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150 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
and, even in his latter years, when retiring from a hard-fought field in Dunn’s
Hotel, or any other convivial place of resort, he would allow no escort.
His remains
were interred in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard, where a stone records the following
tribute to his memory :-
Mr. Grant died at his house, in Erown’s Square, in 1784.
SACRED,
To the Memory of
ISAAGCR ANT,E sq., of Hilton,
Writer to His Majesty’s Signet,
who died the 27th December 1794,
aged seventy years ;
universally esteemed and much regretted
by all who knew him.
In him the poor lost a friend, the rich a
cheerful, facetious companion, and
the world an honest man.
This Stone was erected at the reqliest
of his eldest aon, ISAAGCR ANT,
Feb. 2, Anno Domini 1798.
The third, or rather the first figure in the background, represents another
old bachelor, ARCHIBALD MACARTHUR STEWART, Esq., of Ascog-a
gentleman somewhat eccentric in several particulars. He generally wore white
clothes, of the description exhibited in the Print, and had a peculiar manner of
throwing his legs over each other in walking, which was owing probably to his
great corpulency.
Mr. Stewart was the only son of Mr. Macarthur of Milton, and succeeded to
the estate of Ascog, under a deed of entail executed by John Murray of Blackbarony,
of the lands of Ascog, and others, dated 28th May 1763. His relationship
to the entailer is not mentioned in the deed; and he is called to the
succession upon the failure of heirs of the entailer, and of his sister Mary and
her heirs. Mr. Murray left a large personal estate, which was invested by his
successor, Mr. Macarthur, in the purchase of land in Argyleshire.
Not less wealthy than Mr. Grant, and, like him, a bachelor not of the most
continent habits, he is said to have been exceedingly parsimonious in his
domestic arrangements. Kay relates that, when he lived at the Castle Hill, he
kept no housekeeper or servant, but generally employed some neighbour’s wife
or daughter to perform the ordinary drudgery of the house. He had a great
attachment to swine, and kept a litter of pigs in his bedroom. On removing
to other premises, some time after the death of his mother, with whom he resided,
it is told, as illustrative of his singular notions, that he would not allow the
furniture to be disturbed, but locked up the house, under the impression that
the old lady might occasionally come back and take up her abode there !
Mr. Stewart was proprietor of part of the lands of Coates, near Edinburgh,
and lived for some years in the old turreted house at the west end of Melville
Street, He latterly resided in Lord Wemyss’ house, Lauriston, where he died ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. and, even in his latter years, when retiring from a hard-fought field in ...

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not of reptiles. ? Thus was dissipated the illusion,
founded on the Burdiehouse fossils, that saurian
. reptiles existed in the carboniferous era. To this
CHAPTER XLI.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (continwed).
Gilmerton-The Kinlochs-Legend of the Bumtdale-Paterson?s C a v e T h e Drum House-The Somrrville Family-Roslin Castle-The
St. Clairs-Roslin Chauel-The Buried Barons-Tomb of Earl George-The Under Chapel-The Battle of Roslin-Relics of it-
In the chalk formations hereabout fossil remains
of the prickly palm have been frequently found,
and they have also been found in the lime-pits of
Roslin Village-Its old Inn.
GILMERTON, a village and puuad sncra parish
detached from Liberton, occupies the brow o
rising ground about four miles south from the
city, on the Roxburgh road, with a church, buill
in 1837, and the ancient manor-house of the
Kinlochs, known as the Place of Gilmerton, on the
south side of which there were in former times
butts for the practice of archery.
The subordinate part of the village consists 01
some rather unsightly cottages, the abodes of col.
liers and carters, who sell ?yellow sqnd? in the
city.
Robert Bruce granted a charter to Murdoch
Menteith of the lands of Gilmerton, in which it
was stated that they had belonged of old to William
Soulis, in the shire of Edinburgh, and afterwards
he granted another charter .of the same
lands, ? quhilk Soulis foresfecit ? (sic), with ?? the
barony of Prenbowgal (Barnbougle), quhilk was
Roger Mowbray?s.?
This was evidently Sir William de Soulis,
Hereditary Butler of Scotland, whose grandfather,
Nicholas, had been a competitor for the crown as
gtandson of Marjorie, daughter of Alexander II.,
and wife of Allan Durward. William was forfeited
as a traitor in English pay, and a conspirator
against the life of Robert I. He was condemned
to perpetual imprisonment by the Parliament in
1320.
After this, it is traditionally said to have been
the property of a family named Heron, or Herring.
At a much more recent period, the barony of Gilnierton
belonged to John Spence of Condie, Advocate
to Queen Mary in 1561, and who continued
as such till 1571. He had three daughters. ?One
of them,? says Scotstarvit, ?? was married to Herring
of Lethinty, whose son, Sir David, sold all his lands
of Lethinty, Gilmerton, and Glasclune, in his own
time. Another was married to James Ballantyne of
Spout, whose son James took the same course.
The third to Sir John Moncrieq by whom he had
(? Index of Charters.?)
an only son, who went mad, and leaped into the
River Earn, and there perished.?
In the next century Gilmerton belonged to the
Somervilles of Drum, as appears by an Act of
Ratification by Parliament, in 1672, to James
Somerville, of the lands of Drum and Gilmerton;?
and after him they went to the family of Kinloch,
whose name was derived from a territory in Fifeshire,
and to this family belongs the well-known
reel named ? Kinloch of Kinloch.? Its chief, Sir
David, was raised to a baronetage of Nova Scotia,
by James VII., in the year 1685, but the title became
extinct upon the failure of male descendants,
though there has been a recent creation, as baronet
of Great Britain, in 1855, in the person of Kinloch
of that ilk.
At what period the Gilmerton branch struck off
from :he present stock is unknown, but the first
upon record is Francis Kinloch of Gilmerton, who
died in 1685, and was succeeded by his only son,
Alexander Kinloch, who was created a baronet of
Nova Scotia on the 16th September, 1686. He
married Magdalene McMath, and had a numerous
family. He had been Lord Provost of the city in
1677, His wife, who died in 1674, was buried in
the Greyfriars, and the epitaph on her tomb is
recorded by Monteith.
On his death, in 1696, he was succeeded by his
eldest son, Sir Alexander Kinloch of Gilmerton,
who married Mary, daughter of the famous General
David, Lord Newark, who, after the battle of
Naseby, drew off a whole division of Scottish
cavalry, and, by a rapid march, surprised and
defeated the great Montrose at Philiphaugh, and,
in turn, was defeated by Cromwell at Dunbar.
His son, Sir Francis, the third baronet, married
Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir James Rocheid
3f Inverleith, Bart., by whom he had three sons
md ?three daughters. One of the former, Akxmder,
as already related in its place, took the surname
and arms of his maternal grandfather on
. ... of reptiles. ? Thus was dissipated the illusion, founded on the Burdiehouse fossils, that saurian . reptiles ...

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Cramond.] CRAMOND BRIG. 317
Robert Bruce, ?the King?s meadow and muir of
Cramond I? are mentioned. Among the missing
charters of Robert III., are two to William Touris,
?of the lands of Berntoun))? and another to the
same of the superiority of King?s Cramond.
William Touris, of Cramond, was a bailie of the
city in 1482. These Touris were the same family
who afterwards poFsessed Inverleith, and whose
name appears so often ill Scotstarvit?s ? Calendar.?
In I j38 the family seems to have passed to Bristol,
in England, as Protestants, Pinkerton suppose$, for
and has already been referred to in a preceding
chapter. In February, 1763, there died in Barnton
House, in the sixty-fourth year of her age,
Lady Susannah Hamilton, third daughter of John,
Earl of Ruglen, whose son William was styled
Lord Daer and Riccarton. She was buried in the
chapel royal at Holyrood.
In 1771 the Scots Magazine records the demise
of John. Viscount Glenorchy ?at his house of
Barnton, five miles west of Edinburgh.? He was
husband of Lady Glenorchy of pious memory.
VIEW BELOW GRAMOND BRIG, (Alter a Phufog-rajh by G. W. WiZsom & Co.)
1r1 that year a charter of part of Inverleith is granted
to George Touris, of Bristol; but Lord Durie, in
1636, reports a case concerning ?? umquhile James
Touris, brother to the laird of Inverleith.?
As stated elsewhere, Overbarnton belonged, in
~508, to Sir Robert Barnton, who was comptroller
of the household to James V. in 1520, and who
acquired the lands by purchase with money found
by despoiling the Portuguese ; but a George Maxwell
of Barnton, appears among the knights slain
at Flodden in 1513. He obtained Barnton by a
royal charter in 1460, on his mother?s resignation,
and was a brother of John, Lord Maxwell, who
also fell at Flodden. This property has changed
hands many times. James Elphinston of Barnton,
was the first Lord Balmerino, a Lord of the Treasury,
In after years it became the property of the
Ramsays, one of whom was long known in the
sporting world.
The quaint old bridge of Cramond is one of the
features of the parish, and is celebrated as the
scene of that dangerous frolic of James V., related
in our account of Holyrood. It consists of three
Pointed arches, with massively buttressed piers.
It became ruinous in 1607, and was repaired in
1619, 1687, and later still in 1761 and 1776: as a
panel in the parapet records. Adjoining it, and
high in air above it, is the new and lofty bridge of
eight arches, constructed by Rennie.
A little to the eastward of the village is Cramond
House, a fine old residence within a wooded
domain. Sir John Inglis cf Cramond was made ... CRAMOND BRIG. 317 Robert Bruce, ?the King?s meadow and muir of Cramond I? are mentioned. Among the ...

