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198 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Northumberland Street.
A noted antiquary, he was Correspondant du
Comitk Imp2riaZ des Travaux Historipes, et aes
SaWs Savants. de France, &c. He was well
known in Edinburgh for his somewhat coarse wit,
and as a collector of rare books, whose library in
Great King Street was reported to be the most
valuable private one in the city, where he was
called-but more especially among legal men-
?Alphabet Turnbull,? from the number of his
initials. He removed to London about 1853, and
became seriously embroiled with the authorities
concerning certain historical documents in the
State Paper Office, when he had his chambers
in 3 Stone Buildings, Lincoln?s Inn Fields.
He died at London on the 22nd of April, 1863,
in his fifty-second year ; and a story went abroad
that a box of MS. papers was mysteriously buried
with him.
CHAPTER XXVII.
NORTHERN NEW TOWN (cmclttded).
Admiral Fairfax-Bishop Terrot-Brigadier Hope-Sir T. M. Brisbane--Lord Meadowbank-Ewbank the R.S.A-Death of Professor Wilson-
Moray Place and its Distrk-Lord President Hope-The Last Abode of Jeffrey-Baron Hume and Lord Monuieff-Forres Street-
Thomas Chalmers. D.D.-St. Colme Street-CaDtain Basil Hall-Ainslie Place-Dugald Stewart-Dean Ramsay-Great Stoart Street-
Professor Aytoun-Miss Graham of Duntroon-Lord Jervkwoode
IN the narrow and somewhat sombre thoroughfare
named Northumberlanc! Street have dwelt some
people who were of note in their time.
In 1810 Lady Emily Dundas, and Admiral Sir
William George Fairfax, resided in Nos. 46 and
53 respectively. The admiral had distinguished
himself at the battle of Camperdown as flag-captain
of the Vmemble, under Admiral Duncan; and in
consideration of his acknowledged bravery and
merit on that occasion-being sent home with the
admiral?s despatches-he was made knight-banneret,
with an augmentation to his coataf-arms in
chief, a representation of 1I.M.S. Venerable en.
gaging the Dutch admiral?s ship Yryheid; and to
do justice to the memory of ?? departed worth,? at
his death his son was made a baronet of Great
Britain in 1836. He had a daughter named Mary,
who became the wife of Samuel Greig, captain and
commissioner in the imperial Russian navy.
No. 19 in the same street was for some years the
residence of the Right Rev. Charles Hughes
Terrot, D.D., elected in 1857 Primus of the Scottish
Episcopal Church, and whose quaint little
figure, with shovel-hat and knee-breeches, was long
familiar in the streets of Edinburgh. He wss born
at Cuddalore in the East Indies in 1790. For
some reasons, though he had not distinguished
himself in the Cambridge Tripos list of University
honours, his own College (Trinity College) paid
him the highest compliment in their power, by
electing him a Fellow on the first occasion aftex
he had taken his degree of B.A. in mathematical
honours, and subsequently proceeded to M.A.
and D.D. He did not remain long at college,
as he soon married and went to Scotland, where
he continued all his life attached to the Scottish
Episcopal Church, as successively incumbent of
Haddington, of St. Peter?s, and finally St. Paul?s,
York Place, Edinburgh. In 1841 he was made
bishop of Edinburgh, on the death of Bishop
Walker. He was author of several works on
theology, During the latter years of his life,
from extreme age and infirmity, he had been
entirely laid aside from his pastoral and episcopal
labours ; but during the period of his health and
vigour few men were more esteemed in his pastoral
relations as their minister, or by his brethren of
the Episcopal Church for his acuteness and clever
judgment in their discussions in church affairs.
The leading features of Dr. Terrot?s intellectual
character were accuracy and precision rather than
very extensive learning or great research. It
was very striking sometimes after a subject had
been discussed in a desultory and commonplace
manner, to hear him coming down ?upon the ,
question with a clear and cutting remark which
put the whole matter in a new and distinct point
of view.
He was long a Fellow and Vice-President of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, to which he communicated
some very able and acute papers, especially
on logical and mathematical subjects. So also in
his moral and social relations, he was remarkable for
his manly, fair, and honourable bearing. He had
what might essentially be called a pure and honest
mind. He wasdevotedly attached to his own Church,
and few knew better how to argue in favour of its
polity and forms of service, never varying much in
externals ; but few men were more ready to concede
to others the liberality of judgment which he
.

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Restalrig.] THE CHURCHYARD. 131
That the church was not utterly destroyed is
proved by the fact that the choir walls of this
monument of idolatry ? were roofed over in 1837,
as has been stated.
An ancient crypt, or mausoleum, of large diniensions
and octangular in form, stands on the south
side of the church. Internally it is constructed with
a good groined roof, and some venerable yews cast
their shadow over the soil that has accumulated
above it, and in which they have taken root. It is
believed to have been erected by Sir Robert Logan,
knight, of Restalrig, who died in 1439, according
to the obituary of the Preceptory of St. Anthony at
Leith, and it has been used as a last resting-place
for several of his successors. Some antiquaries,
however, have supposed that it was undoubtedly
attached to the college, perhaps as a chapter-house,
or as a chapel of St. Triduana, but constructed on
the model of St. Margaret?s Well. Among others
buried here is ?LADY JANEr KER, LADY RESTALRIG,
QUHA DEPARTED THIS LIFE 17th MAY, 1526.?
Wilson, in his ?? Reminiscences,? mentions that
?? Restalrig kirkyard was the favourite cemetery of
the Nonjuring Scottish Episcopalians of the last
century, when the use of the burial service was
proscribed in the city burial-grounds ; ? and a strong
division of dead cavalry have been interred there
from the adjacent barracks. From Charles Kirkpatrick
Sharpe he quotes a story of a quarrel carried
beyond the grave, which may be read upon a flat
stone near that old crypt.
Of the latter wrote Sharpe, ?I believe it belongs
to Lord Bute, and that application was made to him
to allow Miss Hay-whom I well knew-daughter
of Hay of Restalrig, Prince Charles?s forfeited
secretary, to be buried in the vault. This was
refused, and she lies outside the door. May the
earth lie light on her, old lady kind and vener.
able !?
In 1609 the legal rights of the church and parish
of Restalrig, with all their revenues and pertinents,
were formally conferred upon the church of South
Leith.
In 1492, John Fraser, dean of Restalrig, wa?
appointed Lord Clerk Register; and in 154C
another dean, John Sinclair, was made Lord 01
Session, and was afterwards Bishop of Brechin and
Lord President of the Court of Session. He it war
who performed the marriage ceremony for Queen
* Mary and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. In 1592
the deanery was dissolved by Act of Parliament,
and divided between ? the parsonage of Leswadc
and parsonage of Dalkeith, maid by Mr. Georgt
Ramsay, dean of Restalrig.?
After the Logans-of whom elsewhere-tht
Lords Balmerino held the lands of Restalrig till
their forfeiture in I 746, and during the whole period
of their possession, appropriated the vaults of the
forsaken and dilapidated church as the burial-place
of themselves and their immediate relations. From
them it passed to the Earls of Bute, with whose
family it still remains.
In the burying-ground here, amid a host of
ancient tombs, are some of modem date, marking
where lie the father of Lord Brougham ; Louis
Cauvin, who founded the hospital which bears his
name at Duddingston ; the eccentric doctor known
as Lang Sandy Wood,? and his kindred, including
the late Lord Wood ; and Lieutenant-Colonel
William Rickson, of the I 9th Foot, a brave and distinguished
soldier, the comrade and attached friend
of Wolfe, the hero of Quebec. His death is thus
recorded in the Scots Magazine for 1770 :-cr At
his house in Broughton, Lieutenant-Colonel William
Rickson, Quartermaster-General and Superintendent
of Roads in North Britain.? His widow died
so lately as 1811, as her tomb at Restalrig bears,
?? in the fortieth year of her widowhood?
Here, too, was interred, in 1720, the Rev. Alexander
Rose, the last titular bishop of Edinburgh.
In tracing out the ancient barons of Restalrig,
among the earliest known is Thomas of Restalrig,
nxa 1210, whose name appears in the Regktruum
de DunferrnZine as Sheriff of Edinburgh.
In the Macfarlane MSS. in the Advocates?
Library, there is a charter of his to the Priory of
Inchcolm, in the Firth of Forth, circa 1217, very
interesting from the localities therein referred to,
and the tenor of which runs thus in English :-
?To all seeing or hearing these writings,
Thomas of Lestalrig wishes health. Know ye,
that for the good of my soul, and the souls of all
my predecessors and successors, and the soul of
my wife, I have given and conceded, and by this
my charter have confirmed, to God and the canons
of the church of St. Columba on the Isle, and the
canons of the same serving God, and that may yet
serve Him forever, that whole land which Baldwin
Comyn was wont to hold from me in the town of
Leith, namely, that land which is next and adjoining
on the south to that land which belonged to
Ernauld of Leith, and to twenty-four acres and a
half of arable land in my estate of Lestalrig in that
field which is called Horstanes, on the west part of
the same field, and on the north part of the high
road between Edinburgh and Leith (it., the Easter
Road) in pure and perpetual gift to be held by
them, with all its pertinents and easements, and
with common pasture belocging to such land, and
with free ingress and egress, with carriage, team,

