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Rothesay might be baptised in Protestant form,
The queen only replied by placing the child in
his arms. Then the aged minister knelt down, and
prayed long and fervently for his happiness and
prosperity, an event which so touched the tender
Mary that she burst into tears; however, the
prince was baptised according to the Roman ritual
at Stirling on the 5th of December.
The birth of a son produced little change in
Damley?s licentious life. He perished as history
records ; and on Bothwell?s flight after Carberry,
and Mary?s captivity in Lochleven, the Regent
Moray resolved by force or fraud to get all the
fortresses into his possession. Sir James Balfour,
a minion of Bothwell?s-the keeper of the famous
silver casket containing the pretended letters and
sonnets of Mary-surrendered that of Edinburgh,
bribed by lands and money as he marched out, and
the celebrated Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange was
appointed governor in his place. That night the
fated Regent Moray entered with his friends, and
slept in the same little apartment wherein, a year before,
his sister had been delivered of the infant now
proclaimed as James VI. ; but instead of keepin& his
promise to Balfour, Moray treacherously made him
a prisoner of state in the Castle of St. Andrews.
CHAPTER VI.
EDIXBURGH C A S T L E - ( C O ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ) .
The Siege of 157yThe City Bombarded from the Castle-Elizabeth?s Spy-Drury?s Dispositions for the Siege-Execution of Kirkaldy
-Repair of the Roins-Execution of Morton-Visit of Charles I.-Procession to Holyrood-Coronation of Charles 1.-The Struggle
against Episcopacy-Siege of 16p-The Spectre Drummer-Besieged by Cromwell-Under the Protector-The Restoration-The Argyles
-The Accession of James VIJ -Sentence of the Earl of Argyl-His clever Escape-Imprisoned four years latu-The Last Sleep oC
Argyle-His Death-Torture of Covenanters-Proclamation of William and Mary-lle Siege of 168g-Interview between Gordoe
and Dundee-The Castle invested-Brilliant Defence-Capitulation of the Duke of Gordon-The Spectre of Ckverhouse. J
MARY escaped from Lochleven on the and of May,
1568, and after her defeat fled to England, the
last country in Europe, as events showed, wherein
she should have sought refuge or hospitality.
After the assassination of the Regent Moray, to
his successor, the Regent Morton, fell the task of
subduing all who lingered in arms for the exiled
queen ; and so well did he succeed in this, that,
save the eleven acres covered by the Castle rock
of Edinburgh, which was held for three years by
Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange with a garrison
resolute as himself, the whole country was now
under his rule.
Kirkaldy, whose services in France and elsewhere
had won him the high reputation of being
? the bravest soldier in Europe,? left nothing undone,
amid the unsettled state of affairs, to
strengthen his .post. He raised and trained soldiers
without opposition, seized all the provisions that
were brought into Leith, and garrisoned St. Giles?s
church, into the open spire of which he swung
up cannon to keep the citizens in awe. This was
on the 28th of March, 1571. After the Duke of
Chatelherault, with his Hamiltons-all queen?s men
-marched in on the 1st of May, the gables of
the church were loopholed for arquebuses. Immediate
means were taken to defend the town
against the Regent. Troops crowded into it; others
were niustered for its protection, and this state
of affairs continued for fully three years, during
which Kirkaldy baffled the efforts of four successive
Regents, till Morton was fain to seek aid
from Elizabeth, to wrench from her helpless refugee
the last strength that remained to her ; and most
readily did the English queen agree thereto.
A truce which had been made between ?Morton
and Kirkaldy expired on the 1st of January, 1573,
and as the church bells tolled six in the morning, the
Castle guns, among which were two &?-pounders,
French battardes, and English? culverins? or 18-
pounders (according to the :? Memoirs ofKirkaldy?),
opened on the city in the dark. It was then full
of adherents of James VI., so Kirkaldy cared not
where his shot fell, after the warning gun had been
previously discharged, that all loyal subjects of
the queen should retire. As the ?grey winter dawn
stole in, over spire and pointed roof, the cannonade
was chiefly directed from the eastern curtain
against the new Fisli Market ; the baikets in
which were beaten so high in the air, that for days
after their contents were seen scattered on the tops
of the highest houses. In one place a single shot
killed five persons and wounded twenty others.
Selecting a night when the wind was high and
blowing eastward, Kirkaldy made a sally, and set
on fire all the thatched houses in West Port and
Castle Wynd, cannonading the while the unfortunates
who strove to quench the flames that rolled
away towards the east. In March Kirkaldy resolutely
declined to come to terms with Morton, though
earnestly besought to do so by Henry Killigrew,
who came ostensibly as an English envoy, but in

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The Saennes.] ST. KATHARINE?S CONVENT. 53
?Papingo,? makes Chastity flee for refuge to the
sisters of the Sciennes.
The convent was erected under a Bull of Pope
Lax., and also by a charter of James V. This
Bull informs us that the convent was created
hough the influence of the families of Seton,
Lord Seton, refusing all offers of mamage, became
a nun at the Sciennes, and dying in her seventyeighth
year, was buried there, according to the
history of her house.
The chapel of St. John the Eaptist became
that of the new convent, which, up to the middle
MR. DUNCAN MCLAREN. (Froma Pkofo~roph &y/. G. Tunny.)
Douglas of Glenbervie, and Lauder of the Bass,
the land being given by the venerable Sir John
Crawford. The first prioress was the widowed
Lady Seton ; ? ane nobill and wyse Ladye,? says
Sir Richard hlaitland, ?sche gydit hir sonnis
leving quhill he was cumit to age, and thereafter
she passit and remainit at the place of Senis, on
the Borrow Mure.? There she died in 1558, and
was buried in the choir of Seton church, beside
her husband, whose body had been brought from
Flodden.
Katharine, second daughter of George, fourth
of the skteenth century, received various augmentations-
among others, a tenement in the Cowgate.
The nuns made annual processions to the altar
of St. Katharine in St. Margaret?s Chapel at Liberton;
and it was remarked, says- the editor of
ArcAauZqia Scutica, that the man who demolished
the latter never prospered after.
In 1541 the magistrates took in feu from the
nuns their arable land, lying outside the Greyfriars?
Port, and, curious to say, it is on a portion of this
that the new Convent of St. Katharine was founded,
about 1860. Within the grounds on the north side

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St. Giles.
elasticity which the nation displayed in its endless ? naceus,? in the Harleian Collection in the British
wars with England, showing how the general and
local government vied with each other in the
erection of ornate ecclesiastical edifices, the moment
the invaders-few ot whom ever equalled
Edward 111. in wanton ferocity-had re-crossed
the Tweed. Xmong these we may specially
mention the chapel of Robert Duke of Albany,
now the most beautiful and interesting portion of
this sadly defaced and misused old edifice. The
ornamental sculptures of this portion are of a
peculiarly striking character - heraldic devices
forming the most prominent features on the capital
of the great clustered pillar. On the south side
are the arms of Robert Duke of Albany, son of King
Robert II., and on the north are those of Xrchibald
fourth Earl of Douglas, Duke of Tonraine
and Marshal of France, who was slain at the battle
of Verneuil by the English. In 1401 David Duke
of Rothesay, the luckless son of Robert II., was
made a prisoner by his uncle, the designing Duke
of Albany, with the full consent of the aged king
his father, who had grown weary of the daily complaints
that were made against the prince. In the
?Fair Maid of Perth,? Scott has depicted with
thrilling effect the actual death of David, by the
slow process of starvation, notwithstanding the
intervention of a maiden and nurse, who met a
very different fate from that he assigns to them in
the novel, while in his history he expresses a doubt
whether they ever supplied the wants of the prince
in any way. According .to the ?? Black Book? of
Scone, the Earl of Douglas was with Albany when
the prince was trepanned to Falkland, and having
probably been exasperated against the latter, who
was his own brother-in-law (having married his
sister Marjorie Douglas), for his licentious course
of life, must have joined in the ? projected assassination.
?Such are the two Scottish nobles whose
armorial bearings still grace the capital of the pillar
in the old chapel. It is the only other case in
which they are found acting in concert besides the
dark deed already referred to; and it seems no
unreasonable inference to draw from such a coincidence,
that this chapel ,had been founded and
endowed by them as an expiatory offering for that
deed of blood, and its chaplain probably appointed
to say masses for their victim?s soul? (Wilson).
The comparative wealth of the Scottish Church
in those days and for long after was considerable,
and an idea may be formed of it from the amount
of the tenth of the benefices paid by the three
countries as a tax to Rome, and in the Acts of Parliament
of James 111. in 147 r, and of James IV. in
r493. The account is from a ?Codex Membra-
.
Museum :-
De terra Scotiz . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . f;3,947 19 8
,, Hibernia:. . .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,647 16 3
,, Anglia et Wallice .. .. .. 20,872 z 4+
Thus we see that the Scottish Church paid more
than double what was paid by Ireland, and a fifth
of the amount that was paid by England.
The transepts of St. Giles, as they existed before
the so-called repairs of 1829, afforded distinct
evidence of the gradual progtess of the edifice.
Beyond the Preston aisle the roof differed from
the older portion, exhibiting undoubted evidence
of being the work of a subsequent time ; and from
its associations with the eminent men of other
days it is perhaps the most interesting portion of
the whole fabric. Here it was that Walter Chapman,
of Ewirland, a burgess of Edinburgh, famous
as the introducer of the printing-press into Scotland,
and who was nobly patronised by the heroic king
who fell at Flodden, founded and endowed a
chaplaincy at the altar of St. John the Evangelist,
?in honour of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St.
John the Apostle and Evangelist, and all the
saints, for the healthful estate and prosperity of
the most excellent lotd the King of Scotland, and
of his most serene consort Margaret Queen of
Scotland, and of their children j and also for the
health of my soul, and of Agnes Cockburne, my
present wife, and of the soul of Mariot Kerkettill,
my former spouse,? &c.
?This charter,? says a historian, ?is dated 1st
August, 1513, an era of peculiar interest. Scotland
was then rejoicing in all the prosperity and
happiness consequent on the wise and beneficent
reign of James IV. Learning was visited with the
highest favour of the. Court, and literature was
rapidly extending its influence under the zealous
co-operation of Dunbar, Douglas, Kennedy, and
others, with the royal master-printer. Only one
month thereafter Scotland lay at the mercy of her
southern rival. Her king was slain; the chief of
her nobles and warriors had perished on Flodden
Field, and adversity and ignorance again replaced
the advantages that had followed in the train of
the gallant James?s rule. Thenceforth, the altars
of St. Giles received few and rare additions to
their endowments.?
From the preface to ? Gologras and Gawane,?
we learn that in 1528 Walter Chapnian the printer
founded a chaplaincy at the altar of Jesus Christ,
in St. Giles, and endowed it with a tenement in the
Coagate; and there is good reason for believhig
that the pious old printer lies buried in the south
transept of the church, close by the spot where