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436 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
one is the Crucifixion, beautifully cut. On the shield to the right, two crescents in chief, on the field a boar’s
head erased. On the left shield, a saltier, a bar in pale, intersecting a small saltier in the middle chief point.
On the fesse point, a circle forming with the saltier and bar a St Katherine’s wheel. On the flanks, the initials
M. T. Above the whole is the inscription cut in very neat old ornamental characters :-SOLI , DEO . HONOR . ET .
QLORIA. This, we have little doubt, indicated the mansion of Mungo Tennant, burgess of Edinburgh, who,
says Nisbet (vol. i. p. 146), ‘‘ had his seal appended to a reversion of half of the lands of Leny, the fourth of
October 1542, whereupon was a boar‘s head in chief, and two crescents in the flanks j and in base the letter M.;
the initial letter of his Christian name.” The bearings, it will be observed, are reversed. Similar liberties,
however, are not of such rare occurrence as heraldic authorities would lead ua to expect. Francis Tennant,
probably a relative of this burgess, according to Nisbet sometime Provost of Edinburgh (though his name does
not appear in Maitland’s list), an adherent of Queen Mary, was taken prisoner while fighting for her in 1571.
WARRIBTONC’rB,o sE.-The mansion of Bruce of Binning, with its hely sculptured lintel and armorial
bearings-Bruce impaling Preston-in Warriston’s Close (page 231), appears from the following notice
by Chalmelv (Caledonia, vol. ii p. 758, extracted fkom the Chartularies o! Newbottle Abbey), to be a building
of the very early part of the sixteenth cent.ury, if not earlier ; so that its substantial walls must have experienced
little damage from the burning of 1544. “ Andrew, the abbot [of Newbottle], in May 1499, granted his
lands of Kinard, in Stirlingshire, to Edward Brus, his well-deserving armiger, rendering for the same sixteen
marks yearly ; and in December 1500, he gave to Robt B w of Bining, and Mary Preston his spouse, the
Monastery‘s lands, called the Abbot’s Lands of West-Bining in Linlithgowahire ; rendering for the same four
shillings yearly.”
IX. THE RESTORATION. BURNING OB’ CROMWELL, THE POPE, &c.
DURINQth e rejoicings in Edinburgh, consequent on the “happy Restoration,” the meane taken to Rhow the
sincerity of the new-fashioned loyalty were characterised by the oddwt mixture of devotion and joviality conceivable.
In the following account of them recorded in Nicoll’s Diary, not the least noticeable feature is the
scene between that notable traytor Oliver and the Devil, with which the holiday’s heterogeneous proceedings
are wound up :-
“ The Kingdome of Scotland haitling takin to thair consideration the great thinges and wonderfull that the
Lord God had done for thame, in restoring unto thame thair native Soverane Lord and King, efter so long
banischement, and that in a wonderfull way, worthy of admiration, thai resolvit upone severall dayis of thankisgevhg
to be set apairt for his Majesteis Ratauratioun, and for his mercyes to this pure land, quho haid opned
a dure of hope to hia pepill, for satling thrie Kingdomes in religion and justice. And, fist, this day of thankisgeving
began at Edinburgh, and throw all the kirkis and pairtes of Lothiane, upone Tysday the nyntene day of
Junij 1660, @hair thair wer sermondie maid throw all the kirkis, and quhairat all the Magistrates of Edinburgh
and the Commoune Consell were present, all of them in thair best robis ; the great mace and sword of honor
careyed befoir thame to the sermond, and throw the haill streitis as they went, all that day. And eftir the
sermond endit, the Magistrates and Consell of Edinburgh, with a great number of the citizens, went to the
Mercat Croce of Edinburgh, quhair a great long boord of foote of lenth wes covered with all soirtes of
sweit meittis, and thair drank the Hinges helth, and his brether ; the spoiites of the Croce rynnand all that tyme
with abundance of clareyt &e. Ther wer thrie hundreth dosane of glassis all brokin and cassin throw the streitis,
with sweit meitis in abundance. Major-generall Morgan commander in cheiff of all the’forces in Scotland, and
the Governor of the Castell of Edinburgh, being both Englischemen, with sum of the speciall officeris of the ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. one is the Crucifixion, beautifully cut. On the shield to the right, two crescents in ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 73
The title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother, as that of Earl
of Kintore has since fallen to his descendants.
Catherine Falconer had the misfortune to lose her husband, when her two
boys, John and David, and a daughter, Catherine, were still infants ; and on
her, in consequence, the sole charge and tutelage of them devolved. But they
suffered in these circumstances less disadvantage than might have been expected ;
for their mother was a woman of singular merit, who, though young and handsome,
and but slenderly endowed as a widow, devoted herself entirely to the
rearing and educating of her children.
The principal circumstances of the historian’s life may be learned from his
own narrative, published soon after his death. His elder brother, John, preferred
the life of a country gentleman, and employed himself for many years,
judiciously and successfully, in the improvement of his paternal estates of Ninswells,
Hornden, etc., in Berwickshire, which had been in the possession of the
family for several generations. In the latter part of his life he gave up his
more extensive farming concerns, and went to reside in Edinburgh during half
of the year, for the education of his family.
In 1740 John Home built a mansion-house at Ninewells, in place of the
old one, which had been partly burned. But this was done on a very limited
scale, for he was singularly cautious and moderate in all his notions and wishes,
even in matters of income-insomuch that, to the end of his life, he never could
be induced to follow the example of other landlords, and accept the highest rent
that might be got for his lands. In 1764 he acquired, by purchase from Sir
James Home, the lands of Fairneycastle, in the adjoining parish of Coldinghame.
He had an absolute abhorrence of the contracting of debt of any sort
or degree ; and he thus missed the opportunity of at leastone other advantageous
purchase of land, on which his friends strongly advised him to venture.
In 1751, John Home married Apes Carre, daughter of Robert Carre, Esq.,
of Caverse, in Roxburghshire, by Helen Riddell, sister of Sir Walter Riddell,
of Riddell, an ancient and honourable family in the same shire. Mrs. Home’s
only brother had been in possession of Caverse; but died of consumption,
unmarried, and in early youth. On that event, an old settlement of entail, in
favour of heirs-male, carried off the estate (excepting only the patronage of the
Kirk of Bedrule) from Mrs. Home, his only sister, to a more distant male relation,
whose posterity have since held and now possess it.
John Home was highly esteemed by all who knew him, as an honourable,
just, and most conscientious gentleman-a strict observer of truth and of his
word-respectful to the ordinances of religion-and one who acquitted himself
unexceptionably in all the relations of domestic life. His children, in
particular, had reason to be grateful to him for the inestimable benefit of a
thorough and liberal education, on which, economical as he was, he spared no
expense; as, indeed, he was throughout life uniformly, and even anxiously,
provident for their welfare, in everything that might contribute to form their
morals or advance their fortune. Possessed as he was of these recommenda-
VOL. 11. L ... SKETCHES. 73 The title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother, as that of Earl of ...

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Colstorphine.] THE FORRESTERS. 119
of land, in any proper place;? and in 1383 there
followed another charter from the same king concerning
? the twenty merks yearly from the farmes
of Edinburgh.? (Burgh Charters.) In the preceding
year this influential citizen had been made
Sheriff of Edinburgh and of Lothian.
In 1390 he was made Lord Privy Seal, and
negotiated several treaties with England; but in
1402 he followed Douglas in his famous English
raid, which ended in the battle of Homildon Hill,
where he fell into the hands of Hotspur, but was
ransomed. He died in the Castle of Corstorphine
on the 13th of October, leaving, by his wife, Agnes
Dundas of Fingask, two sons, Sir John, his heir,
and Thomas, who got the adjacent lands of Drylaw
by a charter, under Robert Duke of Albany, dated
?? at Corstorfyne,? 1406, and witnessed among others
by Gilbert, Bishop of Aberdeen, then Lord Chancellor,
George of Preston, and others.
Sir John Forrester obtained a grant of the barony
of Ochtertyre, in favour of him and his first wife
in 1407, and from Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney,
he obtained an annuity of twelve merks yearly,
out of the coal-works at Dysart, till repaid thirty
nobles, ?which he lent the said earl in his great
necessity.??
In 1424 he was one of the hostages for the
ransom of James I., with whom he stood so high
in favour that he was made Master of the Household
and Lord High Chamberlain, according to
Douglas, and Lord Chancellor, according to Beatson?s
Lists. His second wife was Jean Sinclair, daughter
of Henry Earl of Orkney. He founded the collegiate
church of which we have given a description,
and in 1425 an altar to St Ninian in the
church of St. Giles?s, requiring the chaplain there
to say perpetual prayers for the souls of James I.
and Queen Jane, and of himself and Margaret his
deceased wife.
He died in 1440, and was succeeded by his son
Sir John, who lived in stormy times, and whose
lands of Corstorphine were subjected to fire and
sword, and ravaged in 1445 by the forces of the
Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton, whose lands
of Crichton he had previously spoiled.
By his wife, Marian Stewart of Dalswhton, he
had Archibald his heir, and Matthew, to whom
James III., in 1487, gave a grant of the lands of
Barnton. Then followed in succession, Sir Alexander
Forrester, and two Sir Jameses. On the
death of the last without heirs Corstorphine devolved
on his younger brother Henry, who married
Helen Preston of Craigmillar.
Their son GerJrge was a man of talent and probity.
He stooci high in favour with Charles I.,
who made him a baronet in 1625, and eight years
afterwards a peer, by the title of Lord Forrester
of Corstorphine. By his wife Christian he had
several daughters-Helen, who became Lady Ross
of Hawkhead ; Jean, married to. lames Baillie of
Torwoodhead, son of Lieutenant-General William
Baillie, famous in the annals of the covenanthg
wars ; and Lilias, married to William, another son
of the same officer, And now we approach the
dark tragedy which, for a time, even in those days,
gave Corstorphine Castle a temble notoriety.
George, first Lord Forrester, having no male
heir, made a resignation of his estates and honours
into the hands of the king, and obtained a new
patent from Charles II., to himself in life-rent,
and after his decease, ?to, or in favour of, his
daughter Jean and her husband the said James
Baillie and the heirs procreate betwixt them ;
whom failing, to the nearest lawful heir-male of the
said James whatever, they carrying the name and
arms of Forrester ; the said James being designed
Master of Forrester during George?s life.?
This patent is dated 13th August, 1650, a few
weeks before the battle of Worcester. He died
soon after, and was succeeded by his son-in-law,
whose wife is said to have sunk into an earlygrave,
in consequence of his having an intrigue with one
of her sisters.
James Lord Forrester married, secondly, a
daughter of the famous old Cavalier general, Patrick
Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, by whom,
says Burke, ?he had three sons and two daughters,
all of whom assumed the name of Ruthven,?
while Sir Robert Douglas states that he died
without any heir, and omits to record the mode of
his death.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, and for those of
that persuasion, in prelatic times, built a special
meeting-house in Corstorphine ; this did not prevent
him from forming a dangerous intrigue with
a handsome woman named Christian Nimmo,
wife of a merchant in Edinburgh, and the scandal
was increased in consequence of the lady being
the niece of his first wife and grand-daughter of
the first Lord Forrester. She was a woman of a
violent and impulsive character, and was said to
carry a weapon concealed about her person. - It
is further stated that she was mutually related to
Mrs. Bedford, a remarkably wicked woman, who
had murdered her husband a few years before, and
to that Lady Warriston who was beheaded for the
same crime in 1600 ; thus she was not a woman to
be treated lightly.
Lord Forrester, when intoxicated, had on one
occasion spoken of her opprobriously, and this ... THE FORRESTERS. 119 of land, in any proper place;? and in 1383 there followed another charter from ...

