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AND THE VALE OF THE ESK. 129
they were named after the rustic lovers in the poem, or whether Allan Ramsay
chose the names from their association with the place, we are unable to
discover.
- Further on, past the ruins of Brunstane Castle, lies Penicuik village, With
Penicuik House and its famous Ossian Hall, painted by Runciman In the
Valleyfield grounds we come upon a monument, the only relic of a phase
in Penicuik history long since passed away. Here in 1810 the Vdleyfield
mills on the banks of the Esk were turned into a dCpBt for six thousand
prisoners of war, and the peaceful little cottages around into temporary
barracks. For four years the redcoats were quartered here ; and, when the
war was over and the mills were set to work again, this monument was raised
over the grave of more than three hundred prisoners of war who had died in
these four years. ‘ Grata quies patriae, sed et omnis terra sepulchrum ’ was
the inscription suggested by Sir Walter Scott, added to which is the
magnanimous explanation :-‘ Certain inhabitants of this parish, desiring to
remember that all men are brethren, caused this monument to be erected.’
And so the poor Frenchmen passed away without seeing again la be& France.
Probably they thought Penicuik a tn3e place !
In the neighbouring parish of Glencorse we come to
‘ Auchendinny’s hazel shade,
And haunted Woodhouselee.’
This is an old ruined castle, possessing an authentic legend and ghost.
To this castle the lady of Bothwelhaugh fled to escape the anger of the Regent
Murray, her husband‘s implacable foe; but she was followed by the Regent’s
messengers, who set the castle on fire, and turned out the lady, with her newborn
child in her arms, to wander through the November night. When
morning came she was found distracted with fear and calling for revenge, and
Bothwelhaugh never rested till the Regent was assassinated at Linlithgow.
So the story runs. The phantom lady and child haunt Woodhouselee to this
day ; and, since some of its stones were used to build the newer Woodhouselee
among the Pentlands,’_the seat of the Tytler family, the apparition has kindly
divided its attention between the two places.
ROSLIN.
W e now approAch the most beautiful part of the Vale. The ‘ rocky glen,’
through which the Esk flows, is a mass of luxuriant foliage, so that, from the
R

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Cnigmillar.] CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE. 61
when descending Craigmillar Hill, a queen?s soldier,
who had a loose match in his hand, exploded
the powder-barrels, and mortally injured Captain
Melville, the kinsman of Sir William Kirkaldy.
The latter interred him with military honours in a
vault of Edinburgh Castle, where, doubtless, his remains
still rest
In 1589 there was granted a charter under the
great seal to John Ross of the lands of Limpitstoun,
which was witnessed in Craigmillar by the Arch-
%ishop of St. Andrews, John Lord Hamilton, the
Commendator of Arbroath, Maitland of Thirlstane,
Walter, Prior of Blantyre, and others.
Calderwood relates, that in January, 1590, when
Jaines VI. was sitting in the Tolbooth, hearing
to the gibbet by forty and fifty at a time. in the
sight of Edinburgh and Leith.
In 1573 the Loyalists, says Crawford of Drumsoy,
sent a strong body of horse and foot, in hope
to capture the Regent Morton at Dalkeith in the
aight; but found him ready to receive them on
Sheriff-hall Muir, from whence he drove them in as
far as the Burghmuir, and only lost the Laird of
Kirkmichael and some fifty men. Few were killed,
recent rains having wetted the gun-matches ; but
its ofice houses and grass,? it was advertised to be
let in the Edinburgh Cowant for 11th March, 1761.
In that year Sir Alexander Gilmour of Craigmillar
was elected M.P. for the county.
We cannot dismiss the subject of Craigmillar
without a brief glance at some of those who occupied
it
Sir Simon Preston, who obtained it from John
de Capella, traced his descent up to Leolph de
Preston, who lived in the reign of William the
Lion; and, according to Douglas, his father was
Sir John Preston, who was taken at the battle of
Durham in 1346, and remained in the Tower of
London until ransomed.
In 1434 Sir Henry Preston of Craigmillar (whose
the case of the Laird of Criigmillar, who was sueing
for a divorce against his wife, the Earl of Bothwell
forcibly carried off one of the most important witnesses
to his Castle of Crichton, threatening him
with the gallows, ?&as if there had been no king
in Israel.?
It was not until after the beginning of the present
century that the castle was permitted to fall into
ruin and decay, which it did rapidly. It was
in perfect preservation, no doubt, when, with ?? all
PEFFER MILL-HOUSE.

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iv OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
CHAPTER VII.
PAGE
EDINBURGH CASTLE (conclzded). .
The Torture of Neville Payne-Jacobite Plots-Entombing the Regalia-Project for Surprising the Foltress-Right of Sanctuary Abolished
-Lord Drummond's Plot-Some Jacobite Prisoners-'' Rebel Ladies"- James Macgregor-The Castle Vaults-Attempts at Escape-
Fears as to the Destruction of the Crown, Sword, and Sceptre-Crown-room opened in 1794-Again in 1817, and the Regalia brought
forth-Mons Megseneml Description of the whole Castle . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
CHAPTER VIII. .
THE CA~STLE HILL.
Doyglas-Castle Hill Promenade-Question as to the Proprietary of the Esplanade and Castle Hill . . . . . . . .
The Esplanade or Castle Hill-The Castle Banks-The Celtic Crosses-The Secret Passage and Well house Tower-The Church on the Castle
Hill-The Reservoir-The House of Allan Ramsay-Executions for Treason, Sorcery, &.-The Master of Forbes-Lady Jane
79
CHAPTER IX.
THE CASTLE HILL (conczuded).
'Dr. Guthrie's O~pinal Ragged School-Old Homes in the Street of the Castle Hill-Duke of Gordon's House, Blair's Close-Webster's Close
-Dr. Alex. Webster-Eoswell s Court-Hyndford House-Assembly Hdl-Houses of the Marquis of Argyle, Sir Andrew Kennedy, the
Earl of Cassillis, the Laud of cockpen--Lord Semple's House-Lord Semple-Fah of Mary of Guise-Its Fate . . . . 87
CHAPTER X.
T H E LAWNMARKET.
The Lawnmarket-RiSjt-The Weigh-houstMajor Somerville and captain Crawford-AndeMn's Pills-Myhe's Court-James's Gourt-Sir
John Lauder-Sir Islay Campbell-David Hume--" Cprsica" Boswell-Dr. Johnso-Dr. Blki-" Gladstone's Land "-A Fire in 1771 94
CHAPTER XI.
THE LAWNMARKET (continued).
Lady Stair's Close-Gray of Pittendrum-"Aunt Margaret's M rror"-The Marshal Earl and Countess of Stair-Miss Feme-Sir Richard
Steel-Martha Countess of Kincardine-Bums's Room in Barfer's C1o.e-The Eridges' Shop ih Bank Stxet-Bailie MacMorran's
Story-Sir Francis Grant of Cullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I02
CHAPTER XII.
THE LAWNMARKET' (continued).
The Story of Deacon Brodie-His Career of Guilt-Hanged on his own Gibbet-Mauchine's Close, Robet? Gourlay's Hoiise and the other
Old Houses therein-The Rank of Scotland, 16~5-Assassination of Sir Gorge hckhart-Taken Red Hand-Punishment of Chiesly I12
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LAWNMARKET (concluded).
Gosford's Close- The Town House of the Abbot of Cambu~kcnncth-Tennant's House-Mansion of the Hays-Liberton's Wynd-Johnnie
Dowie's Tavern-Burns a d His Songs-The Place of Execution-Birthplace of "The Man of Feeling"-The Mirror Club-
Forrester's Wynd-The Heather Stacks in the Houses-Peter Williamn-Beith's Wynd-Habits of the Lawnmarket Woollen
Traders-"Lawnmarket Gazettes "-Melbourne Place-The County Hall-The Signet and Advocates' Libraries . . . . . I I8
CHAPTER XIV.
T H E TOLBOOTH.
Memori-1s of the Heart of Midlothian, or Old Tolbooth-Sir Walter Scott's Description-The Early Tolhth-The "Robin Hod"
Disturbances-Noted Prison-Entries from the Records--Lord Burleigh's Attempts at Escape-The Porteous Mob-The Stories
of Katherine Nairne and of Jam- Hay-The Town Guard-The Royal Bedesmen . . . . . . . . . . . . 12;

