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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 389
Remedy, and others, with the royal master printer. Only one month thereafter, Scotland
lay at the mercy of her southern rival. Her King was slain; the chief of her nobles
and warriors had perished on Flodden Field ; and adversity and ignorance again replaced
all the advantages that had followed in the train of the gallant James’s rule. Thenceforth
the altars of St Giles’s Church received few and rare additions to their endowments.
There is good reason for believing that Walter Chepman lies buried in the south transept
of the Church, close by the spot where “the Good Regent,” James Earl of Murray, the
Regent Morton, and his great rival the Earl of Atholl, are buried, and adjoining the aisle
where the mangled remains of the great Marquis of Montrose were reinterred, with every
mark of honour, on the 7th of January 1661. This receives strong corroboration
from an agreement entered in the Burgh Registers, 30th June 1579, by which the
Council ‘‘ grants and permits that upon the west part of Walter Chepmanis Iyle, fernent
the Earl of Murrayis tomb, sal be broken, and thair ane burial-place be maid for the Earl
of Athole.”
The Regent’s tomb, which stood on the west side of the south transept, was on many
accounts an object of peculiar interest. As the monument erected to one who had played
so conspicuous a part in one of the most momentous periods of our national history, it
was calculated to awaken many stirring associations. The scene which occurred when the
Regent’s remains were committed to the tomb was itself not the least interesting among
the memorable occurrences that have been witnessed in the ancient Church of St Giles,
when the thousands who had assembled within its walls were moved to tears by the
eloquence of Knox. “Vpoun the xiiij day of the moneth [of Februar, 15701, being
Tyisdaye,” says a contemporary, “ my lord Regentis corpis being brocht in ane bote be sey
fra Striueling to Leith, quhair it was keipit in Johne Wairdlaw his hous, and thairefter
caryit to the palace of Halyrudhous, wes transportit fra the said palace of Halyrudhous to
the college kirk of Sanctgeill in this manner ; that is to say, William Kirkaldie of Grange
knycht, raid fia the said palice in dole weid, beirand ane pensall quhairin wes contenit ane
reid lyoun ; efter him followit Coluill of Cleishe, maister houshald to the said regent, with
ane vther pensell quhairin wes contenit my lord regentis armes and bage ; efter thame wes
the Erlis of Athole, Mar, Glencarne, lordis of Ruthvene, Methvene, maister of Grahame,
lord Lindsay, with diuerse vtheris barronis, beirand the saidis corpis to the said college kirk
of Sanctgeill, quhairin the samyne wes placeit befoir the pulpett; and thairefter Johne
Knox minister made ane lamentable sermond tuitching the said murther ; the samin being
done, the said corpis wes burijt in Sanct Anthoneis ple within the said college kirk.”’ The
Regent’s tomb was surmounted with his arms, and bore on the front of it a brass plate
with the figures of Justice and Faith engraved thereon, and the epitaph composed by
Buchanan a for the purpose :-
IACOBO STOVARTO, MORAVIX COMITI, SCOTIAJ PROREGI ;
VIRO, BTATIS SVB, LONGE OPTIMO: AB DSIMICIS,
OWVIS XEYORIH: DETERRIMIS, EX INSIDIIS EXTINCTO,
CEV PATRI COMNVNI, PATRIA MCERENS POSVIT.
1 Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 168. Calderwood’s Ekt, voL ii p. 626.

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307 - Trinity.] EASTER AND WESTER PILTON.
Now Trinity possesses a great number of handsome
villas in intersecting streets, a railway station,
and an Episcopal chapel called Christ Church,
which figured in a trial before the law courts of
Scotland, that made much noise in its time-the
Yelverton case.
At Wardie, not far from it, there died, in only
his thirty-eighth year, Edward Forbes, who, after
being a Professor in King?s College, London, was
appointed to the chair of Natural History in the
University of Edinburgh in May, 1854. He was
a man of distinguished talent and of an affectionate
nature, his last words being ? My own wife 1 ? when
she inquired, as he was dying, if he knew her.
Soon after she contracted a marriage with the
Hon. Major Yelverton, whose battefy of artillery
had just returned from Sebastopol, and was
quartered in Leith Fort. The marriage took place
in the little church at Trinity, and was barely
announced before the Major was arrested on a
charge of bigamy by the late Miss Theresa Longworth,
with whom he had contracted, it was
averred, an irregular marriage in Edinburgh. Before
this she had joined the Sisters of Chanty at T?arna,
and lived a life of adventure. Not satisfied with the
Scottish marriage, they went through another ceremony
before a Catholic priest in Ireland, where the
ceremony was declared legal, and she was accepted
as Mrs. Yelverton. She then endeavoured to
prove a Scottish marriage, by habit and repute, residence
at Circus Place, and elsewhere, but judgment
was given against her by the late Lord Ardmillan,
and after twenty years of wandering all over the
world, writing books of travel, she died at Natal in
September, 1881, retaining to the last the title of
Viscountess, acguired on old Lord Avonmore?s
death.
Horatio Macculloch, R.S.A., the well-known
landscape painter, lived latterly in a villa adjoining
Trinity Grove, and died there on the 15th June,
1867.
In 1836 some plans were prepared by Messrs.
Grainger and Miller, the eminent Edinburgh engineers,
and boldly designed for the construction of
a regular wet dock at Trinity, with a breakwater
outer harbour of twenty acres in extent, westward
of Newhaven pier and the sunken rock known as
the West Bush ; but the proposal met with no support,
and the whole scheme was abandoned.
On the noble road leading westward to
Queensfeny there was completed in April, 1880,
near the head of the Granton thoroughfare, a
Free Church for the congregation of Granton and
Wardie, which, since its organisation in 1876, under
the Rev. P. C. Purves, had occupied an iron building
near Wardie Crescent. The edifice is an ornament
to the swiftly-growing locality. The relative
proportions of the nave, aisles, and transepts, are
planned to form a ground area large enough tg
accommodate the increasing congregation, and
galleries can be added if required. This area is
nearly all within the nave, and is lighted by the
windows of the clerestory, which has flying buttresses.
The style is Early English, the pulpit is of
oak on a stone pedestal. This church has a tower
seventy-five feet high, and arrests the eye, as it
stands on a species of ridge between the city and
the sea.
Ashbrook, Wardieburn House, and other handsome
mansions, have been erected westward, and
ere long the old farmsteading of Windlestrawlee
(opposite North Inverleith Mains) will, of course,
disappear. It is called ?? Winliestraley ? in Kincaid?s
?? Local Gazetteer? for 1787, and is said to take its
name from ?? windlestrae (the name given to crested
dogstail grass- Cynosurus prisfatus), and applied
in Scotland to bent and stalks of grass found OII
moorish ground.?
An old property long known as Cargilfield, lay to
the north-east of it, and to the westward are Easter
and Wester Pilton, an older property still, which
has changed owners several times.
On the 16th of May, 1610, Peter Rollock, of
Pilton, had a seat on the bench as Lord Pilton.
He had no predecessor. He had been removed,
when Bishop of Dunkeld (in 1603), says Lord
Hailes, that the number of extraordinary lards
might be reduced to four, and he was restored by
the king?s letter, with a special proviso that this
should not be precedent of establishing a fifth extraordinary
lord. The lands-or a portion thereof
-afterwards became a part of the barony of Royston,
formed in favour of Viscount Tarbet; but
previous to that had been in possession of a family
named Macculloch, as Monteith in his ? Theatre
of Mortality,? inserts the epitaph upon the tomb on
the east side of the Greyfriars Church, of Sir Hugh
Macculloch, of Pilton, Knight, descended from the
ancient family of Macculloch of CadbolI. He died
in August, 1688, and the stone was erected by his
son James. About I 780 Pilton became the property
of Sir Philip Ainslie, whose eldest daughter Jean
was married there, in 1801, to Lord Doune, eldest
son of the Earl of Moray-a marriage that does not
appear in the ?Peerages ? generally, but is recorded
in the Edinburgh HeruZd for that year. She was his
second wife, the first being a daughter of General
Scott of Bellevue and Balcomie. Lord Doune
then resided, and for a few years before, in the old
Wrightshouse, or ?? Bruntsfield Castle,? as it is

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 195
of its existence.’ Exertions of a missionary kind were also made in different
parts of Scotland, where a necessity for such appeared.
Out of these efforts ultimately arose the secession of Messrs. E&g and
Inhes from the National Church ; for, feeling themselves hampered in their
efforts among their countrymen by the restrictions which an Establishment
necessarily imposes, they were led-from this, as well as from other considerations
of a conscientious kind-to resign their respective charges, and occupy
themselves in preaching the gospel without being connected with any religious
denomination whatever. They very soon, however, adopted the principles of
Independency, or Congregationalism j after which Mr. Ewing removed to
Glasgow, where he still remains aa the pastor of a large and influential Congregational
church.
In connection with his pastoral duties, Mr. Ewing has, for many years, sustained
the office of divinity Professor to the denomination with which he is
connected. In this office he is associated with’Dr. Wardlaw, the well-known
author of Lectures cm the Sociniam ContTouersy, and other valuable theological
works. The services of both these distinguished men are perfectly gratuitous,
and are rendered for six months in the year.
Mr. Ewing, though at present a widower, has been three times married,
His first wife was the sister of his friend, Mr. Innes i but neither she nor his
second wife, whose maiden name was Jamieson, were long spared after their
marriage. His last wife, who was a daughter of the late Sir John Maxwell of
Pollock, Bart., died a few years ago, in consequence of a melancholy accident experienced
by the overturning of their carriage, while she, with her husband and
a party of friends, were visiting the scenery on the banks of the Clyde, near
Lanark. A singularly interesting mernoir‘ has been given to the public by her
husband. He has one child-a daughter-by his second marriage, who is now
the wife of the Rev. Dr. Matheson of Durham.
His
principal works are, Essays to the Jews, Lond., 1809-An Essay on Baptism, 2d
edit. Glasg., 1824-A Greek Bmmmar, and Creek and English Lexicon, published
first in 1801 ; again in 181 2 ; and again, in a very enlarged form, in 1827.
These, and all his other writings, are marked by extensive and accurate learning,
ingenuity of argument, and, where the subject is such as to admit of it, by
great vigour and eloquence of composition. They have proved of eminent service
to the cause of sound and literate theology.
In private life Mr. Ewing is distinguished by that pervading courteousness
and cheerfulness which form such important ingredients in the character of the
perfect gentleman. In his younger days his countenance is said to have been
very handsome; and even now, in his 70th year, it ia highly prepossessing.
Hay’s portrait was taken while he was minister of Lady Glenorchy’a ChapeL
Mr. Ewing has appeared frequently before the public as an author.