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322 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
overpowering force. Conjecture is vain as to the depositor of this hidden treasure ; but
we may fancy the prowess or cunning of some hardy burgher achieving sudden victory
over a stray band of the insolent invaders, and concealing here the hard-won spoils, for
which he never returned. Beyond the arch of the bridge, from whence the busy crowds
of the modern city look down on this deserted scene of former magnificence, we again
come to antique memorials of other times. Here was a steep and straitened alley ascending
towards the southern side of the town, which formed in remote times the avenue to the
Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Fields; and at a more recent, though still early
period, the public approach to the Old College of Edinburgh. This ancient avenue possessed
interesting associations with successive generations, from the period when Dominicans
and Greyfriars, and the priests and choristers of St Mary’s College, clamb the steep
ascent, down to a time, not long gone by, when grave professors and wily practitioners
of the law shared among them itsjuts and common stairs.
This ancient thoroughfare formerly bore the name of “ The Wynd of the Blessed Virgin
Mary in-the-Field,” as appears from the charters of property acquired by the town for the
establishment of King James’s College.’ About the middle of the wynd, on the east
side, a curious and antique edifice retained many of its original features, notwithstanding
its transmutation from a Collegium Sacerdoturn, or prebendal building of the neighbouring
collegiate church, to a brewers’ granary and a spirit vault. Such, at least, we conceive to
have been its original destination. The ground floor had been entirely refaced with hewn
stoue ; but over a large window on the first floor there was a sculptured lintel, which is
mentioned by k n o t as having surmounted the gateway into the inner court. It bore the
following inscription, cut in beautifd and very early characters :-
Bbe flaria, QDratia plena, Damintter tecum.
At the close of the chapter, a sketch of a beautiful, though mutilated, Gothic niche is
given, which was on the front of the building. It is said to have originally stood over
the main gateway above the carved lintel we have described, and without doubt it contained
a statue of the TTi.rgin, to whom the wayfarer’s supplications were invited. These
interesting remains, so characteristic of the obsolete faith and habits of a former age,
afforded undoubted evidence of the importance of this building in early times, when it
formed a part of the extensive collegiate establishment of St Mary in-the-Fields, founded
and endowed apparently by the piety of the wealthy citizens of the capital. To complete
the ecclesiastical features of this ancient edifice, a boldly-cut shield on the lower crow-step
bore the usual monogram of our Saviour, fbs-and the windows presented the common
feature of .broken mullions and transoms, with which they had originally been divided.
Internally the building presented features of a more recent date, indicating that its earliest
lay occupants were worthy neighbours of the aristocratic denizens of the Cowgate. A
stucco ceiling in the principal apartment was adorned with a variety of ornaments in the
style prevalent in the reign of Charles I., the most prominent among which was the winged
“Shaw’s tenement in the Wynd of the Blessed &ry in-the-Field, now the College Wynd. Item, an instrument
of aaaine, dated 30th June, 1525, of a land built and waste, lying in the Wynd of the Blessed Virgin Mary in-thsField,
on the weat aide thereof, &e., in favour of Alex. Schaw. son of Wrn. Schaw of Po1kemrnet.’”-From Descriptive Inventory
of Tuwn’q purchases for the Gllege, Burgh Charter Room.

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THE AULD KIRK STYLE. I53 The Luckenbootha.]
turesque and heavily-eaved buildings, stood in the
thoroughfare of the High Street, parallel to St.
Giles's church, from which they were separated
by a close and gloomy lane for foot passengers
alone, and the appellation was shared by the
opposite portion of the main street itself. This
singular obstruction, for such it was, existed from
among whom we may well include the well-known
firm of Messrs. M'Laren and Sons.
It was pierced in the middle by a passage called
the Auld Kirk Style, which led to the old north
door of St. Giles's, and there it was that in 1526
the Lairds of Lochinvar and Drumlanrig slew Sir
Thomas MacLellan of Bombie (ancestor of the
'
CREECH'S LAND. (Frmn an Ewaving ix Air "Fugitive Pircer.")
' the reign of James 111. till 1817, and the name is
supposed to have been conferred on the shops
in that situation as being close buuths, to distinguish
them from the open ones, which then lined the great
street on both sides, Zacken signifying close, thus
implying a certain superiority to the ancient traders
in these booths ; and it was considered remarkable
that amid all the changes of the old town there
is still in this locality an unusual proportion of
mercers, clothiers? and drapers, of very old standing,
a0
Lords Kirkcudbright), with whom they mere at
feud-an act for which neither of them was ever
questioned or punished.
Prior to the year 18 I I there remained unchanged
in the Luckenbooths two lofty houses of great
strength and antiquity, one of which contained
the town residence of Sir John Byres, Bart., of
Coates, an estate now covered by the west end of
new Edinburgh. He was a gentleman who made
a great figure in the city during the reign of

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CHAPTER VIII.
ST LEONARDS, ST MARY’S WYND, AND THE COWGATE.
HE date of erection of the first houses in the ancient thoroughfare of the Cowgate
may be referred, without hesitation, to the reign of James III., when the example
of the King, who, as Drummond relates, “was much given to buildings, and trimming
up of chnppels, halls, and gardens,” was likely to encourage his courtiers in rearing
elegant and costly mansions ; and when, at the same time, the frequent assembling of
the Parliament and the presence of the Court at Edinburgh, were calculated to drive them
beyond the recently-built walls of the capital. Evidence, indeed, derived from some early
charters, seems to prove the existence of buildings beyond the range of the first wall,
prior to its erection, but these were at most one or two isolated and rural dwellings, and
cannot be considered as having formed any part of the street.
The whole southern slope of the Old Town, on which the steep closes extending
between the High Street and the Cowgate have since been reared, must then have formed
a rough and unencumbered bank, surmounted by the massive wall and towers erected by
virtue of the charter of James 11. in 1450, and skirted at its base by the open roadway
that led from the Abbey of Holyrood to the more ancient Church of St Cuthbert, below
the Castle rock. It requires, indeed, a stretch of the imagination to conceive this crowded
steep, which has rung for centuries with the busy sounds of life and industry, a rugged
slope, unoccupied save by brushwood and flowering shrubs ; yet the change effected on it
in the fifteenth century was only such another extension as many living can remember to
have witnessed on a greater scale over the downs and cultivated fields now occupied by
VIGNETTE-Ancient Doorway, foot of Horse Wynd, Cowgate.

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30 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ Burghmuir.
hollows are still discernible, and in them thc
Scots Foot Guards were posted under Viscount
Kingston, to cover the approach to the city in
1666, when the Covenanters took post at Pentland,
prior to their defeat at Rullion Green.
In ~Ggo the money and corn rents of the muir
amounted to on1y;Gr 26 19s. 6d. sterling; andabou!
that time a considerable portion of Bruntsfield belonged
to a family named Fairlie.
In I 7 22 Colonel J. Chomly?s Regiment-the
26th or Cameronians-was encamped on the
Links, where a quarrel ensued between a Captain
Chiesley and a Lieutenant Moodie; and these
two meeting one day in the Canongate, attacked
each other sword in hand, and each, after a sharp
conflict, mortally wounded the other, ?Mr. Moodie?s
lady looking over the window all the while this
bloody tragedy was acting,? as the Caledonian
Mernrry of the 7th August records.
At the north-west corner of Bruntsfield Links
there stood, until the erection of Glengyle Terrace,
Valleyfield House, an ancient edifice, massively
built, and having a half-timber front towards the
old Toll-cross, which was long there. It had great
crowstepped gables and enormous square chimneys,
was three storeys in height, with small
windows, and was partly quadrangular. Traditionally
it was said to have been a temporary
residence of the Regent Moray during an illness ;
but, if so, it must at some time have been added
to, or changed proprietors, as on the door-lintel of
the high and conically-roofed octagon stair, on its
east side, were the date 1687, with the initials,
M. c. M. Its name is still retained in the adjacent
thoroughfare called Valleyfield Street.
A little way northward of its site is Leven
Lodge, a plain but massive old edifice, that once
contained a grand oak staircase and stately dining-
? hall, with windows facing the south; but now
almost hidden amid encircling houses of a humble
and sordid character. It was the country villa of
the Earls of Leven, and in 17 j8 was the residence
of George sixth Earl of Northesk, who married
Lady Anne Lesly, daughter of Alexander Earl of
Leven, and their only son, David Lord Rosehill
was born there in the year mentioned.
In 1811 it was the residence of Lady Penelope
Belhaven, youngest daughter of Ronald Macdonald
of Clanronald; she died in 1816, since when, no
doubt, its declension began. It was about that
time the property of Captain Swinton of Drum
dryan.
Immediately south of Valleyfield House, at the
delta formed by a conglomeration of old edifices,
known under the general name of the Wright?s
houses, and on the site of an old villa of the
Georgian era, that stood within a carriage entrance,
was built, in 1862-3, the Barclay Free Church at an
expense of ~ ~ o , o o o , and from the bequest of a lady
of that name. It is said to be in the second style
of Pointed architecture, but is correctly described
by Professor Blackie as being ? full of individual
beauties or prettinesses in detail, yet as a whole,
disorderly, inorganic, and monstrous.? By some it
is called Venetian Gothic. It has, however, a
stately tower and slender spire, that -rises to a
height of 250 feet, and is a landmark over a vast
extent of country, even from Inverkeithing in Fifeshire.
In its vicinity are Viewforth Free Church, built in
187 1-2 at a cost of A5,000, in a geometric Gothic
style, with a tower I 12 feet high ; and the Gilmore
Place United Presbyterian Church, the congregation
of which came hither from the Vennel, and
which, after a cost of A7,9oo for site and erection,
was opened for service in April, 188~.
No part of Edinburgh has a more agreeable
southern exposure than those large open spaces
round the hleadows (which we have described
elsewhere) and Bruntsfield Links, which contribute
both to their health and amenity.
The latter have long been famous as a playground
for the ancient and national game of golf,
and strangers who may be desirous of enjoying it,
are usually supplied with clubs and assistants at
the old Golf Tavern, that overlooks the breezy
and grassy scene of operations, which affords space
for the members of no less than six golf clubs,
viz :-the Burghers, instituted 1735 ; the Honourable
Company of Edinburgh, instituted prior to
1744; the Bruntsfield, instituted 1761 ; the Allied
Golfing Club, instituted 18 j6 ; the Warrender,
instituted 1858; and the St. Leonards, instituted
1857. Each of these is presided over by a captain,
and the usual playing costume is a scarlet coat, with
the facings and gilt buttons of the club.
To dwell at length on the famous game of golf
is perhaps apart from the nature of this work, and
yet, as these Links have been for ages the scene of
that old sport, a few notices of it may be acceptable.
It seems somewhat uncertain at what precise
period golf was introduced into Scotland ; but
some such game, called cambuca, was not unknown
in England during the reign of Edward
III., as we may learn from Strutt?s ?Sports and
Pastimes,?? but more probably he refers to that
known as Pall Mall. Football was prohibited
by Act of the Scottish Parliament in 1424, as interfering
with the more necessary science of

