... AND THE NEW TOWN. 357
hold still frowns above the crag that rises from the eastern bank of Lochend; and ...
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... by King Alexander II., and in its earliest charters
named Mansio Re@, as he had bestowed upon
the monks a ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
and leaning on one of his attendants, and in great agitation, drove to the Palace
of ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
were derivable from it to the Crown is proved by the frequent payments with which it ...
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... to his new monastery were the churches
of St. Cuthbert. and of the Castle, among which
one plot of land ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
oup north,” Sir William Alexander, afterwards Earl of Stirling. His tragedies, ...
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... THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS. . 75
? blew gowns, each having got thirty-five shillings in
a purse, came up ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Edinburgh Castlc.
brother Sir James, with two burgesses of the City,
were drawn ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDIILBURGH.
and the well has to be sought for within the recesses of a dark and unsightly ...
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... OLD APU'D NEW EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER XXII.
ST. ANDREW SQUARE.
PAGE
St. Andrew Sq-Lst .of Early R e s i d e ...
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... AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 69
which he died is situated on the ground floor to the right of the ...
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![EARLIEST TRA DITZONS. 3
sess himself of Edgar, the youthful heir to the crown, then lodged within its walls. In
that year, also, Queen Margaret (the widow of Malcolm Canmore, and the mother of
Edgar), to whose wisdom and sagacity he entrusted implicitly the internal polity of his
kingdom, died in the Castle, of grief, on learning of his death, with that of Edward, their
eldest son, both slain at the siege of Alnwick castle ; and while the usurper, relying on
the general steepness of the rocky cliff, was urgent only to secure the regular accesses,
the body of the Queen was conveyed through a postern gate, and down the steep declivity
on the western side, to the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, where it lies interred; while
the young Prince, escaping by the same egress, found protection in England, at the hand
of his uncle, Edgar Atheling. In commemoration of the death of Queen Margaret, a
church was afterwards erected, and endowed with revenues, by successive monarchs ; all
trace of which has long since disappeared, the site of it being now occupied by the barracks
forming the north side of the great square.
In the reign of Alexander I., at the beginning of the twelfth century, the first
distinct notices of the town as 8 royal residence are found ; while in that of his successor
David, we discover the origin of many of the most important features still surviving. He
founded the Abbey of Holyrood, styled by Fordun “ Monasterium Sanctae Crucis de Crag,”
which was begun to be built in its present situation in the year 1128. The convent, the
precursor of St David‘s Abbey, is said to have been placed at first within the Castle ; and
some of the earliest gifts of its saintly founder to his new monastery, were the churches of
the Castle and of St Cuthbert’s, immediately adjacent, with all their dependencies ; among
which, one plot of land belonging to the latter is meted by ‘‘ the fountain which rises near
the corner of the King’s garden, on the road leading to St Cuthbert’s church.” e
According to Father Hay, the Nuns, from whom the Castle derived the name
of Castrum Puellarum, were thrust out by St David, and in their place the Canons introduced
by the Pope’s dispense, as fitter to live among souldiers. They continued in the
Castle dureing Malcolm the Fourth his reign ; upon which account we have several1 charters
of that king granted, apud Monasterium Sanctae Crucis de Castello Puellarum. Under
Icing William [the Lion], who was a great benefactor to Holyrood-house, I fancie the
Canons retired to the place which is now called the Abbay.” ’ King David built also for
them, and for the use of the inhabitants, a mill, the nucleus of the village of Canonmills,
which still retains many tokens of its early origin, though now rapidly being surrounded
by the extending modern improvements.
The charter of foundation of the Abbey of the HoIyrood, besides conferring valuable
revenues, derivable from the general resources of the royal burgh of Edinburgh, gives them
€1 107.1
[ll?S.]
Lord Hailes recorda a monkish tradition, which may be received a~ a proof of the popular belief, in the strong attachment
of the Queen to her husband. “ The hody of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, waa removed from its place of sepulture
at Dunfermline, and deposited in L costly shrine. While the monks were employed in this service, they approached the
tomb of her husband Malcolm. Still,
as more hands were employed in raising it, the body became heavier. The spectators stood amazed ; and the humble
monka imputed this phenomenon to their own unworthiness ; when a bystander cried out, ‘The Queen will not stir till
equal honours are performed to her husband’ This having been done, the body of the Queen wa8 removed with ease,’’
-Annals, vol. i. p. 303. ’ Liber Cartarum Sancta Crucis, p. xi.
