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312 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Arthur?s Seat.
to the cone from the base by the way of St. Anthony?s
Well, for a wager, in fifteen minutes, on a hot summer?s
day-a feat in which he was timed by the
eminent naturalist William Smellie.
In 1828 the operations connected with the railway
tunnel, under the brow of the columnar mass
of basalt known as Samson?s Ribs, commenced,
and near to the springs so well known in tradition
as the Wells of Wearie. Close by these wells, and
near a field named Murder Acre, in May the work-
In 1843 the sum 0Cit;40,000 was paid to Thomas
Earl of Haddington, for the surrender of his office
of Hereditary Keeper of the Royal Park, and
thereafter extensive improvements were carried
out under the supervision of the Commissioners for
Woods and Forests. Among these not the least
was the Queen?s Drive, which winds round the
park, passes over a great diversity of ground from
high to low, slope to precipice, terrace to plateau,
and commands a panorama second to none in
DUDDINGSTON CHURCH (EXTERIOR).
men came upon three human skeletons, only three
and a half feet below the surface of the smooth
green turf. As a very large dirk was found near
one of them, they were conjectured to be the remains
of some of Prince Charles?s soldiers, who had
died in the camp on the hill. The U Wells,? are
the theme of more than one Scottish song, and a
very sweet one runs thus :-
#?And ye maun gang wi? me, my winsom Mary Grieve ;
There is nought in the world to fear ye ;
To gang to the Wells 0? Wearie.
Nor tinge your white brow, my dmrie ;
By the lanesome Wells 0? Wearie.?
For I have asked your minnie, and she has $en ye leave,
? Oh, the sun winna blink in your bonnie blue een,
For I will shade a bower wi? rashes lang and green,
Europe. All the old walls which had intersected
the park in various places, in lots as the Hamilton
family had rented it off for their own behoof, were
swept away at this time, together with the old
powder magazine in the Hause, a curious little
edifice having a square tower like a village church ;
and during these operations there was found at the
base of the craigs one of the most gigantic
boulders ever seen in Scotland. It was blown up
by gunpowder, and, by geologists, was alleged to
have been tom out of the Corstorphine range
during the glacial period.
Among the improvements at this time may be
included the removal, in 1862, and re-erection (in
the northern slope of the craigs) of St. Margaret?s

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374 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Greyfriars Church.
and, forming a part of her volunteer forces, six
battalions of infantry, two of artillery, and a corps
of cavalry.
On the night of the False AZam, on the evening
of the 31st January, 1804, Scotland was studded
with beacons-something on the system ordered by
the twelfthparliament of JamesII. By mistake, that
on Hume Castle was lighted ; other beacons blazed
up in all directions ; the cry was everywhere that
the I;rench had landed! All Scotland rushed to
arms, and before dawn the volunteers were all on
the march, pouring forward to their several rendezvous
; in some instances the Scottish Border
men rode fifty miles to be there, without drawing
bridle, says Scott ; and those of Liddesdale, fearing
to be late at their post, seized every horse they
could find, for a forced march, and then turned
thein loose to make their way home.
When, in 1806, new regulations were issued,
limiting the allowance to volunteers, the First
Edinburgh Regiment remained unaffected by them.
?I wish to remind you,? said the spirited Lieutenant-
Colonel Hope, one day while on parade,
?that we did not take up arms to please any minister,
or set of ministers, but to defend our native
land from foreign and domestic enemies.?
In 1820, when disturbances occurred in .the West
Country, the volunteers garrisoned the Castle, and
offered, if necessary, to co-operate with the forces
in the field, and for that purpose?remained a whole
night under arms. SOOA after the corps was disbanded,
without thanks or ceremony.
Northward of the hospital, but entering from the
Grassmarket, we find the Heriot brewery, which
we must mention before quitting this quarter, a
being one of those establishments which have long
been famous in Edinburgh, and have made the
ancient trade of a ?brewster? one of the mosl
important branches of its local manufacturing in.
dustry.
The old Heriot brewery has been in operation
for considerably over one hundred years, and foi
upwards of forty has been worked by one firm, the
Messrs. J. Jeffrey and Co., whose establishmeni
gives the visitor an adequate idea of the mode in
which a great business of that kind is conducted,
though it is not laid out according to the more
recent idea of brewing, the buildings and work:
having been added to and increased fmm time tc
time, like all institutions that have old and small
beginnings; but notwithstanding all the nurnerou:
mechanical appliances which exist in the diiTeren1
departments of the Heriot brewery, the manu?
services of more than 250 men are required then
daily.
In Gordon?s map of 1647, the old, or last, Greynars
Church is shown with great distinctness, the
,ody of the edifice not as we see it now on the
outh side, but with a square tower of four storeys
.t its western end. The burying ground is of
ts present form and extent, surrounded by pleasant
ows of trees j and north-westward of the church is
species of large circular and ornamental garden
#eat.
Three gates are shown-one to the Candlenaker
Row, where it still is ; another on the south
o the large open field in the south-east angle of the
:ity wall ; and a third-that at the foot of the ROW,
ofty, arched, and ornate, with a flight of steps
zscendiq to it, precisely where, by the vast accumuation
of human clay, a flight of steps goes downward
Over one of these two last entrances, but which
le does not tell us, Monteith, writing in the year
1704, says there used to be the following inscripion
:-
low.
?? Remember, man, as thou goes by :
As thou art now, 50 once was I.
As I am now, so shalt thou be ;
Remember, man, that thou must die (a?ee).?
The trees referred to were very probably relics
Df the days when the burial-place had been the
Sardens of the Greyfriary in the Grassmarket, at
the foot of the slope, especially as two double rows
of them would seem distinctly to indicate that
they had shaded walks which ran soutli and
north.
Writing of the Greyfriq, Wilson says, we think
correctly :-? That a church would form a prominent
feature of this royal foundation can hardly be
doubted, and we are inclined to infer that the existence
both of if, and of a churchyard attached to
it, long before Queen Mary?s grant of the gardens
of the monastery for the latter purpose, is implied in
such allusions as the following, in the ? Diurnal of
Occurrents,? July 7th, 157 I. ? The haill merchandis,
craftismen, and personis renowned within Edinburgh,
made thair moustaris in the Grey Frear
Kirk Yaird;? and again, when Birrel, in his diary,
April ~ 6 t h ~ 1598, refers to the ?work at the Greyfriar
Kirke,? although the date of the erection of
the more modem church is only 1613.?
In further proof of this idea Scottish history tells
that when, in 1474, the prince royal of Scotland,
(afterwards James IV.) was betrothed, in the second
year of his age, to Cecilia of England, and when on
this basis a treaty of peace between the nations
was concluded, the ratification thereof, and the
betrothal, took place in the church of the Greyfriars,
at Edinburgh, when the Earl of Lindesay

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Bmghton.]
The new Catholic and Apostolic church, a conspicuous
and spacious edifice, stands north of
all those mentioned at the corner of East London
Street. It was founded in November, 1873, and
opened with much ceremony in April, 1876. It is
in a kind of Norman style, after designs by R.
Anderson, and measures zoo feet long, is 45 feet
in height to the wall-head, and 64 to the apex
EAST LONDON STREET.
of the internal roof. It comprises a nave, chancel,
and baptistry. The nave measures IOO feet in
length, by 45 in breadth; is divided into five
bays, marked externally by buttresses, and has
at each corner a massive square turret surmounted
by a pinnacle rising as high as the 1;dge of the
roof. The chancel measures 614 feet, and communicates
with the nave.
PICARDY VILLAGE AND GAYFIELD HOUSE. (Aft# CkrR of Ekiin.)
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE NORTHERN NEW TOWN.
Picardy Place-Lords Eldm and Craig - Si David Milne-John Abetnumbie-Lard Newton-Commissionex Osbome-St. Paul's Church-
St. George's Chapel-Willii Douglas, Artist-Professor Playfair-General Scott of Bellevue-Drummond P k c d . K. Sharpc of Hoddam
--Lord Robertson-Abercrombic Place and Heriot Row-Miss Femer-House in which H. McKenAe died-Rev. A. Aliin-Great King
Street-% R. Christison--Si W illiam Hamilton-Si William Ab-L-ard Colonsay, &c.
THE northern New Town, of which we now propose
to relate the progress and history, i; separated
from the southern by the undulating and extensive
range of Queen Street Gardens, which occupy a
portion of the slope that shelves down towards the
valley of the Water of Leith.
It is also in a parallelogram extending, from the
quarter we have just been describing, westward to ,
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the Queensferry Road, and northward to the line
of Fettes Row. It has crescental curves in some
of its main lines, with squares, and is constructed
in a much grander style of architecture than the
original New Town of 1767. Generally, it wqs
begun about 1802, and nearly completed by 1822.
In the eastern part of this parallelogram are Picardy
Place, York Place, Forth and Albany Streets,

