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THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, Restored from Original Drawings, Models, etc. (After the Print published in 1852 by Messrs. W. & A.K. Johnston.)

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The Mound.] THE SCOTTISH GALLERY. 89 -
seen Sir Noel Paton?s two wonderful pictures of
Oberon and Titania; others by Erskine Nicol,
Herdman, Faed, W. Fettes, Douglas, James Drummond,
Sir George Harvey, Horatio Macculloch,
R. S. Lauder, Roberts, Dyce, and Etty, from whose
brush there are those colossal paintings of U Judith
with the Head of Holofernes ?? and ?The Woman
Interceding for the Vanquished.?
Among the many fine paintings bequeathed to
this Scottish Gallery is Gainsborough?s celebrated
portrait of hfrs. Graham, depicting a proud and
are outlined ; and the great and accurately detailed
picture of the battle of Bannockburn.
There is a small full-length picture of Bums,
painted by Nasmyth, as a memento of the poet,
and another by the same artist, presented by the
poet?s son, Colonel W. Nicol Burns, and a fine
portrait of Sir John Moore, the property of the
officers of the Black Watch,
The choice collection of water colours embraces
some of the best works of I? Grecian ? Rilliams ;
a series of drawings bequeathed to the Gallery
INTERIOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
beautiful girl, grief for whose death in early fife
caused her husband, the future Lord Lynedoch,
?the hero of Earossa,? to have it covered up that
he might never look upon it again. There are
also some beautiful and delicate works by Greuze,
the gift of Lzdy Murray ; and one by Thomson of
Duddingstone, presented by Lady Stuart of
Allanbank ; and Landseer?s I? Rent Day in the
Wilderness,? a Jacobite subject, bequeathed by
the late Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart.
Not the least interesting works here are a few
that were among the last touched by deceased
artists, and left unfinished on their easels, such as
Wilkie?s ?John Knox Dispensing the Sacrament
at Calder House,? of which a few of the faces alone
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by Mr. Scott, including examples of Robert
Cattermole, Collins, Cox, Girtin, Prout, Nash,
and Cnstall; and a set of studies of the most
striking peculiarities of the Dutch, Spanish, Venetian,
and Flemish schools. Of great interest, too,
are the waxen models by Michael Angelo.
The Gallery also contains a collection of
marbles and bronzes, bequeathed by Sir James
Erskine of Tome, and a cabinet of medallion
portraits and casts fnm gems, by James and
William Tassie, the celebrated modellers, who,
though born of obscure parents in Renfrewshire,
acquired such fame and reputation that the first
cabinets in Europe were open to their use.
The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting and

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306 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd.
housses, biggins, and yards adjacent thereto, and
by and contigue to the samyn, to be ane Hospitd to
the Puir, and to be biggit and uphaldane by the Guid
Toun and the Elemosinaries to be placet thakinto.
the samyn, it was not his mind to lauborit to his
awin behuif,but to the GuidToun as said is,and therefore,
presentlie gaess (gives) the gift thereof to the
Guid Toun, and transferit all right and tytill he had,
hes or might have thereto, in to the Guid Toun,
fra him and his airs for ever, and promisit that quhat
right hereafter they desyrit him to make thereof, or
-suretie, he would do this samyn, and that he, nor
his airs, would never pretend rycht thereto, and
. . . . and notwithstanding that he has laborit
The history of this old ecclesiastical edifice is intimately
connected with that of the Trinity Hospital,
founded by the same munificent queen, and though
the original edifice has passed away, her foundation
is still the oldest charitable institution in heradopted
city of Edinburgh. According to her plan or desire,
the collegiate buildings were built immediately admen,
whom they required only to know the Lord?s
Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and to be neither
drunkinsom tailyiours,? bouncers, nor swearers.
Under the new rggime, the first persons 011
James Gelly, John Muir, James Wright, John
Wotherspoon, Isabel Bernard, and Janet Gate.
In 1578, when Robert Pont had been seven
years Provost of Trinity, and the establishment of
a university in Edinburgh was contemplated, the
magistrates endeavoured to arrange with him for
having their new institution grafted on the old
foundatioa of Mary of Gueldres, and to be called
the University of Trinity College; but the idea
record as being placed in it, are Robert Murdoch,
this of his awin free motive will, for the favour and
luiff that he bears the Guid Toun.?
Notwithstanding all this verbose minute, his
grant was burdened with the existing interests,
vested in the officials of the establishment, who
had embraced the principles of the Reformation,
and passed a series of new rules for their bedes-

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 1 83
He was one of the original members Fof the Antiquarian Society, instituted
chiefly by the exertions of the Earl of Buchan;’ and so early as 1768 he had
spent nearly twelve months in London, in the familyof Sir Robert Herries,
where he became a member of the London Literary Club, and formed an
acquaintance with the principal literary characters of that period. Among the
latter was the celebrated painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, who executed two
admirable portraits of Sir William Forbes.
By such an extended circle of acquaintance, Sir William was led into an
interesting and extensive correspondence, for which he evidently had a high
relish, although almost the only relic of his talents in composition is an
“Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D.,” author of the
“Essay on Truth” (in answer to some of the Essays of David Hume, the
celebrated philosopher and historian), ‘‘ The Minstrel,” etc. This work was
published in 1806, and has passed through three or four editions. It includes
many original letters of his early and esteemed friend, and is an excellent
specimen of what might have been expected from Sir William’s pen, had not
perhaps higher and more important duties engrossed the greater portion of his
time.
Sir William’s circle of friends, however, was by no means confined to men
of professional literary talents, or to those who might benefit by his patronage.
He wit~i intimately acquainted with Lord Melville and with Mr. Pitt, who had
frequent interviews with Sir William on subjects of finance. In short, his house
in Edinburgh was the resort of all ranks; and few foreigners of distinction
visited Scotland without having letters of introduction to him. He was
frequently offered a seat in Parliament, both for the city of Edinburgh and the
county of Aberdeen, but he uniformly declined the honour; in doing so he
sacrificed the gratification of a laudable ambition to a sense of duty, which he
conceived to be limited to the sphere in which he had already been the promoter
of so many benefits. From similar praiseworthy motives he also declined the
honour of an Irish Peerage proposed to him by Mr. Pitt in 1799,
The health of Sir William began to decline in 1791, at which period he had
a severe illness, and in 1802 Lady Forbes died, a circumstance which sensibly
affected his spirits. On his return from London in 1806, whither he had
been summoned as a witness on Lord Melville’s trial, he began to feel
symptoms of decay ; and, after having been confined to the house from the 28th
June, he expired on the 12th November 1806, surrounded by his friends, and
inspired by every hope which a virtuous and useful life is so capable of affording,
Sir William had a large family; besides his eldest son and successor, he left
Lord Medwyn, Mr. George Forbes, and five daughters, four of whom are now
married-Lady Wood, Mrs. M‘Donnell of Glengarry, Mrs. M‘Kenzie of
Portmore, and Mrs. Skene of Rubislaw. His successor, Sir William, was cut
off in the middle of his years and usefulness, leaving three sons. The eldest,
1780 t i the period of his demise.
1 Sir William held the situation of Treasurer of the Antiquarian Society, from ita institution in

... SKETCHES. 1 83 He was one of the original members Fof the Antiquarian Society, instituted chiefly by ...