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THE WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 353
of people.” This manufacturing speculation, though devised for benevolent purposes,
entirely failed, and dissipated the whole revenues of the older foundation. We next h d
it converted into an Hospital for the wounded soldiers of General Leslie’s army, during
the skirmishing that preceded his total defeat at Dunbar; and thereafter it reached its
final degradation as a penal workhouse or bridewell, in which capacity it is referred to in
the ‘‘ Heart of Midlothian.” The building was decorated with the city arms, and smw
other rudely sculptured devices on the pediments of the dormer windows that appear in
our view, and over the doorway was inscribed the pious aspiration :-GOD
WARK * with the date 1619.
Beyond this lies the district of Calton,* which had for its superiors the Lords Balmerinoch,
until the Common Council purchased the superiority of it from the last representative
af that noble family, who perished on the block in 1746. The first Lord Balmerinoch was
made the scapegoat of his royal master James VI., on the Secretary Cecil producing a
letter to the Council, which his Majesty had written to the Pope, Clement VIII., with the
view of smoothing his accession to the English throne. Lord Balmerinoch was accused as
the author of the letter, and sent prisoner to Edinburgh, “with the people of which place,”
says Scott of Scotstarvit, “he was little favoured, because he had acquired many landa
about the town, so that John Henderson, the bailie, forced him to light off his horse at
the foot of Leith Wynd, albeit he had the rose in his leg, and was very unableto walk,
till he came to the prison house.” He was condemned to be beheaded, but was soon after
permitted to retire to his own house, the whole being a mere ruse to cover the King’s
double dealing. The last Lord presented the Old Calton Burying Ground to his vassals,
as a place of sepulture, and it is said offered them the whole hill for $40. This district,
however, must have existed long before Ring James bestowed that title on his favourite,
as the last remains of an ancient chapel, dedicated to St Ninian were swept away in 1814,
in clearing the site for the west pier of the Regent Bridge. Only the crypt, or vaulted
ground story, remained at the time of its demolition ; but ‘‘ the baptismal font,” as Arnot
styles it, or more probably the holy-water stoup, was removed by Mr Walter Ross in 1778,
to the curious Gothic tower built by him at Dean Haugh. It consists of a neatly SCUIPtured
bason, forming the base of a Gothic niche, and surmounted by an elegant Gothic
canopy, and now forms one of the heterogeneous decorations collected by Sir Walter Scott
for his mansion at Abbotsford. Nothing is known either of the founders or the date of
erection of St Ninian’s Chapel. The neighbouring Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity
was dedicated, in the charter of foundation, “For the praise and honour of the Holy
Trinity, of the ever-blessed and glorious Virgin Mary, of St Niniun tAe Confessor, and of
all saints and elect of God” The chapel appears, however, to have been a dependency
of the Abbey of Holyrood, from different notices of it that occur in licences granted by
the Abbots to the Corporations of the Canongate, for founding and maintaining altars
in the Abbey Church. In a licence granted in 1554, by Robert Stewart, Abbot of
Holyrood, “for augmentatioun of dyuine seruice at me alter to be biggit within our sayd
abbay, quhare Sanct Crkpine and Crispiniane per patronis sal1 stand;” it is added,
BLIS THIS
1 Calderwood, voL vii’p. 458. ’ Nicoll’e Diary, p 23.
“ CaEton, or Caldoun, is admitted to be the hiu covered with bushes.”-Dalrymple’s Annals, VOL i. p. 96.
Charter of Foundation, Maitland, p. 207. ’
2Y

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smaller cross was raised, " In memory of Colonel
Kenneth Douglas Mackenzie, C.B., who served for
forty-two years in the 92nd Highlanders-who saw
much of service in the field, and deserved well of
his country in war and in peace. . . . Died on
duty at Dartmoor, 24th August, 1873."
On the green bank behind the duke's statue is a
Two relics of great autiquity remain on this side
of the Castle bank-a fragment of the secret
passage, and the ruins of the Well-house tower,
which, in 1450, and for long after, guarded the
pathway that led under the rock to the church oi
St. Cuthbert. Within the upper and lower portion
of this tower, a stair, hewn in the living rock, was
EDINBURGH CASTLE, FROM THE KING'S MEWS, 1825. (AfterEw6ank.)
very curious monumental stone, which, however,
can scarcely be deemed a local antiquity-though
of vast age. It was brought from the coast of
Sweden by Sir -4lexander Seton, of Preston, many
years ago. On it is engraved a serpent encircling a
cross, and on the body of the former is an inscription
in runes, signifying-
ARI ENGRAVED THIS STONE I q MEMORY
OF HIALM, HIS FATHER.
.
GOD HELP HIS SOUL!
found a few years ago, buried under a mass of
rubbish, among which was a human skull, shattered
by concussion on a step. Many human bones lay
near it, with various coins, chiefly of Edward I. and
Edward 111. ; others were Scottish and foreign.
Many fragments of exploded bombs were found
among the upper layer of rubbish, and in a
breach of the tower was found imbedded a
48-pound shot. At certain seasons,. woodcock,
snipe, and waterducks are seen hovering near

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LEITH, AND THE NEW TOWN. 357
hold still frowns above the crag that rises from the eastern bank of Lochend; and after
the royal grant of the Harbour to the Town of Edinburgh by Robert I., Sir Robert
Logan of Restalrig, Knight, the baronial lord of Leith, appears as a successful competitor
with the magistrates of Edinburgh for the right of road-way and other privileges claimed
by virtue of the royal grant. The estate of Restalrig extended from the outskirts of the
Canongate to the Water of Leith, including the Calton, or Wester Restalrig, as it was
styled ; but Logan was easily induced to sell the rights of his unfortunate vassals to their
jealous rivals. The Logans, however, continued long afterwards to possess nearly the
whole surrounding property, and thereby to maintain their influence and superiority in
the burgh) where they appear to have always had their town mansion. The following
allusion to it, in the reign of Queen Mary, by a contemporary, shows its dignity and
importance, at a period when a greater number of the nobility and higher clergy were
residing in Leith than had ever been at any earlier date. ‘ I Vpoun the xviij of May 1572,
thair come to Leith ane ambassatour fra the King of France, nameit Monsieur Lacrok, a
man of good knawlege, to intreat for peace betuix the pairties; at the quhilk tyme of
his entrie, the hail1 inhabitaris and remanaris within the burgh of Edinbnrgh wer in thair
armour wpone the fieldis in sicht of thair aduersaris, quha dischargit fyve peices of
artailzerie at thame, and did na skaith. Vpoun the xxj day, the foirnameit ambassatour
come to Edinburgh Castell, met be George Lord Seytoun, at quhais entrie certane
mvnitoun wes dischargit; quha past the same nycht to Leith agane, and lugeit in Mr
Johne Loganes lugeing thair.”’ The whole possessions of this ancient family were at
length forfeited in the reign of James VI. by the turbulent baron, Robert Logan of
Restalrig, being involved in the Gowrie conspiracy; though his share in that mysterious
plot was not discovered till he was in his grave. The forfeited estates were transferred to
the Elphinstons of Balmerinoch, new favourites who were rising to wealth and power on
the spoils of the church and the ruin of its adherents.
One of the descendants of the barons of Restalrig appears to have retrieved in some
degree the failing fortunes of the family by a gallant coup-&-main, achieved against a
host of opponents,. A gentleman in Leith has now in his possession the marriage-contract
between Logan and Isaballa Fowler, an heiress whom tradition &rms to have
been the celebrated Tibbie Fowler 0’ the glen, renowned in Scottish song, whose penny
siller proved so tempting a bait that the lady’s choice involved the defeat of forty disappointed
wooers1 With Tibbie’s siller he appears to have built himself a handsome
mansion at the head of the Sheri€F Brae, which was demolished some years since to
make way for the Church and.Alms Houses erected by Sir John Gladstone of Fasque,
Eart. It was decorated with a series of sculptured dormer windows, one of which bore
the initials I. L., with the date 1636.’
Among the antiquities of Leith, as might be anticipated, there are none of so early a
character as those we have described in the ancient capital. Its ecclesiastical establishments
apparently claim no existence prior to the fifteenth century ; while the oldest date
we have found on any private building is 1573. It is nevertheless a quaint, old-fashioned
Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. 263. ’ Campbell’s Hiat. of Leith, p. 315, Gemye, grandson of Robert Logan, who waa forfeited, married Isabel Fowler,
daughter to Ludovick Fowler of Burncastla-Nkbet’s Heraldry, VOL i. p. 202.

