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I LLUS T RAT I 0 N S.
DRAWN BY WALLER H. PATON, R.S.A., SAM. BOUGH, dS.A., JAMES
DRUMMOND, R.S.A., E. T. CRAWFOKD, K. S.A., JOHN SMART, A.R.S.A.,
ROBERT SANDERSON, R. SCOTT TEMPLE, AND OTHER ARTISTS.
ENGRAVED BY WLLLIAM BALLINGALL.
FRONTISP:I CEED INBURGH-A GLIMPSEF ROM THE WATER OF LEITH
NEAR BONNINGTON-Facixg Title-Page.
TITLE-PAGE-KEYS OF THE CITY, AS PRESENTED TO HER MAJESTY,
QUEENV ICTORIA, ON THE I ~ T HO F AUGUST1 876.
ARTHUR’SSEATFROMTHECALTONHILL, . . . . .
SALISBURCYRA GS, . . . . . . . . . .
THEE CHOINRGO CK-CRAIGMILLARC ASTLE IN THE DISTANCE, .
HEAD OF THE WEST Bow, . . . . . . . . .
CASTLE, AND ALLAN RAMSAY’S HOUSE, . . . . . .
ROOMIN WHICH JOHN KNOX DIED, . . . . . . .
L)OORWAY AT WHICH RIZZIOW AS MURDERED,
ST. ANTHONY’WS ELL, . . . . . . . . .
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QUIJEN MARY’S ROOM, CASTLE, . . . . . . . .
LADY STAIR’S CLOSE, SHOWING THE WINDOW OF THE ROOM IN
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CLARINDA’S HOUSE-EXTERIOR: DEMOLISHED 1876, . . .
ROOMI N CLARINDA’S HOUSE, . . . . . . . .
WHICH BURNS FIRST LODGED IN EDINBURGH,
THEA VENUE,B RUNTSFIELLDIN KS,. . . . . . .
GRASSMARKAENTD THE CASTLE, . . . . . . .
EDINBURGFRHO M WARRISTON CEMETERY, . . . . .
THE SCOTT MONUMENT, ROYAL INSTITUTION, AND NATIONAL
GALLERIES, . . . . . . . . . . .
ROYALE XCHANGE., . . . . . . . . .
NEWY EAR’S EVEA T THE TRONC HURCH, . . . . .
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Book 11  p. xvi
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THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 95 The Mound.]
Much of all this was altered when the bank was
enlarged, restored, and most effectively re-decorated
by David Bryce, R.S.A., in 1868-70. It now
presents a lofty, broad, and arch-based rear front of
colossal proportions to Princes Street, from whence,
and every other poiiit of view, it forms a conspicuous
mass, standing boldly from among the
many others that form the varied outline of the
Old Town, and consists of the great old centre with
new wings, surmounted by a fine dome, crowned
by a gilded figure of Fame, seven feet high. In
length the facade measures 175 feet; and 112 in
height from the pavement in Bank Street to the
summit, and is embellished all round with much
force and variety, in details of a Grecian style.
The height of the campanile towers is ninety feet.
The bank has above seventy branches ; the subscribed
capital in 1878 was A1,875,000 ; the paidup
capital LI,Z~O,OOO. There are a governor (the
Earl of Stair, K.T.), a deputy, twelve ordinary
and twelve extra-ordinary directors.
The Bank of Scotland issues drafts on other
places in Scotland besides those in which it has
branches, and also on the chief towns in England
and Ireland, and it has correspondents throughout
the whole continent of Europe, as well as in
British America, the States, India, China, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere-a ramification
of business beyond the wildest dreams oi
John Holland and the original projectors of the
establishment in the old Bank Close in 1695.
Concerning the Earthen Mound, the late Alex.
ander Trotter of Dreghorn had a scheme foi
joining the Qld Town to the New, and yet avoiding
Bank Street, by sinking the upper end of the
mound to the leve! of Princes Street, and carrying
the Bank Street end of it eastward along the north
of the Bank of Scotland, in the form of a handsomc
terrace, and thence south into the High Street b)
an opening right upon St. Giles?s Church. Thf
next project was one by the late Sir Thomas Dick
Lauder. He also proposed to bring down thc
south end of the mound ?to the level of Prince;
Street, and then to cut a Roman arch through thc
Lawnmarket and under the houses, so as to pas!
on a level to George Square. This,? say!
Cockburn, ?was both practical and easy, but i
was not expounded till too late.??
Not far from the Bank of Scotland, in I(
North Bank Street, ensconced among the might!
mass of buildings that overlook the mound, arc
the offices of the National Security Savings Ban1
of.Edinburgh, established under statute in 1836, an(
certified in terms of the Act 26 and 27 Victoria
cap. 87, managed by a chairman and cominittel
I
if management, the Bank of Scotland being
reasurer.
Of this most useful institution for the benefit of
,he thrifty poorer classes, suffice it to say, as a
ample of its working, that on striking the yearly
iccounts on the 20th of November, 1880, ?the
balance due to depositors was on that date
&r,305,27g 14s. 7d., and that the assets at the
same date were x1,3og,3g2 Ss., invested with the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, and A3,1o4 3s. gd., at the credit of the
3ank?s account in the Bank of Scotland, making
the total assets L1,312,496 11s. gd., which, after
ieductionof the above sum of L1,305,279 14s. 7d.,
leaves a clear surplus of A7916 17s. zd. at the
:redit of the trustees.?
The managers are, ex oficio, the Lord Provost,
the Lord Advocate, the senior Bailie of the city,
:he Members of Parliament for the city, county,
md Leith, the Provost of Leith, the Solicitor-
General, the Convener of the Trades, the Lord
Dean of Guild, and the Master of the Merchant
Company.
In the sanie block of buildings are the offices of
the Free Church of Scotland, occupying the site of
the demolished half of James?s Court. They were
erected in 1851-61, and are in a somewhat
Rorid variety of the Scottish baronial style, from
designs by the late David Cousin.
In striking contrast to the terraced beauty of the
New Town, the south side of the vale of the old
loch, from the North Bridge to the esplanade of
the Castle, is overhung by the dark and lofty gables
and abutments of those towering edifices which
terminate the northern alleys of the High Street,
and the general grouping of which presents an
aspect of equal romance and sublimity. From
amid these sombre masses, standing out in the
white purity of new freestone, are the towers and
facade of the Free Church College and Assembly
Hall, at the head of the Mound.
Into the history of the crises which called
these edifices into existence we need not enter
here, but true it is, as Macaulay says, that for the
sake of religious opinion the Scots have made
sacrifices for which there is no parallel in the
annals of England; and when, at the Disruption,
so many clergymen of the Scottish Church cast
their bread upon the waters, in that spirit of
independence and self-reliance so characteristic of
the race, they could scarcely have foreseen the
great success of their movement.
This new college was the first of those instituted
in connection with the Free Church. The idea
was origipally entertained of making provision for ... FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 95 The Mound.] Much of all this was altered when the bank was enlarged, restored, and ...

