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332 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. many a gentleman’s stable-yard, with the chief approach to it by a pend, or archway, from the head of the Candlemaker’s Row. Rank and fashion, however, alone resorted to the admired locality, while it was no less worthy of note as a haunt of the muses. Here was the residence of Dr Austin, already referred to, in a ‘house at the north-west corner; and a few doors from this, in the building on the west side through which the arched entry led into Candlemaker Row, dwelt for above twenty years Miss Jeanie Elliot, the author of the beautiful version of the Flowers 0’ the Forest,’’ beginning, “I ’ve heard them lilting at the ewe-milking.” She was the daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, and is described by a contemporary as “ a remarkably agreeable old maiden lady, with a prodigious fund of Scottish anecdote.” It is added, as worthy of record, that she was perhaps the only lady of her time in Edinburgh who had her own sedan chair, which was kept in the lobby of her house ! Henry Mackenzie first took up house for himfielf in the middle tenement, still standing on the south side, while the celebrated Lord Woodhouselee occupied one of those now demolished. The middle house on the north’ side, a large and commodious mansion, still retains abundant traces of former grandeur, and chiefly in the large drawing-room on the first floor, which is decorated with a series of landscapes, interspersed with floral groups and other fancy devices, evidently in imitation of the painted chamber at Milton House, though the work of a less skilful artist. This was the residence of Sir Thomas Miller, of Barskimming and Glenlee, Bart., Lord President of the Court of Session, who died there in 1789. He was succeeded in it by his son, Sir William, promoted to the bench under the title of Lord Glenlee, and who, when all other claimants to rank or gentility had long deserted every nook of the Old Town, resisted the fashionable tide of emigration, and retained this as his town mansion till his death in 1846. Indeed, such was the attachment of this venerable judge to his old dwelling, that he rejected a handsome offer for the reversion of it, because the proposing purchaser, who designed converting it into a printing office, refused to become bound to preserve the paintings on its walls. VI(tNETTE-aothic Niche, College Wynd. ......

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 67 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in the first volume of whose Transactions it was published ; and by the public in general, as well as by the author himself, it has always been numbered among the h e s t productions of the poet. It is much to be regretted that Dr. Carlyle favoured the world with so little from his own pen, having published scarcely anything except the Report of the Parish of Inveresk, in Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account, and some detached pamphlets and sermons. To his pen has been justly attributed “An Ironical Argument, to prove that the tragedy of Douglas ought to be publicly burnt by the hands of the hangman.”-Edinburgh, 1757, Svo, pp. 24.‘ It is understood that Dr. Carlyle left behind him, in manuscript, a very curious Memoir of his time, which, though long delayed, we have now reason to believe will soon in part be given to the world.’ With the following description of the personal appearance of Dr. Carlyle, when advanced in years, the proprietor of this work has been favoured by a gentleman to whom the literature of his country owes much : “ He was very tall, and held his head erect like a military man-his face had been very handsome-long venerable gray hair-he was an old man when I met him on a morning visit at the Duke of Buccleuchs at Dalkeith.” ’ No. XXX. THE MODERN HERCULES. THIS is a humorous piece of satire upon Dr. Carlyle and the opposition he has uniformly met with from the leading men of the popular party. The uppermost head on the hydra is that of Professor Dalzell of the University of Edinburgh- the one below it that of the Rev. Dr. John Erskine of Carnock, minister of Old Greyfriars’ Church, intended for the bar by his father, but his own inclination was for the pulpit-the undermost head that of the much-esteemed Rev. Dr. Andrew Hunter of the Tron Kirk-and the figure with the hand up, cautioning Dr. Carlyle, that of the Hon. Henry Erskine, advocate, who was generally employed as counsel on the side of the popular party. The other three were intended by Kay, according to his MS., for the Rev. Colin Campbell of Renfrew, the Rev. Mr. Burns of Forgan, and the Rev. Dr. Balfour of Glasgow. Dr. Carlyle is said to have written the prologue to Herminius and Espccsia, a tragedy acted at Edinburgh, 1754, and printed that aame year in 8vo. * This has now been published by Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons, one volume 8v0, 1860. A second edition was iasued the same year, entitled “Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, containing Memorials of the Men and Events of his tie.’’ ......

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54 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. one of which, called St Anthony's Gate, he was able to trace with certainty.' This port st&d at the north-west corner of St Anthony's Wynd, and some remains of the ancient bastion by which it was protected may still be seen 'in a neighbouring garden. This gate, as well as the street that now occupies its site, were so named from their picinity to the preceptory of St Anthony--a detailed account of which, as well as its aneient dependency on Arthur's Seat, will be found in a later part of the work. We have introduced here the view of a very curious house, the date of erection of which may be referred to this period. It stood on the west side of the Kirkgate, and wa8 only taken down in 1845. It had an inscription over the doorway, boldly cut --____~ _~ ~ --._-~ -- __~-_ __- ~~ _-_ =-- -_---__ -.__ \\ in old English letters- '4 ' 3Ebems flaria, Q and a niche above it, in which there had doubtless been a statue of the virgin and child. Local tradition pointed it out as a chapel founded by Mary of Guise, but apparently without any sufficient evidence. The English, before their last departure from Leith, had erected fortifications on the neighbouring island of Inchkeith, and left there a strong garrison, composed in part of a troop of Italian mercenaries in their pay, by whom it was held to the great detriment of vessels navigating the Firth. But now, as soon as Monsieur D'EssB had got the fortifications of Leith in a state of forwardness, a general attack was made upon Inchkeith, on Corpus Christi day, 1549,' by a combined force of Scotch and French troops, who embarked at break of day, in presence of the Queen Dowager ; when, after a fierce contest, the enemy were expelled from their stronghold, and .compelled to rjurrender at discretion, with the loss of their leader, and above 300 slain.' The island continued from that time to be held by a French garrison, on behalf of the Queen Dowager, until her death in 1560, and the remains of their fortifications are still visible there. But the Scottish nation were not long in experiencing the usual evils consequent on the employment of foreign troops. We have already, in an earlier part of the work,' given an illustration of the popular eatminxationo f such allies, and the gratitude of the common people on the present occasion does not seem to have been in any degree more sincere. Heartburnings and animosities had already been manifested during the campaign, and they at last broke out into open and fatal tumult in the capital. Maitland, p. 486. Bishop Lealie, p. 228. 8 Diurnal of OccurrentR, p. 48. * Chap. ii. p. 12. ......