* Father Hay, Ibid. xxii. Richard Augustin Hay, canon of St Genevieve, at PSrig and prospcclivc Abbot of Holpod
at the Revolution, though an iudustrioue antiquary, aeemn to have had no better authority for this nunnery than the
disputed name C&mm Puellarclm
The body became on a sudden so heavy, that they were obliged to set it down.](images/thumbs/memorials/memorials_v1_Page_022.gif "Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time Page 4")
... TRA DITZONS. 3
sess himself of Edgar, the youthful heir to the crown, then lodged within its walls. ...
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![THE GUISE PALACE. 93 The Castle Hill.]
queen?s Deid-room, where the individuals of the
royal establishment were kept between their death
and burial. In 1828 there was found walled up
in the oratory an infantine head and hand in wax,
being all that remained of a bambina, or figure of
the child Jesus, and now preserved by the Society
of Antiquaries. The edifice had many windows
on the northern side, and from these a fine view
spent her youth in the proud halls of the Guises
in Picardy, and had beell the spouse of a Longueville,
was here content to live-in a close in
Edinburgh! In these obscurities, too, was a
government conducted, which had to struggle with
Knox, Glencairn, James Stewart, Morton, and
many other powerfd men, backed by a popular
sentiment which never fails to triumph. It was
DUKE OF GORDO~?S HOUSE, BLAIR?S CLOSE, CASTLE HILL.
must have been commanded of the gardens in
the immediate foreground, sloping downward to
the loch, the opposite bank, with its farm-houses,
the Firth of Forth, and Fifeshire. ?? It was interesting,?
says the author of ? Traditions of Edinburgh,?
?to wander through the dusky mazes of
this ancient building, and reflect that they had
been occupied three centuries. ago by a sovereign
princess, and of the most illustrious lineage. Here
was a substantial monument of the connection
between Scotland and France. She, whose ancestors
owned Lorraine as a sovereignty, who had
the misfortune of Mary (of Guise) to be placed in
a position to resist the Reformation. Her own
character deserved that she should have stood in
a more agreeable relation to what Scotland now
venerates, for she was mild and just, and sincerely
anxious for the welfare of her adopted country. It
is also proper to remember on the present occasion,
that in her Court she maintained a decent gravity,
nor would she tolerate any licentious practices
therein. Her maids of honour were always busied
in commendable exercises, she herself being an
examplc to them in virtue, piety, and modesty,](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v1p105.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I Page 93")
... GUISE PALACE. 93 The Castle Hill.]
queen?s Deid-room, where the individuals of the
royal establishment were ...
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... AND THE NEW TOWN.
window forms the chief ornament of this portion of the building, finished with ...
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... CA S TL E. 131
in 1682, in firing a royal salute to the Duke of York, afterwards James VII., a ...
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... CANONGA TE AND ABBEY SANCTUAR Y. 309
seriously that Mary is reported to have used a bath of white wine to ...
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... SKETCHES. 33
may be mentihned Gayfield House, at the foot of Gayfield Square ; the house
of Sir ...
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![MUSCHAT?S CAIRN. 311 Arthur?r Seat.]
terrible schemes occupied Nichol. Muschat, his
brother, and his sister-in-law, together with Burnbank,
? in the Christian city of Edinburgh, during a
course of many months, without any one, to appearance,
ever feeling the slightest compunction towards
the poor weman, though it is admitted she
loved her husband, and no real fault on her side
has ever been insinuated.?
At length it would seem that Nicol, infatuated
and lured by evil fate, at the suggestion of ?? the
devil, that cunning adversary ?-as his confession
has it-borrowed a knife, scarcely knowing for
what purpose, and, inviting his unsuspecting wife to
walk with him as far as
Duddingston one night,
cut her throat near
the line of trees that
marked the Duke?s
Walk. He then rushed
in a demented state to
tell his brother what
he had done, and thereafter
sank into a mood
of mind that made all
seem blank to him.
Next morning the unfortunate
victim was
found ?with her throat
cut to the bone,? and
many other wounds received
in her dying
struggle.
In the favourite old
Edinburgh religious
by a cairn near the east gate and close to the north
wall. ?The original cairn is said to have been
several paces farther west than the present one,
the stones of which were taken dut of the old wall
whenit was pulled down to give place to the new
gate that was constructed previous to the late royal
visit ?-that of George IV.
