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SAUGHTON HALL. 319 Riccar&&l
He was at once-for some reasons known at the
time-accused of having committed this outrage,
and had to seek shelter in Holland.
Eastward of this quarter stands the old mansian
of Saughton, gable-ended, with howsteps, dormeI
windows, steep roofs, and massive chimneys, with
an ancient crowstepped dovecot, ornamented with
an elaborate string-moulding, and having a shield,
covered with initials, above its door. Over the
entrance of the house is a shield, or scroll-work,
charged with a sword between two helmets, with
the initials P. E., the date, 1623, and the old
Edinburgh legend, ?? BLISIT. BE. GOD. FOR. AL. HIS
GIPTIS.? This edifice is in the parish of St. Cuthbert?s
; but New Saughton and Saughton Loan End
are in that of Corstorphine.
For many generations the estate of Saughton
was the patrimony and residence of the Bairds, a
branch of the house of Auchmedden.
James, eldest son and heir of Sir James Baird,
Knight of Saughton, in the shire of Edinburgh, was
created a baronet of Nova Scotia in 1695-6. He
entailed the lands of Saughton Hall in 1712, and
married the eldest daughter of Sir Alexander
Gibson, of Pentland, and died, leaving a son and
successor, who became involved in a serious affair,
i~ 1708.
In a drinking match in a tavern in Leith he
insisted on making his friend Mr. Robert Oswald
intoxicated. After compelling him to imbibe repeated
bumpers, Baird suddenly demanded an
apology from him as if he had committed some
breach of good manners. This Oswald declined to
do, and while a drunken spirit of resentment remained
in his mind against Baird, they came to
Edinburgh together in a coach, which they quitted
at the Nether Bow Port at a late hour.
No sooner were they afoot in the street than
Baird drew his sword, and began to make lunges at
Oswald, on whom he inflicted two mortal wounds,
and fled from the scene, leaving beside his victim
a broken and bloody sword. On the ground of
its not being ? forethought felony,? he was some
years after allowed by the Court of Justiciary
to have the benefit of Queen Anne?s Act of
Indemnity.
He married a daughter of Baikie, of Tankerness,
in Orkney, and, surviving his father by only a year,
was succeeded by hi son, an officer in the navy,
at whose death, unmarried, the title devolved upon
his brother Sir William, also an officer in the navy,
who married, in 1750, Frances, daughter of Colonel
Gardiner who was slain at the battle of Prestonpans.
He died in 1772, according to Schomberg?s
Naval Chronology,? ?at his seat of Saughton
Hall,? in I 7 7 I according to the Sofs Magazine for
that year.
From Colonel Gardiner?s daughter comes the
additional surname now used by the family.
The old dovecot, we have said, still remains here
untouched. In many instances these little edifices
in Scotland survive the manor-houses and castles
to which they were attached, by chance perhaps,
rather than in consequence of the old superstition
that if one was pulled down the lady of the family
would die within a year of the event By the law of
James I. it was felony to destroy a ?dovecot,? and
by the laws of James VI., no man could build one
in ? a heugh, or in the country, unless he had lands
to the value of ten chalders of victual yearly
within two miles of the said dovecot.?
The ancient bridge of Saughton over the Leith
consists of three arches with massive piers, and
bears the date of repairs, apparently 1670, in a
square panel. Through one of the arches of this
bridge, during a furious flood in the river, a
chaise containing two ladies and two gentlemen
was swept in 1774. and they would all have
perished had not their shrieks alarmed the family
at Saughton Hall, by whom they were succoured
and saved.
There is a rather inelegant old Scottish proverb
with reference to this place, ?Ye breed o? Saughton
swine, ye?re neb is ne?er oot 0? an ill turn.?
Throughout all this district, extending from Coltbridge
to the Redheughs, by Gogar Green and
Milburn Tower, the whole land is in the highest
state of cultivation, exhibiting fertile corn-fields,
fine grass parks and luxuriant gardens, interspersed
with coppice, with the Leith winding amidst them,
imparting at times much that is sylvan to the
scenery.
South of Gogar Bank are two old properties-
Baberton, said to be a royal house, which, in the
last century, belonged to a family named Inglis
(and was temporarily the residence ,of CharI?es X.
of France), and Riccarton, which a n boast of
great antiquity indeed.
Among the missing charters of Robert I. is one
to Walter Stewart, of the barony of Bathgzte, with
the lands of Richardfoun, the barony of Rathew, of
Boundington, and others in the Sheriffdom of Edinburgh.
Thus, we see, it formed part of the dowry
given by the victor of. Bannockbum to his daughter
the Lady Margery, wife of Walter, High Steward
of Scotland, in 1316-direct ancestor of the House
of Stewart-who died in his castle of Bathgate in
1328, his chief residence, the site of which is still
marked by some ancient pine trees.
In the reign of King Robert III., the lands of ... HALL. 319 Riccar&&l He was at once-for some reasons known at the time-accused of having ...

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Koslin.] THE THREE BATTLES ON ONE DAY. 351
hillside, and not beneath, but is attached to its
eastern end, the means of communication between
the two being by a steep descent of steps. Its use
has sorely puzzled antiquaries, though it forms a
handsome little chapel, with ribbed arches and roof
of stone. Under its eastern window is an altar, and
there is a piscina and anibry for the sacramental
plate, together with a comfortable fireplace and a
rob+ of closets.
?? Its domestic appurtenances,? says a writer,
clearly- show. it. to have been the <house of: the
priestvrcustodier of the chapel, and the ecclesiastical?types
first named were for his private nieditation
; and thus the puzzle ceases.?
Near the,chapel is St, Mathew?s Well. The
parish of Roslin possesses many relics and traditions
of the famous three battles which were fought
there in one day-the 24th of February, 1302 :-
? Three triumphs in a day,
Three hosts subdued in one,
Beneath one common sun !?
Three armies scattered like the spray
On the 26th of January, 1302, the cruel and
treacherous Edward I. of England concluded a
treaty of truce-not peace-with Scotland, while,
on the other hand, he prepared to renew the war
against her. To this end he marched in an army
of 2o,ooo--Some say 30,ooo-men, chiefly cavalry,
under Sir John de Segrave, with orders?less to
fight than to waste and devastate the already wasted
country.
To obtain ptovisions with more ease, Segrave
marched his force in three columns, each a mile or
two apart, and the 24th of February saw them on
the north bank of the Esk, at three places, still
indicated by crossed swords on the county map ;
the first at Roslin ; the second . at Loanhead, on
high ground, still named, from the battle, ? Killrig,?
north of the village ; and the third at Park Bum,
near Gilmerton Grange.
Meanwhile, Sir John Comyn, Guardian of the
Kingdom, and Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver Castle
(the friend and comrade of Wallace), Heritable
Sheriff of Tweeddale, after mustering a force of
only 8,000 men-but men carefully selected and
well armed-marched from Biggar in the night,
and in the dull grey light of the February morning,
in the wooded glen near Roslin Castle, came
suddenly on the first column, under Segrave.
Animated by a just thirst for vengeance, the
Scots made a furious attack, and Segrave was
rapidly routed, wounded, and taken prisoner, together
with his brother, his son, sixteen knights,
and thirty esquires, called sergeants by the rhyming
English chronicler Langtoft.
.
The contest was barely over when the second
column, alarmed by the fugitives, advanced from its
camp at Loanhead, ?? and weary though the Scots
were with their forced night march, flushed with
their first success, and full of the most rancorous
hate of their invaders, they rushed to the charge,
and though the conflict was fiercer, were victorious.
A vast quantity of pillage fell into their hands,
together with Sir Ralph the Cofferer, a paymaster
of the English army.?
The second victory had barely been achieved,
when the third division, under Sir Robert Neville,
with all its arms and armour glittering in the
morning sun, came in sight, advancing from the
neighbourhood of Gilmerton, at a time when
many of the Scots had laid aside a portion of their
arms and helmets, and were preparing some to eat,
and others to sleep.
Frase; and Comyn at first thought of retiring,
but that was impracticable, as Neville was so close
upon, them. They flew from rank to rank, says
Tytler, ?and having equipped the camp followers
in the arms of their slain enemies, they made a
furious charge on the English, and routed them
with great slaughter.?
Before the second and third encounters took
place, old historians state that the Scots had recourse
to the cruel practice of slaying their prisoners,
which was likely enough in keeping with the spirit
with which the wanton English war was conducted
in those days. Sir Ralph the Cofferer begged Fraser
to spare his life, offering a large ransom for it.
? Your coat of mail is no priestly habit,? replied
Sir Simon. ? Where is thine alb-where thy hood ?
Often have you robbed us all and done us grievous
wrong, and now is our time to sum up the account,
and exact strict payment.??
With these words he hewed off the gauntleted
hands of the degraded priest, and then by one
stroke severed his head from his body.
Old English writers always attribute the glory of
the day to Wallace ; but he was not present. The
pursuit lasted sixteen miles, even as far as Biggar,
and 12,000 of the enemy perished, says Sir James
Balfour. English historians have attempted to
conceal the triple defeat of their countrymen on
this occasion. They state that Sir Robert Neville?s
division stayed behind to hear mass, and repelled the
third Scottish attack, adding that none who heard
mass that morning were slain. But, unfortunately
for this statement, Neville himself was among the
dead ; and Langtoft, in his very minute account of
the battle, admits that the English were utterly
routed.
Many places in the vicinity still bear names con-
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238 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street.
other, Willielmina, became the wife of John Lord
Glenorchy.
The fate of the Earl of Sutherland, and of his
countess, whose beauty excited the admiration of
all at the coronation of George III., was a very
cloudy one. In frolicking with their first-born, a
daughter, the earl let the infant drop, and it sustained
injuries from which it never recovered, and
the event had so serious an effect on his mind,
that he resorted to Bath, where he died of a
malignant fever. For twenty-one days the countess,
then about to have a babe again, attended him
unremittingly, till she too caught the distemper, and
predeceased him by a few days, in her twenty-sixth
year. Her death was sedulously concealed from
him, yet the day before he expired, when delirium
passed away, he said, I am going to join my dear
Wife,? as if his mind had already begun to penetrate
the veil that hangs between this world and the
next.
In one grave in Holyrood, near the north-east
corner of the ruined chapel, the remains of this
ill-fated couple were laid, on the 9th of August,
1766.
Lady Glenorchy, a woman remarkable for the
piety of her disposition, was far from happy in her
marriage j but we are told that she met with her
rich reward, even iii this world, for she enjoyed
the applause of the wealthy and the blessings of the
poor, with that supreme of all pleasures-the conviction
that the eternal welfare of those in whose
fate she was chiefly interested was forwarded by
her precepts and example.?
In after years, the Earl of Hopetoun, when
acting as Royal Commissioner to the General
Assembly, was wont to hold his state levees in the
house that had been Lord Alva?s.
To the east of hfylne?s Square stood some old
alleys which were demolished to make way for the
North Bridge, one of the greatest local undertakings
of the eighteenth century. One of these alleys was
known as the Cap and Feather Close, immediately
above Halkerston?s Wynd. The lands that formed
the east side of the latter were remaining in some
places almost intact till about 1850.
In one of these, but which it was impossible
to say, was born on the 5th of September, 1750,
that luckless but gifted child of genius, Robert
Fergusson, the poet, whose father was then a clerk
in the British Linen Company; but even the site
of his house, which has peculiar claims on the
interest of every lover of Scottish poetry, cannot
be indicated.
How Halkerston?s Wynd obtained its name we
have already told. Here was an outlet from the
ancient city byway of a dam or dyke across the
loch, to which Lord Fountainhall refers in a case
dated zIst February, 1708. About twenty years
before that time it would appear that the Town
Council ?had opened a new port at the foot
of Halkerston?s Wynd for the convenience of those
who went on foot to Leith; and that Robert
Malloch, having acquired some lands on the other
side of the North Loch, and made yards and built
houses thereon, and also having invited sundry
weavers and other good tradesmen to set up
on Moutree?s Hill [site of the Register House], and
the deacons of crafts finding this prejudicial
to them, and contrary to the 154th Act of Parliament,
I 592,?? evading which, these craftsmen paid
neither scot, lot, nor stent,? the magistrates closed
up the port, and a law plea ensued between them
and the enterprising Robert Malloch, who was
accused of filling up a portion of the bank of the
loch with soil from a quarry. ?The town, on the
other hand, did stop the vent and passage over the
loch, which made it overtlow and drown Robert?s
new acquired ground, of which he complained as
an act of oppression.?
Eventually the magistrates asserted that the loch
was wholly theirs, and ?( that therefore he could
drain no part of it, especially to make it regorge
and inundate on their side. The Lords were
going to take trial by examining the witnesses, but
the magistrates prevented it, by opening the said
port of their own accord, without abiding an order,
and let the sluice run,? by which, of course, the
access by the gate was rendered useless.
Kinloch?s Close adjoined Halkerston?s Wynd, and
therein, till about 1830, stood a handsome old
substantial tenement, the origin and early occupants
of which were all unknown. A mass of curious
and abutting projections, the result of its peculiar
site, it had a finely-carved entrance door, with
the legend, Peir. God. in . Luzy., 1595, and the
initials I. W., and the arms of the surname of
Williamson, together with a remarkable device, a
saltire, from the centre of which rose a crosssymbol
of passion.
Passing Allan Ramsay?s old shop, a narrow bend
gives us access to Carrubber?s Close, the last stronghold
of the faithful Jacobites after 1688. Episcopacy
was abolished in 1689, and although from
that period episcopal clergymen had no legal provision
or settlement, they were permitted, without
molestation, to preach in meeting-houses till I 746 ;
but as they derived no emolument from Government,
and no provision from the State, they did not,
says Arnot, perplex their consciences with voluminous
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124 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. : [Convivialia
In 1783, ? a chapter of the order? was adver
tised ?to be held at their chamber in Anetruther
Dinner at half-past two.?
The LAWNMARKET CLUB, with its so-callec
?gazettes,? has been referred to in our first volume
The CAPILLAIRE CLUB was one famous in thq
annals of Edinburgh convivalia and for it
fashionable gatherings. The Wee24 Xagaziz
for I 7 74 records that ?? last Friday night,?the gentle
men of the Capillaire Club gave their annual ball
The company consisted of nearly two hundrec
ladies and gentlemen of the first distinction. Thei
dresses were extremely rich and elegant. He
Grace the Duchess of D- and Mrs. Gen
S- made a most brilliant appearance. Mrs
S.?s jewels alone, it is said, were above ;C;30,00c
in value. ?The ball was opened about seven, anc
ended about twelve o?clock, when a most elegan
entertainment was served up.?
The ladies whose initials are given were evidentlj
the last Duchess of Douglas and Mrs. Scott, wift
of General John Scott of Balcomie and Bellevue
mother of the Duchess of Portland. She survivec
him, and died at Bellevue House, latterly the Ex
cise Office, Drummond Place, on the 23rd August
1797, after which the house was occupied by the
Duke of Argyle.
The next notice we have of the club in the same
year is a donation of twenty guineas by the mem
bers to the Charity Workhouse. ?? The Capillaire
Club,? says a writer in the ?Scottish Journal o
Antiquities,? ?was composed of all who were in.
clined to be witty and joyous.?
There was a JACOBITE CLUB, presided over a1
one time by tine Earl of Buchan, but of which
nothing now survives but the name.
The INDUSTRIOUS COMPANY was a club composed
oddly enough of porter-drinkers, very. numerous,
and formed as a species of joint-stock company,
for the double purpose of retailing their liquor for
profit, and for fun and amusement while drinking it,
They met at their rooms, or cellars rather, every
night, in the Royal Bank Close. There each member
paid at his entry As, and took his monthly
turn of superintending the general business of the
club; but negligence on the part of some of the
managers led to its dissolution.
In the Advertiser for 1783 it is announced as
a standing order of the WIG CLUB, ?that the
members in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh
should attend the meetings of the club, or if they
find that inconvenient, to send in their resignation;
it is requested that the members will be
pleased to attend to this regulation, otherwise their
places will be supplied by others who wish to be of
the club.-Fortune?s Tavern, February 4th, 1783.??
In the preceding January a meeting of the club is
summoned at that date, ? as St. P-?s day.:? Mr.
Hay of Drumelzier in the chair. As? there is no
saint for the 4th February whose initial is P, this
must have been some joke known only to the club.
Charles, Earl of Haddington, presided on the 2nd
December, 1783.
From the former notice we may gather that there
was a decay of this curious club, the president of
which wore a wig of extraordinary materials, which
had belonged to the Moray faniily,for three generations,
and each new entrant?s powers were tested,
by compelling him to drink ? to the fraternity in a
quart of claret, without pulling bit-i.e., pausing.?
The members generally drank twopenny ale, on
which it was possible to get intoxicated for the
value of a groat, and ate a coarse kind of loaf,
called Soutar?s clod, which, with penny pies of high
reputation in those days, were furnished by a shop
near Forrester?s Wynd, and known as the Ba@n
HoZe.
There was an BSCULAPIAN CLUB, a relic of
which survives in the Greyfriars Churchyard, where
a stone records that in 1785 the members repaired
the tomb of ?(John Barnett, student of phisick (sic)
who was born 15th March, 1733, and departed this
life 1st April, 1755.?
The BOAR CLUB was chiefly composed, eventually,
of wild waggish spirits and fashionable young men,
who held their meetings in Daniel Hogg?s tavern,
in Shakespeare Square, close by the Theatre RoyaL
? The joke of this club,? to quote ? Chambers?s
Traditio? s,? ? consisted in the supposition that all
the members were boars, that their room was a dy,
that their talk was grunting, and in the dozcbZeentendre
of the small piece of stoneware which served
as a repository for the fines, being a &. Upon
this they lived twenty years. I have at some expense
of eyesight and with no small exertion of
patience,? continues Chambers, ?? perused the soiled
and blotted records of the club, which, in 1824,
were preserved by an old vintner whose house was
their last place of meeting, and the result has been
the following memorabilia. The Boar Club commenced
its meetings in 1787, and the original
members were J. G. C. Schetky, a German
nusician ; David Shaw, Archibald Crawford,
Patrick Robertson, Robert Aldrige, a famous pantonimist
and dancing-master ; Jarnes Nelson, and
Luke Cross. . , , Their laws were first written
iown in due form in 1790. They were to meet
:very evening at seven o?clock ; each boar on his
:ntry contributed a halfpenny to the pig. A fine
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38 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ hlorningside.
reported to the Privy Council that he and the
Napiers of Edinbellie, having quarrelled about the
tiend sheaves of Merchiston, ? intended to convoa
t e their kin, and sic as will do for them in arms:
but to prevent a breach of the peace, William
Napier of the Wrychtishousis, as a neutral person,
was ordered by the Council to collect the sheaves
in question.
In 1614 he produced his book of logarithms,
dedicated to Pripce Charles-a discovery which
made his name famous all over Europe-and on
the 3rd of April, 1617, he died in the ancient tower
of Merchiston. His eldest son, Sir Archibald,
was made a baronet of Nova Scotia by Charles I.,
and in 1627 he was raised to the peerage as
Lord Napier. His lady it was who contrived to
have abstracted the heart of Montrose from the
mutilated body of the great cavalier, as it lay
buried in the place appointed for the interment
of criminals, in an adjacent spot of the Burghmuir
(the Tyburn of Edinburgh). Enclosed in a casket
of steel, it was retained by the family, and underwent
adventures so strange and remarkable that a
volume would be required to describe them.
Merchiston has been for years occupied as a
large private school, but it still remains in possession
of Lords Napier and Ettrick as the cradle of
their old and honourable house.
In 1880, during the formation of a new street on
the ground north of Merchiston, a coffin fornied of
rough stone slabs was discovered, within a few feet
of the surface. It contained the remains of a fullgrown
human being.
Eastward of the castle, and within the park where
for ages the old dovecot stood, is now built Christ?s
Church, belohging to the Scottish Episcopalians. It
was built in 1876-7, at a cost of about cf10,500, and
opened in 1878. It is a beautifully detailed cruciforni
edifice, designed by Mr. Hippolyte J. Blanc,in
the early French-Gothic style, with a very elegant
spire, 140 feet high. From the west gable to the
chancel the nave measures eighty-two feet long and
forty broad ; each transept measures twenty feet by
thirty wide. The height of the church from the
floor to the eaves is twenty feet; to the ridge of
the roof fifty-three feet. The construction of the
latter is of open timber work, with moulded arched
ribs resting on ?? hammer beams,? which, in their
turn, are supported upon red freestone shafts, with
white freestone capitals and bases, boldly and beautifully
moulded.
The chancel presents the novel feature of a
circumambient aisle, and was built at the sole
expense of Miss Falconer of Falcon Hall, at a cost
of upwards of L3,ooo.
Opposite, within the lands of Greenhill, stands
the Morningside Athenmm, which was originally
erected, in 1863, as a United Presbyterian
church, the congregation of which afterwards
removed to a new church in the Chamberlain
Road.
North of the old villa of Grange Bank, and on
the west side of the Burghmuir-head road, stands
the Free Church, which was rebuilt in 1874, and
is in the Early Pointed style, with a fine steeple,
140 feet high. The Established Church of the
quoad sacra parish, disjoined from St. Cuthbert?s
since 1835, stands at the south-west corner of the
Grange Loan (then called in the ?maps, Church
Lane), and was built about 1836, from designs by
the late John Henderson, and is a neat little
edifice, with a plain pointed spire.
The old site of the famous Bore Stone was
midway between this spot and the street now called
Church Hill. In a house-No. r-here, the great
and good Dr. Chalmers breathed his last.
CHAPTER IV.
DISTRICT OF THE BURGHMUIR (cuncZudPd).
Morningside and Tipperlin-Provost Coulter?s Funeral-Asylum for the Insane-Sultana of the Crimea-Old Thorn Tree-The Braids of that
Ilk-The Fairleys of Braid-Thr Plew Lands-Craiglockhart Hall and House-The Kincaids and other Proprietors--John Hill Burton The
Old Tower-Meggathd and Redhall-White House Loan-The bwhite House-St. Margaret?s Convent-Bruntsfield House-The War.
renders4reenhill and the Fairholmes-Memorials of the Chapel of St. Roqw-St. Giles?s Grange-The Dicks and Lauders-Grange
Cemetery-Memorial Churches.
SOUTHWARD of the quarter we. have been describing,
stretches, nearly to the foot of the hills of
Braid and Blackford, Morningside, once a secluded
village, consisting of little more than a row of
thatched cottages, a line of trees, and a blacksmith?s
forge, from which it gradually grevt- to become
an agreeable environ and summer resort of
I the citizens, with the fame of being the ?Montpellier
?? of the east of Scotland, alluring invalids to
its precincts for the benefit of its mild salubrious . air& around what was the old village, now man ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [ hlorningside. reported to the Privy Council that he and the Napiers of Edinbellie, ...

