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78 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Holyrood.
The Edinburgh HeraZd of April, 1797, mentions
the departure froni Holyrood of the Duc
d?Angoul&me for Hamburg, to join the army of the
Prince of Condd, and remarks, (( We wish His Highness
aprosperous voyage, and we may add (the
valediction of his ancestor, Louis XIV., to the
unfortunate James VII.), may we never see his
face again on the same errand ! ?
The Comte d?Artois visited Sweden in 1804,
but was in Britain again in 1806. His levees and
balls ?tended in some degree to excite in the minds
of the inhabitants a faint idea of the days of other
years, when the presence of its monarchs communicated
splendour and animation to this ancient
metropolis, inspiring it with a proud consciousness
of the remote antiquity and hereditary independence
of the Scottish throne.?
His farewell address to the magistrates and
people, dated from the palace 5th August, 1799, is
preserved among the records of the city.
Among those who pressed forward to meet him
was a Newhaven fishwife, who seized his hand as
he was about to enter his carriage, and shook it
heartily, exclaiming, ?( My name?s Kirsty Ramsay,
sir. I am happy to see you again among decent
folk ! ?
- When the events of the Three Days compelled
Charles X to abdicate the throne of France, he
waived his rights in favour of his nephew, the
young puc de Bordeaux, and quitting his throne,
contemplated at once returning to Holyrood,
where he had experienced some years of comparative
happiness, and still remembered with
gratitude the kindness of the citizens. This he
evinced by his peculiar favour to all Scotsmen,
and his munificence to the sufferers by the great
fire in the Parliament Square. He and his suiteconsisting
of IOO exiles, including the ~ U C de
Bordeaux, Duc de Polignac, Duchesse de Berri,
Baron de Damas, Marquis de Brabancois, and the
Abbe? de Moligny-landed at Newhaven on the
20th October, 1830, amid an enthusiastic crowd,
which pressed forward on all sides with outstretched
hands, welcoming him back to Scotland, and
escorted him to Holyrood. Next morning many
gentlemen dined in Johnston?s tavern at the abbey
in honour of the event, sang ?Auld lang syne?
under his windows, and gave three ringing cheers
?( for the King of France? ?
The Duc and Duchesse d?Angoul&me, after
residing during \se winter at 2 I, Regent Terrace,
joined the king% Holyrood when their apartments
were ready. To the poor of the Canongate
and the city generally, the exiled family were
royally liberal, and also to the poor Irish, and their
whole bearing was unobtrusive, religious, and
exemplary. Charles was always thoughtful and
melancholy. (? He walked frequently in Queen.
Mary?s garden, being probably pleased by its
seclusion and proximity to the palace. Here,
book in hand, he used to pass whole hours in retirement,
sometimes engaged in the perusal of the
volume, and anon stopping short, apparently
absorbed in deep reflection. Charles sometimes
indulged in a walk through the city, but the crowds
that usually followed him, anxious to gratify their
curiosity, in some measure detracted from the
pleasure of these perambulations. . . . . . Arthur?s
Seat and the King?s Park afforded many a solitary
walk to the exiled party, and they seemed much
delighted with their residence. It was evident
from the first that Charles, when he sought the
shores of Scotland, intended to make Holyrood his.
home; and it may be imagined how keenly he felt,
when, after a residence of nearly two years, he was
under the necessity of removing to another country.
Full of the recollection of former days, which time
had not effaced from his memory, he said he had
anticipated spending the remainder of his life in the
Scottish capital, and laying his bones among the
dust of our ancient kings in the chapel of Holyrood.?
(Kay, vol. ii.)
In consequence of a remonstrance from Louis
Philippe, a polite but imperative order compelled
the royal family to prepare to quit Holyrood,
and the most repulsive reception given to the Duc
de Blacas in London, was deemed the forerunner
Df harsher measures if Charles hesitated to comply ;
but when it became known that he was to depart,
a profound sensation of regret was manifested in ?
Edinburgh. The 18th September, 1832, was
named as the day of embarkation. Early on that
morning a deputation, consisting of the Lord
Provost Learmonth of Dean, Colonel G. Macdonell,
Menzies of Pitfoddels (the last of an
ancient line), Sir Charles Gordon of Drimnin,
James Browne, LL.D., Advocate, the historian of
the Highlands, and other gentlemen, bearers of arm
address drawn up by, and to be read by the lastnamed,
appeared before the king at Holyrood. One
part of this address contained an allusion to the
little Duc de Bordeaux so touching that the poor
king was overwhelmed With emotion, and clasped
the document to his heart. ?( I am unable to express
myself,? he exclaimed, ?( but this I will conserve
among the most precious possessions of my
family.?
After service in the private chapel, many gentlemen
and ladies appeared before Charles, the Duc
d?AngoulCme, and Duc de Bordeaux, when they ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Holyrood. The Edinburgh HeraZd of April, 1797, mentions the departure froni Holyrood ...

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Leith.) THE BOURSE. 231
U Throughout these troublesome days, a little episcopal
congregation was kept together in Leith,
their place of worship being the first floor of an
old dull-looking house in Queen?s Street (dated
1516), the lower floor of which was, in my recollection,
a police office.?
The congregation about the year 1744 is said to
have numbered only a hundred and seventy-two ;
and concerning what are called episcopal chapels
in Leith, confusion has arisen from the circumstance
that one used the Scottish communion
office, while another adopted the liturgy of the
Church of England. The one in Queen Street was
occupied in 1865 as a temperance hall.
According to Robertson?s U Antiquities,? the
earliest of these episcopal chapels was situated in
Chapel Lane (at the foot of Quality Street), and
was demolished several years ago, and an ancient
tablet which stood above the door-lintel was built
into a house near the spot where the chapel stood.
It bears the following inscription :-
T. F. THAY. AR. WELCOY. HEIR. THA?I?.
A. M. G6D. DOIS. LOVE. AND. FEIR. 1590.
In 1788 this building was converted into a
dancing-school, said to be the first that wa? opened
in Leith.
On Sunday, April 27, 1745, divine service was
performed in a fey of the then obscure episcopal
chapels in Edinburgh and Leith, but in the following
week they were closed by order of the
sheriff.
That at Leith, wherein the Rev. Robert Forbes
and Rev. Mr. Law officiated, shared the same fate,
and the nonjuring ministers of their communion
had to perform their duties by stealth, being liable
to fines, imprisonment, and banishment. It was
enacted that after the 1st of September, 1746,
every episcopal pastor in Scotland who failed to
register his letters of orders, to take all the oaths
required by law, and to pray for the House of
Hanover, should for the first offence suffer six
months? imprisonment ; for the second be transported
to the plantations ; and for the third suffer
penal servitude for life !
Hence, says Mr. Parker Lawson, in his ?I History
of the Scottish Episcopal Church,? since the Revolution
in 1688, ?the sacrament of baptism was
often administered in woods and sequestered places,
and the holy communion with the utmost privacy.
Confirmations were held with closed doors in
private houses, and divine service often performed
in the open air in the northern counties, amid the
maintains or in the recesses of forests. The
chapels were all shut up, and the doors made
fast with iron bars, under the authority of the
sheriffs.?
The Rev. Robert Forbes became Bishop of
Caithness and Orkney in 1762, but still continued
to reside in Leith, making occasional visits to the
north, for the purpose of confirming and baptising,
till the year of his death, 1776; and twelve years
subsequently, the death of Prince Charles Edward
put an end to much of the jealousy with which the
members of the episcopal communion in Scotland
were viewed by the House of Hanover.
?On Sunday, the 25th of May last,? says The
GentZeman?s Magazine for I 7 88, ? the king, queen,
and Prince of Wales were prayed for by name, and
the rest of the royal family, in the usual manner,
in all the nonjuring chapels in this city (Edinburgh)
and Leith. The same manner of testifying the
loyalty of the Scotch Episcopalians will also be
observed in every part of the country, in consequence
of the resolution come to by the bishops
and clergy of that persuasion. Thus, an effectual
end is put to the most distant idea of disaffection
in any part of His Majesty?s dominions to his royal
person and government.?
The old chapel in Queen Street adjoined a
building which, in the days when Maitland wrote,
had its lower storey in the form of an open piazza,
which modem alterations have completely concealed
or obliterated. This was the exchange, or
meeting-place of the Leith merchants and traders
for the transaction of business, and was known as
the Rourse till a very recent period, being adopted
at a time when the old alliance with France was
an institution in the land, and the intimate relations
between that country and Scotland introduced
many phrases, customs, and words which still
linger in the latter.
The name of the Bourse still remains in Leith
under the corrupted title of the Timber Bush,
occasionally called the How( at some distance
north of Queen Street. It occupied more than
the piazzas referred to-a large piece of ground
originally enclosed by a wooden fence, and devoted
to the sale of timber, but having been plobably
reclaimed from the sea, it was subject to inundations
during spring tides. Thus Calderwood records
that on the IGth of September, 1616, ?there arose
such a swelling in the sea at Leith, that the like
was not seen for a hundred years, for the water came
in with violence in a place called the Timber H~lc
where the timber lay, and carried away some of the
timber, and rnanie lasts of herrings lying there,
to the sea; brak into sundrie low houses and
cellars, and filled them with water. The people,?
he adds, of course, ?tooke this extraordinarie ... THE BOURSE. 231 U Throughout these troublesome days, a little episcopal congregation was kept together in ...

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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 ... 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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Heriot?s Hospital.1 WALTER BALCANQU.-II,L. 367
Waucllop Thesauer,? is ordained ? to take down
the stonewark of the south-west tower, and to make
(it) the same as the north-west and north-east
towers ar, and this to be done with all diligence.?
In Rothiemay?s view of the Hospital, published
in 1647, he shows it enclosed by the crenelated
ramparts of the city from the present tower in the
Vennel, and including the other three on the west
and south.
A high wall, with a handsome gateway, bounds
it above the Grassmarket, and on the west a long
wall separates it from the Greyfriars churchyard,
and the entire side of the present Forrest Road.
Gordon?s view is still more remarkable for showing a
lofty spire above the doorway, and the two southern
towers surmounted by cupolas, which they certainly
A somewhat similar view (which has been reproduced
here,* on p. 368) will be found in Slezer?s
?? Theatrum Scotiz,? under the title of Boghengieght.
How this name (which is the name of one
of the Duke of Gordon?s seats) came to be applied
by the engraver to Heriot?s Hospital is not known.
The hospital was filled with the wounded of the
English army, brought thither from the battle-field
of Dunbar by CromwelL And it was used for sick
and wounded soldiers by General Monk, till about
1658, when the governors prevailed upon him to
remove them, accommodation being provided for
them elsewhere,
During this period the governors granted an
annual pension of A55 to a near relation of Heriot,
but not until they had received two urgent notes
from Cromwell. This pension was afterwards resigned.
Many improvements and additions were
made, and the total expenses amounted then to
upwards of ~30,000, when in 1659 it was opened
for the reception of boys on the 11th April, when
30 were admitted. In August they numbered forty,
In 1660 the number was 52; in 1693 it was
130; and in 1793 140.
Fifteen years before the opening of the hospital,
the life of Dr. Walter Balcanquall, the trustee
whom Maitland curiously calls its architect, had
come to a grievous end. The son of the Rev.
Walter Balcanquall, a minister of Edinburgh for
forty-three years, he had graduated at Oxford as
Bachelor of Divinity, and was admitted a Fellow
on the 8th September, 1611; in 1618 he represented-
whiIe royal chaplain-the Scottish Church
at the Synod of Dort, and his letters concerning
that convocation, addressed to Sir Dudley Carleton,
? had till about 1692.
