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The Lawnmarket.] JAMES BOSWELL. I01 duchess. A daughter of Douglas of Mains, she was the widow of Archibald Duke of Douglas, who died in 1761. While on this visit, Patrick Lord Elibank, a learned and accomplished noble, addressed a letter to him, and they afterwards had various conversatkns on literary subjects, all of which are duly On one occasion he was in a large party, of which David Hume was one. A mutual friend proposed to introduce him to the historian, ?? No, sir ! ? bellowed the intolerant moralist, and turned away. Among Boswell?s friends and visitors at James?s Court were Lords Kames and Hailes, the annalist of Scotland; Drs. Robertson, Slab, and recorded in the pages of the sycophantic Boswell. Johnson was well and hospitably received by all classes in Edinburgh, where his roughness of manner and bearing were long proverbiaL ?? From all I can learn,? says Captain Topham, who visited the city in the following year, ?he repaid all their attention to him with ill-breeding; and when in the company of the ablest men in this country his whole design was to show them how little he thought of them.? Beattie, and others, the most eminent of his countrymen; but his strong predilection for London induced him to move there with his family, and in the winter of 1786 he was called to the English bar. His old house was not immediately abandoned to the plebeian population, as his successor in it was Lady Wallace, dowager of Sir Thomas Wallace of Craigie, and mother of the unfortunate Captain William Wallace of the 15th Hussars, whose involvement in the affairs of the ... Lawnmarket.] JAMES BOSWELL. I01 duchess. A daughter of Douglas of Mains, she was the widow of Archibald Duke ...

Book 1  p. 101
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.. . 237 consist of a blue coat, with a red cape and cuff, white lining turned up in the skirts, two gold epaulets, and a button bearing the name of the corps and arms of the city ; white cassimere vest and breeches, and white cotton stockings ; short gaiters of black cloth ; a round hat with two black feathers and one white ; and black cross-belts.’ The two grenadier companies had a bear-skin and a grenade on the hat, and grenades at the joining of the skirts of the coat ; while the officers of the corps were only distinguished by their swords. The regiment, being assembled in Heriot’s Green on the 26th September 1794, was presented with a stand of colours by the Lord Provost (Sir James Stirling), attended by the two senior Magistrates, the Principal of the University, and the whole Members of the Town Conucil, in their robes. The colours were very handsome ; the one elegantly embroidered with a crown and the letters G.R.; and the other with the city arms. A vast crowd of spectators attended to witness the presentation. . The original officers of the corps were- LIJWTENANT-COLONELS. Thomas Elder, Old Provost. William Maxwell, Colonel in the Army (now General Sir William Maxwell). MAJORS. Roger Aytoun, Leiut.-Colonel in the Army. Patrick Crichton, a Captain in the Army. Clarles Rem, late Captain 43d Foot. Andrew Houston, late Lieutenant of the Car- John Anstruther, late Lieutenant 17th Foot. Arch. Erskine, late Major of 22d Foot. Robert Hamilton, late Lieutenant 82d Foot. William West, Captain in the Army. Robert Arbuthnot, Lieutenant in the Army. Thomas Armstrong, late Lieutenant 80th Foot. Captain-Lieutenant George Abercromby. Thomas Hewen, late Captain in 4th Dragoons. Archibald Campbell, late Lieut. in the Army. David Bume, late Lieutenant of Marines. Henry Jardine (now Sir H. Jardine), W.S. Robert Dundas (the late Sir Robert Dundas, CAPTAINLI. bmeers. LIEUTENANTS. Baine Whyt, W.S. William Coulter.* Malcolm Wright. John Clork. David Reid. John F’ringle. Baronet, of Dunira). Robert Hodgson Cay, Advocate. ENSIONS John Dundas. James Brown. John Menzies. James Dickson. John Wood, Charles Phin. Lachlan Mactavkh. Morris West. CHAPLAIN-ReVereUd a. Baird. TmbBmm-Hugh Robertaon. hJuTANT-Patrick Crichton. SECRETAItY-HeIWy Jardine. QUARTERHASTER-David Hunter. SUMiEON--ThOmM Hay. ~IElTmT-~oRGEONS-~ohRna e and James Law.’ The belts of the Edinburgh Volunteers were afterwards painted white, which soon gave the corps an awkward appearance, on account of the paint scaling off, and leaving portions of white and black alternately. They were accordingly soon laid wide, and the common buff belt substituted The uniform underwent many other changes. ’ Afterwards Lord Provost, who, dying while holding that office, received the honour of 8 public funeral. In a pamphlet, entitled “View of the Establishment of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteem,” published in June 1795, an alphabetical list of all the members is given, amounting tu 785 ; which, ... SKETCHES.. . 237 consist of a blue coat, with a red cape and cuff, white lining turned up in ...

Book 8  p. 334
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156 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. . [Queen Street, always washed and carefully put away by her own delicate hands, and thus breakage was evaded. Marketing was then done in the early morning; and many a time was the stately figure of old Mrs. Wilson, ? in her elegantly-fitting black satin dress, Seen to pass to and fro from the old market place of Edinburgh, followed by some favourite caddie peace and harmony reigned supreme, and there are now not a few of her grandchildren who remember this fine old Scottish matron with affection and gratitude. In 1815 John Wilson had been called to the bar, at the same time with his firm friend Patrick Robertson, Sir William Hamilton, Andrew Rutherford, SIR JAMES WUNG SIMPSON. (or street porter), bearing the well-chosen meats and vegetables that no skill but her own was permitted to, select? She was a high Tory of the old school ; and it is told of her that on hearing it said that her, son was contributing to the Edinburgh Revim, she exclaimed, ?John, if you turn Whig this house is no longer big enough for us both ! ?? In No. 53 she had under her roof for several years two married sons, with their wives, children, . Archibald Alison, and others ; and in 1819, he, with his wife and children, then five in number, removed from his mother?s house in Queen Street to No. 20 Anne Street, Stockbridge. It was in No. 53, however, that the famous ? Chaldee Manuscript ? was written, amid such shouts of laughter, says Mrs. Gordon, ? that the ladies in the room above, sent to inquire in wonder what the gentlemen below were about. I am informed that among those who were met together on that memorable occasion ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. . [Queen Street, always washed and carefully put away by her own delicate hands, and ...

