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268 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
than his son should fill his place; and they appointed an assistant till Sir
Henry should be qualified.’ Sir Henry
then repaired to the University of Edinburgh ; and, on attaining the proper
age, although he had not completed the full term of attendance required at the
Divinity Hall, he was licensed to preach, and ordained to the charge of Blackford
in 1771. He was not, however, allowed to remain long in the obscurity
of his native parish, his talents, while a student at Edinburgh, having singled
him out for the first vacancy that might occur in the city. In 1775 he was
accordingly translated to the extensive charge of St. Cuthbert’s, where he continued
during the subsequent years of his ministry.
The life of Sir Henry was devotedly spent in the practical duties of his
sacred office, and in zealously forwarding the general interests of the Church.
As a preacher, he was I‘ strong and masculine ” in his eloquence, but very seldom
indulged in the pathetic ; yet there was often, particularly towards the close
of his life, a tenderness in his modes of expression, as well as in the accents of
his voice, which came home to the heart with the energy of pathos itself.” In
the Church Courts he took an active and decided part, and from his character
and talents soon became a powerful leader in opposition to the party, who,
under Dr. Robertson, had obtained nearly entire supremacy in the General Assembly.
Sir Henry was proposed as Moderator in 1780, in opposition to
Dr. Spens of Wemyss ; and so strong had the minority then become, that his
opponent was only elected by a majority of six votes. In 1785, being again
nominated, he was unanimously chosen.
Sir Henry acted as Collector for the Widow’s Fund during a period of more
than forty years. He felt deeply interested in the welfare of this institution :
and to his excellent management it is indebted for much of its prosperity. He
was also one of the original members of the Society of the Sons of the Clergy ;
and on all occasions a sincere friend to every practical scheme for the amelioration
of society. His office of Collector for the Widows’ Fund affording him
a thorough knowledge of the pecuniary circumstances of the clergy, many of
whom, in poor and distant parishes, were living on very inadequate incomes, he
pressed the subject warmly on the attention of the General Assembly-drew up
a plan for augmenting the livings-and, though his scheme was not adopted by
Parliament, his exertions may justly be considered as having led to the Act
by which a minimum salary has been fixed throughout the bounds of the
Church.’
Sir Henry seems to have left himself almost no leisure for literary pursuits.
His chief productions were-“ Discourses on the Evidences of the Jewish and
Christian Revelations ;” two volumes of Sermons; a “Life of John Erskine,
D.D;” and a “Life of Dr. [Robert Henry, the Historian,” prefixed to the last
volume of his History, which was edited by Sir Henry, as his executor. He
This arrangement took place in 1768.
1 This was rather an extraordinary stretch of the law affecting settlements. With the consent
of the patron and all concerned, the parish waa actually kept zracant for nearly four years. His
father died on the 9th December 1767, and Sir Henry was not inducted till the 15th August 1771.

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I 18 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
memory, have devoted his picturesque old domicile to destruction. The Collegiate Church
of Mary of Guelders is destined to a similar fate; and, in truth, it would seem as if a
regular crusade had been organised by all classes, having for its object to root out everything
in Edinburgh that is ancient, picturesque, or interesting, owing to local or historical
associations, and to substitute in their stead the commonplace uniformity of the New Town.
One effect, however, of all this has been, by so greatly diminishing these ancient fabrics,
to awake an increased interest in the few that remain, while, even by the demolition of
others, many curious features have been brought to light, which would otherwise have
remained unknown.
It is earnestly to be desired that a lively veneration for these monuments of past times
may be more widely diffused, and produce such a wholesome spirit of conservatism, as may
at least preserve those that remain from reckless destruction. An antiquary, indeed, may
at times seem to resemble some querulous crone, who shakes her head, with boding predictions
of evil at the slightest variance from her own narrow rule ; but the new, and what
may be called- the genteel style of taste, which has prevailed during the earlier portion of
the present century, has too well justified his complaints. The old Parliament Close, with
its irregular Elizabethan Court homes, and the ancient Collegiate Church (which on that
side at least was ornate and unique), have been remodelled according to the newest fashion,
and, to complete the change, the good old name of Close, which is pleasingly associated
with the cloistral courts of the magnificent cathedrals and abbeys of England, has been
replaced by the modern, and, in this case, ridiculous one of Square. In full accordance
with this is the still more recent substitution of the name of North British Close for that
of Hrtlkerston’s Wynd-the only thing that remained about that ancient alley to commemorate
the death of David Halkerstoun of Halkerstoun, while bravely defending this
passage against the English in 1544. Modern imitations of the antique, such as have
been attempted in the newest thoroughfares in the Old Town, are easily erected, with more
or less taste, and as easily replaced. But if the Old Town of Edinburgh is once destroyed,
no wealth can restore the many int.eresting associations that still linger about its ancient
halls.
VIGNETTE-Ancient Doorway in Halkerston’a Wynd.

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280 EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Owing to the crowded state of the church in Rose Street, and from the
impossibility of enlarging it, ground was feued for the erection of a new place of
worship. This caused a considerable difference of opinion in the congregation,
and about four hundred resolved on remaining where they were. On the 29th
of May 1821 Dr. Hall opened the new church in Broughton Place, which
was the third that had been built for him since the commencement of his
ministry, and in all of which he attracted large congregations.’
He was allowed to possess, in an eminent measure, the peculiar requisites
of a Christian orator. His appearance, especially while young, was uncommonly
interesting. His voice, though
not sonorous, was clear, extensive, and mellifluent-modulated with natural taste
and impressive variety.
Dr. Hall was extremely attentive to the private duties of his office while he
continued able to perform them. In visiting the sick, his presence, his prayers,
and his converse, were peculiarly acceptable and consolatory, not only to his
own people, but to many of different religious opinions. About ten years prior
to his death he was afflicted with an inflammation of. his liver, by which his
life was thought to be in imminent danger ; and though he gradually regained
a considerable share of health, he was ever afterwards subject to internal
complaints, that rendered him unable to endure any great degree of fatigue.
As a member of the ecclesiastical courts, his judgment was more than usually
respected. He assumed no dictatorial airs, no superiority of discernment, no
disposition to become the leader of a party; but his thorough acquaintance
with the forms of business-the deep interest he took in the concerns of the
church-his impartiality in the weighing of evidence-and his unbiassed attachment
to equity, justice, and the general interest of religion-gave a peculiar
weight to his sentiments, and his opinions were uniformly respected.
Though somewhat warm in temper, he was open, generous, and affectionate.
Induced by plausible propositions, and desirous to be serviceable to his friends,
he unhappily entered into a mercantile speculation, which proving ruinous, he
was for a time subject to very disagreeable consequences, and had the mortification
of incurring the censure of many who were ignorant of the motives that
had prompted him to engage in secular matters, His open, manly statement,
and ingenuous exposition of the causes which led to his embarrassments, coupled
with his willingness to make every sacrifice calculated to repair any injury which
his failure had occasioned, proved perfectly satisfactory to all concerned. He
continued to discharge his public duties pretty regularly, and with great acceptability,
till about a year and three quarters before his death, when he was again
seized by his former complaint, which confined him nearly three months ; after
which he appeared only occasionally in the pulpit.
His person was tall, handsome, and dignified.
His action was animated, graceful, and appropriate.
He was succeeded in his former place of worship by the Rev. John (afterwards Dr. Brown of
Broughton Place) ; and, notwithstanding the split that had taken place among the members, the
utmost friendship subsisted betwixt Dr. Hall and Mr. Brnwn, the latter experiencing from him the
kindness and solicitude of a father.

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218 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
bestowed by the piety of private donors on the
hospital of St. Anthony, and the imposition of a
duty on all wine brought into the port for the
augmentation of its reduced funds.?
Here certain poor women were maintained, being
presented thereta by the United Corporation 01
Leith. 1 About the middle of the seventeenth century
the edifice had become dilapidated or unequal
to the requirements of the poor; thus another was
erected on or near the same site. .If was a building
of very unpretending aspect, and, according to
Gncaid, measured only fifty-six feet by thirty, The
privilege of admission was confined to the Maltmen,
Trades, and Traflickers or Merchant Company
of Leith. Small pensions were given from
the hospital funds occasionally to persons who
were not resident therein. ?The revenues are now
merged in the general income of the parish of South
Leith.
On the same side of the street stands the ancient
church of South Leith, dedicated to St. Mary.
The ancient seat and name of this parish was
Restalrig. In 1 z 14 Thomas of that place made a
grant of some tenements, which he describes as
situated ? southward of the High Street,? supposed
to be in the line of the present Leith Walk, ?between
Edinburgh and Leith,? if this is not a reference
to the Kirkgate itself; and perhaps he-had a
church on the manor from which he took his
name.
A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, patroness
of the town and port, and situated in South Leith,
preceded by more than a century the origin of the
present edifice, and was enriched by many donations
and annuities for the support within it of
altars and chaplainries dedicated to St Peter, St.
Barbara, St. Bartholomew, and others, The destruction
of ecclesiastical records at the Reformation
involves the date of the foundation of the
present church in utter obscurity. It can only be
surmised that it was erected towards the close of
the fourteenth century ; but notwithstanding its
large size-what remains now being merely a small
portion of the original edifice-the name of its
founder is utterly unknown. The earliest notice of
it occurs in 1490, when a contribution of an annual
rent is made by Peter Falconer in Leith to the
chaplain of St. Peter?s altar, (?situat in the Virgin
Mary Kirk in Leith.? The latest of similar grants
was made on the 8th July, 1499.
The choir and transepts are said to have been
destroyed by the English, according to Maitland
and Chalmers, in 1544. ? No other evidence exists
however, in support of this,? according to Wilson,
<? than the general inference deducible from the
burning of Leith, immediately before their embarkation-
a procedure which, unless accompanied by
more violent modes of .destruction, must have left
the Gmainder of the church in the same condition
as. the nave, which still exists.? He therefore
concludes that the choir and transepts had been
destroyed by the Scottish and English cannon
during the great siege, in which the tower of St.
Anthony perished
Robertson, an acute local antiquarg, held the
same theory. That the church was partially destroyed
after the battle of Pinkie is obvious from
the following letter, written by Sir Thomas Fisher
to the Lord Protector of England :-?? I Ith October,
1548. Having had libertie to walke abroad in the
town of Edinburghe with his taker, and sometymes
betwix that and Leghe, he telleth me that Leghe is
entrenched about, and that besydes a bulwarke
made by the haven syde near the sea, on the ground
where the chapel stood (St. Nicholas), which I
suppose your Grace remembereth, there is another
greater bulwarke made on the mane ground at the
great church standing at the upper end of the
town towards Edinburghe.? (Mait. Club.)
In a history published in the Won?rour MisceZZany
we are told that in 1560 the English ?lykewise
shott downe some pairt of the east end of the
Kirk of Leith,? thus destroying the choir and transepts.
On Easter Sunday, when the people were at mass,
a great ball passed through the eastern window, just
before the elevation of the host.
That Hertford?s two invasions were unnecessarily
savage-truly Turkish in their atrocities, as dictated,
in the first instance, by order of Henry VIII.
-k perfectly well known ; but it is less so that he
materially aided the work of the Reformers.
In 1674 a stone tower, surmounted in the Scoto-
Dutch taste by a conical spire of wood and metal,
was erected at the west end; and in 1681 a clock
was added thereto.
The English advanced, and took possession of
Leith immediately after the battIe of Pinkie, and
remained there for some days, after failing in their
unsuccessful attempt on Edinburgh. During that
time the Earl of Huntly and many other Scottish
prisoners of every rank and degree were confined
in St Mary?s Church, while treating for their ransom,
?The cruelty,? says Tytler, ?? of the slaughter at
Pinkie, and the subsequent severities at Leith,
excited universal indignation ; and the idea that a
Free country was to be compelled into a pacific
matrimonial alliance, amid the groans of its dying
citizens and the flames of its seaports, was revolting
snd absurd.? ?
,