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136 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [West Church,
and by an assessment on the real property within
the parish; the expense for each inmate in those
days was only A4 IS. 6d. On the demolition of
the old church, its pulpit, which was of oak, of a
very ancient form, and covered with carving, was
placed in the hall of the workhouse. The number
of the inmates in the first year was eighty-four.
The edifice, large and unsightly, was removed, with
the Diorama and several other houses, to make
space for the Caledonian railway, and the poor
of St. Cuthbert?s were conveyed to a more airy and
commodious mansion, on the site of the old farmhouse
of Werter.
When the Act of Parliament in 1767 was obenclosed
by a wall, on which a line of tombs is
now erected.
In the eighteenth century the building of note
nearest to the church of St. Cuthbert, on the opposite
side of the way, now named Iathian Road, was
a tall, narrow, three-storeyed country villa, called,
from its situation at the head of the slope, Kirkbraehead
House. There the way parted from the
straight line of the modern road at the kirk-gate,
forming a delta {the upper base of which was the
line of Princes Street), in which were several cottages
and gardens, long since swept away. A row
of cottages lay along the whole line of what is now
Queensferry Street, under the name of Kirkbraehead.
OLD WEST KIRK, AND WALLS OF THE LITTLE KIRK, 1772. (FmVJ alr Engraving of a Drawing fro?# a Moder.)
tained for extending the royalty of the city ol
Edinburgh, clauses were inserted in it disjoining
a great portion of the ground on which the future
new city was to be built, and annexing it to the
parish of St. Giles, under the condition that the
heritors of the lands should continue liable, as
formerly, for tithes, ministers? stipends, and A300
annually of poor?s money. Thus the modern
parishes of St Andrew, St. George, S t Mary, and
St. Stephen-all formed since that period-have
been taken from the great area of the ancient
parish of St Cuthbert
No very material alteration was made in the
burying-ground till April, I 787, when the north
side of it, which was bordered by a marsh 2,000
feet in length (to the foot of the mound) by 350
broad-as shown in the maps of that year-was
drained and partially filled with earth. Then the
walls and gates were repaired. The ground at
the east end was raised a few years after, and
The villa referred to was, towards the close of
the century, occupied by Lieutenant-General John
Lord Elphinstone, who was Lieutenant-Governor
of the Castle, with the moderate stipend of
LISO 10s. yearly, and who died in 1794.
At a subsequent period its occupant was a Mr.
John Butler, who figures amocg ? Kay?s Portraits,?
an eccentric character but skilful workman, who
was king?s carpenter for Scotland; he built Gayfield
House and the house of Sir Lawrence Dundas,
now the Royal Bank in St. Andrew Square. He
was proprietor of several tenements in Carmbber?s
Close, then one of the most fashionable portions of
the old town.
The villa of Kirkbraehead had been built by his
father ere the Lothian Road was formed, and concerning
the latter, the following account is given
by Kay?s editor and others.
This road, which leaves the western extremity of
Princes Street at a right angle, and runs southward

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264 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. frhe Cowgate.
The skinners would seem to have been created
into a corporation in 1474, but references to the
trade occur in the Burgh Records at an earlier
date. Thus, in 1450, there is recorded an obligation
by the skinners, undertaken by William Skynner,
in the name of the whole, to support the
altar of St. Crispin in St. Giles?s Church, ?in the
fourth year of the pontificate of Nicholas the Fifth ;?
and a seal of cause was issued to the skinners
and furriers conjointly in 1533, wherein they were
bound to uphold the shrine of St Christopher in
. St. Giles?s, and several Acts of Parliament were
passed for their protection. One, in 1592, prohibits
?<all transporting and carrying forth the
realm, of calvesskinnes, huddrones, and kidskins,
packing and peilling thereof, in time coming,
tion of ? the goodwill and thankful service done to
us by our servitor, Alexander Crawford, present
deacon of the said cordiners and his brethren.?
We first hear of a kind of ?? strike,? in the trade in
1768, when the cordiners entered into a cornbination
not to work without an increase of wages,
and reduction of hours. The masters prosecuted
their men, many of whom were fined and imprisoned,
for ? entering into an unlawful combination,?
as the sheriff termed their trade union.
Charles I. In 1703, by decree of the Court of
Session, the bow-makers, plumbers, and glaziers,
were added to the masons; and to the wrights
were added the painters, slaters, sieve-wrights, and
coopers. These incorporated trades held their
meetings in St. Mary?s Chapel, Niddry?s Wynd, and
were known as ?The United Incorporation of St.
Mary?s Chapel?
In 1476 the websters were incorporated, and
bound to uphold the altar of St. Simon in St
Giles?s, and it was specially stipulated that ?(the
priest shall get his meat.? Cloth was made in
those days by the weavers much in the same
fashion that is followed in the remote Highland
districts, where the woo1 is carded and spun by the
females of the household j but Edinburgh was one
under the paine of confiscation of the same for His
Majesty?s use.? Edinburgh has always been the
chief seat of the leather trade in Scotland, and the
troops raised after the American War were entirely
supplied with shoes from there.
In 1475 the wrights and masons were granted
the aisleand chapel of St. John in the same church,
when their seal of cause was issued. Their charter
was confirmed in 15 17 by the Archbishop of St.
Andrews. in 1527 by James V., and in 1635 by
THE CHAPEL hND HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE. (Aflcran EtckiqHlisrlim 1816.)

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xii OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
PAGE
The First Trades Maiden Hospital, 1830 . . . 273
TheIndustrialMuseum . , . Tofacrpa,oz 275
Old Mmto House . . . . . . . 276
Chambersstat . . . . . . . 277
Sir James Falshaw, Bart., and H.M. Lieutenant of
Edinburgh . . - . - . . . 285
LadyYester?sChurch, 18x1 . . . . . 288
Carved Stone which was over the Main Entrance to
the High School from 1578 to 1777 . . ? . 289
TheHighSchoolerectedin 1578 . . - 292
TheSecondHighSchool, 1820. . . . . 296
Dr. Adam . - . . . . . . . 297
TheOldRoyalInfirmary . . - . . . 300
The OldRoyalInfirmary, 18m. . . . . 301
Plan of Arthur?s Seat (the Sanctuary of Holyrd) . 304
TheHolyroodDairy . . . . . . - 305
Clockmill House, 1780 . . . . . . 308
Duddingston Village, from the Queen?s Drive . 309
StMargaret?sWell . . . . - . - 311
DuddingstonChurch (Exterior) . . - . 312
Duddingston Church(1nterior) . . . . 313
Gateway of Duddingston Church, showing the Jougs
andhuping-on-Stone . . . . . 314
Duddingstonhh - . . . . . I 316
Prince Charlie?s House, Duddingston . . . . 317
Ruins of St. Anthony?s Chapel, looking towards Leith 320
The Volunteer Review in the Queen?s Park, 1860
To facc page 3 2 I
St. Anthony?s Chapel in 1 5 4 and 1854 - . . 321
St. AnthonfsWell . - . . . . . 322
Thecharity Workhouse, 1820 - . - . . 324
DarienHouse, 1750 . . . . . . . 325
The Merchant Maiden?s Hospital, Bristo,. ISZO . . 328
Bristo Port, 1820 . . . . - . 329
Clarinda?s House, General?sEntry . . . . 332
1
Room in Clarinda?s House, General?s Entry . .
The Mahogany Land, Potterrow, 1821 . . .
Surgeon?s Hall - . + . . . . .
The Blind Asylum (formerly the house of Dr. Joseph
Black), NicolsonStreet, 1820 - . . .
George Square, showing house (second on the left) of
Sir Walter Scott?s father . . , . -
Park Place, showing Campbell of Succoth?s House .
TheOrganintheMusic-classRoom . . . .
TheMeadows, about 1810. . . . . ,
The Burgh Loch . . . . . . .
The Archers? Hall . . . . . . .
Archers? Hall: the Dining Hall. . . . .
Thomas Nelson. . . . . . .
The Edinburgh University Medical School, Lauriston .
George Watson?s Hospital . . . . - .
Bird?s-eye View of the New Royal Infirmary, from the
North-East, 1878 . . . . . -
Reduced Facsimile of a View of Heriot?s Hospital by
GordonofRothiemay . . . . . .
George Heriot . . . , . . , .
Reduced Facsimile of an Old Engraving of Heriot?s
Hospital . . . . . . .
Heriot?s Hospital, from the South-west Tifutepage
The Chapel, Heriot?s Hospital . . . . .
Heriot?s Hospital : the Council Room. , . ,
The North Gateway of Heriot?s Hospital . . .
Heriot?s Hospital, 1779; Porter?s Lodge; Dining
Hall ; Quadrangle, looking North ; Quadrangle,
looking South . . - . . .
A Royal Edinburgh Volunteer . . . . .
The Repentance Stool, from Old Greyfriars Church .
GreyfriarsChurch . . . . . .
Tombs in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh - .
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I 2 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
perienced the same evils formerly resulting from its exposed position. In 1383,’ we find
King Robert IT. holding his court there, and receiving the ambassador of Charles VI. of
France, with whom he renewed the league entered into with his predecessor; and from
this time so constant an intercourse was maintained between the two courts, that both the
manners of the people and the style of building of the Scottish capital were formed on
the French model-traces of which were abundant in the last century, and are not quite
extinct even in the present day.
The
Scots, under the Earls of Douglas and March, having begun the war with great success,
the Duke of Lancaster, at the head of an army almost innumerable,’’ as Walsingham
styles it, passed the border, and marched straight to Edinburgh, which, however, he spared
from the destruction to which it was devoted, in grateful remembrance of his hospitable
entertainment there, while an exile from the English Court-a kindness the Scots showed
little appreciation of, in the reprisala with which they, as usual, followed him immediately
on his retreat to England. In requitance of this, he returned the following year and laid
the town in ashes.
It was in this incursion that the f i s t edifice of St Giles’s was destroyed; at
this time only a parish church, originally in the patronage of the Bishop of Lindisfarn, from
whom it passed into the hands of the Abbot of Dunfermline. Yet, from the remains of
the original church that were preserved almost to our own day, it would seem to have been
a building of great richness and beauty, in the early Norman style. There is a very scarce
engraving, an impression of which is in the Signet Library, exhibiting a view of a very
beautiful Norman doorway, destroyed about the year 1760, in the same reckless manner as
so many other relics of antiquity have been swept away by our local authorities ; and which
was, without doubt, a portion of the original building that had survived the conflagration
in 1385. The ancient church was, doubtless, on a much smaller scale than now, as suited
to the limits of the town ; thus described by Froissart, in his account of the reception of
De Kenne, the admiral of France, who came to the assistance of Robert 11. at this time :
--(‘Edinburgh, though the kynge kepte there his chefe resydence, and that is Parys in
Scotland; yet it is not like Tourney or Vallenciennes, for in all the towne is not foure
thousande houses ; therefore it behoved these lordes and knyghts to be lodged about in the
villages.” The reception they met with was in keeping with their lodging. We are told
the Scots (-( dyde murmure and grudge, and sayde, Who the devyll hath sent for them?
cannot we mayntayne our warre with Englande well ynoughe without their helpe ? They
understand not us, nor we theym; therefore we cannot speke toguyder. They wyll
annone ryffle, and eat up alle that ever we have in this countrey; and doo us more dispytes
and damages than thoughe the Englysshemen shulde fyght with us ; for thoughe the
Englysshe brinne our houses, we care lytell therefore ; we shall make them agayne chepe
ynough ! ”
In the succeeding reign, at the close of 1390, we again find the ambassadors of Charles
VI. at the Scottish Court, where they were honourably entertained, and witnessed, in the
Castle of Edinburgh, the King’s putting his hand and seal to the treaty of mutual aid and
defence against the English, which had been drawn up in the reign of his father. Shortly
Immediately thereafter, in 1384, the town is found in the hands of the English.
r1385.J
Martial Achievemente, vol. ii. p. 185. Lord Ekrners Froiaeart.

