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THE HIGH STREET. 23 5 him, and vanished. He arose and proceeded immediately to Edinburgh, to inquire into this strange occurrence, and arriving at the home in Mary King’s Close, found the widow in tears for the death of the husband whose apparition he had seen. This account, we are told, was related by the minister, who was in the house on this occasion, to the Duke of Lauderdale, in the presence of many nobles, and is altogether as credible and mell-authenticated a ghost story as the lovers of the marvellous could desire. The house, after being deserted €or 8 while, was again attempted to be inhabited by a hard-drinking and courageou8 old pensioner and his wife ; but towards midnight the candle began to burn blue, the head again made its appearance, but in much more horrible form, and the terrified couple made a precipitate retreat, resigning their dwelling without dispute- to this prior tenant. Several ancient alleys and a mass of old and mostly ruinouv buildings were demolished in 1753 in preparing the site for the Royal Exchange, ‘various sculptured stones belong-’ ing to which were built into the curious tower erected by Walter ROSS, Esq., at the Dean, and popularly known by the name of ‘‘ ROSS’S Folly.” Several of these were scattered about the garden grounds below the Castle rock, exhibiting considerable variety of carving. Another richly carved stone, consisting of a decorated ogee arch with crocquets and finial, surmounted by shields, was built into a modern erection at the foot of Craig’s Close, and nearly corresponded with one which stood in a more dilapidated state in the Princes Street Gardens, tending to show the important character of the buildings that formerly occupied this site. Among those in the gardens there was a lintel, bearing the Somerville arms, and the date 1658, with an inscription, and the initials I. S ., possibly those of James, tenth Lord Somerville; but this was discovered in clearing out the bed of the North Loch. The old land at the head of Craig’s Close, fronting the main street, claims special notice, as occupying the s’ite of Andrew Hart the famous old printer’s heich buith, lyand within the foir tenement of land upone the north syd of the Hie Streit,”‘ and which, by a curious coincidence, became after the lapse of two centuries the residence of the celebrated bibliopolist, Provost Creech, and the scene of his famed morning levees ; and more recently the dwelling of hIr Archibald Constable, from whose establishment so many of the highest productions of Scottish literature emanated. The printing-house of the old typographer still stands a little way down the close, on the east side. It is a picturesque and substantial stone tenement, with large and neatly moulded windows, retaining traces of the mullions that anciently divided them, and the lower crowstep of the north gable bears a shield adorned with the Sinclair arms. Handsome stone corbels project from the several floors, whereon have formerly rested the antique timber projections referred by Maitland to the reign of James IT. Over an ancient doorway, now built up, is sculptured this motto, 3IY * HOIP * IS - CHRYST - with the initials A * S * and M * K -, a curious device containing the letter S entwined with a cross, and the date 1593. An interesting relic belonging to this land, preserved in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries, is thus described in the list of donations for 1828: ‘(A very perfect ancient Scottish spear, nearly fifteen feet long, which has been preserved from time immemorial, within the old printing office in Craig’s Close, supposed to have been the workshop of the celebrated printer, h d r o Hart.” In, the memorable tumult on Andrew Hart’s will.-Bann, Misc. VOL ii p. 247. ... HIGH STREET. 23 5 him, and vanished. He arose and proceeded immediately to Edinburgh, to inquire into this ...

Book 10  p. 256
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CIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 5 9’ Water-of-Leith. His dress continued of the same fashion for nearly half-acentury; and he wore the garters and flapped waistcoat to the last. The only change he latterly adopted was a curiously formed flat round hat. He was a tall, stout man, and particularly fond of walking. Every morning, and in all weathers, he walked to the Hawes Inn, at Queensferry, where breakfast was waiting him at his stated hour. He rang no bell-gave no orders-and seldom saw a waiter. After breakfast, he turned up a plate, put his money in payment upon it, and then walked back in the same solitary manner to Drumsheugh. Like many gentlemen of his day, Erskine indulged occasionally at cards, and he was particularly partial to the game of whist. He was, notwithstanding, no great player, and generally came off the loser. It is supposed that an unlucky run at his favourite game was the cause of his melancholy end. He was discovered drowned in the Forth. (1793), opposite Caroline Park. Besides the works previously enumerated, Mr. Erskine was the author of “ Town Eclogues :” 1. The Hangman-2. The Harlequins-3. The Street Walkers-4. The Undertakers ; London, no date, with a curious plan of Edinburgh prefixed. The object was to expose the false taste for florid description which then and still prevails in poetry. These satirical effusions possess great merit. phe late Archibald Constable at one time projected a complete collection of Erskine’s works, and actually advertised it ; but his other numerous speculations came in the way, and the project fell to the ground. This is much to be regretted, as the book, if well edited, could not have failed to have been attractive. SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, the third figure, and the Hon. Andrew Erskine, were on terms of the closest intimacy, and walked so frequently together, that, the one being tall and the other of short stature, they were somewhat wittily termed-“ the gowk and the titling.” Sir John was at one period a pretty extensive landed proprietor, and possessed the estates of Whitefoord and Ballochmyle, in Ayrshire. In consequence of the mismanagement of his predecessor, who is said to have “ supplied the groundwork of the character of Sir Arthur Wardour in the Antipuary,” Sir John was involved in difficulties; although perhaps not so deeply but that, with care and prudence, he might have overcome them. The failure of the wellknown banking establishment of Douglas, Heron, and Co., however, compelled him to dispose of the estate of Ballochmyle, delightfully situated on the Waterof- Ayr, where he and his forefathers had long resided. Maria Whitefoord, afterwards Mrs. Cranston, the eldest daughter of Sir John, was the heroine of the plainti1.e lines by Burns, entitled the ‘‘ Braes of Ballochmyle,” composed on the eventful occasion of her leaving the family inheritance :- ‘‘ Through faded groves Maria sang, Hemel’ in beauty’s bloom the while ; An’ aye the wild-wood echoes rang- . Farewell the Braes 0’ Ballochmyle !” Sir John was one of the early patrons of Burns, the poet having beeu ... SKETCHES. 5 9’ Water-of-Leith. His dress continued of the same fashion for nearly ...

Book 9  p. 80
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374 B I OGR APH I GAL S ICE T C H E S. MR. JAMES DENHOLME, fm he was not entitled to the appellation of Laird, as applied in its literal sense, was a native of Edinburgh. His father, a member of the Incorporation of Hatters and Waukers, seems to have been rather qnsuccessful in trade, for the Laid was educated in Heriot's Hospital, and afterwards bonnd apprentice to Mr. Hamden Pridie, hat-maker. The latter appears to have been a youth of careful habits, and was at length enabled to commence hat-making, in a shop on the North Bridge, on his own account. In 1793 he was first elected Deacon of the Incorporation; and from that period, with few interruptions, continued to hold a place in the Council till 1820. He was repeatedly Coivener of the Trades ; and, possessed of much sagacity, was exceedingly useful in civic matters. In 1814 he was appointed Treasurer of Heriot's Hospital, with a salary of 5500 per annum. This office he held till his death, which occurred on the 2d of September 1822, when, in honour of his having originally been one of the boys of the Institution, as well as in respect for his good conduct while Treasurer, a handsome marble monument was erected in the chapel to his memory by the managers. Mr. Denholme married Miss Stewart, daughter of Mr. David Stewart, glover, but left no children. She survived him only a few years. "he figure represented as putting a query to the Laird is intended for KINCAID MACKENZIE, Esq., Lord Provost of Edinburgh at the time. He was a partner in the firm of William Hall and Co., wine merchants, Lawnmarket. His father held a situation in the printing establishment of Provost Alexander Kincaid, his Majesty's Printer for Scotland. Young Mackenzie, who was named after this gentleman, was usually styled '' the Provost "-a title which neither he nor those who applied it had the most distant idea of his ever realising. When a mere boy, he was taken into the counting-house of Mr. Hall ; and, by his steady conduct and application, so recommended himself that he was at length admitted to a share in the business. He subsequently married the youngest surviving daughter of Mr. Hall. Mr. Mackenzie entered the Town Council in 1808 ; the following year he was made a Bailie; afterwards Dean of Guild; and, in 1817, elected Lord Provost. On the death of Mr. Denholme he was appointed Treasurer to Heriot's Hospital, with a salary, at first of $500, afterwards augmented to $600. Mr. Mackenzie was considered a thorough man of business ; and, in cases of disput,e among commercial men, he was frequently chosen an arbitrator. Though defective in education, at least in so far as a classical acquaintance with literature was concerned, he was nevertheless a man of much mercantile information. He at one period communicated some propositions on finance and taxation to the then minister (Pitt), which met the approval of the Premier, and some correspondence on the subject took place betwixt them-a circumstance highly creditable to the intelligence of Mackenzie, and of which he was no doubt justly proud. He died on the 2d day of June 1830. His demise was very sudden. ... B I OGR APH I GAL S ICE T C H E S. MR. JAMES DENHOLME, fm he was not entitled to the appellation of Laird, as ...