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Lasswade.] CLERK OF ELDIN. 359
nishing supplies for local consumption and to
other quarters, Lasswade sends about 30,000 tons
of coal to Edinburgh every year.
Auchindinny is a small village situated on the
right bank of the Esk at the boundary with Penicuick,
and is about five-and-a-half miles distant
from Lasswade. It is inhabited by lace and paper
makers.
Scott, in his ballad ? The Gray Brother,? groups
all the localities we have noted with wonderful
effect :-
? I Sweet are the paths, oh passing sweet I
By Esk?s fair streams that run,
Impervious to the sun.
O?er airy steep, through copsewood deep,
? There the rapt poet?s step may rove,
And yield the muse the day ;
There Beauty, led by timid Love,
May shuq the tell-tale ray.
? From that fair dome, where suit is paid
By blast of bugle free,
To Auchindinny?s hazel shade,
And haunted Woodhouselee.
Who knows not Melville?s beechy grove,
Dalkeith, which all the virtues love,
And Roslin?s rocky glen,
And classic Hawthornden I
?Yet never path from day to day,
The pilgrim?s footsteps range,
To Burndale?s ruined grange.?
Save but? the solitary way,
South of Lasswade Bridge, on the road to Polton
-an estate which, in the early part of the eighteenth
century, gave the title of Lord Polton to a senator
of the College of Justice, Sir William Calderwood,
called to the bench in I 71 I in succession to Lord
Anstruther-is a house into which a number 01
antique stones were built some years ago. One
of these, a lintel, bears the following date and
legend :-
? 1557. A. A. NOSCE TEIPSVM.
Lasswade has always been a favourite summe1
resort of the citizens of Edinburgh. Sir Walter
Scott spent some of the happiest summers of his
life here, and amid the woodland scenery is supposed
to have found materials for his description
of Gandercleugh, in the Tales of my Land.
lord.?
His house was a delightful retreat, embowered
among wood, and close to the Esk. There he
continued all his favourite studies, and commenced
that work which Erst established his name i-2 litera.
ture, ? The Minstrelsy of the Scottish %order,?
which he published at Edinburgh in 1802, and
_ _ _
dedicated to his friend and chief, Henry Duke of
Buccleuch.
In prosecuting the collection of this work, Sir
Walter made various excursions-? raids ? he used
to call them-from Lasswade into the most remote
recesses of the Border glens, assisted by one or
two other enthusiasts in ballad lore, pre-eminent
among whom was the friend, whose ?untimely fate
he lamented so long, and whose memory he embalmed
in verse-Dr. John Leyden.
De Quincey, the ? English opium-eater,? spent
the last seventeen years of his life in a humble
cottage near Midfield House, on the road from
Lasswade to Hawthornden, and there he prepared
the collected edition. of his works. He died in
Edinburgh on the 8th December, 1859.
On high ground above the village stands Eldin
House (overlooking Eldindean), the residence of
John Clerk, inventor of what was termed in its day,
before the introduction of ironclads and steam rams,
the modern British system of naval tactics. He
was the sixth son of Sir George Clerk of Penicuick,
oneof the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, and
inherited the estate of Eldin in early life from his
father. Although the longest sail he ever enjoyed
was no farther than to the Isle of Arran, in the Firth
of Clyde, he had from his boyhood a passion for
nautical affairs, and devoted much of his time to
the theory and practice ot naval tactics.
After. communicating to some of his friends the
new suggested system of breaking an enemy?s line
of battle, he visited London in 1780, and conferred
with several eminent men connected with the navy,
among others, Mr. Richard Atkinson, the friend of
the future Lord Kodney, and Sir Charles Douglas,
Rodney?s ?? Captain of the Fleet ? in the mernorable
action of 12th April, 1782, when the latter
was victorious over the Comte de Grasse between
Dominica and Les Saintes, in the West Indies.
Since that time his principle was said to have
been adopted by all our admirals ; and Howe, St.
Vincent, Duncan, and even Nelson, owe to the
Laird of Eldin?s manmuvre their most signal
victories.
In 1782 he had fifty copies of his ?Essay on
Naval Tactics ? printed, for distribution among his
private friends. It was reprinted in 1790, and
second, third, and fourth parts were added in the
seven subsequent years, and eventually, in 1804,
the whole work was re-published anew, with a
preface explaining the origin of his discoveries.
? Although Lord Rodney, as appears by a fragmentary
life of Clerk written by Professor Playfair,
in the ? Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,?
never concealed in conversation his obliga ... CLERK OF ELDIN. 359 nishing supplies for local consumption and to other quarters, Lasswade sends about ...

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1.86 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Gilea Street.
Russel never failed to meet the requirements of
the day ; and for three or four months scarcely a
day passed on which he did not write one or more
articles - seventy leading articles having been
written by him, we believe, day after day.? In
testimony of his literary ability and public services
a magnificent presentation of silver plate was made
to him in 1859, at the Waterloo Rooms.
The Sofsman, which has always opposed and
exposed Phansaism and inconsistency, yet the
while giving ample place to the ecclesiastical
element-a feature in Scottish everyday life quite
incomprehensible to strangers-was in the full
zenith and plenitude of its power when Alexander
Russel died, in about the thirtieth year of his
editorship and sixty-second of his age, leaving a
blank in his own circle that may never be supplied,
for he was the worthy successor of Maclaren in the
task of making the Sofsman what it is-the sole
representative of Scottish opinion in England and
abroad; ?and that it represents it so that that
opinion does not need to hang its head in the
area of cosmopolitan discussion, is largely due to
the independence of spirit, the tact, the discernment
of character, and the unflagging energy by
which Mr. Russel imparted a dignity to the work
of editing a newspaper which it can hardly be said
to have possessed in his own country before his
time.?
Among other institutions of New Edinburgh to
be found in picturesque Cockburn Street, under the
very shadow of the old city, such as the Ear and Eye
Dispensary, instituted in 1822, and the rooms of
the Choral Society, are the permanent Orderly
Rooms of the Edinburgh Volunteer Artillery, and
the Queen?s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade,
respectively at No. 27 and No. 35.
Both these corps were embodied in the summer
of 1859, when the volunteer movement was exciting
that high enthusiasm which happily has never died,
but has continued till the auxiliary army then,
self-summoned into existence, though opposed by
Government in all its stages, has now become one
of the most important institutions in the kingdom.
The City Artillery Volunteer Corps, commanded
in 1878 by Sir William Baillie, Bart., of Polkemet,
consisting of nine batteries, showed in 1880 a
maximum establishment of 519 (57 of whom were
non-efficients), 14 officers, and 36 sergeants.*
Formed in two battalions (with a third corps 01
cadets), the Queen?s Edinburgh Rifle Brigade, oi
In addition to this corps, there are the Midlothian Coast Volunteei
Artillery, whose headquarters are at Edinburgh, and who showed in
1877 a maximum establishment of 640,442 of whom werc etlicients, with
11: oficers and 30 sergeants. (Volunteer Blue Book.)
which the Lord Provost is honorary colonel, consists
now of 25 companies, seven of which were
called Highland, with a total strength on the 31st
of October, 1880, of 2,252 efficients, 106 nonefficients,
with 82 officers, 116 sergeants, extraproficients.
Since its embodiment in 1859 there
have enrolled in this corps more than I 1,537 men,
of whom 9,584 have resigned, leaving the present
strength, as stated, at 2,252.
As a shooting corps, and for the excellence of
its drill, it has always borne a high character, and
its artisan battalion is ? second to none ? among
the auxiliary forces. At the International Regimental
Match shot for in May, 1877, the Queen?s
Edinburgh Brigade were twice victorious, and in
the preceding year no less than 78 officers and
I 2 I sergeants received certificates of proficiency.
Under the new system the brigade forms a portion
of the 62nd, or Edinburgh Brigade DepGt,
which includes the two battalions of the 1st RoyaL
Scots Regiment, the Edinburgh or Queen?s Regiment
of Light Infantry Militia, and the Administrative
Volunteer Rifle Battalions of Berwick,
Haddington, Linlithgow, and Midlothian.
In St. Giles Street, which opens on the north
side of the High Street (opposite to the square in
which the County Hall stands) and turning west
joins the head of the mound, at the foot of Bank
Street, are the offices of the Daio and Weekly
Rwim; The GZasgow NwaM and the Eirening
limes share a handsome edifice, built like the rest
of the street, in the picturesque old Scottish style,
with crowstepped gables and pedirnented dormer
windows, and having inscribed along its front in
large letters :
THE COURANT, ESTAB. 1705.
To this office, which was specially designed for
the purpose by the late David Bryce, R.S.A., the
headquarters of the paper were removed from 188,
High Street; and in noticing this venerable organ
of the Conservative party, it is impossible to omit
some reference to the rise of journalism in Edinburgh,
where it has survived its old contemporaries,
as the CaZedonian Memuy, a continued serial from
1720, is now incorporated with the Scofsman, and
the Edinburgh Advt-rfiser, which started in January,
1764, ceased about 1860; hence the oldest existing
paper in the city is the Xdinburgh Gazetfe,
which appeared in 1699, the successor to a shortlived
paper of the same name, started in 1680.
The newspaper press of Scotland began during
the civil wars of the 17th century. A party of
Cromwell?s troops which garrisoned the citadel of
Leith in 1652, brought with them a printer named
Christopher Higgins, to reprint the London paper ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [St. Gilea Street. Russel never failed to meet the requirements of the day ; and for ...

