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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . xi .. P Deacon Brodie . . . . . . . . The First Interview in 1786: Deacon Brodie and George Smith-? . . . . . . . Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath . . . . Robert Gourlay?s House . . . . . . John Dowie?s Tavern . . . . . . . John Dowie . . . . . . . . Edinburgh. from St . Cuthbert?s to St . Giles?s . . Interior of the Signet Library . . . . . The Heart of Midlothian . . . Tofacrpq Relics from the Tolbooth. now in the Scottish Antiquarian Museum . . . . . . . Lord Monboddo . . . . . . . The Tolbooth . . . . . . . . The Guard-house and Black Turnpike . . . The City Guard-house . . . . . . Three Captains of the City Guard . . . . LochaberAxes of thecity Guard . . . . Sed of St . Giles . . . . . . . The Norman doorway. St . Giles?s. which was destrojed towards the end of the eighteenth century . . John Knox?s Pulpit. St . Giles?s . . . . . The Lantern and Tower of St Giles?s Church . . Plan of St . Giles?s Church. prior to the alterations in 1829 Jenny Geddes? Stool . . . . . . . Carved Centre Groin Stone or Boss . . . . Interior of the High Church. St . Giles?s . . . St . Giles?s Church in the present day . . . . Grave of John Knox . . . . . . . The City Cross . . . . . . . . Creech?s Land . . . . . . . . William Creech . . . . . . . . The Old Parliament House . . . . . . Great Hall. Parliament House . . To facepage Parliament House . . . . . . . Parliament House in the present day . . . . Union Cellar . . . . . . . . View from the Cowgate of the Buildings on the South side of the Parliament Close. the highest buildings Plan of the Parliament House and Law Courts . . Ruins in Parliament Square after the Great Fire. in in Edinburgh. 1794 . . . . . . Interior of the Justiciary Court . . . . . November. 1824 . . . . . . . George Heriot?s Drinking Cup . . . . . Sir William Forbes. of Pitsligo . . . . . November. 1824 . . . . . . Ruins in the old Market Close after the Great Fire of The Parliament Stairs . . . . . . Dr . Archibald Pitcairn . . . . . . Seal of Arnauld Lammius . . . . . Cleriheugh?s Tavern . . . . . . . The Town Council Chamber. Royal Exchange To facepage General View of the Ruins after the Great Fire of November. 1824 . . . . . . PAGE Tal1y.stick. bearing date of 1692 . . . . 186 General Planof the RoyalExchange . . . 188 TheRoyalExchange . . . . . . 189 New Year?s Eve at the Tron Church . To faccpage 15- Andrew Crosby . . . . . . . 192 The OldTronChurch . . . . . . 193 PlanofEdinburgh. fromSt.Giles?s toHackerston?s Wynd 197 The Nether Bow Port. from the Canongate . . 201 Edinburgh. from St . Giles?s Church to the Canongate . 205 Allan Ramsay . . . . . . . . z08 AllanRamsay?sShop. Highstreet . . . . mg Knox?s Study . . . . . . . . 212 John Knox?s House . . . . Tofwepegr zq Portrait and Autograph of John Knox . . . 213 Knox?s Bed-room . . . . . . . 216 Knox?s Sitting-room . . . . . . . 217 The Excise Office at the Nether Bow . . . . 220 The Nether Bow Port, from the High Street . . 221 House of Lord Advocate Stewart. at the foot of Advocates? Close. west side . . . . . 223 William Chambers . . . . . . . 224 Robert Chambers . . . . . . . 224 Advocates? Close . . . . . . . 225 Stamp OfficeClose . . . . . . . 229 Fleshmarket Close . . . . . . . 232 Susanna. Countessof Eglinton . . . . . 233 Lintels of Doorways in Dawney Douglas?s Tavern . 236 Mylne?s Square . . . . . . . . 237 St . Paul?s Chapel. Carrubber?s Close . . . . 240 House in High Street with memorial window. ?? Heave awa. lads, I?mno deidyet I ? . . . . 241 Ruins in the Old Assembly Close. after the Great Fire. November. 1824 . . . . . . . 244 GeorgeBuchanan . . . . . . . 248 St . Cecilia?s Hall . . . . . . . 252 House of the Abbots of Melrose. Strichen?s Close . 256 Tiding Pin. from Lady Lovat?s House. Blackfriars Wynd 258 House of the Earls of Morton. Blackfriars Street . 260 Stone. showing the Armorial Bearings of Cardinal Beaton. from his house. Blackfriars Wynd % . 261 . . . . . . Blackfriars Wynd * 257 Cardinal Beaton?sHouse . . . . . . 264 Edinburgh United Industrial School . . . . 265 Lintelof theDoor of theMint . . . . . 267 Theold ScottishMint . . . . . . 268 Kelicsof the old Scottish Mint . . . . . 269 Elphinstone Court . . . . . . . 272 The Earl of Selkirk?s qouse. Hyndford?s Close (South view) . . . . . . . . 273 TheEarlofSelkirk?sHouse. Hyndford?sClose(Westview) 276 Tweeddale House . 277 The Scokman Office . . . . . . . 284 Lord Cockburn Street and Back of the Royal Exchange Tofiepap 285 Alexander Russel . . . . . . . 285 Interior of Trinity College Church. Jeffrey Street . 288 . . . . . . ... OF ILLUSTRATIONS . xi .. P Deacon Brodie . . . . . . . . The First Interview in 1786: Deacon Brodie ...

Book 2  p. 393
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 3 i 3 died at Leith on the 5th of July 1824, in the ninety-tirst year of his age, and sixty-sixth of his ministry, leaving behind him one daughter, the only survivor of a large family, who was married to William Penney, Esq., of Glasgow. Some years prior to his death he had been assisted in his parochial duties by the Rev. Dr. Ireland.’ The remains of this much respected and patriarchal clergyman were followed to the grave by upwards of five hundred persons, among whom were many of the most distinguished citizens of Edinburgh and Leith. The inmates of the Blind Asylum, who had been so much an object of his care, lined the access to the churchyard ; and, by their presence, added much to the melancholy interest of the scene. The Rev. Dr. Dickson of St. Cut,hbert’s preached the funeral sermon on the Sabbath following. No. CXLIX SIR JAMES STIRLING, BART., LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH, IN HIS ROBES. THIS gentleman, whose father was a fishmonger at the head of Marlin’s Wynd: had the merit of being the architect of his own fortune. In early life he went to the West Indies, as clerk to an extensive and opulent planter, Mr. Stirling of Keir, where he conducted himself with such propriety, that, in a short time, through the influence of his employer, he was appointed Secretary to the Governor of the Island of Jamaica, Sir Charles Dalling. Having in t,his situation accumulated a considerable sum of money, he at length returned to Edinburgh, and was assumed a partner in the banking concern of “Mansfield, Ramsay, & Co.” (lately Ramsay, Bonar, & Co.), whose place of business was then in Cantore’s Close, Luckenbooths..’ In Dr. Ireland, on being assured of succeeding to the parish on the death of Dr. Johnston, a,med to perform the duties of assistant, which he did for more than twenty-four years ; and afterwards lived to eqjoy the fruit of all this labour only four years and a half. The incumbency was afterwards held by the Rev. Mr. Buchanan. Marlin’s Wynd, which stood esst of the Tron Church, WBB demolished to make way for the South Bridge. Mr. Stirling had for his sign a large, clumsy, wooden B k k Bd,:which is preserved 08 a relic in the Museum of Scottish Antiquaries. Not long after he had entered into this concern, Mr. Stirling, naturally of an irritable temperament, became uneasy at the extent and responsibility of a banking establishment, and proposed selling his estate of Saughie, which he had recently purchased. Old Yr. William h a y , having been apprised of his intention, addressed him one day after dinner in hie usual familiar manner-“I hear, Jamie, that ye’re gaun to sell the Saughie property. If that be the case, rather than let you advertise it in the newspapers, and thereby bring suspicion on the stability of the concern, I’ll tak it frae you at what it cost ye.” Stirling instantly agreed to the proposition ; and scarcely had the property been transferred to Mr. Ramsay when that gentleman had the offer of nearly double the purchase-money. The value is now more than quadrupled. ... SKETCHES. 3 i 3 died at Leith on the 5th of July 1824, in the ninety-tirst year of his age, ...

Book 8  p. 521
(Score 1.24)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 429 THE CITY GUARD-HOUSE. CORPORAL JOHN DHU. THIS dingy, mean-looking edifice, built for the accommodation of the City- Guard, probably towards the close of the seventeenth, or beginning of the last century, was situated in the High Street, opposite the shop now occupied by Mr. Ritchie, stationer, about two hundred yards east of the Cross.’ It was a slated building, one storey in height, and consisted of four apartments. On the west and south-west corner was the Captain’s Room; and adjoining, on the north, was a place for prisoners,‘ called the Burghers’ Room.” In the centre was the common hall; and, on the east, the apartment devoted to the city chimney-sweepers, who were called “ tron men ”-two figures of whom will be observed in the engraving. The extreme length of the structure, from east to west, was seventy feet, and the breadth forty over the walls. The floor, with the exception of the Captain’s Room, was composed of flags, under which was a vaulted cell, called the “ Black Hole,” where coals for the use of the Guard-House were kept, and into which refractory prisoners were put. The wooden mare at the west end of the building was placed there for the purpose of punishing such soldiers as might be found guilty of misdemeanours. The delinquent, with a gun tied to each foot, was mounted for a certain period proportioned to the extent of his offence, and exposed to the gaze and derision of the populace, who sometimes were not idle spectators of the exhibition. The figure bestriding the “ wooden mare ” is merely intended to represent the nature of the punishment. Over the half-door of the Guard-House will be distinguished the well-known JOHND HU. John, who was a corporal of the Guard, is here in the position which he daily occupied, ready to receive, with a “ Highland curse,’’ whoeirer was unfortunate enough to be committed to his surveillance. The rank of the offender made no difference-rich and poor met with the same reception. A chronicle of the beaux and helles who found a night’s shelter within its walls would no doubt be gratifying to the lovers of antiquated scandal. The old Market-Cross, removed in 1756, when the Royal Exchange was finished, was an octagonal building of sixteen feet diameter, and about fifteen feet high. At each angle was an Ionic pillar, from the top of which a species of Gothic bastion projected ; and between the columns were modern arches. Besides the town’s arms, the edifice wm omamented with various devices; and from the platform rose a column, consisting of one stone, upwards of twenty feet high, and of eighteen inches diameter, spangled with thistles, and adorned with a Corinthian capital, upon the top of which was a unicorn. It was rebuilt in 1617 ; and the column, or obelisk, which had previonaly existed beyond the memory of man, was carefully presemed and re-erected within the railing of the High Church. At what period the Cross was originally erected ia not known. ... SKETCHES. 429 THE CITY GUARD-HOUSE. CORPORAL JOHN DHU. THIS dingy, mean-looking edifice, built for ...