Book 3  p. 156
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442 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Murray, Amelia Jane, 244 Murray, Mr., 326 Murray, Sir Patrick, 575 Murray, Lord George, 420 lfurray, Lady, 420 M'Allister, Rev. John, 154 Ivf'Callum, Miss, 242 M'Cleish, T., 426 M'Cuaig, Rev. Duncan, 154 M'Cubbin, Rev. Dr., 170 M 'Dallagh, Patrick, 346 M'Dallagh, Mrs. Bridget, 346 M'Donald, Rev. John, 154 M'Donald, John, Esq., 170 M'Donnell, Mrs., 183 M'Dowall, Patrick, Esq., 225 M'Dowall, James, Esq., 225 M'Dowall, Colonel Robert, 226 M'Dowall, Mr. William, 226 M'Dowall, Mr. Charles, 226 M'Dowall, Williani, Esq., 312 M'Dowall, Miss Elizabeth, 312 M'Dowall, William, Esq., o M'Domall, Miss Graham, 396 M'Farquhar, Mr., 210 M'Grugar, Mr., 15 M'Eay, Hon. Miss, 173 M'Eenzie, Mrs., 183 M'Kenzie, Murray Kenneth, 295 M'Kenzie, Mr. Henry, 302, 303 M'Lauchlan, Rev. James, 154 M'Lean, Mr., of Ardgower, 196 M'Lean, Mr. William, 300 M'Lehose, Mrs., the Clarinda oj M'Leod, -, Esq., of Drimnin, 96 M'Phail, Miles, 205 M'Queen, John, Esq., 167 M'Queen, Lord Justice-clerk, M'Queen, Robert Dundas, 170 M'Queen, Miss Mary, 170 M'Queen, Miss Catherine, 170 M'Ritchie, John, Esq., 359 Garthland, 396 29 6 Burns, 304 307, 350, 351, 392 N NAIRN, Lord, 420 Nairne, Sir William, Bart., 217 Nairne, Mr., Alexander, 217 Nairne, Catherine, 218, 219 Napier, William sixth Lord, 302 Napier, Lady Marion Shaw, 302 Napier, Francis Lord, 196, 211, 409, 423 Napier, Professor, 210 Napier, John, of Merchiston, 286 Napier, Captain Charles, R.N. Neil, Mr. John, 241 Newton, Lord, 169, 209,261,39 Nicol, Mrs., 152 Nicol, Andrew, 427 Nicholai, the celebrated Germa bookseller, 173 Bicholson, Sir William, 234 Nicholson, Miss Christian, 224 Nisbet, William, Esq., of Dirk Nisbet, Miss Wilhelmina, 212 Nisbet, Rev. Mr., 93 Nisbet, Miss Mary, 93 Nisbet, Rev. Dr., 94 Nisbet, Lord, 364 Nivernois, Duc de, 70 North, Lord, the caddy, 96 North, Lord, 100, 119 Northesk, Earl of, 197, 283 Norton, Lieutenant, 410 Nutter, Robert, Esq., 192 404 409 ton, 2, 82, 212, 234 0 ~CHILTREE, Edie, 189 3gilvie, Thomas, Esq., 218 3gilvie, Lieut. Patrick, 219 Igilvie, Sir William, Bart., 279 Igilvie, Mr. George, 303 )@vie, Captain, 309 Igilvie, Lady, 420 l0dvy, James, of Auchiries, 252 I'Hara, General, 235 )Idbuck, Jonathan, 417 YNeilI, John, 278 )range, Prince of, 107, 298 I d , Lord Chief Baron, 170, 191 hd, Miss Elizabeth, 170 Mow, Count, 104 hock, Robert, 353 Isborne, Alexander, Esq., 344 hwald, James, Esq., 299 Iswald, Mrs., 206 Iughton, Sir Adolphus, 295 P 'AGAN, William, 141 'aganini, Signior, 293 'almer, Mr., 147, 149 'almer, Rev. Thomas Fyshe, 168, 307, 309, 427 'almer, Miss, 399 Panmure, Lord, 402, 403 Paoli, General, 184 Paterson, Mr. Alexander, 261 Paton, Mr. Hngh, 193 Paton, Mr. John, 244 Paton, Mr. George, 288 Patoun, John, Esq., 312 Patoun, Miss Elizabeth, 312 Pattison, Mr. William, 300 Paul, Robert, Esq., 415 Paul, Rev. John, 415 Paul, Williani, Esq., 415 Paul, Henry, Esq., 415 Peddie, Rev. Dr. Jarnes, 300, Peebles, Peter, 427 Peel, Sir Robert, 351 Pembroke, Lord, 71 Pennant, Thomas, 245 Penney, Williani, Esq., 373 Percy, Thomas, D.D., 245, 288 Perth, Duke of, 420 Peter, Mr. Alexander, 224 Phin, Mr. Charles, 237 Phipp, Colonel, 91 Pickering, Miss Mary, 31 Pinkerton, hIr. John, 247 Pitcairn, David, Esq., 93 Pitcairn, Miss Eleanor, 93 Pitcairn, Mr. John, 300 Pitcairn, Mr. Alexander, 300 Pitsligo, Lord, 180, 251,252, 253, 420 Pitt, Hon. William, 74, 101, 183, 222, 285, 308, 380, 381 Playfair, Professor, 56, 79 Plenderleith, Rev. Mr., 282 Poland, King of, 328, 329 Polkemrnet, Lord, 298 Pollock, Mr., 16 Portland, Duke of, 381 Portland, Duchess of, 390 'ortmore, Lord, 191 'orteous, Captain, 19 'otter, Sir John, 260 'otter, Bishop, 275 'ratt, Samuel Jackson, 122 'riestley, Dr., 340 'ringle, Sir John, F.R.S., 21, 81, 'ringle, Sir James, 81 'ringle, Mr. John, 237 'ringle, Mr. Dunbar, 261 'ringle, Mr. Sheriff, 806, 375 'ringle, Mark, Esq., 317, 319 'rovence, Count de, 215 334 249 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. Murray, Amelia Jane, 244 Murray, Mr., 326 Murray, Sir Patrick, 575 Murray, Lord ...

Book 8  p. 615
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224 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The next figure, in the centre, represents MR. WILLIAM JAMIESON, mason and architect, whose father, Mr. Patrick Jamieson, built the Royal Exchange,’ which was begun in 1753. He was elected one of the Deacons of Mary’s Chapel in 1767 j and, like his friend Mr. Orlando Hart, was very successful in avoiding those political quicksands which, in the good old days of corporate omnipotence, were so dangerous to individual prosperity. As a reward for his steadily having “shoulder kept to shoulder,” he possessed for many years the sinecure office of Engraver to the Mint in Scotland, with a salary of $50 a year,-in which appointment he succeeded Convener Simpson. This sinecure is now abolished ; and no wonder, when the duties of the office could be sufficiently performed by a stone-mason. The most memorable public performance of Mr. Jamieson was the renovation of the Tron Kirk, which he accomplished much to the satisfaction of the public. The steeple was built principally of wood, and existed until the great fire in November 1824, when some of the embers from $he burning houses having lodged in it, and the wind blowing hard, the steeple was set on fire and destroyed, along with the bell, which had been hung in 1673, and cost 1490 merks. The steeple was rebuilt in 1828, and the bell recast and placed in its old situation, where it now again performs its usual functions. Mr. Jamieson was also contractor for making the public drains of the city, at an estimate of no less than 3100,00O,-the rubbish from the excavations of which was to be carted to Portobello, without being subject to the dues leviable at the toll of Jock‘s Lodge, the bar being partly under the management of the Town Council. The toll-keeper, however, having taken it into his head that he ought to be paid the regular dues, on one occasion closed the gate against the carts ‘of the contractor. The circumstance being made known to Mr. Jamieson, “ Weel, weel,” said he to the carters, “just coup the carts at the toll-bar ;” which was accordingly done, to the grievous annoyance of the toll-keeper, who never afterwards refused the right of egress and ingress. The greater part of Portobello was the Deacon’s property at one period, and feued out by him. He himself latterly resided there, although, when this print was done, his house was in Turk’s Close. Mr. Jamieson married, about the year 1759, Miss Christian Nicholson, sister of the late Sir William Nicholson of Jarvieswood, by whom he had six sons and six daughters. The eldest daughter married James Cargyll, Esq., W. S. ; The parties in the agreement for erecting this building wer+the Right Honourable William Alexander, Lord Provost ; David Inglis, John Carmichael, Andrew Simpson, and John Walker, Bailies ; David Inglis, Dean of Guild ; Adam Fairholm, Treasurer, etc., on the part of the City,- and Patrick Jamieson, mason ; Alexander Peter, George Stevenson, and John Moubray, wrights ; John Fergus, architect-all burgesses, freemen, members of Mary’s Chapel of Edinbnrgh-undertakers. In the contract, the sum to be laid out in purchasing houses and grounds whereon to erect the Exchange is stated at f11,749 : 6 : 8, and the cost of erection at f19,707 : 16 : 4,-amounting, in all, to 231,457 : 3s. sterling. The first stone was laid in 1753, by George Drnmmond, Esq., at that time Grand Master of the Freemasons. A triumphal arch, and theatres for the Magistrates, and galleries for the spectators, were erected on the occasion. The work, however, was not fully entered upon till the year following, and WBS Wished in 1761. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. The next figure, in the centre, represents MR. WILLIAM JAMIESON, mason and architect, ...

Book 8  p. 316
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218 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 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 ...

