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The Royal Excharge.] THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. 183 -
CHAPTER XX.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE-THE TRON CHURCH-THE GREAT FIRE OF NOVEMBER, 1824.
The Royal Exchange-Laying the Foundation Stonc-Ddption of the Exchange-The Mysterious Statue-The Council Cbarnber-hventiom
of Royal Burghs : Constitution thereof, and Powers-Writen? Court-The ? Star and Garter? Tavern-Sir Walter Scott?s Account
of the Scene at Cleriheugh?s-Lawyers? High Jinks-The Tron Church-Histor] of the Old Church-Tht Gnat Fire of rSa~-lnciden~s
of the Conflagration-The Ruins Undermined-Blown up by Captain Head of the Engineers,
Ira 1753 we discover the first symptoms of vitality
in Edinburgh after the Union, when the pitiful
sum of A1,500 was subscribed by the convention
of royal burghs, for the purpose of ? beautifying
the city,? and the projected Royal Exchange was
fairly taken in hand.
If wealth had not increased much, the population
had, and by the middle of the eighteenth
century the citizens had begun to find the inconvenience
they laboured under by being confined
within the old Flodden wall, and that the city was
still destitute of such public buildings as were
necessary for the accommodation of those societies
which were formed, or forming, in all other capitals,
to direct the business of the nation, and provide
for the general welfare ; and so men of tas?te, rank,
and opulence, began to bestir themselves in Edinburgh
at last.
Many ancient alleys and closes, whose names
are well-nigh forgotten now, were demolished on
the north side of the Righ Street, to procure a
site for the new Royal Exchange. Some of these
had already become ruinous, and must have been
of vast antiquity. Many beautifully-sculptured
stones belonging to houses there were built into
the curious tower, erected by Mr. Walter Ross at
the Dean, and are now in a similar tower at Portobello,
Others were scattered about the garden
grounds at the foot of the Castle rock, and still
show the important character of some of the
edifices demolished. Among them there was a
lintel, discovered when clearing out the bed 01
the North Loch, with the initials IS. (and the
date 1658), supposed to be those of Jaines tenth
Lord Somerville, who, after serving long in the
Venetian army, died at a great age in 1677.
On the 13th of September, 1753, the first stone
of the new Exchange was laid by George Drummond,
then Grand Master of the Scottish Masons,
whose memory as a patriotic magistrate is still remembered
with respect in Edinburgh. A triumphal
arch, a gallery for the magistrates, and covered
stands for the spectators, enclosed the arena.
?The procession was very grand and regular,?
says the Gentleman?s Magazine for that year.
each lodge of maSons, of which there were
thirteen, walked in procession by themselves, all
uncovered, amounting to 672, most of whom were
operative masons.? The military paid proper
honours to the company on this occasion, and escorted
the procession in a suitable manner. The
Grand Master and the present substitute were
preceded by the Lord Provost, magistrates, and
council, in their robes, with the city sword, mace,
&c., carried before them, accompanied by the
directors of the scheme.
All day the foundation-stone lay open, that the
people might see it, with the Latin inscription on
the plate, which runs thus in English :-
? GEORGE DKUMMOND,
Of the Society of Freemasons in Scotland Grand Master,
Thrice Provost of the City of Edinburgh,
Three hundred Brother Masons attending,
In presence of many persons of distinction,
The Magistrates and Citizens of Edinburgh,
And of every rank of people an innumerable multitude,
And all Applaudipg ;
For convenience of the inhabitants of Edinburgh,
And the public ornament,
Laid this stone,
Wdliam Alexander being Provost,
On the 13th September, 1753. of the Era of Masonry 5753,
And of the reign of George II., King of Great Britain,
the 27th yea.?
In the stone were deposited two medals, one
bearing the profile and name of the Grand Master,
the other having the masonic arms, with the collar
of St. Andrew, and the legend, ? In the Lord is
all our trust.?
Though the stone was thus laid in 1753, the
work was not fairly begun till the following year,
nor was it finished till 1761, at the expense of
A31,5oo, including the price of the area on which
it is built ; but it never answered the purpose for
which it was intended-its paved quadrangle and
handsome Palladian arcades were never used by
the mercantile class, who persisted in meeting, as
of old, at the Cross, or where it stood.
Save that its front and western arcades have
been converted into shops, it remains unchanged
since it was thus described by Arnot, and the back I
view of it, which faces the New Town, catches the
eye at once, by its vast bulk and stupendous height,
IOO feet, all of polished ashlar, now blackened with -
the smoke of years :--.?The Exchange is a large
and elegant building, with a court in the -centre.
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mission, though in a foreign army. After suffering
a month's imprisonment, they were glad to profess
PLAN OF EDINBURGH, FROM sr. GILES'S TO HACKBRSTON'S WYND. (Aftpy Gordm ofbotkicnury..)
. Q The High Street; 11, The Tolbooth ; 12, The High Cross or Market Cross ; 13, The Tmn : 19, Meal Market : 10, The Parliament House :
23, The Fish Market ; 23. The Flesh Market ; 38, S. Monan's Wynd ; 39, FEh Market Wynd : 40, Borthwick's Wynd ; 41, Conn's Close;
42, Bell's Wynd : 43. Steven Law's Close ; 44, Peebles Wynd ; 45, Marlin's Wynd ; 46, Niddry's Wynd ; 47, Dickson's Close ; 48, The
Blackfriars Wynd ; 57, Hackenton's Wynd ; m, The Great Kxk, or St. Giles's Kirk ; n, The Tron Kirk.
dwelling-house, about eight in the evening, accompanied
by her orphan granddaughter, then fourteen
Privy Council (as its record attests), and thus to
During the preceding century the abduction of
women and girls was no uncommon thing in Edinburgh.
On the 8th December, 1608, Rfargaret
. Stewart, a widow, complained to the Privy Council
- obtain their liberty.
beset her, with six men armed like himself, with
swords, gauntlets, steel bonnets, and plate sleeves,
and violently took the child from her, despite her
tears and manifold supplications.
For this Geddes was outlawed; and soon after
the Privy Council was compelled to renew some ... though in a foreign army. After suffering a month's imprisonment, they were glad to profess PLAN OF ...

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INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS, ETC. 433
No. Page
Hind, Captain, of the 55th Rcgiment of
Foot ....................................... IXX 166
Hog, Roger, Esq. of Newliston .........x vii 45
Hog, Roger, Esq. of Newliston ......... lxvi 160
Home, Henry, Lord Kames .................Y. 14
Home, Francis, M.D., Professor of Materia
Medica in the Universitg ......... ci 249
Hope, Sir Archibald, Bart. of Pinkie ... cxxvi 311
Hopetoun, Earl of, with a distant view
of the Hopetoun Fencibles ......... lxxxi 196
Hopetoun Fencibles, Three Officers of
the .......................................... clx 404
Hunter, Alexander, Esq. of Polmood ... xvii 44
Hunter, Colonel, brother of Sir James
Hunter, Rev. Dr. Andrew, of the Tron
Hunter, Dr. Andrew, Professor of Divinity
in the University, and minister
of the Tron Kirk ..............c. xxi 298
Huntly, the Marquis of, afterwards Duke
of Gordon ............................. .Ixxviii 185
Hutton, Dr. James ........................ xxiv 55
Hutton, Dr. Jarnes ........................... xcix 247
Hutton, Miss Sibilla ....................... .clviii 400
J
Jamieson, Mr. William .................... .xciii 223
Johnston, Rev. Dr. David, of North
Leith ................................
Johnston, Mr. Robert ...............
Justice, Captain James, of Justice
Hunter Blair, Bart. .. .XI 92
............................... -xxx 67
andaLadyinthecostumeof 1790 ... cxxx 317
E
...................... cxxxii 323
1
Church .................................... cxv 282
Kay, Mr. John, caricaturist, etc ................ i
Kemp, Rev. John, D.D., of the Tolbooth
Ken-, James, Esq. of Blackshiels ......... clxii 413
Kyd, Bailie John .............................. iv 12
L
Laing, Dr. William ........................ clxvii 425
Laird, the Daft Highland ..................... ii 4
Laird, the Daft Highland ..................... ix 27
Lawson, Rev. James, of Belvidere-
‘‘ The Job of present timea ” .........l xv 154
Lennox, the Right Hon. Colonel, afterwards
Duke of Richmond and
Lennox ................................. xxxix 90
Leslie, Professor John, King’s College,
Aberdeen ................................. xxxv 78
Leven and Melville, the Right Hon.
David Earl of ...................... ..lxxxvii 211
Lothian, Bailie John ........................ xvi 43
3
No. Page
afterwards Earl of Rosslyn ............e li 378
Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor,
Lunardi, Vincent, aeronaut .......... ..xxxvi 79
Lunardi, Vincent, aeronaut ........... .xxxviii 86
If
Nacdougal, Ensign, of the Hopetoun
Fencibles ................................ .clxvi 423
Macgregor, Rev. Joseph Robertson, first
minister of the Edinburgh Gaelic
Chapel ............
Macpherson, Mr. William .................. lxvi 157
Yacrae, James, Esq., the fortnnate duellist
......................................... xiii 37
Marshall, James, Esq., W.S ...............c xi 272
Marriage, before and after ............... xxxvii 85
Martin, William, bookseller and RUCtioneer
............... ................ Ixi 140
Mealmaker, Georw author of the
“Moral and P”fitica1 Catechism of
Man ” ................................ .clxviii 426
Meikle, Mr. -Robe&, Grand Clerk .........x cv 229
Melville, Henry Viscount ...............x lviii 100
Mingay, Captain, with a porter carrying
George Cranstonn in his creel ... xix 49
Mitchell, Mr. John ...................... ..xxxviii 89
Moncrief, David Stuart, Esq. of Moredun
....................................... lxxix 193
Monro, Dr. Alexander, Secunduq Professor
of Anatomy .................... .cxiv 280
Montgomery, Sir James, of Stanhope..lxxix 190
Moodie, Rev. William, D.D., Professor
of Oriental Languages, and minister
of St. Andrew’s Church ............ cxliii 357
Moss, Mr., in the character of “Ca1eb”xciv 227
Moyes, Dr. Henry,lecturer on Chemistry,
etc .......................................... lxxv 177
Muir, Thomas, Esq., younger of Hunters-
* hill ...................................... cxxv 306
M‘Bain, Lauchlan, a well-known vendor
of Roasting-jacks ........................ liii 110
M‘Bain Lauchlan, after his dismissal
from the Charity Work-House ......... liv 112
M‘Donald, Samuel .............................. xx 50
M‘Dougall, Allan, Esq ..................... clxv 418
M‘Dowall, Mr. Archibald .................. xciii 225
M‘Kenzie, Captain, of Redcastle ......... cxx 294
M‘Leod, Mr. Roderick, Sub-Principal of
King’s College, Aberdeen ........... .xxxv 77
WLure, Rev. John, Chaplain to the
Grand Lodge ........................... lxvii 160
M‘Nab, Francis, Esq. of MNab ............ iu 9
M‘Nab, Laird of .............................. cxx 297
M‘Phaill, Myles, the caddy ............ xxxviii 89
M‘Queen, Robert, of Braxfield, Lord
Justice-clerk ........................ ...lxxi 167
Monboddo, Lord ............................. xcix 247
M‘Gowan, Mr. John ........
... ... TO THE PORTRAITS, ETC. 433 No. Page Hind, Captain, of the 55th Rcgiment of Foot ...