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I10 OLD -AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Calton Hill.
It was finished in 1832, and is a beautiful restoration,
with some variations, of the choragic monument
of Lysicrates, from a design by W. H. Playf5r.
The chaste Greek monument of Professor
Flayfair, at the south-east angle of the new
observatory serves also to enhance the classic
aspect of the hill, and was designed by his nephew.
This memorial to the great mathematician and
eminent natural philosopher is inscribed thus, in
large Roman characters :-
JOANNI PLAYFAIR
AMICORUM PIETAS
CESIDERIIS ICTA FIDELIBUS
QUO IPSE LOCO TEMPLUM X?RANAE SUAE
OLIM DICAVERIT
POSUIT.
NAT. VI. IDUS. MART. MDCCXLVIII.
OBIIT. XIV. KAL SEXTIL. MDCCCXIX.
Passing the eastern gate of the new prison, and
Jacob?s Ladder, a footway which, in two mutually
diverging lines, each by a series of steep traverses
and flights of steps, descends the sloping face of the
hill, to the north back of the Canongate, we find
Bums?s monument, perched over the line of the
tunnel, built in 1830, after a design by Thomas
Hamilton, in the style of a Greek peripteral temple,
its cupola being a literal copy from the monument
of Lysicrates at Athens. The original object of
this edifice was to serve as a shrine for Flaxman?s
beautiful statue of Bums, now removed to the
National Gallery, but replaced by an excellent
bust of the poet, by William Brodie, R.S.A., one
of the best of Scottish sculptors. This round
temple contains many interesting relics of Burns.
The entire length of the upper portion of the
hill is now enclosed by a stately terrace, more than
1,000 yards in length, with Grecian pillared doorwzrys,-
continuous iron balconies, and massive
cornices, commanding much of the magnificent
panorama seen from the higher elevations ; but,
by far the most important, interesting, and beautiful
edifice on this remarkable hill is the new High
School of Edinburgh, on its southern slope, adjoinimg
the Regent Terrace.
The new High School is unquestionably one
af the most chaste and classical edifices in Edinh
g h . It is a reproduction of the purest Greek,
and in every way quite worthy of its magnificent
site, which commands one of the richest of town
and country landscapes in the city and its
environs, and is in itself one of the most
striking features of the beautiful scenery with
which it is grouped.
When the necessity for having a new High
School in place of the old, within the city wall-the
old which had so many striking memories and
traditions (and to which we shall refer elsewhere)-
came to pass, several situations were suggested as a
site for it, such as the ground opposite to Princes
Street, and the then Excise Office (now the Royal
Bank), in St. Andrew Square; but eventually the
magistrates fixed on the green slope of the Calton
Hill, to the eastward of the Miller?s Knowe. In
digging the foundations copper ore in some quantities
was dug out, together with some fragments of
native copper.
The ceremony of laying the foundation stone
took place amid great pomp and display on the
28th of July, 1825. All the public bodies in the
city were present, with the then schola from the
Old School, the senators, academicians, clergy,
rector, and masters, and, at the request of Lord
Provost Henderson, the Rev. Dr. Brunton implored
the Divine blessing on the undertaking.
The stone was laid by Viscount Glenorchy,
Grand Master of Scotland, and the building was
proceeded with rapidly. It is of pure white stone,
designed by Thomas Hamilton, and has a front of
400 feet, including the temples, or wings, which
contain the writing and mathematical class-rooms.
The central portico is a hexastyle, and, having a
double range of twelve columns, projects considerably
in front of the general fa@e. The whole
edifice is of the purest Grecian Doric, and, even to its
most minute details, is a copy of the celebrated
Athenian Temple of Theseus. A spacious flight of
steps leading up to it from the closing wall in front,
and a fine playground behind, is overlooked by the
entrances to the various class-rooms. The interior
is distributed into a large hall, seventy-three feet by
forty-three feet ; a rector?s classroom, thirty-eight
feet by thirty-four feet ; four class-rooms for masters,
each thirty-eight feet by twenty-eight feet; a library ;
and two small rooms attached to each of the classrooms.
On the margin of the roadway, on a lower
site than the main building, are two handsome
lodges, each two storeys in height, oiie occupied by
the janitor, and the other containing class-rooms.
The area of the school and playground is two acres,
and is formed by cutting deep into the face of the
hill. The building cost when finished, according
to the City Chamberlain?s books, L34,rgg I IS. 6d.
There are a rector, and ten teachers of classics
and languages, in addition to seven lecturers on
science.
The school, the most important in Scotland,
and intimately connected with the literature and
progress of the kingdom, although at first only
a classical seminary, now furnishes systematic ... OLD -AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Calton Hill. It was finished in 1832, and is a beautiful restoration, with some ...

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

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time, he delighted in music and the theatre, and
it was his own advanced taste and spirit that led
.him, in 1725, to open a circulating library for the
diffusion of fiction among the citizens of the time.
Three , years subsequently, in the narrow-minded
spirit of the dark age ? of Edinburgh, the magistrates
were moved to action, by the fear this new
kind of reading might have on the minds of youth,
and actually tried, but without effect, to put his
library down. Among the leaders of these selfconstituted
guardians of morality was Erskine Lord
Grange, whose life was a scandal to the age. In I 736
Allan Ramsay?s passion for the drama prompted him
to erect a theatre in Catrubber?s Close; but in the
ensuing year the act for licensing the stage was
passed, and the magistrates ordered the house to
. be shut up. By this spetulation he lost a good deal
of money, but it is remarked by his biographers
that this was perhaps the only unfortunate project
in which he ever engaged. His constant cheerfulness
and great conversatibnal powers made him
a favourite with all classes; and being fond of
children he encouraged his three daughters to
bring troops of young girls about his house, and
in their sports he mingled with a vivacity singular
in one of his years, and for them he was wont to
make dolls and cradles with his own hands. In
that house on the Castle bank he spent the last
twelve years of a blameless life. He did not give
up his shop-long the resort of all the wits of
Edinburgh, the Hamiltons of Bangour, and Gilbertfield,
Gay, and others-till 1755. He died in
1757, in his seventy-second year, and was buried
in the Greyfriars Churchyard, where a tomb marks
his grave. ?An elderly female told a friend of
mine,? says Chambers, that she remembered, as
a girl, living as an apprentice with a milliner in
the Grassmarket, being sent to Ramsay Garden,
to assist in making dead-clothes for the poet. She
could recall, however, no particulars of the same,
but the roses blooming in the deathchamber.?
The house of the poet passed to his son, Allan,
an eminent portrait painter, a man of high culture,
and a favourite in those circles wherein Johnson
and Boswell moved. He inherited considerable
literary taste from his father, and was the founder
of the ?? Select Society? of Edinburgh, in 1754, of
which all the learned men there were members.
By the interest of Lord Bute he was introduced
. to George III., when Prince of Wales, whose
portrait he painted. He enlarged the house his
father built, and also raised the additional large
edifices to the eastward, now known as Ramsay
Gardens. The biographers of the painter always
,assert that he madearomantic marriage. In his
youth, when teaching drawing to the daughters of
Sir Alexander Lindesay, of Evelick, one of them fell
in love with him, and as the consent of the parents
was impossible then, they were secretly united in
wedlock. He died at Dover in 1784, after which
the property went to his son, General John Ramsay
(latterly of the Chasseurs Bntanniques), who, at his
death in 1845, left the property to Murrdy of Henderland,
and so ended the line of the author of
?? The Gentle Shepherd.?
Having thus described the locality of the Esplanade,
we shall now relate a few of the temble
episodes-apart from war and tumult-of which it
has been the scene.
In the reign of James V. the Master of Forbes
was executed here for treason. He and his father
had been warded in the Castle on that charge in
1536. By George Ear1,of Huntly, who bore a
bitter animosity to the house of Forbes, the former
had been accused of a design to take the life of
the king, by shooting him with a hand-gun in
Aberdeen, and also of being the chief instigator
of the mutiny among the Scottish forces at Jedburgh,
when on the march for England. Protesting
his innocence, the Master boldly offered to
maintain it in single combat against the earl, who
gave a bond for 30,000 merks to make good his
charge before the 3rst of July, 1537. But it was
not until the 11th of the same month in the following
year that the Master was brought to trial,
before Argyle, the Lord Justice General, and
Huntly failed not to make good his vaunt.
Though the charges were barely proved, and the
witnesses were far from exceptionable, the luckless
Master of Forbes was sentenced by the Commissioners
of Justiciary and fifteen other men of
high rank to be hanged, drawn, beheaded, and dismembered
as a traitor, on the Castle Hill, which
was accordingly done, and his quarters were placed
above the city gates. The judges are supposed to
have been bribed by Huntly, and many of the jury,
though of noble birth, were his hereditary enemies.
His father, after a long confinement, and undergoing
a tedious investigation, was released from
the Castle.
But a more terrible execution was soon to follow
-that of Lady Jane Douglas, the young and beautiful
widow of John Lord Glammis, who, with her
second husband, Archibald Campbell of Skipness,
her son the little Lord Glammis, and John Lyon
an aged priest, were all committed prisoners to the
Castle, on an absurd charge of seeking to compass
the death of the king by poison and sorcery.
cc Jane Douglas,? says a writer in ?Miscellanea
Scotica,? ?( was the most renowned beauty in Britain ... he delighted in music and the theatre, and it was his own advanced taste and spirit that led .him, in 1725, ...

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?54 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk.
belonged to different vehicles. It is standing opposite
the Tron Kirk. The warning bell rings a
quarter of an hour before starting ! Shortly a pair
of illconditioned and ill-sized hacks make their
appearance, and are yoked to it ; the harness, partly
of old leathern straps and partly of ropes, bears
evidence of many a mend. A passenger comes
and takes a seat-probably from the Crames or
Luckenbooths-who has shut his shop and affixed
a notice to the door, ?Gone to Leith, and will be
back at 4 of the clock, p.m.? The quarter being
up, and the second bell rung, off starts the coach
at a very slow pace. Having taken three-quarters
of an b u r to get to the Halfway House, the ? ?bus ?
sticks fast in a rut ; the driver whips up his nags,
when 10 ! away go the horses, but fast remains the
stage. The ropes being re-tied, and assistance procured
from the ? Half-way,? the stage is extricated,
and proceeds. What a contrast,? adds the writer,
? between the above pictures and the present ? ?bus ?
with driver and conductor, starting every five
minutes.? But to-day the contrast is yet greater,
the tram having superseded the ?bus.
The forty oil-lamps referred to would seem not to
have been erected, as in the Advertiser for Sep
tember, 1802, a subscription was announced for
lighting the Walk during the ensuing winter season,
the lamps not to be lighted at all until a sufficient
sum had been subscribed at the Leith Bank and
certain other places to continue them to the end
of March, 1803 ; but we have no means of knowing
if ever this scheme were camed out.
? If my reader be an inhabitant of Edinburgh of
any standing,? writes Robert Chambers, ? he must
have many delightful associations of Leith Walk
in connection with his childhood. Of all the streets
in Edinburgh or Leith, the Walk, in former times,
was certainly the street for boys and girls. From
top to bottom it was a scene of wonders and enjoyments
peculiarly devoted to children. Besides the
panoramas and caravan shows, which were comparatively
transient spectacles, there were several
shows upon Leith Walk which might be considered
as regular fixtures, and part of the countv-cousin
sghts of Edinburgh. Who can forget the waxworks
of ?Mrs. Sands, widow of the late G. Sands,?
which occupied a laigh shop opposite to the present
Haddington Place, and at the door of which,
besides various parrots and sundry Birds of Paradise,
sat the wax figure of a little man in the dress
of a French courtier of the ancien r&iaime, reading
one eternal copy of the Edinburgh Advertiser?
The very outsides of these wonderful shops was an
immense treat ; all along the Walk it was one delicious
scene of squirrels hung out at doors and
monkeys dressed like soldiers and sailors, with
holes behind them where their tails came through.
Even the halfpenny-less boy might have got his
appetite for wonders to some extent gratified.?
The long spaces of blank garden or nursery
walls on both sides of the way were then literally
garrisoned with mendicants, organ-grinders, and
cripples on iron or wooden legs, in bowls and
wheelbarrows, by ballad singers and itinerant
fiddlers. Among the mendicants on the east side
of the Walk, below Elm Row (where the last of
the elms has long since disappeared) there was one
noted mendicant, an old seaman, whose figure was
familiar there for years, and whose sobriquet was
? Commodore O?Brien,? who sat daily in a little
masted boat which had been presented to him by
order of George IV. ?The commodore?s ship,?
says the Week0 JournaZ for 1831, ? is appropriately
called the Royal Ggt. It is scarcely 6 f t
long, by 24 breadth of beam, and when rigged for
use her mast is little stouter than a mopstick, her
cordage scarcely stronger than packthread, and
her tonnage is a light burden for two men. In this
mannikin cutter the intrepid navigator fearlessly
commits himself to the ocean and performs long
voyages.? Now the character of the Walk is entirely
changed, as it is a double row of houses from
end to end.
During the railway mania two schemes were projected
to supersede the omnibus traffic here. One
was an atmospheric railway, and the other a subterranean
one, to be laid under the Walk A road
for foot-passengers was to be formed alongside the
railway, and shops, from which much remuneration
was expected, were to be opened along the line ;
but both schemes collapsed, though plans for them
were laid before Parliament.
In April, 1803, there died, in a house in Leith
Walk, James Sibbald, an eminent bookseller and
antiquary, who was educated at the grarnmarschool
of Selkirk, and after being in the shop of
Elliott, a publisher in Edinburgh, in I 78 I acquired
by purchase the library which had once belonged to
Allan Ramsay, and was thereafter long one of the
leading booksellers in the Parliament Square.
One terrible peculiarity attended Leith Walk,
even till long after the middle of the last century
this was the presence of a permanent gibbet at the
Gallow Lee, a dreary object to the wayfarer by
night, when two or three malefactors swung there in
chains, with the gleds and crows perching over
them. It stood on rising ground, on the west side
of the Walk, and its site is enclosed in the precincts
of a villa once occupied by the witty and beautiful
Duchess of Gordon. As the knoll was composed ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk. belonged to different vehicles. It is standing opposite the Tron Kirk. ...