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56 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the
eighty-fourth year of his age. His funeral was a public one, In February
1771, he married Miss Elizabeth Knox, daughter of Mr. John Knox, surgeon
in the service of the East India Company, by whom he had a family of twelve
children. His son, Dr. Andrew Duncan junior, was long officially connected
with the University of Edinburgh as Principal Librarian and Secretary, and as
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. In 1819 he was conjoined with his father
in the chair of the Theory of Physic. In July 1821 he was elected Professor
of Materia Medica-an appointment which gave very general satisfaction, as Dr.
Duncan contributed in no small degree by his learning and scientific acquirements
to maintain the reputation of the University. He died in May 1832.
No. CXCII.
MAJOR ANDREW FRASER,
THE HONOURABLE ANDREW ERSKINE,
AND
SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, BART.
THE figure to the left, MAJOR FBASER-descended of a respectable
family in the north of Scotland-was an officer of some distinction in the
Royal Artillery, and well known for his talents as an engineer. Under his
superintendence the demolition of the harbour and fortifications of Dunkirk,
agreeably to the treaty of 1762, was carried satisfactorily into effect. In 1779
he was placed on the staff in Scotland, as Engineer-in-Chief. Here he superintended,
from his own plans, the building of Fort George ; erected several considerable
bridges in the north ; and, in Edinburgh, the church and spire of St.
Andrews,’ so much admired for its exquisite proportions, stands a monument of
his excellence in design. He interested himself greatly in the improvements
of the city, and frequently presided at public meetings convened for such objects.
He was much esteemed by Sir James Hunter Blair; and through the
influence of that spirited chief magistrate, many of his suggestions were cauied
into execution.
Major Fraser was afterwards appointed Chief Engineer of the West India
The foundation-stone of this church wm laid in 1781. The premium of ten guineaa to the
successful architect was unanimously adjudged by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council to
Major Fraser ; but he declined accepting the premium, desiring that it might be given to Mr. Robert
Kay, drawingmaster in Edinburgh, whose drawings and sections of a plan of a square building were
deemed highly meritorious.

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 405
evidence remains to show that the choir and transepts were in existence filly a quarter of
a century later, and that had the necessary exertions been then made for its repair, we
might still have possessed the ancient building in its ori,oinal and magnificent proportions,
instead of the ruined nave, which alone remains to show what once had been. In (‘ the
heads of the accusation and chief offences laid to Adam, Bishop of Orknay, his charge,”
by the General Assembly of 1569, the fifth is, that “ all the said kirks, for the most part,
wherein Christ’s evangell may be preached, are decayed, and made, some sheepfolds, and
some so ruinous, that none darre enter into them for fear of falling; specially Halrudhouse,
although the bishop of Sanct Andrews, in time of papistry, sequestrate the whole
rents of the said abbacy, because only the glassen windows were not holden up and
repaired.” To this the Bishop replied, “ That the Abbay Church of Hdyrudhouse hath
been, these 20 years bygane, ruinous through decay of two principal1 pillars, so that none
were assured under it ; and two thousand pounds bestowed upon it would not be sufficient
to ease men to the hearing of the word, and ministration of the sacraments. But with
their consent, and help of ane established authority, he was purposed to provide the
means, that the superfluous ruinous parts, to wit, the Queir and Croce Kuk, might be
disponed be faithful1 men, to repair the remanent sufficiently.” The Bishop’s economical
plan was no doubt put in force, and the whole of the choir and transept soon after
demolished and sold, to provide funds for converting the nave into the Parish Kirk of
the Canongate. The two western pillars, designed to support a great central tower,
now form the sides of the east window constructed within the arch, and an examination
of the masonry with which the lower parts of this and the side arches are closed, shows
that it is entirely built with fragments of clustered shafts and other remains of the
ruins. It was at this time, we presume, that the new royal vault was constructed in
the south aisle of the nave, and the remains of the Scottish kings removed from their
ancient resting-place near the high altar of the Abbey Church. It is built against the
ancient Norman doorway of the cloisters, which still remains externally, with its beautiful
shafts and zigzag mouldings, an undoubted relic of the original fabric of St David.
The cloisters appear to have enclosed a large court, formed in the angle of the nave
and south transept. The remains of the north side are clearly traceable still, and the
site of the west side is now occupied by the Palace buildings. Here was the ambulatory
for the old monks, when the magnificent foundation of St David retained its pristine
splendour, and it remained probably till the burning of the Abbey after the death of
James V. We learn on the occasion of the marriage of James IT. with the Princess
Margaret of England, that “after all reverences doon at the Church, in ordere as
before, the Kyng transported himself to the Pallais, through the clostre, holdynge
always the Queen by the body, and hys hed bare, till he had brought hyr within her
chammer.”
The west front, as it now remains, is evidently the work of very different periods. It
has been curtailed of the south tower to admit of the completion of the quadrangle according
to the design of Sir William Bruce, and the singular and unique windows over the
great doorway are evidently additions of the time of Charles L, whose initials appear
1 Booke of the Umveraall Kirk of Scotland, p. 163. Ibid, p. 167.

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2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Kirk-of-Field.
land of umyle Hew Berrie?s tenement and chamber
adjacent yr to, lying in the Cowgaitt, on the south
side of the street, betwixt James Earl of Buchan?s
land on the east, and Thomas Tod?s on ye west.?
This lady was a daughter of John Lord Kennedy,
and was the widow of the aged Earl of Angus, who
died of a broken heart after the battle of Flodden.
In 1450-1 an obligation by the Corporation of
Skinners in favour of St. Christopher?s altar in St.
Giles?s was signed with much fornialityon the 12th
of January, infra ecdesiam Beate &Iarie He Canzpo,
in presence of Sir Alexander Hundby, John
Moffat, and John Hendirsone, chaplains thereof,
Thomas Brown, merchant, and other witnesses.
((? Burgh Rec.?)
James Laing, a burgess of Edinburgh, founded
an additional chaplaincy in this church during the
reign of James V., whose royal confirmation of it is
dated 19th June, 1530, and the grant is made ? to
a chaplain celebrating divine service at the high
altar within the collegiate church of Blessed
Marie-in-the-Fields.?
When made collegiate it was governed by a provost,
who with eight prebendaries and two choristers
composed the college ; but certain rights appear to
have been reserved then by the canons of Holyrood,
for in 1546 we find Robert, Commendator of
the abbey, presenting George Kerr to a. prebend
in it, ?according to the force and form of the
foundation.?
There is a charter by James V., arst May, 1531,
confirming a previous one of 16th May, I 53 I, by the
lady before mentioned, ?Janet Kennedy Domina
de Bothvill,? of tenements in Edinburgh, and an
annual rent of twenty shillings for a prebendary to
perform divine service ?in the college kirk of the
Blessed Virgin Mary-in-the-Fields, or without the
walls of Edinburgh, pro sat& #sius Domini Regis
(JamesV.), and for the souls OP his father (James
IV.), and the late Archibald, Earl of Angus?
Among the most distinguished provosts of the
Kirk-of-Field was its second one, Richard Bothwell,
rector of Ashkirk, who in A4ugust and
December, 1534, was a commissioner for opening
Parliament. He died in the provost?s house in
1547.
The prebendal buildings were of considerable
extent, exclusive of the provost?s house, or
lodging. David Vocat, one of the prebendaries,
and master of the Grammar School of Edinburgh,
clerk and orator of Holyrood,? was a liberal
? benefactor to the church ; but it and the buildings
attached to it seem to have suffered severely at the
hands of the English during the invasion of 1544
or 1547. In the ?? Inventory of the Townis purchase
from the Marquis of Hamilton in 1613,?? with
a view to the founding of a college, says Wilson,
we have found an abstract of ?a feu charter granted
by Mr. Alexander Forrest, provost of the collegiate
church of the Blessed Xlary-in-the-Fields, near
Edinr., and by the prebends of the said church,?
dated 1544, wherein it is stated:-?Considering that
ther houses, especially ther hospital annexed and
incorporated with ther college, were burnt down
and destroyed by their add enemies of EngZand, so
that nothing of their said hospital was left, but they
are altogether waste and entirely destroyed, wherethrough
the divine worship is not a little decreased
in the college, because they were unable to rebuild
the said hospital. . . , Therefore they gave and
granted, set in feu forme, and confirmed to a magnificent
and illustrious prince, James, Duke of
Chattelherault, Earl of Arran, Lord Hamilton, &c.,
all and hail their tenement or hospital, with the
yards and pertinints thereof, lying within the burgh
of Edinburgh, in the street or wynd called School
House Wynd, on the east part thereof.?
The duke appears, it is added, from frequent
allusions by contemporaries, to have built an abode
for his family on the site of this hospital, and that
edifice served in future years as the hall of the first
college of Edinburgh.
In 1556 we find Alexander Forrest, the provost
of the kirk, in the name of the Archbishop of St.
Andrews, presenting a protest, signed by Mary of
Guise, to the magistrates, praying them to suppress
?? certain odious ballettis and rymes baith sett
furth ? by certain evil-inclined persons, who had
also demolished certain images, but with what end
is unknown. (?Burgh Records.?)
But two years after Bishop Lesly records that
when the Earl of Argyle and his reformers entered
Edinburgh, after spoiling the Black and Grey
Friars, and having their ? haill growing treis
plucked up be the ruittis,? they destroyed and
burned all the images in the Kirk-of-Field.
In 1562 the magistrates made application to
Queen Mary, among other requests, for the Kirk-of-
Field and all its adjacent buildings and ground,
for the purpose of erecting a school thereon, and
for the revenues of the old foundation to endow the
same ; but they were not entirely made over to the
city for the purpose specified till 1566.
The quadrangle of the present university now
occupies the exact site of the church of St. Mary-inthe-
Fields, including that of the prebendal buildings,
and, says Wilson-who in this does not quite accord
with Bell-to a certain extent the house of the provost,
so fatally known in history; and the main access
and approach to the whole establishment was