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332 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [1745-
General Preston saluted with cannon the officers
of State who returned to Edinburgh on the 13th
November, and hauled down his colours, which had
been flying since the 16th of September. Guest then
assumed the command, and was nobly rewarded,
while Preston was consigned to neglect, and the
humble memorial of his long service was laid in
vain before the Duke of Cumberland. Thus he
reaped no advantage from his loyal adherence to
confined in damp vaults, and treated by the imtated
soldiers with every indignity and opprobrium.
To these were soon added a multitude of prisoners
of all ranks, belonging to the regiments of Buckley,
Berwick, and Clare, of the Irish Brigade in the
French service, captured by the Mi&~ord Haven
(40 guns), on board the Luis XK, off Montrose.
On the 9th December, Lord John Drummond, en
route to join the Prince in England, marched
THE WEIGH-HOUSE
(From a Drawk~ ay Storcr, #ubZished in 1820.)
the House of Hanover, whose policy it was then to
slight the Scots in every way.
By a letter from the Lord President to the
Marquis of Tweeddale (the last Scottish Secretary
of State), we learn that at this crisis bank notes had
ceased to be current, that all coin was locked up,
?so that the man of best credit in this country
cannot command a shilling;? that bills on Edinburgh
or London were of no value ; and that bills
drawn for the subsistence of the Earl of Loudon?s
regiment had been returned protested.
On the departure of the Prince the Castle was
crowded with those persons who had fallen under
the suspicion of Government ; among these were
-Alexander Earl of Kellie, and upwards of sixty
gentlemen, all of whom were heavily ironed, closely
through Edinburgh, with 800 men and a train of
18-pounders. He sent a drummer to the Castle
to effect an exchange of these prisoners, without
avail; and sixteen who were proved to have been
deserters from our army in Flanders were thrown
into the Castle pit, from whence four were taken
to the gallows in the Grassmarket. In the same
month young Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart, aidedecamp
to the Prince, was treacherously captured
in the night, near Lesmahago, by the Reverend
Mr. Linning, who, as the price of his blood,
received the incumbency of that parish, acccrding
to ? Forbes?s Memoirs ? ; and from the Castle he
was taken to Carlisle, where he was hanged, drawn,
and quartered.
About the end of November, when the High

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great leaders of that movement, and with cold and
hard hostility they gazed upon her wasted but once
beautifiil' features, as she conjured them in moving
terms to be loyal men and true to Mary, the girlqueen
of Scotland and of France, and touchingly
she implored the forgiveness of all. The apartment
in which she expired is one of those in the
royal lodging, within the present half - moon
battery. The rites of burial were denied her
body, and it lay in the Castle lapped in lead-till
carpets; the tables were of massive oak elaborately
carved ; the chairs of gilded leather with cushions
she had " eleven tapestries of gilded leather; right
of the ' Judgment of Paris'; five of the ' Triumph of
Virtue' j eight of green velvet brocaded with great
trees bearing armorial shields and holly branches ;
ten of cloth of gold and brocaded taffeta ; thirty
more of massive cloth of gold, one bearing the
story of the Count de Foix, eight bearing the
ducal arms of Longueville, five having the history
of King Rehoboam; four the hunts of the Unicorn;
as many more of the story of Eneis, and
EDINBURGH CASTLE, FROM THE SOUTH-WEST.
(Fa-simile 4f a Dutch Engraving fmm a Dmwing ay *don of RotUmay.)

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130 ROSLIN, HAWTHORNDEN,
~.
heights on either side, one gazes upon a world of moving tree-tops in the
ravine below. ~
A little way back, on the Ieft bank, lies the single-streeted village of
Roslin. Between the village and the Esk, on a grassy height called the
College Hill, stands the Chapel ; and some hundred yards below, on a rocky
promontory, formed by a bend in the river, are the ruins of the Castle,
accessible only by a stone bridge of great height which spans a natural ravine
between the promontory and the College Hill. From this position the Castle
derived its name-XmZianRe, the promontory of the waterfall. The Esk
forms a cascade as it bends sharply round the promontory, and it is still at
this point called ‘the Lynn.’
The St. Clairs, or Sinclairs, of Roslin, or Rosslyn, trace their descent from
a ‘Seemly St. Clair,’ a Norman knight of fair deportment, who ‘ came in’ with
the Conqueror, and whom Malcolm Canmore diplomatically allured over the
border by big grants of Scottish land. Roslin, amongst other places, was given
to the family, and the Castle probably dates from the beginning of the fourteenth
century. In
1622, when it had begun to fall away, a newer house was built over its vaults;
and this was inhabited about eighty years ago by a good old Scottish Laird,
the last heir-male and lineal descendant of the ‘ Seemly St. Clair.’ It is still
let in summer to families wanting rustic accommodation ; and for one season
at least it was tenanted in this fashion by the late Mr. Robert Chambers of
Edinbu?gh. . The ‘ground about the hoary old ruins is now bright with the
fruit and flowers of a market-garden. But in the middle of the fifteenth century
the Castle was the seat of the good and scholarly William St. Clair, ‘ Prince of
the Orkneys and Duke of Oldenburgh,’ the founher of Roslin Chapel. He
was a very great personage indeed, with a town mansion at the foot of Blackfriars
Wynd in Old Edinburgh, and a great retinue of lords and gentlemen.
Sevenv-five gentlewomen attended upon his lady, who, when she rode from
Edinburgh to Roslin, was accompanied by a guard of two hundred horse, and
also, if it was after nightfall, by eighty bearing torches. On one occasion - part of the Castle was set on fire by the carelessness of one of this lady’s
handmaidens. The women fled in fear j and the Prince, who was upon the
College Hill at the time, no doubt superintending the building of his pet
Chapel, on hearing of the fire, ‘was sorry for nothing but the loss of his
charters and other writings.’ These, which were kept in the dungeon-head,
his chaplain cleverly saved, throwing them out-four boxfuls of them-and
following himself on a bell-rope tied to a beam. The good Prince rewarded
From that time it was the chief residence of the St. Clairs.

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amounted to 500 men.? This enumeration probably
includes wounded.
On the 13th of June the duke pulled down the
king?s flag, and hoisted a white one, surrendering,
on terms, by which it was stipulated that the
soldiers should have their full liberty, and Colonel
Winram have security for his life and estates;
while Major Somerville, at the head of zoo
bayonets, took all the posts, except the citadel.
The duke drew up his forlorn band, now reduced to
fifty oficers and men, in the ruined Grand Parade,
and thanking them for their loyal services, gave each
a small sum to convey him home; and as hands were
shaken all round, many men wept, and so ended
For nearly four-and-twenty hours on both sides
the fire was maintained with fury, but slackened
about daybreak. ?In the Castle only one man
was killed-a gunner, whom a cannon ball had
cut in two, through a gun-port, but many were
weltering in their blood behind the woolpacks
and in the trenches, where the number of slain
not to serve against William of Orange. HC died
in the year 1716, at his residence in the citadel of
Leith.
The Castle was once more fully repaired, and
presented nearly the same aspect in all its details
as we find it today. The alterations were conducted
under John Drury (chief of the Scottish
Engineers), who gave his name to one of the bastions
on the south; and Mylne?s Mount, another
on the north, is so named from liis assistant, Robert
Mylne, king?s master-mason and hereditary mastergunner
of the fartress ; and it was after this last
siege that the round turrets, or echauguettes, were
added to the bastions.
the siege. Though emaciated by long toil, starvation,
and gangrened wounds, the luckless soldiers
were cruelly treated by the rabble of the city.
The capitulation was violated j Colonel Winram
was seized as a prisoner of war, and the duke was
placed under close arrest in his own house,
~ Blair?s Close, but was released on giving his parole
INNEK GATEWAY OF THE CASTLE.