The Editor is indebted to Mr. D. F. Lowe, M.A.. House-Governor
of Heriot?s Hospital, fer assistance very kindly rendered in the matter
cfiUu&ations.
are preserved in Hale?s ?Golden Remains.? 1:
was after he had been successively Dean of
Rochester 2nd of Durham that he was one of
Heriot?s three trustees. In 1638 he accompanied
the Marquis of Hamilton, Royal Commissioner, as
chaplain ; and some doubts of his dealings on this
ahd subsequent occasions rendered him obnoxious to
the Presbyterians of Scotland and the Puritans of
England; and in July, 1641, he and five others
having been denounced as incendiaries by the Scottish
Parliament, after being persecuted, pillaged, and
sequestrated by the Puritans, he shared the falling
fortunes of Cliarles I. He was thrown into Chirk
Castle, Denbighshire, where he died on Christmas
Day, 1645, just after the battle of Naseby, and a
splendid nionunient to his memory was subsequently
erected in the parish churcli of Chirk: by Sir Thomas
Myddleton.
In the hospital records for 1675 is the following,
under date May 3rd :-?There is a necessity that
the steeple of the hospital be finished, and a top
put thereon. Ro. Miln, Master Mason, to think on
a drawing thereof against the next council meeting.,?
But nothing appears to have been done by the
king?s master mason, for on the Ioth?July, Deacon
Sandilands was ordered to put a roof and top on the
said steeple in accordance with a design furnished
by Sir IVilliam Bruce, the architect of Holyrood
Palace.
In 1680, about the time that the obnoxious test
was made the subject of so much mockery,
Fountainhall mentions that ?( the children of
Heriot?s Hospitall, finding that the dog which
keiped the yards of that hospital1 had a public
charge and office, ordained him to take the test,
and offered him the paper ; but he, loving a bone
rather than it, absolutely refused it. Then they
rubbed it over with butter (which they called an
Explication of the Test in imitation of Argile), and
he licked off the butter and did spit out the paper,
for which they held a jurie on him, and in derision
of the sentence against Argile, they found the dog
guilty of treason, and actually hanged him.?
In 1692 the Council Records refer to the abolition
of the cupolas, the appearance of which in old
views of the hospital have caused some discussion
among antiquaries.
?The council having visited the fabric of the
hospital, and found that the south-east quarter
thereof is not yet finished and completed, and that
the south-west quarter is finished and completed by
a pavilion turret of lead, an& that the north-east
and north-west corners of the said fibnc are
covered with a pavilion roof of lead; therefore,
and for making the whole fabric of the said ... Hospital.1 WALTER BALCANQU.-II,L. 367 Waucllop Thesauer,? is ordained ? to take down the stonewark of ...

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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
412 ... INDEX TO THE NAMES, J JACKMAN, Dr., 255 Jackson, Sergeant, 379 Janies VI., 28, 94, 128, 196, 2C James ...

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34 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Wright?s H0u.w~
good behaviour of William Douglas of Hyvelie
(Reg : Privy Council Scot.). His son Robert, who
was a visitor at the house of William Turnbull of
Airdrie, then resident in Edinburgh, on the 4th
of September, 1608, ? by craft and violence,?
carried off a daughter of the latter in her eleventh
year, and kept her in some obscure place, where
her father could not discover her. Turnbull
brought this matter before the Privy Council, by
Nhom Robert Napier was denounced as a rebel
and outlaw. Of this old family nothing now
remains but a tomb on the north side of the
choir of St. Giles?s; it bears the Merchiston crest
and the Wrychtishouse shield, and has thus been
more than once pointed out as the last restingplace
of the inventor of the logarithms.
The Napiers of Wrychtishousis, says the biographer
of the philosopher, were a race quite dis
tinct from that of Merchiston, and were obviously
a branch of Kilmahew, whose estates lay in Lennox.
Their armorial bearings were, or on a bend azure,
between two mullets or spur rowels.
In its later years this old mansion was the residence
of Lieutenant-General Robertson of Lude,
who served throughout the whole American war,
and brought home with him, at its close, a negro,
who went by the name of Black Tom, who occupied
a room on the ground floor. Tom was again and
again heard to complain of being unable to rest
at night, as the figure of a lady, headless, and
with a child in her arms, rose out of the hearth,
and terrified him dreadfully ; but no one believed
Tom, and his story was put down to intoxication.
Be that as it may, ? when the old mansion was
pulled down to build Gillespie?s Hospital there was
found under the hearthstone of that apartment a
box containing the body of a female, from which
the head had been severed, and beside her lay the
remains of an infant, wrapped in a pillow-case
trimmed with lace. She appeared, poor lady, to
have been cut off in the blossom of her sins ; for
she was dressed, and her scissors were yet hanging
by a ribbon to her side, and her thimble was also
in the box, having, apparently, fallen from her
shrivelled fingers.??
If we are to judge from the following notice in
the Edinburgh HeraZd for 6th April 1799, the
mansion was once the residence of Lord Barganie
(whose peerage is extiiict), as we are told that by
Gillespie?s trustees, ?I Barganie House, at the
Wrights Houses, has been purchased, with upwards
of six acres of ground, where this hospital is to be
erected, The situation is very judiciously chosen;
it is elevated, dry, and healthy.?
In 1800 the demolition was achieved, but not
without a spirited remonstrance in the Edinburgh
Mopzinc for that year, and Gillespie?s Hospital,
a tasteless edifice, designed by Mr. Burn, a builder,
in that ridiculous castellated style called ?&Carpenter?s
Gothic,? took its place. The founder, James
Gillespie, was the eldest of two brothers, who occupied
a shop as tobacconists east of the Market
Cross, Here John, the younger, attended to the
business, while the former resided at Spylaw, near
Colinton, and superintended a mill which they had
erected there for grinding snuff; and there snuff
was ground years after for the Messrs. Kichardson,
105, West Bow. Neither of the brothers married,
,and though frugal and industrious, were far
from being miserly. They lived among their workmen
and domestics, in quite a homely and
patriarchal manner, ? Waste not, want not ? being
ever their favourite maxim, and money increased in
their hands quickly. Even in extreme age, we are
told that James Gillespie, with an old blanket
round him and a night-cap on, both covered with
snuff, regularly attended the mill, superintending
the operations of his man, Andrew Fraser, who
was a hale old man, living in the hospital, when
the first edition of I? Kay ? was published, in I 838.
James kept a carriage, however, for which the Hon.
Henry Erskine suggested as a motto :-
?Wha wad hae thocht it,
That noses had bocht it??
He survived his brother five years, and dying at
Spylaw on the 8th April, 1797, in his eightieth
year, was buried in Colinton churchyard. By his
will he bequeathed his estate, together with _f;I 2,000
sterling (exclusive of A2,700 for the erection and
endowment of a school), ? for the special intent and
purpose of founding and endowing an hospital, or
charitable institution, within the city ,of Edinburgh
or suburbs, for the aliment and maintenance of old
men and women.?
In 1801 the governors obtained a royal charter,
forming them into a body corporate as ?The
Governors of James Gillespie?s Hospital and Free
School.?.
The persons entitled to admittance were :-first,
Mr. Gillespie?s old servants ; second, all persons
of his surname over fifty-five years of age; third,
persons of the same age belonging to Edinburgh
and Leith, failing whom, from all other parts of
Midlothian. None were to be admitted who had
private resources, or were otherwise than ? decent,
godly, and well-behaved men and women.?
In the Council-room of the hospital-from
which the school was built apart-is an excellent ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Wright?s H0u.w~ good behaviour of William Douglas of Hyvelie (Reg : Privy Council ...

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THE CA S TL E. 131
in 1682, in firing a royal salute to the Duke of York, afterwards James VII., a circumstance
that did not fail to be noted at the time as an evil 0men.l On her restoration to
Edinburgh, in 1829 (from which she had been taken as a lump of old iron), she was again
received with the honours accorded to her in ancient times, and was attended in grand procession,
and with a military guard of honour, from Leith to her ancient quarters in the
Castle.’
Near the battery on which this ancient relic now stands is situated the postern gate, as
it is termed, which forms the western boundary of the inner fortification, or citadel of the
Castle. Immediately without this, the highest gmund was known, till the erection of the
new barracks, by the name of Hawk-Hill,’ and doubtless indicated the site of the falconry
in earlier times, while the Castle was a royal residence. Numerous entries in the treasurers’
books attest the attachment of the Scottish Kings to the noble sport of hawking, and the
very high estimation in which these birds were held.
On the northern slope of the Esplanade, without the Castle wall, there still exists a long,
low archway, like the remains of a subterraneous passage, the walls being of rubble work,
and the arch neatly built of hewn stone. Until the enclosure and planting of the ground
excluded the public from the spot, this was popularly known as the Lions’ Den, and was
believed to have been a place of confinement for some of these animals, kept, according
to ancient custom, for the amusement of the Scottish monarchs, though it certainly looks
much more like a covered way to khe Castle.’ Storer, in his description of the West Bow,
mentions a house “ from which there is a vaulted passage to the Castle Hill,” as a thing
then (1818) well known, the house being reported to have afforded in earlier times a place
of meeting for the Council. This tradition of an underground way from the Castle, is one
of very old and general belief; and the idea was further strengthened, by the discovery of
remains of a subterranean passage crossing below Brown’s Close, Castle Hill, in paving it
about the beginning of the present century.* At the bottom of the same slope, on the
margin of the hollow that once formed the bedsf the North Loch, stand the ruins of an
ancient fortification, called the Well-house Tower, which dates as early at least as the
erection of the first town wall, in 1450. It formed one of the exterior works of the
Castle, and served, as its name implies, to secure to the garrison comparatively safe access
to a spring of water at the base of the precipitous rock. Some interesting discoveries were
made relative to this fortification during the operations in the year 1821, preparatory to
the conversion of the North Loch into pleasure grounds. d ere moval of a quantity of
rubbish brought a covered way to light, leading along the southern wall of the tGwer to
a strongly fortzed doorway, evidently intended as a sally port, and towards which the
Fountainhall’s Chron. Notes, No. 1.
a A curious and ancient piece of brasa ordnance, now preserved in the Antiquarian Museum, is worthy of notice here
It was found on the battlementa of Bhurtpore, when taken by Lord Combermere,
’ Kincaid, p. 137. “The governor appointed a centinell on the Hauke Hill, to give notice 80 won an he 8aw the
4 A very curious monumental atone stands near the top of the bank, but it can hardly be included, with propriety,
It was brought from Sweden, and presented many yeara since to the Society of Antiquaries
There is engraved on it a serpent encircling a mm, and on the body of the serpent
Vide
from ita connection with Edinburgh.
and bears the iIlECriptiO~~ACOBUM8 ONTEITHH E FECIT, ELHITBURAGNXHO, DOM.1 642
mortar piece fired.”-Siege of the Caatle, 1689.
among our local antiquities.
by Sir Alex. Setoun of Preston.
a Runio inscription, aignifying,-Ari engraved this stone in memory of Hiam, hie father.
Archmlogia Scotica, voL ii p. 490.
Bann. Club, p, 55.
God help hie SOUL
e Chambers’s Traditions, vol. i. p. 156. ... CA S TL E. 131 in 1682, in firing a royal salute to the Duke of York, afterwards James VII., a ...