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Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack?s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.? ,
progress of ?the Douglas cause;? and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel?s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
? History of England.?
?The Shoemakers? Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack?s Land,? says Wilson, writing in 1847,
?? are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately ... of Carshogle, who was apprehended on suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a famous witch, is ...

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Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack?s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.? ,
progress of ?the Douglas cause;? and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel?s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
? History of England.?
?The Shoemakers? Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack?s Land,? says Wilson, writing in 1847,
?? are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately ... of Carshogle, who was apprehended on suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a famous witch, is ...

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SAUGHTON HALL. 319 Riccar&&l
He was at once-for some reasons known at the
time-accused of having committed this outrage,
and had to seek shelter in Holland.
Eastward of this quarter stands the old mansian
of Saughton, gable-ended, with howsteps, dormeI
windows, steep roofs, and massive chimneys, with
an ancient crowstepped dovecot, ornamented with
an elaborate string-moulding, and having a shield,
covered with initials, above its door. Over the
entrance of the house is a shield, or scroll-work,
charged with a sword between two helmets, with
the initials P. E., the date, 1623, and the old
Edinburgh legend, ?? BLISIT. BE. GOD. FOR. AL. HIS
GIPTIS.? This edifice is in the parish of St. Cuthbert?s
; but New Saughton and Saughton Loan End
are in that of Corstorphine.
For many generations the estate of Saughton
was the patrimony and residence of the Bairds, a
branch of the house of Auchmedden.
James, eldest son and heir of Sir James Baird,
Knight of Saughton, in the shire of Edinburgh, was
created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1695-6. He
entailed the lands of Saughton Hall in 1712, and
married the eldest daughter of Sir Alexander
Gibson, of Pentland, and died, leaving a son and
successor, who became involved in a serious affair,
i~ 1708.
In a drinking match in a tavern in Leith he
insisted on making his friend Mr. Robert Oswald
intoxicated. After compelling him to imbibe repeated
bumpers, Baird suddenly demanded an
apology from him as if he had committed some
breach of good manners. This Oswald declined to
do, and while a drunken spirit of resentment remained
in his mind against Baird, they came to
Edinburgh together in a coach, which they quitted
at the Nether Bow Port at a late hour.
No sooner were they afoot in the street than
Baird drew his sword, and began to make lunges at
Oswald, on whom he inflicted two mortal wounds,
and fled from the scene, leaving beside his victim
a broken and bloody sword. On the ground of
its not being ? forethought felony,? he was some
years after allowed by the Court of Justiciary
to have the benefit of Queen Anne?s Act of
Indemnity.
He married a daughter of Baikie, of Tankerness,
in Orkney, and, surviving his father by only a year,
was succeeded by hi son, an officer in the navy,
at whose death, unmarried, the title devolved upon
his brother Sir William, also an officer in the navy,
who married, in 1750, Frances, daughter of Colonel
Gardiner who was slain at the battle of Prestonpans.
He died in 1772, according to Schomberg?s
Naval Chronology,? ?at his seat of Saughton
Hall,? in I 7 7 I according to the Sofs Magazine for
that year.
From Colonel Gardiner?s daughter comes the
additional surname now used by the family.
The old dovecot, we have said, still remains here
untouched. In many instances these little edifices
in Scotland survive the manor-houses and castles
to which they were attached, by chance perhaps,
rather than in consequence of the old superstition
that if one was pulled down the lady of the family
would die within a year of the event By the law of
James I. it was felony to destroy a ?dovecot,? and
by the laws of James VI., no man could build one
in ? a heugh, or in the country, unless he had lands
to the value of ten chalders of victual yearly
within two miles of the said dovecot.?
The ancient bridge of Saughton over the Leith
consists of three arches with massive piers, and
bears the date of repairs, apparently 1670, in a
square panel. Through one of the arches of this
bridge, during a furious flood in the river, a
chaise containing two ladies and two gentlemen
was swept in 1774. and they would all have
perished had not their shrieks alarmed the family
at Saughton Hall, by whom they were succoured
and saved.
There is a rather inelegant old Scottish proverb
with reference to this place, ?Ye breed o? Saughton
swine, ye?re neb is ne?er oot 0? an ill turn.?
Throughout all this district, extending from Coltbridge
to the Redheughs, by Gogar Green and
Milburn Tower, the whole land is in the highest
state of cultivation, exhibiting fertile corn-fields,
fine grass parks and luxuriant gardens, interspersed
with coppice, with the Leith winding amidst them,
imparting at times much that is sylvan to the
scenery.
South of Gogar Bank are two old properties-
Baberton, said to be a royal house, which, in the
last century, belonged to a family named Inglis
(and was temporarily the residence ,of CharI?es X.
of France), and Riccarton, which a n boast of
great antiquity indeed.
Among the missing charters of Robert I. is one
to Walter Stewart, of the barony of Bathgzte, with
the lands of Richardfoun, the barony of Rathew, of
Boundington, and others in the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh.
Thus, we see, it formed part of the dowry
given by the victor of. Bannockbum to his daughter
the Lady Margery, wife of Walter, High Steward
of Scotland, in 1316-direct ancestor of the House
of Stewart-who died in his castle of Bathgate in
1328, his chief residence, the site of which is still
marked by some ancient pine trees.
In the reign of King Robert III., the lands of ... HALL. 319 Riccar&&l He was at once-for some reasons known at the time-accused of having ...

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41 0 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Among the representatives of the rougher sex in this very miscellaneous assemblage is a
very sour-looking divine, dubbed John Knox, and a grave clergyman, probably of the
time of Charles I., whose red calotte or skull cap, we presume, led to his being engraved
both by Pennant and Pinkerton as Cardinal Beaton.’ In the Marquis of Breadalbane’s
apartments there is a full-length portrait of Lady Isabella Thyme, daughter of the Earl of
Holland, who perished on the scaffold during the great civil war. The lady is represented
with a lute in her hand, for her great skill on which she is celebrated in the poems of Waller.
Aubrey relates that her sister, ‘‘ The beautiful Lady Diana Rich, as she was walking in her
father’s garden at Kenington, to take the fresh air before dinner, about eleven o’clock,
being then very well, met with her own apparition, habit, and everything, as in a looking-
glass.” She died about a month thereafter of the smallpox; and her sister, the Lady
Isabella, is affirmed to have received a similar warning before her death.a These and other
portraits adorn the various lodgings of the different noblemen who possess apartments in
the Palace ; but many of them, being the private property of the noble lodgers, can hardly
be considered as part of the decorations of Holyrood. The latest contribution to its walls
is Wilkie’s full-length portrait of George IT., in the Highland costume, as he appeared on
his visit to the northern capital in 1822.
A much slighter survey will suffice for the remaining ecclesiastical foundations of the
Scottish capital, of the majority of which no vestige now remains. Among the latter is
the Monastery of Blackfriars of the order of St Dominic, founded by Alexander 11. in
1230, which stood on the site of the Surgical Hospital. It is styled in the foundation
charters Mansio Regis, that monarch having, we presume, bestowed on the friars one of
the royal residences for their abode. It appears to have been a wealthy foundation, subsequently
enlarged by gifts from Robert I. and James III., as well as by many private
donations confirmed by the latter monarch in‘1473.3 The monastery was accidently destroyed
by fire in 1528; but it is probable that the church was only partially injured by the
conflagration, as it appears in the view of 1544 as a large cross church, with a central tower
and lofty spire. It no doubt experienced its full share in the events of that disastrous
year, and it had hardly recovered from these repeated injuries when’the Reformers of 1558
completed its destruction.
The Monastery of the Greyfriars in the Grassmarket has already been described, and
the venerable cemetery which has been made from its gardens frequently referred to. Over
A portrait of Cardinal Beaton, copied, we believe, by C‘nambera from an original French painting, is now at St Mary’s
College, Blair, and another copy of the .same hangs in the Refectory of St Margaret’s Convent, Edinburgh. It represents
him about the age of 35, when he was ambassador at the French Court. The face ia oval, the features regular, and the
expression somewhat pensive, but very pleasing. He wears mustaches and an imperial, and we may add, bears not the
slightest resemblance to the Holyrood portrait. On the background of the picture the following inscription is painted,
most probably copied from the original portrait :-Le bienherevx David de Bethvne, Archevesque de St And&, Chancelllere
et Regent du royaume d‘Ecosse, Cardinal et Legat a latere, fut massacre pour la foy en 1546. ’ Law’s Memorials, preface, p. lxvi * “ Charter of confirmation of all Mortifications maid to the said Brethren Predicators in Edid, vie. One made be
Alexander II., of an a. rent of 10 marks de $rmG burgalihua de Edin’. One made be Ueorge Seaton and Cristain
Murray his spouse, of 20 marks yearly out of the lands of Hartahead and Clint. One made be Phillipia Moubray,
Lady Barnebugle, of 20s. sterling, yearly, out of little Barnbugle. One made be Joan Barcklay of Kippe of 10s. yearly,
out of the lands of Duddingstone and husband-lands thereof. One be Jo. Sudgine of 30s. 4d. out of his tenement of
Leith, on the south aide o€ the water thereof, between Men Nepar’a land on the East and Rottenrow on the West, 14
May 1473.”--Inventar of Pious Donations, MS, ... 0 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. Among the representatives of the rougher sex in this very miscellaneous assemblage is ...