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The Water of Leith.] THE?HOLE I? THE WA?. 77
appointed Limner for Scutland. He always resided
in the old house at St. Bernard?s. The
last pictures on which he was engaged were two
portraits of Sir Walter Scott, one for himself and
the other for Lord Montague. He died, after a
short illness, from a general decay of the system,
on the 8th of July, 1823, at St. Bernard?s, little
more than a stone?s throw from where he was born.
His loss, said Sir Thomas Lawrence, had left a
blank in the Royal Academy, as well as Scotland,
which could not be filled up, By his wife, who
:survived him ten years, he had two sons : Peter,
who died in his nineteenth year ; and Henry, who,
with his wife and family, lived under the same roof
with his father, and to whose children the latter
,of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Imperial
Academy of Florence, of the Royal Academy of
London, and other Societies. The number of
-portraits he painted is immense, and he was still
hale and vigorous, spending his time between his
studio, his gardens, and the pleasures of domestic
3ociety, when George IV. came to Edinburgh in the
year 1822, and knighted him at Hopetoun House.
The sword used by the king was that of Sir
Alexander Hope. In the following May he was
century it was occupied by Count Leslie. Mrs
Ann Inglis, Sir Henry Raeburn?s stepdaughter,
conthued to occupy the house, together with her
sons. In this house was born, it is said, Admiral
Deans Dundas, commander of the British fleet in
the Black Sea during the Crimean war. Latterly
it was the residence of working people, every room
being occupied by a separate family.
In Dean Street there long stood a little cottage
known as the Hole r? the Wu?, a great resort of
school-boys for apples, pears, and gooseberries,
retailed there by old ?? Lucky Hazlewood,? who
lived to be ninety years of age. It was overshadowed
by birch-trees of great size and
beauty.
left the bulk of his fortune, consisting of groundrents
on his property at St. Bernard?s, which, in his
later years, had occupied much of his leisure time
by planning it out in streets and villas.
Old Deanhaugh House, which was pulled down
in 1880, to make room for the extension of Leslie
Place, was the most venerable mansion in the
locality, standing back a little way from the Water
of Leith j a short avenue branching off from that of i St. Bernard?s led to it. About the middle of this

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150 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
stone quarries of Craigleith and Granton), several species of L~idodmdronan d
some. characteristic ferns, particularly the Sphojte~isa# nis and Adianfi2e.r
Lindserefomrj, and other forms. Some of the shales are charged with enfomustram
(Lqkdifia Smf&Bura‘zgdmk) and the scales, teeth, bones, and cop’rolites
of ganoid fishes such as PaZmnrjcus, Ewynofus, Megaiichfhys, and Rhizodus,
The marine intercalations are indicated by the presence of such forms as
Spirorbis, LinguZa, Schizodus, Myaiina, BelZ~rojhon, and Orfhoceras. Some
of the individual strata of this series are well known, either from their geological
or industrial interest. Thus the Burdiehouse limestone, long quarried
about four miles south from Edinburgh, is formed apparently from the
aggregation of the cases of little crustacea, chiefly of the genus Lcperdifia,
and has yielded a large number of well-preserved plants and fishes. The
ironstone nodules of the Wardie beach Are likewise noted for their fossil remains.
The sandstones of Craigleith, Granton, Redhall, Hunibie, and Binny have
supplied the best building-stones in this part of Scotland. More recently some
of the highly carbonaceous shales have been turned to account as profitable
sources of mineral oil.
Next in order comes the Carboniferous Limestone series, which in the
Mid-Lothian coal-field attains a thickness of 1220 feet. It consists chiefly of
sandstone and shales, with some bands of marine limestone and many valuable
skams of coal. Like the rest of this formation in Scotland, it was formed in
wide shallow lagoons, which at one time were covered with vegetation as the
mangrove swamps of the tropics now are, an’d at another, owing to the subsidence
of the ground, were submerged beneath salt water in which characteristic
marine forms of life abounded. The former condition is represented by the
coal-seams which consist of the compressed and mineralised vegetation that
grew upon the spot; the latter by the seams of limestone, full of crinoids,
corals, and brachiopods. Spines of various shark-like fishes, as well as scales
and teeth of others like the bony pike of the North American lakes, occur
actually on some of the coal-seams, one seam in particular being marked by
such an abundance of fish remains as to form a kind of ‘bone-bed.’ The
plants include the usual Carboniferous genera, as Eepidudmdron, Si@Za&,
Cdamites, Cordazh, Sphenojteris, Pecopierzk, etc.
The lower limestones are thickest. They may be seen at Gilmerton, and,
still better, at the great quarries of Cousland, Darcy, and Crichton. Their
fossils agree with those of the true ‘Mountain Limestone’ bf the centre and
northern English counties. The coal-seams form what is known locally as
the ‘ Edgecoal ’ series, from the fact that owing to a large dislocation which

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88 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH., [The Mound.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE MOUND (concluded).
The Art Galleries-The National Gallery The Various Collections-The Royal Smttish Academy-Early Scottish Artists-The Institution-
The First Exhibition in Edinburgh-Foundation of the Admy-Presidents: G. Wataon, Sir William Allan. Sir J. W. Godon,
Si Gcorge Harvcy, Sir Daniel bfaatec-The Spalding Fund.
THEIR objects being akin, the Royal Icstitution and
Art Galleries stand in convenient proximity to each
other. The formation of the latter was one of the
results of the Report, referred to, by Sir John Shaw
Lefevre on the constitution of the Board of Manufactures
; and subsequent negotiations with the
Treasury led to the erection of the Galleries, the
foundation stone of which was laid by the Prince
Consort on the 30th of August, 1850, and they
were opened in 1859. The Treasury furnished
;t;30,000, the Board ~oo,ooo, and the city a
portion of the site at a nominal rate. By these
arrangements the Scottish people have a noble
National Gallery of great and increasing value, and
the Royal Scottish Academy has also been provided
with saloons for its annual exhibitions.
Designed by W. H, Playfair, the Galleries are so
situated that a railway tunnel crosses beneath their
foundation and a lofty green bank overlooks the
south end. They form a crucifom edifice, the
main length of which lies north and south, with a
broad and high transept intersecting the centre ;
at the south and north ends, or fronts, are beautiful
Ionic porticoes, and on each face of the transept
is a handsome hexastyle Ionic portico. The
eastern range is occupied by the Royal Scottish
Academy?s Exhibition from February till May in
each year, and the western range is permanently
used as the National Gallery, containing a collection
of paintings by old masters and modern artists and
a few works of sculpture, among which, terminating
the long vista of the saloons, is Flaxman?s fine
statue of Robert Bums. The first of these contains
specimens of the Flemish, Dutch, and French
schools of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ;
the central or second saloon specimens of the
Jtalian, Venetian, Genoese, Florentine, Flemish,
and other schools of the same period; while the
third room is devoted to examples of the Scottish
school.
The collections generally include some fine
specimens of Vandyke, Titian, Tintoretto, Velasquez,
Paul Veronese, Spagnoletto, Rembrandt, and others.
There is also a noble series of portraits by Sir
Thomas Lawrence, Sir Henry Raeburn, George
Watson (first President of the Academy), Sir John
Watson Gordon, and Graham Gilbert. In one
of the rooms set apart for modem works may be