Book 8  p. 598
(Score 1.23)

378 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Greyfirs Church. King?s Commissioner, the severity of these vile persecutions was greatly lessened ; but in the northeast corner of the burying-ground, the portion of it long accorded as the place for the interment of criminals, stands that grim memorial of suffering, tears, and blood, known as the Martyrs?Monumznta tall, pillared tablet, rising on a pedestal surmounted by an entablature and pediment, and bearing the following inscription :- ? Halt, passenger ! take heed what you do see- This tomb doth show for what some men did die ; Here lies interred the dust of those who stood ?Gainst perjury, resisting unto blood ; Adhering to the covenants and laws, Establishing the same ; which was the cause Their lives were sacrificed unto the lust Of prelatists abjured ; though here their dust Lies mix?t with murderers, and other crew. Whom justice justly did to death pursue. But. as for them no cause was to be found Worthy of death ; but only they were found Constant and stedfast, zealous, witnessing For the prerogatives of Christ, their King ; Which truths were sealed by famous Guthrie?s head, And all along to Mr. Renwick?s blood. They did endure the wrath of enemies : Reproaches, torments, death, and injuries. But yet they?re those who from such troubles came, And now triumph in glory with the Lamb I ? ?From May 27, 1661, that the most noble Marquis of Argyle was beheaded, to the 17th February, 1688, that Mr. James Rcnwick suffered, were one way or other murdered and destroyed fo1 the same cause about eighteen thousand, of whom were executed at Edinburgh about a hundred ol noblemen aud gentlemen, ministers, and othersnoble martyrs for Jesus Christ. The most of them lie here.? According to the Edinburgh Courant of 1728 this tomb was repaired in that year, and there was added to it ?? a compartment, on which is cut a head and a hand on pikes, as emblems of theii (the martyrs?) sufferings, betwixt which is to be engraved a motto alluding to both.? The old church had been without a bell till 1681, when the Town Council ordered one which had been formerly used in the Tron church ta be hung in its steeple, or tower, at the west end. The latter was blown up on the 17th May, 1718, by a quantity of gunpowder belonging to the city, which was deposited there and exploded by acci. dent. As the expense of its repair was estimated at A600 sterling, the Town Council resolved to add instead, a new church at the west end of the old, and in the same plain, ungainly, and heavy style of architecture, with an octagonal porch projecting under the great window, all of which was accord. ingly done, and the edifice, since denominated the New Greyfriars, was finished in 1721, at the expense of A3,045 sterling. In this process the oIder church was shortened by a partition wall being erected at the second pillar from the west, that both buildings should be of equal length. Many men of eminence have been incumbents here ; among them, Robert Rollock, the first Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and Principal Carstares, the friend of William of Orange. In 1733, Robert Wallace, D.D., author of ?A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind,? and many other works, and one of the first projectors of the Scottish Ministers? Widows? Fund, was appointed one of the ministers of the Greyfriars, in consequence of a sermon which he preached before the Synod of Moffat, the tenor of which so pleased Queen Caroline, when she read it, that she recommended him to the patronage of the Earl of Islay, then chief manager of Scottish affairs. In 1736, however, he forfeited the favour of Government by being one of the many clergymen who refused to read from the pulpit the act relative to the Porteops mob; but on the overthrow of ,Walpole?s ministry, in 1742, he was entrusted with the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs, so far as related to crown presentations in Scotland -a delicate duty, in which he continued to give satisfaction to all. In 1744 Dr. Wallace was commissioned as one of the royal chaplains in Scotland, and in 1753 he published his ?? Dissertation??- a work that is remarkable for the curious mass of statistical information it contains, and for its many ingenious speculations on the subject of population, to one of which the peculiar theories of the Rev. Mr. Malthus owed their origin. Among many other philosophical publications, he brought forth (? Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence,? in 1761, and died the year after, on the 10th of July, leaving a son, who is not unknown in Scottish literature. But the most distinguished of the incumbents was William Robertson, D.D., the eminent historian, who was appointed to the Greyfriars in 1761, the same year in which, on the death of Principal Goldie, he was elected Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and whose father, the Rev. William Robertson (a cadet of the Struan family) was minister of the Old Greyfriars in 173 j. Principal Robertson is so *well known by the published memoirs of him, and by his many brilliant literary works, that he requires little more than mention here. ?Scott, who from youth to ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Greyfirs Church. King?s Commissioner, the severity of these vile persecutions was ...

Book 4  p. 378
(Score 1.18)

306 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Wardie. In this district evidences have been found of the luck,? and it sometimes came ; to propitiate him, his moderate demands became, ere he died, an established claim. Hence it would seem that now to say to a crew at sea, ?(John Brounger ?s in your head-sheets,? or ?? OR board of you,? is sufficient to cause her crew to haul in the dredge, ship their oars, and pull the boat thrice round in a circle, to break the evil spell, and enough sometimes to make the crew abandon work. But apart from such fancies, the industrious fishermen of Newhaven still possess the noble qualities. ascribed to them by the historian of Leith, in the days when old Dr. Johnston was their pastor : ?It was no sight of ordinary interest to see the stem and weather-beaten faces of these hardy seamen subdued by the influence of religious feeling into an expression of deep reverence and humility, before their God. Their devotion seemed . - I mansion, pleasantly situated on the sea-shore, about to have acquired an additional solemnity of character, from a consciousness of the peculiarly hazardous nature of their occupation, which, throwing tKem immediately and sensibly on the protection of their Creator every day of their lives, had im5ued them with a deep sense of gratitude to that Being, whose outstretched arm had conducted their little bark in safety through a hundred storms.? In the first years of the present century there was a Newhaven stage, advertised daily to start from William Bell?s coach-office, opposite the Tron church, at ten am., three and eight p-m. We need scarcely add, that Newhaven has long been celebrated for the excellence and variety of its fish dinne&, served up in more than one oldfashioned inn, the best known of which was, perhaps, near the foot of the slope called the Whale Brae. CHAPTER XXXVI. WARDIE, TRINITY, AND GRANTON. Wardie Muir-Human Remains Found-Banghalm Bower and Trinity Lodge-Christ Church, Trinity-Free Church, Granton Road-Piltoa -Royston--Camline Park-Grantan-The Piers and Harbours-Morton?s Patent Slip. WARDIE MUIR must once have been a wide, open, and desolate space, extending from Inverleith and Warriston to the shore of the Firth; and from North Inverleith Mains, of old called Blaw Wearie, on the west, to Bonnington on the east, traversed by the narrow streamlet known as Anchorfield Bum. Now it is intersected by streets and roads, studded with fine villas rich in gardens and teeming with fertility; but how waste and desolate the muiland must once have been, is evinced b i those entries in the accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, with reference to firing ,Mons Meg, in the days when royal salutes were sometimes fired with shotted guns ! On the 3rd of July, 1558, when the Castle batteries saluted in honour of the Dauphin?s marriage with Queen Mary, Mons Meg was fired by the express desire of the Queen Regent; the pioneers were paid for ?I their jaboris in mounting Meg furth of her lair to be schote, and for finding and carrying her bullet from Wardie Muir to the Castell,? ten shillings Scots. Wardie is fully two miles north from the Castle, and near Granton. native tribes. Several fragments of human remains were discovered in 1846, along the coast of Wardie, in excavating the foundations for a bridge of the Granton Railway ; and during some earlier operations for the same railway, on the 27th September, 1844 a silver and a copper coin of Philip 11. of Spain were found among a quantity of huiiian bones, intermingled with sand and shells; and these at the time were supposed to be a memento of some great galleon of the Spanish Armada, cast away upon the rocky coast, In the beginning of the present century, and before the roads to Queensferry and Granton were constructed, the chief or only one in this quarter was that which, between hedgerows and trees, led to Trinity, and the principal mansions near it were Bangholm Bower, called in the Advertiser for 1789 ? the Farm of Bangholms,? adjoining the lands of Wamston, and which was offered for lease, with twelve acres of meadow, ?lying immediately westward of Canonmills Loch;?? Lixmount House, in 1810 the residence of Farquharson of that ilk and Invercauld; Trinity Lodge, and one or two others. The latter is described in the Advertiser for 1783 as a large ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Wardie. In this district evidences have been found of the luck,? and it sometimes ...

Book 6  p. 306
(Score 1.13)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 293 days, a macaroni of the fist water ; which, when translated, means “ a pretty considerable puppy.’’ After taking his degree of M.D. he entered the army, and served as assistant-surgeon in the 35th Regiment, with which he sojourned for some time in Ireland. Having there lost his health, the Doctor resolved to visit his native city, but died suddenly his passage between Belfast and Glasgow. The second (on the right) is a capital resemblance of an Italian musician, named HIERONYMO STABILINI, who was a native of Rome, and came to Edinburgh about the year 1778. The musical talents of Stabilini were much admired; and although, unlike the modern Orpheus Paganini, he could not ‘‘ discourse sweet airs ” from a single piece of catgut, his performances on the four pieces were generally admired. The musician met with an unlucky accident, however, which materially injured his “bow arm,” while enjoying himself on one occasion at Leith races. Stabilini, the better to participate in the sport, had mounted a hackney charger-some ‘‘ red-wud Kilbirnie blastie ”-and not being destined to “ witch the world with noble horsemanship,” felt considerable difficulty in maintaining the proper bearing of a gentleman of the turf. At last, while performing some awkward gambols on the sands, apparently less to his own satisfaction than to the gratification of the spectators, he happened to come in contact with another equally accomplished equestrian, when the musician was unhorsed, and had his arm broken. It was said that after this accident he could never play on the violin so correctly as formerly. Stabilini was particularly intimate with Corri, a countryman of his own, a composer and teacher of eminence, who built the music-rooms, called the Adelphi Theatre, at the head of Broughton Street.’ The two friends sat down one evening, after a tiresome exhibition of their musical talents, to regale themselves over a glass of whisky-toddy, in preference to the less exhilarating wines of their fatherland. While engaged in this pleasurable occupation, and their hearts expanding in mutual pledges of friendship, they took no note of time. At Corri was also some tie manager of the Theatre. In a theatrical critique for 1801, which animadverta pretty freely on the public of Edinburgh for their inMerence to theatrical repreaentations, it is said-“By the run of the School for Scandal, our Italian manager, Cod, was enabled for a while to swim like boys on bladders ; but he n l t i i t e l y sunk under the weight of his debt.+ and waa only released by the benignity of the British laws. Neither the universal abilities of Wilkinson, his private worth, nor his full compan~, could draw the attention of the capital of the North, t i he waa some hundred pounds out of pocket ; and though he was at last assisted, by the interference of . certain public charactem, yet all his after success did little more than make up his lossea in the beginning of the s e a o ~ ” Corri applied for and obtained the benefit of the Cessio B- ; and, upon obtaining a decree freeing his person from imprisonment, he is said to have observed, “ dat he had got de cessio, but de lawyers had got de bonorum.” The second Corri (the son) w88, amidst all his difficulties, most regardleas of the intereats of his creditors and of himself. At the time his sffaira w m at the worst, a friend, going into Weddel the confectioner’s shop opposite the Tron Church, found Corri very comfortably seated, eating a pineapple- a great extravagance in those ties. “ Are you not ashamed, Yr. Corri, of thii !” said he. “What would your creditore think of this (1” s‘Oh, awe,’’ said Corri, “noting at all, noting at all -what is aewa-and-idxpewx to be divided among my creditors I ” ... SKETCHES. 293 days, a macaroni of the fist water ; which, when translated, means “ a ...