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Liberton?s Wynd.] DOWIE?S TAVERN. 119
town mansion of the abbot, with a beautiful chapel
attached to it, and may serve to remind us how
little idea we can form of the beauty of the
Scottish capital before the Reformation, adorned
as it was with so many churches and conventual
buildings, the very sites of which are now unknown,
Over the doorway of an ancient stone land in Gosford?s
Close,which stood immediately east of the Old
Bank Close, there existed a curious sculptured
lintel containing a representation of the crucifixion,
and which may with every probability be regarded
as another relic of the abbot?s house that once
occupied its site.?
This lintel is still preserved, and the house
which it adorned belonged to Mungo Tennant, a
wealthy citizen, whose seal is appended to a reversion
of the half of the lands of Leny, in 1540. It
also bears his arms, with the then common legend
-Soli. Deo. Honor. et. GZona.
In the lower storcy of this house was a stronglyarched
cellar, in the floor of which was a concealed
trap-door, admitting to another lower down, hewn
out of the living rock. Tradition averred it was a
chamber for torture, but.it has more shrewdly been
supposed to have been connected with the smugglers,
to whom the North Loch afforded by boat such
facilities for evading the duties at the city gates,
and running in wines and brandies. This vault is
believed to be still remaining untouched beneath
the central roadway of the new bridge. On the
first floor of this mansion the fifth Earl of Loudon,
a gallant general officer, and his daughter, Lady
Flora (latterly countess in her own right) afterwards
Marchioness of Hastings, resided when in town.
Here, too, was the mansion of Hume Rigg of
Morton, who died in it in 1788. It is thus described
in a note to Kay?s works :-? The dining and
drawing-rooms were spacious ; indeed, more so
than those of any private modern house we have
seen. The lobbies were all variegated marble, and
a splendid mahogany staircase led to the upper
storey. There was a large green behind, with a
statue in the middle, and a summer-house at the
bottom; but so confined was the entry to this
elegant mansion that it was impossible to get even
a sedan chair near to the door.?? On the zoth
January, 1773, at four k.~., there was? a tempest,
says a print of the time, ? and a stack of chimneys
on an old house at the foot of Gosfords Close,
possessed by Hugh Mossman, writer, was blown
down, and breaking through the roof in that part
of the house where he and his spouse lay, they
both perished in the ruins. . . . . In the
storey below, Miss Mally Kigg, sister to Rigg of
Morton, also perished.?
So lately as 1773 the Ladies Catharine and
Anne Hay, daughters of John Marquis of Tweeddale,
and in that year their brother George, the
fifth Marquis, resided there too, in the thud floor
of the front ? land ? or tenement. ? Indeed,? says
Wilson, ?the whole neighbourhood was the favourite
resort of the most fashionable and distinguished
among the resident citizens, and a perfect
nest of advocates and lords of session.? In the
pear 1794 the hall and museum of the Society of
Antiquaries were at the bottom of this ancient
thoroughfare.
Next it was Liberton?s Wynd, the avenue of which
is still partially open, and which was removed to
make way for the new bridge and other buildings.
Like many others still extant, or demolished, this
alley, called a wynd as being broader than a
close, had the fronts of its stone mansions so added
to and encumbered by quaint projecting out-shot
Doric gables of timber, that they nearly met overhead,
excluding the narrow strip of sky, and, save
at noon, all trace of sunshine. Yet herein stood
Johnnie Dowie?s tavern, one of the most famous in
the annals of Convivialia, and a view of which, by
Geikie, is preserved by Hone in his Year Book.?
Johnnie Dowie was the sleekest and kindest of
landlords ; nothing could equal the benignity of
his smile when he brought ?ben? a bottle of his
famous old Edinburgh ale to a well-known and
friendly customer. The formality with which he
drew the cork, the air with which he filled the long,
slender glasses, and the regularity with which he
drank the healths of all present in the first, with
his dozrce civility at withdrawing, were as long remembered
by his many customers as his ?Nor?
Loch trouts and Welsh rabbits,? after he had gone
to his last home, in 1817, leaving a fortune to his
son, who was a major in the amy. With a laudable
attachment to the old costume he always wore
a cocked hat, buckles at the knees and shoes, as
well as a cross-handled cane, over which he
stooped in his gait. Here, in the space so small
and dark, that even cabmen would avoid it now,
there came, in the habit of the times, Robert Fergusson
the poet, David Herd the earliest collector
of Scottish songs, ? antiquarian Paton,? and others
forgotten now, but who were men of local note
in their own day as lords of session and leading
advocates. Here David Martin, a well-known
portrait painter, instituted a Club, which was
quaintly named after their host, the ?Dowie
College;? and there his far more celebrated
pupil Sir Henry Raeburn often accompanied
him in his earlier years; and, more than all,
it was the favourite resort of Robert Bums, ... Wynd.] DOWIE?S TAVERN. 119 town mansion of the abbot, with a beautiful chapel attached to it, and may ...

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82 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch.
whose windows perhaps the accident occurred
?that the fox will not set his foot on the ict
after Candlenias, especially in the heat of the sun
as this was, at two o?clock; and at any time tht
fox is so sagacious as to lay his ear on the icf
to see if it be frozen to the bottom, or if he heal
the murmuring and current of the water.?
In I 7 I 5, when the magistrates took measures foi
the defence of the city, the sluice of the loch was
completely dammed up to let the water rise, a pre.
caution omitted by their successors in 1745. Ir
Edgar?s plan, twenty years later, the bed of thc
loch is shown as ?? now devised,? measuring 1,70c
feet in length, from the foot of Xamsay Garden tc
the foot of Halkerston?s Wynd, and 400 feet broad
at the foot of the gardens below the Advocate?s
Close. From the upper point to the West Church
the bed is shown as ?bog or marsh.?
? Yet many in common with myself,? says
Chambers, ?must remember the by no means
distant time when the remains of this sheet oi
water, consisting of a few pools, served as an ex.
cellent sliding and skating ground in winter, while
their neglected, grass-grown precincts too fre
quently formed an arena whereon the high and
mighty quarrels of the Old and New Town cowZie3
were brought to lapidarian arbitration j ? and until
a very recent period woodcocks, snipe, and waterducks
used to frequent the lower part of the West
Princes Street Gardens, attracted by the damp oi
the locality.
?? The site of the North Loch,? says a writer in
the Edinburgh Magazine for 1790, ?is disgusting
below as well as above the bridge, and the balus
trades of the east side ought to be filled up like
those of the west, as they are only meant to show
a beautiful stream, not slaughter-houses.?
The statute for the improvement of the valley
westward of the mound was not passed until 1816 ;
but Lord Cockburn describes it as being then an
impassable fetid marsh, ?open on all sides, the
Teceptacle of many sewers, and seemingly of all the
worried cats, drowned dogs, and blackguardism of
the city, Its abomination made it so solitary that
the volunteers used to practise ball-firing across it.
The men stood on its north side, and the targets
were set up along the lower edge of the castle
hiil, or rock. The only difficulty was in getting
across the swamp to place and examine the targets,
which could only be done in very dry weather and
at one or two places.?
In the maps of 1798 a ?new mound? would
seem to have been projected across it, at an angle,
from South Castle Street to the Ferry Road, by
the western base of the castle rock-a design, fortunately,
never carried out. One of the greatest
mistakes committed as a matter of taste was the
erection of the Earthen Mound across the beautiful
valley of the loch, from the end of Hanover
Street to a point at the west end of Bank Street.
It is simply an elongated hill, like a huge railway
embankment, a clumsy, enormous, and unreniovzble
substitute for a bridge which should have been
there, and its creation has been deplored by every
topographical writer on Edinburgh.
Huge as the mass is, it originated in a very
accidental operation. When the bed of the loch
was in a state of marsh, a shopkeeper, Mr. George
Boyd, clothier, at Gosford?s Close, in the old town,
was frequently led from business or curiosity to
visit the rising buildings of the new, and accommodated
himself with ?? steps ? across this marsh,
and he was followed in the construction of this
path by other persons similarly situated, who contributed
their quota of stone or plank to fill up,
widen, and heighten what, in rude compliment to
the founder, was becoming known as ?Geordie
Boyd?s Mud Brig.? The inconvenience arising
from the want of a direct communication between
the old town and the new began to be seriously
felt about 1781, when the latter had been built as
far west as Hanover Street.
Hence a number of residents, chiefly near the
Lawnmarket, held a meeting in a small publichouse,
kept by a man called Robert nunn, and
called in burlesque, ?Dunn?s Hotel,? after a
lashionable hotel of that name in Princes Street,
and subscriptions were opened to effect a communication
of some kind ; but few were required,
zs Provost Grieve, who resided at the corner of
Hanover Street, in order to fill up a quarry before
his house, obtained leave to have the rubbish from
the foundations of the various new streets laid
down there. From that time the progress of the
Mound proceeded with iapidity, and from 1781
till 1830 augmentations to its breadth and height
were continually made, till it became the mighty
mass it is. By the latter date the Mound had bezome
levelled and macadamised, its sides sown
with grass, and in various ways embellished so as to
issume the appearance of being completed. It is
ipwards of 800 feet in length, on the north upwards
if 60 feet in height, and on the south about IOO feet.
[ts breadth is proportionally much greater than its
ieight, averaging about 300 feet. It is computed
:o contain more than z,ooo,ooo of cartloads of
ravelled edrth, and on the moderate supposition
:hat each load, if paid for, was worth Gd., must
iave cost the large sum of ~ 5 0 , 0 0 0 .
It was first enclosed by rough stone walls, and ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North Loch. whose windows perhaps the accident occurred ?that the fox will not set his ...

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High Street I ST. CECILTA?S HALL. 25 I
years, and in June, 1749, died in a cottar?s humble
dwelling at Idragal, seventeen years after her abduction
on that evening of January from her house
in Niddry?s Wynd.
On the east side of Niddry?s Wynd, at the foot
thereof, and resting on the Cowgate, was St.
Cecilia?s Hall, an oval edifice, having a concave
ceiling, and built in 1762 by Robert Mylne, the
architect of Blackfriars Bridge (lineal descendant
of the royal master-masons) ?after the model
of the opera at Yarma,? says Kincaid. The orchestra
was placed over the north end, and therein
was placed a fine organ. It was seatqd for 500
persons.
The Musical Society of Edinburgh, whose weekly
concerts formed one of the most delightful entertainments
in the old city, dated back to the otherwise
gloomy era of 1728. Yet from ? Fountainhall?s
Decisions ? we learn that so far back as 1694
an enterprising citizen named Beck ?erected a
concert of music? somewhere in the city, which
involved him in a lawsuit with the Master of the
Revels. Even before I 7 28 several gentlemen, who
were performers on the harpsichord and violin, had
taken courage, and formed a weekly club at the
Cross Kys tavern, ?kept,? says knot, ?by one
Steil, a great lover of musick, and a good singer
of Scots songs.? Steil is mentioned in the Latin
lyrics of Dr. Pitcairn, who refers to a subject of
which he was fully master-the old Edinburgh
taverns of Queen Anne?s time. At Pate Steil?s the
common entertainment consisted in playing the
concertos and Sonatas of Corelli, then just published,
and the overtures of Handel. A governor, deputygovernor,
treasurer, and five directors, were annually
chosen to direct the affairs of this society, which
consisted of seventy members. They met in St.
Mary?s Chapel from 1728 till 1762, when this hall
was built for them.
Fc: some years the celebrated Tenducci, who is
mentioned in O?Keefe?s ? Recollections? in 1766 as
a famous singer of Scottish songs, was at the head of
the band ; and one great concert was given yearly
in honour of St. Cecilia, when Scottish songs were
among those chiefly sung. When the Prince of
Hesse came over, in 1745, with his 6,000 mercenaries,
to fight against the Jacobites, he was specially
entertained here by the then governor of the
Musical Society, Lord Drummore, Hugh Dalrymple.
The prince was not only a dilettante, but.a good
performer on an enormous violoncello. ?? Few
persons now living,? says Dr. Chambers in 1847,
? recollect the elegant concerts that were given
many years ago in what is now an obscure part of
our ancient city, known by the name- of St.
zecilia?s Hall,? and still fewer may remember them
On the death of Lord Drummore, in 1755, the
iociety performed a grand concert in honour of his
nemory, when the numerous company were all
lressed in the deepest mourning.
In I 7 63 the concerts began at six in the evening ;
n 1783 an hour later.
To the concertos of Corelli and Handel in the
iew hall, were added the overtures of Stamitz,
Bach, Abel, and latterly those of Haydn, Pleyel,
ind the magnificent symphonies of Mozart and
Beethoven. The vocal department of these old
:oncerts consisted of the songs of Handel, Arne,
;luck, and Guglielmi, with a great Infusion o f
jcottish songs, for as yet the fashionables of Ediniurgh
were too national to ignore their own stirring
nusic, and among the amateurs who took the lead
is choristers were the wealthy Gilbert Innes of
stow, Mr. Alexander Wight, advocate, Mt. John
Russell, W.S., and the Earl of Kellie, who on one
Iccasion acted as leader of the band when perbrming
one of six overtures of his own composition;
and though last, not least, Mr. George
rhomson, the well-known editor of the ? Melodies
>f Scotland.?
A snpper to the directors and their friends
it Fortune?s tavern always followed an oratorio,
where the names of the chief beauties who had
yaced the hall were toasted in bumpers from
;lasses of vast length, for exuberant loyalty to beauty
was a leading feature in the convivial meetings of
those days.
?Let me call to mind a few of those whose
lovely faces at the concerts gave us the sweetest
test for music,? wrote George Thomson, who died
in 1851, in his ninety-fourth year :-??Miss Cleghorn
of Edinburgh, still living in single blessedness ;
Miss Chalmers of Pittencrief, who married Sir
CVilliam Miller of Glenlee, Bart. ; Miss? Jessie
Chalmers of Edinburgh, who married Mr. Pringle
of Haining; Miss Hay of Hayston, who married
Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart. ; Miss
Murray of Lintrose, who was called the Flower of
Strathmore, and upon whom Burns wrote the song,
Brjhe, hlythe, and merry was she,
Blythe was she but and ben;
And blythe in Glenturit glen?
low.
Blythe by the bank? of Earn,
She married David Smith, Esq., of Methven,
one of the Lords of Session; Miss Jardine of
Edinburgh, who married Home Drunimond of
Blairdrummond, their daughter, if I mistake not,
is now Duchess of Athole; Miss Kinloch of Gilmerton,
who married Sir Foster Cunliffe of Acton ... Street I ST. CECILTA?S HALL. 25 I years, and in June, 1749, died in a cottar?s humble dwelling at Idragal, ...