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MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
and nation would suffer every disaster before they would submit to his ignominious
terms, he marched immediately with his whole forces upon Edinburgh. The citizens,
being taken by surprise, and altogether unprepared for resisting so formidable a force,
sent out a deputation, with Sir Adam Otterburn, the Provost, at its head, offering to
evacuate the town and deliver up the keys to the commander of the English army, on
condition that they should be permitted to carry off their effects, and that the city should
be saved from fire. But nothing would satisfy the English general but an unconditional
surrender of life and property. He made answer-That his commission extended to the
burning and laying waste the country, unless the governor would deliver the young Queen
to his master. The Provost replied-;; Then it were t5etter the city should stand on its
defence.’’
The English army entered by the Watergate
without opposition, and assaulted the Nether Bow Port, and beat it open on the second
day, with a terrible slaughter of the citizens. They immediately attempted to lay siege to
the Castle. ‘‘ Seeing no resistance, they hauled their cannons up the High Street, by force
of men, to the Butter-Trone, and above, and hazarded a shot against the fore entrie of the
Castle. But the wheel and axle-tree of one of the English cannons was broken, and some
of their men slaine by a shot of ordnance out of the Castle ; so they left that rash enterprise.”
’
Ba%led in their attempts on the fortress, they immediately proceeded to wreak their
vengeance on the city. They set it on fire in numerous quarters, and continued the work
of devastation and plunder till compelled to abandon it by the smoke and flames, as weli
as the continual firing from the Castle. They renewed the work of destruction on the following
day ; and for three successive days they returned with unabated fury to the smoking
ruins, till they had completely effected their purpose.
The Earl of Hertford then proceeded to lay waste the surrounding country with fire
and sword. Craigmillar Castle, which was surrendered on the promise of being preserved
scatheless,’ was immediately devoted to the flames. Roslyn Castle shared the same fate.
Part of the army then proceeded southward by land, burning and destroying every abbey,
town, and village, between the capital and Dunbar. The remainder of the army returned
to Leith, which they plundered and set fire to ip many places ; and then embarking their
whole force, they set sail for England.
. This disastrous event forms an important era in the history of Edinburgh ; if we except
a portion of the Castle, the churches, and the north-west wing of Holyrood Palace, no
building, anterior to this date, now exists in Edinburgh. One other building, Trinity
Hospital, the oldest part of which bore the date 1462, has been swept away by the operations
of the North British Railway, during the past year (1845), unquestionably, with the
exception of the Castle aud churches, at once the most ancient and perhaps interesting
building that Edinburgh possessed8
Such was the means adopted by Henry VIIL to secure the hand of the Scottish Queen
for his son, a method somewhat analogous to the system of wooing he practised with such
An immediate attack was thereupon made.
8 Cdderwood’s History, Wod. Soc. vol. i p, 177. ’ Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 32.
A remarkably interesting view of Edinburgh, previous to ita destruction at this period, is still preserved in the British
Museum ; a careful fac-simile of this is given in a volume of the Bannatyne Club’s Miscellany, some sccount of which win
be found in a later part of this work.

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49 4 INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC.
Craig, Sir Jamrs Gibson, Bart.
Craig, William, Esq., 324
Craig, Lord, 163, 370, 380, 384
386, 418, 431, 437
Craig, Sir James, 382
Craigie, Lord, 441
Cranstoun, Hon. Ceorge, 438
Crawford, Margaret, 43
Crawford, Messrs., 78
Crawford, Countess of, 132
Creech, Mr. William, 19, 31
181, 241, 400
Crisp, Henry, 205
Cromwell, Oliver, 222
Crowne, Dr., 451
Culbertson, Mr. James, senior
Culbertson, Rev. Robert, 244
Cullen, Dr., 52, 54, 75, 336, 337
Collen, Lord, 163, 370, 380
Cullen, Professor, 337
Cullen, Mrs., 337
Cumberland, Duke of, 51, 156
Cumberland, Richard, LL. D.
Cumming, Mr, James, of thc
Cumming, Rev. Robert, 49
Cumming, Thomas, Esq., 151,
Cumming, Alexander, Esq., 263
Cumniing, Miss Margaret, 263
Cumming, Alexander, Esq., 466
Cumming, Miss Jane, 466
Cundell, Mr. John, 208
Cuninghame, John, Esq., 466
Cunningham, Allan, 132
Cunningham, Miss, 148
Cunningliam, Mr., 222
Cunningham, Mr., of Seabank,
Cunningham, Mr, Alexander,
Cunningham, Dr. Harry, 421
Cunningham, Miss Esther, 421
Curran, John Fhilpot, Esq., 171,
Cutler, Sir John, 323
Cuvier, Baron, 453
324, 389, 407
244
450
270
261
Lyon Office, 1
158
269
384
172, 173
D
DALGLEISHan d Forrest, Messrs.,
123
Dalhousie, Earl of, 25
Dalhousie, Countess Dowager o
Dalhousie, eighth 1 Jrl of, 426
Dallas, James, Esq., 455
Dalrymple, Sir John, 295
Dalrymple, General, 392, 393
Dalrymple, James, Esq., 393
Dalrymple, Sir John Hamilton
Dalrymple, John, 471
Dalyell, Sir Robert, Bart., 465
Dalzel, Professor, 351, 411, 412
Dsmas, Baron De, 199
Demey, George, 406
Daubeny, Dr., 454
Davidson, Mr., 285
Davidson, Miss, 393
Davidson, Dr., 407
Davidson, Rev. Dr., 458
Davies, Colonel, 350
Davis, Joseph, 459
Davy, Sir Humphrey, 66, 446
Davy, Dr., 446, 452
Dawson, Miss, 446
Delafield, Combe and Co., Messrs.
Dempster, Mr., jeweller, 117
Denovan, Mr., 357, 361, 362, 361
Dewar, Principal, of Aberdeen, 4:
lick, Mr. Richard, 218
Xck, Colonel, 274
lickson, Rev. David, 310
lickson, Rev. Nr., 152, 434
lickson, Dr. David, 105, 152
lickson, James Wardrobe, Esq. I
lickson, Andrem, 208, 212
lickson, Lieut-Colonel, 273
Xetrichstein, Count, 309
Xgges, Mr., 33, 204
)ighton, Mr., 259
Iignum, Mr., the vocalist, 273
)on, Sir Alexander, 60
)on, Sir William, 60
)on, General, 273
)onaldson, Mr., 18
)onaldson, Mr. William, 154
bonaldson, Gilbert, 227
)onglas, Lord Charles, 35, 36
louglas, Heron and Co., 59
loughs, Mr. Alexander, 98
Iouglas, Joan, 241
loughs, Sir James, 295
25
Bart., 460
29 I
458
313, 458
313
Douglas, Lady Jane, 420
Douglas, James, Esq., 465
Douglas, Miss Mary, 465
DOW, John, 95, 188
Dowie, Johnnie, 88
Dowling, Mathew, Esq., 171
Downes, Justice, 172
Downes, Lord, 172
Downie, Mr. David, 419
Drake, Bill, 354, 355
Dreghorn, Lord, 162, 400
Drennan, Dr., 167, 171, 172
Drummond, Dr., 53
Drummond, Provost, 327
Drummond, Rev. George William
Drummond, William, of Haw-
Drummond, Mr. Home, 353
Drummore, Lord, 137, 138, 392
Drysdale, Mrilliam, 43
Ducrow, A b , , 317
Duguid, Mr. James, 29
Dugnid, Mrs., 29
Dumbreck, &lr. John, 24, 29
Dumbreck, William, Esq., 29
Dumfries, Lord and Lady, 281
Duncan, Alexander, Esq., 37
Duncan, Admiral Lord Viscount,
Duncan, Colonel, 37
Duncan, Mr. James, 77
Duncan, Dr., 81, 294
Duncan, Rev. Mr., 130
Duncan, Rer. Mr., of Mid-Calder,
hncan, Rev. Alexander, 447
lundas, Henry, Lord Melville,
22, 37, 38, 65, 118, 239, 242,
247, 277, 296, 328, 402, 457
lundas, Sir Laurence, 33, 34,
236, 239, 346, 404
hndas, Captain Philip, 37
lundas, Sir James, 328
lundas, Robert, Esq., of Arniston
(one of the Senators of the
College of Justice), 322
hndas, President (the second),
326
)nndas, General Sir David, 328
hndas, Robert, Esq., of Arniston
(Lord Chief Baron), 91,
119, 167, 266, 295, 326, 337,
451
Auriol Hay, 337
thornden, 341
121, 168
37
245
hindas, Sir David, 295

