,
11. ?87
Geddes, MurderofJames, I. xg4,1gs
Geddes Jenny I. 51 744 111.184;
riots ?on acciunt df, I.? 122 ; her
stool I. *146 11. 87
Gedde;, Robe;, Laird of Scotstoun,
I. 253
Geddes? Close I. 2 6
Geikie ,F?rof&r ?II. 27
General Assemhl;, The, I. go, asg,
2611 11. 39,& 797 133 135 144,
233, m%,zg8,335; meebngdf the,
Plate 13
General Assembly of the Free
Church 11. 146
General Asemblv Hall. I. 210, 11.
161 162
11. 335, 382
- , - -
230
Gyeral Post Ofice, Edinburgh, I.
General?s Entry, The, 11.327, *332,
Generals Watch Currie, 111. 331
Gentle, Bailie, I.? 107
Gentlemen Pensioners, I. 51
Geordie Boyd?s Mud Brig, 11. 82
Geordie More, the dwarf, 111. 23
George Inn The old 11. 326,379
George Maiter of d g u s , 11. 279
George 11. Statue of I1 298
George IYI., Sub&ion of the
Jacobites to It. 247; proposed
statue to, If. 194, 270; and the
volunteers 11. 188
George IV. bridge, I. x m , 123, 217,
291,292, *293,294,378, Plate 11,
11. 238, 242, 258, asg, 262, 271,
274, 326
Georee IV.?s visit to Edinbnrrh.
357
* 333, ,345
11-108, 13, 124, 165, 287, $1;
354, 111. 74, 77. 86, 146; ~ P U -
larity of, 1. 350, 11. 5 8 ; prqlamation
of, 111. 107 ; his landing
at Leith, III. d; Chantrey?s
statue of, 11.151
George Square, I. n74,II. 95, 255,
269, 2831 333. 33-344, 345, 347,
358, 111. 142 ; view of, 11. * 341
George Street, 11. 86, 91~92, 118,
?3P-15?~ 153 164 165 172 173
175. III. 76; hew of, b d rg
German Church, The, 111. 88
?Giant?s Causeway,? The, 11. 144
Giants The Irish 11. IZI
Gmnt?; Brae Leilh Links 111. a&
Gibbet and h t e r y o n &ton Hill,
Gibbet Toll The 111. 211
Gibbet 11.646
Gibbet Stree;. 11. 346
11. I01
Gibbet Toll, 11. 34%; 355
Gibbs? Close, Canongate, 11.23,227
Gibson, Sir Alexander, Abduction
of, I. 168
Gibson of Pentland, Sir Aiexander,
Gibson-Craig, Sir James, 11. ~23,
1% 111.322
Gibson-Craig, Sir W i l l i , I. 226,
111. 322
Gibson - Maitland, Sir Alexandei
Charles 11. 125
Gibson oiDurie, Thomas, I. I&)
Gibson the painter 11. go
GifforbPark 11. 3;9
Gilbert Grah?am, painter, 11.88
Gilbertoun 111. 149, rgo
Gilchrist, hr. John Borthwick, 11.
ilderwy Execution of, I. 151
Gillespie: the Brothers, III. 3
Gikspie?s Hospital, 111. 31, H,
37,41,@ ; Black Tom?s ghost,
Gillespie?s School, 111. 33
Gillies Lord 1. 135
CilIilAd, th; goldsmith, 111. 76
Gillis Bishop, 111.45
GilloLs Close, XI. 23
Gilmerton, I. 95,155 111.158~343,
344, 346, 351 ; i& local history
111. 343 ; the manor-house of thi
Kinlochs ib
Gilmerton&&e, III. 344,345351
Gilmore Park, 11. 219
Gilmore Place United Presbyterian
Church 111. 30
GilmoursbCraigmillar,The I. 169,
111. 57, 58, 5% 338; t d i r successors.
111.61, 62
Girls? House of Refuge 11.218
Girnel Craig, The, 11. ;13
Girthcross The 11.~,41,72,111.~
Giuglini Signor: I.. 351
Gladiatdrial exhibition at Holy.
Glcdstbne, Su John, 111.250, *qz,
Gladstone, Sir Thomas, 111.~51
Gladstnne, Right Hon. W. E., 111.