Book 9  p. 498
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66 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the house and window tax. With this object in view he spent some time in London, and was introduced at Court, where the elegance of his manners, and the dignity of his appearance, are said to have excited both surprise and admiration. He succeeded in his efforts, though no clause to that effect was introduced into any Act of Parliament. The ministers were charged annually with the duty, but the collectors received private instructions that no steps should be taken to enforce payment. Public spirit was a conspicuous part of the character of the Doctor. The love of his country seemed to be the most active principle of his heart, and the direction in which it was guided at a period which seriously menaced the good order of society, was productive of incalculable benefit among those over whom his influence extended. He was so fortunate in his early days as to form an acquaintance with all those celebrated men whose names have added splendour to the literary history of the eighteenth century. Smollett, in his “Expedition of Humphry Clinker,” a work in which fact and fiction are curiously blended, mentions that he owed to Dr. Carlyle his introduction to the literary circles of Edinburgh, After mentioning a list of celebrated names, he adds-“ These acquaintances I owe to the friendship of Dr. Carlyle, who wants nothing but inclination to figure with the rest upon paper.” Dr. Carlyle was a particular friend of hlr. Home, the author of Douglas, and that tragedy, if we are not misinformed, was, previous to its being represented, submitted to his revision. It is even stated, although there appears no evidence of the truth of the assertion, that Dr. Carlyle, at a private rehearsal in Mrs. Ward’s lodgings in the Canongate, acted the part of Old Norval, Dr. Robertson performing Lord Eandolph-David Hume, Glenalvon, and Dr. Blair ! ! Anna‘-Lady Randolph being enacted by the author. He exerted, as may be supposed, his utmost efforts to oppose that violent opposition which was raised against Mr. Home by the puritanical spirit, which, though by that time somewhat mitigated, was still far from being extinguished in this country ; ’ and successfully withstood a prosecution before the Church courts for attending the performance of the tragedy of Douglas. Dr. Carlyle rendered an essential service to literature, in the recovery of Collins’ long lost “ Ode on the Superstitions of the Highlands.” The author, on his death-bed, had mentioned it to Dr. Johnson as the best of his poems, but it was not in his possession, and no search had been able to discover a copy. At last, Dr. CarlyIe found it accidentally among his papers, and presented it to See Edinburgh Evening Post, January 31, 1829. Upon occasion of the representation of the tragedy, a variety of squibs, both for and against, issued from the press. In one of them, entitled, “ The First Night’s Audience, an excellent new ballad, to the tune of ‘ A cobbler there was, ’ ” 4t0, pp. 4, occurs the following stanza, applicable to Dr. Carlyle :- ‘‘ Hid close in the green-room some clergymen lay, Good actors themaelves too-ikeir whole Zife a play ; C-lyle with a cudgel and genius rare, With aspect aa stern aa a Hessian hussar. Derry down,” etc. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the house and window tax. With this object in view he spent some time in London, and ...

Book 8  p. 94
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244 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. to assume. These two gentlemen *had been acquainted from infancy; and duriug a long period their intimacy had suffered no interruption. His lordship’s name was Alexander Murray. He was the son of Archibald Murray, Esq. of Murrayfield, advocate, and born at Edinburgh in 1736. Being early designed for the profession of the law, he was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1758. He was appointed to the Sheriffdom of Peebles in 1761, and succeeded his father as one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh in 1765. In the course of a few years he became Solicitor-General for Scotland, in the room of Mr. Henry Dundas, who had been made Lord Advocate. He was elected member of Parliament for the county of Peebles, and soon after was raised tQ the bench, and received what is called a double gown,-on which occasion he assumed the designation of Lord Henderland, from an estate he possessed in Peeblesshire. He also held the office of Clerk of the Pipe in the Court of Exchequer; an office which, through the interest of Lord Melville, was given to his two sons. Lord Henderland died in 1795, leaving two sons and a daughter, the issue of his marriage with Katherine, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Eveleck. Mrs. Murray died in 1828. The eldest son, William, joined the English bar. John Archibald, his youngest son, while Lord Advocate for Scotland, was four times elected member of Parliament for the Leith district of burghs.’ His daughter, Amelia Jane, died unmarried in 1798. MR. GEORGE PATON, whose figure occupies the centre division, was a keen bibliographer and antiquary. His father, hlr. John Paton, a respectable bookseller in the Old Parliament Square, was one of the committee of philanthropic citizens who, in conjunction with the worthy Provost Drummond, originated that invaluable institution, the Royal Infirmary. The facts and circumstances in the history of Mr. Paton, the younger, are scanty. He received a liberal education, but without any professional design, having been bred by his father to his own business. This, however, he relinquished, on obtaining a clerkship in the Custom-House, at a salary for many years of only 360. In this humble situation, the emoluments of which were subsequently augmented to S80, he continued during the remainder of his long life, apparently without the smallest desire of attaining either to higher honour or greater wealth. The chief aim of his ambition seemed to be the acquisition of such monuments of antiquity as might tend to elucidate the literature, history, and topography of his native country. His father had been an antiquary of some research, and at his death left a valuabIe collection, which the subject of our sketch took care, by every means within the compass of his narrow income, to augment. As illustrative of the strong bibliomania both in father and son, it is told of them, that whenever they happened to meet with any curious publication, instead of exposing it in the shop for sale, they immediately placed it in Nr, Murray was afterwards raised to the bench, and took the title of Lord Mumy. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. to assume. These two gentlemen *had been acquainted from infancy; and duriug a long ...

Book 8  p. 342
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204 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MRS. YATES was an actress of the first class, and had few superiorsnot excepting the great Mrs. Siddons herself. Her performances in Edinburgh, at the period to which the Print refers, 1785, were paid at the rate of one hundred guineas each night. Though not her first visit to the Scottish capita1,l and at the time pretty far advanced in years, her talents were such as to ensure crowded houses. The tragedy of Braganza' was performed the first and second nights of her engagement. " It must give pleasure," says a newspaper notice of the day, "to all lovers of the drama, to perceive that this justly celebrated actress still pos'sesses, in a high degree, those powers which made her so distinguished a favourite of the public. The tragedy of Braganza is esteemed among the best of our modern plays. The story is well chosen-the situation interesting- and the language pure, nervous, and classical. The scene between Velasquez and the Monk, in the third act, is perhaps equal to any on the stage. Mr. Woods was everything the author or audience could wish for in Velasquez. Mr. Clinch and Mr, Ward were spirited and respectable in the characters of Don Juan and Ribero." During her stay Mrs. Yates played Lady Macbeth ; Jane Shore ; Margaret of Anjoa,'in the Earl of Warwick; Portia, in the merchant of Venice; Lady Townly ; Medea ; Zulima, in the Prince of Tunis ; and Lady Randolph. Her performance in the last of these characters was thus announced in the bills of tlie day :- " BY PARTICULAR DESIRE. Mrs. Yaks has deferred her journey to England for one day, in order to have an opportunity of performing the part of Lady Randolph, being expressly her last ffi;yearance in Scotland this season." Mr. Powell of Covent Garden enacted the part of Douglas. Mrs. Yates was born in London, but her parents were from Scotland. By the death of her mother, she was left at a tender age under the sole guardianship of her father, who was a sea-captain, and at one period in affluent circumstances. Unremitting in his parental care, the education of his daughter was prosecuted to advantage ; and no accomplishment within his means was withheld ; but her adoption of the stage was probably more the result of unforeseen occurrences than premeditated choice. Her father-depressed by the loss of all his children save herself, and overwhelmed by a sudden reverse of fortune-was at last still more severly afflicted by the total loss of sight. Thns urged by the ruin in which a respected parent was involved ; and possessed of surpassing beauty-a full, clear, and mellifluous voice-a tall and commanding figure, together with a well cultivated taste and judgment-the young debutante found little difficulty in obtaining an opportunity of appearing before a London audience. She iiiade her first attempt at Drury Lane, in the charac- Both Mr. and Mrs. Yates were in Edinburgh while Digges had the Theatre. a Printed in 1754, London, 8vo. he held a situation in the Custom-House. Of the author, Henry Crisp, nothing is known, except that ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MRS. YATES was an actress of the first class, and had few superiorsnot excepting the ...