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CHAPTER IV.
FROM THE BATTLE OF FLODDESV TO THE DEATH OF YAMES V.
m[HE ready voice of rumour preceded the more certain
‘news of the disastrous field of Flodden, and filled the
Scottish capital with dismay : already sufficiently overcast
by the prevalence of the plague, which continued
to haunt the city during this eventful year. The provost
and magistrates had marched at the head of their
trusty burghers to the field, and were involved in the
general misfortune ; but fortunately for the country, the
wisest precautions had been adopted to provide for such
a contingency. The provost and bailies “in respect that they were to pass to the army,
chose and left behind thame George of Touris, president, for the provost, and four others
for the bailies, till have full jurisdictioun in thair absence.”
The battle of Flodden was fought on the 9th of September 1513, and on the following
Registers of the City-Lord Hailes’ Remarks.
VroNErTE-Jamea v.’s Tower, Holyrood, previous to 1554.
[Note]-The following ballad, the mene of which is laid h St Oiles’s Church, may find a place here, both from its
local allusions, and its general refere’nce to the subject of the text :-
Wae worth the day our burghers lea1
Rade our the Ynglish yird;
Wae worth the day shan leman’s guile,
To bluidy grave fand wit to wyle
Our gallant James the Feird.
Uawn Douglas rase frae a dead-txoth sleep,
Queen Margaret in Halyrood waukt to weep
Sin’ their maister a leman’a tryst will keep
Teenefh’ wi’ erie dream ;
Ayont Tweed‘s border streams.

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founder to his new monastery were the churches
of St. Cuthbert. and of the Castle, among which
one plot of land belonging to the former is marked
by ?? the fountain which rises near the king?s garden,
on the road leading to 3t. Cuthbert?s church,? i.e.,
the fountain in the Well-house Tower.
This valley-the future North Loch-was then
Castle, where, in the twenty-first year of his reign,
he granted a charter to the Abbey of Kelso, the
witnesses to which, apud Castrum PueZZarum, were
John, Bishop of Glasgow ; Prince Henry, his son ;
William, his nephew ; Edward, the Chancellor ;
?? BarthoZomeo $Zio Cornitis, et WiZZieZnza frateer
i u s ; Jordan0 Hayrum;? Hugo de Morville, thc
ST. MARGARET?S CHAPEL, EDINBURGH CASTLE,
the garden, which Malcolm, the son of Pagan, culjivated
for David II., and where tournaments were
held, 44 while deep pools and wide morasses, tangled
wood and wild animals, made the rude diverging
pathways to the east and westward extremely dangerous
for long after, though lights were burned at
the Hermitage of St. Anthony on the Crag and
the spire of St. John of Corstorphin, to guide the
unfortunate wight who was foolhardy enough to
travel after nightfall.?
In 1144 we find (King David resident in the
constable ; Odenell de Umphraville ; Robert Bruce ;
William of Somerville; David de Oliphant; and
William of Lindsay.
The charter of foundation to the abbey of
Holyrood-which will be referred to more fully in
its place-besides conferring valuable revenues,
derivable from the general resources of the city,
gave the monks a right to dues to nearly the same
amount from the royal revenues of the port of
Perth, which was the more ancient capital of
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 369
S. OP the Genealogy of the Family oP Seton in
the fourteenth century.
4, List of the Scottish Commanders at the Battle
of Halidon, 19th July 1383, pp. 11.
6. Whether Edward 111, put to Death the Son
of Sir Alexander Seton, pp, 8.
6. List of the Scottish Commanders killed or
made prisoners at the Bsttle of Durham, pp. 8.
7. Table of Kings, p. 1.
8. Corrections and additions to Volume I., pp. 16.
9. Corrections and additions to Volume II., pp, 8.
Chronological Abridgment of the Volume, pp.
39.1
Account of the Martyrs of Smyrna and Lyons in the
Second Century, 12mo ; with Explanatory Notes.
Edinburgh, l7i6. Dedicated to Bishop Hurd,
pp. 68. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 142.-
This :is a new and correct version of two most
ancient Epistles; the one from the Church at
Smyrna to the Church at Philadelphia ; the other
from the Christians at Vienne and Lyons, to those
in Asia and Phrygia-their antiquity and authenticity
are undoubted. Great part of both is
extracted from Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History.
The former was first completely edited by Archbishop
Usher. The author of the Notes says
of them, with his usual and singul~rm odesty,
Icth at they will afford little new or interesting to
men of erudition, though they may prove of some
benetit to the unlearn’d reader.” But the erudition
he possessed in these branches is so rare, that
this notice is unnecessary. They display much
useful learning andingenions criticism, and breathe
the most ardent zeal, connected with an exemplary
knowledge of Christianity.
N.B.-This is the First Volume oP the Remains of
Christian Antiquity.
Remains of Christian Antiquity ; with Explanatory
Notes, Vol. 11. Edinburgh 1776,12mo. Dedicated
to Dr. Newton, Bishop of Bristol. Preface, pp. 7.
This Volume contains-The Trial of Justin Martyr
and his CompanionR, pp. 8,-Epistle of Dionysius,
Bishop oP Alexandria, to Fabius, Bishop of
Antioch, pp. 16,-the Trial and Execution of
Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, pp. 6,-the Trial and
Execution of FNctuosus, Bishop of Tarracona in
Spain, and of his two Deacons, Augurius and
Eulogius, pp. 8,-the Maiden of Antioch, pp. 2.
These are all newly Translated by Lord Hailes
from Eusebius, Ambrose, $13. The Notes and
Illustrations of this Volume extend from pp. 47
to 165, and display a most intimate acquaintance
with antiquity; great critical acumen, both iu
elur.idating the sense and detecting interpolations
and, above all, a fervent and enlightened zeal in
vindicating such sentiments and conduct a$
are oonfonnablc to the Word of God, against thr
malicious sarcasms of Mr. Gibbon. To thii
volume is added au Appendix of twenty-twc
pages, correcting and vindicating certain parts o
Vol. I.
lemains of Christian Antiquity, Vol. 111. Edin. 1780.
Dedicated to Thos. Balgny, D.D. Preface, pp. 2.
It contains the History of the Martyrs of Palestine
in the Third Century, translated from Eusebius,
pp. 94. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 135, in which
Mr. Gibbon again comes, and more frequently,
under renew. The partiality and ruisreprescntations
of this popular writer are here exposed in
the calmest and most satisfactory manner.
lctavius ; a dialogue. By Marcus Minucius Felix.
Edin. 1781, pp. 16. Preface.-The speakers are
Cmilius, a heathen; Octavius, a Christian,
whose arguments prevail with his friend to
renounce Paganism aud become a Christian
proselyte. Notes and Illustrations, pp. 120.
If the Manner In which the Persecutors died; a
treatise by Lactantiua, Edin. 1782. 8vo. Inscribed
to Dr. Porteous, Bishop ol Chester (afterwards
Bishop of London). Preface, pp. 37, in
which it is proved that Lactantius is the author.
Text, pp, 125.
Lactantii Divinssum Institutionum Liber Quintus,
seu de Justitia. 1777. Svo.
Disquisitions concerning the Antiquities of the
Christian Church. Glasgow, 1783. Inscribed to
Dr. Halifax, Bishop of Gloucester, pp. 194.-This
small, original, and most excellent work consists
of Six Chapters.
clhap. 1. A commentary on the Conduct and Character
of Gallio, Acts xvili. 5, 12, 17.
Chap.:% Of the Time at which the Christian Religion
became publicly known at Rome.
Chap. 3. Cause of the Persecution of the Christians
under Nero.-In this the hypothesisof Mr. Gibbon,
Vol. I., 4t0, pp. 641, is examined.
Chap. 4. Of the eminent Heathen Writers, who
are said (by Gibbon) to have disregarded or contemned
Christiuity, viz. Seneca, Pliny senior,
Tacitus, Pliny junior, Galen, Epictetus, Plutarch,
Marcus Antonius.-To the admirers of Eeathen
Philosophers, and to those especially who
state between them and the Christin doctrine
any consanguinity, this Chapter is mnestly
recommended.
Chap. 5. Illustrations of a Conjecture by Gibbon,
respecting the silence of Dio Cassius concerning
the Christians.-In this Chapter, with extreme
impartiality, he amplifies and supports an idea of
Mr. Gibbon on this head.
Chap. 6. Of the Circumstances respecting Christianity
that &re to be found in the Augutan His-
It 8eems very probable that the close attention
which Lord Hailes appears to have given to such
subjects, was in some measure the effect of the mistakes
and partiality of Gibbon In no one work
from 1776the date of Mr. Gibbon’s first publication-
has he omitted to trace this unfair and insiuu
a t i i author; but in 1786, he came forth of set
purpose, with the most able and formidable reply
which he has received, entitled, “An Inquiry into
the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned
for the rapid Growth of Christianity. By S i David
Notes and Illustrations, pp. 109.
tory.
I
1 This Work, with some of the minor publications, has been reprinted in three vols. 8vo. Edin. 1819.
3 B