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81 BIOGRAPHICAL ‘SKETCHES.
promoting what has been considered a remarkable revival of religion in the
west of Scotland at that period ; and about ten years afterwards, in 1756, in
a letter to the Rev. Dr, Gillies of Glasgow, he alludes, with a glow of satisfaction,
to its remaining salutary effects in the parish of Killearn.
During the whole period of his ministerial labours in connection with the
Established Church, he displayed great public spirit ; and, even while a country
clergyman, confined to his retired sphere of exertion, he was, as he had opportunity
in the Church courts, a zealous defender of her liberty, independence, and
legal rights, and a determined opponent of what he considered ecclesiastical
tyranny, or an encroachment on her privileges. His feelings on these matters
were distinctly and strongly expressed, connected with the procedure in his
case at the bar of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1766.
The conduct of that Court, in 1752, in deposing the Rev. Mr. Thomas Gillespie,
of Carnock, from the office of the ministry, as well as some more recent proceedings,
were understood to have made a strong impression on his mind.
Considering them as infringing on the cause of religious liberty, they had undoubtedly
a powerful influence in inducing him to resign his pastoral charge in
Paisley. In the opinion of some of his friends, however, an occurrence, toward
the close of his ministry in that town, was not without its effect.
A vacancy in the office of session-clerk of the parish having taken place, a
keen dispute arose as to who had the right of appointing a successor-whether
the Kirk Session or Town Council. Each of these public bodies maintained
their claim with obstinate tenacity. After much angry dispute, in which the
whole community took an interest, the case came to be litigated in the Court
of Session, and was finally.decided in favour of the Town Council. This
decision produced much disagreeable feeling among the members of Session, and
some of them resigned. With the discontented party Mr. Baine accorded, and
keenly pleaded their cause ; but his reverend colleague having taken part with
the members of Town Council, a painful misunderstanding was produced
between these two distinguished clergymen, and followed with consequences
probably affecting the’future destinies of both: To this disagreeable event Mr,
Baine particularly refers, in his letter to the Moderator of Paisley Presbytery,
had presided. It is, however, well known to those acquainted with the history of that eventful period,
that, in 1775, on the breaking out of the American revolutionary war, his laudable and useful labours
were interrupted by the confusion and disasters which ensued. The buildings of the College were made
a barracks for the royal army ; the library, with other parts of the premises, were entirely destroyed ;
and the President himself, upon the approach of the hostile legions, was obliged to fly to a place of
safety. Having espoused the cause of the revolted colonies, he was at an early period of the contest
appointed a member of Congress ; and, in that station, he became in a high degree beneficial to the
cause by his talents as a writer and political economist. Many of the most important papers connected
with the business of that Assembly were known to be the production of his pen.
After a life of great activity and usefulness, Dr. Witherspoon died at Princetown, New Jersey, in
1794, in the seventy-second year of his age.
Kay, in his notes, alluding to the variances of the two clergymen, somewhat wittily remarks
that the call of Mr. Baine to the Relief Congregation in Edinburgh “may be supposed to have
afforded relief to both.’’

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REGENT MURRAY?S FUNERAL. 143 St. Giles?s Church.]
Beware of injured Rothwellhaugh !
? The death-shot parts-the charger springs-
Wild rises tumult?s startling roar !
And Murray?s plumy helmet rings-
Rings on the ground to rise no mare ! ?
When his remains were committed to the tomb in
which they still lie, the thousands who crowded
the church were moved to tears by the burning
eloquence of Knox. ?Vpoun the xiiij day of the
moneth of Februar, 1570,? says the ? Diurnal of
Occurrents? ? my lord Regentis corpis, being brocht
in ane bote be sey, frz Stirling to Leith, quhair it
was keipit in Johne Wairdlaw his hous, and thereafter
cary it to the Palace of Holyrudhous, wes
transportit fra the said Palace to the College Kirk
the Regent Murray, the Regent Morton, and his
great rival, John Stewart Earl of Athole, are buried ;
and adjoining the aisle where the sorely mangled
remains of the great Marquis of Montrose were
so royally interred on the 7th of January, 1661.
The Regent?s tomb, now fully restored, stands
on the west side of the south transept, and on
many accounts is an object of peculiar interest.
Erected to the memory of one who played so conspicuous
a part in one of the most momentous
periods of Scottish history, it is well calculated to
interference of the General Assembly, and a riot
ensued.
The portion of the church which contained
these monuments was eftered by a door adjoining
the Parliament Close, and, as it was never shut,
?the gude regent?s aisle,? as it was named,
became a common place for appointments and
loungers. Thus French Paris-Queen Mary?o
servant-in his confession respecting the murder
of King Henry, stated that during the communings
which took place before that dark deed was resolved
on, he one day ?took his mantle and sword
and went to prumencr (walk) in the high church.?
Probably in consequence of the veneration entertained
for the memory of the Regent, his tomb
rouse many a stirring association.
All readers of
history know how the Regent
fell under the bullet
of Bothwellhaugh, at Linlithgow,
in avenging the
wrongs inflicted on his
wife, the heiress of Woodhouselee.
As the ?Cadyow
Ballad ? has it-
? ?Mid pennoned spears a stately
Proud Murray?s plumage
Scarce could his trampling
So close the minions crow-
? From the raised vizor?s shade,
Dark rolling, glanced the
And his steel truncheon waved
Seemed marshalling the iron
?But yet his saddened brow
A passing shade of doubt
Some fiend was whispering in
grove,
floated high ;
charger move,
ded nigh.
his eye,
ranks along ;
on high,
throng,
confessed,
and awe ;
his breast,
~
of Sanctgeill, in this manner; that is to say,
.i?illiam Kirkaldie of Grange, Knycht, raid fra the
said palace in dule weid, bearing ane pensal!
quherin was contenit ane Reid Lyon; after him
followit Colvill of Cleishe, Maister (of the) Houshold
to the said Regent, with ane quherin was
contenit my lords regentis armes and bage.? The
Earls of Mar, Athole, Glencairn, the Lords
Ruthven, Methven, and Lindsay, the Master of
Graham, and many other nobles, bore the body
through the church to the grave, where it ?was
JOHN KNOX?S PULPIT, ST. GILES?S.
(From tk Scottish Anfaquarinn Museum).
buryit in Sanct Anthonie?s
yle.? On the front of the
restored tomb is the ancient
brass plate, bearing
an inscription composed
by George Buchanan :-
?( Iur060 Stuvarto, Mwm?e Cornifi,
Scotie Prwqi;
Vim, a t a t i s szw, longe opt*
mo : a6 inirnik,
0mni.- rnemorie deterrimis, ex
insdiis exfindo,
Ceu pafn? commwni, pafna
mcprens $omit.??
Opposite, on the north side
of the west transept, was
the tomb in which the Earl
of Athole, Chancellor of
Scotland, who died suddenly
at Stirling, not without
suspicion of poison,
was interred with great
solemnity on the 4th of
July, 1579. A cross was
used on this occasion, and
as flambeaux were borne,
according to Calderwood,
the funeral probably occurred
at night ; these paraphernalia
led to the usual