Book 8  p. 308
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 161 thus speaks of himself-“I am now in my eighty-sixth year. I have never used spectacles, nor is my hearing in the least diminished ; and my mind is as acute as ever.” He died on the 21st of April 1827, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Dr. Hamilton’s personal appearance is described as having been prepossessing, and his manner dignified and agreeable. His time was almost wholly devoted to good deeds and piety; and so much did he indulge in self-debasement, that he withheld from his friends all records which could assist them in compiling any lengthened memoir of his life. He even forbade the delivery of a funeral sermon on his demise. Several interesting reminiscences, however, have been preserved by some of his old friends, in letters to his son, Mr. Francis Hamilton of Kentish-town. From these we shall make two quotations. The first, illustrative of his talent for religious conversation-the other, of his charity :- ‘‘I was privilege*’ (says the Rev. Robert Johnson), “with his company on a journey of upwards of one hundred miles. He was a most pleasant and instructive travelling companion. There were several passengers in the coach at different stages, to whom we were entire strangers. During the whole of the journey the Doctor’s conversation was upon divine things. He, in a familiarly instructive and striking manner, explained many important passages of Scripture, and showed the necessity of experimental and practical religion. The eyes and ears of the passengers hung upon his lips. He eyed the Doctor from head to foot, and on every side. At that time the Doctor dressed in the costume of the old physicians ; having a wig, with a large square silk bag behind. The Scotchman for a long time looked and listened : at last he said, ‘ Pray, sir, are you a minister ’?’ The Doctor very pleasantly replied, ‘ No ; I am only his man.’ ” “Compassion for the poor ” (writes the Rev. James Wood), “was another trait in the character of my departed friend. When he resided in Leeds, he attended in the vestry of the old chapel one day in every week, where the poor had full liberty to apply for his adyice. If I found any sick poor destitute of medical attendance, he was always ready to visit them without fee or reward. One instance of the kindness he felt for the poor, I am thankful for an opportunity of recording. When I was stationed at Leeds, Dr. Hamilton called on me one morning, to ask me if I knew of any person in particular want, saying, he had just received a sum of money which he had considered as a bad debt, and he therefore wished to give it to the poor. I had just received a letter from a pious man at Sunderland, where I had been stationed a few years before, stating his difficulties through want of employ, and that it had been impressed on his mind to write to me. I showed the Doctor this letter, who gave me two guineas for the poor man, which was sent without delay ; shortly afterwards a letter from the same person, full of gratitude to God and to the donor, came to hand, which I showed to my friend, who gave me three guineas more for the worthy object. The impression on the mind of the poor man-the time when the letter came-a sum of money unexpectedly received-and the inquiry made after proper objects, all concurred to show the hand of Providence, and that the Lord careth for the righteous.” The figure to the left of Mr. Wesley is that of the REV. JOSEPH COLE, of whose life almost no memorial whatever has been preserved. He was for thirty-five years a Methodist preacher, having joined the Rev. John Wesley in 1780. He maintained an unblemished character, and was esteemed an acceptable “ labourer in the vineyard’’ His talents were respectable ; and his &- courses were distinguished for simplicity, spirituality, and energy. He was stationed in Edinburgh during the years 1789-90 and 179 1. ‘‘ His recollections Amongst them was a Scotchman, who appeared quite astonished. VOL. II. Y ... SKETCHES. 161 thus speaks of himself-“I am now in my eighty-sixth year. I have never used ...

Book 9  p. 216
(Score 1.15)

2 I4 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. it wad be a treat for her to see the inside like other strangers ! ” The renovators of the old hall seem to have taken the &ft laird’s hint,-Justice has vanished from the porch, to reappear in a most gaudy and tasteless fashion in the painted glass of thegreat window.’ An incident, however, in connection with the fate of these ancient warders of the Parliament porch, will best illustrate the taste of its beautifiers. Shortly after the modernisation of the old Trent, the late Bailie Henderson observed a cart conveying along the South Bridge a load of carved stones, among which the statues of Justice and Mercy formed the most prominent objects. On inquiring at the carter as to their destination, he learned that one of the Professors, who kept a Polar bear, had applied to the Magistrates for stones to erect a bear’sdouse within the College quadrangle, and he accordingly obtained a gift of these old rubbish for the purpose. The Bailie gave the carter a fee to turn his horse’s head, and deposit them at his own villa near Trinity, from whence he sent him back with his cart full of stoneg equally well adapted for the Professor’s bear’s house. On the death of Bailie Henderson, the statues, along with other ornamental portions of the old building, were procured by A. G. Ellis, Esq., in whose posqession they now are. The great hall measures 122 feet long, by 40 broad, and although its windows have recently been altered, its curious, open-timbered oak roof remains, springing from a series of grotesquely sculptured corbels of various designs. Long after it had been forsaken by the Scottish Estates it retained the high throne at its southern end, where the Sovereign, or his Commissioner, was wont to preside over their deliberations, and on either side a range of benches for the nobles and barons, with lower ones in the centre for the Commissioners of Burghs, the Scottish Estates having formed to the last only one deliberative assembly. Without thia area a pulpit was erected for sermons to the Parliament,-the same, we believe, that is now preserved in the Nuseum of the Society of Antiquaries under the name of ‘(John Knox’s pulpit.” Along the walls there hung a seriea of portraits of sovereigns and eminent statesmen, including paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller ; but some of these were the first of its decorations that disappeared, having, it is said, been bestowed by Queen Anne on her Secretary, the Earl of Mar.: Others, however, of these paintings adorned the walls, and are now, we believe, among the miscellaneous collection at Holyrood House. Portions also of early decorations, including fragments of ancient tapestry, were only removed in the latter end of last century,-the same hangings, in all probability, as were put up during the Protectorate. Nicoll tells us, ‘‘ The Preses and the remanent memberis of the great counsall did caus alter much of the Parliament Hous, and did calm hing the Over hous with riche hingeris, in September 1655, and removit these roumes thairintill appoyntit for passing of the billis, and signeting of letters. So wes also the Lower HOUS, diligatlie hung.’’ Nor should we omit to mention the Creed and Ten Commandmenta, once 80 In 1868, this window was replaced by a magnificent stained one, representing the inauguration of the College of Justice, or the Supreme Court of Scotland, by King Jarnes V., in 1532. The following are mentioned in Brown’s “ Stranger’s Guide,” for 1820 +“ The outer hall is ornamented by full Iength portraita of King William III., Queen Mary, his consort, and Queen Anne, all done by Si Godfrey Kneller ; also of George I., John Duke of Argyle, and Archibald Duke of Argyle, by Mr Aikman of Carney. ’ Minor Antiquities, p. 187, Nicoll’s Diary, p. 216. ... I4 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. it wad be a treat for her to see the inside like other strangers ! ” The renovators ...

Book 10  p. 233
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208 OLD AND ?NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street. there was born in 1741 his son, the celebrated statesman, Henry Viscount Melville. There long abode, on the first floor of the ? Bishop?s Land,? a fine old Scottish gentleman, ?? one of the olden time,? Sir Stuart Thriepland, of Fingask Castle, Bart., whose father had been attainted after the battle of Sheriffmuir, which, however, did not prevent Sir Stuart from duly taking his full share in the ?45. His wanderings over, and the persecutions past, he took up his residence here, and had his house well hung, we are told, with well-painted portraits of royal per- He died 1 sonages-but not cf the reipinn house. One of the most famous edifices on the north side of the High Street was known as ? the Bishop?s Land,? so called from having been the town residence of John Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. Andrews in 1615, and son of John Spottiswood, Superintendent of Lothian, a reformed divine, who prayed over James VI., and blessed him when an infant in his cradle, in the Castle of Edinburgh. From him the Archbishop inherited the house, which bore the legend and date, BLISSIT .BE .YE. LORD. FOR.ALL. HIS. GIFTIS. 1578. consequently it must have been built when the Superintendent (whose father fell at Flodden) was in his sixty-eighth year, and was an edifice sufficiently commodious and magnificent to serve as a town residence of the Primate of Scotland, who in his zeal to promote the designs of James VI. for the establishment of Episcopacy, performed the then astounding task of no less than fifty journeys to London. The ground floor of the mansion, like many others of the same age in the same street, was formed of a deeply-arched piazza, the arches of whichsprang from massive stone piers. From the first floor there projected ~. ALLAN RAMSAY. (From the Portrait in ihe 1761 Edition e/ has ?Poems.?) a fine brass balcony, that must many a time and oft have been hung with gay garlands and tapestry, and crowded with the fair and noble to witness the state pageants of old, such as the great procession of Charles I. to Holyrood, where he was crowned by the archbishop King of Scotland in 1633. From this house Spottiswood was obliged to fly, when the nation en mnsse resisted, with peremptory promptitude, the introduction of the Liturgy. He took refuge in London, where he died in 1639, and was interred in Westminster Abbey. In 1752 the celebrated Lady Jane Douglas, wife of Sir George Stuart of Grantully, and the heroine of the famous ? Douglas cause,? was an occupant of ?? the Bishop?s Land,? till she ceased to be able to afford a residence even there. Therein, tDo, resided the first Lord President Dundas, and - - in 1805, and the forfeited honours were generously restored by George IV. in 1826 to his son, Sir Patrick M. Thriepland of Fingask, which had long before been purchased back by the money of his mother, Janet Sinclair of Southdun. On the third floor, above him, dwelt the Hamiltons of Pencaitland, and the baronial Aytouns of Inchdairnie. hlrs. Aytoun was Isabel, daughter of Kobert, fourth Lord Rollo, ? and would sometimes come down the stair,? says Robert Chambers, ? lighting herself with a little waxen taper, to drink tea with Mrs. Janet Thriepland (Sir Patrick?s sister)-for so she called herself, though unmarried. In the uppermost floor of all lived a reputable tailor and his family. All the various tenants, including the tailor, were on friendly terms with ? each other-a pleasant. thing to tell of this bit of the old world, which has left nothing of the same kind behind it in these days, when we all live at il greater distance, physical and moral, from each other.? This fine old tenement, which. was one of the most aristocratic in the street till a comparatively recent period, was totally destroyed by fire in 1814. Eastward of it stood the town-house of the Hendersons of Fordel (an old patrician Fifeshire family), with whom Queen Mary was once a visitor; but it, too, has passed away, and an ... OLD AND ?NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street. there was born in 1741 his son, the celebrated statesman, Henry ...