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194 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. LXXX. REV. GREVILLE EWING. AS the subject of this sketch is still alive, and engaged in public service, propriety forbids our entering into the minuter details of his personal history, He is a native of Edinburgh, where he was born in 1767. Being originally designed for a secular profession, he was, at the usual age, bound apprentice to an engraver. A strong desire, however, to be engaged in the work of the ministry induced him, at the close of his apprenticeship, to relinquish his intended profession and devote himself to study. He accordingly entered the University of Edinburgh, where he passed through the usual curriculum of preparatory discipline ; and, in the year 1792, he was licensed to preach in connection with the National Church by the Presbytery of Hamilton. A few months after this he was ordained, as colleague with Dr. Jones, to the office of minister of Lady Glenorchy’s Chapel, Edinburgh. A deep interest in the cause of missions seems, at an early period of Mr. Ewing’s ministry, to have occupied his mind. At that time such enterprises were to a great degree novelties in this country; and even, by many who wished them well, great doubts were entertained of their ultimate success. By his exertions and writings he contributed much to excite a strong feeling in regard to them in Edinburgh ; nor did he content himself with this, but, fired with a spirit of true disinterested zeal, he determined to devote himself to the work of preaching the gospel to the heathen. For this purpose he united with a party of friends, like-minded with himself, who had formed a plan of going out to India and settling themselves there as teachers of Christianity to the native population. The individuals principally engaged in this undertaking besides Alr. Ewing, were the Rev. David Bogue, D.D., of Gosport; the Rev. William Innes, then one of the ministers of Stirling, now of Edinburgh; and Robert Haldane, Esq. of Airthrey, near Stirling,-by the latter of whom the expenses of the mission were to be defrayed. With the exception of Dr. Bogue, all these gentlemen still survive. The peremptory refusal of the East India Company, after repeated applications and memorials on the subject, to permit their going out, caused the ultimate abandonment of this scheme. Mr. Ewing, however, and his associates, feeling themselves pledged to the missionary cause, and seeing no opening for going abroad, began to exert themselves for the promotion of religion at home. A periodical, under the title of The Missionary Magazine, was started in Edinburgh, of which Mr. Ewing undertook the editorship, the duties of which office he discharged in the most efficient manner for the first three years . ......

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THE PALACE BURNED AND REPAIRED. 73 ~ gesse !?? Then the castle fired a salute, while silver was scattered to the multitude. Three years afterwards the king and court had departed, and Holyrood was consigned to silence and gloom. On James VI. re-visiting Scotland in 1617, the palace was fitted up for him with considerable splendour, but his project of putting up statues of the apostles in the chapel caused great excitement in the city. Taylor, the Water-poet, who was at Holyrood in the following year, states that he ~~ the gardens known as Queen Mary?s sundial, although the cyphers of Charles, his queen, and eldest son appear upon it. Cromwell quartered a body of his infantry in the palace, and by accident they set it on fire, on the 13th November, 1650, when it wzs destroyed, all save the Tower of James V., with its furniture and decorations. Of this palace a drawing by Gordon of Rothiemay has been preserved, which shows the main entrance to have been where we find it HOLYROOD PALACE AKD ABBEY CHURCH, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST. saw this legend over the royal arms at the gate : CC4Nobis hec invicta misanf 106 proovi.? I inquired what the English of it was. It was told me as followeth, which I thought worthy to be recorded : -6 106 foreJ&%ws h i e I& this to ux unconpumed..? ? When Charles I. visited Edinburgh, in 1633, the magistrates employed the famous Jameson to paint portraits of the Scottish monarchs, and, imitative of his master Rubens, he wore his hat when Charles I. sat to him ; but it is probable that after the latter?s last visit, in 1641, the palace must have become somewhat dilapidated, otherwise Cromwell would have taken up his residence there. The improvements effected by Charles were considerable, and among other memorials of his residence still remaining, is the beautiful dial in 68 now. Round embattled towers flank it, with bow windows in them, and above the grand gate are the royal arms of Scotland. On either side is a large range of buildings having great windows ; and the now empty panels in the Tower of James V. appear to have been filled in with armorial bearings, doubtless destroyed by Cromwell. In his map of 1657 the same artist shows a louyingdn-stone in the centre of the palace yard. The palace was rebuilt to a certain extent, by order of Cromwell, in 1658, but the whole of his work, at the Restoration, was pulled down by royal warrant two years after, as the work ? built by the usurper, and doth darken the court? Engrafted on the part that survived the conflagration, and designed, it is said, after the noble ......

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NOTES TO VOL- I. BY PROFESSOR DANIEL WILSON, AUTEOR OF ‘MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH IN THE OLDEN TIME,E’T C. ETC. Page 7, JAMIDEU FF. Strictly speaking, Widow Duffs lodging was in the College Wynd ; though, as it was at the foot of the wynd, its windows niay have looked into the Cowgate. Scott, whose birthplace was in the same wynd, has introduced Jamie Duff in “ Guy Mannering,” in attendance on the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Bertram of Singleside, to the family burial-place in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard. Page 18, ARNOT’RSE SIDENCE. Mr. Arnot, according to information communicated to me, resided for a time on the south side of the Canongate, immediately below St. Mary’sn Wynd. From thence he removed to the New Town, where he occupied a floor in South St. Andrew Street-the probable scene of the above occurrence. Page 20, LORD MONBODDO. An allusion will be found in Lord Cockburn’s dlemm‘als of his Time to the suppers of Lord Moiiboddo as the most Attic of his day. Burns enjoyed them while in Edinbur, qh, and was greatly charmed by the beauty of his daughter Eliza, of whom he makes special note in his “ Address to Edinburgh,” “ Thy daughters bright thy walks adorn,” etc. See the poem, and also Burns’s letter to Chalmers, in which he says-“ Fair Bis the heavenly Miss Burnet, daughter to Lord Monboddo, at whose house I have had the honour to be more than once,” etc. etc. See also the poet’s “ Elegy” on her premature death from consumption, Page 22, LORD GARDENSTONE. In The Court of Session Garland, by James Baswell, notices of this and others of the Judges will be found. It is reprinted by Robed Chambers in his Traditions, with notes of his own. Page 30, Dr. WEBSTER Dr. Webster was one of the rare exceptions to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s antipathy to a Scotsman. Brown’s Court, Castle Hill, where he entertained the lexicographer, bore in his day the name of Webster’s Close.-Vide Dr. Johnson’s letters to him, relative to his “Journey to the Western Islands.” Page 37, MARIONVILLE. Marionville is, or was, a handsome old-fashioned house near Restalrig, which originally bore the popular name of “Lappet Ha’,” owing to its having been built by a fashionable milliner of Auld Reekie with the proceeds of her professional services among the grandees of the old closes and wynds. Page 54, Dr. BLACJL Dr. Black’s earlier residence was in the College Wynd, not far from the house in which Sir Walter Scott was born, and in the immediate vicinity of the College. ......

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24 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. horsis under the Castle wall, in the barrace,” the Scottish knight’s horse having failed him in the first onset, they encountered on foot, continuing the contest for a full hour, till the Dutchman being struck to the ground, the King cast his hat over the Castle wall a8 a signal to stay the combat, while the heralds and trumpeters proclaimed Sir Patrick the victor. A royal experiment, of a more subtle nature, may be worth recording, as a sample of the manners of the age. The King caused a dumb woman to be transported to the neighbouring island of Inchkeith, and there being properly lodged and provisioned, two infants were entrusted to her care, in order to discover by the language they should adopt, what was the original human tongue. The result seems to have been very satisfactory, as, after allowing them a suficient time, it was found that ‘‘ they spak very guid Ebrew I ” But it is not alone by knightly feats of arms, and the rude chivalry of the Middle Ages, that the court of James IV. is distinguished. The Scottish capital, during his reign, was the residence of men high in every department of learning and the arts. Gawin Douglas, afterwards Bishop of Dunkeld, the wellknown author of “ The Palice of Honour,” and the translator of Virgil’s Bneid into Scottish verse, was at this time Provost of St Giles’s,’ and dedicated his poem to the “ Maist gracious Prince ouir Souerain Jamea the Feird, Supreme honour renoun of cheualrie.” Dunbar, “ the greatest poet that Scotland has produced,” ’ was in close and familiar attendance on the court, and with him Kennedy, “ his kindly foe,” and Sir John Ross, and “ Gentill Roull of Corstorphine,” as well as others afterwards enumerated by Dunbar, in his “ Lament for the Makaris.” Many characteristic and very graphic allusions to the manners of the age have been preserved in the poems that still exist, by them affording a curious insight into the Scottish city and capital of the James’s. Indeed, the local and temporary allusions that occur in their most serious pieces, are often quaint and amusing, in the highest degree, as in Kennedy’s “ Passioun of Grist :”- “ In the Tolbuth then Pilot enterit in, Callit on Chrid, and sperit gif He wea King I ” Keith’a Bishops, 8v0, 1824;~. 468. ’ Ellis’ Specimens, Svo, 1845, vol. i. p. 304. VIGNETTE-North-e118t pillar, St Qiles’s choir. ......