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 413
for a number of years, and produced a work, entitled “Record of the Public
Ministry of Jesus Christ,” which was published at Edinburgh in 1798.
Mr. Sibbald again returned to Edinburgh, where, in 1797, he brought out a
musical publication, entitled “ The Vocal Magazine.” In a year or two afterwards
the bookselling stock devolved into his own hands, and he continued to carry on
business as a bookseller until his death. His next work, published in 1802, and
by which he is best known, was a selection from the early Scottish poets, entitled
‘‘ A Chronicle of Scottish Poetry, with a Glossary of the Scottish Language ”-
a work of taste and erudition, and a valuable accession to Scottish literature.
Mr. Sibbald died at his lodgings in Leith Walk, at the age of fifty-six, in
April 1803. “He was a man of eccentric but amiable character. He belonged
to a great number of social clubs; and was beloved by so many of his
associates in those fraternities, that for some years after his death they
celebrated his birth-day by a social meeting.”
The third figure, with a print of Martin the auctioneer in his hand, is
GEORGE FAIRHOLME, Esq. of Greenhill, near Edinburgh, and of Greenknow,
in Berwickshire. This gentleman, together with his younger brother
William (of Chapel, in Berwickshire), had long resided in Holland as eminent
bankers, where they realised a very considerable fortune ; and, on their return
to their native country, they became extensive shareholders in the Bank of
Scotland, and in other public securities.
While in Holland, Mr. Fairholme had an opportunity of cultivating a strong
natural taste for the fine arts ;’ and was subsequently well known as a keen and
judicious collector of pictures and rare works of art. His collection of the
inimitable etchings of Rembrandt was nearly complete ; and these, together
with his cabinet of pictures, are now the property of his nephew, Adam Fairholme,
Esq. of Chapel.
Mr. Fairholme died on the 1st February 1800, aged seventy; and was
interred in the family burying-place at Greenhill-which estate now belongs to
Sir John Stuart Forbes, Bart. of Pitsligo.
The fourth figure, behind hlr. Fairholme, represents JAMES KERR, Esq.
of Blackshiels. His father, Alexander Kerr, having left Scotland to reside at
Bordeaux, as a wine-merchant, he was brought up and educated along with his
cousins, the Tytlers of ?Voodhouselee;2 and, at a proper age, was bound
apprentice in the banking establishment of Sir William Forbes and Co. After
the expiry of his indenture, having succeeded to an ample fortune by the death
of his father, Mr. Kern went abroad on his travels, and remained a considerable
1 Mr. Fairholme’s taste for the fine arts has descended to his nephew, George Fairholme, Esq.,
now of Greenknow, who, during repeated visits to Italy, has acquired a small but extremely choice
cabinet of pictures of the highest class, together with a valuable collection of original drawings by
the old masters.
Mr. Alexander Kerr maiTied Miss Craig of Dalmair, sister of MIX. Tytler of Woodhouselee.
The last of the Dalmair family was Sir James Craig, Governor-General of British North America.

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8 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The University.
thereof-A few Notable Bequests-Income-The Library-The
OF the four Scottish Universities, the youngest
Museums.
? dormer windows, crowstepped gables, and turret
is Edinburgh, a perfectly Protestant foundation,
as the other three were established under the
Catholic ?-&vie; yet the merit of originating the
idea of academical institutions for the metropolis
is due to Robert Reid, who, in 1558, six years
before the date of Queen Mary?s charter, ?had
bequeathed to the town of Edinburgh the sum of
8,000 merks for the purpose of erecting a University
within the city.? .
In 1566 Queen Mary entered so warmly into the
views of the magistrates as actually to draw up a
charter and provide a competent endowment for
the future college. But the unsettled state of the
realm and the turbulence of the age marred the
fulfilment of her generous desire ; yet the charter
she had prepared, acted, says Bower, in his ?? His
tory,? so powerfully upon her son, James VI., that it
was inserted in the one which is now deemed the
foundation charter of the university, granted by the
king in 1582, with the privilege of erecting houses
for the professors and students. In recalling
the active benefactors of the university, we cannot
omit the names of the Rev. James Lawson, whose
exertions contributed so greatly to the institution
of the famous High School; and of Provost
William Little, and of Clement Little, Commissary of
Edinburgh, the latter of whom gave, in 1580, ?? to
the city and kirk of God,? the whole of his library,
consisting of 300 volumes-a great collection in
those days-it is supposed for the use of the proposed
college.
The teachers at first established by the foundation
were a Principal or Prilliarius, a Professor of
Divinity, four Regents or Masters of Philosophy,
and a Professor of Philology or Humanity.
On the site of the Kirk-of-Field a quaint group
of quadrangular buildings grew up gradually but
rapidly, forming the. old college, which Maitland
describes as having three courts, the southern of
which was occupied on two sides by the classrooms
and professors? houses, and on the others
by the College Hall, the houses of the principal
and resident graduates. A flight of steps led from
this to the western quadrangle, which was rich in
stairs. Here the students then resided. The
eastern quadrangle contained the Convocation
Hall and Library. The gateway was at the head
of the College Wynd, with a lofty bell-tower, and
the first five words of the a7~e in Gothic characters
cut upon its lintel, as it was the original portal to
the Kirk-of-Field.
When Scott completed his education here the
old halls, and solemn, yet in some senses mean,
quadrangles, were an unchanged, as in the days of
James VI. and the Charleses, and exhibited many
quaint legends carved in stone.
The old Library was certainly a large and handsome
room, wherein were shown a skull, said to be
that of George Buchanan ; the original Bohemian
protest against the Council of Constance for burning
John Huss and Jerome of Prague, dated 1417~
with 105 seals attached to it; the original marriage
contract of Queen Mary with the Dauphin ; many
coins, medals, and portraits, which were afterwards
preserved in the new university.
The old college buildings were begun in 1581 ;
and in 1583 the Town Council constituted Mr.
Robert Rollock, then a professor at St. Andrews, a
professor in this university, of which he became
afterwards Rector and Principal, and to which by
the power of his learning he allured many students.
The sum of 61 13s. 4d. was given him to defray
the expenses of his removal to Edinburgh, where he
began to teach on the 11th of October, when public
notice was given ? that students desirous of instruction
shall give up their names to a bailie, who
shall take order for their instruction.?
As there was then no other teacher but himself,
he was compelled to put all the students into one
class. ?? He soon felt, however, that this was impracticable,?
says Bower, ?so as to do justice to
the young men committed to his care. After having
made this experiment, he was obliged to separate
them into two classes. The progress which
they made was very different, and a considerable
number of them were exceedingly deficient in a
knowledge of the Latin language.?
On his recommendation a Mr. Duncan Nairn

