... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Holyrood.
The Edinburgh HeraZd of April, 1797, mentions
the departure froni Holyrood ...
Book 3 p. 78
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... THE BOURSE. 231
U Throughout these troublesome days, a little episcopal
congregation was kept together in ...
Book 6 p. 231
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![Leith.] THE FIRST BRIDGE. 167
Kirk aark, and to be-deprived of- the freedom (of
the city) for ane zeare.? 1
.of the harbour, for the erection of quays and wharfs
and for the loading of goods, with the liberty to
have shops and granaries, and to make all necessary
roads thereto ; but this grasping feudal baron
afterwards sorely teased and perplexed the town
council with points of litigation, till eventually he
roused them to adopt a strong measure for satiating
.at once his avarice and their own ambition.
Bought over by them with alarge sum of nionfy
.drawn from the city treasury, Sir Robert Logan on
;the 27th of February, 1413, granted them an extraordinary
charter, which has been characterised as
an exclusive, ruinous, and enslaving bond,? restraining
the luckless inhabitants of Leith from
.carrying on trade cE any sort, from possessing warehouses
or shops, from keeping inns for strangers,
? so that nothing should be built or constructed on
the said land (in Leith) in future, to the prejudice
and impediment of the said community.? The
witnesses to this grant are George Lauder the Pro-
Test, and the Bailies, William Touris of Cramond,
William of Edmondston, James Cant, Dean of
Guild, John Clark of Lanark, Andrew Learmouth,
and William of the Wood.
In 1428 King James I. granted a charter under
.his great seal, with consent of the community of
Edinburgh, ordaining ? that in augmentation of the
fabrik and reparation of the port and harbour of
Leith, there should be uplifted a certain tax or toll
upon all ships and boats entering therein,? This
is dated from the Palace of Dunfermline, 31st
December. (Burgh Records.)
In 1439 Patrick, abbot of Holyrood, granted to
Sir Robert Logan and his heirs the office of bailie
aver the abbey lands of St. Leonards, ?lyande in
the town of Leicht, within the barony of Restalrig,
on the south halfe the water, from the end of the
gret volut of William Logane on the east part to
the common gate that passes to the ford over the
water of Leicht, beside the waste land near the
house of John of Turing,? etc. (Burgh Charters.)
Not content with the power already given them
over their vassals in Leith, the magistrates of Edinburgh,
after letting the petty customs and haven
siller? of Leith for the sum of one hkdred and
ten merks in 1485, passed a remarkable order in
council :-? That no merchant of Edinburgh presume
to take into partnership any indweller of the
town of Leith, under pain of forty pounds to the
he proceeded to Leith tb hold his water courts,
such an escort being deemed necessary for the
In 1497 the civic despots of Edinburgh obtained,
on writ from the Privy Council, that ? all manner
of persons, quhilk are infectit, or has been infectit
and uncurrit of the contageouse plage, callit
the grand gore, devoid red and pass furth of
this towne, and compeir on the sandis of Leith,
at ten hours before noon, and thair shall have
boats reddie in the Haven, ordainit to thame be
the officears, reddie furnished with victualles, to
have them to the inche, there to remain quhi!l
God provide for thair health.? (Town Council
Records.)
As regards Leith, a much more important event
is recorded four years before this, when Robert
Ballantyne, abbot of Holyrood, ? with the consent
of his chapter and the approbation of William,
Archbishop of St. Andrews,? first spanned the
river by a solid stone bridge, thus connecting South
and North Leith, holding the right of levying a toll
therefor. It was a bridge of three arches; of
which Lord Eldin made a sketch in 1779, and part
of one of the piers of which still remains. Abbot
Ballantyne also built a chapel thereby, and in his
charter it is expressly stated, after enumerating the
tithes and tolls of the bridge, ?that the stipend of
each of the two incumbents is to be limited to
fifteen merks, and after the repairs of the said
bridge and chapel, and lighting the same, the surplus
is to be given to the poor.?
This chapel was dedicated to St. Ninian the
apostle of Galloway, and the abbot?s charter was
confirmed by King James IV. on the 1st June,
1493. He also established a range of buildings
on the south side of the river, a portion of which,
says Robertson, writing in 1851, still exists in
the form of a gable and large oven, at the locality
generally designated ? the Old Bridge End.? ?
The part in Leith whereon, it is said, the first
houses were built in the twelfth century, is bounded ,
on the south by the Tolbooth Wynd, on the west
by the shore or quay, on the north by the Broad
Wynd, and on the east by the Rotten Row, now
called Water Lane. One of the broadest alleys in
this ancient quarter is the Burgess Close,? ten feet
in width, and was the first road granted to the
citizens of Edinburgh by Logan of Kestalng.
