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NOTES TO VOL. I.
Page 66, Dr. CARLPLE.
For the actual facts regarding Carlyle’s friendship with Home, wide Dr. Carlyle’s
Autobiography. He attended two rehearsals along with the author, Lord Elibank, Dr.
Ferguson, and David Hume, at the old Canongate theatre, then under the management
of Captain Digges, a well-born profligate, who had been dismissed the army, it was said,
as a poltroon. The
friends of Home were accustomed to meet at a tavern within the Abbey Sanctuary, and
out of this originated the Griskin Club, one of the old convivial clubs of Edinburgh.
He performed Young Douglas, and Mrs. Ward, Lady Randolph.
Page 72, CROCHALLACLNU B.
For an account of the Club, vide Ker’s Life of Xmellie, by whom Burns was introduced
to the Club. See the poet’s impromptu on Smellie ; and also his addenda to the
old song of “ Rattlin’ roarin’ Willie,” in both of which the Crochallan Club is referred to,
Page 11 7, Mr. WOODS.
Woods the actor was a special friend of the poet Fergusson. Vide ‘‘ My Last Will : ”
“ To thee, whose genius can provoke
Thy pmsions to the bowl or sock ;
For love to thee, Woods, and the Nine,
%e my immortal Shakespeare thine,” etc.
An Address, in Verse, “ To Mr. R. Ferpsson, on his recovery from severe depression
of spirits,” by Mr. Woods, appeared originally in the Culedoninn Mercury, July 9, 1774,
and was appended to the first edition of Pequsson’s Poems, 1807.
Page 12 3, Dr. BLAIK
“ The great Dr. Blair used to walk in a sort of state, with gown and wig, from his
house in Argyle Square, down the Horse Wynd, up the Old Fishmzrket Close, and so
to the High Church, every Sunday foreuoon when he went to preach. His style of
walking was very pompous, though perhaps not affected.”- Fide Chambers’s Traditions.
Page 127, ERSKINEAN D THE PHYSICIANHSA’ LL.
It is almost necessary to note here that the Physicians’ Hall, a somewhat tasteful
building, with a portico of Corinthian columns, was one of the prized architectural
features of the New Town in its early days. It was erected in 1775 ; and as it stood
opposite St. Andrew’s Church, the two porticoes would have harmonised well in a
general view of the street, had not the Physicians’ Hall been thrown back behind the
general line of the street. The site is now occupied by the much more imposing
building of the Commercial Bank.
Page 160, Rev. JOHNM ‘LuRE.
Dr. Robert Chambers describes this same character in his Traditions of Edinburgh,
hut he gives him the name of Andrew M‘Lnre. He lived “ in the second flat of a house
at the head of Bell’s Wynd, fronting the southern wall of the Old Tolbooth, and next
door to the Baijen Hole.” This, Dr. Chambers states, was a celebrated baker’s shop,
named in Peter Williamson’s Directory for 1784 as Bugon Hole ; but he says “ the
origin of the word defies all research.” The
Bejauni were the freshmen, or students of the first year in the old universities. In
Aberdeen the freshman is still called a Bejeant, as in Paris he was a Bbjaune, i.e. a
ninny, in the fourteenth century. No doubt the Eaijen Hole was a favourite resort of
the younger students who had not yet lost a schoolboy’s love for gib, candy, etc. Old
High School boys will remember Brown’s Baijen Hole, in the old High School Wynd,
the reputation of which survived till the desertion of the Old High School Yards for the
Calton HilL
The word, however, is very significant.

... TO VOL. I. Page 66, Dr. CARLPLE. For the actual facts regarding Carlyle’s friendship with Home, wide Dr. ...

Book 8 p. 601
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192 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
shot the Bishop of Orkney in 1668, at the head of Blackfriars Wynd, in an attempt to
assassinate Archbishop Sharpe, so strangely eluded the strict search made for him; he effected
his escape by taking refuge in the Tolbooth, to which ingress, in latter times at least, was
never very difficult. The city gates were shut at the time, and none allowed to go out
without a passport signed by one of the magistrates, but it will readily be believed that the
Tolbooth might be overlooked in the most vigilant pursuit after one who was to be consigned
to it the instant he was taken. It may be, however, that this interesting tradition
is only a confused version of a later occurrence in the same reign, when Robert Ferguson,
a notorious character, known by the name of ‘‘ the Plotter,” was searched for in Edinburgh
under somewhat similar circumstances, as one of the conspirators implicated in the
Rye-House Plot. It was almost certainly known that he was in the town, and the gates
were accordingly closed, but he also availed himself of the same ingenious hiding-place, and
quietly withdrew after the whole town had been searched for him in vain. Another similar
escape is mentioned in the Minor Antiquities,” where the Highlands were scoured by
the agents of government in search for a gentleman concerned in the rebellion of 1745,
while he was quietly taking his ease in (‘ the King’s Auld Tolbooth.”
Of the numerous female inmates of this “ house of care,” we shall only mention two,
who contrast with one another no less strikinglyin their crimes than in their fate. In the
year 1726 great interest was excited by a trial for forgery, in which Mr George Henderson,
a wealthy merchant in Edinburgh, was accused of forging a bill upon the Duchess
of Gordon for 258, which he had endorsed to Mrs Macleod, the wife of a wig-maker in
Leith. Respectable citizens declared on oath that they had been present when Henderson
signed the bill, and had a&ed their names to it in his presence as witnesses ; others
had seen him on the same evening, a little above the Canongate Cross, in company with
Mrs Macleod, and dressed in ‘( dark coloured clothes, and a black wig.” So conclusive
did the whole evidence appear, that the Lord Advocate, Duncan Forbes of Culloden, presented
himself before the Court on the last day of the summer Session, and demanded the
prisoner’s conviction by a decree of the Judges. By the most strenuous exertions of council
and friends, the cause was delayed till the winter Session, and meanwhile the Lord Advocate,
when going north to Culloden, stopped at Kihavoch to inspect a new house that a
friend was having built. One of the carpenters employed on the house, an intelligent and
exFert workman named David Household, could nowhere be found on the proprietor
inquiring for him to furnish some information ; this casual incident led to inquiries, and
at length to the discovery of a most ingenious and complicated system of fraud practised
by Mrs Macleod with the aid of Household, whom she had dressed up in her own husband’s
black coat and wig, and bribed to personate the merchant who so narrowly escaped conviction
and execution. So deeply was the Lord Advocate impressed with the striking
nature of the case, that he often afterwards declared, had Henderson been executed in
accordance with his official desire, he would have looked upon himself as guilty of
murder.”
On Household being shown to the witnesses, attired in his former disguise, they at once
detected the fraud. Henderson was released, and Mrs Macleod put on trial in his stead.
From the evidence produced, it appeared that this ingenious plot had been concocted for‘
the pious purpose of raising, on the credit of the bill, a small sum to release her husband

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. shot the Bishop of Orkney in 1668, at the head of Blackfriars Wynd, in an attempt ...

Book 10 p. 210
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HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 61
publishing houses of the city. Near at hand is that of the brothers Chambers,
and from the little corner shop at the Bow we follow the NeIsons to their
magnificent establishment at Hope Park ; Adam and Charles Black are in
the North Bridge ; Oliver and Boyd in Tweeddale Court ;l and from the Old
Town we accompany the Blackwoods to George Street in the New. Ranked
with them are the names of Constable, Clark, and Ballantyne, as letterpress
printers, and Johnston and Bartholomew as geogaphers and engravers.
Beside the memorial tablet to Napier of Merchiston, on the north wall of
St. Giles’s Cathedral, are the remains of the City Cross : Mr. Drummond’s
drawing shows the shaft as it stood in the grounds at Drum.
GREAT HALL IN THE PARLIAMENT HOUSe
The renovated choir of St. GiIes’s Cathedral was opened on Sunday morning,
9th March 1873, by the Rev. Dr. knot. The magnificent stained grass
windows by Ballantine add to the dignity of the venerable edifice, one of them
fo&ing a memoria1 to Stevenson, the engineer of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
1 Tweeddale House, associated with the family of that name, became afterwards the British
Linen Company’s Bank, and has been for a long period occupied by Messrs. OIiver and Boyd.

... AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 61 publishing houses of the city. Near at hand is that of the brothers ...

Book 11 p. 98
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L UCKENBOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 219
Hospital are still termed, who claimed this office by long prescription, and their acknowledged
skill in the art of loyal decoration, acquired in the annual custom of decking their
own founder’s statue.‘ This formed one of the chief attractions to the citizens throughout
the day, as well as to their numerous rustic visitors who crowded into the capital
on the occasion, to wituess or share in the fun. Towards the afternoon the veteran
corps of the city guard were called out to man the eastern entrance into the Parliament
Close while the guests were assembling for the civic entertainment, and thereafter to
draw up in front of the great hall, and announce with a volley to the capital at large each
loyal toast of its assembled rulers. Never did forlorn hope undertake a more desperate
duty! The first volley of these unpopular guardians of civic order was the signal
for a frenzied assault on them by the whole rabble of the town, commemorated in
Ferguson’s lively Address to the Muse on the Dead dogs and cats,
and every offensive missile that could be procured for the occasion, were now hurled
at their devoted heads ; and when at last they received orders to march back again to their
old citadel in the High Street, the strife became furious; the rough old veterans dealt
their blows right and left with musket and Lochaber axe wielded by no gentle hand,
but their efforts were hopeless against the spirit and numbers of their enemies, and the
retreat generally ended in an ignbminious rout of the whole civic guard. All law, excepting
mo6 Zuw, was suspended during the rest of the evening, the windows of obnoxious citizens
were broken, the effigies of the most unpopular public men frequently burnt, and for
more than half a century, the notorious Johnny Wilkes,” the editor of the North Briton,
and the favourite of the London apprentices, was annually burnt in effigy at the Cross
and other prominent parts of the town-an incremation which ‘ has lately altogether
fallen into desuetude.
Previous to the remodelling of the Parliament House, while yet the lofty lands of the
old close reared their huge and massy piles of stone high above the neighbouring buildings,
and the ancient church retained its venerable though somewhat dilapidated walls, the
aspect of this quadrangle must have been peculiarly grand and imposing, and such as we
shall look for in vain among the modern erections of the capital. It would be folly, bowever,
after recording so many changes that have passed over it at successive periods, to
indulge in useless regrets that our own day has witnessed others as sweeping as any that
preceded them, obliterating every feature of the past, and resigning it anew to the S~OW
work of time to restore for other generations the hues of age that best comport with ita
august and venerable associations. We shall close our notice with the following extract
from a local poem referring to the same interesting nook of the old Scottish capital :-
King’s birthday.”
A scene of grave yet busy life
Within the ancient city’s very heart,
Teeming with old historic memories, rife
With a departed glory, stood apart.
High o’er it rose St Giles’s ancient tower
Of curious fret work, whence the shadow falls,-
As the pale moonbeams through its arches pour,-
Tracing a shadowy crown upon the walls
1 One of the graceful and innocent customs-of earlier times, which was for sometimeiu abeyance, but is now happily
again revived.

... UCKENBOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 219 Hospital are still termed, who claimed this office by long prescription, ...

Book 10 p. 239
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226 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
At the foot of this close, however, we again meet with valuable associations connected
with more than one remarkable period in Scottish history. A door-way on the east side of
the close affords access to a handsome, though now ruinous stone stair, guarded by a neatly
carved balustrade and leading to a garden terrace, on which stands a very beautiful old
mansion, that yields in interest to none of the ancient private buildings of the capital. It
presents a semi-hexagonal front to the north, each of the sides of which is surmounted by a
richly carved dormar window, bearing inscriptions boldly cut in large Roman letters, though
now partly defaced. That over the north window is :-
NIHIL - EST * EX OMNI - PARTE a BEATUM a
The windows along the east side appear to have been originally similarly adorned ; two
of their carved tops are built into an outhouse below, on one of which is the inscription,
LAUS. UBIQUE . DEO , and on the other, FELICITER . INFELIX. In the title-deeds of this
ancient building,’ it is described as ‘‘ that tenement of land, of old belonging to Adam,
Bishop of Orkney, Commendator of Holyroodhouse, thereafter to John, Commendator of
Holyroodhouse,” his son, who in 1603, accompanied James to England, receiving on the
journey the keys of the town of Berwick, in his Majesty’s name. Only three years afterwards,
‘‘ the temporalities and spiritualitie ” of Holyrood were erected into a barony in
his behalf, and himself created a Peer by the title of Lord Holyroodhouse. Here, then, is
the mansion of the celebrated Adam Bothwell, who, on the 15th May 1567, officiated at the
ominous marriage-service in the Chapel of Holyrood Palace,a that gave Bothwell legitimate
possession of the unfortunate Queen Mary, whom he had already so completely
secured within his toils. That same night the distich of Ovid was afExed to the Palace
gate :-
Yense mala8 Maio nubere vulgufj dt;
and from the infamy that popularly attached to this fatal union, is traced the vulgar prejudice
that still regards it as unlucky to wed in the month of May. The character of the old
Bishop of Orkney is not one peculiarly meriting admiration. He married the poor Queen
according to the new forms, in despite of the protest of their framers, and he proved equally
pliable where his own interests were concerned. He was one of the first to desert .his royal
mistress’s party; and only two months after celebrating her marriage with the Earl of
Bothwell, he placed the crown on the head of her infant son. The following year he
humbled himself to the Hirk, and engaged ‘‘ to make a sermoun in the kirk of Halierudehous,
and in the end therof to confesse the offence in mazieng the Queine with the Erle of
Bothwell.”
The interior of this ancient building has been so entirely remodelled to adapt it to the
very different uses of later times, that no relic of its early grandeur or of the manners
of its original occupants remain; but one cannot help regarding its chambers with a
Now the property of Messrs Clapperton and Co., by whom it ia occupied as a warehouse. ’ “Within the add chappel, not with the mess, both with preachings.”-Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 111. Keith and
other historians, however, say, ‘(within the great hall, where the council usuallj met”
Ovid’s Fasti, Book v. ‘ Booke of the Univeraall Kirk of Scotland, p. 131.

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. At the foot of this close, however, we again meet with valuable associations ...

Book 10 p. 246
(Score 1.16)

386 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Edgar had‘been in his youth a Captain of Marines, and had seen much
of foreign countries. Prior to his appointment as a Commissioner, he held the
situation of Collector of Customs at Leith. Before he met the accident by
which he was rendered lame, though rather hard-featured, he was decidedly
handsome. He. walked erect, without stiffness, and with considerable rapidity.
His enunciat,ion was remarkably distinct, and his phraseology correct. He was
an excellent classical scholar ;1 and, in fine, a thorough gentleman of the old school.
Although quite a man of the world, he possessed a degree of practical philosophy
which enabled him not only to relish the varied enjoyments of life, but
to bear its ills with tranquillity. Where regret was unavailing, he frequently
made jest of the most serious disasters. One of his limbs was shorter than the
other, in consequence of having had his thigh-bone broken at Leith races, by
an accident arising from the carelessness of the postillion. “ D-n th‘e fellow !”
said the Captain, “ he has spoiled one of the handsomest legs in Christendom.”
On his way home, after the occurrence, perceiving he had to pass it friend on
the road, he moved himself slightly forward in the carriage, at the same time
staring and making strange contortions, as if in the last extremity. “ Ah, poor
Edgar ! ” said his friend to every acquaintance he met, “ we shall never see him
more-he was just expiring as I got a peep into the carriage ! ”
He spent a
gay life while in town ; associating with the best company, and frequenting the
public places, particularly the concerts in St. CeciIia’s Hall, in the Cowgate.
Before dinner, he usually took a few rounds at golf in the Links, always playing
by himself; and, on fine evenings, he might be seen seated, in full dress, in the
most crowded part of the Meadows, then a fashionable promenade.
In the summer months he preferred the retirement of Pendreich Cottage at
Lasswade. Here his amusements were singularly characteristic ; and all his
domestic arrangements were admirably in keeping with his peculiarities. His
invariable practice in the morning, on getting out of bed, was to walk down,
encumbered with little save a towel, to bathe in the river; after which he
returned to his toilette, and then sat down with a keen appetite to breakfast.
Prior to his lameness, Mr. Edgar was a devoted lover of field-sports ; and with
the gun few sportsmen could bag as many birds. As it was he still kept a few
dogs; and, in one of his fields, had a target erected, that he might enjoy an
occasional shot without the fatigue of pursuing game. He had an eagle too,
which he tamed, and took much pleasure in feeding.
Another favourite amusement was the school-boy practice of flying a kite.
By some, who naturally conceived such a pastime to be childish, he was called
Mr. Edgar and the celebrated Adam Smith, who waa alao a commissioner, used, when at the
board, to amuse themselves by reciting passagea from the ancient Greek authors. Neither of the
two gentlemen were men of business, though, in justice to the latter, it may be mentioned, that,
from an anxious desire to be useful, when h t appointed to the Customs, he put himself under the
instruction of Mr. Reid, then Inspector-General ; but his mind continually turned to his favourite
theories ; and, after vain efforts, he was obliged to give up the attempt. There could hardly be a
more conscientious, kind-hearted man than Adam Smith. With the wisdom of a savant, he had
all the simplicity of a child.
Mr. Edgar’s housc was in Teviot Row, adjoining the Meadows.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Mr. Edgar had‘been in his youth a Captain of Marines, and had seen much of foreign ...

Book 8 p. 538
(Score 1.15)

434 INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS. ETC .
N
No . Page
Nairne. Sir William. Bart., Lord Dunsinnan
......................................... xci 217
Napier. Right Hon. Francis Lord .........o lx 404
Neil. Mr . Thomas. wright and precentor.
in the character of the “ Old Wife ”xcvi 230
Neilson. Mr . James ..................... xxxviii 89
Newton. Lord. on the bench ............l xxxiii 200
Nicol. Andrew. with a plan of his
Middenstead ........................... cxviii 290
Nicol. Andrew ................................. cxix 291
0
Ogilvy. Dr . Skene ........................... xxxv 76
Osborne. Alexander. Esq ............... cxxxviii 343
P
Page. Captain ................................. xiv 40
Paton. Mr . George. the antiquary ...... xcix 244
Paul. Rev. William. one of the ministers
of the West Church .................c. lxiii 414
Philosophers ................................... xxv 56
Pillans. Robert. one of the Captains of
the City Guard ........................... xv 41
Pilmer. Major ................................ clx 409
Pitcairn. George. one of the Captains of
41
Pratt. George. the town-crier ............l xxii 170
R
Rae. Sir David. of Eskgrove. Bart., Lord
Justice-clerk .............................. cxl 350
Rae. Mr . James. surgeon.dentist ......... clxvii 424
Retaliation ; or the Cudgellcr caught ... xlvii 99
Richardson. William ........................... iv 12
Ritchie. Adam ................................. xxxi 68
Robertson. George. one of the Captains
of the City Guard ....................... xv 41
Robertson. Principal. author of the “History
of Scotland” and “ Charles V.” xli 93
Robertson. Rev . William. D.D., in his
full clerical dress ........................ xlii 9’4
Robertson. Captain George. of the City
Guard ....................................... Ivi 118
Robertson. James. of Kincraigie ......... cxxiv 305
Ronaldson. Francis. Esq ...............c xxxviii 344
Rylance. Mr . Ralph ........................... xcii 220
the City Guard ........................... XY
Ross. David. Lord Ankerville .................. c 248
S
Sabbath Evening School. Dispersion
of a ....................................... cxliii 356
Scott, Mr . William ........................... clxii 411
Septemviri. the Sapient. King’s College.
Aberdeen ................................. xxxv 76
Shadows. Two .............................. cxxxii 323
Shiells. Mr . John. surgeon ..............c. lvii 397
Sibbald. Mr . James ........................... clxii 411
Siddons. Mn., in the character of “Lady
Randolph” ................................ lv 113
NO . Page
Skene. John .................................... cxix 291
Smellie. Mr . William. printer. F.R.S.
and F . A.S .............................. lxxxn 206
Smith. Dr . Adam. author of “The
Wealth of Nations ................. xxxiii 73
Smith. Dr . Adam. LL.D. and F.K.S.
of London and Edinburgh ......... xxxiv 75
Smith, George ................................. cvi 264
Sone. Samuel. of the 24th Regiment
Spottiswood. John. Esq .................
Stabilina. Hieronymo ........................ cxx 293
Steuart. Provost David ........................ xvi 42
Stirling. Sir James. Bart., Lord Provost.
Stirling. Sir James. Bart .............
Sutherland. Mr., in the character of
“Old Norval ......
Taplor. Quarter-Master ..................... xliii 95
Thom. Dr . William. Professor of Civil
Law in Eing’s College. Aberdeen ... xxxv 79
Thomson. Mr . Alexander .................. xlvi 98
Tony. Bailie James .......... ... xlix 105
Tremamondo. Angelo. E gmaster
.................................... xxxii 69
clxix 428
Tytler ................................ xxxviii 86
Vicars. Captain ................................ xiv 40
v
Voltaire. the French Philosopher ...... lxxxv 205
Volunteers. Royal Edinburgh ............ xcviii 236
w
Walker. Rev . Robert. one of the ministcrs
of the High Church ......... cxxxix 347
Walker. Mary ................................. cxix 291
Watson. Alexander. Esq . of Glenturkie .. clxiv 417
Watson. Alexander. Esq . of Glenturkie. .. clxv 118
Watson. Mr., an Edinburgh Messenger.lxxxv 206
Watson. Mungo. Beadle of Lady Yester’s
Church etc- ........................... cxxiii 304
.... cxii 274
Webster. Rev . Dr . Alexander. of the
Tolbooth Church ........................... x 2 8
White. Mr . Thomas. midshipman. at
the bar of the High Court of Justiciary
....................................... lxii 145
Williamson. Peter. author of “ Life and
Vicissitudes of Peter Williamson,”
etc ........................................... lix 131
Wood. &fr . Alexander. surgeon ..
Wood. Mr . Alexauder. surgeon ............l xix 164
Woods. Mrs., of the Theatre Royal ......... lv 117
Wesley. Rev . John
Wnght. Mr . John, lecturer on lam ...... cviii 268
Wright. Mr . John, advocate ...............c ix 270