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Leith! THE REV. JOHN LOGAN.
The first Protestant minister of Leith, at the
settlement of the Reformation in 1560, was David
Lindsay, who was Moderator of the Assembly in
1557and 1582, andwho, in the year 1573,attended
Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange on the scaffold.
He accompanied James VI. to Norway, married
him to Anne of Denmark, and baptised their sons :
the Prince Henry, who died young, and the Duke
of Albany, afterwards Charles I. So early as 1597
his inclination to episcopacy alienated him from
his Presbyterian brethren; and in 1600, as a reward
for aiding the king in defence of his royal prerogative,
he was made Bishop of Ross.
He was one of the only two clergymen in all
Scotland who, at the royal command, prayed for
the friendless and defenceless Mary. He died at
Leith in 1613, in his eighty-thud year, and, says
Spottiswood, was buried there ?by his own directions,
as desiring to rest with the people on whom
he had taken great pains during his life.? He was
the lineal descendant of Sir Walter Lindsay of
Edzell, who fell at Flodden.
Walter, first Earl of Buccleuch, commander of
a Scottish regiment under the States of Holland,
having died in London in the winter of 1634, his
body was embalmed, and sent home by sea in a
Kirkcaldy ship, which, after being sorely tempesttossed
and driven to the coast of Norway, reached
Leith in the June of the following year, when the
earl?s remains were placed jn St Mary?s church,
where they lay for twenty days, till the Clan Scott
mustered, and a grand funeral was accorded them
at Hawick, the heraldic magnificence of which
had rarely been seen in Scotland, while the
mourning trumpets wailed along the banks of the
Teviot. A black velvet pall, powdered with silver
tears, covered the coffin, whereon lay ?the defunct?s
helmet and coronet, overlaid with cypress, to show
that he had been a soldier.?
It was not until 1609 that St. Maryk was constituted
by Act of Parliament a parish chuch, and
invested with all the revenues and pertinents of
Xestalrig,
When the troops of Cromwell occupied Leith,
as the parish registers record, Major Pearson, the
town major of the garrison, by order of Timothy
-Wi&es, the English governor-depute, went to James
Stevenson, the kirk treasurer,and demanded the keys
of St. Mary?s, informing him that no Scots minister
was to preach till further orders ; so eventually the
people had to hear. sermons on the Links, with
difficulty getting the gates open, from seven in the
morning till two in the afternoon on Sunday.
In 1656 they sent a petition to Cromwell in
England, praying him ?to restore the church; as
there is no place to meet in but the open fields.?
To this petition no answer seems to have been
returned; but during this period there are, says
Robertson, in his ?Antiquities of Leith,? iqdications
that Oliver?s own chaplains, and even his officers,
conducted services in St. Mary?s church. ?It has
often been asserted,? he adds, ?that at this time
St. Mary?s was converted into a stable to accommodate
the steeds of the troopers of Cromwell j it
has been added, a company of his Ironsides, with
their right hands (i.e., their horses), abased the
temple.? No authority exists for this, save vague
tradition, to which the reader may attach what importance
he may deem fit.?
Previous to the Revolution of 1688 a separation
of the congregation is recorded in the church at
Leith, those who adhered to prelacy occupying the
latter, while the pure Presbyterians formed a separate
party at the Meeting-House Green, ne& the
Sheriff (Shirra) Brae. The latter, belonging to North
as well as South Leith, were permitted to meet
there for prayer and sermon, by special permission
of King James in 1687, Mr. William Wishart being
chosen minister of that congregation.
The Rev. John Logan, the author of various
poetical works, but known as the inglorious and
but lately-detected pirate of some manuscripts of
Michael Bruce, the Scottish Kirk White, was
appointed minister of this church in 2773. He
was certainly a highly-gifted man ; and though his
name is, perhaps, forgotten in South Britain, he
will be remembered in Scotland as long as her
Church uses those beautiful Scripture paraphrases,
the most solemn of which is the hymn, The hour
of my departure ?s come.?
, He was the son of a small farmer near Fala, and
was born in 1748. He delivered a course of
lectures in Edinburgh with much success, and
had a tragedy called ? Runnyrnede ? acted in the
theatre there, when, fortunately for him, the times
were somewhat changed from those when the
production of Home?s ?? Douglas ? excited such a
grotesque ferment ~ in the Scottish Church. He
became latterly addicted to intemperance, the
result of great mental depression, and, proceeding
to London, lived by literary labour bf various
kinds, but did not long survive his transference
to the metropolis, as he died in a lodging in Great
Marlborough Street on the 28th December, 1288.
In the burying-ground attached to St. Mary?s,
John Home, the author of ?Douglas? and other
literary works, a native of Leith, was interred in
September, 1808.
In 1848, during the ri9.m~ of George Aldiston
Machen, fourth Provost of Leith, the old church

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325 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Bristo Sheet.
g died; but Scotland was not then, nor for long
after, susjected to the incessant immigration of the
Irish poor, The government of this house was
vested in ninety-six persons, who met quarterly,
and fifteen managers, who met weekly. There
were also a treasurer, chaplain, surgeon, and other
officials.
This unsightly edifice survived the Darien House
for some years, but was eventually removed to
make way for the handsome street in a line with
George IV. Bridge, containing the Edinburgh Rifle
Volunteer Hall, and the hall of the Odd Fellows.
At the acute angle between Forrest Road and
Bristo Street is the New North Free Church,
erected in 1846. It presents Gothic fronts to both
thoroughfares, and, has a massive projecting front
basement, adorned with a small Gothic arcade.
In 1764 we first hear of something like a trade
strike, when a great number of journeyman masons
met in July in Bristo Park (on the open side of
the street, near Lord ROSS?S house), where they
formed a combination ?not to work in the ensuing
week unless their wages were augmented. This,
it seems, they communicated to their masters on
Saturday night, but had no satisfactory answer.
Yestcrday morning they came to work, but finding
no hopes of an augmentation, they all, with one
consent, went oft The same evening the mastermasons
of the city, Canongate, Leith, and suburbs,
met in order to concert what measures may be
proper to be taken in this affair.? (Edin. Adnert.,
They resolved not to increase the wages of the
men, and to take legal advice ?to prevent undue
combinations, which are attended with many bad
effects.? The sequel we have no means of knowing.
The same print quoted records a strike among the
sweeps, or tronmen, in the same park, and elsewhere
adds that ? an old soldier has lately come to town
who sweeps chimneys after the English manner,
which has so disgusted the society cif chimneysweepers
that they refuse to sweep any unless this
man is obliged to leave the town, upon which a
number of them have been put in prison to-day.
They need not be afraid of this old soldier taking
the bread from them, as few chimneys in this place
will admit of a man going through.them.? (Edin.
Adverf., Vol. 111.)
In the Bristo Port, or that portion of the street
so called, stood long the Old George Inn, from
whence the coaches, about 1788, were wont to set
forth for Carlisle and London, three weekly-fare
to the former, AI IOS., to the latter, A3 10s. 6dand
from whence, till nearly the railway era, the
waggons were despatched every lawful day to
Vol. 11.)
London and all parts of England ; ?? also every day
to Greenock, Glasgow, and the west of Scotland.?
Southward of where .this inn stood is now St.
Mary?s Roman Catholic school, formerly a church,
built in 1839. It is a pinnacled Gothic edifice, and
was originally dedicated to St Patrick, but was
superseded in 1856, when the great church in the
Cowgate was secured by the Bishop of Edinburgh.
Lothian Street opens eastward from this point
In a gloomy mZ-de-sac on its northern side is a
circular edifice, named Brighton Chapel, built in
1835, and seated for 1,257 persons. Originally, it
was occupied by a relief congregation. The continuation
of the thoroughfare eastward leads to
College Street, in which we find a large United
Presbyterian church.
In a court off the east side of Bristo Street, a few
yards south from the east end.of Teviot Row, is
another church belonging to the same community,
which superseded the oldest dissenting Presbyterian
church in Edinburgh. In a recently-published
history of this edifice, we are told that early in the
century, ?when the old church was pulled down,
within the heavy canopy of the pulpit ? (the sounding-
board) ?( were found three or four skeletons of
horses? heads, and underneath the pulpit platform
about twenty more. It was conjectured that they
had been placed there from some notion that the
acoustics of the place would be improved.?
The church was built in 1802, at a cost of
&,o84, and was enlarged afterwards, at a further
cost of A1,515, and interiorly renovated in 1872
for A~,300. It is a neat and very spacious edifice,
and was long famous for the ministry of the Rev.
Dr. James Peddie, who was ordained as a pastor of
that congregation on the 3rd April, 1783. On his
election, a large body of the sitters withdrew, and
formed themselves into the Associate Congregation
of Rose Street, of which the Rev. Dr. Hall
subsequently became minister ; but the Bristo
Street congregation rapidly recruited its numbers
under the pastoral labours of Dr. Peddie, and from
that time has been in a most flourishing condition.
In 1778, when six years of age, Sir Walter Scott
attended the school of Mr. Johu Luckmore, in
Hamilton?s Entry, off Bristo Street, a worthy preceptor,
who was much esteemed by his father, the
old Writer to the Signet, with whom he was for
many years a weekly guest. The school-house,
though considerably dilapidated, still exists, and
is occupied as a blacksmith?s shop. It is a small
cottage-like building with a red-tiled roof, situated
on the right-hand side of the court called Hamilton?s
Entry, No. 36, Bristo Street. As to the identity of
the edifice there can be no doubt, as it was