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G d Stuart St~et.1 PROFESSOR AYTOUN. 207
of sixteen feet there spring curves which bend
round into the arms, while between those arms and
the upright shaft are carried four arcs, having a
diameter of six feet.
On each of its main faces the cross is divided
into panels, in which are inserted bronze basreliefs,
worked out, like the whole design, from
drawings by R. Anderson, A.R.S.A. Those occupying
the head and arms of the cross represent the
various stages of our Lord?s Passion, the Resurrection
and the Ascension; in another series of six,
placed thus on either side of the shaft, are set forth
the acts of charity, while the large panels in the
base are filled in with sculptured ornament of the
fine twelfth-century type, taken from Jedburgh
abbey.
Three senators of the College of Justice have
had their abodes in Ainslie Place-Lord Barcaple,
raised to the bench in 1862, Lord Cowan, a judge
of 1851, and George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse,
the brother of Mrs. Dugald Stewart, who resided
in No. 12. This admirable judge was the son of
the Hon. George Cranstoun of Longwarton, and
Miss Brisbane of that ilk. He was originally intended
for the army, but passed as advocate in
1793, and was Dean of Faculty in 1823, and
succeeded to the bench on the death of Lord
Hermand, three years after. He was the author
of the famous Court of Session jeu rFespn2, known
as ?The Diamond Beetle Case,? an amusing and
not overdrawn caricature of the judicial style, manners,
and language, of the judges of a bygone
time.
He took his judicial title from the old ruined
castle of Corehouse, near the Clyde, where he had
built a mansion in the English style. He was an
excellent Greek scholar, and as such was a great
favourite with old Lord Monboddo, who used to
declare that Cranstoun was the only scholar in
all Scotland,? the scholars in his opinion being all
on the south side of the Tweed.
He w& long famed for being the beau-ideal of
a judge; placid and calm, he listened to even
the longest debates with patience, and was an
able lawyer, especially in feudal questions, and
his opinions were always received with the most
profound respect.
Great Stuart Street leads from Ainslie Place
into Randolph Crescent,which faces the Queensfeny
Road, and has in it3 gardens some of the fine old
trees which in former times adorned the Earl of
Moray?s park.
In No. 16 of the former street lived and died,
after his removal from No. I, Inverleith Terrace, the
genial and. patriotic author of the Lays of t h e
.
Scottish Cavaliers,? a Scottish humourist of a very
high class. William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Professor
of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh,
was born in 1813, of a fine old Fifeshire family,
and in the course of his education at one of the
seminaries of his native capital, he became dis
tinguished among his contemporaries for his powers
of Latin and English composition, and won a prize
for a poem on ?( Judith.? In his eighteenth year
he published a volume entitled Poland and other
Poems,? which attracted little attention ; but after
he was called to the bar, in 1840, he became one
of the standing wits of the Law Courts, yet, save
as a counsel in criminal cases, he did not acquire
forensic celebrity as an advocate.
Five years afterwards he was presented to the
chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University,
and became a leading contributor to
Blackwoofls Magazine, in which his famous LL Lays,?
that have run through so many editions, first
appeared. Besides these, he was the author of
many brilliant pieces in the Book of Ballads,? by
Bon Gaultier, a name under which he and Sir
Theodore Martin, then a solicitor in Edinburgh,
contributed to various periodicals.
In April, 1849, he married Jane Emily Wilson,
the youngest daughter of Christopher North,? in
whose class he had been as a student in his early
years, a delicate and pretty little woman, who predeceased
him. In the summer of 1853 he delivered
a series of lectures on ?Poetry and Dramatic
Literature,? in Willis?s Rooms, to such large and
fashionable audiences as London alone can produce
; and to his pen is ascribed the mock-heroic
tragedy of Firrnilian,? designed to ridicule, as it
did, the rising poets of ?? The Spasmodic School.?
With all his brilliance as a humourist, Aytoun was
unsuccessful as a novelist, and his epic poem
?Bothaell,? written in 16 Great Stuart Street, did
not bring him any accession of fame.
In his latter years, few writers on the Conservative
side rendered more effective service to their
party than Professor Aytoun, whom, in 1852, Lord
Derby rewarded With the offices of Sheriff and
Vice-Admiral of Orkney.
Among the many interesting people who frequented
the house of the author of ?The Lays?
few were more striking than an old lady of
strong Jacobite sentiments, even in this prosaic
age, Miss Clementina Stirling Graham, of Duntrune,
well worthy of notice here, remarkable for her
historical connections as for her great age, as she
died in her ninety-fifth year, at Duntrune, in 1877.
Born in the Seagate of Dundee, in 1782, she was
the daughter of Stirling of Pittendreich, Forfar

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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE
TO THE FIRST EDITION.
THE Works of the late JOHNK AY illustrate an interesting epoch in the history of
the Scottish capital. Throughout the greater part of half a century the Artist
devoted himself with enthusiasm to his novel undertaking ; and while he contributed
in no common degree to gratify and amuse the public of his own day, his graphic
productions form a record which cannot fail to prove acceptable in after times.
Although the Etchings may not be entitled to rank high in the scale of art, they
are nevertheless valuable as the unaided efforts of one who owed nothing to adventitious
circumstances ; while the general accuracy for which the Portraitures are
distinguished is a merit peculiarly his own. The intuitive facility of the Artist’s
pencil in this way must appear incredible, when it is known that, with few exceptions,
they were executed from casual observation-the impression probably of a passing
glance. Indeed, in many instances, they could not have been otherwise obtained.
Kay appears to have long entertained the idea of giving his Works to the world
in a more permanent form. So early as 1792-assisted, it is believed, by a person
of the name of Callender ’-he had drawn up notes descriptive of the Prints, with a
biographical notice of his own life. The want of pecuniary means probably formed
the great obstacle to the execution of his plan ; and the venerable Caricaturist died
at the age of eighty-four without having lived long enough to be gratified by the
realisation of his wishes. His widow made several unsuccessful proposals for the
disposal of the Plates ; and, after her death, having been brought to public sale by
her trustees, they fell into my possession.
In carrying the intentions of the Caricaturist into effect, I have spared no
The notes
He waa a dabbler in politics, and is understood to have
In the Life of Dr. Jamea Anderson (see Cbdms’s Swt. Bwy. a t . ) some notice
exertion to render the Work as varied and interesting as possible.
Very little is known respecting Callender.
emigrated to America.
is taken of him in connection with an occnrrence not much to his credit.

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NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
WITH this, the concluding Part, I feel called upon to express, in the warmest manner,
the sense I entertain of the very flattering encouragement which has been extended to
the Work. To my numerous and highly respectable Subscribers, who, coming forward
in almost every instance unsolicited, have patronised the undertaking by their countenance
and support, I beg to offer my most sincere thanks. From the length of time
which has elapsed since the commencement of the Publication, their patience has no
doubt been fully exercised ; yet I cannot accuse myself of any unnecessary delay in its
progress through the press. The nature of the Work-the almost insurmountable aculty,
in many instances, of obtaining correct information-and the research which its
pages display, will, I trust, be apology sufficient for the protracted period of completion.
It will be observed, however, on referring to the Prospectus, that the engagement
to publish in monthly Parts has not been exceeded ; but that, on the contrary,
several months are anticipated. Such has been my anxiety to have the Biographical
Sketches complete, that the Letterpress has been extended to nearly double of what
was originally stipulated to be given. This, of course, has been accomplished at much
additional expense on my part, without any extra charge to the Subscribers; but
stimulated by the desire to render the Work not less valuable than curious, I feel
gratified by the approval so generally accorded, and the prospect that a still increasing
demand will amply repay my outlay of capital.
To those who have kindly supplied family information, and to the several literary
and antiquarian gentlemen whom I have had occasion to consult, and who have, with
much liberality, contributed to the historical, traditional, and local interest of the
Work, my acknowledgments are due in an especial degree.
It is to be regretted that a few Etchings by Kay have not been inserted in this
Collection. During the life of the Artist some of them were disposed of to the parties
interested, either because, as good likenesses, they wished to possess them-or, if offensive,
that they might be withdrawn from the public. In this way several desirable
productions of his pencil are awanting ; but, from advances made by one or two individuals
on the subject, in whose possession some of the Plates are, I am hopeful that
a few additions may yet be made to the Collection. These, together with B number

... TO THE FIRST EDITION. WITH this, the concluding Part, I feel called upon to express, in the warmest ...