... INDEX TO THE PORTRAITS. ETC . N No . Page Nairne. Sir William. Bart., Lord ...

Book 8 p. 607
(Score 1.14)

University.] THE FIRST VISITATION. 9
was appointed as second master in the college,
where he taught Latin for the first year, and Greek
in the second. He died in 1586 ; and from the circumstance
that he and Rollock were paid board by
the Town Council, it has been supposed that they
were both bachelors, and did not live within the
college.
ture upon being examined in their knowledge of
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and the whole circle
of the sciences.? Those chosen on this occasion
were Mr. Adam Colt of Inveresk, and Mr. Alexander
Scrimger of Irwin.
The first visitation of this university was held
in 1614, when the,Town Council appointed sixteen
THE LIBRARY OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY, AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF THE QUADRANGLE,
LOOKING NORTH. ( F Y o ~ a8 Eng-raving by W. Ff. Lizarr of a Drawing by Playfatr).
for which, and for preaching weekly in St. Giles?s,
he had 400 merks per annum.
As students came in, the necessity for adding
as their assessors.
There was not then a chancellor in the university,
or any similar official, as in other learned
to advertise for candidates all over the kingdom.
Six appeared, and a ten days? competition in skill
followed-a sufficient proof that talent was necessary
in those early days, and much patience on the
part of the judges. ?They must have possessed
great hardihood,? says Bower, ? who could adven-
98
at Stirling, he desired the principal and regents of
his favourite university to hold a public disputation
in his presence. On this, the five officials repaired
to Stirling, where the royal pedant anxiously
awaited them, and took a very active part in the
discussion.

... THE FIRST VISITATION. 9 was appointed as second master in the college, where he taught Latin for the ...

Book 5 p. 9
(Score 1.13)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 75
his neck. He had, however, contracted (which the Print does give) an inveterate
habit of stooping, which was rather injurious to his general aspect. In
convivial society, especially when at the head of his own hospitable table, he was
much disposed to be jocular, and was liberal of his store of pithy sayings and
droll stories. In particular, he highly enjoyed the meetings of the well-known
Poker Club, of which he was a member, along with his brother, and to which
belonged at that time, Patrick Lord Elibank, Lord Ellioch, Dr. Adam Smith,
Drs. Cullen, Black, and Gregory, Dr. Adam Fergusson, Old Ambassador Keith,
Sir Gilbert Elliot, and many others ; some of them men of letters, others, persons
of high birth, or eminent in public life.
John Home was extremely regular and methodical in all his habits, punctual
to his time in whatever he had to do, and not very tolerant with those who
failed in this (as he rightly thought it) important article. It could not be truly
affirmed that he was of an equally calm and placid temperament as his brother,
the philosopher ; but the brothers entertained the most cordial affection for each
other, and continued in constant habits of kind intercourse and mutual good
offices to the end of their lives. Under the historian's will, the principal part
of his effects went to his brother, who survived him.
John Home died at Ninewells, on the 14th of November 1786, after a short
illness, and in great composure of mind. He was interred in the family vault,
under his parish church at Chirnside. He had always been on friendly terms
with the good and worthy pastor of that parish, Dr. Walter Anderson, whom
indeed no one could dislike, who valued simplicity and mildness of character,
or felt the importance of the due discharge of all the duties of that holy office.
By his marriage to Agnes Carre, John Home, who survived her, had eight
children, of whom three sons, .Joseph, David, and John, and two daughters,
Catherine and Agnes, survived him.' Joseph, when a young man, served as
Captain in the Queen's Bays or 2d Dragoon Guards. He afterwards resided as
a country gentleman, at Ninewells, where he died on the 14th of February 1832,
unmarried, and at the advanced age of eighty-one. David was an advocate at
the Scottish bar, and held successively the offices of Sheriff-Depute of Berwickshire,
Sheriff-Depute of West Lothian, Professor of the Law of Scotland in the
University of Edinburgh, one of the Principal Clerks to the Court of Session,
and one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer for Scotland; from which
office he retired, on the statutory allowance, in February 1834. John was a
man of great worth and good parts j and nature had gifted him with no small
share of genuine pleasantry and humour, which were combined with a generous
and an affectionate disposition. In the earlier part of his life, he did business
with much credit, in Edinburgh, as a Writer to the Signet. In his latter years
he gave up practice there, and took up his residence at Ninewells, with his
eldest brother, the laird, who committed to him the chief or rather the entire
charge of the management of his affairs, and the improvement of his estate.
They carried into execution sundry judicious projects of draining, enclosure, and
"he other three children, namely, Robed, Helen, and Agatha, died in infancy or early youth.

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THE LA WNMARKET. I81
On the west side of the County Hall there still exists a part of the “ transs ” of Libberton’s
Wynd, but all other remains have been swept away by the same “ improvement‘
mania,” whose work we have already recorded in the neighbouring closes. This wynd
formed, at one period, one of the principal thoroughfares for pedestrians from the fashionable
district of the Cowgate to the “ High Town.” Its features did not greatly differ from
those of many other of the old closes, with its substantial stone mansions eked out here
and there by irregular timber projections, until the narrow stripe of sky overhead had
well-nigh been blotted out by their overhanging gab1es.l The most interesting feature
in the wynd was Johnie Dowie’s Tavern, already alluded to,-the Mermaid Tavern of
Edinburgh during the last century,-whither the chief wits and men of letters were wont
to resort, in accordance with the habits of society at that period. Here Ferguson the
poet, David Herd, one of the earliest collectors of Scottish songs, “ antiquarian Paton,”
with others of greater note in their own day than now,-lords of session, and leading
advocates, inhabitants of the neighbouring fashionable district,-were wont to congregate.
Martin, a celebrated portrait painter of the last century, instituted a club here, which was
quaintly named after the host, Boway College, and thither his more celebrated pupil, Sir
Henry Raeburn, often accompanied him in his younger days. But, above all, this was the
favourite resort of Robert Burns, where he spent many jovial hours with Willie Nicol, and
Allan Masterton,-the ‘‘ blithe hearts ” of his most popular song,- and with his city
friends of all degrees, during his first visit to Edinburgh. On the death of John Dowie
(a sober and respected city, who amassed a considerable fortune, and left his only son a
Major in the army), the old place of entertainment acquired still greater note under the
name of Burns’s Tavern. The narrow room was visited by strangers as the scene of the
poet’s most frequent resort; and at the period of its demolition in 1834, it had taken a
prominent place among the lions of the Old Town. The house had nothing remarkable
about it as a, building, It bore the date of its erection, 1728, and in the ancient titles,
belonging to a previous building, it is described as bounded on the south by U the King’s
auld wall.” This ancient thoroughfare appears to have retained its original designation,
while closes immediately adjoining were receiving new names with accommodating facility on
every change of occupants, Libberton’s Wynd is mentioned in a charter granted by James
111. in the year 1477; and in later years its name occurred in nearly every capital
sentence of the criminal court, the last permanent place of public execution, after the
demolition of the Old Tolbooth, having been at the head of the wynd. The victims of the
law’s highest penalty, within the brief period alluded to, offer few attractions to the antiquarian
memorialist, unless the pre-eminent infamy of the “ West Port murderers,” Burke
and Hare,-the former of whom was executed on this spot-be regarded as establishing
their claim to rank among the celebrated characters of Edinburgh. The sockets of “ the
fatal tree ” were removed, along with objects of greater interest and d u e , in completing
the approach to the new bridge.
Carthrae’s, Forrester’s, and Beth’s Wynds, all once stood between Libberton’s Wynd
and St Giles’s Church, but every relic of them had been swept awyyears before the latter
work of destruction was projected. Forrester’s Wynd waa evidently a place of note in
earlier times, and frequent allusions to it occur in some of the older diaries ; e.g., ‘‘ Vpoun
A very accurate and characteristic view of this wynd, from the Cowgate, ie given among Geikie’e Etchings.