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Leith] ST. NINIAN?S CHAPEL 251
the eighty-seventh year of his age, and was able
to transact business until a very short time before
his death. He was succeeded in the baronetcy
by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Gladstone, of Fasque
and Balfour, M.P. for Queenborough and other
places successively in England.
Gladstone Place, near the Links, has been
so named in honour of this family.
From the top of the Sheriff Brae and Mill Lane,
Great Junction Street, a broad and spacious
thoroughfare, extends eastward for the distance of
two thousand feet to the foot of Leith Walk.
Here, on the south side, are the United Presbyterian
church, the neat Methodist chapel, and a
large and handsome edifice erected in 1839 as a
school, and liberally endowed by Dr. Bell, founder
of the Madras system of education, at a cost of
f;IO,OOO.
C H A P T E R X X V I I I ,
NORTH LEITH.
The Chapel and Church of St. NiniaPParish Created-Its Records-Rev. George Wishart-Rev. John Knox-Rev. Dr. Johnston-The Burial-
Ground-New North Leith ChurchlFree Church-Old Grammar SchoolXobourg Street-St. Nicholas Church-The Citadel-Its
Remains-Houses within k--Beach and Sands of North Leith-New Custom How-Shipping Inwards and Outwards.
ON crossing the river we find ourselves in North
Leith, which is thus described by Kincaid in
?787 :-
? With regard to North Leith, very little alteration
has taken place here for a century past. It consists
of one street running north-east from the bridge,
six hundred feet long, and about forty in breadth
where broadest. On each side are many narrow
lanesand closes, those on the south side leading
down to the carpenters? yards by the side of the
river, and those on the north to the gardens belonging
to the inhabitants. From the bridge a
road leads to the citadel, in length 520 feet ; then
IOO feet west, and we enter the remains of the old
fortification, on the top of which a dwelling-house
is now erected. The buiIdings in this place are in
general very mean in their appearance, and inhabited
by peopIe who let rooms during the summer
season to persons who bathe in the salt water.?
One of the leading features of North Leith, when
viewed from any point of view, is the quaint spire
of its.old church, on the west bank of the river,
near the end of the upper drawbridge, abandoned
now to secular purposes, separated from its ancient
burying-ground (which still remains, With its many
tombstones, half sunk amid the long rank grass
of ages), and lifting its withered and storm-worn
outline, as if in deprecation of the squalor by which
it is surrounded, and the neglect and contumely
heaped on its venerable history.
North Leith, which contains the first, or original
docks, and anciently comprehended the citadel
and the chief seat of traffic, was long a congeries
of low, quaint-looking old houses, huddled
into groups or irregular lines, and straddling their
way amid nuisances in back and front, very much
the style of a Spanish or Portuguese town of the
present day; but since 1818 it has undergone great
and renovating changes, and, besides being disenambered
of the citadel and masses of crumbling
houses, it has some streets that may vie with the
second or third thoroughfares of Edinburgh.
As stated in our general history of Leith, Robert
Ballantyne, Abbot of Holyrood, towards the close
of the fifteenth century, built a handsome bridge
of three stone arches over the Water of Leith, to
connect the southern with the northern quarter of
the rising seaport, and so011 after its completion he
erected and endowed near its northern end a chapel,
dedicated to the honour of God, the Virgin Mary,
and St. Ninian, the apostle of Galloway, Having
considerable possessions in Leith, ?he abbot a p
pointed two. chaplains to officiate in this chapel,
who were ta receive all the profits accruing from a
house which he had built at the southern end of
this bridge, with A4 yearly out of other tenements
he possessed in South Leith.
In addition to the offerings made in the chapel,
the tolls or duties accruing from this new bridge
were to be employed in its repair and that of the
chapel, but all surplus the charitable abbot ordained
was to be given to the poor; and this charter of
foundation was confirmed by James IV., of gallant
memory, on the 1st of January, 1493. (Maitland.)
This chapel was built with the full consent of
the Chapter of Holyrood, and with the approbation
of William, Archbishop of St Andrews ; and-as a.
dependency of the church of the Holy Crossthe
land whereon it stood is termed the Rudest&
in a charter of Queen Mary, dated 1569.

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THE OLD TOWN. I9
Some one (Sir James Mackintosh perhaps) said of George Street, in the
New Town, that the backwardness of the physicians (by their too retiring
Sugeons’ Hall) and the forwardness of the clergy (by their too protuberant
St. Andrew‘s Church) had spoiIed the finest street in Europe; but what
comparison between George Street, with the proud pillar at one end and the
prouder dome at the other, and the main street of the Old Town, which, when
it soars, it is into a CastIe, and when it stoops, it is into a Palace 1 Entering
the Queen’s Park at Holyrood, and passing St. Margaret’s Well, we reach St.
Anthony’s Chapel, situated on a rocky eminence overlooking St. Margaret’s
Loch and St. Anthony’s Well.
Returning to the College, we may be permitted to take it, appropriately
enough, as the starting-point for our brief excursus 02 the celebrities of the.
Scottish Metropolis. Brief and general it must necessarily be. On the

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388 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
case was his philosophy so likely to break down, as on such an occurrence
as this,
Presuming on a slight acquaintance, two or three farmers of the neighbourhood
called one day, just in the nick of time to sit down to dinner, in expectation
of receiving a familiar welcome. The Commissioner was not to be done.
He received them in such a high-bred style of formality, that his unwelcome
visitors felt completely nonplussed, and were glad to escape from his presence.
Having thus bowed, his intruders, first out of countenance, then out of doors,
he sat down solus to enjoy his refection.
At a very advanced period of life, and after enduring much pain, he submitted
to the operation of lithotomy, which he bore with his wonted fortitude.
This was performed by the well-known Sandy Wood, who, with the kindest
anxiety remained in the house many hours afterwards, swearing he would
shoot the servants through the head if they made the smallest noise, or even
approached the patient's room. His great fear was that the Captain might
fever, which, happily, he did not. Soon afterwards, Mr. Reid called ; and the
Captain, though extremely weak, drew out the stone from his pillow, and
holding it up in triumph-" Here !" said he, " here is the scoundrel that has
been torturing me for years."
Mr. Edgar recovered his health, and lived to enjoy his harmless recreations
for several years afterwards. He died in 1799, much regretted, especially
about Lasswade, where his singularities were best known.
No. CLIV.
REV. DR THOMAS DAVIDSON,
LATE OF THE TOLBOOTH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
THIS gentleman's own name was Randall, Davidson having been assumed by
him on his accession to his uncle's' property of Muirhouse, situated in the
parish of Cramond, and shire of Edinburgh. He was the son of the Bey.
Thomas Randall, minister of Inchture (afterwards one of the ministers of Stirling),
whose father and grandfather were also clergymen of the Church of Scotland.
MR. DAVIDSOwNa s born at Inchture in 1747, and passed through the
academical classes at the College of Glasgow. He afterwards studied for a
short time at the University of Leyden, where his attention was more particularly
devoted to Biblical criticism.
i
William Davidson, for many years a considerable merchant in Rotterdam. He bought the
property of Muirhouse in 1776 from Robert Watson, whose ancestor, an Edinburgh trader, had
acquired the estate towards the end of the seventeenth century.

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386 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
An aisle appears to have bLen added at a later period to the south of the two last
chapels, the beautifully groined roof bf which was fully as rich as any portion of the choir.
This appears to be the chapel referred to in a I‘ charter of confitmation of a mortification
by Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Knight, Provost of Edinburgh, to ane altarage of St
Gilles Kirk,” dated 17th August 1513; by which he founded a “ chaplainry in the New
Chapel, near the south-western corner of the church, in honour of God, the Virgin xarj+,
and Gabriel the Archangel.” ’ It consisted of two arches extending between the porch
and the south transept, and in the south wall, between the two windows, a beautiful altar
tomb was constructed under a deep recess, on which a recumbent figure had, no doubt, been
originally placed, although it probably disappeared along with the statues, and other ancient ’
decorations, that fell a prey to the reforming zeal of 1559, when ‘( The Black and Gray
Freris of Edinburgh were demolissed and castin doun aluterlie, and all the chepellis and
collegis about the said burgh, with thair zairds, were in lykwyise distfoyit ; and the images
and altaris of Banctgeilis kirk distroyit and brint, be the Erlis bf Ergyle ahd Glencarne,
the pryour of Sanctandrois and Lord Ruthvene, callit the cotlgregatioun.” The principal
ornaments of this fine tomb suggest its having been erected for some eminent ecclesiastic.
Underneath the corbels from which the crocketed arch spriugs, two shields are cut, bearing
the emblems of our Saviour’s passion, the one on the right having the nails, spear, and
teed with the sponge, and the other the pillar and scourges. The pinnacle with which the
arch terminates is adorned with the beautiful emblem of a heart within the crown of
thorns, and on eithei- side of it a lion and dragon are sculptured as snpportercl, On the
top of this an ornamental corbel €ormerly supported a clustered pillar, from the capital of
which the rich groining of the roof spread out its fan-like limbs towards the fine bosses of
the centre key-stones. All this, however, which combined to form one of the finest and
most unique features of the Old Church, has been sacrificed to secure that undesirable
uniformity which ruins the Gothic designs of’ modern architects, and is scarcely ever found
in the best ancient examples. One-half of the aisle has been demolished, and a wall built
across where the clustered pillar formerly supported the beautiful roof of the chapel, in order
to give it the appeatance externally of an aisle to the south transept. The altar tomb
has been removed in a mutilated state to this fragment of the ancient chapel, now degraded
to the mean oEce of a staircase to the Montrose aisle on the east side of the same
transept, which, with a floor half way up its ancient pillars, serves for a vestry to the Old
Church.
On the north side of the nave a range of chapels appears to have been added at a somewhat
later date than those built on the south side in 1387, judging from the style of ornament
and particularly the rich groining of the roof. These consisted of two small chapels
on each aide of the ancient Norman porch, while above it there was an apartment known
as the Priest’s Room. This had, no doubt, served as a vestry for some of the clergy officiating
at the numerous altars of the church, though Maitland gives it the name of the
Priest’s Prison, as the place of durance in olden times for culprits who had incurred the
1 Inventar of Pious Donationa M.8. Ad. Lib. Alexander Lauder filled the oflice of Provost in the years 1bOj-3,
and again in 1508-10. The Earl of Angus waa the Provost in 1513, and marched with the burgher fmcd t6 Flodden
Field.
9 Maitland, p. 271. Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. ’269.