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138 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig.
latter married a lady whom Burke calls ?Miss
Alston, of America,? and died without any family,
and now the line of the Nisbets of Dean and
Craigantinnie has passed completely away ; but
long prior to the action recorded the branch at
Restalrig had lost the lands there and the old
house we have described.
In the beginning of the last century the proprietor
of Craigantinnie was Nisbet of Dirleton, of
the male line of that Sir John Nisbet of Dirleton
who was King?s Advocate after the Restoration.
It was subsequently the property of the Scott-
Nisbets, and on the death of John Scott-Nisbet,
Esq., in 1765, an action was raised against his
heirs and trustees, by Young of Newhall, regarding
the sale of the estate, which was ultimately carried
to the House of Peers.
Craigantinnie was next acquired by purchase by
William Miller, a wealthy seedsman, whose house
and garden, at the foot of the south back of the
Canongate, were removed only in 1859, when the
site was added to the Royal Park. When Prince
Charles?s army came to Edinburgh in 1745, he
obtained 500 shovels from William Miller for
trenching purposes. His father, also Wdliam Miller,
who died in 1757, in his eightieth year, had previously
acquired a considerable portion of what is
now called the Craigantinnie estate, or the lands
of Philliside, and others near the sea. He left
.&20,000 in cash, by which Craigantinnie proper
was acquired by his son M7illiam. He was well
known as a citizen of Edinburgh by the name of
?? the auld Quaker,? as he belonged to the Society
of Friends, and was ever foremost in all works of
chanty and benevolence.
About 1780, when in his ninetieth year, he
married an Englishwoman who was then in her
fiftieth year, with whom he went to London and
Pans, where she was delivered of a child, the late
William Miller, M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyne ;
and thereby hangs a story, which made some stir
at the time of his death, as he was currently averred
to be a changeling-even to be a woman, a suggestion
which his thin figure, weak voice, absence of
all beard, aad some peculiarity of habit, seemed to
corroborate. Be that as it may, none were permitted-
save those interested in him-to touch his
body, which, by his will, lies now buried in a
grave, dug to the great depth of foity feet, on the
north side of the Portobello Road, and on the
lands of Craigantinnie, with a classic tomb of considerable
height and beauty erected over it.
At his death, without heirs, the estate passed into
the hands of strangers.
His gigantic tomb, however, with its beautiful
sculptures, forms one of the most remarkable
features in this locality. Regarding it, a writer in,
Tem~jZe Bar for 1881, says :-?? Not one traveller
in a thousand has ever seen certain sculptures
known as the ? Craigantinnie Marbles.? They arel
out of town, on the road to Portobello, beyond the
Piershill cavalry barracks, and decorate a mausoleum
which is to be found by turning off the high
road, and so past a cottage into a field, green and?
moist with its tall neglected grass. There is something
piquant in coming upon Art among humble?
natural things in the country or a thinly peopled
suburb.? After referring to Giotto?s work outside
Padua, he continues : ? It is obvious there is no
comparison intended between that early work of
Italy, so rich in sincere thought and beautiful expression,
and the agreeable, gracious and even
manly hbour, of the artist who wrought for modern
Scotland, the ?Song of Miriam? in this Craigantinnie
field. Still there is a certain freshness of pleasure
in the situation of the work, nor does examination
of the art displayed lead to prompt disappointment.?
Standing solitary and alone, westward of Restalrig
Church, towers the tall villa of Marionville,
which, though now rather gloomy in aspect, was
prior to 1790 the scene often of the gayest private
theatricals perhaps in Britain, and before its then
possessor won himself the unenviable name of ?? the
Fortunate Duellist,? and became an outcast and
one of the most miserable of men, The house is
enclosed by shrubbery of no great extent, and by
high walls. ?Whether it be,? says Chambers,
? that the place has become dismal in consequence
of the rise of a noxious fen in its neighbourhood,
or that the tale connected with it acts upon the
imagination, I cannot decide ; but unquestionably
there is about the house an air of depession and
melancholy such as could scarcely fail to strike the
most unobservant passenger.?
Elsewhere he mentions that this villa was built,
by the Misses Ramsay, whose shop was on the
east side of the old Lj-on Close, on the north side
of the High Street, opposite the upper end of the
City Guardhouse. There they made a fortune,
spent on building Marionville, which was locally
named hjpeet Ha? in derision of their profession.
Here, for some time before 1790, lived Captain
James Macrae, formerly of the 3rd Regiment of
Horse (when commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir Ralph Abercrombie), and now known as the
6th Dragoon Guards, or Carabineers ; and his story
is a very remarkable one, from the well-known
names that must be introduced in it. He was
Macrae of Holemains, whom Fowler, in his Ren-, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Restalrig. latter married a lady whom Burke calls ?Miss Alston, of America,? and died ...

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266 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
It was built accordingly, and is for the reception
and maintenance of men and women in destitute
circumstances, of fifty years of age and upwards, in
the following priority : first, persons of the name
of Watt; second, natives of the parish of South
Leith, of whatever name ; third, persons, of whatever
name, who have constantly resided in that
parish, for at least ten years preceding their admission
; and fourth, natives of or persons who have
constantly resided in the city of Edinburgh or
county of Midlothian, provided such persons are
not pensioners, or in receipt of an allowance from
any charitable institution except the Parochial
Board of South Leith.
The trustees acquired what was formerly a golf
house, with its ground, and there built the hospital,
which was opened for inmates in the spring of
1862. There are eleven trustees and governors,
including, ex o.$icw, the Provost of Leith, the Master
of the Trinity House, and the Master cif the
Merchant Company of Leith, with other officials,
including a surgeon and matron.
South Leith Free Church confronts the west
side of the Links, and has a handsome treble-faced
Saxon fapde.
The year 1880 saw a literal network of new
streets running up from the Links, in the direction
of Hermitage Hill and Park. According to a
statement in the Sotsman, an enterprising firm of
builders, who had obtained, five years previously,
a feu from an industrial society, which had started
building on the ground known as the Hermitage,
during that period had erected buildings which
were roughly estimated at the value of A;35,ooo.
These edifices included villas in East Hermitage
Place, self-contained houses in Noble Place and
Park Vale, while sixty houses had been erected in
Rosevale Place, Fingzie Place, and Elm Place. A
tenement of dwelling-houses, divided into halfflats,
was subsequently constructed at Hermitage
Terrace, and the remaining sites of this area have
also now been occupied.
Eastward from them, the villas of Claremont Park
extend to Pimiefield and Seafield; and hence, the
once lonely Links of Leith, where the plague-stricken
found their graves, where duels might be fought,
and deserters shot, are now enclosed by villas and
houses of various kinds.
At one part of the northern side there are a
bowling-green and the extensive rope walks
which adjoin the ropery and sail-cloth manufactory.
The ?? walks? occupy ground averaging fifteen hundred
feet in length, by five hundred in breadth.
At th.e extreme east end of the Links stand
Seafield Baths, built on the ground once attached
to Seafield House, overlooking one of the finest
parts of a delightful beach, They were built in
1813, at a cost of jt;8,000, in &so shares, each
shareholder, or a member of his family, having a
perpetual right to the use of the baths.
The structure is capacious and neat, and the
hotel, with its suite of baths, is arranged on a plan
which has been thought worthy of imitation in
more recent erections of the same class at other
sea-bathing resorts.
Their erection must have been deemed, though
only in the early years of the present century, a
vast improvement upon the primitive style of
bathing which had been in use and wont during
the early part of the century preceding, and before
that time, if we may judge from the following
suggestive advertisement in the Edinburgh Courant
for 30th May, 1761 :-
?Uth Bathing in Sea Water-This sort of
bathing is much recommended and approved of, but
the want of a machine, or wooden house on wheels,
such as are used at sea-baths in England, to undress
and dress in, and to carry those who intend bathing
to a proper depth of water, hath induced many in
this part of the country to neglect the opportunity of
trying to acquire the benefits to health it commonly
gives. To accommodate those who intend bathing
in the sea, a prpper house on wAeeZs, With horse and
servants, are to be hired on application to James
Morton, at Jarnes Farquharson?s, at the sign of the
?Royal Oak,? near the Glass House, who will
give constant attendance during the remainder of
the season; each person to pay one shilling for
each time they bathe.?
This, then, seems to have been the first bathingmachine
ever seen in Scotland
On the z 2nd December, I 789, the lonely waste
where Seafield Baths stand now was the scene of
a fatal duel, which took place on the forenoon of
that day, between Mr. Francis Foulke, of Dublin,
and an officer in the army, whose name is given
in the Edinburgh Magazine of that year merely as
?Mr. G-.? They had quarrelled, and posted
each other publicly at a coffee-house, in the fashion
then common and for long after. A challenge
ensued, and they met, attended each by a second.
They fired their pistols twice without effect; but
so bitter was their animosity, that they re-loaded,
and fired a third time, when Foulke fell, with a
ball in his heart.
He was a medical student at the university,
where he had exhibited considerable talent, and in
the previous year had been elected President or
the Natural History Society and of the Royal
Medical Society of Edinburgh. ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. It was built accordingly, and is for the reception and maintenance of men and ...

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?NDEX. 467
Macbeth, 4
Macdonald, Andrew, 162
MacEwan, James, 199
Mackenzie, Sir Roderick, 169
Sir James. See Ruyton, Lord
Sir George, 178,210, 216, 261, 324
Hen y, l'h Man of Feeling, 328,332
Wise Ame, 169,247
Mackoull, James, 274
Kaclauchlane, William, 188, 210
Macleod, Mre, 192
Maclure, Mr Andrew, Writing Master, 182
Macmoran, Bailie, 168,453
Micquhen, Michael, 400, 401
M'Gill, Prebendary of Coretorphine, 327
M'Lehose, Mm See Clarinak
M'Lellan of Bombie, 130, 198
M'Naught, Robert, 156
M'Vicar, Rev. Neil, 111
Magdalene, Princess, 41, 42,152
Magistrates' Gowns, 90
Maiden, the, 86,100,175,203
Maison Dieu, 245, 400
Maitlaud, Robert, Dean of Aberdeen, 170
Malcolm II., 2
Iv., 3
Mre, the Black Princess, 292
Malloch, Robert, 250
Mandenton, Patrick, 144
Manzeville, Monsieur, 303
Mar, John, Earl of, 18
Cochrane, Earl of, 19
John, 6th Earl of, 83, 268, 273, 284
John, 7th Earl of, 90, 204
Patrick, Earl of, 5, 7
George, Earl of, 12
Mare, Wooden, 95, 247
Margaret, Queen. See St Muguret
of Denmark, 18
of England, 25, 26, 36, 405
Narch, Earl of, 245
Marischal, William, 4th Earl, 67
Marlin's Wynd, 69, 260
Martin, the Painter, 401
Mary, Queen, 4740,125, 130, 157, 185, 226,245,341,
ia entertained in Cardinal beat on'^ House,
375, 452
Cowgate, 452
of Gueldem. See cfueldera
of Guise. See ChLiie
Mary King's Close, 182,188, 233
Maries, The Queen's, 63, 141
Masterton, Allan, 181
Matildg Queen, 377
Yauchain, Alexander, 172,175
Mauchain's Close, 172
Made, Baron, 259 .