Book 3  p. 95
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DUNGEONS IN THE CASTLE BELOW QUEEN MARY?S ROOM.
CHL4PTER 111.
CASTLE OF EDINBURGH-(cantinued.~~e~.)
The Legend of the White Hart-Holyrood Abbey founded-The Monks of the Castrum Puellarum-David 1,?s numerous Endowments-His
Death-Fergus, Lord of Gallaway. dies there-William the Lion-Castle Garrisoiied by the English for Twelve Years-The Castle a Royal
Residence-The War of the Scottish Succession-The Castle in the hands of Edward I.-Frank?s Escalade-The Fortress Dismantled
-Again in the hands of the English-Bullocks Stratagem for its Resapture-David?s Tower.
?THE well-known legend of the White Hart,??
says Daniel Wilson, ? most probably had its origin
in some real occurrence, magnified by the superstition
of a rude and illiterate age. More recent observations
at least suffice to show that it existed
at a much earlier date than Lord Hailes referred
it to.?
It is recorded that on Rood-day, the 14th of
September, in the harvest of 1128, the weather
being fine and beautiful, King David and his
courtiers, after mass, left the Castle by that gate
before which he was wont to dispense justice to his
people, and issued forth to the chase in the wild
country that lay around-for then over miles of the
land now covered by the new and much of the
old city, for ages into times unknown, the oak-trees
of the primeval forest of Drumsheugh had shaken
down their leaves and acorns upon the wild and
now extinct animals of the chase. And here it
may be mentioned that boars? tusks of most enormous
size were found in 1846 in the bank to the
south of the half-moon battery, together with an
iron axe, the skull and bones of a man.
On this Rood-day we are told that the king
issued from the Castle contrary to the advice of
his confessor, Alfwin, an Augustinian monk of great
sanctity and learning, who reminded him that it
was the feast of the? Exaltation of the Cross, and
should be passed in devotion, not in hunting; but
of this advice the king took no heed.
Amid the dense forest and in the ardour of the
chase he became separated from his train, in ? the
vail that lyis to the eist fra the said castell,? and
found himself at the foot of the stupendous crags,
where, ?under the shade of a leafy tree,? he was
almost immediately assailed by a white stag of
gigantic size, which had been maddened by the
pursuit, ?noys and dyn of bugillis,? and which, ... IN THE CASTLE BELOW QUEEN MARY?S ROOM. CHL4PTER 111. CASTLE OF EDINBURGH-(cantinued.~~e~.) The Legend ...

Book 1  p. 21
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throne would ensure their total destruction, yet
he escaped them. Aware that a day of trial was
coming, and terrified by the unknown fate of Mar,
some of his numerous friends contrived to acquaint
him that in the Roads of Leith there lay a small
vessel laden with Gascon wine, by which he might
and also a strong rope, with a waxen roll
enclosing an unsigned letter, urging, "that he
should lose no time in escaping, as the king's
minions had resolved that he should die ere the
' morrow's sun set," but that the boats of the French
vessel would await him at the harbour of Leith.
EDINBURGH CASTLE IN 1647. (From Gmda o/ Rofhiemuys Mu#.)
U, the Castle; 6, the Castle ChapeL
escape if he made an effort. It is supposed that
he was confined in David's Tower, for we are told
it was one that arose from the northern verge of
the rock, where the height of the precipice seemed
to preclude the possibility of escape. He had
but one attendant (styled his chalmerchield) left
to wait upon him, and to this follower he revealed
his intention. From the vessel there came to
him two small runlets said to contain wine, and
they were camed to his apartment unexamined,
The duke found that they contained malvoisie,
U b,.
To lull suspicion, Albany invited the captain of
the guard and three of his principal soldiers to sup
with him, and all these he succeeded in partially
intoxicating. They sat drinking and gaming until
the hour grew late ; and then the royal duke found
that the moment of fate had come !
Snatching the captain's long dagger from his
baldrick, Albany buried it again and again in his
glittering breast ; he despatched the intoxicated
soldiers in the same fashion, and, in token of his
hostility, with the assistance of his chalmer-chield
castle rock
castles
: ... would ensure their total destruction, yet he escaped them. Aware that a day of trial was coming, and ...

Book 1  p. 33
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THE CASTLE, RAMSAY GARDENS, BANK OF SCOTLAND, AND EARTHEN MOUND, FROM PRINCES STREET. ... CASTLE, RAMSAY GARDENS, BANK OF SCOTLAND, AND EARTHEN MOUND, FROM PRINCES ...