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DALMENY. 85
a castle famous in traditional lore as the birthplace of Cromwell’s mother,
and which the ‘Protector’ is said to have visited during his invasion of the
nation; in like manner Dundas Hill with its wonderful range of basaltic
columns, eight hundred feet high and two hundred broad; and Blackness
away in the distance, the state prison of a former age, darkly looming on a
narrow point of land jutting out into the Firth, the ancient harbour of
Linlithgow-
‘ Where Rome’s strong galleys found a safe retreat,
-all these may be taken as forming remarkable and deeply interesting features
in the landscape, of which Queensferry may be regarded as the standpoint,
and’ lending a charm and aitractiveness to the place which in itself it would
not possess.
And Commerce moored her richly-freighted fleet ;’
DALMENY.
Joumeying eastward through a beautifully diversified district, of undulating
character and great fertility, we enter this parish. Like Queensferry, it
lies in the county of Linlithgow, is well enclosed, finely wooded, and richly
cultivated, and now embraces Auldcathy within its area, which was formerly
an independent parish. There are in it also one or two quarries of excellent
freestone, which have long been very remuneratively worked, and are even
yet far from being exhausted.
Of the village which takes the name of the parish very little need be said.
It is just such a wral village as is frequently to be met with in the country
districts of Scotland. It is chiefly remarkable for its-fine 016 church,
which is in the Saxon style of architecture, and has long been justly
admired. Its apse, or semicircular recess, with its semicircular windows and
semi-vaulted dome, is regarded as the best and most perfect specimen of this
ancient kind of structure now existing in Scotland. Perhaps we may add
that in the church of the next parish, Kirkliston, there is likewise an interesting
relic of this same order of edifice, in the form of a circular doorway, in a good
state of preservation.
A very noticeable feature of this district is that, within so narrow a compass,
comparatively, there should be found adorning it the stately seats of so
many families of distinction. Here we have Craigie Hall, a handsome old
mansion, inviting to peace and retirement by the deep quiet and sage serenity
of its aspect : there Dundas Castle, a massive and substantial structure of

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Links, he came regularly every Saturday and played at what are termed the
s h t holes; and to the last he continued to dine regularly with the Society at
their weekly and quarterly meetings.
Of Mr. Braidwood‘s good nature and social humour, the following instance
is told. At a convivial meeting of the Golfing Society at Bruntsfield Links on
one occasion, a Mr. Megget-one of the members, and a good golfer-took
offence at something Mr. Braidwood had said. Being highly incensed, he desired
the latter to follow him to the Links, and he “would do for him.” Without
at all disturbing himself, Mr. Braidwood pleasantly replied, ‘‘ Mr. Megget,
if you will be so good as go to the Links and wait till I come, I will be very
much obliged to you.” This produced a general burst of laughter, in which
his antagonist could not refrain from joining; and it had the effect of restoring
him to good humour for the remainder of the evening.
Mr. Braidwood was a member of the Xpendthw)? CZub, so called in ridicule of
the very moderate indulgence of its members j and he was one of the four B’s-
“ Bryce, Bisset, Baxter, and Braidwood”-who, after attending church during
the forenoon service, generally devoted the latter part of the day, if the weather
was fine, to a quiet stroll into the country.’ Several others joined the B s
in their “Sunday walks.” Mr. Smellie, and the late Mr. Adam Pearson,
Secretary of Excise, were frequently of the party. They usually met at the
Royal Exchange, immediately on the dismissal of the forenoon church ; and, as
suggested by Mr. Braidwood, their plan was always to walk in the direction
from whence the wind blew, as by that means they avoided the smoke of the
city both in going and returning.
Mr. Braidwood was a captain of the Edinburgh Volunteers, and entered with
great spirit into the military proceedings of the civic warriors, Not satisfied
with the prosperity he had experienced as a cabinet-maker, he latterly began to
speculate in the working’ of quarries ; and contracted for buildings not only in
Scotland but in England. In these, however, he fell so far short of the success
anticipated, as to occasion a considerable diminution of the wealth he had previously
acquired.
Mr. Braidwood’ married a Miss lfitchell, daughter of a brewer in Leith.
At his death, which occurred about the year 1827, he left two sons’ and two
daughters.
The brother e&?rs of Nome of the B’s were not a little dissatisfied at being so frequently left to
officiate singly at the church-doors in the afternoons.
His brother, Mr. William Braidwood, NBS long manager of the Caledonian Insurance Company,
and for upwards of forty years one of the pastors of the Baptist congregation, which then met in
the Pleasance. He died in 1830, universally esteemed by all who knew him as a man of great moral
worth, and exemplary in all the duties of life. He was the author of several valuable religious
publicationa, among which were Letters to Dr. Chalmers regarding his address to the inhabitants of
the parish of Kdmeny.
James, the eldest son, who, at the hazard of his life, distinguished himself so much during the
great fires in Edinburgh in 1824-and for which he was deservedly and widely applauded-was
chosen superintendent of the fire-engines in London ; where his conduct was such as to call forth
the merited eulogium of all who ever witnessed his daring and praiseworthy exertions for the preservation
of life and property. William, the youngest, settled in America, and the two daughters
in Edinburgh.

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Greyfriars Church.] DR ERSKINE. 379
I manhood was a sitter in the Old Greyfriars, and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott,? says an old tutor of
Sir Walter, writing to Lockhart, ? every Sabbath,
when well and at home, attended with their fine
young family of children and their domestic servants-
a sight so amicable and exemplary as
often to excite in my breast a glow of heart-felt
satisfaction.?
In ? Guy Mannering,? Scott introduces this old
church-now, with St. Giles?s, the most interesting
place of worship in the city-and its two most distinguished
incumbents. When Colonel Mannering
came to Edinburgh (where, as we have already
said, Romance and History march curiously side
from all quarters for the first service, a mass of
. blackened ruins. It has since been repaired at
considerable expense, adorned with several beautiful
memorial windows, the triplet one in the
south aisle being to the Scottish historian, George
Buchanan.
Among the ancient tombs within the church
were those of Sir William Oliphant, King?s Advocate,
who died in 1628 ; and of Sir David Falconer,
of Newton, Lord President of the Court of Session,
who spent the last day of his life seated on the
bench in court.
The antiquity of our Scottish churchyards, and the
care taken of them, greatly impressed Dr. Southey
strangely contrasted with a black wig, without a ?
grain of powder ; a narrow chest and stooping
posture; hands which, placed like props on each
side of the pulpit, seemed necessary rather to support
the person than to assist the gesticulation of
the preacher ; a gown (not even that of Geneva), a
tumbled band, and a gesture which seemed scarcely
voluntary, were the first circumstances which struck
a stranger.?
Dr. Erskine, previously minister of the New
Greyfriars, was the author of voluminous theological
works, which are known, perhaps, in Scotland
only. After ministering at the Greyfriars for fortyfive
years, he died in January, 1803, and was buried
in the churchyard
Principal Robertson pre-deceased him. He died
in June, 1793, in the seventy-first year of his age,
and was interred in the same burying-ground.
The Old Greyfriars was suddenly destroyed on
the morning of Sunday, 19th January, 1845, by a
fire, and presented to the startled people, assembling
greatest, grandest, and most renowned, who have
lived during a period of three hundred years.
In the year 1562 the Town Council made an
application to Queen Mary to grant them the site
and yards of the Greyfriars Monastery, to form a
a new burial-place, as ?? being somewhat distant
from the town.? Mary, in reply, granted their request
at once, and appointed the Greyfriars yard,
or garden, to be devoted in future to the use specified,
and as St Giles?s Churchyard soon after began
to be abandoned, no doubt interments here would
proceed rapidly ; all the more so that the other
burial-places of the city had become desecrated.
?? Before the Reformation,? says Wilson, ?there
were the Blackfriars Kirkyard, where the Surgical
Hospital or old High School now stands ; the
Kirk-of-Field-now occupied by the college,
Trinity College, Holyrood Abbey, St. Roque?s ?
and St. Leonard?s Kirkyards. In all these places
human bones are still found on digging to any
depth.?

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increase of itinerant preachers, attracted the notice of the General Assembly,
and, in the ‘‘ Pastoral Admonition” of next year, occasion was taken to warn
the people against such irregularities. This awakened a spirit of retaliation on
the part of Mr. Hill, who, in the month of *June 1799, made a second journey to
Scotland, apparently for no other purpose than to preach down the Assembly.’
On his arrival in Edinburgh he commenced “A Series of Letters” on the
subject, addressed to the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, which
he continued to issue during his tour through the principal towns of the north
-Dundee, Montrose, Aberdeen, Huntly, etc.’ He also visited Glasgow at
this time, where he assisted the Rev. Greville Ewing in opening the
Tabernacle in Jamaica Street. The crowd was very great, and during the
afternoon service an alarm was given that part of the building was giving way.
The people immediately rushed towards the doors and windows to get out, in
consequence of which several persons had their arms and legs broken. Fortunately
no lives were lost, and when the alarm subsided Mr. Ewing finished
the service.
After a lapse of twenty-five years, Mr. Rowland Hill paid a third and last
visit to Scotland in 1824, being then in his 80th year. He was induced to
undertake this long journey in aid of the London missions. He came to
Edinburgh by sea, and was kindly received at the house of the Rev. John
Aikman, in whose chapel he preached the following Sabbath, as well as in
the meeting-house of the Rev. Dr. Peddie. In the course of his stay, which
scarcely extended to a week, he also preached in the Tabernacle of his old
friend Mr. Haldane, and in the Recession Church, Broughton Place. From
Edinburgh he went to Glasgow, in which city he was received with enthusiasm.
From thence he proceeded to Paisley, and next to Greenock, where he continued
several days making short excursions on the mater. He then sailed by
one of the steam vessels for Liverpool ; and after preaching there, and at Manchester,
he arrived at his summer residence of Wotton, greatly delighted with
his Scottish tour, as well as pleased with his success, having made collections
to the amount of sixteen hundred pounds.
Such is a brief sketch of the Reverend gentleman’s visits to Scotland. To
all our readers his name is at least familiar ; and many anecdotes respecting him
are current throughout the country, His life, by the Rev. Edwin Sidney,
London, 1835, must also be pretty extensively known. This work, although
not strictly impartial, and displaying too much twisting and straining on the
question of Church Establishments, is nevertheless got up in an amusing style,
1 After his return to London, he waa asked one day why he called one of his carriage horses
Order and the other Decorum. “Because,” Raid the facetious preacher, “in Scotland they accuse
me of riding on the back of all order and decorum.”
Mr. Hill’s letters were afterwards printed in the form of a pamphlet, and entitled, “A Series
of Letters, occasioned by the late Pastoral Admonition of the Church of Scotland, as also their
attempts to suppresa the establishment of Sabbath Schools, addressed to the Society for Propagating
the Gospel at Home. By Rowland Hill, A.M.” Edinburgh, printed by J. Ritchie, 1799.