Maxwell, Lord, 176
May Games, 353
Meal Market,' 209
Medins, Sir John de, 411
Megginche, The Church of, 377
Melroee, Abbot of, 261
Melrose, Earl of. See Haaddington, Earl of
Melvil, Sir Jamea, 77, 78
Mr Andrew, 87, 403
Melville, Viscount, 242, 253
Merchant$ Court, 327, 331
Merchanta of Edinburgh, Address to the, 28
Merchiston Caatle, 348
I Mersington, Lord, 208
Middleton, Earl of, 99, 100
Miller, Sir Thomas.
Milne, Robert, 159, 210,260
See CJEenleC, Lord,
John, 159
Square, 242
Milne's Court, 159, 160
Miton, Lord, 297,312
House, 297
Mint, 88,135, 296,314,342
Close, 268, 314
Court, 314
Minto, Lord, 325
Mirror Club, 200
Mitchell, James, a Fanatic Preacher, 101,191
Modens, Duke of, 102
Moffat, Captain, 274
Moffet, Peter, the Reiver, 38
Monboddo, Lord, 288, 334
Monck, General, 96,98,131, 206,345
Monluc, Bishop of Valence, 67, 68
Mons Meg, 104,122,129-131 .
Monteith's Close, 264
Montgomery, Master of, 37
Montrose, Earl of, 174
Alexander, the Poet, 267
Marquis of, 94, 99, 187,215, 295
Aisle, 100, 386
Monuments, Ancient, St Giles's Church, 391
Moodie, Thomas, 105, 428,429
Countess of, 294
Bishop of, 27
House, Canongate, 95,108,294 ,
Xoray, Earl of, 7
More, Jacob, Landscape Painter, 237
Moro~co, Empemr of, 282
Morton, John, 2d Earl of, 26 '
Land, Canongate, 280
James, 4th Earl of, 76, 86, 187
Robert, 12th Earl of, 345
Jamea, 14th Earl of, 232
Countess of, 39
Mansion of the Earls of, 264
Moryson, Fynea, 221
Mound, The Earthen, 161
Moutray of Seafield, a70
Moutrie's Hill, 30, 150, 250, 370
Mowbray, Robert, of Castlewan, 140
Moyee, Dr, 252
Murray, Earl of, 38, 48
Regent, 73, 82, 243. See Stewurt, Lord
Tomb of, St Qies's Church, 389
J a m
Muschett, Nicol, the Murderer, 264
Myllar, Andrew, 30
Mylne, Barbam, a Witch, 305 ... 467 Macbeth, 4 Macdonald, Andrew, 162 MacEwan, James, 199 Mackenzie, Sir Roderick, 169 Sir James. See ...

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314 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. (The West Bow.
thundering back again; being neither more nor
less than Satan come in one of his best equipages
to take home the major and his sister after
they had spent a night?s leave of absence in their
terrestrial dwelling.?
Scott also tellsus inhis ?Letters on Demonology,?
that bold indeed was the urchin who approached
the gloomy house, at the risk of seeing thC major?s
enchanted staff parading the desolate apartments,
.or hearing the hum of the necromantic wheel which
procured for his sister such a reputation as a spinner.
About the beginning of the present century,
according to the author above quoted, when Weir?s
house was beginning to be regarded with less
superstitious terror, an attempt was made by the
luckless proprietor to find one bold enough to
;become his tenant, and such an adventurer was
yrocured in the person of a dissipated old soldier
named William Patullo, whose poverty rendered
him glad to possess a house at any risk, on the low
terms at which it was offered; and the greatest
interest was felt by people of all ranks in the
city, on its becoming known that Major Weir?s
house was about to have a mortal tenant at last !
Patullo and his spouse felt rather flattered by
the interest they excited ; but on the first night, as
the venturesome couple lay abed, fearful and wakeful,
?a dim uncertain light proceeding from the
sathered embers of their fire, and all being silent
around them-they suddenly saw a form? like
that of a calf, which came forward to the bed,
and setting its fore-feet upon the stock, looked
steadfastly at the unfortunate pair. When it had
contemplated them thus for a few minutes, to their
great relief it took itself away, and, slowly retiring,
vanished from their sight. As might be expected,
they deserted the house next morning; and for
another half century no other attempt was made to
embank this part of the world of light from the
aggressions of the world of darkness.?
But even the world of spirits could not withstand
the Improvement Commission, and the
spring of 1878 saw the house of the wizard
numbered with the things that are no more in this
quarter of Edinburgh, and to effect the removal of
which the Commissioners gave freely the sum of
~ 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 .
Behind the abode of the major in the West Bow,
but entered from Johnstone?s Close, Lawnmarket,
was another very remarkable old house which was
demolished about the same time.
Memorials,?
that it exhibits an interior ?? abounding with plain
arched recesses and corbelled projections, scattered
throughout in the most irregular and lawless fashion,
Of this building Wilson says in his
and with narrow windows thrust into the oddest
corners, or up even above the very cornice of the
ceiling, in order to catch every wandering ray of
light, amid the jostling of its pent-up neighbourhood.
A view of the largest apartment is given in the
Abbotsford edition of the Waverley novels, under
the name of the ? Hall of the Knights of St. John,
St John?s Close, Canongate.? ? But he adds that he
had failed in every attempt to obtain any clue to the
early history of this mysterious edifice which tradition
thus associated with the soldier-monks of Torphichen.
Discoveries made in the course of its demolition
added to the mystery concerning it. In the stair
leading from the court to the hall there was a
quaint holy-water font; and in clearing out the
interior, it was found that the ceiling had at one
time been beautifully painted with flowers and
geometric designs. In the great open chimney-place
of the hall there were, singularly enough, two mall
windows; and in the heart of the massive walls
were found secret stairs that led from the hall to
rooms above it
In addition to these secret passages, the walls
disclosed four recesses that had been faced with
stone, and which concealed the relics of more than
one crime or mystery that will never be unravelled.
One held the skeleton of a child, with its cap and
part of its dress; and in the other there were
quantities of human bones. In a built-up cupboatd
a large vertebral bone of a whale was discovered.
?? The beams of the hall,? says the Scotsman of 8th
February, 1878, ?( and indeed of the whole house,
were of oak, which, according to tradition, was
grown on the Burghmuir, and, with the exception
of the ends which had been built into the wall, the
wood was found to be perfectly sound and beautifully
grained.?
Immediately opposite the close that led to the
house of Major Weir, and occupying nearly the site
of the present St John?s Free Church, stood an old
tenement, which bore the date 1602, with the arms
of the Somerville family, and the initials P. S. and
J. W., being those of a once worthy and wealthy
magistrate and his wife, whose son Bartholomew
Somerville was a benefactor to the University of
Edinburgh, when that institution was in its infancy.
The architrave of the door bore also the legend
IN. DOMINO. CONFIDO.
A narrow spiral stair led to a lofty wainscoted
room, with a fine carved oak ceilipg, on the second
floor. This was the first Edinburgh Assembly
Room, off which was a closet or recess, forming an
out-shot over the street, wherein the musickm ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. (The West Bow. thundering back again; being neither more nor less than Satan come in ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 421
When all danger had at last happily passed aw‘ay, Mr. Grant settled in
Edinburgh as a Writer to the Signet, and succeeded well in business. He knew
not only how to make money, but how to take care of it, and ultimately amassed
a very considerable fortune. As illustrative of his character and the general
wariness of his habits of business, we quote the following story from the
Edinburgh Literary Journal :-
“ Mr. Ross of Pitcalnie, representative of the ancient and noble family of Ross,’ h d , like Colquhoun
Grant, been out in the forty-five, and consequently lived on terms of intimate friendship with
that gentleman. Pitcalnie, however, had rat,her devoted himself to the dissipation than the aequisition
of a fortune ; and, while Mr. Grant lived as a wealthy writer, he enjoyed little better than the
character of a broken laird. This nnfortunate Jacobite was one day in great distress for want of the
sum of forty pounds, which he could not prevail upon any of his friends to lend him, all of them
being aware of his execrable character as a debtor. At length he informed some of his companions
that he believed he should get what he wanted from Colquhonn Grant ; and he instantly proposed to
make the attempt. All who heard him scoffed at the idea of his squeezing a subsidy from so closefisted
a man ; and some even offered to lay bets against its possibility. Mr. Ross accepted the bets,
and lost no time in applying to his old brother-in-arms, whom he found immured in his chambers,
half-a-dozen flights of steps up Gavinloch’s Land, in the Lawnmarket. The conversation commenced
with the regular commonplaces ; and for a long time Pitcalnie gave no hint that he was suing in
forma pauperis. At length he slightly hinted the necessity under which he lay for a trifle of money,
and made bold to ask if Mr. Grant could help him in a professional way. ‘ What a pity, Pitcalnie,’
replied the writer, ‘you did not apply yesterday ! I sent all the loose money I had to the bank
just this forenoon. ‘ Oh, no matter,’ said Pitcalnie,
and continued the conversation, as if no such request had been preferred. By and by, after some
more topics of an ordinary sort had been discussed, he at length introduced the old subject of the
forty-five, upon which both were alike well prepared to speak. A thousand delightful recollections
then rushed upon the minds of the two friends, and, in the rising tide of ancient feeling, all distinction
of borrower or lender was soon lost. Pitcalnie watched the time when Grant was fully mellowed
by the conversation, to bring in a few compliments upon his (Grant’s) oxm particular achievements.
He expatiated upon the bravery which his friend had shown at Preston, where he was the first man to
go up to the cannon ; ou which account he made out that the whole victory, so influential to the
Prince’s affairs, was owing to no other than Colquhoun Grant, now Writer to the Signet, Gavinloch’s
Land, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. He aho adverted to the boldness Mr. Grant had displayed in
chasing a band of recreant draguons from the field of battle up to the very gates of Edinburgh Castle ;
and farther, upon the dexterity which he subsequently displayed in making his escape from the
town.. ‘Bide a wee,’ said Mr. Grant, at this stage of the conversation, ‘till I gang ben the house.’
He immediately returned with the sum Pitcalnie wanted, which he said he now recollected having
left over for some time in the shuttle of his private desk. Pitcalnie took the money, continued the
conversation for some time longer, and then took an opportunity of departing. When he came back
to his friends, every one eagerly asked-‘ What success 2 ’ ‘Why there’s the money,’ said he. ‘ Where are my bets ! ’ ‘ How, in the name of wonder, did you
get it out of him 1 Pitcalnie explained the plan he had taken
with his friend, adding, with an expressive wink, ‘ This forty’s made out of the battle of Preston ;
but stay a wee, lads ; I’ve Falkirk i’ my pouch yet-by my faith I wadna gie it for auchty.’ ”
It is for the present quite beyond redemption.’
‘ Incredible ! ’ every one exclaimed.
Did you cast glamour in his een ?’
Mr. Grant used to pride himself on the purity and facility with which he
could read and speak the English language. How far he was justified in so
doing may be inferred from the following anecdote :-He had occasion to be in ,
London as agent in an appeal before the House of Lords ; and an opportunity
occurring for the public display of his elocution and correctness of pronunciation,
in consequence of a certain paper requiring to be read, Mr. Grant craved and
, 1 This assertion seems to be very qnest.ionable. The representation of the Ross famiIy was in the
Lords Ross-the last of whom died upon the 19th of August 1754, when the title became extinct. ... SKETCHES. 421 When all danger had at last happily passed aw‘ay, Mr. Grant settled in Edinburgh as ...

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?-a --It OLD AND? NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street,
Baron of the Exchequer Court in 1748, and grandson
of James of Balumby, fourth Earl of Panmure,
who fought with much heroic valour at the battle
of Dunblane, and was attainted in 171s.