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4-40 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. An’ then there ’s the Major, sin’ less winna ser’ him, His servitude haulds o’er the crook 0’ the Bow, Wi’ his tittie, sin’ better folk wunna gang near him, Come thundering at midnight in glamour a’low ; The Deil for their coachman ; a whup wi’ some smeddum, AE needs maun wha drive wi’ auld Clooty to lead ’em. Hurrying doun, &c. Or belyve, for a change, just as twal’ is a bangin’, Whir, out frae the pend, in a whirlwind 0‘ flame, Ilk cloot, wi’ a low frae the causey it ’8 clangin’, The headless hell-charger gangs galloping hams ; Ill luck to the loon says gude e’en as he ’8 gangin’, He were better gae doun the Wast Bow to his hangin’. Hurrying doun, Cc. . An’ dinna forget, 0’ the auld gousty alley, At his bidin’ on errands a shopin’ wad sally, Yet ne’er a m wagged his tongue ‘gainst the Major’s queer vally As he chanced on him daunderin’ doun the auld alley. The Major’s black caddie, his stick 0’ a’ sticks, Wad chap at the counter an’ play aff its tricks ; Hurrying doun, &c. An’ then there’s Jock Porteous’s gaist took an airin’, Ance a year, at the fit 0’ the Bow dieappearin’, Deil ane, gaist or gomrell, wad think 0’ repairin’, To the new.fangled Bow for to tak him an airin’. Wi’ his gun o’er his shouther just primed for a shot, Whar the dyster’a pole ser’ed for the raxin’ he got. Hurrying doun, &c. Fuul fa’ the Commissioners wi’ their improvements, May the Major, when neist bent on ane 0’ his movements,- Whisk his coach doun the Bow, just for ilk anes behovements, Wi’ a team 0’ Commissioners 0’ the Improvementa. Their biggins, an’ howkins, an’ sweepins awa ; ’Tis the warst-waled retour that I wus may befa’,- Hurrying doun, stoiterin’ an’ stumblin’, The gleger ye gang better luck against tumblin’ ! XI. OLD BANK CLOSE. ASSASSINATION OF‘SIR GEORGE LOCKHART BY CHIESLEY OF DALRY, THE following is the circumstantial narrative of this savage act of vengeance, furnished in Father Hay’s Manuscript Memoirs (Advocate’s Library, tome iii p. 135) :- “ It was not known that the villain waa com’d fiom London till Sunday the 31st, which day he came to the New Church, and offered money to the bedler for a part of my Lord Castlehih seat, just behind the Presidents, whom @ designed to have murdered theri ; but not getthg the seat, he would have none at all, and ......

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178 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CCXXXII. REV. JOHN WALKER, D.D., PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. JOHNWA LKERD, octor of Divinity, was born in the Canongate of Edinburgh. His father-Rector of the grammar school there-was an excellent classical scholar, and is said to have bestowed such attention to the education of his son, that when ten years of age he could read Homer with considerable fluency. At a proper age he entered the University, where he studied with merited approbation, and was in due course of time licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Edinburgh. Dr. Walker’s first presentation was to the parish of Glencorse, about seven miles to the south of Edinburgh, and whic4 includes part of the Pentland Hills within its range. Here an excellent opportunity presented itself to the young clergyman for improvement in his favourite study of botany-a scienceit0 which he had been early attached, and in which he had already made considerable progress, as well as in other branches of natural history. In this sequestered and romantic district Dr. Walker passed some of the pleasantest years of his life. Those hours which he could spare from his pastoral duties were generally spent in exploring the green hills of the Pentlands, and in making additions to his botanical specimens. This pleasing pursuit could of course only be prosecuted during the spring and summer months, but the winter was not without its amusements. The talents and acquirements of Dr. Walker were not allowed to remain unnoticed by the more distinguished of his neighbours and parishioners. Among these were, Twilliam Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee, well known for his historical researches, particularly into that portion of Scottish history which relates to Mary Queen of Scots ; James Philp, Esq., of Greenlaw, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty ; and Sir James Clerk, Bart., of Penicuik-a gentleman whose skill and taste in the fine arts was undisputed j and whose collections of paintings and memorials of antiquity have rendered the mansion-house of Penicuik a place of great interest to the cur ion^.^ By these gentlemen the company and conversation of Dr. Walker was greatly estimated : and a constant intercourse existed between them. In 1764, the General Assembly, in prosecution of a benevolent design Among other remains at Penicuik is the buff coat worn by the Viscount Dundee at the battle of Killiecrankie : the hole through which the fatal bullet passed is underneath the arm-pit. Sir George Clerk, late M.P. for Edinburghshire, vas the son of the late Sir James. ......

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tion, such as David Laing, Robert Chambers, and Cosmo Innes. In his ? Diary? Scott writes of him as ?a very remarkable man. He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore. His drawings are the most fanciful and droll imaginable -a mixture between Hogarth and some of those foreign masters who painted ?Temptations of St. Anthony ? and such grotesque subjects, My idea is that Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with his oddities, tastes, satire, and high aristocratic feelings, resembles Horace Walpole.? THE EXCISE OFFICE, DRUMMOND PLACE portraits, some on the walls, but many more on the floor. A small room leading out of this one was the place where Mr. Sharpe gave audiences. Its diminutive space was stuffed full of old curiosities, cases with family bijouterie, &c. One petty object was strongly indicative of character, a calling card of Lady Charlotte Campbell, the once adored beauty, stuck into the frame of a picture. He must have kept it, at that time, about thirty years.? This lady, one of the celebrated Edinburgh beauties, was the second daughter of John, Duke of The resemblance in their abodes was more strictly true. The house of Sharpe, No. 28 Drummond Place, was one of the sights of Edinburgh to the select few who found admittance there, with its antique furniture, tapestries, paintings, and carvings -its exquisite enamels, weapons, armour, bronzes, bijouterie, ivories, old china, old books, and cabinets- the mighty collection of a long life, and the sale of which, at his death, occupied six long days at the auction rooms in South Hanever Street. Robert Chambers deseribes a visit he paid him in Princes Street. ?? His servant conducted me to the first floor, and showed me into what is called amongst us the back drawing-room, which I found carpeted with green cloth and full of old family (From a Drawing Sy She&%?, #&shed in 1829.) Argyle, who died in 1806, and the visit referred to took place about 1824. To Mr. Sharpe Sir Walter owed many of the most graphic incidents which gave such inimitable life to the productions of his pen ; and a writer in the Gentleman?s Magazine justly remarked that ?his collection of antiquities is among the richest which any private gentleman has ever accumulated in the north. In Scottish literature he will be always remembered as the editor of ?Law?s Memorials? and of ? Kkkton?s History of the Kirk of Scotland.? His taste in music was no less cultivated than peculiar, and the ~ curious variety of singular and obsolete musical instruments which enriched his collection, showed how well t b ~ ......