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THE HIGH STREET. 243 bouring buildings with a majestic and imposing effect, of which the north front of James’a Court-the only private building that resembles it-conveys only a very partial idea. Within the Fishmarket Close was the mansion of George Heriot, the royal goldsmith of James VI. ; where more recently resided the elder Lord President Dundas, father of Lord Melville, a thorough &on wivant of the old claret-drinking school of lawyers.’ There also, for successive generations, dwelt another dignitary of the College of Justice, the grim executioner of the law’s last sentence-happily a less indispensable legal functionary than in former days. The last occupant of the hangman’s house annually drew “ the dempster’s fee” at the Royal Bank, and eked out his slender professional income by cobbling such shoes as his least superstitious neighbours cared to trust in his hands, doubtless, with many a sorrowful reflection on the wisdom of our forefathers, and ‘‘ the good old times ” that are gone The house has been recently rebuilt, but, as might be expected, it is still haunted by numerous restless ghosts, and will run considerable risk of remaining tenantless should its official occupant, in these hard times, find his occupation gone.4 Borthwick’s Close, which stands to the east, is expressly mentioned in Nisbet’s Heraldry as having belonged to the Lords Borthwick, and in the boundaries of a house in the adjoining close, the property about the middle of the east side is described as the Lord Napier’s ; but the whole alley is now entirely modernised, and destitute of attractions either for the artist or antiquary. On the ground, however, that intervenes between this and the Assembly Close, one of the new Heriot schools has been built, and occupies a site of peculiar interest. There stood, until its demolition by the Great Fire of 1824, the old Assembly Rooms of Edinburgh, whither the directors of fashion removed their ‘‘ General Assembly,” about the year 1720,” from the scene of its earlier revels in the West Bow. There it was that Goldsmith witnessed for the first time the formalities of an old Scottish ball, during his residence in Edinburgh in 17’53. The light-hearted young Irishman has left an amusing account of the astonishment with which, ‘‘ on entering the dancing-hall, he sees one end of the room taken up with the ladies, who sit dismally in a group by themselves ; on the other end stand their pensive partners that are to be, but no more intercourse between the sexes than between two countries at war. The ladies, indeed, may ogle, and the gentlemen sigh, but an embargo is laid upon any closer commerce I ” Only three years after the scene witnessed by the poet, these grave and decorous revels were removed to more commodious rooms in Bell’s Wynd, where they continued to be held till the erection of the new hall in George Street. Much older associations, however, pertain to this interesting locality, for, on the site occupied by the d d Assembly Rooms, there formerly stood the town mansion of Lord Durie, President of the Court of Session in 1642, and the hero of the merry ballad of “ Christie’s Will.” The Earl of Traquair, it appears, had a lawsuit pending in the Court of Session, to which the President’s opposition was 1 Dr Steven’s Memoirs of Gorge Heriot, p. 6. ’ T& ‘‘ Convivial habits of the Scottish Bar.”-Note to “Guy Mannering.? ’ Pidc Chambers’s Traditions, vol. ii. p, 184, for aome curioua notices of the Edinburgh hangmen. ’ The office of this functionary ia now abolished, and the house ia occupied by privata families, 5 Nbbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii Appendix, p. 106. a In a mine dated 1723, it is atyled-“That big hall, or great room, now known by the name of the h m b l y House, being part of that new great atone tenemeut of land lately built,” &c.--BurgA Chu&r h. ... HIGH STREET. 243 bouring buildings with a majestic and imposing effect, of which the north front of ...

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The Castle Hill.] THE DUKE OF GORDON?S HOUSE. 89 ter of the Duke of Norfolk and wife of Duke George, who SO gallantly defended the Castle against the troops of William of Orange; during the lifetime of the duke she retired to a Belgian convent, but afterwards returned to the old mansion in Edinburgh, where she frequently resided till her death, which took place at the abbey in 1732, life, destroyed utterly the ancient Gothic fireplace, which was very beautiful in its design. This house is mentioned in the ?Diurnal of Occurrents? as being, in 1570, the residence of ~ Patrick Edgar; and after it passed from the Gordons it was possessed by the family of Newbyth, who resided in it for several generations, and ALLAA RAMSAY?S HOUSE. sixteen years after that of the duke at Leith. The internal fittings of the mansion are in many respects unchanged since its occupation by the duchess. It is wood-panelled throughout, and one large room which overlooks the Esplanade. is decorated with elaborate carvings, and with a large painting over the mantelpiece the production of Norrie, a famous housedecorator of the eighteenth century, whose genius for landscapes entitles him to a place among Scottish painters. An explosion of gunpowder which took place in the basement of the house, in 1811, attended with serious loss of 12 therein, on the 6th December, 1757, was born the gallant Sir David Baird, Bart., the hero of Seringapatam and conqueror of Tippoo Saib ; and therein he was educated and brought up. Returning years after, he visited the place of his birth, which had long since passed into other hands. Chambers relates that the individual then occupying the house received the veteran hero with great respect, and, after showing him through it, ushered him into the little garden behind, where some boys were engaged in mischievously throwing cabbage stalks at the chimneys of the Grassmarket. On ... Castle Hill.] THE DUKE OF GORDON?S HOUSE. 89 ter of the Duke of Norfolk and wife of Duke George, who SO ...