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New Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5
Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that
I descended into the deep hollow, where Bell?s Mills
lie, and by Broughton Loan at the other end of the
northern ridge.
Bearford?s Parks on the west, and Wood?s Farm
on the east, formed the bulk of this portion of the
site; St. George?s Church is now in the centre of
the former, and Wemyss Place of the latter. The
hamlet and manor house of Moultray?s Hill arc now
occupied by the Register House; and where the
Royal Bank stands was a cottage called ?Peace
and Plenty,? from its signboard near Gabriel?s
Road, ? where ambulative citizens regaled themselves
with curds and cream,?? and Broughton was
deemed so far afield that people went there for
the summer months under the belief that they
were some distance from ?town, just as people
used to go to Powburn and Tipperlinn fifty years
later.
Henry Mackenzie, author of ?The Man of
Feeling,? who died in 1831, remembered shooting
snipes, hares, and partridges upon Wood?s Farm.
The latter was a tract of ground extending frGm
Canon Mills on the north, to Bearford?s Parks on
the south, and was long in possession of Mr. Wood,
of Warriston, and in the house thereon, his son,
the famous ?Lang Sandy Wood,? was born in
1725. It stood on the area between where Queen
Street and Heriot Row are now, and ?many still
alive,? says Chambers, writing in 1824, ?remember
of the fields bearing as fair and rich a crop of
wheat as they may now be said to bear houses.
Game used to be plentiful upon these groundsin
particular partridges and hares . . . . . Woodcocks
and snipe were to be had in all the damp
and low-lying situations, such as the Well-house
Tower, the Hunter?s Bog, and the borders of
Canon Mills Loch. Wild ducks were frequently
shot in the meadows, where in winter they are
sometimes yet to be found. Bruntsfield Links,
and the ground towards the Braid Hills abounded
in hares.?
In the list of Fellows of the Royal College of
Surgeons, Alexander Wood and his brother Thomas
are recorded, under date 1756 and 1715 respectively,
as the sons of ?Thomas Wood, farmer on
the north side of Edinburgh, Stockbridge Road,?
now called Church Lane.
A tradition exists, that about 1730 the magistrates
offered to a residenter in Canon Mills all the
ground between Gabriel?s Road and the Gallowlee,
in perpetual fee, at the annual rent of a crown
bowl of punch; but so worthless was the land then,
producing only whim and heather, that the offer
was rejected. (L? Old Houses in Edinburgh.?)
The land referred to is now worth more than
A15,ooo per annum. .
Prior to the commencement of the new town,
the only other edifices. on the site were the Kirkbraehead
House, Drumsheugh House, near the old
Ferry Road, and the Manor House of Coates.
Drumsheugh House, of which nothing now remains
but its ancient rookery in Randolph Crescent,
was removed recently. Therein the famous
Chevaliei Johnstone, Assistant A.D.C. to Prince
Charles; was concealed for a time by Lady Jane
Douglas, after the battle of Culloden, till he escaped
to England, in the disguise of a pedlar.
Alexander Lord Colville of Culross, a distinguished
Admiral of the White, resided there s u b
sequently. He served at Carthagena in 1741, at
Quebec and Louisbourg in the days of Wolfe, and
died at Drumsheugh on the zIst of May, 1770.
His widow, Lady Elizabeth Erskine, daughter of
Alexander Earl of Kellie, resided there for some
years after, together with her brother, the Honourable
Andrew Erskine, an officer of the old 71st,
disbanded in 1763, an eccentric character, who
figures among Kay?s Portraits, and who in
1793 was drowned in the Forth, opposite Caroline
Park. Lady Colville died at Drumsheugh in
the following year, when the house and lands
thereof reverted to her brother-in-law, John Lord
Colville of Culross. And so lately as 1811 the
mansion was occupied by James Erskine, Esq.,.
of Cambus.
Southward of Drumsheugh lay Bearford?s Parks,.
mentioned as ? Terras de Barfurd ? in an Act in.
favour of Lord Newbattle in 1587, named from
Hepburn of Bearford in Haddingtonshire.
In 1767 the Earl of Morton proposed to have a
wooden bridge thrown across the North Loch
from these parks to the foot of Warriston?s Close, but
the magistrates objected, on the plea that the property
at the dose foot was worth A20,ooo. The
proposed bridge was to be on a line with ?the
highest level ground of Robertson?s and Wood?s
Farms.? In the Edinburgh Adnediser for 1783
the magistrates announced that Hallow Fair was
to be ?held in the Middle Bearford?s Park.?
Lord Fountainhall, under dates 1693 and 1695,
records a dispute between Robert Hepburn of
Bearford and the administrators of Heriot?s hospital,
concerning ?the mortified annual rents
acclaimed out of his tenement in Edinburgh, called
the Black Turnpike,? and again in 1710, of an
action he raised against the Duchess of Buccleuch,
in which Sir Robert Hepburn of Bearford,
in I 633, is referred to, all probably of the same family.
The lands and houses of Easter and Wester ... Town.] ? . WOOD?S FARM. 11.5 Lang Dykes; by the old Queensferry Road that I descended into the deep hollow, ...

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358 OLD -4KD NEW EDINBURGH. ELauristollr - _
.. . . .
whom were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl 01
Stair, and Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, of Pollock
and Keir, with an acting committee, at the head
of whom were the Lord Provost, the Principal, Sir
Alexander Grant, Bart., and Professor Sir Robert
Christison, Bart., D.C.L.
The project was started in 1874, and commenced
fairly in 1878. The architect was Mr. R. Rowand
Anderson, and the cost of the whole, when
finished, was estimated at about ,t;250,000.
The first portion erected was the southern block,
comprising the departments of anatomy, surgery,
practice of physic, physiology, pathology, midwifery,
and a portion of the chemistry. The frontage
to the Meadow Walk presents a bold and
semicircular bay, occupied by the pathology
and midwifery department. An agreeable variety,
,but general harmony of style, characterises the
buildings as a whole, and this arose from the
architect adhering strictly to sound principle, in
studying first his interior accommodation, and
then allowing it to express itself in the external
elevations.
The square block at the sjouthem end of the
Meadow Walk, near the entrance to George Square,
is chiefly for the department of physiology ; whilst
the south front is to a large extent occupied by
anatomy. . The hall for the study of practical anatomy is
lighted by windows in the roof and an inner court
facing to the north, a southern light being deemed
unnecessary or undesirable. The blank wall thus
left on the south forms an effective foil to the
pillared windows of the physiology class-room, at
one end, and to some suitable openings, similarly
treated, which serve to light hat and coat rooms,
&c., at the other.
In the eastern frontage to Park Place, where the
departments of anatomy, physic, and surgery, are
'placed, a prominent feature in the design is
produced by the exigencies of internal accommodation.
As it was deemed unnecessary in
the central part of the edifice to carry the groundfloor
so far forward as the one immediately above,
the projecting portion of the latter is supported by
massive stone trusses, or brackets, which produce a
series of deep shadows with a bold and picturesque
effect. The inner court is separated from the
chief quadrangle of the building by a noble
hall upwards of IOO feet long, for the accommodation
of the University anatomical museum. It
has two tiers of galleries, and is approached by
a handsome vestibule with roof groined in stone,
and supported by pillars of red sandstone. The
quadrangle is closed in to the west, north, and east,
by extensive rmges of apartments for the accommodation
of chemistry, materia medica, and
medical jurisprudence. The north front faces
Teviot Row, and in it is the chief entrance to the
quadrangle by a massive gateway, which forms one
of the leading architectural features of the design.
When the building devoted to educational purposes
shall have been completed, there will only remain
to be built the great college hall and campanile,
which are to complete the east face of the design.
Including the grant of &3o,ooo obtained from
Government, the whole amount at the disposal of
the building committee is about &18o,ooo.
For the erection of the hall and tower a further
sum of about &5o,ooo or ~60,000 is supposed to
be necessary.
The new Royal Infirmary, on the western side Ff
the Meadow Walk, occupies the grounds of George
\.Vatson's Hospital, and is engrafted on that edifice.
The latter was bnilt in what was then a spacious
field, lying southward of the city wall. The founder,
who was born in 1650, the year of Cromwell's ipvasion,
was descended from a family which for
some generations had been merchants in Edinburgh;
but, by the death of his father, John Watson,
and the second marriage of his mother, George
and his brother were left to the care of destiny.
A paternal aunt, Elizabeth Watson, or Davidson,
however, provided for their maintenance and education
; but George being her favourite, she bound
him as an apprentice to a merchant in the city,
and after visiting Holland to improve his knowledge
of business, she gave him a small sum wherewith
to start on his own account. He returned to
Scotland, in the year 1676, when he entered the
service of Sir James Dick, knight, and merchant of
Edinburgh, as his clerk or book-keeper, who some
time after allowed him to transact, in a mercantile
way, certain affairs in the course of exchange between
Edinburgh and London on his own. behalf.
In 1695 he became accountant to the Bank of
Scotland, and died in April, 1723, and by his will
bequeathed ;~;IZ,OOO to endow a hospital for the
maintenance and instruction of the male children
and grandchildren of decayed merchants in Edinburgh
; and by the statutes of trustees, a preference
was given to the sons and grandsons of members of
the Edinburgh Merchant Company. The money
left by the prudent management of the governors
was improved to about &20,000 sterling befort
they began the erection of the hospital in 1738,
in a field of seven acres belonging to Heriot's
Trust.
George Watson, in gratitude for the benefits conferred
upon him in his friendless boyhood by his ... OLD -4KD NEW EDINBURGH. ELauristollr - _ .. . . . whom were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl 01 Stair, and ...

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368 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
"The edition said to be nndertaken with his
approbation : obsolete words altered, with corrections
in spelling and punctuation."
A specimen of a book entitled Ane Compendious Booke
of Godly and Spintual Sangs, collectit out of
enndrie parts of the Scripture, with sundrie of
other Bailates changed out of Prophaine Sanges,
for avoyding of Sin and Harlotrie, with augmentation
of sundrie Gude and Qodly Ballates,
not contained in the 8rst edition. Edinburgh,
printed by Andro Hart, 12mo. Edinburgh, 1765,
pp. 42 ; with a Glossary of four pages.
Meniorials and Letters relating to the History of
Britain in the reign of Charles I., published from
the Originals. Glasgow, 1766, pp. 189. Chiefly
eoliectedfrom the manuscripts of the Rev. Robert
Wodrow, author of the History of the Church of
Scotland. Inscribed to Robert Dundas of Arniston,
Lord President of the Court of Session.
An Account of the Preservation of Charles 11. after
the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself; to
which are added, his Letters to seveyal persona.
Glasgow, 1766, pp. 190, from the MSS. of Mr.
Pepys, dictated to him by the King himself, and
communicated by Dr. Sandby, Mnster of Magdalen
College. The Letters are collected from various
sources, and some of them are now first published.
Dedicated to Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle,
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Some
copies havexa reprinted title page, dated Edinburgh,
1801, with one OT two additional Letters,
and a Portrait prefixed of General Thomas Dalziel.
The Secret Correspondence between Sir Robert Cecil
and James VI. 12mo. 1760.
A Catalogue of the Lords of Seasion from the Institution
of the College of Justice, in the year 1532,
with Historical Notes. Suum cuique-rependet
posteritas. Edinburgh, li67,4to, pp. 26.
A Specimen of Notes on the Statute Law of Scotland.
No date, 8v0, very rare.
A Specimen of similar Notes during the Reign of Mary
Queen of Scots. No date, Svo, very rare.
The Private Correspondence of Dr. Franris Atterbury,
Bishop of Rochester, and his friends, in 1725,
never before published. Printed ip 1768, 4to.
Advertisement pp. 2. Letters, pp.pO. fac-simile of
the firat letter from Bp. Atterbury to John Camemn
of Lochiel prefixed.
An Examination of some of the Arguments for the high
Antiquity of Regiam Majestatem; and au Inquiry
into the Authenticity of the Leges MaZcolmi.
Edinburgh, 1769, 4t0, pp. 52.
Historical Memorials concerning the Provincial Councils
of the Scottish Clergy, from the earliest accounts
to the era of the Reformation. Edinburgh,
1769, 4t0, pp. 41.-Nota, Having no high opinion
of the popularity of his writings, he prefixes to
this work the following motto :-"Si delectamur
quum scrihimus, qui8 est tam invidus qui ab eo
nos abducat P sin labotamus, qui8 est qui aliena
modum atatuat industriaP"4icero.
Canons of the Church of Scotland, drawn up in the
Provinrial Councils held at Perth, A.D. 1242, and
1269.
Ancient Scottish Poems, published from the MS. of
George Bannatyne, 1568. Edinburgh, 1770, I2mo.
Preface, six pages. Poems, pp. 221, very CW~OUS
Notes, pp. 92. Qlossary, and list of passages and
words not undemtood, pp. 14.
Edinburgh, 1769, ate, pp. 48.
The Additional Case of Elizabeth, claiming the title
and dignity of Countess of Sutherland. By her
Guardians. Wherein the facts and argumenta in
support of her claim are more fully stated, and the
errors iu the additional cases for the claimants am
detected, 4to. .
This singularly learned and able case Was subscribed
by Alexander Wedderbnrn (afterwards Lord
Chancellor and Earl of Rosslyn) and Sir Adam Fergnsson,
but is the well-known work of Lord Hailes. It
ought not to be regarded merely as a Law Paper of
great ability, but as a Treatise of profound research into
the history and antiquity of many important and
general points of succession and family history. Introduction,
pp. 21. The first four chapters, pp. 70
The 6fth and sixth ohapters, pp. 177.
Remarks on the History of Scotland. By Sir David
Dalrymple.
" Utinam tam facile vera invenire possem, qnani
falsa convincere."-C&To.
Edinburgh, 1773. Inscribed to George Lord
Lyttleton, in nine chapters, pp. 264, l h o .
Specimen of a Glossary of the Scottish Language.
No date, 8vo.
Remarks on the Latin Poems of Dr. Pitcairn, in the
Edinburgh Magazine for February 1774.
Huberti Langueti Epistole ad Philippum Sydneium
Equitem Anglum. Accurante D. Dalrymple de
Hniles. Eq. Edinburgh, 1776, 8vo. Inscribed to
Lord Chief Baron Smythe.-Virorum Eruditorum
testimonia de Langueto, pp, 7. Epistolz, 289.
Index Nominum, pp. 41.
Aunals of Scotland, from the Accession of Malcolm
HI., surnamed Canmore, to the Accession of
Rohert I. By Sir David Dalrymple. Edinburgh.
1776, pp. 311. Appendix, pp. 51.
Tables of the Succession of the Kings of Scotland
from Malcolm 111. to Robert I., their marriages,
children, and time of their death; and also of
the Kings of England and France, and of the
Popes who were their contemporaries.
Chronologlcsl Abridgment of the Volume, pp. 30.
The Appendix contains eight Dissertations.
1. Of the Law of Evenw and Mercheta Mulierum,
2. A Commentary on the 22d Statute of William
3. Of the 16th Statute of Alexander IIL, pp. 6.
4. Bull of Pope Innocent IV., pp. 6.
6. Of Walter Stewart, Earl oP Menteth, 1296,
6. Of M'Duff, slain at Falkirk in 1298, pp. 3.
7. Of the Death of John Comyn, 10th February
8, Of the Origin of the. House of Stewart, pp. 6.
pp. 17.
the Lion, pp. 8.
PP, 7.
1305, pp. 4.
-
Snnals of Scotland, from the Accession of Robert I.
surnamed Bruee, to the Accession of the House
of Stewart. By Sir David Dalrymple. Edinburgh,
1779, 4t0, pp. 277. Appendix, pp. 54.
containing-
1. Of the Manner of the Death of Marjory,
2. Journal of the Campaign of Edward 111.. 1327,
daughter of Robert I., pp. 7.
PP. 9. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. "The edition said to be nndertaken with his approbation : obsolete words altered, ...