Book 9  p. 274
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 341 he calmly, yet with spirit, urged the groundlessness of the accusation, and the unprovoked asperity of his opponent. In the meantime law proceedings had been instituted against the publisher of the ‘‘ Guide,” in order to discover the author, while Dr. Hamilton commenced counter-proceedings against Dr. Gregory, for the injuries his character had sustained by the manner in which he had been traduced. In 1800, another paper warfare occurred, in consequence of a memorial addressed by Dr. Gregory to the managers of the Royal Infirmary, complaining of the younger members of the College of Surgeons being there allowed to perform operations. This was replied to by Mr. John Bell, surgeon; and a controversy ensued, which for some time engrossed the whole attention of the Edinburgh medical profession. Again, in 1806, the Doctor.entered into a warm controversy with the College of Physicians, owing to some proceedings on the part of that body which he considered derogatory to the profession. In 1808, he printed, for private circulation, a small volume in 8170, entitled “ Lucubrations on an Epigram ;” also, in 18 10, “ There is Wisdom in Silence ” -an imitation from the Anthologia; and “The Viper and the l?ile”-an imitation of the well-known fable of Phiedrus, “Vipera et Lima.” As a specimen of his epigrammatic talents, we give the following- “ ‘ 0 give me, dear angel, one lock of your hair’- A bashful young lover took courage aud sighed ; ‘ You shall hare my whole wig,’ the dear angel replied.” ’Twas a sin to refuse so modest a pray’r- Dr. Gregory was of an athletic figure, and naturally of a strong constitution. He had enjoyed good health; and from his abstemious mode of life, might have been expected to live to extreme old age. The overturn of his carriage, whilst returning from visiting a patient, by which accident his arm was broken, proved injurious to his constitution. He was afterwards repeatedly attacked with inflammation of the lungs, which iiltimately caused his death. He died at his house in St. Andrew Square, on the 2d April 1821, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. By his second wife-a daughter of Donald Macleod, Esq. of Geanies, and who survived him-he left a numerous family. His eldest son was educated for the bar, and was admitted a member of the Baculty of Advocates in 1820. A younger son, Donald, who died in October 1836, in the prime of life, was for several years Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ; and in this situation he highly distinguished himself by his zeal, assiduity, and agreeable manners. In his late work entitled the , “ History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland,” brought down to the year 1625, he has fortunately left us a permanent memorial of his learning and accurate research-not the less valuable that it is in fact one of the first attempts to investigate the history of that portion of the British Empire, not by reference to vague traditions and idle reveries, but by the most careful Dr. Gregory was twice married. ... SKETCHES. 341 he calmly, yet with spirit, urged the groundlessness of the accusation, and ...

Book 8  p. 476
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438 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. with some additional proceedings characteristic of the temper of the Government, and the consequent reaction produced on the popular *d. Fountainhall remarks :-((We see a great s t i r made for thecolleginem burning the Pope at Christmas 1680 ; this year the boyes and prentices forboor ther solemnity on Zuille day, because it happened to be a Sunday, but they had it on the 26th of December at night. Ther preparations were BO quiet that none suspected it this year ; they brought him to the Croce, and fixed his chair in that place wher the gallows stands, he was trucked up in a red goune and a mitar with 2 keyea over his arme, a crucifix in on hand and the oath of the Test in the other, then they put fyre to him, and it brunt lenthy till it came to the pouder at which he blew up in the air, While they ware at this employment ther ware lightnings and claps of thunder, which is very unusuall at that season of the year. At this tyme many things were done in mockerie .of the Test : on I shall tell. The children of Heriots Hospital1 finding that the dog which keiped the yairds of that Hospitd had a public charge and office, they ordained him to take the Test, and offered him the paper, but he, loving a bone rather than it, absolutely refused it ; then they rubbed it over with butter (which they called ane Explication of the Teat in imitation of Argile), and he licked of the butter but did spite out the paper, for which they held a jurie on him, and in derision of the sentence against Argile, they found the dog guilty of treason, and actually hanged him,” X, WEST BOW. MAJOR WEIR IN our account of Major weir (Part ii. chap. ixi), his sister is styled Gnzel Weir, in accordance with Master Jam Frazw’s Providential Passages, a MS. from which Mr George Sinclair has evidently borrowed the greater portion of his account of the Major, without acknowledging the source of his information. In Law’s Memorials, however, as well as h Shclair’s BaSatan’8 Ittvisible WorZd Discovered, she bears the name of Jean Weir, by which she is most frequently alluded to. One of the witnesses examined on the trial of this noted wizard, as appears from the Crimiltal Record in the Register EIouse of Edinburgh, wag “ Maister John Sinclare, minister at Ormistoune,” who deponed, among other strange items of evidence, that (‘having asked him if he had seen the deivell, he answered, that any fealling he ever hade of him was in the dark I”-Law‘a Memorials, note, p. 26. Projecta for improving the Old Town of Edinburgh, and for extending it beyond its ancient limits, appear to have engaged gened attention even so early a3 the reign of Charles II., when the court and levees of the Duke of York at Holyrood, revived somewhat of the old life and splendour of the Scottish capital, which her citizens had so long been strangers to. On account of the narrow limits of the Old Town, its inhabitanta were on nearly the same familiar footing a8 those of a country village ; and schemes of improvement that might now lie unheeded for years in the hands of some civic committee, were then discussed at every club and changehouse, until they became incorporated among the $xed idem of the population, affording at any time a ready theme for the display of wisdom by that industrious class of idlers, usually composed of retired traders, country lairda, and half-pay officers, to whom a subject for grumbling over, and improving in theory, is aa necessary as daily food. In Cough’s British Topography (vol. ii p. 674), the following account appears of an ingenious model of Edinburgh, constructed about the middle of last century. It was, no doubt, furnished to the author by George Paton, and shows how early some of the improvement schemes, which have since cost the citizens so much both in antipuitier and taxes, were made the subject of reforming speculations, and favourably entertained as desirable alterations on the mug and closely-packed little Scottish capital of the eighteenth century:- ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. with some additional proceedings characteristic of the temper of the Government, and ...

Book 10  p. 477
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264 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. In a Postscript to his Memoirs, which were published two years subsequent to his decease, his son (the editor) thus describes the latter years of his life :- Indeed, from the result of private correspondence, and the casual information I have been able to obtain, it would but indifferently gratify the reader, were I to record the fortuitous events which clouded the last few remaining years of the author’s chequered life. His sensibility had been severely wounded by the contumelious and repulsive behaviour he had experienced from tyrannic managers, and a series of unpropitious circumstances which attended him through the progress of his professional career. His spirits were broken, and his powers evidently on the decline, by a melancholy concomitancy of mental inquietude and bojily suffering, being liable to a periodical attack of an anasarcical complaint, which advanced from his legs to his thighs, and eventually brought the vital parts under its influence. Having taken lodgings at the Middleton’s Head, Saddler’s Wells, for the benefit of his health, on the 22d July 1803, in the sixty-third year of his age, he supped with Yr. Townsend, of Covent Garden Theatre, and some friends, apparently in his usual state of health and spirits ; and on the following morning was found dead in his bed. He was buried at St. James’s Chapel, Pentonville, his funeral being attended by a few of his relatives and friends.” “ I have to regret the apparently abrupt conclusion of these dramatic memoirs. Lee Lewes appeared on the stage for the last time on the 24th of June previous to his demise ; when, as he stated to the public, “ in consideration of seven years’ ill health, and consequent embarrassment, the Proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre had kindly given him authority to announce a Play and Entertainments.” The house was filled to overflowing, and he was loudly and repeatedly applauded. On this occasion he performed Lissardo in the Wonder; and Violante was enacted by Mrs. Jordan. ‘ This appeal was responded to in a warm manner. No. CCLVIII. DR. THONAX HAY, CITY CHAMBERLAIN, AND SIR JAMES STIRLING, BART. DR. *THOMAS HAY, the figure to the left, was City Chamberlain at the period referred to in the Print (1796); and Sir James Stirling, whom he is saluting, had for the second time held the office of Lord Provost during the two years previous. Dr. Hay was the youngest son of Lord Huntington,’ one of the Senators of the College of Justice. After completing his medical studies, he commenced the practice of surgery in Edinburgh, which he prosecuted with much success throughout a long course of years. A member of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was elected Deacon of the Incorporation in 1784-5 ; Thomas Hay of Huntington was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1725. He was appointed Keeper of the Signet in 1742, and raised to the bench in 1754. On the 4th of February the following year he wag suddenly taken ill while occupying hia seat on the bench, and died in the course of a few minutes afterwards in the Parliament House. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. In a Postscript to his Memoirs, which were published two years subsequent to his ...