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46 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
excepting such as had become attached to him during his attendance at the
University.
The rapidity with which Mr, Bell rose in his profession was remarkable.
He was not less eminent as a consulting surgeon than as an operator ; and he
enjoyed to an extraordinary degree, the confidence of his professional brethren
and of the country. In addition to his natural and acquired abilities, two points
in E. Bell’s character seem to have contributed much to promote his successa
fixed determination that not an hour should be misapplied, and a never-failing
kindly attention to the interests and feelings of those who placed themselves
under his care. The extent to which the first of these considerations prevailed
is evinced by the variety of his publications. Besides several treatises on distinct
professional subjects, and an extended system of surgery, he is understood to
have been the author of not a few political and economical tracts, called forth
by the engrossing interest of the times, and of a series of essays on agriculture
-a pursuit which he cherished during the busiest years of his life, and which
afforded him employment when his health no longer su5ced for much professional
exertion.
hlr. Bell’s address was mild and engaging; his information varied and extensive
; and his powers of oonversation such that his society was much courted.
He was born in 1749. He married in 1774 the only daughter of Dr. Robert
Hamilton, Professor of Divinity, and died in 1806, leaving four sons.
No. CLXXXVII.
“THE FIVE ALLS.”
THE characters in this grotesque classification of portraitures have been previously
noticed, with the exception of two-Mr. Rocheid of Inverleith and his
Satanic Majesty, whose biography was, at the beginning of last century, penned
by the author of Robiiuon Crusoe.
The figure in the pulpit represents the REV. DR. ANDREW HUNTER,
of the Tron Church, whose benevolence might well be said to extend to all ;
and the uncombed head, in the desk beneath, is intended to indicate Mr. John
Campbell, precentor.
The gentleman in the long robe, said to “Plead for All,” is the HON.
HENRY ERSKINE ; and perhaps, in reference to his character as the poor
man’s lawyer, to no other member of the Scottish bar of his time could the
observation be more appropriately applied.
The centre figure is JAMES ROCHEID,’ Esq. of Inverleith, a gentleman
l Pronounced and sometimes spelt Roughead. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. excepting such as had become attached to him during his attendance at ...

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c
152 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, [Leith Walk,
In I 748 the thoroughfare is described as ?a very
handsome gravel walk, twenty feet broad, which is
kept in good repair at the public expense, and no
horses suffered to come upon it.? In 1763 two
stage coaches, with three horses, a driver, and
postilion each, ran between Edinburgh and Leith
every hour, consuming an hour on the way, from
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; and at that time there were no
other stage coaches in Scotland, except one which
set out at long intervals for London.
Before that nothing had been done, though in
1774 the Week0 Magazine announced that ?a new
road for carriages is to be made betwixt Edinburgh
and Leith. It is to be continued from the end of
the New Bridge by the side of Clelland?s Gardens
and Leith Walk. [Clelland?s Feu was where Leith
Terrace is now.] We hear that the expense of it
is to be defrayed by subscription.?
In I779 Arnot states that ?so great is the concourse
of people passing between Edinburgh and
HIGH STREET, PORTOBELLO.
In 1769, when Provost Drummond built the
North Bridge, he gave out that it was to improve
the access to Leith, and on this pretence, to conciliate
opposition to his scheme, upon the plate in
the foundation-stone of the bridge it is solely described
as the opening of a new road to Leith;
and after it was opened the Walk became freely
used for carriages, but without any regard being
paid to its condition, or any system established
for keeping it in repair ; thus, consequently, it fell
into a state of disorder ?from which it was not
rescued till after the commencement of the present
century, when a splendid causeway was formed at
a great expense by the city of Edinburgh, and a
toll erected for its payment.?
Leith, and so much are the stage coaches employed,
that they pass and re-pass between these towns
156 times daily. Each of these carriages holds
four persons.? The fare in some was 2hd.; in
others, gd.
In December, 1799, the Herald announces that
the magistrates had ordered forty oil lamps for
Leith Walk, ?? which necessary k~iprovement,? adds
the editor, will, we understand, soon tzke place.?
Among some reminiscences, which appeared
about thirty years ago, we. have a description of
Anderson?s Leith stage, ? I which took an hour and
a half to go from the Tron Church to the shore. A
great lumbering affair on four wheels, the two fore
1 painted yellow, the two hind red, having formerly ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, [Leith Walk, In I 748 the thoroughfare is described as ?a very handsome gravel ...

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60 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LHol~lrood.
and intriguing apostbte as one of the greatest and
best men of his time.?
In the churchyard, now all turned into flowerbeds
and garden ground, there long remained a
, .few plain gravestones, the inscriptions on some of
range is of a very singular nature to be in the
vicinity of a populous city, being little else than
an assemblage of hills, rocks, precipices, morasses,
and lakes.? It includes Arthur?s Seat and Salisbury
Craigs, and, of course, as a refuge, originated in
which are preserved by Menlteith
in his ?Theatre of Mortality,?
and by Maitland in
his C?History.?l One alone remains
now, that of Mylne
(the builder of the palace),
which was removed from its
ald site (the north-east angle
-of the ancient choir) in 1857,
and placed against the eastern
,wall of the church.
The extent of the ruin as it
now remains is 127 feet in
tlength by 39 feet in breadth,
within the walls; and there
.still exist nominally six deans
.and seven chaplains of the
Chapel Royal, all, of course,
clergymen of the Church of
.Scotland.
The whole ruin has an air
.of intense gloom and damp
THE BELHAVEN MOAUMENT, HOLYROOD
CHURCH.
desolation ; the breeze waves the grass and rank
weeds between the lettered grave-stones, the ivy
rustles on the wall, and by night the owl hoots
in the royal vault and the roofless tower where
.stands the altar-tomb of Belhaven.
For a considerable space around the church and
palace of Holyrood-embracing a circuit of four
miles and a quarter-the open ground has been,
since the days of David I., a sanctuary, and is so
mow, from arrest on civil process. This spacious
the old ecclesiastical privilege
of sanctuary, with the exemptions
of those attached to a
monarch?s court. When the
law of debtor and creditor
was more stringent than it
is now, this peculiarity brought
many far from respectable
visitors to a cluster of houses
round the palace-a cluster
nearly entirely swept away
about I 85 7-as varied in their
appearance as the chequered
fortunes of their bankrupt
inmates j and it is believed
to have been in a great measure
owing to some private
claims, likely to press heavily
upon him, that Charles X.
in his second exile sought
a residence in deserted Holyrood.
The House of Inchmurry, formerly called Kirkland,
in the parish of St. Martin?s, was a country
residence of the abbots of Holyrood.
One of the bells that hung in the remaining tower
was placed in the Tron church steeple, another
in St. Cuthbert?s chapel of ease, and the third in
St. Paul?s, York Place, the congregation of which
had it in their former church in the Canongate,
which was built 1771-4. This last is sniall, and
poor in? sound.
CHAPTER IX.
HOLYROOD PALACE.
F i ~ t Notice of its History-Marriage of James 1V.-The Scots of the Days of Flodden-A Brawl in the Palace-Jams V.?s. Tower-The Gudeman
of Ballengeich-His Marriage-Death of Queen MagdalentThe Council of November, 1-A Standing Army Proposed-The Muscovite
Ambassadors Entertained by the Queen Regent,
THE occasional residence of so many of his kingly
ancestors at the abbey of Holyrood, and its then
sequestered and rural locality, doubtless suggested
to James IV. the expediency of having a royal
dwelling near it ; thus, we find from the Records of
the Privy Seal the earliest mention of a palace at
Holyrood occurs on the 10th of September, 1504,
when ?( to Maister Leonard Log, for his gude and
thankful service, done and to be done, to the kingis
hienis, and speciallie for his diligent and grete
laboure made be him in the building of the palace
beside the Abbey of the Holy Croce,? of (( the soume
of forty pounds.? This is the first genuine notice
of the grand old Palace of Holyrood.
In 1503 the then new edifice witnessed the
marriage festival of James IV. and Mzgaret Tudor, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. LHol~lrood. and intriguing apostbte as one of the greatest and best men of his ...