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CONTENTS. V
CHAPTER XV.
T H E CALTON H I L L .
e .
?AGS
Origin of the Name-Ghbet and Battery them-The Quarry Holes-The Monastery of Greenside Built-The Leper Hospita-The
Tournament Ground and Playfield-Church of Greenside-Burgh of Calton-Rev. Rowlaod Hill-Regent Bridge Built-Obscmtorp
and Asmnomical Insiituticu-Bridewell Built-Hume's TombThe Political Martyrs' Monument-The Jews' Pka of Burial-
Monument of Nelson-National Monument, and those of Stewart. Playfair, and Bums-Thc High School-Foundarion hid- . Architeke and Extent-The 0pening-lnstruct;on-Rec~n of the New SchooCLintel of the Old School-Lard Brougham's
Opinion of the Institution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I M
CHAPTER XVI.
THE NEW TOWN.
The Site before the Streets-The Lang Dykes-Wood's Farm-Dmmsheugh House-Bearfd's ParkgTbe Honsg of Easter and Wester
Coates--Gabriel's Road4hig.s Plan of the New Town-John Young builds the Fint House Therein-Extensionof the Town Weatward I I4
CHAPTER XVII.
P R I N C E S STREET,
A Glance at Society-Change of Manners, &c-The Irish Giants-Poole's Coffee-house-Shop of Constable & Co.-Weir's Museum, 1%-
The Grand Duke Nicholas-North British Insurance Life Association-Old Tar Office and New Club-Craig of Riccarton-" The
White Rose of Scotland "-St. John's Chapd-Its Tower and Vaults, &,.-The Smtt Monument and its Muscum-The Statues OP
Professor Wilrion, Allan Ramsay, Adam Bkk, Sir Jam- Sipson, and Dr. Livingstone-The General Improvements in Princes Street C 19
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBERT,
History and Antiquity-Old Views of it Described-First Protestant Incumbents-The Old Manse-Old Communion Cups-Pillaged by
Cmmwell-Ruined by the Siege of 1689, and again in 17qs-Deaths of Messls McVicar and Pitcairn-Early Bdy-suatcheni-Demolition
of the Old Church-Erection of the New- of Heart-burial4ld Tombs and Vaults-The Nisbets of Dean-The Old Poor
House-Kirkbraehead Road--Lothian Road-Dr. Candish's Church-Military Academy-New Caledonian Railway Station. . . 13r
CHAPTER XIX.
GEORGE, S T R E E T .
Major Andrew Fraser-The Father of Miss F e r r i a 4 r a n t of Kilgraston-William Blackwad a d hh Magazine-The Mcdher ol 6 i
Walter Scott-Sir John Hay, Banker-Colquhoun of Killermont-Mn. Mumy of Henderland-The Houw of Sir J. W. Gardon.
Sir James Hall. and Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster-St. Andrew's Church-Scene of the Disruption-Physicians' HalLGlaoce at the
History of the College of Physicians--Sold and Removed-The Commercial Bank-Its Constitution-Assemhly Rooms-Rules of
17+Banquet to Black Watch-"The Author of ' Waverley"'-The Music Hall-"he New Union Bank-Its Formation, &c.-The
Masonic Hall-Watson's Picture of B-Statues of George IV., Pith and C6almer$ . . . . . . . . . . J39
CHAPTER XX.
QUEEN STREET.
The Philosophical Institution-House of Baron &de-New Physickd Hall-Sir James Y. Simpsoo, M.D.-'l%e ITomse of Profcsor
Wilsn-Si John Leslie--Lord Rockville-Si James Grant of Gm-The Hopetoun Roo~m-Edinburgh Educational Inrticucim
forLadies. . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .I51
CHAPTER XXI.
THE STREETS CROSSING GEORGE STREET, AND THOSE PARALLEL WITH IT.
Row Street-Miss Bums and Bailie Creech-Sir Egerton high-Robert Pollok-Thiitle Street-The Dispmsav-Hd Street--Coont
d'Alhy-St Andrew Street-Hugo Amot-David, Earl of Buchan-St. David Street-Dad Hume-Sii Waltcr Scott and Basil
Hall-Hanover Street-Sir J. Gnham Dalyell-Offics of Associatim for the Impmmmt of the Poor--FrsdeticL Street--Gnnt d
Corrimony-Castle Street-A Dinner with Si Walter h a - S h o e of Rubiw-Mwey Napier4h.de Street and Charlotte Street . 158

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 281
In 1824 Dr. Hall assisted at the dispensation of the Lord‘s Supper in his
old place of worship in Cumnock. As this was his first and only visit, from
the time of his removal to Edinburgh in 1786-a period of thirty-eight yearsthe
occasion was one of no ordinary interest. For the following particulars
we are indebted to the communication of a friend :-
“ I met him at the Coach-office, on his arrival from Edinburgh, and walked with him tb my
house. On reaching the bridge over the far-famed Lugar, he stood entranced, as it were, and
would not move, till, in thoughtful silence, he enjoyed for a time the scene on which, as he said,
his eye in youth had so often rested with delight He abode with me a week, nearly the whole
of which, excepting the time devoted to religious services, we spent in visiting scenes with
which he had been formerly familiar. In our walks he
seemed keenly to recall former associations. On one occasion, as we walked along the banks
of the Lugar, in a very lovely dell, he exclaimed-‘ Oh, I remember that stone ! (alluding to a
large stone in the bed of the river). Time has produced no change on it ; but (turning round,
he added) these trees have grown beyond my knowledge.’ We called on such of the old people
as had been members of his congregation, and on the descendants of others. He seemed to feel,
and, in tones which were peculiar to his manner, expressed a deep interest in them. The
daughter of a valued friend, who had long ago descended into the grave, we found lying on a
bed of sickness. He prayed ; and, on takiug leave, affectionately kissed her, as he said, for her
father’s sake. In-the course of our conversations, he told me that during his residence here he
had made himself master of the theology of the Cromwellian age; from which, as it seems to
me, his style of preaching, in all probability, derived much of that raciness for which he was so
much distinguished.
Nor
was the exercise of this esteem confined to the beople who enjoyed the benefit of his ministry.
Among others who sought and cultivated his friendship, may be mentioned the late Lord and
Lady Dumfries, who often entertained him at their table, and in return visited him-a circumstance
not common between dissenting ministers and persons of their rank
A few of these are very picturesque.
“ Dr. Hall was a highly popular and much esteemed miniiter while he laboured here.
Dr. Hall died on the morning of November 28, 1826, in the seventy-first
year of his age, and fiftieth of his ministry. He suffered much during the continuance
of his trouble; but he bore his affliction with exemplary fortitude
aod resignation. The interest it excited was
obvious at his funeral, and especially at the appropriate sermon preached in his
church on the subsequent Sabbath, by the Rev. John Brown (who had succeeded
him in Rose Street), when at least two-thirds of the vast multitude that
appeared solicitous to hear it were unable to gain admission.
Among other affairs of moment affecting the prosperity of the church that
deeply engaged the attention of the Doctor, was the long-wished-for union of
the two great dissenting bodies in Scotland ; and no one rejoiced more than he
did at its accomplishment. At his death he was father of his Presbytery,
and had the satisfaction of being Convener of the Committee of the United
Synod for preparing the “Testimony,” which has since been issued by that
body.
In Broughton Place Church a handsome tablet is erected to his memory.
His death was deeply regretted.
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Leith.] THE TOLBOOTH WYND. 1 0
marrow alley adjoining the latter, a house bearing
the date 1688 has the two legends, ?Feir the
Lord,? and ?The feir of the Lord is the beginning
of a1 wisdome.?
This part of the town-about the foot of St.
Andrew?s Street-is said to have borne anciently
the name of St. Leonard?s. There the Street
diverges into two alleys : one narrow and gloomy,
which bears the imposing title of Parliament Court ;
and the other called Sheephead Wynd, in which
there remains a very ancient edifice, the ground
floor of which is formed of arches constructed like
those of the old house described in the Kirkgate,
and bearing the date 1579, with the initials D. W.,
M. W. Though small and greatly dilapidated, it
is ornamented with string-courses and mouldings ;
and it was not without some traces of old importance
and grandeur amid its decay and degradation,
until it was entirely altered in 1859.
This house is said to have received the local
name of the Gun Stone, from the circumstance of
a stone cannon ball of considerable size having
been fired into it during some invasion by an
English ship of war. Local tradition avers that
for many years this bullet formed an ornament on
the summit of the square projecting staircase of
the house.
Near Cable?s Wynd, which adjoins this alley, and
between it and King Street, at a spot called
Meeting-house Green, are the relics of a building
formerly used as a place of worship, and although
it does not date farther back than the Revolution
.of 1688, it is oddly enough called ?John Knox?s
Church.?
The records of South Leith parish bear that in
1692, ?? the magistrates of Edinburgh, and members
of the Presbytery there, with a confused company
of the people, entered the church by breaking open
the locks of the doors and putting on new ones,
and so caused guard the church doors with halberts,
rang the bells, and possessed Mr. Wishart of
the church, against which all irregular proceedings
public protests were taken.?
Previous to this he would seem to have officiated
in a kind of chapel-of-ease established near Cable?s
Wynd, by permission of James VII. in 1687.
Soon after the forcible induction recorded, he
came to the church with a guard of halberdiers,
accompanied by the magistrates of Leith, and took
possession of the Session House, compelling the
? prelatick Session ? to hold their meeting in the
adjacent Kantore. More unseemly matters followed,
for in December of the year 1692, when a
meeting was held in South Leith Church to hear
any objections that might be niade against the legal
induction of the Rev. Mr. Wishart, an adherent of
Mr. Kay, ?? one of the prelatick incumbents,? protested
loudly against the whole proceedings.
Upon this, ?Mr. Livingstone, a brewer at the
Craigend (or Calton), rose up, and, in presence of
the Presbytery, did most violently fall upon the
commissioner, and buffeted him and nipped his
cheeks, and had many base expressions to him.?
Others now fell on the luckless commissioner,
who was ultimately thrust into the Tolbooth of
Leith by a magistrate, for daring to do that which
the Presbytery had suggested. Mr. Kay?s session
were next driven out of the Kantore, on the door
of which another lock was placed.
It has been supposed that the ousted episcopal
incumbent formed his adherents into a small congregation,
as he remained long iu Leith, and died
at his house in the Yardheads there so lately as
November, 1719, in the seventieth year of his age.
His successor, tile Rev. Robert Forbes, was minister
of an episcopal chapel in Leith, according to an
anonymous writer, ?? very shortly after Mr: Kay?s
death, and records a baptism as having been performed
? in my room in ye Yardheads.? ?
The history of the Meeting-house near Cable?s
Wynd is rather obscure, but it seems to have been
generally used as a place of worship. The last
occasion was during a visit of John Wesley, the
great founder of Methodism. He was announced
to preach in it; but so grcat a concourse of people
assembled, that the edifice was incapable of accommodating
them, so he addressed the multitude
on the Meeting-house Green. LI house near it,
says The Srofsinan in 1879, is pointed out as ?the
Manse.?
The Tolbooth TVynd is about five hundred an&
fifty feet in length, from where the old signal-tower
stood, at the foot of the Kirkgate, to the site of a
now removed building called Old Babylon, which
stood upon the Shore.
The second old thoroughfare of Leith was undoubtedly
the picturesque Tolbooth Wynd, as the
principal approach to the harbour, after it superseded
the more ancient Burgess Close.
It was down this street that, in the age when
Leith was noted for its dark superstitions and eccentric
inhabitants, the denizens therein, regularly
on stormy nights or those preceding a storm,
heard with horror, at midnight, the thundering
noise of ?the twelve o?clock coach,? a great oatafalque-
looking vehicle, driven by a tall, gaunt figure
without a head, drawn by black horses, also headless,
and supposed to be occupied by a mysterious
female.
Near the eastern end of the wynd there stood
,