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42 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craiglockhart
Cluny (who died recently in London), Lady
Gordon-Cathcart of Killochan Castle, who has
since sold it out of the family.
On the hill above it, to the south, is the .farmhouse
of Braid, in which died, of consumption, in
1790, Niss Burnet of Monboddo, so celebrated
for her beauty, which woke the muse of Burns, as
his verses show.
Southward of Morningside lie the Plewlands,
ascending the slope towards beautiful Craiglockhart
Hill, now being fast covered with semi-detached
villas, feued by the Scottish Heritages Company,
surrounding a new cemetery, and intersected by
the suburban line of railway. Here was built
lately a great hydropathic establishment. The
new city poor-house, erected at a cost of Aso,ooo,
occupies, with the ground for cultivation, an area
of thirty-six acres, has accommodation for more
than 2,000 inmates, and is fitted up with every
modem improvement conducive to health and
comfort.
This quzrter of Edinburgh is bounded by
Craiglockhart Hill-the name of which is said to
have been Cra&och-ard, with some reference to
the great sheet of water once known as Cortorphin
Loch. It is 546 feet in height, and richly wooded,
and amid its rocks there breed the kestrel-hawk,
the brown owl, the ring-ousel, and the waterhen.
Among the missing charters of David 11. is one
to James Sandiland, ? in compensation of the lands
of Craiglokart and Stonypath, Edinburgh,? and
another to ? James Sandoks (?) of the same lands.?
On a plateau of the hill, embosomed among
venerable trees, we find the ancient Craig House,
a weird-looking mansion, alleged to be ghosthaunted,
lofty, massive, and full of stately rooms,
when in old times dances were stately things, ?? in
which every lady walked as if she were a goddess,
and every man as if he were a great lord.?
It is four storeys in height, including the dormer
windows j the staircase tower rises a storey higher,
and has crowstepped gables. On the lintel of the
moulded entrance door are the initials S. C. P.,
and the date 1565.
During the reign of James VI. we find it the
abode of a family named Kincaid, cadets of the
Kincaids of that ilk in Stirlingshire, as were all
the Kincaids of Warriston and Coates. From
Pitcairn?s ?? Criminal Trials,? it would seem that on
the 17th December, 1600, John Kincaid of the
Craig House, attended by a party of friends and followers,
?bodin in feir of weir,? i.e., clad in armour,
with swords, pistols, and other weapons, came
to the village of the Water of Leith, and attacked
:he house of Bailie John Johnston, wherein Isabel
Hutcheon, a widow, ?was in sober, quiet, and
peaceable manner for the time, dreading nae evil,
narm, or injury, but living under God?s peace and
3ur sovereign lord?s.??
Kincaid burst in the doors, and laying hands on
:he said Isabel, carried her off forcibly to the
Craig House, at the very time when the king was
riding in the fields close by, with the Earl of
Mar, Sir John Ramsay, and others. James, on
hearing of the circumstance, sent Mar, Ramsay,
md other of his attendants, to Craig House, which
:hey threatened to set on fire if the woman was
not instantly released. For this outrage Kincaid
was tried on the 13th January, 1601, and was fined
2,500 marks, payable to the Treasurer, and he was
dso ordered to deliver to the king ?his brown
horse.?
In 1604, Thomas, heir of Robert Kincaid, got
m annual rent of Azo of land at Craiglockhart;
2nd two years after, John Kincaid, the hero of the
brawl, succeeded his father, James Kincaid of that
ilk, knight, in the lands of Craiglockhart. In 1609
he also succeeded to some lands at ?Tow-cros?
(Toll cross), outside the West Port of Edinburgh.
By a dispute reported by Lord Fountainhall,
Craiglockhart seems to have been the property of
George Porteous, herald painter, in I 7 I I. The
house would seem then to have been repaired, and
the north wing probably added, and the whole was
let for a yearly rent of AIOO Scots.
In 1726 Craig House was the property of Sir
John Elphinstone, and in the early part of the
present century it belonged to Gordon of Cluny.
Prior to that, it had been for a time the property
of a family named Lockhart, and there, on the 5th
November, 1770, when it was the residence of
Alexander Lockhart, Esq., Major-General John
Scott of Balcomie and Bellevue was married to
Lady Mary Hay, eldest daughter of the Earl of
Err01 ; and their daughter and heiress, Henrietta,
became the wife of the Duke of Portland, who
added to his own name and arms those of the?
Scotts of Balcomie.
For some years prior to 1878, the Craig House
was the residence of John Hill Burton, LL.D.
and F.R.S.E., a distinguished historian and biographer,
who was born at Aberdeen in 1809, the
son of an officer of the old Scots Brigade, and who
died in 188 I at- Morton House. We are told that
his widowed mother, though the daughter of an
Aberdeenshire laird, was left with slender resources,
yet made successful exertions to give her children
a good education. After taking the degree of M.A. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craiglockhart Cluny (who died recently in London), Lady Gordon-Cathcart of Killochan ...

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326 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Libertou.
extended from east to west over all the country.
This inequality in the surface .contributes much
to the ornament of the view, by the agreeable
relief which the eye ever meets with in the change
of objects ; while the universal declivity, which
prevails more or less in every field, is favourable to
the culture of the lands, by allowing a ready descent
to the water which falls from the heavens.? (Agricultural
Survey of Midlothian.)
Situated in a hollow of the landscape, on the
Colinton slope of the Pentlands, is Bonally, with
the Vale of the Leith, and enters the parish here,
on the west side by a lofty aqueduct bridge of eight
arches, and passes along it for two and a half miles.
Near Slateford is Graysmill, where Prince Charles
took up his headquarters in 1745, and met the
deputies sent there from the city to arrange about
its capitulation, and where ensued those deliberations
which Lochiel cut short by entering the High
Street at the head of go0 claymores.
Proceeding eastward, we enter the parish of
Liberton, one of the richest and most beautiful in
its ponds, 482 feet above the
tower, added to a smaller
house, and commanding a pass
among the hills, was finished
in 1845 by Lord Cockburn,
who resided there for many
years.
There are several copious
and excellent springs on the
lands of Swanston, Dreghorn,
and Comistun, from which,
prior to the establishment of
the Water Company in 1819,
to introduce the Cramley
water, the inhabitants of
Edinburgh chiefly procured
that necessary of life.
At Corniston are- the remains
of an extensive camp
ofpre-historic times. Adjacent
to it, at Fairmilehead, tradition
records that a great battle has
been fought ; two large cairns
were erected there, and when
these were removed to serve
for road metal, great quantities
of human bones were found
sea-level. A peel i all the fertile Lothians. Its surface is exquisitely
diversified by broad low ridges,
gently rising swells and intermediate
plains, nowhere obtaining
a sufficient elevation
to be called a hill, save in
the instances of Blackford and
the Braid range. ?As to
relative position,? says a writer,
?? the parish lies in the very
core of the rich hanging plain
or northerly exposed lands of
Midlothian, ahd commands
from its heights prospects the
most sumptuous of the urban
landscape and romantic hills
of the metropolis, the dark
farm and waving outline of
the Pentlands and their spurs,
the minutely-featured scenery
of the Lothians, the Firth of
Forth, the clear coast line, the
white-washed towns and distant
hills of Fife, and the bold
blue sky-line of mountain
The parish itself has a thoul?IE
BATTLE OR CAMUB STONE, COMISTON. ranges away in far perspective.
in and under them. Near \$here they stood there
still remains a relic of the fight, a great whinstone
block, about 20 feet high, known as the Kelstain,
or Battle Stone, and also as Cuvw Stage, from the
name of a Danish commander.
Corniston House, in this quarter, was built by Sir
James Forrest in 1815.
The Hunter?s Tryst, near this, is a well-known
and favourite resort of the citizens of Edinburgh in
summer expeditions, and was frequently the headquarters
of the Six Foot Club.
Slateford, a village of Colinton parish, is two
and a half miles from the west end of Princes
Street. It has. a ?United Secession place of
worship, dating from 1784, and is noted as the
scene of the early pastoral labours of the Rev. Dr.
John Dick The Union Canal is carried across
.
sand attractions, and is dressed out in neatness
of enclosures, profusion of garden-grounds, opulence
of cultivation, elegance or tidiness of. mansion,
village, and cottage, and busy stir and enterprise,
which indicate full consciousness of the immediate
vicinity of the proudest metropolis in Europe.?
One of the highest ridges in the parish is crowned
by the church, which occupies the exact site
of a more ancient fane, of which we have the
first authentic notice in the King?s charter to the
monks of Holyrood, circa 1143-7, when he grants
them ?? that chapel of Liberton, with two oxgates of
land, with all the tithes and rights, etc.,? which had
been made to it by Macbeth-not the usurper, as
Arnot erroneously supnoses, but the Macbeth, or
Macbether, Baron of Liberton, whose name occurs
as witness to several royal charters of David I. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Libertou. extended from east to west over all the country. This inequality in the ...