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The Secoud High SchooLl DR ADAM. 293
Alexander Adam, LLD., with this seminary,
when he was appointed joint-rector with Alexander
Matheson, who died in Merchant?s Court in 1799;
and of the many distinguished men who have presided
over it, few have left a higher reputation for
learning behind them.
Born at the Coates of Burghie in Elgin, in 1741,
he was the son of humble parents, whose poverty
was such, that during the winter mornings, in boy.
hood, he conned his little Elzevir edition of Livy
and other tasks by the light of bog-splinters found
in the adjacent morass, having to devote to manual
labour the brighter hours of day. In 1757 he
obtained a bursary at Aberdeen, and after attending
a free course of lectures at the Edinburgh University,
he was employed at the sum of one guinea per
quarter, in the family of Alan Maconochie, afterwards
Lord Meadowbank ?At this time,? says
Anderson in his biography of Adam, ?he lodged
in a small room at Restalrig, for which he paid
fourpence per week. His breakfast consisted 01
oatmeal porridge with small beer ; his dinner often
of a penny loaf and a drink of water.? Yet, at the
age of nineteen, so high were his attainments, he
obtained-after a competitive examination-the
head-mastership of Watson?s Hospital ; and %I
1765, by the influence of the future Lord Provost
Kincaid, he became joint-rector of the High
School with Mr. Matheson, whose increasing infirmities
compelled him to retire on a small annuity ;
and thus, on the 8th of June, 1768, Adam succeeded
him as sole rector, and most assiduously
did he devote himself to his office.
To him the school owes much of its high reputation,
and is entirely indebted for the introduction
of Greek, which he achieved in 1772, in spite ol
the powerful opposition of the Senatus Academicus.
Into his class he introduced a new Latin grammar
of his own composition, as a substitute for Ruddiman?s,
causing thereby a dispute between himseU
and the masters, and also the Town Council, in
defiance of whose edict on the subject in 1786 he
continued to use his own rules till they ceased to
interfere with him. In 1780 the degree of LL.D.
was conferred upon him by the College of Edinburgh,
chiefly at the suggestion of Principal
Robertson ; and before his death he had the satisfiction
of seeing his own grammar finally adopted
in the seminary to which he had devoted himself.
By 1774 it was found that the ancient school
house, built in 1578, was incapable of accommodating
the increased number of pupils ; its unsuitable
state had frequently been brought before the
magistrates ; but lack of revenue prevented them
from applying the proper remedy of the growing evil.
At last several of the leading citizens, including
among others, Sir William Forbes, Bart., of Pitsligo,
Professor John Hope, William Dalrymple, and Alexander
Wood, surgeon, set afoot a subscription list to
build a new school, and on March 8, 1775, the
Council contributed thereto 300 guineas. The Duke
of Buccleuchgave 500, LordChancellor Wedderburn,
100, and eventually the sum of L2,ooo was raised
-but the building cost double that sum ere it was
finished-and plans were prepared by Alexander
Laing, architect. The managers of the Royal
Infirmary presented the projectors with a piece of
ground from their garden to enlarge the existing
area, and the Corporation of Surgeons also granted
a piece from the garden before their hall.
On the 24th June, 1777, the foundation-stone of
the second High School was laid by Sir William
Forbes, as Grand Master Mason of Scotland. The
procession, ,which was formed in the Parliament
Square,-and which included all the learned bodies
in the city, .moved off in the following order :-
The magistrates in their robes of office ; the Principal
of the University(Kobertson, the historian) and
the professors in their academic gowns ; the Rector
Adams in his gown at the head of his class, the
scholars marching by threes-the smallest boys in
front ; the four masters, each with his class in the
same order ; sixteen masonic lodges, and all the
noblesse of the city. There was no South Bridge
then; so down the High Street and Blackfriars
Wynd, and from the Cowgate upward, the procession
wound to the High School yard.
The total length of the building erected on this
occasion-but now turned to other nses-was a
hundred and twenty feet long, by thirty-eight. The
great hall, which was meant for prayers, measured
sixty-eight feet by thirty, and at each end was a
library of thirty-two feet by twenty. The second
floorwas divided into five apartments or class-rooms,
with a ceiiing of seventeen feet. It was all built of
smoothly-dressed ashlar, and had a Doric portico of
four columns, with a pediment.
This, then, was the edifice most intimately-associated
with the labours of the learned Rector
Adams, and one of the chief events in the history
of which was the enrolment of Sir Walter Scott as
a scholar there when the building was barely two
years old.
?? In 1779,? says Sir Walter in his Autobiography,
?I was sent to the second class of the grammar
school, or High School, then taught by Mr. Luke
Fraser, a good Latin scholar and a very worthy man.
Though I had received with my brothers, in private,
lessons of Latin from Mr. James French, now a
minister of the Kirk of Scotland, I was nevertheless

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THE CANONGA TE AND ABBE Y SANCTUAR Y. 307
roof the dignitaries of the Church, the nobles attending on the old Scottish Kings, and
the beauties of Queen Mary’s Court, passed and repassed into the Abbey Close. This
interesting and highly ornamental portion of the ancient monastic buildings was, in all
probability, the work of the good Abbot Ballantyne, who rebuilt the north side of the
church in the highly ornate style of his time, about 1490, and erected the chapel of St
Ninian, North Leith, and the old atone bridge that led to it, which was demolished in
1789 to make way for the present upper drawbridge. Adjoining this ancient porch,
formerly stood Abbot Ballantyne’s ‘‘ great house or lodging, with the yard thereof, lying
beside the port pf Holyrood House, on the north aide of the street.” The groined archway
of the fine old porch, with the remains of the good Abbot’s lodging, forming, with
the exception of the chapel, the most ancient portions of the Abbey Palace that then
remained, were recklessly demolished by the hereditary keeper in 1753, in order, it is
said, to transfer his apartments from the gate-house to the main building of the Palace.
A small and unpretending dwelling, which now occupies part of the site of the Abbot’s
mansion, may perhaps excite some interest in the minds of certain curious readers as
having once been the house of the notorious Lucky Spence, celebrated in the verses of
Allan Ramsay in terms somewhat more graphic than poetical.’ A singular discovery was
made about fourteen years since, during the progress of some alterations on this building,
which furnishes a vivid illustration of the desperate deeds occasionally practised under the
auspices of its former occupant. In breaking out a new window on the ground floor, a
cavity was found in the solid wall, containing the skeleton of a child, with some remains
of a fine linen cloth in which it had been wrapped. Our authority, a worthy shoemaker,
who had occupied the house for forty-eight years, was present when this mysterious
discovery was made, and described very graphically the amazement and horror of the
workman, who threw away his crow-bar, and was with difficulty persuaded to resume
his operations.
At the corner of the Horse Wynd, and immediately to the west of the Abbey Court-
House, a dilapidated mansion of considerable extent is- pointed out traditionally as the
residence of the unfortunate Rizzio, though it is an erection of probably a century later
than the bloody deed that has given so much interest to the name of the Italian favourite.
A curious and exceedingly picturesque court is enclosed by the buildings behind, and
bore in earlier times the name of the Chancellor’s Court, having probably at some period
formed the residence of that eminent official dignitary. It is described in the title-deeds
as bounded by “the venal1 leading to the king’s stables on the south, and the Horse
Wynd on the west parts ; ” a definition which clearly indicates the site of the royal mews
to have been on the west side of the Abbey Close. More recent and trustworthy traditions
than those above referred to, point out a large room on the first floor of this house as
having been the scene of some interesting proceedings connected with the rehearsal of
Home’s Douglas, in which the reverend author was assisted by sundry eminent lay and
clerical friends. In the cast of the piece furnished by Mr Edward Hialopa good
authority on Scottish theatricals-Principal Robertson, David Hume, Dr Carlyle of
Inveresk, and the author, take the leading male parts, while the ladies are represented by
Professor Ferguson and Dr Blair, the eminent divine 1 Notwithstanding, however, the
Lucky Spence’s Last Advice. Ramsay’s Poems, 4t0, p. 33.

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312 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
“he tenement directly opposite to the site of St Mary’s Chapel, and forming the south
side of the alley leading into Boyd’s Close, is curious, as having been the residence of
James Norrie, painter, the celebrated decorator during the earlier part of last century,
to whom we have already frequently referred. His workshops lay immediately behind, and
adjoining to the coach-house of Lord Milton, as appears from the titles of the property.
Both of them were afterwards converted into stabling for Boyd‘s celebrated White Horse
Inn. This street then formed the approach to the town by one of the great roads from
the south of Scotland ; and here, accordingly, were several of the principal inns. At the
foot of the wynd was Mr Peter Ramsay’s famed establishment, from which he retired with
an ample fortune, and withdrew to his estate of Barnton, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh,
still possessed by his descendants. A large and handsome edifice, with considerable pretensions
to architectural ornament, near the foot of the Pleasance, was the Black Bull Inn,
another of these commodious and fashionable establishments, which the erection of the
North and South Bridges ruined, by diverting the current of visitors to the capital into a
new channel.
Nicoll reports, in 1650, that “ the toun demolished the hail1 houssis in St Marie Wynd,
that the enymie sould haif no schelter thair, bot that thai mycht haif frie pas to thair cannoun,
quhilk thai haid montit upone the Neddir Bow.”’ The earliest date now observable
is that of 1680, cut over the doorway of a house about the middle of the wynd, on the
east side, but one or two other tenements present features of an earlier character. At
the foot of the wpd was situated the Cowgate Port, one of the city gates, constructed
with the extended wall in 1513; and, at a later period, another was erected across the
wynd at its junction with the Pleasance, which was known as St Mary’s or the
Pleasance Port. This was the frequent scene of exposure of the dismembered limbs
of political offenders, as in the case of Garnock and other Covenanters, whose heads
were ordered “to be struck off, and set up upon pricks upon the Pleasance Port of
Edinburgh.”a The old ,Port was demolished on the approach of the rebels in
1715, from the daculty of maintaining it in case of assault; but part of the wall
remained, surmounted by one of the iron spikes, until it was demolished in 1837 to
make way for the new Heriot’s School. This ancient thoroughfare is commended in
Ferguson’s address to Add Reekie, as the unfailing resort of threadbare poets and
the like patrons of the Edinburgh rag-fair. It still continues to be the mart for such
miscellaneous merchandise, flaunting in the motley colours of cast-off finery, and
presided over by
“ St Mary, broker’s guardian ~aunt.”~
Beyond St Mary’s Port, lay the Nunnery dedicated to Sancta Maria de Placentia. It
stood about sixty yards from the south-east angle of the city wall, not far from the foot
of Roxburgh Street ; but of this ancient religious foundation little more is known than the
Chapel, Niddry’s Wynd ; the Virgin Mary’s Chapel, Portsburgh ; the Hospital of Our Lady, Leith Wynd ; the Chapel
and Convent of St Mary de Placentia in the Pleasance; the great Church at Leith, of old styled St Nary’s Chapel; and
the Collegiate Church of Restalrig, the seal of which-now of very rare occurrence-bears the figure of the Virgin and
Child, under a Gothic canopy.
Nicoll’s Diary, p. 24. Keith‘s Hist. Spottiswoode Soc., voL ii. p. 619.
The east side of this narrow wynd has now been entirely removed, and a spacious street substituted, named St
* Fountainhall’s Decisions, vol. i p. 159.
Mary’s Street.