Book 8  p. 412
(Score 1.1)

108 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. English supremacy. No sooner, therefore, were the articles made public, in the month of October 1706, than a universal clamour and uproar ensued. The outer Parliament House and the adjoining square were crowded with an excited multitude, who testified their displeasure at the Duke of Queensberry, the Commissioner, and all who favoured the Union. On the 23d of the month, hhe populace proceeded to more violent acts of hostility against the promoters of the scheme. They attacked the house of Sir Patrick Johnston, their representative in Parliament, formerly a great favourite when Provost of the city, and he narrowly escaped falling a victim to their fury. From this they proceeded to other acts of violence, till they had the city completely at their mercy, and were only prevented blocking up the ports by the Duke ordering out the military to take possession of the Nether Bow Port, and other of the most important points in the city. Three regiments of foot were on constant duty; guards were stationed in the Parliament Close and the Weigh-house, as well as at the Nether Bow ; a strong battalion protected the Abbey ; a troop of horse-guards regularly attended the Cornmissioner, and none but members were allowed to enter the Parliament Close towards evening, on such days as the house was sitting. His Grace, the Commissioner, walked from the Parliament House, between a double file of musketeers to his coach, which waited at the Cross ; and he was driven from thence at full gallop to his residence at the Palace, hooted, cursed, and pelted by the rabble. The mob were fully as zealous in the demonstration of their good will as of their displeasure. The Duke of Hamilton, whose apartments were also in the Palace, was an especial object of favour, and was nightly escorted down the Canongate by several hundreds of them cheering him,*and commending his fidelity. It was on one of these occasions, after seeing the Duke home, that the excited rabble proceeded to the house of the city member, when he so narrowly escaped their fury.’ Fortunately, however, for Scotland the popular clamour was unavailing for the purpose of preventing the Union of the two kingdoms, though the corrupt means by which many of the votes in Parliament were secured, was sufficient to have justified any amount of distrust and apposition. A curious ornamental summerhouse is pointed out in the pleasure grounds attached to Moray House, in the Canongate, where the commissioners at length assembled to affix their clignatures to the Treaty of Union. But the mob, faithful to the last in their resolution to avert what was then regarded as the surrender of national independence,‘ pursued them to this retired rendezvous, and that important national act is believed to have been finally signed and sealed in a ‘‘ high shop,” or cellar, No. 177 High Street, nearly opposite to the Tron Church.2 This interesting locality, which still remains, had formed one of the chief haunts of the unionists during the progress of that measure, and continued to be known, almost to our own day, by the name of the Union Cellar. On the 16th of January 1707, the Scottish Parliament assembled for the last time in its old hall in the Parliament Close, and having finally adjusted the Articles of Union, it was dissolved by the Duke of Queensberry, the King’s Commissioner, never again to meet as a National Assembly+ The general discontent which resulted from this measure, and the irritation produced by The Commissioner, and all who abetted him, were kept in terror of their lives. . Lockhart’s Mem., 1799, p. 229-229. a Tales of a Grandfather, vol. vi. p. 327. Smollett’s Hist., p. 469. Arnot, p. 1S9. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. English supremacy. No sooner, therefore, were the articles made public, in the month ...

Book 10  p. 118
(Score 1.1)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 397 No. CLVII. MR. JOHN SHIELLS, SURGEON. MR. SHIELLSw as a native of Peeblesshire ; and, prior to commencing business as a surgeon and apothecary, held a situation in connection with the Royal Infirmary. His first shop was in a land immediately above the Tron Kirkdemolished when Hunter Square was formed ; and from thence he moved to Nicolson Street. In his day few professional men possessed a carriage of any description ; and, finding himself incapable of making his visits on foot, I&. Shiells bethought himself that a horse might answer his purpose. To this the only objection was that he was no equestrian. It consequently became an object of primary importance to procure an animal sufficiently docile and sure-footed ; which qualities he at last found in the sagacious-looking grey pony,’ of mature years so correctly delineated by the artist in the etching. Mr. Shiells and the pony are proceeding leisurely on their rounds, apparently on the best understanding, and seemingly pleased with each other. The surgeon, with his broad half-cocked hat, and his lightly elevated whip, evidently has not attained the free attitude of an experienced rider ; yet the complacency of his jolly countenance is expressive of the great degree of confidence he reposes in the wisdom and fidelity of the animal. The figure behind represents the boy, Willie, who actedas groom. He always accompanied his master, for the purpose of carrying his walking-staff-to take care of the horse while he was detained in the house of a patient-and to aid him in again mounting his charger. This was a task which generally occupied nearly three minutes in accomplishing ; and it was truly amusing to witness the exertions of the boy to get his master’s leg over the saddle, while the struggle made by Mr. Shiells himself for that purpose was exceedingly grotesque. Among his patients at one period was a Mr. Ramage, who kept a shop in the Lawnmarket. This person was well known as a keen sportsman, and much famed for his excellence in breaking dogs. Having fallen into bad health, he was for some time daily visited by Mr. Shiells j but what was rather surprising for an invalid, the patient, with his head enveloped in a red nightcap, used regularly to accompany the doctor to the door, and, setting his shoulder to the seat of honour of the worthy son of Galen, assisted in reinstating him in hia saddle. He was short in stature, and latterly became very corpulent. # The scene represented in the Print is to the life. His fint charger waa a h z a pony. ... SKETCHES. 397 No. CLVII. MR. JOHN SHIELLS, SURGEON. MR. SHIELLSw as a native of Peeblesshire ; ...

Book 8  p. 553
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3’AME.Y TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARE: 79 A loud explosion about two o’clock in the morning, while it shook the whole town and startled the inhabitants from their sleep, satisfied the conspirators that their plot had succeeded. An arch still exists in the city wall, behind the Infirmary, described by Arnot as the door-way leading into the Provost’s house, which was built against the wall. Itg position, however, is further to the east than the house is shown to have stood; and Malcolm Laing supposes it to have been a gunrport, connected with a projecting tower, which formerly existed directly opposite Roxburgh Street ; but its appearance and position are much more those of a doorway, and no port-hole resembling it occurs in my other part of the wall. In a drawing of the locality at the time of the murder, preserved in the State Paper Ofiice (a fac-simile of which is engraved in Chalmers’s Life of Queen Mary), the ruins of the Provost’s house seem to extend nearly to the projecting tower, so that the tradition is not without some appearance of probability. The murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, proved fatal to the hapless Queen of Scotland. She took refuge for a time in the Castle of Edinburgh, and only left it, on the urgent remonstrance of her Council, who dreaded injury to her health from her “ close and solitary life.” On Saturday, the 12th of April, the Earl of Bothwell was arraigned in the Tolbooth, on the charge of the murder, but no evidence appeared against him, and he was acquitted. It is not our province in this history to follow out the narrative of his forcible ravishment of the Queen, and the fatal consequences in which she was thereby involved. On the 15th of June 1567, she surrendered to the Earl of Morton, at Carbery Hill, near Musselburgh. It was late in the evening before the captive Queen entered Edinburgh, but she was recognised as she passed along the streets, and assailed with insulting cries from the rude populace. She was lodged in the Black Turnpike, the town house of the Provost, Sir Simon Preston.’ This ancient and most interesting building stood to the west of the Tron Church, occupying part of the ground now left vacant, as the entrance to Hunter Square, and the site of the corner house. Mrtitland describes it as a ‘‘ magnificent edifice, which, were it not partly defaced by a false wooden front, would appear to be the most sumptuous building perhaps in Edinburgh.” The views that exist of it, show it to have been a stately and imposing pile of building, of unusual height and extent, even among the huge “ lands ” in the old High Street. At the time of its demolition, in 1788, it was believed to be the most ancient house in Edinburgh. Here Queen Mary passed the night, in a small apartment, whose window looked to the street; and the first thing that met her eye on looking forth in the morning was a large white banner, ‘‘ stented betwixt two spears,” whereon was painted the murdered Darnley, with the words, “ Judge and revenge my cause, 0 Lord.” The poor Queen exclaimed to the assembled multitude,--“ Good people, either satisfy your cruelty and hatred by taking away my miserable life, or release me from the hands of such inhuman tyrants.” Some of the rude rabble again renewed their insulting cries, but the citizens displayed their ancient standard, the Blue Blanket, and ran to arms for her deliverance ; and hadnot the confederates removed her to Holyrood, on pretence of restoring her to liberty, she might probably have been safe for a time under her burgher guards. See the VIGNETTaEt t he head of this Chapter. ... TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARE: 79 A loud explosion about two o’clock in the morning, while it shook the ...