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West Church.] MR. NEIL MWICAR. I33 -
those of other sections of the city, took courage, and
sought to retrieve their past ill-conduct by noisily .
preparing to raise forces to defend themselves in
case of a second visit from the Highlanders.
the General Assembly met in the church, and
passed an Act, which, however necessary, perhaps,
in those harassing times, concerning ?? the sine and
guilte of the king and his house,? caused much
suffering to the Covenanters after the Restoration.
It was known by the name of the West Kirk Act,
and was approved by Parliament the same day.
Subsequently, during his siege of the castle
Cromwell made the church a barrack; hence its
roof and windows were destroyed by the guns of
the fortress, and soon little was left of it but the
bare walls, which were repaired, and opened for
service in 1655.
For some years subsequent the sole troubles
of the incumbents were breaches
of ?the Sabbath,? such as when
William Gillespie, in 1659, was
?fund carrying watter, and his
wyfe knoking beir,? for which
they had to make public repentance,
or filling people for
?taking snuff in tyme of sermon,?
contrary to the Act of
18th June, 1640; till 1665,
when the ?? great mutiny? in
the parish occurred, and the
minister, William Gordon, for
? keeping of festivals,? was
railed at by the people, who
closed the doors against him,
for which a man and a woman,
according to Wodrow, were
scourged through Edinburgh.
At the Revolution, those
of ground to the west was added to it (including
the garden,with trees, shown in Gordon?s Map), from
the old boundary to the present west gate at the
Lothian Road. About the same time several
heritors requested permission to inter their dead
in the little or Wester-kirk, which had been a
species of ruin since the invasion of Cromwell.
In 1745, after the victory of the Highlanders at
Prestonpans, a message was sent to the ministers
of the city, in the name cf ?Charles, Prince Regent,?
desiring them to preach next day, Sunday,
as usual; but many, alarmed by the defeat of Cope,
sought refuge in the country, and no public worship
was performed within the city, save by a
ST. CUTHBERT?S CHURCH.
(From Cmdm of Potkicmay?s Mu@.)
ministers who had been ejected in 1661, and were
yet alive, returned to their charges. Among them
was Mr. David Williamson, who, in 1689, was
settled in St. Cuthbert?s manse ; but not quietly,
for the castle, defended by the Duke of Gordon,
was undergoing its last disastrous siege by the
troops oC William, and the church suffered so much
damage from shot and shell, that for many months
after the surrender in June, the people were unable
to use it, and the repairs amounted to LI,~OO.
If tradition has not wronged him, Mr. Williamson
is the well-known (? Dainty Davie? of Scottish
song, who had six wives ere the seventh, Jean.
Straiton, survived him. He died in August, 1706,
and was buried in the churchyard, where the
vicinity of the grave is alone indicated by the
letters D. W. cut on the front of the tomb in which
he lies.
The ancient cemetery on the knoll having been
found too small for the increasing population and
consequent number of interments, in 1701 a piece
clergyman named Hog a t t h e
Tron.
It was otherwise, however,
at St. Cuthbert?s, the incumbent
of which was then the Rev.
Neil McVicar, yho preached
to a crowded congregation,
many of whom were armed
Highlanders, before whom he
prayed for George 11. and also
for Charles Edward in a fashion
of his own, recorded thus by
Ray, in his history of the time,
and others :-
?(Bless the king! Thou
knowest what king I mean.
May the crown sit long on his
head. As for that young man
who has come among us to
seek an earthly crown, we ... Church.] MR. NEIL MWICAR. I33 - those of other sections of the city, took courage, and sought to retrieve ...

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56 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
On the following day her Majesty unveiled the Albert Memorial in
Charlotte Square. James Smith in his poem-a copy of which the Queen
was graciously pleased to accept-writes :-
’ ‘ Welcome to lair Dunedin’s bowers :
Her lordly halls and regal towers,
Enwreath’d with bannerets and flowers,
Fond wishes breathe to thee.
Hark to the shouts that greet thy name !
Hark to the bugle’s loud acclaim I
Roll on, the chariot of thy fame,
Queen of the Brave and Free I
Through mighty myriads, vast and dense,
Thou rovest void of fear ;
The people’s love thy sure defence,-
Thy buckler, sword, and spear.
God’s blessing possessing,
Thy days illustrious shine
With glory; while o’er thee,
Peace, love, and joy entwine.
Lo I mid the warlike trumpet’s blare,
And cheers that rend the balmy air,
Behold unveil’d a Statue Gr,-
True likeness of the dead !
Calmly majestic and serene;
Prince Albert looks upon his Queen,
Who thinks on all that once hath been,
And lowly bows her head.
Memorial from the hardy North,
Embalm’d in sighs and tears;
Fond tribute to departed worth,
Through all the rolling years
Descending, unending ;
The grandeur, the splendour
Proclaiming, Queen of Fame,
That crowns thy Husband’s name.’
On this occasion the sculptor, John Steell, R.S.A., and Professor Oakeley,
received the honour of knighthood, and Lord Provost Falshaw the dignity
of a Baronetcy.
With reference to an earlier Royal visit to Holyrood, the Queen in her
Diary says:--‘We saw the rooms where Queen Mary lived, her bed, the
dressing-room into which the murderers entered who killed Rizzio, and the
spot where he fell, where, as the old housekeeper said to me, “if the lady
would stand on that side,” I would see that the boards were discoloured by
the blood. Every step is full of historical recollections, and our living here
is quite an epoch in the annals of this old pile, which has seen so many
deeds, more bad, I fear, than good.’
Let 11s now suppose ourselves, as the scene in thk Engraving suggests, by
the Tron Church on a New Year‘s eve. Looking down the street, the house
of John Knox projects a little into the roadway; nearer the eye, on the right
of the picture, a modem turret leaning against the midnight sky marks the
site of old Blackfriars’ Wynd; while in the foreground the tall ‘lands’ on the
left tell us where Fergusson the poet was born, and
’ Whaur . . . Ramsay woo’d the Muses
In days long past.‘
A light from Hunter Square falls upon the church, and looking above the ... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. On the following day her Majesty unveiled the Albert Memorial in Charlotte Square. ...

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HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORATION. 107
south, as having been the scene where poor Ferguson, that unhappy child of genius, so
wretchedly terminated his brief career. The building bears, on an ornamented tablet above
the main entrance, the date 1698, surmounted by a sun-dial. The only relic of its original
grandeur that has survived its adaptation to later purposes, is a handsome and very
substantial stone balustrade, which guardtl the broad flight of steps leading to the first
floor.
A remarkable course of events followed on the failure of the Darien scheme, attended
with riots of the same desperate character as those commonly perpetrated by the populace of
Edinburgh when under the influence of unusual excitement. In 1702, a vessel belonging
to the East India Company, which entered the Frith of Forth, waB seized by the Scottish
Government, by way of reprisal, for the unjust detention in the Thames of one belonging to
the Scottish African Company. In the course of a full and legal trial, the captain and
crew were convicted, in a very singular manner, of piracy and murder committed on the
mate and crew of a Scottish vessel in the East Indies. The evidence, however, appeared to
some influential parties insuEcient to justify their condemnation, and the utmost excitement
was created by attempts to procure a pardon for them.
The report having been circulated that a reprieve had been granted, the mob assaulted
the Lord Chancellor while passing the Tron Church in his carriage, on his return from
the Privy Council. The windows were immediately smashed, the Chancellor dragged out,
and thrown upon the street ; and he was rescued with great difficulty from the infuriated
multitude by an armed body of his friends. The tumult was only appeased at last by the
public execution of the seamen.
In the Parliament which assembled in June 1705, the first steps were taken in Scotland
with a, view to the Union between the two kingdoms. The period was peculiarly
unfavourable for the accomplishment of a project against which so many prejudices were
arrayed. The popular mind was already embittered by antipathies and jealousies excited
by the recent failure of the favourite scheme of colonisation, and the plan for a Union
was almost universally regarded as an attempt to sacrifice their independence, and establish
VIGNETTE-The Darien Eouae. ... INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORATION. 107 south, as having been the scene where poor Ferguson, that unhappy ...