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300 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. eminent occupants of Queensberry House are Charles, the third Duke, who was born there in 1698, and his celebrated Duchess, Lady Catherine Hyde, the patroness of the poet Gay, and the beauty of the court of George I., whose sprightliness and wit have been commemorated in the numbers of Pope, Swift, and Prior ; and whom Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, celebrated in her old age as- Prior's Kitty, ever fair ! The eccentric beauty espoused the cause of Gay with such warmth, that on the Lord Chamberlain refusing to 'sanction the representatiod of PO&, a piece intended as a continuation of the Beggar's Opera, she received the poet into her house as her private secretary, and both she and the Duke withdrew in high dudgeon from court. Gay accompanied his fair patroness to Edinburgh, and resided some time at Queensberry House. !ilk hl!..? L. h . /;2-': His intercourse with the author of "the Gentle Shepherd," has already been referred to, as well as his frequent visits to the poet's shop at the cross.' We furnish a view of another .and much humbler haunt of the i poet during his residence in Edinburgh. It is a small lath and plaster edifice of 1 considerable antiquity, which still stands directly opposite Queensberry House, and is said to have been a much frequented tavern in Gay's time, kept by an hospitable old dame, called Janet Hall; and, if tradition is to be believed, Jenny Ha's changehouse was a frequent scene of the poet's relaxations with the congenial wits of the Scottish capital.'' The huge dimensions of Queensberry House are best estimated from the fact of its having been subsequently converted into barracks and an hospital. The latest purpose to which this once magnificent ducal residence has been applied, as a House of Refuge for the Destitute," seems to complete its descent in the scale of degradation. Little idea, however, can now be formed, from the vast and unadorned proportions which the ungaiuly edifice presents both externally and internally, of its appearance while occupied by its original owners. "he wings were surmounted with neat ogee roofs. The centre had a French roof, with storm windows, in the style of the Palace of Versailles, and the chimney stalks were sufficiently ornamental to add to the general effect of the building, so that the whole appearance of the mansion, though plain, was perfectly in keeping with the residence of a nobleman and the representative of majedy. The internal decorations were of the most costly description, including very richly carved marble chimney pieces. On the house being dismantled, many of these were purchased by the Earl of Wemyss, for completing his new mansion IIl,ii~~~,,,~_~--i,- l ,~y<I~z~- I~. J' / . L ~ ~ - - - !\i,llAl' ~c l<-. $ &+I /--L \ i "&A J,, ;I -=- ' The whole building was then a story lower than it is at present. . Ante, p. 199. a Traditions, vol. i p. 291. ......

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86 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. tongue desired his presence, which he obeyed by entering the Church. After sermon, a more lively representation was prepared for him ; Bacchus appeared on the Cross distributing his wine freely to all; the streets through which he passed were strewed with flowers, and hung with tapestry and painted histories ; and the whole fanciful pageant wound up with a very characteristic astrological display, exhibiting the conjunction of the planets, in their degrees and places, as at his Majesty’s happy nativity, vividly represented by the assistance of King Ptolomd ! ” The King then passed on to his Palace of Holyrood, attended by two hundred horsemen, and the Parliament assembled immediately after in the Tolbooth, and contiuued its delibemtions there for some weeks. The influence of Morton had been rapidly lessening with the King, while the number and power of his enemies increased. Towards the close of 1580, he was arraigned to stand his trial for the murder of Darnley ; and he was executed the following year by an instrument called the Naiden, a species of guillotine which he had himself introduced into Scotland. His head was placed on the Tolbooth, and his body ignominiously buried at the Borough Muir-the usual place of sepulture for the vilest criminals. Considering the high hand with which the civic rulers of the capital contrived to carry nearly every point during the reign of Queen Mary, it is astonishing how speedily James VI. brought them into subjection. ,He interfered constantly in their elections, though only with partial success, and used their purse with a condescending freedom that must often have proved very irritating. They were required to maintain a bodyguard for’ him at their own expense ; and whenever it suited his Majesty’s convenience, were commanded to furnish costly entertainments to foreign nobles and ambassadors.2 In October 1589, the King suddenly sailed from Leith to bring home his Queen, Anne of Denmark, leaving orders of a sufficiently minute and exacting nature for their honourable reception on his return. One of the first articles requires, that the town of Edinburgh, the Canongate, and Leith, shall be in arms, ranked on both sides of the way between Leith and Holyrood House, to hold off the press; and the Council are directed to deal earnestly with the town of Edinburgh for providing ships and all other necessaries. Various acts of the Town Council show the straits they were put to in the accomplishment of this. “ The Baillies were ordained to pass through their quarters, and borrow fra the honest nychtbouris thairof, ane quantitie of the best sort of thair naiperie, to serve the strayngeris that sal1 arryve with the Quene.” Orders were given for Hist. of James the Sext., p. 178-180. &itland, p. 37, * Haitland, p. 44, 5. YIONETTE-The Maiden. ......

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6 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. Dederyk, Alderman of Edinburgh, with the whole community of the town, swore fealty to the usurper. Immediately after the final triumph of the Bruce, few occurrences of importance, in connection with Edinburgh, are recorded ; though here, on the 8th March 1327, his Parliament held its sittings in the Abbey of Holyrood,' and here also his sixteenth and last Parliament assembled in March 1328. From the glimpses we are able to obtain from time to time, it may be inferred that it still occupied a very secondary station among the towns of Scotland; and while the Cast,le was always an object of importance with every rival power, its situation was much too accessible from the English border to be permanently chosen as the royal reaidence. In the interregnum, for example, after the death of Margaret, the Maid of Norway, we find, in 1304, when a general Parliament was summoned by Edward to be held at Perth, for the settlement of Scotland, sheriffs are appointed for each of twenty-one burghs named, while Edinburgh is grouped with Haddington and Linlithgow, under '' Ive de Adeburgh ; " and the recapture of the Castle, on two successive occasions, by Edward, obtains but a passing notice, amid the stirring interest of the campaigns d Bruce. Towards the close of 1312, when the persevering valour of Bruce, and the imbecility of Edward II., had combined to free nearly every stronghold of Scotland from English garrisons, we find the Castle of Edinburgh held for the English by Piers Leland, a Gascon knight; but when Randolph, the nephew of the Bruce, laid it under strict blockade, the garrison, suspecting his fidelity, thrust him into a dungeon, and prepared, under a newly chosen commander, to hold out to the last. Matters were in this state, when a romantic incident restored this important fortress to the Scottish arms. William Frank, a soldier, who had previously formed one of the Scottish garrison, volunteered to guide the besiegers by a steep and intricate path up the cliff, by which he had been accustomed in former years to escape during the night from military durance, to enjoy the society of a fair maiden of the neighbouring city, of whom he was enamoured. Frequent use had made him familiar with the perilous ascent ; and, under his guida,nce, Randolph, with thirty men, scaled the Castle walls at midnight; and after a determined resistance, the garrison was overpowered. Leland, the imprisoned governor, entered the Scottish service on his release, and, according to Barbour, was created by the King Viscount of Edinburgh ; but afterwards, headds, he thought that he had an English heart, and made him to be Aangit and dramen.' Acta of Parliament of Scotland, vol. i. fol. Hailes' Annals, vol. i. p. 285. Ibid., vol. ii. p. 38. VIGNETTE-Ancient atone from Edinburgh Castle, now in the Antiquarian Museum. ......