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University.] THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 21
ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL STOREY OF THE NEW BUILDING FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
(Ftonr fhe Plafe in ?The Works in Architcchrrc of Robed andfams Adam,? L a b , 1788-1Saz. For Refirewes seep. 27.)

... THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 21 ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL STOREY OF THE NEW BUILDING FOR THE ...

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 407
from the deceased King of Scots’ Palace all or most of his princely library, many books
of which are now at Speke, particularly four large folios, said to contain the Records and
Laws of Scotland at that time. He also brought from the said Palace the Wainscot of
the King’s Hall, and put it up in his own hall at Speke, wherein are seen all the orders
of architecture, as Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite ; and round the
top of it this inscription, ‘ SLEEPE . NOT . TILL . YE . HATHE . CONSEDERD . HOW THOW .
WAYS . REPENT . YE.’ ” Speke .Hall still exists as one of the fine old manor-houses
of Lancashire, and could this tradition be relied on would form an object of peculiar
attraction, as the antique wainscot with its quaint moral still adorns the great hall. It
proves, however, to be the work of a later age, corresponding to similar specimens in the
neighbouring halls, erected in the reign of Elizabeth. It might, indeed, be confidently
affirmed, that the Roman orders were not introduced into Scotland till a considerably
later period ; but the above description answers very partially to the original. The tradition,
however, is probably not altogether without foundation. Two figures of angels,
richly gilt, “in form such as are introduced dnder consoles in Gothic architecture,”
formerly surmounted the wainscot, evidently no part of the original design, and these, it
is conjectured, may have been among the spoils which were carried off from the Palace in
1547.8
The Abbey of Holyrood frequently afforded accomniodation to the Scottish Court,
before the addition of a distinct royal dwelling to the ancient monastic buildings, This,
it is probable, was not effected till the reign of Janies IV, It is certain, at any rate, that
large sums were spent by him in building and decorating the Palace during the interval
of four years between his betrothment and marriage to Margaret of England. In the
map to which we have so frequently referred, the present north-west tower, which forms
the only ancient portion of the Palace as it now stands, is shown standing almost apart,
and only joined to the south-west tower of the Abbey Church by a low cloister. To the
south of this appears an irregular group of buildings, of considerable extent, and
apparently covered with tiles, while the whole houses in the Canongate seem, from the
colouring of the drawing, to be only thatched. It is not necessary, however, further to
investigate the early history of the Palace here, as most of the remarkable historicd
incidents associated with it have already been referred to.
The latest writer who has left any account of the old Palace is John Taylor, the Water
poet, in the amusing narrative of his Pennylesse Pilgrimage to Scotland in 1618. The
following is his description :-‘‘ I was at his Majestie’s Palace, a stately and princely
seate, wherein I saw a sumptuous Chappell, most richly adorned with all appurtenances
belonging to so sacred 8 pJace, or so royal1 an owner. In the inner court I saw
the King’s Armes cunningly carved in stone, and fixed over a doore aloft on the wall, the
Red Lyon being the Crest, over which was written this inscription in Latin :-No6is h c
invicta miserunt 106 Proavi. I inquired what the English of it was? it was told me as
followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded-106 Fore-fatAers have left this to us
unconquered;”-an interpretation which leads the Water poet into a series of very loyal
EL4ST. SPENT. YE. DAY. PAST . IF . THOW. HAVE. WELL . DON. THANK. GOD . LF . OTHEB .
Fide Archadogia Scotica, vol. iv. ; from whence the inscription ia correctly given. ’ Ibid, p. 14,

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Inverleith.] THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. 47
arrangement of British plants according to the
Natural System ; a general collection of the hardy
plants of all countries, and a series of medicinal
plants. There are also a collection of European
plants, according to the Linnzean System, and an
extensive arboretum, a rosery, and splendid parterres
; a winter garden, museum, lecture-room, and
library; a magnetic observatory and aquarium; with
a construction of terraced rockeries, 190 feet long,
by IZO wide.
ranged geographically, so as to enable the students
to examine the flora of the different countries ; and
there is a general arrangement of flowering plants,
illustrating the orders and genera of the entire
world.
There is likewise a grouping of cryptogamic
plants, and special collections of other plants,
British, medicinal, and economical.
The usual number 01 students in the garden in
summer averages about 300, and the greatest
WARRISTON HOUSE.
A public arboretum, comprising about thirty
acres, along the west side of the Botanic Gardens,
was obtained for A18,408 from the city
funds, and ~16,000 from Government, This was
sanctioned by the Town Council in 1877; and this
large addition to the original garden was opened
in April, 1881, and Inverleith House became the
official residence of the Regius Keeper.
Students have ample facilities for studying the
plants in the garden; the museum is open at all
times to them, and the specimens contained in it
are used for illustrating the lectures. The University
Herbarium is kept in the large hall, and can
be consulted under the direction of the professor
of botany, or his assistant. In it the plants are ar-
109
number is above 500. The fresh specimens of
plants used for lectures and demonstrations averages
above 47,300.
By agreement, it has been provided that the
arboretum, mentioned above, should be placed
under the Public Parks Regulations Act of 1872,
and be maintained in all time coming by the
Government. The trustees of both Sir William
Fettes and Mr. Rocheid were bound to provide
proper accesses, by good roads and avenues, to
the ground and to give access by the private avenue
leading from St. Bernard?s Row to Inverleith
House. Another avenue was also stipulated for,
which was to join the road from Inverleith Place,
westward to Fettes College.