Book 3  p. iii
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KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. t37
tainhall records, 11th March 1685, a reduction pursued by the Duke of Queensberry, as
Constable and Captain of the Castle of Edinburgh, against Thomas Boreland and the other
heritors and possessors of the King’s Stables, alleging that they were 8 part of the Castle.
The proprietors claimed to hold their property by virtue of a feu granted in the reign of
James V. But the judges decided, that unless the defendera could prove a legal dissolution
of the royal possession, they must be held as the King’s Stables, belonging to the
Castle, and accordingly annexed to the Crown. Thomas Boreland’s house still stands:
immediately behind the site of the old Corn Narket. It is a handsome and substantial
erection, adorned with picturesque gables and dormer windows, which form a prominent
feature in the oft-repeated view of (( the Castle from the Vennel ; ” and from the date,
1675, which atill appears over the main doorway, we may presume that this substantial
mansion, then so recently erected, had its full influence in directing the attention of the
Duke of Queensberry to this pendicle of the royal patrimony. It bears over the entrance,
in addition to the date, the initials T. B. and V. IL, those of the proprietor, and probably
of his brother or wife; and above them is boldly carved the loyal inscription,
FEAR - GOD HONOR * THE * KING.
It may reasonably be presumed that the owner must have regarded the concessions
demanded from him on behalf of royalty, so speedily thereafter, as a somewhat freer
translation of his motto than he had any conception of, when he inscribed it where it
should daily remind him of the duties of a good subject.
Several of the neighbouring houses are evidently of considerable antiquity, and may,
with little hesitation, be referred to a much earlier date than this. Their latest reflection
of the privileges of royalty haEl been that of affording sanctuary for a brief period to debtors,
a right of protection pertaining to the precincts of royal residences, now entirely fallen into
desuetude there, though firmed to have proved available for this purpose within the
memory of some aged neighbours.’
A little to the west of this, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Canal Basin, is a
place still bearing the name of the Castle Barns. It is described by Maitland as for the
accommodation of the Court when the King resided in the Castle, and it no doubt occasionally
sufficed for such a purpose ; but the name implies its having been the grange or
farm attached to the royal residence, and this is further confirmed by earlier maps, where
a considerable portion of ground, now lying on both sides of the Lothian Road, is included
under the term.
But the most interesting portion of Edinburgh connected with the Castle, is its ancient
approach. Under the name of the Castle Hill, is included not only the broad Esplanade
extending between the fortifications and the town, but also a considerable district,
formerly bounded on the south by the West Bow, and contailling many remarkable
and once patrician alleys and mansions, the greater portion of which have disappeared
in the course of the extensive changes effected of late years on that part of the
town.
A singularly picturesque and varied mass of buildings forms the nearest portion of the
town to the Castle, on the south side of the approach, though there existed formerly s very
old house between this and the Castle, as delineated in Gordon’s map. This group is
1 Disposition of House in Portsburgh, Council Charter Room. Chambers’s Traditions, vol. i. p. 99.
S ... STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. t37 tainhall records, 11th March 1685, a reduction pursued by the ...

Book 10  p. 148
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CHAPTER 11.
KINGS STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL.
REVIOUS to the discovery of gunpowder, and while its destructive powers remained
only very partially understood, the vicinity of the Castle seems to have been eagerly
selected as a desirable locality for the erection of dwellings, that might thus in some. degree
share in the protection which its fortifications secured to those within the walls; and we
find, accordingly, in its immediate neighbourhood, considerable remains of ancient
grandeur. Before examining these, however, we may remark, that a general and progressive
character prevails throughout the features of our domestic architecture, many of which are
peculiar to Scotland, and some of them only to be found in Edinburgh.
Various specimens of the rude dwellings of an early date remain in the Grassmarket,
the Pleasance, and elsewhere, which, though more or less modified to adapt them to modern
habits and manners, still retain the main primitive features of a substantial stone groundflat,
surmounted with a second story of wood, generally approached by an outside stair,
and exhibiting irregular and picturesque additions, stuck on, like the clusters of swallows’
nests that gather round the parent dwelling, as the offshoots of the family increase and
demand accommodation.
In buildings of more pretension, the character of the mouldings and general form of the
doorway, the ornaments of the gables, the shape of the windows, even the pitch of the roof,
and, what is more interesting than any of these, the style and character of the inscriptions
VIONElTE-LiIItel from the auise Palace, Blyth’s aoae. ... 11. KINGS STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. REVIOUS to the discovery of gunpowder, and while its ...

Book 10  p. 145
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2 48 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LCowgate.
the historian) became senior minister of the Cowgate
chapel.
One of his immediate predecessors, the Rev.
Mr. Fitzsimmons, an Englishman, became seriously
embroiled with the authorities, and was arraigned
Two of these four, Vanvelde and Jaffie, had
escaped from the Castle by sawing through their
window bars with a sword-blade furnished to them
by John Armour, a clerk in the city. The other
two were on parole. The Hon. Henry Erslcine
THE MEAL MARKET, COWGATE.
before the High Court of Justiciary in July, 1790,
on the charge of aiding the escape of Jean Bap
tiste Vanvelde, Jean Jacques Jaffie, Re'ne' Griffon,
and Hypolite Depondt, French prisoners, from the
Castle of Edinburgh, by concealing them in his
house, and taking them in the Newhaven fishing
boat of Neil Drysdale to the Isle of Inchkeith,
where they remained hidden till taken to a cartel
ship, commanded by Captain Robertson, in Leith
Roads.
defended Mr. Fitzsimmons, who was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment in the Tolbooth. In
the following September 600 French prisoners (including
the crew of the Vicforicux) were marched
from the Castle, under a guard of the North York
Militia, to Leith, where they embarked for England
in care of 150 bayonets of the 7rst Highlanders,
After the erection of St. Paul's Church, in York
Place, the Cowgate Chapel was purchased by the ... 48 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LCowgate. the historian) became senior minister of the Cowgate chapel. One of his ...

Book 4  p. 248
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8 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
supply of water. From thence they sallied out from time to time, as occasions offered,
and not only harassed the enemy in the neighbouring capital, but extended their inroads
even as far as into Northumberland.’
In 1341, the Castle was recovered from the English by an ingenious stratagem, planned
by William Bullock, who had previously held the castle of Coupar for Baliol. Under his
directions, one Walter Curry of Dundee received into his ship two hundred Scots, under
the command of William de Douglas, Frazer, and Joachim of Kinbak, and casting anchor
in Leith Roads, he presented himself to the governor of the Castle, as master of an English
vessel, just arrived with a valuable cargo of wines and provisions on board, which he offered
to dispose of for the use of the garrison. “he bait took; and the pretended trader appeared
at the Castle, according to appointment, early on the following morning, attended by a dozen
armed followers, disguised as sailors. Upon entering the Castle, they contrived to overturn
their casks and hampers, so as to obstruct the closing of the gates, and instantly slew
the porter and guard. At an appointed signal, Douglas and his men sprung from their
concealment in the immediate neighbourhood, and, after a fierce conflict, overpowered the
garrison, and took possession of the Castle, in the name of David 11. In the following
month the young King, with his consort, Johanna, landed from France, and, within a short
time, the English were expelled from Scotland. When, a few years afterwards, the disastrous
raid of Durham terminat,ed in the defeat of the Scottish army, and the captivity
of the King, we find, in the treaty for his ransom, the merchants and burgesses of Edinburgh,
along with those of Aberdeen, Perth, and Dundee, are held bound for themselves,
and all the other merchants of Scotland, for its fulfilment. And, ultimately, a Parliament
was held at Edinburgh, in 1357, for final adjustment of the terms of the royal ransom, where
the Regent Robert, the steward of Scotland (afterwards King Robert II.), presided ; at
which, in addition to the clergy and nobles, there were delegates present from seventeen
burghs, among which Edinburgh appears for the first time placed at the head.
After David 11. returned from
England, he resided during his
latter days in the Castle, to
which he made extensive additions,
enlarging the fortifications
so recently rebuilt; and
adding in particular an extensive
building, afterwards known
by the name of David’s
Tower,” which stood for 200
years, till battered to pieces in
the regency of James VI. ; and
here he died on the 22d February
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1370, in the forty-second year of his age, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Holyrood,
before the high altar. He was a brave and gifted prince, who in happier times might
1 Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 290.
VIQNETTdThe Castle, from a map engraved in 1575, showing King David’s Tower. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. supply of water. From thence they sallied out from time to time, as occasions ...