This periodical haa continued till the present day, under the successive titles of “The Mission&
Magazine,” “The Christian Herald,” and ‘‘ The Scottish Congregational Magazine.” It has, for nearly
the last forty years, been the rec0gnise.d orgnu of the Congregational Churches of Scotland.

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390 MEMQRIPLS OF EDINBURGH.
Underneath the coat of arms, to the left of the above inscription, was the motto,--PIETbs,
SINE VINDXCE, LVGET ; and Qn the right raide,-Jus EX ARM AT^ EST. The monumeqt which
stood directly opposite to that of tbe Regent was generally understood ts be that of the
Earl of Atholl, w40 was buried with greqt slolemnity in the south aisle of the church on
$be 4th-of July 15i9, The sumptuous preparations for this funeral led to the interference
of the General Assembly, by whom, ‘‘ commissiouq was givin to some brethrein to declare
ta the lords that the Assemblie thought the croce and the straups superstitious &ad ethnick
like, and to Crave they may be removed at the Erle of Atholl’ra buriall, The lords
answered, they eould caus cover the mortcloath with blacke velvet, and remove the
stro~vpe~,”T~h e lords, however, failed in their promise. The strqppes, or flambeaux,
were use4 on the occasioa, sotwithstanding the promise to the contrary, in consequence
of which g riot ensued. Crawford2 describes the stately monument, erected over hi4
graye; but, from his allusion to an allegorical device of a pelican, vulned, feeding her
young-the crest of the Earls of Moray, but an emblem, as he conceives, designed tq
signify the long devotion borng by the Earl of Atholl to his country-he has evidently
mistaken for it that of the Regent. There was 4 vacapt panel on this monument,
appwentlyintepded for inserting a brass plate similar to that, on the Earl of Murray’e
tomb, but it had either been removed or never inserted, On the top had been a coat of
arms, but all that remained was) a representation of two pigeons, and the date 1579: which,
boweyer, may be received as conclusive evidence of its having been the Earl of Atholl’s
monument, The portion of the Church which contained these monuments was approached
by a door frpm the Parliament Close, which was never clased, so that the Regent’s Aisle
waa a common place for appointments. It is alluded to in Sempill’s satirical poem, ‘‘ The
Banishment of Poverty,” as a convenient lounge for idlers, where he humorously describes
the repQst provided for him by the Genius of Poverty :-
Then I knay go way how to fen ;
I dined with Paints and noblemen,
My guta rumbled like a hurle-barrow ;
Ev’n sweet Saint Gilq and Earl of Murray.
It probably originated PO less in the veneration with which ‘( the Good Regent’’ was
regarded than in the Convenience of the place, that it was long a Gommon occurrence to
make bills payable at “ the Earl of Murray’s ” tomb, and to fix on it as the place of assignation
for those who proposed entering on any mutual contract.‘ The fact will seem hardly
credible to future generations, that this national monument, erected, as the inscription on
it expressed, as the tribute of a mourning countrr to their common father, was deliberately
demolished during the alterations in 1829 in the process of enlarging the Assembly Aisle.
Calderwood’s Hist., vol. iii. p, 446. 3 Crawford’q Officers of State, p. 136. Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. ii. Ap. p. 180. ’ Kincaid‘s Hist. of Edinburgh, p. 179. ’ The custom is one of long standing. Among the Closeburn papers, in the possession of C. K. Sharpe, Esq., a contract
by Sir Thorn= Kirkpatrick for the payment of a considerable Bum of money, dated in the reign of Charles I., makes
it payable at Earl Murray’s tomb. There is a remarkable charter of James 11. in 1452, entailing the lands of Barntoun
on Oeorge Earl of Caithness, and his heirs and asdgns, and hia natural daughter; with this proviso, that he, or his
amigns, should cause to be paid to his bastard daughter, Janet, on a particular day, between the rising and setting of the
sun, in the Pariah Church of St Oilea, in his burgh of Edinburgh, upon the high altar of the same, three hundred marks,
usual money.cCaledonig vol. ii p. 774.
The pigeons were probably young pelicans.

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3 20 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
below renders it probable that the Episcopal residence in the ckpital, thus permanently
attached to the See of Dunkeld, was the lodging on the south side of the Cowgate; and
the same ecclesiastical biographer already referred to mentions as one of the good works
of Bishop Brown, the predecessor of Douglas, that he built the south wing of the house
at Edinburgh belonging to the Bishops of Dunkeld.’ It cannot be doubted that the
mansion thus gifted and enlarged was a building well suited by its magnificence for the
abode of the successive dignitaries of the Church who were promoted to that exalted
station, and that it formed another striking feature in this street of palaces. Its vicinity
both to the Archiepiscopal residence and to the Blackfriars’ Church-the later scene of
rescue of Archbishop Beaton by Gawin Douglas-affords a very satisfactory illustration
of one of the most memorable occurrences during the turbulent minority of James V.
The poet, after his ineffectual attempt at mediation, retired with grief to his own
house, and employed himself in acts of devotion suited to the danger to which his friends
were exposed; from thence he rushed out, on learning of the termination of the fray,
in time to interpose effectually on behalf of the warlike priest, who had been personally
engaged in the contest, and, according to Buchanan, “flew about in armour like a firebrand
of sedition.” This old Episcopal residence has other associations of a very
dXerent nature; for we learn from Knox’s history that, when he was summoned to
appear in the Blackfriars’ Church on the 15th of May 1556, and his opponents deserted
their intended attack through fear, “ the said Johne, the same day of the summondis,
tawght in Edinburgh in a peattar audience then ever befoir he had done in that toune :
The place was the Bischope of Dunkellis, his great loodgeing, whare he continewed
in doctrin ten dayis, boyth befoir and after nune.”a A modern land now occupies
the site of Bishop Douglas’s Palace; and the pleasure grounds wherein the poet
was wont to stray, and on which we may suppose him to have exercised his refined
taste and luxurious fancy in realizing such a 46 gardyne of plesance ” as he describes
in the opening stanzas of his Pallis of Honor, is now crowded with mean dwellings
of the artizan and labourer-too much engrossed with the cares of their own
domestic circle to heed the illustrious memories that linger about these lowly habitations.
The range of buildings extending from the Cowgate Port to the Old High School Wynd,
on the south side of the street, still includes several exceedingly picturesque timber-fronted
tenements of an early date ; but none of them possess those characteristics of former magnificence
which were to be seen in the Mint Close. A finely. carved lintel, which surmounted
the doorway of one of a similar range of antique.tenements to the west of the High School
Wpd, has been replaced over the entrance to the modern building, erected on the same
site in 1801. The inscription, of which we furnish a sketch, is boldly cut in an unusual
lain in St Geiles Kirk in Edinburgh, of au annual rent of 6 merks out of the tenement of Donald de Keyle on the N.
nide of the gaite . . . au annual rent. of 40 sh. out of his own house lyand in the Cowgaite, betwixt the land of the
Abbot of Melroa on the east, and of George Cochran on the west,” &c.-23d Jan. 1449 ; MS. Advoc. Lib. “A mortification
made by James [Livingston] Bishop of Dunkeld, to a chaplain of St Martin and Thomas’s Altar, in St Geiles Kirk
of Edinburgh, of an annual rent of E10 out of his tenement lying in the said burgh, on the north side of the Hie
Street,” &.-Ibid. “Confirmation of a charter granted be Thomas [Lauder] Bishop of Dunkeld, to a chaplain of the
Holy Cross Isle, in St Geiles Kirk in Edinburgh,” of divers annual rents, dated 17th March 1480.-Ibid.
.
Vitae Dunkeld. Episc. p. 46. f Knox’s W-orks, Wodrow Soc., vol. i p. 251.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 39
far as to profess infidelity, but I was a more inconsistent character. I said I
believed a book to be a revelation from God, while I treated it with the greatest
neglect, living in direct opposition to all its precepts, and seldom taking the
trouble to look into it, or, if I did, it was to perform a task-a kind of
atonement for my sins. I went on in this course till, while the Melville Castle
was detained at the Motherbank by contrary winds, and having abundance of
leisure time for reflection, I began to think I would pay a little more attention
to this book. The more I read it, the more worthy it appeared of God ; and,
after examining the evidences with which Christianity is supported, I became
fully persuaded of its truth,” Instead of being careless and indifferent about
religion, he now came to see its great importance; and he determined to be
content with his own and his wife’s fortune, and to quit the pursuit of superfluous
wealth. After he adopted this resolution, it appeared difficult to
accomplish the necessary arrangements for resigning the command before the
sailing of the East India fleet. The fleet, which had already been long delayed
by contrary winds, was however detained for several weeks longer, and a
gentleman was in the meantime found, properly qualified by his service, and
also able to advance the money which was in those days necessary to purchase
the transfer of so lucrative an appointment.
Nothing was further from Mr. Haldane’s purpose at this time than to become
a preacher. It was his intention to purchase an estate, and lead the quiet life
of a count,ry gentleman. But, while residing in Edinburgh, he became acquainted
with the late excellent Mr. Black, minister of Lady Yester’s, and Dr. Buchanan,
of the Canongate Church, and others, through whom he was introduced to
several pious men actively engaged in schemes of usefulness. His enterprising
mind gradually became interested in their plans ; and he was further stimulated
to engage in preaching by the visit of the celebrated Mr. Simeon, of King’s
College, Cambridge, whom he accompanied in a tour from Edinburgh through a
considerable part of the Highlands of Perthshire.
Shortly afterwards, his brother, Mr. Robert Haldane, determined to sell his
estates, and to devote his life and property to the diffusion of the gospel in India.
With this view, having sold to the late Sir Robert Abercroinby his beautiful
and romantic estate of Airthrey, he applied to the East India Company for permission
to go to Bengal with three clergymen, the Rev. Mr. Innes,’ then of
Stirling, the Rev. Dr. Bogue, of Gosport, and Mr. Greville Ewing, then assistant
minister at Lady Glenorchy’s Church, Edinburgh. Mr. Haldane was to have
defrayed all the charges of this mission, and was also bound to pay to each of
his associates the sum of S3000, and their passage home, in case they chose to
return. This benevolent design was frustrated by the refusal of the East India
Company to grant their sanction to a plan, the magnitude of which excited their
alarm ; and both Mr. Haldane and his brother therefore resolved to devote themselves
to the preaching of the gospel at home.
Late pastor of the Baptist denomination, Edinburgh.

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B I0 GR AP HI CAL S ICE TCHES. 113
from bringing a cloud of witnesses against this gentleman, to prove practices-.
nay, crimes which-but I shall go no farther at present ; my most rancorous
enemy was aware of what would have followed ; and even he, it appears, would
have blushed to have brought forward this man’s testimony. But I trust that
you, gentlemen of the jury, will this night do justice to my innocency ; and if
by your verdict I am acquitted from this bar, I here solemnly pledge myself
that I shall in my turn become his prosecutor.”