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west Port.] THE TILTING GROUND. 225
centuries,? and the access thereto from the Castle
must have been both inconvenient and circuitous.
It has been supposed that the earliest buildings
-on this site had been erected in the reign of James
IV., when the low ground to the westward was the
scene of those magnificent tournaments, which drew
to that princely monarch7s court the most brilliant
chivalry in Europe, and where those combats ensued
of which the king was seldom an idle spectator.
This tilting ground remained open and unen-
~
appointed for triell of suche matters.? Latterly
the place bore the name of Livingstone?s Yards.
We have mentioned the acquisition by the city
of the king?s stables at the Restoration. Lord
Fountainhall records, under date I rth March,
1685, a reduction pursued by the Duke of Queensberry,
as Governor of the Castle, against Thomas
Boreland and other possessors of these stables, as
part of the Castle precincts and property. Boreland
and others asserted that they held their property in
THE GRASSMARKET, FROM THE WEST PORT, 1825. (Afhh?wbmk.)
closed when Maitland wrote. and is described by I virtue of a feu granted in the reign of James V.,
him as a pleasant green space, 150 yards long, by
50 broad, adjoining the Chapel of Our Lady ; but
this ?pleasant green? is now intersected by the?
hideous Kingsbridge ; one portion is occupied by
the Royal Horse Bazaar and St. Cuthbert?s Free
Church, while the rest is made odious by tan-pits,
slaughter-houses, and other dwellings of various
descriptions.
Calderwood records that in the challenge to
mortal combat, in 1571, between Sir William
I Kirkaldy of Grange, and Alexander Stewart
younger of Garlies, they were to fight ?upon the
ground, the Baresse, be-west the West Port of
Edinburgh, the place accustomed and of old ,
I
77
but the judges decided that unless thedefenders
could prove a legal dissolution of the royal possession,
they must be held as the king?s stables, and
be accordingly annexed to the crown of Scotland
Thomas Boreland?s house, one which long figured
in every view of the Castle from the foot of Vennel
{see Vol. I., p. 80), has recently been pulled down.
It was a handsome and substantial edifice of three
storeys in height, including the dormer windows,
crow-stepped, and having three most picturesque
gables in front, with a finely moulded door, on the
lintel of which were inscribed a date and legend :-
T. B. v. B. 1675.
FEAR. GOD. HONOR . THE. KING.

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and the memory of the day. Southwards, over the Echoing Rock and Samson’s
Ribs, the eye rests on old Craigmillar Castle.
Amidst ali this, the city, though glowing in purple and crimson, with
grand pinnacles of splendour, standing up above brown hollows and mystic
shadows, might not be greatly regarded, but still it was something to remember
that ‘like some sweet beguiling melody, so sweet we know not we are listening
to it,’ it was there as the base and soIid centre of the fairy-seeming vision.
Different tastes have differentIy estimated the comparative beauty of the
two prospects, both transcendent, from the Calton Hill and the Castle.
Besides the view from the former, of Leith, the ocean and its far-stretching
and embayed shores, the two finest points are, first, the view of Arthur’s
Seat and the ‘giant-snouted crags’ of Salisbury, brought out across the deep
valley into such bold and startling zelief; and secondly, the peep westward of
THE blOUND
what Thomas Aird calIs the ‘backbone of the Castlehill,’ with those lofty and
close-piled houses, churches, spires, and public buildings, which might
be compared to the black mane of a thunder-cloud, hanging with a
frown so dark and portentous over the fair gardens, Scott’s Monument, and
‘ merry Priiices Street’ below ! There are here a depth and a contrast of light
and shade, glory and gloom, the most refined Art of the present and the
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1'4 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
melancholy west beyond them, makes all the broken labyrinth of towers,
batteries, and house-tops paint their heavy breadth in tenfold sable magnitude
upon that lurid canvas. At break of day, how beautiful is the freshness with
which the venerable pile appears to rouse itself from its sleep, and look up
once more withya bright eye into the sharp and dewy air f At the grim and
sultry hour of noon, with what languid grandeur the broad flag seems to flap
its long weight of folds above the glowing battlements 1 When the daylight
goes down in purpIe glory, what lines of gold creep along the hoary brow of
its antique strength ! When the whole heaven is deluged, and the winds are
roaring fiercely, and snow and hail and stormy vapour are let loose to make
war upon his front, with what an air of pride does the veteran citadel brave all
their well-known wrath-"cased in the unfeeling armour of old time." The
capital itself is but a pigmy to this giant.'-From Peter's Letfen, vol. i. p. 330.
Lockhart, by the way, informs us that Wilson had a hand in the composition
of Pefds fitters, and we suspect we find it in the above as well as in
the description in the last letters of a Sacramental Country Service.
In our first paper we spoke of having seen her Majesty, along with
MONS YEC.
Prince Albert, riding up from Holyrood to the Castle. Let us reverse the
route, arid conduct our readers from the Castle to Holyrood. And here,
instead of marking individual buildings, which were alike an endless and
a needless task, let us follow the grand and graceful outline which the street
pursues.-First from the esplanade of the Castle, commanding the double view
of the New Town-with its trim streets, its gay gardens, its pillars, steeples,
and monuments-and of the southern region of the city, with the Grassmarket,
the Grange, Meadows, and Newington, bounded on one side by the Pentlands
and on the other by Arthur's Seat,-a view rendered exceedingly noble, partly
by the multitude of objects which are at once and easily seen together, and