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KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HlLL. I47
to lead to the idea of its having been at any time devoted to other than domestic useA.
We may farther remark, that there were, in all, seven of these sculptured recesses, of
different sizes and degrees of ornament, throughout the range of buildings known as the
Guise Palace and Oratory,-a sufficient number of (‘ baptismal fonts,” we should presume,
even for a Parisian Hdpital des Enfans trouvb 1
Various remains of very fine wood carving have from time to time been removed from
different parts of this building ; a large and well-executed oaken front of a cupboard was
found in the apartment below the one last referred to, with the panels wrought in elegant and
varied designs; and in another room on the same
floor, immediately beyond the former, there existed
a very interesting relic of the same kind, which long
formed one of the chief attractions to antiquarian
visitors. This was an ancient oak door, with richly
ca.rved panels, now preserved in the Museum of the
Society of Antiquaries, of which we furnish a view.
The two upper panels are decorated with shields,
surrounded with a wreath and other ornaments of
beautiful workmanship, and each supported by a
winged cherub. The lower panels contain portraits
carved in high relief, and which, in accordance
with the tradition of the locality, have generally
been considered as the heads of James V. and his
Queen. The lady is very little indebted to the
artist for the flattery of her charms, and the portrait
cannot be considered as bearing any resemblance to
those of Mary of Guise, who is generally represented
as a beautiful woman.8 That of the King
has been thought to bear a considerable resemblance
to the portraits of James V., and (‘has all that free
carriage of the head, and elegant slouch of the bonnet,
together with the great degree of manly beauty
with which this monarch is usually represented.” a
The heraldic bearings on the shields in the upper
panels remain to be mentioned; one of them bears
a deer’s head erased, while on the other is an eagle
I ‘
I
I
with expanded wings grasping a star in the left foot, and with a crescent in base. The
whole appearance of this door is calculated to convey a pleasing idea of the state of the
arts in Scotland at the period of its execution, though in this it in no way surpasses the
other decorationa of this interesting building. The door has been cut down in some
modern subdivision of the house, to adapt it to the humble situation which it latterly
1 Now in the possession of C. K. Sharpe, Esq. ’ The Duke of Devonshire has an undoubted portrait of Mary of Guise. She ia very hi complexioned, with reddish
The picture in the Trinity hair. House at Leith is not of the Queen Regent, but a bad copy of that of her daughter, at
St Jamea, painted by Mytens. ’ Chambers’s Traditions, vol. i. p. 81. The “manly beauty,” however, is somewhat questionable.

... STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HlLL. I47 to lead to the idea of its having been at any time devoted to ...

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THE LA WNMARKET. I81
On the west side of the County Hall there still exists a part of the “ transs ” of Libberton’s
Wynd, but all other remains have been swept away by the same “ improvement‘
mania,” whose work we have already recorded in the neighbouring closes. This wynd
formed, at one period, one of the principal thoroughfares for pedestrians from the fashionable
district of the Cowgate to the “ High Town.” Its features did not greatly differ from
those of many other of the old closes, with its substantial stone mansions eked out here
and there by irregular timber projections, until the narrow stripe of sky overhead had
well-nigh been blotted out by their overhanging gab1es.l The most interesting feature
in the wynd was Johnie Dowie’s Tavern, already alluded to,-the Mermaid Tavern of
Edinburgh during the last century,-whither the chief wits and men of letters were wont
to resort, in accordance with the habits of society at that period. Here Ferguson the
poet, David Herd, one of the earliest collectors of Scottish songs, “ antiquarian Paton,”
with others of greater note in their own day than now,-lords of session, and leading
advocates, inhabitants of the neighbouring fashionable district,-were wont to congregate.
Martin, a celebrated portrait painter of the last century, instituted a club here, which was
quaintly named after the host, Boway College, and thither his more celebrated pupil, Sir
Henry Raeburn, often accompanied him in his younger days. But, above all, this was the
favourite resort of Robert Burns, where he spent many jovial hours with Willie Nicol, and
Allan Masterton,-the ‘‘ blithe hearts ” of his most popular song,- and with his city
friends of all degrees, during his first visit to Edinburgh. On the death of John Dowie
(a sober and respected city, who amassed a considerable fortune, and left his only son a
Major in the army), the old place of entertainment acquired still greater note under the
name of Burns’s Tavern. The narrow room was visited by strangers as the scene of the
poet’s most frequent resort; and at the period of its demolition in 1834, it had taken a
prominent place among the lions of the Old Town. The house had nothing remarkable
about it as a, building, It bore the date of its erection, 1728, and in the ancient titles,
belonging to a previous building, it is described as bounded on the south by U the King’s
auld wall.” This ancient thoroughfare appears to have retained its original designation,
while closes immediately adjoining were receiving new names with accommodating facility on
every change of occupants, Libberton’s Wynd is mentioned in a charter granted by James
111. in the year 1477; and in later years its name occurred in nearly every capital
sentence of the criminal court, the last permanent place of public execution, after the
demolition of the Old Tolbooth, having been at the head of the wynd. The victims of the
law’s highest penalty, within the brief period alluded to, offer few attractions to the antiquarian
memorialist, unless the pre-eminent infamy of the “ West Port murderers,” Burke
and Hare,-the former of whom was executed on this spot-be regarded as establishing
their claim to rank among the celebrated characters of Edinburgh. The sockets of “ the
fatal tree ” were removed, along with objects of greater interest and d u e , in completing
the approach to the new bridge.
Carthrae’s, Forrester’s, and Beth’s Wynds, all once stood between Libberton’s Wynd
and St Giles’s Church, but every relic of them had been swept awyyears before the latter
work of destruction was projected. Forrester’s Wynd waa evidently a place of note in
earlier times, and frequent allusions to it occur in some of the older diaries ; e.g., ‘‘ Vpoun
A very accurate and characteristic view of this wynd, from the Cowgate, ie given among Geikie’e Etchings.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 291
all his attention, and week after week he used to travel from Kinross to Edinburgh
(a distance of twenty-seven miles) to inquire about the progress of his
law-suit. Eay relates that when the Print was published in 1802, no fewer than
one hundred and sixteen subscribers were obtained among the gentlemen of the
legal profession-so well acquainted were they with the proprietor of the
middenstead.
The result of this appetite for law on the part of poor Andrew was the total
neglect of his business at Kinross. His affairs consequently went to ruin, and
the unfortunate litigant died in the jail of Cupar, in 1817, where he had been
incarcerated for debt,
No. CXIX.
THREE LEGAL DEVOTEES.
ANDREW NICOL, MARY WALKER, AND
JOHN SKENE.
THIS is allowed by some to be one of the best of Kay’s etchings. ANDREW
NICOL, whom we have noticed in the preceding page, may here be supposed
newly arrived from Kinross with the plan of his middenstead. His simple face
and genuine Lowland garb are well depicted ; and the credulous attention with
which he is listening to the Heckler is truly characteristic.
MARY WALKER, whose vacant countenance indicates insanity, was an
intolerable pest about the Parliament House. The object of her legal solicitude
was the recovery of a sum of money which she conceived to be due her by the
Magistrates of Edinburgh.
JOHN SKENE-the smart, consequential - looking personage in black,
engaged in expounding some knotty point to the Kinross litigant-was an individual
whose brains, to use the expression of Major Campbell, were pretty
considerably “ conglomerated.” He was a flax-dresser, hence his soubriquet of
the Heckler; but this plebeian avocation was with him a matter of secondary
consideration, as he conceived he was commissioned to hold two situations of
the highest importance in the country, viz.-Superintendent of the Court of
Session, and of the General Assembly. The way he found leisure to fulfil the
high duties he thus imposed on himself was not a little remarkable. He worked
nearly all night at the dressing of flax-only retiring to rest for an hour or two
towards morning. He then rose, and, having arrayed himself in the clerical
style represented in the Print, proceeded to the Parliament House, with all the