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During the great plague of 1568 a huge pit,
wherein to bury the victims, was ordered to be dug
in the ?? Greyfriars KirRyaird,?? as Maitland records,
thus again indicating the existence of a church here
long anterior to the erection of the present one.
Here, about eight in the evening of the 2nd June,
1581,was brought from the scaffold, whereon it had
lain for four hours, covered by an old cloak, the headless
body of James Douglas, Earl of Morton, n-ho
GRRYYFBIARS CHURCH.
In this city of the dead have been interred so
vast a number of men of eminence that the mere
enumeration of their names would make a volume,
and we can but select a few. Here lie thirty-seven
chief magistrates of the city j twenty-three principals
and professors of the university, many of them
of more than European celebrity ; thirty-three of
the most distinguished lawyers of their day-one
a Vice Chancellor of Engknd and Master of the
the murder of King Henry. It was borne by
common porters, and interred in the place there set
apart for criminals, most probably where now the
Martyrs? Monument stands. Xone of his friends
dared follow it to the grave, or show their affection
or respect to the deceased Earl by any sign of
outward griet
In 1587 the king having ordered a general
weapon-shawing, the Council, on the 15th July, ordained
by proclamation a muster of the citizens in
the Greyfriars Kirkyard, ?? boddin in feir ofweir, and
arrayet in their best armour, to witt, either pike
or speer, and the armour effeuand thairto, or with
hakbuts and the armour effeirand thairto, and nocht
with halbarts or Jedburgh staffes.?
the Court of Chancery; six Lords President of the
Supreme Court of Scotland ; twenty-two senators
of the College of Justice, anda host of men distinguished
for the splendour of their genius, piety, and
worth.
Here too lie, in unrecorded thousands, citizens
of more humble position, dust piled over dust, till
the soil of the burial-place is now high above the
level of the adjacent Candlemaker Row-the dust
of those who lived and breathed, and walked OUT
streets in days gone by, when as yet Edinburgh was
confined in the narrower limits of the Old Town.
?The graves are so crowded on each other,?
says Amot, writing in 1779, ?? that the sextons fiequently
cannot avoid in opening a npe grave

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head,? and without the aid of which he could perform
nothing, was cast in also, and it was remarked
by the spectators that it gave extraordinary twistings
and dthings, and was as long in burning as
the major himself. The place where he perished
was at Greenside, on the sloping bank, whereon,
in 1846, was erected the new church, so called.
If this man was not mad, he certainly was a
singular paradox in human nature, and one of a
TRINITY CHURCH AND HOSPITAL, AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. (From Curdon of Rothiemas Map.)
57, Halkerston?s Wynd ; 58, Leith Wynd ; 6. St. Ringan?s Suburbs, or the Beggar Row ; 27, the North Craigs, or h?eil?s Craigs ; 24, the
Correction House ; p, the Colh qe Kirk ; i, Trinity Hospital j i, Leith Wynd Port ; s. St. Paul?s Work.
ing to the Tolbooth from Greenside, she would not
believe that her brother had been burned till toldthat
it had perished too ; ? whereupon, notwithstanding
her age, she nimbly, and in a furious rage, fell upon
her knees, uttering words horrible to be remembered.?
She assured her hearers that her mother
had been a witch, and that when the mark of a
horse-shoe-a mark which she herself displayedcame
on the forehead of the old woman, she could
kind somewhat uncommon-outwardly he exhibited tell of events then happening at any distance, and
the highest strain of moral sentiment for years, and to her ravings in the Tolbooth must some of the
duringall that time had been secretly addicted to
every degrading propensity ; till evenhially, unable
to endure longer the sense of secret guilt and
hypocrisy, With the terrors of sickness and age
upon him, and death seeming nezr, he made a
confession which some at first believed, and on
that confession alone was sentenced to die.
If Weir was not mad, the ideas and confessions
of his sister show that she undoubtedly was. She
evidently believed that her brothefs stick was
one possessed of no ordinav power. Professor
Sinclair tells us, that on one of the ministers returndarkest
traditions of the West Bow be assigned.
She confessed that she was a sorceress, and
among other incredible things, said that many years
before a fiery chariot, unseen by others, came to
her brother?s house in open day j a stranger invited
them to enter, and they proceeded to Dalkeith.
While on the road another stranger came, and
whispered something in the ear of her brother, who
became visibly affected ; and this intelligence was
tidings of the defeat of the Scottisl army, that very
day, at Worcester. She stated, tow, that a dweller
in Dalkeith had a familiar spirit, who span for her

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West Churqh. SIR HENRY WELLWOOD MONCRIEFF. I35
and gloomy vault ; ?a memorial alike of the demolished
fane and the extinct race,? says Wilson
in 1847. ?When we last saw it the old oak
door was broken in, and the stair that led down
. to the chamber of fhe dead was choked up with
rank nettles and hemlock-the fittest monument
that could be devised for the old barons of Dean,
the last of them now gathered to his fathers.?
One of the most interesting tombs here is that
of Thomas de Quincey, the eccentric ?English
opium-eater,? who was the friend of Prqfessor
Wilson, and died at Edinburgh on the 8th of
December, 1859. It is reached by taking the first
pathway upward to the right at the Lothian Road
entrance.
On one of the south walls here, where for more
than fifty years it hung unnoticed and forgotten,
is a piece of monumental sculpture, by Flaxman,
of very rare beauty-a square architectural mural
monument, of a mixed Roman and Grecian style,
of white and black marble, which was erected to
commemorate the death of three infant children.
Two families-the Watsons of Muirhouse, and
the Rocheids of Inverleith-retained the right
of burial within the new church, under the steeple,
which is 170 feet in height. Its bell, which is
inscribed ?George Watt fecit, St. Ninian?s Row,
Edin : 1791,? was hung in that year.
In the west lobby of the church a handsome
tablet bears the following inscription, removed, probably,
from the older edifice :-? Here lyes the
corpse of the Honble. Sir James Rocheid of Inverkith,
who died the 1st day of May, 1737, in the
7 1st year of his age.?
The last incumbent of the ancient church, Mr.
Stewart, having died in April, 1775, was succeeded
by the famous Sir Henry Wellwood Moncrieff, D.D.,
who for more than half a century was one of the
greatest ornaments of the Scottish Church.
At St. Cuthbert?s he soon became distinguished
for his devoted zeal and fidelity in the discharge of
his ministerial duties, for the mildness and benevolence
of his disposition, for his genius, eloquence,
and great personal worth. He soon became the
leader of the Evangelical section of the church,
and in 1785 was unanimously chosen Moderator
of the General Assembly. He was appointed
collector of the fund for the widows and children
of the clergy, and filled that important situation
till his death, and received annually the thanks
of the Assembly for forty-three years. He was
author of several sermons, and the funeral oration
preached at his death by Dr. Andrew Thomson, 01
St. George?s, was long remembered for its power
pathos, and tenderness. He died in 1827 of a
lingering illness, in the 78th year of his age and
57th of his ministry.
In its greatest length, quoad civiZia, in 1835, the
parish measured upwards of five miles, and in its
yeatest breadth three and a half. But in 1834
territories were detached from it and formed into
ihe quoad sacra parishes of Buccleuch, St. Bemard?s,
Newington, and Roxburgh. It was partly landward
and partly town ; but, as regards population,
is chiefly the latter now. Each of its two ministers
has a manse.
Before quitting the church of St. Cuthbert a
reference must be made to its old poor-house, a
plain but lofty edifice, with two projecting wings
:standing on the south side of what was latterly
:alled Riding School Lane), and now removed.
At an early period a tax of LIOO sterling hac
been laid on the parish to preclude begging, ? and
maintain those who had been ?accustomed to live
3n the charity of others.? In 1739, at a meeting
3f heritow and the Session, the former protested
against the levy of this old impost, on the plea
?that the poor?s funds were sufficient to maintain
the poor in the landward part of the parish, with
whom only the heritors were concerned ; while the
poor living in Pleasance, Potter Row, Bristo, West
Port, &c., fell to be maintained by the town in
whose suburbs they were.?
The assessment was thus abandoned, and an
ancient practice was resorted to : the mendicant
poor were furnished with metal badges, entitling
them to solicit alms within the parish. The
number furnished with this unenviable distinction
amounted to fifty-eight in 1744, and the number
of enroIled poor to 220, for whose support A200
sterling were expended. In 1754 the Kirk Session
presented a nikmorial to the magistrates, craving a
moiety of the duty levied on ale for the support of
their poor, whereupon a wing was added to the
city workhouse for the reception of St. Cuthbert?s
mendicants.
In June 1759 a subscription was opened for
building a workhouse in the West Kirk. parish j
the money obtained amounted to A553 sterling
for the house, and A196 8s. of annual subscrip
tions for the support of its inmates-a small proof
that the incubus or inertia which had so long
affected Edinburgh was now passing away ; and the
building was commenced on the south side of a
tortuous lane, St. Cuthbert?s, that then ran between
hedgerows from opposite the churchyard
gate towards the place named the Grove. It was
completed by the year 1761, at a cost of about
L1,565 sterling. The expenses of the house were
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? klth] KING JAMES V1.5 HOSPITAL 217
Barker, whose office ceased to exist after the Burgh
Reform Bill of 1833.
The seal of the preceptory is preserved in the
Antiquarian Museum. It bears the figure of St.
Anthonyina hermit?s garb, with a book in one
hand, a staff in the other, and by his side is a sow
with a bell at its neck. Over his head is a capital
T, which the brethren had sewn in blue cloth on
their black tunics. Around is the legend,
S. Cornmum PreceptoriC Sancfi Anthunii, Propc L&cht.
there when the ground was opened to lay down
gas-pipes; and in the title deeds of a property
here, ? the churchyard of St. Anthony ? is mentioned
as one of the boundaries.
The grotesque association of St. Anthony with a
sow is because the latter was supposed to represent
gluttony, which the saint is said to have overcome ;
and the further to conquer Satan, a consecrated
bell is suspended from his alleged ally the pig.
On the east side of the Kirkgate stood King
ST. MARY?S (SOUTH LEITH) CHURCH, 1820. (After .Ytme+.)
Sir David Lindesay of the Mount refers in his
vigorous way to
?The gruntil of St. Anthony?s sow,
There was an aisle, with an altar therein, dedicated
to him in the parish church of St. Giles; and among
the jewels of James 111. is enumerated ?Sanct
Antonis cors,? with a diamond, a ruby, and a great
pearl,
Save the fragments of some old vaults, not a
vestige of the preceptory now remains, though its
name is still preserved in St. Anthony?s Street,
which opens westward off the Kirkgate, and is sup
posed to pass through what was its cemetery, as
large quantities of human bones were exhumed
Quhilk bore his holy bell.?
124
James?s Hospital, built in 1614 by the sixth monarch
of that name, and the site of which now forms
part of the present burying-ground. At the southeast
angle of the old churchyard, says Wilson, there
is an ?? elegant Gothic pediment surmounting the
boundary wall and adorned with the Scottish regalia,
sculptured in high relief with the initials
J. R. 6., while a large panel below bears the
royal arms and initials of Charles 11. very boldly
executed. These insignia of royalty are intended
to mark the spot on which KiEg James?s Hospital
stood-a benevolent foundation which owed no
more to the royal patron whose name it bore than
the confirmation by his charter in 1614 of a portion
of those revenues which had been long before