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your king, and will yield it to no power whatever.
But I respect that of the Parliament, and require
six days to consider its demand; for most important
is my charge, and my councillors, alas ! are
now few,? she added, bursting into tears, probably
as she thought of the many
? Who on Flodden?s trampled sod,
Rendered up their souls to God.?
For their king and for their country,
Alarmed at a refusal so daring, Angus entreated
PLAN OF EDINRURGH, SHOWING THE FLODDEN WALL. (Snscd on &rdon of Rothiemy?s Mnp, 1647.)
her brother, Henry VIII., by complaining that she
had been little else than a captive in the Castle
Edinburgh.
Meanwhile the Duke of Albany had taken UP
his residence at Holyrood, and seems to have proceeded,
between 1515-16, with the enlargement
the royal buildings attached to the Abbey House,
in continuation of the works carried on there by
the late king, till the day of Flodden. Throughout
the minority of James V. Edinburgh continued tO
her to obey the Estates, and took an instrument
to the effect that he had no share in it; but she
remained inexorable, and the mortified delegates
returned to report the unsuccessful issue of their
mission. Aware that she was unable to contend
with the Estates, she secretly retired with her sons
to Stirling, and, after placing them in charge of the
Lords Borthwick and Fleming, returned to her
former residence, though, according to Chalmers,
she had no right of dowry therein. Distrusting the
people, and, as a Tudor, distrusted by them, she
remained aloof from all, until one day, escorted
by Lord Home and fifty lances, she suddenly rode
to the Castle of Blackadder (near Berwick), from
be disturbed by the armed contentions of the
nobles, especially those of Angus and Arran ; and
in a slender endeavour to repress this spirit the
salary of the Provost was augmented, and a small
guard of halberdiers was appointed to attend him.
Among those committed prisoners to the Castle
by Albany were the Lord Home and his brother
William for treason; they escaped, but were retaken,
and beheaded 16th October, 1516, and
their heads were placed on the Tolbooth.* Huntly
and Moray were next prisoners, for fighting at the
head of their vassals in the streets; and the next
was Sir Lewk Stirling, for an armed brawl.
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the permanent and undisputed capital of Scotland.
Sorrow and indignation spread over all the realm
when the fate of James was heard, and no place
seemed to afford such security to the royal person
as the impregnable Castle of Edinburgh j thus
Queen Jane, ignorant of the ramifications of that
.conspiracy by which her princely husband was
,slain (actually in her arms), instantly joined her
.son James II., who since his birth had dwelt
there. It was then in the hands of William Baron
.of Crichton-a powerful, subtle, and ambitious
statesman, who was Master of the Household.
with every solemnity, on the 25th of March, 1437.
The queen-mother was named his guardian, with
an allowance of 4,000 merks yearly, and Archibald
the great Earl of Uouglas and Angus (Duke of
Touraine) was appointed lieutenant-general of the
kingdom. During the two subsequent years the
little king resided entirely in the Castle under the
custody of Crichton, now Lord Chancellor, greatly
to the displeasure of the queen and her party, who
found him thus placed completely beyond their
control or influence.
In short, it was no longer the queen-mother,
RUINS OF THE WELL-HOUSE TOWER. (~m a D7awifirb W ~ Z Z ~ ~ X . paton, R.s.A.)
Within forty days nearly all concerned in the
imurder of the late king were brought to Edinburgh,
where the ignoble were at once consigned
to the hangman; but for the Earl of Athol and
bother titled leaders were devised tortures worthy
.alone of Chinese or Kaffir ingenuity. Crowned
by a red-hot diadem as " King of Traitors," at the
Market Cross, after undergoing three days of un-
.exampled agonies in sight of the people and the
Papal Nuncio, afterwards Pius II., the body of the
earl was dragged nude through the streets ; it was
then beheaded and quartered.
On the assembly of the Lords of Parliament,
-their first care was the coronation of James II.,
-who was conducted in procession from the Castle
$0 the church of Holyrood, where he was crowned,
but the crafty Crichton, who had uncontrolled
custody of the little sovereign, and who thus was
enabled to seize the revenues, and surround him
by a host of parasites, who permitted neither her,
nor the Regent, Sir Alexander Livingstone of
Callender, to have any share in the government
A bitter feud was the consequence, and Scotland
again was rent into two hostile factions, a state of
matters of which the English could not, as usual,
make profit, as they were embroiled among themselves.
The queen remained with the regent at
Stirling, while her son was literally a prisoner at
Edinburgh ; but, womanlike, the mother formed a
plan of her own to outwit the enemy.
Visiting the Castle, she professed a great regard
for the Chancellor, and a desire to be with her son,

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EARLIEST TRADITIONS. 5
having been concluded between Ermengarde de Beaumont, cousin to King Henry, Edinburgh
Castle was gallantly restored as a dowry to the Queen, after having been held by
an English garrison for nearly twelve years.
In the year 1215, Alexander II., the son and successor of William, convened his first
Parliament at Edinburgh ; and during the same reign, still further importance was given
to the rising city, by a Provincial Synod being held in it by Cardinal l’Aleran, legate from
Pope Gregory IX. The revenues of Alexander could not rival the costly foundations of
his great-grandfather, David I. ; but he founded eight monasteries of the Mendicant Order,
in different parts of Scotland; one of which, the monastery of Blackfriars, stood nearly on
the same spot as the Royal Infirmary now occupies ; near which was the Collegiate Church
of St Mary-in-the-Field, better known as the Kirk-0’-Field, occupying the site of the
College-all vestiges of which have long since disappeared. But of these we shall treat
more at large in their proper place. His son and successor, Alexander III,, having been
betrothed to Margaret, daughter of Henry 111. of England, nine years before, their nuptials
were celebrated at York, in the year 1242, Arnot tells us “ the young Queen had Edinburgh
Castle appointed for her residence ; ” but it would seem to have been more in the character
of a stronghold than a palace ; for, whereas the sumptuousness of her namesake, Queen of
Malcolm Canmore, the future St Margaret of Scotland, while residing there, excited discontent
in the minds of her rude subjects, she describes it as “ a sad and solitary place,
without verdure, and by reason of its vicinity to the sea, unwholesome ; that she was not
permitted to make excursions through the kingdom, nor to chose her female attendanta ;
and lastly, that she was excluded from all conjugal intercourse with her husband, who by
this time had completed his fourteenth year.” “ Redress of her last grievance,” Dalrymple
adds, ‘‘ was instantly procured, redress of her other grievances was promised.”
Shortly after, the Castle was surprisedbp Alan Dureward, Patrick Earl of March, and other
leaders, while their rivals were engaged in preparation for holding a Parliament at Stirling ;
and the royal pair being liberated from their durance, we shortly afterwards find them holding
an interview with Henry, at Werk Castle, Northumberland. During the remainder of
the long and prosperous reign of Alexander III., the Castle of Edinburgh continued to be
the chief place of the royal residence, as well as for holding his courts for the transaction
of judicial affairs ; it was also during his reign the safe depository of the principal records,
and of the regalia of the kingdom.’
From this time onward, through the disastrous wars that ultimately settled the Bruce
on the throne, and established the independence of Scotland, Edinburgh experienced
its full share of the national sderings and temporary humiliation; in June 1291, the
town and Castle were surrendered into the hands of Edward I. Holinshed relatea that
he came to Edinburgh, where “ he planted his siege about the Castell, and raised engines
which cast stones against and over the walls, sore beating and bruising the buildings within
; so that it surrendered by force of siege to the King of England’s use, on the 15 daie
after he had first laid his siege about it.”3 He was here also again on 8th July 1292, and
again on the 29th of the same month; and here, in May 1296, he received within the
church in the Castle, the unwilling submission of many magnates of the kingdom, acknowledging
him as Lord Paramount; and on the 28th of August following, William de
Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 586. = Ibid., p. 687. ’ Chronicles, 1586, vol. iii. p. 300.