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72 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
promise of replacing, at some indefinite period, ‘‘ als mony als gud jeistis ” as had been
taken away.l
Materials and money continued equally difficult to be obtained; the master of the
work had again to have recourse for stones to the old building, although the magistrates
were anxious, ifpossible, to preserve it. On the 5th of March 1562, an order appears for
taking the stones of the chapel in the Nether Kirk-yard. This supplies the date of the
utter demolition of Holyrood Chapel, as it was styled, which had most probably been
spoiled and broken down during the tumults of 1559, It stood between the present
Parliament House and the Cowgate; and there, on the 12th of August 1528, Walter
Chepman founded a chaplainry at the altar of Jesus Christ crucified, and endowed it with
his tenement in the Cowgate.’
In the month of April, the Council are threatened with the entire removal of the Courts
to St Andrews, for want of a place of meeting in Edinburgh. This is followed ‘by forced
taxation, borrowing money on the town mills, threats from the builder to give up the
work, (‘ because he had oft and diverse tymes requyrit money, -and could get nane,” and
the like, for some years following, until the magistrates contrived, at length, by some
means or other, to complete the new building to the satisfaction of all parties.
this interval, the Town Council held their own meetings in the Holy-Blood Aisle in St
Giles’s Church, until apartments were provided for them, in the New Tolbooth, which
served alike for the meetings of the Parliament, the Court of Session, and the Magistrates
and Council of the burgh.
The New Tolbooth, thus erected with so much difficulty, was not the famous Heart
of Midlothian, but a more modern building attached to the south-west corner of
St Giles’s Church, part of the site of which is now occupied by the lobby of the Signet
Library.
In February 1561, the Lord James, newly created Earl of Mar, was publicly married
to Lady Agnes Keith, daughter of the Earl Marischal, in St Giles’s Church. They
received an admonition “to behave themselves moderately in all things; ” but this did not
prevent the event being celebrated with such display as gave great offence to the preachers.
A magnificent banquet was given on the occasion, with pageants and masquerades, which
the Queen honoured with her presence. Randolph, the ambassadar of Queen Elizabeth,
was also a guest, and thus writes of it to Cecil :--“At this notable marriage, upon Shrove
Tuesday, at night, sitting among the Lords at supper, in sight of the Queen, she drank
unto the Queen’s Majesty, and sent me the cup of gold, which weigheth eighteen or twenty
ounces.” The preachers denounced, with veh‘emence, the revels and costly banquets on
this occasion, inveighing with peculiar energy against the masking, a practice, as it would
seem, till then unknown in Scotland.’
The reformation of religion continued to be pursued with the utmost zeal. The Queen
still retained the service of the mass in her own private chapel, to the great offence of the
preachers ; but they had succeeded in entirely banishing it from the churches. The arms
and burgh sed of Edinburgh, previous to this period, contained a representation of the
patron saint, St Giles, with his hind; but by an act of the Town Council, dated 24th
During,
1 Council Register, 10th Feb. 1561, &c.
Council Register, Maitland, p. 183.
Maitland, p. 21, 22. Chambers’s Minor Antiquitits, p. 141-0.
Knox’s Hi&, p. 276. Tytler, vol. vi. p. 301.

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THE STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF JAMES III. 21
Stuart race towards the permanent prosperity of the Scottish capital. By favour of his
charters, its local jurisdiction was left almost exclusively in the hands of its own magistrates
; on them were conferred ample powers for enacting laws for its governance ; with
authority, in life and death-still vested in its chief magistrate-an independence which
was afterwards defended amid many dangers, down to the period of the Union. By’his
charters also in their favour, they obtained the right, which they still hold, to all the
customs of the haven and harbour of Leith, with the proprietorship of the adjacent coast,
and of all the roads leading thereto ; as well a8 many special privileges conferred on the
craftsmen, which they were not slow to protect from encroachment; its his descendant
James VI. points out to his son Prince Henry, in the Basilicon Doron--(‘ The craftsmen
think we should be content with their work, how bad soever it be; and if in any thing
they be controuled, up goes the Blue Blanket ! ”
Bishop Kennedy’s Arms-from the choir of St Giles’a Church.

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II 7 7 AND THE VALE OF THE ESK. I39
Dalkeith, there to remain solitary.” Charles I., on his progress to and from
Edinburgh in 1633, rested there one night each way, being entertained with
much splendour by the Earl of Morton. Dalkeith, too, was chosen for the place
of sitting of the Council and Exchequer in 1637 ; and here must have been
discussed the sore subjects of the Book of Canons and Laud‘s Service Book.
A year later, when the King and the Covenanters were in strife, Dalkeith was
among the places attacked. ‘On Saturday, the 22d March 1639,’ some of
the chief Covenanters went thither, ‘and with them 1000 commandit musqueteires’
On the estate being delivered to them they discovered, in a ‘ seller,
dowcat, and draw-well,’ shot, powder, and muskets, all of which they carried at
night to Edinburgh, together with the royal insignia of the kingdom, crown,
sword, and sceptre. As they were proceeding with their regal burden from
Dalkeith to the capital t thrie staris fell doun above the thrie honoris of the
kingdome,’ and the omen was understood by the Covenanting lords as ‘prognosticating
the falling of the monarchical1 government from the royal1 family
for a tyme.”
The Castle and Manor of Dalkeith were purchased in 1642 by Francis,
second Earl of Buccleuch, who, dying in 1651, left two little daughters, Mary
and Anne. Cromwell had entered Scotland in the July of the year before.
Dunbar was fought in September ; and, when Cromwell pursued Charles 11.
into England, General Monk was left in Scotland to keep that country in
order. Dalkeith, only six miles from the capital, was then an important place.
Here met the Eight Commissioners appointed by the English Long Parliament
to manage the incorporation of Scotland with the English Commonwealth.
The town was filled with the representatives of the counties and
burghs, called to consult with the Commissioners as to the great business.
’After Cromwell was proclaimed Protector, and ‘the session of the Eight
Commissioners was at an end, the ‘great concourse of the English army’ was
still in Dalkeith. The seats of the old church of St. Nicholas were taken
out, the kirk being so filled with horse and guards that neither sermon nor
session could be kept therein.’ The key of the poor‘s-box was lost; the
contents of the penalty-box were stolen ; and the very minister was drighted
to come near his own parish !
Here one of his
sons died. The body was buried in the chancel of the parish church. Here
For five years the Palace was leased by General Monk.
Chambers‘s DornufiC Annals of ScotZand-Reign of James VI.
NicoZrs Diary. p. 78, Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh. x838,-&fe Statistical Account of
&tland-Dalkeith.