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Parliament House
PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN THE PRESENT DAY.
the Earl of Marchmont 
Earl of Cromarty . . . . 300 0 o
Lord Prestonhall . . . , 200 o o
Lord Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk zoo o o
Duke of Montrose . . . . 200 o o
Dukeof Athole . . . . 1000 o o
Earl ofBalcanis . . . . 500 o o
EarlofDunmore . . . . 200 o o
Stewart of castle Stewari . . 300 o o
Earl of Eglinton . . . . 200 o o
LordFraser . . . . . 100 o o
Lord Cessnock (afterwards Polworth) 50 o o
Mr. JohnCampbell . . . zoo o o
Earl ofForfar . . . . 100 o o
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie. . . IOO o o
EarlofGlencaim . . . . 100 o o
Earl of Kintore . . . . zoo o o
Earl of Findlater . . . . 100 o o
John Muir, Provost of Ayr . . 100 o o
LordForbes . . 5 0 0 0
Earl of Seafield (tfte&ards ?Findlater)
. . . . . 490 o o
Marquis of Tweeddale . . . 1000 o o
Dukeof Roxburghe . . . 500 o o
Lord Elibank? . . . . . 50 o o
LordBanff . . . . . 11 z o
Major Cunninghame ofEckatt . 100 o o
Bearer ofthe Treaty of Union . 60 o o
Sir William Sharp. . . . 300 o o
Coultrain, Provostof Wigton . . 25 o o
Mr. Alexander Wedderburn . 75 0 0
High Commissioner (Queensberry) 12,325 o o
L207540 17 7
Lord Anstruther . - . 3 0 0 0 0
Ere the consummation, James Duke of Hamilton
and James Earl of Bute quitted ? the House in disgust
and dispair, to return to it no more.?
The corrupt state of the Scottish peerage can
scarcely excite surprise when we find that, according
to Stair?s Decisions,. Lord Pitsligo, but a few
years before this, purloined Lord Coupar?s watch,
they at the time ?? being sitting in Parliament !?
Under terror of the Edinburgh mobs, who nearly
tore the Chancellor and others limb from limb in the
streets, one half of the signatures were appended tc
the treaty in a cellar of a house, No 177, High
Street, opposite the Tron Church, named ?the
Union Cellar;? the rest were appended in an arbour
which then adorned the Garden of Moray House
in the Canongate ; and the moment this was accornplished,
Queensberry and the conspiratofs-for
such they really seem to have been-fled to England
before daybreak, with the duplicate of the treaty.
The Curses,? was long
after sung in every?street.
A bitter song, known as
? Curs?d be the Papists who withdrew
The king to their persuasion ;
Cun?d be the Covenanting crew
Who gave the first occasion. ... House PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN THE PRESENT DAY. the Earl of Marchmont Earl of Cromarty . . . . 300 0 ...

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High Street.] THE STREETS OF EDINBURGH. I93
case with the High Street. -The mansions in the
diverging streets, narrow, steep, gloomy, and illventilated,
became perilous abodes in times of fire
or pestilence.
Those who dwelt in the upper storeys avoided
the toil of descending the steep wheel-stairs that
led to the street, and the entire dkbris of the household
was flung from the windows, regardless of who
or what might be below, especially after nightfall ;
hence the cries of ? Haud your hand ! ? ? Get
lanterns, were ordered to be hung up, by such persons
and in such places as the magistrates should
appoint, there to continue burning for the space of
four hours--i.e., from five till nine o?clock in the
evening.
In consequence of the great assiduity oi the
Provost (Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie), the
Town Council added to his annual allowance 6100
Scots for his clothing and spicery, with two hogs.
heads of wine for his greater state ; and soon after
THE OLD TRON CHURCH. (From am Engraving itr Amt?s ?Nistwy ozEdinbrrwh.?)
out 0? the gait!? or ?Gardez Peau!? a shout
copied from the French, were incessant. Another
source of filth and annoyance was the circumstance
that every inhabitant had his own dunghill in the
street, opposite his own door j while the thoroughfkes
were further encumbered and encroached
upon by outside stone stairs, many of which still
remain. Under these were kept swine, which were
allowed to roam the streets (as in old Paris). and
act the part of scavengers, and be alternately the
pets and the terror of the children.
By Acts of Council, 15th October, 1553-5,
the mounds of household garbage were ordained
to be removed, the swine to be prevented from
being a pest in the streets, in which buwefs or
25
another Act was passed, ordaining that the (male)
servants of the inhabitants should attend him with
lighted torches from the vespers or evening prayers
to his own house.
But despite the Acts quoted the streets were not
thoroughly cleared or cleaned for more than sixty
years after. WhenKing JaniesVI., having celebrated
his marriage with Anne of Denmark, on the zznd
October, 1589, was about to return home, he wrote
one of his characteristic epistles to the Provost,
Alexander Clark of Balbirnie :-? Here we are
drinking and driving in the add way,? and adding,
?for GoZs sake see n? things are nulf at our hanucoming.?
James did not wish to be exposed in
the eyes of his foreign attendants, and he alludes ... Street.] THE STREETS OF EDINBURGH. I93 case with the High Street. -The mansions in the diverging streets, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 67
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in the first volume of whose Transactions it
was published ; and by the public in general, as well as by the author himself,
it has always been numbered among the h e s t productions of the poet.
It is much to be regretted that Dr. Carlyle favoured the world with so little
from his own pen, having published scarcely anything except the Report of the
Parish of Inveresk, in Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account, and some detached
pamphlets and sermons. To his pen has been justly attributed “An Ironical
Argument, to prove that the tragedy of Douglas ought to be publicly burnt by
the hands of the hangman.”-Edinburgh, 1757, Svo, pp. 24.‘ It is understood
that Dr. Carlyle left behind him, in manuscript, a very curious Memoir of his
time, which, though long delayed, we have now reason to believe will soon in
part be given to the world.’
With the following description of the personal appearance of Dr. Carlyle,
when advanced in years, the proprietor of this work has been favoured by a
gentleman to whom the literature of his country owes much :
“ He was very tall, and held his head erect like a military man-his face had
been very handsome-long venerable gray hair-he was an old man when I met
him on a morning visit at the Duke of Buccleuchs at Dalkeith.”
’
No. XXX.
THE MODERN HERCULES.
THIS is a humorous piece of satire upon Dr. Carlyle and the opposition he
has uniformly met with from the leading men of the popular party. The uppermost
head on the hydra is that of Professor Dalzell of the University of Edinburgh-
the one below it that of the Rev. Dr. John Erskine of Carnock, minister
of Old Greyfriars’ Church, intended for the bar by his father, but his own
inclination was for the pulpit-the undermost head that of the much-esteemed
Rev. Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Kirk-and the figure with the hand up,
cautioning Dr. Carlyle, that of the Hon. Henry Erskine, advocate, who was generally
employed as counsel on the side of the popular party. The other three
were intended by Kay, according to his MS., for the Rev. Colin Campbell of
Renfrew, the Rev. Mr. Burns of Forgan, and the Rev. Dr. Balfour of Glasgow.
Dr. Carlyle is said to have written the prologue to Herminius and Espccsia, a tragedy acted at
Edinburgh, 1754, and printed that aame year in 8vo. * This has now been published by Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons, one volume 8v0, 1860.
A second edition was iasued the same year, entitled “Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander
Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, containing Memorials of the Men and Events of his tie.’’ ... SKETCHES. 67 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in the first volume of whose Transactions it was ...