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292 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
self-consequence of a parvenue peer. The Heckler believed his presence actually
necessary to the proper despatch of business, and in this way continued his
extraordinary exertions session after session. Like Bartoline Saddletree in the
Heart of Midlothian, he was a propounder of the mysteries of law ; and although
not so loquacious as the saddler of the Lawnmarket, was nearly as sane on any
other topic, excepting church matters.
The sitting of the ecclesiastical court was another important and busy season.
Over the deliberations of this reverend body he wielded the same imaginary
control ; but he invariably declared the clergy were much “ worse to keep in
order than the lawyers.”
For a madman, the Heckler wore an air of remarkable sedateness, and
counterfeited the clerical character to such perfection, that Dr. Blair is said to
have been on one occasion nearly placed in an awkward predicament by the
deception. He called on the Doctor as a reverend brother of the cloth, and
made offer of his services for a day in the pulpit, which were accepted. He
accordingly proceeded to the High Church the succeeding Sunday, where
he was fortunately detected just in time to prevent the ridiculous exhibition.
The services of the Heckler were all performed pro bono publico; but, like
most other great patriots, he began to tire of the labour and inconvenience
to which his liberal principles subjected him, and at length applied to the
Exchequer Office for remuneration. Aware of the character, his claims were
listened to by the underlings with mock gravity, and his visits were for some
time encouraged, till at last, getting tired of his importunities, he was ordered
not to trouble them in future. This rebuff was nearly productive of a tragedy;
as he next day entered the Office, armed with a loaded pistol, and threatened
to shoot Mr. Baird, one of the gentlemen of the establishment. This was
carrying the joke too far. The Heckler was instantly disarmed, and confined
as a lunatic. He lived in the Potterrow, and died many years ago.
No. CXX.
FOUR BUCKS.
DR. EISTON, SIGNIOR STARILINI,
CAPTAIN M‘KENZIE, AND MACNAB OB’ MACNAB.
THE first of these figures (to the left) is the likeness of DR. EISTON, son
of Mr. John Eiston, solicitor-at-law in Edinburgh.l While a student at the
University, young Eiston was, in the estimation of thejine young men of those
Mr. Eiston reaided in one of those houses at the foot of Allan’s Close, leading into Lady Mary
King’s Close. Mr. Eiston’s was considered a fashionable house in these days, and he used to give a
great many d i e m and evening entertainments.

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13% ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN,
flowers and creepers. Never, I have heard him say, was he prouder of his
handiwork thah when he had completed the fashioning of a rustic archway,
now overgrown with hoary ivy, by way of ornament to the entrance from the
Edinburgh road.’
At Lasswade, long afterwards, De Quincey spent his later years in a small
house which used to be called, as it may still be called, De Quincey’s Cottage.’
D A L KE I T H.
The market-town of Dalkeith lies between the two rivers, now very near
their meeting-point. It derived its name from its position : ‘ daZ= wall, and
caatha = confined,’ say the scholars. The town consists mainly of one street
running from east to west, now full of new houses and shops, but with here
and there an old roof or house-front still to be seen. Diverging from the
High Street are narrow alleys or ‘closes,’ and in many of these the old houses
remain untouched. Towards its eastern end, the High Street widens into a
market-place. Here, on your left, stand the remains of the ancient church of
St Nicholas, with the modem church tacked on to i t Directly opposite is
the old jail, a two-stoned stone building with barred windows, the groundfloor
of which was used as a weigh-house on market days until both its
functions were superseded by the newer police-station and market-hall.
Facing us, at the eastern extremity of the town, are the gates of Dalkeith
Palace, the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch.
Of the ancient Castle, built on a high ground, with a drawbridge in front
and a ravine at the back, nothing now remains, except perhaps a bit of the
outworks down on the banks of the North Esk, at the back of the present
Palace. The earliest mention of it dates from the 12th century, when it
belonged to the Grahams. Two hundred years after, by the marriage of a
Marjory Graham, it went into the hands of the Douglases, afterwards Earls of
Morton. Here Froissart stayed full fifteen days while he was in Scotland.
Here the little Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. of England, rested
with her retinue on her way to be married at Edinburgh to King James IV.,
who himself met her at Newbattle and accompanied her to Dalkeith PaIace
with great ceremony.
The Regent Morton, to whom it descended, repaired and strengthened
the Castle, and earned for it the name of Lion’s Den.’ In the following reign
it was a favourite resort of the King. When the news of his mother‘s
death at Fotheringay arrived at Edinburgh, King James, in much vexation,
went without supper to bed, ‘and on the morrow, by seven o’clock, went tu

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CONTENTS. vii
. CHAPTER XXXI.
PAGE ALLEYS OF THE HIGH STREET (continued).
Blackfriars Wynd-The Grant of Alexander 11.-Bothwell slays Si Williiam Stewar-Escape of Archbishop Sharpe-Cameronian Meetinghouse-
The House of the Regent Morton-Catholic Chapels of the Eighteenth Century-Bishop Hay-"No Popery" Riots-
Baron Smith's Chapel-Scottish Episcopalians-House of the Prince of Orkney- Magnificence of Earl Wdliam Sinclair-Cfudinnl
Beaton's House-The Cardinal's Armorial Bearings-Historical Assw$arions of his House-Its Ultimate Occupants-The United
IndusWSchool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . 258
CHAPTER XXXII.
ALLEYS OF THE HIGH STREET (continued).
Toddrick's Wynd-Banquet to the Danish Ambassador and Nobles-Lord Leven's House in Skinner's Close-The Fim Mint Houses-
The Mint-Scottish Coin-Mode of its Manufacture-Argyle's Lodging-Dr. Cullen-Elphinstone's Court--Lords Laughborough and
Stonefield-Lard Selkirk-Dr. Rutherford, the Inventor of Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
CHAPTER XXXIII.
ALLEYS OF THE HIGH STREET (concluded).
The House of the Earls of Hyndford-The l'hree Rornps'of Monreith-Anne, Conntess of Balcarris-South Foulid Qosc-The "Endnrylie's
Well"-Fountain Close-The House of Bailie Fullerton-Purchase of Property for the Royal College of Physicians-New
Episcopal Chapel-Tweeddale Close-The House of the Marquis of Tweeddale-Kise of the British Linen Compmy-The Mysterious
Murder of Begbie-The World's End Close-The Stanfield Tragedy-Titled Raidenters in Old Town C h e s . . . . . . 274
CHAPTER XXXIV.
NEW STREETS WITHIN THE AREA OF THE FLODDEN WALL.
Lord Cockburn Street-Lord Cockhnrn-The Scobman Newspaper-Charles Mackren and Alexander Kussel-The Queen's Edinburgh
Rifle Brigade-St. Giles Street-Sketch of the Rise of Journalism in Edinburgh-The Edidurgk Couramt-The Dai& Review-
Jeffrey Street-New Trinity College Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
CHAPTER XXXV.
NEW STREETS WITHIN THE AREA OF THE FLODDEN WALL (ctmcluded).
Victoria Street and Terrace-The I n d i Buildings-Mechanics' Subscription Libraq-Gwrge IV. Bridge-St. Augustine's Church-Martyrs'
Church-Chamber of the Hqhlandaud Apicnltural Sodety--SheriffCourt Bddbgs a d sohitors' Hall-Johnstone Terace-St. John's
Free Church-The Church of Scotland Training Ihllege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
CHAPTER XXXVI.
ST. MARY'S WYND.
St. Mary's Wynd and Street-Sir David Annand-St. Mary's Cisterdan Conrentand Hospital-Bothwell's Brawl in I+-T?I~ Caagate Port-
Rag Fair-The Ladies of Traquair-Ramsay's "White Horsc '' Inn-Pasqnale de Paoli-Ramsay Retires with a Fortune-Boyd's
'' White Horse" Inn-Patronised by Dr. Johnson-Improvements in the Wynd-Catholic Institute-The Oldest Doorhead in the City 297
CHAPTER XXXVII.
LEITH WYND.
Leith Wynd-Our Lady's Hospital-Paul's Work-The Wall of 1540-ItO Fall in 1854-The "Happy Land"-Mary of Gueldns-Trinity
College Church-Some Particulars of its Charter-Interior View-Decorations-Enlargement of the Establishment-Privileges of
its Ancient Officers-The Duchess of Lennox-Lady Jane Hamilton-Curious Remains-Trinity Hospital-Sir Simon Preston's
" Public Spirit "-Become a Corporation Charity-Description of Buildings-Provision for the Inmates--Lord Cockburn's Female
Pdon-Demolition of the Hospital-Other Charities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
CHAPTER XXXVJII.
T H E W E S T B O W .
%e West Bow-Quaint Ciaracter of its Houses-Its Modern Aspact-Houses of the Tunplar Knighrs-The Bowfoot Well-The Bow
Port-The Bow-head-Major Weir's Land-History of Major Thomas WeL-Personal Appearance-His Powdd Prayers-The 'I Holy
Sisters "-The Bowhead Saints-Weir's Reputed Compact with the Devil-Sick-bed Confession-ht-Search of his House--Prison
Confession-Trial of Him and His Sister Grizel-Execution-What was Weir ?-His Sister undoubtedly Mad-Terrible Reputation of
the Houw-Untenanted for upwards of a Century-Patullo's Experience of a Cheap Lodging-Weir's Land Improd Out of Existence
-Hall of the Knights of St. John-A Mysterious House-Samerville Mmsion-The Assembly Rooms--Opposed by the Bigotry of
the Times-The LPdy-Directress-Curioua Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309