Book 10  p. 9
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CONTENTS. xi
VI.
QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH ALONG THE SHORE,
WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES OF THE DIFFERENT
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
BY THE REV. JAMES S. MILL.
PACE
Queen Margaret-Edgar Atheling-George 1V.-Dalmeny-The Earls of
Roseberry-Dundas Castle-Barnbougle Castle-Cramond-Corstorphine
Hill-Craigcrook Castle-Lord Jeffrey-Gerald Massey-Granton
-The Duke of Buccleuch -Newhaven-James 1V.-Trinity-Historical
and descriptive account‘of Leith, including a glance at its Celebrities-
Sir Andrew Wood-Landing of George 1V.-Portobello and
Musselburgh-Duddingstone- Inveresk- Pinkie House-Alexander
Seton, Earl of Dunfermline-Colonel Gardiner-Dugald Stewart-
‘Delta’ (Dr. Moir), . . . . . . . . , . 83-126
VII.
ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN, AND THE VALE OF THE ESK.
BY FLORA MASSON.
Scott-Associations of the Esk-Newhall-Allan Ramsay-Habbie’s Howe
--Penicuik House- Auchendinny-Woodhouselee-Roslin -The St.
Clairs-Roslin Chapel-Roslin Moor-Hawthornden-Drummond-
Ben Jonson-Lasswade-Scott-De Quincey-Dalkeith-The Palace
-1nveresk to Musselburgh-Battle of Pinkie-Carberry Hill, I2W43
VIII.
OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF EDINBURGH AND
ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, . 145-153
BY PROFESSOR GEIKIE, LLD., F.RS. ... xi VI. QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH ALONG THE SHORE, WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES OF THE ...

Book 11  p. xv
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16 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
‘of the Chancellor, in the Castle of Edinburgh. His increasing years, however, seem to
have led to his enjoying greater liberty of person, as well as deference to his opinion.
Under the guidance of the Bishops of Aberdeen and Moray, then residing in Edinburgh,
a conference was held in the church of St Giles, between him and his rival guardians,
which, from their mutual hatred to the Earl of Douglas, again led to an amicable arrangement,
the King making choice of Edinburgh Castle as the place where he should continue
to reside.
No sooner were the rival statesmen reconciled, than they consulted together to aecure
the overthrow of the Douglas, whose exorbitant power was employed for the most oppressive
and tyrannical objects. To have openly proceeded against him as a criminal, while at
the head of his numerous forces, would only have proved the sequel for a civil war. He
was accordingly invited to Edinburgh, with the most flattering assurances of friendship.
On the way, the Chancellor met him at Crichton Castle, about twelve miles &E. of
Edinburgh, where he was entertained with every mark of hospitality, insomuch so as to
have excited the jealous fears of his friends. He rode thereafter to the Castle of Edinburgh,
accompanied by his brother and Sir Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld : they were received
with every show of welcome, and admitted to the same table with the King ; but, towards
t.he close of the entertainment, a bull’s head, the well-known symbol of destruction, was
set before them. They recognised the fatal signal, and sprang from the board, but being
immediately surrounded by armed men, they were led forth, in defiance of the tears and
entreaties of the young King, and immediately beheaded 66 in the back court of the Castle
that lyeth to the west ; ” or, according to Balfour, in the great hall of the Castle.’ In the
year 1753, some workmen digging for a foundation to a new storehouse within the Castle,
found the golden handles and plates of a coffin, which are supposed to have belonged to
that in which the Earl of Douglas was interred8
From a protest afterwards taken by the son of Sir Malcolm Fleming, against the
sentence of his father, as being unwarrantable and illegal, as well as from the fact of no
attempt being made to bring the Chancellor to trial for the deed when the Douglas faction
prevailed, there would seem to have been some form of trial, and a sentence of condemnation
pronounced, with the assumed authority of the King.+ The popular estimation of the
deed may be inferred from the rude rhymes quoted by Hume of Godscroft :-
“ Edinburgh Castle, towne and tower,
God grant thou sinke for sinne ;
An’ that even for the black dinner
Earle Douglm gat therein.”
The Chancellor continued to maintain possession of the Castle, even when the Douglas
party succeeded in obtaining the guardianship of the young King, and used the royal
authority for demanding its surrender. Here he held out during a siege of nine months,
till he succeeded in securing satisfactory terms for himself; while of his less fortunate
coadjutors some only redeemed their lives with their estates, and the others, including
three members of the Livingstone family, were all tried and beheaded within its walls.
History of the Douglasses, 1643, p. 165.
Arnot, p. 11.
* Balfour’s Aunals, vol. i. p. 169. ‘ Nartial Achievements, vol. ii. p. 330. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. ‘of the Chancellor, in the Castle of Edinburgh. His increasing years, however, seem ...