In 1820 the pathway round Salisbury Craigs was
formed, and named the ? Radical Road ? from ?the
, circumstance of the destitute and discontented
west-country weavers being employed on its construction
under a committee of gentlemen. At
that time it was proposed to ?sow the rocks with
wall-flowers and other
>I? AlAKGAKET?S WELI..
tract, which narrates
the murderous story, in telling where he went
before doing the deed, he says that he passed
?? through the Tidies,? at the end of a lane which
was near the Meadows. The entrance to the Park,
near the Gibbet Fall, was long known as ?the
Tirliea,? implying a sort of stile.
Nicol Muschat was tried, and confessed all. He
was hanged, on the 6th of the ensuing January in
the Grassmarket, while his associate Burnbank was
declared infamous, and banished ; and the people,
to mark their horror of the event, in the old
Scottish fashion raised a cairn on the spot where
the murder was perpetrated, and it has ever since
been a well-remembered locality.
The first cairn was removed during the formation
of a new footpath through the park, suggested by
Lord Adam Gordon, who was resident at Holyrood
House in 1789, when Commander of the
Forces in Scotland; but from a passage in the
WeekOJournal we find that it was restored in 1823
odoriferous and flowering
plants.? It was also
suggested ? to plant
the cliffs above the
walk with the rarest
heaths from the Cape
of Good Hope and
other foreign parts.?
( Weekfiyuumal, XXIV.)
The papers of this
time teem with bitter
complaints against the
Earl of Haddington,
who, as a keeper of
the Royal Park, by an
abuse of his prercgative,
was quarrying away
the craigs, and selling
the stone to pave the
streets of London; and
the immense gaps in
their south-western face still remain as proofs of
his selfish and unpatriotic rapacity.
As a last remnant of the worship of Baal, or
Fire, we may mention the yearly custom that still
exists of a May-day observance, in the young of the
female sex particularly, ascending Arthur?s Seat on
Beltane morning at sunrise. ?? On a fine May morning,?
says the ? Book of Days,? ? the appearance
of so many gay groups perambulating the hill sides
and the intermediate valleys, searching for dew, and
rousing the echoes with their harmless mirth, has
an indescribably cheerful effect.? Many old citizens
adhered to this custom with wonderful tenacity,
and among the last octogenarians who did so we
may mention Dr. Andrew Duncan of Adam Square,
the founder of the Morningside Asylum, who paid
his last annual visit to the hill top on hlayday, 1S26~
in his eighty-second year, two years before his death ;
and James Burnet, the last captain of the old Town
Guard, a man who weighed nindeen stone, ascended](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v4p130.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Page 310")
... CAIRN. 311 Arthur?r Seat.]
terrible schemes occupied Nichol. Muschat, his
brother, and his ...
Book 4 p. 310
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![Arthur?r Seat.] MUSCHAT?S CAIRN. 311
terrible schemes occupied Nichol. Muschat, his
brother, and his sister-in-law, together with Burnbank,
? in the Christian city of Edinburgh, during a
course of many months, without any one, to appearance,
ever feeling the slightest compunction towards
the poor weman, though it is admitted she
loved her husband, and no real fault on her side
has ever been insinuated.?
At length it would seem that Nicol, infatuated
and lured by evil fate, at the suggestion of ?? the
devil, that cunning adversary ?-as his confession
has it-borrowed a knife, scarcely knowing for
what purpose, and, inviting his unsuspecting wife to
walk with him as far as
Duddingston one night,
cut her throat near
the line of trees that
marked the Duke?s
Walk. He then rushed
in a demented state to
tell his brother what
he had done, and thereafter
sank into a mood
of mind that made all
seem blank to him.
Next morning the unfortunate
victim was
found ?with her throat
cut to the bone,? and
many other wounds received
in her dying
struggle.
In the favourite old
Edinburgh religious
by a cairn near the east gate and close to the north
wall. ?The original cairn is said to have been
several paces farther west than the present one,
the stones of which were taken dut of the old wall
whenit was pulled down to give place to the new
gate that was constructed previous to the late royal
visit ?-that of George IV.
In 1820 the pathway round Salisbury Craigs was
formed, and named the ? Radical Road ? from ?the
, circumstance of the destitute and discontented
west-country weavers being employed on its construction
under a committee of gentlemen. At
that time it was proposed to ?sow the rocks with
wall-flowers and other
>I? AlAKGAKET?S WELI..
tract, which narrates
the murderous story, in telling where he went
before doing the deed, he says that he passed
?? through the Tidies,? at the end of a lane which
was near the Meadows. The entrance to the Park,
near the Gibbet Fall, was long known as ?the
Tirliea,? implying a sort of stile.