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WILLIAM CREECH. The Lucknbooths.
remembered after he had passed away; but he
had acquired penurious habits, with a miserly
avidity for money, which not only precluded all
benevolence to the deserving, but actually marred
even the honest discharge of business transactions.
In 1771 he entered into partnership with Mr.
Kincaid, who left the business two years after, and
came from his establishment. He published the
works of Cullen, Gregory, Adam Smith, Burns,
Dugald Stewart, Henry Mackenzie, Blair, Beattie,
Campbell (the opponent of Hume), Lords Woodhouselee
and Kames, and by the last-named he
was particularly regarded with esteem and friendship
; and it was on the occasion of his having gone
WILLIAM CREECH. (From th Port~uit ay SW Henry Raebzmz.)
the whole devolving upon Mr. Creech, he conducted
it for forty-four years with singular enterprise
and success. For all that time his quaint shop
at the east-end of the Luckenbooths was the resort
of the clergy, the professors, and also all public
and eminent men in the Scottish metropolis ; and
his breakfast-room was a permanent literary lounge,
which was known by the name of " Creech's Levee."
During the whole of the period mentioned
nearly all the really valuable literature of the time
to London for some time in 1787 that Burns wrote
his well-known poem of " Willie 's Awa : "-
" Oh, Willie was a witty wight,
And had 0' things an' unco slight,
Auld Reekie aye he,keepit tight,
And trig and braw ;
But now they'll busk her like a fright-
Willie's awa ! "
.
We have already referred to the club in which
originated the Mirror and Lounger. These

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THE WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 347
completion of the latter street, she erected a monument to her husband at the north end,
consisting of a Corinthian column, measuring above twenty-five feet high. Upon the base
an inscription was cut in Latin and English, setting forth that Lady Nicolson had made
the adjacent ground, left to her by her husband, be planned out for building, under the
name of Nicolson Street, and had erected the monument there out of regard to his
memory. On the extension of the thoroughfare and the completion of the South Bridge,
this pious memorial was thrown aside into the yard of the public riding-school, then
occupying the site where the College of Surgeons now stands, and it has no doubt long
since been broken up for building materials. Though the monument of Lady Nicolson
might not possess any great value in general estimation, it would have been no unbecoming
act for the projectors of these extensive improvements to have found a site for it in the
neighbouring square. The building in Nicolson Street, at the corner of Hill Street, now
occupied as the Blind Asylum, acquires peculiar interest from having long formed the
residence of the celebrated chemist, Dr Black, whose reputation contributed so largely to
the fame of the University to which he belonged. Further south, on the same side of the
street, a small and mean-looking court, surrounded by humble tenements, and crowded .
with a dense population, bears the name of Simon Square, It has nothing in its appearance
to attract either the artist or the antiquary, yet its associations are intimately
connected with the Fine Arts ; for here, in a narrow lane, called Paul Street, which leads
thence into the Pleasance, David Wilkie took up his abode on his arrival in Edinburgh in
1799. Wilkie was then a raw country lad, only fourteen years of age, and so little was
thought of the productions of his pencil that it required the powerful interest of the Earl
of Leven to overcome the prejudices of the Secretary of the Academy established in Edinburgh
by the Board of Trustees, and obtain his admission as a student. The humble
lodging, where the enthusiastic young aspirant for fame first began his career as an artist,
cannot but be viewed with lively interest. It is a little back room, measuring barely ten
feet square, at the top of a common stair, on the south side of the street near the
Pleasance. From thence he removed to a better lodging in East Richmond Street, and
thereafter to a comfortable attic in Palmer’s Land, West Nicolson Street. This latter
abode of the great Scottish artist possesses peculiar associations with our national arts,
his eminent predecessor, Alexander Runciman, having occupied the same apartment till
1784, the year before his death,’ and having there probably entertained the Poet Ferguson,
while with ominous fitnest3 he sat as his model for the Prodigal Son.
Near to this is the aristocratic quarter that sprung up during the tedious delays which
preceded the commencement of the New Town, and threatened by its success to compel
the projectors of that long-cherished scheme of improvement to abandon their ‘design.
Here is George Square, once the abode of rank, and far more worthy of note, as the scene
where Scott spent his youth under the paternal roof; that bright period of his existence,
of which so many beautiful details are preserved, full of sweet glimpses of the happy
circle that gathered round his father’s hearth. The house which Scott’s father occupied
‘
The following entry ia extracted from the old family Bible which belonged to the artist’s father, and is now in the
Nov. 7, Kilwinning,
Died Oct. H a t , 1785
posseasion of a gentleman in Edinburgh :-“ Jam= Ruociman and Mary Smith, married 1735.
Alexander, born 15th Aug. 1736. Baptized by John Walker, minister, Canongata dinb burgh].
at 12 at night in Chapel Street”

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I18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Corstorphine.
of the House of Orkney. He is represented in
armour of the fifteenth century (but the head has
been struck OK); she, in a dress of the same
period, with a breviary clasped in her hands. The
other monument is said to represent the son of
the founder and his wife, whose hands are represented
meekly crossed upon her bosom. Apart
lies the tomb of a supposed crusader, in the south
transept, with a dog at his feet. Traditionally this
is said to be the resting-place of Bernard Stuart,
Lord Aubigny, who came from France as Ambassador
to the Court of James IV., and died in the
adjacent Castle of Corstorphine in 1508. But the
altar tomb is of a much older date, and the shield
has the three heraldic horns of the Forresters duly
stringed. One shield impaled with Forrester, bears
the fesse cheque of Stuart, perhaps for Marian
Stewart, Lady Dalswinton.
It. has been said there are few things more
impressive than such prostrate effigies as these-so
few in Sdotland now-on the tombs of those who
were restless, warlike, and daring in their times;
and the piety of their attitudes contrasts sadly with
the mockery of the sculptured sword, shield, and
mail, and with the tenor of their characters in life.
The cutting of the figures is sharp, and the
draperies are well preserved and curious. There
are to be traced the remains of a piscina and of a
niche, canopied and divided into three compartments.
The temporalities of the church were dispersed
at the Reformation, a portion fell into the
hands. of lay impropriators, and other parts to
educational and other ecclesiastical institutions.
In 1644 the old parish church was demolished,
? and the collegiate establishment, in which the
, minister had for some time previously been accustomed
to officiate, became from thenceforward the
only church of the parish.
In ancient times the greater part of this now fertile
district was 8 Swamp, the road through which
was both difficult and dangerous; thus a lamp
was placed at the east end of the church, for the
double purpose of illuminating the shrine of the
Baptist, and guiding the belated traveller through
the perilous morass. The expenses of this lamp
were defrayed by the produce of an acre of land
situate near Coltbndge, called the Lamp Acre to
this day, though it became afterwards an endowment
of the schoolmaster, At what time the kindly
lamp of St. John ceased to guide the wayfarer
by its glimmer is unknown ; doubtless it would be
at the time of the Reformation; but a writer in
1795 relates ? that it is not long since the pulley
for supporting it was taken down.?
Of the Forrester family, Wilson says in his
? Reminiscences,? published in 1878, ? certainly
their earthly tenure, outside? of their old collegiate
foundation, has long been at an end. Of their
castle under Corstorphine Hill, and their town
mansion in the High Street of Edinburgh, not
one stone remains upon another. The very wynd
that so long preserved their name, where once
they flourished among the civic magnates, has
vanished.
?Of what remained of their castle we measured
the fragments of the foundations in 1848, and
found them to consist of a curtain wall, facing the
west, one hundred feet in length, flanked by two
round towers, each twentyone feet in diameter
externally. The ruins were then about seven feet
high, except a fragment on the south, about twelve
feet in height, with the remains of an arrow hole.?
Southward and eastward of this castle there lay
for ages a great sheet of water known as Corstorphine
Loch, and so deep was the Leith in those
days, that provisions, etc., for the household were
brought by boat from the neighbourhood of Coltbridge.
Lightfoot mentions that the Loch of Corstorphine
was celebrated for the production of the
water-hemlock, a plant much more deadly than the
common hemlock,
The earliest proprietors of. Corstorphine traceable
are Thomas de Marshal and William de la
Roche, whose names are in the Ragman Roll
under date 1296. In the Rolls of David 11.
there was a charter to Hew Danyelstoun, ? of the
forfaultrie of David Marshal, Knight, except
Danyelstoun, which Thomas Carno got by gift,
and Llit lands of Cortorphing whilk Malcolm Ramsay
got? (Robertson?s ? Index.?)
They were afterwards possessed by the Mores of
Abercurn, from whom, in the time of Sir William
More, under King Robert II., they were obtained
by charter by Sir Adam Forrester, whose name
was of great antiquity, being deduced from the
office of Keeper of the King?s Forests, his armorial
bearings being three hunting horns. In that charter
he is simply styled ?Adam Forrester, Burgess of
Edinburgh.? This was in 1377, and from thenceforward
Corstorphine became the chief title of
his family, though he was also Laird of Nether
Liberton.
Previous to this his name appears in the Burgh
Records as chief magistrate of Edinburgh, 24th
April, 1373 ; and in 1379 Robert 11. granted him
?twenty merks of sterlings from the custom of
the said burgh, granted to him in heritage by our
other letters . . . , until we, or our heirs,
infeft the said Adam, or his heirs, in twenty merks