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INDEX TO THE NAMES, ETC. 437
Clarkson, Major, 196
Clavering, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm.,
Clavering, Miss Mark-Margaret,
Cleeve, Rev. Mr., 261
Cleghorn, Mr. Thomas, 261
Clerk, Sir George, of Penycuik,
Clerk, John (Lord Eldin) 53
Clerk, Lieutenant-Colonel, 212
Clive, Lord, 378, 379
Coalston, Lord, 75, 168, 366
Cochrane, William, Esq. of Ochil-
Cochrane, Euphemia, 29
Cochrane, Sir John, of Oehiltree,
Cochrane, Mrs., 385
Cockburn, Mr., 263
Cockburn, Baron, 383
Cockburn, Lord, 383, 390
Cockburn, Mrs., 396
Collins, Mr., 66
Colman, Mr., 147, 149
Colquhoun, Sir George, 327
Colquhoun, Lady, 283
Colquhoun, Sir James, 283, 284
Colquhoun, Rev. Mr., 300
Compagni, Chevalier Gerardo, 83
Constable, Mr. Archibald, 137,
144, 210, 220, 221, 245, 304
Cope, Sir John, 22, 65, 93
Corbett, Mr., 258
Cornwallis, Lord, 95, 187
Corriand Sutherland, Messrs., 16,
Coulter, Provost William, 237,
Courtenay, Mr., 376
Courtenay, William,Viscount,381
Coutts, Mr. John, 62
Coutts, Messrs., 180, 181
Coventry, Dr., 250
Covington, Lord, 202, 378
Cowan, Rev. Mr., 156
Craig, Messrs., 284
Craig, Dr. William, 302
Craig, Miss, of Dalmair, 413
Craig, Sir James, 413
Crawford, Sir Hew, 98
Crawford, Miss Mary, 99
Crawford, Miss Lucken, 99
Crawford, Captain, 99
Crawford, Mrs., 114
Crawford, Mr. James, 355
409
409
53
tree, 29, 384
385
293, 294
390
Crawfurd, Nisses, 316
Creech, Bailie, 111, 121, 127,
141, 158, 223, 246, 261, 343
Crichton, Captain Patrick, 237
Crichton, Mr, Alexander, 390
Crichton, Sir Alexander, 392
Crichton, Gall, and Thomson,
Messrs., 391
Cringletie, Lord, 260
Cripps, Mr., 147
Cromwell, Oliver, 96, 280
Crosfield, R. T., 227
Cross and Barclay, Messrs., 22
Cruickshanks, Mr., 58, 249
Culbertson,zRev. Mr., 300
Cullen, Dr., 15, 52, 53, 58, 59,
Cullen, Dr. Henry, 255
Cullen, Lord, 254, 255, 303
Cumberland, Duke of, 81,385,425
Cumming, Miss Sarah, 58
Cumming, Charles, of Roseisle,
131
Gumming, Mr. James, of the
Lyon Office, 246
Currie, Dr., 278
Cutler, Sir John, 409
60, 163, 339, 340
D
DAENDELLG, eneral, 107
Dalhousie, Earl of, 27, 193
Dalhousie, Countess of, 225
Dalkeith, Lord, 214
Dalling, Sir Charles, 373
Ddrymple, David, of Westhall, 72
Dalrymple, Lord Provost, 105
Dalrymple, Mr. William, 307
Dalrymple, Sir Hugh Hamilton
Dalrymple, Miss Janet, 363
Dalrymple, Sir James, Bart., 364
Dalzel, Professor, 44,256, 300
Darrell, Rev. William, 48
Daschkow, Prince, 104
Davidson, John, Esq., 205
Davidson, Rev. Dr., 173, 282, 305,
Davidson, Mr. William, 388
Davidson, Captain William, 390
Davie, Mr. John, 55
Davies, Mr., 228
Dawson, John, Esq., 3811
Dawson, Miss Betty Anne, 381
Degravers, Dr. Peter, 262, 263
Dempster, Mr. George, 217
223, 366
363
320
lempster. Mr. James, 402
levonshire, Duke of, 110, 329
3evonshire, Duchess of, 329
Jhu, John, 119, 305
Dick, Professor Robert, 52
lickenson, -, 172
Dickson, Mr. William, 152
Dickson, Mr. James, 237.
Dickson, Maggie, 263
Dickson, Mr. James, 307
Dickson, Rev. Dr., 373
Digges, Ivlr, 150
Dockray, Eenjamin, 35
Doig, Dr., 323
Donaldson, hfrs. Sophia, 252
Donaldson, Mr. Robert, 261
Donaldson, Mr. James, 261
Donaldson, Rev. Mr., 427
Douglas, Margaret, 73
Douglas, Mr., of Strathenry, 73
Douglas, Sir James, 81
Douglas, Mrs. Major, 105
Douglas, Lord, 169, 170
Douglas, Mr., 271
Douglas, Rev. Neil, 427
Douglas Cause, the, 20, 379
Dowie, Johnnie, 246
Dreghorn, Lord, 387
Drennan, Dr., 427 .
Drummond, Bishop Abernethy,
Drummond, Rev. William Aureol
Drummond, John, Esq., 213
Drummond, Jane, 213
Drummond, George, Esq., 224
Drummond, Mr. Home, 233
Drummond, Provost, 244
Drysdale, Rev. Dr., 299,300, 321,
Dumfries and Stair, Countess of,
Duff, Alexander, Esq., 279
Duff, Miss Jane, 279
Dun, Dr. Patrick, 339
Dunbar, Mr., advocate, 155
Dunbar, Sir James, Bart., 30
Dunbar, Miss, 30
Duncan, Alexander, Esq., 360
Duncan, Sir Henry, 363
Duncan, Lord Viscount, 375
Duncan, Dr., 44, 255
Dundag Sir Laurence, 42,119,285
Dundas, Thomas, 42
Dundaa, Lord, of Aske, Yorkshire,
Dundas, Miss Dorothea, 75
Hay, 179
322
72
42

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England, but they failed to excite mutiny ; yet a
plan was formed by which it was expected that the
Castle and city would both fall into the hands of
the Friends of the People, who were secretly arming.
The design was this :-
?A fire was to be raised near the excise office,
which would require the attendance of the soldiers,
who were to be met on their way by a body of the
THE WHITE HART INN, GRASSMARKET.
committee of ? Sense and Money? was formed to
procure them. Two smiths, named Robert Orrock
and William Brown, who had enrolled, received
orders to make 4,000 pikes, some of which were
actually completed, delivered to Watt, and paid
for by Downie in his capacity as treasurer.
Meanwhile the trials of Skirving, Margarot, and
. Gerald, had taken place, for complicity to a certain
to issue from the West Bow, confine the soldiers
between two forces, and cut off all retreat. The
Castle was next to be attempted, the judges and
magistrates were to be,seized, and all the public
banks to be secured. A proclamation was then
to be issued, ordering all farmers to bring in their
grain to the market as usual, and enjoining all
country gentlemen unfriendly to the cause to keep
within their houses, or three miles of them, under
penalty of death. Then an address was to be sent
to his Majesty, commanding him to put an end to
the war, to change his ministers, or take the consequences
! ? Similar events were to take place in
Dublin and London on the same night
Before this startling scheme could be effected,
arms of all descriptions were necessary, and a third
until about the 15th of May, 1794 that Watt and
Downie were apprehended. On that day it chanced
that two sheriff officers when searching the house
of the former for the secreted goods of a bankrupt,
found some pikes, which they conveyed to the
sheriff?s chambers. A warrant was issued to search
the whole premises, and in the cellars a form of
types from which the address to the troops had
been printed, and a great quantity of pikes, were
discovered, while in the house, thirty-three in
various stages of completion were found. Hence,
early on the morning of June and, Watt, Downie,
and. Orrock, were conveyed from the old Tolbooth
to the Castle, as State prisoners, and lodged in the
strong apartment above the portcullis.
True bills of indictment being found against