... SKETCHES. 291 all his attention, and week after week he used to travel from Kinross to Edinburgh (a ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 289
found him in a paroxysm of passion, kicking the astonished official of the taxoffice
out of doors !
Mr. Cooper, who, on the death of his second wife, married a third time, had
in all a family of seventeen children.’ He resided
in the upper flats of the corner land, looking into the High Street and
North Bridge. This property was bnilt by Mr. Cooper jointly with his friend
Mr. Weddell, whose shop was on the ground floor.
He died in December 1818.
KO. CCLXVI.
THE ARTIST UNDER EXAMINATION
BY
SHERIFF PRIN GL E,
WITH THE PURSUERS,
BELL AND RAE, SITTING BEHIND.
WHEN the two preceding Etchings made their appearance, BELL and RAE
were so highly incensed that they raised a prosecution against the artist, and
obtained an interdict, prohibiting the publication of the Prints. While the
process was pending, Kay adopted his usual method of retaliation, by publishing
the “ Examination,” which represents him before the Sheriff, with the prosecutors,
“black in the face” with rage, seated behind. As the truth only had been
set fort,h-the fact having been established that Bell did bet and carry the
waiter on his back-the parties found they could do nothing further in the
matter. Mr. Innes had the good sense not to interfere.
The Sheriff before whom Kay is represented as having compeared was
JOHN PRINGLE, Esq., son of Robert Pringle, Esq., of Edgefield, one of
the Senators of the College of Justice.’ He was admitted a member of the
Faculty of Advocates in January 1763, and succeeded the late Baron Cockburn
as Sheriff-Depute of Edinburgh in June 1790. In January 1794 Mr. Pringle
was appointed one of the Principal Clerks of Session. This situation he held
till his death, which occurred at Edinburgh on the 14th of February 1811.
One of the daughters of Mr. Cooper was married to Mr. Livingaton, well known in the commercial
world.
He pawed advocate 4th July 1724;
was appointed Sheriff-Depute of the county of Banff in 1748 ; and wan raised to the bench 20th
November 1754.
’ Lord Edgefield was the son of Thomaa Pringle, W.S.
He died on the 8th of April 1764.
VOL 11. 2 P

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THE HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. . 261
church, and the lively expression and spirit of the ‘‘ General Assembly,” and others of
his own etchings, amply justify the character he enjoyed among his contemporaries as a
truthful and humorous delineator of nature. He succeeded Runciman as master of the
Academy established by the Board of Trustees, the classes of which then met in the
College, while he received private pupils at his own house in Dickson’s Close.‘ A little
lower down the close on the same side, an old and curious stone tenement.bears on its
lower crowstep the Haliburton Arms, impaled with another coat, on one shield. It is a
singularly unique and time-worn edifice, evidently of considerable antiquity. A curious
double window projects on a corbeled base into the close, while the whole stone-work is
so much decayed as greatly to add to its picturesque character. In the earliest deed
which exists, bearing the date 1582, its first proprietor, Master James Halyburton--a
title then of some meaning-is spoken of in indefinite terms as umpb or deceased ; so
that it is a building probably of the early part of the sixteenth century. It afterwards
was the residence of Sir John Haliday of Tillybole. The moat interesting fact, however,
brought out by these early titles, occurs in defining the boundaries of the property,
wherein it is described as having “ the trans of the prebendaries of the kirk of Crightoun
on the east pairt and oyr partes ; ” so that a considerable part of Cant’s Close appeara
to have been occupied in early times by ecclesiastical buildings in connection with
the church of Crichton, erected into a collegiate foundation in 1449 by Sir Wm.
Crichton, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland.’ Directly opposite to the site of this
is another ecclesiastical edsce, the mansion of the Abbot of Melrose, which enters
from Strichen’s Close. It is a large and substantial stone building, enclosing a small
square or court in the centre, the original access to which seems to have disappeared.
The whole building has evidently undergone great alterations; and over one of the
doorways, a carved stone bears a large and very boldly cut shield, with two coats of
arms impaled, and the date 1600. There seems no reason to doubt,,however, that the
main portion of the Abbot’s residence still remains. The lower story is strongly vaulted,
and is evidently the work of an early date. The small quadrangle also is quite in
character with the period assumed for the building; and at its north-west angle in Cant’s
Close, where a curiously carved fleur-de-lis surmounts the gable, a grotesque gurgoil of
antique form serves as a gutter to the roof. Here, therefore, we may assign with little
hesitation the residence of Andrew Durie, nominated by James V. to the Abbey of Melrose
in the year 1526 ; and whose death, Knox assures us, was occasioned by the terror
into which he was put on the memorable uproar on St Giles’s day 1558. The close, which
is called the Abbot of Melrose’a in its earlier titles, assumes that of Rosehaugh Close at a
later period, from the Abbot’s lodging having become the residence of the celebrated Sir
George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King’s Advocate for Scotland after the Restoration.
During a great part of last century, this ancient mamion was occupied by Alexander
Fraaer of Strichen, who was connected by marriage with the descendants of Sir George
- 1
Caledonian M m l y , Nov. 15, 1788.-His terms were one guinea per month for three lessons in the week, a fee
that undoubtedly restricted hia private clawes at that period to the most wealthy and fashionable atudenta of art. The
date of the advertisement is the year of hia marriaga ’ “ X t appeara from old writinga and charters connected with the how, that the tenement fronting the street, by
which it waa bounded on the north, had been, before the Reformation, the lodging of the Provost of CriohtoxL’’-Tdtions,
voL i p. 92. The old building ia long aince destroyed.

... HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. . 261 church, and the lively expression and spirit of the ‘‘ General ...

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KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. I49
which had been broken away. We furnish an engraving of this apartment also, in the
dilapidated state in which it existed in its latter days, with the large fireplace concealed,
all but one clustered pillar, by a wooden partition.’ This apartment had also been finished
with highly carved ornamental work, considerable portions of which had only been
removed a few years previous to the entire destruction of the whole building. One
beautiful fragment of this, which we have seen, consists of a series of oak panellings,
about eight feet high, divided into four compartments by five terminal figures in high relief,
and the panels all richly finished in different patterns of arabesque ornament of the
finest workmanship. The demolition of this house. in 1845 brought to light a curious
small concealed chamber on the first floor, lighted by a very narrow aperture looking
into Nairn’s Close. The entrance to it had been by a movable panel in the room just
described, affording access to a narrow flight of steps, ingeniously wound round the wall of
a turnpike stair, and thereby effectually preventing any suspicion being excited by the
appearance it made. The existence of this mysterious chamber was altogether unknown to
the inhabitants, and all traditiou had been lost as to the ancient occupants to whom it
doubtless afforded refuge.
Another apartment in this portion of the house, on the same flat with the fine Gothic
fireplace described above, was called the Queen’s Dead Room, where the noble occupants
of the mansion were said to have lain in state, ere their removal to their final resting-place.
The room had formerly been painted black, to adapt it to the gloomy purpose for which
it was set apart, and the more recent coats of whitewash it had received very imperfectly
veiled its lugubrious aspect. The style of the fittings of this room, however, and indeed of
the greater portion of the building, was evidently long posterior to the date of erection, and
the panel over the mantelpiece was filled with a landscape, painted in the manner of Old
Norie. The inhabitant of this part of the house, when we last visited it, was a respectable
old lady, who kept her share of the Palace in a remarkably clean and comfortable condition,
and took great pride in pointing out its features to strangers. She professed an intimate
knowledge of the original uses of the several portions of the house, and showed a comfortable-
looking room on the first floor, commanding a very fine view to the north, which
she called the Queen’s bedroom. Two round arched or waggon-shaped ceilings were
brought to view in the progress of demolition, richly decorated with painted devices, in a
style corresponding with the date of erection, and both concealed by flat, modern, plaster
ceilings constructed below them. One of these, situated immediately above what was styled
the Queen’s bedroom, had been lighted by windows ranged along each side of the arched
roof, and in its original state must have formed a lofty and very elegant room. The roof,
which was of wood, was painted in rich arabesques and graceful designs offlowers, fruit,
leaves, &c., surrounding panels with inscriptions in Gothic letters. On one portion all that
could be made out was, ge arbbili$ OF tt aigfitfob& On another was perfectly
dehed the following metrical legend :-
e
1 These remains are mentioned in Chambers‘s Traditions, with thin addition-‘#At the right-hand side is a pillar in
the wme htg on the top of which there formerly, and till within theae-few years, etood the statue of a saint presiding
over the font.” The author had doubtless been misled in this by the traditions of the neighbourhood, and the appearance
of the jamb of the ancient fireplace partially exposed. We may remark that, except where it appears absolutely
necessary for preventing confusion or error, we have avoided directing attention to those points on which we differ from
previous writers.