The spacious stone mansion which he occupied
at the foot of the close, and the north windows of
which overlooked the steep slope towards the
Trinity Church, and the then bare, bleak mass of
the Calton Hill beyond, was afterwards acquired
as an office and hall by the Society for the Propagation
of Christian Knowledge and the Plantation
of Schools in the Highlands ?for the rooting out
of the errors of popery and converting of foreign
nations,?? a mighty undertakiog, for which a charter
was given it by Queen Anne in 1709. Thus the
alley came to be called by its last name, Society
Close.
Such were the immediate surroundings of that
old manse, in which John Knox received the
messengers of his queen, the fierce nobles of her
turbulent Court, and the Lords of the Congregation.
It is to the credit of the Free Church of Scotland,
which has long since acquired it as a piece of
property, that the progress of decay has been
arrested, and some traces of its old magnificence
restored. A wonderfully picturesque building of
three storeys above the ground floor, it abuts on the
narrowed street, and is of substantial ashlar, terminating
in curious gables and masses of chimneys.
A long admonitory inscription, extending over
nearly the whole front, carved on a stone belt,
bears these words in bold Roman letters :-LUFE
GOD. ABOVE. AL. AND. YOVR. NICHTBOUR . A S . YI
SELF. Perched upon the corner above the
entrance door is a small and hideous effigy of the
Reformer preaching in a pulpit, and pointing with
his right hand above his head towards a rude
sculpture of the sun bursting out from amid clouds,
with the name of the Deity inscribed in three
languages on its disc, thus :-
8 E O Z
D L U S
G O D
On the decoration of the efligy the pious care of
successive generations of tenants has been expended
with a zeal not always appreciated by
people of taste. The house contains a hall, the
stuccoed ceiling of which pertains to the time of
Charles II., when perhaps the building was repaired.
M?Crie, in his Life of Knox, tells us, that the
latter, on commencing his duties in Edinburgh
in 1559, when the struggles of the Reformation
were well nigh over, was lodged in the house of
David Forrest, a citizen, after which he removed
permanently to the house previously occupied by
the exiled abbot of Dunfermline. The magisS
trates gave him a salary of Azoo Scots yearly, and
in 1561 ordered the Dean of Guild to make him B
warm study in the house built of ?? dailles ?-i.e., to
be wainscoted or panelled.
This is supposed to be the small projection,
lighted by one long window, looking westward up
the entire length of the High Street ; and adjoining
it on the first floor is a window in an angle of the
house, from which he is said to have held forth to
the people in the street below, and which is still
termed ? the preaching window.?
In this house he doubtless composed the ?? Confession
of Faith ? and the ? First Book of Discipline,?
in which, at least, he had a principal haad,
and which were duly ratified by Parliament j and
it was during the first year of his abode in this
house that he lost his first wife, Marjory Bowes
(daughter of an English border family), whom he
had married when an exile, a woman of amiable
disposition and pious deportment, but whose
portrait at Streatlam Castle, Northumberland, is
remarkable chiefly for its intense ugliness. She
was with him in all his wanderings at home and
abroad, and regarding her John Calvin thus expresses
himself in a letter to the widower:-
?? Uxu~em nactus uas cui non rgeriuntur passim
siivziZes?--?you had a wife the like of whom is not
anywhere to be found.? By her he had two sons.
Four years after her death, to this mansion,
when in his fifty-ninth year, he brought his second
Wife, Margaret Stewart, the youngest daughter of
Andrew, ?the good? Lord Ochiltree, who, after
his death, mamed Sir Andrew Kerr of Faudonside.
By his enemies it was now openly alleged that
he must have gained the young girl?s affections by
the black art and the aid of the devil, whom he
raised for that purpose in the yard behind his
house. In that curious work entitled ?? The Disputation
concerning the Controversit Headdis of
Religion,? Nicol Bume, the author, relates that
KIIOX, on the occasion of his marriage, went to the
Lord Ochiltree with many attendants, ?on a.ne
trim gelding, nocht lyk ane prophet or ane auld
decrepit priest as he was, bot lyk as had been ane
of the Elude Royal, with his bands of taffettie
feschnit With golden ringis and precious stones ;
and, as is plainlie reportit in the countrey, be
sorcerie and witchcraft did sua allure that puu
gentilwoman, that scho could not leve without
him? Another of Knox?s traducers asserts, that
not long after his marriage, ?she (his wife) lying
in bed and perceiving a blak, uglie ill-favoured man
(the devil, of course) busily talking with him in the+
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190 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Great Fire.
while the weather changed rapidly ; the wind,
accompanied by rain, came in fierce and fitful
gusts, thus adding to the danger and harrowing
interest of the scene, which, from the great size of
the houses, had much in it that was wild and weird.
? About five o?clock,?? says Dr. James Browne, in
his ? Historical Sketch of Edinburgh,? ?the fire
had proceeded so far downwards in the building
occupied by the Coura~rf office, that the upper part
of the front fell inwards with a dreadful crash, the
concussion driving the flames into the middle of
the street. By this time it had communicated with
the houses on the east side of the Old Fish Market
Close, which it burned down in succession ; while
that occupied by Mr. Abraham Thomson, bookbindet,
which had been destroyed a few months
previously by fire and re-built, was crushed in at
one extremity by the fall of the gable. In the Old
Assembly Close it was still more destructive ; the
whole west side, terminating with the .king?s old
Stationery Warehouse, and including the Old Assembly
Hall, then occupied as a warehouse by
Bell and Bradfute, booksellers, being entirely consumed.
These back tenements formed one of the
most massive, and certainly not the least remarkable,
piles of building in the ancient city, and in
former times were inhabited by persons of the
greatest distinction. At this period they presented
a most extraordinary spectacle. A great
part of the southern Zand fell to the ground ; but a
lofty and insulated pile of side wall, broken in the
centre, rested in its fall, so as to form one-half of
an immense pointed arch, and remained for several
days in this inclined position.
?By nine o?clock the steeple of the Tron Church
was discovered to be on fire ; the pyramid became
a mass of flame, the lead of the roof poured over
the masonry in molten streams, and the bell fell
With a crash, as we have narrated, but the church
was chiefly saved by a powerful engine belonging
to the Board of Ordnance. The fire was now
stopped; but the horror and dismay of the people
increased when, at ten that night, a new one broke
forth in the devoted Parliament Square, in the attic
floor of a tenement eleven storeys in height, overlooking
the Cowgate. As this house was far to
windward of the other fire, it was quite impossible
that one could have caused the other-a conclusion
which forced itself upon the minds of all, together
with the startling belief that some desperate incendiaries
had resolved to destroy the city ; while
many went about exclaiming that it was a special
punishment sent from Heaven upon the people for
their sins.?? (Browne, p. 220; Courant of Nov. 18,
1824; &c.)
As the conflagration spread, St. Giles?s and the
Parliament Square resounded with dreadful echoes,
and the scene became more and more appalling,
from the enormous altitude of the buildings; all
efforts of the people were directed to saving the
Parliament House and the Law Courts, and by
five on the morning of Wednesday the scene is
said to have been unspeakably grand and terrific.
Since the English invasion under Hertford in
1544 no such blaze had been seen in the ancient
city. ? Spicular columns of flame shot up majestically
into the atmosphere, which assumed a lurid,
dusky, reddish hue ; dismay, daring, suspense,
fear, sat upon different countenances, intensely
expressive of their various emotions ; the bronzed
faces of the firemen shone momentarily from under
their caps as their heads were raised at each successive
stroke of the engines ; and the very element
by which they attempted to extinguish the conflagration
seemed itself a stream of liquid fire. The
County Hall at one time appeared like a palace of
light ; and the venerable steeple of St. Giles?s reared
itself amid the bright flames like a spectre awakened
to behold the fall and ruin of the devoted city.?
Among those who particularly distinguished themselves
on this terrible occasion were the Lord President,
Charles Hope of Granton ; the Lord Justice
Clerk, Boyle of Shewalton ; the Lord Advocate,
Sir Williani Rae of St. Catherine?s ; the Solicitor-
General, John Hope; the Dean of Faculty ; and
Mr. (afterwards Lord) Cockburn, the well-known
memorialist of his own times.
The Lord Advocate would seem to have been
the most active, and worked for some time at one
of the engines playing on the central tenement at
the head of the Old Assembly Close, thus exerting
himself to save the house in which he first saw the
light. All distinction of rank being lost now in
one common and generous anxiety, one of Sir
Wiiliam?s fellow-labourers at the engine gave him a
hearty slap on the back, exclaiming, at the same
time, ? Wee1 dune, my lord !I?
On the morning of Wednesday, though showers
of sleet and hail fell, the fire continued to rage with
fury in Conn?s Close, to which it had been communicated
by flying embers ; but there the ravages
of this unprecedented and calamitous conflagration
ended. The extent of the mischief done exceeded
all former example. Fronting the High Street
there were destroyed four tenements of six storeys
each, besides the underground storeys ; in Conn?s
Close, two timber-fronted ? lands,? of great antiquity
; in the Old Assembly Close, four houses of
seven storeys each ; in Borthwick?s Close, six great
tenements ; in the Old Fish Market Close, four of ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Great Fire. while the weather changed rapidly ; the wind, accompanied by rain, ...

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and burned, and ?? that ilk mail in Edinburgh have
his lumes (vents) full of watter in the nycht, under
pain of deid !? (I? Qiurnal.?) This gives us a graphic
idea of the city in the sixteenth century, and of the
High Street in particular, ?with the majority of the
buildings on either side covered with thatch, encumbered
by piles of heather and other fuel
accumulated before each door for the use of the
inhabitants, and from amid these, we may add
the stately ecclesiastical edifices, and the substantial
mansions of the nobility, towering with all the
more imposing effect, in contrast to their homely
neighbourhood.?
Concerning these heather stacks we have the
following episode in ?Moyse?s Memoirs :?--?On the
2nd December, 1584, a b.kxteis boy called Robert
Henderson (no doubt by the instigation of Satan)
desperately put some powder and a candle to his
father?s heather-stack, standing in a close opposite
the Tron, and burnt the same with his.father?s
house, to the imminent hazard of burning the whole
Sown, for which, being apprehended most marvellously,
after his escaping out of town, he wus n~xt
day burnt pick at the cross of Edinburgh as an
example.?
There was still extant in 1850 a small fragment
.of Forrester?s Wynd, a beaded doorway in a ruined
wall, with the legend above it-
?? O.F. OUR INHERITANCE, 1623.?
?In all the old houses in Edinburgh,? says
Amot, ?it is remarkable that the superstition of
the time had guarded each with certain cabalistic
characters or talismans engraved upon its front.
These were generally composed of some texts of
Scripture, of the name of God, or perhaps an
emblematical representation of the crucifixion.?
Forrester?s Wynd probably took its name from
Sir Adam Forrester of Corstorphine, who was twice
chief magistrate of the city in the 14th century.
After the ?Jenny Geddes? riot in St. Giles?s,
Guthrie, in his ?Memoirs,? tells us of a mob, consisting
of some hundreds of women, whose place
.of rendezvous in 1637 was Forrester?s Wynd, and
who attacked Sydeserf, Bishop of Galloway, when
.on his way to the Privy Council, accompanied by
Francis Stewart, son of the Earl of Bothwell,
.?with such violence, that probably he had been
torn in pieces, if it had not been that the said
Francis, with the help of two pretty men that
attended him, rescued him out of their barbarous
hands, aud hurled him in at the door, holding back
the pursuers until those that were within shut the
door. Thereafter, the Provost and Bailies being
assembled in their council, those women beleaguered
them, and threatened to burn the house about their
ears, unless they did presently nominate two commissioners
for the town,? Src. Their cries were :
?? God defend all thdse who will defend God?s cause!