In the year 1501, all freemen of the city, to the
number of twenty or so, were directed by the
magistrates to accompany the water bailie when](images/thumbs/old_new_edin_v5p178.gif "Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Page 167")
... THE FIRST BRIDGE. 167
Kirk aark, and to be-deprived of- the freedom (of
the city) for ane zeare.? 1
.of ...
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... Hospital.1 WALTER BALCANQU.-II,L. 367
Waucllop Thesauer,? is ordained ? to take down
the stonewark of ...
Book 4 p. 367
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![440 INDEX TO THE NAMES,
J
JACKMAN, Dr., 255
Jackson, Sergeant, 379
Janies VI., 28, 94, 128, 196, 2C
James VII., 385
Jamieson, Miss, 195
Jamieson, Mr. Patrick, 224
Jamieson, William, Esq., 225
lamieson, Mr. Henry, 261
lardine, Sir Henry, 3, 237
Jardine, John, Esq., 131
lardine, Dr, 299
lerdan, Mr., 221
rohnson, Dr., 66, 73, 121, 15:
365
lohnston, Miss, 99
-ohmton, Rev. John, 398
'ohnston, Rev. Dr., 300, 398
.ohnston, Rev. Andrew, 321
ohnston, Miss Ann, 254
ohnstone, Admiral Sir William
ones, William, 145
ones, Dr., 194
ones, Paul, 400
ustice, Captain, 40
ustice, Sir James, 317
197
K
:AMES, Lord, 22, 73, 366
raunitz, Prince de, 328
Eay, Mr. John, 1
Ray, James, 1
gay, Norman, 1
Ray, Mrs., 2
Eeith, Sir R. Murray, 328
Kellie, Lord, 127
Kelly, Earl of, 234, 325
Eemble, Miss, 116
Hope, Lady Alexander, 75
Hope, Hon. John, 80, 92
Hope, Hon. Alexander, 92
Hope, Lady Jane, 103
Hope, Henry, 196
Hope, Sir Thomas, Bart., 196,3
Hope, Lord, 196
Hope, Lady Anne, 197
Hope, General John, G.C.B., I!
Hope, Hon. John, 199
Hope, Hon. James, 199
Hope, Lady Alicia, 199
Hope, Thomas, 199
Hope, Adrian, 199
Hope, Hon. Charles, 239, 240
Hope, Lady Elizabeth, 283
Hope, Sir John, 313
Hope, General, 404
Hopetoun, Earl of, 92, 93,99,10:
196, 199, 283
Hopetoun, Countess Dowage]
199
Horner and Inglis, Messrs., 255
264
Horner, Francis, Esq., 264
Horner, Dlr. Lconard, 264
Horner, Nr. John, 307
Hotham, Sir William, 361
Houston, Lieutenant Andrew, 23
Howe, Lord, 212, 213
Howe, General, 267
Hume, David, the historian, 20
Hume, -, Esq., of Paxton
Hume, Lieutenant David, 237
Hume, Mr. Baron, 303, 393
Hume, Mr. Joseph, 306
Hunter, Dfr., 40
Hunter, Thomas, 44, 45
Hunter, Robert, of Polmood, 44
Hunter, Adam, 45
Hunter, Mr. John, 62
Hunter-Blair, Sir David, Bart., 64
Hunter, James, 210
Hnnter, Mr. David, 237
Hunter, Mr., of BIackness, 246
Hunter, Dr. William, 254
Hunter, Andrew, Esq., 298
Hunter, Rev. John, 302
Hunter, Mr., Governor of Syd-
Hunter, Professor Robert, 321
Huntly, Marquis of, 108
Husband, Paul, Esq., 359
66, 70, 183, 215, 382
105
45
ney, 310
I
INGLIBBa,i lie David, 224
Inglis, Dean of Guild David, 22.
Inglis and Horner, Messrs., 259
Inglis, Captain John, 307
Inglis, Captain, of Redhall, 363
Innes, Rev. William, 194, 195
Innes, Gilbert, Esq., 307
Innes, Mr. George, 427
Ireland, Rev. Dr, 373
264
Husband, Miss Emilia, 359
Hutton, Dr. 20, 63, 75
Hutton, Mr. John, 361
Hutton, Rev, William, 400, 401
ETC.