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I
B0NAI.Y TOWER.
PROFESSHOORD GSQhNa s affixed to the front of Bonaly Tower a medailidn
portrait in bronze of Lord Cockburn, a duplicate of that which the eminent
wulptor Sir John Steel1 executed for his Lordship's monument in the Dean
Cemetery. The effigy, an excellent likeness, looks out to the hills which
the original loved so well, and with which his memory will, it is hoped, be
tong associated.

... TOWER. PROFESSHOORD GSQhNa s affixed to the front of Bonaly Tower a medailidn portrait in bronze of ...

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422 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
obtained permission to relieve the Clerk of his usual duty. He commenced
with great confidence, quite satisfied of the impression he would make upon
the Peers assembled. His amazement and vexation may be imagined when the
Chancellor (Thurlow), after endeavouring in vain to comprehend what he was
uttering, exclaimed-‘‘ Mr. Col-co-hon, I will thank you to give that paper to
t,he Clerk, as I do not understand Welsh.” The discomfited writer was thunderstruck-
he could hardly believe his own ears; but, alas! there was no
remedy. He reluctantly surrendered the paper to the Clerk ; and his feelings
of mortification were not a little increased as he observed the opposite agent
(who had come from Edinburgh with him) endeavouring with difficulty to
suppress a strong inclination to laugh.’
He had several
children, mostly daughters, whom he left well provided for, and who were all
respectably married. The estates of Kincaird and Petnacree, in Perthshire,
which he had purchased, were left to his son, Lieutenant Charles Grant, who,
after his unfortunate duel in 1759; retired from the army, and became melancholy
and unhappy.
Having sat for his likeness, two excellent miniature Portraits of Mr. Colquhoun
Grant were executed by Kay-one of which is possessed by Mr. Maclean, and
the other by the Publisher of this work.
’&fr. Grant died at Edinburgh on the 2d December 1792.
1 During the discussion on the Scots Reform Bill in Parliament, a very eminent and accomplished
Scots M.P., who, like Mr. Colquhoun Grant, had for a long series of years imagined he spoke the
English language to perfection, addressed the House in a strain, as he conceived, of impassioned
eloquence and convincing argument. What effect it produced upon the auditors we know not, but
next day it was announced in some of the public journals that the “- - had addressed the
House in a long and no doubt very able speech, which we regret we could not follow, as it was given
in broad Scotch.”
Itfr. Francis Foulke, of Dublin, the other party, was
at the time a student in the University of Edinburgh, and one of the Presidents of the Natural
History Society, aud of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. The affair originated in a petty
quarrel about a dog :-
“.On Friday, December 18, Lieutenant Grant, with two companions, after having spent the
evening together, were going home, when, meeting with Mr. Foulke and his party, a scuffle ensued,
and next day Itfr. Foullie sent Lieutenant Grant a challenge by Mr. P--. Owing to certain
reports relative to Mr. Fonlke, Lieutenant Grant did not think himself called upon to accept the
challenge, but took the advice of other officers, who were of opinion that Lieutenant Grant ought not
to give Mr. Foulke a meeting without satisfyiug himself of the truth of these reports. In the meantime
Mr. P- had an interview with Lieuteuant Graut, who still declined to accept, on which Mr.
Foulke posted him in the coffee-houses. Lieutenant Grant having upon inquiry found that Mr, Foulke’s
character was eTery way unexceptionable, and that on a late occasion he had behaved with great
honour, wm willing to give him every satisfaction, and was on his way for that purpose when he met
Captain Lundie, who told him that a placard was posted up in the Exchange Coffee-house, couched
in the following terms :-‘ That Charles Grant, of the 55th Regiment, has behaved unbecoming a man ’
of honour and a gentleman, is thus publicly asserted.-P.S. The person who makes this declaration
has left his name at the bar.’ Along with this was left a slip of paper, on which was written
‘ FRANCFISO ULKE.’M r.. Grant that evening sent a message by Mr. M-, who understood that the
parties were to meet on Tuesday morning at nine o’clock. From some misunderstanding, however,
Mr. Foulke and his friend imagined that it wasMr. M- (who delivered the message), and not Mr.
Grant, that he was to fight ; and when the gentlemen met in the King’s Park, Mr. Foulke expressed
his surprise at seeing Mr. Grant, and said that he expected to meet Mr. M- (who attended as
Lieutenant Grant’s second). Mr. M- expressed his willingness to meet Mr. Foulke, but thir
a The following is an account of the duel.

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The Lawnmarket.
ninety-nine, Portraits of Anderson and his daughter,
in Vandyke costumes, the former with a book
in his hand, and the latter with a pill the size of a
walnut between her fingers, are still preserved in
$he house. It was in 1635 that the Doctor first
tablature, bearing the date 1690, is the main enT
trance to this court, the principal house of which,
forming ,its northern side, has a very handsome
doorway, peaked in the centre, like an ogee arch,
with ornate mouldings that mark the handiwork of
ASSEMBLY HALL (From M Engrayingpu6ZisJiedin 1845.)
made known the virtues of his pills, which is really
a good form of aloetic medicine.
In Mylne?s Court, on the north side of the Lawnmarket,
we find the first attempt to substitute an
open square of some space for the narrow closes
which so long contained the town residences of
the Scottish noblesse. Under a Roman Doric enthe
builder, Robed Mylne, who erected the more
modem portions of Holyrood Palace-the seventh
royal master-mason, whose uncle?s tomb, on the
east side of the Greyfriars churchyard, bears that
he-
?? Sixth master-mason to a royal race,
Of seven successive kings, sleeps in this placc?

... Lawnmarket. ninety-nine, Portraits of Anderson and his daughter, in Vandyke costumes, the former with a ...

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