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98 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. XLVI.
MR. ALEXANDER THOMSON
AND
MISS CRAWFORD.
THOSE who recollect MR. THOMSON, affirm this representation of him to be
extremely faithful. He was very remarkable for the length of his arms, which,
while walking, he kept dangling by his side, as represented in the Print. He
carried on business as a grocer in a shop nearly opposite the Tron Church,
where, by persevering industry and fair dealing, he is said to have amassed a
considerable fortune ; from which circumstance, together with his long and
honourable career, he obtained the title of the “ Prince of Grocers.” Not much
in accordance, however, with this high-sounding title he was known also by the
less dignified appellation of “Farthing Sandy,” owing to his having at one
period issued a great number of brass farthings, for the better adjustment of
accounts with his numerous customers.
Thomson was a widower of long standing; but having grown in riches as
well as in years, it appears strange fantasies of greatness began to flit before his
imagination. He used to compare himself with the other grocers as a large mastiff
dog, placed in the centre of a number of little terriers. With a view to his
aggrandizement, he sought to connect himself by marriage with some family of
aristocratic blood j and with this “ intention full resolved,” he is represented
in the Print as “ casting an eye” at Miss Crawford-a lady somewhat whimsical,
if not altogether fantastical, in her dress and manners. The scene is lirnned
by Mr. Kay as witnessed on the Calton-Hill, the day on which Mr Tytler’s
“ fire-balloon” ascended from the Abbey grounds. The “ Prince of Grocers,”
however, was not successful in his pursuit, and ultimately became, among the
ladies, an object of ridicule, being known by the feminine sobriquet of “Ruffles,”
from a practice he had of hiding his long fingers in his sleeve appendages.
Had the widower aimed at less lofty game, there would have been no doubt
of success ; his ‘‘ old brass would have bought a new pan.”
Notwithstanding his reputed riches, it is said that Thomson left a mere trifle
at his death, having been nearly ruined by a son, who afterwards went to
Jamaica, where it is believed he died a mendicant.
His house was at the Abbey-Hill.
MISS CRAWFORD, the object of the grocer’s ambition, was the daughter
of Sir Hew Crawford of Jordanhill, and resided at the time at a place called
Redbraes, Bonnington Road. She continued “deaf as Ailsa Craig” to the
wooing of old Ruffles, preferring a life of single blessedness, although it ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. XLVI. MR. ALEXANDER THOMSON AND MISS CRAWFORD. THOSE who recollect MR. THOMSON, ...

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The Great Fire.] THE GREAT FIRE. 189
Assemlily Close, then occupied as a workshop by
Kirkwood, a well-known engraver. The engines
came promptly enough ; but, from some unknown
cause, an hour elapsed before they were in working
order, and by that time the terrible element had
raged with such fierceness and rapidity that, by
eleven o'clock the upper portion of this tenement,
including six storeys, forming the eastern 'division
of a uniform pile of buildings, was one mass of
roaring flames, which, as the breeze was from the
to their elevated position, or the roar of the gathering
conflagration, the shouts of the crowd, and
wailing of women and children, their cries were
unheard for a time, until it was too late. The
whole tenement was lost, together with extensive
ranges of buildings in the old Fish Market and
Assembly Closes, to -which it was the means of
communicating the flames.
While these tall and stately edifices were yielding
to destruction, the night grew calm and still, and
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
sooth-west, turned them, as they burst from the
gaping windows, in the direction of a house to the
eastward, the strong' gable of which saved it from
the destruction which seemed imminent.
Two tenements to the westward were less fortunate,
and as, from the narrowness of the ancient
close, it was impossible to work the engines, they
soon were involved in one frightful and appalling
blaze. Great fears mere now entertained for the
venerable Courant office; nor was it long before
the fire seized on its upper storey, at the very time
when some brave fellows got upon the roof of a
tenement to the westward, and shouted to the firemen
to give them a pipe, by which they could
piay upon the adjoining roof, But, owing either
I the sparks emitted by the flames shot upwards as if
spouted from a volcano, and descended like the
thickest drift or snow-storm, affecting the respiration
of all. A dusky, lurid red tinged the clouds,
and the glare shone on the Castle wdls, the
rocks of the Calton, the beetling crags, and all the
city spires. Scores of lofty chimneys, set on fire
by the falling sparks, added to the growing horror
of the scene ; and for a considerable time the Tron
Church was completely enveloped in this perilous
shower of embers.
About one in the morning of the 16th the alarm
of fire was given from a house directly oppoife to
the burning masses, and, though groundless, it
added to the deepening Consternation. Mean ... Great Fire.] THE GREAT FIRE. 189 Assemlily Close, then occupied as a workshop by Kirkwood, a well-known ...

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366 MEMORIALS OF EDfN3URGH.
Andrew’s ; and the ground on which it and the neighbouring tenements were erected is
styled in a charter of Queen Mary, dated 1569, ‘‘ The liberty of the north side of the Water
of Leith, commonly called Rudeside : ” an epithet evidently resulting from its dependency
on the Abbey of the Holyrood. St Ninian’s Chapel still occupies its ancient site on the
banks of the Water of Leith, but very little of the original structure of the good Abbot
remains ; probably no more than a small portion of the basement wall on the north side,
where a small doorway appears with an elliptical arch, now built up, and partly sunk in
the ground. The remaihder of the structure cannot be earlier than the close of the sixteenth
century, and the. date on the steeple, which closely resembles that of the old Tron Church
destroyed in the Great Fire of 1824, is 1675. A large sculptured lintel, belonging to the
latter edifice, has been rebuilt into a more modern addition, erected apparentIy in the
reign of Queen Anne. It bears on it the following inscription in large Roman characters :
-BLESSED. AR . THEY. PAT. EEIR . YE. VORD . OF. QOD . AND. KEEP. IT. LVK . XI. 1600.
By the charter of Queen Mary, which confirmed the rights that had been purchased by the
inhabitants from Lord Holyroodhause, the Chapel of St Ninian was erected into a church
for the district of Rorth Leith, and endowed with sundry annual rents, and other ecclesiastical
property, including the neighbouring Chapel and Hospital of St Nicolas, and their
endowments. An Act of Parliament was obtained in 1606, oreating North Leith a separate
and independent parish, and appointing the chapel to he called in all time coming the
“parish Kirk of Leith benorth the brig.’’
The celebrated George Wishart-welLknown as the author of the elegant Latin
memoirs of Montrose, which were suspended to the neck of the illustrious cavalier when
he was executed-was minister of this parish in the year 1638, wheu the signing of the
Covenant became the established test of faith and allegiance in Scotland. He was soon
afterwards deposed for refusing to suhscribe, and was thrown into one of the dungeons of
the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, in consequence of the disoovery of his correspondence with the
Royalists. Wishart survived the stormy revolution that followed, and shared in the sunshine
of the Restoration. He was preferred to the See of Edinburgh on the re-establishment
of Episcopacy in Scotland, and died there in 1671, in his seventy-first year. He
was buried in the Abbey Church of Holyrood, where a long and flattering Latin inscription
recorded the whole biography of that oele6ris dooctar SopAocardius, as he is styled,
according to the scholastic punning of that age. The last minister who officiated in the
ancient Chapel of St Ninian was the benevolent and venerable Dr Johnston, the founder
of the Edinburgh Blind Asylum, who held the incumbency for upwards of half a century.
The foundation of the pew parish church of North Leith had been laid so early as
1814, and at length in 1826 its venerable predecessor was finally abandoned as a place
of worship, and soon after converted into a granary. “Thus,” says the historian of
Leith, with indignant pathos, “that edifice which had for npwards of 330 years been
devoted to the sacred purposes of religion, is now the unhallowed repository of pease and
barley I ”
The Hospital and Chapel of St Nicolas, with the neighbouring cemetery, were most
probably founded at a later date than Abbot Ballantyne’s Chapel, as the reasons assigned
by the founder for the building of the latter seem to imply that the inhabitants were without
any accessible place of worship. Nothing, however, is now known of their origin, and ... MEMORIALS OF EDfN3URGH. Andrew’s ; and the ground on which it and the neighbouring tenements were erected ...