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 265
- In addition to this account by the “Author of Waverley,” it may be added
that the King’s Bedesmen, as they are called, derived their name from the nature
of the devotions they were enjoined to perform, having annually to “tell their
beuds” as they walked in procession from Holyrood to St. Giles’s. It is not
precisely known, though it is probable the Bedesmen had their origin in the
reign of the first James, whose attempts at national reform, and his endeavours
to suppress the hordes of wandering vagrants who prowled upon the county,
might naturally suggest the granting of such privileges as were conferred
on the Bedesmen.’ The paupers thus distinguished were such only as, by
their military services, had a claim on the royal bounty. In the household
accounts of succeeding reigns, the “ Blew Gownis” are frequently mentioned.
Two extracts from these, furnished by Mr. Macdonald of the Register House,
are given in the “Notes to the Waverley Novels ;” the one of date 1590, the
other 1617, in which the cloth for “blew gownis,” and various other items
for the Bedesmen are minutely set down.
During the civil commotions of the seventeenth century, and under the
Cromwellian sway, no notice of the Bedesmen occurs, their order having doubtless
shared in the common wreck of royalty. On the Restoration, however,
the Blue Gowns were not overlooked; and in the royal birthday pageants,
dictated by the intense loyalty of the times, they formed an interesting group.
The following is an account of one of the annual rejoicings-the fifth after the
Restoration :-
“Edinburgh, May 29, 1665, being his Majesty’s birth and restauration - day, waa most
solemnly kept by people of all ranks in this city. My Lord Commissioner, in his state,
accompanied with $is life guards on horseback, and Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Provost of
Edinburgh, Bailies and Council, in their robes, accompanied with all the trained bands in arms,
went to church, and heard the Bishop of Edinburgh upon a text as fit as well applied to the
work of the day. Thereafter, thirty-$ve aged men, in blue gowns, each having got thirty-jve
shillings in a p r s e , cam up from the Abbey to the great Church, praying all along for his Majdy.
Sermon being ended, his Grace entertained all the nobles and gentlemen with a magnificent
feast, and open table. After dinner, the Lord Provost and Council went to the Cross of Edinburgh,
where wm planted a green arbour, loadened with oranges and lemons, wine liberally running
for divers hours at eight several conduits, to the great solace of the indigent commons there.
Having drank all the royal healths, which were seconded by the great guns of the Castle, sound
of trumpets and drums, vollies from the trained bands, and joyful acclamations from the people,
they plentifully entertained the multitude. After which, my Lord Commissioner, Provost, and
Bailies, went up to the Castle, where they were entertained with all sorts of wine and sweetmeaty
and returning, the Lord Provost countenancing all the neighbours of the city that had
put up bonfires, by appearing at their fires, being in great numbers ; which jovialness continued
with ringing of bells and shooting of great guns till twelve o’clock at night.”
1 “With respect to licensed beggars, we may remark that Dr. Jamieson, neither in his
Dictionary, nor in his Supplement, offers any conjecture respecting the origin or cause of the
Bed-, who are privileged to beg, receiving a blue gown, whence they take the name commonly
given to them. P l i y informs us, that blue was the colour in which the Gauls clothed their slaves ;
and blue coats, for many ages, were r;he liveries of servants, apprentices, and even of younger
brothers, as it is now of the Blue Coat Boys, and of other Blue Schools in the country. Hence the
proverb in Ray, ‘ He is in his better blue clothes,’ applied to a person in low degree, when dressed
very fine.”-Edin. Rm’ew. Almhowe, according to Dr. Jamieaou, is frequently styled a bdehme;
and a bedemn he defines 89 one who resides in an almshouse. The origin of the term, however, is
evidently referable to the devotional services enjoined on those who were, in former times, the objects
of any special charity.
VOL. II. 2N

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The Water of Leith.] THE LAUDERS. 83
massive little mansion of Groat Hall, with a thatched
roof, whilom the property of Sir John Smith, Provost
of the city in 1643, whose daughter figured
as the heroine of the strange story connected with
the legend of the Morocco Land in the Canongate,
and whose sister (Giles Smith) was wife of Sir
William Gray of Pittendrum.
St. Cuthbert?s Poorhouse, a great quadrangular
edifice, stands in the eastern vicinity of Craigleith
Quarry. It was built in 1866-7, at a cost of
jG40,000, and has amenities of situation and
elegance of structure very rarely associated with
a residence for the poor.
Eastward of Stockbridge, and almost forming an
integral part of it, lies the now nearly absorbed and
half extinct, but ancient, village of Silvermills, a secluded
hamlet once, clustering by the ancient milllade,
and which of old lay within the Earony of
Broughton. It was chiefly occupied by tanners,
whose branch of trade is still carried on there by
the lade, which runs under Clarence Street: through
the village, and passes on to Canonmills. Some of
the houses still show designs of thistles and roses
on gablets, With the crowsteps of the sixteenth
century.
A little to the west of St. Stephen?s Church, a
narrow lane leads downward to the village, passing
through what was apparently the main street, and
emerges at Henderson Row, so called from the
Lord Provost of that name. According to
Chambers, a walk on a summer day from the old
city to the village, a hundred years ago, was considered
a very delightful one, and much ?adopted
by idlers, the roads being then through corn-fields
and pleasant nursery-grounds.
No notice, says Chambers, has ever been taken
of Silvermills in any of the books regarding Edicburgh,
nor has any attempt ever been made to
account for its somewhat piquant name. ?I
shall endeavour to do so,? he adds. ?In 1607
silver was found in considerable abundance at
Hilderstone, in Linlithgowshire, on the property of
the gentleman who figures as Tarn 0? the Cowgate.
Thirty-eight barrels of ore were sent to the mint in
the Tower of London to be tried, and were found
to give twenty-four ounces of silver for every
hundredweight. Expert persons were placed upon
the mine, and mills were erected upon the Water
of Leith for the melting and fining the ore. The
sagacious owner gave the mine the name of Go8s
BZessing. By-and-bye the king heard of it, and,
thinking it improper that any such fountain of
wealth should belong to a private person, purchased
? God?s Blessing? for L~,OOO, that it might
be worked upon a larger scale for the benefit of
the public But somehow, from the time it left
the hands of the original owner, ? God?s Blessing?
ceased to be anything like so fertile as it had been,
and in time the king withdrew from the enterprise,
a great loser. The Silvermills I conceive to have
been a part of the abandoned plant.?
This derivation seems extremely probable, but
Wilson thinks the name may have originated in
some of the alchemical projects of James IV., or
his son, James V.
city,? says the Edinburgh Week& Magazine for
January, 1774, ?we are informed of a very singular
accident. On the nights of the zznd, 23rd, and
24th inst., the Canonmills dam, by reason of the
intenseness of the frost, was so gorged with ice and
snow, that at last the water, finding no vent, stagnated
to such a degree that it overfIowed the
lower floors of the houses in Silvermills, which
obliged many of the inhabitants to remove to the
risi,ng grounds adjacent. One family in particular,
not perceiving their danger till they observed the
cradle with a child in it afloat, and all the furniture
swimming, found it necessary to make their
escape out of the back windows, and were carried
on horseback to dry land.?
St. Stephen?s Established Church, at the foot
of St. Vincent Street, towers in a huge mass over
Silvermills, and was built in 1826-8, after designs
by W. H. Playfair, It is a massive octagonal
structure in mixed Roman style, with a grand, yet
simple, entrance porch, and a square tower 165 feet
high. It contains above 1,600 sittings. The parish
was disjoined from the conterminous parishes in
1828 by the Presbytery of Edinburgh and the Teind
Court. Itwas opened on Sunday, the 20th December,
1828, when the well-known Dr, Brunton preached
to the Lord Provost and magistrates in their official
robes, and the Rev. Henry Grey officiated in the
afternoon.
In an old mansion, immediately behind where
this church now stands, were born Robert Scott
Lauder, R.S. A., and his brother, James Eckford
Lauder, RSA., two artists of considerable note in
their time. The former was born in 1803, and for
some years, after attaining a name, resided in.No. 7,
Carlton Street. A love of art was early manifested
by him, and acquaintance with his young neighbour,
David Roberts, fostered it. The latter instructed
him in the mode of mixing colours, and urged him
to follow art as a profession ; thus, in his youth he
entered the Trustees? Academy, then under the
care of Mr. Andrew Wilson.
After this he went to London, and worked with
great assiduity in the British Museum. In 1826
?From Silvermills, a little northward of this .