His uncalled-for zeal speedily procured for Mr. Lapslie an unenviable distinction.
He was taunted as a ‘‘ pension-hunter,’’ and stigmatised for his ingratitude
and servility. He was caricatured in the print-shops, and the balladsingers
chacted his deeds in such strains as the following :-
“ My name is Jamie Lapslie,
I preach and I pray ;
Expect a good fee.”
And as an informer
During this period of excitement the pencil of Kay was not idle. He produced
portraitures of most of the individuals who had rendered themselves in
any way conspicuous, and, amongst others, the “ Pension Hunter” was prominently
set forward. The work displayed in Mr. Lapslie’s hand is an ‘‘Essay
on the Management of Bees,” published a short time before, and of which he
was the author.
The subsequent demeanour of the reverend gentleman unfortunately did not
tend to lessen the odium he had incurred in 1793. However sincere he might
be in his political sentiments, he entered too warmly into the spirit of party, and
forgot the duties of the pastor in his anxiety for the State. On the introduction
of the Militia Act in 179’7-so odious to the people of Scotland generally-Mr.
Lapslie vigorously exerted himself to give effect to the measure in his own
Parish.’ He was also distinguished for his active hostility to Sunday schools,
home and other missions, which, in common with many other, but more prudent
members of the Church, he believed to be tainted by democracy.
In discharging the duties of his pastoral office, Mr. Lapslie was not remarkable
for very strictly enforcing the discipline of the Church ;’ but was, nevertheless,
a man of considerable talent as a preacher, and his sermons were held
in much repute. He mixed familiarly with his parishioners, and being of a free,
social disposition, would assuredly, had it not been for his pension-hunting pro-
In this expectation he was not disappointed, a pension having been granted to him almost
immediately afterwards, which was continued to his widow and daughters. * On the 22d August, the offices belonging to the manse of Campsie, Stirliigshire, were wilfully
and malicionsly set on fire. It is conjectured that some of
the thoughtless people who had assembled at Cadder Kirk that day, in 8 tumultuous manner, to
oppose the Militia Act, may have been the cause of exciting some desperate persons to burn the
houses of those whom they considered obnoxious to them.”-Scots Haqmne, 1797.
In 1785, when
Lnnardi descended in his balloon at Campsie, he was received with great attention by the minister,
who accompanied him on his return to Glasgow, and appeared with the aeronaut in the bcxces of the
Theatre in the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Lapdie were from home.
Prior to his political notoriety, Mr. Lapslie was well known to be no bigot.
VOL. Ir. Q

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I18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Corstorphine.
of the House of Orkney. He is represented in
armour of the fifteenth century (but the head has
been struck OK); she, in a dress of the same
period, with a breviary clasped in her hands. The
other monument is said to represent the son of
the founder and his wife, whose hands are represented
meekly crossed upon her bosom. Apart
lies the tomb of a supposed crusader, in the south
transept, with a dog at his feet. Traditionally this
is said to be the resting-place of Bernard Stuart,
Lord Aubigny, who came from France as Ambassador
to the Court of James IV., and died in the
adjacent Castle of Corstorphine in 1508. But the
altar tomb is of a much older date, and the shield
has the three heraldic horns of the Forresters duly
stringed. One shield impaled with Forrester, bears
the fesse cheque of Stuart, perhaps for Marian
Stewart, Lady Dalswinton.
It. has been said there are few things more
impressive than such prostrate effigies as these-so
few in Sdotland now-on the tombs of those who
were restless, warlike, and daring in their times;
and the piety of their attitudes contrasts sadly with
the mockery of the sculptured sword, shield, and
mail, and with the tenor of their characters in life.
The cutting of the figures is sharp, and the
draperies are well preserved and curious. There
are to be traced the remains of a piscina and of a
niche, canopied and divided into three compartments.
The temporalities of the church were dispersed
at the Reformation, a portion fell into the
hands. of lay impropriators, and other parts to
educational and other ecclesiastical institutions.
In 1644 the old parish church was demolished,
? and the collegiate establishment, in which the
, minister had for some time previously been accustomed
to officiate, became from thenceforward the
only church of the parish.
In ancient times the greater part of this now fertile
district was 8 Swamp, the road through which
was both difficult and dangerous; thus a lamp
was placed at the east end of the church, for the
double purpose of illuminating the shrine of the
Baptist, and guiding the belated traveller through
the perilous morass. The expenses of this lamp
were defrayed by the produce of an acre of land
situate near Coltbndge, called the Lamp Acre to
this day, though it became afterwards an endowment
of the schoolmaster, At what time the kindly
lamp of St. John ceased to guide the wayfarer
by its glimmer is unknown ; doubtless it would be
at the time of the Reformation; but a writer in
1795 relates ? that it is not long since the pulley
for supporting it was taken down.?
Of the Forrester family, Wilson says in his
? Reminiscences,? published in 1878, ? certainly
their earthly tenure, outside? of their old collegiate
foundation, has long been at an end. Of their
castle under Corstorphine Hill, and their town
mansion in the High Street of Edinburgh, not
one stone remains upon another. The very wynd
that so long preserved their name, where once
they flourished among the civic magnates, has
vanished.
?Of what remained of their castle we measured
the fragments of the foundations in 1848, and
found them to consist of a curtain wall, facing the
west, one hundred feet in length, flanked by two
round towers, each twentyone feet in diameter
externally. The ruins were then about seven feet
high, except a fragment on the south, about twelve
feet in height, with the remains of an arrow hole.?
Southward and eastward of this castle there lay
for ages a great sheet of water known as Corstorphine
Loch, and so deep was the Leith in those
days, that provisions, etc., for the household were
brought by boat from the neighbourhood of Coltbridge.
Lightfoot mentions that the Loch of Corstorphine
was celebrated for the production of the
water-hemlock, a plant much more deadly than the
common hemlock,
The earliest proprietors of. Corstorphine traceable
are Thomas de Marshal and William de la
Roche, whose names are in the Ragman Roll
under date 1296. In the Rolls of David 11.
there was a charter to Hew Danyelstoun, ? of the
forfaultrie of David Marshal, Knight, except
Danyelstoun, which Thomas Carno got by gift,
and Llit lands of Cortorphing whilk Malcolm Ramsay
got? (Robertson?s ? Index.?)
They were afterwards possessed by the Mores of
Abercurn, from whom, in the time of Sir William
More, under King Robert II., they were obtained
by charter by Sir Adam Forrester, whose name
was of great antiquity, being deduced from the
office of Keeper of the King?s Forests, his armorial
bearings being three hunting horns. In that charter
he is simply styled ?Adam Forrester, Burgess of
Edinburgh.? This was in 1377, and from thenceforward
Corstorphine became the chief title of
his family, though he was also Laird of Nether
Liberton.
Previous to this his name appears in the Burgh
Records as chief magistrate of Edinburgh, 24th
April, 1373 ; and in 1379 Robert 11. granted him
?twenty merks of sterlings from the custom of
the said burgh, granted to him in heritage by our
other letters . . . , until we, or our heirs,
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sess himself of Edgar, the youthful heir to the crown, then lodged within its walls. In
that year, also, Queen Margaret (the widow of Malcolm Canmore, and the mother of
Edgar), to whose wisdom and sagacity he entrusted implicitly the internal polity of his
kingdom, died in the Castle, of grief, on learning of his death, with that of Edward, their
eldest son, both slain at the siege of Alnwick castle ; and while the usurper, relying on
the general steepness of the rocky cliff, was urgent only to secure the regular accesses,
the body of the Queen was conveyed through a postern gate, and down the steep declivity
on the western side, to the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, where it lies interred; while
the young Prince, escaping by the same egress, found protection in England, at the hand
of his uncle, Edgar Atheling. In commemoration of the death of Queen Margaret, a
church was afterwards erected, and endowed with revenues, by successive monarchs ; all
trace of which has long since disappeared, the site of it being now occupied by the barracks
forming the north side of the great square.
In the reign of Alexander I., at the beginning of the twelfth century, the first
distinct notices of the town as 8 royal residence are found ; while in that of his successor
David, we discover the origin of many of the most important features still surviving. He
founded the Abbey of Holyrood, styled by Fordun “ Monasterium Sanctae Crucis de Crag,”
which was begun to be built in its present situation in the year 1128. The convent, the
precursor of St David‘s Abbey, is said to have been placed at first within the Castle ; and
some of the earliest gifts of its saintly founder to his new monastery, were the churches of
the Castle and of St Cuthbert’s, immediately adjacent, with all their dependencies ; among
which, one plot of land belonging to the latter is meted by ‘‘ the fountain which rises near
the corner of the King’s garden, on the road leading to St Cuthbert’s church.” e
According to Father Hay, the Nuns, from whom the Castle derived the name
of Castrum Puellarum, were thrust out by St David, and in their place the Canons introduced
by the Pope’s dispense, as fitter to live among souldiers. They continued in the
Castle dureing Malcolm the Fourth his reign ; upon which account we have several1 charters
of that king granted, apud Monasterium Sanctae Crucis de Castello Puellarum. Under
Icing William [the Lion], who was a great benefactor to Holyrood-house, I fancie the
Canons retired to the place which is now called the Abbay.” ’ King David built also for
them, and for the use of the inhabitants, a mill, the nucleus of the village of Canonmills,
which still retains many tokens of its early origin, though now rapidly being surrounded
by the extending modern improvements.
The charter of foundation of the Abbey of the HoIyrood, besides conferring valuable
revenues, derivable from the general resources of the royal burgh of Edinburgh, gives them
€1 107.1
[ll?S.]
Lord Hailes recorda a monkish tradition, which may be received a~ a proof of the popular belief, in the strong attachment
of the Queen to her husband. “ The hody of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, waa removed from its place of sepulture
at Dunfermline, and deposited in L costly shrine. While the monks were employed in this service, they approached the
tomb of her husband Malcolm. Still,
as more hands were employed in raising it, the body became heavier. The spectators stood amazed ; and the humble
monka imputed this phenomenon to their own unworthiness ; when a bystander cried out, ‘The Queen will not stir till
equal honours are performed to her husband’ This having been done, the body of the Queen wa8 removed with ease,’’
-Annals, vol. i. p. 303. ’ Liber Cartarum Sancta Crucis, p. xi.