Eemble, E., 149
Kemble, E. Stephen, 330
Eemp, Rev. David, 282
Kennet, Lord, 217, 350
Keppel, Commodore, 360
Kerr, James, Esq., 104
Kerr, Lord Charles, 104
Kern, Captain Charles, 237
Ken, Alexander, Esq., 413
Eerahaw, Mr., 174
Keys, Dr., 71
Kid, Captain, 401
Kid, Mrs., 401
Kilkerran, Lord, 366
Kilmarnock, Lord, 203
Kinloch, E.4,0
Kinnear, Mr. George, 261, 307
Kinnoull, Earl of, 282
Kirwan, Nr., 56
Knox, -, 127
L
LACKINGTOHKe,n ry, 140
Laing, Mr. James, 111, 236
Laing, Mr,, 427
Lamash, Mrs., 83
Lamond, Mr. John, 284
Lamont, Mr. John, 58, 59
Lamont, Miss Euphemia, 59
Lapslie, Rev. Mr. James, 82
Lashley v. Hog, celebrated case,
Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, 424
Lauderdale,Earl of, 131, 203, 321,
Law, John, of Lauriston, 43
Law, James, Esq., 237, 401
Law,William, Esq., 313
iaw, Miss Isabella, 313
daw, Ess, 404
>awrie, Niss, 398
>awrie and Symington, Messrs.,
.eake, Mr., 148
,cake and Harris, Messrs., 149
>eckie, William, Esq., 403
,eckie, Nr., 403 ~
,edwich, Dr., 47
dee, General, 267
,eigh, Egerton, Esq., 110
,eigh, Miss Mary Anne, 110
#e Maiatre, Miss Maria Cecilia,
39
empriere, Mr., 221
ennox, Colonel, 235
45
392
Mr., W.S., 404
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... INDEX TO THE NAMES,
J
JACKMAN, Dr., 255
Jackson, Sergeant, 379
Janies VI., 28, 94, 128, 196, 2C
James ...
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Wright?s H0u.w~
good behaviour of William Douglas of Hyvelie
(Reg : Privy Council ...
Book 5 p. 34
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... CA S TL E. 131
in 1682, in firing a royal salute to the Duke of York, afterwards James VII., a ...
Book 10 p. 142
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig.
latter married a lady whom Burke calls ?Miss
Alston, of America,? and died ...
Book 5 p. 138
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
It was built accordingly, and is for the reception
and maintenance of men and ...
Book 6 p. 266
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... 467
Macbeth, 4
Macdonald, Andrew, 162
MacEwan, James, 199
Mackenzie, Sir Roderick, 169
Sir James. See ...
Book 10 p. 506
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. (The West Bow.
thundering back again; being neither more nor
less than Satan come in ...
Book 2 p. 314
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... SKETCHES. 421
When all danger had at last happily passed aw‘ay, Mr. Grant settled in
Edinburgh as ...
Book 8 p. 585
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... --It OLD AND? NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street,
Baron of the Exchequer Court in 1748, and grandson
of James of ...
Book 2 p. 214
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Great Fire.
while the weather changed rapidly ; the wind,
accompanied by rain, ...
Book 1 p. 190
(Score 0.56)
... burned, and ?? that ilk mail in Edinburgh have
his lumes (vents) full of watter in the nycht, under
pain of ...
Book 1 p. 122
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![Convi~ialii] THE SPENDTHRIFT CLUB. 12.5
called one of his brother boars by his proper outof-
club name, the term < Sir ? being only allowed.
The entry-money, fines, and other pecuniary acquisitions,
were hoarded for a grand annual dinner.?
In 1799 some new officials were added, such
as a poet-laureate, champion, archbishop, and chief
grunter, and by that time, as the tone and expenses
of the club had increased, the fines became
very severe, and in the exactions no one met with
any mercy, ?? as it was the interests of all that the
& should bring forth a plenteous farrow.? This
practice led to squabbles, and the grotesque fraternity
was broken up.
The COUNTRY DINNER CLUB was a much more
sensible style of gathering, when some respectable
citizens of good position were wont to meet on the
afternoon of each Saturday about the year 1790 to
dine in an old tavern in Canonmills, then at a
moderate distance from town. They kept their
own particular claret. William Ramsay, a banker,
then residing in Warriston House, was deemed
?( the tongue of the trump to the club,? which entirely
consisted of hearty and honest old citizens,
all of whom have long since gone to their last account.