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Greyfriars Church.] SCOTT?S FIRST LOVE AFFAIR. ? 383
son, buried respectively I 7 67 and I 8 I 7, Alexander
Monro $rimus, the great anatomist, and Alexander
Monro secwidm, who in 1756 was admitted joint
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery with his distinguished
father.
In the same ground, in 1799, were laid Professor
Joseph Black, the great chemist ; Dr. Hugh Blair, in
1800 ; Henry Mackenzie, ? the Man of Feeling,? in
1831 ; Alexander Tytler, another distinguished
Zittivatear; John Kay, the caricaturist, in 1826 ;
and Dr. McCrie, the well-known biographer of John
Knox.
The monument to Dr. Hugh Hair was erected
in 1817, and is placed on the south side of the
church, in the same compartment with that of Professor
MacLaurin. Thus, one of the most eminent
philosophers and one of the most distinguished
preachers that Scotland has produced are commemorated
side by side.
On the eastern gable of the Old Greyfriars
Church, a grim, repellent, and remarkable monument
catches the eye. In the centre is sculptured
a skeleton, festooned around with surgical implements,
but the inscription is nearly obliterated by
time and the fire of the church, yet it is always an
object of much curiosity.
It marks the grave of James Borthwick, whose
portrait is the oldest now hanging in the Hall of
the Royal College of Surgeons, the incorporation
of which he entered in 1645 ; he was a cadet of
the House of Crookston, and nearly related to
Lord Borthwick, who defended his castle of that
name against Oliver Cromwell after the battle
of Dunbar. He acquired the estate of Stow, in
which he was succeeded by his son James, who
erected this hideously grotesque memorial to his
memory.
Another monument of a different kind, in the
form of a brass plate inserted into a stone, on the
western wall of the church, bore some fine elegiac
verses to the memory of Francisca, daughter of
?< Alexander Swinton, advocate ; who died . . . . .
aged 7 years.?
But these verses were quite obliterated by 1816.
They ran thus :-
? The sweetest children, like these transient flowers,
Which please the fancy for a few short hours,-
Lovely at morning, see them burst in birth,
At evening withered-scattered on the earth,
Their stay, their place, shall never more be known,
Save traits enpven on those hearts alone
That fostered these frail buds while here beneath ;
Yes, these shall triumph o?er the powers of death,
Shall spring eternal in the parent?s mind
Till hence transplanted to a realm refined.?
Northward of the two churches stands the tomb
and grave of Duncan Ban Maclntyre, commonly
known in the Highlands as Donnachan ban nun
Oran, who died in the year 1812, and who, though
he fought at Falkirk, outlived all the bards and
nearly all the warriors associated in the Highland
heart with the last chivalrous struggle for the House
of Stuart.
A handsome monument marks the place where
his ashes lie. Though little known in the Lowlands,
Duncan is deemed one of the-sweetest of
the Gaelic poets, and was so humble in his wants
that he had no higher ambition than to become a
soldier in the old City Guard.
The burial-place of Sir Walter Scott?s family lies
on the west side of the ground. ? Our family,? he
wrote, ?heretofore (Dec., 1819) buried close by the
entrance to Heriot?s Hospital, on the southern or
left-hand. side as you pass from the churchyard.?
Here the father, Walter Scott, W.S., and several of
his children who died in the old house in the College
Wynd, are interred. Mrs. Scott, her sisters,
and her brother, Dr. Rutherford, are interred in
the burial-ground attached to St. John?s Church, at
the west end of Princes Street. Sir Walter purchased
a piece of ground there, ?moved by its
extreme seclusion, privacy, and security; for,? as
he wrote to brother Thomas, who was paymaster
of the 70th Foot, conveying an account of their
mother?s death, ?when poor Jack (their brother)
was buried in the Greyfriars Churchyard, where my
father and Anne (their sister) lie, I thought their
graves more encroached upon than I liked to
witness.?
The Greyfriars Churchyard is, curiously enough,
noted as being the scene of Scott?s first love affair
with a handsome young woman. Lockhart tells us
that their acquaintance began in that place of
dreary associations, ? when the rain was beginning
to fall one Sunday, as the congregation were dispersing.
Scott happened to offer his umbrella, and
the tender being accepted, so escorted her to her
residence, which proved to be at no great distance
from his own. I have neither the power nor the
wish,? adds his biographer, ?? to give in detail the
sequel to this story. It is sufficient to szy that
after he had through several long years nodrished
the dream of an ultimate union with this lady-
Margaret, daughter of Sir John and Lady Jane
Stewart Belshes of Invermay-his hopes terminated
in her being married to the late Sir William Forbes,
Bart., of Pitsligo.?
In December, 1879, there were interred in the
Greyfriars Churchyard, under the direction of the
city authorities, the great quantity of human bones