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154 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
The successors of Mr. Macgregor in the Gaelic Chapel have been numerous.
They were the Rev. James M‘Lauchlan, afterwards removed to the parish of
hloy, Inverness-shire ; the Rev. John Xlacdonald, afterwards of Urquhart,
Banffshire j the Rev. John Munro, afterwards of Halkirk, Caithness ; and the
unfortunate (he was thought to be insane) Duncan M‘Cuaig, who wa5 tried and
banished for theft in July 1831.l The succeeding pastor was the Rev, John
M‘Allister.
No. LXV.
THE REV. JAMES LAWSON OF BELVIDERE,
ii THE JOB OF PRESENT TIMES.’’
THIS Print, we are assured, is a striking likeness of MR. LAWSONw,h o is represented
in the attitude of receiving the General Assembly’s covered, buttoned,
and sealed Bible, which was handed to hirn by a member of the Assembly, when,
in answer to a question put to him as to where his creed lay, he pointed to it
as the only rule of his faith. The quotations inserted on the plate, at his own
request, on each side of the figure, entitled “The World and the Church,”
pre in allusion to his protracted process before the Church Courts.
The father of Mr. Lawson was proprietor of Eelyidere, a small estate in the
neighbourhood of Auchterarder. He had warmly opposed the settlement of
Mr. Campbell as Minister of that parish ; but, on finding himself in the minority,
he signed the call along with the other heritors. This opposition, trivial as it
may appear, is represented in Kay’s MS. as the primary cause of the course of
procedure afterwards adopted by the Presbytery of Auchterarder towards his son.
Shortly after the father’s death, young Lawson began seriously to think of
entering the ministry; and, after attending the usual number of seasons at
College, he applied to the Presbytery of Auchterarder to be licensed, at least
to undergo his trials for that purpose.
According to Kay, the Rev. Mr. Campbell had not forgotten the circumstance
of the Laird of Belvidere’s opposition to his settlement, and resolved to manifest
that vindictive feeling towards the son, which circumstances did not enable
occasionally became the associate of two well-known sporting gentlemen-then in the heyday of
youth and frolic-whose portraits we will have occasion to notice in a subsequent part of this work.
These manifestations of the spirit render the character of the Gaelic clergyman somewhat equivocal ;
yet it is but fair to state that his name ought not to be confounded, as has frequently been the case,
with that of the Reverend JaseTh Robertson, sometime minister of the chapel in Macdowall Street,
Paul’s Work, who was banished for forging certificates of proclamation.
The latest accounts represented hirn as
in a state of complete destltution.
This person became a teacher in Van Diemen’s Land.

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274 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Marshall had selected, as the favoured individual, one of the judges of the Court
of Session ; but an incident occurred about two years prior to his death, which
entirely changed his views on the subject. In politics he had been, if any
thing, an adherent of Henry Dundas, afterwards Lord Viscount hlelville, and
felt very deeply the injustice of the charges latterly preferred against that distinguished
nobleman. While the impeachment against him was going on in
London, Mr. Marshall, although then in his seventy-fourth year, daily repaired
to the Parliament House, where the news of the day were generally discussed.
The all-engrossing topic was of course the impeachment ;” and the innocence
or guilt of Melville decided upon according to t,he political bias of the disputants.
Having one day paid his accustomed visit, old Marshall was astonished to
find the sentiments of his intended heir decidedly adverse to the fallen minister.
This appeared the more intolerable to Marshall, knowing, as he did, that
this individual entirely owed his elevation to the very person whom he now
vilified. “ 0 the ungrateful scoundrel ! ” exclaimed the old man ; and working
himself up into a towering passion, he strode up and down the floor of the courthouse,
cursing with more than usual vehemence-then grumbling through his
teeth as he left the Court-“ he shall never finger a farthing of my money ”-
he hurried directly home, ere his accumulated wrath should be expended, and
committed the “ will ” to the flames.
Mr. Marshall died at Greenside House on the 23d May 1807, in the seventysixth
year of his age. He married a Miss Janet Spens, who died in 1788.
No. CXII.
REV. JOHN WESLEY.
THE principal facts connected with this remarkable individuaI are pretty generally
known through the elegant “Memoirs of his Life,” by Dr. Southey.
A less attractive, but very valuable account of Wesley has subsequently
appeared from the pen of the Rev. Richard Watson, himself an active and
distinguished teacher of Methodism.
MR. WESLEYw as the son of a cleravan of the English Church, and was
born at Epworth-a market town in Lincolnshire, where his father was vicaron
the 17th of June 1703. His grandfather and great-grandfather were both
ejected from their livings by the Act of Uniformity j and died, the former in
consequence of frequent imprisonment and severe privation ; the latter, from
grief for the loss of his only son. John, along with his brother Charles (both
being intended to enter into orders), was sent, at the age of seventeen, to Oxford,
where he was entered a student of the College of Christ-Church. His attainments
at this period were highly respectable, especially in classical literature.

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THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. 95 The Mound.]
Much of all this was altered when the bank was
enlarged, restored, and most effectively re-decorated
by David Bryce, R.S.A., in 1868-70. It now
presents a lofty, broad, and arch-based rear front of
colossal proportions to Princes Street, from whence,
and every other poiiit of view, it forms a conspicuous
mass, standing boldly from among the
many others that form the varied outline of the
Old Town, and consists of the great old centre with
new wings, surmounted by a fine dome, crowned
by a gilded figure of Fame, seven feet high. In
length the facade measures 175 feet; and 112 in
height from the pavement in Bank Street to the
summit, and is embellished all round with much
force and variety, in details of a Grecian style.
The height of the campanile towers is ninety feet.
The bank has above seventy branches ; the subscribed
capital in 1878 was A1,875,000 ; the paidup
capital LI,Z~O,OOO. There are a governor (the
Earl of Stair, K.T.), a deputy, twelve ordinary
and twelve extra-ordinary directors.
The Bank of Scotland issues drafts on other
places in Scotland besides those in which it has
branches, and also on the chief towns in England
and Ireland, and it has correspondents throughout
the whole continent of Europe, as well as in
British America, the States, India, China, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere-a ramification
of business beyond the wildest dreams oi
John Holland and the original projectors of the
establishment in the old Bank Close in 1695.
Concerning the Earthen Mound, the late Alex.
ander Trotter of Dreghorn had a scheme foi
joining the Qld Town to the New, and yet avoiding
Bank Street, by sinking the upper end of the
mound to the leve! of Princes Street, and carrying
the Bank Street end of it eastward along the north
of the Bank of Scotland, in the form of a handsomc
terrace, and thence south into the High Street b)
an opening right upon St. Giles?s Church. Thf
next project was one by the late Sir Thomas Dick
Lauder. He also proposed to bring down thc
south end of the mound ?to the level of Prince;
Street, and then to cut a Roman arch through thc
Lawnmarket and under the houses, so as to pas!
on a level to George Square. This,? say!
Cockburn, ?was both practical and easy, but i
was not expounded till too late.??
Not far from the Bank of Scotland, in I(
North Bank Street, ensconced among the might!
mass of buildings that overlook the mound, arc
the offices of the National Security Savings Ban1
of.Edinburgh, established under statute in 1836, an(
certified in terms of the Act 26 and 27 Victoria
cap. 87, managed by a chairman and cominittel
I
if management, the Bank of Scotland being
reasurer.
Of this most useful institution for the benefit of
,he thrifty poorer classes, suffice it to say, as a
ample of its working, that on striking the yearly
iccounts on the 20th of November, 1880, ?the
balance due to depositors was on that date
&r,305,27g 14s. 7d., and that the assets at the
same date were x1,3og,3g2 Ss., invested with the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, and A3,1o4 3s. gd., at the credit of the
3ank?s account in the Bank of Scotland, making
the total assets L1,312,496 11s. gd., which, after
ieductionof the above sum of L1,305,279 14s. 7d.,
leaves a clear surplus of A7916 17s. zd. at the
:redit of the trustees.?
The managers are, ex oficio, the Lord Provost,
the Lord Advocate, the senior Bailie of the city,
:he Members of Parliament for the city, county,
md Leith, the Provost of Leith, the Solicitor-
General, the Convener of the Trades, the Lord
Dean of Guild, and the Master of the Merchant
Company.
In the sanie block of buildings are the offices of
the Free Church of Scotland, occupying the site of
the demolished half of James?s Court. They were
erected in 1851-61, and are in a somewhat
Rorid variety of the Scottish baronial style, from
designs by the late David Cousin.
In striking contrast to the terraced beauty of the
New Town, the south side of the vale of the old
loch, from the North Bridge to the esplanade of
the Castle, is overhung by the dark and lofty gables
and abutments of those towering edifices which
terminate the northern alleys of the High Street,
and the general grouping of which presents an
aspect of equal romance and sublimity. From
amid these sombre masses, standing out in the
white purity of new freestone, are the towers and
facade of the Free Church College and Assembly
Hall, at the head of the Mound.
Into the history of the crises which called
these edifices into existence we need not enter
here, but true it is, as Macaulay says, that for the
sake of religious opinion the Scots have made
sacrifices for which there is no parallel in the
annals of England; and when, at the Disruption,
so many clergymen of the Scottish Church cast
their bread upon the waters, in that spirit of
independence and self-reliance so characteristic of
the race, they could scarcely have foreseen the
great success of their movement.
This new college was the first of those instituted
in connection with the Free Church. The idea
was origipally entertained of making provision for