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kii PR EFA CE.
recbrds’, as well as to niany others, whose obliging assistance has in vaGous ways lightened
the labour of the work. In
searching for the charters and title-deeds of old mansions, by which alone accurate and
trustworthy information could in many cases be obtained, I have met with the frankest
co-operation from strangers, to whom my sole introduction was the object of research i
while the just appreciation of such courtesy has been kept alive by the surly or supercilious
rebuffs with which I was occasionally arrested in similar inquiries. Some of the latter have
been amusing enough. On one occasion access to certain title-deeds of an ancient property
was denied in a very abrupt manner, while curiosity was whetted meanwhile by the information,
somewhat testily volunteered, that the deeds were both ancient and very curious.
All attempts to mollify the dragon who guarded these antiquarian treasures proving
unavailing, the search had to be abandoned ; but I learned afterwards, that the old tenement
which had excited my curiosity-and which, except to an antiquary, seemed hardly
worth a groat-was then the subject of litigation between two Canadian clairnanh to’ the
heirship of the deceased Scottish laird; and the unconscious archEeologist had been set
down as the agent of some Yankee branch of the Quirk-Gammon-and-Snap school of legal
practitioners I
If is impossible, indeed, to do more than allude to these.
In acknowledging the assistance I have been favoured with, I must not omit to notice
that of my friend Mr Jamea Drummond, A.R.S.A., to whose able pencil the readers owe
the view in the interior of St Giles’s Church, which forms the vignette at the head of the
last chapter. To the Rev. John Sime, I am also indebted for the drawing of the groundplan
of St Giles’s Church, previous to the recent alterations, an engraving of which illustrates
the Appendix ; and to the very accurate. pencil of Mr William Douglas, for several
of the inscriptions which illustrate that peculiar feature of our ancient buildings. The
remainder of the vignettes are from my own sketches, unless where other sources are stated,
and for the correctness of these I am responsible, nearly the whole of them having been
drawn on the wood with my own hand.
- It may be desirable to state, that the historical sketch comprised in the first seven
chapters of the Work was written, and heady all through the press, before I found t h e to
arrange a large collection of materials in the form in which they are now presented in the
Second Part. I have accordingly, in one or two cases, somewhat modified my earlier views.
The opinion expressed on p. 50, for example, as to the total destruction of the whole private
buildings of the town in 1544, I am now.shtisfied is erroneous,’-and various edifices are

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56 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holyrood.
thirty-two days. He was then brought forth, nude,
in presence of a multitude, who regarded him with
fear and wonder, and to whom he affirmed ?that
by the aid of the Blessed Virgin, he could fast as
long as he pleased.?
? As there appeared to be more simplicity than
guile in his bchaviour, he was released, and. afterwards
went to Rome, where he fasted long enough
to convince Pope Gregory of the miracte. From
Holyrudhous f but the days of its declension an&
destruction were at hand.
The English army which invaded Scotland under
the Earl of Hertford, in 1543-4, barbarously burned
down the temporal edifices of the abbey; and.
among other plunder there were camed off the
brass lectern which has been already described,
and a famous brass font of curious workmanship, ?
by Sir Richard Lea, knight, captain of English
INTERIOR OF HOLYROOD CHURCH, LOOKING EAST.
Rome he went to Venice, where he received fifty
ducats of gold to convey him to Jerusalem, in performance
of a vow he had made. He returned to
Scotland in the garb of a pilgrim, wearing palmleaves,
and bearing a bag filled with Iarge stones,
which he said were taken out of the pillar to which
the Saviour was bound when he was scourged. He
became a preacher, and in an obscure suburb of
the city perfornied mass before an altar, on which
his daughter, a girl of beauty, stood with wax tapers
around her to represent the Virgin-a double impiety,
which soon brought him under the ridicule
and contempt he deserved.?
In 1532, the ? Diurnal of Occurrents ? records,
there ?was made ane great abjuration of the
favouratis of Martene Lutar in the abbey of
Pioneers, who presented it to the Church of St,
Albans, in Hertfordshire, with the following absur&
inscription, which is given in Latin in Camden?s
?? Britannia ?:-
-?When Leith, a town of good account im
Scotland, and Edinburgh, the principal city of that
nation, were on fire, Sir Richard Lea, knyght, saved
me out of the flames, and brought me to England
In gratitude for his kindness, I, who heretofore
served only at the baptism of kings, do now most
willingly render the same service even to the
meanest of the English nation. Lea the conqueror
hath so commanded ! Adieu. The year of man?s
salvation, 1543-4, in the thirty-sixth year of King
Henry VIII.?
Father Hay records that among other things

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
BIRD’BE YEV IEW OF EDINBURGH IN 1647, BY JAKEGSOR DON OF ROTHIEMAY, Front*&.
1. Ancient Carved Stone, Edinburgh Castle,
2. ANOIEZHTOT USEC, ANONHILLS,
3. Carved Stone from the Old Barrier Gate,
4, The Castle, from a Map of 1575,
5. Corbel, from St Giles’s Church,
6. The Old High Street, .
7. Ancient Houses, near the Kirk-of-Field,
8. Nary of Guelders’ Arm& from her Seal,
.
Edinburgh Caatle, . ..
. .
. 9. TRINITYC OLLEGCEE URCHF, ROM THE SOUTH-
10. Bishop Kennedy’s Arms, St Pies’s Church, .
11. The Castle, from the West Port, 1640,
12. The King’s Pillar, St Giles’s Church,
13. Ancient Padlock, dug up in the Greyfriara’
Churchyard, .
14. City Cross, ,
15. Palace of Holyrood previoua to 1554,
16. BLACKFRIARWS’Y ND, .
17. HOLYROOCDH BPELE, NTRANCE TO THE ROYAL
18. Norman Capital, Holyrood Abbey, .
19. Black Turnpike, .
20. THE GREATH ALL,T RINITYH OSPITAL,
21. Ancient Chapel, Kirkgate, Leith, .
22. Corbel from the ancient South Porch, St
Giles’s Church, .
23. ST MARY’S CHURCHS,O UTHLE ITH, .
24. HURT OF MIDLOTHIAN, .
25. Saint Qilea, from the City Seal, 1565,
26. Queen Mary’s Bath, .
27. Carved Stone in the Castle, containing the
Cipher of Queen Mary and Henry Lord
Darnley, .
WEST,
VAULT, .
28. Tower of the City Wall in the Vennel,
29. Holyrood Chapel, .
30. OLD TOLBOOTHLE, ITH,
31. The Maiden, .
32, Jenny Geddes’s Stool,.
33. DUN BAR'^ CLOSE, HIGH STREET, .
34. The Citadel, Leith, .
35. Parliament House. about 1646. .
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6
8
10
11
14
17
18
21
22
24
27
33
34
39
4b
46
47
48
54
64
64
72
73
76
77
80
81
81
86
92
97
97
. 99
36. THE GOLFER’S LAND, CANONOATE, . . 104
37. The Darien House, . . 107
PAOE
38. WEST Bow, FROM TRE CASTLE ROAD,
1843,. , 111
39. The Capital of the City Cross, 6 115
40. Interior of the Tower of the Ancient Town
Wall, in the Vennel, . . 116
41. Ancient Doorway, Halkerston’s Wynd, . 118
43. French Prisoners’ Vault in the Castle, . 126
. 44. Mouldinga of the Chancel Arch, St Margaret’s
45. Lintel from the Guiae Palace, Blyth‘a Close, . 134
46. Ancient Crow-Steps from the Mint, , . 135
47. Cipher of Ilobert Mowbry of Castlewan, .. 140
48. Gothic Niche, Kennedg’s Close, Castlehill, . 142
49. Lord Sempill’a House, Castlehill, . . 145
50. PISCINAPA, LACOFE M ARYO F GUISE,C ASTLEHILL,
. . 145
51, Oaken Front of Ancient Cupboard, from the
Guise Palace, , 147
62. Ancient Carved Doorway, do., . 148
63. EDWARDH om’a HOUSE, TODD’SC LOSE,
CASTLEHILL., . 152
54. Large Gothic Niche, Blyth’a Close, . . 154
55. Ancient Niches, Blyth’s Close, , . 155
56. ANCIENHTO USESC, ASTLEHILL, . . 156
57. Painted Oak Beam from the Guiae Chapel . 157
58. Gladstone’s Land, Lawnmarket, , . 158
59. Ancient Lintel, Lady Stair’s Close, . . 164
60, RIDDLE’SC LOSE,L AWNMABKEBTa,i lie Macmoran’s
House, . . 168
61. Ancient Corbel, from the Old Bank Close, . 172
62. OLDBANKC LOSE, , . 176
63. Carved Stone, from the Old Bank Close, . 176
64. Carved Stone, from the Old Bank Close, . 179
66. HEADOF WESTB ow, LAWNBCAEKE. T, , 183
68. TEE WEIGH-HOUSE, . . 193
70. REID’S CLOSE, CANONQATE, . . 217
71. A r m s of Edinburgh, from Common Seal of
72. House of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney. 227
73. Ancient Lintel, from Roxburgh Close, . 230
42, The Castle, about 1750, , . 121
Chapel, in the Castle, _. . 128
65. GOSFORDC’EL OSEL, AWNMARKET, . . 180
67. North Side of the Tolbooth, . . 184
69. The Old Parliament Stairs, . . 212
the City, 1561, . f . 221