* Father Hay, Ibid. xxii. Richard Augustin Hay, canon of St Genevieve, at PSrig and prospcclivc Abbot of Holpod
at the Revolution, though an iudustrioue antiquary, aeemn to have had no better authority for this nunnery than the
disputed name C&mm Puellarclm
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Holyrood.] ROYAT, MARRIAGES. 55
with the Dukes of Savoy and Burgundy. She
landed at Leith amid a vast concourse of all
classes of the people, and, escorted by a bodyguard
of 300 men-at-arms, all cap-d+e, with
the citizens also in their armour, under Patrick
Cockburn of Nevtbigging, Provost of Edinburgh
and Governor of the Castle, was escorted to the
monastery of the Greyfriars, where she was warmly
welcomed by her future husband, then in his
twentietb year, and was visited by the queenmother
on the following day.
The week which intervened between her arrival
and?her marriage was spent in a series of magnificent
entertainments, during which, from her great
beauty and charms of manner, she won the devoted
affection of the loyal nobles and people.
A contemporary chronicler has given a minute
account of one of the many chivalrous tournaments
that took place, in which three Burgundian nobles,
two of them brothers named Lalain, and the thud
HervC Meriadet, challenged any three Scottish
knights to joust with lance, battle-axe, sword, and
dagger, a defiance at once accepted by Sir James
Douglas, James Douglas of Lochleven, and Sir
John Ross of Halkhead, Constable of Renfrew.
Lances were shivered and sword and axe resorted
to with nearly equal fortune, till the king threw
down his truncheon and ended the combat.
The royal marriage, which took place in the
church at Holyrood amid universal joy, concluded
these stirring scenes. At the bridal feast the first
dish was in the form of a boar?s head, painted and
stuck full df tufts of coarse flax, served up on an
enormous platter, with thirty-two banners, bearing
the arms of the king and principal nobles ; and the
flax was set aflame, amid the acclamations of the
numerous assembly that filled the banquet-hall.
Ten years after Holyrood beheld a sorrowful
scene, when, in 1460, James, who had been slain
by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh
on the 3rd August, in his thirtieth year, was
laid in the royal vault, ?with the teares of his
people and his hail1 army,? says Balfour.
In 1467 there came from Rome, dated zznd
February, the bull of Pope Paul II., granting, on
the petition of the provost, bailies, and community
of the city, a con~mission to the Bishop of Galloway,
?et dilectojZio Abbafi Monasterii Sancta Cmcis mini
viuros de Rdynburgh,? to erect the Church of St.
Giles into a collegiate institution.
Two years afterwards Holyrood was again the
scene of nuptial festivities, when the Parliamen!
met, and Margaret of Norway, Denmark, and
Sweden, escorted by the Earl of Arran and a
gallant train of Scottish aad Danish nobles, landed
at Leith in July, 1469. She was in her sixteenth
year, and had as her dowry the isles of Orkney
and Shetland, over which her ancestors had hitherto
claimed feudal superiority. James III., her
husband, had barely completed his eighteenth
year when they were married in the abbey church,
where she was crowned queenconsort. ?? The marriage
and coronation gave occasion to prolonged
festivities in the metropolis and plentiful congratulations
throughout the kingdom. Nor was the
flattering welcome undeserved by the queen ; in the
bloom of youth and beauty, amiable and virtuous,
educated in all the feminine accomplishments of
the age, and so richly endowed, she brought as
valuable an accession of lustre to the court as of
territory to the kingdom.?
In 1477 there arrived ?heir in grate pompe,?
says Balfour, ?Husman, the legate of Pope
Xystus the Fourth,? to enforce the sentence of
deprivation and imprisonment pronounced by Hjs
Holiness upon Patrick Graham, Archbishop of St.
Andrews, an eminent and unfortunate dignitary of
the Church of Scotland. He was the first who
bore that rank, and on making a journey to Rome,
returned as legate, and thus gained the displeasure
of the king and of the clergy, who dreaded his
power. He was shut up in the monastery of Inchcolm,
and finally in the castle of Lochleven. Meanwhile,
in the following year, William Schivez, a
great courtier and favourite of the king, was
solemnly consecrated in Holyrood Church by the
papal legate, from whose hands he received a pall,
the ensign of archiepiscopal dignity, and with great
solemnity was proclaimed ?? Primate and Legate of
the realm of Scotland.? His luckless rival died
of a broken heart, and was buried in St. Serf?s
Isle, where his remains were recently discovered,
buried in a peculiar posture, with the knees drawn
up and the hands down by the side.
In 1531, when Robert Cairncross was abbot,
there occurred an event, known as ? the miracle of
John Scott,? which made some noise in its time.
This man, a citizen of Edinburgh, having taken
shelter from his creditors in the sanctuary of Holyrood,
subsisted there, it is alleged, for forty days
without food of any kind.
Impressed by this circumstance, of which some
exaggerated account had perhaps been given to
him, James V. ordered his apparel to be changed
and strictly searched. He ordered also that he
should be conveyed from Holyrood to a vaulted
room in David?s Tower in the castle, where he was
barred from access by all and closely guarded.
Daily a small allowance of bread and water were
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146 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Smn
could be done.? On leaving the church, the
protestors proceeded to Tanfield Hall, Canonmills,
where they formed themselves into ?The General
Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland,? and
chose Thomas Chalmers, D.D., as their moderator;
so ?? the bush burned, but was not consumed.?
It was a remarkable instance of the emphatic
assertion of religious principle in an age of
material things of which St. Andrew?s church was
the scene on the 18th of May. It was no sacrifice
of blood or life or limb that was exacted,
or rendered, as in the days of ?a broken covenant
;? but it was one well calculated to excite
the keenest emotions of the people-for all these
clergymen, with their families, cast their bread upon
the waters, and those who witnessed the dark procession
that descended the long steep street towards
Tanfield Hall never forgot it.
Opposite this church there was built the old
Physicians? Hall-the successor of the still more
ancient one near the Cowgate Port. The members
of that college feued from the city a large area,
extending between the south side of George Street
and Rose Street, on which they erected a very
handsome hall, with rooms and offices, from a
design by Mr. Craig, the architect of the new city
itself.
The foundation stone was laid by Professor
Cullen, long a distinguished ornament of the
Edinburgh University, on the 27th November, I 775,
after a long discussion concerning two other sites
offered by the city, one in George Square, the
other where now the Scott monument stands. In
the stone was placed a parchment containing the
names of the then fellows, several coins of 1771,
md a large silver medal. There was also another
silver medal, with the arms of the city, and an
inscription bearing that it had been presented by
the city to Mr. Craig, in compliment to his professional
talents in 1767, as follows :-
JACOBO CRAIG,
AHCHITECTO,
PROPTER OPT1 IM U M,
EDINBURGI NOVI
ICHNOGRAPHIUM,
D.D.
SENATUS,
EDINBURGENSIS,
MDCCLXVII.
This building, now numbered among the things
that were, had a frontage of eighty-four feet, and
had a portico of four very fine Corinthian columns,
standing six feet from the wall upon a flight of
steps seven feet above the pavement. The sunk
floor, which was all vaulted, contained rooms for the
librarian and other officials ; the entrance floor
consisted of four great apartments opening frcm a
noble vestibule, with a centre of thirty-five feet :
one was for the ordinary meetings of the college,
and another was an ante-chamber; but the principal
apartment was the library-a room upwards of
fifty feet long by thirty broad, lighted by two rows
of windows, five in each row, facing Rose Street,
and having a gilded gallery on three sides. On this
edifice A4,800 was spent.
In 1781, the library, which had been stored up
in the Royal Infirmary, was removed to the hall,
when the collection, which now greatly exceeds
6,000 volumes, was still comparatively in its
infancy. Dr. Archibald Stevenson was the first
librarian, and was appointed in 1683 ; in 1696 a
law was enacted that every entrant should contribute
at least one book to the library, which was
increased in 1705 ? by the purchase of the books
of the deceased Laird of Livingstone for about
300 merks Scots;? and the records show how year
by year the collection has gone on increasing in
extent, and in literary and scientific value.
The two oldest names on the list of Fellows
admitted are Peter Kello, date December IIth,
1682, and John Abernethy, whose diploma is
dated June gth, 1683, granted at Orange, and
admitted December qth, 1684, and a wonderful
roll follows of names renowned in tke annals of
medicine. The attempt to incorporate the practitioners
of medicine in Scotland, for the purpose
of raising alike the standard of their character and
acquirements, originated in 1617, when James VI.
issued an order in Parliament for the establishnient
of a College of Physicians in Edinburgh-an order
which recites the evils suffered by the community
from the intrusion of uhqualified practitioners. He
further suggested that three members of the proposed
college should yearly visit the apothecaries?
shops, and destroy all bad or insufficient drugs
found therein ; but the year 1630 came, and found
only a renewal of the proposal for a college,
referred to the Privy Council by Charles I. But
the civil war followed, and nothing more was done
till 1656, when Cromwell issued a patent, still extant,
initiating a college of physicians in Scotland,
with the powers proposed by James VI.
Years passed on, and by the opposition principally
of the College of Surgeons, the universities,
the municipality, and even the clergy, the charter
of incorporation was not obtained until 1681, when
the great seal of Scotland was appended to it on
St, Andrew?s day. Among other clauses therein
was one to enforce penalties on the unqualified
who practised medicine; another for the punishment
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kith.] THE CITADEL 2S7
General Monk no doubt used all the stones of
the two edifices in the erection of his citadel, which
is thus described by John Ray, in his Itinerary,
when he visited Scotland in the year 1661 :-
? At Leith we saw one of those citadels built by
and stores. There is also a good capacious chapel,
the piazza, or void space within, as large as Trinity
College (Cambridge) great court.?
This important stronghold, which must have
measured at least 400 feet one way, by 250 the
NORTH LEITH CHURCH.
the Protector, one of the best fortifications we ever
beheld, passing fair and sumptuous. There are
three forts (bastions?) advanced above the rest,
and two platfomis ; the works round about are
faced with freestone towards the ditch, and are
almost as high as the highest buildings therein, and
withal, thick and substantial. Below are very pleasant,
convenient, and well-built houses, for the
governor, officers, and soldiers, and for magazines
other (and been in some manner adapted to the
acute angle of the old fortifications there), costing,
says Wilson, ?upwards of LIOO,OOO sterling, fell a
sacrifice, soon after the Restoration, to the cupidity
of the monarch and the narrow-minded jealousy
of the Town Council of Edinburgh.?
