... SKETCHES. 95
might have ranked with the first names in the British Senate. He retired from
the ...
Book 8 p. 137
(Score 0.71)
... V. TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARE 75
throughout the country, requiring them to march with their adherents to ...
Book 10 p. 82
(Score 0.71)
... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
in many particulars. When William Gibbons, the pugilist, appeared in
the witnesses’ ...
Book 9 p. 483
(Score 0.71)
... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
to have been the same that k n o t alludes to as one of the private oratories existing ...
Book 10 p. 153
(Score 0.71)
... 50 MEMORlALS OF EDINBURGH.
This was the picturesque half-castellated edifice of Wrychtishousis, unfortunately ...
Book 10 p. 383
(Score 0.7)
... SKETCHES. 187
In the unfortunate “ Walcheren Expedition,” undertaken in 1809, under
the late ...
Book 8 p. 264
(Score 0.7)
![Leith.] HOME-COMING OF MONS MEG. 209
by the foot o the Calton Hill towards the Palace
of Holyrood.
As a souvenir of this event, on the first anniversary
of it a massive plate was inserted on the
Shore, in the exact spot on which the king first
placed his foot, and there it remains to this day,
with a suitable inscription commemorative of the
event.
In 1829, Mons Meg, which, among other ord
nance deemed unserviceable, had been transmitted
by the ignorance of an officer to London, and retained
there in the Tower, was, by the patriotic
efforts of Sir Walter Scott, sent home to Scotland.
This famous old cannon, deemed a kind of Palladium
by the Scots, after an absence of seventy-five
years, was landed from the Happy Janet, and after
lying for a time in the Naval Yard, till arrangements
were made, the gun was conveyed to the Castle by
a team of ten horses decked with laurels, preceded
by two led horses, mounted by boys clad in tartans
with broadswords. The escort was formed by a
123
grooms and esquires; Sir Patrick Walker, as
Usher of the White Rod; a long alternation of
cavalry and infantry, city dignitaries, and Highlanders,
followed.
At the end of the vista, preceded by ten royal
footmen, two and two, sixteen yeomen of the
Scottish Guard, escorted by the Royal Archers,
came the king, followed by the head-quarter staff,
three clans of Highlanders, two squadrons of Lothian
yeomanry, three of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, Scots
Greys, and the Grenadiers of the 77th regiment;
and after some delay in going through the ceremony
of receiving the city keys-which no monarch
had touched since the days of Charles I.-the
magnificent train moved through the living masses
Lochend to the latter on the east, tA-e middle of
Leith Walk on the south, and Wardie Bum on the
west.
Adam White was the first Provost of Leith after
the passing of the Burgh Reform Bill in 1833;
and it is now governed by a chief magistrate, four
bailies, ten councillors, a treasurer, town clerk, and
two joint assessors.
Powers have since then been conferred upon the
Provost of Leith as admiral, and the bailies as
admirals-depute. There are in the town four
principal corporations - the Shipmasters, the
Traffickers, the Malt-men, and the Trades. The
Traffickers, or Merchant Company, have lost their
charter, and are merely a benefit society, without
the power of compelling entries ; and the Ship
masters, ordinarily called the Trinity House, vi11
be noticed in connection with that institution.
The Trades Corporation is multifarious, and
independently of it there is a body called ? The
Convenery,? consisting of members delegated from
troop of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and detachments
of the Koyal Artillery and Highlanders. In the
evening the Celtic Society, all kilted, IOO strong,
dined together in honour of the event, Sir Walter
Scott in the chair; and on this occasion the old
saying was not forgotten, that Scotland would
never be Scotland till Mons Meg cam hame.?
The gun was then on the same ancient carriage
on which it had been taken away.
It was not until 1827 that the precise limits of
Leith as a town were defined, and a territory given
to it which, if filled, would almost enable it to vie
with the metropolis in extent, More extensive
boundaries were afterwards assigned, and these
are the Firth of Forth on the north, a line from
SIGNAL TOWER, LEITH PIER, 1775. (ABw Ckrk ofEUin.)](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v6p028.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI Page 209")
... HOME-COMING OF MONS MEG. 209
by the foot o the Calton Hill towards the Palace
of Holyrood.
As a souvenir ...
Book 6 p. 209
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. .
shortly after, and recognising the shoes, brought one of them in his hand into
the ...
Book 8 p. 481
(Score 0.7)
... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
On the south side of the Parliament Close, near to John’s Coffeehouse, was the ...
Book 10 p. 231
(Score 0.7)
... SKETCHES. 105
public dinner given in honour of that event. Of this we find the following
notice in ...
Book 9 p. 141
(Score 0.7)
... 125
plishment conducts to Carberry Hill, ever memorable as the place where the
beauteous Mary, after ...
Book 11 p. 180
(Score 0.7)
... SKETCHES. 129
neither commodious nor elegant. He therefore had it immediately pulled down,
and a ...
Book 9 p. 172
(Score 0.7)
... I0 GRAPH I C AL SI< ET CHES. 165
he meant to have the pleasure of drinking tea with her that evening. The ...
Book 8 p. 233
(Score 0.7)
... 70 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Lawson, the colleague and successor of Knox, the true founders’ of ‘‘ King ...