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Hig5 Street.! BISHOP BOTHWELL. 219 .
CHAPTEX X Y v r .
THE. HIGH STREET ( ~ ~ ~ f h t d ) .
The Ancient Markets-The House of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney-The Bishop and Queen Mary-His Sister Anne-Sir Williarn Dick.
of Braid-& Colossal Wealth-Hard Fortune-The ? Lamexable State?-Advocates? Close-Sir James Stewart?s House-Andreu
Cmbie, ? I Counsellor Pleydell ?-Scougal?s House-His Picture Gallery-Roxburghe Close-Waniston?s Close-Lmd Philiphaugh?s
House-Bruce of Binning?s Mansion-Messrs. W. and R. Chambers?s Printing and Publkhing Establishment-History of the Firm-
House of Su Thomas Craig-Sir Archibald Johnston of Warnstoa
PREVIOUS to 1477 there were no particular places
assigned for holding the different markets in the
city, and this often caused much personal strife
among the citizens. To remedy this evil, James 1II.j
by letters patent, ordained that the markets for the
various commodities should be held in the following
parts of the city, viz. :-
In the Cowgate, the place for the sale of hay,
straw, grass, and horse-meat, ran from the foot ol
Forester?s Wynd to the foot of Peebles Wynd.
The flesh market was to be held in the High
Street, on both sides, from Niddry?s Wynd to the
Blackfriars Wynd; the salt market to be held in
the former Wynd.
The crames, or booths, for chapmen were to be
set up between the Bell-house and the Tron on the
north side of the street; the booths of the hatmakers
and skinners to be on the opposite side of
the way.
The wood and timber market extended from
Dalrymple?s Yard to the Greyfriars, and westward.
The place for the sale of shoes, and of red barked
leather, was between Forrester?s Wynd and the
west wall of Dalrymple?s Yard.
The cattIe-market, and that for the sale of
slaughtered sheep, wcs to be abaut the Tron-beam,
and so U doun throuch to the Friar?s Wynd ; alsa,
all pietricks, pluvars, capones, conyngs, chekins,
and all other wyld foulis and tame, to be usit and
sald about the Market Croce.?
All living cattle were not to be brought into the
town, but to be sold under the walls, westward of
the royal stables, or lower end of the Grassmarket.
Meal, grain, and corn were to be retailed from
the Tolbooth up to Liberton?s Wynd.
The Upper Bow was the place ordained for the
sale of all manner of cloths, cottons, and haberdashery;
also for butter, cheese, and wool, ?and
sicklike gudis yat suld be weyif? at a tron set
there, but not to be opened before nine A.M. Beneath
the Nether Bow, and about st. Mary?s
Wynd, was the place set apart for cutlers, smiths,
lorimers, lock-makers, ?and sicklike workmen ; and
all armour, p i t h , gear,? and so forth, were to be
sold in the Friday market, before the Greyfriars?.
In Gordon of Rothiemay?s map ?the fleshstocks
? are shown as being in the Canongate,
immediately below the Nether Bow Port.
Descending the High Street, after passing Bank
Street, to which we have already referred, there is
situated one of the most remarkable old edifices in
the city-the mansion of Adam Bothwell, Bishop
of Orkney. It stands at the foot of Byres? Close,
so named from the house of Sir John Byres of
Coates, but is completely hidden from every point
save the back windows of the Dui0 Review office.
A doorway on the east side of the close gives access
to a handsome stone stair, guarded by a curved
balustrade, leading to a garden terrace that overlooked
the waters of the loch. Above this starts
abruptly up the north front of the house, semihexagonal
in form, surmounted by three elegantlycarved
dormer windows, having circular pediments,
and surmounted by a finiaL
On one was inscribed L u s prbique Deo; ona
another, FeZider, infeZix.
In this edifice (long used as a warehouse by
Messrs. Clapperton and Co.) dwelt Adam, Bishop
of Orkney, the same prelate who, at four in the.
morning of the 15th of May, 1567, performed in
the chapel royal at Holyrood the fatal marriage
ceremony which gave Bothwell possession of the.
unfortunate and then despairing Queen Mary.
He was a senator of the College of Justice, and
the royal letter in his favour bears, ?Providing.
always ye find him able and qualified for administration
of justice, and conform to the acts and
statutes of the College.?
He married the unhappy queen after thenew
forms, ?not with the mess, but with preachings,?
according to the ?? Diurnal of Occurrents,? in
the chapel; according to Keith and others, ?in
the great hall, where the Council usually met??
But he seemed a pliable prelate where his own
interests were concerned ; he was one of the first
to desert his royal mistress, and, after her enforced
abdication, placed the crown upon the head of her
infant son ; and in 1568, according to the book of
the ?? Universal Kirk,? he bound himself to preach
a sermon in Holyrood, and therein to confess
publicly his offence in performing a marriage ceremony
for Bothwell and Mary.
As the name of the bishop was appended to that
infamous bond of adherence granted by the Scottish
nobles to Bothwell, before the latter put in practice
his ambitious schemes against his sovereign, it is ... Street.! BISHOP BOTHWELL. 219 . CHAPTEX X Y v r . THE. HIGH STREET ( ~ ~ ~ f h t d ) . The Ancient ...

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28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Canongate.
the days that were no more. ?* No funeral hearse,?
says Lockhart, ?crept more leisurely than did his
landau up the Canongate ; and not a queer, tottering
gable but recalled to him some long-buried
memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few
Most Noble Order of the Thistle, which he had
now [relerected, could not meet in St. Andrews?
church (z.e., the cathedral in Fife}, being demolished
in the Rebellion; and so it was necessary for them
to have this church, and the Provost of Edinburgh
SMOLLETT?S HOUSE, ST. JOHN?S STREET.
words, he set before the hearer in the reality of life.?
The Canongate church, a most unpicturesquelooking
edifice, of nameless style, with a species of
Doric porch, was built in 1688. The Abbey
chwh of Holyrood had hitherto been the parish
church of the Canongate, but in July, 1687, King
James VII. wrote to the Privy Council, that the
church of the Abbey ?? was the chapel belonging to
his palace of Holyrood, and that the knights of the
was ordained to see the keys of it given to them.
After a long silence,? says Fountainhall, ?the
Archbishop of Glasgow told that it was a mansal
and patrimonial church of the bishopric of Edinburgh,
and though the see was vacant, yet it
belonged not to the Provost to deliver the keys.?
Yet the congregation were ordered to seek
accommodation in Lady Yester?s church till other
could be found for them, and the Canongate ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Canongate. the days that were no more. ?* No funeral hearse,? says Lockhart, ?crept ...

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HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TION. I11
that, when they were assembled in St Giles’s Church, and it was debated whether they
should stand on their defence or not, only three or four voices answered in the affirmative.
Rut while the citizens were still undetermiaed as to the terms of capitulation, the Nether
Bow Port was unwarily opened to let a coach pass out, on which a party of Highlanders,
who had reached the gate undiscovered, immediately rushed in and secured the city, took
possession of the guard-house, and seized on the arms and ammunition belonging to the
guard.
The Highland army encamped
in the royal park, in the neighbourhood of Duddingston, and the Chevalier himself
took possession of Holyrood Palace. The heralds were required to publish at the Market
Cross the commission of Regency which the Prince’had received from his father, and
which was accordingly done with all the usual ceremonies attending royal proclamations.
Multitudes of the inhabitants now flocked to the neighbouring camp, attracted by the
novelty of the sight, or their favour to the cause of the Stuarts, while the Palace was
crowded by numbers of the better class of citizens, who hastened to testify their fidelity
to the exiled family.
They were received by the Prince with the utmost affability and condescension; but this
did not prevent him issuing an order, requiring the inhabitants of the town and county of
Edinburgh to deliver up their arms at the Palace, and the city to furnish a great variety of
stores for the use of the army, under pain of military execution in case of failure. The
supplies were furnished accordingly, and the city gratified with the Prince’s gracious promise
of payment, so soon as the troubles should be over. The Castle, however, was held
by General Guest, a stanch adherent of the Government, and on the Highlanders appearing
in the city, he displayed the flag, and fired some cannon to warn them not to approach the
fortress.
The Highlanders, thus amply supplied, marched to Preston, about nine miles to the
eastward of the capital, where they defeated and put to rout the royal forces, under the
command of Sir John Cope. The dragoons fled from the field without halting till they
reached Linlithgow. Their baggage, artillery, and military chests all fell into the Prince’s
hands, who returned to the Palace of Holyrood in triumph. Notwithstanding the irregular
character of the Highland army, they behaved, in general, with great order and moderation ;
and such was the simplicity of the poor Highlanders, even in rapine, that it is said some of
them presented their pieces at passengers, and on being asked what they wanted, replied, (‘ a penny,” with which they went away perfectly satiefied.’
The Prince intimated, on his return to Edinburgh, that the ministers should have full
liberty to continue their usual duties on the following day, which was Sunday, the only
requirement being, that, in the prayers for the royal family, no names should be
specified.
Only one of the city ministers, named Hogg, availed himself of this permission, and
lectured in the forenoon in the Tron Church. But the Rev. Neil M‘Vicar of St Cuthbert’s
was of the true old covenanting metal, and not to be intimidated by the near neighbourhood
of the Jacobite forces. He sent word to the commander of the Castle of his intention
to continue the usual services of the day, and proceeded to his pulpit at the appointed hour.
The young Chevalier speedily followed this advance guard.
Scots Mag., rol, vii p. 442. ... INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TION. I11 that, when they were assembled in St Giles’s Church, and it was ...