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I 28 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Prinm Street.
fiery oratory; and to succeeding times it will
preserve a vivid ?representation of one who,
apart from all his other claims to such commemoration,
was universally recognised as one
of the most striking, poetic, and noble-looking men
of his time.?
About the same period there was inaugurated at
erected by the late Lord Murray, a descendant and
representative of Ramsay?s. It rises from a pedestal,
containing on its principal side a medallion
portrait of Lord Murray, and on the reverse side
one of General Ramsay (Allan?s grandson), on the
west one of Mrs. Ramsay, and on the east similar
representations of the general?s two daughters,
DEAN RAMSAY. (From a Photpajh by/& Mofld.)
the eastern corner of the West Gardens a white
marble statue of Allan Ramsay. A memorial
of the poet was suggested in the Sots Magazine
as far back as 1810, and an obelisk to his memory,
known as the Ramsay monument, was erected near
Pennicuick, nearly a century before that time.
The marble statue is from the studio of Sir John
Steel, and rather grotesquely represents the poet
with the silk nightcap worn by gentlemen of his
time as a temporary substitute for the wig, and was
Lady Campbell and Mrs. Malcolm. ?Thus we
find,? says Chambers, ?? owing to the esteem which
genius ever commands, the poet of the Genfle
Shepherd in the immortality of marble, surrounded
by the figures of relatives and descendants who so
acknowledged their aristocratic rank to be inferior
to his, derived from mind alone.?
Next in order was erected, in ~ 8 7 7 , the statue to
the late Adam Black, the eminent publisher, who
represented the city in Parliament, held many

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THE SCHOOL OF ARE. 379 South Bridge.]
called Adam Square. In those days the ground
in front of these was an open space, measuring
about 250 feet one way by zoo the other, nearly
to Robertson?s Close in the Cowgate, which was
concealed by double rows of trees.
In one of these houses there resided for many
years, and died on the 28th July, 1828, Dr. Andrew
Duncan, First Physician to His Majesty for Scotland;
and an eminent citizen in his day, so much
so that his funeral was a public one. ?The custom
of visiting Arthur?s Seat early on the morning
of the 1st of May is, or rather was, observed with
great enthusiasm by the inhabitants of Edinburgh,?
says the editor of ? Kay?s Portraits.? ? Dr.
younger son of Hope of Rankeillour, in Fife. Of
Stewart and Lindsay, the former was the son of
Charles Stewart of Ballechin, and the latter a
younger son of Lindsay of Wormiston. Among the
leading drapers : In the firm of Lindsay and Douglas,
the former was a younger son of Lindsay of Eaglescairnie,
and the latter of Douglas of Garvaldfoot.
Of Dundas, Inglis, and Callender, the first was a son
of Dundas of Fingarth, in Stirlingshire, the family
from which the Earl of Zetland and Baron Amesbury
are descended ; the second was a younger
son of Sir John Inglis of Cramond, and succeeded
to that baronetage, which, it may be remarked,
took its rise in an Edinburgh merchant of the
seventeenth century. Another eminent clothdealiog
firm, Hamilton and Dalrymple, comprehended
John Dalrymple, a younger brother of the wellknown
Lord Hailes and a grandson of the first
Lord Stair. He was at one time Master of the
Merchant Company. In a fourth firm, Stewart,
Wallace, and Stoddart, the leading partner was a
.son of Stewart of Dunearn.?
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and
Manufactures is an offshoot of the old Merchant
Company in 1786, and consists of a chairman and
deputy,with about thirty directors and other officers,
and has led the van in patronising and promoting
liberal measures in trade and commerce generally.
The schools of the Edinburgh Merchant Company
are among the most prominent institutions
of the city at this day.
More than twenty years behre the erection of the
South Bridge, the celebrated Mr. Robert Adam, of
Maryburgh in Fifeshire, from whose designs many of
the principal edifices in Edinburgh were formed, and
who was appointed architect to the king in 1762,
built, on that piece of ground whereon the south-west
end of the Bridge Street abutted, two very large
and handsome houses, each with large bow-windows,
which, being well recessed back, and having the
College buildinas on the south, formed what was
at an expense within {is reach; and the idea was
the more favourably entertained because such a
scheme was already in full operation at Anderson?s
Institution in Glasgow, and the foundation of the
Edinburgh School of Art in the winter of 1821
was the immediate result.
With Mr. Horner many gentlemen well-known
in the city cordially co-operated ; among these were
Sir David Brewster, Principal of the University,
Dr. Brunton, Mr. (afterwards Lord) Murray, Professor
Pillans, Mr. Playfair, architect, Mr. Robert
Bryson, and Mr. James Mylne, brassfounder.
To enable young tradesmen to become acquainted
with the principles or chemistry and
Duncan was one of the most regular in his devotion
to the Queen of May during the long period of
fifty years, and to the very last he performed his
wonted pilgrimage with all the spirit, if not the
agility, of his younger years On the 1st of May,
1826, two years before his death, although aged
eighty-two, he paid his annual visit, and on the
summit of the hill read a few lines of an address to
Alexander Duke of Gordon, the oldest peer then
alive.? The Doctor was the originator of the Caledonian
Horticultural Society, and the first projector
of a lunatic asylum in Edinburgh
Latterly the houses of Adam were occupied by
the Edinburgh Young Men?s Christian Association,
and the Watt Institution and School of Arts,
which was founded by Mr. Leonard Horner,
F.R.S., a native, and for many years a citizen, of
Edinburgh, the son of Mr. John .Horner, of Messrs.
Inglis and Horner, merchants, at the Cross. The
latter years of his useful life were spent in London,
where he died in 1864, but he always visited Edinburgh
from time to time, and evinced the deepest
interest in its welfare. In 1843 he published the
memoirs and correspondence of his younger brother,
the gifted Francis Horner (the friend of Lansdowne,
Jeffrey, and Brougham), who died at Pisa,
yet won a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.
To an accidental conversation in 1821, in the
shop of Mr. Bryson, a watchmaker, the origin of
the school has been traced. Mr. Horner asked
whether the young men brought to Mr. Bryson?s
trade received any mathematical education, and
the latter replied that, ?it was seldom, if ever,
the case, and that daily experience showed the
want of this instruction; but that the expense
and usual hours of teaching mathematical classes
put it out of the power of working tradesmen to
obtain such education.? The suggestion then
occurred to Mr. Horner to devise a plan by which
such branches of science as would benefit the
mechanic might be taught at convenient hours and
. .

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THE OLD TOWN. 23
‘blithe-hearted Bums,’ in the form of an epitaph resting like unsetting sunshine
on his grave; and Hamilton of Bangor, who there joined the ranks of
Prince Charlie, and became volunteer laureate to the Jacobite cause. Nor
PERCUSSOX‘S GRAVH.
let David Mallett (or MalIoch) be quite forgot, who, having been born in
Crieff, and having studied in Aberdeen, acted as a tutor in Edinburgh ere he
went to London, to make and lose a tiny and dubious fame; while with
greater respect we name Armstrong, author of the Arf of Praemhg HeaZth,
who studied Medicine in Edinburgh, although it was in Liddesdale that he
received the boons of birth and genius. Further on we light on a glorious
cluster of celebrities, among the finest Edinburgh has yet seen :-David
Hume, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Smith, author of the
WeaZfh of Natibns (whose grave is near to Fergbsson’s, in the Canongate
churchyard), John Home, John Erskine, John Logan, Dr. Webster, and
others almost as renowned; with Robert Bums shooting across like a
comet, Henry Mackenzie appearing like a young star, Jupiter Carlyle
hovering on the skirt of the horizon, not to speak of the transit at
one time of Samuel Johnson, the most celebrated, and at another, of the
greatest man then living, Edmund Burke. To this period- too beIong Lord
Kames, Lord Hailes, Lord Auchinleck, and the immortal Baszy in the upper
stratum of Edinburgh society, and Gilbert Stuart and William Smellie
the lower. About this time too some ladies of undying repute as authors

