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THE HIGH STREET. 245
house,’’ to which Arnot adds the more definite though scanty information, At the head
of Bell’s ’Wynd there were an hospital and chapel, known by the name of Maison Dieu.’”
Like most other religious establishments and church property, it passed into the hands
of laymen at the Reformation by an arbitrary grant of the crown, so that the original
charters of foundation no longer remain as the evidences of its modern claimants. It is
styled, however, in the earliest titles extant, “ the old land formerly of George, Bishop
of Dunkeld ; ” EO that its foundation may be referred with every probability to the
reign of James V., when George Crighton, who occupied that see from the year 1527
to 1543, founded the hospital of St Thomas near the Watergate, about two years before
his death, and endowed it for the maintenance of certain chaplains and bedemen, (‘ to
celebrate the founder’s anniversary o6it, by solemnly singing in the choir of Holyrood
Church, on the day of his death yearly, the PZaceJo and Dirige, for the repose of his
soul,” &c.~ There can be little doubt, moreover, that the old land, which was only
demolished in the year 1789, was the same mansion of Lord Home, to which Queen
Mary retreated with Darnley, on her return to Edinburgh in 1566, while she was haunted
with the horrible recollections of the recent murder of her favourite, Rizzio, and her mind
revolted from the idea of returning to the palace, the scene of hia assassination, whose
blood-stained floors still called for justice and revenge against the murderers. ‘( Vpoun
the xviij day of the said moneth of Ifarch,” says the contemporary annalist,’ 6‘oup
soueranis lord and ladie, accumpanij t with tua thowsand horssmen come to Edinburgh,
and lugeit not in thair palice of Halyrudhous, bot lugeit in my lord Home’s lugeing, callit
the auld bischope of Dunkell his lugeing, anent the salt trone in Edinburgh; and the
lordis being with thame for the tyme, wes lugeit round about thame within the said burgh.”
Lord Home, who thus entertained Queen Mary and Darnlep as his guests, was, at that
date, so zealous an adherent of the Queen, that Randolph wrote to Cecil from Edinburgh
soon after that he would be created Earl of March ; and although at the battle of Langside
he appeared against her, he afterwards returned to his fidelity, and retained it with
such integrity till his death as involved him in a conviction of treason by her enemies.
In the following reign this ancient tenement became the property of George Heriot, and
the ground rents are still annually payable to the treasurer of the hospital which he
founded.
The portion of. the High Street still marked as the site of this ancient building, is
closely associated with other equally memorable incidents in the life of Queen Mary; for
almost immediately adjoining it, on the east side, formerly stood the famous Black Turnpike
already alluded to,‘ as the town house of Sir Simon Preston, Provost of Edinburgh
in 1567, to which the unhappy Queen was led by her captors, amid the hootings and
execrations of an excited rabble, on the evening of her surrender at Carbery Hill. This
ancient building was one of the most stately and sumptuous edifices of the Old TO,WR It
was lofty and of great extent, and the tradition of Queen Mary’s residence in it had never
been lost sight of. A small apartment, with a window to the High Street, was pointed out
1 Yaitland, p. 189. Arnot, p. 246.
Maitland, p. 154. Keith furnishes this character of the bishop, “A man nobly disposed, very hospitable, and s
magnificent housekeeper ; but in matters of religion not much skilled.” ’ Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. 94. Keith, vol.-ii p. 292. ‘ Ante, p. 79.

... HIGH STREET. 245 house,’’ to which Arnot adds the more definite though scanty information, At the head of ...

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60 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
the new Vegetable Market, The flat roof, on a level with Princes Street, is
laid out in walks, from which fine views are obtained; while on the
south side of the station, there has recently been erected the retail Fish
Market, which was opened on the 4th of November 1876, the same day as
the West Princes Street Gardens were handed over to the public. Of the
many closes that run into the High Street from Cockburn Street, we
prefer approaching it by Anchor Close, rich in historical associations.
Here resided the mother of Drummond of Hawthornden ; here Bums revised
his earlier proofs in Smellie’s printing-office, which stood on the site now
occupied by the southern section of the 3otswian office;-strange that in
recent times, men of great genius and of kindred spirit with Burns should
TWEEDDALE COURT.
write their leaders there I Passing into the High Street through what may be
called the entrance to Smellie’s printing-office, and ‘pursuing our way westward,
the first opening on the right is Craig’s CIose, notable as containing the
printing and publishing house of Creech,-a portion of the building still
remains and is shown in the Engraving. Glancing at those relics of the past,
the mind naturally turns to the more remarkabIe of the present printing and

... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. the new Vegetable Market, The flat roof, on a level with Princes Street, is laid ...

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JAMES ZV. TO THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN. 23
Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and uuder the influence of the leaders at the Field of Stirling,
enacted, in his name, many harsh and unjust laws, directed against the adherents of the late
King, involving suspension or deprivation to all officers of state, and handing over (‘ all
churchmen taken in armour, to their ordinaries, to be punished according to law.” The first
occurrence that tended to rescue the King from implicit confidence in his father’s enemies,
was the splendid victory obtained by Sir Andrew Wood, over a fleet sent by Henry VII.
of England, to execute reprisals on the murderers of the late King. They had committed
great ravages on the Scottish shipping, and completely blockaded the mouth of the Forth ;
when Sir Andrew Railed against them, and with an inferior force, completely defeated, and
brought the whole armament, consisting of five large ships, into Leith. Shortly after this,
the King concluded a truce with England, and on the 15th day of February 1490, his second
Parliament met at Edinburgh, and again another in the following year, both of which
enacted many salutary laws ; and, at the same time, Andrew Foreman, Protonotary of Pope
Alexander VL, arrived at the Scottish Court with consolatory letters to the King, whose
grief at the share he had taken in the fatal rebellion against his father still manifested itself
in severe penances and mortifications. He was also the bearer of a bull, addressed to the
abbots of Paisley and Jedburgh,’ empowering them to absolve and readmit into the church
all such as had been accessory to the death of King James 111. of famous memory, on
their expressing sincere repentance for the same.* And now the King, drawing towards
manhood, the ominous clouds that had threatened the commencement of his reign disappeared,
and a long and prosperous calm succeeding his early troubles, left him free to
give the rein to his chivalrous tastes, and extend his royal patronage to the many eminent
men that adorned the Scott,ish Court.
During this reign, Edinburgh became celebrated throughout Europe, as the scene of
knightly feats of arms. tournaments are of great antiquity
; they were held. in Edinburgh in the reign of milliam the Lion, and in those of
many of the succeeding Princes. The valley or low ground lying between the wester road
to Leith, and the rock at Lochend, was bestowed by James 11. on the community of Edinburgh,
for the special purpose of holding tournaments and other martial sports.” Here,
most probably, the weaponshaws which were of such constant recurrence at a later period, ‘
as well as such martial parades as were summoned by civic authority, were held, unless in
cases of actual preparation for war, when the Borough Muir seems to have been invariably
the appointed place of rendezvous. The favourite scene of royal tournaments, however,
was a spot of ground near the King’s Stables, just below the Castle wall. Here James
IT., in particular, often assembled his lords and barons, by proclamation, for jousting;
offering such meeds of honour as a spear headed with gold, and the like favours, presented
to the victor by the King’s own hand; so that ‘‘ the fame of hisjusting and turney spread
throw all Europe, quhilk caused many errand knyghtis cum out of vther pairtes to Scotland
to seik justing, becaus they hard of the kinglie fame of the Prince of Scotland. Bot few
or none of thame passed away vnmached, and oftymes overthromne.” ‘
One notable encounter is specially recorded, which took place between Sir John Cockbewis,
a Dutch knight, and Sir Patrick Hamilton. “ Being assembled togidder on great
In this country,” says Arnot,
Hawthornden, p. 68
Arnot, p. i l .
’ Martial Achievements, voL ii. p. 497. ’ Piboottie, vol. E. p. 246.

... ZV. TO THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN. 23 Tolbooth of Edinburgh, and uuder the influence of the leaders at the Field ...