Book 10  p. 17
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78 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
genius-where lie bnriecl John Goodsir, ‘ Christopher North,’ Sir William
Allan, Jeffrey, Cockburn, Rutherfurd, Playfair, David Scott, Dr. Warburton
Begbie, and other illustrious men-we ramble on by the village of
the Water of Leith, the Dean Bridge, St. Bernard’s Well, and visit the Royal
Botanic Gardens, in order to enjoy the delightful vistas of the city, and to
turn to the old yew-tree flourishing as in its younger days when it grew in
the Physic Gardens. To the north-west lies Fettes College, a magnificent
modern edifice; nearer is situated Inverleith House, for many years the
residence of the learned Professor Cosmo Innes. Warriston Cemetery is the
last resting-place of Adam Black, the eminent publisher, Professor Simpson,
Sir George HaNey, and Alexander Smith, whose words-as we look at
Mr. Bough’s drawing (see Frontispice), taken from a point close by, occur
to the mind-‘ with castle, tower, church spire, and pyramid rising into
sunlight.’ Returning cityward by Pitt Street and Dundas Street, we turn
to the right, along Queen Street, passing No. 52, where Sir James Simpson
died. The first opening on the left is North Castle Street, with its memories
of Sir Walter Scott. 6 French critic has said that it was appropriate that
the three Graces and the nine Muses should take up their abode there-at
No. 39. How fondly Scott loved this residence is told in his own touching
words:-‘Mardz 15, 1826.This morning I leave No. 39 Castle Street for
the last time. ct The cabin was convenient,” and habit had made it agreeable
to me. . . . So farewell, poor No. 39 ! What a portion of my life has been
spent there ! It has sheltered me from the prime of life to its decline j and
now I must bid good-bye to it.’ (See Engraving, page 51.)
TABLET FORMFRLY AT IIUDRY CASTLE. ... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. genius-where lie bnriecl John Goodsir, ‘ Christopher North,’ Sir ...

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[-wade. THE MELVILLES..
/
LASSWADE CnuKCH, 1773. (Afdw an Etching by Yohn Clerk of E(din.1
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH-(ccmclz&d).
Melville Castle and the Melvilles-The Viscounts Melvil1::-Sheriffnall-Newton-Monkton-Stonyhill-" The Wicked Colonel Charteris "-
New Hailes-The Stair Obelisk-Lord Hailes-His Death.
MELVILLE CASTLE stands on the left bank of the
North Esk, about five furlongs eastward of Lasswade,
and was built by the first Viscount Melville,
replacing a fortress of almost unknown antiquity,
about the end of the last century. It is a splendid
mansion, with circular towers, exhibiting much
architectural elegance, and surrounded by a finelywooded
park, which excited the admiration of
George IV.
Unauthenticated tradition states that the ancient
castle of Melville was a residence of David Rizzio,
and as such, was, of course, visited occasionally by
Queen Mary; but it had an antiquity much more
remote.
It is alleged that the first Melville ever known
'in Scotland was a Hungarian of that name, who
accompanied Queen 'Margaret to Scotland, where
he obtained from Malcolm 111. a grant of land
in hiidlothian, and where he settled, gave his surname
to his castle, and became progenitor of all
the Melvilles in Scotland. Such is the story told
by Sir Robert Douglas, on the authority of Leslie,
143
Mackenzie, Martin, and Fordun ; but it is much
more probable that the family is of French origin.
Be all that as it may, the family began to be
prominent in Scotland soon after the reign of
Malcolm 111.
Galfrid de Melville of Meldle Castle, in
Lothian, witnessed many charters of Malcolm IV.,
bestowing pious donations on the abbeys of Holyrood,
Newbattle, and Dunfermline, before 1165, in
which year that monarch died.
He also appears (1153-1165) as Vicecomes de
CasieZZo Pzd'Eamm, in the register of St. Marie
of Newbattle. He witnessed two charters of
William the Lion to the abbey of Cambuskenneth,
and made a gift of the parish church of
Melville (which, probably, he built) to the monastery
of Dunfermline, in presence of Hugh, Bishop
of St. Andrews, previously chaplain to King
William, and who died in 1187.
Galfrid of Melville left four sons-Sir Gregory,
his successor, Philip, Walter, and Waren. Of the
last nothing is known, but the other three founded ... THE MELVILLES.. / LASSWADE CnuKCH, 1773. (Afdw an Etching by Yohn Clerk of E(din.1 CHAPTER XLIII. THE ...

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60 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craigmillar.
CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE.
I, The Hall ; 2, The Keep ; 3. Queen Mary's Tree ; 4, South-west Tower ; 5, The Chapel ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Craigmillar. CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE. I, The Hall ; 2, The Keep ; 3. Queen Mary's Tree ...

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Granton 1 LATDTNG OF THE ENGLISH ARMY, 309
I. CAROLINE PARK; a, RUINS OF GRANTON CASTLE ; 3, EAST PILTON. ... 1 LATDTNG OF THE ENGLISH ARMY, 309 I. CAROLINE PARK; a, RUINS OF GRANTON CASTLE ; 3, EAST ...

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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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Leaving his queen in the then solitary Castle,
Grime (who, according to Buchanan, began his
reign in the year 996) often pursued the pleasures
of the chase among the wilds of Polmood, in the
probably a remnant of Edwin's departed power,
and from this period begins the authentic history
of Edinburgh and its castle, as from that
time it continued to be almost permanently the
Bertha, her aged father, and infant son, and, burying
them in one grave, heaped above it a rough
tumulus, which still marks the spot.
Full of remorse and fear, the queen died before
the return of Grime, who, after defeating the
Danes, and destroying their galleys, hastened to
this invests the solemn event with a peculiar charm.
The grand-niece of Edward the Confessor, she
had fled from her own country on the usurpation of
Harold, but was wrecked on the Forth, at the place
still called Queensferry. She and her retinue
were hospitably entertained by Malcolm III., who
successor, was deserted in battle by his warriors,
taken captive, and, after having his eyes put out,
died in grief and misery in the eighth year of his
reign.
He was succeeded, in 1004, by Maicolm II.,
who had Lothian formally ceded to him by Eadulf-
Cudel, Earl of Northumberland, who had pre-
Viously exercised some right of vassalage over it,
wife, of Malcolm, in the lines spoken hy Macduff,
Macbeth, Act iv., scene 3 :-
" The queen that bore thee,
Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,
Died every day she lived."
In 1091 William Rufus made war on Scotland,
and, taking the castle of Alnwick by surprise,
wantonly put its garrison to the sword. Malcolm.
coat of arms ... his queen in the then solitary Castle, Grime (who, according to Buchanan, began his reign in the year ...