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I 0 0 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
trates, attended by the burgesses in arms, proceeded to the Borough Muir, where the
Marquis’s body was taken up from its ignominious grave, put into a coffin, and born back
to Edinburgh, under a rich canopy of velvet, amid music and firing of guns, and every
demonstration of triumph. The procession stopped at the Tolbooth uutil the head was
taken down and placed beside the body, after which the coffin was deposited in the Abbey
Church of Ho1yrood.l
The other portions of the body ’ were afterwards collected and restored to the coffin, and
on the 11th of May following, the mutilated remains of the great Marquis were brought
back from the Abbey in solemn funeral procession, and buried in the south-east aisle of
St Giles’s Church, (( at the back of the tomb where his grandsire was buried,” and which
retained, until recently, the name of Montrose’s aisle.
Nicol furnishes a minute account of the proceedings on this occasion. The whole line
of street from the Palace to St Giles’s Church was guarded by the burghers of Edinburgh,
Canongate, Portsburgh, and Potterrow, all in armour, and with their banners displayed.
Twenty-six young boys, clad in deep mourning, bore his arms, and were followed by the
Magistrates and all the members of Parliament, in mourning habits. The pall was borne
by some of the chief nobility, and the Earl of Middleton, His Majesty’s Commissioner,
followed as chief mourner.3
The re-establishment of Episcopacy, in defiance of the most solemn engagements of the
King, put a speedy close to the rejoicings of the Scottish nation. The Magistrates of
Edinburgh, however, proved sufficiently loyal and complying. On the day of his Majesty’s
coronation, the Cross was adorned with flowers and branches of trees, and wine freely.
distributed to the people from thence, by Bacchus and his train. After dinner, the
Magistrates walked in procession to the Cross, “and there drank the King’s health
on their knees, and at sundry other prime parts of the city.”*
One of the first proceedings of the dominant party, was the trial and execution of the
Marquis of Argyle, who was condemned in defiance of every principle of justice, by judges,
each of them more deeply implicated than himself, in the acts for which he was brought
to trial. He
was beheaded by the instrument called the Maiden, the same that is said to have been
invented by the Earl of Morton, and was employed for his own execution. The head of
Argyle was exposed on the west end of the Tolbooth, on the same epike from which that of
Montrose had so recently been removed with every demonstration of honour and respect ;
a circumstance that illustrates, in a striking manner, the strange vicissitudes attendant on
civil commotions.
The most arbitrary and tyrannical enactments were now enforced, imposing exorbitant
penalties on any one found with what were styled seditious books in his dwelling; no one
He exhibited the utmost serenity and cheerfulneas after his condemnation.
Nicol’s Diary, p. 317.
Thoresby, the friend of Evelyne, in the iiccount of his Museum, sags :--“But the moat noted of all the humane
curiosities, is the hand and arm cut off at the elbow, positively asserted to he that of the celebrated Marquis of Montrom
It hath never been interred, has a severe wound in the wrist, and seems really to have been the very hand that wrote
the famous epitaph [Great, God, and Just] for King Charles I., in whose cause he auffered. Dr Pickering would not
part with it, till the descent into Spain, when, dreading it should be lost in his absence, he presented it to this Repository,
where it has more than once had the same honour that is paid to the greateet eccleiiastical prince in the world.”-
Ducatus Leodiensis, by Whitaker, p. 3.
Nicol’s Diary, p, 330-2. Ibid, p. 328.

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THE HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 265
man, the Regent Morton, and an associate with him in the murder of Riazio ; so that, if
the sculpture over the doorway be a device adopted by the Morton family, the corresponding
one, already described in the Castle Hill, may be considered as affording considerable
probability of that house having been the mansion of the Regent. William Douglas,
Lord Whittinghame, resigned his office as a judge in 1590, and was succeeded by his son
Archibald, the granter of the disposition referred to, a special favourite of James VI.,
who accompanied him on his matrimonial voyage to Norway, and was rewarded for his
“ lovable service ” soon after his return by this judicial appointment.
The portion of the wynd below this old mansion included, along with the building
of 1564, recently swept away to make room for an extensive printing-office, another
which was long used as a Roman Catholic Chapel. This was an antique stone fabric,
from which a curiously-projecting timber front was removed only a few years before its
desertion as a place of worship. On the fifth flat of this tenement, approached by a
steep and narrow turnpike stair, a large chamber was consecrated to the worship of the
Roman Catholic Church during the greater part of last century, and probably earlier.
When we last visited this primitive retreat of “ Old Giant Pope, after the many
shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger daya,” there still remained painted, in
.simple fashion, on one of the doors immediately below the chapel, the name of the old
Bishop, Mr Hay. This was the once celebrated opponent of Bishop Wm. Abernethy
Drummond, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, under the initials G. H., and well worthy
of note in the history of the locality as the last of the Bishops of Blackfriars’ Wynd,
where the proudest nobles of Scotland were wont of old to give place to the dignitaries of
the Church.
Nearly opposite to this, a large and ancient tenement stood entire in the midst
of ruins, the upper story of which was also used as a chapel. It was dedicated to St
Andrew, and formed the chief Roman Catholic place of worship in Edinburgh, until it
was abandoned in the year 1813 for the ecclesiastical edifice at Broughton Street,
dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary. The interior of the chapel retained much
of its original state till its demolition. The frame-work of the simple altarpiece
still remained, though the rude painting of the Patron Saint of Scotland, which
originally flled it, had disappeared. Humble as must have been the appearance of this
chapel, even when furnished with every adjunct of Catholic ceremonid for Christmas or
Easter festivals, aided by the imposing habits of the officiating priests that gathered
around its little altar, yet men of ancient lineage were wont to assemble among the
worshippers; and during the abode of the royal exiles at Holyrood Palace, Count
d’Artois, the future occupant of the French throne, with the princes and their attendants,
usually formed part of the congregation. An internal staircase formed a private entrance
for the priests and other officials from the floor below, where the straitened accommodations
it afforded sufficed for the humble residence of these successors of the Cardinals
and Archbishops who once dwelt in the same neighbourhood. The public accesa was by
a projecting stone staircase, which formed the approach to the different floors of the
building. Over this doorway was a sculptured lintel, with a shield of arm6 in the centre,
bearing three stars in chief, with a plain cross, and over it two swords saltier ways.
On either side of this was cut, in large antique characters, the inscription MISERERE
2 L

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THE OLD TOWN. ‘5
partly by their striking contrast in character,-not to speak of the military
atmosphere by which you feel yourself ‘surrounded, which somehow serves to
complete the peace and to accent the harmony.-Then passing from the - faint shadow of war into the holy ground occupied by stately churches and
church halls, where the memory of past conff icts and present estrangements
ADVOCATES CLOSE.
operates not here-as an element of disturbance to your feelings.-Thence
penetrating a section of the genuine ‘Atild Reekie,’ with its memories of the
Lawnmarket, the West Bow, and the Heart of Midlothian, and the house
once occupied by John Knox,’-its bulky buildings, endless stories, and dark,
steep, descending closes like the circles of Dante, but which remind us onIy
1 See. in theaccompanying illustration, the roomin which he died. with apeepof hisbedroom,
while at the side-door stands a portion of the official staff of Cardinal Beaton, and the skull on
the table is one of the three casts from the head of Robert the Brtia.