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Cunie.1 ROMAN AND OTUER ANTIQUITIES. 331
locality; But the ?? Old Statistical Account ? has
the following version of it :-
?L From its name-Koria or Coria-it seems to
have been one of those districts which still retain
their Roman appellation. This conjecture is supportedby
the following authors, who give an account
of the ancient and modem names of places in
Scotland : 1st. Johnston, in his ? Antiquitates
Celto-Normannicz,? for the Koria of Ptolemy places
Cumc; znd, Dr. Stukeley, in his account of
Richard of Cirencester?s map and itinerary, for the
Koria of Richard fixes Corstanlaw in the neighbourhood
of Currie ; 3rd, Sir Kobert Sibbald, in
his ? Roman Antiquities of Scotland,? conceives
it to have been the place near the manor of Ingliston,
from a pillar dug up there, which place is
likewise in the vicinity
_ _
of earthenware. South of the great cairn were five
large stones, set upright in the earth, to com-?
memorate some now-forgotten battle ; and at the
bottom of the same field were found many stone
coffins, which the late General Scott of Malleny
re-interred, and he set up a tombstone, which still
marks the place.
At Enterkins Yett,according to tradition, a bloody
battle was fought with the Danes, whose leader
was slain by the Scots and buried in the field giving
rise to its name.
But, apart from these prehistoric vestiges, Cume
has claims to considerable antiquity from an ecclesiastical
point of view.
Father Hay records that the Knights of the
Hospital had an establishment at Currie, then
called Kill-leith (i.e., the
1
of Currie. These circumstances
tend io prove
that it must have been
originally a Roman sta-,
tion-traces of which
have lately been found
in the neighbourhood ?
The locality is very
rich in ancient militar;
remains, as the extract
from the ? I Old Statistical
(Vol. V.).
KNIGHT TEMPLAR?S TOMB, CURRIE CHURCHYARD.
(Ajtrr a Sketch by th Author.)
Account ? would lead us
to- expect. Indications of Roman stations are
visible on Ravelrig Hill and Warlaw Hill.
The former crowns the summit of a high bank,
inaccessible on three sides, defended by two ditches
faced with stone, with openings for a gate. It is
named by the peasantry the Castle Yett.
Farther eastward, commanding a view of the
beautiful strath towards Edinburgh, is another
station, traditionally called the General?s Watch, or
Post. These works are much defaced, the hewn
stones having been carried off to make field dykes.
On Cocklaw Farm, there were, till within a few
years ago, the remains of a massive round tower,
eighteen feet in diameter. The ruins were filled
with fine sand. It had some connection with the
station on Ravelrig Hill, as subterranean passages
have been traced between them.
On the lands of Harelaw-a name which implies
the locality of an army-near the present farmhouse,
there stood an immense cairn, ofwhich three
thousand loads were carted away, some time shortly
before 1845. Within it was a stone cist, only two
feet square, but full of human bones. In the same
field was found a coffin of stone, the bones in
which had faded into dust; amid them lay a piece
Chapel by the ? Leith),
which was a chief commandery.
But there lies
in the village churchyard
a tombstone six feet
long by two broad, on
which there is carved a
sword of the thirteenth
century, with the guard
depressed, and above it
the eight-pointed cross
of the Temple, encircled
by a rosary of beads.
It was for a time built into the wall of the village
school-house.
In 1670 Scott of Bavelaw was retoured in the
Temple lands and Temple houses of Currie. The
fragment of the old church bore the impress of
great antiquity, and when it was removed to make
way for the present plain-looking place of worship,
there was found a silver ornament supposed to be
the stand of acrucifix, or stem of an altar candlestick,
as it had a screw at each end, and was se,ven
inches? long by one and one-eighth in diameter.
On a scroll, it bore in Saxon characters, the legend-
3esn . fiIi . Pof . flfserorc . mti.
It is now preserved in the Museum of Antiquities.
In the reign of David II., William of Disscyngtoun,
relation and heir of John Burnard, had?
a grant of land in the barony of Currie ; and under
Robert III., Thomas Eshingtoun (or Dishingtoun),
son probably of the same, had a charter of the
lands of Longherdmanstoun, Currie,. Redheughs,
and Kilbaberton-all in the shire of Edinburgh
Under the same monarch, William Brown of
Colstoun had a grant of Little Currie, in the
barony of Ratho ; and afterwards we find Robert ... ROMAN AND OTUER ANTIQUITIES. 331 locality; But the ?? Old Statistical Account ? has the following version ...

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THE CANONGATE TOLBOOTH.
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. -
CHAPTER I.
THE CANONGATE.
Its Origin-Songs concerning it-Records-Market Cross-St. Job?s and the Girth Crosses-Early Hktory-The Town of H~bcrgarc-
Canongate Paved-The Governing Body-Fbising the DeviL-Purchase of the Earl of Roxburgh?s ?? Superiority ?-The Foreign Settlement
-Gorge Heriot the Elder-Huntly?s House-Sir Walter Scott?s Story of a Fire-The Morocco Land-Houses of Oliphant of Nmland,
Ltrd David Hay, and Earl of Angus-Jack?s Land-Shoemakers? Lands-Marquiz of Huntly?s How-Nisbet of Dirleton?s Mansion-
Golfer?s Land-John and Nicol Patemn-The Porch and Gatehouse of the Abbey-Lucky Spence.
THE Canongate-of old the Court-end of Edinburgh-
takes its name from the Augustine monks
of Holyrood, who were permitted to build it by
the charter of David I. in I I 28, and to rule it as a
burgh of regality. ?The canons,? says Chalmers,
.<?? were empowered to settle here a village, and from
them the street of this settlement was called the
Canongate, from the Saxon gaet, a way or street,
40
according to?the practice of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries in Scotland and England. The
irnmunities which the canons and their villagers enjoyed
from David?s grant, soon raised up a town,
which extended from the Abbey to the Nether
Port of Edinburgh, and the townsmen performed
their usual devotions in the church of the Abbey
till the Reformation,? after which it continued to ... CANONGATE TOLBOOTH. OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. - CHAPTER I. THE CANONGATE. Its Origin-Songs concerning ...

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362 MEMORIAL S OF EDINB URG H.
old oaken chair remained till recently an heirloom, bequeathed by its patrician occupants
to the humble tenants of their degraded dwellings. A recent writer on the antiquities
of Leith, conceives it probable that this may have been the residence of the Regent
Lennox; but we have been baffled in our attempts to arrive at any certain evidence
on the subject by reference to the titles. “ Mary,” says Maitland, “ haviug begun
to build in the town of Leith, was followed therein by divers of the nobility, bishops,
and other persons of distinction of her party; several of whose houses are still remaining,
as m y be seen in sundry places, by their spacious rooms, lofty ceilings, large staircases,
and private oratories or chapels for the celebration of mass.” Beyond the probable
evidence afforded by such remains of decaying splendour and former wealth, nothing
more can now be ascertained. The occupation of Leith by nobles and dignitaries of
the Church was of a temporary nature, and under circumstances little calculated to
induce them to leave many durable memorials of their presence. A general glance, therefore,
at such noticeable features as still remain, will suffice to complete our survey of the
ancient seaport.
The earliest date that we have discovered on any of the old private buildings of the
burgh, occurs on the projecting turnpike of an antique tenement at the foot of Burgess
Close, which bears this inscription on the lintel, in Roman characters :-NISI DNS FRUSTBA,
1573. This ancient alley is the earliest thoroughfare in the burgh of which we have
any account. It was granted to the burgesses of Edinburgh, towards the close of the
fourteenth century, by Logan of Restalrig, the baronial over-lord of Leith, before it
acquired the dignity of a royal burgh, and the owner of nearly all the lands that extended
along the banks of the harbour of Leith. We are led to infer from the straitened proportions
of this narrow alley, that the whole exports and imports of the shipping of Leith were
conveyed on pack-horses or in wheel-barrows, as it would certainly prove impassable for
any larger wheeled convejance. Its inconvenience, however, appears to have been felt at
the time, and the Laird of Restalrig was speedily compelled to grant a more commodious
access to the shore. The inscription which now graces this venerable thoroughfare, though
of a date so much later than its first construction, preserves a memorial of its gifts to the
civic Council of Edinburgh, as we may reasonably ascribe to the veneration of some wealthy
merchant of the capital the inscribing over the doorway of his mansion at Leith the
very appropriate motto of the City Arms. To this, the oldest quarter of the town, indeed,
we must direct those who go “in search of the picturesque.” Watera’ Close, which
adjoins Burgess Close, is scarcely surpassed by any venerable alley of the capital, either in
its attractive or repulsive features. Stone and timber lands are mixed together in admired
disorder ; and one antique tenement in particular, at the corner of Water Lane, with a
broad projecting turnpike, contorted by corbels and string courses, and every variety of
convenient aberration from the perpendicular or horizontal, which the taste or whim of its
constructor could devise, is one of the most singular edifices that the artist could select as a
subject for his pencil.
The custom of affixing sententious aphorisms to the entrances of their dwellings appears
to have pertained fully as much to the citizens of Leith as of Edinburgh. BLISSIT . BE .
GOD . OF . HIS . GIFTIS . 1601., I. W., I. H., is boldly cut on a large square panel on
the front of an old house at the head of Sheriff Brae; and the same favourite motto ... MEMORIAL S OF EDINB URG H. old oaken chair remained till recently an heirloom, bequeathed by its patrician ...