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322 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. lcolinton.
the Belitice Puetaruni Scuiurum. He was a convert
to the Protestant religion, and the chief work of
his pen is his learned book on feudal law. It has
been well said that lie U kept himself apart from the
political intrigues of those distracting times, devoting
himself to his professional duties, and in his
hours of relaxation cultivating a taste for classical
literature.?
He was present at the entry of King James into
London, and at his coronation as King of England,
an event which he commemorated in a poem in
Latin hexameters. In 1604 he was one of the
commissioners appointed by the king to confer
with others on the part of England, concerning
a probable union between the two countries, a
favourite project with James, but somewhat Utopian
when broached at a time when men were living
who had fought on the field of Pinkie.
He wrote a treatise on the independent
sovereignty .of Scotland, which was published in
1675, long after his death, which occurred at Edinburgh
on the 26th of February, 1Go8. He married
Helen, daughter of Heriot of Trabrown, in East
Lothian, by whom he had seven children. His
eldest son, Sir Lewis Craig, born in 1569, became
a senator, as Lord Wrightislands
On the death of his lineal descendant in 1823,
Robert Craig of Riccarton (of whom mention was
made in our chapter on Princes Street in the
second volume of this work), James Gibson, W.S.
(afterwards Sir James Gibson-Craig of Riccarton
and Ingliston), assumed the name and arms of
Craig in virtue of a deed of entail made in 1818.
He was a descendant of the Gibsons of Durie, in
Fife.
His eldest son was the late well-known Sir
William Gibson-Craig, who was born and August,
1797, and, after receiving his education in Edinburgh,
was called as, an advocate to the Scottish
Bar in 1820. He was M.P. for Midlothian from
1837 to 1841, when he was returned for the city of
Edinburgh, which he continued to represent till
1852. He was a Lord of the Treasury from 1846
to 1852, and was appointed one of the Board
of Supervision for the Poor in Scotland. In 1854
he was appointed Lord Clerk Register of Her
Majesty?s Rolls and Registers in Scotland in 1862,
and Keeper of the Signet. He was a member of
the Privy Council in 1863, and died in 1878.
Riccarton House, a handsome modern villa of
considerable size, has now replaced the old
mansion of other times.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (cmtinzted).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghorn-The Pentlands-View from Torphin-Corniston-Slateford
-Graysmill-Liherton-The Mill at Nether Libertan-Liberton Tower-The Church-The Balm Well of St. Kathrrine-Grace Mount-
The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St. Katherine?s-The Kaimes-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little of Liberton.
THE picturesque little parish village of Colinton,
about a mile and a quarter from Kingsknowe
Station, on the Caledonian Railway, is romantically
situated in a deep and wooded dell, through which
the Water of Leith winds on its way to the Firth
of Forth, and around it are many beautiful walks
and bits of sweet sylvan scenery. The lands here
are in the highest state of cultivation, enclosed by
ancient hedgerows tufted with green coppice, and
even on the acclivities of the Pentland range, at
the height of 700 feet above the sea, have been
rendered most profitably arable.
In the wooded vale the Water of Leith turns
the wheels of innumerable quaint old water-mills,
and through the lesser dells, the Murray, the Braid,
and the Burdiehouse Burns, enrich the parish with
their streams.
Of old the parish was called Hailes, from the
plural, it is said, of a Celtic word, which signifies a
mound or hillock. A gentleman?s residence near
the site of the old church still retains the name,
which is also bestowed upon a well-known quarry
and two other places in the parish. The new
Statistical Account states that the name of Hailes
was that of the principal family in the parish, which
was so called in compliment to them?; but this
seems barely probable.
The little church-which dates from only 1771-
and its surrounding churchyard, are finely situated
on a sloping eminence at the bottom of a dell,
round which the river winds slowly by.
The ancient church of Hailes, or Colinton, was
granted to Dunfermline Abbey by Ethelred, son of
Malcolm Canmore and of St. Margaret, a gift confirmed
by a royal charter of David I., and by a Bull
of Pope Gregory in 1234, according to the abovequoted
authority ; but the parish figures so little in
history that we hear nothing of it again till 1650, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. lcolinton. the Belitice Puetaruni Scuiurum. He was a convert to the Protestant ...

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CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTROEUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J
CHAPTER I.
P R E H I S T O R I C EDINBURGH.
The Site before the Houses-Traces of Early Inhabitants-The Caledonian Tribes-Agricola's Invasion-Subjection of the Scottish Lowlands
-The Rorrao Way-Edinburgh never occupied permanently-Various Roman Remains : Urns, Coins, Busts ; Swords, Spears, ahd
other Weapons-Ancient Coffins-The Camus, or Cath-st,neOrigin of the name " Edinburgh"-Dinas-Eiddyn-The Battle of Catraeth 9
CHAPTER 11.
THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH.
Of its Origin and remoter History-The Legends concerning it-Ebranke-St. Monena-Def& of the Sawons by King Bridei-King
Edwin-King Grime-The Story of Grime and Bertha of Badlieu-The Starting paint of authentic Edinburgh History-Sr Margaret
-Het Piety and amiable Disposition-Her Chapel-Her Death-Restoration of her Oratory-Her Burial-Donald Bane-King
David 1.-The Royal Gardens, afterwards the Nonh Loch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I4
CHAPTER 111.
CASTLE OF EDINBURGH (continued).
The Legend of the White Hart-Holyrocd Abbey founded--The Monks of the Castrum Puellarum-David I.% numerous Endowments-His
Death-Fergus. Lord of Galloway, dies there-William the Lion-Castle Garrisoned by the English for Twelve Yean-The Castle a
Royal Residence-The War of the Scottish Succession-The ( h t l e in the hands of Edward 1.-Frank's Escalade-The Lbrtres
Dismantled-Again in the hands of the English-Bullock's Stratagem for its Re-caprurr-David's Tower . . . . . . 21
CHAPTER IV.
CASTLE OF EDINBURGH (confinucd).
Progress of the City-Ambassidor of Charles VI.-Edinburgh burned-Henry IV, baffled-Albmy's Prophecy-Laws lrgvdiog the Building
- of Houses-Sumptuary Laws, 1457-Murder of James I.-Coronationof JarncsI1.-Court Intrigues-Lard Chancellor C r i c h t o n - ~ g ~ c e
of the Earl of Douglas-Faction WaR--l'he Castle Resieged--"The Black Dinner"-Edmburgh Walled-Its Strength -Bale-fires . 26
CHAPTER V.
EDINBURGH CASTLE (continued).
James 111. and his haughty Nobilib-Plots of the Duke of Albany and Earl of Mar-Mysterious Death of Mar-Capture and Escape of the
Duke of Altuny-Captivity of James 111.-Richard of Gloucester at Edinburgh-The "Golden Charter" of the City-"The Blue
Blanket"-Accession of James 1V.-Tournamen%" The Seven Sisters of Bothwick "-The " Fldden Wall"-The Reign of Jarnes V.
-" Cleahse the Causeway !"-Edinburgh under the Factions of Nobles-Hertford Attacks the CastltDeath of Mary of Guise-
Queen Mary's Apartments in the CaStle-BLth of James VI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
CHAPTER VI.
EDINBURGH CASTLE (continued).
The Siege of r573-The City Bombarded from the Castle-Elizabeth's Spy-D~ry's Dispositions for the Siege-Execution of Kirkddy-
Repar of the Ruins-Execution of Mortan-Visit of Charles 1.-Procession to Holymod-Comnation of Charles 1.-The Struggle
against Epiico-Siege of 1640-The Spectre Drummn-Besieged by Cmmwell-Under the Protector-The Restantion-The
Argyles-The Accession of James VI1.-Sentence of the Earl of Argyle-His. clever Escape-Imprisoned lour yms later-The Last
Sleep of ArgylcHis Death-Tolture of Covenaoters-Proclamation of W d l i and Maq-The Siege of 16@-Intewiew between
Gordon and Dundee-The Cas le invested-Rdiant Defeuce-Capitulation of the Duke of Cordon-The Spectre of Claverhouse . 47 ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J CHAPTER I. P R E H I S T O R ...