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I 96 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH, this memorable event. The newspapers for some time afterwards abound with notices of the precautions taken, when too late, to prevent the recurrence of an act, the idea of which can hardly have appeared otherwise than ridiculous even at the time. The gates of the Nether Bow Port were fastened back to preserve the free access of the military to the city; guards were established there ; the trained bands were called out ; grenadier companies quartered in the town and suburbs ; and most effectual means taken to prevent the hanging of a second Porteous, if any such had existed.’ On the second day after his execution, the body of Porteous was interred in the Greyfriars Churchyard,’ but the exact spot has long since ceased to be remembered.’ The Tolbooth of Edinburgh was visited by Howard in the year 1782, and again in 1787, and on the last occasion he strongly expressed his dissatisfaction, declaring that he had expected to have found a new one in its stead.‘ It was not, however, till the year 1817 that the huge pile of antique masonry was doomed to destruction. Its materiale were sold in the month of September, and its demolition took place almost immediately afterwards. The following extract from a periodical of that period, while it shows with how little grief the demolition of the ancient fabric was witnessed, also points out the GRAVE OF THE OLD TOLBOOTH. It seems to have been buried with a sort of pauper’s funeral, on the extreme outskirts of the new city that was rising up beyond those ancient boundaries of which it had so long formed the heart. Now,” says the writer, (( that the Luckenbooths have been safely carted to Leith Wynd (would that it had been done some dozen years ago ! ) and the Tolbooth,-to the unutterable delight of the inhabitants,-is journeying quickly to Fettes Row, there to be transferred into common sewers and drains, the irregular and grim visage of the Cathedral has been in a great measure unveiled.” The unveiling of the Cathedral had formed the grand object of all civic committees of taste for well-nigh half a century before ; the renovation of the ancient fabric thereby exposed to vulgar gaze became the next subject of discussion, until this also was at length accomplished in 1829, at the cost not only of much money, but of nearly all its ancient and characteristic features. Added to all these radical changes, the assistance rendered by the Great Fire of 1824, unexpectedly removed a whole range of eyesores to such reformers, in the destruction of the ancient tenements between St Gilea’s and tb,e Tron Church. As the only means of giving width and uniformity to the street, all this comes fairly within the category of civic improvements ; how far it tended to increase the picturesque beauty of the old thoroughfare is a very different question. Taylor, the Water Poet, in the amusing narrative of his Pennylesse Pilgrimage ” from London to Edinburgh, published in 1618, describes the High Street as “the fairest and goodliest street that ever mine eyes’ beheld, for I did never see or hear of a street of that length, which is half an English mile from the Castle to a faire port, which they calle the Neather 1 Caledonian Mwmy, September 23, 1736. a ‘‘ No less than seventeen criminals escaped from the city jail on this occasion, among whom are the dragoon who waa indicted for the murder of the butcher’s wife in Dunse, the two Newhaven men lately brought in from Blacknesa Castle for smuggling, seven sentinele of the city guard, &e.”-Ibid, September 9th. ‘ knot, who never minces matten when disposed to censure, furnishes 8 very graphic picture of the horrors of the old jail of Edinburgh.-Hit. of Edinburgh, p. 298. ’ Ibid, September 9. Edin. Mag. Nov. 1817, p. 322. ... 96 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH, this memorable event. The newspapers for some time afterwards abound with notices ...

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CHAPTER XI. ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. EXT to the Castle of Edinburgh, the ancient Parish Church of St Giles, and the Abbey of Holyrood, form the most prominent objects of interest in the history of the capital. The existence of the first Parish Church of Edinburgh is traced to the second century after the death of its tutelar saint, the Abbot and Confeseor St Giles, who was born in Greece, of illustrious parentage, in the sixth century, and afterwards abandoning his native land, and bestowing his wealth on the poor, retired into the wilderness of Languedoc, and founded the celebrated monastery which long after bore his name. To some wandering brother from the banks of the Rhone, we probably owe the dedication of the ancient Parish Church of Edinburgh to St Giles, a favourite saint who owes his honours in the southern capital to Matilda, the Queen of Henry I. of England, and daughter of St Margaret, Queen of Malcolm Canmore, who founded there St Giles’s Hospit.al for lepers, in 11 17. The Bishopric of Lindisfarn, which comprehended Edinburgh, dates so early as A.D. 835, and Simeon of Durham, in reckoning the churches and towns belonging to the see in the pear.854, mentions EdminsburcA among the latter.’ We can only infer the existence of the Church, however, from this notice, as it is not directly mentioned, nor can we discorer its name in any authentic record till the -reign of Alexander 11.-who succeeded his father, William the Lion, in 1214-when Baldredus, Deacon of Lothian, and John, Perpetual Vicar of the Church of St Giles, at Edinburgh, a f b their seals in attestation of a copy of certain Papal bulls and other charters Maitland, p. 270. VIGNETTE-chapel of Robed, Duke of Albany, St ades’s Church. 3 B ... XI. ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. EXT to the Castle of Edinburgh, the ancient Parish Church of St Giles, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 157 irksome and disadvantageous. In order to rid themselves of the grievance, they went to law with the Magistrates in lSOS, and again in 1810; but in both instances they were defeated. In l S l l , however, determined to be no longer held in bondage, they sold the property of the Society-made a division of the proceeds-and broke up the union. The city being then provided with an efficient fire establishment, and deeming it useless to contend with them, the Magistrates tacitly sanctioned the dispersion of the Tron-men, by refraining from all attempts to compel their attendance. No. CCXXV, WILLIAM CUMMING, ESQ. THE old gentleman represented in this Etching was a person of eccentric habits. He was immensely rich, and carried on a very extensive and lucrative business as a private banker-at one time in the Parliament Close, and latterly, under the firm of Camming and Son, in the Royal Exchange. He died in 1790. His demise was thus announced in the periodicals of the day:-“March 27, at Edinburgh, in an advanced age, William Cumming, Esq., many years an eminent banker.” He was reputed to be extremely penurious. When walking on the streets, he used constantly to keep his arms spread out to prevent the people from rubbing against his coat, and thereby injuring it. Under a similar apprehension he never allowed his servant to brush his clothes, lest the process should wear off the pile ; but made him place them on the back of a chair, and blow the dust off with a pair of bellows. He not unfrequently wore a scarlet cloak over his suit of sables. The artist, for an obvious reason, has dispensed with this ornament in the portraiture. He was generally known by the soubriquet of “ the Crow.” His manner of walking, with outstretched arms, and the unique appearance of his whole figure, especially at a distance, presented a striking resemblance to that bird. A few days previous to one of the drawings, he had returned all his unsold tickets except one, in the confident hope that even at the eleventh hour a stray purchaser might be found. He for once miscalculated : the decisive day arrived, and the ticket still remained unsold Deeply grieved, and blaming himself for his imprudence, he at last made up his mind to sacrifice a trifle, and actually went out amongst his acquaintances- the shopkeepers of the Lawnmarket offering the ticket at half price I But, with characteristic caution, not one of them could be prevailed on to adventure. Much mortified, the banker felt he had no other resource than quietly to suffer the anticipated loss. His triumph, Mr. Curnming was for some time an agent of the State lotteries. ... SKETCHES. 157 irksome and disadvantageous. In order to rid themselves of the grievance, they went to ...

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THE HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 267 separated only by very narrow uprights. It is decorated with string courses and rich mouldings, and forms a fine specimen of an Old-Town mansion of the sixteenth century. It is stated by Chambers to be entailed with the estate of the Clerks of Pennycuik, and to have formed the town residence of their ancestors. This we presume to have been the later residence of Alexander, fifth Lord Home; the same who entertained Queen Mary and Lord Darnley in his lodging near the Tron in 1565, and who afterwards turned the fortune of the field at the Battle of Langside, at the head of his border spearmen. He was one of the noble captives who surrendered to Sir William Durie on the taking of Edinburgh Castle in 1573. He was detained a prisoner, while his brave companions perished on the scaffold; a.nd was only released at last after a tedious captivity, to die a prisoner at large in his own house-the same, we believe, which stood in Blackfriars’ Wynd. A contemporary writer remarks :-“ Wpoun the secund day of Junij [1575], Alexander Lord Home wes relevit out of the Castell of Edinburgh, and wardit in his awne lugeing in the heid of the Frier Wynd, quha wes carijt thairto in ane bed, be ressone of his great infirmitie of seiknes.”’ Scarcely another portion of the Old Town of Edinburgh was calculated to impress the thoughtful visitor with the same melancholy feelings of a departed glory, replaced by squalor and decay, which he experienced after exploring the antiquities of the Blackfriars’ Wynd. There stood the deserted and desecrated fane ; the desolate mansions of proud and powerful nobles and senators ; and the degraded Palace of the Primate and Cardinal, where even Scottish monarchs have been fitly entertained; and it seemed for long as if the ground which Alexander 11. bestowed on the Dominican Monks, as a, special act of regal munificence, was not possessed of value enough to tempt the labours of the builder. Emerging again through the archway at the head of the wynd, which the royal masterprinter jitted at his pleasure above three centuries ago, an ancient., though greatly modernised, tenement in the High Street to the east of the wynd attracted the notice of the local historian as the mansion of Lord President Fentonbarn!, a man of humble origin, the son of a baker in Edinburgh, whose eminent abilities won him the esteem and the suffrages of its contemporaries. He owed his fortunes to the favour of James VI., by whom he was nominated to fill the office of a Lord of Session, and afterwards knighted. We are inclined to think that it is to him Montgomerie alludes in his satirical sonnets addressed to M. J. Sharpe-in all probability au epithet of similar origin and signilicance to that conferred by the Jacobite8 on the favourite advocate of William 111. The poet had failed in a suit before the Court of Session, seemingly with James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow, and he takes his revenge against “ his Adversars Lawyers,” like other poets, in satiric rhyme. The lack of ‘‘ gentle blude ” is a special handle against the plebeian judge in the eyes of the high-born poet ; and his second sonnet, which is sufEcientlp vituperative, begins :- A Baxter’s bird, a bluiter beggar borne ! ’ This old mansion was the last survivor of all the long and unbroken range of buildings between St Giles’s Church and the Nether Bow. In its original state it was one of l Diurnal of Occurrenta, p. 348. Alexander Montgornerie’s Poems ; complete edition, by Dr Irving, p. 74. ... HIGH STREET AND NETHER BOW. 267 separated only by very narrow uprights. It is decorated with string courses ...