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GNsmarket.1 THE GAELIC CHAPEL. 235
target, andnogentlemantookthe road without pistols
in his holsters, and was the chief place for carriers
putting up in the days when all the country traffic
was conducted by their carts or waggons. In 1788
fortysix carriers arrived weekly in the Grassmarket,
and this number increased to ninety-six in 1810.
In those days the Lanark coach started fiom
George Cuddie?s stables there, every Friday and
Tuesday at 7 am. ; the Linlithgow and Falkirk
flies at 4 every afternoon, ?( Sundays excepted ; ?
and the Peebles coach from ? Francis M?Kay?s,
vintner, White Hart Inn,? thrice weekly, at g in
the morning.
Some bloodshed occurred in the Castle Wynd
in 1577. When Morton?s administration became
so odious as Regent that it was resolved to deprive
him of his power, his natural son, George Douglas
of Parkhead, held the Castle of which he was
governor, and the magistrates resolved to cut off
all supplies from him. At 5 o?clock on the 17th
March their guards discovered two carriages of
provisions for the Castle, which were seized at
the foot of the Wynd. This being seen by Parkhead?s
garrison, a sally was made, and a combat
ensued, in which three citizens were killed and six
wounded, but only one soldier was slain, while sixteen
others pushed the carriages up the steep slope.
The townsmen, greatly incensed by the injury,?
says Moyse, ?? that same night cast trenches beside
Peter Edgafs house for enclosing of the Castle.?
Latterly the closes on the north side of the
Market terminated on the rough uncultured slope
of the Castle Hill; but in the time of Gordon of
Rothiemay a belt of pretty gardens had been there
from the west fiank of the city wall to the Castle
Wynd, where a massive fragment of the wall of
1450 remained till the formation of Johnstone
Terrace. On the west side of the Castle Wynd
is an old house, having a door only three feet
three inches wide, inscribed:
BLESSIT. BE. GOD. FOR. AL. HIS. GIFTIS.
16. 163 7. 10.
The double date probably indicated arenewal of
the edifice.
The first Gaelic chapel in Edinburgh stood in
the steep sloping alley named the Castle Wynd.
Such an edifice had long been required in the
Edinburgh of those days, when such a vast number
of Highlanders resorted thither as chairmen, porters,
water-carriers, city guardsmen, soldiers of the
Castle Company, servants and day-labourers, and
when Irish immigration was completely unknown.
These people in their ignorance of Lowland Scottish
were long deprived of the benefit of religious
instruction, which was a source of regret to themselves
and of evil to society.
Hence proposals were made by Mr. Williarn
Dicksos, a dyer of the city, for building a chapel
wherein the poor Highlanders might receive religious
instruction in their own language; the contributions
of the benevolent flowed rapidly in; the
edifice was begun in 1767 and opened in 1769,
upon .a piece of ground bought by the philanthropic
William Dickson, who disposed of it to the Society
for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. The
church cost A700, of which LIOO was given by
the Writers to the Signet.
It was soon after enlarged to hold about 1,100
hearers. The minister was elected by the subscribers.
His salary was then only LIOO per
annum, ?and he was, of course, in communion with
the Church- of Scotland, when such things as the
repentance stool and public censure did not
become thing of the past until 1780. ?Since the
chapel was erected,? says Kincaid, ?the Highlanders
have been punctual in their attendance on
divine worship, and have discovered the greatest
sincerity in their devotions. Chiefly owing to the
bad crops for some years past in the Highlands,
the last peace, and the great improvements Carrying
on in this city, the number of Highlanders has of late
increased so much that the chapel in its present
situation cannot contain them. Last Martinmas,
above 300 applied for seats who could not be
accommodated, and who cannot be edified in the
English language.?
The first pastor here was the Rev. Joseph
Robertson MacGregor, a native of Perthshire, who
was a licentiate of the Church of England before
he joined that of Scotland., ?The last levies of
the Highland regiments,? says Kincaid, ?? were
much indebted to this house, for about a third of
its number have, this last and preceding wars,
risqued (xi.) their lives for their king and country ;
and no other church in Britain, without the aid or
countenance of Government, contains so many
disbanded soldiers.?
Mr. MacGregor was known by his mother?s
name of Robertson, assumed in consequence of
the proscription of his clan and name ; but, on the
repeal of the infamous statute against it, in 1787,
on the day it expired he attired himself in a fill
suit of the MacGregor tartan, and walked conspicuously
about the city.
The Celtic congregation continued to meet 51
the Castle Wynd till 1815, when its number had
so much increased that a new church was built for
them in another quarter of the city.
The Plainstanes Close, with Jatnieson?s, Beattie?s,
s
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Charlotte Square.] THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. I75
His neighbour and brother senator Lord Dundrennan
occupied No. 35 ; and in 1811 William
Robertson, Lord Robertson, a senator of 1805,
occupied No. 42. He was the eldest son of Dr.
Robertson the historian, and in 1779 was chosen
Procurator of the Church of Scotland, after ,a close
contest, in which he was opposed by the Hon.
Henry Erskine. His personal appearance is
described in ? Peter?s Letters to his Kinsfolk.?
He retired from the bench in 1826, in consequence
of deafness, and died in November, 1835.
On the western side of the Square, and terminating
with fine effect the long vista of George
Street from the east, is St. George?s Church, the
foundation of which was laid on the 14th of May,
1811. It was built from a design furnished by
Robert Reid, king?s architect The celebrated
Adam likewise furnished a plan for this church,
which was relinquished in consequence of the
expense it would have involved. The whole building,
with the exception of the dome, which is a
noble one, and seen to advantage from any point,
is heavy in appearance, meagre in detail, and
hideous in conception, and its ultimate expense
greatly exceeded the estimates and the sum for
which the more elegant design of Adam could have
been carried out. It cost A33,ooo, is calculated
to accommodate only 1,600 persons, and was opened
for public worship in 1814. It was intended in
its upper part to be a large miniature or reduced
copy of St. Paul?s in London, and is in a kind of
Grzco-Italian style, with a lofty but meagre Ionic
portico and surmounting an Attic Corinthian colonnade
; it rests on a square ground plan measuring
IIZ feet each way, and culminates in the dome,
surmounted by a lantern, cupola, and cross, the
last at the height of 160 feet from the ground.
The original design included two minarets, which
have not as yet been added.
It is chiefly celebrated as the scene of the ministrations
of Andrew Thomson, D.D., an eminent
divine who was fixed upon as its pastor in 1814.
He died suddenly on the 9th of February, 1831,
greatly beloved and lamented by the citizens in
general and his congregation in particular, and now
he lies in a piece of ground connected with the
churchyard of St. Cuthbert.
In Charlotte Place, behind the church, are the
atelier of Sir John Steel the eminent sculptor, and
a music-room called St. Cecilia?s Hall, with an
orchestra space for 250 performers and seats for
500 hearers.
In the centre of the Square is the memorial to
the Prince Consort, which was inaugurated with
much state by the Queen in person, attended by
the magistrates and archer guard, &c., in August,
1876. It cost A16,500, and is mainly from
the studio of Steel It is a quasi-pyramidal structure,
about thirty-two feet high, with a colossal
equestrian statue of the Prince as its central and
upper figure ; it is erected on an oblong Peterhead
granite pedestal, fully seventeen feet high, and
exhibiting emblematic bas-reliefs in the panels,
with four groups of statues on square blocks, projecting
from the corners of the basement; the
prince is shown in the uniform of a field marshal.
Of all the many statues that have been erected
to his memory, this in Charlotte Square is perhaps
one of the best and most pleasing.
With this chapter we close the history of what
may be regarded as thejt-st New Town, which was
designed in 1767, laid out, as we have seen, in a
parallelogram the sides of which measure 3,900
feet by 1,090.
The year 1755 was the period when Edinburgh
seemed really to wake from the sleep and torpor
that followed the Union, and a few imprdvements
began in the Old Town. After that period, says
Kincaid, writing in 1794, ? it is moderate to say
that not less than ~3,000,000 sterling has been
expended in building and public improvements.?
Thirty-five years ago,? says the Edinburgh
Adverther for 1823, ? there were scarcely a dozen
sliops in the New Town; now, in Princes Street,
with the exception of hotels and the Albyn Club
Room, they reach to Hanover Street.?
In the present day the whole .area we have described
is mainly occupied by shops, with the exception
of Charlotte Square and a small portion of
Queen Street.

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388 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
striking character. On the centre key-stone of the eastern chapel, the monogram of
the Virgin is inwrought with the leaves of a gracefully sculptured wreath, and the same
is repeated in a simpler form on one of the bosses of the neighbouring aisle. But the
most interesting of these decorations are the heraldic devices which form the prominent
ornaments on the capital of the pillar. These consist, on the south side, of the arm8
of Robert, Duke of Albany, the second son of King Robert 11. ; and, on the north side,
of those of Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas. In the year 1401, David, Duke of
Rothsay, the unfortunate son of Robert III., was arrested by his uncle, the Duke of
Albany and Governor of Scotland, with the consent of the king his father, who had
been incensed against him by the daily complaints which his uncle contrived to have
carried to the old king’s ear. The circumstances of his death have been pictured with
thrilling effect in the popular pages of (( The Fair Maid of Perth.” He was committed
a close prisoner to the dungeon of Falkland Castle, and there starved to death, notwithstanding
the intervention of a maiden and nurse, who experienced a far different fate
from that assigned by Scott, though their efforts to rescue the Prince from his horrible
death are described with considerable accuracy. “The Blacke Booke of Scone saith,
that the Earle Douglas was with the Governour when he brought the Duke from Saint
Andrew’s to Falkland,” having probably been exasperated against the latter, who was
his own brother-in-law, by the indignity which hiu licentious courses put upon his sister.
Such are the two Scottish nobles whose armorial bearings still grace the capital of the
pillar in the old chapel. It is the only other case in which they are found acting in
concert besides the dark deed already referred to ; and it seems no unreasonable inference
to draw from such a coincidence, that this chapel had been founded and endowed by them
as an expiatory offering for that deed of blood, and its chaplain .probably appointed to say
masses for their victim’s soul. A view of this interesting and beautiful part of the
interior of St Giles’s Church-with the gallery and pews removed-forms the vignette at
the head of the chapter.
The transepts of the church as they existed before 1829, afforded no less satisfactory
evidence of the progress of the building. Distinct traces remained of the termination of
the south transept a few feet beyond the pillars that separated the south aisle of the choir
from Preston’s, or the Assembly Aisle, as it was latterly termed. Beyond this, the
groining of the roof entirely differed from the older portion, exhibiting unequivocal evidence
of being the work of a later age. This part of the Old Church forms-or rather, we
should perhaps say, formed-by far the most interesting portion of the whole building,
from its many associations with the eminent men of other days. Here it was that Walter
Chepman, a burgess of Edinburgh, famous as the introducer of the printing-press to
Scotland, founded and endowed a chaplainry at the. altar of St John the Evangelist, (( in
honour of God, the Virgin Mary, St John the Apostle and Evangelist, and all Saints.”
The charter is dated 1st August 1513, an era of peculiar interest. Scotland was then
rejoicing in all the prosperity and happiness consequent on the wise and beneficent reign
of James IV. Learning was visited with the highest favour of the court, and literature
wat3 rapidly extending its influence under the zealous co-operation of Dunbar, Douglas,
Hume of Godacroft’s Hist. of the Douglases, p. 118. Hume attempts to free the Earl from the charge, but with
little a u c c ~ .