The EAST INDIA CLUB was formed in 1797, and
held its first meeting in John Bayll?s tavern on
the 13th of January that year, when the Herald
announces that dinner would be on the table at the
then late and fashionable hour of four, but the body
does not seem to have been long in existence ; it
contributed twenty guineas to the sufferers of a fire
in the Cowgate in the spring of 1799, and fifty to
the House of Industry in 1801.
John Bayll managed the ?George Square assemblies,?
which were held in Buccleuch Place.
His tavern was in Shakespeare Square, where his
annual balls and suppers, in 1800, were under the
patronage of the Duchess of Buccleuch and Mrs.
Dundas of Amiston.
Of the CAPE CLUB, which was established on
the 15th of March, 1733, and of which Fergusson
the poet and Runciman the painter were afterwards
members, an account will be found in Vol. I.,
which, however, omitted to give the origin of the
name of that long-existing and merry fraternity,
and which was founded on an old, but rather weak,
Edinburgh joke of the period.
Some well-known burgess of the Calton who WE
in the habit of spending the evening hours with
friends in the city, till after the ten o?clock drum
had been beaten and the Netherbow Port wa:
shut, to obtain egress was under the necessity 01
bribing the porter there, or remaining within the
walls all ni&it. On leaving the gate he had tc
turn acutely to the left to proceed down Leith
Wynd, which this facetious toper termed ?? doubling
the Cape.? Eventually it became a standing joke
in the small circle of Edinburgh then, ?and the
Cape Club owned a regular institution from 1763,?
says Chambers, but its sixty-fifth anniversary is
announced in the HeraZd of 1798, for the 15th of
March as given above.
The SPENDTHRIFT CLUB, was so called in ridicule
of the very moderate indulgence of its members,
whose expenses were limited to fourpence-halfpenny
each night, yet all of them were wealthy or
well-to-do citizens, many of whom usually met after
forenoon church at the. Royal Exchange for a walk
in the country-their plan being to walk in the
direction from whence the wind blew and thus
avoid the smoke of the city. ? In 1824,? says
ChamberS, ?? in the recollection of the senior members,
some of whom were of fifty years? standing,
the house (of meeting) was kept by the widow of a
Lieutenant Hamilton of the army, who recollected
having attended the theatre in the Tennis Court at
Holyrood when the play was the ? Spanish Friar,,
and many of the members of the Union Parliament
were present in the house.?
The meetings of this club were nightly, till reduced
to four weekly, Whist was played for a
halfpenny. Supper originally cost only twopence,
and half a bottle of strong ale, with a dram, cost
twopence-halfpenny more ; a halfpenny to the
servant-maid, was a total of fivepence for a night of
jollity and good fellowship.
The PIOUS CLUB was composed of respectable
and orderly business-men who met every night,
Sundays not excepted, in the Pie-house-hence their
name, a play upon the words. We are told that
?the agreeable uncertainty as to whether their
name arose from their pie& or the circumstance of
their eating piesy kept the club hearty for many
years.?
Fifteen members constituted a full night, a gill of
toddy to each was served out like wine from a d e
canter, and they were supposed to separate at ten
o?clock.
The ANTEMANUM CLUB was composed of men of
respectability, and many who were men of fortune,
who dined together every Saturday. ? Brag? was
their chief game with cards. It was a purely convivial
club, till the era of the Whig party being in
the ascendant led to angry political discussions, and
eventual dissolution.
The SIX FEET CLUB was composed of men who
were of that stature or above it, if possible. It was
an athletic society, and generally met half-yearly at
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... THE SPENDTHRIFT CLUB. 12.5
called one of his brother boars by his proper outof-
club name, the term ...
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![University,] A STUDENTS? RIOT. I1
placed in the city charter room; and this order
occurs often afterwards, or is referred to thus :-
?? In 1663 the magistrates came down with their
halberts to the college, took away all our charters
and papers, declared the Provost perpetual rector,
though he was chancellor before, and at the same
time discharged university meetings.?
During the summer of 1656 some new buildings
were in progress on the south side of the old
college, as the town council records state that
for the better carrying on thereof, ?there is a
necessitie to break down and demolishe the hous
neirest the Potterrow Port, which now the Court du
Guaird possesseth ; thairfoir ordaines the thesaurer
with John Milne to visite the place, and doe therin
what they find expedient, as weil for demolishing
the said hous as for provyding for the Court du
Guaird utenvayis.?
During the year 1665 some very unpleasant relations
ensued between the university and its civic
patrons, and these originated in a frivolous cause.
It had been the ancient practice of the regents of
all European seminaries to chastise with a birch
rod such of the students as were unruly or committed
a breach of the laws of the college within
its bound. Some punishment of this nature had
been administered to the son of the then Provost,
Sir Andrew Ramsay, Knight, and great offence was
taken thereat.