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Canongate1 SIR JOHN WHITEFORD OF THAT ILK 35
but who, after being sentenced to death, escaped to
Rome, where he died in 1749, without issue, aceording
to Sir Robert Douglas ; and, of course, is
:the same house that has been mentioned in history
as the Lord Seton?s lodging ?? in the Cannogait,?
wherein on his arrival from England, ?.? Henrie Lord
Dernlie, eldest son of Matho, erle of Lennox,? re-
:sided when, prior to his marriage, he came to Edinburgh
on the 13th of February, 1565, as stated in
the ?? Diurnal of Occurrents.?
In the same house was lodged, in 1582, according
to Moyse, Mons. De Menainville, who came
as an extra ambassador from France, with instructions
to join La Motte Fenelon. He landed at
Burntisland on the 18th of January, and came to
Edinburgh, where he had an audience with Janies
VI. on the 23rd, to the great alarm of the clergy,
who dreaded this double attempt to revive French
influence in? Scottish affairs. One Mr. James
Lawson ?? pointed out the French ambassaye?
as the mission of the King of Babylon, and characterised
Menainville as the counterpart of the
blaspheming Rabshakeh.
Upon the 10th February, says Moyse, ?La Motte
having received a satisfying answer to his comniission,
with a great banquet at Archibald Stewart?s
lodgings in Edinburgh, took his journey homeward,
and called at Seaton by the way. The said Monsieur
Manzeville remained still here, and lodging
at my Lord Seaton?s house in the Canongate, had
daily access to the king?s majesty, to whom he
imparted his negotiations at all times.?
In this house died, of hectic fever, in December,
1638, Jane, Countess of Sutherland, grand-daughter
af the first Earl of Winton. She ?was interred at
the collegiat churche of Setton, without any funeral1
ceremoney, by night.?
In front of this once noble mansion, in which
Scott lays some of the scenes of the ?Abbot,?
there sprang up a kind of humble tavern, built
chiefly of lath and plaster, known as ?Jenny Ha?s,?
from Mrs. Hall, its landlady, famous for her claret.
Herein Gay, the poet, is said to ??have boosed
during his short stay in Edinburgh ;? and to this
tavern it was customary for gentlemen to adjourn
after dinner parties, to indulge in claret from the
butt.
On the site of the Seton mansion, and surrounded
by its fine old gardens, was raised the present
edifice known as Whiteford House, the residence of
Sir John Whiteford, Bart., of that ilk and Ballochof
the early patrons of Burns, who had been htre
duced to him by Dr. Mackenzie, and the grateful
bard never forgot the kindness he accorded to him.
The failure of Douglas, Heron, & Co., in whose
bank he had a fatal interest, compelled him to
dispose of beautiful Ballochmyle, after which he
resided permanently in Whiteford House, where
he died in 1803. To the last he retained a military
bearing, having served in the army, and been a
major in 1762.
Latterly, and for many years, Whiteford House
was best known as the residence of Sir William
Macleod Bannatyne, who was raised to the bench
on the death of Lord Swinton, in 1799, and was
long remembered as a most pleasing example of the
old gentleman of Edinburgh ?before its antique
mansions and manners had fallen under the ban
of modern fashion.?
One of the last survivors of the Mirror Club,
in private life his benevolent and amiable qualities
of head and heart, with his rich stores of literary
and historical anecdote, endeared him to a numerous
and highly distinguished circle of friends. Robert
Chambers speaks of breakfasting with him in Whiteford
House so late as 1832, ?on which occasion
the venerable old gentleman talked as familiarly
of the levees of the sous-nziniske for Lord Bute in
the old villa at the Abbey Hill as I could have
talked of the Canning administration, and even
recalled, 2.5 a fresh picture of his memory, his father
drawing on his boots to go to make interest in
London on behalf of some men in trouble for
the ?45, particularly his own brother-in-law, the
Clanranald of that day.? He died at Whiteford
House on the 30th of November, 1833, in the
ninety-first year of his age. His mansion was
latterly used as a type-foundry.
On the south side of the street, nearly opposite
the site of the Seton lodging, the residence of the
Dukes of Queensberry still towers up, a huge, dark,
gloomy, and quadrangular mass, the scene of much
stately life, of low corrupt intrigue, and in one
instance of a horrible tragedy.
It was built by Lord Halton on land belonging
to the Lauderdale family; and by a passage in
Lord Fountainhall?s folios would seem to have been
sold bp him, in June, 1686, to William first Duke
of Queensbeny and Marquis of Dumfries-shire, Lord
High Treasurer and President of the Council,a
noted money-lender and land-acquirer, who built
the castle of Drumlanrig, and at the exact hour
.
niyle, a locality in Ayrshire, on which the muse of whose death, in 1695, it is said, a Scottish
of Bums has conferred celebrity, and whose father skipper, being in Sicily, saw one day a coach and
is said to have been the prototype of Sir Arthur ,six driving to flaming Mount Etna, while a dia-
Wardour in the ?Antiquary.? Sir John was one 1 bolical voice was heard to exclaim, ?Way for the ... SIR JOHN WHITEFORD OF THAT ILK 35 but who, after being sentenced to death, escaped to Rome, where he ...

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Canonmills.] THE ROYAL GYMNASIUM. 87
to search for and seize them for his own use.
Hunter also prosecuted him for throwing his wife
into the mill-lade and using opprobrious language,
for which he was fined 650 sterling, and obliged
to find caution.
A hundred years later saw a more serious tumult
in Canonmills.
In 1784 there was a great scarcity of food in
Edinburgh, on account of the distilleries, which
were said by some to consume enormous quantities
of oatmeal and other grain unfermented, and
to this the high prices were ascribed. A large mob
proceeded from the town to Canonmills, and attacked
the great distillery of the Messrs. Haig
there j but meeting with an unexpected resistance
from the workmen, who, as the attack had been
expected, were fully supplied with arms, they retired,
but not until some of their number had been
killed, and the ?Riot Act? read by the sheriff,
Baron Cockburn, father of Lord Cockburn. TheiI
next attempt was on the house of the latter;
but on learning that troops had been sent for, they
desisted. In these riots, the mob, which assembled
by tuckof drum, was charged by the troops, and
several of the former were severely wounded.
These were the gth, or East Norfolk Regiment,
under the command of Colonel John Campbell 01
Blythswood, then stationed in the Castle.
During the height of the riot, says a little ?Histoq
of Broughton,? a private carriage passed through thc
village, and as it was said to contain one of thc
Haigs, it was stopped, amid threats and shouts
Some of the mob opened the door, as the bIindr
had been drawn, and on looking in, saw that th<
occupant was a lady; the carriage was therefore
without further interruption, allowed to proceed tc
its destination-Heriot?s Hill.
On the 8th of September subsequently, two of thf
rioters, in pursuance of their sentence, were whippei
through the streets of Edinburgh, and afterwards
transported for fourteen years.
In the famous ?Chaldee MS.,? chapter iv.
reference is made to ?a lean man who hath hi!
dwelling by the great pool to the north of the Nelr
City.? This was Mr. Patnck Neill, a well-knowr
citizen, whose house was near the Loch side.
In this quarter we now find the Patent Roya
Gymnasium, one of the most remarkable anc
attractive places of amusement of its kind in Edin
burgh, and few visitors leave the city without seeing
it. At considerable expense it was constructed bj
Mr. Cox of Gorge House, for the purpose of afford
ing healthful and exhilarating recreation in the ope1
air to great numbers at once, and in April, 1865
was publicly opened by the provosts, magistrates
tnd councillors of Edinburgh and Leith, accom-
?anied by all the leading inhabitants of the city and
:ounty.
Among the many remarkable contrivances here
was a vast ?rotary boat,? 471 feet in circumference,
seated for 600 rowers ; a ? giant see-saw,? named
I? Chang,? IOO feet long and seven feet broad, supported
on an axle, and capable of containing zoo
?ersons, alternately elevating them to a height of
ifty feet, and then sinking almost to the ground;
i ? velocipede paddle merry-go-round,? 160 feet
in Circumference, seated for 6co persons, who propel
the machine by sitting astride on the rim, and
push their feet against the ground ; a ? self-adjust-
Lng trapeze,? in five series of three each, enabling
gymnasts to swing by the hands 130 feet from one
trapeze to the other; a ?compound pendulum
swing,? capable of holding about IOO persons, and
kept in motion by their own exertions.
Here, too, are a vast number of vaulting and
climbing poles, rotary ladders, stilts, spring-boards,
quoits, balls, bowls, and little boats and canoes on
ponds, propelled by novel and amusing methods.
In winter the ground is prepared for skaters on a
few inches of frozen water, and when lighted up at
night by hundreds of lights, the scene, with its
musical accessories, is one of wonderful brightness,
gaiety, colour, and incessant motion.
Here, also, is an athletic hall, with an instructor
always in attendance, and velocipedes, with the
largest training velocipede course in Scotland. The
charges of admission are very moderate, so as to
meet the wants of children as well as of adults.
A little eastward of this is a large and handsome
school-house, built and maintained by the congregation
of St. Mary?s Church. A great Board
School towers up close by. Here, too, was Scotland
Street Railway Station, and the northern entrance
of the longsince disused tunnel underground to
what is now called ~e Waverley Station at Princes
Street.
A little way northward of Canonmills, on the
north bank of the Water of Leith, near a new bridge
of three arches, which supersedes one of considerable
antiquity, that had but one high arch, is the
peculiar edifice known as Tanfield Hall. It is an
extensive suite of buildings, designed, it has been
said, to represent a Moorish fortress, but was erected
in 1825 as oil gasworks, and speedily turned to
other purposes. In 1835 it was the scene of a
great banquet, given by his admirers to Daniel
O?Connell; and in 1843 of the constituting of the
first General Assembly of the Free Church, when
the clergy first composing it quitted in a body the
Establishment,as described in our account of George ... THE ROYAL GYMNASIUM. 87 to search for and seize them for his own use. Hunter also prosecuted him for ...

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210 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith
each trade, all deacons and treasurers, and constituting,
or deemed to be; a separate corporation. But
the body, though dating at least from 1594, was
voted by several of the trades corporations in 1832
as useless, and since then its existence has been
very questionable.
Though Leith is not in a strict sense a manufacturing
town or the seat of a staple produce, it possesses
many productive establishments, as ship
building and sail-cloth manufactories. Nong the
shore of South Leith are several vast conical chimneys,
manufactories of glass, but chiefly in the
department of common ale and wine bottles ; this
trade is supposed to have been introduced by
English settlers during the time of Cromwell. In
the centre of the town there was commenced in
1830 a corn-mill propelled by steam, and of gigantic
dimensions, as its huge bulk towered against the
sky and above the surface of the little undulating
sea of roofs around it.
Leith possesses warehouses of great extent, which
are the seats of extensive tratic with large districts
of Scotland, for the transmission thither of wines
and foreigti and British spirits ; and there are also
other manufacturing establishments besides those
named, for the making of cordage, for brewing,
distilling, and rectifying spirits, refining sugar, preserving
tinned meats, soap and candle manufactones,
with several extensive cooperages, ironfoundries,
flour mills, tanneries, and saw-mills.
But those who see Leith now, even with all its
extended docks and piers, can have no conception
of the scene presented by the port during the protracted
war with France and Spain, when .an
admiral?s flagship lay in the Roads, with a guardship
and squadron. Daily scores of men-of-war
boats, manned by seamen or marines, were amving
and departing ; prisoners of war in all manner of
uniforms, and often in rags, were being landed or
embarked ; press-gangs had their tenders moored
by the Shore. Infantry barracks, now granaries,
were on the North Quay ; stores, cannon, and provisions
encumbered it on every hand ; while almost
daily salutes were being fired froin ship and battery
in honour of victories by land or sea; recruiting
parties beat up, with swords drawn and ribbons
streaming ; seamen crowded every tavern, their
pockets flush with Spanish dollars, and bank-notes
tied round their hats ; men-of-war, privateers, trans
ports, filled the Firth, and merchantmen mustered
in hundreds to await the convoy ere they put
to sea ; there, too, were the gallant old Leith and
London smacks, armed with carronadcs, that
fought their own way, with the old Scottish flag at
their mast-heads, and many a time and oft, with
signal valour, beat off French, Spanish, and. Dutch
privateers.
Such was Leith at the close of the last century
and in the early years of the present one, until the
battle of Waterloo.
In the first years of the last century there were
occasional packet-ships between Leith and London.
In 1720 the Bon Accord, Captain Buchanan, is
advertised to sail to London with passengers on
30th June, and to ? k e q the day, goods or no
goods; ? and a similar notice appears in I 7 2 a concerning
the ? Unity packet-boat of Leith.? The
master to be spoken to in the high Coffee House.
(Sf. Jams?s fivening Post.) In 1743 one of these
packets, after a twenty days? voyage, arrived only at
Holy Island, through stress of weather.
Previous to the introduction of the smacks, which
were large and beautiful cutters, carrying an enormous
spread of fore and aft canvas, the passenger
and other trade between Leith and London was
carried on by means of clumsy bluff-bowed brigs,
ranging from 160 to 200 tons burden, and having
such very imperfect cabin accommodation that
many persons preferred to make the trip by the
ships which camed salmon between Berwick and
the Thames. In those days the traders were advertised
for twelve or fourteen days before they intended
to sail, and interim arrangements were
always made with the captain at ? Forrest?s Coffee
House,? or on ? The Scots? Walk,? in London, as
the case might be, ?wheo civil usage? was promised,
and the number of guns carried by the vessel
generally stated. The following is an advertisement
from the Edihburgh ChronicZe, June nnd,
I759 :-- ?? For LONDON, the ship Reward, Old England
built, William Marshal, master, now lying at the
Birth at Bames Nook, Leith Harbour, taking in
goods, and will sail with the first convoy.
?The said master to be spoken with at the
? Caledonia? or ? Forrest?s Coffee House,? Edinburgh,
or at his house in the Broad Wynd,
Leith.
? N.B.-The ship is an exceeding fast sailer, has
good accommodztion for passengers, and good usage
may be depended OH.?
In 1777 the smack Edinburgh was advertised in
the Mercury to sail at a fixed date, that she has
? neat accommodation for passengers,? also that
good usage may be relied on. The Success, lying
at the New Quay, is also advertised to sail by the
canal for Glasgow, weather permitting.
The passenger traffic increased to such an extent
that in 1791 the Leith and Berwick Shipping Company
established their head-quarters in Leith, the ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith each trade, all deacons and treasurers, and constituting, or deemed to be; a ...