Gladstone family, The, 111. 25
Gladstone, Thomas, I. IM
Gladstone Place, Leiih, 111. 251
Gladstone?s Land, I. 19
Glammis, John Lord, 1. 83, Q
Glammis, Master of, I. zog, 210
Glasgow, Archbishops of, I. 38, ag,
?Glasgow Arms,? The, I. 178
Glasgow, Earls of I. 16 11. 339,
111.26 . Conntekof, I? 144, 239
Glasgowkcad 11.214
Glasgow Uniod Bank Company, 11.
Glass House Company, The Leith,
Glass Works, The Leith, 111. 1%
Glencairn. Earl of I. qq. 106.11.
111. 319
G335
111. 34
r o d 11. 75
314
24, 250
15% 258, 265 263
?5?
111.280
23% ?73
17 58, 73.101, 123, 1%174.
334 11
Gledcoe, Massacre of, I. 170
Glengay: the Highland chief, I.
Glenble Terrace, 111. 30
Glenlee Lord 11. a70
Glenorihy, Vi&onnt, I. 238 111.317
Glenorchy, Lady, I. 238-1247, 359
-362: 11. 338: its ministers, I.
360, 361 ; Free Church, 111.158;
the school I. 361
Glimpses of hdinbnrgh in 1783.11.
1x9
Gloucester Place. II.qg, zoo, 111.74
Glover Edmnnd, the actor I. 343
Ccdolihin, Earl of 11. 3 .I36
Godscroft thechronicler,!. 35 11.8
Gogar,II1.318;itslocalhrsfo;l,ib.
Gogar Bmk, 111. 319
-361 111. 317: Chapel Of, I. 360
Gogm Green, 111. 37
Gogm Stone village, PII. 318
Gold mines on Cravford Muir,I.&
v d e n Acre, 111.,?5
Golden Charter The, I,34,II.278
Goldie Principal? 11. 278
Goldsrhh Olivgr, 11. 2% ; an old
tailor?s &I1 ab.
Goldsmiths &all I 274
Goldsmiths, The kdinburgh, I. 174
Golf, Nativecountry of, 11. II :.the
game of, 111. 30, 31; vanous
golf clubs, 111. 30; golf balls,
111. I1
376
Golf HGuse, III. 262, 265
Golf Tavern 111.30
Golfers, Ednburgh Compaoy oC
111. 31
260-262
Golfers? Land 11. 10, II
Golfing on thd Linka of h i $ 111.
G d u Prof John 111.27 68
GoodsGed o<ScienAes, 111.?~
%dtrees, 111.340,3+2 ;its owners,
G& Dub The I1 346
Gordon. DAkeof, L?b, 62, 75, 78,
8% 91, 11- 1% 1331 367, 111. 14%
258, 338,365 ; house of, 1.93
Gordon, Uuches of, I. 88, r q , 275,
367, 11. 16, SI, 27, 165, 339, 111.
1% 1549 163
Gordon, Lord Adam, 11. 311, 342,
111. 104
Gordon Lord 111. 182
C;ordoi Sir kdam 11. 76
Gordon: Sir John,?II. 159
Gordon of Cluny Colonel John,
11. 167 ; his ,Lie, 11. 218 ; the
family of, 111. 41, 42.
Gordon of Earlston, Su John, 111.
I?
?Y Gordon of Ellon James, Murder of
children of, Ii. 182
Gordon of Haddo, Sir John, I. 146,
11. 87. Sir George 111. 57
Cordon if Kindroch?I11. 182
Gordon of Lesmoir, &U Alexander,
111.161 ; his widow, 11.123~111.
16r
GordondLetterfonrie, III.zo3,w
Gordan of Newhalt I. 121
Gardon of Pitluri Si William,
Gordon Patrick I. 55
I;ordodof Rotdemay, I. 95, 187,
364r I1. 2~ 39. 731 1 0 1 2 103, 131,
133, 225, 234, 246 a68 286 302
323, 367, 37 IIi. 7 ;?his dLds?I
eye new ofhinburgh 11. 280,
281 Lis maps, sic Its# of
illustmtimrr .)
111. 182
192, 21% 298, P, 316, 34% 362,
Gordan, the goldsmith 111 42
Gordon, Hon. Alexander, i. 282
Gordon LadyJean I 282
Gordon? Lady Katl$ine 111. 135
Gordo; Mn., danghte; of Prof.