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EIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 3i5
He had just sat down to dinner, when feeling himself unwell, he rose hurriedly,
and had only time to get the length of another room, where he expired.‘
The figure to the left, displaying a sum of money in a bag,’and exclaiming,
“ Cabbage, Willie-mair cabbage,” is intended for the then City Chamberlain,
MR. THOMAS HENDERSON. He was formerly a Russia merchantthat
is, a dealer in coarse linens and yarns-and had his shop on the south side
of the High Street. He first appeared in the Council in 1796; and, after
having filled’ the various civic offices of Bailie, Dean of Guild, and Treasurer,
was appointed City Chamberlain, on the death of Dr. Thomas Hay, in 1810.
Thereafter, in accordance with a resolution of the Council, he gave up his business
as a Russia merchant, devoting his whole attention to the duties of his office,
His salary as Chamberlain was then augmented from 2600 to 2800.
Mr. Henderson died on the 22d December 1822, in the sixty-second year
of his age, much regretted by all who knew him.
The figure behind the sippost, tendering advice to the Laird to “ Keep the
halter tight fear she turn,” will easily be recognised by many of our Edinburgh
readers as the well-known city officer, ARCHIE CAMPBELL, of whom a
portrait and memoir has yet to be given.
No. CCXCVI.
JOHN STEELE.
THE sturdy beggar, of whom this is a likeness at the advanced age of one
hundred and nine years, resided, as intimated on the Print, in the parish of
Little Dunkeld, Perthshire. He was a man of uncommon strength, and was
usually designated Steele Dhu, or Black Steele. He lived in a manner at free
quarters-helping himself without scruple to whatever he required-few of his
neighbours daring to come into angry collision with him. He was originally,
we believe, a sort of blacksmith or tinker, and used to frequent fairs and
markets, vending fire-irons and other articles of his own manufacture.
His children, like himself, were remarkable for their strength. He had two
daughters, each of whom, it is said, could cany a load of turf from the hill
sufficient for the back of a horse.
It may be mentioned that, while holding the office of Chief Magistrate, Mr. Mackenzie had the
honour of entertaining at dinner, at his house in Gayfield Square, tkst the Russian Prince, Michael,
and on a subsequent occasion, Prince Leopold ; both of these distinguished persouages having visited
this country during the years 1818-19.
Mr. Mackenzie had a sister married to the present Mr. Balliigall, who, it is believed, has been
factor on the Balbirnie estate upwards of seventy years.

... SKETCHES. 3i5 He had just sat down to dinner, when feeling himself unwell, he rose hurriedly, and ...

Book 9 p. 500
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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 413
tradition of its dedication to St Anthony; but the silver stream, celebrated in the plaintive
old song, “ 0 waly, waly up yon bank,” still wells clearly forth at the foot of the rock,
ming the little bason of St Anthony’s Well, and rippling pleasantly through the long
grass into the lower valley.’
The Chapel and Hermitage of St Anthony, though deserted and roofless for centuries,
appear to have remained nearly entire, with the exception of the upper portion of the tower,
till about the middle of the last century. Arnot, writing about the year 1779, remarks:-
“ The cell of the Hermitage yet remains. It is sixteen feet long, twelve broad, and eight
high. The rock rises within two feet of the stone arch, which forms its roof; and at the
foot of the rock flows a pure stream, celebrated in an old Scottish ballad.” All that now
remains of the cell is a small recess, with a stone ledge constructed partly in the natural
rock, which appears to have been the cupboard for storing the simple refreshments of the
hermit of St Anthony. The Chapel is described by the same writer as having been 8
beautiful Gothic building, well suited to the rugged sublimity of the rock. “It was fortythree
feet long, eighteen feet broad, and eighteen high. At its west end there was a tower
of nineteen feet square, and it is supposed, before its fall, about forty feet high. The
doors, windows, and roof, were Gothic; but it has been greatly dilapidated within the
author’s remembrance.”’ The tower is represented in the view of 1544 as finished with
a plain gabled roof; and the building otherwise corresponds to this description. The
wanton destruction of this picturesque and intefesting ruin proceeded within our own
recollection ; but its further decay has at length been retarded for a time by some slight
repairs, which were unfortunately delayed till a mere fragment of the ancient hermitage
remained. The plain corbels and a small fragment of the groined roof still stand ; and
an elegant sculptured stoup for holy water, which formerly projected from the north wall,
was preserved among the collection of antiquities of the late firm of Messrs Eagle and
Henderson. It is described by Maitland as occupying a small arched niche, and
opposite to it was another of larger dimensions, which was strongly fortified for keeping
the Pix with the consecrated bread;’ but no vestige of the latter now remains, or of m y
portion of the south wall in which it stood.
Towards the close of the fourteenth century, St Mary’s Church at Leith appears to
have been erected; but notwithstanding its large size-what remains being only a small
portion of the original edifice-no evidence remains to show by whom it was founded.
The earliest notice we have found of it is in 1490, when a contribution of an annual rent
is made ‘‘by Peter Falconer, in Leith, to a chaplain in St Piter’s Alter, situat in the
Virgin Mary Kirk in Leith.”3 Similar grants are conferred on the chaplains of St
Bartholomew’s and St Barbarie’s Altars, the latest of which is dated 8th July 1499-
the same year in which the Record of the Benefactors of the neighbouring preceptory is
brought to a close.’
Maitland and Chalmers,6 as well as all succeeding writers, agree in assigning the
destruction of the choir and transepts of St Mary’s Church to the English invaders under
1 Arnot, p. 256. Inventar of Pioua Donations, YS. Ad. Lib.
4 One charter of a later date is recorded in the Inventar of Pious Donations, by “ Jo. Logane of Kestalrig, mortifyf
Maitland, p. 497. Cdedonia, vol. ii. p. 786.
Maitland, p. 152.
ing in St Anthooy’a Chapel in Leith, hi tenement, lying on the south side of the Bridge,” dated 10th Feb. 1505,

... ANTIQUITIES. 413 tradition of its dedication to St Anthony; but the silver stream, celebrated in ...

Book 10 p. 453
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46 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
third flat, No. 8 Cowgatehead, the windows looking up Candlemaker Row.
The house is marked by the figure at the window.
LORD BROUGHAY’S BIRTHPLACE.
We ought to have painted the view of Edinburgh from Blackford Hill and
from the Braid HiIls, but in the first place we were never fortunate enough to
stand on either, and secondly, Scott has in his Marmion described the
former; and what can be added to what Burns said when he stood with
Dugald Stewart on the other?--that the view of so many smoking cottages
gave him the intenser pleasure, that he knew from experience what worth
and intelligence such cottages contained.
It is with a certain feeling of regret that we come now to bid farewell to
a theme for description which presented at once such attractions and such
difficulties, and from a city which always awakens in us many and conflicting
memories, the prevailing and- permanent impression, however, being that of
pride and exulting enthusiasm as we think of the unequalled features of its
scenery, and of the lofty aims, powerful genius, and varied accompIishments
of many of its sons. To be connected by the very slightest tie with such a
Metropolis ought for a Scotchman, though neither a native of its walls nor an

... EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT. third flat, No. 8 Cowgatehead, the windows looking up Candlemaker Row. The house ...

Book 11 p. 72
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Rase Street.] HUG0 ARNOT. ?59
announced that Bailie Creech, of literary celebrity,
was about to lead Miss Burns of Rose Street ?? to
the hymeneal altar.? In hiswrath, Creech threatened
an action against the editor, whose contradiction
made matters worse :-? In a former number we
noticed the intended marriage between Bailie
Creech of Edinburgh and the beautiful Miss Bums
of the same place. We have now the authority of
that gentleman to say that the proposed marriage
is not to take place, matters having been otherwise
arranged, to the mutual satisfaction of both parties
and their respective friends.? After a few years of
unenviable notoriety, says the editor of *? Kay,?
Miss Burns fell into a decline, and died in 1792 at
Roslin, where a stone in the churchyard records
her name and the date of her demise.
In the same year of this squabble we find a
ball advertised in connection with the now unfashionable
locality of Rose Street, thus :-? Mr.
Sealey (teacher of dancing) begs to acquaint his
friends and the public that his ball is iixed for the
20th of March next, and that in order to accommodate
his scholars in the New Town, he proposes
opening a school in Rose Street, Young?s Land,
opposite to the Physicians? Hall, the 24th of that
month, where he intends to teach on Tuesdays
and Fridays from nine in the morning, and the
remainder of the week at his school in Foulis?s
Close, as formerly.? In 1796 we find among
its residents Sir Samuel Egerton Leigh, Knight, of
South Carolina, whose lady ? was safely delivered
of a son on Wednesday morning (16th March) at
her lodgings in Rose Street.?
Sir Samuel was the second son of Sir Egerton
high, His Majesty?s AttorneyGenerd for South
Carolina, and he died at Edinburgh in the ensuing
January. He had a sister, married to the youngest
brother of Sir Thomas Burnet of Leya
This son, born at Edinburgh in 1796, succeeded
in ISIS to the baronetcy, on the death of his uncle,
Sir Egerton, who married Theodosia (relict of
Captain John Donellan), daughter of Sir Edward,
and sister of Sir Theodosius Edward Boughton,
for the murder of whom by poison the captain was
executed at Warwick in 1781,
It was in Dr. John Brown?s Chapel in Rose
Street, that Robert Pollok, the well-known author
of ?The Course of Time,? who was a licentiate of
the United Secession Church, preached his only
sermon, and soon after ordination he was attacked
by that pulmonary disease of which he died in
1827.
In 1810 No. 82 was ?Mrs. Bruce?s fashionable
boarding-school,? and many persons of the greatest
respectability occupied the common stairs, particularly
to the westward ; and in Thistle Street were
many residents of very good position.
Thus No. z was the house, in 1784, of Sir
John Gordon, Bart. ; and Sir Alexander Don, Bart.,
of Newton Don, lived in No. 4, when Lady Don
Dowager resided in No. 53, George Street (he had
been one of the d h u s in France who were seized
when passing through it during the short peace of
1802), and a Mrs. Colonel Ross occupied No. 17,
Under the name of Hill Street this thoroughfare
is continued westward, between Fredenck Street
and Castle Street, all the houses being ?selfcontained.?
The Right Hon. Charles Hope of
Granton, Lord Justice Clerk, had his chambers in
No. 6 (now writers? offices) in ~808 ; Buchanan of
Auchintorlie lived in No. I I, and Clark of Comrie
in No. 9, now also legal offices. In one of the houses
here resided, and was married in 1822, as mentioned
in Bkrckwoad?s Magazine for that year, Charles
Edward Stuart, styled latterly Count d?Albany
(whose son, the Carlist colonel, married a daughter
of the Earl of Errol), and who, with his brother, John
Sobieski Stuarf attracted much attention in the city
and Scotland generally, between that period and
1847, and of whom various accounts have been
given. They gave themselves out as the grandsons
of Charles Edward Stuart, but were said to be
the sons of a Captain Thomas Allan, R.N., and
grandsons of Admiral John Carter Allan, who died
in 1800.
Seven broad and handsome streets, running south
and north, intersect the great parallelogram of the
New Town. It was at the corner of one of those
streets-but which we are not told-that Robert
Burns first saw, in 1787, Mrs. Graham, so celebrated
for her wonderful beauty, and whose husband
commanded in the Castle of Stirling.
From the summit of the ridge, where each of
these streets cross George Street, are commanded
superb views : on one side the old town, and on
the other the northern New Town, and away to the
hills of Fife and Kinross.
According to ? Peter Williamson?s Directory,?
Hugo Arnot, the historian, had taken up his abode
in the Meuse Lane of South St. Andrew Street
in 1784. His own name was Pollock, but he
changed it to Arnot on succeeding to the estate of
Balcormo, in Fifeshire. In his fifteenth year hC
became afflicted with asthma, and through life was
reduced to the attenuation of a skeleton. Admitted
an advocate in 1772, he ever took a deep interest
in all local matters, and published various essays
thereon, and his exertions in promoting the
improvements then in progress in Edinburgh were
which is now the New Town dispensary. c