Book 9  p. 348
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150 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ledge of his author. To speak comparatively, Digges’ figure was better, and his voice perhaps more mellow and powerful, but Digges played with little judgment, was very deficient in the nicer touches of the art, and often had no conception of what he spoke. In judgment and taste Mr. Henderson is eminent, He understands perfectly the character he plays, and never fails to give the just meaning of his author, and this, in so difficult and various a character as Hamlet, requires the powers of a master. He avoids that unnatural violence and rant which is often introduced into the part, and which seldom fails to catch the ears of the groundlings, but is certainly more characteristic of the blustering player than the Prince of Denmark. From what we have seen we are of opinion that the admirers of Shakspeare, who wish to understand perfectly their favourite author, should attend Mr. Henderson ; in his mouth no passage seems perplexed, and he is a comment at once pleasing and instructive.” On the 2d August he acted Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, which the newspaper advertisement, for the instruction of the ignorant, announces to be “ written by Shakspeare.” “ One would have thought,” continues the critique alluded to, “from the crowded state of the house, that the Siddons was still here. Greater praise, perhaps, was not due to Mrs. Siddons for any of her parts than to Mr. Henderson ,for the inimitable humour and original manner in which he played Falstn, In this character he stands unrivalled on the British stage. He met with repeated bursts of applause from every part of the house. One honest gentleman was so tickled with the humour, that he almost fell into convulsions with laughing. Mr. Henderson was perhaps painted too youthful for the character.” 5th, Don John in the Chances, as altered from Beaumont and Fletcher by Garrick. In this comedy “he gave a proof that his powers were as well adapted to the lively-spirited rake, as to the serious and philosophic Hamlet.” 7th, Acted iyacbeth. ‘‘ In Macbeth he was equally animated and correct as in any of the other parts he has displayed.” Sth, Sir John Falstaf, in the First Part of King Henry IK, for his benefit. “ In this character he exceeded any thing we have seen of his performance. The continued peals of laughter and applause, from a most brilliant and crowded audience, testified the strongest approbation, and the part perhaps was never played with such inimitable genuine humour. The Knight’s description of his troop, with Mr. Henderson’s looks, tones, and gestures, was beyond description admirable. On the 3d, Sir John Falstaf in the Merry Wives of Windsor. loth, Richard 111. 14th, King Lear. 16th, Sir Oiles Ouerreach. 1 ‘‘ It is surprising that there should not be a proper Scots dress on the stage in the metropolis of Scotland, and that a Spauish dress, or indeed any other, should serve as a Highland dress by the addition of a piece of tartan drawn awkwardly across the shoulder, as if it waa the insignia of an order of knighthood. The characters in Macbeth, indeed, exhibited the dresses of all nations, and one might have thought that a dealer in Monmouth Street had been airing his stock-in-trade to prevent it being eaten by moths.”-Courccnt. . The witches are said to have made a Dutch chorus of the music. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. ledge of his author. To speak comparatively, Digges’ figure was better, and ...

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348 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGN. is on the west side of the square, No. 25, and there the lively and curious boy grew up to manhood under the kindly surveillance of the good old pair. The little back room still remains, ‘( That early den,” with the young antiquary’s beginnings of the future Abbotsford collection, described so piquantly in Lockhart’s life of him, by the pen of a female friend ; and where Lord Jeffrey found him on his first visit, long years ago, “ surrounded with dingy books.’’ Though shorn of all the strange relics that young Walter Scott gathered there, it possesses one valuable memento of the boy. On one of the window panes his name is still seen, inscribed with.a diamond in a school-boy hand; and other panes of glass, which contained juvenile verses traced in the same durable manner, have been removed to augment the treasures of modern collectors. On the east side of George Square lies Windmill Street, the name of which preserves the record of an earlier period when a windmill occupied its site, and raised the water from the Borough Loch to supply the brewers of the Society. The Incorporation of Brewers has long been dissolved, and the Borough Loch now forms the rich pasturage and the shady walks of the Meadows ; while along its once marshy margin has since been built Buccleuch Place, where the exclusive faRhionable5 of the southern district long maintained their own ball-room and assemblies. The impossibility of converting this pendicle of the Borough Nuir to any useful purpose as private property, while it continued in its original state as a Loch, fortunately prevented its alienation, while nearly every other portion of the valuable tract of land that once belonged to the borough passed into private hands. At the western extremity of the Borough Muir, the venerable tower of Merchiston still stands entire, the birth-place of John Napier, the inventor of the Logarithms, to whom, according to Hume, the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced. The ancestors of the great Scottish philosopher were intimately connected with Edinburgh. The three first Napiers of Nerchiston successively filled the office of provost in the reigns of James 11. and III., and other connections of the family rose to the same civic dignity. Their illustrious descendant was born at Merchiston Castle in the year 1550, on the eve of memorable changes whereof even the reserved and modest student had to bear his share. The old fortalice of Merchiston, reared at an easy distance from the Scottish capital, lay in the very field of strife. Round its walls the Douglas wars raged for years, and the most striking incidents of the philosopher’s early life intermingle with the carnage of that merciless feud. On the 2d of April 1572, he was betrothed to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Stirling of Keir, and on the 5th of the following month, “ The cumpany of Edinburgh pad furth and seigit Merchingstoun ; quha wan all the pairtis thairof except the dungeoun, in the quhilk wes certane suddartis in Leith; the hail1 houssis wes spoulzeit and brunt, to haue amokit the men of the dungeoun out ; but the cuntrie seand the fyre, raise with the pover of Leith and put the men of Edinburgh thairfra without slauchter, bot syndrie hurt.” The keep of Merchiston formed, indeed, the key of the south approach to the capital, so that whoever triumphed it became the butt of their opponents’ enmity. It lay near enough to be bombarded from the Castle walls by Sir William Kirkaldy, though a cousin of its owner, because ~omoef the king’s men held it for a time, and intercepted the provisions coming to the town. Again and again were the 1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 295. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGN. is on the west side of the square, No. 25, and there the lively and curious boy grew ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 31 man who sat next him, chose to be very severe on Pitt’s Administration, and the volunteer system. Coke, whose politics were decidedly of the Pitt school, could ill brook such reflections; and during the conversation-or rather altercation-which ensued, he had much diEEculty in restraining his indignation within the bounds of civility. When at any time the dispute seemed about to moderate, another of the travellers-afterwards an eminent publisher in Edinburgh4ontrived so to “ blow the coal,” that a fresh irruption waa invariably the consequence, till at length his opponent venturing on some expression still more severe than what had preceded, Mr. coke turned round in a violent passion, and seizing him by the breast, exclaimed-“ Let me see your face, sir, that I may know, and be able to recognise you wherever I find you ! ” One day Mr. Coke had overheated himself so much in walking from Leith to Edinburgh, that on arriving at his friend Bailie Creech, the publisher‘s shop, he sent for a small quantity of whisky to bathe his forehead, as the fatigue had produced a very severe headache. Creech, who entered whilst the remedy was being applied, exclaimed-“ Bless me J what’s that you are doing, Mr. Coke 1” “ Rubbing my head with whisky,” was the reply. “ No wonder,” rejoined the civic Joe Miller, ‘‘ that you are so very hot-headed I” He was married and had a family. Three of his daughters, we understand, resided in Edinburgh. His death was thus noticed in the journals of the day :-“At Leith, on the 18th May, Mr. William Coke, bookseller, who carried on business in the same premises, for the long period of fifty-five years, and was the father of the bookselling profession of Scotland.” Mr. Coke died in 1819, above eighty years of age. His son went to sea, and was never heard of. The other figure presents an accurate portrait of old JOHN GUTHRIE, latterly of the firm of Guthrie and Tait, Nicolson Street. Mr. Guthrie generally paid as he bought ;l and, like his Leith contemporary, brought home his own purchases. He was a native of the parish of Botriphnie, in Aberdeenshire, and was born about the year 1748. Having lost his parents when very young, he was left to the protection of an uncle, who, before he attained his twelfth year, abandoned him to his own resources. In this forlorn situation he scraped together as many pence as procured a small stock of needles, pins, etc., with which he commenced travelling as a pedlar. His boyish years were passed in this manner, his pack gradually extending as his capital increased. After giving up the laborious occupation of travelling merchant, he settled in Edinburgh, and commenced a book-stall at the Linen Hall, Canongate, which became the resort of many of the book collectors of that time. Unlike our modern open-air merchnts, who pace the length of their stalls from morning till night, making idle time doubly tedious, he was constantly engaged in some useful employment-Kitting stockings, working onion nets, or in some way or other having his hands busy, to keep, as he used to say, “the which he is represented with a purse in hia hand. 1 Among some of the trade he obtained the cognomen of ‘‘ My-money John,” in allusion to ... SKETCHES. 31 man who sat next him, chose to be very severe on Pitt’s Administration, and the ...