All that remains of the citadel now are some old
buildings, called, perhaps traditionally, ?? Cromwell?s
Barracks?-near which was found an old

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 385
2%h, 1387, between “ Adam Forster, Lord of Nether Leberton, Androw Yichtson, Provest
of the Burgh of Edynburgh, and Communitie of that Ilk, on the ta half, and Johne Johne
of Stone, and Johne Slcayer, masounys, on the toyer half,” and requires that ‘‘ the forsaidys
Johne Johne, and Johne, sall make and voute f p e Chapells on the south syde of the
Paryce Kyrke of Edynburgh, fra the west gavyl, lyand and rynan doun est, on to the grete
pyler of the stepyl, voutyt on the same maner by the masounys, as the vout abovye Sanct
Stevinys auter, standand on the north syde of the parys auter of the Abbay of Haly-rude
Houss. Alsua yat ylk man sal mak in ylk Chapel of the four, a wyndow with thre lychtys
in fourm masoune lyke, the qwhilk patroune yai hef sene; and the fyfte Chapel voutyt
with a durre, in a10 gude maner als the durre, standand in the west gavyl of ye forsaid
kyrk. Alsua ye forsayde five Chapellys sall be thekyt abovyn with stane, and water
thycht; ye buttras, ye lintels f p y t up als hech as ye lave of yat werk askys.”’ The
whole of these five chapels remained, with their beautiful groined roofs, and clustered
columns, until the restoration of the ancient edifice in 1829, when the two west ones were
demolished, apparently for no better reason than because they interfered with the architect’s
design for a uniform west front. The third chapel, which now forms the west
lobby of the Old Church, as this subdivision of the building is styled, retained till the
same date the beautiful vaulted entrance erected in 1387; it was an open porch,
with a richly-groined ceiling, and over it a small chamber, lighted by an elegant oriel
window, the corbel of which was an angel holding the city arms. A fac-simile of this has
been transferred to the west side of the aisleY2th ough without either the beautiful porch
which it surmounted, or the picturesque turret-stair which stood on its west side, and
formed the approach to the Priest’s Chamber as well as to the roof of the church. The
demolition of this portion of the ancient edifice led to the discovery of a large accumulation
of charters and ancient records of the city, which had been placed at some early period
in the chamber over the porch, and had lain there undisturbed probably for more than two
centuries. It had contained also a series of pictorial decorations of an unusual character
a0 the adornments of any part of a church, but which appear to have been painted on the
panelling of the chamber about the period of the Revolution, when it formed an appendage
to the Council Chambers. The only fragments of these that have been preserved are now
in the collection of C. K. Sharpe, Esq., and consist of a trumpeter, a soldier bearing a
banner, and a female figure holding a cornucopia. The costume of the figures, which are
above half-life size, is of the reign of Willitlm 111. The paintings are really works of
some merit, so far as can be judged from these detached fragments, which were literally
rescued from the ruins of the ancient vestry, and are insufficient to show what had been the
subject of the whole desigu. The txo eastern chapels are now included in the Old ChrcA,
and though greatly defaced by modern partitions and galleries, retain some of the original
groining, constructed five centuries ago, in imitation of St Stephen’s Chapel in the Abbey
of Holpood.
1 Maitland, p. 270.
The carved stones of the original window are now in the possession of A. E. Ellis, Eaq., and cannot but excite the
surprise of every one who sees them, as the most of them are nearly as fresh and sharp aa when firat executed.
Among other interesting fragments rescued by Mr Ellii at the same period, there is a very fine stoup for holy water,
formed in shape of a shallow bason, with a large star covering it, and leaving the interatices for the water. It had projected
from the wall on a richly-flowered corbel, which has been rudely broken in its removal.
3 c

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LddI.1 JOHN
coat in which he rode, Dr. Carlyle turned a little
out of the road to procure from a clergyman of their
acquaintance the loan of a pair of saddlebags,
in which to deposit the MS.?
The latter was also rejected by Garrick, ?with
the mortifying declaration that it was totally unfit
for the stage.? Yet it was brought out at Edinburgh
by Digges, on the 14th December, 1756,
and produced that storm of fanaticism to which
we have referred in a former part of this work. It
had a run then unprecedented, and though a rather
dull work, has maintained a certain popularity
almost to the present day.
To escape the censiires of the kirk, he resigned
HOME. 241
his living, and published several other tragedies;
and after the accession of George 111. to the
throne he received a pension of A300 per
annum. In 1763 he obtained the then sinecure
appointment of Conservator of Scottish Privileges
at Campvere (in succession to George Lind, Provost
of Edinburgh)] and also the office of Commissioner
for Sick and Wounded Seamen. In 1779 he removed
to Edinburgh, where he spent the latter
years of his life, and married a lady of his own
name, by whom he had no children.
Home?s ?? Douglas? is now no longer regarded
as the marvel of genius it once was ; but the author
was acknowledged in his lifetime to be vain of it,
ST. JAMES?S EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH, 1882. (Affta a Pho#ogm#h by Nr.1. Clrapman.)

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EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 231
ing a floor, he would exclaim-‘‘ Dear sirs, she’ll wear all the boards rubbing
them so.” There was one friend on whom he called, sufficiently particular in
matters of this kind, who insisted that he must wipe his feet well before he
came in. “You remind me,” said Andrew, “of my nephew’s servant-maid
who would not allow me to enter the house until I had put off my shoes. Indeed
I used to tell her she was abominably cleanly.”
Many still living must
remember having heard of a Mr. Low in Dunfermline, much famed for his
success in setting broken bones, and adjusting dislocations. His cures were
performed gratis ; and his aid was only to be obtained through the mediation
of a friend, or for mercy’s sake. A gentleman in the medical profession, hearing
Andrew speak in approbation of some of Mr, Low’s cases, expressed his distrust
in such a practitioner, since he had not studied anatomy. “Ay, that’s true,”
replied Andrew, “ but Low acquired his anatomy at the grave’s m.outh “-referring
to his inspection of the bones as cast up by the grave-digger.
Of the simplicity and anchorite-like demeanour of Andrew Donaldson, there
are several curious reminiscences. The late Dr. Charles Stuart-father of James
Stuart, Esq., of Dunearn-had for some time meditated withdrawing from the
Established Church before he actually did so. Hearing of his intention, although
entirely unacquainted with him, Andrew resolved on paying a visit to the manse
of Cramond, of which parish the Doctor was then minister. Taking his long
staff in his hand, and “ girding up his loins,” as he would himself have expressed
it, he set out on his journey early one forenoon. When near to Cramond, and
not exactly certain whereabout the manse stood, he observed two well-dressed
men walking in a field near to where he supposed it should be. Towards them
he bent his course ; and, as he approached with his bald head, flowing beard,
and pilgrim’s staff, the gentlemen were at first so struck with his singular
appearance, that they were irresolute whether to retreat or await his advance.
On nearing them, he inquired if they could inform him where Charles Stuart,
minister of Cramond, lived 1 To this one of the party replied, “ I an1 C’harles
Stuart, the person you refer to.” “Then,” said Andrew, extending his arm to
grasp the hand of the Doctor, “ I have heard that thou dost intend separating
thyself from the Church, and hast set thy face heavenward-I wish thee God
speed ! ” So saying, he wheeled about and proceeded on his return to Edinburgh,
leaving the worthy Doctor and his friend not less astonished at the nature
of the brief interview, than curious as to the character of their visitor. The
result of the Doctor’s inquiry as to this singular enthusiast having been favourable,
he became ever after his steady and warm friend.
Andrew remained all his days a bachelor; but that he was not altogether a
misogamist, is testified by the fact, that he at one time entertained the idea of
venturing upon the cares of wedlock. In the habit .of visiting at the house of
Bailie Horn, in Dunfermline, he had observed and been pleased with the
deportment of the servant-maid, with whom he occasionally entered into
conversation. At length he addressed her in his usual laconic style, stating his
Andrew could occasionally say a good thing.
,

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286 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Infirmary Street.
._
Freirs xx li. owing to them, at this last Fasterns
evin, for thair bell, conform to the act maid thairupon
? (Burgh Records).
In 1553 another Act ordains ?John Smyson? to
pay them the sum ?of xx li compleit payment of
thair silver bell;? and in 1554-5 in the Burgh Accounts
is the item-?To the Blackfriars and Greyfriars,
for their preaching yeirlie, ilk ane of thame
:elf ane last of sownds beir; price of ilk boll
xxviij s. summa, xvj li. xvj s.?
When John Knox, after his return to Scotland,
began preaching against the Mass as an idolatrous
worship, he was summoned before an ecclesiastical
judicatory held in the Blackfriars? church on the
15th May, 1556. The case was not proceeded
with at the time, as a tumult was feared j but the
summons so greatly increased the power and popularity
of Knox, that on that very 15th of May he
preached to a greater multitude than he had ever
done before. In 1558 the populace attacked the
monastery and church, and destroyed everything
they contained, leaving the walls an open ruin.
In 1560 John Black, a Dominican friar, acted
as the permanent confessor of Mary of Guise,
during her last fatal illness in the Castle of Edmburgh,
and Knox in his history indulges in coarse
innuendoes concerning both. His name is still
preserved in the following doggerel verse :-
? There was a certain Black friar, always called Black,
And this was no nickname, for bluck was his work ;
Of all the Black friars he was the blackest clerk,
Born in the Black Friars to be a black mark.??
This Dominican, however, was a learned and
subtle doctor, a man of deep theological research,
who in 1561 maintained against John Willox the
Reformer, and ex-Franciscan, a defence of the
Roman Catholic faith for two successive days, and
gave him more than ordinary trouble to meet his
arguments. He was. afterwards stoned in the
streets ?by the rabble,? on the 15th December,
or, as others say, the 7th of January.
By 1560 the stones of the Black Friary were
used ? for the bigging of dykes,? and other works
connected with the city. The cemetery was latterly
the old High School Yard, and therein a battery
of cannon was erected in 157 I to batter a house in
which the Parliament of the king?s men held a
meeting, situated somewhere on the south side of
the Canongate.
The Dominican gardens, in which the dead
body of Darnley was found lying under a tree, and
their orchard, lay to the southward, and in 1513
were intersected, or bounded by the new city wall,
in which there remained-till July, 1854, when some
six hundred yards of it were demolished, and a
parapet and iron railing substituted-an elliptically
arched doorway, half buried in the pavement, three
feet three inches wide, and protected by a round
gun-port, splayed out four feet four inches wide.
Through this door the unscathed body of Darnley
must have been borne by his?murderers, ere they
blew up the house of the Kirk-of-field. It was
an interesting relic, and its removal was utterly
wanton.
The next old ecclesiastical edifice on the other
side of the street was Lady Yester?s church, which
in Gordon?s map is shown as an oblong barn-like
edifice surrounded by a boundary wall, with a large
window in its western gable.