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166 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Andrew squan. I
CHAPTER XXII.
ST. ANDREW SQUARE.
St Andrew Square-List of Early Residents-Count Bomwlaski-Miss Gordon or Cluny-Scottish Widows? Fund-Dr. A. K. Johnston-
Scottish Provident Institution-House in which Lord Brougham was Born-Scottish Equitable Society-Chancrir of Amisfield-Douglas?s
Hotel-Sir Philip Ainslic-British Linen Company-National Bank-Royal Bank-The Melvillc and Hopctoun Monuments-Ambrosc?r
Tavern.
BEFORE its conversion iiito a place for public
offices, St. Andrew Square was the residence of
many families of the first rank and position. It
measures 510 feet by 520. Arnot speaks of it as
?the finest square we ever saw. Its dimensions,
indeed, are, small when compared with those in
London, but the houses are much of a size. They
are of a uniform height, and are all built of freestone?
The entire square, though most of the original
houses still exist, has undergone such changes that,
says Chambers, . ? the time is not far distant when
the whole of this district will meet with a fate
similar to that which we have to record respecting
the Cowgate and Canongate, and when the idea of
noblemen inhabiting St. Andrew Square will seem,
to modem conceptions, as strange as that of their
living in the,Mint Close.?
The following is a list of the first denizens of
the square, between its completion in 1778 and
1784.:-
I. Major-General Stewart.
2. The Earl of Aboyne. He died here in his sixty-eighth
year, in 1794. He was the eldest son of John, third Earl of
Aboyne, by Grace, daughter of Lockhart of Carnwath,
afterwards Countess of Murray.
3. Lord Ankerville (David Ross).
5. John, Viscount Arbuthnott, who died 1791.
6. Dr. Colin Drummond.
7. David Hume, afterwards Lord Dreghorn.
8. John Campbell of Errol. (The Earls of Em1 have
ceased since the middle of the seventeenth century to possess
any property in the part from whence they took their
ancient title.)
11. Mrs Campbell of Balmore.
13. Robert Boswell, W.S.
15. Mrs. Cullen of Parkhead.
16. Mrs. Scott of Horslie Hill.
18. Alexander Menzies, Clerk of Session.
19. Lady Betty Cunningham.
20. Mrs Boswell of Auchinleck
Boswell,? R. Chambers, 1824).
22. Jams Farquhar Gordon, Esq.
23. Mrs. Smith of Methven.
24 Sir John Whiteford. (25 in ? Williamson?s Directory.?)
25. William Fergusson pf Raith.
26. Gilbert Meason, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. Hunter.
27. Alexander Boswell, Esq.(aftemards Lord Auchinleck),
and Eneis Morrison, Esq.
28. Lord Methven
30. Hon. Mrs. Hope.
32. Patrick, Earl of Dumfries, who died in 1803.
(mother of ?Corsica
33. Sir John Colquhoun.
34. George, Earl of Dalhousie, Lord High Commissioner,
35. Hon. Mrs. Cordon.
38. Mrs. Campbell of Saddel, Cilbert Kerr of Stodrig,
and Sir William Ramsay, Bart., of Banff House, who died
in 1807.
By 1784, when Peter Williamson published his
tiny ? Directory,? many changes had taken place
among the occupants of the square. The Countess
of Errol and Lord Auchinleck were residents, and
Thomas, Earl of Selkirk, had a house there before
he went to America, to form that settlement in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence which involved him in so much
trouble, expense, and disappointment. No. I was
occupied by the Countess of Leven ; the Earl of
Northesk, KC.B., who distinguished himself afterwards
as third in command at Trafalgar, occupied
No. 2, now an hotel; and Lord Arbuthnott had
been suceeeded in the occupancy of No. 5 by
Patrick, Lord Elibank, who married the widow of
Lord North and Grey.
By 1788 an hotel had been started in the
square by a man named Dun. It was there that
the celebrated Polish dwarf, Joseph Borowlaski,
occasionally exhibited himself. In his memoirs,
written by himself, he tells that he was one of a
family of five sons and one daughter, ?,and by one
of those freaks of nature which it is impossible to
account for, or perhaps to find another instance of
in the annals of the human species, three of these
children were above the middle stature, whilst the
two others, like myself, reached only that of children
at the age of four or five years.?
Notwithstanding this pigmy stature, the count,
by his narrative, would seem to have married, performed
many wonderful voyages and travels, and
been involved in many romantic adventures. At
thirty years of age his stature was three feet three
inches. Being recommended by Sir Robert Murray
Keith, then Eritish Ambassador at Vienna, to visit
the shores of Britain, after being presented, with
his family, to- royalty in London, he duly came to
Edinburgh, where, according to Kay?s Editor, ?? he
was taken notice of by several gentlemen, among
others by Mr. Fergusson, who generously endeavoured
by their attentions to sweeten the bitter
cup of life to the unfortunate gentleman.?
1777-82 ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Andrew squan. I CHAPTER XXII. ST. ANDREW SQUARE. St Andrew Square-List of Early ...