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290 OLD -4ND NEW EDINBURGH. urffrey Street
of The Friend of India, and author of the ?Life
of Dr. IVilson of Bombay.? The paper has ever
been an advanced Liberal one in politics, and
considerably ahead of the old Whig school.
Jeffrey Street, so named from the famous literary
critic, is one of those thoroughfares formed under
the City Improvement -4ct of 1867. It commences
at the head of Leith Wynd, and?occasioned
there the demolition of many buildings of remote
antiquity. From thence it curves north-westward,
behind the Ashley Buildings, and is carried on a
viaduct of ten massive arches. Proceeding westward
through Milne?s Court, and cutting off the
lower end of many quaint, ancient, narrow, and it
must be admitted latterly somewhat inodorous
alleys, it goes into line with an old edificed thoroughfare
at the back of the Flesh Market, under the
southern arch of the open part of the North Bridge,
and is built chiefly in the old Scottish domestic
style of architecture, so suited to its peculiar locality.
In this street stands the Trinity College Established
Church, re-erected from the stones of the
original church, to which we shall refer elsewhere.
When the North British Railway Company required
its site, it was felt by all interested in
archzology and art that the destruction of an edifice
so important and unique would be a serious
loss to the city, and, inspired by this sentiment,
the most strenuous efforts were made by the
Lord Provost, Adam Black, and others, to make
some kind of restoration of th; church of Mary
of Gueldres a condition of the company obtaining
possession ; and their efforts were believed to
have been successful when a clause was inserted
in the Company?s Act binding them, before acquiring
Trinity College church, to erect another,
after the same style and model, on a site to be
approved by the sheriff, in or near the parish and
about a dozen of these were suggested, among
others the rocky knoll adjoining the Calton stairs.
The company finding the delay imposed by this
clause extremely prejudicial to their interests,
sought to have it amended, and succeeded in
having ?the obligation to erect such a church
raised from them, on the payment of such a sum
as should be found on inquiry, under the authority
of the sheriff, to be sufficient for the site and restoration.
About E18,ooo was accordingly paid
to the Town Council in 1848; the church was
removed, and its stones carefully numbered, and
set aside.?
Questions of site, of the sitters, and the sum to
be actually expended, were long discussed by the
Council and in the press-some members of the
former, with a sentiment of injustice,.wishing to
abolish the congregation altogether, and give the
money to the city. After much litigation, extending
ultimately over a period of nearly thirty years,
the Court of Session in full bench decided that
all the money and the interest accruing therefrom
should be expended on +e church.
This judgment. was reversed, on appeal, by
Lord Chancellor Westbury, who decided that only
;G7,000 ?without interest should be given to buy
a site and build a church contiguous to Trinity
Hospital, in which the rest of the money should
vest.? The Town Council of those days seemed
ever intent on crushing this individual parish
church, and, as one of the congregation wrote in an
address in January, 1873, ?to these it seemed as
strange as sad, that while all over this island, corporations
and individuals were spending very large
sums in the restoration or preservation of the best
specimens of the art and devotion of their forefathers,
a city so beholden as Edinburgh to the
beautiful and picturesque in situation and buildings,
should not only permit the disappearance of
an edifice of which almost any other city would
have been proud, but when the means and the
obligation to preserve it had been secured, with
much labour by others, should, with almost as
much pains, seek to render nugatory alike the
efforts of these and the certain pious regrets of
posterity.? In 1871 the churchless parish, in
respect of population, held the fourth place in old
Edinburgh (2,882) exceeding the Tolbooth, Tron,
and other congregations.
The church, rebuilt from the stones of the
ancient edifice of 1462, stands on the south side
of Jeffrey Street, at the corner of Chalmers? Close.
It was erected in 1871-2, from drawings prepared
by Mr. Lessels, architect, and is an oblong structure,
with details in the Norman Gothic style, with
a tower and spire 115 feet in height. It is almost
entirely constructed from the ?? carefully numbered
stones ? of the ancient church, nearly every pillar,
niche, capital, and arch, being in its old place, and,
taken in this sense, the edifice is a very unique one.
Opened for divine service in October, 1877, it is
seated for 900, and has the ancient baptismal font
that stood in the vestry of the church of Mary of
Gueldres placed in the lobby. The old apse has
been restored in toto, and forms the most interesting
portion of the new building. The ancient
baptismal and communion plate of the church are
very valuable, and the latter is depicted in Sir
George Harvey?s well-kncwn picture of the ? Covenanter?s
Baptism,? and, like the communion-table,
date from shortly after the Reformation, and have
been the gifts of various pious individuals. ... OLD -4ND NEW EDINBURGH. urffrey Street of The Friend of India, and author of the ?Life of Dr. IVilson of ...

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OLD LEITH STACF.. Leith Walk.]
VIEWS IN PORTOBELLO.
I, Ramsag h e ; n, The Established Church ; & High Street, looking eart; + Town Hall ; 5 Episcopalisn Church.
116 ... LEITH STACF.. Leith Walk.] VIEWS IN PORTOBELLO. I, Ramsag h e ; n, The Established Church ; & High ...

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88 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
of the Church, waiting his arrival ; and although they had probably tormented
him to the utmost during the day, they seldom failed to gain admission to assist
in tolling the bell, and to amuse themselves by swinging on the rope, The
laddies knew well the “weak side” of the bellman. It was no longer Ninepence,
or even Eben, but Mr. Wdson, will ye let us in to jow the bell ’? “0 yes,” Eben
would say, quite gratified with the respect shown him ; “ but see that ye behave
yoursels.” Mr. Wilson was in this way commonly saved the trouble of jowing
the bell himself.
Although in general very regular, Eben committed a sad mistake on one
occasion, by tolling the curfew at seven o’clock in place of eight. The shops
were shut up, and the streets consigned to comparative darkness, when the
clerks and shopboys were delighted to find that they had gained an hour by
his miscalculation, This occurrence afterwards proved a source of great vexation
to him.-“ It’s seven o’clock, Eben, ring the bell ! ” being a frequent and
irritating salutation on the part of the laddies. It had the effect, however, of
making Eben more circumspect in future. Every night as he came down the
High Street, he was careful to look into the shop of Mr. Ramage (at the west
end of the Old Tolbooth), in order, by a peep at the watch-maker’s timepiece,
to satisfy himself that he was right.
Eben was a humble but pretty constant frequenter of Johnnie Dowie’s
tavern, which he used regularly to pass in going from his own house to the Tron
Kirk. When the Print of “ honest John” appeared in the artist’s window, it is
said that Eben was the first to acquaint him with the fact. In order to be convinced
with his own eyes, John was prevailed On to accompany him to Kay’s
shop, where the brassfounder began to indulge in much merriment at the vintner’s
mortification, It so happened that Ebenezer’s own likeness had been finished
some days prior, and a few impressions taken. The artist, watching the progress
of the scene outside, at last exhibited the Print of Eben beside that of honest
John ; who in turn enjoyed a hearty laugh at-the dumbfoundered and chopfallen
countenance of the bell-ringer.
Eben was exceedingly wroth at the artist-he never would forgive him; and
from that clay forward discarded the apron, thereby thinking to render the
portraiture less characteristic. He continued, however, to wear the old cocked
hat’ and shoe-buckles till his death, which occurred in 1823, at the age of
sev’enty-five. He was succeeded in his situation by James Robertson, another
brassfounder and pensioner of the Society of Hammermen, who died in April
1836. One of his daughters became
the wife of a very respectable and useful minister of the gospel in the west of
Scotland.
Eben was married, and had a family.
The late Dr. Hamilton senior used to give him his cast-off cocked hats ; and he and Eben were
for a long time the only individuals in town who wore that species of covering. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. of the Church, waiting his arrival ; and although they had probably tormented him to ...

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426 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
able from the introduction of the Weigh-house steeple, demolished by Cromwell in 1650, and the spire of the
Tron Church, which was completed about 1663, although the church was so far advanced in 1647 as to be used
as a place of worship. The destruction of the greater part of the ancient Palace in the former year, affords
further evidence of this view having been taken about that period, BS it is represented with considerable accuracy
as it stood previous to the fire. The north garden is laid out in the formal style of the period, with Quem Murys
Bath very accurately introduced in the angle formed by two of the enclosing garden walls. It appears to have
been engraved in Holland, and is illustrated with a stanza in Latin, Dutch, and French, consisting of a very selfcomplacent
soliloquy of the good town on its own ancient glory, A lithographic copy of this view is occasionally
to be met with.
He visited this
country for the first time in 1 6 6 9 ,t~ha t the drawings of the interesting series of Scottish views published by him
mwt have been made during the interval between these dates. They are of great value, being in general rery
faithful representations of the chief towns and most important edsces in Scotland at that period. Much curious
information in reference to the progress of this national work has been selected from the records in the General
Register House, and printed in the 2d voL of the Bannatyne Ivfiscellany. Among these, the following item of
the Captain’s account of ‘‘ Debursements” afford some insight into the mode of getting up the views :-
1693.-The TEEATRUMSC OTE, of Captain John Slezer, was printed at London in 1693.
.
IMPRIMFIoSr. b ringing over a Painter, his charges to travel from place to place, and for
drawing these 57 draughts contahed in the said Theatrum Scotiae, at 2
lib, sterlin per draught, . . 0114: 00 :OO
To Mr Whyte at London, for ingraving the mid 57 draughts, at 4 lib. 10
To Nr Wycke, the battell painter at London, for touching and filling up the
said 57 draughb with little figures, at 10 shillings sterlin per piece, inde,
Captain Slezer hath been at a considerable loss by 12 plates of prospects,which
were spoiled in Holland, as partly appears by a contract betwixt Doctor
Sibbald and the said Captain, dated anno 1691, which loss was at least
Lib. Sterlin.
ITEM,
ITEM,
ITEM,
shillings over head, . . 0256 : 10 :00
0028 : 10 : 00
0072 : 10 : 00
In the early edition of Sle7,r‘s views the only general Pvoapect of Edinburgh is the one from the Dean. But
the view of the Castle from the south also includes some interesting portions of the Old Town, and to these
another view of the Castle from the north-east was afterwards added. Four different editions of the Theatnun
Scotia are described in Cough’s British Topography, and a fifth edition of 100 copies was published at Edinburgh
in 1814, edited by the Rev. Dr Jamieson, with a life of Slezer, and other additional matter, and illustrated
with impressions from the original plates, which are still in existence. The work is to be met with in most public
libraries, and affords some curious views of the chief towns of Scotland, as they existed in the latter end of the
seveuteenth century.
1700.-About this date is a large and very accurate view of Edinburgh from the north, which has been
engraved more than once. The original plate, which appeared first in the third edition of Slezer’s Theatrum
Scotiae, dedicated to the Marquis of Annandale, was published in 1718. It is a long view, with the Cdton
Hill forming the foreground, beyond which Trinity College Church and Paul’s Work appear on one side,
with the North Loch stretching away towards the Well-house Tower. The large ancient church of the Castle,
as well aa St Margaret’s Chapel, form prominent objects in the Castle ; while in the town the Nether Bow Port,
the old High School, demolished in 1777, and others of the ancient features of the city, are introduced with considerable
care and accuracy of detail. The whole is engraved with great spirit, but no draftsman’s or engraver’s
name is attached to it. Another copy of the same, on a still larger scale, though of inferior merit as an en,oraving.
is dedicated to Queen Anne. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. able from the introduction of the Weigh-house steeple, demolished by Cromwell in 1650, ...