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The Water of Leith.] DANIEL STEWART. 67
with sword and sash, wig and cocked hat, queue
and ruffles. After looking at him steadily, but sadly,
the figure melted away; and, as usual with such
spectral appearances, it is alleged young Nisbet was
shot at the same moment, in an encounter with the
colonists.
In 1784 the Dean House was the residence of
Thomas Miller, Lord Barskimming, and Lord
Justice Clerk. In 1845 it was pulled down, when
the ground whereon it had stood so long was
acquired by a cemetery company, and now-save
the sculptured stones we have described--no relic
remains of the old Nisbets of Dean but their burial
place at the West Church-a gloomy chamber of
the dead, choked up with rank nettles and hemlock.
By 1881 the old village of Dean was entirely
cleared away. Near its centre stood the blacksmith?s
forge of Robert Orrock, who was indicted for
manufacturing pikes for the Friends of the People
in 1792. He and his friend, Arthur McEwan,
publican in Dean Side, Water of Leith village,
were legally examined at the time, and it is supposed
that many of the pikes were thrown into the
World?s End Pool, below the waterfall at the
Damhead. South of the smithy was the village
school, long taught by ? auld Dominie Fergusson.?
North of it stood the old farmhouse and steading
of the Dean Farm, all swept away like the quaint
old village, which?was wont to be a bustling place
when the commander-in-chief of the forces in
Scotland tenanted the Dean, and mounted orderlies
came galloping up the steep brae, and often reined
up their horses at the ?Speed the Plough? alehouse,
before the stately gate.
Somewhere in the immediate vicinity of this
old village a meeting-house was erected in 1687
for the Rev. David Williamson, of St. Cuthbert?s,
who was denounced as a rebel, and intercommuned
in 1674 for holding conventicles, but was sheltered
secretly in the Dean House by Sir Patrick Nisbet.
In 1689 he was restored to his charge at the West
Church, and was one of the commissioners sent to
congratulate King William on his accession to the
throne.
Now all the site of the village and farms, and
the land between them and the Dean Bridge, is
covered by noble streets, such as Buckingham
Terrace and Belgrave Crescent, the position of
which is truly grand. In 1876 a movement was
se: on foot by the proprietors of this crescent, led
by Sir James Falshaw, Bart, then Lord Provost,
which resulted in the purchase of the ground between
it and the Dean village, at a cost of about
A5,ooo. In that year it was nearlyall covered by
kitchen gardens, ruinous buildings, and brokendown
fences. These and the irregularities of the
place have been removed, while the natural undulations,
which add such beauty to the modem
gardens, have been preserved, and the plantations
and walks are laid out with artistic effect,
The new parish church-which was built in
1836, in the Gothic style, for accommodation of
the inhabitants of the Water of Leith village1 and
those of the village of Dean-stands on the western
side of the old Dean Path.
Farther westward is Stewart?s Hospital, built in
1849-53, after designs by David Rhind, at a cost
of about ~30,000, in a mixture of the latest
domestic Gothic, with something of the old castellated
Scottish style. It comprises a quadrangle,
about 230 feet in length by IOO feet in minimum
breadth, and has two main towers, each 120 feet
high, with several turrets.
Mr. Daniel Stewart, of the Scottish Exchequer,
who died in 1814, left the residue of his property,
amounting (after the erection and endowment of a
free school in his native parish of Logieraitj to
about ;G13,000, with some property in the old
town, to accumulate for the purpose of founding a
hospital for the maintenance of boys, the children
of honest and industrious parents, whose circumstances
do not enable them suitably to support and
educate their children at other schools. Poor boys
of the name of Stewart and Macfarlane, resident
within Edinburgh and the suburbs, were always
to have a preference. The age for admission was
to be from seven to ten, and that for leaving at
fourteen .
The Merchant Company, as governors, taking
advantage of the powers given them by the provisional
order obtained in 1870, opened the hospital
as a,day school in the September of that
year. The education provided is of a very superior
order, qualifying the pupils for commercial
or professional life, and for the universities. The
course of study includes English, Latin, Greek,
French, German, and all the usual branches, including
drill, fencing, and gymnastics.
The Orphan Hospital at the Dean was erected
in 1833, after elegant designs by Thomas Hamilton,
at a cost of A16,000, in succession to the
older foundation, which we have already described
as standing eastward of the North Bridge, on the
site of the railway terminus. It comprises a large
central block, with two projecting wings, a portico
of Tuscan columns, and two light, elegant quadrangular
towers with arches, and has within its
clock-turret on the summit of its front the ancient
clock of the Nether Bow Port.
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300 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Wynd.
broad and spacious thoroughfare, named St. Mary?s
Street, presenting on its eastern side a series of
handsome fapdes, in the Scottish domestic style,
with a picturesque variet)iof outline and detail.
edifice a relic of one of the older ones, a lintel
inscribed thus, with the city motto :-
NISI . DEVS . FRVSTRA.
I B 1523 E L
C H A P T E R X X X V I I .
LEITH WYND.
Leith Wynd-Our Lady?s Hompita-Paul?s Work-The Wall of r540-Its Fall in 1854-The ?Happy Land?-Mary of Gueldres-Trinity
College Church-Some Particulars of its Charter-Interior View- Decorations-Enlargement of the Establishment-Privileges of its
Ancient Officers-The Duchess of Lennox-Lady Jane Hamilton-Curious Remains-Trinity Hospital-Sir Simon Preston?s ? Public
Spirit ?-Become5 a Corporation Chariw-Description of BuildinpPmvisions for the Inmates-Lord Cockburn?s Female Pensioner- .
basement of which is occupied by spacious shops,
and which stands upon the site of the old ?White
Horse ? Inn, as an inscription built into the wall
records thus :-
Edin6urgic, I& Augwt, 1773, on his m.emorabZe four to the
Hebrides, occuj.ied the Zargerpavt (If the si& .f f h i Eui(ding.?
There is also built into another part of the
? I Boyd?s Inn, at which DY. Samuel phnson oflived in .
Demolition of the Hospital-Other Charities.
THE connecting link between St. Mary?s Wynd
and Leith Wynd was the Nether Bow Port, a barrier,
concerning the strength of which that veteran
marshal, the Duke of Argyle, spoke thus in the
debate of 1736 in reference to the Porteous mob:-
. ?? The Nether Bow Gate, my Lords, stands in a
narrow street; near it are always a number of
coaches and carts. Let us suppose auother insurrection
is to happen. In that case, my Lords,
should the conspirators have the presence of mind
to barricade the street with these carriages, as may
? be done by a dozen of fellows, I affirm, and I
appeal for the truth of what I advance to any man
of my trade, who knows the situation of the place,
if five hundred men may not keep out ten thousand
for a longer time than that in which the mob
executed their bloody designs against Porteous.?
From the end of this gate, and bordered latterly
on the west by the city wall, Leith Wynd, which
is now nearly all a thing of the past, ran down
the steep northern slope towards the base of the
Calton Hill.
In the year 1479, Thomas Spence, Bishop of
many who are honorary, but subscribe to the Association,
the objects of which are to promote sobriety,
religious deportment, and a brotherly feeling among
young men of the Catholic faith. It contains a
library and reading room, lecture and billiard room.
It has a dramatic association, and by the committee
who conduct it no means are left untried to increase
the moral culture of the members,
Aberdeen, previously of Galloway, and Lord Privy
Seal, founded, at the foot of Leith Wynd, and on
the east side thereof, a hospital for the reception
and entertainment of twelve poor men, under the
name of ?? the Hospital of our Blessed Lady, in Leith
Wynd :? and subsequently it received great augmentations
to its revenues from other benefactors ;
but at first the yearly teinds did not amount to
twelve pounds sterling, according to Arnot. From
the name afterwards given to it, we are led to suppose
that among the future benefactions there had
been added a chapel or altarage, dedicated to St.
Paul.
The records of Parliament show that somewhere
in Edinburgh there were a hospital and chapel dedicated
to that apostle, and that there was a chapel
dedicated to the Virgin in 1495, by Sir William
Knolles, Preceptor of Torphichen, who fell with
King James at Flodden.
The founder of the hospital in Leith Wynd died
at Edinburgh on the rgth of April, 1480, and was
buried in the north aisle of Trinity College church,
near his foundation.
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Kolyrood.] THE COFFIN OF JAMES V. 65
Appended to this scroll was a minute of thei
possessions, with a hint of the pecuniary advantager
to result from forfeiture. This dangerous policy
James repelled by exclaiming, ?? Pack you, javels !
(knaves). Get you to your religious charges ; reform
your lives, and be not instruments of discord
between me and my nobles, or else I shall reform
you, not as the King of Denmark does, by im
prisonment, nor yet as the King of England does
by hanging and heading, but by sharp swords,
if I hear of such hotion of you again ! ?
From this speech it has been suppqsed that
Jxnes contemplated some reform in the then
dissolute Church. But the rout at Solway
followed; his heart was broken, and on learning
the birth of his daughter Mary, he died in despair
at Falkland, yet, says Pitscottie, holding up his
hands to God, as he yielded his spirit. He was
interred in the royal vault, in December, 1542,
at Holyrood, where, according to a MS. in the
Advocates? Library, his body was seen by the Earl
of Forfar, the Lord Strathnaver, and others, who
examined that vault in 1683. ?We viewed the
body of James V. It lyeth within ane wodden
coffin, and is coverit with ane lead coffin. There
seemed to be hair upon the head still. The
body was two lengths of my staff with twa inches
more, which is twae inches and more above twae
Scots elms, for I measured the staff with an ellwand
afterward. The body was coloured black with ye
balsam that preserved it, and which was lyke
melted pitch. The Earl of Forfar took the measure
with his staf lykewayes? On the coffin was the
inscription, flhstris Scoturum, Rex Jacobus, gus
Nominis E, with the dates of his age and death.
The first regent after that event was James,
second Earl of Arran (afterwards Duke of Chatelherault,
who had been godfather to James, the
little Duke of Rothesay, next heir to the crown,
failing the issue of the infant Queen Mary), and in
1545 this high official was solemnly invested at
Holyrood, together with the Earls of Angus, Huntly,
and Argyle, with the collar and robes of St.
Michael, sent by the King of France, and at the
hands of the Lyon King of Arms.
We have related how the Church suffered at
the hands of English pillagers after Pinkie, in
1547. The Palace did not escape. Seacombe, in
his ?? History of the House of Stanley,? mentions
that Norns, of Speke Hall, Lancashire, an
English commander at that battle, plundered
from Holyrood all or most of the princely
library of the deceased King of Scots, James V.,
?particularly four large folios, said to contain
the Records and Laws of Scotland at that time.?
He also describes a grand piece of wainscot,
now in Speke Hall, as having been brought from
the palace, but this is considered, from its style,
doubtful.
During the turmoils and troubles that ensued
after Mary of Guise assumed the regency, her
proposal, on the suggestion of the French Court,
to form a Scottish standing army like that of
France, so exasperated the nobles and barons,
that three hundred of them assembled at
Holyrood in 1555, and after denouncing the
measure in strong terms, deputed the Laird of
Wemyss and Sir James Sandilands of Calder to
remonstrate with her on the unconstitutional step
she was meditating, urging that Scotland had
never wanted brave defenders to fight her battles
in time of peril, and that they would never submit
to this innovation on their ancient customsc
This spirited remonstrance from Holyrood had the
desired effect, as the regent abandoned her pro--
ject. She came, after an absence, to the palace in
the November of the following year, when the
magistrates presented her with a quantity of new
wine, and dismissed McCalzean, an assessor of the
city, who spoke to her insultingly in the palace on
the affairs of Edinburgh; and in the following
February she received and entertained the ambassador
of the Duke of Muscovy, who had been
shipwrecked on his way to England, whither she
sent him, escorted by 500 lances, under the Lord
Home.
After the death of Mary of Guise and the arrival
of her daughter to assume the crown of her ancestors,
the most stirring scenes in the history of the
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THE HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. . 261
church, and the lively expression and spirit of the ‘‘ General Assembly,” and others of
his own etchings, amply justify the character he enjoyed among his contemporaries as a
truthful and humorous delineator of nature. He succeeded Runciman as master of the
Academy established by the Board of Trustees, the classes of which then met in the
College, while he received private pupils at his own house in Dickson’s Close.‘ A little
lower down the close on the same side, an old and curious stone tenement.bears on its
lower crowstep the Haliburton Arms, impaled with another coat, on one shield. It is a
singularly unique and time-worn edifice, evidently of considerable antiquity. A curious
double window projects on a corbeled base into the close, while the whole stone-work is
so much decayed as greatly to add to its picturesque character. In the earliest deed
which exists, bearing the date 1582, its first proprietor, Master James Halyburton--a
title then of some meaning-is spoken of in indefinite terms as umpb or deceased ; so
that it is a building probably of the early part of the sixteenth century. It afterwards
was the residence of Sir John Haliday of Tillybole. The moat interesting fact, however,
brought out by these early titles, occurs in defining the boundaries of the property,
wherein it is described as having “ the trans of the prebendaries of the kirk of Crightoun
on the east pairt and oyr partes ; ” so that a considerable part of Cant’s Close appeara
to have been occupied in early times by ecclesiastical buildings in connection with
the church of Crichton, erected into a collegiate foundation in 1449 by Sir Wm.
Crichton, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland.’ Directly opposite to the site of this
is another ecclesiastical edsce, the mansion of the Abbot of Melrose, which enters
from Strichen’s Close. It is a large and substantial stone building, enclosing a small
square or court in the centre, the original access to which seems to have disappeared.
The whole building has evidently undergone great alterations; and over one of the
doorways, a carved stone bears a large and very boldly cut shield, with two coats of
arms impaled, and the date 1600. There seems no reason to doubt,,however, that the
main portion of the Abbot’s residence still remains. The lower story is strongly vaulted,
and is evidently the work of an early date. The small quadrangle also is quite in
character with the period assumed for the building; and at its north-west angle in Cant’s
Close, where a curiously carved fleur-de-lis surmounts the gable, a grotesque gurgoil of
antique form serves as a gutter to the roof. Here, therefore, we may assign with little
hesitation the residence of Andrew Durie, nominated by James V. to the Abbey of Melrose
in the year 1526 ; and whose death, Knox assures us, was occasioned by the terror
into which he was put on the memorable uproar on St Giles’s day 1558. The close, which
is called the Abbot of Melrose’a in its earlier titles, assumes that of Rosehaugh Close at a
later period, from the Abbot’s lodging having become the residence of the celebrated Sir
George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, King’s Advocate for Scotland after the Restoration.
During a great part of last century, this ancient mamion was occupied by Alexander
Fraaer of Strichen, who was connected by marriage with the descendants of Sir George
- 1
Caledonian M m l y , Nov. 15, 1788.-His terms were one guinea per month for three lessons in the week, a fee
that undoubtedly restricted hia private clawes at that period to the most wealthy and fashionable atudenta of art. The
date of the advertisement is the year of hia marriaga ’ “ X t appeara from old writinga and charters connected with the how, that the tenement fronting the street, by
which it waa bounded on the north, had been, before the Reformation, the lodging of the Provost of CriohtoxL’’-Tdtions,
voL i p. 92. The old building ia long aince destroyed.