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Drummond Place 1 LORD ROBERTSON. I93 antiquarian taste consorted with the musical skill ancl critical sagacity of the editor of the ? Minuets and Songs, by Thomas, sixth Earl of Kellie.?? At his death, in 1851, a desire was felt by many of his friends that his collection of antiquities should, like that of his friend Scott, be preserved as a memorial of him, but from circumstances over which his family had no control this was found to be impossible, so the vast assemblage of rare and curious objects which crowded every room in No. 28 was dispersed. The very catalogue of them, filling upwards of fifty pages, was in some of its features strongly indicative of the character of the man. Among them we find--? A smd box made from a leg of the table at which King James VIII. sat on his first landing here;? ?fragment of Queen Mary?s bed-curtains;? ?? hair of that true saint and martyr Charles I., taken from his coffin at Windsor, and given to me by the Hon. Peter Drummond Burrel at Edinburgh, December, 1813;? ?piece of the shroud of King Robert the Bruce i1 piece of a plaid worn by-Prince Charles in Scotland;? ?silk sash worn by the prince;? ?pair of gloves belonging to Mary Queen of Scots;? ?cap worn by her when escaping from Lochleven;? &c. He had a vast collection of coins, some of which were said to be discovered in consequence of a dream. I? The child of a Mr. Christison, in whose house his father was lodging in 1781, dreamt that a treasure was hid in the cellar. Her father had no faith in the dream, but Mr. Sharpe had the place dug up, and a copper pot full of coins was found.? One of the chief features of his drawing-room in Drummond Place was a .quaint monstrosity in bronze, now preserved in the British Museum. It was a ewer fashioned in the shape of a tailless lion, surmounted by an indescribable animal, half hound and half fish, found in a vault of his paternal castle of Hoddam, in Dumfries-shire. Charles Kirk patrick Sharpe was laid amid his forefathers in the family burial-place in Annandale. ?May the earth lie light on him,? writes one of his friends, ?and no plebeian dust invade the last resting-place of a thorough gentleman of the antique type, now wholly gone with other good things of the olden time !? Patrick Robertson, known as Lord Robertson by his judicial title, was long locally famous as ? I Peter,? one of the most brilliant wits and humorists about Parliament House, and a great friend of ?Christopher North.? They were called to the bar in the same year, 1815. Robertsonwas born in 1793. In 18qz he was Dean of Faculty, and 73 ,vas raised to the bench in the following year. He was famous for his mock heroic speeches on the :eneral question,? and his face, full of grotesque humour, and his rotund figure, of Johnson-like mplitude and cut, were long familiar to all habitues of the law courts. Of his speeches Lockhart gives a description in his account of a Burns dinner in 1818 :-? The last of these presidents (Mr. Patrick Robertson), a young counsellor 3f very rising reputation and most pleasant manner, made his approach to the chair amid such a thunder of acclamation as seems to issue from the cheeks of the Bacchantes when Silenus gets astride his ass, in the famous picture of Rubens. Once in the chair, there was no fear of his quitting it while any remained to pay homage to his authority. He made speeches, one chief merit of which consisted (unlike epic poems) in their having neither beginning, middle, nor end. He sang songs in which music was not. He proposed toasts in which meaning was not. But over everything that he said there was flung such a radiance of sheer mother wit, that there was no difficulty in seeing that the want of meaning was no involuntary want. By the perpetual dazzle of his wit, by the cordial flow of his good-humour, but, above all, by the cheering influence of his broad, happy face, seen through its halo of purest steam (for even the chair had by this time got enough of the juice of the grape), he contrived to diffuse over us all, for a long time, one genial atmosphere of unmingled mirth.? The wit and humour of Robertson were proverbial, and hundreds of anecdotes used to be current of his peculiar and invincible powet of closing all controversy, by the broadest form of reductio ad abszrrdurn. At a dinner party a learned and pedantic Oxonian was becoming very tiresome with his Greek erudition, which he insisted on pouring forth on a variety of topics xore or less recondite, At length, at a stage of the discussion on some historical point, Lord Robertson turned round, and, fixing his?large grey eyes upon the Englishman, said, with a solemn and judicial air, ?I rather think, sir, Dionysius of Halicamassus is against you there.? ?: I beg your pardon,? said the other, quickly; ?Dionysius did not flourish for ninety years after that period !? ?I Oh! ? rejoined Robertson, with an expression of face that must be imagined, ? I I made a mistake-I meant nludkeus of Warsaw.? After that the discussion flowed no longer in the Greek channg1.a He was author sf a large quarto volume of singu- -. W h d s ?? Memoirs,? rd ii ... Place 1 LORD ROBERTSON. I93 antiquarian taste consorted with the musical skill ancl critical sagacity of ...

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KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. ‘39 of carved wood work, exhibiting traces of gilding. An explosion of gunpowder, which took place in the lower part of the house in 1811, attended with loss of life, entirely destroyed the ancient fireplace, which was of a remarkably beautiful Gothic design. Notwithstanding the comparatively modern decorations, the house s till retains unequivocal remains of a much earlier period. The sculptured doorway in Blair’s Close, already alluded to, forming the original main entrance to the whole building, is specially worthy of notice, and would of itself justify us in assigning its erection to the earlier part of the sixteenth century. It very nearly corresponds with one still remaining on the west side of Blackfriar’s Wynd, the entrance to the turnpike stair of an ancient mansion, which appears, from the title-deeds of a neighbouring property, to have been the residence of the Earl of Morton. In the latter example, the heraldic supporters, though equally rudely sculptured, present somewhat more distinctly the same features as in the other, and both are clearly intended for unicorns.’ The south front of the building is finished with a parapet, adorned with gurgoils in the shape of cannons, and on the first floor * (in Blair’s Close) there is still remainins an ancient fireplace of huge old-fashioned dimensions. The jambs are neatly carved Gothic pillars, simiiar in design to several that formerly existed in the Guise Palace, Blyth’s Close ; and the whole is now enclosed, and forms a roomy coal-cellar, after having been used as a bedcloset by the previous tenant in these degenerate days. As late as 1783, this part of the old mansion was the residence of John Grieve, Esq., then Lord Provost of Edinburgh. This house has apparently been one of special note in early times from its substantial magnificence. It is described in one of the deeds as ;; that tenement or dwelling-house called the Solate House of old, of the deceased Patrick Edgar,” a definiiion repeated in several others, evidently to distinguish it from its humble thatched nei&%ours, ‘; lying on the south iide of the High Street of Edinburgh, near the Castle wal1,between the lands of the deceased Mr A. Syme, advocate, on the east, the close of the said Patrick Edgar on the west,” &c. It is alluded to in the Diurnal of Occurrents, 7th September 1570, where the escape of Robert Hepburn, younger of Wauchtoun, from the Earl of Morton’s adherents, is described It is added-‘; He came to the Castell of Edinburgh, quhairin he was ressauit with great difficultie ; for when he was passand in at the said Castell zett, his adversaries were at Patrik Edgar his hous end.” This mansion was latterly possessed, as we have seen, by the Newbyth family, by whom it was held for several generations ; and here it was that the gallant Sir David Baird was born and brought up.‘ It is said also to hare been F 1 The adoption of the royal supportera may possibly have been an assumption of the Regent’s, in virtue of his exercise of the functions of royalty. In which case, the building on the Castle Hill might be presumed alm to be his, and deserted by him from ita dangerous proximity to the Castle, when held by his rivals. This, however, is mere conjecture. A note in the Diurnal of Occurrents, 20th Nov. 1572, states-“ In this menetyme, James Earle of Mortouo, regent, lay deidlie seik j his Grace waa lugeit in Williame Craikia lugeing on the sout\ syid of the trone, in Edinburgh.” a To prevent misconception in the description of buildings, we may state that, throughout the Work, the floors of buildings are to be understood thus :-Sunk, or area floor, ground floor, 6rat floor, second floor, bcc., reckoning from below. ’ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 186. ’ On Sir David Baird’s return from the Spanish Campaign, he visited his birth-place, and examined with great interest the acenes where he had passed his boyhoodi Chambem haa furnished a lively account of this in hm Traditions, vol. i. p. 155. ... STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. ‘39 of carved wood work, exhibiting traces of gilding. An ...