Wikm 1I.1~0,156,1g5,1II.7+,75
h e , Th; river, 111. 318
ksford House, I. 1%
>orford?s Clau, I. 118, 1x9, 11. 82,
111. 66
hurlay Robert, House of I. 116, * izo, ;z3 ; his son John, ?I. 116
hwrie, Fad of, I. 175, p5, 316,
111: 134. 135
kwrie conspiracy, 111. i34, 135
3raceMount Liberton Ill. 30
>raham, Dr. lames, th; quad, 11.
242, 310; hu lectures, 11. 342
;rah.am, General, husband of Miss
Femer 11. ?3
:darn, j a m s eilles ie architect,
11- I79 200, 370. 11% ;5, 327
>raham, patrick, Archbishopof%.
?rabam the painter 11. go JAG Portrait ofhrx.. II. ss
; A m of Halyards, I. 195
>raham of Netherby, Sir Jamhham.
Miss Clementina Stirling,
Andrews, 11. 55
11. 162
11. zq;herpwerofpersonatioG,
11. aoB
>rammar or High School of Leith,
111. *265
>rammar School of Edinburgh, 11,
287,301
>raumont, Countess of, 11.58 ~
144 ... INDEX. 371 118-121 ; tomb of, Corstorphine Church, 111. 121 Forrester?s Wynd, I. 121. 122, 148, 219, ...

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iv OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. -
CHAPTER VI.
THE VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH.
PAGE
Lady Sinclair of Dunbeath-Bell's Mills-Water of Leith Village-Mill at the Dean-Tolbwth there-Old Houses-The Dean and Poultry
-Lands thereof-The Nisbet Family-A Legend-The Dean Village-Belgrave Crescent-The Parish Church-Stewart's Hospital-
Orphan Hospita-John Watson's Hospital-The Dean Cemetery-Notable Interments there . . . . . . . . . 62
CHAPTER VII.
VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (continued).
The Dean Bridge-Landslips at Stockbridge-Stone Coffins-Floods in the Leith-Population in ~74z-St. Bernard's Estate-Rods Tower-
" Chritopher North " in Aune Street-De Quincey there-St. Bernard's Well-Cave at Randolph Cliff-Veitchs Square-Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in the Locality-Sir Henry Raeburn-Old Deanhaugh House ' 70
CHAPTER VIII.
VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH (concluded).
E.niiuent Men connected with Stockbridge-David Robert7. RA.--K Macleay, R.S.A.-James Browne, LL.D.-James Hogg-Sir J. Y.
Simpson, Bart. -Leitch Ritchie-General Mitchell-G. R. Luke-Comely Bank-Fettes Collegc--Craigleith Quarry-Groat Hall-Silver
Mills-St. Stephen's Church-The Brothers Lauder-Jam- Drummond, R.S.A.-Deaf and -Dumb Institution-Dean Bank Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -The Edinburgh Academy -78
CHAPTER IX.
CANONMILLS AND INVERLEITH.
CanonmillgThe Loch-Riots of 1784-The Gymnasium-Tanfield HalL-German Church-Zoological Gardens-Powder Hall-Rosebank
Cemetery-Red BraesThe Crawfords of Jordanhill-Bonnington-Bishop Keith-The Sugar Refinery-Pilrig-The Balfour Family-
Inverleith-Ancient ProprietorsThe Touris-The Rocheids-Old Lady Inverleith-General Crocket-Royal Botanical GardensMr.
JamesMacNab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
CHAPTER X.
THE WESTERN NEW TOWN.
Coltbridge-Roseburn House-Traditions of it-Murrayfield-Lord Henderland-Beechwood-General Leslie-The Dundaxs-Ravelston-
The Foulises and Keiths-Craigcrook-Its fint Proprietors-A Fearful Tragedy-Archibald Constable-Lord Jeffrey-Davidson's
Mains-LauristonCastle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IOZ
CHAPTER XI,
C O R S T O R P H I N E .
ContorphintSupposed Origin of the N a m t T h e Hill-James VI. hunting there-The Cross-The Spa-The Dicks of Braid and con^
phine-" Contorphine Cream '%onvalerent House-A Wraith-The Original Chapel-The Collegiate Church-Its Provosts-Its
Old Tombs-The Castle and Loch of Cohtorphine-The Forrester Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 12
CHAPTER XII.
rHE OLD EDINBURGH CLUBS.