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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
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tional powers and pleasing manners are still remembered by a few of the
oldest denizens of the Scottish Metropolis. For a good many years Whiteford
House has been occupied by a large typefounding establishment, its
present tenants being the ‘ Marr Typefounding Company,’ formerly in New
Street j while the owner of the property is Mrs. Gosnell ( d e Sinclair), now
residing in London.
On the same side of the Canongate as Whiteford House, but much
higher up, is ‘ Seton’s Close,’ now numbered 267. ‘ Seton’s Land’ is mentioned
in a song embraced in a manuscript collection compiled about 1760,
and printed in the second volume of Chambers’s Traditions of Edzkbu~h,
where it is stated that there was another house in the now extinct Libberton’s
Wynd, distinguished by the name of ‘ Seton’s Land.’ The song celebrates
the charms of a certain ‘ bonnie Mally Lee,’ and the couplet which refers to
‘Seton’s Land’ runs as follows :-
‘ Frae Setun’s Land a Countess fair looked owre a window hie,
And pined to see the genty shape of bonnfe Mally Lee.’
Although the city of Edinburgh no longer contains any lapidarian record
of the family of Seton,-to say nothing of Pinkie in the neighbourhood of
Musselburgh,-we have only to cross the eastern border of the county, in
order to find several important indications of their former renown. The site
of the oid Palace of Seton, ‘ one of the glories of the Lothians,’ is occupied
by an uninteresting modern mansion in the English Baronial style, for which
we are indebted to a certain ‘barbarous Celt,’ by whom the earlier edifice
was most wantonly demolished about the year 1790. ‘Round about it, in
the shape of old walls and abutments, venerable trees and an ancient orchard,
are the scattered remains of the departed Palace ; but there remains one object
truly warthy of representing the ancient magnificence of the spot, in the ruins
of the Collegiate Church endowed by the House of Seton, which they proudly
placed, in the fulness of their patronising and protecting power, within the
cincture of their Palace walls.’ . , . ‘ Scotland owes many of her architectural
ornaments to the munificent taste of the family of Seton. They built Seton
Church, and the Palace adjoining it, which has now disappeared. They
built, according to their family historian, the old bridge of Musselburgh,
which tradition makes a Roman work. That peculiar and beautiful structure,
Winton House, was erected as a mansion for the head of the family. Lastly,
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241 CoWgab.1 THE EPISCOPAL CHAPEL.
to preach openly, by taking the oaths to Govemment,
had been founded in Edinburgh by Baron
Smith, and two smaller ones were founded about
1746, in Skinner?s and Carrubber?s Closes; but as
these places were only mean and inconvenient
apartments, a plan was formed for the erection of
a large and handsome church. The Episcopalians
of the city chose a committee of twelve gentlemen
to see the scheme executed. They purchased from
the Royal College of Physicians the area of what
had formerly been the Tweeddale gardens, and
opened a subscription, which was the only resource
they had for completing the building, the
trifling funds belonging to the former obscure
chapels bearing no proportion to the cost of so
expensive a work. But this impediment was removed
by the gentlemen of the committee, who
generously gave their personal credit to a considerable
amount.
The foundation stone was laid on the 3rd of
April, 1771, by the Grand Master Mason, Lieutenant-
General Sir Adolphus Oughton, K.B.,
Colonel of the 31st Foot, and Commander of the
Forces in Scotland. The usual coins were deposited
in the stone, under a plate, inscribed thus :-
EDIFICII SAC. ECCLESIW EPISC. ANGLIB,
PRIMIlM POSUIT LAPIDEY,
I. ADOLPHUS OUGHTON,
CURIO MAXIMUS,
MILITUM PRWFECTUS,
REONANTE GEORGIO 111.
TERTIO APR. DIE,
A.D. MDCCLXXI.
IN ARCHITECTONICA storm RFPUB.
Towards this church the Writers to the Signet
subscribed zoo guineas, and the Incorporation
of Surgeons gave 40 guineas, and on Sunday, the
9th of October, 1774, divine service was performed
in it for the first time. ?This is a plain,
handsome building,? says Arnot, ? neatly fitted up
in the inside somewhat in the form of the church
of St. Martin?s-in-the-Fields, London. It is 90
feet long by 75 broad pver the walls, and is omamented
with a neat spire of a tolerable height. In
the spire hangs an excellent bell, formerly belonging
to the Chapel Royal at Holyrood, which is
permitted to be rung for assembling the congregation,
an indulgence that is not allowed to the
Presbyterians in England. This displays a commendable
liberality of sentiment in the magistrates
of Edinburgh ; but breathes no jealousy for the
dignity of their national Church. In the chapel
there is a fine organ, made by Snetzler.of London.
In the east side is a niche of 30 feet, with a
Venetian window, where stands the altar, which is
adorned with paintings by Runciman, a native of
Edinburgh. In the volta is the Ascefision; over
the small window on the right is Christ talking
with the Samaritan woman ; on the left the Prodigal
returned. In these two the figures are halflength.
On one side of the table is the figure of
Moses ; on the other that of Elias.?
At the time Arnot wrote L6,Soo had been spent
on the building, which was then incomplete. ? The
ground,? he adds, ?? is low ; the chapel is concealed
by adjacent buildinis ; the access for carriages inconvenient,
and there is this singularityattending it,
that it is the only Christian church standing north
and south we ever saw or heard of. . . . . . . . . There are about I,ooo persons in this
congregation. Divine service is celebrated before
them according to all the rites of the Church of
England. This deserves to be considered as a
mark of increasing moderation and liberality among
the generality of the people. Not many years ago
that form of worship in all its ceremonies would
not have been tolerated The organ and paintings
would have been downright idolatry, and the
chapel would have fallen a sacrifice to the fury of
the mob.?
Upon the death of Mr. Can; the first senior
clergyman of this chapel, he was interred under its
portico, and the funeral service was sung, the voices
of the congregation being accompanied by the
organ. In Arnot?s time the senior clergyman was
Dr. Myles Cooper, Principal of New York College,
an exile from America in consequence of the revolt
of the colonies.
In the middle?of February, 1788, accounts
reached Scotland of the death and funeral of Prince
Charles Edward, the eldest grandson of James VII.,
at Rome, and created a profound sensation among
people of all creeds, and the papers teemed with
descriptions of the burial service at Frascati ; how
his brother, the Cardinal, wept, and his voice broke
when singing the office for the dead prince, on
whose coffin lay the diamond George and collar of
the Garter, now in Edinburgh Castle, while the
militia of Frascati stood around as a guard, with
the Master of Nairn, in whose arms the prince
expired.
In the subsequent April the Episcopal College
met ?at Aberdeen, and unanimously resolved that
they should submit ? to the present Government of
this kingdom as invested in his present Majesty
George III.,? death having broken the tie which
bound them to the House of Stuart. Thenceforward
the royal family was prayed for in all their
churches, and the penal statutes, after various
modifications, were repezled in 1792. Eight years
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the Belitice Puetaruni Scuiurum. He was a convert
to the Protestant religion, and the chief work of
his pen is his learned book on feudal law. It has
been well said that lie U kept himself apart from the
political intrigues of those distracting times, devoting
himself to his professional duties, and in his
hours of relaxation cultivating a taste for classical
literature.?
He was present at the entry of King James into
London, and at his coronation as King of England,
an event which he commemorated in a poem in
Latin hexameters. In 1604 he was one of the
commissioners appointed by the king to confer
with others on the part of England, concerning
a probable union between the two countries, a
favourite project with James, but somewhat Utopian
when broached at a time when men were living
who had fought on the field of Pinkie.
He wrote a treatise on the independent
sovereignty .of Scotland, which was published in
1675, long after his death, which occurred at Edinburgh
on the 26th of February, 1Go8. He married
Helen, daughter of Heriot of Trabrown, in East
Lothian, by whom he had seven children. His
eldest son, Sir Lewis Craig, born in 1569, became
a senator, as Lord Wrightislands
On the death of his lineal descendant in 1823,
Robert Craig of Riccarton (of whom mention was
made in our chapter on Princes Street in the
second volume of this work), James Gibson, W.S.
(afterwards Sir James Gibson-Craig of Riccarton
and Ingliston), assumed the name and arms of
Craig in virtue of a deed of entail made in 1818.
He was a descendant of the Gibsons of Durie, in
Fife.
His eldest son was the late well-known Sir
William Gibson-Craig, who was born and August,
1797, and, after receiving his education in Edinburgh,
was called as, an advocate to the Scottish
Bar in 1820. He was M.P. for Midlothian from
1837 to 1841, when he was returned for the city of
Edinburgh, which he continued to represent till
1852. He was a Lord of the Treasury from 1846
to 1852, and was appointed one of the Board
of Supervision for the Poor in Scotland. In 1854
he was appointed Lord Clerk Register of Her
Majesty?s Rolls and Registers in Scotland in 1862,
and Keeper of the Signet. He was a member of
the Privy Council in 1863, and died in 1878.
Riccarton House, a handsome modern villa of
considerable size, has now replaced the old
mansion of other times.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH (cmtinzted).
Colinton-Ancient Name and Church-Redhall-The Family of Foulis-Dreghorn-The Pentlands-View from Torphin-Corniston-Slateford
-Graysmill-Liherton-The Mill at Nether Libertan-Liberton Tower-The Church-The Balm Well of St. Kathrrine-Grace Mount-
The Wauchopes of Niddrie-Niddrie House-St. Katherine?s-The Kaimes-Mr. Clement Little-Lady Little of Liberton.
THE picturesque little parish village of Colinton,
about a mile and a quarter from Kingsknowe
Station, on the Caledonian Railway, is romantically
situated in a deep and wooded dell, through which
the Water of Leith winds on its way to the Firth
of Forth, and around it are many beautiful walks
and bits of sweet sylvan scenery. The lands here
are in the highest state of cultivation, enclosed by
ancient hedgerows tufted with green coppice, and
even on the acclivities of the Pentland range, at
the height of 700 feet above the sea, have been
rendered most profitably arable.
In the wooded vale the Water of Leith turns
the wheels of innumerable quaint old water-mills,
and through the lesser dells, the Murray, the Braid,
and the Burdiehouse Burns, enrich the parish with
their streams.
Of old the parish was called Hailes, from the
plural, it is said, of a Celtic word, which signifies a
mound or hillock. A gentleman?s residence near
the site of the old church still retains the name,
which is also bestowed upon a well-known quarry
and two other places in the parish. The new
Statistical Account states that the name of Hailes
was that of the principal family in the parish, which
was so called in compliment to them?; but this
seems barely probable.
The little church-which dates from only 1771-
and its surrounding churchyard, are finely situated
on a sloping eminence at the bottom of a dell,
round which the river winds slowly by.
The ancient church of Hailes, or Colinton, was
granted to Dunfermline Abbey by Ethelred, son of
Malcolm Canmore and of St. Margaret, a gift confirmed
by a royal charter of David I., and by a Bull
of Pope Gregory in 1234, according to the abovequoted
authority ; but the parish figures so little in
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small and solitary parish church of the ancient unwalled town, there was the burial-place
for ‘‘ the rude forefathers of the hamlet,” and so it continued to the very end of the sixteenth
century. Down to that period the site of the present courts was occupied in part
by the collegiate building, for the residence of the prebendaries and other clergy that
officiated at the numerous altars founded at different times in St Giles’s Church. The
whole of the remaining portion lay open towards the south, extending in successive
terraces to the Cowgate, and the greater part of it appears to have remained in this condition
till the latter end of the seventeenth century. In the nether kirkyard, between St
Giles’s Church and the Cowgate, stood the ancient chapel of the Holy Rood till the
Reformation, when it appears to have been demolished, and its materials used in building
the New Tolbooth. Doubtless the erection of the latter building, where all the great civic
and national assemblies of the period took place, must have had considerable influence
in leading to the abandonment of the old churchyard of St Giles as a place of burial.
While its area continued enclosed with ecclesiastical buildings, and stood apart from the
great thoroughfares of the town, it must have been a peculiarly solemn and fitting place of
sepulture. But when the readiest access to the New Tolbooth was through the open churchyard,
and instead of the old monk or priest treading among its grassy hillocks, it became
the lounge of grooms and lackeys waiting on their masters during the meetings of Parliament,
or of quarrelsome litigants, and the usual retainers of the law, during the sessions
of the College of Justice, all idea of sacredness must have been lost. Such appears to
have been the case, from the fact that no record exists to show any formal abandonment
of it as a churchyard. Queen Mary granted the gardens of the Greyfriars’ monastery to
the citizens in the year 1566, to be used as a cemetery, and from that period the old
burial-place seems to have been gradually forsaken, until the neglected sepulchres of the
dead were at length paved over, and the citizens forgot that their Exchange was built
over their fathers’ graves.
One of the latest notices we have discovered of the ancient churchyard occurs in Calderwood‘
s narrative of the memorable tumult of 1596, described above, though the name
probably remained long after it had ceased to be used as such. On that occasion “ the
noblemen, barons, and gentlemen that were in the kirk, went forth at the alarum, and
were likewise in their armes. The Earl of Mar, and the Lord Halyrudhous, went out to
the barons and ministrie, conveenned in the kirkyard. Some hote speeches passt betuixt
the Erle of Mar and the Lord Lindsey, so that they could not be pacified for a long
tyme.”’ Skirmishes and tumults of a like nature were doubtless common occurrences
- there; exasperated litigants frequently took matters into their own hands, and made a
speedy end to “ the law’s delay,” while the judges were gravely pondering their case
within. In like manner the craftsmen and apprentices dealt with their civic rulers ;
club law was the speediest arbiter in every difficulty, and the transference of the Tolbooth
to the west end of the old kirkyard, transferred also the arena of such tumults to the
same sacred spot. Yet with all this to account for the desertion of the ancient burialplace,
it cannot but excite the surprise of every thoughtful observer, who reflects that
within this consecrated ground, on the 24th November 1572, the assembled nobles and
citizens committed John Knox,-“ the Apostle of the Scots,” as Beza styles him,-
.
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clergy to adapt it to the wants of the rising town. In all the changes that it underwent
for above seven centuries, the original north door, with its beautifully recessed Norman
arches and grotesque decorations, always commanded the veneration of the innovators, and
remained as a precious relic of the past, until the tasteless improvers of the eighteenth
century demolished it without a cause, and probably for no better reason than to evade the
cost of its repair.
As the population of the town increased, and it advanced in wealth and importance,
altars and chapels were founded and endowed by its own citizens, or by some of the
eminent Scottiah ecclesiastics who latterly resided in Edinburgh; so that St Giles’s had
increased to a wealthy corporation, with numerous altarages and chaplainries, previous to
its erection into a collegiate church by the charter of James 111. in 1466. As usual with
all large churches, St Giles’s presented internally the form of a cross, with the central
tower placed at the junction of the nave and choir with the transepts. Externally, however,
this had almost entirely disappeared, owing to the numerous chapels and aisles added
at various dates, and it has only been restored by sacrificing some of the most interesting
and unique features of the ancient building. Previous to the alterations of 1462, notwithstanding
the general enlargement of the church by the addition of one or more rows of
chapels on either side of the nave, no portion of the central building appears to have been
elevated into a clerestory; and in the nave this addition forms one of the modern alterations
effected in 1829. Before that recent remodelling, the nave was only elevated a
few feet bigher than the aisles, and was finished in the same style in which the north
aisle still remains, with a neat but simple groising springing from the capitals of the
pillars, and decorated with sculptured bosses at the intersections. The south aisle of the
nave is evidently the work of a later date. The rich groining and form of its vaulting afford
an interesting subject of study for the architectural chronologist, when compared with the
simpler design of the north aisle. We may conclude, with little hesitation, from the style
of the former, that it was rebuilt in 1387, along with the five chapels to the south of it
described hereafter ; and, indeed, the construction of the light and beautiful shafts from
which their mutual vaultings spring, almost necessarily involved the demolition of the old
aisle. Over the vaulted roof of the centre aisle, in the space now occupied by the clerestory,
a rude attic was erected, which included several apartments, latterly used as the
residence of the bell-ringer Mitchell with his wife and family, who ascended to their
elevated abode by the antique turnpike thaE formerly rose into an octagonal pointed roof of
curious stonework, near the central tower. The arches of the tower still remain to show
the original height of the nave ; and a careful inspection of the choir proves, beyond all
doubt, that it underwent a similar alteration by the construction of a clerestory, at the
same time that it was lengthened, by the addition of the two eastmost arches, about the
middIe of the fifteenth century.’ In some of the larger Gothic churches, the architects
are fouud to have ingeniously aided the perspective of (‘ the long drawn aisles,” by dirninishing
the breadth of the arches aa they approach the east end of the choir, where the high
altar stood, thereby adding to its apparent extent. In St Giles’s Church, however, the
opposite is found to be the case. The two eastmost arches are wider and loftier than the
The choir was probably lengthened only to the extent of one arch ; but the removal of the e& wall would newsmuily
involve the rebuilding of the second.