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APPENDIX. 443
all these oppressive exactions is imposed on INGELBDEA UMPF BAVILLEa, nd a proportinnately severe tine is
required from hie vassals.-(Lord Hades’s Annals, vol. i p. 288.) This, therefore, indicates one of the chief
leaders of the Scota against their English invaders. His fine was to extend over a perid of ten yeara, long
before which Edwad was in his grave, and nearly every place of strength in Scotland had been wreated from
his imbecile son, There seems little reason to doubt that Ingelram de Umtravile would early avail himself of
an opportunity to renounce a foreign ydce burdened by such exactions, and to bear his part in expelling the
invaders from the kingdom. The following, however, is the very different account of Nisbet, in hie ‘‘ Historical
and Critical remarks on the Ragman Roll” (p. 11), if it refer to the eame person :-
“Ingelramus de Umphravile was a branch of the Umfraville family that were Englishmen, but posRessed
of 8 great estate in Angus, and elsewhere, which they lost, because they would not renounce their allegiance
to England, and turn honest Scotsmen. In the rolls of King Robert I., there are charters of lands granted by
that Prince, upon the narratix-e that the lands had formerly belonged, and forfeited to the Crown, by the
attainder of Ingelramus de Umphramk.”
At an early date the Scottish Umfradles occupied a high rank. In 1243, Gilbert de Umfraville, Lord of
Pmdhow and Herbottil, in Northumberland, became Earl of Angus, by right of his marriage with Matilda,
Countess in her own right. The name of Cilleberto de Umframuill appears aa a witnew to a confirmation
of one of the charters of Holyrood Abbey, granted by William the Lyon (Liber Cartarurn Sancte Crucis, p.
24) ; and in a Rubsequent charter in the same reign he appears as bestowing a carukate of land in Kinard on the
w e Abbey (Ibid, p. 34). These notes can afford at best only grounds for surmise as to the knight whose
memorial cross was not altogether demolished till the year 1810. The base of it, which remained on ita ancient
site till that recent date, was a mass of whinstone, measuring fully five feet square, by about three feet high
above ground. There was a square hole in the centre of it, wherein the shaft of the cross- had been inserted.
We are informed that it was broken up and used for paving the road.
The poet Claudero, of whom some account is given in a succeeding note, haa dedicated an elegy to the
“Tun efield Nine,’’ On the Pollution of St Lemrd’s Hill, a conseerated and ancient burial-place, near EdinburgLn
The following stanzas will be sufficient to account for the complete eradication of every vestige of its hospital
and graves from the ancient site :- .
“ The High Priest there, with art and care,
Hath purg’d with gardner‘a skill,
And trench‘d out bones of Adam’s sons,
Repoa’d in Leonard’s Hill !
“ Graves of the dead, thrown up with spade,
Where long they slept full s t i
And turnips grow, from human POW,
Upon St Leonard’a Hill 1 ”
XIV. GREYFRIARS’ MONASTERY.
THE residence of Henry VI. of England, as well as his heroic Queen and their son, at the Greyfriars
Monastery in the Grassmarket, after the total overthrow of that unfortunate monarch’s adherents at the Battle
of Towton, i a referred to in the description of the Grassmarket (pages 17 and 342). Thevisit of Henry
to the Scottish capital has, however, been altogether denied by aome writers. The following note by Sir W,
Scott, on the fifth canto of Marmion, ought to place this at least beyond doubt :- ... 443 all these oppressive exactions is imposed on INGELBDEA UMPF BAVILLEa, nd a proportinnately severe ...

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able printer read snatches of the forthcoming novel, and whetted, while he seemed to
gratify their curiosity, by many a shrewd wink, and mysterious hint of confidential insight
into the literary riddle of the age. The scene, indeed, has melancholy associations with
the great novelist. It is a place which he often visited as an honoured guest, while yet
with sanguine mind and fertile imagination he was anticipating the realisation of dreams
as wild as his most fanciful legends; but it is far more nearly allied to those mournful
years, when the brave man looked on the sad realities of ruined hopes, and bent himself
sternly to rebuild and to restore. The house at the head of the street, facing the
Canongate, where James Earl of Bopetoun resided previously to 1788, is associated
with another of the most eminent Scottish poets and novelists, the precursor of Scott in
the popular field of romance. The first floor of this house was the residence of Mrs
Telfer, of Scotstown, the sister of Smollett, during his second visit to his native country
in 1766; and here he resided for some time, and though in an infirm state of health,
mixed in the best society of the Scottish capital, and treasured up those graphic pictures of
men aud manners which he afterwards embodied in his last and best novel, U Humphrey
Clinker, ”
At the foot of the Pleasance, and extending between that ancient thoroughfare and the
valley that skirts the base of Salisbury Crags, is a rising ground called St John’s Hill,
which, from its vicinity to the places already described, may be presumed to have derived
its name from the same cause. The knights of St John of Jerusalem, who succeeded to
the forfeited, possessions of the Templars, it is well-known held lands in almost every shire
in Scotland, and claimed a jurisdiction, even within the capital, over certain tenements
built on their ground, some of which, now remaining in the Grassmarket, still bear the
name of Temple Lands. In the absence of all evidence on this subject, we venture to
suggest the probability of a similar proprietorship having been the source of this name.
In the earliest map of Edinburgh which exists, that of 1544, a church of large dimensions
appears occupying the exact site of St John’s Hill, but this is no doubt intended for the
Blackfriars’ Monastery which stood on the opposite side of the Pleasance. It is possible
that some early deeds or charters may yet be discovered to throw light on this subject,
though we havs been unsuccessful in the search. The Templars, indeed, would seem to
have had an establishment at Mount Hooly on the southern verge of St Leonard‘s Hill.
‘<O n the eastern side of Newington,” says Maitland, ‘(o n a gentle eminence denominated
Mons Sacer, or Holy Mount, now corruptly Mount Hooly, was situate a chapel, which,
from the position of the bodies buried cross-legged wayLyB, with their swords by
their sides, which were found lately in digging there, I take to have belonged to
the Knights Templars.” It is difficult now to fix the exact site of this interesting
spot, owing to the changes effected on the whole district by the extended buildings
of the town.’
On the north side of the Canongate, opposite to St John Street, a large and lofty
stone tenement bears the name of Jack’s Land, where the lovely Susannah, Countess
Maitland, p. 176, where a reference is made to the Council Registers, but we have searched them in vain for any
The fact of cross-legged corpses with swords by their sides being dug up, is, to
Perhaps
notice of it under the date assigned.
say the least of it, somewhat marvelloua, and merited a more elaborate narrative from that careful historian.
however, it should be understood ae referring to sculptured figures.
2 0 ... CANONGA TE AND ABBEY SANCTUAR Y. 289 able printer read snatches of the forthcoming novel, and whetted, while ...

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140 ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN,
also his brother, Mr. Nicholas Monk, stayed with him about two months in
the year 1659, having been sent, it is said, to sound his views as to the
restoration of Charles. In November 1659, when Monk drew his army
together from all parts of Scotland, in preparation for that famous march of
his to London, which did lead to the restoration of Charles, Dalkeith at last
relapsed into quietude. The crumbling ruins of a long stone building in
the old Chapelwell Close, a tuping off the High Street nearly opposite the
Church, are still known as ‘ Cromwell’s Orderly House.’ Cromwell had been
in Scotland for about a year, and Dalkeith had been one of his stations ; but
Monk was there so much longer and so much more familiarly, that if any one
meets an English ghost thereabouts at night, in a military costume of the
seventeenth century, he may be sure it is Monk‘s.
DALKEITH PALACE.
The present Palace was built by Anne, sister of the young Mary,’from
whom it was leased by Monk. Mary was mamed at the age of eleven to
Walter Scott of Harden, and died two years afterwards, leaving the property
to her sister Anne. Anne was’but twelve years old when she was mamed to
Charles II.’s unfortunate son the Duke of Monmouth, himself only fifteen,
and on the day of their mamage they were created Duke and Duchess of
Buccleuch. On the Duke’s death his confiscated lands &ere restored to-his
widow ; and she built the present Palace of Dalke-ith, a gloomy-looking three
sided erection, in imitation of the Palace of Loo in the Netherlands, designed ... ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN, also his brother, Mr. Nicholas Monk, stayed with him about two months in the year 1659, ...

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Burghmuir.] ST. ROQUES CHAPEL. 47
Greenhill, whereon stood an old gable-ended and
gableted manor-house, on the site of which is now
the great square modem mansion which bears its
name. In a street here, called Greenhill Gardens,
there stands a remarkable parterre, or open burialplace,
wherein lie the remains of more than one proprietor
of the estate. A tomb bears the initials
J. L. and E. R., being those of ?John Livingstone
and Elizabeth Rig, his spouse,? who acquired
the lands of Greenhill in 1636 ; and the adjacent
thoroughbre, named Chamberlain Road, is so
called from an official of the city, named Fairholme,
who is also buried there.
A dispute-Temple and Halliday with Adam
Cairns of Greenhill -is reported before the
lords in 1706, concerning a tenement in the
Lawnmarket, which would seem to have been
?spoiled and deteriorated? in the fire of 1701.
(Fountainhall.)
In 1741 Mr. Thomas Fairholme, merchant in
Edinburgh, married Miss Warrender, daughter of
Sir George Warrender of Bruntsfield, and his death
at Greenhill is reported in the Scuts Magazine for
1771. There was a tenement called Fairholme
Land in the High Street, immediately adjoinicg
the Royal Exchange on the east, as appears from
the Scuts Magazine of 1754, probab!y erected by
Bailie Fairholme, a magistrate in the time of
Charles 11.
Kay gives us a portrait of George Fairholme of
Greenhill (and of Green-know, Berwickshire), who,
with his younger brother, William of Chapel, had
long resided in Holland, where they became
wealthy bankers, and where the former cultivated
a natural taste for the fine arts, and in after life
became celebrated as a judicious collector of
pictures, and of etchings by Rembrandt, all of
which became the property of his nephew, Adam
Fairholme of Chapel, Berwickshire. He died in
his seventieth year, in 1800, and was interred in
the family burying-place at Greenhill.
In a disposition of the lands of the latter estate
by George Fairholme, in favour of Thomas Wright,
dated 16th, and recorded 18th February, 1790, in
the sheriffs? books at Edinburgh, the preservation of
the old family tomb, which forms so singular a
feature in a modern street, is thus provided for :-
? Reserving nevertheless to me the liberty and
privilege of burying the dead of my own family,
and such of my relations to whom I, during my
own lifetime, shall communicate such privilege, in
the burial-place built upon the said lands, and
?Teserving likewise access to me and my heirs to
repair the said burial-place from time to time, as we
shall think proper.?
? Greenhill became lztterly the property of the
Stuart-Forbeses of Pitsligo, baronets.
After passing the old mansion named East
Morningside House, the White House Loan joins
at right angles the ancient thoroughfare named the
Grange Loan, which led of old from the Linton
Road to St. Giles?s Grange, and latterly the Causewayside.
On the south side of it a modern villa takes its
name of St. Roque from an ancient chapel which
stood there, and the ruins of which were extant
within the memory of many of the last generation.
The chapels of St. Roque and St. John, on the
Burghmuir, were both dependencies of St. Cuthbert?s
Church. The historian of the latter absurdly
conceives it to have been named from a French
ambassador, Lecroc, who was in Scotland in 1567.
The date of its foundation is involved in obscurity;
but entries occur in the Treasurer?s Accounts for
1507, when on St. Roque?s Day (15th August) James
IV. made an offering of thirteen shillings. ? That
this refers to the chapel on the Burghmuir is
proved,? says Wilson, ? by the evidence of two
charters signed by the king at Edinburgh on the
same day.?
Arnot gives a view of the chapel from the northeast,
showing the remains of a large pointed window,
that had once been filled in with Gothic tracery;
and states that it is owing ?to the superstitious
awe of the people that one stone of this chapel has
been left upon another-a superstition which, had
it been more constant in its operations, might have
checked the tearing zeal of reformation. About
thirty years ago the proprietor of the ground
employed masons to pull down the walls of the
chape! ; the scaffolding gave way ; the tradesmen
were killed. The accident was looked upon as a
judgment against those who were demolishing thk
house of God. No entreaties nor bribes by the
proprietor could prevail upon tradesmen to accomplish
its demolition.?
It was a belief of old that St. Roque?s intercession
could protect all from pestilence, as he was
distinguished for his piety and labours during a
plague in Italy in 1348. Thus Sir David Lindesay
says of-
1?- Superstitious pilgramages
To monie divers imagis ;
Sum to Sanct Roche with diligence,
To saif them from the pestilence.?
Thus it is, in accordance with the attributes ascribed
in Church legends to St. Roque, that we find
his chapel constantly resorted to by the victims of
the plague encamped on the Burghmuir, during the
prevalence of that scourge in the sixteenth century. ... ST. ROQUES CHAPEL. 47 Greenhill, whereon stood an old gable-ended and gableted manor-house, on the ...