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92 MEMORIALS .OF EDINBURGH. of St Giles as its Cathedral. The new service-book, which had been expressly prepared for the use of the Scottish Church, was, after considerable delay, produced in the public services of the day, on Sunday, 23d July 1637. In St Giles’s Church, the Dean ascended the reading-desk, arrayed in his surplice, and opened the service-book. The church was crowded on this memorable occasion, with the Lord Chancellor, the Lords of the Privy Council, the Judges and Bishops, as well as a vast multitude of the people.’ No sooner did the Dean commence the unwonted service, than the utmost confusion and uproar prevailed. The service being at a pause, the Bishop, from his seat in the gallery, called to him to proceed to the Collect of the day. “ De’il colic the wame 0’ thee I ” exclaimed Jenny Geddes, as the Dean was preparing -- to proceed with the novel formulas; and, hurling the cutty stool, on which she sat, at his head, ‘( Out,” cried she, “thou false thief I dost thou say mass at my Jug?” Dr Lindsay, the Bishop of Edinburgh, now attempted to quell the tumult; he ascended the pulpit, and reminded the people of the sanctity of the place ; but this only increased their violence. The Archbishop of St Andrews and the Lord Chancellor interfered with as little effect; and when the Magistrates at length succeeded, by flattery and threats, in clearing the church of the most violent of the audience, they renewed their attack from the outside, and assaulted the church with sticks and stones, shouting meanwhile, Pape, Pape, Antichrist, pull Aim down! The Bishop was assaulted by them on his leaving the church ; and, with great difficulty, succeeded in reaching his house in the High Street. The access to the first floor was, according to the old fashion, still common in that locality, by an outside stair. As he was endeavouring to ascend this, one of the rabble seized his gown, and nearly pulled him backward to the street. An old song is believed to have been written in allusion to this affray, of which only one verse, referring to this scene, has been preserved :- The consequences of his efforts are well known. --------- Put the gown upon the bishop, That’s his miller‘sdue 0’ haveship; Jenny Geddes was the gossip, Put the gown upon the bishop. The poor Bishop at length reached the top of the stair; but there, when he flattered himself he was secure of immediate shelter, he found, to his inconceivable vexation, that the outer door was locked; and he had again to turn round and try, by his eloquence, to mollify the wrath of his unrelenting assailants. Often did he exclaim, in answer to their reproaches, that (( he had not the wyte of it,” but all in vain ;-he was hustled down again to the street, and was only finally rescued, when in danger of his life, by the Earl of 1 Maitland, p. 71. ’ D. Laing, spud Carlyle’s Cromwell, vol. i. p. 137. VIGNETTE-Jenny Qeddea’s Stool. ......

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76 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. those of the Queen, and communicating with them by a private staircase. Darnley himself first ascended the stair, and, throwing back the tapestry that concealed the doorway, entered the small closet, still pointed out in the north-west turret, where the Queen and her guests were seated at supper. He threw his arm round her waist, and seated himself beside her at the table; when Lord Ruthven, a man of tall stature, clad in complete armour, and pale and ghastly from the effects of disease, burst like a frightful apparition into the room. The Queen, now far advanced in pre,pancy, sprung up in terror, and commanded him instantly to depart ; hut the torchea of hia accomplices already glared in the outer chamber, and Darnley, though he affected ignorance of the whole proceedings, sat scowling with looks of hate on their intended victim. The other conspirators crowded into the little room; and Ruthven, drawing his dagger, attempted to lay hold of Rizzio, who sprang behind the Queen, and wildly besought her to save his life, Ker of Fawdonside, one of the conspirators, held his pistol to the Queen’s breast, threatening her life if she gave any alarm. Darnley at length interfered, and grasped her in his arms; and George Douglas, snatching Darnley’s own dagger from him, struck at the wretched Italian over the Queen’s shoulder, and plunging it in his side, left it there. He was then dragged through the adjoining chamber to the outer entrance, where the Earl of Morton and his associates rushed in andstruck their daggers into his body, leaving a pool of blood, the marks of which, according to popular tradition, still remain on the floor, and are pointed out by the keepers to the credulous visitor. I The Queen was kept a close prisoner in her apartment, while her imbecile husband assumed the regal power, dissolved the Parliament, and commanded the Estates immediately to depart from Edinburgh on paiq of treason. The Earl of Morton, who had kept guard, with one hundred and sixty followers, in the outer court of the Palace while the assassins entered to complete their murderous purpose, was now commanded to keep the gates of the Palace, and let none escape ; but the chief actors in the deed contrived to elude the guards, and, leaping over a window on the north side of the Palace, they fled across the garden, and escaped by a small outhouse or lodge, still existing, and known by the name of Queen Mary’s Bath. We have been told by the proprietor of this house, that in making some repairs on the roof, which required the removal of the slates, a rusty dagger was discovered sticking in one of the . planks, and with a portion of. it more deeply corroded than the rest, as- though from the VIGHETTE--&Ueell Marq’d Bath. ......

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8 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. supply of water. From thence they sallied out from time to time, as occasions offered, and not only harassed the enemy in the neighbouring capital, but extended their inroads even as far as into Northumberland.’ In 1341, the Castle was recovered from the English by an ingenious stratagem, planned by William Bullock, who had previously held the castle of Coupar for Baliol. Under his directions, one Walter Curry of Dundee received into his ship two hundred Scots, under the command of William de Douglas, Frazer, and Joachim of Kinbak, and casting anchor in Leith Roads, he presented himself to the governor of the Castle, as master of an English vessel, just arrived with a valuable cargo of wines and provisions on board, which he offered to dispose of for the use of the garrison. “he bait took; and the pretended trader appeared at the Castle, according to appointment, early on the following morning, attended by a dozen armed followers, disguised as sailors. Upon entering the Castle, they contrived to overturn their casks and hampers, so as to obstruct the closing of the gates, and instantly slew the porter and guard. At an appointed signal, Douglas and his men sprung from their concealment in the immediate neighbourhood, and, after a fierce conflict, overpowered the garrison, and took possession of the Castle, in the name of David 11. In the following month the young King, with his consort, Johanna, landed from France, and, within a short time, the English were expelled from Scotland. When, a few years afterwards, the disastrous raid of Durham terminat,ed in the defeat of the Scottish army, and the captivity of the King, we find, in the treaty for his ransom, the merchants and burgesses of Edinburgh, along with those of Aberdeen, Perth, and Dundee, are held bound for themselves, and all the other merchants of Scotland, for its fulfilment. And, ultimately, a Parliament was held at Edinburgh, in 1357, for final adjustment of the terms of the royal ransom, where the Regent Robert, the steward of Scotland (afterwards King Robert II.), presided ; at which, in addition to the clergy and nobles, there were delegates present from seventeen burghs, among which Edinburgh appears for the first time placed at the head. After David 11. returned from England, he resided during his latter days in the Castle, to which he made extensive additions, enlarging the fortifications so recently rebuilt; and adding in particular an extensive building, afterwards known by the name of David’s Tower,” which stood for 200 years, till battered to pieces in the regency of James VI. ; and here he died on the 22d February . 1370, in the forty-second year of his age, and was buried in the church of the Abbey of Holyrood, before the high altar. He was a brave and gifted prince, who in happier times might 1 Caledonia, vol. ii. p. 290. VIQNETTdThe Castle, from a map engraved in 1575, showing King David’s Tower. ......