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I
The Second High School.] JAMES PILLANS. 295
Of the Rector and other teachers we have the
following description by Mr. B. Mackay, M.A., in
Steven?s work :-? I first saw the High School in
1803. I was then a youth of sixteen, and had come
from Caithness, my native county, with a view to
prosecute the study ofmedicine . . . . . The
first master to whom I was introduced was the celebrated
Dr. Adam. He was sitting at his study
table with ten or twelve large old volumes spread
out before him. He received us with great kindness,
invited me to visit his class, and obligingly
offered to solve any difficulties that might present
themselves in the course of my classical reading,
but held out no prospect of private teaching. His
appearance was that of a fresh, strong, healthy
old man, with an exceedingly benevo!ent countenance.
Raeburn?s portrait of him, hung up in the
school, is an admirable likeness, as well as the
print engraved from it. He wore a short threadbare
spencer, or jacket, which gave him rather a
droll appearance, and, as I then thought, indicated
economical habits. I was successively introduced
to all the other masters, and visited their classes.
The first day I entered Dr. Adam?s class he came
forward to meet me, and said, ? Come away, sir !
You will see more done here in an hour than in
any other school in Europe.? I sat down on one
of the cross benches. The Doctor was calling up
pupils from all parts of it ; taking sometimes the
head, sometimes the foot of the forms ; sometimes
he examined the class downwards from head to
ioot, and sometimes from foot to head. . . . .
The next class I visited was that of Mr. Alexander
Christison, afterwards Professor of Humanity. He
was seated quite erect in his desk, his chin resting
on his thumb, and his fore-finger turned up towards
his temple, and occasionally pressed against his
nose. When we entered he.took no notice of us.
He was giving short sentences in English, and
requiring the boys to turn them extmfore into
Latin, and vary them through all the moods and
tenses, which they did with great readiness and
precision. His class was numerous, but presented
the stillness of death. You might have heard a
pin drop. . . . . . The next master to
whom I was introduced was Mr. Luke Fraser,
whom we found standing on the floor examining
his class. He was, I think, the strongest built man
I ever beheld. He was then old, and wore a
scratch wig. The class, like the rest, was numerous
and in fine order. In changing books, however,
the boys made a little noise, which he checked by
a tremendous stamp on the floor that made both
them and me quake, and enveloped his own legs
in a cloud of dust.??
During all the years of his rectorship Adam
was contributing from time to time to the classical
literature of the country. The least popular of his
many works is the ?Classical Biography,? published
in 1800 ; and the last and most laborious of
his useful compilations was his abridged ? h i c o n
Lingue mine Compendiarium,? 8v0, published in
1805. Through life he had been a hard student
and an early riser. On leaving his class at three
pm., his general walk was round by the then
tree-shaded Grange Loan ; but in earlier years his
favourite ramble was up the green slopes of Arthur?s
Seat. Having been seized in school with an
apoplectic attack, he languished for five days, and
as death was approaching, fancying himself during
the wanderings of his mind, as the light faded
from his eyes, still among his pupils, he said, ?But
it grows dud-boys, you may go ! ?? and instantly
expired, in the 68th year of liis age, on the 18th
December, 1809.
His remains were laid in the gloomy little ground
attached to St. Cuthbert?s chapel of ease, where a
monument was erected to his memory with a Latin
inscription thereon, written by Dr. James Gregory
of the Edinburgh University. He was among the
last who adhered to the old-fashioned dress,
breeches and silk stockings, with knee and shoebuckles
and the queue, though he had relinquished
the use of hair-powder.
A successor was found to him in the person of
Mr. James Pillans, M.A. (the ?paltry Pillans? of
Byron?s ? English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ?),
who was elected rector on the 24th of January, 1810.
As one of the Doctor?s early pu~ils, and ranking next
to Francis Homer, who had borne off the highest
honours, he entered upon his duties with enthusiasm,
and the ardour with which he was received in the hall
of the High School on his a, karance there, augured
well for the future. In 1811 he published a selection
from the school exercises of his best pupils, a
volume, which, excepting imperfections, was most
honourable to the boyish authors, the oldest of
whom had not reached his fifteenth year. A
favourable critique of this unique work-which was
in Latin metre-appeared in the Quarter& Review
from the pen of the then poet laureate, Southey.
To the cultivation of Greek literature great
attention was now paid, and the appearance made
by the pupils at their periodical examinations was
so brilliant, that on the motion of Sir John
Marjoribanks, Bart., the Ldrd Provost, the Town
Council unanimously resolved on the 27th July,
1814, ?that there be annually presented by the
City of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the
Greek class, taught by the Rector of the High

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money than brains and ambition. In Charles Street (No. 7), which lies
betyeen Bristo Street and George Square, Lord Jeffrey was born (the house
is seen in the engraving of Hamilton’s Entry as you look th;ough the pend,
while in the rear there stood, till the autumn of 1875, Sir Walter Scott’s first
school,’ so that this little archway binds together early memories of two of
Scotland’s most gifted sons), and in the third flat of No. 18 Buccleuch PIace
(close at hand), JeKrey, Sydney Smith, and Lord Brougham first projected
the Edivburgh Rmim. Long before, a few yards from this, in the ‘‘Hole
.BUCCLEUCH PLACE.
in the Wa’” of Buccleuch Fend, a certain Lucky PringIe kept an. alehouse
much frequented by William Nicol of the High School (who lived near it),
Burns’s friend, and by Burns himself. At the east end of Sciennes Hillthe
seat of the ancient Convent of St. Catherine of Siena (corrupted into
‘ Sciennes,’ and now pronounced Sheens ’)-stood Adam Fergusson’s house,
where, at a breakfast party, Scott, a boy, met and interchanged courteous
words with the Peasant Poet of Scotland. This altogether may be called
the classic region of Edinburgh, every inch of it bristIing with literary
recollections.
We now approach the Meadows, one of the oldest and finest promenades
in Edinburgh, originally a part of the old Borough Loch. A strip at the
west end of the East Meadow is used as a practice-grouna for the Royal Company
of Archers (Archers’ Hall), while Bruntsfield Links, to the south of
1 The accompanying drawing was made during the process of demolition.

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Hig5 Street.! BISHOP BOTHWELL. 219 .
CHAPTEX X Y v r .
THE. HIGH STREET ( ~ ~ ~ f h t d ) .
The Ancient Markets-The House of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney-The Bishop and Queen Mary-His Sister Anne-Sir Williarn Dick.
of Braid-& Colossal Wealth-Hard Fortune-The ? Lamexable State?-Advocates? Close-Sir James Stewart?s House-Andreu
Cmbie, ? I Counsellor Pleydell ?-Scougal?s House-His Picture Gallery-Roxburghe Close-Waniston?s Close-Lmd Philiphaugh?s
House-Bruce of Binning?s Mansion-Messrs. W. and R. Chambers?s Printing and Publkhing Establishment-History of the Firm-
House of Su Thomas Craig-Sir Archibald Johnston of Warnstoa
PREVIOUS to 1477 there were no particular places
assigned for holding the different markets in the
city, and this often caused much personal strife
among the citizens. To remedy this evil, James 1II.j
by letters patent, ordained that the markets for the
various commodities should be held in the following
parts of the city, viz. :-
In the Cowgate, the place for the sale of hay,
straw, grass, and horse-meat, ran from the foot ol
Forester?s Wynd to the foot of Peebles Wynd.
The flesh market was to be held in the High
Street, on both sides, from Niddry?s Wynd to the
Blackfriars Wynd; the salt market to be held in
the former Wynd.
The crames, or booths, for chapmen were to be
set up between the Bell-house and the Tron on the
north side of the street; the booths of the hatmakers
and skinners to be on the opposite side of
the way.
The wood and timber market extended from
Dalrymple?s Yard to the Greyfriars, and westward.
The place for the sale of shoes, and of red barked
leather, was between Forrester?s Wynd and the
west wall of Dalrymple?s Yard.
The cattIe-market, and that for the sale of
slaughtered sheep, wcs to be abaut the Tron-beam,
and so U doun throuch to the Friar?s Wynd ; alsa,
all pietricks, pluvars, capones, conyngs, chekins,
and all other wyld foulis and tame, to be usit and
sald about the Market Croce.?
All living cattle were not to be brought into the
town, but to be sold under the walls, westward of
the royal stables, or lower end of the Grassmarket.
Meal, grain, and corn were to be retailed from
the Tolbooth up to Liberton?s Wynd.
The Upper Bow was the place ordained for the
sale of all manner of cloths, cottons, and haberdashery;
also for butter, cheese, and wool, ?and
sicklike gudis yat suld be weyif? at a tron set
there, but not to be opened before nine A.M. Beneath
the Nether Bow, and about st. Mary?s
Wynd, was the place set apart for cutlers, smiths,
lorimers, lock-makers, ?and sicklike workmen ; and
all armour, p i t h , gear,? and so forth, were to be
sold in the Friday market, before the Greyfriars?.
In Gordon of Rothiemay?s map ?the fleshstocks
? are shown as being in the Canongate,
immediately below the Nether Bow Port.
Descending the High Street, after passing Bank
Street, to which we have already referred, there is
situated one of the most remarkable old edifices in
the city-the mansion of Adam Bothwell, Bishop
of Orkney. It stands at the foot of Byres? Close,
so named from the house of Sir John Byres of
Coates, but is completely hidden from every point
save the back windows of the Dui0 Review office.
A doorway on the east side of the close gives access
to a handsome stone stair, guarded by a curved
balustrade, leading to a garden terrace that overlooked
the waters of the loch. Above this starts
abruptly up the north front of the house, semihexagonal
in form, surmounted by three elegantlycarved
dormer windows, having circular pediments,
and surmounted by a finiaL
On one was inscribed L u s prbique Deo; ona
another, FeZider, infeZix.
In this edifice (long used as a warehouse by
Messrs. Clapperton and Co.) dwelt Adam, Bishop
of Orkney, the same prelate who, at four in the.
morning of the 15th of May, 1567, performed in
the chapel royal at Holyrood the fatal marriage
ceremony which gave Bothwell possession of the.
unfortunate and then despairing Queen Mary.
He was a senator of the College of Justice, and
the royal letter in his favour bears, ?Providing.
always ye find him able and qualified for administration
of justice, and conform to the acts and
statutes of the College.?
He married the unhappy queen after thenew
forms, ?not with the mess, but with preachings,?
according to the ?? Diurnal of Occurrents,? in
the chapel; according to Keith and others, ?in
the great hall, where the Council usually met??
But he seemed a pliable prelate where his own
interests were concerned ; he was one of the first
to desert his royal mistress, and, after her enforced
abdication, placed the crown upon the head of her
infant son ; and in 1568, according to the book of
the ?? Universal Kirk,? he bound himself to preach
a sermon in Holyrood, and therein to confess
publicly his offence in performing a marriage ceremony
for Bothwell and Mary.
As the name of the bishop was appended to that
infamous bond of adherence granted by the Scottish
nobles to Bothwell, before the latter put in practice
his ambitious schemes against his sovereign, it is