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the N ~ S , attracted by the dampness of the soil, where for ages the artificial loch lay. A few feet eastward of the tower there was found in the bank, in 1820, a large coffin of thick fir containing three skeletons, a male and two females, supposed to be those of a man named Sinclair and his two sisters, who were all drowned?in the loch in 1628 for a horrible crime. Eastward of this tower of the 15th century are the remains of a long, low archway, walled with rubble, but arched with well-hewn stones, popularly known as ?the lion?s den,? and which has evidently formed a portion of that secret escape or covered way from the Castle (which no Scottish fortress was ever without), the tradition concerning which is of general and very ancient belief; and this idea has been still further strengthened by the remains of a similar subterranean passage being found below Brown?s Close, on the Castle Hill. At the highest part of the latter stood the ancient barrier gate of 1450, separating the fortress from the city. This gate was temporarily replaced on the occasion of the visit of George IV, in 1822, and by an iron chuaux de fdse-to isolate the 82nd Regiment and garrison generally-during the prevalence of Asiatic cholera, ten years subsequently. There stood on the north side of the Castle Hill an ancient church, some vestiges of which were visible in Maitland?s time, in 1753, and which he supposed to have been dedicated to St, Andrew the patron of Scotland, and which he had seen referred to in a deed of gift of twenty merks yearly, Scottish money, to the Trinity altar therein, by Alexander Curor, Vicar of Livingstone, 20th December, 1488. In June, 1754, when some workmen were levelling this portion of the Castle Hill, they discovered a subterranean chamber, fourteen feet square, wherein lay a crowned image of the Virgin, hewn of very white stone, two brass altar candlesticks, some trinkets, and a few ancient Scottish and French coins. By several remains of burnt matter and two large cannon balls being also found there, this edifice was supposed to have been demolished durbg some of the sieges undergone by the Castle since the invention of artillery. Andin December, 1849, when the Castle Hill was being excavated for the new reservoir, several finely-carved stones were found in what was understood to be the foundation of this chapel or of Christ?s Church, which was commenced there in 1637, and had actually proceeded so far that Gordon of Rothiemay shows it in his map with a high-pointed spire, but it was abandoned, and its materials used in the erection of the present church at the Tron. Under all this were found those pre-historic human remains referred to in our first chapter. This was the site of the ancient water-house. It was not until ~ 6 2 1 that the citizens discovered the necessity for a regular supply of water beyond that which the public wells with their watef-carriers afforded. It cannot be supposed that the stagnant fluid of the north and south lochs could be fit for general use, yet, in 1583 and 1598, it was proposed to supply the city from the latter. Eleven years after the date above mentioned, Peter Brusche, a German engineer, contracted to supply the city with water from the lands of Comiston, in a leaden pipe of three inches? bore, for a gratuity of 650. By the year 1704 the increase of population rendered an additional supply from Liberton and the Pkntland Hills necessary. As years passed on the old water-house proved quite inadequate to the wants of the city. It was removed in 1849, and in its place now stands the great reservoir, by which old and new Edinburgh are alike supplied with water unexampled in purity, and drawn chiefly from an artificial lake in the Pentlands, nearly seven miles distant. On the outside it is only one storey in height, with a tower of 40 feet high; but within it has an area I 10 feet long, go broad, and 30 deep, containing two millions of gallons ofwater, which can be distributed through the entire city at the rate of 5,000 gallons per minute, Apart from the city, embosomed among treesand though lower down than this reservoir, yet perched high in air-upon the northern bank of the Esplanade, stands the little octagonal villa of Allan Ramsay, from the windows of which the poet would enjoy an extensive view of all the fields, farms, and tiny hamlets that lay beyond the loch below, with the vast panorama beyond-the Firth of Forth, with the hills of Fife and Stirling. ?The sober and industrious life of this exception to the race of poets having resulted in a small competency, he built this oddly-shaped house in his latter days, designing to enjoy in it the Horatian quiet he had so often eulogised in his verse. The story goes: says Chambers in his ?? Traditions,? ? that, showing it soon after to the clever Patrick Lord Elibank, with much fussy interest in its externals and accommodation, he remarked that the vyags were already at work on the subject-they likened it to a goosepie (owing to the roundness of the shape). ? Indeed, Allan,? said his lordship, ?now I see you in it I think the wags are not far wrong.? ? Ramsay, the author of the most perfect pastoral poem in the whole scope of British literature, and a song writer of great merit, was secretly a Jacobite, though a regular attendant in St. Giles?s Church. Opposed to the morose manners of his ... N ~ S , attracted by the dampness of the soil, where for ages the artificial loch lay. A few feet eastward of ...

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INDEX. Buchanan, Qeorge, 42,247 Buck Stane, 124 Bullock, William, 8 Bud, John, the Poet, 88, 316 Burgess Close, Leith, 362 Burke, the Murderer, 181 Burnet, Miss, 288 Burnings of Edinburgh, 9, 12, 50, 379. See EBertford, Burns, Robert, 165, 181,200, 238, 252, 346 Burnt Caudlemas, 384 Burse, The, Leith, 359 Burton, Mr, 162 Butter Tron, 50. See Weigh-house Byres’ Close, 225 Caithness, aeorge Earl of, 390 Calton, The, 353 Calton Hill, 82, 353 Calder, Laird of, 59 Cambuskenneth Abbey, house of the Abbot of, 179 Cameronian Meeting House, Auld, 264 . Campbell, Sir aeorge, 208 Thomas, the Poet, 346 Candlemaker Row, 332, 342, 411 Candlemakera’ Hall, 430 Canmore, Malcolm, 3, 377 Canon, Ancient, 131. See Mow Meg Canongate, 55, 82, 276309 Marquis of Christian, a Witch, 306 Church, 105, 429 Tolbooth. See Tolbooth Queen of the, 285, 292 Canonmills, Village of, 3, 373 Cant’s Close, 3, 261 Cap and Feather Close, 242 Carberry Hill, 79, 245 Cardross, Lord, 196 Carfrae, Mra, Burns’s first Edinburgh hostess, 166 Carlingwark, Three Thorns of, 130 Carmelitea, Monastery of, 411, 444 Caruegie, Sir Robert, 148 Caroline, Queen, 109, 110 Carpenter, Alexander, 61 Carrubber’s Close, 252, 287 Carthrae’s Wynd, 181 Cassilie, Earl of, 141 Castle, Edinburgh, 2,16,121-133, 284, 419 Church, 127 St Margaret’s Chapel, 127-129 Garrison Chapel, 129 Castlehill, 137-157, 350 Executions on the, 43, 45, 133 Church of St Andrew, 143 Castle Barne., 137 Castrum Puellarum, 3 Cecil (Queen Elizabeth‘s Minister), visits Edinburgh, 68 Cemeteries, Ancient, 205 Chalmers’s Close, 254. Chambers, Robert, 154 Chapel Wpd, 136 Charles I., 91-94, 190, 203, 294 Charles II., 94-104,218, 362 Statue of, 84, 206, 207, 218 Prince, 110-113, l.59,290 VI. of France, 12 Charteris, Henry, the Printer, 62, 285 John, of Kinclevin, 57 Laurence, 203 Chatelherault, Duke of. See Jama 2d Earl of Arran Chepman, Walter, the Printer, 30, 72,205,262,321, 388 Cheisley of Dalry, 178, 215 Chessels’s Court, Canongate, 171 Chimney, Aacient Gothic, 176 Chisholme, John, 364 Cholerg 133 Christie’s Will, 243 Churchyard, Thomas, 84 Cinerary Urns, 370 Citadel, Leith, 97, 367 Clamshell Turnpike, 244 Clarinda, 346 Clark’s House, Alexander, 177 Clanrauald, Lady, 303, Claudero, the Poet, 445-449 Cleanse-the-Causeway, 36, 37, 222, 319 Clement VII., Pope, 41 Clerihugh’s Tavern, 201, 233 Clerk, Sir James, 144 Mansion of, 398 Burial Place of, 389 . Land, Carrubber’s Close, 252 VIII., Pope, 353 John, 169 Bailie George, 339 Clestram, Lady, 165 Clockmaker’s Land, West Bow, 340 Club, Cape, 236 Crochallan, 238, 240 Erskine, 308 Lawnmarket, 157 Mirror, 200, 304 Coach, the first in Scotland, 453 Coalhill, Leith, 361 Coatfield Lane, Leith, 94, 360 Coata House, 328 Cochrane, Earl of Mar, 19 Thomaq 163 Cockbewis, Sir John, 23 Cockburn, Patrick, 17 Cockpen, the Laird of, 143 CofEus, Aucient Oak, 330, 451,452 Stone, 369 Coldingham, Lord John, 73 College, 104, 322 Kirk, 430 Library, 170 Wynd, 322 of Justice, 41 Colaton, Lady, 208 Coltbridge, 95, 110 Coltheart, Mr Thomas, 234 Combe’a Close, Leith, 359 Comedy Hut, New Edinburgh, 238 Comiston, Laird of, 159 3N ... Qeorge, 42,247 Buck Stane, 124 Bullock, William, 8 Bud, John, the Poet, 88, 316 Burgess ...