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188 EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. manners ; and one or two others are supposed to glide around the door of the Guard-House, assigned to them at the Luckenbooths, when their ancient refuge in the High Street was laid low. But the faith of manuscripts bequeathed to friends and executors is so uncertain, that the narrative containing these frail memorials of the Old Town Guard of Edinburgh, who, with their grim and valiant corporal, John Dhu (the fiercest looking fellow I ever saw), were in my boyhood, the alternate terror and derision of the petulant brood of the High School, may perhaps only come to light when all memory of the institution has faded away, and then serve as an illustration of Kay’s Cakztures, who has preserved the features of some of their heroes.” Towards the close of last century several reductions had taken place in the number of the Guard; and, in 1805, when the New Police Bill for Edinburgh came into operation, the corps was entirely broken up. At the same time, however, partly from reluctance to do away all at once with so venerable a municipal force, and by way of employing, instead of pensioning off, some of the old hands, a new corps, consisting of two sergeants, two corporals, two drummers, and thirty privates, was formed from the wreck of the former. Of this new City Guard, as it was called, the subject of our sketch, Mr. James Burnet-the senior Captain-was appointed to the command, and was the last who held the situation. CAPTAINB URNETw as a native of East-Lothian. He was one of the Captains of the Guard who had not previously been in the army ; and if we except his experience as a member of the First Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers, may be supposed to have been a novice in military matters. Previous to his appointment, he kept a grocer’s shop at the head of the Fleshmarket Close. The personal appearance of Mr. Burnet is well delineated in the Portrait. He was a man of great bulk ; and when in his best days, weighed upwards of nineteen stone. He was, nevertheless, a person of considerable activity, and of much spirit, as will appear from the following instance. Along with one or two gentlemen, he was one summer day cooling himself with a meridian draught in a well-known tavern, when the late Mr. James Laing, Deputy City Clerk, who was one of the party, took a bet with the Captain that he would not walk to the top of Arthur’s Seat, from the base of the hill, within a quarter of an hour, Mr. Eurnet at once agreed to the wager ; and Mr. Smellie, who happened to be the lightest and most active of the company, was appointed to proceed with the pedestrian in the capacity of umpire. The task, it must be admitted by all who know anything of the locality, was an amazing one for a person of nineteen stone on a hot summer day! The Captain courageously set about his arduous undertaking, steering his way by St. Anthony’s Well, up the ravine. But to describe his progress, as he literally melted and broiled under the rays of the pitiless sun, would require the graphic pen of a Pindar. Never did “ fodgel wight or rosy priest ” perform such a penance. When he reached the most difficult part of his jonrney, the Captain looked as if about to give up ......

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372 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. ‘approach to our cc Modern Athens” from the neighbouring coast. When, some two or three centuries hence, the New Town shall have ripened into fruit for some twenty-second century Improvements Commission, their first scheme will probably lead to the restoration of Gabriel’s Road, and its counterpart from Charlotte Square to Pitt Street, marking the saltier of Scotland’s patron saint on the antiquated parallelograms of James Craig I The village of Silvermills, the remains of which lie concealed behind St Stephen’s Church and the modern streets that surround it, may not improbably owe its origin to some of the alchemical projects of James IT. or V., both of whom were greatly addicted to the royal sport of hunting for the precious metals, with which the soil of Scotland was then believed to abound. Sir Archibald Napier, the father of the philosopher, was appointed Master of the Mint and superintendent of the mines and minerals within the kingdom; and we are assured, on the authority of an ancient manuscript in the Cotton Library, that The Laird of Merchiston got gold in Pentland Hills.”‘ The village of Silvermills consists almost entirely of a colony of tanners, but one or two of its houses present the crow-stepped gables of the aeventeenth century; and though now enclosed within the extended town, we. can remember many a Saturday’s ramble through green fields that ended at this rural Aamlet. Another and more important village, which has experienced the same fate as that of Silvermills, is the ancient baronial burgh of Broughton. Its name occurs in the charter of foundation of Holyrood Abbey, granted by David I. in 1128, and implies, according to Marnitlandt,h e Castle town. If it ever possessed B fortalice or keep, from whence its name was derived, all vestiges of it had disappeared centuries before its fields were invaded by the extending capital. The Tolbooth, however, wherein the baron’s courts were held, and offenders secured to abide his judgment, or to endure its penalties, stood within these few years near the centre of the old village, bearing over its north door the date 1582. Its broad flight of steps was appropriately flanked with a venerable pair of stocks; a symbol of justice of rare occurrence in Scotland, where the joug3 were the usual and more national mode of pillory. The annexed vignette will srdice to convey some idea of this antique structure, which stood nearly in the centre of the New Town, on the ground now occupied by the east end of Barony Street, from whence it was only removed with all its paraphernalia of obsolete minners and laws in the year 1829. The curious rambler may still stumble on one or two of the humble tenements of the old village, lying concealed among the back lanes of the modern town. A few years since, its rows of tiled and thatched cottages, with their rude fore- Niaoellane Scotioa, Napier of Herohiaton, p, 228. VIOXETTE--The Tolbooth, Broughton. ......