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292 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. of the old Scottish Parliaments were not framed to curb the excesses of cobbler kings. King Crispin and his train grew more extravagant every year. He latterly rode in this fantastic annual pageant in ermined robes, attended by prince, premier, champion in armour, and courtiers of all degrees, mounted on horseback, and decked in the most gaudy costume they could procure, until at length the whole wealth and property of the corporation were dissipated in this childish foolery, and King Crispin retired to private life, and the humbler relaxation of cobbling shoes1 Mra Malcolm, an old dame of a particularly shrewish disposition, who inhabited an attic in the Shoemakers’ Land towards the close of last century, was long known by the title of the Princess, her husband having for many years represented the Black Prince, and she his sable c o n s o r t two essential characters in King Crispin’s pageant. There can be little doubt that this frivolous sport was a relic of much earlier times, when the Cordiners of the neighbouring capital, incorporat,ed in the pear 1449, proceeded annually, on the anniversary of their patron saint, to the altar of St Crispin and St Crispinian, founded and maintained by them in the collegiate church of St Gi1es.l Nor is it improbable, that in the Princess a traditional remembrance was preserved of the Queen of the Canongate, mentioned in the Treasury accounts of James IV. The Canongate Tolbooth-a view of which heads this chapter-has long been a favourite subject for the artist’s pencil, as one of the most picturesque edifices of the Old Town. It formed the court-house and jail of the burgh, erected in the reign of James VI., soon after the abolition of religious houses had left this ancient dependency of the Abbey free to govern itself. Even then, however, Adam Bothwell, the Protestant commendator of Holyrood, retained some portion of the ancient rights of his mitred predecessors over the burgh. The present structure is the successor of a much earlier building, probably on the same site. The date on the tower is 1591 ; and preparations for its erection appear in the Burgh Register seven years before this, where it is enacted that no remission of fees shall be granted to any one, “unto the tyme the tolbuith of this burch be edefeit and kggit.”’ Nevertheless, we find by the Burgh Registers for 1561, “ Curia capitalis burgi vici canonicorum Monasterii Sancte Crucis prope Edinburgh, tenta in pretorio ejusdem ; ” and frequent references occur to the tolduith, both as a court-house and prison, in the Registers and in the Treasurer’s accounts, e.g., 1574, “ To sax pynouris att the bailleis command for taking doun of the lintall stane of the auld tolbuith windo, iijs. id.” The very next entry is a fee (‘to ane new pyper,” an official of the Burgh of whom various notices are found at this early period. The Hotel de ViZZe of this ancient burgh is surmounted by a tower and spire, flanked by two turrets in front, from between which a clock of large dimensions projects into the street. This formerly rested on curiously-carved oaken beams, which appear in Storer’s views published in 1818, but they have since been replaced by plain cast-iron supports. The building is otherwise adorned wit,h a variety of mottoes and sculptured devices in the Maitland, p. 305. The earliest notice we have found of the Cordiners of Canongate occurs in the Burgh Register, 10th June 1574, where “ William Quhite, being electit and choain diacone of the cordonaris be his brethir for this present yeir, . . . is reseavit in place of umquhill Andro Purves.” From this they appear to have been then an incorporated body.-Canongate Burgh Register ; Mait. Misc. vol. ii. p. 329. ’ Canongate Burgh Register, 13th October 1584 ; Ibid, p. 353. . ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. of the old Scottish Parliaments were not framed to curb the excesses of cobbler ...

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

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206 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. home. He not only took a deep interest in thes matters, but he studied them with his usual enthu siasm, and personally superintended every detail. James IV., one of the most splendid monarch of his race and time, not only conversed free! with his mariners at Leith, but he nobly rewardec the most skilful and assiduous, and visited fami liarly the houses of his merchants and sea officers He practised with his artillerymen, often loading pointing, and discharging the guns, and delightec in having short voyages with old Andrew Wood o the Bartons, and others. ?The consequences o such conduct were highly favourable to him; hc became as popular with his sailors as he was be loved by the nobility; his fame was caqied bj them to foreign countries : thus shipwrights, cannon founders, and foreign artisans of every description flocked to his court from France, Italy, and thc Low Countries.? In 1512, when James was preparing for hi: struggle with England to revenge the fall of AndreB Barton, the retention of his queen?s dowry, and other insults by Henry-when all Scotland resounded with. the din of warlike preparation, and, as the ? Treasurer?s Accounts ? show, ?he castles in the interiqr were deprived of their guns to arm the shipping-James, on the 6th of August, held a naval review of his whole fleet at Leith, an event which caused no small excitement in England. Just three months before this De la Mothe, the French Ambassador (who afterwards fell at Flodden), coming to Scotland with a squadron, on his own responsibility, and before war was declared, attacked a fleet of English merchantmen, sunk three and captured seven, which he brought into Leith. Lord Dacre, who was on a mission at the Scottish court, promised Henry to get these ships restored, and to prevent reprisals ; the Bartons, Sir Alexander Matheson, Sir David Falconer, and other commanders, were sent to sea to look out for English ships. In 1513 La Mothe came again with another squadron, containing much munition of war for the Scottish fleet, and arriving off Leith in a furious storm, he fired a salute of cannon, the object of which seems to have been mistaken, as it made every man rush to arms in Edinburgh, where the common bell was rung for three hours.? James V. strove to follow in the footsteps of his father, as the ?Treasurer?s Accounts ? show. In 1539, ? ane silver quhissel,? with a long chain, was given by his command ?? to the Patroune of the ships.? It weighed eleven ounces and three-quarters, and was then the badge of an admiral, as it is now that of a boatswain. In 1540 payments were made fur wood cut at Hawthornden for building the king?s ships, and also for sixteen ells of red and yellow taffeta (the royal colours) for naval ensigns, delivered to Captain John Barton of Leith j while :L sum was paid to Murdoch Stirling for making ovens for the royal shipping. In 1511 Florence Carntoune was keeper of them and their ?gear,? Among them were the Salamander, the Unicorn, and the LittZe Bark-to such as these had the armaments of James IV. dwindled away. John Keir, captain of the first named, had yearly fifteen pounds. John Brown, captain of the Great Lyonne, while at Bordeaux on the king?s service, was paid eighty pounds ; and the ?fee? of Archibald Penicoke, captain of the Unicorn, was ten pounds one shilling. During the wars with Continental countries subsequent to the union of the crowns, Scotland had vessels of war, called generally frigates, which are referred to in the Register of the Privy Council, Qc., and which seem to have been chiefly named zfter the royal palaces and castles; and during these wars Leith furnished many gallant privateers. But in those far-away times when Scotland was yet a separate kingdom and the Union undreamt 3f, Leith presented a brisk and busy aspect-an ispect which, on its commercial side, has been irigorously maintained up to the present day, and which is well worthy of its deeply intercsting his. orical past. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. home. He not only took a deep interest in thes matters, but he studied them ...

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was restored, but in somewhat doubtful taste, by Thomas Hamilton, architect, and a new square tower, terminating in a richly cusped open Gothic balustrade, was erected at its north-western corner, while the angles of the building were ornamented ST. MARK?S (SOUTH LEITH) CHURCH, 1882. by buttresses finished with crocketed finials, scarcely in accordance with the severe simplicity of the old time-worn and war-worn church of St. Mary, the beautiful eastern window of which was preserved in form. FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY feet north-westward of St. Mary?s church, and on the same side of the Kirkgate, opens the ancient alley named Coatfield Lane, which, after a turn to the south in Charlotte Lane, led originally to the Links. Dr. Robertson gives a quotation from the I? Parish Records ? of South Leith, under date 25th May, 1592, as showing the origin ? of Coatfield Lane : ?the quhilk day, the Provost, Johnne Amottis, shepherd, was acted that for every sheep he beit in ye Kirkyeard suld pay ix merks, and everie nyt yat carried (kept) thame betwix the Coatfield and ye. Kirk style he should pay v. merk.? But the name is older than the date given, as Patrick Logan of Coatfield was Bailie of Leith 10th September, 1470, and Robert Logan of the same place was Provost of the city in 1520-I, as the ?Burgh Records show ; and when ruin began to overtake the wily and powerful Baron of Restalrig, his lands of Mount Lothian and Nether Gogar were purchased from him by Andrew Logan of Coatfield in 1596, as stated in the old ?? Douglas Peerage.? At the corner of Coatfield Lane, in the Kirkgate, there stands a great mansion, having a handsome front to ?the east, exhibiting some curious exampIes ... restored, but in somewhat doubtful taste, by Thomas Hamilton, architect, and a new square tower, terminating ...