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

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 225 the next wm married to a Mr. Stoddart, who had realised a fortune abroad ; the third to James Marshall, Esq., Secretary to the Provincial Bank of Ireland in London; and the youngest to the late Reverend Dr. Robertson of South Leith. The rest mostly died when young. The only son who reached manhood was the late William Jamieson, W.S., who died in 1626. This gentleman attained a temporary celebrity by his attacks on the Judges of the Court of Session ; for which, however, he smarted pretty severely-perhaps more so than the case required. The third figure is MR. ARCHIBALD M'DOWALL, clothier, North Bridge, for many years a leading member of the Town Council. He is represented as holding in his hand a plan of the improvement proposed by the Magistrates. His father, James M'Dowall of Canonmills, was nearly related to the late Andrew M'Dowall, Lord Bankton. In the entail of the estate of Bankton, in East Lothian, and certain other property, executed in 1756, he is a nominatim mbstitute, and is therein stated to be his lordship's cousin.' Mrs. Gilmour of Craigmillar, the great-grandchild of this James M'Dowall, was consequently grand-niece of Mr. Archibald M'Dowall. Being the descendant of his eldest brother, she succeeded to the property of Canonmills, on the death of her father, while in minority. It may not be out of place to mention that Mr. Patrick M'Dowall, the father of James M'Dowall of Canonmills, was the first private banker who discounted bills in Edinburgh. He carried on business before the erection of the Bank of Scotland, under the Act of Parliament in 1695, and for a considerable time afterwards. Mr. M'Dowall was born in 1743, and married in early lie a near relation of the late Dr. John Macfarlan, minister of the Canongate Church (who married his sister), and father of John Macfarlan of Kirkton, Esq., advocate, and also of the present Dr. Patrick Macfarlan of Greenock. He commenced the first cloth manufactory in Scotland,' similar to those carried on so extensively at Leeds, and brought a number of workmen from England for that purpose. This establishment was at Paul's Work, at the south back of Canongate, now called M'Dowall Street, from which he afterwards removed to Brunstane Mill, Mr. M'Dowall was a cadet of the ancient family of M'Dowall of Logan, The Countess of Dalhousie, who happened to be the nearest heir of entail to the Logan and Bankton estates, was long engaged in a lawsuit with the possessor, so that, failing his brother, she might be enabled to enter into possession. ' In order to encourage Mr. M'Dowall's manufactory, the Earl of Buchan proposed that such gentlemen of the Antiquarian Society as intended to be present at the first anniversary meeting of the Society on the 30th November 1781, should be dressed entirely in "home-made" articles. Accordingly, they all appeared with clothes of M'Dowall's manufacture, worsted hose, etc. Lord Buchan, being the last to make his appearance, on looking round, immediately exclaimed, " Gentlemen, there is not one of you dressed according to agreement, myself excepted ; your buckles and buttons are entirely English, whereas mine are made from jasper taken from Arthur's Seat." And very beautiful they were. The bed of jasper is now exhausted. 2 6 ... SKETCHES. 225 the next wm married to a Mr. Stoddart, who had realised a fortune abroad ; the third ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 109 Mr. Forbes died at Edinburgh on the 21st June 1815. His figure, which was tall and handsome, is excellently represented in a capital full-length portrait, by Sir Henry Raeburn, which ornaments the dining-room at Callendar House. A splendid mausoleum was erected in a dark recess of the wood to his memory by his widow, a lady of considerable taste.’ Mr. Forbes was twice married-first to Miss Macadam of Craigengillan. whose unfortunate brother’s fate made no little noise. She had no children, and, being consumptive, went out to Madeira, where she died. To her fortune her husband generously relinquished all claim. His second marriage, with Miss Agnes Chalmers of Aberdeen, realised his fond wish to become “the founder of a house.” By her he had two sons and three daughters, who survived him -a sixth child dying in infancy. His eldest son, William, the successor to the entailed property, was married to the amiable and accomplishcd Lady Louisa, daughter of the Earl of Wemyss and March, and elected in 1835, and again in 1837, member of Parliament for Stirlingshire. Local animosities are now fast dying away, and the descendants of Mr. Forbes bid fair to take their place amid the aristocracy of the land. No. CCVIIT. DR. GREGORY GRANT. THIS gentleman, long known as a respectable and eminent physician in Edinburgh, was a brother of Mr. Colquhoun Grant, whose exploits, as an adherent of Prince Charles Edward, have been noticed in a former article. The education of DR. GRANT was carefully superintended, and perfected at the most celebrated schools of the day. Having studied three years at the 1 “About a mile east of Falkirk [we quote from an article, written by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, in the History of Stirlingshire 18171 stands Callendar House, the princely seat of William Forbes, Esq. of Callendar. It enjoys a sheltered situation in a park containing four hundred Scottish acres, of which two hundred are covered with a coppice wood, mostly oak, singularly luxuriant and beautiful-a remnant indeed of the Caledonian Forest. The writs of the Earls of Linlithgow and Callendar were, a we have been informed, lost about 1715, when the last Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar lost his titles and estate by attainder. The park has been recently embellished by the taste of Mn. Forbes, lady of the late owner, and mother of the present. She has erected a splendid mausoleum in memory of her departed lord. It is circular, forty-five feet high, with a rustic cell nineteen feet in height and thirty-six in diameter, on which stand twelve fluted Doric columns, which, with the capital, are nineteen and a half feet high. Over a Doric entablature rises what within is a dome, and without is covered with a stone tiling and rib-mouldings. Over the door, in the north side of the cell, is a Greek inscription, of which the following is a translation :- ‘ All things we mortals call our own Are mortal too, and quickly flown ; But, could they all forever stay, We soon from them must pass away.’ ” ... SKETCHES. 109 Mr. Forbes died at Edinburgh on the 21st June 1815. His figure, which was tall and ...

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44 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. what abrupt, and his language not remarkable for its refinement ; but, after two or three lessons, the first unfavourable impressions subsided, and the Sergeant gradually became a favourite. Indeed there was a something so peculiar in his countenance, and more especially in the most prominent feature of it, where I‘ One rich carbuncle shone before, With many a glowing ruby round,” that it was impossible to be long in bad humour with him. Among others whose patronage the good conduct and military talents of the SergeanbMajor secured, was that of the Lord President Hope, then Iieutenant- Colonel of the regiment. The high opinion entertained of him by his lordship was manifested in various acts of kindness ; and he promised, on the disembodying of the regiment in 1814, to lay his head in the grave. This mark of respect his lordship faithfully performed, on the death of the Sergeant-Major, which occurred on the 22d September 1815. His remains were interred-all the officers of the late corps attending the funeral-in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard, where a stone is erected to his memory.’ From “ Lines Elegiac,” composed on the death of the veteran by a local poet, we give the following stanzas :- “ ’Tis but the dross of Gould lies here j His sterling part claims not a tear ; Wing’d, 89 we’d hope, where glory gleams More splendid than the warrior’s dreams I And soothe the widow’s drooping woe- Who has no cherub Gould to smile, Her heavy moments to beguile.” ‘I Hope stay us who are left below, The figure of an Edinburgh Volunteer, of such ample breadth of back, to whom the Sergeant-Major is imparting instruction, is a burlesque on the Bellygerents, as the corps was waggishly denominated by Gould. A gentleman once put the question-“Pray, Gould, who is that you are drilling in the Print done by Kay P” The answer was highly characteristic-“ I can’t say, sir, unless you turn him to the right about face!’la Our worthy friend Bailie Smellie informs us that on one occasion when he resided at the Castle Hill, he was astonished to hear Gould calling loudly from a green behind the house-“ The battalion will advance ! ” The Bailie, unable to‘comprehend what had brought, as he thought, the Volunteers there, hastened 1 A full-length portrait of Sergeant-Major Gould, with a view of the First Regiment of Volunteers in the background, by Mr. George Watson, is preserved in the Council Room of the City Chambers. This painting waa for some time suspended in the lobby leading into the Council Chambers, where it was subject to the ill usage of every idle lounger. In 1818, when Mr. Smellie, printer, waa in the magistracy, he made various attempts to have it brought into the Council-Room ; and, among others to whom he applied was the then Lord Provost (Sir John Marjoribanks), who remarked that it was utterly absurd to permit the portrait of a Sergeant to he placed in the Council-Room. Mr, Smellie at last found an argument which proved successful. This was, that the picture was not to be estimated simply ns affording a Portrait of Sergeant Gould, but ns preserving the recollection of a corps of loyal citizens, to whom the country was greatly indebted. a The Egure is intended to represent Mr. James Laing, a saddler in South Bridge Street. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. what abrupt, and his language not remarkable for its refinement ; but, after two or ...