Nicol Muschat was tried, and confessed all. He
was hanged, on the 6th of the ensuing January in
the Grassmarket, while his associate Burnbank was
declared infamous, and banished ; and the people,
to mark their horror of the event, in the old
Scottish fashion raised a cairn on the spot where
the murder was perpetrated, and it has ever since
been a well-remembered locality.
The first cairn was removed during the formation
of a new footpath through the park, suggested by
Lord Adam Gordon, who was resident at Holyrood
House in 1789, when Commander of the
Forces in Scotland; but from a passage in the
WeekOJournal we find that it was restored in 1823
odoriferous and flowering
plants.? It was also
suggested ? to plant
the cliffs above the
walk with the rarest
heaths from the Cape
of Good Hope and
other foreign parts.?
( Weekfiyuumal, XXIV.)
The papers of this
time teem with bitter
complaints against the
Earl of Haddington,
who, as a keeper of
the Royal Park, by an
abuse of his prercgative,
was quarrying away
the craigs, and selling
the stone to pave the
streets of London; and
the immense gaps in
their south-western face still remain as proofs of
his selfish and unpatriotic rapacity.
As a last remnant of the worship of Baal, or
Fire, we may mention the yearly custom that still
exists of a May-day observance, in the young of the
female sex particularly, ascending Arthur?s Seat on
Beltane morning at sunrise. ?? On a fine May morning,?
says the ? Book of Days,? ? the appearance
of so many gay groups perambulating the hill sides
and the intermediate valleys, searching for dew, and
rousing the echoes with their harmless mirth, has
an indescribably cheerful effect.? Many old citizens
adhered to this custom with wonderful tenacity,
and among the last octogenarians who did so we
may mention Dr. Andrew Duncan of Adam Square,
the founder of the Morningside Asylum, who paid
his last annual visit to the hill top on hlayday, 1S26~
in his eighty-second year, two years before his death ;
and James Burnet, the last captain of the old Town
Guard, a man who weighed nindeen stone, ascended](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v4p131.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Page 311")
... Seat.] MUSCHAT?S CAIRN. 311
terrible schemes occupied Nichol. Muschat, his
brother, and his ...
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![436 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CCCXVI.
THE HON. WILLIAM RAMSAY MAULE,
OF PANMURE, AFTERWARDS
LORD PANMURE OF BRECHIN AND NAVAR.
THE HONW. ILLIAMR AMSAYs,e cond son of the eighth Earl of Dalhousie, Was
born in 1771. He succeeded to the estate of Panmure in 1782, on the death
of his maternal uncle, when he assumed the name of MAULE. The title of
the “ Generous Sportsman” he acquired on account of his liberality of disposition,
and his fondness for the sports of the turf. He appears at one time to
have been a keen participator in the royal recreation of cock-fighting, which,
in his earlier years, was a favourite source of amusement.I
The public or political life of the noble Baron was not marked by any
1 Turning over the pages of an Edinburgh Magazine for March 1801, we find announced “that
the cock-pit was crowded every day at 3s. a head, and that thirty-seven mains were fought, whereof
nineteen were won by Maule, and eighteen by Mr. Owald of Auchencruive.” Again, in 1803,
another match between the parties is thus recorded :-
“ On Monday the 8th March commenced the grand main of cocks at Hallion’s 1 Tennis Court,
Rose Street, between the Hon. Mr. Maule and Mr. Oswald of Auchencruive. The following is a
statement of the battles fought :-
&dy, for Mr. Maule.
Small, for Mr. Oswald. Feeders.. .{
Mains. Byes.
Mr. Maule ............ 4 ... 1
Nr. Oswald 1 1 Monday. ...... { ........... ...
Mr. Maule ............ 2 ... 2
Mr. Oswald ........... 3 ... 0 Tuesday ....... ]
Mr. Maule ............ 4 ... 0
Mr. Oswald 2 1 Wednesday ... I ........... ...
Mr. Maule ............ 1 ... 0
Mr. Oswald 5 1 Thursday ..... 1 ........... ...
Mr. Nanle ............ 2 ... 1
Mr. Oswald.. 4 0 Friday ......... 1 ......... ...
Saturday ...... 1 MMrr.. MOsawdaeld. .. .................... 24 ...... 02
“ Mr. Oswald gaining by four battles, and the byes by one.”
Hallion was a popular comic actor on the Edinburgh stage, and was celebrated for his prodigious
memory. He once undertook for a bet to repeat the whole of one of the Couranl newspapers
by heart, and only lost it in consequence of one of the advertisements having been printed
twice by mistake, which he omitted to repeat in the recitation.](images/thumbs/kays_thumb_pages/kays_v2__Page_578.gif "Kay's Originals Vol. 2 Page 570")
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CCCXVI.