Book 6  p. 220
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NOTES TO VOL IL Page 209, THEG OLFER’SL AND. The Golfer’s Land still stands on the north side of the Canongate, with its characteristic coat of arms and inscription, in confirmation of the legend. But the tenor of the inscription is inconsistent with the story of the poor shoemaker. I t rather refers to a house then rebuilding, which had been the family property of successive generations of heroic golfers. John Paterson, several times bailie of the burgh of Canongate, died in 1663, as appeared from his monument in the cemetery alongside of Holyrood Abbey, now the palace garden. Page 236, THE CAPE CLUB. The minute-books of the Cape Club are in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. I t included among its members Runciman and his pupil Jacob More the landscape painter, David Herd, Ferpsson, Lancashire the comedian, Walter Ross the antiquary, Sir Henry Raeburn, etc, etc. Each of them had a characteristic name given to him as a knight of the Club. The minute-books will show what was the designation of Sommers. Page 239, RUNCIMANP’Sr odigal Son. There was, and possibly still is, in the Cowgate Chapel, now St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, a painting of the Prodigal Son by Runciman, which was said to include Fergusson’s portrait. This may be the picture here referred to. Page 365, MURDERERO F BEQBIE. The once famous murder of Begbie was one of the popular mysteries with the last generation. Begbie was stabbed directly in the heart by the blow of a long knife furnished with a broad pasteboard guard to prevent the blood spurting on the murderer’s sleeve. Mr. C. K. Sharpe affirmed that a man of strangely recluse habits, who had been a medical student in Edinburgh at the date of the murder, died in Leith many yeam afterwards ; and on his deathbed confessed to the deed. D. W. TORONTOJa, muary 1878. ... TO VOL IL Page 209, THEG OLFER’SL AND. The Golfer’s Land still stands on the north side of the ...

Book 9  p. 643
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326 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of Methven; William Smythe, Esq., advocate; and the Rev. Patrick M. Smythe, of Tanworth, in the county of Warwick;’ and two daughters, the eldest of whom was married to the Right Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice-clerk. No. CCLXXX. GENERAL FRANCIS DUNDAS, SIR HENRY JARDINE, SIR ROBERT DUNDAS OF BEECHWOOD, BART., CAPTAIN HAY, THE LATE EARL OF EGLINTON, AND THE MISSES MAXWELL, ETC. THIS Print is highly illustrative of society in the Scottish metropolis during the warlike era of the Volunteers. On the Castle Hill, Princes Street, or the Meadow Walks, similar groups might be daily witnessed. The first and most conspicuous of the military gentlemen is the late GENERAL FRANCIS DUNDAS, son of the second President Dundas, and brother of the late Lord Chief Baron. At the time the Engraving was executed, in 1795, he was Colonel of the Scots Brigade-a corps long distinguished in the service of Holland, and afterwards embodied in the British line as the 94th regiment. Colonel Dundas attained the rank of Major-General in 1795 ; Lieut.-General in 1802; and General in 1812. In 1809, he was appointed Colonel of the 71st light infantry, six companies of which were draughted in 1810 to serve in Spain under the Duke of Wellington. In 1802-3 he was Governor of Cape of Good Hope, During the brief peace of Amiens, in accordance with his instructions to evacuate the colony, the garrison had embarked on board the British squadron ; but having, on the evening of embarkation, fortunately received counter-orders, the General relanded 1 Another son, George Smythe, Esq., advocate, was unfortunately killed by a fall from a gig. This gentleman was a member of the Bannatyne Club, and contributed for the use of that Society a very curious and valuable volume, entitled “Letters of John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, with illustrative documents.” Edin. 1826, 4to. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of Methven; William Smythe, Esq., advocate; and the Rev. Patrick M. Smythe, of ...

Book 9  p. 434
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 339 ‘Ma’am, you might as well ask me to get him made Archbishop of Canterbury !’ The mother of the poetic genius withdrew, looking highly indignant at the fit of laughter it was impossible to suppress.” Not much of Mr. Rowland Hill’s time was devoted to authorship. Besides his controversial pamphlets, and one or two published sermons, his “ Village Dialogues,” “ Hymns and Token for Children,” “ Warning to Professors,” etc., were the only productions submitted to the public. His long life, almost unexampled for its activity, was brought to a termination in 1833, at the age of eighty-nine.’ He retained his faculties and usual vivacity of spirit almost to the very last. His remains were interred with great solemnity under the pulpit of Surrey Chapel, in presence of a large and respectable concourse of people. Mrs. Hill died only three years before. No. CXXXVI. JAMES GREGORP, M.D., PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN THE UKJYERSITY OF EDINBURGH. DR. JAMES GREGORY, the son of Dr. John Gregory, sometime Professor of Medicine in King’s College, Aberdeen, and afterwards in the University of Edinburgh, was born in the former city in 1753, and received the earlier part of his education at the grammar school instituted by Dr. Patrick Dun. In consequence of his father’s removal to Edinburgh in 1765, he subsequently studied at the University there, and took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1774. He then repaired to Leyden, where he attended the lectures of the celebrated Gobius-the favourite student and immediate successor of the great Boerhaave. Dr. John Gregory died in 1773, before the education of his son had been completed ; and, according to a previous arrangement, Dr. Cullen succeeded to . the Practice of Physic. From this period the Professorship of the Institutes of Medicine was kept open by various means till 1778, when Dr. Gregory, then only in his twenty-third year, was appointed to the vacant chair. Although young, he was eminently qualified for the situation, from the extent of his When we last heard him, it w&s at his own Chapel in Blackfrim’ Road. He began thus :- “It is t i e I were to give over preaching now, for the following reaaons among others-mt, I am losing my memory-second, my lunp are gone.” Ee wag then standing in the pulpit, supporting himself with a stout staff. ... SKETCHES. 339 ‘Ma’am, you might as well ask me to get him made Archbishop of ...

Book 8  p. 474
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THE LA WNMARKET. I75 High Sheet,-two bands of men of war were placed about the Cross, and two above the Tolbooth. “The first band waited upon the convoy of the Erle of Morton, from the loodging to the Tolbuith.” The crime for which he was convicted, was a share in the murder of Darnley, but eighteen other heads of indictment had been drawn up against him. About six in the evening, he was conveyed back to his lodging in the Old Bank Close. He supped cheerfully, and on retiring to rest, slept till three in the morning, when he rose and wrote for some hours, and again returned to his couch. In the morning, he sent the letters he had written, by some of the ministers, to the King, but he refused to look at them or listen to their contents, or indeed do anything, but ranged up and doun the floore of his chamber, clanking with his finger and his thowme.” The Regent had shown little mercy as a ruler, and he had none to hope for from King James. On that same day, he was beheaded at the Cross, by the Maiden, with all the bloody formalities of a traitor’s death, and his head exposed on the highest point of the Tolbooth.’ In the folIowing year, the same substantial mansion,-alternately prison and palace: -was aasigned as a residence for Monsieur de la Motte Fenelon, the French ambassador, who came professedly to mediate between the Eing and hit nobles, and to seek a renewal of the. ancient league of amity with France. ‘‘ He was lodged in Gourlay’s house, near the Tolbooth, and had an audience of His Majesty upon the 9th of the said month ” of January. He remained till the 10th of February, when ‘( having received a satisfactory answer, with tt great banquet, in Archibald Stewart’s lodgings, in Edinburgh, he took journey homeward.”‘ The banquet was given at the King’s request, to the great indignation of the clergy, who had watched with much jealousy ‘(the traffique of Papists,” Calderwood, vol. iii. p. 557. ’ Ante, p. 86.-“ He was executed about foure houres after noone, upon Fryday, the secund of June. Phairnihmt stood in a shott over against the scaffold, with his large ruffes, delyting in this spectacle. The Lord Seton and his two sonnes stood in a staire, aouth-east from the Croce. His bodie lay upon the scaffold till eight houres at even, and therafter was carried to the Neather Tolbuith, where it was watched. His head waa sett upon a prick, on the highest atone of the gavel1 of the Tolbuith, toward the publict street”-C&lderwood, vol. iii. p. 575. It is said that the Regent Morton borrowed the idea from some foreign country. Halifax, in Yorkshire, h a been oftenest assigned 88 the place of ita invention ; and the generally received tradition is, that the Regent waa himself the first who suffered by it, On the 3d of April 1566, the Maiden waa used at the execution of T h m s Scot, an accomplice in the murder of Riezio, when an entry appears in the Town records of 7a paid for conveying it from Blackfriars to the Crosa The next execution mentioned, is that of Henry Yair, on the 10th of August, when Andrew Gofferaown, smyth,-who, at the former date, received 5s. for grinding of y’ Maiden,-obtains a similar fee for gvkding of Widow. We are inclined to infer that the same instrument is spoken of in both cases, and that the fanciful epithet which the old Scottish guillotine still retains, waa given to it on the former occasion, in allusion to ita then unfleahed and muidas axe, vide p. 86. It is at any rate obvious from this, that the Maiden was in use before the Earl of Morton waa appointed Regent. Maitland remarks @. 181), ‘‘ The Old Tolbooth, in the Bank Close, in the Landmarket, which was rebuilt in the year 1582, is still standing, on the western aide of the said cloae, with the windows strongly stanchelled; the small dimensions thereof occasioned ita being laid aside.” We shall show presently the very different character of the original building, although there still remains the intermediate poeaessor, Alexander Mauchane, already mentioned, unless, as ia most probable, he occupied the ancient erection as his dwelling. The alluaions already quoted, where the Tolbooth is mentioned along with this building, seem sufficient to prove that that name was never applied to it, although it occasionally shared with the Tolbooth the offices of c prison,- purpose that in reality properly belonged to neither. Moyses stylea it Gourlay‘r House, near Ac Tolbooth,-a true deffiription of it-aa it was within a hundred yards of the Old Tolbooth or “ Heart of Midlothian.” ‘ Mopes’ Memoirs, pp. 73-77. Archibald Stewart appears to have been a sub&antial citizen, who was Provost of the city in the year 1578. The common story told by Dr Jamieaon and other writers, about the Maiden, in entirely apocryphal. ... LA WNMARKET. I75 High Sheet,-two bands of men of war were placed about the Cross, and two above the Tolbooth. ...