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178 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
I., who hoped thereby to gain him over from the Presbyterians. In this, however, the
King was completely disappointed. At the period of his acquiring Gourlay’s house, he was
actively engaged in organising the national resistance of the liturgy, and in framing the
Covenant, which was subscribed in the following year by nearly the whole of Scotland.
He appears, from his Diary,’ to have taken a minute and affectionate interest in all that
concerned the members of his numerous family, long after they had left the parental roof.
The ancient mansion seems to have been purchased for his son, Sir Thomas, who, with his
elder brother, Sir John Hope of Craighall, both sat on the bench while their father was
Lord Advocate ; and it being judged by the Court of Session unbecoming that a father
should plead uncovered before his children, the privilege of wearing his hat while pleading
was granted to him, and we believe still belongs to his successors in the office of King’s
Advocate, though fallen into disuse.
From Sir Thomas Hope the upper part of the old mansion was purchased by Hugh
Blair, merchant in Edinburgh, and grandfather, we believe, of the eminent divine that bore
his name. From him it came into the possession of Lord Aberuchill, a Senator of the
College of Justice ; and various other persons of rank and note in their day occupied the
ancient dwelling ere it passed to the plebeian tenantry of modern times.
The most interesting of its latter occupants was the celebrated lawyer Sir George Lockhart,
the great rival of Sir George Mackenzie, appointed, in the year 1658, Advocate to
the Protector during life, and nominated Lord President of the Court of Session in 1685.
He continued at the head of the Court till the Revolution, and would undoubtedly have
been reappointed to the office, had he not fallen a victim to private revenge. Chiesly of
Dalry, an usuccessful litigant, exasperated, as it appeared, by a decree of the Lord President
awarding an aliment of 1700 merks, or g93 sterling, out of his estate, in favour of
his wife and ten children, conceived the most deadly hatred against him, and openly declared
his resolution to be revenged. On Sir James Stewart, advocate, seeking to divert him from
the purpose he avowed, he fiercely replied,--“ Let God and me alone ; we have many things
to reckon betwixt us, and we will reckon this too ! ” The Lord President was warned of
Chiesly’s threats, but unfortunately despised them. The assassin loaded his pistols on the
morning of Easter Sunday, the 31st March 1689; he went to the New Kirk,-as the
choir of St Giles’s Church was then styled,-and having dogged the President home from
the church, he shot him in the back as he was entering the Old Bank Close, where he
resided. Lady Lockhart,-the aunt of the witty Duke of Wharton,-was lying ill in bed.
Alarmed at the report of the pistol, she sprang up, and on lea,rning of her husband’s
murder rushed out into the close in her night-dress, and assisted in raising him from the
ground. The assassin, on being told that his victim had expired immediately on being
carried into the house, coolly replied,--“ He was not used to do things by halves.”
The murderer being taken red-Band, and the crime having been committed within the city,
he was brought to trial on the following day before Sir Magnus Prince, the Lord Provost,
as High Sheriff of the city. Although he made no attempt to deny the crime, he was put
.
1 The following entry appeara in his Diary, “ 7 January 1641, Payit to David cfourlay, Jc merks, quhilk he afimit
to be awio to him of the pryce off his tenement sauld to my son Sir Thomas, and thin gevin be him to his sone Thornam
Gourlay quhen he waa going furth off the country.” On 25th December 1644, is the brief entry, “Good David
Gourlay departit at his hous in Prestounpannis, about 8 hours of nycht.”-Hope’s Diary, Bann. Club, pp. 123,
210.

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134 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
looking over his manuscripts, with a view to publication after his death, they
were found in a very imperfect state ; so much so, that he had evidently not
been in the habit of committing to paper more than an outline of his discourses.
A small but handsome monument, in the Greyfriars’ C,hurchyard, bears the
following record of his worth :-
“ A Tribute
of admiration, affection, and regret,
to the memory of
the late REVERENDJ AMESS TRUTHERS,
a man of superior understanding,
intelligence, and worth ;
whose talents and success,
as
a pulpit orator,
were not excelled, and scarcely equalled,
in the place and period which were honoured
by his short but distinguished
mortal existence.
He was
born at Glassford, on the 31st Oct. 1770 ;
educated at the University of Glasgow ;
ordained Minister of the First Relief Chapel
(College Street), Edinburgh,
28th July 1791 ;
and died 13th July 1807.”
Mr. Struthers married a lady possessed of considerable fortune, of the name
of Syme. By her he had six children, only two of whom survived-a son and
daughter. The son, James Syme Struthers, D.D., was called to St. Andrew’s
Church and parish, Georgetown, Demerara ; and the daughter married the Rev.
George Burns, D.D., minister of the parish of Tweedsmuir, Peeblesshire. His
youngest son, John Pitcairn Struthers, died at St. Andrews on the 2d May
1814.
The widow of Mr. Struthers was afterwards married to Dr. Briggs, Professor
in the University of St, Andrews.
No. CCXVI.
REV. MR. STRUTHERS.
This Portrait of the Reverend gentleman was executed in 1801, ten years
later than the former? The artist was one of the seat-renters of his Chapel.
The Rev. Mr. French, his successor in the Chapel, ia the third in succession since the death
of Mr. Struthers. He waa preceded by Mr. Smith and Mr. Limont, who are both dead.