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reality as a spy from Elizabeth. ?He was next
visited, in a pretended friendly manner, by Sir
Williain Drury, Elizabeth?s Marshal of Berwick,
the same who built Drury House in Wych Street,
London, and who fell in a duel with Sir John
Burroughs about precedence, and from whom
Drury Lane takes its name. When about to enter
the Castle gate, an English deserter, who had
enlisted under Queen Mary, in memory of some
grudge, was about to shoot him with his arquebuse,
ROOM IN EDINBURGH GASTLE IN WHICH JAMES VI. WAS BORN.
began to invest the Castle with his paid Scottish
companies, who formed a battery on the Cast!e
hill, from which Kirkaldy drove them all in rout
on the night of the 15th. On the following day,
Sir William Drury, in direct violation of the
Treaty of Blois, which declared ?that no foreign
troops should enter Scotland,? at the head of the
old bands of Berwick, about 1,500 men, marched
for Edinburgh. A trumpeter, on the 25th of April,
summoned Kirkaldy to surrender j but he replied
Kirkaldy. This courtesy was ill-requited by his red flag on David?s Tower as a token of resistance
of the walls, &c.? In anticipation of a siege, the
citizens built several traverses to save the High
Street from being enfiladed ; one of these, formed
between the Thieves? Hole and Bess Wynd, was two
ells in thickness, composed of turf and mud; and
another near it was two spears high. In the city,
the Parliament assembled on the I 7th of January,
with a sham regalia of gilt brass, as Kirkaldy had
the crown and real regalia in the Castle.
When joined by some English pioneers, Morton
by the 15th of May. These were armed with
thirty guns, including two enormous bombardes or
roo-pounders, which were loaded by means of a
crane ; a great carthoun or Â£er ; and many
18-pounders. There was also a movable battery
of falcons. Under the Regent Morton, the first
battery was on the high ground now occupied by the
Heriot?s Hospital; the second,under Drury,opposed
to St. Margaret?s Tower, was near the Lothian
Road ; the third, under Sir C-eorge Carey, and the

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KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLE HILL. I43
The poet was extremely proud of his new mansion’, and appears to have been somewhat
surprised to fiud that its fantastic shape rather excited the mirth than the admiration of his
fellow-citizens. The wags of the town compared it to a goose pie ; and on his complaining
of this one day to Lord Elibank, his lordship replied, ‘‘ Indeed, Allan, when I see you in
it, I think they are not far wrong! ”
On ‘the death of Allan Ramsay, in 1757, he was succeeded in his house by his son, the
eminent portrait-painter, who added a new front and wing to it, and otherwise modified its
original grotesqueness; and since his time it was the residence of the Rev. Dr Baird,
late Principal of the University. Some curious discoveries, made in the immediate neighbourhood
of the house, in the lifetime of the poet, are thus recorded in the Scots Magazine
for 1754,-(‘ About the middle of June, some workmen employed in levelling the upper
part of Mr Ramsay’s garden, in the Castle Hill, fell upon a subterraneous chamber about
fourteen feet square, in which were found an image of white stone, with a crown upon its
head, supposed to be the Virgiu Mary ; two brass candlesticks ; about a dozen of ancient
Scottish and French coins, and some other trinkets, scattered among the rubbish. By
several remains of burnt matter, and two cannon balls, it is guessed that the building above
ground was destroyed by the Castle in some former confusion.” This, we would be inclined
to think, may have formed a portion of the ancient Church of St Andrew, of which so little
is known; though, from Dlaitland’s description, the site should perhaps be looked for
somewhat lower down the bank. It is thus alluded to by him,--“ At the southern side of
the Nordloch, near the foot of the Castle Hill, stood a church, the remains whereof I am
informed were standiiig within these few years, by Professor Sir Robert Stewart, who had
often seen them. This I take to have been the Chnrch of St Andrew, near the Castle of
Edinburgh, to the Trinity Altar, in which Alexander Curor, vicar of Livingston, by a
deed of gift of the 20th December 1488, gave a perpetual annuity of twenty merks Scottish
money.” In the panelling of the Reservoir, which stands immediately to the south
of Ramsay Garden, a hole is still shown, which is said to have been occasioned by a shot
in the memorable year 1745. The ball was preserved for many years in the house, and
ultimately presented to the late Professor Playfair.
An old stone land occupies the corner of Ramsay Lane, on the north side of the Castle
Hill. It presents a picturesque front to the main street, surmounted with a handsome
double dormer window. On its eastern side, down Pipe’s Close, there is a large and
neatly moulded window, exhibiting the remains of a stone mullion and transom, with which
it has been divided; and, in the interior of the same apartment, directly opposite to this,
there are the defaced remains of a large gothic niche, the only ornamental portions of which
now visible are two light and elegant buttresses at the sides, affording indication of its
original decorations.
Tradition, as reported to us by several different parties, assigns this house to the Laird
of Cockpen, the redoubted hero, as we presume, of Scottish song ; and one party further
a5rms, in confirmation of this, that Ramsay Lane had its present name before the days
of the poet, having derived it from this mansion of the Ramsays of Cockpen.’ Its
Maitland, p. 206.
* The Lairds of Cockpen were U branch of the Rameays of Dalhousie ; Douglas’s Peerage, vol. i. p. 404. Maitland in
his List of Streets, &e., mentions a Ramaay’a Cloae without indicating it on the map.

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CONTENTS.
PART 1.-HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.
CBAP.
I. EARLIEST TRADITIONS,
IL FROM THE ACCE8SION OF TEE 8TUARTS TO THE DEATH OF J A m S III., .
111. FROX THE ACCESSION OF JaME8 IV. TO TEE BATTLE OF FLODDEN,
IV. FROM TEE BATTLE OF FLODDEN TO THE DEATH OF JAMES V., .
V. FROM THE DEATH OF JAMES V. TO TEE ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARY, -
VI. FROM TBE ACCESSION OF JAMES VI. TO THEJiESTORATION OP CHARLES 119
VII. HISTORICAL INCIDENTS ALFTER THE RESTORATION, .
PAOE
. 1
. 11 . 22 . 34 . 47
. , 81 . 99
PART 11.-LOCAL ANTIQUITIES AND TRADITIONS.
I. THE CASTLE, ,
11. KING’S STABLES, CASTLE BARNS, AND CASTLEHILL,
111. THE LAWNMARKET, .
. IV. THE TOLBOOTH, LUChEbBOOTHS, AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE,
V. THE HIGH STREET, ,
VI. TEN HIGH BTREET AND NETHERBOW,
VII. THE CANONUATE AND ABBEY SANCTUARY, .
VIII. ST LEONARD’S, ~ J TY ARY’S WYND, AND THE COWGATE, .
IS. THEI WEBT BOW AND THE SUBURBS,
X. LEITH, AND THE NEW TOWN,
XI. ECCLESIA8TICAL ANTIQUITIES,
, 121 . 134
158
184
221
249
276
310
333
356
377
APPENDIX,
NO.
I. EDINBURQH, . . 423
11. ANCIENT YAPS AND VIEWS OB EDINBURGH, * . 424
IZL CHURCHES, . . 428
IV. CORPORATION AND MASONIC HALLS, . 430
V. WRYCHTISHOUSIS, , . 432
. 433
b .
VI. PORTEOUS YOB, . 433
VII. LADY ANN BOTHWELL’S LAMENT, , ..