Of Old Clubs, and some Notabilia of Edinburgh Life in the Last Century-The Horn Order-The Union Club-Impious Clubs--Assembly
of Birds-The Sweating Club-The Revolution and certain other Clubs-The Beggars' Benison -The Capillaim Club-The Industrious
Company-The Wig, Exulapian, Boar, Country Dinner, The East India, Cape, Spendthrift, Pious, Antemanurn, Six Feet, and
Shakespeare Clubs-Oyster Cellars-" Frolics "-The "Duke of Edinburgh" . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. - CHAPTER VI. THE VALLEY OF THE WATER OF LEITH. PAGE Lady Sinclair of ...

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Leith.1 THE CUSTOM-HOUSE 259
EASTWARD of Leith lie those open downs called
the Links, once of much greater extent than we
find them, and doubtless at one time connected
ground to the westward of the pier, when it was
blowing fresh, with a heavy sea, and before any
assistance could be given she was driven upon
the beach, near the citadel, having beaten off her
rudder and otherwise considerably damaged herself
[sic]. They are employed in taking out the
cargo, and if the weather continues moderate, it
is expected she will be got off.?
The waves of the sea are now distant nearly two
thousand feet north from the spot where the wreck
took place.
Three of the bastions, and two of the gates of
the citadel, were standing when the old ?Statistical
Account ? was published, in 1793.
Before quitting this quarter of North Leith we
may quote the following rather melancholy account
given of the latter in 1779, in a work entitled ?The
Modem British Traveller,? folio, and now probably
out of print.
About a mile from the city is Leith, which may
be called the warehouse of Edinburgh. It is
divided into two parts by a small rivulet, over
which is a neat bridge of three arches. That part
called South Leith is both large and populous ; it
has an exceeding handsome church, a jail, a
custom-house [the old one in the Tolbooth Wynd],
but the streets are irregular, nor do any of the
buildings merit particular attention. It was
formerly fortified, but the works were destroyed
by the English in 1559 [?I, and not any remains
are now to be seen. That part called North
Leith is a very poor place, without any publick
building, except an old Gothic church ; there is a
small dock, but it is only capable of admitting
ships of a hundred and fifty tons. The harbour is
generally crowded with vessels from different parts;
and from here to Kinghorn, in Fifeshire, the
passage-boat crosses every tide, except on Sundays. . . . Great numbers of the citizens of Edin-
?burgh resort to Leith on parties of pleasure, and
to regale themselves with the sea air and oysters,
which are caught here in great abundance. . . .
with the wide, open, and sandy waste that extended
beyond the Figgate Burn to Magdalene
Bridge,
The town is under the jurisdiction of a bailiff CT],
but it may be called a part of, and is subject to the
jurisdiction of, Edinburgh, in virtue of a charter
granted by King Robert the Eruce.?
The Manners? Church, a rather handsome building,
with two smail spires facing the east, is built
upon a portion of the site of the citadel, and
schools are attached to it. The church was designed
by John Henderson of Edinburgh, and
was erected in 1840.
In this quarter Sand Port Street, which led to the
then beach, with a few old houses neax the citadel,
and the old church of St. Ninian, comprised the.
whole of North Leith at the time of the Union.
There the oldest graving-dock was constructed in
1720, and it yet remains, behind a house not far
from the bridge, dated-according to Parker
Lawson-162 2.
The present custom-house of Leith was built in
1812, on the site where H.M. ship Fu~y was built
in I 780 ; and an old native of Leith, who saw her
launched, had the circumstance impressed upon
his memory, as he related to Robertson (whose
?Antiquities ? were published in 185 I), ?by a carpenter
having been killed by the falling of the
shores.?
The edifice cost A12,617, is handsome, and in
the Grecian style, adorned in front with pillars and
pediment It stands at the North Leith end of the
lower drawbridge.
The officials here consist of a collector, twb
chief clerks, three first and seven second-class
clerks, with one extra ; eight writers, two surveyors,
eighteen examining officers, and a principal coast
officer for Fisherrow. The long room is handsome,
and very different from its predecessor in the Tolbooth
Wynd, which was simply divided by long
poles, through which entries were passed.
In May, 1882, the building at Dock Place (in
this quarter) known as the Sailors? Home, was
converted into the Mercantile Marine Department
and Government Navigation School.
C H A P T E R XXIX.
LEITH  -THE LINKS. ... THE CUSTOM-HOUSE 259 EASTWARD of Leith lie those open downs called the Links, once of much greater extent ...

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