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liferent, and to his children in fee, and a dispute
in law occurred about the division of the property.
Buccleuch Place, branching westward off the old
Carlisle Road, as it was named, was formed between
1766 and 1780, as part of a new and aristocratic
quarter, and in rivalry to the New Town. Among
the first residents there was Elizabeth Fairlie,
dowager of George, fifth Lord Reay, who?died in
1768. She died in Buccleuch Place on,the 10th
November, 1800.
The street is of uniform architecture, 270 yards
long, but has a chilling and forsaken aspect. The
large and isolated tenement facing the south-east
entrance to GeorgeSquare was built, and used for
many years as Assembly Rooms for the aristocratic
denizens of this quarter. ?In these beautiful
rooms,? says Lord Cockburn, ?were to be seen
the last remains of the stately ball-room discipline
of the preceding age.? Now they are occupied as
dwelling-houses.
Jeffrey, on marrying a second cousin of his own
in 1801, began housekeeping in the third flat of a - - - -
common stair here, No. 18, at a time when, as
he wrote to his brother, his profession had never
brought in a hundred a year; and there he and his
wife were living in 1802, when in March, Brougham
and Sydney Smith niet at his house, and it was proposed
to start the Edinburgh Xeview; and these,
the first three, were joined in meeting with Murray,
Honier, Brown, Lord Webb Seymour, and John and
Thomas Thomson, and negotiations were opened
with Manners and Millar, the publishers in the
Parliament Close ; and-as is well known-Jeffrey
was for many years the editor of, as well as chief
contributor to, that celebrated periodical.
Where the Meadows now lie there lay for ages a
loch coeval with that at Uuddingstone, some threequarters
of a mile long from Lochrin, and where
the old house of Drumdryan stands on the west,
to the road that led to the convent of Sienna on
the east, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth *
-a sheet of water wherein, in remote times, the
Caledonian bull, the stag, and the elk that roamed
in the great oak forest of Drumsheugh, were
wont to quench their thirst, and where, amid the
deposit of mar1 at its bottom, their bones have
been found from time to time during trenching and
draining operations. The skull and horns of one
-
gigantic stag (Cetvus eZ@has), that must have found
a grave amidst its waters, were dug up below the
root of an ancient tree in one of the Meadow
Parks in 1781, and are now in the Antiquarian
Museum.
In 1537 the land lying on its south bank was
feued by the sisters of the Cistercian convent, and
in July, 1552, the provost, bailies, and council,
ordered that no person should ?wesch ony claithis
at the Burrow Loch in tyrne cummyng, and dischargis
the burnmen to tak ony bum at ony wells
in the burgh under sic pains as the jugis ples
imput to them?
On the 25th of May, 1554, the magistrates and
council ordained that the Burgh Loch should be
inclosed, ? biggit up ? in such a manner as would
prevent its overflow (Ibid). In April, 1556, they
again ordained the city treasurer to build up the
western end of it, ?and hold the watter thairof,?
though in the preceding January they had ordered
its water ?to be lattin forth, and the dyke thairof
stoppit, so that it may ryn quhair it ran before?
(? Burgh Records.?)
Dr. J. A. Sidey kindly supplieo a description of the original of the
engraving on p. 349, taken from the Merchant Company?s Catalogue.
? View of George Watsan?s hospital and grounds from the south, with
the castle and a portion of the town of Edinburgh in the distance One
of the two fine fresoos which originally adorned the walls of the
Governor?s Board Roomin said hospital. . . The paints is believed to
have ken Alexander Runciman, the celebrated Scottish artist. He died
on the zxst October, 1785. His younger brother John dicd in 1768,
pged *?
Pasche nixt to cum,? when they should consider
whether the water, which seemed to occasion
some trouble to the bailies, ?be lattin furth or
holden in as it is now.?
In 1690 the rental of the loch and its ?broad
meadows? is given at A66 13s. 4d. sterling, in
common good of the city. Early in the seventeenth
century an attempt was boldly made to drain this
loch, and so far did the attempt succeed that in
1658 the place, with its adjacent marshes, was let
to John Straiton, on a lease of nineteen years,
for the annual rent of LI,OOO Scots, and from him
it for a time received the name of Straiton?s Loch,
by which it was known in 1722, when it was let
for L80o Scots to Mr. Thomas Hope of Rankeillor,
on a fifty-seven years? lease.
Hope was president of U The Honourable Society
of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in
Scotland,? who met once a fortnight in a house
near what is now called Hope Park, where they re.
ceived and answered queries from country people
on fanning subjects. Mr. Hope had travelled in
Holland, France, and England, where he picked
up the best hints on agriculture, and was indefatigable
in his efforts to get them adopted in
Scotland.
In consideration of the moderate rent, he bound
himself to drain the loch entirely, and to make a
walk round it, to be enclosed with a hedge, a row
of lime-trees, and a narrow canal, nine feet broad,
on each side of it; and in this order the meadows
remained unchanged till about 1840, always a ... and to his children in fee, and a dispute in law occurred about the division of the property. Buccleuch ...

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392
I. 344 341, 111. 158; Foote's
attack on Whitefield I. 342
Whiteford, Sir John, I.'106,~82, 11.
35 166 111. 161
White Hart, Leg&d of the. I. 11,22
White Hart Inn, Grassmarket, The
Whit; Hbrx hot& The, I. 99, 11.
Whik Horse Inn, I. 4, 6, 299.303
White House Loan, 111.43, 46,47,
Whihorh HOW 11. U, 35
old I1 234 235 *237
21 22739
W%e iron smith, h e first, :I. 263
"White Rose of Scotland, The,
Wig Club The 111. 124
Wigan dfred 'the actor, I. 351
W i g h u k , h i d Provost, I. 94
Wigmer, John, 11. 278
Wi ton Earl of 11. 270
Wi&er&rce, William, 11. 336
Wilkes the demagogue 111. 157
Wilkie: Sir David, L ;Os, 11. 89,
Wilkieof Foulden 11. 142
w i l l i III., PrAlamation of, I.
62; unpopularity of, 11. 324;
proposed statue to, 111. 123 : announcement
of the death of, I. 201
W i l l i IV. inLeithRoads, 111.198
W i l l i de Dedervk. alderman, 11.
11. 123
po7.337~ 111. 7'
_ .
W:fi7ram the Lion King, 11. 46, 50,
Willram Foular's Close, 11. 241
Williams, the actor, 1. 348
Williamson, David, the ejected
minister 11. 133,111. 67
Williamso~, Peter, the printer, I.
122, 176, 282, 356, 11. 25, 173,
111. 250
Willow Brae The 11.314, 318
Willox, Johi, the Reformer, 11.286
Wilson, Alexander, Provost ofEdin-
339. 111. 94, 174* 327, 335, 346,
347. 361
' burgh, 1. 131, 2x8
OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH.
Wilson, Execution of Alexander, I.
129, 11. 231, 315
Wilson Charles, painter 11. 86
Wilson; Daniel, antiqdian, I. 10,
14, 21, 118, 126, 139, 142, 150,
178, 207, 213, 217, 221, 228, 230,
245, 262, 267, 268, 276,278, Nos,
317. 11. 6, 7, 9, 11, 21, 34, 58,
379, 111. 2. 32, 37, 46, 47,49, 51,
66, 72. 74. 86, 103. 113, 14 130,
131, 213, 214, 217, 221, 223, 226,
230, 232 234 a38 246 257 258
Wilson, david, th; pokcal' shamaker,
I. 230, 11. 25
Wilson; Professor George, 11. 107
Wilson, James (" Ckudero "), 11.
Wilson, Patrick, architect, Ill. 50
Wilson, Prof. John, I. 107, 339, 11.
1277 135, 140, 14Zi '42, 143, 193
223, 111. 68, 126; humother, 11. , 155, 156; anecdotes of the prcfessor,
I I. 200; his love of dogs, i6.
Wilson, Willlam Deputy-Clerk of
Session I. 46 '67 163
Wilsm, Fhhweh's;ervant inDarnley's
murder, I. 263, 111. 4, 6
Windlestrawlee farmstead, 111. 3 9
Wind Mill The 11. 346
Windmill $tree: 11. 333, 346
Windsor Street 'III. 158 159
Windy Coule, $he, 11. ;IS, 314
Wham, Colonel John, I. 62, 63,
WinLm The family of III. 338
Winter A d e n , The, 11: 214, 215
Winton, Earl of, II.34,35. 111. 57
Wishart, George, the martyr, I. w,
III.15a
Wishart George, minister of Leith
andBi;hop of Edinburgh, 11. 14,
111. 254
Wishart, Rev. William, Ill. 219,
101, 116, 135s 1% 2273 2342 2421
250, 2518 253, 2542 258, 327, 3748
250
155, 156, 194, 19s~ !w, 204 =I%
64 65
za
Wishprt of Pittarow, James, 111.
Wi:&raft, Belief in, I. 255,II. 22
111. I&. DW: Demons accused od , ,_.. ~~~ ~ 11. r~z, 223,330,111.339; witch&
burned 11. 181 Ill. 134,155,181
~odrow,' Rev. Gobert, I. 58, 60,
111, 123, 179, 196, 222, 247 287
11- 10, 17, 23, 133, 354, 111. 99:
191, 260
Women, Sumptuary laws against,
I. 198
Wood Lord 11. 174
Wood' Si Andrew, the "Scottish
Ne&n," 111. 199, 200, =I, 202,
204 206 214 267 298
Wood th;his;oriaA 111. 107 108
Wood' oseph, the &tor, 1. 3k
Wood: kr. Alexander, 11. 283,293,
303, 111.131
Woodbine Cottage, Trinity, 111.79
Woodhall 111. 2
Woodhouhe, IIf. 33
Woodhowlee, Lord, I. 156, 230,
11. I ~ , Z I O , 270, zga, 111.33
Woods theactor I. 347
Wood': Farm 11'115 117 182
Wood's Victo;! kall,'II1.'88
Wool trade, Edlnhurgh the Seat of
Wwlmet, near Dalkeith, 111. 134,
Wor ouse The 11. 325
Workhouse: Erekon of St. Cuththe,
11. 264
3 3 ~ 3 6 4 ,
bert's, 11,'135
Works at Neu
teenth century, 1 I I . z ~
World's End Close, I. 281, 282
World's End Pool, Dean village,
W
Ill A"
Wright, the acto;, I. 3i1
Wright, Thomas, 111. 47
Wrightsand masons The 11.264
Wright's-houses, Th;, II.'36, 111.
subposed denkation, 111.3; ; the
lo *32, 3+ *36, 3 9 . its
THE END.
Napiers of, 111.34; laird of, 111.
33 Wrightslands Lord I. 226 111.32~
Writer's Codt, I. :zo, 186: 229
Writers to the Signet, I. * z * ;
libraryofthe I. 123 *1z8, 1%:
186; Society'of the '1. 158 167
built on thesiteof G;orgeHbriot'G
workshop, 1. 175
Wyndham, the theatrical manager,
I. 8, 351, 11. 179, I l l . 95
W n%am, Mrs., the actress, I. 351,
111. 95
Y
Yardheads,The, Leith III.a27,z34
Y y s , Mr. and Mrs.,'I. 343, 344.
3 51
Yelverton Mrs. 111. 307
Yester, Jdmes d r d Hay of, I. 278,
11. 286
Yester, Lady, 1.278,11.286; church
of 11. 28 286 187 *n88, ago, 291,
zd9, IIL'r58 I he:sons 11. 286
York and AlbAy, Duke)of, 1. 79,
1 5 9 ~ 1 h 355, 371,1I.10~3771 111-
57
York Cardinal I. 71, 7z
York'Hotel 11: 230
York Lane '11. 188
York Plac;, 1.366 11. go, 92, 180,
182, I&, 185, 1i6, 187, 188, 190,
199, 328, 111. 158
Young, Charles tragedian, I. 348
Young Si Joh:, l!I. 4
Young: Dr., ph siclan, 91. 17, 18
Young's Land, 11. 159
Younger, the comedian, 11. 24
Yuwn, Andrew, Provost, 11. 278
z
Zoologid Gardens, The, 111.88
CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED, BELLX SAWAGE WORKS, hNDON, kc ... 344 341, 111. 158; Foote's attack on Whitefield I. 342 Whiteford, Sir John, I.'106,~82, 11. 35 ...

Book 6  p. 392
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The Cowpate.] TAM 0? THE COWGATE. 259
derived from Dickson by the stars, according to
Nisbet in his ?Heraldry.? A John Dickison of
Winkston, who was provost of Peebles, was assassin260
I
OLD AND NEW EDtNEURGH. [The Cowgate.
Full of years and honours, Tam 0? the Cowgate
died in 1637. At Tynninghame, his family seat,
:here are two portraits of him preserved, and also
his state dress, in the crimson velvet breeches of
which there are no less than nine pockets. Among
many of his papers, which remain at Tynninghame
House, one contains a memorandum which throws
a curious light upon the way in which political
matters were then managed in Scotland. This
paper details the heads of a petition in his own
each way, and had a border of trees upon its east
and south sides. Latterly it bore the name of
Thomson?s Green, from the person to whom it
was leased by the Commissioners of Excise.
The Hammerman?s Close, Land, and Hall, adjoined
the site of this edifice on the westward.
The Land was in I 7 I I the abode of a man named
Anthony Parsons, among the last of those who
followed the ancient practice of vending quack
medicines on a public stage in the streets. In the
THE FRENCH AMBASSAUOR?S CHAPEL. (From a Drawing by W. Geikie.)
hand-writing to the Privy Council with a prayer to
?gar the Chancellor? do something else in his behalf
The Excise Office was removed about 1730 from
the Parliament Square to the houge so long occupied
by the Earl of Haddington, which afforded excellent
accommodation for so important a public
institution. The principal room on the second
floor, the windows of which opened to the Cowgate,
was one of great magnificence, having a stucco
ceiling divided into square compartments, each of
which contained an elegant device, and there was
also much fine paneling. At the back of the
house, extending to where the back of Brown
Square was built, and entered by a gate from the
Candlemaker Row, it measured nearly zoo feet
October of that year he advertised in the Scofs Postman-?
It being reported that Anthony Parsons
is gone from Edinburgh to mount public stages in
the country, this is to give notice that he hath left
off keeping stages, and still lives in the Hammerman?s
Land, near the head of the Cowgate, where
may be had the Orvicton, a famous antidote against
infectious distempers, and helps barrenness,? &c
Four years subsequently Parsons-an Englishman,
of course-announced his design of bidding adieu
to Edinburgh, and in that prospect offered his quack
medicines at reduced rates, and likewise, by auction,
?a fine cabinet organ.?
The last of these English quacks was Dr. Green,
gauger, of Doncaster, who made his appearance inated
in the High Street of that town, on the
1st of July, 1572, and James Tweedie, burgess of
Peebles, and four other persons, were tried for the
crime and acquitted. This is supposed to be the
John Dickison who built the house, and had placed
upon it these remarkable devices as a bold proof of
his adherence to the ancient faith ? The hand.
some antique form of this house, the strange
armorial device of the original proprietor, the tradition
of the Catholic chapel, the singular figures
over ?the double dormer window, and Dickison?s
own tragic fate, in the midst of a frightful civil war,
when neither party gave quarter to the other, all
combine to throw a wild and extraordinary interest
over it, and make us greatly regret its removal.?
(? Ancient Arch. of Edin.?)
The peculiar pediment, as well as the sculptured
lintel of the front door, were removed to Coates?
House, and are. now built into different parts of the
northern Wing of that quaint and venerable ch2teau
in the New Town.
In the middle of the last century, and prior to
1829, a court of old buildings existed in the Cowgate,
on the ground now occupied by the southern
piers of George IV. Bridge, which were used as
the Excise Office, but, even in this form, were
somewhat degraded from their original character,
for there resided Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield,
Earl of Melrose in 1619, and first Earl of Haddington
in 1627, Secretary of State in 16~2, King?s
Advocate, and Lord President of the Court of
Session in 15 92.
He rented the house in question from Macgill of
Rankeillor, and from the popularity of his character
and the circumstance of his residence, he
was endowed by his royal master, King James,
whose chief favourite he was, with? the sobriquet of
Tarn d the Cowgate, under which title he is better
remembered than by his talents as a statesman or
his Earldom of Haddington.
He was famous for his penetration as a judge,
his industry as a collector of decisionsAswing
up a set of these from 1592 to i6q-and his
talent for creating a vast fortune. It is related of
him, in one of many anecdotes concerning him,
communicated by Sir Walter Scott to the industrious
author of the ?? Traditions of Edinburgh,?,
that, after a long day?s hard labour in the public
service, he was one evening seated with a friend
over a bottle of wine near a window of his house
in the Cowgate, for his ease attired in a robc de
chrnbre and slippers, when a sudden disturbance
was heard in the street. This turned out to be a
bicker, one of those street disturbances peculiar to
the boys of Edinburgh, till the formation of the
present police, and referred to in the Burgh Records
so far back as 1529, anent ?gret bikkyrringis
betwix bairns;? and again in 1535, when they
wefe to be repressed, under pain-of scourging and
banishment.
On this occasion the strife with sticks and stones
was between the youths of the High School and
those of the College, who, notwithstanding a bitter
resistance, were driving their antagonists before
them.
The old Earl, who in his yduth had been a High
School boy, and from his after education in Paris,
had no sympathy for the young collegians, rushed
into the street, rallied the fugitives, and took such
an active share in the combat that, finally, the High
School boys-gaining fresh courage upon discovering
that their leader was Tam 0? the Cowgate, the
great judge and statesman-turned the scale of
victory upon the enemy, despite superior age and
strength. The Earl, still clad in his robe and slippers,
assumed the command, exciting the lads to the
charge by word and action. Nor did the hubbub
cease till the students, unable by a flank movement
to escape up the Candlemaker Row, were driven
headlong through the Grassmarket, and out at the
West Port, the gate of which he locked, compelling
the vanquished to spend the night in the fields
beyond the walls. He then returned to finish his
flask?of wine. And a rare jest the whole episode
must have been for King James, when he heard of
it at St. James?s or Windsor.
When, in 1617, the latter revisited Scotland,. he
found his old friend very rich, and was informed
that it was a current belief that he had discovered
the Philosopher?s Stone. James was amused with
the idea of so valuable a talisman having fallen
into the hands of a Judge of the Cburt of Session,
and was not long in letting the latter know of the
story. The Earl immediately invited the king,
and all who were present, to dine with him, adding
that he would reveal to them the mystery of the
Philosopher?s Stone.
The next day saw his mansion in the Cowgate
thronged by the king and his Scottish and English
courtiers After dinner, James reminded him of
the Philosopheis Stone, and then the wily Earl
addressed all present in a short speech, concluding
with the information that his whole secret of success
and wealth, lay in two simple and familiar
maxims :-cc Never put off till tomorrow what can
be done today; nor ever trust to the hand of
another that which your own can execute.?
?
__ ... Cowpate.] TAM 0? THE COWGATE. 259 derived from Dickson by the stars, according to Nisbet in his ?Heraldry.? A ...