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278 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. wes almaist at the port, and the said men of weare standand in clois heids in readines to haue enterit at the bak of the samyne, movit Thomas Barrie to pass furth of the port, doun to the Cannogait, to have sene his awne hous, quhair in his said passage he persavit the saidis ambushmentis of men of weare, and with celeritie retiirnit and warnit the watchemen and keiparis of the said port; quhilk causit thame to steik the samin quicklie, and sua this devyse and interpryse tuke na prosperous effect.”l The citizens took warning from this, and built another gate within the outer port to secure them against any such surprise. There is something amusingly simple both in the ambuscade of the besiegers, and its discovery by the honest burgher while taking his quiet morning’s stroll beyond the walls. But the whole incidents of the siege display an almost total ignorance of the science of war, or of the use of the engines they had at command. The besiegers gallop up Leith Wynd and down St Mary’s Wynd, on their way to Dalkeith, seemingly unmolested by the burgher watch, who overlooked them from the walls ; or they valorously drag their artillery up the Canongate, and after venturing a few shots at the Nether Bow they drag them back, regarding it as a feat of no little merit to get them safely home again. Many houses still remain scattered about the main street and the lanes of the Canongate which withstood these vicissitudes of the Douglas wars; and one which has been described to us by its owner as of old styled the Parliament House, may possibly be that of William Oikis, wherein the Regent Lennox, with the Earls of Morton, Mar, Glencairn, Crawford, Menteith, and Buchan; the Lords Ruthven and Lindsay and others assembled, and after pronouncing the doom of forefaulture against William Maitland, . younger of Lethington, and the chief of their opponents, adjourned the Parliament to meet again at Stirling, This house,’ which was situated on the west side of the Old Flesh Market Close, presented externally as mean and uninviting an appearance as might well be conceived. An inspection of its interior, however, furnished unquestionable evidence both of its former magnificence and its early date. The house before its entire demolition was in the most wretched state of decay, and was one of the very last buildings in Edinburgh that a superficial observer would have singled out for any assemblage except a parliament of jolly beggars; but on penetrating to an inner lobby of its gloomy interior, a large and curiously carved niche was discovered, of the. same character as those described in t8he Guise Palace. The workmanship of it, as will be seen in the accompanying view, though in a style ap_ _p arently somewhat later, is much more elaborate than any of those previously noticed, except the largest one on the east side of Diurn. of Occurrents, pp. 239, 240. The house, with several of the adjoining closes here referred to, has been taken down, at the instance of the City Impmvementa’ Commission. ......

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32 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH, of the Scottish army from the capital, though familiar to many, are too intimately associated with our local history to be omitted here. The King had already been warned against the war, by an apparition of St John, at Linlithgow; “yet this but hasted him fast to Edinburgh, to make him ready, and to make provision for himself and his army against the day appointed. That is, he had seven great cannons out of the Castle of Edinburgh, called the Seven Sisters, casten by Robert Borthwik, the master-gunner ; furnished with powder and lead to them at their pleasure; and in the meantime, they were taking out the artillery, the King himself being in the Abbey, there was a cry heard at the Market-cross of Edinburgh, about midnight, proclaiming, as it had been, a Bummons, which was called by the proclaimer thereof the summon of Plotcok,’ desiring all earls, lords, barons, gentlemen, and sundry burgesses within the town, to compear before his master within forty days ; and so many as were called, were designed by their own names. But whether this summons was proclaimed by vain persons, night walkers, for their pastime, or if it was a spirit, I cannot tell. But an indweller in the town, called Mr Richard Lawsoun, being evil disposed, ganging in his gallery-stair, foment the Cross, hearing this voice, thought marvel what it should be : So he cried for his servant to bring him his purse, and took a crown and cast it over the stair, saying, ‘ I, for my part, appeal from your summons and judgment, and take me to the mercy of God.’ Verily, he who caused me chronicle this, was a sufficient landed gentleman, who was in the town in the meantime, and was then twenty years of age ; and he swore after the field there was not a man that was calledat that time that escaped, except that one man, that appealed from their judgment.”* But neither this, nor the entreaties of his Queen, who urged that ‘(she had but one son to him, quilk was over weak ane warrand to the realme of Scotland!” could turn back the King from his rash purpose. In defiance, as it seemed, alike of earth and heaven, the gallant, but headstrong and devoted Monarch led forth the flower of Scottish chivalry to perish with him on the bloody field of Flodden. The body of the King having fallen, as is understood, into the hands of the victors, he was believed by many to have gone on his intended pilgrimage to the Holy Land; and popular tradition continued long after to regard him as another King Arthur, or Sebastian, who was yet to return in the hour of danger, and right the nation’s wrongs. We shall close this chapter with a curious, and we believe unique fragment of a ballad, embodying this tradition, with other more local and apposite allusions. An about the mids 0’ the night. He crap to the field 0’ the bluid ; Laigh he bowit an dour he lookit, Eut never a worde he spak.’ He turned the dead knight round about, Till the moon shon on his bree ; But hia Both wm tined wit a bluidy gash, Drumbelee grew his ee. 1 Pluto. Pitscottie, vol. i. p. 266. Probably should be “said” ......

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I54 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. mnnicathg with some curious and intricate machinery within.”’ This interesting relic was obtained from a relative of the discoverer by Robert-Chambers, Esq., the author of the ‘‘ Traditions of Edinburgh,” by whom it was presented to Sir Walter Scott. It was empty at the time of its discovery, but is supposed to have been used for holding the smaller and more valuable furnishings of the altar. It is now in the collection at Abbotsford, and has all the appearance of great antiquity. Portions of another curious relic, found near the same spot, and presented by the late E. A. Drummond Hay, Esq., to the Society of Antiquaries, are thus described in the list of donations for 1829 :-‘‘ An infantine head and hand, in wax, being all thatremained of a little figure of the child Jesus, discovered in May 1828, in a niche carefully walled up in the chapel of the house formerly occupied by Mary of Lorraine, in Blyth’s Close, Castle Hill.” Considerable fragments of very fine carvin-g in oak remained in the chapel till within these few years. One specimen in particular, now in the possession of C. K. Sharpe, Esq., presents a richly carved and exceedingly beautiful design of grapes and vine leaves, surmounted by finial6 ; and other portions of the same decorations have recently been adopted by the Duke of Sutherland, as models for the carved work introduced by him in the interior fittings of Dunrobin Castle. The windows of the chapel were very tall and narrow, and singularly irregular in their height; their jams were splayed externally on the one side, as is not uncommon in the narrow closes of the Old Town, to catch every ray of light, and exhibited the remains of stone mullions with which they had been originally divided. In the east wall of this building, which still stands, there is a curious staircase built in the thickness of the wall, which afforded access from the chapel to an apartment below, where there was a draw-well of fine clear water, with a raised parapet of stone surrounding it. Immediately to the north of this, on the same floor, another room existed with interesting remains-of former grandeur; the fireplace was in the same rich style of Gothic design already described, and at the left side there was a handsome Gothic niche, with a plain one immediately adjoining it. The entrance to this portion of the Palace was locked and cemented with the rust of years ; the door leading to the inner staircase was also built up, and it had remained in this deserted and desolate state during the memory of the oldest of the neighbouring inhabitants ; excepting that ‘‘ ane sturdy beggar ” lived for some time, rent free, in one of the smaller rooms, hia only mode of ingress or egress to which was by Traditions, vol i. p. 85. * The genuineness of this relic. has been oalled in question, from its reaemblance to the fragments of a large doll, but those who have viaited the Continent will readily acknowledge the groundlessnesa of such an objection. ’ ......