... Street.] HUG0 ARNOT. ?59 announced that Bailie Creech, of literary celebrity, was about to lead Miss Burns ...

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THE CANONGA TE AND ABBEY SANCTUAR Y. 287
During the government of the Earl of Rothes as High Commissioner for Scotland, a
play called " Marciano, or the Discovery," by Sir Thomas Sydserff, was acted on the
festival of St John, before his Grace and his Court at Holyrood,' and at the Court of the ~
Duke of York, at a somewhat later period, a regular company of actors were maintained,
and the Tennis Court fitted up for their performances, in defiance of the scandal created
by such innovations.s Lord Fountainhall notes among his " Historical Observes," 3-
U 15th Novembris 1681, being the Quean of Brittain's birthday, it was keeped by our
Court at Halirudhouse with great solemnitie, such as bonfyres, shooting of canons, and the
acting of a comedy, called Mithridutes King of Pontus, before ther Royal1 Hynesses,
&c., wheirin Ladie Anne, the Duke's daughter, and the Ladies of Honor ware the onlie
actors." Not only the canonists, both Protestant and Popish-adds my Lord Fountainhall,
in indignant comment-" but the very heathen roman lawyers, declared all scenicks
and stage players infamous, and will scarce admit them to the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper "-a somewhat singular mark of disapprobation from heathen lawyers I The
Revolution again banished the drama from Scotland, and we hear no more of it' till the
year 1714, when the play of Macbeth was performed at the Tennis Court, in presence of
a number of the Scottish nobility and gentry assembled in Edinburgh for a grand archery
meeting. Party politics ran high at the time, some of the company present called for the
favourite song, May the King enjoy his ain again," ' while others as stoutly opposed it,
and the entertainments wound up in a regular mdlke, anticipatory of the rebellion which
speedily followed.
But
the scene of his successful patronage of the drama appears to have been first chosen by
Signora Violante, an Italian dancer and tumbler, who afterwards took the legitimate
drama under her protection and management. This virago, as Arnot styles her,5
returned to Edinburgh, " where she fitted up that house in the foot of Carrubber's Close,
which has since been occupied as a meeting-house by successive tribes of sectaries."
Driven from this quarter, as we have seen, the players betook themselves to the Taylor's
Hall, in the Cowgate, and though mere strolling bands, they were persecuted into
popularity by their opponents, until this large hall proved insufficient for their accommodation.
A rival establishment was accordingly set "going, and in the year 1746, the
foundation-stone of the first regular theatre in Edinburgh was laid within the Play-house
Close, Canongate, by Mr John Ryan, then a London actor of considerable repute. Here
the drama had mainly to contend with the commoner impediments incidental to the
proverbial lack of prudence and thrift in the management of actors, until the year
1756, when, on the night of the 14th December, the tragedy of Douglas, the work of a
clergyman of the Kirk, was f i s t presented to an Edinburgh audience. The clergy anew
returned to the assault with redoubled zeal, and although they were no longer able to
chase the players from the stage, John Home, the author of the obnoxious tragedy,
Allan Ramsay's unfortunate theatrical speculation has already been referred to.
Campbell's Journey, vol. ii. p. 163.
Fountainhall's Hiatorical Observes, p. 51.
* Tide, vol. i. p. 103.
Tytler concludes his account of the Duke's theatrical entertainment
with the following inference, which would have done credit to s history of the Irish stage c" Private balla and
concerts of music, it would aeem, were now the only species of public entertainmente amongst us ! "-Archsol. Scot.
vol. i p. 504. ' Campbell's History of Poetry in Scotland, p. 353. Arnot, p. 366.

... CANONGA TE AND ABBEY SANCTUAR Y. 287 During the government of the Earl of Rothes as High Commissioner for ...

Book 10 p. 311
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220 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Where Scotland’s nobles sate, as if in scorn
Or vain regret, o’er the deserted pile.
For centuries its paving had been worn
By courtiers, once unmatched in crafty guile,
By many a baron bold, and lovely dame,
And scions, too, of Scotland‘s royal line ;
While, from beneath, preferred a worthier claim
Names that with stern historic scenes entwine,
And some whose memory time has failed to keep,
Oblivious of the trust. Knox slumbers there,
Mingling with border chiefa that stilly sleep ;
And churl, and burgher bold, and haughty peer,
With those a people wept for, sharing now
The common lot, unhonoured and unknown.
Strange wreck, o’er ruins in the dust below ! .
Thrice deaecrated burial-place !
Where once were held in trust the noble d d
’Neath grassy hillock and memorial urn,-
With requiem graven only by their tread,
Whose steps forgotten generations spurn.
But civic sycophants,-a courtly tool,-
Bartered stone Cromwell for a Charles of lead,-
Ignoble meed for tyranny’s misrule,
To rear above the great dishonoured dead !
Fire, time, and modern taste,-the worst of all,-
Have swept in ruthless zeal across the scene
And the lead king and shadow on the wall,
Alone survive of all that once has been.
The Btone

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. Where Scotland’s nobles sate, as if in scorn Or vain regret, o’er the deserted ...