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INDEX TO VOL . I1 .
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES .
A’
No . Page
ADVOCATES. Twelve. with wigs on .... cccxx 436
Advocates. Twelve. without wigs ... cccxxvi 462
Alls. The Five ........................... clxxxvii 46
Anderson. Mr . Francis. W . S ............. ccli 241
Angouleme. Duc d‘... ........................ ccxl 198
Austin.Mr . John. author of a “System
of Stenographic Music .............c cxcvii 376
Aytoun. Major-General Roger. ............c. cxl 196
B
BAILLIE, William. Lord Polkemmet ... ccxliii 216
Baillie. William. Lord Polkemmet ........ ccc 380
Baine. Rev . James. A.M., first minister
of the Relief Congregation. South
College Street .............................. cc 82
Baird. Rev . George Husband Baird.
D.D. Principal of the University.
and one of the ministers of the
High Church ........................... cccix 411
Bannatpe ............................. ccxciv 370
Barclay. John. M.D. ..................... cccxxii 448
Beggar’s Feast .............................. cccliii 480
Baird Rev . Principal ........................ cccx 412
Bannatpe. Sir W . M‘Leod. Lord
Bannatyne. Sir W . M‘Leod. Lord
Bannatyne .... ..........................c. cc 380
Bell. Mr . Benjamin, surgeon ..........c lxxxvi 45
Bell, Mr . Hamilton. W.S., carrying s
vintner’s boy from Edinburgh to
Mnsselburgh ........................... cclxiv 282
Bell, Mr. Hamilton. W.S ...............c. clxVi 289
Bell. Robert. Esq., Procurator for the
Bell, George Joseph. Profeasor of the
Law of Scotland .................... cccxxvi 464
Billair. Captain. and his Wife .......... ccxcix 379
Kirk ..................................... c c c a 437
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Black. Rev . David, of Lady Yester’s
Church .............................. ccxxxviii 192
Black. Donald. chairman ................. ccxcii 367
Blucher. Field.Marahal ................... ccclxi 477
Booksellers, Two ........................... clxxxii 30
Boswell. Claud Irvine. Lord Balmuto cclxii 277
Boswell. Claud I n h e . Lord Balmuto .... ccc 380
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Boyle, Right Hon . David. Lord Justice-
Clerk ..................................c.c. cxii 417
Braidwood. Mr . Francis. cabinet-maker ccxiii 122
Breadalbane. John first Marquis of .. ccxlviii 233
Breadalbane, Lady ......................c cxlviii 23 4
Brown. Dr . John. alias “the Devil
Killer” .................................... cccv 394
Browne. Citizen M.C., one of the delegates
to the British Conventionccxxd 177
Buchanan. Rev . Dr., of the Canongate
Church .................................. ccxxii 152
Burnet. Captaii James. the last captain
of the City Guard ................... ecxxxv 185
Burnett, John. Esq., advocate ........... cccxx 436
Bums, Miss, a celebrated beauty ......... cxcii 60
Burns, Miss, a celebrated beauty ........c ccvi 399
Butler. Hon . Simon ...................... ccxbx 176
Butter. Mr . William .................... clxxxiii 32
Boyd. Mr . George. clothier ............. c l d
Brougham. Henry .................... cccxxxviii 478
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CAMPBELLC,o lin. Esq., of Kd berry ... chxii 5
Campbell, Sir James, Bart. of Ardkinglass
.................................. clxxxix 61
Campbell, Sir Ilay. Bart., Lord President
of the Court of Seasion ................. ccii 89
Campbell, Sir Ilay. Lord PreSide .nt ....... ccc 380
Campbell, Mr . John. precentor ............ cciii 92
Campbell, ldr . Alexander .................. cciv 95

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