Lady Yester, a pious and noble dame, whose
name was long associated with ecclesiastical chGties
in Edinburgh, was the third daughter of Mark
Kerr, Commendator of Newbattle Abbey, a Lord of
Session, and founder of the house of Lothian. Early
in life she was married to James Lord Hay of Yester,
and hac! two sons, John Lord Yester, afterwards
Earl of Tweeddale, and Sk William, for whom she
purchased the barony of Linplum After being a
widow some years she married Sir Andrew Kerr
younger of Fernyhurst.
In 1644 she built the church at the south-east
corner of the High School Wynd, at the expense of
LI,OOO of the then money, with 5,000 merks for
the salary of the minister. It was seated for 817
persons, and in August, 1655, the Town Council
appointed a district of the city a parish for it.
Shortly before her death, Lady Yester ?caused
joyne thereto an little isle for the use of the
minister, yr she lies interred.? This aisle is
shown by Gordon to have been on the north side
of the church, and Monteith (1704) describes the
following doggerel inscription on her ?? tomb on the
north side of the vestiary? :-
? It?s needless to erect a marble tomb : .
The daily bread that for the hungry womb,
And bread of life thy bounty hath provided
For hungry souls, all times to be divided ;
World-lasting monuments shall reare,
That shall endure, till Christ himself appear.
Posd was thy life, prepared thy happy end ;
Nothing in either was without commend.
Let it be the care of all who live hereafter,
To live and die, like Margaret Lady Yester.?
Who dyed 15th Match, 1647. Her age 75.
?Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord ; they rest
from their labours, and their works do follow them.?-
Rev. xiv. 13.
After Cromwell?s troops rendered themselves
houseless in 1650 by burning Holyrood, quarters
were assigned them in the city churches, including
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of it having perhaps been reduced to ruins before
the view was taken. During the levelling of the
ground around the palace, and digging a foundation
for the substantial rai!ing with which it was
recently enclosed, the workmen came upon the
the present rampart wall, when near the same site
two stone coffins of the twelfth century, now in
the nave, were found. Each is six feet four inches.
in length, inside measurement.
In the abbey was preserved, enshrined in silver,.
CROFT-AN-RIGH HOUSE.
zealous veneration in the great cathedral near the
The texture of this remarkable cross was
said to have been of such a nature that no mortal
artificer could tell whether it was of wood, horn, OG
, field.
of other early buildings [perhaps the abbey
house?], and from their being in the direct line
of the building it is not improbable that a Lady
chapel or other addition to the abbey church
may have stood to the east of the choir. . . .
A curious relic of the ancient tenants of the
monastery was found by the vorkmen, consisting
of a skull, which had no doubt formed the solitary
companion of one of the monks. It had a hole in
the top of the cranium, which served, most probably,
for securing a crucifix, and over the brow
? was traced in antique characters, Memento mori.
This solitary relic of the furniture of the abbey
was procured by the late Sir Patrick Walker, and
is still in possession of his family.?

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showed that the barrel had been placed so as to collect
the rain water from the eaves of a long defunct
house, with a stepping-stone to enable any one to
reach its contents.
The old Meal Market was the next locality of
importance on this side. In 1477 James 111.
ordained this market to be held ? fra the Tolbooth
up to Liberton?s Wynd, alsua fra thence upward to
the treviss;? but the meal market of 1647, as
shown in Gordon?s map, directly south of the
. Parliament House, seems to have been a long,
unshapely edifice, with two high arched gates.
. In 1690 the meal market paid to the city,
A77 15s. 6d. sterling. As we have related elsewhere,
all this quarter was destroyed by the ? Great
Fire? of 1700, which ?broke out in the lodging
immediately under Lord Crossrig?s lodging in the
meal market,? and from which he and his family
had to seek flight in their night-dress. One of
his daughters, Jean Home, died at Edinburgh in
Feb. 1769.
Edgar?s map shows the new meal market, a huge
quadrangular mass, with 150 feet front by 100 in
depth, immediately eastward of the Back Stairs.
This place was the scene of a serious not in 1763.
In November there had been a great scarcity of
meal, by which multitudes of the poor were reduced
to great suffering; hence, on the evening of the
zIst, a great mob proceeded to the gimels in the
meal market, carried off all that was there, rifled
the house of the keeper, and smashed all the furniture
that was not carried OK At midnight the
mob dispersed on the amval of some companies
of infantry from the Castle, to renew their riotous
proceedings, however, on the following day, when
they could only be suppressed ?by the presence
of the Provost (George Drummond), bdies, trainband,
constables, party of *e military, and the
city guard.? Many of the unfortunate rioters
were captured at the point of the bayonet, and
lodged in the Castle, and the whole of the Scots
Greys were quartered in the Canongate and Leith
to enforce order, ? The magistrates of Edinburgh,
and Justices of Peace for the County of Midlothian,?
says the Norfh BnYish Magazine for I 763,
have since used every means to have this market
supplied effectually with meal ; but from whatever
cause it may proceed, certain it is that the scarcity
of oatmeal is still severely felt by every family who
have occasion to make use of that commodity.?
The archiepiscopal palace and the mint, which
were near each other, on this side of the street,
have already been described (Vol. I., pp. 262-4;
267-270); but one of the old features of the locality
still remaining unchanged is the large old
gateway, recessed back, which gave access to the
extensive pleasure-grounds attached to the residence
of the Marquises of Tweeddale, and which seem to
have measured 300 feet in length by 250 in breadth,
and been overlooked in the north-west angle by the
beautiful old mansion of the Earls of Selkirk, the
basement of which was a series of elliptical arcades.
These pleasure grounds ascended from the street
to the windows of Tweeddale House, by a succession
of terraces, and were thickly planted on the
east and west with belts of trees. In Gordon?s
map for 1647, the whole of this open area had
been-what it is now Secoming again-covered
by masses of building, the greatest portion of it
being occupied by a huge church, that has had, at
various times, no less than three different congregations,
an Episcopal, Presbyterian, and, finally,
a Catholic one.
For a few years before 1688 Episcopacy was
the form of Church government in Scotlandillegally
thrust upon the people; but the selfconstituted
Convention, which transferred the
crown to William and Mary, re-established the
Presbyterian Church, abolishing the former, which
consisted of fourteen bishops, two archbishops,
and go0 clergymen. An Act of the Legislature
ordered these to conform to the new order of
things, or abandon their livings; but though expelled
from these, they. continued to officiate
privately to those who were disposed to attend to
their ministrations, notwithstanding the penal laws
enacted against them-laws which William, who
detested Presbyterianism, and was an uncovenanted
King,? intended to repeal if he had
lived. The title of archbishop was dropp?ed by
the scattered few, though a bishop was elected
with the title Primus, to regulate the religious
affairs of the community. There existed another
body attached to the same mode of worship,
composed of those who favoured the principles
which occasioned the Revolution in Scotland,
and,adopting the ritual of the Church of England,
were supplied With clergy ordained by bishops of
that country. Two distinct bodies thus existeddesignated
by the name of Non-jurants, as declining
the oaths to the new Government The first
of these bodies-unacknowledged as a legal
association, whose pastors were appointed by
bishops, who acknowledged only the authority of
their exiled king, who refused to take the oaths
prescribed by lam; and omitted all mention of the
House of Hanover in their prayers-were made
the subject of several penal statutes by that
House.
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The tower, as originally designed, terminated in
an open lantern, but this fell during a tempest of
wind in January, 1818. In a letter to his friend,
Willie Laidlaw, Sir Walter Scott refers to the event
thus :-?I had more than an anxious thought
about you all during the gale of wind. The Gothic
pinnacles were blown from the top of Bishop
Sandford?s Episcopal chapel at the end of Princes
Street, and broke through the roof and flooring,
doing great damage. This was sticking the horns
of the mitre into the belly of the church. The
devil never so well deserved the title of Prince of
Power of the Air since he has blown down this
handsome church, and left the ugly mass of new
buildings standing on the North Bridge.?
The bishop referred to was the Rev. Daniel Sand-
? ford, father of the accomplished Greek scholar, Sir
Daniel Keyte Sandford, D.C.L., who was born at
Edinburgh in February, 1798, and received all the
rudiments of his education under the venerable
prelate, who died in 1830.
The interior of St. John?s Church is beautiful,
and presents an imposing appearance ; it contains
a very fine organ, and is adorned with richlycoloured
stained-glass windows. The great eastern
window, which is thirty feet in height, contains the
figures of the twelve apostles, by Eggington of
Birmingham, acquired in 1871. There is also
a magnificent reredos, designed by Peddie and
Kinnear.
In this church ministered for years the late Dean
Ramsay, the genial-hearted author of ? Reminiscences
of Scottish Life and Character.? A small
cemetery, with two rows of ornamented burial
vaults, adjoin the south side of this edifice, the
view of which is very striking from the West
Churchyard. In these vaults and the little
cemetery repose the remains of many persons
eminent for rank and talent. Among them are
the prince of Scottish portrait painters, Sir Henry
Raeburn, the Rev. Archibald Alison, the wellknown
essayist on ?? Taste,? Dr. Pultney Alison, his
eldest son, and brother of the historian, Sir Archibald.
The Doctor was professor successively of
the theory and practice of physic in the university,
author of several works of great authority in
medical science, and was one of the most philanthropic
men that ever adorned the medica! profession,
even in Edinburgh, where it has ever been
pre-eminently noble in all works of charity ; and he
was the able antagonist of Dr. Chalmers in advocating
the enforcement of a compulsory assessment
for the support of the poor in opposition to the
Doctor?s voluntary one.
There, too, lie James DonaldsoIi, founder of the
magnificent hospital which bears his name j the
Rev. Andrew Thomson, first minister of St. Geoge?s
Church in Charlotte Square, in his day one of the
most popular of the city clergy; Sir Williani
Hamilton, professor of moral philosophy in the
university, and a philosopher of more than
European name ; Catherine Sinclair, the novelist j
Macvey Napier, who succeeded Lord Jeffrey as
editor of the Zdiaburgh Rm2wY and, together
with James Browne, LL.D., conducted the seventh
edition of the ?? Encyclopaedia Britannica?; Sir
William Arbuthnot, who was Lord Provost in
1823; Mrs. Sligo of Inzievar, the sister of Sir
James Outram, ? the Bayard of India?; and many
more of note.
Nearly opposite is a meagre and somewhat
obstn,uztive edifice of triangular form, known as
the Sinclair Fountain, erected in 1859 at the
expense of Miss Catherine Sinclair, the novelist,
and daughter of the famous Sir John Sinclair of
Ulbster, a lady distinguished for her philanthropy,
and is one of the memorials?of her benefactions
to the city.
Among the many interesting features in Princes
Street are its monuments, and taken seriatim,
according to their dates, the first-and first also is
consequence and magnificence-is that of Sir Walter
Scott This edifice, the design for which, by G.