Book 10 p. 240
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As the time of her accouchement drew near, she
was advised by the Lords of Council to remain in
the fortress and await it; and a former admirer
of Mary?s, the young Earl of Arran (captain of the
archers), whose love had turned his brain, was
sent from his prison in David?s Tower to Hamilton.
STORE WHICH FORMERLY STOOD OVER THE BARRIER-GATEWAY OF EDINBURGH CASTLE.
(From tke Original ~ G W in tht Mwccm of tht So&& of Antiquaries of Scofkrul.)
A French Queen shall beare the some
And he from the Bruce?s blood shall come
To rule all Britainne to the sea,
As near as to the ninth degree.?
According to the journalist Bannatyne, Knox?s
secretary, Mary was delivered with great ease by
On the ground floor at the south-east corner of thc
Grand Parade there still exists, unchanged anc
singularly irregular in form, the room wherein, a1
ten o?clock on the morning of the 19th of June
1566, was born James VI., in whose person thc
rival crowns of hlary and Elizabeth were to bc
united. A stone tablet over the arch of the 016
doorway, with a monogram of H and M and the
date, commemorates this event, unquestionably thc
greatest in the history of Britain. The royal arms
of Scotland figure on one of the walls, and an orna.
mental design surmounts the rude stone fireplace,
while four lines in barbarous doggerel record the
birth. The most extravagant joy pervaded the
entire city. Public thanksgiving was offered up in
St. Giles?s, and Sir James Melville started on the
spur with the news to the English court, and rode
with such speed that he reached London in four
days, and spoiled the mirth of the envious Elizabeth
for one night at least with the happy news.
And an old prophecy, alleged to be made by
CIPHER OF LORD DARNLEY AND QUEEN MARY.
(Over entrancr fo tkr RvaZ Apartments, ddidurglr Castle.)
Thomas the Rhymer, but proved by Lord Hailes
to be a forgery, was now supposed to be fulfilled-
<? However it happen for to fall,
The Lycn shall be lord of all 1
the necromantic powers of the Countess ot
John Earl of Athole, who was deemed a sorceress,
and who cast the queen?s pains upon
the Lady Reres, then in the Castle. An interesting
conversation between Mary and Darnley took
place in the little bed-room, as recorded in the
?Memoirs? of Lord Herries Daniley came at
two in the afternoon to see his royal spouse and
child. ?? My lord,? said the queen, ?God has
given us a son.? Partially uncovering the face of
the infant, she added a protest that it was his and
no other man?s son. Then turning to an English
gentlemar, present, she said, ? This is the son who,
I hope, shall first unite the two kingdoms of Scotland
and England.? Sir William Stanley said,
?Why, madam, shall he succeed before your majesty
and his father?? ?Alas !? answered Mary, ?his
father has broken to me,? alluding to the conspiracy
against Rizzio. ?? Sweet madam,? said
Darnley, ?is this the promise you made--that
you would forget and forgive all ? ?I ? I have forgiven
all,? replied the queen, ?but will never
forget. What if Faudonside?s (one of the assassins)
pistol had shot? What would have become of
both the babe and me ? ?? ? Madam,? replied
Darnley, ?these things are past.? ?Then,? said the
queen, ? let them go.? So ended this conversation.
It is a curious circumstance that the remains of
In infant in an oak coffin, wrapped in a shroud
marked with the letter I, were discovered built up
in the wall of this old palace in August, 1830,
but were re-consigned to their strange place of
jepulture by order of General Thackeray, comnanding
the Royal Engineers in Scotland.
When John Spotswood, superintendent of Lo-
:hian, and other Reformed clergymen, came to
:ongratulate Mary in the name of the General
kssembly, he begged that the young Duke of

... the time of her accouchement drew near, she was advised by the Lords of Council to remain in the fortress and ...

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248 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
impartial walls, among such strange bed-fellows as the chances of the night had offered to
its vigilant guardians. The demolition of the Cross, however, rendered the existence of
its unsightly neighbour the more offensive to all civic. reformers. Ferguson, in his
“ Mutual Complaint of the Plainstanes and Causey,” humorously represents it as one of
the most intolerable grievances of the latter, enough to I‘ fret the hardest stane ; ” and at
length, in 1785, its doom was pronounced, and its ancient garrison removed to the New
Assembly Close, then recently deserted by the directors of fashion. There, however, they
were .pursued by the enmity of their detractors. The proprietors of that fasAionabZe district
of the city were scandalised at the idea of such near neighbours as the Town-Rats, and by
means of protests, Bills of Suspension, and the like weapons of modern civic warfare,
speedily compelled the persecuted veterans to beat a retreat. They took refuge in
premises provided for them in the Tolbooth, but the destruction of their ancient stronghold
may be said to have sealed their fate ; they lingered on for a few years, maintaining
an unequal and hopeless struggle against the restless spirit of innovation that had beset
the Scottish capital, until at length, in the year 1817, their final refuge was demolished,
the last of them were put on the town’s pension list, and the truncheon of the constable
displaced the venerable firelock and Lochaber axe.
VIoaETTE-hchaber axe8 from the Antiquarian Museum.

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. impartial walls, among such strange bed-fellows as the chances of the night had ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 339
figure is invested with a voluminous quantity of petticoat, of substantial material and gaudy
colour, generally yellow with stripes, so made as to admit of a very free inspection of the ankle,
and worn in such immense numbers, that the bare mention of them would be enough to makea
fine lady faint. One-half of these ample garments is gathered np over the haunches, puffing out
the figure in an unusual and uncouth manner. White worsted stockings and stout shoes completa
the picture. Imagine these investments indued upon a masculine but handsome form, notwithstanding
the slight stoop forward, which is almost uniformly contracted-fancy the firm and elastic
step, the toes slightly inclined inwards-and the ruddy complexion resulting from hard exercise,
perhaps sometimes from dram-drinking-and you have the h w i d e a l of fish-wives.”
That “dram-drinking” does prevail among the sisterhood to a certain extent
is a fact readily admitted, even by the parties themselves ; nor need we wonder
at the circumstance, when the laborious nature of their avocation is taken into
consideration. The nearest fishing stations to Edinburgh are Newhaven and
Fisherrow : the former distant at least two miles-the latter upwards of five,
After carrying a load, varying from one hundred to two hundred-weight, of fish
from their respective stations, and probably perambulating the greater portion
of the city ere they complete their sales, no one can be surprised that they
should indulge in a dram.’ To say, however, that their potations amount to
drunkenness; or that, in its literal sense, they are given to dram-drinking,
would be a very bold assertion-the more especially if we compare their habits
with those of other females in the plebeian grades of society. They are as far
removed from the gin-swilling vixens of Billingsgate, or the dirty, squalid fishhawkers
of Dublin, as intoxication is from sobriety ; and they are not more
their superiors in robustness of figure, than in respectability and morality of
character.
One of the pleasantest walks we can imagine is a leisurely stroll, on a fine
April morning, from Edinburgh to Newhaven. The sun, though radiant and
sparkling, does not as yet oppress with excessive warmth, while around, nature
is smiling in bush and flower. At every turn you are sure to meet a knot of
fish-women, fresh as the mbrning itself, each with her ‘I creel ” and well-filled
maun ” of haddocks, or codlings, or flukes, or whitings, or skate, or lobsters,
dripping from the waters of the Firth, and glistening with a freshness well calculated
to tempt the eye of an epicure. A flush may be observed on the faces
of the women as they bend under the load, but their step is long and elastic ;
and though the journey is uphill, their athletic forms appear fully able for the
task. On reaching the brow of the rising ground above Newhaven, the scene
is truly enchanting. The broad Firth before you is calm and tranquil-to the
right of Inchkeith appear a whole fleet of fishermen, engaged it may be in dredging
In the Statistical Account of Scotland-parish of Inveresk-it is stated that “when the boats
come in late to the harbour [Fisherrow] in the forenoon, so as to leave them [the fish-women] no more
than time to reach Edinburgh before dinner, it is not unusual for them to perform their journey of
five miles by relays, three of them being employed in carrying one basket, and shifting it from one
to another every hundred yards, by which means they have been known to arrive at the Fkihmarket
in leas than three-fourth of an hour.” The writer (Dr. Carlyle) adds--”It is a well-known fact, that
three of them not many years ago [1795] went from Dunbar to Edinburgh, which ia twenty-seven
miles, with each of them a load of herrings on her back of 200 lbs., in five hours. They sometiiea
carry loade of 250 lbs.”

... SKETCHES. 339 figure is invested with a voluminous quantity of petticoat, of substantial material and ...

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260 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Sueet.
equally irritated and alarmed on hearing of this
flat refusal, and, starting from his chair exclaimed,
?Then, by the holy name of God, he shall eat
his dinner with me? and repairing instantly to the
house of Morton, brought about a reconciliation,
to Leith to beg his life as a boon at the hands of?
Lennox and her seducer. But the latter, inflamed
anew by her charms and tears, was inflexible ; the
Regent was his tool, and the prayers and tears of
the wretched wife were poured forth at their feet,
HOUSE OF THE EARLS OF MORTON, BLACKFRIARS STREET.
by making two very humbling concessions :-First,
by dismissing Drumquhasel, who was banished
from court, which he was not to approach within
teu miles under a heavy penalty ; second, the life
of Captain James Cullayne, that Morton inight
have more peaceable possession of his wife.
Mistress Cullayne, a woman of great beauty,
filled with pity by the danger impending over her
husband (then a prisoner), and touched with
Temorse for her former inconstancy, had come
in vain. The poor captain, who had seen many
a hot battle in the fields of the Dane and
Swede, and in the wars of his native country,
was ignominiously hanged on a gibbet, as a peaceoffering
to Morton?s wickedness.?
In the contemporary life of Queen Mary, printed
for the Bannatyne Club in 1834, we have the
following strange anecdote of Morton. We are
told that he ?had credite at the court, being leR
there by the traitoures to give intelligence of all

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Sueet. equally irritated and alarmed on hearing of this flat refusal, and, ...