Book 10 p. 185
(Score 0.7)
... SKETCHES. 11
officiate, which he frequently did, in the capacity of chaplain to the Club. He
was a ...
Book 9 p. 13
(Score 0.69)
... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Parliament Close.
for a considerable amount, binding themselves to
support the ...
Book 1 p. 182
(Score 0.69)
... SKETCHES. 427
thing very striking. In 1789 he purchased a cornetcy in the 11th Dragoons,
and shortly ...
Book 9 p. 572
(Score 0.69)
... of the siege, he says, ? upon the twentieth
day, the principal block-house of Leith, called St.
Anthony?s ...
Book 6 p. 222
(Score 0.69)
... of the siege, he says, ? upon the twentieth
day, the principal block-house of Leith, called St.
Anthony?s ...
Book 6 p. 223
(Score 0.69)
... SKETCHES. 359
took shelter in an adjacent coffee-room, whither he was pursued by Campbell,
the ...
Book 9 p. 478
(Score 0.69)
... NEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
destroyed; wherethrough the divine worship is not 8 little decreaced in the ...
Book 10 p. 437
(Score 0.69)
... HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 257
of it:-“This is perhaps the oldest stone building of aprivate nature now ...
Book 10 p. 279
(Score 0.69)
![Leith Wynd.] TRINITY COLLEGE. 303
near its site stands one of the fine and spacious
school houses erected for the School Board.
At the foot of Leith Wynd, on the west side,
there was founded on the 5th of March, 1462, by
royal charter, the collegiate church of the Holy
Trinity, by Mary, Queen of Scotland, daughter of
Arnold Duke of Gueldres, grand-daughter of John
Duke of Burgundy, and widow of James II., slain
about two years before by the bursting of a cannon
at Roxburgh. Her great firniness on that disastrous
occasion, and during the few remaining
years of her own life, proves her to have been a
princess of no ordinary
strength of
mind. She took
an active part in
goyerning the stormy
kingdom of her son,
and died in 1463.
Her early death may
account for the nave
never being built,
though it was not
unusual for devout
persons in that age
of church buliding,
to erect as much
as they could finish,
and leave to the
devotion of posterity
the completion of
the rest. Pitscottie
tells us that she OLD COLLEGIATE SEALS,
his office shall be adjudged vacant, and the same
shall, by the Provost and Chapter, with consent of
the Ordinary, be conferred upon another. If any
of the said prebendaries shall keep a $ye-maker,
and shall not dismiss her, after being therein admonished
thereto by the Provost, his prebend shall
be adjudged vacant, and conferred on another, by
consent of the Ordinary as aforesaid.
? The Provost of the said college, whenever the
office of provostry shall become vacant, shall by
us and our successors, Kings of Scotland, be presented
to the Ordinary; and the vicars belonging
to the out-churches
aforesaid shall be
presented by the
Provost and Chapter
of the said college
to the Ordinary,
fromwhomtheyshall
receive canonical institution;
and no
prebendary shall be
instituted unless he
can read and sing
plainly, count and
discount, and that
the boys may be
found docile in the
premises. And we
further appoint and
ordain, that whenever
any of the said
?RINITY COLLEGE CHURCH. prebendwies shall
?was buried in the
Trinitie College, quhilk she built hirself.? Her
grave was violated at the Reformation.
The church was dedicated ?to the Holy Trinity,
to the ever blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, to
3t. Ninian the Confessor, and to all the saints and
elect people of God.? The foundation was for a
provost, eight prebendaries, and two clerks, and
with much minuteness several ecclesiastical benefices
and portions of land were assigned for the
support of the several offices ; and in the charter
there are some provisions of a peculiar character,
in Scotland at least, and curiously illustrative of
the age and its manners :-
?Aud we appoint that none of the said preben-
,daries or clerks absent themselves from their offices
without the leave of the Provost, to whom it shall
not be lawful to allow any of them above the space
of fifteen days at a time, unless it be on extraordiaary
occasions, and then not without consent of
the chapter ; and whosoever of the said prebendaries
or clerks shall act contrary to this ordinance,
iead mass,? he shall,
after the same, in his sacerdotal habits, repair to
the tomb of the foundress with hyssop, and there
read the prayer Dep-ofmdis, together with that of
the faithful, and exhortation to excite the people to
devotion.?? .
Thechoir of this church from the apse to the
west enclosure of the rood tower was go feet long,
and 70 feet from transept to transept window ; the
north aisle was 12 feet broad, and the south g feet.
It is a tradition in masonry that the north aisles of
all Catholic churches were wider than the south,
to commemorate the alleged circumstance of the
Saviour?s head, on the cross, falling on his right
shoulder. In digging the foundation of the Scott
monument, an old quarry 40 feet deep was discovered,
and from it the stones from which the
church was built were taken. With the exception
of Holyrood, it was the finest example of decorated
English Gothic architecture in the city, with many
of the peculiarities of the age to which it belonged.
Various armorial bearings adorned different parts](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v2p123.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II Page 303")
... Wynd.] TRINITY COLLEGE. 303
near its site stands one of the fine and spacious
school houses erected for the ...
Book 2 p. 303
(Score 0.68)
... AND THE NEW TOWN. 375
resting his fore paw on the sword, and the other placing his paw in one of the ...
Book 10 p. 412
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