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nearly to the muzzle with musket-balls was depressed to sweep it, and did so with awful effect. According to the historian of the ? Troubles,? twenty men were blown to shreds. Weddal had both thighs broken, and Somerville, with a few who were untouched, grovelled close under the wall, where Ruthven, who recognised him as an old Swedish comrade, besought him to retire, adding, ? I derive no pleasure in the death of gallant men.? Of the whole escalade only thirty-three escaped alive, and of these many were wounded, a result which cooled the ardour of the besiegers; but after a three months? blockade, finding his garrison few, and all suffering from scurvy, and that provisions and ammunition were alike expended, on the 18th September, after a blockade of five months in all, during which 1,000 men had been slain, he marched outwith the honours of war (when so ill with scurvy that he could scarcely walk) at the head .of seventy men, with one drum beating, one standard flying, matches lighted, 2nd two pieces .of cannon, with balls in their muzzles and the port-fires blazing at both ends. They all sailed for England in a king?s ship. Ruthven fought nobly for the king there, and died at a good old age in 1651, Earl of Forth and Brentford. Argyle, the Dictator of Scotland, in the autumn of 1648 invited Oliver Cromwell to Edinburgh, and entertained him with unwonted magnificence in the great hall of the Castle ; afterwards they held many meetings in Lady Home?s house, in the Canongate, where the resolution to take away the king?s fife was discussed and approved of, for which the said Dictator afterwards lost his head. The next important event in the history of 5? The steep, the iron-belted rock, Where trusted lie the monarchy?s last gems, The sceptre, sword, and crown that graced the brows Since Fergus, father of a hundred kings,? I was in the days of Cromwell. Scotland, after the coronation of Charles II., that I On tidings reaching the former was advancing north at the head of an army, the Parliament ordered the Castle to be put in a state of defence. There were put therein a select body of troops under Colonel Walter Dundas, 1,000 bolls of meal and malt, 1,000 tons of coal, 67 brass and iron guns, including Mons Meg and howitzers, 8,000 stand of arms, and a vast store of warlike munition. According to the superstition of the time the earth and air all over Scotland teemed with strange omens of the impending strife, and in a rare old tract, of 16j0, we are told of the alarm created in the fortress by the appearance of a ?horrible apparition ? beating upon a drum. On a dark night the sentinel, under the shadow of the gloomy half-moon, was alarmed by the beating of a drum upon the esplanade and the tread of marching feet, on which he fired his musket. Col. Dundas hurried forth, but could see nothing on the bleak expanse, the site of the now demolished Spur. The sentinel was truncheoned, and another put in his Dlace. to COVENANTERS? FLAG. (Fmnz tAe Altts~rrm ofthe societu of Antiq~n&~ d.yco*la&.) A I whom the same thing happened, and he, too, fired his musket, affirming that he heard the tread of soldiers marching to the tuck of drum. To Dundas nothing was visible, nothing audible but the moan of the autumn wind. He took a musket and the post of sentinel. Anon he heard the old Scots march, beaten by an invisible drummer, who came close up to the gate; then came other sounds-the tramp of many feet and clank of accoutrements ; still nothing was visible, till the whole impalpable array seemed to halt close by Dundas, who was bewildered with consternation. Again a drum was heard beating the English, and then the French march, when the alarm ended ; but the next drums that were beaten there were those of Oliver Cromwell. When the latter approached Edinburgh he found the whole Scottish army skilfully entrenched parallel with Leith Walk, its flanks protected by ... to the muzzle with musket-balls was depressed to sweep it, and did so with awful effect. According to the ...

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[PleaMnce. 382 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. thoroughfare named Chambers Street, to which the school was transferred in the winter of 1873-4, The new edifice cost ~ 3 , 0 0 0 , but the accommodation is more suitable and ample than that of the old. Though for many years the directors adhered to their original plan of confining the subjects of instruction to Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, and Mathematics, in later years, at the request of a number of students, the range of education was greatly enlarged. Hence, classes for English Language and Literature were instituted in 1837 ; for History and Economic Science in 1877 ; for Physiology in 1863 ; for French in 1843 ; German in 1866 ; Latin in 1874 ; Botany in 1870 ; Pitman?s Short-hand in 1873 ; Greek in 1875 j Geology in 1872 ; Biology, Free-hand Drawing, and the Theory of Music, in 1877. In April, 1879, the institution was handed over to the Heriot Trust, as a People?s. College, at a meeting presided over by the Hon.. Lord Shand, a patron of the school. CHAPTER XLIX. THE PLEASANCE AND ST. LEONARDS. The Convent of St. Mary-Friends? Buria! Place-Old Chirurgeons? Hall-Surgeon Square-? Hamilton?s Folly ?-The Gibbet-Chapel an& Hospital of St. Leonard-Davie Deans? Cottage-? The Innocent Railway ?-First Public Dispensary. AT a period subsequent to the panic after Flodden there was built across the junction of St. Mary?s Wynd with the Pleasance, parallel with the south back of the Canongate, an arched barrier named St. Mary?s Port. South of this, sixty yards from the south-east angle of the city wall and near the foot of the present Roxburgh Street, stood the convent of St. Mary) which must have been a branch of the Franciscan House of ? S. Maria di Campagni,? so much patronised by Pope Urban II., in the Parmese city of Placentia-as the latter name was given to the foundation in Edinburgh, long since corrupted into Pleasance, though the place was of old called Dearenough. It is unknown by whom or when it was founded, and nothing of it now remains save a fine piece of alabaster carving, representing our Saviour brought before the Jewish high-priest, which was discovered among its ruins, and presented to the Antiquarian Museum in 1781. The name of Pleasance is borne by the narrow, quaint, and straggling street southward till it joins the other ancient suburb of St. Leonard, of which it seems to have formed a portion, as proved by a charter of Charles I. confirming the magistrates in the superiority of ? the town of St. Leonard.? In it are many houses, or the basements thereof, that date from the early part of the sixteenth century. St. John?s Hill and this now absorbed village occupy the long ridge that overlooks the valley at the base of the Craigs, and the whole of which seems to have been the ecclesiastical property in earlier ages of several foundations, all of which were subject to the Abbots of Holyrood. On the east side of the street is still a great quadrangular edifice, called Bell?s Brewery (long famous for its ale), which is shown as such in Edgar?s Map in 1765, and was nearly consumed by fire in 1794 ; and near it is still the Friends? meeting- house and burial-ground, in which are interred the Millars of Craigantinie, the Hereditary Master Gardeners to the king. This sect, whose members underwent much persecution in the early part 06 the eighteenth century, and were often arrested by the town guard for preaching in the streets, and thrust into the Tolbooth, had their first place of worship in Peebles Wynd, where it was built in 1730. ? Though it was roofed,? says the Cmranf for September, ? there is as yet no window in it; but some merrily observe these people have light within.? On the west side of the Pleasance, and immediately within the south-east angle of the city wall referred to, stood the old Chirurgeons? Hall, in the High School yards. The surgeons and barbers were formed into a corporation by the town-council on the 1st of July, 1505 j under the seal of cause, or charter, certain rules were prescribed for the good order of this fraternity. On the 13th of October in the following year James V. ratified this charter; and Queen Mary, says Arnot, ?in! consideration of the great attendance required of surgeons upon their patients, granted them an ex. emption from serving upon juries, and from watch ing and warding within the city of Edinburgh, privileges which were afterwards confirmed by Parliament.? On the 25th of February, 1657, the surgeons and: apothecaries were, at their request, united into one community. This was ratified by Parliament, and from that time the corporation ceasd ... 382 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. thoroughfare named Chambers Street, to which the school was transferred in ...