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founder to his new monastery were the churches
of St. Cuthbert. and of the Castle, among which
one plot of land belonging to the former is marked
by ?? the fountain which rises near the king?s garden,
on the road leading to 3t. Cuthbert?s church,? i.e.,
the fountain in the Well-house Tower.
This valley-the future North Loch-was then
Castle, where, in the twenty-first year of his reign,
he granted a charter to the Abbey of Kelso, the
witnesses to which, apud Castrum PueZZarum, were
John, Bishop of Glasgow ; Prince Henry, his son ;
William, his nephew ; Edward, the Chancellor ;
?? BarthoZomeo $Zio Cornitis, et WiZZieZnza frateer
i u s ; Jordan0 Hayrum;? Hugo de Morville, thc
ST. MARGARET?S CHAPEL, EDINBURGH CASTLE,
the garden, which Malcolm, the son of Pagan, culjivated
for David II., and where tournaments were
held, 44 while deep pools and wide morasses, tangled
wood and wild animals, made the rude diverging
pathways to the east and westward extremely dangerous
for long after, though lights were burned at
the Hermitage of St. Anthony on the Crag and
the spire of St. John of Corstorphin, to guide the
unfortunate wight who was foolhardy enough to
travel after nightfall.?
In 1144 we find (King David resident in the
constable ; Odenell de Umphraville ; Robert Bruce ;
William of Somerville; David de Oliphant; and
William of Lindsay.
The charter of foundation to the abbey of
Holyrood-which will be referred to more fully in
its place-besides conferring valuable revenues,
derivable from the general resources of the city,
gave the monks a right to dues to nearly the same
amount from the royal revenues of the port of
Perth, which was the more ancient capital of
Scotland. ... to his new monastery were the churches of St. Cuthbert. and of the Castle, among which one plot of land ...

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C 0 N T E N T S.
I.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EDINBURGH.
BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
PACS
Reasons for difficulty of description-Comparison with London-Scott-
Haydon-Thomas Aird-Word Pictures drawn from the Calton Hill-
Salisbury Crags-The Castle-The Old Town at Night-Daniel '
O'Connell-Loyal Holidays-Visits of the Queen, . . . . 1-9
.
11.
THE OLD TOWN:
ITS REMARKABLE FEATURES AND HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES,
INCLUDING A GLANCE AT THE CELEBRITIES OF THE CITY.
BY .THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.
George Crabbe : his preference of the Old Town to the New-Rambles
through the old Courts and Streets : the Men and Memories which
they recall-Thomas Aud-The New Town and the Old-Arthur's Seat
-Professor Wilson-Description of the Castle-Word Pictures drawn
from the Esplanade-The genuine ' Auld Reekie '-Past Celebrities
and Great Events-Present Celebrities, with an occasional reference
to others of the past; including a glance at various interesting historical
incidents, and natural scenery-The Author's feelings at bidding adieu
- to his theme, . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-48 ... 0 N T E N T S. I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EDINBURGH. BY THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. PACS Reasons for ...

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MEMORIALS
OF
EDINBURGH IN THE OLDEN TIME.
CHAPTER I.
E A RLIE S T TRA DITIONS.
h
I , {3 ; I!;) I,\,,,!I 11 Bl'#d'y!j recent era, is included in that of its Castle and
xatively
Abbey.
The first, the fortress, round whose protecting citadel
the rude huts of our forefathers were gathered and continued to increase, until, amid the
wealth and security of more peaceful times, the Abbey of the Holyrood reared its consecrated
walls, and absorbed to itself much of the wealth and the learning, many of the
virtues, and doubtless also some of the vices, of the wild Saxons that peopled the fertile
Lothians. It is unnecessary to follow in this History the fanciful disquisitions of zealous
antiquaries, respecting the origin and etymology of Edinburgh ; it has been successively
derived, both in origin and name, from Saxon, Pict, and Gael; and in each case, with
s&cient ingenuity only to leave the subject more deeply involved than at first. To expect
that the first rude gathering of the hamlet, that forms the nucleus of the future capital,
should leave its traces in the surviving records or traditions of the past, were as unreasonable
as that the rustic should challenge the veracity of a living historian, because he
*- -_ , ,uly 11- r
VIGmTTE-Ancient carved atone over the entrance to the Ordnance Office, Edinburgh Castle.
A ... IN THE OLDEN TIME. CHAPTER I. E A RLIE S T TRA DITIONS. h I , {3 ; I!;) I,\,,,!I 11 ...

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The Castle Hill.
solid, and her camage winning and affable to her
inferiors.? One of the most ardent of her suitors,
on the death of ?Glammis, was a man named
William Lyon, who, on her preferring Campbell of
Skipness, vowed by a terrible oath to dedicate his
life to revenge. He thus accused Lady Jane and
the three others named, and though their friends
were inclined to scoff at the idea of treason, the
artful addition of ?sorcery? was suited to the
growing superstition of the age, and steeled against
them the hearts of many.
Examined on the rack, before the newly-constiat
that time. She was of ordinary stature, but her
mien wa6 majestic; her eyes full, her face oval,
her complexion delicate and extremely fair ; heaven
designed that her mind should want none of those
perfections a mortal creature can be capable of;
her modesty was admirable, her courage above what
could be expected from her sex, her jud,ment
Mercy was implored in vain, and on the 17th of
July-three days after the execution of the Master
of Forbes-the beautiful and unfortunate Lady
Jane was led from the Castle gates and chained to
a stake. ?Barrels tarred, and faggots oiled, were
piled around her, and she was burned to ashes?
within view of her son and husband, who beheld
the terrible scene from the tower that overlooked
it.?
On the following night Campbell, frenzied by
grief and despair, attempted to escape, but fell over
the rocks, and was found next morning dashed out
tuted Court of Justiciary, extremity of agony compelled
them to assent to whatever was asked, and
they were thus condemned by their own lips,
Lady Jane was sentenced to perish at the stake on
the Castle HilL Her son, her husband, and the
old friar were all replaced in David?s Tower, where
the first remained a prisoner till 1542. ... Castle Hill. solid, and her camage winning and affable to her inferiors.? One of the most ardent of her ...

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