M. Kemp (who lost his life in the canal by
drowning ere its completion), was decided by the
committee on the 30th of April, 1840, bears a
general resemblance to the most splendid examples
of monumental crosses, though it far excels all its
predecessors in its beauty and vast proportions,
beirig 180 feet in height, and occupying a square
area of 55 feet at its base.
The foundation stone was laid in 1840, and in it
was deposited a plate, bearing the following
inscription by Lord Jeffrey, remarkable for its
tenor :-
?This Graven Plate, deposited in the baseof a votive
building on the fifteenth day of August, in the year of
Christ 1840, and mcr bRry io see tk I&& apin td2 aZ2 tlu
surrounding strucfwu have crumbZrd fo dwt the d.ay 01
time, w by human OY ekmmzal vibZence, may then testify to a
distant posterity that his countrymen began on that day to
raise an effigy and architectural mohnent, TO THE MEMORY
OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART., whose admirable writings
were then allowed to have given more delight and suggested
better feeling to a larger class of readers in every rank of
society, than those of any other author, with the exception of
Shakespeare alone, and which were therefore thought likely
to be remembered long after this act of gratitude on the part
of the first generation of his admirers should be forgotten.
?? HE WAS BORN AT EDINBURGH, I5TH AUGUST, 1771,
AND DIED AT ABBOTSFORD, ZIST SEPTEMBER, 1832,?
Engravings have made us familiar with the

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ST LEONARD’S, ST MARY’S WYND, AND CO WGATE. 321
character, and with a shield in the centre, the armorial bearings of which have been
replaced by a brewer’s barrel, the device of its modern owner and occupant. We have
found, on examining ancient charters and title-deeds referring to property in the Cowgate,
much greater difliculty in assigning the exact tenements referred to, from the absence of
such marked and easily recognisable features as serve for a guide in the Bigh Street and
Canongate. All such evidence, however, tends to prove that the chief occupants of this
ancient thoroughfare were eminent for rank and station, and their dwellings appear to
have been chiefly in the front street, showing that, with patrician exclusiveness, traders
were forbid to open their booths within its dignified precincts. Another feature, no less
noticeable, is the extensive possessions which the Church held within its bounds. An
ancient land, for example, which occupied the site of one now standing at the foot of
Blair Street, on the west side, is described in the titles of the adjoining property as pertaining
to the Altar of St Katharine, in the Kirk-of-Field. In 1494, Walter Bertram,
Provost of Edinburgh, bestowed an annual rent from his tenement in the Cowgate “to a
chaplain of St Lawrence’s Altar, in St Giles’ Church.” In 1528, Wm. Chapman “ mortified
to a chaplain in St Giles’ Kirk, at Jesus’ Altar, in a chapel built by himself,” a
tenement and piece of ground in the same street, reserving to ye patrons yrof 26s. 8d.
for repairing the chapel with skletts and glass.” Both Walter Chepman and Thomas
Cameron have already-been named aa similar donors. We shall only notice one more
from the same source :-“A mortification made be Janet Remedy, Lady Bothwell, who
was before spouse to Archibald Earl of Angus, mortefeing to a chaplain in the Marie
Kirk in the Field, beside Edinburgh, her fore land of umqle Hew Berries tenement, and
chamber adjacent y’to, lying in the Cowgait, on the south side of the street, betwixt Ja.
Earl of Buchan’s land on the east, and Thos. Tod’s on ye west.”l We have dready
referred to U the Erle of Maris, now present Regent, lugeing in the Kowgait,’Pin 1572,”
and other eminent laymen will presently appear among the residenters in this patrician
quarter of the town.
The destruction of an ancient tenement in the Cowgate, in the month of June 1787,
when clearing the ground for the building of the South Bridge, brought to light some
curious memorials of an earlier age. The workmen employed in its demolition discovered
a cavity containing a quantity of money for the reception of which it appeared to have
been constructed. The treasure was found, on examination, to consist of a number of
small coins of Edward L commonly called Longshanks, who, in the year 1295, defeated
the Scots at Dunbar, and soon after compelled the Castle of Edinburgh to surrender to his
.
A perfect inventar of Pious Donations. MS. Advocated KO., Diurnal of Occurrenta, p, 299.
2s

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The Old High S:hoo!.l THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 287
college, the pulpits, desks, lofts, and seats, were;
says Nicol, (( dung down by these English sodgeris,
and burnt to asses.?
When the congregation of the abbey church
were compelled by James VII. to leave it in 1687,
they had to seek accommodation in Lady Yester?s
till another place of worship could be provided
for them. A small cemetery adjoined the church ;
it is now covered with buildings, but was still
in use about the close of the last and beginning
of the present century, and many seamen of the
Russian fleet, which lay for a time at Leith, and
who died in the infirmary, were buried there.
In 1803 the old church was taken down, and a
new one erected for 1,212 sitters, considerably to
the westward of it, was opened in the following
year. Though tasteless and nondescript in style,
it was considered an ornament to that part of
the city.
The tomb of the foundress, and the tablet recording
her good works, are both rebuilt into
this new fane ; but it seems doubtful whether her
body was removed at the same time. The parish
is wholly a town one, and situated within the city;
it contains 64,472 square yards
With diffidence, yet with ardour and interest, we
now approach the subject of the old High School
of Edinburgh-the famous and time-honoured
SchZa Regia Edineprsis-so prominently patronised
by James VI., and the great national importance of
which was recognised even by George IV., who
gave it a handsome donation.
Scott, and thousands of others, whose deeds and
names in every walk of life and in every part of
the globe have added to the glory of their country,
have conned their tasks in the halls of this venerable
institution. In the roll of its scholars,?
says Dr. Steven, ?are the names of some of the
most distinguished men of all professions, and who
have filled important situations in all parts of the
world, and it is a fact worth recording that it includes
the names of three Chancellors of England,
all nafives of Edinburgh-Wedderbum, Erskine,
and Brougham.?
Learning, with all the arts and infant science
too, found active and munificent patrons in the
monarchs of the Stuart line ; thus, so early as the
sixth Parliament of James IV., it was ordained
that all barons and freeholders of substance were
to put their eldest sons to school after the age of
six or nine years, there to remain till they were
perfect in Latin, ?( swa that they have knowledge
and understanding of the lawes, throw the quhilks
justice may remaine universally throw all the
tealme.? Those who failed to conform to this
Act were to pay a fine of twenty pounds. But
Scotland possessed schools so early as the twelfth
century in all her principal towns, though prior
to that period scholastic knowledge could only
be received within the walk- of the monasteries.
The Grammar School of Edinburgh was originally
attached to the abbey of Holyrood, and as the
demand for education increased, those friars whose
presence could be most easily dispensed tvith at the
abbey,were permitted by the abbot and chapter
to become public teachers within the city.
The earliest mention of a regular Grammar
School in Edinburgh being under the control of
the magistrates is on the 10th January, 1519, ?the
quhilk day, the provost, baillies, and counsall
statutis and ordains, fot resonabie caussis moving
thame, that na maner of nychtbour nor indwe!ler
within this burgh, put thair bairins till ony particular
scule within this toun, boi to fhe pnircipal
Grammw Smlc of the samyn,? to be taught in
any science, under a fine of ten shillings to the
master of the said principal school.
David Vocat, clerk of the abbey, was then at
the head of the seminary, enjoying this strange
monopoly; and on the 4th September, 1524,
George, Bishop of Dunkeld, as abbot of Holyrood,
with consent of his chapter, appointed Henry
Henryson as assistant and successor to Vocat,
whose pupil he had been, at the Grammar School
of the Canongate.
Bya charter of James V., granted under the
great seal of Scotland, dated 1529, Henryson had
the sole privilege of instructing the youth of
Edinburgh; but he was ?also to attend at the
abbey in his surplice on all high and solemn
festivals, there to sing at mass and evensong, and
make himself otherwise useful in the chapel.
According to Spottiswood?s Church History,
Henryson publicly abjured Romanism so early .as
1534, and thus he must have left the High School
before that year, as Adam Melville had become
head-master thereof in 1531. The magistrates of
the city had as yet no voice in the nomination of
masters, though the whole onus of the establishment
rested on them as representing the citizens ; and
in 1554, as we have elsewhere (VoL I. p. 263)
stated, they hired that venerable edifice, then at
the foot of Blackfriars Wfnd-once the residence
of -Archbishop Ekaton and of his nephew the cardinal-
as a school; but in the following year they
were removed to another house, near the head of
what is named the High School Wynd, which had
been built by the town for their better accommodation.
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382 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
altar, are the arms of Thomas de Cranston, Seutifer Regis, a man of considerable influence
in the reign of James IL, and a frequent ambassador to foreign courts, who died about
1470; and on the engaged pillar to the south, the arms are those of Isabel, Duchess of
Albany and Countess of Lennox, who, in 1450-about a year before her death-founded
the Collegiate Church of Dumbarton, and largely endowed other religious foundations.’
Maitland remarks-“ In the year 1462, a great work seems to have been in hand at this
church ; for it was by the Town Council ordained that all persons presuming to buy corn
before it was entered should forfeit one chalder to the church work.” This may be supposed
to refer to the same additions to the choir begun in the reign of James 11. and then in
progress, though it will be seen that other works were proceeded with about the same time.
The work had no doubt been aided by the contributions of that monarch, and may have
been further encouraged by the gifts of his widowed queen for masses to his soul. The
repetition of the royal arms on the King’s Pillar is probably intended to refer to James III.,
in whose reign the work was finished. To the south of the choir, a second aisle of three arches,
with a richly-groined ceiling, forms the Preston Aisle, erected agreeably to a charter granted
to William Prestoune, of Gortoune, by the city of Edinburgh in 1454, setting forth (‘ pat
forasmekle as William of Prestoun the fadir, quam God assoillie, made diligent labour and
grete menis, be a he and mighty Prince, the Eing of France, and mony uyr Lordis of
France, for the gettyn of the arme bane of Saint Gele ;-the quhilk bane he freely left to
our moyr kirk of Saint Gele of Edinburgh, withoutyn ony condition makyn;-we considrand
ye grete labouris and costis yat he made for the gettyn yrof, we pmit, as said is
yat within six or seven zere, in all the possible and gudely haste we may, yat we sal big
an ile, furth frae our Lady Ile, quhare ye said William lyes in the said ile, to be begunyin
within a zere ; in the quhilk ile yare sall be made a brase for his crest in bosit work ; and
abone the brase a plate of brase, with a writ, specifiand, the bringing of yat relik be him
in Scotland, with his armis ; and his armis to be put, in hewyn marble, uyr thre parts of the
ile.” ’ The charter further binds the Provost and Council to found an altar there, with a
chaplain, and secures to the lineal descendants of the donor the priyilege of bearing the
precious gift of St Giles’s arm bone in all public processions. The aims of Preston still
remain on the roof of the aisle, as engaged to be executed in this charter ; and the same
may be seen repeated in different parts of their ancient stronghold of Craipillar Castle ;
where also occurs their Rebus, sculptured on a stone panel of the outer wall : a press, and
tun or barrel.’ They continued annually to exercise their chartered right of bearing the
arm bone of the Patron Saint till the memorable year 1558, when the College of St Giles
walked for the last time in procession, on the 1st of September, the festival of St Giles,
bearing in procession a statue hired for the occasion, from the Grey Friars, to personate the
Great Image of the Saint, as large M life, because ‘( the auld Saint Geile” had been
fist drowned in the North Loch as an adulterer, or encourager of idolatry, and thereafter
1 A letter on the subject of these armorial bearings, signed A D. [the late Alexander Deuchar, we presume, a firatrate
authority on all matters of heraldry], appeared in the Scota Nagaaine, June 1818. The writer promises to send the
result of further observations, but he does not appear to have followed out his intentions. ’ Maitland, p. 271.
a Archmlogia Scotica, vol. i. p. 575. ’ The Rebus of Prior Bolton, in Westminster Abbey, is very similar ta this : a tun, or barrel, with a bolt thrust
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250 OLD AND NEW EDINBVRGH. [Leith.