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328 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
dington’s mansion as having been the residence of the French embassy in the reign of
Queen Mary, had assigned to this antique fabric the name of ‘‘ The French Ambassador’s
Chapel,” which we have retained in the accompanying engraving, in the absence of any
more distinctive title. An ornamental pediment, which surmounted its western wing, was
decorated with the heads of the Twelve Apostles, rudely sculptured along the outer cornice ;
and on the top a figure was seated astride, with the legs extended on either side of the
cornice. It is supposed to have been designed as a representation of our Saviour, but the
upper part of the figure had long been broken away. This pediment, as well as the sculptured
lintel of the main doorway, and other ornamental portions of the edifice, were removed
to Coat’s House, and are now built into different parts of the north wing of that old mansion.
But the sculpture which surmounted the entrance of this curious building was no less
worthy of notice than its singular pediment; for, while the one was adorned with the
sacred emblems of the Apostles and the figure of our Saviour, the other exhibited no less
mysterious and horrible a guardian than a Warwolf. It was, in truth, with its motto,
SPERAVETI h E N I - n o unmeet representative of Bunyan’s Wicket Gate, with a hideous
monster at the door, enough to frighten poor Mercy into a swoon, and nothing but Christian
charity and Apostolic graces within ; though the latter, it must be confessed, did not
include that of beauty. U I shall end here four-footed beasts,” says Nisbet, ‘‘ only mentioning
one of a monstrous form carried with us. Its body is like a wolf, having four feet
with long toes and a tail; it is headed like a man;-called in our books a warwolfpassant,-
and three stars in chief argent; which are also to be seen cut upon a stone above an old
entry of a house in the Cowgate in Edinburgh, above the foot of Libberton’s Wynd, which
belonged formerly to the name of Dickison, which name seems to be from the Dicksons by
the stars which they carry.”’ Who the owner of these rare armorial bearings was does
not now appear from the titles, but the style of ornament that prevailed on the building
renders it exceedingly probable that it formed the residence of some of the eminent ecclesiastical
dignitaries with which the Cowgate once abounded. The destruction of the venerable
alley, Libberton’s Wynd, that formed the chief thoroughfare to the High Street
from this part of the Cowgate, involved in its ruin an old tenement situated behind the
curious building described above, which possessed peculiar claims to interest as the birthplace
of Henry Mackenzie, “ The Man of Feeling.’’ It was pointed out by himself as
the place of his nativity, at a public meeting which he attended late in life. He resided
at a later period, with his own wife and family, in his father’s house, on one of the floors of
WLeZZan’s Land, a lofty tenement which forms the last in the range of houses on the north
side of the street, where it joins the Grassmarket. This building acquires peculiar interest
from the associations we now connect with another of its tenants. Towards the middle
of last century, the first floor was occupied by a respectable clergyman’s widow, Mrs Syme,
a sister of Principal Robertson, who maintained an establishment there for the accommodation
of a few boarders in this genteel and eZigi6Ze quarter of the town. At that time
Henry Brougham, Esq. of Brougham Hall, arrived in Edinburgh, and took up his quarters
under Mrs Syme’s roof. He had wandered northward to seek, in change of scene,
some alIeviation of grief consequent on the death of his betrothed mistress. It chanced,
Nisbet’s Heraldry, voL i. p. 335. The shield, however, so far differs from Nisbet’s description, that it bears a
creaccnt betwtcn tuw stara in chief.

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. dington’s mansion as having been the residence of the French embassy in the reign ...

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40 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Before his flight, Captain Macrae resided at Marionville, a villa near Edinburgh,
where he had an apartment fitted up for private theatricals,’ a species of
amusement by no means common in Scotland, and for his attachment to which
he was greatly censured.
A story is told of him while residing there, which does credit to his
generosity of disposition. One of his servants having done something in a
manner that did not please him, he struck him, whereupon the man muttered
that “he durst not strike him so, if he were one of his fellow-servants in the
hall.”--“ Oh !’I said the Captain, “ if you are for a boxing-match, I shall give
you a fair chance for it ; only you must not strike me in the face.’’
This being agreed upon, down stairs they went, and fought till the Captain
owned he had got enough, adding, “You are a bit of good stuff, sirrah; there
are five guineas for you.” The servant with great humility remarked, he would
be content to be thrashed for as much every day.
No. XIV.
CAPTAIN PAGE AND CAPTAIN VICARS.
THEY were both officers in the 7th Regiment of Foot, which was in Edinburgh
in 1786. A statuary once requested, as a great favour, to be allowed to
take a model of Captain Vicars, who was allowed to be the handsomest man
among 10,000, while the regiment lay at Gibraltar. The lady admiring his
figure, is dressed in the costume of that day.
‘‘ PRIVATET HEATRICALS.-The performance of the tragedy of the Grecian Daughter, which took
place at Marionville on Friday last (15th January 1790), wa.~ in every respect delightful. Mr. Macrae,
in the first part of Dionysius, gave infinite satisfaction. His figure, which is remarkably handsome,
and his countenance, at once manly and expressive, every way suited him for that character. He
was particularly great in the third act, when descrihing to Philotas the cares that accompany a regal
state. Sir John Wrottesley played the part of Philotas with great judgment. Eis voice waa
remarkably pleasing. Mr. Kinloch was exceedingly great as Evander, His first scene with Euphrasia
was very affecting. Bnt it is
impossible to do justice to Mrs. Macrae in the character of Euphrasia ; suffice it to say, that the part
was never better performed on any stage, either by a Siddons or a Crawfurd.
“ It is difficult to say whether her tragic or her comic powers are most excellent, as in both she
gives equal satisfaction. Her perfomnnce of Lady Racket, in Three Weeks after Ham’age, was
superior to any thing we have ever seen of the kind. Mr. Hunter, in Sir Charles Racket, was inimitable.
His manner waa easy, and perfectly that of a gentleman, and his mode of acting truly natural.
Mr. Justice, in Drngget, showed much zeal and comic humour, and gave proofs that he thoroughly
undentood the character.”-Edin6grgh Evening Courant, Thursday, 26th January 1790.
Mr. Justice supported the part of Melancthon with much propriety.

... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Before his flight, Captain Macrae resided at Marionville, a villa near Edinburgh, where ...

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INDEX
TO THE
N A31 E S I N C I D EN TAL L Y M ENT I 0 NE I)
IS
THE SECOND VOLUME.
A
ABEBCROMBIDEr,. , 452 .
Abercromby, Lord, 21, 325
Abercromby, General Sir Ralph,
38, 125, 163, 189, 349
Abercromby, bfiss Elizabeth, 38
Abercromby, Sir Robert, 38, 39
Abercromby, the Hon. James,
Speaker of the House of Commons,
390
Adam, Dr. Alexander, 19, 37
Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner,
Adams, President, 71, 194
Adie, Mr. Andrew, 403, 407
Aikmau, Rev. John, 40, 41
Aikman, Mrs., 40
Aikman, Robert, 238
Albemarle, Lord, 22
Alexander, Rev. William Lindsdy:
Alexander, Mrs., of Balloclimyle
Alison, Archibald, Esq. , 363, 465
Alison, Professor, 452
Allan, David, 96
Allan and Co., Messrs. Thomas
Alston, Dr. Charles, 415, 416
Alva, Lord, 336
Amesbury, Lord, 466
Amy, James L', Esq., 363
Anderson, Dr. Walter, 75
Anderson, Mr. William, 228
Anderson, Professor, 244
Anderson, &Ir. David, 403
Anderson, Mr. William, 403, 401
Anderson, Mr. Charles, 403, 408
295, 296, 363
A.M., 40
126
371
Pndrev v. Murdoch, 21
4ndrew, George, Esq., 35
Ingouleme, Duc d', 195, 197
Ingouleme, Duchess d', 198,
Inkerville, Lord, 383
Snne, Princess, 208
Arbuthnot, William, Esq., 240
Arcy, Lieut.-Colonel d', 306
Argyle, Duke of, 51, 235, 411,
Argyle, John Duke of, 225
Aristotle, 450
Armadale, Lord, 112, 350, 417
Arnot, Hugo, Esq., 185, 213
Arnot, Miss, 160
Artois, Count d', 197, 198, 265
A-n, H-y, 292
8-e, Sir T-s, 292
Atholl, Duke of, 101, 412
Atholl, Duchess of, 412
Audley, Lord, 295
Auchinleck, Lord, 277
Auchmuty, Sir Samuel, 275 '
Austin and M'Auslin, Messrs., 378
Austria, Emperor of, 201
Aytoun, John, Esq., 196
Aytoun, Roger, Esq., 197
Aytoun, John, Esq., 197
Aytoun, James, Esq., 197
199, 200,201
469
B
BADENOCRHe,v . Mr., 201
Baillie, Thomas, Esq., 216
Baillie, Sir William, Bart., 217
Baillie, George, Esq., 234
Baillie, Colonel, 273
Baillie, bIrs., 387
Baine, Rev. James, senior, 133
Raine, Rev. James, junior, 82
Baird, Principal, 104, 273, 311
Baird, Sir David, 163
Baird, John, Esq., 376
Balfour, Professor, 20
Balgray, Lord, 346, 407, 409
Ballantyne, Mr. John, 384
Ballingall, Mr., 375
Ballingall, Sir George, 448, 449
Balmuto, Lord, 380, 384, 386
Bamford, Mr., 115
Bannatyne, Lord, 99, 380, 384
Barber, Mr., 306
Barbanyois, Marquis de, 199
Barclay, Dr., 110
Barclay, Mr. JamesRobertson, 269
Barclay, Miss Susan, 269
Barclay, Mr., 277, 415
Barclay, John, the Berean, 418
Barrington, Sir Jonah, 169, 171
Barry, Mr., 441
Barton, Miss Elizabeth, 431
Bass, Mr. C., 31G
Baxter, bfr., 124
Beattie, Professor, 279
Beg, Abbas, 306
Begbic, William, 357, 358, 364
Belches, Mr., 19
Belhaven, Lord, 393
Bell, Mr. Nugent, 24
Bell, Mr. George, 45
Bell, Mr. John, 110
Bell, Rev. William, 114
Bell, Sir Charles, 142, 453
Bell, Mr. Hamilton, 285
Bell, Mr. Benjamin, 437
Bell, Rev. William, 464

... THE N A31 E S I N C I D EN TAL L Y M ENT I 0 NE I) IS THE SECOND VOLUME. A ABEBCROMBIDEr,. , 452 ...