God confound the service-book and all maintainers
thereof !?
From advertisements, it wonld appear that a
character who made some noise in his time, Peter
Williamson, ?I from the other world,? as he called
himself, had a printer?s shop at the head of this
wynd in 1772. The victim of a system of kidnapping
encouraged by the magistrates of Aberdeen,
he had been c?arried off in his boyhood to America,
and after almost unheard-of perils and adventures,
related in his autobiography, published in 1758, he
returned to Scotland, and obtained some small
damages from the then magistrates of his native
city, and settled in Edinburgh as a printer and
publisher, In 1776 he started The Scots Spy, published
every Friday, of which copies are now
extremely rare. He had the merit of establishing
the first penny post in Edinburgh, and also published
a ?? Directory,? from his new shop in the
Luckenbooths, in 1784. He would appear for
these services to have received a small pension
from Government when it assumed his institution
of the penny post.
The other venerable alley referred to, Beith?s
Wynd, when greatly dilapidated by time, was nearly
destroyed by two fires, which occurred in 1786 and
1788. The former, on the 12th Decernher, broke
out near Henderson?s stairs, and raged with great
violence for man), hours, but by the assistance of
the Town Guard and others it was suppressed, yet
not before many families were burnt out. The
Parliament House and the Advocates? Library
were both in imminent peril, and the danger appeared
so great, that the Court of Session did not
sit tha? day, and preparations were made for the
speedy removal of all records. At the head of
Beith?s Wynd, in 1745, dwelt Andrew Maclure, a
writing-niaster, one of that corps of civic volunteers
who marched to oppose the Highlanders, but
which mysteriously melted away ere it left the West
Port. It was noted of the gallant Andrew, that
having made up his mind to die, he had affixed
a sheet of paper to his breast, whereon was written,
in large text-hand, ?This is the body of Andrew
Maclure j let it be decently interred,? a notice that
was long a source of joke among the Jacobite
wits.
With this wynd, our account of the alleys in
connection with the Lawnmarket ends. We have
elsewhere referred to the once well-known Club
formed by the dwellers in the latter, chiefly woc!!en
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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
the Hunter?s Tryst, near Colinton, or similar places, ... 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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When all is considered, and we further know that
the building was strong enough to have lasted
many more ages, one cannot but regret that the
palace of Mary de Guise, reduced as it was to vilebess,
should not now be in existence. The site
having been purchased by individuals connected
with the Free Church, the buildings were removed
in 1846 to make rodm for the erection of an academical
institution, or college, for that body.?
The demolition of this mansion brought to light
a concealed chamber on the first floor, lighted by a
narrow loophole opening into Nairne?s Close. The
entrance had been by a movable panel, affording access
to a narrow flight of steps wound round in the
wall of the turnpike stair. The existence of this
mysterious chamber was totally-unknown to the various
inhabitants, and all tradition has been lost of
those to whom it may have afforded escape or refuge.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses an undoubted
portrait of Mary of Guise, It represents her with
a brilliantly fair complexion, with reddish, or
auburn hair. This is believed to be the only
authentic one in existence, That portrait alleged
to be of her in the Trinity House at Leith is a bad
copy, by Mytens, of that of her daughter at St.
James?s. Some curious items connected with her
Court are to be found in the accounts of the Lord
High Treasurer, among them are the following :-
At her coronation in 1540, ?Item, deliverit to
ye French telzour, to be ane cote to Serrat, the
Queen?s fule,? &c. Green and yellow seems to have
been the Court fool?s livery; but Mary of Guise,
seems to have had a female buffoon and male
and female dwarfs :-? 1562. Paid for ane cote,
hois, lyning and making, to Jonat Musche, fule,
A 4 5s. 6d.; 1565, for green plaiding to make
ane bed to Jardinar the fule, with white fustione
fedders,? &c.; in 1566, there is paid for a garment
of red and yellow, to be a gown ?( for Jane Colqu-,
houn, fule;? and in 1567, another entry, for broad
English yellow, U to be cote, breeks, also sarkis,
to James Geddie, fide.?
The next occupant of the Guise palace, or of
that portioli thereof which stood in Tod?s Close, was
Edward Hope, son of John de Hope, a Frenchman
who had come to Scotland in the retinue of
Magdalene, first queen of James V., in 1537.
It continued in possession of the Hopes till 1691,
when it was acquired by James, first Viscount Stair,
for 3,000 guilders, Dutch money, probably in connection
with some transaction in Holland, from
whence he accompanied William of Orange four
years before, In 1702 it was the abode and property
of John Wightman of Mauldsie, afterwards
Lord Provost of the city. From that period it was
the residence of a succession of wealthy burgesses
-the closes being then, and till a comparatively
recent period, exclusively occupied by peers and
dignitaries of rank and wealth. Since then it shared
the fate of all the patrician dwellings in old Edinburgh,
and became the squalid abode of a host of
families in the most humble ranks of life.
CHAPTER X
THE LAWNMARKET.
The Lawnmarket-RispE-The Weigh-house-Major Somerville and Captain Crawfod-Anderson?s Pills-Mylnc?s Court-James?s Court-
Su John Lauder-Sir Islay Campbell-David Hum-?? Corsica? Boswell-Dr. Johnson-Dr. Blair-?? Gladstone?s Land?-A Fue in 1771.
THE Lawnmarket is the general designation of that
part of the town which is a continuation of the
High Street, but lies between the head of the old
West Bow and St. Giles?s Church, and is about 510
feet in length. Some venerable citizens still living
can recall the time when this spacious and stately
thoroughfare used to be so covered by the stalls
and canvas baoths of the lawn-merchants,? with
their webs and rolls of cloth of every description,
that it gave the central locality an appearance of
something between a busy country fair and an
Indian camp. Like many other customs of the
olden time this has passed away, and the name
alone remains to indicate the former usages of the
place, although the importance of the street was
such that its occupants had a community of their
own called the Lawnmarket Club, which was
famous in its day for the earliest possession of
English and foreign intelligence.
Among other fashions and customs departed, it
may be allowable here to notice an adjunct of the
first-floor dwellings of old Edinburgh. The means
of bringing a servant to the door was neither a
knocker nor bell, but an apparatus peculiar to
Scotland alone, and still used in some parts of Fife,
called a risf, which consists of a slender bar of
serrated or twisted iron screwed to the door in an
upright position, about two inches from it, and
furnished with a large ring, by which the bar could
be rasped, or risped, in such a way as secured attention.
In many instances the doors were also
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266 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. rHigh Street.
was, in 1876, LIZ 5s. zd., the total cost being
A~,ggo 18s. zd.
The directors of the United Industrial School
may fairly claim to have practically solved the
greatest difficulty of the educational question ; and
their institution was one of the earliest of its class
to give effect to thediscovery that the training of
?? ragged school ? pupils in such merely mechanical
and elementary work as teasing hair, picking
oakum, net-making, and so forth, was little better
than a waste of time, when compared with that initiation
in skilled handicrafts of the simple order,
which would qualify the children on leaving school
to assume something like an independent position
in life. In the annual repat for 1860 appears the
following :-?The total number of children who
have received the benefit of our school is 950, and
Mr. Fergusson has by patient and laborious investigation,
during six months past, ascertained the
present earnings of upwards of two-thirds of that
.number. These earnings represent the scarcely
credible sum of AI 1,596. From the report of the
following year we learn that the superintendent, by
a most strict investigation, found the sum of annual
earning that year was nearly ~~;I,OOO higher-the
nett sum being A12,472.?
This elaborate record has not been kept up;
but there is no reason to doubt that had it been.so,
the succeeding years would have shown the same
result.
CHAPTER XXXII.
ALLEYS OF THE HIGH STREET ?(continued).
Toddrick?s Wynd-Banquet to the Danish Ambassador and Nobles-Lord Leven?s House in Skinner?s Close-The First Mint Houses-The
Mint-Scottish Coin-Mode of its Manufacture-Argyle?s Lodging-Dr. Cullen-Elphinstone?s Court-Lords Loughborough and Stonefield-
Lord Selkirk-Dr. Rutherford, the Inventor of Gas.
banquet was given existed till recently j but the BELOW Blackfriars Street opens Toddrick?s Wynd,
to which a special interest is attached, from its association
with one of the darkest deeds of a lawless
age, for it was by that dark and narrow alley that
James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell and his heartless
accomplices proceeded towards the gate of the
Blackfriars monastery in the Cowgate, on the night
of the 9th of February, 1567, to fire the powder
lodged in the vaults of the provost?s house in the
Kirk-of-field,
- ?(and blew a palace into atoms,
Sent a young king-a young queen?s mate at least,
Into the air, as high as e?er flew night-hawk,
And made such wild work in the realm of Scotland
As they can tell who heard.?
Till the recent demolitions, the closes between
this point and the Netherbow remained unchanged
in aspect, and in the same state for centuries, szve
that they had become wofully degraded by the
habits, character, and rank of their inhabitants.
In Toddrick?s Wynd, a lofty building with a
massive polished ashlar front at the foot thereof,
and long forming a prominent object amid the
faded grandeur of the Cowgate, was the abode of
Thomas Aitchison, master of the Mint ; and therein,
in 1590, the provost and magistrates, at the expense
of the city, gave a grand banquet to the
ambassador and nobles of Denmark, who had come
to Scotland in the train of Queen Anne.
The handsome alcoved chamber in which the
style- of the entertainment would seem to have been
remarkable for abundance rather than elegance.
There were simply bread and meat, with four boins
of beer, four gangs of ale, and four puncheons of
wine. The house, however, was hung with rich
tapestry, and the tables were decorated with
chandeliers and flowers. We hear, too, of napery,
of ?( two dozen great vessels,? and of ?? cup-buirds
andmen to keepthem.? Thefurnishing of the articles
had been distributed among the dignitaries of the
city, with some reference to their respective trades.
Aniong those present at the banquet were Peiter
Monck, admiral of Denmark ; Stephen Brahe (a
relative, perhaps, of the great Tycho Brahe) captain
of Eslingburg ; Braid Ransome Maugaret ; Theophilus,
Doctor of Laws; Henry Goolister, captain -
of Bocastle ; William Vanderwent-whose names
are doubtless all misspelt in the record.
The ? napery ? on this occasion was provided by
the Lord Provost, and the musicians, ? fydlerk at the
bankit,? as it is written in the Lord High Treasurer?s
accounts, were paid for by him. He had also to
pay ?for furnessing fyftene fedder beddis to the
Densis (Danes) within the palice of Halierudhous.?
Murdoch?s Close, a gloomy old cul-de-sac, lay
between this alley and Skinner?s Close, at the head
of which was the town house of the Earls of Leven.
The last who resided in Edinburgh, David, sixth
Earl, who was born in 1722, and who was wont, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. rHigh Street. was, in 1876, LIZ 5s. zd., the total cost being A~,ggo 18s. zd. The ...

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206 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Ainslie Place.
To the philosopher we have already referred in
our account of Lothian Hut, in the Horse Wynd.