THE HON. WILLIAM RAMSAY MAULE,
OF PANMURE, AFTERWARDS
LORD PANMURE OF ...
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... that ancient street, long deemed the grand
entrance to Edinburgh, we shall see once more the
long lines of ...
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![H o l y d . ] MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. 79
bade them farewell in the Gallery of the Kings,
while a vast concourse assembled outside, all
wearing the white cockade. Another: multitude
was collected at Newhaven, where the Fishermen's
Society formed a kind of body-guard to cover the
embarkation.
'' A few gentlemen," says the editor of " Kay's
Portraits," " among whom were Colonel Macdonel,
the Rev. Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Gillis, John Robinson,
Esq., and Dr. Browne, accompanied His
Majesty on board the steamer, which they did not
leave till she was under weigh. The distress of the
king, and particularly of the dauphin, at being
obliged to quit a country to which they were so
warmly attached was in the highest degree affecting.
The Duc de Bordeaux wept bitterly, and the Duc
d'AngouEme, embracing Mr. Gillis d la 3ranfaise,
gave unrestrained scope to his emotion. The act
of parting with one so beloved, whom he had
known and distinguished in the salons of the
Tuileries and St. Cloud, long before his family had
sought an asylum in the tenantless halls of Holyrood,
quite overcame his fortitude, and excited
feelings too powerful to be repressed. When this
ill-fated family bade adieu to our shores they
carried with them the grateful benedictions of the
poor, and the respect of all men of all parties who
honour misfortune when ennobled by virtue."
In Edinburgh it is well known that had H.K.H.
the late Prince Consort-whose love of the picturesque
and historic led him to appreciate its
natural beauties-survived a few years longer, many
improvements would have taken place at Holyrood
; and to him it is said those are owing which
have already been effected.
Southward of the palace, the unsightly old tenements
and enclosed gardens at St. Anne's Yard
were swept away, including a quaint-looking dairy
belonging to the Duke of Hamilton, and by
1857-8-9 the royal garden was extended south
some 500 feet from the wall of the south wing, and
a new approach was made from the Abbey Hill,
a handsome new guard-house was built, and the
carved door of the old garden replaced in the wall
between it and the fragment of the old abbey
porch ; and it was during the residence of H.R.H.
the Prince of Wales at Holyrood that the beautiful
fountain in the Palace Yard was completed, on the
model of the ancient one that stands in ruin nowy
in the quadrangle of Linlithgow, and which is
referred to by Defoe in his "Tour in Great
Britain."
The fountain rises from a basin twenty-four feet in
diameter to the height of twenty-eight feet, divided
into threestages, andby flying buttresses has theeffect
of a triple crown. From the upper of these the water
flows through twenty ornate gurgoils into three
successive basins. The basement is of a massive
character, divided by buttresses into eight spaces,
each containing a lion's head gurgoil. This is surmounted
by eight panels having rich cusping, and
between these rise pedestals and pinnacles. The
former support heraldic figures with shields. These
consist of the unicorn bearing the Scottish shield, a
lion bearing a shield charged with the arm of
James IV. and his queen, Margaret of England;
a deer supports two shields, with the arms of the
queens of James V., Magdalene of France, and
Mary of Guise ; and the griffin holds the shields of
James IV. and his queen, Margaret of Denmark.
The pinnacles are highly floriated, and ,enriched
with flowers and medallions
It is in every way a marvellous piece of stone
carving. The flying buttresses connecting the stages
are deeply cusped. On the second stage are eight
figures typical of the sixteenth century, representing
soldiers, courtiers, musicians,' and a lady-falconer,
each two feet six inches in height. On the upper
stage are four archers of the Scottish Guard, supporting
the imperial crown. It occupies the site whereon
for some years stood a statue of Queen Victoria,
which has now disappeared.
Still, as of old, since the union of the cron-ns:
for a fortnight in each year the Lord High Conimissioner
to the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland holds semi-royal state in Holyrood,
gives banquets in its halls, and holds his ledes in
the Gallery of the Kings.](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v3p091.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III Page 79")
... o l y d . ] MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. 79
bade them farewell in the Gallery of the Kings,
while a vast concourse ...
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... what was of old the open garden ground attached
t o the palace. The tradition of its having been
the Queen?s ...
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... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
genius-where lie bnriecl John Goodsir, ‘ Christopher North,’ Sir ...
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