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APPENDIX. 4-29
of the conhgration. In 1678 the furnishing of the steeple waa completed, by putting up there the old clock
that had formerly belonged to that of the Weigh-house.
The bequest of Thomas Moodie appears to have cost ita trustees some little concern aa to how to dispm of
it, a few years having sufficed to effect very radical changes on the ideas of the civic Council tu to the church
accommodation required by the citizens. The Town of Edinburgh
obtain an act anent Thomas Moodie’s legacy and mortification to them of 20,OOO merks, that in regard
they have no use for a church (which was the end whereto he destined it), that therefore they might be allowed to
invert the same to some other public work The Articles and Parliament recommended the Town to the Privy
Council, to see the will of the defunct fuElled as near as could be; for it comes near to sacrilege to invert a
pious donation. The Town offers to buy with it a peal of Bells to hang in St Gile’s Steeple, tu ring musically
and to warn-to Church, and to build B Tolbooth above the West Port of Edinburgh, and to put Thomas
Moodie’s name and arms thereon. Some thought it better to make it a stipend to tbe Lady Pester’s Kirk, or
to a minister to preach to all the prisoners in the Canongate and Edinburgh Tolbooths, and at the Correctionhouse,
Sunday about.” In the records of the Privy Council, May 15,1688, when Moodie’s bequest was Snally
appropriated towards providing the ejected burghers of Canongate with a Parish Church, it appears that the
annual interest of it had been appropriated to the payment of the Bishop of Edinburgh’s house rent. (Fonntsinhnll‘
s Decisions, voL i p. 505.) The arms of Moodie now form a prominent ornament on the front of the
Canongate Church. In the vestry an elevation of the church is i~servdh,a ving a steeple attached to ita south
front ; but the funds which had been raised for this ornamental addition were appropriated to build the Chapel
of Ease at the head of New Street.
Fountainhall records in 1681 (VOL i p. 156),
LADYP EFYPCEHRvR’ScE -The Inventar of Pious Donations appends to a long list of pious mwtdjicath by
Lady Yester, a genealogical sketch, which we correct and complete from Wood, who thus describw the ecclesiastical
origin of the Lothiin family :--“ Mark Ker, second son of Sir Andrew Ker of Cessford, entering into
holy orders, was promoted in 1546 to the dignity of Abbot of Newbottle ; which station he possessed at the
Reformation, 1560, when he renounced the profession of Popery, and held hie benefice in commendam, . . .
He married Lady Helen Lesly, second daughter of George fourth Earl of Rothes, and by her had issue,
Mark. On the death of hie father in 1584, the Commendatorship of Newbottle, to which the latter had been
provided by Queen Mary in 1567, waa ratified to him by letters under the Qreat Seal ; and he was also
appointed one of the extraordinary Lords of Seasion in his father’s place, 12th November 1584. He had the
lands of Newbottle erected into a barony, with the title of a Baron, 28th July 1587,” &c This waa the father
of Lady Yester, of whom the following account appears in the Inwentar: “The e‘ Dame Margaret Ker was
the eldest [the third] daughter of Mark Commendator of Newbottle, one of the 101 of council and -ion, yrafter
E. of Lothian, procreat betwixt him and LMargaretJ Maxwell, a daughter of Jo. lo/ Herries, In her young
years she was 1st married to Ja Lo. Hay of Yester, and by her wise and vertuous government, she was most
instrumental in preserving and improving of the s‘ estate. By him she had two sons, Jo. 10/ Hay of Pester,
yrafter E. of Tweedale, and Sir Wm. her 2d son, for whom she purchased the Barrone of Lmplam, &c, The s’
Dame Margaret Ker having lived many years a widow, she married Sir Andrew Ker, younger of Fernyhirst,
and procured his father to be made Lo/ Jedburgh. Besides the many Gardens, Buildin- Parka, made be her
in all placea belonging to her husband, in every paroch qr either of her husbands had money-renN she erected
and built Hospitals and e0hooI.a’ After this follows the list, which is altogether -rising, aa evidence of continued
muniticence and benevolent piety ; among which are the following item +
“Towards the building of the Town [Tron?] Kirk of Ehr., &e gifted loo0 m.
“She built an kirk near the High School in Ed’., and bestowed toward the building y’of $lOOOa with 5000
h~ for the use of the minister of $e e‘ church, and a little before her death caused joyne y’to an little Isle for
the use of the minister, q* she lies interred, with an tomb in the wall, with this inscription :- ... 4-29 of the conhgration. In 1678 the furnishing of the steeple waa completed, by putting up there the ...

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YAMES VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. 93
Memyss, his next door neighbonr, who sent a party of servants to his aid, and had the
unfortunate prelate brought to the shelter of the Earl’s own mansion.’
In the Greyfriars’ Church the service-book met with a similar reception, while most
of the other cler,gy prudently delayed its use, till they should see how it was relished by
the people. This memorable day was afterwards distinguished by the name of Stoney
Sunday.’ ‘‘ The immortal Jenet Geddis,” as she is styled in a pamphlet of the period, survived
long after her heroic onslaught on the Dean of Edinburgh. She kept a cabbage-stall at
the Tron Kirk, as late as 1661, and, notwithstanding the scepticism of some zealous
investigators, the Society of Antiquaries for Scotland still show, in their museum, her
formidable weapon-the cutty stool,-with which this heroine struck the initial stroke in
the great civil war.’
The multitudes of,all ranks, who speedily assembled in Edinburgh, determined to unite
for mutual protection, They formed a league for the defence of religion, each section being
classified according to their ranks, and thus arose the famous committees called the Fow
TABLES. On the royal edict for the maintenance of the service-book being proclaimed at
the Market Cross, on the 22d February 1638, a solemn protest was read aloud by some of
the chief noblemen of that party deputed for that purpose, and five days afterwards, between
two and three hundred clergymen and others assembled at the Tailors’ Hall (a fine
old building still existing in the Cowgate), and took into consideration the COVENANTth at
had been drawn up.
This important document was presented to a vast multitude, who assembled on the
following day in the Greyfriars’ Chtrch and Churchyard. It was solemnly read aloud, and
after being signed by the nobles and others in the church, it was laid on a &t tombstone
in the churchyard, and eagerly signed by all ranks of the people. The parchment on which
it was engrossed was four feet long, and when there was no longer room on either side to
write their namee, the people subscribed their initials round the margin.
The same National Covenant, when renewed at a later date, was placed for signature
in an old mansion, long afterwards used as a tavern, and which still remains in good
preservation, at the foot of the Covenant Close, as it has ever since been called.
In the year 1641 Charles again visited Edinburgh, for the purpose of ‘‘ quieting distrac-
- tion for the people’s satisfaction.” The visit, however, led to little good ; he offended his
friends without conciliating his enemies, and after another civic entertainment from the
magistrates of the city, he bade a h a 1 adieu to his Scottish capital. He is said to have been
fond of the game of golf, and the following anecdote is told of him in connection with it:-
While he was engaged in a party at this game, on the Links of Leith, a letter was delivered
into his hands, which gave him the first account of the insurrection and rebellion
in Ireland. On reading which, he suddenly called for his coach, and, leaning on one of his
attendants, and in great agitation, drove to the Palace of Holyrood House, from whence
next day he set out for London.’
The Covenanters followed up their initiatory movement in the most resolute and effective
1 (!hambera%~ Rebellions in Scotland, vol. i p. 66,
1 Edinburgh’a Joy, &c., 1661. ’ W. Tytler of Woodhouselee, Esq., Archceologia Scotica, voi. i p. 603.
* Arnot, p. 109.
Chambers’s Winor htiq., p. 180.
Charles’s immediate departure for London, ae he stayed till the diaaolution of the Scottish Parliament.
The anecdote is 80 far incorrect aa to. ... VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. 93 Memyss, his next door neighbonr, who sent a party of servants to his ...

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