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432 MEMORIALS OF EDIiVBURGI%
v. WRYCHTISHOUSIS.'
IN the description attached to a view of Wrichtishousis, in '' An elegant collection of interesting views iii
Scotland," printed by Oher & Co., Nether Bow, 1802, the western wing is described as the most ancient part of
the edifice, while the eastern wing is affirmed to have been built in the reign of King Robed III., and the centre
range connecting the two in that of James VI. There was probably, however, no other authorit7 for this than
the dates and armorial bearings, the whole of which we conceive to be the work of the latter monarch's reign.
Arnot furnishes the very laconic account of it, that it is said to have been built for the reception of a mistress
of King James 1V. That it was built for such a purpose cannot admit of any credit ; but it is possible that that
gay and gallant monarch may have entertained special favour for some of the fair scions of the old Napier
stock.
Allusion is made in a foot-note, on page 351, to '' The History of the Partition of the Lennox ; " we find,
however, that the author had not only pointed out the shields of the Merchiston and mTrychtishousis Napiers on
the old tomb at St Giles's, in his Memoirs of Napiers of Merchiston, but we believe he was the first to detect
that the bearings on one of these shields waa the Wrychtishouais arms, and not those of Scott of Thirlestane, as
they had previously been presumed to be ; these tTo families having been united in the person of Francis fifth
Lord Napier, son of the Baroness Napier and Sir William Scott, Bart., of Thirlestane. These arms, placed
above the tablet marking the tomb of the Napier family, on the north wall of the choir of St Giles's Church,
were removed, in the recent alterations, from the interior of the church, where they formerly stood above an
altar-tomb, underneath the same window, on the outside of which the tablet was placed. There is no reason
for believing them to be of the same date. The style of ornament round the border of the tablet can hardly be

... MEMORIALS OF EDIiVBURGI% v. WRYCHTISHOUSIS.' IN the description attached to a view of Wrichtishousis, in ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 27
they succeeded in obtaining from him no less a sum, it is said, than one hundred
pounds sterling.
The Doctor was a regular attendant at church, and always contributed to the
plate. That his charity on such occasions might be duly appreciated by those
who were in attendance, instead of throwing in his halfpence in the usual careless
way, he piled them up into one solid massive column of copper, and gently
placing the pillar down, left it, a conspicuous monument of his benevolence.
One act of public spirit, however, does mark the Doctor’s-life, and if his motive
in performing it, as was uncharitably reported at the time, was vanity, one cannot
help being struck with the ingenuity which directed him on the occasion.
He presented the governors of the Orphan Hospital with a bell! His fame
was thus literally sounded throughout the city ; yet, lest any should have been
ignorant of the gift, he took care when in company, on hearing it ring, to advert
to its fine tone, and thus lead the way to a narrative of his generosity.
The other figure in the Print represents Laird Robertson holding up one of
his sticks ; the nndermost figure represents Principal Robertson ; the one on
tlie top the eccentric Dr. James Graham, no great favourite of Dr. Glen’s.
Eeing once troubled with sore eyes, after in vain trying the prescriptions of
several physicians, he applied to Dr. Graham, who cured him in a very short
time, for which he expressed great gratitude. Wishing to make him some
remuneration, he consulted some of the young members of the Faculty ; and,
as the most genteel way of doing what he wished, they recommended him to
invite the Doctor and a few of his own friends to dinner in Fortune’s (the most
fashionable tavern at that time), and provide himself with a hltndsome purse,
containing thirty guineas or so, and offer it to the Doctor, which they assured
him he would not accept. They accordingly met, and after a few bottles of
wine had been drunk, the old Doctor called Dr, Graham to the window, and
offered him the purse, which he at once accepted, and, with a very low bow,
thanked him kindly for it. The Doctor was so chagrined that he soon left the
company, who continued till a pretty early hour enjoying themselves at his
expense.
The father of Dr. Glen was a native of the west of Scotland, and had three
sons, all of whom were prosperous in the world. One of these gentlemen was
appointed governor of one of the 7Qest India Islands, where he amassed
a large fortune, of which he left $30,000 to his niece, the daughter of the
third brother, who ultimately succeeded to the reversion of the Doctor’s
property. This amiable lady was subsequently married to the late Earl of
Dalhousie, father to the present noble Earl.
Dr. Glen enjoyed, by purchase, an annuity from the city of Edinburgh, of
which he lived so long to reap the benefit, that the magistrates gave up all hopes
of his ever dying at all, and began to consider him as one of the perpetual
burdens of the city. He, however, died in 1786.

... SKETCHES. 27 they succeeded in obtaining from him no less a sum, it is said, than one hundred pounds ...

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166 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Andrew squan. I
CHAPTER XXII.
ST. ANDREW SQUARE.
St Andrew Square-List of Early Residents-Count Bomwlaski-Miss Gordon or Cluny-Scottish Widows? Fund-Dr. A. K. Johnston-
Scottish Provident Institution-House in which Lord Brougham was Born-Scottish Equitable Society-Chancrir of Amisfield-Douglas?s
Hotel-Sir Philip Ainslic-British Linen Company-National Bank-Royal Bank-The Melvillc and Hopctoun Monuments-Ambrosc?r
Tavern.
BEFORE its conversion iiito a place for public
offices, St. Andrew Square was the residence of
many families of the first rank and position. It
measures 510 feet by 520. Arnot speaks of it as
?the finest square we ever saw. Its dimensions,
indeed, are, small when compared with those in
London, but the houses are much of a size. They
are of a uniform height, and are all built of freestone?
The entire square, though most of the original
houses still exist, has undergone such changes that,
says Chambers, . ? the time is not far distant when
the whole of this district will meet with a fate
similar to that which we have to record respecting
the Cowgate and Canongate, and when the idea of
noblemen inhabiting St. Andrew Square will seem,
to modem conceptions, as strange as that of their
living in the,Mint Close.?
The following is a list of the first denizens of
the square, between its completion in 1778 and
1784.:-
I. Major-General Stewart.
2. The Earl of Aboyne. He died here in his sixty-eighth
year, in 1794. He was the eldest son of John, third Earl of
Aboyne, by Grace, daughter of Lockhart of Carnwath,
afterwards Countess of Murray.
3. Lord Ankerville (David Ross).
5. John, Viscount Arbuthnott, who died 1791.
6. Dr. Colin Drummond.
7. David Hume, afterwards Lord Dreghorn.
8. John Campbell of Errol. (The Earls of Em1 have
ceased since the middle of the seventeenth century to possess
any property in the part from whence they took their
ancient title.)
11. Mrs Campbell of Balmore.
13. Robert Boswell, W.S.
15. Mrs. Cullen of Parkhead.
16. Mrs. Scott of Horslie Hill.
18. Alexander Menzies, Clerk of Session.
19. Lady Betty Cunningham.
20. Mrs Boswell of Auchinleck
Boswell,? R. Chambers, 1824).
22. Jams Farquhar Gordon, Esq.
23. Mrs. Smith of Methven.
24 Sir John Whiteford. (25 in ? Williamson?s Directory.?)
25. William Fergusson pf Raith.
26. Gilbert Meason, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. Hunter.
27. Alexander Boswell, Esq.(aftemards Lord Auchinleck),
and Eneis Morrison, Esq.
28. Lord Methven
30. Hon. Mrs. Hope.
32. Patrick, Earl of Dumfries, who died in 1803.
(mother of ?Corsica
33. Sir John Colquhoun.
34. George, Earl of Dalhousie, Lord High Commissioner,
35. Hon. Mrs. Cordon.
38. Mrs. Campbell of Saddel, Cilbert Kerr of Stodrig,
and Sir William Ramsay, Bart., of Banff House, who died
in 1807.
By 1784, when Peter Williamson published his
tiny ? Directory,? many changes had taken place
among the occupants of the square. The Countess
of Errol and Lord Auchinleck were residents, and
Thomas, Earl of Selkirk, had a house there before
he went to America, to form that settlement in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence which involved him in so much
trouble, expense, and disappointment. No. I was
occupied by the Countess of Leven ; the Earl of
Northesk, KC.B., who distinguished himself afterwards
as third in command at Trafalgar, occupied
No. 2, now an hotel; and Lord Arbuthnott had
been suceeeded in the occupancy of No. 5 by
Patrick, Lord Elibank, who married the widow of
Lord North and Grey.
By 1788 an hotel had been started in the
square by a man named Dun. It was there that
the celebrated Polish dwarf, Joseph Borowlaski,
occasionally exhibited himself. In his memoirs,
written by himself, he tells that he was one of a
family of five sons and one daughter, ?,and by one
of those freaks of nature which it is impossible to
account for, or perhaps to find another instance of
in the annals of the human species, three of these
children were above the middle stature, whilst the
two others, like myself, reached only that of children
at the age of four or five years.?
Notwithstanding this pigmy stature, the count,
by his narrative, would seem to have married, performed
many wonderful voyages and travels, and
been involved in many romantic adventures. At
thirty years of age his stature was three feet three
inches. Being recommended by Sir Robert Murray
Keith, then Eritish Ambassador at Vienna, to visit
the shores of Britain, after being presented, with
his family, to- royalty in London, he duly came to
Edinburgh, where, according to Kay?s Editor, ?? he
was taken notice of by several gentlemen, among
others by Mr. Fergusson, who generously endeavoured
by their attentions to sweeten the bitter
cup of life to the unfortunate gentleman.?
1777-82