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lAth.1 COBOURG STREET. 255
ing is the inscription on the pedestal-? This memorial
of David Johnston, D.D., who was for fifty-nine
years minister of North Leith, is erected by a few
private friends in affectionate and grateful remembrance
of his fervent piety, unwearied usefuhess,
and truly Christian charity.? ?
Two years after he left it, in 1826, the venerable
church of North Leith was finally abandoned to
sedular uses, and ?thus,? says the historian of
Leith, ?? the edifice which had, for ?upwards of three
hundred and thirty years, been devoted to the
sacred purposes of religion, is now the unhallowed
repository of peas and barley 1
Therein lie
the remains of Robert Nicoll, perhaps one of the
most precocious poets that Scotland has produced,
and for some time editor of the Leeds Times. He
died in Edinburgh, and was laid here in December,
Several tombstones to ancient mariners stud the
uneven turf. One bearing the nautical instruments
of an early period-the anchor, compasses, log,
Davis?s quadrant and cross-staff, with a grotesque
face and a motto now illegible-is supposed to have
been brought, with many others, from the cemetery
of St. Nicholas, when the citadel was built there by
order of Monk in 1656.
Another rather ornate tomb marks the grave of
some old ship-builder, with a pooped threedecker
having two Scottish ensigns displayed. Above it
is the legend-Trahunter. &as. mmhim, carimz,
and below an inscription of which nothing remains
but ?1749 . . aged 59 y . . .?
Another stone bears-? Here lyeth John Hunton,
who died Decon of the Weivars in North Leith, the
.25.?Ap. 1669.?
This burying-ground was granted by the city ol
Edinburgh, in 1664, as a compensation for that
appropriated by General Monk.
The new church of North Leith stands westward
of the oId in Madeira Street. Its foundation was
laid in March, 1814. It is a rather handsome building,
in a kind of Grecian style of architecture, and
was designed by William Bum, a well-known Edinburgh
architect, in the earlier years of the present
century. The front is 78& feet in breadthand
from the columns to the back wall, it measures
116 feet. It has a spire, deemed fine (though
deficient in taste), 158 feet in height.
The proportions of the fourcolumn portico are
szid by Stark to have been taken from the Ionic
Temple on the Ilyssus, near Athens. It cost aboul
~12,000, and has accommodation for above one
thousand seven hundred sitters. The living is said
to be one of the best in the Church of Scotland.
Its ancient churchyard adjoins it.
r837.
North Leith Free Church stands near it, on the
Queensfeny Road, and was built in 1858-9, from
designs by Campbell Douglas ; it is in the German
Pointed style, with a handsome steeple 160 feet
in height
In 1754, Andrew Moir, a student of divinity,
was usher of the old Grammar School in North
Leith, and in that year he published a pamphlet,
entitled ?? A Letter to the Author of the Ecclesiastic
Characteristics,? charging the divinity students
of the university with impious principles and immoral
practices. This created a great storm at the
time, and the students applied to the Principal
ewdie, who summoned the Senatus, before whom
Andrew Moir was brought on the 25th of April ;9
the same year.
He boldly acknowledged himself author of the
obnoxious pamphlet. At a second meeting, on the
30th April, he acknowledged ?that he knew no
students of divinity in the university who held the
principles, or were guilty of the practices ascribed
to some persons in the said printed letter.?
This retractatien he subscribed by his own hand,
in presence of the Principal and Senatus.
The latter taking the whole affair into their
consideration, ?? unanimously found and declared
the said letter to be a scurrilous, false, and malicious
libel, tending, without any ground, to defame
the students of the university ; and, therefore, expeZZea!
and extruded the said Andrew Moir (usher
of the Grammar School of North Leith), author of
the said pamphlet, from this university, and declared
that he is no more to be considered a
student of the same.?
In Cobourg Street, adjoining the old church of
St. Ninian, is North Leith United Presbyterian
Church, while the Free Church of St. Xinian stood
in Dock Street, on a portion of the ground occupied
by the old citadel.
In the former street is a relic of old Leitha
large square stone, representing the carpenters?
arms, within a moulded panel. It ?bears a threedecked
ship with two flags, at stem and stern.
Above it is the motto-
*? God bless fhe curjmters
of No. fiith, wlro hilt thL
Hme, 1715.?
Underneath the ship is the line Trahunter siccas
machimz canhe, said to be misquoted from Horace,
Carm : lib. i 4, where the verse runs :-
?I Solvitur a& hiems gxata vice veris et Favoni :
Trahuntquc sicraS machim carinas ;
Nec prata canis albicant pruinis.?
Ac neque jam stabuliis gandet pecus, aut aritor igni;
This stone stood originally in the wall of a man

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412 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
respective literatures. These young men are said to have entered into an agreement
to promote the advancement of one another in life to the utmost of their
power ; and though there was a degree of singularity in the compact, and perhaps
no real increase from it in the disposition to serve each other, it is certain
that individually all the three parties mentioned could ascribe important advantages
to the good offices of one or other in that association.
The merits of Mr, Baird early secured for him the friendship and patronage
of the Professors. In 1784 he was recommended by Professor Dalzel as tutor
to the family of Colonel Blair of Blair ; but this situation he relinquished on
obtaining, through the influence of his former class-fellow, Mr. Finlayson, the
more important one of minister of Dunkeld-a step which, resulting from the
honourable circumstances connected with his career at College, was the fortunate
precursor of others of greater consequence.
In 1786 Mr. Baird received license from the Presbytery of Linlithgow;
and the following year was ordained to the parish of Dunkeld, to which charge
he had been presented by the Duke of Atholl. Here he remained for several
years, living as an inmate of the Duke’s family, and at the same time superintending
the education of his Grace’s three sons, the last survivor of whom was
the late Lord Glenlyon. In 1789 he received an unsolicited presentation to
the parish of Lady Yester’s, Edinburgh, which, upon the earnest entreaty of the
Duke and Duchess of Atholl, he declined. He was transferred, however, to
the New Greyfriars’ Edinburgh in 1’792 ; and, at the same time, appointed to
the Chair of Oriental Languages in the University. In 1779 he was translated
to the New North Church, as successor to Dr. Hardie, and colleague to Dr.
Gloag ; and to the High Church, in 1801, as successor to Dr. Blair, and colleague
to Dr. Finlayson j and in this charge he officiated with Dr. Gordon as colleague.
No. CCCX
PROVOST ELDER AND PRINCIPAL BAIRD.
AN important event in the life of Dr. Baird was his appointment to the
Principality of the University of Edinburgh in 1793. The presidency of such
an institution, requiring less the vigour and enterprise of youth, than that the
established reputation of the seminary should be upheld by the wisdom of
years, naturally associates itself with grey hairs and ripened experience. The
nomination of a young man, not more than thirty-three years of age, did not
well accord with this view, and was the more offensive when it was recollected
that so venerable a person as Dr. Blab was connected with the University;