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HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TIOA? 103 visited at the Abbey. Balls, plays, and masquerades vere likewise attempted, but the last proved too great an innovation on the rigid manners of that period to be tolerated. The most profane and vicious purposes were believed, by the vulgar, to be couched under such ‘a system of disguise ; and this unpopular mode of entertainment had to be speedily abandoned. Plays, however, which were no less abhorrent to the people at that period, afforded a constant gratification to the courtiers, and were persisted in, notwithstanding the violent prejudices which they excited. The actors were regarded as part of the Duke of York’s household ; and, if we may give any credit to the satirical account which Dryden has furnished of them, they were not among the most eminent of their profession. Some members of the company, it would seem, had gone to Oxford, according to annual custom, to assist in performing the public acts there. Dryden, with great humour, makes them apologise to the University for the thinness of the Company, by intimating that many of its members have crossed the Tweed, and are now nightly appearing before Edinburgh audiences, for the ambiguous fee of (‘ two and sixpence Scots.” He slyly insinuates, however, that only the underlings of the company have gone north, leaving all its talent and character at the service of the University:- Our brethren have from Thames to Tweed departed, To Edinborough gone, or coached or carted : With bonny blue cap there they act all night, For Scotch half-crowns, in English threepence hight. One nymph, to whom fat Sir John Falstaffs lean, There with her single person fills the scene. Another, with long use and age decayed, Died here old woman, and rose there a maid. Our trusty door-keeper, of former time, There struts and awaggers in heroic rhime. Tack but a copper lace to drugget suit, And there’s a hero made without dispute ; And that which was a capon’s tale before, Becomes a plume for Indian Emperor. But .all his subjects to express the care Of imitation, go, like Indian, bare I The reader need hardly be reminded of the usual licence which the satiric poet claims as his privilege, and which his Grace’s servants at Edinburgh may have retorted in equal measure on his Majesty’s servants at Oxford, though no copy of their prologue has been preserved. It is not improbable, however, that the early Scottish theatre might merit Rome of the poet’s sarcasms. The courtly guests of the royal Duke were probably too much taken up with the novelty of such amusements, and the condescending urbanity of their entertainers, to be very critical on the equipments of the stage. These amusements were occasionally varied with the exhibition of masques at Court, in which the Lady Anne, and other noble young ladies, assumed the characters of gods and goddesses) and the like fanciful personages that usually figure in such entertainments. The gentlemen varied these pastimes with the games of tennis and golf. The Tennis Court, which also served as the fist theatre for the Court, stood immediately without the Water Gate. It may be seen in Gordon’s map, a large oblong building, occupying a considerable Dyden’a Niac., voL ii. - ... INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TIOA? 103 visited at the Abbey. Balls, plays, and masquerades vere likewise ...

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400 MEMORIALS OF EDIILBURGH. and the well has to be sought for within the recesses of a dark and unsightly drain, grudgingly constructed by the Railway Directors after an interdict had arrested them in the process of demolishing the ancient Gothic building, and stopping the fountain, whose miraculous waters-once the resort of numerous pilgrims-seem to find a few, even in our own day, who manifest the same faith in their healing virtues.' Most of the smaller convents and chapels within the capital have already been treated of along with the other features of their ancient localities. One, however, still remains to be noticed, not the least value of which is, that it still exists entire, and with some unusually rare relics of its original decorations. In early times there existed in the Cowgate, a little to the east of the old monastery of the Grey Friars, an ancient Maison Dim, as it was styled, which, having fallen into decay, was refounded in the reign of James V., chiefly by the contributions of Michael Macquhen, a wealthy citizen of Edinburbh, and afterwards of his widow, Janet Rynd. The hospital and chapel were dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, an& by the will of the foundress were left in trust to the Corporation of Hammermen, by whom the latter is now used as a hall for their own meetings. The foundation was subsequently augmented by two several donations from Hugh Lord Somerville in 1541 ; and though the building doubtless shared in the general ruin that swept over the capital in 1544, they must have been very speedily repaired, as the windows are still adorned with the ancient painted glass, containing the royal arms of Scotland encircled with a wreath of thistles, and those of the Queen Regent, Mary of Guise, within a laurel wreath, along with the shields of the founder and foundress also enclosed in ornamental borders. One other fragment, a Saint Bartholomew, has strangely escaped the general massacre of 1559, that involved the destruction of all the other apostles. The workmanship of the latter is decidedly inferior to that of the heraldic emblazonry-its hues have evidently faded ; while the deep ruby and bright yellow of the royal arms still exhibit the unrivalled brilliancy of the old glass-painters' work. These fragments of ancient painted glass possess a peculiar value, as scarcely another specimen of the Art in Scotland has escaped the destructive fury of the reforming mobs. Another unusual, though not equally rare feature, is the tomb of the foundress, which remains at the east end of the chapel, with the inscription round its border in ancient Gothic characters :- I e i r IpiB ane tonora5il woman, %net Mipnb, pe SPOUof~ u mqubiI ACiicel maTiqu-ben, 5urM of %b. founbrr of pip place, anb berePPit pe iiii bap of Them'. W. bno. m'. V. blp.' The centre of the stone is occupied with the arms of the founders, husband and wife, impaled on one shield. This sculptured slab is now level with a platform which occupies the 1 Lectures on the Antiquities of Edinburgh, by a Member of the Holy Guild of St Joseph. * The date assigned by Pennecuick for the death of the foundress is 1553 ; but this seems to be a mistake. She speaks in the charter of her husband having resolved on this Christian work wheu ' I greatly troubled with a heavy disease, and oppwsed with age," and as his endowment is dated 1503, this would make his widow survive him exactly half a century. The date on the tomb ia di5cult to decipher, being much worn, but it appears to be 1507. The deed executed by her is said to be dated so late as 1545, but the original is lost, and only a partial transcript exists among the recorda of the Corporation of Hammermen. If such be the correct date, it is strange that no notice should be taken of the burning of the town by the English the previous year, although the deed refers to property lying in the Eigh Street, and in various closes and wynds, which must then have been in ruins, or just rising from their ashes. The deed of 1545 is possibly an abstract of previous ones,including those of Lord Somerville, aa it specifies his barony of Carnwath Yiln, without naming him. Part iv. p. 126. ... MEMORIALS OF EDIILBURGH. and the well has to be sought for within the recesses of a dark and unsightly ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 34 3 we suppose the mistake of a figure, might be assumed as the occurrence referred to; and, in 1550, a small squadron of ships having been brought to anchor at Newhaven, the Queen Dowager embarked from thence on a visit to her daughter in France. The Society of Newhaven Fishermen, which serves the purpose of a benefit society, while at the same time it protects the civil rights of its members, was instituted by a charter from James the Sixth.’ The members number some- There about two hundred and sixty. A noble feature in the character of the Newhaven men is their sturdy independence of spirit, and the mspect which they enforce as due to old age. Members above sixty years of age are exempted from all burdens cannected with the Society, without depriving them of any of its privileges. Every aged pauper, if he fulfils the letter of the regulations so far as to appear on the ahare at the landing of a boat, whether he lend his assistance or not, is entitled to a small allowance from the produce. Even in their jollifications the aged are treated with the utmost c%re by the younger portion of the canvivial party, a certain number of whom are appointed, on great occasions, tcr observe when the old fellows are sufficiently in their cups, and to see them conveyed safely home and put to bed. On the annual choosing of office - bearers for the Society, the newly elected box-holder, as he is called, treats the d d men to a dinner and drink, when the veterans usually eujoy themselves pretty freely. On an occ* sion of this kind, some years ago, the unit& ages of the five individuals who sat at the convivial board amounted to four hundred and thirty years. Though not greatly famed for their knowledge of books, sacred or profane, the people of Newhaven have long maintained a church-going reputation. “Within the bounds of the parish of North Leith,” says the author of a History of Leith, “ the old church, in Dr. Johnston’s time, was much frequented by the primitive natives of that celebrated village, who, being naturally gregarious, generally formed the majority of its congregation, in which they constituted a marked and not unpleasing feature ; nay, it was a sight of no ordinary interest to see the stern and weather-beaten faces of these hardy seamen subdued, by the influence of religious feeling, into an expression of deep reverence and humility before their God. Their devotion seemed to have acquired an additional solemnity of character from a consciousness of the peculiarly hazardous nature of their occupation, which, throwing them immediately and sensibly on the protection of their Creator every day of their lives, had imbued them with a deep sense of gratitude to that Being, whose outstretched arm had conducted their little bark in safety through a hundred storms. The fishermen of Newhaven and their families were always looked upon by their worthy pastor with peculiar kindness. He considered them in an especial manner under his charge and protection, and accordingly treated them on all occasions with the most marked They maintain their own poor. 1 Owing to varioua doubtful claims, the fishermen have, in more instances than one, been obliged to resort to legal measures. Some of their law-suits were not likely to be decided 80 long as the funds of the Society were nnexhausted. ... SKETCHES. 34 3 we suppose the mistake of a figure, might be assumed as the occurrence referred to; ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 463 The late Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck wrote a song, in 1817, commemorating the leading members of the Duddingston Society of Curlers. He thus introduces Mr. Millar :- “ To the kirk we maun bow, sae we needna be sour, For there, I how, stands our best pillar : But gif 0’ keen curlers ye’re wantin’ the Jmw, For Jour ye maun look to a-MILLBrc.” His fondness for this game inspired Mr. Millar himself, and he wrote an excellent Fang to the air-“ The Laird 0’ Cockpen.” It was printed at the time as a single leaf, but it may be found, somewhat curtailed, in a volume on curling, entitled “ Memorabilia Curliania Mabenensia,” printed at Dumfries, 1830, 8vo. We are not aware of any other composition by this gentleman, who was truly considered by his friends as a most agreeable companion and a keen curler.” Mr. Millar died at Meadowsale, near Strathaven, on the 17th August 1824. IT.-The late SIR WALTER SCOTT, Bart., of whom as the world is already in possession of so much, no apology will be requisite for the brevity of our notice. By way of pointing out the locality, we may state that he was born on the 15th August 1771, in a house (removed to make way for the University buildings) which stood at the head of the College Wynd,’ partly in what is now North College Street, near the spot where a wooden erection has been formed for exhibiting the skeleton of a whale belonging to the College Museum (now removed). His father, Mr. Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, resided in the third $at, the two under floors being occupied by Mr. Keith, grandfather to the late Sir Alexander Keith, Knight-Marischal of Scotland. The author of “Marmion” became an advocate in 1792; but, as is well known, he never made.any figure as a barrister. His fame and emoluments were destined to be gleaned in another field ; and though he failed in securing the golden harvest he had reaped, the triumph of his genius is now beyond the reach of cavil or the chance of accident. Sir Walter is classed in the Print as one of the advocates who (‘ plead without wigs ;” but prior to the date of the Engraving (1811) he had been appointed one of the Principal Clerks of Session-an appointment, which precluded practice at the bar. Sir Walter Scott died at Abbotsford on the 21st September 1832. This might well have been the most appropriate site for the monument erected to the memory of Sir Walter, had the improvements at one time contemplated by the Commissioners for the University buildings been carried into effect. The plan comprehended the removal of all those tenements between Bailie Grieve’s ehop, corner of Adam Square (running in a straight line through that large self-contained home, middle of the Horse Wynd, built and formerly inhabited by the Earl of Galloway, and subsequently by Mr. Paton, the publisher of the first edition of this work), and the centre of @le Square ; thus leaving a considerable open space round the College, The monument, occupying the natd spot of the Great Magician of the North, and immediately fronting the centre of the north parallel of the buildingfl, would have added greatly to the b u t y aa well aa the intereat of the scene. ... SKETCHES. 463 The late Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck wrote a song, in 1817, commemorating the ...