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TU Cowpate.] THE HAMMERMEN. 263
reference to those trades which form the United
Incorporation of Hammermen, and to the old city
companies and trades in generaL
?6 The Hammerer?s Seill of Cause,? was issued
on the 2nd Nay, 1483, by Sir Patrick Baron of
Spittalfield, Knight, Provost ?of the City, Patrick
Balbirge of that ilk, David Crawford of St. Giles?s
Grange, and Archibald Todrig, being bailies ; and
under the general name are?included at that time,
blacksmiths, goldsmiths, lorimers, saddlers, cutlers,
buckler-makers, armourers, (( and all others
within the said burgh of Edinburgh.? Pewterers
were afterwards included, and a heckle-maker so
lately as 1609. By the rule of the corporation it
was statute and ordained, that ?? na hammerman,
maister, feitman, servand, nor utheris, tak vpon
hand fra this tyme furth, to exercise or use ony
mair craftis but alanerly ane, and to live thairupon,
sua that his brether craftismen be not hurt throu
his large exercitation and exceeding of boundis,?
Src. And all the privileges of the haminermen
were ratified by Act of Parliament so recently
as September, 1681, when shearsmiths appear as
members of the corporation. In those days all the
operations of industry were treated as secrets.
Each trade was a craft, and those who followed
it were called craftsmen ; and skilled artisans were
?? cunning men.? (Smiles.)
The Hammermen?s seal bears the effigyof St.
Eloi, in apostolical vestments, in a church porch
surmounted by five pinnacles, holding in one hand
a hammer, and in the other a key, with the legend,
(( Sig2lum commune artis tudiatorum.?
By the end of the 16th century the manufacture
of offensive weapons predominated over all other
trades in the city. The essay-piece ofa cutler, prior
to his admission to the corporation, was a wellfinished
?quhinzier,? or sword; and there were
gaird-makers, whose business consisted in fashioning
the hilts ; dalmascars, who gilded weapons and
armour. In 1582 sword blades were damascened
at Edinburgh ; but ?? Hew Vans, dalmascar, was
ordained not to buy blades to sell again,? his business
being confined to gilding steel. There were
also the belt-makers, who wrought military girdles ;
dag-makers, who made hackbutts (short guns),
and dags, or pistols ; but all these various trades
became associated in the general one of armourers
or gunsmiths, as the wearing of weapons
began to fall into desuetude, and other arts connected
with civilisation and luxury began to take
their places.
In 1586 a locksmith is first found in Edinburgh,
where he was the cnly one, and could only make
a ?? kist-lock.? Tirling-pins, wooden latches, and
transom bars, were the appurtenances of doors
before his time generally. But by 1609, ?as the
security of property increased,? says Chambers,
the essay was a kist-lock and a hing and bois
lock with ane double plate lock ;? and, in 1644,
?? a key and sprent band were added to the essay.?
In 1682 ?a cruik and cruik band? were further
added; and in 1728, for the safety of the liegeq
the locksmiths? essay was appointed to be ?? a cruik
and cruik-band, a pass-lock with a round filled
bridge, not cut or broke in the backside, with nobs
and jamb bound.? The trade of a shearsmith
appears first in 1595 in Edinburgh, and in 1613
Thomas Duncan, the first tinkler in the city was
admitted a hammerman. The trade of a pewterer
is found as far back as 1588; the first knockmaker
(or clockmaker) appears in 1647, but his
business was so limited that he added thereto
the making of locks. (? Traditions of Edin.?) In
1664 the first white iron smith was admitted a
hammerman, and the first harnessmaker, though
lorimers-manufacturers of the iron-work used in
saddlery-were members. since 1483. The first
maker of surgical instruments in Edinburgh was
Paul Martin, a French Protestant refugee, in 1691.
In 1720 the first pin-maker appears ; and in 1764
the first edge-tool maker, and the first manufacturer
of fish-hooks.
By the first charter of the hammermen all a p
plicants for admission were examined by the
deacons and masters of their respective arts, as to
their qualifications ; and any member found guilty
of a bre?ch of any one of the articles contained in
their charter, was fined eight shillings Scots towards
the support of the corporation?s altar of St. Eloi in
St Giles?s Church and the chaplain thereof. The
goldsmiths were separated from the hammermen in
1581 ; but since then many other crafts have joined
them, including gunsmiths, watchmakers, founders,
braziers, and coppersmiths.
The cordiners, or shoemakers, were first created
into a society by the magistrates on the 28th of
July, 1449 (according to Maitland), in terms of
which each master of the trade who kept a booth
within the town, paid one penny Scots, and the;.
servants one halfpenny, towards the support of
their altar of St. Crispin, in St. Giles?s Church. A
new seal of cause was granted to them in 1509, and
another in 1586, which enacted that their shops were
not to be open on Sundays after g AM., and that no
work was to be done on that day under pain of twenty
shillings fine. It also regulated the days of the
week on which leather boots and shoes could be sold
by strangers in booths. This charter was confirmed
on 6th March, 1598, by James VI., in considera

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vi OLD APU'D NEW EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER XXII.
ST. ANDREW SQUARE.
PAGE
St. Andrew Sq-Lst .of Early R e s i d e n u t Bomwlaski-Miss Gordon of CLuny-SconiSh W d m ' Fund-Dr. A. K. Johnstoo
--Scottish Provident Institution-House in which Lord Bmugham was Bom-Scottish Equitable Society-Charteris of Amisfield-
Douglas's Hotel-Sk Philip Ainslie-British Linen Company-National Bank--Royal Baulc-The Melville and Hopetoun Monuments
-Ambm's Tavern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I66
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHARLOTTE S Q U A R E ,
Charlotle Sq-Its Early OccuPantgSu John Sinclair, B a r t - b o n d of that Ilk-Si Wdliam Fettes-Lard chief Commissioner Adam
-Alexander Dimto-St. George'r Church-The Rev. Andrew Thomson-Prince ConSmt's Memorial-The Parallelogram of the first
New Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -172
CHAPTER XXIV.
ELDER STREET-LEITH STREET-BROUGHTON STREET.
Elder Street--Leith Street-The old "Black BuU"-Margarot-The Theatre Royal-Its Predecessors on the same Site-The Circus-
C o d s Rooms-The Pantheon-Caledonian Thoaue--Adelphi Theatre-Queen's Theatre and Open House-Burned and Rebuilt-
~ t . wary's chapel-~ishop Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
CHAPTER XXV.
THE VILLAGE AND BARONY OF BROUGHTON.
Bmghton-The Village and Barmy-The Loan-Bmughton first mentioned-Feudal Superio+Wttches Burned-Leslie's Headquarters
-Gordon of Ellon's Children Murdered-Taken Red Hand-The Tolbooth of the Burgh-The Minute Books-Free Burgews-
Modern Ch& Meted in the Bounds of the Barony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .r80
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE NORTHERN NEW TOWN.
Picardy PI-Lords Eldm and CDig-Su David Milm--Joho AbcrcmmbitLord Newton--cOmmissioner Osborne-St. PauPs Church
-St. George's Chapel-Wib Douglas, Artist-Professor Playfair-Gcned Scott of BellencDrummond Place-C K. Sharpe of
Hoddam-Lard Robertson-Abercmmbie Place and Heriot Row-Miss Femer-House in which H. McKenzie died-Rev. A. Aliin
-Great King Street-Sir R Chrii-Sir WillLm Hamilton-Si William Allan--Lord Colonsay, Lc. . . . . . . . 185
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE NORTHERN NEW TOWN (codu&d).
AdrnLal Fairfax-Bishop Terrot-Brigadier Hope-Sir T. M. Brisbam-Lord Meadowbank-Ewbank the R.S.A-Death of Professor
Wilson-Moray Place and its Distria-Lord President Hope-The Last Abode of Jeffrey-Bamn Hume and Lord Moncrieff-
Fom Street-Thomas Chalmers, D.D.-St. Colme Street-Cap& Basil Hall--Ainslie Place-Dugald Stewart-Dean Ramsay-
Great Stuart Slreet--Pmfessor Aytwn--Mk Graharn of DuntrooPLord Jerviswoodc . . . . . . . . . . I98
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE WESTERN NEW TOWN-HAYMARKET-DALRY-FOUNTAINBRIDGE.
Maithd Street and Shandwick Place-The Albert Institute--Last Residence of Sir Wa'ta Smtt in Edinburgh-Lieutenant-General
DundatMelville Street-PatricL F. Tytler--Manor Piace-St. M q ' s Cathedral-The Foundation Ud-Its Si and Aspxt-
Opened for Srrsice--The Copstone and Cross placed on the Spire-Haymarket Station-Wmta Garden-Donaldson's Hospital-
Castle Te-Its Churches-Castle Barns-The U. P. Theological Hall-Union Canal-Fkt Boat Launched-Dalry-The Chieslies
-The Caledoniau Dstillery-Foun&bridg=-Earl Grey Street-Professor G:J. Bell-The Slaughter-ho-Baii Whyt of Bainfield
-Nd British India Rubber Works-Scottish Vulcanite CompanpAdam Ritchie . . . . . . . . . . . . Z q

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472
White Home Close, 304
Inn, White Horse Close, 304
Boyd’s Close, 161, 162, 312
Whitford, Mrs Qrissald, 335
Whittingham, Lord, 266
Wightman, Provost, 153
Wilkes, Johnny, Burning of, 219
William the Lion, 3, 23
Williamson of Cardrona, 237
Willox, Yr John, 64, 67
Wihon, the Smuggler, 109, 194
HI., 106
Mr David, Minister, 169
Gavin, the Poetical Shoemaker,. 237
James, the Poet. See Clazbdero
Windmill Street, 348
Wintoun’s House, Earl of, 303, 452
Wishart, confined in Edinburgh Castle, 51
Witches, 18, 88,133, 283, 305, 306, 373
Bishop Qeorge, 366
INDEX.
Wood, Sir Andrew, 22, 23
Wood’s Farm, 371
Wooden Mare, 94 247
Woodhouselee, Lord, 332, 351
World‘s End Cloee, 275
Wotton, Sir Nicolae, 68
Wrigbtisland, Lord, 232
Writers’ Court, 201, 233
Wrychtishousis, Mansion of, 130, 432
Napier of, 339, 350
Tomb of, 393, 432
Wyat, James, Architect, 197
Yair, Henry, one of the Murderers of Rizzio, executed, 77
Yeeter, Lady, 273, 429
Yesterk Church, Lady, 96, 105, 425, 429, 430 ’
York, Archbishop of, 26,27
Young, John, Somerset Herald, 26
Zuccherelli, Franceso, 298
THE END.
YalNTBIl BY BALLANTYNR AND COMPANY
RDINBURCH AND MNDON

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