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The Cowgate.] THE CUNZIE NOOK. 267 dexter hand palmed, and in its palm an eye. In the dexter canton, a saltire argent, under the imperial crown, surmounted by a thistle j and in base a castle argent, masoned sable, within a border, charged with instruments used by the society. To the surgeons. were added the apothecaries. James IV., one of the greatest patrons of art and science in his time, dabbled a little in surgery and chemistry, and had an assistant, John the Leeche, whom he brought from the Continent. Pitscottie tells us that James was ?ane singular guid chirurgione,? and in his daily expense book, singular entries occur in 1491, of payments made to people to let him bleed them and pull their teeth :- ?Item, to ane fallow, because the King pullit furtht his twtht, xviii shillings. ?Item, to Kynnard, ye barbour, for tua teith drawin furtht of his hed be the King, xvci sh.? The barbers were frequently refractory, and brought the surgeons into the Court of Session t e adjust rights, real or imagined. But after the union of the latter with the apothecaries, they gave up the barber craft, and were formed into one corporation by an Act of Council, on the 25th February, 1657, as already mentioned in the account of the old Royal College of Surgeons. The first admitted after the change, was Christopher Irving, recorded as ?? ane free chmgone,? without the usual words ?and barber,? after his name. He was physician to James VII., and from him the Irvings of Castle Irving, in .Ireland, are descended. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE SOCIETY. The Candlemaker Row--The ? Cunzie Nook?-Tbe of Charles 1.-The Candlemakers? Hall--The Afhk of Dr. Symons-The Society, IS+ Brown Square-Proposed Statue to George III., x~-Di&nguished Inhabitants-Si IsIay Campbell-Lard Glenlec-Haigof Beimerside --Si John Lerlie-Miss Jeannie Elliot-Argyle Square-Origin of it-Dr. Hugh Bkit-The Sutties of that Ilk-Trades Maiden Hospital- -Mint0 House and the Elliots-New Medical School-Baptist Church-Chambers Strect-Idustrial Museum of Sdence and Art-Its Great Hall and adjoining Halls-Aim of the Architect-Contents and Models briefly glanced at-New Watt Institution and School of ArtsPhrenoloEical Museum-New Free Tron Church-New Tiainiing College of the Church of Scotland-The Dental Hospita-The . Theatre ofvari.&s. THE Candlemaker Row is simply the first portion of the old way that led from the Grassmarket and Cowgate-head, where Sir John Inglis resided in 1784, to the lands of Bnsto, and thence on to Powburn ; and it was down this way that a portion of the routed Flemings, with Guy of Namur at their head, fled towards the Castle rock, after their defeat on the Burghmuir in 1335. In Charles I.?s time a close line of street with a great open space behind occupied the whole of the east side, from the Greyfriars Port to the Cowgatehead. The west side was the boundary wall of the churchyard, save at the foot, where two or three houses appear in 1647, one of which, as the Cunzie Nook, is no doubt that referred to by Wilson as a curious little timber-fronted tenement, surmounted with antique crow-steps ; an open gallery projects in front, and rude little; shot-windows admit the light to the decayed and gloomy chambers therein.? This, we presume, to be the Cunzie Nook, a place where the Mint had no doubt been estab Cshed at some early period, possibly during some of the strange proceedings in the Regency of Mary of Guise, when the Lords of the Congregation ?past to Holyroodhous, and tuik and intromettit With the ernis of the Cunzehous.? On the west side, near the present entrance to the churchyard of the Greyfriars, stands the hall of the ancient Corporation of the Candlemakers, which gave its name to the Row, with the arms of the craft boldly cut over the doorway, on a large oblong panel, and, beneath, their appropriate motto, . Omnia man;jesfa Zuce. Internally, the hall is subdivided into many residences, smaller accommodation sufficing for the fraternity in this age of gas, so that it exists little more than in name. In 1847 the number of its members amounted to only fhw, who met periodically for various purposes, connected with the corporation and its funds. Edgar?s plan shows, in the eighteenth century, the close row of houses that existed along the whole of the west side, from the Bristo Port to the foot, and nearly till Forrest Road was opened up in a linewith the central Meadow Walk. Humble though this locality may seem now, Sir James Dunbar, Bart., of Dum, rented No. ZI in 1810, latterly a carting office. In those days the street was a place ?of considerable bustle; the Hawick dilligence started twice weekly from Paterson?s Inn, a well-known hostel in its time, ... Cowgate.] THE CUNZIE NOOK. 267 dexter hand palmed, and in its palm an eye. In the dexter canton, a saltire ...

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Cowgate.] ANCIENT Both these relics are now preserved in the Museum of Antiquities. An act of the Privy Council in 1616 describes Edinburgh as infested by strong and idle vagabonds, having their resorts ?in some parts of the Cowgate, Canongate, Potterrow, West Port, &c., where they ordinarily convene every night, and pass their time in all kind of not and filthy lechery, to the offence and displeasure of God,? lying all day on CLOSES. 241 Close in 1514; Todrig?s Wynd is mentioned in 1456, when Patrick Donald granted two merks yearly from his tenement therein for repairing the altar of St. Hubert, and in 1500 a bailie named Todrig, was assaulted with drawn swords in his own house by two men, who were taken to the Tron, and had their hands stricken through. Carrubber?s Close was probably named from ? William of Caribris,? one of the three bailies in THE COWGATE, FROM THE PORT TO COLLEGE WYND, 1646. ( A f b cfdsthumay.) 17. The Cowgate ; 44, Peebles Wynd ; 45, Merlin?s Wynd ; 46, Niddry?s Wynd ; 47, Dickson?s Close : 50, Gnfs Wynd ; 5% St Mad5 w p d ; h St Mary?s Wpd Suburbs ; I; Cov&e Port ; g, Si M a j s Wynd Port ; 53, The College Wynd ; 54. Robertson?s Wynd ; 55. High School Wynd ; q, Lady Yeser?s Kirk ; .r, The High School ; w, The College ; y, S i M;uy of the Fields, or the Kirk of Fields ; 25, The Town Wall. the causeway, extorting alms with ? shameful exclamations,? to such an extent that passengers could neither walk nor confer in the streets without being impeded and pestered by them ; hence the magistrates gave orders to expel them wholesale from the city and keep it clear of them. The Burgh Records throw some light on the names of certain of the oldest closes-those running between the central street and the Cowgate, as being the residences or erections of old and influential citizens. Thus Niddry?s Wynd is doubtless connected with Robert Niddry, a magistrate in 1437 ; Cant?s Close with Adam Cant, who was Dean of Guild in 1450, though it is called Alexander Cant?s 79 1454, as doubtless Con?s Close was from John Con, a wealthy flesher of 1508. William Foular?s Close is mentioned in 1521, when Bessie Symourtoun is ordered to be burned there on the cheeks and banished for passing gear infected with the pest ; and Mauchan?s Close was no doubt connected with the name of John Mauchane, one of the bailies in 1523; Lord Eorthwick?s Close is frequently mentioned before 1530, and Francis Bell?s Close occurs in the City Treasurer?s Accounts, under date 1554. Liberton?s Wynd is mentioned in a charter by James 111. in 1474, and the old protocol books of the city refer to it frequently in the twelve years preceding Flodden ; William Liberton?s heirs are ... ANCIENT Both these relics are now preserved in the Museum of Antiquities. An act of the Privy Council ...

Book 4  p. 241
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OLD AND NEW EDINEURGH. LSouth Bridge. 376 In 1837 he succeeded Professor Macvey Napier as Librarian to the Signet Library ; and when the new and noble library of the University was opened he volunteered to arrange it, which he did with all the ardour of a bibliomaniac. Hewas made LL.D. of his native university in 1864, and is believed to have edited and annotated fully 250 rare works on Scottish history and antiquities. True to its old tradition, No. 49 is still a booksellefs shop, held by the old firm of Ogle and Murray. In No. 98 of the Bridge Street are the Assay Office and Goldsmith?s Hall, The former is open on alternate days, when articles of gold and silver that require to be guaranteed by the stamp of genuineness, are sent in and assayed. The assay master scrapes a small quantity of metal off each article, and submits it to a test in order to ascertain the quality. The duty charged here on each ounce of gold plate is 17s. 6d., and on silver plate IS. 6d One of the earliest incorporated trades of Edinburgh was that of the hammermen, under which were included the goldsmiths, who, in 1586, were formed into a separate company. By the articles of it, apprentices must serve for a term of seven years, and masters are obliged to serve a regular apprenticeship of three years or more to make them more perfect in their trade. They were, moreover, once bound to give the deacon of the craft sufficient proof of their knowledge of metals, and of their skill in the working thereof. By a charter of James VI., all persons not of the corporation are prohibited from exercising the trade of a goldsmith within the liberties of Edinburgh. King James VII. incorporated the company by a charter, with additional powers for the regulation of its trade. Those were granted, so it runs, ? because the art and science of goldsmiths is exercised in the city of Edinburgh, to which our subjects frequently resort, because it is the seat of our supreme Parliament, and of the other supreme courts, and there are few goldsmiths in other cities.? In virtue of the powers conferred upon it, the company, from the date of its formation, tested and stamped all the plate and jewellery made in Scotland. The first stamp adopted was the tipletowered castle, or city arms. ?In 1681,? says Bremner, in his ?? Industries of Scotland,? ?a letter representing the date was stamped on as well as the castle. The letter A indicates that the article bearing it was made in the year between the 29th of September, 1681, and the same day in 1682 ; the other letters of the alphabet, omitting j and w, representing the succeeding twenty-three years. Each piece bore, in addition to the castle and date letter, the assay-master?s initials. Seven alphabets of a different type have been exhausted in recording the dates ; and the letter of the eighth alphabet, for 1869, is an Egyptian capital M. In 1759 the standard mark of a thistle was substituted for the assay-master?s initials, and is still continued. In 1784 a ?duty-mark? was added, the form being the head of the sovereign. The silver mace of. the city of Edinburgh is dated 1617 ; the High Church plate, 1643.? The making of spoons and forks was at one time an extensive branch of the silversmith trade in Edinburgh ; but the profits were so small that it has now passed almost entirely into the hands of English manufacturers. The erection of this bridge led to the formation of Xunter?s Square and Hair Street, much about the same time and in immediate conjunction with i t The square and street (where the King?s pnntingoffice was placed) were both named from Sir James Hunter Blair, who was Provost of the city when the bridge was commenced, but whose death at Harrogate, in 1789, did not permit him to see the fine1 completion of it. Number 4 in this small square, the north side of which is entirely formed by the Tron Church, contains the old hall of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, which was formed in 1681. But long previous to that year the merchants OF the city formed themselves into a corporation, called the guildry, from which, for many ages, the magistrates were exclusively chosen ; and, by an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of James III., each of the incorporated trades in Edinburgh was empowered to choose one of their number to vote in the election of those who were to govern the city, and this guildry was the parent of the Merchant Company. ?It was amidst some of the most distressing things in our national histovhangings of the poor ?hill folk? in the Grassmarket, trying of the patriot Argyle for taking the test-oath with an explanation, and so forththat this company came into being. Its nativity was further heralded by sundry other things of a troublous kind affecting merchandise and its practitioners.?? The merchants of Edinburgh, according to Amot, were erected into a bodp-corporate by royal charter, dated 19th October, 1681, under the name of The Company of Merchants of fhe Cig of Edinburgh. By this charter they were empowered to choose a Preses, who is called ? The Master,? with twelve assistants, a treasurer, clerk, and officer. The company were further empowered to purchase ... AND NEW EDINEURGH. LSouth Bridge. 376 In 1837 he succeeded Professor Macvey Napier as Librarian to the Signet ...