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GENERAL INDEX.
Christ?s Church at the Tron, I. 187
Christ?s Church. Castle Hill. I. 82
Chrystie family,?The, 111, 43, 45
Church Hill 111. 38, 71
Church Lad! 11. 1x5, 111. 38
Church offenders, how punished,
11.132
Ci her of Lord Damley and Queen
ham. I. ?16
C+Ls?&e,rIII. 307
Circus Place School 111. 81
Circus, The, Leith?Walk, I. 346,
Ci:adel Port Leith, 111. 257, 258,
261 ; its irection by Monk, 111.
11. 178
187 256
City ? h l e r y Volunteer Corps, I.
286
City gaol 11. 231
City gates Number of, to be open
daily ~ i . 222
city (;Lard, the Edinburgh, I. 5%
274
ment of the, 11. z$
City improvements Commence-
City of Glasgow Bant, 11. 162
Civic privileges, Insistauce on by
Civil War, First movements of, I.
Clam Shell Land I. 239
Clam Shell lurdpike, The, I. 149
Clan regiments, I. 327
Clanranald, I. 334, 11. 35, 111. 146
Clanship, Influence of, I. 134,168
Claremont Park, Leith, 111. 266
Chmont Street Chapel, 111. 75
Claremont Terrace, 111. 88
Clarence Street, 111. 78 83 84
Clarendon Crescent IIi. 7;
? Clarinda,.? 11,327: 328 ; house of,
I1 * 32. room in, 11. *333 chic02 CAmrie, 11.159
Clarke Alexander, 11. 242
Clarke: Provost Alexander, I. 193,
Clarkson Stanfield. the oainter. 111.
the citizens, 11. 280
159; events of the, 111. 184
246, 111. 72
, _ ,
78
tions, 11. 250, 111. 75
a descendant of, 11. a07
?Chudero,? the wit ; his produc-
Claverhouse, l?he spectre of, I. 66 ;
Clavering, Lady Augwta, 11. 139
Cleanliness in the streets, Necessity
?Cleanse the Causeway,? I. 39, 194,
Cleghorn, the physician, 111. 311 ;
Clelland?s Gardens, 111.152
Cleriheugh?s Tavern, I. 120, 184,
for, 1. 193, 199. 203
258, 263, 11. 251
his nephew, rb.
IR,
Cl& Sir John, I. 231 232
Clerk? John (Lord Eld$) 11. 186
Clerk?ofEldin. the ~val?tacticim.
111. 359, 3 6
Clerk 01 Penicuick, St George,
111. 359
Clerk of Pennicuick, Sir James, I.
92, 11. 123 ; his wife 11. IZ 124
125,111.192, 193; reiicsof8rinc:
Charles, 11. 124,
Clerk of Penuicuck, Si John, I.
111 11. 137 111. 63 198
Clerk: David,?physici;n, 11. agg
Clerk Street Chapel 111. 51
Clerks, Society of, i. 167
Clermistou, 111. r q
Clestram Lady I. 106
Cleuchdidstode 111. 33?
Clifton Walter df 11. 50
Clinch? the actor, ?I. 352
Clock&.ker, The first, 11. 263
Clockmaker?s Land, I. 31p. *321
Clockmill House, 11.41, 308
Closes, The old, 11. 241, 242
?Clouts Castle of? 11. 355
Clyde Lord 11. 3;3
Clydeidale Bank, The, II.148,III.
239
Coaches between Edinburgh and
London, I. 55; between Edinburgh
and Glasgow I. 201 between
Edinburghan?d hith,?IIl.
151, 152 Coal Supposed existence of, near
Gkton, 111. 308 ; the Esk coalseams,
111. 358,359
Coal Hill, Leith, 111. 234, 235.246,
247. 250
Coalstoun, Lord, I. 154, 111. 367 ;
anecdote of I. 154
Coates, 11.24, zIr, III. 42, gz
Coates Crescent, 11. 210, 2x1
Coates Gardens, 11. 214
Coates House 11. 1x1 259
Coates Manoi-house i f haster, 11.
Coatfield Gutter, Leith, 111. 194
Coatfield Lane, Leith, 111. ZZO,ZZI
Cobbler A clever I. 271
CobouriStreet,L;iyh,III.~5,256;
sculptured stone in, 111. *260
Cochrane, Lady Mary, 11.272
Cockburn, Lord, I. 159, 282 265
307, 362, 366, 374. 375, 3& 11:
81, 84, 90, 9 1 ~ 93, 95, 4 I q ,
114, 162, ?741 2839 339, 34793488r
111. 62, 68, 78, 86, 95,. 110, his
father, 111. 87 ; his residence at
Banally, 111. 326, * 328
Cockburn, Sir Adam, I. 68
Cockbum, Alexander, the city
Cockburn Archibald, High Judge
Cockburn, Henry, the counsel, 11.
Cockburn Provost Patrick, 11. 55
Cockburn? Sheriff, I. 172
Cockburn?ofOrmiston, II.348,III.
58 ; Mrs., the poetess, I. gg. 11.
Cockburn itreet, I. 229, 237, 283,
286 11. ~ r n
?Codked Hat? Hamilton, 11. 139
Cockfighting II.236,III. a63 263 ;
customary:n 1783, 11. 119
Cocklaw Farm, Currie. 111. 331
Cockpen,III.gr8;theLairdof,I.91
Cockpit, The, 11. I 6
Coffee-house, The lrst Edinburgh,
Coinage, 1 he Scottish, I. z6g
Colchester?s Cuirarrsien, I. 64
Coldingham,Lord Johnof, II.67,72
Coldingham, Prior of, I. 39
Coldstream. Dr. John, 11. 187
Colinton, 111. 35, 125, zr6, 314,
*321, 322, 323 324; its local
history, 111. 322,? 323
Colinton House 111. 323
Colinton, Lords: 111. 323
Colinton Tower, 111. 333
College The I. 379 11. 255, zsg ;
estabkshmgnt of, h. 8
College Kirk cemetery, 111. 15
College of Justice, I. 121, 166, 182,
195, 219, 259, 340, 368, 11. 203,
207, 325. 111. 49. 202, 316, 3%
334,338,359; firstmembersofthe,
1. 167
College ofPhysicians I. 278 11. 146
College ofsurgeons i1.146?111.15
College Street, 11. &I, 326; 111. 3
College Wynd, 11. ?249, 251, 254,
Colonsay ?Lord i. 159 11. 127 197
Colquho& of ?KillerAont, dchi-
Colquioun ?i?r John 11. 166
Colstoun iady I 282
Coltbridie, I. j36, 111. 102, 103,
Coltbridge house and Hall, 111.
Coltheart?s, Mr. and Mrs., ghostly
Colville, Lord, 11. 335
Colville ofCclross, Alexander Lord,
Colville of Easter Wem
Combe, George, the pEnologist,
Comhe?l Clcse, Leith, 111. 126;
? Comedy Hut, I$ed Edinburgh,?
Comely Bank 111. 7 82, 323
Comely Gardks II? 128, ~ 3 5
Comely Green IiI. rz8
Comiston IIL 316; Lairds of I.
97 ; the?battle stone, 111. *3;6
115, 116
hangman, 11. 231
Admirai, 11. 348
=27r 3?5
1.61, 329, 46
1; 174s 178
274, 383 111. 3 8
bald 11.
114, 118, 19
?03
visitors, I. 228
11. I15
I. 147
1. 384 111. 68
ancient buildin in ib.
1.230
Comiston House, 111. 326
Commendator Kobert of Holyrood. - .
1. 239
Commercial Ehuk, The, I. 175,II.
147
Commercial Street L$h, 111. 258
?Commodore O B k n 111. 154
Communication betwken the north
and south sides of the city, Plan
for I. * 296
Comhunion, how celebrated, 11.
Comyn, 111. 351
Confession of Faith, The, I. 123
Congalton, Dr. Fraucis, the phy-
Biclan, 11. zg8
Congalton of Congalton, 111. 58
Connell, Sir John advocate, 11. 194
Conn?s Close, I. ;go, II. 241
Conservative Club The 11. 125
Constable,Archibaid, th; publisher,
I. 157, 210, 229 291,339, 11. 1x8,
* I Z I , 142. 15:; the h?din6vmh
Rmim, I. ZII ; his customers,
I. 210 ; his shop, I. 2x1, 11. raz ;
Lockhart?s description ofhim, 11.
122; his bankruptcy, ib.; his
portrait, ib.
132 : CUPS, ia.
Constable, Thomas, 111. log, 110
Constable?s Tower, The, I. 36, 49
Constables, Appointment of city, I.
Constables of the Castle I. 78
ConstitutionStreet. Lei;h, 111. 171,
cution oftwopirates, 111.243, a67
Convening Rooms, 11. 104,106
Convenery, The, Leith, 111. aog
Convention of Royal Burghs,
Cooper Dr. Myles 11. 247
Cooper; of Go&, The family of
Coopkrs The, 11.265
Cope, si ohn, I. 322, 325, 326,
Cordiners, or shoemakers The, 11.
203
184,239, 243, a44. ~ 8 8 , 289 ; exe-
Ancient, I. 186
the 111. 318
327. 333, 11. 281, 111. 132, 263
. . . .
263
Cordiners of thehougate, 11.19 ;
Cordiners 0) the Portsburgh, A r m s
Corehodse Lord 11. 206, 207
Corn Excbange,?Grassmarket, 11.
Corn Exchange, Leith, 111. 239
Corn Market, The, I. 178, 11. 222,
Cornwallis Lord iI1. 23 193, 335
Corporal &on DL, I. $5
Corooration of Candlemakers. 11.
their king ib.
ofthe 11. 224
236
230,231 ; the old 11. *z33
a&, 267
Cor oration privileges, Monopoly
CoGoratious, The Ancient, 11. 263
O f 11. I5
. -
-267.
111. I<
Correction House, The, 11. 323,
Corri SFgnor 11.178 179
CorriLhie, Bahe of (& Battles)
Corstorphine, I. 254. 323, 324. 111.
IIZ-I~I, 3x8, 3?9, 327, 332, 314;
its name 111. 112, 113
Corstorphine Castle, 111. 118
Corstorphine Church, III. 115,?116,
I m ; its hltory, 111. i15--163
Corstorphine Craigs, 111.113
Corstorphine cream, 111. 114
Corstorphine Cross 111. 113
CorstorphineHill,IkI. xq, 113,118 ;
viewof Edinburghfram, II1.*117
Corstorphine Loch, 111. 42, 118
Cotterell, Lieut.-Col., General Assembly
expelled by, 11. 223.
Cotterill, Right Rev. Henry, Bishop
of Edinburgh, 11.212
Coulter. William. Lord Provost. 11.
283 ; his funerd, 111. 39
Council Chamber The ancient cos! Hill, h i d , 111. a46, 247:
?
Coull?s Clow, 11. 5, ?7
? 248
Country Dinner Club, The, 111.125
Couutv Hall. The. I. IZZ
Cuupir, Lord 1. ;54 164 111. azz
Couper Stm;, Leith: I l i . 258
Courtof Session, 1.166, ?61, 11. a3 ;
robable extinction of 1. 174
? &U* of Sesuon GarlAd,?? I. 1%
COUrtS Of 1. 157
courts of w, 11. 245
226, 111. 30, 184, 186, I&, 33,;
courage ofthe I 160 161 11.19;
transportatiod 0.i th;, IiI. IQ ;
execution of the 11. 235111.156
Covenanters? Flag: 1. 54
Covenanters? Prison, Entrance to
the, 11. * 381
Coventry, the lecturer 11. 120
Covington, Lord I. :70 272, 338,
Cow Palace, 11. 319
cowan Lord 11.207
Cowan: War;?house of Messrs., 11.
Cowfeeder Row, 111.94
Cowgate, The. I. % 31, 38, 3% 1x0,
123, IP, 148, 157, 161,162, 179.
181, 2071 217, 219, 245. 253, 255,
263, 266, 267, 268, 278. 2 2, 294,
86, 147. 166, 232-68, a m 273,
358, II. 116 Iii. 135 ; ?hi, pwn,
I. 170, 11. :87
171
295, 3731 374, 375, 378,li: 2, 23.
282. 293, 346 111. 23 31 47 6, 53.
63, 125, 126 ;?its early name, the
Sou?gate, or Southstreet, 11.239,
249 ; origin of the thoroughfare,
11. 239 ; ancient weapons found
therein, 11.240 ; oldhouses in the,
11. * 240, * 244 ; ancient maps of
thecowgate 11. *141, *245,?161;
excavations kade on the site 11.
a45 ; head of Cowgate, P& 21
Cowgate Chapel 11. 194
Cowgate Churcd, 11. 188
Cowgate Head, 11. 168, 241, 267
Cowgate Port, 1.274, 278,298, *pi,
11. 17, 146 ~ 3 9 , 2 1 0 , ~ o 111 156
Cowper, Bishop, t h e g a l k 111: 260
Craftsmen, l?he early, 11. ;63
Craig, Lord, 11. 121, 143, 187, 270,
Craig, sir Lewk I. 226 111. 322
Craig of RiccrtrtAn, Sir khomas, I.
Craig, James, architect, 11. 105,
Craig John the Reformer I1 262
Craiiof Ridcarton, Rob& 11: 123,
Craig hnd, The, 11. 103, 111. 186,
=a7
Craig Houx, 111.42; its successive
owners, I I . 4 2 , 4 3 , * ~ ; itsdiningroom
and kitchen, 111. *#
Craigantinnie, JamesNisbetof. 111.
63 Cnugantinnie manor-house, 111.
Cmgantmnie marbles, The, 111.
138, * 144
Craigcrook,III. 78 107 ; itssuccessive
owners, I I ~ . 107 ; a fearful
tragedy and remarkable dream,
111.108, r q
Craigcrook Castle, 111. 106, * 107,
I d 1 9 110 *I12
Craiicrook, d d y , 111. log
Craigie-Wallace, Lady, 111. ya
Craigingalt, or Craigangilt, The
rock 11. 102, 111. 151
Craigkth. III. 94, 107
Craigleith quarry, 111. 82, 83, 111.
Craiglockhart 111. 42, 43
C+glc+hart?HiIl, 111. 42
Cmgmllar, 11. 336, 111. 57. 142,
327
226,111.321, 322
117, 118, 146
111.334
136, 138.7 141
23
1 3 7 2399 287, 338
Craigmillar, Henry de, 111. 58
Craigmillar Laird of, 111. 61, 94
Craigmil1ar)CnstIe. I. 1s. 42,77,111.
3, p, 58; views of, 111. *6a
Platc 27; its history, I l l . 58-
62; Queen Mary at, 111. 59
Craigmillar Hill 111. 61
Craigmilh pari, III. 51, 58
Craigmillar Road, 111. 58
Craig?s Close I. 179 203 za9. 230
Craig?s plan Af the dew ltreets and
Cramond village, 111. 311. 314-
318, Pkte 34; its history, 111.
314, 31s; the ?Twa Brigs,? 111.
31s. old Cramond Brig, 111.
squares, 11. XI,, XI8

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80 NEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
The confederate lords, as soon as they had got Queen Mary safely lodged in Holyrood
House, formed themselves into a council, and at once drew up and signed an order for her
imprisonment in Loch Leven Castle. It was in fact only giving effect to their previous
resolutions. The same night she was hastily conveyed from the Palace, disguised in mean
attire, and compelled to ride a distance of thirty miles to the scene of her captivity.
On that night-the 16th of June 1567-she bade a final farewell to the Palace of
Holprood, and to Scotland's Crown. Her further history does not come within the
province of our Memorials, though her memory still dwells amid these ancient scenes,
and the stranger can never tread the ruined aisles of the Old Abbey Church, without some
passing thought of the gifted and lovely, but most unfortunate daughter of James V.-
Mary Queen of Scots.

... NEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The confederate lords, as soon as they had got Queen Mary safely lodged in ...

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