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I74 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Charlotte Square.
Bank, near Edinburgh; Arnsheen, in Ayrshire ;
Redcastle, Inverness-shire ; Denbrae, Fifeshire; and
Gogar Bank in Midlothian. He died on the 27th
of May, 1836, Lady Fettes having pre-deceased him
on the 7th of the same month.
By his trust disposition and settlement, dated
5th July 1830, and several codicils thereto, the last
being dated the 9th of March, 1836, he disponed his
whole estates to and in favour of Lady Fettes, his
sister Mrs. Bruce, Mr. Corrie, Manager of the
British Linen Company, A. Wood, Esq. (afterwards
Lord Wood), and A. Rutherford, Esq. (afterwards
Lord Rutherford), as trustees ; the purposes of the
trust, which made ample provision for Lady Fettes
in case of her survival, being :-(I) The payment of
legacies to various poor relations ; ( 2 ) Bequests to
charitable institutions ; and (3) The application of
the residue to ?? form an endowment for the maintenance,
education, and outfit of young people
whose parents have either died without leaving
syfficient funds for that purpose, or who from innocent
misfortune during their own lives are unable
to give suitable education to their children.?
The trust funds, which at the time of the
amiable Sir William?s death amounted to about
&166,000, were accumulated for a number of years,
and reached such an amount as enabled the
trustees to carry out his benevolent intentions in a
becoming manner ; and, accordingly, in 1864 contracts
were entered into for the erection of the superb
college which now very properly bears his name.
Lord Cockburn, that type of the true old Scottish
gentleman, ?? whose dignified yet homely manner
and solemn beautygave his aspect a peculiar grace,?
and who is so well known for his pleasant and gossiping
volume of ?? Memorials,? and for the deep interest
he took in all pertaining to Edinburgh, occupied
No. 14 ; and the next house was the residence
of Lord Pitmilly. James Wolfe Murray, afterwards
Lord Cringletie, held No. 17 in 1811; and the
Right Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, and
afterwards Lord Justice General, occupied the same
house in 1830.
Lieutenant-General Alexander Dirom, of Mount
Annan, and formerly of the 44th regiment, when
Quartermaster-General in Scotland, rented No. I 8
in I 8 I I. He was an officer of great experience, and
had seen much service in the old wars of India, and,
when major, published an interesting narrative of
the campiign against Tippoo Sultan. Latterly his
house was occupied by the late James Crawfurd,
Lord Ardmillan, who was called to the bar in 1829,
and was raised to the bench in Jacuary, 1855.
At the same time No. 31 was the abode of the
Right Hon. Wlliam Adam, &ord Chief Commissioner
of the Jury Court, the kinsman of the
architect of the Square, and a man of great
eminence in his time. He was the son of Adam
Blair of Blair Adam, and was born in July, 1751.
Educated at Edinburgh, he became a member of
the bar, but did not practise then ; and in 1774 and
1794 he sat for several places in Parliament. In
the latter year he began to devote himself to his
profession, and in 1802 was appointed Counsel for
the East India Company, and four years afterwards
Chancellor for the Duchy of Cornwall. After being
M.P. for Kinross, in 18 I I he resumed his professional
duties, and was deemed so sound a lawyer that he
was frequently consulted by the Prince of .Wales
and the Duke of York.
In the course of a parliamentary dispute with
Mr. Fox, about the first American war, they fought
a duel, which happily ended without bloodshed,
after which the latter remarked jocularly that had
his antagonist not loaded his pistols with Government
powder he would have been shot. In 1814
he submitted to Government a plan for trying civil
causes by jury in Scotland, and in the following
year was made a Privy Councillor and Baron of the
Scottish Exchequer. In I 8 I 6 an Act of Parliament
was obtained instituting a separate Jury Court in
Scotland, and he was appointed Lord Chief Commissioner,
with two of the judges as colleagues,
and to this court he applied all his energies, overcoming
by his patience, zeal, and urbanity, the many
obstacles opposed to the success of such an institution.
In 1830, when sufficiently organised, the
Jury Court was, by another Act, transferred to the
Court of Session, and when taking his seat on the
bench of the latter for the first time, complimentary
addresses were presented to him from the Faculty
of Advocates, the Society of Writers to the Signet,
and that of the solicitors before the Supreme
Courts, thanking him for the important benefits .
which the introduction of trial by jury in civil cases
had conferred on Scotland. In 1833 he +red
from the bench, and died at his house in Charlotte
Square, on the 17thFebruary, 1839, in his 87th year.
? In 1777 he had married Eleanora, daughter of
Charles tenth Lord Elphinstone. She died in
1808, but had a family of several sons-viz., John,
long at the head of the Council in India, who died
some years before his father; Admiral Sir Charles,
M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; William
George, an eminent King?s Counsel, afterwards
Accountant-General in the Court of Chancery;
and Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick, who held a
command at the battle of Waterloo, and was afterwards
successively Lord High Commissioner to the
Ionian Isles and Governor of Madras.

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 49 5
Dundas, Right Hon. William,
Dundas, Rev. Robert, 328
Dondas, Robert Adam, Esq., 389
Dnndas, Miss hlary, of Fingask,
Dundas, Captain, 466
Dundas, Charles Whitley, 11. P.,
Dundee, Viscount, 178
Dundonald, Lord, 105, 106
Dunfermline, Earl of, 125
Dunlop, Henry, Esq., 376
Dum, Mr. Robert, 8, 150
Dunn, John Charles, Esq, 434
Dunn, Miss Mary Anne, 434
Dunnam, the giant, 116
Dunsinnan, Lord, 380
Dunsyre, John, 408
Dapre, James, Esq,, 330
Durham, Sir Philip, Bart., 200,
Durrant, blr., 300
295, 296
466
466
410
E
EARLE, Mr., 295
Easton, Mrs., 244
Easton, Captain George, 467
Edgar, William, 353
Edgar, Admiral, 420
Edgar, Margaret, 420
Edward, Prince Charles, 13, 101,
109,156, 192, 264, 294
Edward I., 427
Edwards, Bryan, Esq., 409
Eglinton, Alexanier sixth Earl
Eglinton, Alexander tenth Earl
Eglinton, Archibald eleventh Earl
Eglinton, Countess of, 127, 130
Eglinton, Hugh twelfth Earl of,
79, 418
Eglinton, Archibald thirteenth
Earl of, 132
Elcho, Lord, 25
Elder, Provost, 107, 237
Elgin, Earl of, 52, 315
Elibank, Lord, 75
Ellioch, Lord, 75
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, 75
Elliot, Mr., 302
Elliot, Sir William, 308
Elliot, General, 394
Elliotson, Professor, 452
of, 125
of, 51, 127, 128
of, 127, 128, 132
Ellis, Francis, 154
Elphinston, Lord, 127
Elphinston, Mr., 381
Elphinstone, Sir Howard, 295
Elphinstone, Sir James, 393
Elphinstone, Miss, 393
Elphinstone, Sir R. D. H., Bart.,
Elphinstone, Miss Mary-Francis,
Emmet, Thomas Addis, 174
Empson, William, Esq., 392
Errol, Earl of, 25, 106, 129
Errol, Countess of, 25
Erskine, Sir Henry, 22
Erskine, Han. Thomas, 26, 390
Erskine, Hon. Andrew, 59, 60
Erskine, General Sir W., 151
Erskine, Sir James, of Torry, 151
Erskine, Hon. Henry, 217, 219,
239, 240, 316, 383, 431, 446
Erskine, Captain James Francis,
236
Erskine, Lady, of Grange, 332
Erskine, Colonel James-Francis,
404, 406, 408
Erskine, Miss, 431
Eskgrove, Lord, 162
Eston, Mrs, 259
Eugene IL, 116
Ewart, Sergeant, 68
Ewing, Rev. Greville, 39, 40, 311
Eyton, Lieut., 198
418
418
F
FALCONER,S ir D a d , 73
Falconer, Miss Catherine, 73
Farquhanon, Miss, 135
Fergusson, Robert, the poet, 1,
10, 94, 186, 235, 236, 237, 238,
239, 401
Fergusson, Dr. Adam, 75, 351
Fergusson, Sir Adam, 125, 126
Fergusson, Mr. of Raith, 164,402
Fer-eusson.. BIr. James. 286
Fergusson, Thomas, Esq., W.S.,
379
Fergusson, Mr., of Craigdarroch,
Fergusson, Hon. Robert Cutlar,
Fergusson, GeneralRoland C. ,402
Fergusson, James, Esp., W.S.,
Ferrers, Earl of 16
Fettes, Lady, 25
402
402
424
Fettes, Sir William, 311
Fig, the prize-fighter, 292
Finch. Mr., 287
Finch, b h . , 287
Findlater and Seafield, Earl of,
Finlay, Mr. D a d , 9
Finlay, Mr. William, 98
Finlayson, James, 353
Finlayson, Professor, 411, 412
Fisher, Miss Kitty, 14
Fitgate, Counsellor Townley, 170
Fitton, Dr., 454
Fletcher, Angus, 445
Fletcher, Archibald, Esq., 445
Fletcher, Miles, Esq., 416
Fletcher, Angus, Esq., 446
Foote, Mr. Samuel, 86, 87
Forbes, Sir William, Bart., 14,
25, 144, 146
Forbes, John €I., Esq. (now
Lord Medwyn), 99
Forbes, Mr. James, 107
Forbes, Mrs., of Callander, 109
Forbes, William, Esq., of Callan-
Forbes, William, Esq., advocate,
Forbes, Duncan, Esq. (Lard
Forbes and Co., Messrs. Peter,
Forbes, George, Esq., 247
Forbes, Charles, Esq., 295, 20G
Forbes, Professor, 452
Forrest and Dalgleish, BIessry.,
Foulis, Sir John, Bart., 209
Fonlis, Sir Jarnes, Bart., 222
Fox, Hon. Charles James, 63,
163, 164, 165, 248, 397, 400,
427, 442
433
der, 109
20 2
President), 210
213
123
Fox, Sir Stephen, 163
Fraser, Mr. Alexander, 12
Fraser, Mr. George, 57
Fraser, Sir Angustus, Bart., 57
Fraser, Major, 60
Fraser, Andrew, 219
Fraser, Jeanie, 241
Fraser, Captain 246,
Fraser, Mr. John, 283
Fraser, James, Esq., 467
Fraser, Miss Lilias, 467
Freeland, Henry, 112
French, Rev. Mr., 134
French, Henry, 359, 360

... TO THE NAMES, ETC. 49 5 Dundas, Right Hon. William, Dundas, Rev. Robert, 328 Dondas, Robert Adam, Esq., ...

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