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friend‘s coach to the door, as the only effectual hint to his guest ; but Dempster’s
coachman was ngt to be so caught : he positively refused to harness the horses
in such a night, especially as the roads were so bad and dangerous, preferring
rather to lie in the stable, if he could get no other accommodation, till daylight,
Lord Dunsinnan, thus driven to extremities, returned to his guest, and
made known the dilemma in which they were placed. “ George, ” said he, ‘‘ if
you stay, you will go to bed at ten and rise at three ; and then I shall get the
bed after you.”
The property of Dunsinnan, which included nearly the entire parish of Collace,
was far from being in a state of improvement when it came into his hands ;
a great part of the lands consisted of what is termed “outfield,” and the
farms were made up of detached portions, many of these at considerable distances.
No sooner had Sir William obtained possession of the estate than he
set about dividing the lands into compact and regular farms, which he enclosed,
and gave to each a certain portion of outfield ; at the same time he built comfortable
dwellings for many of his tenants, and, by proper encouragement, induced
others to do so for themselves. He thus, with no niggardly hand, promoted
alike the prosperity of the tenant, and ensured the rapid improvement of
the soil.
Sir William was appointed a Lord of Justiaiary, in 1792, on the death of
Lord Stonefield ; and continued to attend the duties of the circuit until 1808,
when he resigned, and the following year retired from the Court of Session
altogether. He died at a very advanced age at Dunsinnan House on the
25th March 1811. The title became extinct in his person, and a nephew (his
sister’s son) succeeded to the estate and assumed the name of Nairne.
His lordship’s residence in Edinburgh was Minto House, Argyle Square.
Previous to his removal thither, he occupied a tenement at the head of the
Parliament Stairs, lately a printing-office ; but now removed to make way for
the new Justiciary Court-Room.
Before concluding this sketch, it may be noticed that Lord Dunsinnan was
uncle to the famous Catherine Nairne or Ogilvie, whose trial in 17 65 for the
crimes of murder and incest, excited such general interest. She married in
that year Thomas Ogilvie, Esq. of Eastmiln, Forfarshire,-a gentleman, as was
stated at the trial, forty years of age and of a sickly constitution-the lady’s
own age being only nineteen. Shortly before the marriage, a younger brother
of this gentleman, named Patrick, and a lieutenant in the 89th Foot, had returned
on account of bad health from India, and had taken up his residence
as a visitor at his brother’s house. The marriage took place three or four days
after Patrick’s return; and in less than a week the intercourse betwixt him
and his brother’s wife, which led to such tragical consequences, was stated to
have commenced. Four months afterwards, in pursuance of a diabolical plot
betwixt Mrs. Ogilvie and her seducer, the former effected the death of her husband
by means of arsenic. She and her accomplice were accordingly brought
to trial, when both were found guilty, and condemned to be hanged. Sentencedangerous, preferring
rather to lie in the stable, if he could get no other accommodation, till daylight,
Lord Dunsinnan, thus driven to extremities, returned to his guest, and
made known the dilemma in which they were placed. “ George, ” said he, ‘‘ if
you stay, you will go to bed at ten and rise at three ; and then I shall get the
bed after you.”
The property of Dunsinnan, which included nearly the entire parish of Collace,
was far from being in a state of improvement when it came into his hands ;
a great part of the lands consisted of what is termed “outfield,” and the
farms were made up of detached portions, many of these at considerable distances.
No sooner had Sir William obtained possession of the estate than he
set about dividing the lands into compact and regular farms, which he enclosed,
and gave to each a certain portion of outfield ; at the same time he built comfortable
dwellings for many of his tenants, and, by proper encouragement, induced
others to do so for themselves. He thus, with no niggardly hand, promoted
alike the prosperity of the tenant, and ensured the rapid improvement of
the soil.
Sir William was appointed a Lord of Justiaiary, in 1792, on the death of
Lord Stonefield ; and continued to attend the duties of the circuit until 1808,
when he resigned, and the following year retired from the Court of Session
altogether. He died at a very advanced age at Dunsinnan House on the
25th March 1811. The title became extinct in his person, and a nephew (his
sister’s son) succeeded to the estate and assumed the name of Nairne.
His lordship’s residence in Edinburgh was Minto House, Argyle Square.
Previous to his removal thither, he occupied a tenement at the head of the
Parliament Stairs, lately a printing-office ; but now removed to make way for
the new Justiciary Court-Room.
Before concluding this sketch, it may be noticed that Lord Dunsinnan was
uncle to the famous Catherine Nairne or Ogilvie, whose trial in 17 65 for the
crimes of murder and incest, excited such general interest. She married in
that year Thomas Ogilvie, Esq. of Eastmiln, Forfarshire,-a gentleman, as was
stated at the trial, forty years of age and of a sickly constitution-the lady’s
own age being only nineteen. Shortly before the marriage, a younger brother
of this gentleman, named Patrick, and a lieutenant in the 89th Foot, had returned
on account of bad health from India, and had taken up his residence
as a visitor at his brother’s house. The marriage took place three or four days
after Patrick’s return; and in less than a week the intercourse betwixt him
and his brother’s wife, which led to such tragical consequences, was stated to
have commenced. Four months afterwards, in pursuance of a diabolical plot
betwixt Mrs. Ogilvie and her seducer, the former effected the death of her husband
by means of arsenic. She and her accomplice were accordingly brought
to trial, when both were found guilty, and condemned to be hanged. Sentence ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. friend‘s coach to the door, as the only effectual hint to his guest ; but ...

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for it the savoury title it retained to the last, still preserved some remains of ancient
grandeur, as appears in our view, where an ornamental building is introduced, which had
probably formed the summer house of some neighbouring patrician’s pleasure-grounds
ere the locality acquired its unenviable distinction. The inventory of the tenants who
were at length ejected by the inexorable commissioners, forms, we think, as strange a
medley as ever congregated together in one locality. It is thus described ;-‘4 All
and hail these laigh houses lying in the said West Bow, in that close commonly
called the Stinking Close of Edinburgh, some time possessed, the one thereof by John
Edward, cobbler; another by Widow Mitchell; another by John Park, ballad crier;
another by Christian Glass, eggwife ; another by Duncan M‘Lachlan, waterman ; and
another by Alexander Anderson, bluegown; . . . and with shops, cellars, &c.,
are part of that tenement acquired by Sir William Menzies of Gladstanes, 29th April
1696.”
Beyond the singular group of buildings thus huddled together, the Bow turned abruptly
to the south, completing the Z like form of the ancient thoroughfare. Here again, and
scattered among the antique tenements that surround the area of the Grassmarket, we
find the gables and bartizans surmounted with the stone or iron cross that marks the
privileged Templar Lancls. These powerful soldier-priests possessed at one time lands
in every county, and nearly in every parish, of Scotland ; and wherever they permitted
houses to be erected thereon, they were required to bear the badge of their order, and
to submit to the jurisdiction of no local court but that of their spiritual lords. When
their possessions passed into secular hands at the Reformation, they still retained their
peculiar privileges and burdens, and their exemption from the exclusive burghal restrictions
was long a subject of heart-burning and discontent to the chartered corporations
and the magistrates of Edinburgh. The Earl of Haddington is still Lord Superior of
the Temple Lands, and his representative used to hold Baron’s Courts in them occasionally,
until this imperium in imperio was aboliclhed by the Act of 1746, which extinguished the
ancient privileges of pit and gallows, and swept away a host of independent baronies all
over the kingdom. We cannot leave the West Bow, however, once the principal entry
into the town, without glancing at the magnificent pageants which it witnessed through
successive centuries. Up this steep and narrow way have ridden James IV. and V., his
Queen, Mary of Guise, and their fair and ill-fated daughter Queen Mary. Here, too, the
latter rode in no joyous ceremonial, with Bothwell at her side, and his rude border spearmen
closing around her ; though they had thrown away their weapons as they approached
the capital, that the ravished Queen might appear to her subjects as the arbiter of her
own fate. To those who read aright the history of this calumniated and cruelly wronged
Queen, few incidents in her life are more touching than when she rode up the Bow on this
occasion, and turning her horse’s head, was about to proceed towards her own Palace of
Holyrood. It is the very culminating point of her existence ; but the die was already cast..
Bothwell, who had assumed for the occasion the air of an obsequious courtier, now seized
her horse’s bridle, and she entered the Castle a captive, and in his power. By the same
street her son, James VI., and his Queen, Anne of Denmark, made their ceremonious
entries to the capital ; and in like manner, Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, and James VIL,
while Duke of York, accompanied by his Queen and daughter, afterwards Queen Anne. ... WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 341 for it the savoury title it retained to the last, still preserved some remains of ...