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AFTER the royal marriage and coronation of
Tames 111. with Margaret of Oldenburg-both of
which ceremonies took place with great pomp at
Edinburgh in 1476, he unfortunately contrived to
lisgust his proud nobility by receiving into favour
many persons of inferior rank. Thus, deep and
dangerous intrigues were formed against him, and
by those minions he was soon made aware that his
brothers-Alexander Duke of Albany, and John
Earl of Mar-were forming a conspiracy against
him, and that the former aimed at nothing less than
wresting the sceptre from his hand, and getting
himself, with English aid, crowned as Alexander IV.,
King of Scotland and the Isles-a fact since proved
by authentic documents.
Instead of employing his authority as Warden of
the Marches in the repression of outrage, Albany
THE ROYAL LODGING OR PALACE, FROM THE GRAND PARADE.
I than once; he slew John of Scougal in East
Lothian; and surrounded himself with a band of
desperadoes, who at his behest executed the most
nefarious crimes.
The dark accusations under which he lay roused
at length the suspicions of the king, who ordered
the arrest of both him and Mar. Over the latter's
fate there hangs a strange mystery. One historian
declares that he died of fever in the Canongate,
under the spells of witches who were burned
therefor. Another records that he was bled to
death in Craigmillar Castle; and the singular discovery
there in 1818 of a man's skeleton built erect
into the north wall was thought to warrant the
adoption of the last account.
In 1482 Albany was committed to the Castle
of Edinburgh, a close prisoner in the hands of

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L UCKENBOOTHS AND PARLIAMENT CLOSE. 189
It used to be a very interesting sight, on a fine summer morning,’ between seven and
eight o’clock, before the Canongate Kirk bell began to ring for the appointed service, to
see the strange groups of Bbe Gowns of all ages,’ from forty-five to ninety and upwards,
assembling in front of the kirk Venerable looking men, bent with the weight of years ;
some lame, others blind, led by a boy or a wife, whose tartan or hodden-grey told of the
remote districts from whence they had come, or perhaps by a rough Highland dog, looking
equally strange on the streets of the ancient burgh ; while all the old bedemen were
clad in their monastic-looking habits, and with large badges on their breasts. It was
curious thus to see pilgrims from the remotest parts of Scotland and the Isles,-the men
of another generation,-annually returning to the capital, and each contriving to arrive
there on the very day of the King’s birth and bounty. The reverend almoner, however,
could scarcely have had a more inattentive congregation,-a fact probably in Bome degree
to be accounted for by many of them understanding nothing but Gaelic. At the close of
the sermon the bread and ale were distributed, along with their other perquisites, and
thereafter the usual benediction closed the services of the day, though generally before
that point was reached the bedemen had disappeared, each one off to wend his way homeward,
and to ‘‘ pass and repass,” as his large badge expressly bore, until the return of the
annual rendezvous.
Shortly after the accession of her present Majesty, whose youth must have had such
an economic effect on the royal bounty, this curious relic of ancient alms-giving waa shorn
of nearly all its most interesting features. Certain members of the Canongate kirksession,
it is said, were scandalised at the exhibition of the butt of ale at the kirk vestry
door, and possibly also at its exciting so much greater interest with the Queen’s bedemen
than any other portion of the established procedure. Whatever be the reason, the annual
church service has been abandoned; the royal almoner’s name no longer appears in the
list of her Majesty’s Scottish household; and the whole business is now managed in
the most matter-of-fact and commonplace style at the Exchequer Chambers in the
Parliament Square, not far from the ancient scene of this annual distribution of the royal
bounty.
At the west end of the Tolbooth a modern addition existed, as appears in our engraving,
rising only to the height of two stories. This was occupied by shops, while the flat
roof formed a platform whereon all public executions took place, after the abandonment
of the Grassmarket in the year 1785. The west gable of the old building bore the appearance
of rude and hasty construction ; it was without windows, notwithstanding that it
afforded the openest and most suitable aspect for light, and seemed as if it had been so
left for the purpose of future extension. The apartments on the ground floor of the main
building were vaulted with stone, and the greater part of them latterly fitted up for
shops,’ until the demolition of the citadel of the old guard in 1785, Boon after which
those on the north side were converted into a guard-house for the accommodation of that
veteran corps.
James Aikman, tailyeour, heia hous, to the palace of Halyrude how” &c.
appear to have been anciently made at the palace.
From thh last entry, the distribution would
For many years the 4th of June, the Birthday of Gorge 111.
In one of theae Yr Horner, father of the eloquent and gifted Francia Homer, M.P., one of the originatom of the
Edinburgh Review, carried on buainees as a silk mercer.

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The West Bow.]
A BITTER personal quarrel had existed for some
years between James Johnstone of Westerhall and
Hugh (from his bulk generally known as Braid
Hugh) Somerville of the Writes, and they had
often fought with their swords and parted on equal
temis. Somerville, in the year 1596, chancing to
be in Edinburgh on private business, was one day
loitering about the head of the Bow, when, by
chance, Westerhall was seen ascending the steep
and winding street, and at that moment some
officious person said, ? There is Braid Hugh
Somerville of the Writes.?
THE OLD ASSEMBLIES. 3?5
Westerhall, conceiving that his enemy was lingering
there either in defiance, or to await him, drew
his sword, and crying, ?Turn, villain!? gave
Somerville a gash behind the head, the most severe.
wound he had ever inflicted, and which, according
to the ? Memoirs of the Somervilles,? was ? much
regrated eftirwards by himselt?
Writes, streaming with blood, instantly drew his
sword, and ere Westerhall could repeat the stroke,
put him sharply on his defence, and being the
taller and stronger man of the two, together with
the advantage given by the slope, he pressed him
could retire for refreshments, or to rosin their bows.
Here then did the fair dames of Queen Anne?s
time, in their formal stomachers, long gloves, ruffles
and lappets, meet in the merry country dance, or
the stately minuef de la (our, the beaux of the time,
with their squarecut velvet coats and long-flapped
waistcoats, with sword, ruffles, and toupee in tresses,
when the news was all about the battle of Almanza,
the storming of Barcelona, or the sinking of the
Spanish galleons by Benbow in the West Indies,
or it might be-in whispers-of the unfurling of the
standard on the Braes of Mar.
The regular assembly, according to Arnot, was
. first held in the year 17 10, and it continued entirely
hnder private management till 1746, but though
the Scots as a nation are passionately fond of
dancing, the strait-laced part of the community
bitterly inveighed against this infant institution.
In the Library of the Faculty of Advocates there
is a curious little pamphlet, entitled, a ?Letter
from a Gentleman iti the Country to his Friend in
the City, with an Answer thereto concerning the
New Assembly,? which affords a remarkable glimpse
of the bigotry of the time :-
?I am informed that there is lately a society
erected in your town, which I think is called an
Assembly. The speculations concerning this meeting
have of late exhausted the most part of the
public conversation in this countryside :. some are
pleased to say that ?tis only designed to cultivate
polite conversation, and genteel behaviouramong the
better sort of folks, and to give young people an
opportunity of accomplishing themselves in both ;
while others are of opinion that it will have quite a
different effect, and tends to vitiate and deprave the:
minds and inclinations of the younger sort.?
The author, who might have been Davie Deans
himself, and who writes in 1723, adds that he had
been much stirred on this matter by the approaching
solemnity of the Lord?s Supper, and that he had
been ?informed that the design of this (weekly)
meeting was to afford some ladies an opportunity
to alter the station that they had long fretfully continued
in, and to set off others as they should
prove ripe for the market.?
The old Presbyterian abhorrence of ?? promiscuous
dancing? was only held in check by the
less strait-laced spirit of the Jacobite gentry; but
so great was the opposition to the Edinburgh
Assembly, as Jackson tells us in his ?History of
the Stage,? that a furious rabble once attacked
the rooms, and perforated the closed doors with
red-hot spits.
Arnot says that the lady-directress sat at the
head of the room, wearing the badge of heroffice,
a gold medal with a motto and device,
emblematic of charity and parental tenderness.
After several years of cessation, under the effect.
of local mal-influence, when the Assembly was
re-constituted in 1746, among the regulations hung
up in the hall, were tko worth quoting :-
?No lady to be admitted in a nz$f-gowr
(negl&i?), and no gentleman in boots.?
?? No misses in skirts and jackets, robe-coats, nor.
staybodied-gowns, to be allowed to dance in country
dances, but in a set by themselves.?