In 1792 he published the first volume of the
?Philosophy of the Human Mind,? and in the
following year he read before the Royal Society of
Edinburgh his account of the life and writings of
Adam Smith.; and his other works are too wellknown
to need enumeration here. On the death
of his wife, in 1787, he married Helen D?Arcy
Cranstoun, daughter of the Hon. George Cranstoun,
who, it is said, was his equal in intellect, if
superior in blood. She was the sister of the
Countess Purgstall (the subject of Basil Hall?s
? Schloss Hainfeldt ?) and of Lord Corehouse, the
tiiend of Sir Walter Scott.
Though the least beautiful of a family iq which
beauty is hereditary, she had (according to the
Quarter& Review, No. 133) the best essence of
beauty, expression, a bright eye beaming with intelligence,
a manner the most distinguished, yet
soft, feminine, and singularly winning. On her illfavoured
Professor she doted with a love-match
devotion; to his studies and night lucubrations
she sacrificed her health and rest; she was his
amanuensis and corrector at a time when he was
singularly fortunate in his pupils, who never forgot
the charm of her presence, the instruction they
won, and the society they enjoyed, in the house of
Dugald Stewart Among these were the Lords
Dudley, Lansdowne, Palmerston, Kinnaird, and
Ashburton. In all his after-life he maintained a
good fellowship with them, and, in 1806, obtained
the sinecure office of Gazefie writer for Scotland,
with A600 per annum.
Her talent, wit, and beautymade the wife of the
Professor one of the most attractive women in the
city. ?( No wonder, therefore,? says the Quarfero,
?that her saloons were the resort of all that was
the best of Edinburgh, the house to which strangers
most eagerly sought introduction. In her Lord
Dudley found indeed a friend, she was to him in
the place of a mother. His respect for her was
unbounded, and continued to the close; often
have we seen him, when she was stricken in years,
seated near her for whole evenings, clasping her
hand in both of his. Into her faithful ear he
poured his hopes and his fears, and unbosomed his
inner soul ; and with her he maintained a constant
correspondence to the last.?
Her marriage with the Professor came about in a
singular manner. When Miss Cranstoun, she had
written a poem, which was accidentally shown by
her cousin, the Earl of Lothian, to Dugald Stewart,
then his private tutor, and unknown to fame ; and
?he was so enraptured with it, and so warm in his
commendations, that the authoress and her critic
fell in love by a species of second-sight, before their
first interview, and in due time were made one.
Dugald Stewart died at his house in Ainslie
Place, on Wednesday, the 11th June, 1828, after a
short but painful illness, when in the seventy-fifth
year of his age, having been born in the old College
of Edinburgh in 1753, when his father was professor
of mathematics. His long life had been
devoted to literature and science. He had acquired
a vast amount of information, profound as it was
exact, and possessed the faculty of memory in a
singular degree. As a public teacher he was
fluent, animated, and impressive, with great dignity
and grace in his manner.
He was buried in the Canongate churchyard.
The funeral procession proceeded as a private one
from Ainslie Place at, three in the afternoon ; but
on reaching the head of the North Bridge it was
joined by the Senatus Academicus in their gowns
(preceded by the mace bearer) two and two, the
junior members in front, the Rev. Principal Baird
in the rear, together with the Lord Provost, magistrates
and council, with their officers and regalia.
He left a widow and two children, a son and
daughter, the former of whom, Lieutenant-Colonel
Matthew Stewart, published an able pamphlet on
Indian affairs. His widow, who holds a high
place among writers of Scottish song, survived him
ten years, dying in July, 1838.
The Very Rev. Edward Bannerman Ramsay,
LL.D. and F.R.S.E., a genial writer on several
subjects, but chiefly known for his ? Reminiscences
of Scottish Life and Character,? was long the occupant
of No. 23. He was the fourth son of Sir
Alexander Ramsay, Bart., of Balmaine, in Kincardineshire,
and was a graduate of St. John?s College,
Cambridge. His degree of LL.D. was given him
by the University of Edinburgh, on the installation
of Mr. Gladstone as Lord Rector in 1859. He
held English orders, and for seven years had been
a curate in Somersetshire. His last and most
successful contribution to literature was derived
from his long knowledge of Scottish character. He
was for many years Dean of the Episcopal Church
in Scotland, and as a Churchman he always advocated
moderate opinions, both in ritual and doctrine.
He died on the 27th December, 1872, in
the seventy-ninth year of hi5 age.
In the summer of 1879 amemorial to his memory
was erected at the west end of Princes Street,
eastward of St. John?s Church, wherein he so long
officiated. It is a cross of Shap granite, twenty-six
feet in height, having a width of eight feet six
inches from end to end of the arms. At the height
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26 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [University.
Among the first bequests we may mention that
of 8,000 nierks, or the wadsett of the lands ol
Strathnaver, granted by Robert Reid, Prior 01
? Beaulieu and last Catholic Bishop of Orkney, to
build a college in Edinburgh, having three schools,
one for bairns in grammar, another for those that
learn poetry and oratory, with chambers for the
regent?s hall, and the third for the civil and canon
law, and which is recorded by the Privy Council 01
Scotland (1569-1578) ?as greatly for the common
weal and policy of the realm.? Robert Reid was a
man far in advance of his time, and it is to him
that Edinburgh owes its famous university.
The patronage of James VI. and private benefactions
enabled it to advance in consequence. Sir
William Nisbet, Bart., of Dean, provost of the city
in 1669, gave LI,OOO Scots towards the maintenance
of a chair of theology; and on the 20th
hfarch in the following year, according to Stark,
the Common Council nominated professors for that
Faculty and for Physic.
In 1663 General Andrew, Earl of Teviot, Governorof
Dunkirk, and commander of the British troops
in Tangiers (where, in the following year he was
slain in battle by the Moors), bequeathed a sum
to build eight rooms ?? in the college of Edinburgh,
where he had been educated.? William 111.
bestowed upon it an annuity of A300 sterling,
which cost hhn nothing, as it was paid out of the
?bishops? rents in Scotland. Part of this was withdrawn
by his successor Queen Anne, and thus a
?professor and fifteen students were lost to the
university. Curiously enough this endowment
was recovered quite recently. It does not appear
that there are now any ? I bishops? rents ? forthconiing,
and when the chair of Intefnational Law was
re-founded in 1862, a salary of A250 a year was
attached to it, out of funds voted by Parliament.
But in an action in the Scottish Courts, Lord
Rutherfurd-Clark held that the new professorship
was identical with the old, and that Professor
Lorirner, its present holder, was entitled to receive
in the future the additional sum of A150 from the
Crown, though not any arrears.
One of the handsomest of recent bequests was
that of General John Reid, colonel of the 88th
Regiment, whose obituzry notice appears thus in
the Scots Magazine, under date February 6th, 1807 :
?? He was eighty years of age, and has left above
~50,000. Three gentlemen are named executors
to whom he has left LIOO each ; the remainder of
his property in trust to be life-rented by an only
daughter (who married without his consent), whom
failing, to the College of Edinburgh. When it
takes that destination he desires his executors to
apply it to the college imjrinzis, to institute a professor
of music, with a salary of not less than A500 a
year ; in other respects to be applied to the purchase
of a library, or laid out in such manner as
the principal and professors may think proper.?
Thus the chair of music was instituted, and
with it the yearly musical Reid festival, at which
the first air always played by the orchestra is
?The Garb of Old Gaul,? a stirring march of
the General?s own composition.
By the bequest of Henry George Watson,
accountant in Edinburgh, AI 1,000 was bestowed
on the University in I 880, to found the ?? Watson-
Gordon Professorship of Fine Art,? in honour of
his brother, the late well-known Sir John Watson-
Gordon, President of the Scottish Academy ; and
in the same year, Dr. Vans Dunlop of Rutland
Square, Edinburgh, left to the University A50,ooo
for educational purposes ; and by the last lines of
his will, Thomas Carlyle, in 1880, bequeathed
property worth about A300 a year to the University,
to found ten bursaries for the benefit of
the poorer students j and the document concludes
with the expression of his wish that ?the small
bequest might run forever, a thread of pure water
from the Scottish rocks, trickling into its little basin
by the thirsty wayside for those whom it veritably
belongs to.?:
By an Act I and 2 Vic. cap. 55, (?the various
sums of money mortified in the hands of the
Town Council, for the support of the University,
amounting to A I ~ , I I ~ were discharged, and an
annual payment of L2,500 (since reduced to
A2,170) secured upon the revenues of Leith
Docks,? is assigned to the purposes of the earlier
bequests for bursaries, Src.
The total income of the university, as given in
the calendar, averages above ~24,000 yearly.
The library is a noble hall 198 feet long by
50 in width, and originated in 1580 in a bequest
by Mr. Clement Little, Commissary of Edinburgh,
a learned citizen (and brother of the Provost
Little of Over-Liberton), who bequeathed his
library to the city ?and the Kirk of God.? This
collection amounted to about 300 volumes, chiefly
theological, and remained in an edifice near St.
Giles?s churchyard till it was removed to the old
college about 1582. There were originally two
libraries belonging to the university; but one consisted
mostly of books of divinity appropriated
solely to the use of students of theology.
The library was largely augmented by donations
From citizens, from the alurnni of the University,
znd the yearly contributions of those who graduated
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G d Stuart St~et.1 PROFESSOR AYTOUN. 207
of sixteen feet there spring curves which bend
round into the arms, while between those arms and
the upright shaft are carried four arcs, having a
diameter of six feet.
On each of its main faces the cross is divided
into panels, in which are inserted bronze basreliefs,
worked out, like the whole design, from
drawings by R. Anderson, A.R.S.A. Those occupying
the head and arms of the cross represent the
various stages of our Lord?s Passion, the Resurrection
and the Ascension; in another series of six,
placed thus on either side of the shaft, are set forth
the acts of charity, while the large panels in the
base are filled in with sculptured ornament of the
fine twelfth-century type, taken from Jedburgh
abbey.
Three senators of the College of Justice have
had their abodes in Ainslie Place-Lord Barcaple,
raised to the bench in 1862, Lord Cowan, a judge
of 1851, and George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse,
the brother of Mrs. Dugald Stewart, who resided
in No. 12. This admirable judge was the son of
the Hon. George Cranstoun of Longwarton, and
Miss Brisbane of that ilk. He was originally intended
for the army, but passed as advocate in
1793, and was Dean of Faculty in 1823, and
succeeded to the bench on the death of Lord
Hermand, three years after. He was the author
of the famous Court of Session jeu rFespn2, known
as ?The Diamond Beetle Case,? an amusing and
not overdrawn caricature of the judicial style, manners,
and language, of the judges of a bygone
time.
He took his judicial title from the old ruined
castle of Corehouse, near the Clyde, where he had
built a mansion in the English style. He was an
excellent Greek scholar, and as such was a great
favourite with old Lord Monboddo, who used to
declare that Cranstoun was the only scholar in
all Scotland,? the scholars in his opinion being all
on the south side of the Tweed.
He w& long famed for being the beau-ideal of
a judge; placid and calm, he listened to even
the longest debates with patience, and was an
able lawyer, especially in feudal questions, and
his opinions were always received with the most
profound respect.
Great Stuart Street leads from Ainslie Place
into Randolph Crescent,which faces the Queensfeny
Road, and has in it3 gardens some of the fine old
trees which in former times adorned the Earl of
Moray?s park.
In No. 16 of the former street lived and died,
after his removal from No. I, Inverleith Terrace, the
genial and. patriotic author of the Lays of t h e
.