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3 18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [cogs.
p. baronet of Nova Scotia by James VII., in
1687.
The close of the family is thus recorded in the
Scottish Register for 1795 :-?September I. At
Cramond House, died Adam, Inglis, Esq., last
surviving son af Sir John Inglis of Cramond, Bart.
He was instructed in grammar and learning at the
High School -and University of Edinburgh, and at
the Warrington Academy in Lancashire ; studied
law at Edinburgh, and was ca!led to thc bar in
1782. In May, 1794~ was appointed lieutenant of
one of the Midlothian troops of cavalry, in which
he paid the most assiduous attention to the raising
and discipline of the men. On the 23rd August
he was attacked with fever, and expired on the
1st September, in the thirty-fourth year of his age,
unmarried.? Cramond House is now the seat of
the Craigie-Halkett family.
Some three miles south of Cramond lies the district
of Gogar, an ancient and suppressed parish, a
great portion of which is now included in that of
Corstorphine Gogar signifies ?? light,? according
to some ?etymological notices,? by Sir Janies
Foulis of Colinton, probably from some signal
given to an army, as there are, he adds, marks of
a battle having taken p1ac.e to the westward?; but
his idea is much more probably deduced from the
place named traditionally ? the Flashes,? the scene
of Leslie?s repulse of Cromwell in 1650. The
name is more probably Celtic The ? Ottadeni
and Gadeni,? says a statistical writer, ?? the British
descendants of the first colonists, enjoyed their
original land during the second century, and have
left memorials of their existence in the names
of the Forth, the Almond, the Esk, the Leith,
the Gore, the Gogar, and of Cramond, Cockpen,
Dreghorn,? etc.
The church of Gogar was much older than that
of Corstorphine, but was meant for a scanty population.
A small part of it still exists, and after
the Reformation was set apart as a burial-place for
the lords of the manor.
Gogar was bestowed by Robert Bruce on his
trusty comrade in many a well-fought field, Sir
Alexander Seton, one of the patriots who signed
that famous letter to the Pope in 1330, asserting
the independence of the Scots ;? and vowing that
so long as one hundred of them remained alive,
they would never submit to the King of England.
He was killed in battle at Kinghorn in 1332.
Soon after this establishment the Parish of Gogar
was acquired by the monks of Holyrood; but
before the reign of James V. it had been constituted
an independent rectory. In 1429 Sir John Forrester
conferred its tithes on his collegiate church at
Corstorphine, and made it one of the prebends
there.
In June, 1409, Walter Haliburton, of Dirleton, in
a charter dated from that place, disposed of the
lands and milne of Goga to his brother George.
Among the witnesses were the Earls of March and
Orkney, Robert of Lawder, and others. In 1516
the lands belonged to the Logans of Restalrig and
others, and during the reign of James VI. were in
possession of Sir Alexander Erskine, Master of Mar,
appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle in I 5 78.
Though styled ?the Master,? he was in reality
the second son of John, twelfth Lord Erskine, and
is stated by Douglas to have been an ancestor of
the Earls of Kellie, and was Vice-ChamberIain of
Scotland. His son, Sir Thomas Erskine, also of
Gogar, was in 1606 created Viscount Fenton, and
thirteen years afterwards Earl of Kellie and Lord
Dirleton.
In 1599, after vain efforts had been made by its
few parishioners to raise sufficient funds for an idcumbent,
the parish of Gogar was stripped of its
independence ; and of the two villages of Nether
Gogar and Gogar Stone, which it formerly contained,
the latter has disappeared, and the popu-
Iation of the former numbered a few years ago only
twenty souls.
Grey Cooper, of Gogar, was made a baronet ot
Nova Scotia in 1638.
In 1646 the estate belonged to his son Sir John
Cooper, Bart., and in 1790 it was sold by Sir Grey
Cooper, M.P., to the Ramsays, afterwards of Barnton.
A Cooper of Gogar is said to have been one
Df the first persons who appeared in the High
Street of Edinburgh in a regular coach. They
were, as already stated, baronets of 1638, and after
them came the Myrtons of Gogar, baronets of 1701,
md now extinct.
On the muir of Gogar, in 1606, during the prevalence
of a plape, certain little ? lodges? were
built by James Lawriston, and two other persons
named respectively David and George Hamilton,
for the accommodation of the infected ; but these
edifices were violently destroyed by Thomas Marjoribanks,
a portioner of Ratho, on the plea that their
erection was an invasion of his lands, yet the Lords
of the Council ordered theni to be re-built?? where
they may have the best commodity of water,?? as
the said muir was common property.
The Edinburgh Cowant for April, 1723, records
that on the 30th of the preceding March, ?? Mrs.
Elizabeth Murray, lady toThomas Kincaid, younger,
of Gogar Mains,? was found dead on the road from
Edinburgh to that place, with all the appearance of
having been barbarously murdered. ... 18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [cogs. p. baronet of Nova Scotia by James VII., in 1687. The close of the family is ...

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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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Craigcrook.] HISTORY OF CRAIGCROOK. 107
summer residence of Lord Jeffrey-deeply secluded
amid coppice.
The lands of Craigcrook appear to have belonged
in the fourteenth century to the noble family of
Graham. By a deed bearing date 9th April, 1362,
Patrick Graham, Lord of Kinpunt, and David
Graham, Lord of Dundaff, make them over to
John de Alyncrum, burgess of Edinburgh. He
in turn settled them on a chaplain officiating at
?Our Lady?s altar,? in the church of St. Giles,
and his successors to be nominated by the magistrates
of Edinburgh.
John de Alyncrum states his donation of those
lands of Craigcrook, was ? to be for the salvation
of the souls of the late king and queen (Robert
and Elizabeth), of the present King David, and of
all their predecessors and successors ; for the salvation
of the souls of all the burghers of Edinburgh,
their predecessors and successors ; of his own father
and mother, brothers, sisters, etc. ; then of himself
and of his wife; and, finally, of all faithful souls
deceased.?
The rental of Craigcrook in the year 1368 was
only A6 6s. 8d. Scots per annum; and in 1376 it
was let at that rate in feu farm, to Patrick and
John Lepars.
At an early period it became the property of
the Adamsons. William Adamson was bailie of
Edinburgh in 1513, and one of the guardians of
the city after the battle of Flodden, and Williim
Adamson of Craigcrook, burgess of Edinburgh
(and probably son of the preceding), was killed at
the battle of Pinkie, in 1547 ; and by him or his
immediate successors, most probably the present
castle was built-an edifice wbich Wood, in his
learned ?? History of Cramond Parish,? regards
as one of the most ancient in the parish.
In consequence of the approaching Reformation,
the proceeds of the lands were no longer required
for pious purposes, and the latter were made over by
Sir Simon Prestonof Craigmillar, when Provost, to Sir
Edward Marj oribanks, styled Prebend of Craigcrook.
They were next held for a year, by George Kirkaldy,
brother of Sir James Kirkaldy of Grange in
Fifeshire, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, who
engaged to pay for them A27 6s. 8d. Scots.
In June, 1542, they reverted again to Sir Edward
Majoribanks, who assigned them in perpetual feufarm
to William Adamson before-named. This
wealthy burgess had acquired much property in
the vicinity, including Craigleith, Cammo, Groat
Hall, Clermiston, Southfield, and part of Cramond
Regis. After Pinkie he was succeeded by his son
William, and Craigcrook continued to pass through
several generations of his heirs, till it came into
~~
the hands of Robert Adamson, who, in 1656, sold
to different persons the whole of his property.
Craigcrook was purchased by John Muir, merchant
in Edinburgh, whose son sold it to Sir John
Hall, Lord Provost of the city in 1689-92. He was
created a baronet in 1687, and was ancestor of the
Halls of Dunglass, on the acquisition of which, in
East Lothian, he sold Craigcrook to Walter Pringle,
advocate, from whose son it was purchased by John
Strachan, clerk to the signet.
When the latter died in 1719, he left the whole
of his property, with North Clermiston and the
rest of his fortune, both in land and movables
(save some small sums to his relations) ?? mortified
for charitable purposes,?
The regulations were that the rents should be
given to poor old men and women and orphans ;
that the trustees should be ?two advocates, two
Writers to the Signet, and the Presbytery of Edinburgh,
at the sight of the Lords of Session, and any
two of these members,? for whose trouble one
hundred merks yearly is allowed.
There are also allowed to the advocates, poor
fifty merks Scots, and to those of the writers to the
signet one hundred merks ; also twenty pounds
annually for a Bible to one of the members of the
Presbytery, beginning with the moderator and
going through the rest in rotation.
This deed is dated the 24th September, 1712.
The persons constituted trustees by it held a meeting
and passed resolutions respecting several
points which had not been regulated in the will. A
clerk and factor, each with a yearly allowance of
twenty pounds, were appointed to receive the
money, pay it out, and keep the books.
They resolved that no old person should be
admitted under the age of sixty-five, nor any orphan
above the age of twelve; and that no annuity
should exceed five pounds.
Among the names in a charter by William
Forbes, Provost of the Collegiate Church of St.
Giles, granting to that church a part of the ground
lying contiguous to his manse for a burial-place,
dated at Edinburgh, 14th January, 1477-8, there
appears that of Ricardus Robed, jrebena?anks de
Cragmk mansepropie (? Burgh Charters.?)
Over the outer gate of the courtyard a shield
bore what was supposed to have been the arms of
the Adamsons, and the date 1626 ; but Craigcrook
has evidently been erected a century before that
period. At that time its occupant was Walter
Adamson, who succeeded his father Willian~
Adamson in 1621, and whose sister, Catharine,
married Robert Melville of Raith, according to
the Douglas Peerage. ... HISTORY OF CRAIGCROOK. 107 summer residence of Lord Jeffrey-deeply secluded amid coppice. The lands ...

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