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North Bridge.] THE HORSE POSTS. 355
duction for expenses, among which are A60 for the
Irish packet boat.
In 1708 the whole business of the General Postoffice
was managed by seven persons-viz., George
Main, manager for Scotland, who held his commission
from the Postmaster General of Great
Britain, with a salary of A200 per annum; his
accountant, A50 per annum ; one clerk, d s o ; his
assistant, Lzs ; three letter-runners at 5s. each per
week. The place in which it was conducted was
a common shop.
In 1710 an Act of the newly-constituted British
Parliament united the Scottish Post-office with that
of the English and Irish under one Posttnaster-
General, but ordained that a chief letter office
be kept at Edinburgh, and the packet boats
between Donaghadee and Port Patrick be still
maintained.? The postage of a letter to London
was then raised to 6d. sterling.
In 17 15, James Anderson, W.S., the well-known
editor of D$Zowata Scotie, obtained the office of
Deputy Postmaster-General, succession to
Main, the jeweller. When he took office, on the
12th of July, there was not a single horse post in
Scotland, foot-runners being the conveyers of the
mails, even so far north as Thurso, and so far
westward as Inverary.
(( After his appointment,? to quote Lang?s
privately-printed history of the Post-office in
Scotland, (? Mr. Anderson directed his attention to
the establishment of the horse posts on the Western
road from Edinburgh. The first regular horse
post in Scotland appears to have been from Edinburgh
to Stirling; it started for the first time on
the 29th November, 1715. It left Stirling at z
o?clock afternoon, each Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday, reaching Edinburgh in time for the night
mail for England. In March, 1717, the first horse
post between Edinburgh and Glasgow was established,
and we have details of the arrangement in a
. memorial addressed to Lord Cornwallis and James
Craggs, who jointly filled the office of Postmaster-
General of Great Britain. The memorial states,
that ?the horse post will set out for Edinburgh
each Tuesday and Thursday at 8 o?clock at night,
and on Sunday about 8 or g in the morning, and
be in Glasgow-a distance of 36 miles (Scots) by
the post road at that time-by 6 in the morning,
on Wednesday and Friday in summer, and by 8 in
winter, and both winter and summer, will be in on
Sunday night.? ?
At this period it took double the time for a mail
to perform the journey between the two capitals
that it did in the middle of the 17th century.
When established by Charles I., three days was the
time allowed for special couriers between Edinburgh
and London.
In 1715 it required six days for the post to
perform the journey. This can easily be seen, says
Mr. Lang, by examining the post-marks on the
letters of that time.
In that year Edinburgh had direct communication
with sixty post-towns in Scotland, and in
August the total sum received for letters passing to
and from these offices and the capital was only
A44 3s. Id. The postage on London letters in
the same morith amounted to A157 3s. zd.
In 1717 Mr. Anderson was superseded d Edinburgh
by Sir John Inglis as Deputy-Postmaster-
General in. Scotland, from whom all appointments
in that country were held direct. The letter-bags,
apart from foot-pads and robbers, were liable to
strange contingencies. Thus, in November, I 725,
the bag which left Edinburgh was never heard of
after it passed Berwick-boy, horse, and bag, alike
vanished, and were supposed to have been swallowed
up in the sands between Coquet-mouth and
Holy Island. A mail due at Edinburgh one evening,
at the close of January, 1734, was found in
the Tyne at Haddington, in which the post-boy had
perished; and another due on the 11th October of
the follow?ing year was long of reaching its destination.
? It seems the post-boy,? according to the
CaZedonian Mercury, ? who made the stage between
Dunbar and Haddington, being in liquor, fell off.
The horse was afterwards found at Linplum, but
without mail, saddle, or bridle.?
The immediate practical business of the Postoffice
of Edinburgh (according to the ?( Domestic
Annals ?), down to the reign of George I., appears to
have been conducted in a shop in the High Street,
by a succession of persons named Main or Mein,
?(the descendants of the lady who threw her stool
at the bishop?s head in St. Giles?s in 1637.? Thence
it was promoted to a flat on the east side of the
Parliament Close ; then again, in the reign of George
III., behind the north side of the Cowgate. The
little staff we have described as existing in 171 j
remained unchanged in number till 1748, when there
were added an ? apprehender of letter-carriers,? and
a (? clerk to the Irish correspondents.? There is
a faithful tradition in the office, which I see no
reason to doubt,? says Dr. Chambers, ?that one
day, not long after the Rebellion of 1745, the bag
came to Edinburgh with but one letter in it, being
one addressed to the British Linen Company.?
In 1730 the yearly revenue of the Edinburgh
Office was A I , I ~ ~ , according to (?The State ofscotland;?
but Arnot puts the sum at Aj,399.
In 1741 Hamilton of Innerwick was Deputy

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340 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH,
as an industrious burgher. He was imported from Holland, it is believed, near the beginning
of last century, and first did duty with Rpade in hand at a seedsman’s door in the
Canongate ; from thence he passed to a grocer in the High Street, and soon after he made
his appearance in the Bow, where his antiquated costume consorted well with the oldfashioned
neighbourhood. Since the destruction of this, his last retreat, he has found a fit
refuge in the lobby of the Antiquarian Museum. On the opposite side of the street, the
last tenement on the east side of the first turning, and situated, as its titles express, “without
the place where the old Bow stood,” was popularly known as the Clockmaker’s Land.
It had been occupied in the reign of Charles 11. by Paul Romieu,’ an ingenious knockmaker,
who is believed to have been one of the French refugees, compelled to forsake his
native land on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1675, as appears from the
records of the Corporation of Hammermen, a watch was, for the fist time, added to the
knockmaker’s essay, previous to which date it is probable that watches were entirely imported.
There remained on the front of this ancient tenement, till its demolition, some
portions of a curious piece of mechanism which had formed the sign of its ingenious tenant.
This was a gilt ball representing the moon, originally made to revolve by clockwork, and
which enjoyed to the last a share of the admiration bestowed on the wonders of the Bow.
Other and more curious erections than those we have described had occupied the ground along
this steep descent at a still earlier period, when the secular clergy shared with the Templars
the dwellings in the Bow. In the “ Inventar of Pious Donations,” to which we have
already frequently referred, a charter is recorded, bearing date February 15, 1541, whereby
6‘ Sir Thomas Ewing mortifies to a chaplain in St Giles Kirk, an annual rent of twentysix
shillings out of Henry Spittal’s Land, at the Upper Bow, on the east side of ye transse
y’of, betwixt Bartil Kairn’s Land on the south, St James Altar Land on the north, and
the King’s Street on the west.” Below the Clockmaker’s Land, the tortuous thoroughfare
turned suddenly at an acute angle, and presented along its devious steep a strange assemblage
of fantastic timber and stone gables; several of them being among those strange
relics ’of a forgotten order of things, the Temple Lands, and one of them, with its timber
ceilings curiously adorned with paintings2 in the style already described in the Guise
Palace, bearing the quaint legend over its antique lintel, in ornamental characters of a very
early date :-
HE YT a THOLIS * OVERCVMMIS.
Behind these lay several steep, narrow, and gloomy closes, containing the most singular
groups of huge, irregular, and diversxed tenements that could well be conceived. Here
a crazy stunted little timber dwelling, black with age, and beyond it a pile of masonry rising
story above story from some murky profound beyond, that left its chimneys scarcely rivalling
those of its dwarfish neighbour after climbing thus far from their foundation. in the
depths below. One of these, which we have engraved under the name of ‘‘ The Haunted
CZose,” is the same in which the worthy gentlewoman, the neighbour of Major Weir, beheld
the spectral giantess vanish in a blaze of fire, as she returned down the West Bow at
the witching hour of night. The close, for all its wretched degradation, which had won
Minor Antiquitiea Information derived fifty years ago (1833) from a man who WM then eighty years of age.
a Some curious fragments of this ceiling are now in the collection of C. K. Sharpe, Esq.

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