Scottish Cavaliers,? a Scottish humourist of a very
high class. William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Professor
of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh,
was born in 1813, of a fine old Fifeshire family,
and in the course of his education at one of the
seminaries of his native capital, he became dis
tinguished among his contemporaries for his powers
of Latin and English composition, and won a prize
for a poem on ?( Judith.? In his eighteenth year
he published a volume entitled Poland and other
Poems,? which attracted little attention ; but after
he was called to the bar, in 1840, he became one
of the standing wits of the Law Courts, yet, save
as a counsel in criminal cases, he did not acquire
forensic celebrity as an advocate.
Five years afterwards he was presented to the
chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University,
and became a leading contributor to
Blackwoofls Magazine, in which his famous LL Lays,?
that have run through so many editions, first
appeared. Besides these, he was the author of
many brilliant pieces in the Book of Ballads,? by
Bon Gaultier, a name under which he and Sir
Theodore Martin, then a solicitor in Edinburgh,
contributed to various periodicals.
In April, 1849, he married Jane Emily Wilson,
the youngest daughter of Christopher North,? in
whose class he had been as a student in his early
years, a delicate and pretty little woman, who predeceased
him. In the summer of 1853 he delivered
a series of lectures on ?Poetry and Dramatic
Literature,? in Willis?s Rooms, to such large and
fashionable audiences as London alone can produce
; and to his pen is ascribed the mock-heroic
tragedy of Firrnilian,? designed to ridicule, as it
did, the rising poets of ?? The Spasmodic School.?
With all his brilliance as a humourist, Aytoun was
unsuccessful as a novelist, and his epic poem
?Bothaell,? written in 16 Great Stuart Street, did
not bring him any accession of fame.
In his latter years, few writers on the Conservative
side rendered more effective service to their
party than Professor Aytoun, whom, in 1852, Lord
Derby rewarded With the offices of Sheriff and
Vice-Admiral of Orkney.
Among the many interesting people who frequented
the house of the author of ?The Lays?
few were more striking than an old lady of
strong Jacobite sentiments, even in this prosaic
age, Miss Clementina Stirling Graham, of Duntrune,
well worthy of notice here, remarkable for her
historical connections as for her great age, as she
died in her ninety-fifth year, at Duntrune, in 1877.
Born in the Seagate of Dundee, in 1782, she was
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114 OLD APU?D NEW EDINBURGH. [Corstorphine.
meaning, no doubt, the panelled box-beds so
common of old in Scotland.
There was a mineral well at Corstorphine, which
was in such repute during the middle of the last
century, that in 1749 a coach was established to
run between the village and the city, making eight
or nihe trips each week-day and four on Sunday.
? After this time the pretty village of Corstorphine,?
says a writer, ? situated at the base of the
hill, on one of the Glasgow roads, in the middle of
the meadow land extending from Coltbridge to
Redheughs, was a place of great gaiety during summer,
and balls and other amusements were then
common.??
The Sja, as it was called, was sulphureous, and
similar in taste to St. Bernard?s Well at Stockbridge,
and was enclosed at the expense of one
of the ladies of the Dick family of Prestonfield,
who had greatly benefited by the water. It stood
in the south-west portion of the old village, called
Janefield, within an enclosure, and opposite a few
thatched cottages. Some drainage operations in
the neighbourhood caused a complete disappearance
of the mineral water, and the last vestiges
of the well were removed in 1831. ? Near the
village,? says the ? New Statistical Account,? ?? in
a. close belonging to Sir William Dick, there long
stood a sycamore of great size and beauty, the
largest in Scotland.?
The Dick family, baronets of Braid (and of
Prestonfield) had considerable property in Corstorphine
and the neighbourhood, with part of Cramond
Muir. ? Sir James, afterwards Sir Alexander Dick,
for his part of the barony of Corstorphine,? appears
rated in the Valuation Roll of 1726 at A1,763 14s.
The witty and accomplished Lady Anne Dick of
Corstorphine (the grand-daughter of the first Earl
of Cromarty), who died in 1741, has already been
referred to in our first volume.
Regarding her family, the following interesting
aotice appears in the Scots Magazine for 1768.
?Edinburgh, March 14th. John Dick, Esq., His
Britannic Majesty?s Consul at Leghorn, was served
heir to Sir Tlrilliam Dick of Braid, Baronet. It
appeued that all the male descendants of Sir
TVilliam Dick had failed except his youngest son
Captain Lewis, who settled in Northumberland, and
who was the grandfather of John Dick, Esq., his
only male descendant now in life, Upon which a
respectable jury unanimously found his propinquity
proved, and declared him to be now Sir John
Dick, Baronet. It is remarkable that Sir William
Dick of Braid lost his great and opulent estates in
the service of the public cause and the liberties
of his country, in consideration of which, when it
was supposed there was no heir male of the family,
a new patent was granted to the second son of
the heir male, which is now in the person of Sir
Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, Baronet. The
Lord Provost and magistrates of this city, in consideration
of Sir John Dick?s services to his king
and country, and that he is the representative of
that illustrious citizen, who was himself Lord
Provost in 1638 and 1639, did Sir John the
honour of presenting him with ?the freedom of the
city of Edinburgh. After the service an elegant
dinner was given at Fortune?s, to a numerous company,
consisting of gentlemen of the jury, and
many persons of distinction, who all testified their
sincere joy at the revival of an ancient and
respectable family in the person of Sir John Dick,
Baronet.?
Corstorphipe has lost the reputation it long en.
joyed for a once-celebrated delicacy, known as its
Cream, which was brought to the city on the backs
of .horses. The mystery of its preparation is thus
preserved in the old ?Statistical Account? :--?They
put the milk, when fresh drawn, into a barrel or
wooden vessel, which is submitted to a certain
degree of heat, generally by immersion in warm
water, this accelerates the stage of fermentation.
Th9,serous is separated from the other parts of the
milk, the oleaginous and coagulable ; the serum is
drawn off by a hole in the lower part of the vessel ;
what remains is put into the plunge-chum, and,
after being agitated for some time, is sent to market
as Corstorphine Cream.?
High up on the southern slope of the hill stands
that humane appendage to the Royal Infirmary?
the convalescent house for patients who are cured,
but, as yet, too weak to work.
This excellent institution is a handsome twostoreyed
building in a kind of Tuscan style of
architecture, with a central block and four square
wings or towers each three storeys in height, with
pavilion roofs. The upper windows are all arched.
It has a complete staff, including a special surgeon,
chaplain, and matron.
The somewhat credulous author of the ? Night
Side of Nature,? records among other marvels, the
appearance of a mounted wraith upon Corstorphine
Hill.
Not very long ago, Mr. C-, a staid citizen
of Edinburgh, was riding gently up the hill, ? when
he observed an intimate friend of his own on
horseback also, immediately behind him, so he
slackened his pace to give him an opportunity of
joining company. Finding he did not come up so
quickly as he should, he looked round again, and
was astonished at no longer seeing him, since there ... OLD APU?D NEW EDINBURGH. [Corstorphine. meaning, no doubt, the panelled box-beds so common of old in ...

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24 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [University.
Thoma Elder : Academire Primario Gulielmo Rabertson.
Architecto, Roberto Adam."
The ranges of buildings around the inner court
are in a plain but tasteful Grecian style, and have
an elegant stone balustrade, forming a kind of
paved gallery, which is interrupted only by the
entrance, and by flights of steps that lead to the
library, museum, the Senzte Hall, and various
class-rooms. At the angles on the west side are
spacious arcade piazzas, and in the centre is a fine
statue of Sir David Brewster.
At the Treaty of Union with England, and
when the Act of Security was passed, all the Acts
passed by the Scottish Parliament, defining the
rights, privileges, and imniunities of this and the
other universities of Scotland, were fully ratified ;
but its privileges and efficiency have been since
augmented by the Scottish Universities Act,
passed in 1858, making provision for their better
government and discipline, and for the improvement
and regulation of the course of study
therein.
It is now a corporation consisting of a chancellor,
who is elected for life by the General
Council, whose sanction must be given to all internal
arrangements, and through whom degrees
are conferred, and the first of whom was Lord
Brougham ; a vice-chancellor, who acts in absence
of :he former, and who has the duty of acting as
returning officer at Parliamentary elections, an3
the first of whom was Sir David Brewster; a
rector, who is elected by the matriculated students,
and whose term of office is three years, and among
whom have been William Ewart Gladstone, Thomas
Carlyle, Lord Moncneff, Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell,
and others ; a representative in Parliament, elected
in common with the University of St. Andrewsthe
first M.P. being Dr. Lyon Playfair.
After these come the university court, which
has the power of reviewing all the decisions of the
Senatus Academicus, the attention of professors as
to their modes, of teaching, Szc, the regulation of
class fees, the suspension and censure of professors,
the control of the pecuniary concerns of the
university, " including funds mortified for bursaries
and other purposes."
This court holds the patronage of the Chair of
Music, and a share in that of Agriculture, and it
consists of the rector, the principal, and six
assessors, one of whom is elected by the Town
CGuncil.
By the Act of 1858 the patronage of seventeen
cliairs, previously in the gift of the latter body,
was transferred to seven curators, who hold office
for three years. They also have the appointment
of the principal, who is the resident head of the
college for life.
He, with the whole of the professors, constitutes
the Senate, which is entrusted with the entire administration
of the university-its revenues, property,
library, museums, and buildings, &c.; and the business
is conducted by a secretary.
The chairs of the university are comprehended
in the four faculties, each of which is presided over
by a dean, elected from among the professors of
each particular faculty, and through whom the students
recommended for degrees are presented to
the Senatus.
The following is a list of the principals elected
since 1582, all of them famoils in literature or
art :-
1585. Robert Rollock.
1599. Henry Charteris.
1620. Patrick Sands.
1622. Robert Boyd.
1623. John Adamson.
1652. Williain Colville.
1653. Robert Leighton. '
1662. William Colville.
1675. Andrew Cant.
1685. Alexander Monro.
1690. Gilbert Rule.
1703. William Carstares.
1716. William Wishart.
1730. William Hamilton.
1732. James Smith.
1736. William Wishart recunlfus.
1754. John Gowdie.
1762. Willmm Robertson.
1793. Geo. Husband Baird.
1840. John Lee.
1859. Sir David Brewster.
1868. Sir Alex. Grant, Bart.
To attempt to enumerate all the brilliant alumni
who in their various Faculties have shed a glory
over the University of Edinburgh, would far
exceed our limits ; but an idea of its progress in
literature, science, and art, may be gathered from the
following enumeration of the professorships, with
the dates when founded, and the names of the first
ho!der of the chairs.
Those of Greek, Logic and Metaphysics, Moral
and Natural Philosophy, were occupied by the
regents in rotation from 1583, when Robert Rollock
was first Regent, till 1708.
3 FmuZzy of Arts.
Humanity, 1597. John Ray, Professor.
Mathematics, 1674. James Gregory.
Greek, 1708. William Scott.
Logic and Metaphysics, 1708.
Moral Philosophy, 1708. William Law.
Natural Philosophy, 1708. Robert Stewart.
Rhetoric, 1762. Hugh Blair.
Astronomy, 1786. Robert Biair.
Agriculture, 1790. Andrew Coventry.
Theory of Music, 1839. John Thornson.
Technology, 1855. George Wilson. (Abolished 18.59.)
Sanskrit, 1862. Theodor Aufrecht.
Engineering, 1868. Iileeming Jenkin.
Commercial Economy, 1871.
Education, 1876. Simon Lnurie.
Fine Arts, 1880. Baldwin Rrown.
Gmlogr~, 1871. Archibald Geikie.
Colin Druniinoiid.
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