Book 2  p. 377
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18 secure lock was placed upon it for the same purpose. In 1647 only three open thoroughfares are shown OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. r.,anongate. 1695, he early exhibited great talent with profound legal knowledge, and the mere enumeration of his I but there once stood on its eastern side a stately ald tenement, bearing the date 1614 with this pious legend: I. TAKE. THE. LORD. JESUS. AS. MY. ONLV. ALL. SUFFICIENT. P~RTION. TO. CONTENT. ME. This was cut in massive Roman letters, and the house was adorned by handsome dormer windows and moulded stringcourses; but of the person who dwelt therein no memory remains. And the same must be said of the edifices in the closes called Morocco and Logan?s, and several others. Between these two lies Rae?s Close, .very dark and narrow, leading only to a house with a back green, beyond which can be seen the Calton Hill. In the sixteenth century this alley was the only open thoroughfare to the north between Leith Wynd ? Kinloch?s mansion and that which adjoined itthe abode of the Earls of Angus-were pulled down about 1760, when New Street was built, ?a curious sample of fashionable modem improvement, prior to the bold scheme of the New Town,? and first called Young Street, according to Kincaid. Though sorely faded and decayed, it still presents a series of semi-aristocratic, detached, and not indigent mansions of the plain form peculiar to the time. Among its inhabitants were Lords Kames and Railes, Sir Philip Ainslie, the Lady Betty Anstruther, Christian Rarnsay daughter of the poet, Dr. Young the eminent physician, and others, Henry Home, Lord Kames, who was raised to the bench in 1752, occupied a self-contained to the north-one the Tolbooth Wynd-and all are closed by arched gates in a wall bounding the Canongate on the north, and lying parallel with a long watercourse flowing away towards Craigentinnie, and still extant. Kinloch?s Close, described in 1856 as ?short, dark, and horrible,? took its name from Henry Kinloch, a wealthy burgess of the? Canongate in the days of Queen Mary, who committed to his hospitality, in 1565, when she is said to have acceded to the League of Bayonne, the French . ambassadors M. de Rambouillet and Clernau, who came on a mission from the Court of France. Their ostensible visit, however, was more probably to invest Darnley with the order of St. Michael. They had come through England with a train of thirty-six mounted gentlemen. After presenting themselves before the king and queen at Holyrood, according to the ?? Diurnal of Occurrent$,? they ?there after depairtit to Heny Kynloches lugeing in the Cannogait besyid Edinburgh.? A few days after Darnley was solemnly invested with the collar of St. Michael in the abbey church; and on the I rth of February the ambassadors were banqueted, and a masked ball y.as given, when ? the Queenis Grace and all her Manes and ladies were cZed in men?s appardy and each of them presented a sword, ? brawlie and maist artificiallie made a d embroiderit with gold, to the said ambassatour and his gentlemen.? Next day they were banqueted in the castle by the Earl of Mar, and on the? next ensuing they took their departure for France vid England. works on law and history would fill a large page. He was of a playful disposition, and fond of practical jokes; but during the latter part oc his life he entertained a nervous dread that he would outlive his noble faculties, and was pleased to find that by the rapid decay of his frame he would escape that dire calamity; and he died, after a brief illness, in 1782, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. The great Dr. Hunter, of ?the Tron church, afterwards lived and died in this house. Lord Hailes, to whom we have referred elsewhere, resided during his latter years in New Street; but prior to his promotion to the?bench he generally lived at New Hailes. His house, No. 23, was latterly possessed by Mr. Ruthven, the ingenious improver of the Ruthven printing-press. Christian Ramsay, the daughter of ?honest Allan,? and so named from her mother, Christian Ross,?lived for many years in New Street, She was an amiable and kind-hearted woman, and possessed something of her fatheis gift of verse. In her seventy-fourth year she was thrown down by a hackney-coach and had her leg broken ; yet she recovered, and lived to be eighty-eight. Leading a solitary life, she took a great fancy to cats, and besides supporting many in her house, cosily disposed of in bandboxes, she laid out food for others around her house. ?Not a word of obloquy would she listen to against the species,? says the author of ? Traditions of Edinburgh,? ?? alleging, when any wickedness of a cat was spoken 05 that the animal must have acted under provocation, for by nature, she asserted, they were hapless ... lock was placed upon it for the same purpose. In 1647 only three open thoroughfares are shown OLD AND ...

Book 3  p. 17
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APPENDIX. 425 1645.-About this date two drawings of Edinburgh appear to have been made, from which engravings were . executed in Holland. From their style of drawing, it is exceedingly probable that they are the work of Clordon of Rothiemay, previous to his large. bird’s-eye view from the south, described in the next paragraph. They are engraved on one large sheet of copper, forming long, narrow, panoramic views, each of them measuring seven and a half inches by twenty-two and a half inches, within the work ; and are now very rarely to be met with. The h t i s inscribed, VnBI0 EDINB FACIE^ MEIUDIONALIS-T~GP rospect of the South Side of Edinburgh. The point of sight appears to be towards St Leonard‘s Hill. Heriot’s Hospital is introduced without the dome of the centre tower, and with the large towers at the anglea covered with steep-pointed roofs,+ rude representation seemingly of the ogee roofs with which at least two of them were originally surmounted. (Vide page 343.) Beside it is the Old Greyfriars, as it then stood, with a plain quare tower at ita west end. But the most conspicuous object in both views is ‘( The Tnm Kirk, with thc Steepk,” aa it is described, though it consists only of the square tower, finished with a plain and very flat slanting roof ;-an object which suffices very nearly to determine the date of the drawing. The Nether Bow Steeple, and the Skeple of Canno-tolbuilh, are also introduced with tolerable accuracy. The Palace is, unfortunately, very rudely executed. The Abbey Lhrch, with its tower and spire, and James V. Tower, are the only portions shown, and neither of them very well drawn. A wall runs from the Palace along the South Back of the Canongate to the Cowgate Port, pierced with small doors, and entitled 27t.e Back Entriea to t h Cannon-gait. The most prominent objects are the same as in the former, including the unfinished steeple of the Tron Church. In both the High Kirk steeple is very imperfectly rendered ; though, indeed, no old view renders St Giles’s beautiful crown tower correctly. The Castle Chappel is marked in both views j and in the latter, both it and the large ancient church on the north side of the Grand Parade, form the most prominent objecta in the Castle. The Palace is entirely concealed in the latter i4ew ; and in both of them no attention appears to have been paid to any details in the private buildings of the town. The copy of these we have examined, and the only one we have ever seen is in t he possession of David Laing, Esq. The plate has no date or engraver‘e name. 164 7.-Maitland remarks (History of Edinburgh, p. 86), “In this year, 1647, a dranght or view of Edinburgh being made by James Gordon, minister of Rothiemay, by order of the Common Council, they ordered the sum of Five Hundred Marks to be paid him for the pains and trouble he had been at in making the same.’ This view, or plan, which waa engraved at Amsterdam by De Wit, on a large scale, is one of the most accurate and valuable records that could possibly exist, It is a bird’s-eye view taken from a south point of sight, and measures forty-one and a quarter inches long by sixteen inches broad. The public buildings are represented with great minuteness and fidelity, and in the principal streets almost every house of any note along the north side may be distinguished. A very careful copy of this wm published at London, with views of the town in the cornera of the plate, early in the following century, “exactly done from the original of ye famous D. Wit, by And‘. Johnston,” and is dedicated to the Hon. George Lockhart, the celebrated politician, better known as “Union LockharL” Another tolerably accurate facsimile of the original plan was engraved by Kirkwood on the same large scale, in the present century ; but the plate and the chief portion of the impr&ions perished in the Great Fire of 1824, the premises of the engraver being at that time in the Parliament Square. Gough remarks, in his Topography (VOLi i p. 673), ‘( The Rev. Mr James Cordon of Rothiemay’s plan of Edinburgh haa been re-engraved in Holland, but not so accurately as that done from his own drawing, in vol. xii of Piere Vauder days ‘ Gallerie agreable du Monde,’ a collection of plans, views of towns, &c., in 66 vols. thin folio, at Leyden.” 1650.-Another rare view of Edinburgh from the south, engraved by Rombout Van den Hoyen, appears to have been drawn about 1650. In the left corner of the sky the arms of Scotland are introduced, not very accurately drawn ; a flying scroll bears the name Edyaburgurn, and above the sky is the inscription Edenburgum Ciwitas Swtia celehrisna Two mounted figares are introduced in the foreground, riding apparently over the ridge of St Leonard’s Hill, along the ancient Dumbiedyke’s Road, tawards the town. The date of the View is aSeertain- The companion view from the Calton Hill is entitled VRBIS EDMA LAW0 SEPTENTRIONALE. . 3 H ... 425 1645.-About this date two drawings of Edinburgh appear to have been made, from which engravings ...

Book 10  p. 464
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INDEX. 471 St Ninian’s Chapel, North Leith, 307, 365 Calton, 353 Row, 354 Alter, House of the Chaplain of, 146 St Paul’s Chapel, Carrubber’s Close, 251 St Peter’s Close, Cowgate, 323 St Roque’s Chapel, on the Borough Muir, 415 St Thomas’s Hospital, 25, 85, 245, 305 St Triduana’s Tomb, Reatalrig Church, 398 Surrey, Earl of, 26-28 Swinton, Alexander, Lord Mewington, 208 Sydserff, Sir Thomas, 287 Sglvius, aneas, 15 Syme, A., Advocate, 139 Symson, Andrew, the Printer, 324 Tables, The, 93 Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate, 93,287,325-327 Mrs, 328 Carrubber’s Close, 431 Portsburgh, 291 Corporation of, 431 Talfar, Samuel, 160 Tantallon Castle, 13 Tarbat, Sir James, a Priest, mobbed, 74 Taylor, the Water Poet, 197, 221, 407 Telfer of Scotgtown, Mrs, 289 Templar Lands, 340, 341 Tennis Court, 103, 286,287, 308 Thackeq, Major-General, 126 Theatre. See Drama, Tennis Cozcrt, Plays, Tailors’ Threave Castle, 130 Thynne, Lady Isabella, Portrait of, 410 Tiding Pin, 317 Todrick‘s Wynd, 88, 268, 315 TOTS Close, Castlehill, 146, 148, 149, 151, 153 Tolbooth, or Heart of Midlothian, 63, 71, 84, 85, 106, New, or Council House, 72, 202,203 Kirk, 194, 392 Leith, 82, 364 Wynd, Leith, 364 Hall, Cowgate, &. 109,183 Tolbooth, Canongate, 216, 292 Topham, Captain, 161,197 Torture, 81,216 Touris, Qeorge of, 34 Tournaments, 23, 43,136 Tours of Innerleith, 117 Town Guard, 35, 219, 248 House, 115, 189, 247 Tranent, 51,234 Train, Joseph, the Antiquary, 129 Traquair, John, 1st Earl of, 243 Charles, 4th Earl of, 285 Trinity College Church, 18, 63, 96, 353, 394-417 Hospital, 50, 117, 396, 397 House, Leith, 359 Tron, Butter, 50, 87, 157. iee W&h-house Salt, 91,249. See Pi4lory Church, 428 Leith, 359 Trunk’e Close, 256 . Tumuli, Ancient, 370 Turner, J. M. W., the Painter, 197 Tweeadale, John, 2d Earl of, 274, 283 William, a Witness, Porteoua Mob, 195 Charles, 3d Marquis of, 180, 274 Gleorge, 6th Marquis of, Mansion of, 180 Marquirr of, Mansion of, 311, 314 Close, 273 Tytler, William, of Woodhouselee, 199 Udward, Nicol, 89, 177,260 Omfraville’s Crow, 213, 442 Union, The, 107, 211 Cellar, 108 Unreason, Abbot of, 68 Urban II., Pope, 20 Vallence, Bishop of, 67, 68 Vennel, The, 91,117 Victoria, Queen, 298 Villeganon, Monsieur, receives Queen Yary at Dum- Violante, Signora, 287 Virgin Mary’s Chapel, West Port, 136, 415 Wallace of Craigie, Sir Thomas, 162 barton, 53 Lady, 162 Captain, 208 Walla, Town, 17, 35, 36, 91, 116, 117, 132 Warbeck, Perkin, 25 Wardie, 131, 369 Warrender, George, Bailie, 207 House, 165 Warriston, Lord. See Johwton of Wam’ston Warriston’s Close, 230 Warwolf, A, 328 Water Qate, 50, 94, 295, 305 Water’s Close, Leith, 362 Watt, Deacon, 202, 256 Weaponshaws, 23, 412 Webster, Dr, 140 Webster’s Close, 140 Weigh-house, 96, 97,112, 157, 195 Lane, Leith, 360, 362, 363 Executed for Treason, 123 Old, demolished by Cromwell, 96 Leith, 364 Weir, Major, 101, 167, 335338, 438 . Orisel, 116-118,213, 336-338, 438 Well-House Tower, 85,116, 132 Weymss, 2d Earl of, 275 Francis, 5th Earl of, 211, 300 . Countess of, 188, 210 Laird of, 69 West Bow, I f , 85,113,117, 131,132,333-342,438 Westhall, Lord, 229 West Port, 38, 40, 44, 65, 85, 87, 90, 91, 136, 217, 344 Wharton, Duke of, 178 White, Martha, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine 166 White Friars, or Ca;melites, 411, 444 Whitefield, Rer. Oeorge, 288 Whiteford House, 303 ... 471 St Ninian’s Chapel, North Leith, 307, 365 Calton, 353 Row, 354 Alter, House of the Chaplain of, ...