In imitation of his colleagues and predecessors,
the regent, on this occasion, had used his own
entire discretion as to the mode and amount of
punishment he should inflict ; but the Lord Provost
was highly exasperated, and determining to wreak
his vengeance on the whole university, assumed the
entire executive authority into his own hands.
?? Having proceeded to the college, and exhibited
some very unnecessary symbols of his power within
the city-the halberts, we presume-on the tenth
of November he repaired to the Council Chamber
and procured the following Act- to be passed :-
Th CoumiZ agrees fhut fhe Provosf of Edinburgh,
present and to come, 6e &ways Rector and Governor
uf fhe roZZege in a21 time coming.? The only important
effects which this disagreeable business
produced were, that it was the cause of corporal
punishment being banished from the university,
and that no rector has since been elected,? adds
Bower, writing in 1817. ?The Senatw Arademiclls
have repeatedly made efforts to revive the election
of the ofice of rector, and have as often failed
of success.?
A short time before his death Cromwell made a
grant to the college of &zoo per annum, a sum
which in those days would greatly have added to
the prosperity of the institution ; but he happened
to die in the September of the same year in which
the grant was dated, and as all his Acts were
rescinded at the? Restoration, his intentions towards
the university came to nothing. The expense of
passing the document at the Exchequer cost about
L476 16s. Scots; hence it is extremely doubtful if
the smallest benefit ever came of it in any way.
The year 1680 saw the students of the university
engaged in a serious riot, which created a profound
sensation at the time.
?i After the Restoration, the students,? says
Amot, ? appear to have been pretty much tainted
with the fanatic principles of the Covenanters,?
and they resolved, while the Duke of Albany and
York was at Holyrood, to manifest their zeal by a
solemn procession and burning of the pope in effigy
on Christmas Day, and to that end posted up the
following :-
??I?HESE are to give notice to all Noblemen, Gentlemen,
Citizens, and others, that We, the Students of the Royal College
of Edinburgh (to show our detestation and abhorrence of
the Romish religion, and our zeal and fervency for the Protestant),
do resolve to bum the effigies of Anfi-ch&f, the
Pqe of Rome at the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, the 25th of
December instant, at Twelve in the forenoon (being the
festival of Our Saviour?s nativity). And as we hate tumnlts
as we do superstition, we do hereby (under pain of death) discharge
all robbers, thieves, and bawds to come within 40
paces of our company, and such as shall be found disobedient
to these our commands, Sibi Caveant.
? By our Special command, ROBERT BROWN, Secretary
to all our Theatricals and Extra L i t d Divertisements.?
?AN ADVERTISEMENT.
This announcement filled the magistrates with
alarm, as such an exhibition was seriously calculated
to affront the duke and duchess, and, moreover,
to excite a dangerous sedition. According to a
history of, this affair, published for Richard Janeway,
in Queen?s Head Alley, Paternoster Row, 1681,
the students bound themselves by a solemn oath
to support each other, under penalty of a fine, and
they employed a carver, ?who erected then a
wooden Holiness, with clothes, tiiple crown, keys,
and other necessary habiliments,? and by Christmas
Eve all was in readiness for the display, to prevent
which the Lord Provost used every means
at his command.
He sent for Andrew Cant, the principal, and
the regents, whom he enjoined to deter the
students ? with menaces that if they would not, he
would make it a bloody Christmas to them.? He
then went to Holyrood, and had an interview with
the duke and the Lord Chancellor, who threatened
to march the Scottish troops into the town. Meanwhile,
the principal strove to exact oaths and
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... A STUDENTS? RIOT. I1
placed in the city charter room; and this order
occurs often afterwards, or is ...
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... all is considered, and we further know that
the building was strong enough to have lasted
many more ages, ...
Book 1 p. 94
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. rHigh Street.
was, in 1876, LIZ 5s. zd., the total cost being
A~,ggo 18s. zd.
The ...
Book 2 p. 266
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Ainslie Place.
To the philosopher we have already referred in
our account of Lothian ...
Book 4 p. 206
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... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [University.
Among the first bequests we may mention that
of 8,000 nierks, or the ...
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... d Stuart St~et.1 PROFESSOR AYTOUN. 207
of sixteen feet there spring curves which bend
round into the arms, ...
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... OLD APU?D NEW EDINBURGH. [Corstorphine.
meaning, no doubt, the panelled box-beds so
common of old in ...
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