London, at the request of Lord Balgonie, afterwards
Earl of Leven.
People of Leith are not likely to forget that the
vicinity of the Sheriff Brae is a district inseparably
connected with the name of Gladstone, and readers
of Hugh Miller?s interesting ?? Schools and Schoolmasters
? will scarcely require to be reminded of
the experiences of the stone-mason of Cromarty,
in his visit to this quarter of Leith.
In Peter Williamson?s Directory for Edinburgh
and Leith, 1786-8, we find--? James Gladstones,
schoolmaster, No; 4 Leith,? and ? Thomas Gladstones,
flour and barley merchant, Coal Hill.? His
shop, long since removed, stood where a wood-yard
is now. James was uncle, and Thomas the father,
of Sir John Gladstone of Fasque, who built the
church and almshouses SO near where his thrifty
forefathers earned their bread.
The Gladstones, says a, local writer, were of
Clydesdale origin, and were land-owners there
and on the Border. ?I Claiming descent from this
ancient and not undistinguished stock, Mr. John
Gladstones of Toftcombes, near Biggar, in the
Upper Ward of Clydesdale, had, by his wife, Janet
Aitken, a son, Thomas, a prosperous trader in
Leith, who mamed Helen, daughter of Mr. Walter
Neilson of Springfield, and died in the year 1809 ;
of this marriage, the deceased baronet (Sir John)
was the eldest son.?
He was born in Leith on the I Ith December,
in the year 1764 and commenced business there
at an early age, but soon removed to the more
ample field of Liverpool, where, for more than
half a century, he took rank with the most successful
traders of that opulent seaport, where he
amassed great wealth by his industry, enterprise,
and skill, and he proved in after life munificent
in its disposal.
The names of Thomas and Hugh Gladstones,
merchants in North Leith, appear in the Directory
for 1811, and the marriage of Marion (a daughter
of the former) to the Rev. John Watson, Minister
of the Relief Congregation at Dunse, in 1799, is
recorded in the HeraZd of that year.
While carrying on business in Liverpool, John
Gladstones was a liberal donor to the Church of
England, and after he retired in 1843, and returned
to Scotland, he became a not less liberal benefactor
to the Episcopal Church there. His gifts to Trinity
College, Glenalmond, were very noble, and he
contributed largely to the endowment of the
Bishopric of Brechin, and he? also built and endowed
a church at Fasque, in the Howe of the
Mearns, near the beautiful seat he had acquired
there. In February, 1835, he had obtained the
(Edhburgh Mag., 1788.)
royal license to drop the final ? s? with which his
father and grandfather had written the name, and
t6 restore it to what he deemed the more ancient
form of Gladstone, though it is distinctly spelt
?Gladstanes? in the royal charters of King David IL
(Robertson?s ?? Index.?)
The eminent position occupied by this distinguished
native of Leith, as well as his talents and
experience, gave his opinions much weight in
commercial matters, According to one authority,
?he was frequently consulted on such subjects by
ministers of the day, and took many opportunities
of making his sentiments known by pamphlets and
letters to the newspapers. He was to the last a
strenuous supporter of that Protective policy which
reigned supreme and almost unquestioned during
his youth, and his pen was wielded against the
repeal of the Corn and Navigation Laws. He
was a fluent, but neither a graceful nor a forcible
writer, placing less trust apparently in his style
than in the substantial merits of his ample information
and ingenious argument.? Desire was more
than once expressed to see him in Parliament, and
he contested the representation of various places
on those Conservative principles to which he adhered
through life. Whether taking a prominent
part in the strife of politics had excited in him an
ambition for Parliamentary life, or, whether it was
due, says Mr. George Barnett Smith, in his wellknown
?? Life ? of Sir John Gladstone?s illustrious
son, the great Liberal Prime Minister, ?to the
influence of Mr. Canning-who early perceived
the many sterling qualities of his influential sup
porter-matters little; but he at length came
forward for Lancaster, for which place he was returned
to the Parliament elected in 1819. We
next find him member for Woodstock, 1821-6; and
in the year 1827 he represented Berwick. Altogether
he was a member of the House of Commons
for nine years.? In 1846 he was created a baronet,
an honour which must have been all the more
gratifying that it sprang from the spontaneous suggestion
of the late Sir Robert Peel, and was one
of the very few baronetcies conferred by a minister
who was ?? more than commonly frugal in the grant
of titles.?
Sir John was twice mamed, and had several children
by his second wife, Anne Robertson, daughter
of Andrew Robertson, Provost of Dingwall. His
youngest son, the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone,
M.P., born in 1809, has a name that belongs
to the common history of Europe.
The venerable baronet, who first saw the light
in the rather gloomy Coal Hill of Leith, died at his
seat of Fasque on the 7th of December, 1851,

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I 88 OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [York Place
His lordship was so fond of card-playing that
he was wont to say, laughingly, ?Cards are my
profession-the law my amusement.? He died
at Powrie, in Forfarshire, on the 19th of October,
18IL
In 1795 Sir Henry Raeburn built the large house
No. 32, the upper part of which had been lighted
from the roof and fitted up as a gallery for exhibiting
pictures, while. the lower was divided into convenient
painting rooms, but his residence was then
at Stockbridge.
Mr. Alexander Osborne, a commissioner of the
Board of Customs, resided in No. 40 for niany
years, and died there. He was of great stature,
and was the right-hand man of the Grenadiers of
the First Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers,
proverbially a battalion of tall men, and his personal
appearance was long familiar in the streets of
the city. In bulk he was remarkable as well as in
stature, his legs in particular being nearly as large
in circumference as the body of an ordinary person,
The editor of Kay mentions that shortly after the
volunteers had been embodied, Lord Melville preseqted
his gigantic countryman to George III.,
who on witnessing such a herculean specimen of
his loyal defenders in Scotland, was somewhat
excited and curious. ??-4re all the Edinburgh
volunteers like you?? he asked, Osborne mistaking
the jocular construction of the question,
and supposing it referred to their status in society,
replied, ?They are so, please your Majesty.?
?? Astonishing !? exclaimed the King, lifting up his
hands in wonder.
In his youth he is said to have had a prodigious
appetite, being able to consume nine pounds of
steak at a meal. His father, who died at Aberdeen,
comptroller of the Customs in 1785, is said ta
have beena man of even more colossal proportions.
Mr. Osborne lived long in Richmond Street
prior to removing to York Place, where he died in
his 74th year.
During the early years of this century Lady Sinclair
of Murkle occupied No. 61, and at the same
time No. 47 was the residence of Alexandex
Nasmyth, landscape painter, father of Peter, who
won himself the name of ? the English Hobbima,JJ
and who, in fact, was the father of the Scottish school
of landscape painting. In his youth, the pupil of
Allan Ramsay, and afterwards of the best artists in
Rome and England, he returned to his native city,
Edinburgh, where he had been born in 1758 ; and
to his friendship with Bums the world is indebted
for the only authentic portrait which exists of our
national poet His compositions were chaste and
elegant, and his industry unceasing ; thus he numbered
among his early employers the chief of the
Scottish nobZesse. Most of the living landscape
painters of Scotland, and many of the dead ones,
have sprung from the school of Nasmyth, who, in
his extreme age, became an honorary member of
the then new Scottish Academy.
The firmness of his intellect, and the freshness of
his fancy continued uninterrupted to the end of his
labours; his last work was the touching little
picture called ? Going Home ;I? and he died soon
after at Edinburgh in the eighty-third year of his
age, in 1840. He married a daughter of Sir James
Foulis, Bart., of Colinton and that ilk, by whom he
had a large family, all more or less inheriting the
genius of their father, particularly his son Peter,
who predeceased him at London in 1831, aged
forty-five years.
On the north side of York Place is St. Paul?s
Episcopal church, built in that style of Gothic
which prevailed in the time of Henry VI. of England,
and of which the best specimen may be seen
in King?s College, Cambridge. The building consists
of a nave with four octagon towers at the
angles, with north and south aisles. The pulpit is
at the east end, and immediately before the communion-
table. The organ is at the west end, and
above the main entrance, which faces York Lanea
remnant of Broughton Loan. In the north-west
angle of the edifice is the vestry, The length of
the church is about 123 feet by 73 feet, external
measurement. The nave is 109 feet 9 inches in
length by 26 feet broad, and 46 feet in height; and
the aisles are 79 feet long by zg feet in height.
The ceiling of the nave is a flat Gothic arch,
covered with ornamental tracery, as are also the
ceilings of the aisles. The great eastern window
is beautifully filled in with stained glass by Egginton
of Birmingham. This handsome church-in its
time the best example of Gothic erected in Edinburgh
since the Reformation-was built from a design
by Archibald Elliot, and doesconsiderablecredit
to the taste and geqius of that eminent architect.
It was begun in February, 1816, and finished in
June, 1818, for the use of the congregation which
had previously occupied the great church in the
Cowgate, and who contributed ~ 1 2 , o o o for its
erection. The well-known Archibald Alison, author
of (? Essays on Taste,? and father of the historian
of Europe, long officiated here. He was the son
of a magistrate of the city of Edinburgh, where he
was born in 1757, but graduated at Oxford; and
on the invitation of Sir William Forbes and others,
in 1800, became senior incumbent of the Cowgate
chapel. After the removal of the congregation to
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