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148 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. occupied, the outer framework on one side being nearly cut away ; but its original position was doubtless one of importance, suited to its highly decorated character. The armorial bearings, though suggesting no relation to those of the Queen Regent, serve to prove that it had been executed for the mansion in which it was found, as the game arms, impaled on one shield, was sculptured over the uorth doorway of the building on the east side of the close, with the date 1557, already alluded to, as the oldest then existing on any house in Edinburgh,’ and the initials A. A., as represented below. The lintel had been removed from its original position to heighten the doorway, for the purpose of converting this part of the old Palace into a stable, and was built into a wall immediately adjacent ; but its mouldings completely corresponded with the sides of the doorway from which it had been taken, and the high land was rent up through the whole of its north front, owiug to its abstraction.e This portion of the Palace formed a sort of gallery, extending across the north end of the whole buildings, and internally affording communication from those in Todd’s and Nairn’s Closes, and that on the west side of Blyth‘s Cloae, with the oratory or chapel on the east side of the latter. The demolition of these buildings brought to light many interesting features of their original character. The whole had been fitted up at their erection in a remarkably elegant and highly ornate style ; the fieplaces especially were all of large dimensions, and several of very graceful and elegant proportions. One of these we have already alluded to, with its fine Gothic niche at the side; another in Todd’s Close was of a still more beautiful design, the clustered pillars were further adorned with roses filling the interstices, and this also had a very rich Gothic niche at its side, entirely differing in form from the last, and indeed from all the others that we have examined, in the apparent remains of a stoup or hollowed basin, the front of 1 It is not necessarily inferred from this that no older house exists. The walla of Holyrood admitted of being roofed again after the burning in 1544, and it is not unlikely that some of the oldest houses still remaining passed through the same fiery ordeaL This stone, which is in good preservation, is now in the interesting collection of antiquities of A. 0. Ellis, Esq. W e have failed to trace from the shield any clue to the original owner or builder of this part of the Palace ; but the data now furnished may perhaps enable others to be more successful. Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird, who WBB appointed one of the Senatora of the College of Justice in 1547, and as Ambassador to France in 1551, had a great share in persuading the Duke of Chatelherault to resign the regency to Mary of Guise,-bore for arms an eagle displayed, aeure ; but his wife’s arms,-a daughter of Outhrie of Lunan,-do not correspond with those impaled with them, and the initials are also irreconcilable, The same objediom hold good in the cue of his son, a faithful adherent of Queen Mary. ......

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CONTENTS. - -- CHAPTER I THE KIRK OF ST. MARY-IN-THE-FIELDS. YhCD Memorabilia of the Edifice-Its Age-Altars-Made Collegiate-The Prebendal Buildings-Ruined-The House of the KW-of Field-The Murder of Darnley-Robert Balfour, the Last Pmvost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . I CHAPTER 11. T H E UNIVERSITY. A n ~ l s of the Old Co:lege-Chartem of Queen Mary and James VI.-OM College described-The lirst Regems-King Jdmes?s Letter of 1617-Quarrel with Town Council-Students? IZlot in 1 6 b T h e Principal Dismissed-Abolished Offices-Dissection for the first time-Quarrel with the Town Council-The Museum-The Greek Chair-System of Education introduced by Principal Rollock-The Early Mode of Education-A Change in r7jo-The Old Hours of Attendance-The Silver Mace-The Projects of 1763 and 1789 for a New College-The Foundation laid-Completion of the New College-Its Corporatiop after ~8~&-Pnnapal.-Chairs, and First Holders thereof-Afew Notable Bequests-Income-The Library-The Museums . . . , . . . . . . . 8 CHAPTEK 111. THE DISTRICT OF THE BURGHMUIR. The Muster by James 111.-Eurghmuir feued by James 1V.-Muster before Flodden-Relics thereof-The Pest--The Skirmish of Lowsie Low-A Duel in 17zz-Valleyfreld House and Lmen Lodge-Barclay Free Church-Bruntsfield Links and the Golf Clubs . . . 27 CHAPTER IV. DISTRICT OF THE BURGHMUIR (concZrr&d). Morningside and Tipperlin-Provost Coulter?s Funeral-Asylum for the Insane-Sultana of the Crimea4ld Thorn Tree-The Braids of that Ilk-The FairleF of Braid-The Plew Lands-Craiglockhart Hall and House-The Kincaib and other Proprieto-John Hill Burton- The Old Tower-Meggatland and Redhan-White House Loan-The White House-St. Margaret?s Convent-Bruntsfield House-The Warrenders-Greenhill and the Fairholm-Memorials of the Chapel of SL Roque-St. Giles?s Grange-The Dicks and Lauders- Grange Cemetery-Memorial Churches , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3: CHAPTER V. THE DISTRICT OF NEWINGTON. The Causewayside-Summerhall-Clerk Street Chapel and other Churches-Literary Institute-Mayfield Loan-Old Houses-Fre Church- The Powbnrn-Fernde Blind Asylum-Chapel of St. John the Baptist-Dominican Convent at the Sciennes-Scienns Hill House-Scott and Burns meet-New Trades Maiden Hospital-Hospital for Incurables-Pratonfield House--The Hamiltons and Dick-Cunninghams --Cemetery at Echo Bnnk-lhe Lands of Gmemn-Craigmillar-Dption of the Castle- James V., Queen Mary, and Damlev. wraentthere-QueenMary?sTree--ThePrestonsandGilmours-PeBerMillHo~~. ......

Book 6  p. 393
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98 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. block of stone, for the purpose of erecting a colossal statue of his Highness in the Parliament Square. The block had just been landed on the shore of Leith, when the news arrived of Cromwell’s death. Monk altered his policy, and the magistrates not only found it convenient to forget their first intention, but with politic pliability, some years after, they erected the fine equestrian statue of Charles II., which still adorns that locality. The rejected block lay neglected on the sands at Leith, though all along known by the title of Oliver Cromwell, till, in November 1788, Mr Walter ROSSt,h e well-known antiquary, had it removed, with no little difficulty, to the rising ground where Ann Street now stands, nearly opposite St Bernard’s Well. The block was about eight feet high, intended apparently for the upper half of the f i p e . The workmen of the quarry had prepared it for the chisel of the statuary, by giving it, with the hammer, the shape of a monstrous mummy, and there stood the Protector, like a giant in his shroud, frowning upon the city; until after the death of Mr Ross, his curious collection of antiquities was scattered, and the ground feued for building.‘ General Monk, commander-in-chief of the army in Scotland, having resolved, after the death of Cromwell, to accomplish the restoration of Charles II., proceeded to arrange matters previous to his march for London. He summoned a meeting of commissioners of the counties and boroughs to assemble at Edinburgh on the 15th of November 1659; and after having communicated his instructions to them, and ,received a special address of thanks from the magistrates of Edinburgh for his many services rendered to the city during his residence in Scotland, he returned to England to put his purpose in force. On the 11th of May, in the following year, the magistrates sent the town-clerk to the King, at Breda, to express their joy at the prospect of his restoration. The messenger paved the way to the royal favour by the humble presentation of ‘‘a poor myte of 31000, which the King did graciously accept, as though it had been a greater business I ” The ‘‘ happy restoration ” was celebrated in Edinburgh with the customary civic rejoicings, bonfires, banquets, ringing of bells, and firing of cannon ; though some difficulty was experienced in reconciling the soldiers to the unwonted task of firing the Castle guns on such an occasion of national rejoicing.a There was much wine spent on the occasion, ‘ I the spoutes of the Croce ryning and venting out abundance of wyne, and the Magistrates and Council of the town drinking the King’s health, and breaking numbers of glasses I ” Caledonian Mercury, Nov. 10, 1788. The block was afterwards replaced at the end of Ann Street, overhanging the bed of the Water of Leith, and, either by accident or designedly, waa shortly afterwards precipitated down the steep bank, and broken in pieces. a Nicol‘s Diary, p. 283. I ......

Book 10  p. 107
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