Book 10  p. 190
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I20 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [COrStOrphiie. fact came to her kcoivledge. Inspired with fury she repaired at once to the castle of Corstorphine, and finding that he was drinkiig at a tavern in the village, sent for him, and they met in the garden at a tree near the old dovecot, which marked the spot. A violent altercation ensued between them, and in the midst of it, she snatched his sword from his side, ran him through the body and killed him on the instant. (Fountainhall.) ?The inhabitants of th?e village,? says C. Kirksought to extenuate it on the plea that Lord Forrester was intoxicated and furious, that he ran at her ? with his sword, on which she took it from him to protect herself, and he fell upon it; but this was known to be false, says Fountainhall. She practised a deception upon the court by which her sentence of death was postponed for two months, during which, notwithstanding the care of her enjoined on John Wan, Gudeman of the Tolbooth, she escaped in male apparel but was captured by the Ruthvens CORSTORPHINE CHURCH. patrick Sharpe, in his Notes to Kirkton?s ? History,? ? still relate some circumstances of the murder not recorded by Fountainhall. Mrs. Nimmo, attended by her maid, had gone from Edinburgh to the castle of Corstorphine,? and adds that after the murder ?she took refuge in a garret of the castle, but was discovered by one of her slippers, which dropped through a crevice of the floor. It need scarcely be added, that till lately the inhabitants of the village were greatly annoyed of a moonlight night by the appearance of a woman clothed in white, with a bloody sword in her hand, wandering and wailing near the pigeon-house.? Being seized and brought before the Sheriffs of Edinburgh, she made a confession of her crime, but next day at Fala MilL On the 12th of November, 1679, she was beheaded at the market cross, when she appeared on the scaffold in deep mourning, laying aside a large veil, and baring her neck and shoulders to the executioner with the utmost courage. Though externally a Presbyterian it was said at the time ?that a dispensation from the Pope to marry the woman who murdered him was found in his (Lord Forrester?s) closet, and that his delay in using it occasioned her fury.? (?< Popery and Schism,? p. 39.) Connected with this murder, a circumstance very characteristic of the age took place. The deceased peer leaving onIy heirs of his second marriage, who ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [COrStOrphiie. fact came to her kcoivledge. Inspired with fury she repaired at once to ...

Book 5  p. 120
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below the strata of coal that abound in the fields, it communicates through the coal-rooms that are wrought with other shafts, which occasions a rumbling noise, that does not precede, but accompanies, a high wind.? According to the old Valuation Roll, Monkton was the property of Patrick Falconer between I 726 and 1738. Stonyhill and Monkton, according to Inquisitiones A)kciaZes, both belonged to John, Earl of Lauder- NEW HAILES HOUSE. of fit accompaniments of a very ancient and stately house. Colonel Francis Charteris was a cadet of an? ancient and honourable Dumfriesshire family, the Charteris of Amisfield, whose tall, old, stubborn-looking fortalice stands between the two head streams of the Lochar. After serving in the wars of Marlborough, the year 1704 saw him figuring in E h - burgh as a member of the beau msde, with rather an awkward reputation of being a highly successful dale, at one time. The gardens of both appear to have been among the earliest in Britain; and entries in the household books of Dalkeith Palace show that fruit and vegetables (which, however, could scarcely have been so excellent then as now), came therefrom two centuries ago. Stonyhill House, near New Hailes, the property of the Earl of Wemyss, seeming, in its present form, to be only the offices of an ancient mansion, was the residence, firstly, of Sir William Sharp, son of the ill-fated Archbishop Sharp, and his wife, Helen Moncrieff, daughter of the Laird of Randerston ; and secondly, of the inglorious, or ? wicked Colonel Charteris?; and it has remnants in its vicinity, especially a huge buttressed garden wall, gambler. There is a story told of him that, being at the Duke of Queensbeny?s house in the Canongate one evening, and playing,with the duchess, he was enabled, by means of a mirror, or, more probably, a couple of mirrors that chanced to be placed opposite each other, to see what cards were in the hands of Her Grace-Mary Boyle, daughter of Lord Clifford-through which means he won from her no less a sum than three thousand pounds sterling-a very great one at that time. (? Domestic Annals of Scotland.?) It is added that the duke was so provoked by this incident, that he got a Bill passed by the Parliament over which he presided as Lord High Commissioner, to prohibit all gambling beyond a ... the strata of coal that abound in the fields, it communicates through the coal-rooms that are wrought with ...

Book 6  p. 363
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below the strata of coal that abound in the fields, it communicates through the coal-rooms that are wrought with other shafts, which occasions a rumbling noise, that does not precede, but accompanies, a high wind.? According to the old Valuation Roll, Monkton was the property of Patrick Falconer between I 726 and 1738. Stonyhill and Monkton, according to Inquisitiones A)kciaZes, both belonged to John, Earl of Lauder- NEW HAILES HOUSE. of fit accompaniments of a very ancient and stately house. Colonel Francis Charteris was a cadet of an? ancient and honourable Dumfriesshire family, the Charteris of Amisfield, whose tall, old, stubborn-looking fortalice stands between the two head streams of the Lochar. After serving in the wars of Marlborough, the year 1704 saw him figuring in E h - burgh as a member of the beau msde, with rather an awkward reputation of being a highly successful dale, at one time. The gardens of both appear to have been among the earliest in Britain; and entries in the household books of Dalkeith Palace show that fruit and vegetables (which, however, could scarcely have been so excellent then as now), came therefrom two centuries ago. Stonyhill House, near New Hailes, the property of the Earl of Wemyss, seeming, in its present form, to be only the offices of an ancient mansion, was the residence, firstly, of Sir William Sharp, son of the ill-fated Archbishop Sharp, and his wife, Helen Moncrieff, daughter of the Laird of Randerston ; and secondly, of the inglorious, or ? wicked Colonel Charteris?; and it has remnants in its vicinity, especially a huge buttressed garden wall, gambler. There is a story told of him that, being at the Duke of Queensbeny?s house in the Canongate one evening, and playing,with the duchess, he was enabled, by means of a mirror, or, more probably, a couple of mirrors that chanced to be placed opposite each other, to see what cards were in the hands of Her Grace-Mary Boyle, daughter of Lord Clifford-through which means he won from her no less a sum than three thousand pounds sterling-a very great one at that time. (? Domestic Annals of Scotland.?) It is added that the duke was so provoked by this incident, that he got a Bill passed by the Parliament over which he presided as Lord High Commissioner, to prohibit all gambling beyond a ... the strata of coal that abound in the fields, it communicates through the coal-rooms that are wrought with ...

Book 6  p. 365
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