Book 10  p. 510
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BIOGRAPHIUAL SKETCHBS. 35 9 for the time being ; and it was the wish of the volunteers that the commissions should, as far as possible, be held by gentlemen who had served with reputation in his Majesty's regular forces. An exception, however, which at once testified their estimation of his character, was made in the case of Provost Elder, for the volunteers unanimously recommended him to his Ma,jesty to be their First Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1P97 the Principal and Professors of the University requested him to sit for his portrait, to be preserved in the University library. Mr. Elder accordingly sat to the late Sir Henry Raeliurn, who finished an excellent likeness in his best style-from which a mezzotinto engraving was afterwards published. Provost Elder merited this compliment, which had previously only been conferred on men eminent for learning or science, by being, in addition to his general usefulness as a magistrate and citizen, prominelitly instrumental in maturing the design of rebuilding the College, which probably would have been finished during his lifetime, had it not been for the exigencies of the war. In 1795 Mr. Elder was appointed Postmaster-General for Scotland--an honour which testified that his services had been highly appreciated by his Majesty, and which was considered by his fellow-citizens as ho more than a proper reward. Throughout the whole course of his life, both in public and private business, Mr. Elder displayed " great and persevering activity in all his undertakings, inflexible integrity in his conduct, and perfect firmness in what he judged to be right. These talents and virtues were exerted without pomp or aflectation ; on the contrary, with the utmost openness and simplicity of manners ; and it was often remarked of him that he could refuse with a better grace than many others could confer a favour." Under his guidance the political measures of the city were regulated with much tact and propriety ; and the interest of the rdin,a party was never more firmly or honourably maintained. Mr. Elder's acceptance of the provostship the third time, was looked upon with a degree of uneasiness by his friends. His health had been visibly impaired by the harassing nature of his duties while formerly in ofice ; and they were afraid a renewal of the anxiety and fatigue inseparable from the situation of Chief Magistrate, even in the quietest times, would prove too much for his weakened constitution. Mr. Elder was himself aware of the danger, but he could not " decline the task consistently with his strict notions of public duty." His strength continued gradually to decline, and before the end of 1798 his health was altogether in a hopeless state. Mr. Elder was the eldest son of Mr. William Elder of Loaning, and married in 1765 Emilia Husband, eldest daughter of Mr. Paul Husband of Logie, merchant in Edinburgh, by whom he left a son and four daughters.' He carried on business as a wine merchant in the premises opposite the Tron The fears of his friends were too well founded. He died at Forneth on the 29th May 1799, aged sixty-two. 1 The eldesB was married to the Rev. Principal Baird ; the second to the late John M'Ritchie Esq. of Craigton. ... SKETCHBS. 35 9 for the time being ; and it was the wish of the volunteers that the ...

Book 8  p. 502
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St. Gild?s Church.] SIR DAVID LINDESAY ON THE PROCESSIONISTS. 14r In his ?Monarchie,? finished in 1553, the pungent Sir David Lindesay of the Mount writes thus of the processionists :- THE NORMAN DOORWAY, ST. GILES?S WHICH WAS DE~TKOYEL) IOWAKDS THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (From a Drawing by an no^ nbont 1799.) The Lady aisle, where Preston?s ,gave lay and the altar stood, was part of what forms now the south aisle of the choir called the High Church, and ? Fy on you fostereris of idolatrie ! That till ane did stok does sik reverence Feir ye nocht God, to commit sik offence, To gar suppresse sik greit abusion; Sal1 be nocht else, bot clene confusion.? In presens of the pepill publicklie ; I counsall you do yit ywr diligence, Do ye nocht sa, I dreid your recompense, on that altar many of the earliest recorded gifts were bestowed. The constant additions made to St. Giles?s church, from the exchequer of the city, or by contributions of wealthy burgesses, cannot but be regarded as a singular evidence of the great ... Gild?s Church.] SIR DAVID LINDESAY ON THE PROCESSIONISTS. 14r In his ?Monarchie,? finished in 1553, the ...

Book 1  p. 141
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190 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Great Fire. while the weather changed rapidly ; the wind, accompanied by rain, came in fierce and fitful gusts, thus adding to the danger and harrowing interest of the scene, which, from the great size of the houses, had much in it that was wild and weird. ? About five o?clock,?? says Dr. James Browne, in his ? Historical Sketch of Edinburgh,? ?the fire had proceeded so far downwards in the building occupied by the Coura~rf office, that the upper part of the front fell inwards with a dreadful crash, the concussion driving the flames into the middle of the street. By this time it had communicated with the houses on the east side of the Old Fish Market Close, which it burned down in succession ; while that occupied by Mr. Abraham Thomson, bookbindet, which had been destroyed a few months previously by fire and re-built, was crushed in at one extremity by the fall of the gable. In the Old Assembly Close it was still more destructive ; the whole west side, terminating with the .king?s old Stationery Warehouse, and including the Old Assembly Hall, then occupied as a warehouse by Bell and Bradfute, booksellers, being entirely consumed. These back tenements formed one of the most massive, and certainly not the least remarkable, piles of building in the ancient city, and in former times were inhabited by persons of the greatest distinction. At this period they presented a most extraordinary spectacle. A great part of the southern Zand fell to the ground ; but a lofty and insulated pile of side wall, broken in the centre, rested in its fall, so as to form one-half of an immense pointed arch, and remained for several days in this inclined position. ?By nine o?clock the steeple of the Tron Church was discovered to be on fire ; the pyramid became a mass of flame, the lead of the roof poured over the masonry in molten streams, and the bell fell With a crash, as we have narrated, but the church was chiefly saved by a powerful engine belonging to the Board of Ordnance. The fire was now stopped; but the horror and dismay of the people increased when, at ten that night, a new one broke forth in the devoted Parliament Square, in the attic floor of a tenement eleven storeys in height, overlooking the Cowgate. As this house was far to windward of the other fire, it was quite impossible that one could have caused the other-a conclusion which forced itself upon the minds of all, together with the startling belief that some desperate incendiaries had resolved to destroy the city ; while many went about exclaiming that it was a special punishment sent from Heaven upon the people for their sins.?? (Browne, p. 220; Courant of Nov. 18, 1824; &c.) As the conflagration spread, St. Giles?s and the Parliament Square resounded with dreadful echoes, and the scene became more and more appalling, from the enormous altitude of the buildings; all efforts of the people were directed to saving the Parliament House and the Law Courts, and by five on the morning of Wednesday the scene is said to have been unspeakably grand and terrific. Since the English invasion under Hertford in 1544 no such blaze had been seen in the ancient city. ? Spicular columns of flame shot up majestically into the atmosphere, which assumed a lurid, dusky, reddish hue ; dismay, daring, suspense, fear, sat upon different countenances, intensely expressive of their various emotions ; the bronzed faces of the firemen shone momentarily from under their caps as their heads were raised at each successive stroke of the engines ; and the very element by which they attempted to extinguish the conflagration seemed itself a stream of liquid fire. The County Hall at one time appeared like a palace of light ; and the venerable steeple of St. Giles?s reared itself amid the bright flames like a spectre awakened to behold the fall and ruin of the devoted city.? Among those who particularly distinguished themselves on this terrible occasion were the Lord President, Charles Hope of Granton ; the Lord Justice Clerk, Boyle of Shewalton ; the Lord Advocate, Sir Williani Rae of St. Catherine?s ; the Solicitor- General, John Hope; the Dean of Faculty ; and Mr. (afterwards Lord) Cockburn, the well-known memorialist of his own times. The Lord Advocate would seem to have been the most active, and worked for some time at one of the engines playing on the central tenement at the head of the Old Assembly Close, thus exerting himself to save the house in which he first saw the light. All distinction of rank being lost now in one common and generous anxiety, one of Sir Wiiliam?s fellow-labourers at the engine gave him a hearty slap on the back, exclaiming, at the same time, ? Wee1 dune, my lord !I? On the morning of Wednesday, though showers of sleet and hail fell, the fire continued to rage with fury in Conn?s Close, to which it had been communicated by flying embers ; but there the ravages of this unprecedented and calamitous conflagration ended. The extent of the mischief done exceeded all former example. Fronting the High Street there were destroyed four tenements of six storeys each, besides the underground storeys ; in Conn?s Close, two timber-fronted ? lands,? of great antiquity ; in the Old Assembly Close, four houses of seven storeys each ; in Borthwick?s Close, six great tenements ; in the Old Fish Market Close, four of ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Great Fire. while the weather changed rapidly ; the wind, accompanied by rain, ...

Book 1  p. 190
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