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BI 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCH E S. 43 Walter Hamilton, Esq., was elected Lord Provost. This office he filled, as usual, for two years. The copartnery with Mr. Allan’ having been dissolved, Provost Steuart commenced business on his own account in Leith, as a general merchant. At a later date he became a wine-merchant in Edinburgh, but was far from successful in his commercial speculations. In his early years, with the view of following a mercantile profession, he resided for some time on the Continent, where he acquired an intimate knowledge of modern languages. He was a man of excellent taste, and passionately fond of literature. He was a great book-collector, and his library, for its size, was one of the finest in Scotland. His residence abroad had given him great facilities for collecting rare and curious works. In May 1801, when he exposed a part of his library to sale by auction, it was described as “ a small, but select collection of books, in which is to be found some of the finest specimens of typography extant, from the first attempt on wooden blocks until the present time.” But the prices offered not coming up to Mr. Steuart’s expectations, the greater part were bought in, either by himself or his friends. Two of the finest specimens of early printing which now enrich the Library of the Faculty of Advocates were formerly in his possession, viz.-lst, The first edition of the Latin Bible, and one of the earliest books executed with movable types, in two large volumes folio, supposed to have been printed by Gutternbeg and Faust in the year 1450. The other is the Breviary of the .Roman Church, beautifully printed on the finest vellum at Venice by Nicholas Jenson in 1478, and finely illuminated. Provost Steuart married Miss Ann Fordyce, an Aberdeenshire lady, by whom he had sixteen children, five of whom, two sons and three daughters, are presently alive. In’ the latter part of life he suffered much as a martyr to the gout; and finally left Edinburgh about the year 1815. From that time he continued to reside with his son-in-law, Mr. Mair,” at Gretna Hall, near Annan, where he died on the 17th May 1824. MR. JOHN LOTHIAN was a cloth-merchant in that shop, No. 313 High Street., in the west wing of the front of the Royal Exchange. He was elected one of the Merchants’ Councillors, in 1762 ; and in 1768, upon the death of Bailie William Callender, was appointed third bailie in his stead ; in 1769, he was one of the old bailies; in 1774, second bailie; in 1775, old bailie. He died unmarried, at Edinburgh, suddenly, on the 12th August 1790. He was second son of Richard Lothian, writer in Edinburgh, the eldest son of George Lothian, Esq., of Belsis, near Ormiston, in East Lothian, and cousin- 1 Robert Allan was father of the late Thorn= Allan, Esq., who bought the estate of Lauriston, in the county of Edinburgh, which had for nearly a century and a half been the property of the representatives of the celebrated John Law of Lauriston, who was born there. a hLrs. Mair was remarkable for the beauty of her face and the graceful elegance of her figure, but the sweetness of her manner was stii more remarkable than either. ... 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCH E S. 43 Walter Hamilton, Esq., was elected Lord Provost. This office he filled, ...

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430 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. I‘ Ita needless to erect a marble Tomb : The daily bread, that for the hungry womb, And bread of life thy bounty hath provided, For hungry mula, all times to be divided ; World-lasting monuments &all reare, That shall endure till Christ himself appear. Pos’d waa thy life ; prepar’d thy happy end ; Nothing in either wa8 without commend, Let it be the care of all who live hereafter, To live and die like Margaret Lady Yeater : Who died 15 March 1647. Her age 75.” The old Lady Yester’s Church built in 1644, stood at the corner of the High School Wynd, surrounded by a churchyard. It is a proof of the flimsy character of modern ecclesiastical edifices, aa well aa the little veneration they excited in the minds of the worshippers, that this church ha already disappeared, and been rebuilt considerably to the westward, in a very strange and hondewript style of architecture. The tomb of the foundress, and a tablet recording her good works, are both rebuilt in the New Church, and we presume her body has also been removed to the new 64minister‘s little isle.” N. CORPORATION AND MASONIC HALLS. CANDLEMAKERs.-The H d of this ancient Corporation still stands at the Candlemaker Row, with the arms of the Craft boldly cut over the doorway on a large panel, and beneath, their appropriate motto, Omnia rnanitesta Euce, Internally, however, the hall is subdivided into sundry small apartments ; much more circumscribed accommodation sufficing for the assembly of the fraternity in these days of gaslight and reform. The Candlemakers of Edinburgh were incorporated by virtue of a Seal of Cause granted them in 1517, wherein it is required “That na maner of Man nor Woman occupy the said Craft, as to be ane Maister, and to set up Buit, bot @he be ane Freman, or ells an Freman’cl Wyfe of the said Craft, allanerlie ; and quhan thay set up Buit, thay sall pay to Sanct Geil’s Wark, half a mark of sylver, and to the Reparatioun, bylding and uphaldiug of the Licht of ony misterfull Alter within the College Kirk of Sanct Geils, quhair the said Deykin and Craftismen thinks maist neidfull, and half ane Mark by and q u h i l l the said Craftismen be furniat of ane Alter of thair awin. And in lykwayis, ilk Maister and Occupiar of the said Craft, sall, in the Honour of Almichtie God, and of his blessit Mother, Sanct Marie, and of our Patroun, Sanct Geill, and of all Sanctis of Heaven, sall gifzeirlie to the helping and furthering of ony guid Reparatioun, either of Licht or ony other neidfull wark till ony Alter situate within the College Kirk, maist neidfull, Ten Shilling ; and to be gaderit be the Deykin of the said Craft, ay and quhill thay be provydit of an Alter to thameselfFis ; and he that disobeis the same, the Deykin and the Leif of the Craft sall poynd with ane Officiar of the Toun, and gar him pay walx to oure Lady’s Alter, quhill thay get an Alter of thair awin. And that nane of the said Craftismen send ony Lads, Boyis, or Servands, oppinlie upoun the Hie-gaitt with ony Candill, to roup or to sell in playne Streites, under the payne of escheiting of the Candill, paying ane pund of walx to oure Lady’s Alter, the first falt,” &c. It doea not appear whether or not the Craft ever founded an altar or adopted a patron saint of their own, before the new Ziyht of the Reformers of the Congregation put an end to the whole system of candle-gifta and forfeits to the altars of St Giles’s Church. The venerable fraternity of Candlemakers still exists, no unworthy sample of a close corporation. The number of its members amounts to’three, who annually meet for the purpose of electing the o5iice-bearers of the corporation, and distributing equitably the d r i e s and other perquisite8 accruing to them from ita funds in return for their onemus duties ! .. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. I‘ Ita needless to erect a marble Tomb : The daily bread, that for the hungry ...

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