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St Gilds Churchyard. THE CHURCHYARD. I49
were a hospital and chapel known by the name
of the ?Maison Dieu.? ?We know not,? says
Arnot, ?* at what time or by whom it was founded ;
but at the Reformation it shared the common
fate of Popish establishments in this country. It
was converted into private property. This building
is still (1779) entire, and goes by the name of the
Clam-shell Turnpike, from the figure of an escalopshell
cut in stone above the door.?
Fire and modern reform have effected dire
changes here since Arnot wrote. Newer buildings
.occupy the site ; but still, immediately above the
entrance that led of old to Bell?s Wynd, a modern
stone lintel bears an escalop shell in memory of
the elder edifice, which, in the earliest titles of it
. conceit which appears among the sculpture at
Roslm chapel. So late as 1620 ?James Lennox
iselected chaplain of the chapelry of the holy rood,
in the burgh kirk-yard of St. Giles.? Hence it is
supposed that the nether kirk-yard remained in use
long after the upper had been abandoned as a
plad of sepulture.
All this was holy ground in those days, fQr in
U Keith?s Catalogue? we are told that near the
head of Bell?s Wynd (on the eastern side) there
the pavement of a noisy street, ?there sleep the
great, the good, the peaceful and the turbulent,
the faithful and the false, all blent together in their
quaint old coffins and flannel shrouds, with money
in their dead hands, and crosses or chalices on
their breasts ; old citizens who remembered the
long-haired King David passing forth with barking
hound and twanging horn on that Roodday in
harvest which so nearly cost him his life ; and how
the fair Queen Margaret daily fed the poor at the
castle gate ?with the tenderness of a mother;?
those who had seen Randolph?s patriots scale ?the
steep, the iron-belted rock;? Count Guy of Namur?s
Flemish lances routed on the Burghmuir, and
William Wallace mustering his bearded warriors
-
~~ ~ ~~~~~
that are extant, was written of as the ?old land,?
formerly belonging to George Crichton, Bishop of
Dunkeld, who held that see between the years
1527 and 1543, and was Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal under King James V.
Overlooked, then, by the great cruciform church
of St. Giles, and these minor ecclesiastical edifices,
the first burying-ground of Edinburgh lay on the
steep slope with its face to the sun. The last
home of generations of citizens, under what is now
ST. GILES?S CHURCH IN Tni PRESENT DAY.

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THE NORMAL SCHOOL. 295 George IV. Bridge.]
highly qualified examiners, on every point of which
it takes cognisance. It grants annually ten bursaries
of L z o each, and five of LIO each, to be
competed for by pupils of schools approved .of by
the directors.
The Society?s vested capital now? amounts to
&o,ooo, and its annual revenue reaches more than
&,~oo, besides the receipts for general shows,
The Argyle Fund, for the education of young Highland
gentlemen for the navy, now amounts to
A5,639, and was instituted by John fifth Duke of
Argyle, the original president of the Society.
From its chambers, No. 3, George IV. Bridge, surveying
a width of range and multiplicity of objects
worthy of its wealth and intellect, its opulence of
power and resource, the Soqiety promotes the erection
of towns and bridges, the formation of roads,
the experiments and enterprises of agriculture, the
improvement of farm stock, the sheltering processes
of planting, the extension of fisheries, the introduction
of manufactures, the adaptation of machinery
to all useful arts, the ready co-operation of
? local influence with legislative and public measures,
the diffusion of practical knowledge of all that may
tend to the general good of the Scottish nation,
and the consolidation of the Highlanders and
Lowlanders into one great fraternal community.
? The Society awards large and numerous premiums
to stimulate desiderated enterprises, and in
1828 began the publication of the Quarter0 lown
d of Agridtztre, for prize essays and the dissemination
of the newest practical information ; it
patronises great annual cattle shows successively in
different towns, and by means of them excites and
directs a stirring and creditable spirit of emulation
among graziers, and, in general, it keeps in play
upon the community, a variety of influences which,
as far as regards mere earthly well-being, have
singularly transformed and beautified its character.?
Its arms are a figure of Caledonia on a pedestal,
between two youths-one a Highland reaper, the
other a ploughboy-being crowned. The motto is,
Sem$er armis nunc et industria. The Highland
Society?s hall and chamber form a very symmetrical
and also ornamental edifice, with a beautiful sculpture
of its coat of arms from the chisel of A.. H.
Kitchie. It formerly contained a most interesting
agricultural museum, which has been removed elsewhere.
Simil7.r societies on the same model have
since been established-by England in 1838, and
by Ireland in 1841.
The other edifice referred to, the Sheriff?s Court
Buildings, contiguous to the open arches over the
Cowgate, was erected in 1865-8, from designs
by David Bryce, at a cost of more than A44,ooo. -
It rises from a low basement, with an extensive
and imposing flank to the south, and presents in
its fapde an ornate variety of the Italian style
of architecture ; but within exhibits simply the
usual features of legal courts, with three subordinate
official chambers, unless we except the Society
hall of the solicitors-at-law, a minor legal body in
Edinburgh, which was incorporated by royal charter
in 1780, and only certain members of which are
qualified to act as agents before the Supreme Courts.
Johnstone Terrace, King?s Road, and Castle
Terrace crossing the King?s Bridge, the foundation
stone of which was laid in 1827, unitedly extend
about go0 yards along the southern limb, or southwestern
skirt of the Castle Rock, connecting the
head of the Lawnmarket with the Lothian Road,
at a point about 180 yards south of the west end
of Princes Street. These were formed between
1825 and 1836, to afford improved access to the
Old Town from the westward. They are collectively
called the New Western Approach, and apart
from being a very questionable improvement as
regards artistic taste, have destroyed the amenity
of the Castle Rock, and lessened its strength as a
fortress.
In Johnstone Terrace, to which we shall confine
ourselves for the present, at the eastern end,
resting at the corner of the Old West Bow, is St.
John?s Free Church, a handsome edifice in a mixed
style of early Gothic It was built from designs
furnished by Robert Hamilton in 1847, and is
chiefly famous for its congregation having enjoyed
for some years the ministry of the celebrated Dr.
Guthrie, and of Dr. Williani Hanna, a graduate of
the University of Glasgow, who was ordained to
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1835,
and who is so well known as the author of ?Wycliffe
and the Huguenots,? and as the affectionate
biographer of Chalmers.
Westward of this edifice is St. Columba?s Episcopal
church, also a Gothic structure, but of an earlier
style, with a low, square battlemented tower;
built in 1845.
At the cost of about ;GIO,OOO, the Normal School
of the Church of Scotland was built westward of it,
in 1845, and is a large and handsome edifice.
It is called the Normal School, or Church of
Scotland Training College. It is under the control
and management of the Education Committee of
the Church. It is a double college, and like that
in Glasgow, trains both masters and mistresses.
The course of training extends over two years,
and none are admitted as students but those who
have passed a preliminary examination ; but the
committee exercise their discretion in making their

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434 B I 0 G R AP H I CA L S K E T C HE S.
20th May 1811, Mary Anne, only daughter of John Charles Dunn, Esq., who
realised a fortune in India, by whom he had several sons and one daughter.
The eldest son, Francis William, commonly called ‘‘ Master of Grant,” was
some time member of Parliament for the county of Inverness, and died unmarried
in 1840.’
The Colonel generally resided at Cullen-House, Banffshire, where he was
very much respected, and greatly beloved by his clan. He managed the very
extensive family estates in: Inverness, Banff, and Morayshires, and was particularly
esteemed as a liberal and indulgent landlord.
NO. CCCXIX.
REV. DAVID DICKSON, D.D.,
ONE OF THE DIINISTERS OF ST. CUTHBERT, OR WEST KIRK, EDINBURGH.
DE DAVID DICKSON, eldest son of the Rev. David Dickson, of New North
Church, Edinburgh, was born, 23d February 1780, at the manse of Libberton,
Lanarkshire, of which parish his father was then minister. He received his
elementary, literary, and classical education under the very excellent tuition of
Mr. Mitchell, the parochial schoolmaster of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, whither
Mr. Dickson had by that time removed. He entered the University of Edinburgh
in session 1793-4 ; and prosecuted his studies there till their completion
in 1801, on the 8th December of which year he was licensed by the Presbytery
of Edinburgh.
In January 1802 Mr. Dickson received an unanimous call to be minister of
the then Chapel of Ease (now High Church), Kilmarnock, and was ordained
to the sacred office there on the 10th March following. Here he remained
little more than a year, having, on the death of the Rev. William Paul, been
presented by the Crown, on application by a majority of the heritors, to the
vacancy in the collegiate charge of the parish of St. Cuthbert, or West Kirk,
Edinburgh. He was admitted to it on the 16th May 1803, and during the
long period which intervened, it is only due to the character of Dr. Dickson to
say, that he discharged the pastoral duties of his office with a fidelity that
justly endeared him to the congregation. Indeed, the largeness of the flock
among whom he laboured, and the uniform affection with which not they only,
but the parishioners in general, regarded him, after more than thirty-five
years’ service, are sufficient testimonies of his worth.
Among other instances of his zeal for the interests of religion in the parish,
Colonel Grant succeeded his brother aa 6th Earl of Seafield in 1840. After the death of his
first wife he married Louisa-Emma, daughter of the late Robert George Maunsell, Esq. of Limerick
He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Inverness, and died 30th July 1853.