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I20 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [COrStOrphiie.
fact came to her kcoivledge. Inspired with fury
she repaired at once to the castle of Corstorphine,
and finding that he was drinkiig at a tavern in the
village, sent for him, and they met in the garden
at a tree near the old dovecot, which marked the
spot. A violent altercation ensued between them,
and in the midst of it, she snatched his sword from
his side, ran him through the body and killed him
on the instant. (Fountainhall.)
?The inhabitants of th?e village,? says C. Kirksought
to extenuate it on the plea that Lord Forrester
was intoxicated and furious, that he ran at her
? with his sword, on which she took it from him to
protect herself, and he fell upon it; but this was
known to be false, says Fountainhall. She practised
a deception upon the court by which her sentence
of death was postponed for two months, during
which, notwithstanding the care of her enjoined on
John Wan, Gudeman of the Tolbooth, she escaped
in male apparel but was captured by the Ruthvens
CORSTORPHINE CHURCH.
patrick Sharpe, in his Notes to Kirkton?s ? History,?
? still relate some circumstances of the murder not
recorded by Fountainhall. Mrs. Nimmo, attended
by her maid, had gone from Edinburgh to the
castle of Corstorphine,? and adds that after the
murder ?she took refuge in a garret of the castle,
but was discovered by one of her slippers, which
dropped through a crevice of the floor. It need
scarcely be added, that till lately the inhabitants
of the village were greatly annoyed of a moonlight
night by the appearance of a woman clothed in
white, with a bloody sword in her hand, wandering
and wailing near the pigeon-house.?
Being seized and brought before the Sheriffs of
Edinburgh, she made a confession of her crime, but
next day at Fala MilL On the 12th of November,
1679, she was beheaded at the market cross, when
she appeared on the scaffold in deep mourning,
laying aside a large veil, and baring her neck and
shoulders to the executioner with the utmost
courage.
Though externally a Presbyterian it was said at
the time ?that a dispensation from the Pope to
marry the woman who murdered him was found in
his (Lord Forrester?s) closet, and that his delay in
using it occasioned her fury.? (?< Popery and
Schism,? p. 39.)
Connected with this murder, a circumstance very
characteristic of the age took place. The deceased
peer leaving onIy heirs of his second marriage, who

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
BIRD’BE YEV IEW OF EDINBURGH IN 1647, BY JAKEGSOR DON OF ROTHIEMAY, Front*&.
1. Ancient Carved Stone, Edinburgh Castle,
2. ANOIEZHTOT USEC, ANONHILLS,
3. Carved Stone from the Old Barrier Gate,
4, The Castle, from a Map of 1575,
5. Corbel, from St Giles’s Church,
6. The Old High Street, .
7. Ancient Houses, near the Kirk-of-Field,
8. Nary of Guelders’ Arm& from her Seal,
.
Edinburgh Caatle, . ..
. .
. 9. TRINITYC OLLEGCEE URCHF, ROM THE SOUTH-
10. Bishop Kennedy’s Arms, St Pies’s Church, .
11. The Castle, from the West Port, 1640,
12. The King’s Pillar, St Giles’s Church,
13. Ancient Padlock, dug up in the Greyfriara’
Churchyard, .
14. City Cross, ,
15. Palace of Holyrood previoua to 1554,
16. BLACKFRIARWS’Y ND, .
17. HOLYROOCDH BPELE, NTRANCE TO THE ROYAL
18. Norman Capital, Holyrood Abbey, .
19. Black Turnpike, .
20. THE GREATH ALL,T RINITYH OSPITAL,
21. Ancient Chapel, Kirkgate, Leith, .
22. Corbel from the ancient South Porch, St
Giles’s Church, .
23. ST MARY’S CHURCHS,O UTHLE ITH, .
24. HURT OF MIDLOTHIAN, .
25. Saint Qilea, from the City Seal, 1565,
26. Queen Mary’s Bath, .
27. Carved Stone in the Castle, containing the
Cipher of Queen Mary and Henry Lord
Darnley, .
WEST,
VAULT, .
28. Tower of the City Wall in the Vennel,
29. Holyrood Chapel, .
30. OLD TOLBOOTHLE, ITH,
31. The Maiden, .
32, Jenny Geddes’s Stool,.
33. DUN BAR'^ CLOSE, HIGH STREET, .
34. The Citadel, Leith, .
35. Parliament House. about 1646. .
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36. THE GOLFER’S LAND, CANONOATE, . . 104
37. The Darien House, . . 107
PAOE
38. WEST Bow, FROM TRE CASTLE ROAD,
1843,. , 111
39. The Capital of the City Cross, 6 115
40. Interior of the Tower of the Ancient Town
Wall, in the Vennel, . . 116
41. Ancient Doorway, Halkerston’s Wynd, . 118
43. French Prisoners’ Vault in the Castle, . 126
. 44. Mouldinga of the Chancel Arch, St Margaret’s
45. Lintel from the Guiae Palace, Blyth‘a Close, . 134
46. Ancient Crow-Steps from the Mint, , . 135
47. Cipher of Ilobert Mowbry of Castlewan, .. 140
48. Gothic Niche, Kennedg’s Close, Castlehill, . 142
49. Lord Sempill’a House, Castlehill, . . 145
50. PISCINAPA, LACOFE M ARYO F GUISE,C ASTLEHILL,
. . 145
51, Oaken Front of Ancient Cupboard, from the
Guise Palace, , 147
62. Ancient Carved Doorway, do., . 148
63. EDWARDH om’a HOUSE, TODD’SC LOSE,
CASTLEHILL., . 152
54. Large Gothic Niche, Blyth’a Close, . . 154
55. Ancient Niches, Blyth’s Close, , . 155
56. ANCIENHTO USESC, ASTLEHILL, . . 156
57. Painted Oak Beam from the Guiae Chapel . 157
58. Gladstone’s Land, Lawnmarket, , . 158
59. Ancient Lintel, Lady Stair’s Close, . . 164
60, RIDDLE’SC LOSE,L AWNMABKEBTa,i lie Macmoran’s
House, . . 168
61. Ancient Corbel, from the Old Bank Close, . 172
62. OLDBANKC LOSE, , . 176
63. Carved Stone, from the Old Bank Close, . 176
64. Carved Stone, from the Old Bank Close, . 179
66. HEADOF WESTB ow, LAWNBCAEKE. T, , 183
68. TEE WEIGH-HOUSE, . . 193
70. REID’S CLOSE, CANONQATE, . . 217
71. A r m s of Edinburgh, from Common Seal of
72. House of Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney. 227
73. Ancient Lintel, from Roxburgh Close, . 230
42, The Castle, about 1750, , . 121
Chapel, in the Castle, _. . 128
65. GOSFORDC’EL OSEL, AWNMARKET, . . 180
67. North Side of the Tolbooth, . . 184
69. The Old Parliament Stairs, . . 212
the City, 1561, . f . 221

... OF ILLUSTRATIONS. BIRD’BE YEV IEW OF EDINBURGH IN 1647, BY JAKEGSOR DON OF ROTHIEMAY, Front*&. 1. ...

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44 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
Well might Christopher thus describe Greyfriars in his Nocfes:-‘An impre?
sive place,-huge auld red gloomy church, a countless multitude 0’ grass graves,
a’ touchin’ ane anither ; a’ round the kirkyard wa’s marble and freestane monuments
without end, and 0’ a’ shapes and sizes and ages,-some quaint, some
queer, some simple, some ornate-for genius likes to work upon grief; and
here tombs are like towers and temples, partakin’ not 0’ the noise 0’ die city,
but standing aloof frae the stir of life, aneath the sombre shadow of the
Castle cliff, that heaves its battlements furth into the sky.’
OLD WELI. WEST mUT.
The best approach to the Grassmarket was down the ancient suburb of
Portsburgh. There too you get one of the grandest views of the Castle,
frowning overhead, as represented in the Engraving, like the brow of some
colossal Gorgon. The Grassmarket itself owes its chief charm to the past, to the
memories of the Covenanters who ‘glorified God’ there (at the east end of the
square, opposite No. 100), and of Captain Porteous, who was hung on a dyester’s
pole on the south side, over the entrance to Hunter’s Close. We remember
too with special interest being present here in the close of the year 1834 at a
great meeting against the Tory Ministry, and of hearing eloquent speeches
from the lips of James Aytoun, James Browne, Advocate, and above all of

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

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