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42 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Haldane continued to preach to a large congregation ; and, during the forty
years he was so engaged, his disinterested labours were rather the occasion of
his spending than of his receiving money. The seats were all free; and he
derived no emolument whatever from his office.
Had it been the object of the Messrs. Haldane to gain a name, and become
the founders of a sect, their ambition might easily have been gratified. The
success which attended their joint labours was at first very great, and their
chapels were well attended. But this never formed any part of their scheme ;
and their adoption of Baptist sentiments separated them from many of those
with whom they formerly acted. Since the agitation of the voluntary question,
they have taken no part in opposition to the Established Church, considering it to
be rather a political than a religious controversy.
In the early part of their career their motives were often questioned ; and
it happened more than once that Mr. James Haldane was interrupted by the
civil authorities when preaching in the open air. This happened in particular
at Ayr, at North Berwick, and in Aberdeen ; and on one occasion an action
might have been brought against an Argyleshire magistrate for arresting Mr.
Haldane and Mr. John Campbell, afterwards well known as a missionary and
traveller in Africa. Mr. Haldane, however, contented himself, after having been
liberated by the sheriff, with going over the same ground which he had
previously intended ; and the interest excited by his arrestment drew forth such
numbers to hear him as amply compensated for his previous interruption.
Mr. Robert Haldane has been also laboriously engaged in the same work to
which both he and his brother devoted themselves in their early manhood. On
the Continent, and particularly at Geneva, and at Montambau, Mr. Haldane
resided for several years after the peace, and was the means of effecting much
good among the ministers and theological students in these celebrated Protestant
seminaries. He also expended very large sums in education ‘of young
men as ministers, both in England, Scotland, and the Continent. We believe
the number amounted to little short of four hundred. Among these there were
several men of great eminence, such as Principal Dewar of Aberdeen, Mr.
Russell of Dundee, Mr. Angel1 James of Birmingham, Drs. Paterson, Henderson,
etc. Mr. Robert Haldane also published several works of very considerabIe value,
particularly one on the Evidences of Christianity, and another containing a very
elaborate Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans.
Mr. James Haldane held three services every Sunday at the Tabernacle, as
well as a week-day service ; and his labours in Edinburgh, together with his
former numerous itinerating tours through Scotland, and also in England and
Ireland, have been the means of awakening thousands to concern for their eternal
welfare. It was remarked by a late eminent minister of the Church of Scotland
in Edinburgh, that wheh conversing with his communicants, it was surprising in
how many instances they attributed their first serious impressions to Mr. Haldane’s
preaching. Both brothers continued with unabated energy to pursue
the same schemes of usefulness. At the period they commenced their public

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 27
from which they had been absent for many years. On this auspicious occasion
considerable interest was excited in the neighbourhood ; and a party-of the Ayrshire
Cavalry, with the Kilmarnock Volunteers, marched out in military array
to pay their respects to the Earl on his arrival, The following extract from a
letter to the Editor of the Free Press upon occasion of his lordship’s visit, is too
interesting to be omitted :-
“ Never having seen that renowned warrior and statesman, the Marquis of Hastings, and being
in the neighbourhood of Loudon Castle, we were exceedingly auxious to behold with our own eyes
the man who has done so much for his country and his friends, and so little for himself. Being
provided at Kilmamock with a ‘guid-gaun’ vehicle, we set out ; and it was not very long untii the
turreta of the Castle were, with delight, beheld by us, towering above the mighty oak and elm of
many hundred years’ standing, and the ‘bonnie woods and braes,’ so justly celebrated by Tamhii.
We were at the village of Galston by nine o’clock, and learned, with much pleasure, that the
Marquis and family were going to Newmilns to hear a sermon in the parish church. From Galston
to Newmilns it ia two miles ; a road level and enchanting, overshadowed by lofty trees ; on the left,
the Castle, with its beautiful avenues and pleasure-grounds ; on the right, the water of Irvine. On
the same side, at the end of this road, and before entering Newmilns, is the Mill, rendered clasaic
from having given birth to Ranisay’s celebrated song of ‘The Lass of Patie’s Mill, so bode, blyth,
and gay.’ Newmilns in a small, neat, clean town ; the new part of it divided from the old by the
water of Irvine, communicating by two bridges. It lies in a beautiful vale, surmunded by braes
covered with rich planting. At the extremity of the vale, four miles east, is Loudon Hill, ‘round
as my shield’ We drove to the residence of Mr. Loudon, the chief magistrate, at the east end of
the town, where we had an Ayrshire breakfast in all its glory, and a hearty welcoma At eleven
the bell summoned us to church. When we arrived at the church door, the Marquis’s family and
suit were just at hand, in two carriages and a gig. In the h t were the Marquis, Marchioness, and
four daughters. The other contained my young Lord Rawdon ; and the factor, Yr. Hamilton, was
in the gig. Every eye was eager to see them alight ; and it was done with that ease and becoming
dignity inherent in true nobdity. In passing the plate of collection, the poor were not neglected.
It is said that the Castle is beset ezrery day with poor persons from thirty miles round, none of
whom are allowed to depart without a good awmw. Before we entered the church, the noble family
were all seated in the gallery in front of the pulpit, being the family seat, which is formed of a
large enclosed compartment. We were in the gallery right of the pulpit, and had a good view.
His lordship is seventy-one years of age ; and, although he has been in camp and field in all sorts
of climate, is stout and healthy. His bold, dwk countenance, with frame erect, gives a most complete
idea of the warrior ; and he possesses all that suavity and dignity of manner, with a countenance
beaming with intelligence, which are ao characteristic of the statesman, wamior, and
philanthropist. He was very plainly dressed-dark-green coat, coloured vest, and dark wsimere
trowsen. The Marchioness is aged
forty-six, and seems to have suffered little from the scorching climat+looks well, and in excellent
health. The
young ladies may be characterised in the same way. Lady Flora is a young lady of mod amiable
dispositions, mild and attractive manners. They have more the cast of the Marqnk’s countenance,
particularly in the upper part of the face. The young lord, aged twenty, is a most promising
young man-no fudge nor frippery about him, aping outlandish airs with an ostentatious consciousness
of his high station in life. His person is tall, handsome, good-looking ; and his manners most
amiable, with every appearance to possess the virtues of his father, During the sermon, they all
,paid the most profound attention, and seemed deeply impressed with the force of the truths propounded
by the Rev. Dr. Laurie, who discharged his duty much to our satisfaction. He has a
good delivery and address, joined with sound sense, and is a sincere lover of the truths of the gospel,
which he delivers in a plain, neat, and impressive manner. We remarked that the Marchionesa
was. most attentive to the Doctor’s discourse, examining every text which was alluded to in the
course of the lecture. During the prayer she and the Marquia seemed much affected when the
Doctor very delicately alluded to the noble family then present. We were much pleased with the
appearance of all the hearers in the church-a healthy, sober, and good-looking people ; all well
dressed, with a deportment suitable to the house of God.”
On his breast hung a gold insignia of one of his many Orders.
She has all the lady in her appearance-modest, dignified, kind, and affectionate.

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Canongate.1 GOVERNMENT OF THE BURGH. 3
{oundation charter of the latter, I likewise grant
go the said canons the town of Herbergare, lying
betwixt the said church, and my town (of Edinmunity
had been swept away by the Reformatioa ;
and by the king?s grant a commendator succeeded
the last abbot, enjoying the privileges of the latter,
According to the record books of the Canongate,
it was governed in 1561 by four old bailies, three
deacons, two treasurers, and four councillors,
?chosen and elected;? and, as enacted in 1567,
the council met every eighth day, on fuirsdaye.
The Tolbooth was then, as till a late period, the
council-room, court-house, and place of punishunent
By 1561 the monastic superiority over the combut
the real glory of the Canongate may be said
to have departed with the court when James VI.
succeeded to the throne of England in 1603, though,
as we shall show, it long continued to be a
fashionable quarter of the metropolis even after
the time of the Union.
In pursuing the general history of the suburbs,
we find that in 1609, under favour of James VI.,
when a number of foreigners were introduced into

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