Book 4  p. 258
(Score 0.4)

GENERAL INDEX.
Christ?s Church at the Tron, I. 187
Christ?s Church. Castle Hill. I. 82
Chrystie family,?The, 111, 43, 45
Church Hill 111. 38, 71
Church Lad! 11. 1x5, 111. 38
Church offenders, how punished,
11.132
Ci her of Lord Damley and Queen
ham. I. ?16
C+Ls?&e,rIII. 307
Circus Place School 111. 81
Circus, The, Leith?Walk, I. 346,
Ci:adel Port Leith, 111. 257, 258,
261 ; its irection by Monk, 111.
11. 178
187 256
City ? h l e r y Volunteer Corps, I.
286
City gaol 11. 231
City gates Number of, to be open
daily ~ i . 222
city (;Lard, the Edinburgh, I. 5%
274
ment of the, 11. z$
City improvements Commence-
City of Glasgow Bant, 11. 162
Civic privileges, Insistauce on by
Civil War, First movements of, I.
Clam Shell Land I. 239
Clam Shell lurdpike, The, I. 149
Clan regiments, I. 327
Clanranald, I. 334, 11. 35, 111. 146
Clanship, Influence of, I. 134,168
Claremont Park, Leith, 111. 266
Chmont Street Chapel, 111. 75
Claremont Terrace, 111. 88
Clarence Street, 111. 78 83 84
Clarendon Crescent IIi. 7;
? Clarinda,.? 11,327: 328 ; house of,
I1 * 32. room in, 11. *333 chic02 CAmrie, 11.159
Clarke Alexander, 11. 242
Clarke: Provost Alexander, I. 193,
Clarkson Stanfield. the oainter. 111.
the citizens, 11. 280
159; events of the, 111. 184
246, 111. 72
, _ ,
78
tions, 11. 250, 111. 75
a descendant of, 11. a07
?Chudero,? the wit ; his produc-
Claverhouse, l?he spectre of, I. 66 ;
Clavering, Lady Augwta, 11. 139
Cleanliness in the streets, Necessity
?Cleanse the Causeway,? I. 39, 194,
Cleghorn, the physician, 111. 311 ;
Clelland?s Gardens, 111.152
Cleriheugh?s Tavern, I. 120, 184,
for, 1. 193, 199. 203
258, 263, 11. 251
his nephew, rb.
IR,
Cl& Sir John, I. 231 232
Clerk? John (Lord Eld$) 11. 186
Clerk?ofEldin. the ~val?tacticim.
111. 359, 3 6
Clerk 01 Penicuick, St George,
111. 359
Clerk of Pennicuick, Sir James, I.
92, 11. 123 ; his wife 11. IZ 124
125,111.192, 193; reiicsof8rinc:
Charles, 11. 124,
Clerk of Penuicuck, Si John, I.
111 11. 137 111. 63 198
Clerk: David,?physici;n, 11. agg
Clerk Street Chapel 111. 51
Clerks, Society of, i. 167
Clermistou, 111. r q
Clestram Lady I. 106
Cleuchdidstode 111. 33?
Clifton Walter df 11. 50
Clinch? the actor, ?I. 352
Clock&.ker, The first, 11. 263
Clockmaker?s Land, I. 31p. *321
Clockmill House, 11.41, 308
Closes, The old, 11. 241, 242
?Clouts Castle of? 11. 355
Clyde Lord 11. 3;3
Clydeidale Bank, The, II.148,III.
239
Coaches between Edinburgh and
London, I. 55; between Edinburgh
and Glasgow I. 201 between
Edinburghan?d hith,?IIl.
151, 152 Coal Supposed existence of, near
Gkton, 111. 308 ; the Esk coalseams,
111. 358,359
Coal Hill, Leith, 111. 234, 235.246,
247. 250
Coalstoun, Lord, I. 154, 111. 367 ;
anecdote of I. 154
Coates, 11.24, zIr, III. 42, gz
Coates Crescent, 11. 210, 2x1
Coates Gardens, 11. 214
Coates House 11. 1x1 259
Coates Manoi-house i f haster, 11.
Coatfield Gutter, Leith, 111. 194
Coatfield Lane, Leith, 111. ZZO,ZZI
Cobbler A clever I. 271
CobouriStreet,L;iyh,III.~5,256;
sculptured stone in, 111. *260
Cochrane, Lady Mary, 11.272
Cockburn, Lord, I. 159, 282 265
307, 362, 366, 374. 375, 3& 11:
81, 84, 90, 9 1 ~ 93, 95, 4 I q ,
114, 162, ?741 2839 339, 34793488r
111. 62, 68, 78, 86, 95,. 110, his
father, 111. 87 ; his residence at
Banally, 111. 326, * 328
Cockburn, Sir Adam, I. 68
Cockbum, Alexander, the city
Cockburn Archibald, High Judge
Cockburn, Henry, the counsel, 11.
Cockburn Provost Patrick, 11. 55
Cockburn? Sheriff, I. 172
Cockburn?ofOrmiston, II.348,III.
58 ; Mrs., the poetess, I. gg. 11.
Cockburn itreet, I. 229, 237, 283,
286 11. ~ r n
?Codked Hat? Hamilton, 11. 139
Cockfighting II.236,III. a63 263 ;
customary:n 1783, 11. 119
Cocklaw Farm, Currie. 111. 331
Cockpen,III.gr8;theLairdof,I.91
Cockpit, The, 11. I 6
Coffee-house, The lrst Edinburgh,
Coinage, 1 he Scottish, I. z6g
Colchester?s Cuirarrsien, I. 64
Coldingham,Lord Johnof, II.67,72
Coldingham, Prior of, I. 39
Coldstream. Dr. John, 11. 187
Colinton, 111. 35, 125, zr6, 314,
*321, 322, 323 324; its local
history, 111. 322,? 323
Colinton House 111. 323
Colinton, Lords: 111. 323
Colinton Tower, 111. 333
College The I. 379 11. 255, zsg ;
estabkshmgnt of, h. 8
College Kirk cemetery, 111. 15
College of Justice, I. 121, 166, 182,
195, 219, 259, 340, 368, 11. 203,
207, 325. 111. 49. 202, 316, 3%
334,338,359; firstmembersofthe,
1. 167
College ofPhysicians I. 278 11. 146
College ofsurgeons i1.146?111.15
College Street, 11. &I, 326; 111. 3
College Wynd, 11. ?249, 251, 254,
Colonsay ?Lord i. 159 11. 127 197
Colquho& of ?KillerAont, dchi-
Colquioun ?i?r John 11. 166
Colstoun iady I 282
Coltbridie, I. j36, 111. 102, 103,
Coltbridge house and Hall, 111.
Coltheart?s, Mr. and Mrs., ghostly
Colville, Lord, 11. 335
Colville ofCclross, Alexander Lord,
Colville of Easter Wem
Combe, George, the pEnologist,
Comhe?l Clcse, Leith, 111. 126;
? Comedy Hut, I$ed Edinburgh,?
Comely Bank 111. 7 82, 323
Comely Gardks II? 128, ~ 3 5
Comely Green IiI. rz8
Comiston IIL 316; Lairds of I.
97 ; the?battle stone, 111. *3;6
115, 116
hangman, 11. 231
Admirai, 11. 348
=27r 3?5
1.61, 329, 46
1; 174s 178
274, 383 111. 3 8
bald 11.
114, 118, 19
?03
visitors, I. 228
11. I15
I. 147
1. 384 111. 68
ancient buildin in ib.
1.230
Comiston House, 111. 326
Commendator Kobert of Holyrood. - .
1. 239
Commercial Ehuk, The, I. 175,II.
147
Commercial Street L$h, 111. 258
?Commodore O B k n 111. 154
Communication betwken the north
and south sides of the city, Plan
for I. * 296
Comhunion, how celebrated, 11.
Comyn, 111. 351
Confession of Faith, The, I. 123
Congalton, Dr. Fraucis, the phy-
Biclan, 11. zg8
Congalton of Congalton, 111. 58
Connell, Sir John advocate, 11. 194
Conn?s Close, I. ;go, II. 241
Conservative Club The 11. 125
Constable,Archibaid, th; publisher,
I. 157, 210, 229 291,339, 11. 1x8,
* I Z I , 142. 15:; the h?din6vmh
Rmim, I. ZII ; his customers,
I. 210 ; his shop, I. 2x1, 11. raz ;
Lockhart?s description ofhim, 11.
122; his bankruptcy, ib.; his
portrait, ib.
132 : CUPS, ia.
Constable, Thomas, 111. log, 110
Constable?s Tower, The, I. 36, 49
Constables, Appointment of city, I.
Constables of the Castle I. 78
ConstitutionStreet. Lei;h, 111. 171,
cution oftwopirates, 111.243, a67
Convening Rooms, 11. 104,106
Convenery, The, Leith, 111. aog
Convention of Royal Burghs,
Cooper Dr. Myles 11. 247
Cooper; of Go&, The family of
Coopkrs The, 11.265
Cope, si ohn, I. 322, 325, 326,
Cordiners, or shoemakers The, 11.
203
184,239, 243, a44. ~ 8 8 , 289 ; exe-
Ancient, I. 186
the 111. 318
327. 333, 11. 281, 111. 132, 263
. . . .
263
Cordiners of thehougate, 11.19 ;
Cordiners 0) the Portsburgh, A r m s
Corehodse Lord 11. 206, 207
Corn Excbange,?Grassmarket, 11.
Corn Exchange, Leith, 111. 239
Corn Market, The, I. 178, 11. 222,
Cornwallis Lord iI1. 23 193, 335
Corporal &on DL, I. $5
Corooration of Candlemakers. 11.
their king ib.
ofthe 11. 224
236
230,231 ; the old 11. *z33
a&, 267
Cor oration privileges, Monopoly
CoGoratious, The Ancient, 11. 263
O f 11. I5
. -
-267.
111. I<
Correction House, The, 11. 323,
Corri SFgnor 11.178 179
CorriLhie, Bahe of (& Battles)
Corstorphine, I. 254. 323, 324. 111.
IIZ-I~I, 3x8, 3?9, 327, 332, 314;
its name 111. 112, 113
Corstorphine Castle, 111. 118
Corstorphine Church, III. 115,?116,
I m ; its hltory, 111. i15--163
Corstorphine Craigs, 111.113
Corstorphine cream, 111. 114
Corstorphine Cross 111. 113
CorstorphineHill,IkI. xq, 113,118 ;
viewof Edinburghfram, II1.*117
Corstorphine Loch, 111. 42, 118
Cotterell, Lieut.-Col., General Assembly
expelled by, 11. 223.
Cotterill, Right Rev. Henry, Bishop
of Edinburgh, 11.212
Coulter. William. Lord Provost. 11.
283 ; his funerd, 111. 39
Council Chamber The ancient cos! Hill, h i d , 111. a46, 247:
?
Coull?s Clow, 11. 5, ?7
? 248
Country Dinner Club, The, 111.125
Couutv Hall. The. I. IZZ
Cuupir, Lord 1. ;54 164 111. azz
Couper Stm;, Leith: I l i . 258
Courtof Session, 1.166, ?61, 11. a3 ;
robable extinction of 1. 174
? &U* of Sesuon GarlAd,?? I. 1%
COUrtS Of 1. 157
courts of w, 11. 245
226, 111. 30, 184, 186, I&, 33,;
courage ofthe I 160 161 11.19;
transportatiod 0.i th;, IiI. IQ ;
execution of the 11. 235111.156
Covenanters? Flag: 1. 54
Covenanters? Prison, Entrance to
the, 11. * 381
Coventry, the lecturer 11. 120
Covington, Lord I. :70 272, 338,
Cow Palace, 11. 319
cowan Lord 11.207
Cowan: War;?house of Messrs., 11.
Cowfeeder Row, 111.94
Cowgate, The. I. % 31, 38, 3% 1x0,
123, IP, 148, 157, 161,162, 179.
181, 2071 217, 219, 245. 253, 255,
263, 266, 267, 268, 278. 2 2, 294,
86, 147. 166, 232-68, a m 273,
358, II. 116 Iii. 135 ; ?hi, pwn,
I. 170, 11. :87
171
295, 3731 374, 375, 378,li: 2, 23.
282. 293, 346 111. 23 31 47 6, 53.
63, 125, 126 ;?its early name, the
Sou?gate, or Southstreet, 11.239,
249 ; origin of the thoroughfare,
11. 239 ; ancient weapons found
therein, 11.240 ; oldhouses in the,
11. * 240, * 244 ; ancient maps of
thecowgate 11. *141, *245,?161;
excavations kade on the site 11.
a45 ; head of Cowgate, P& 21
Cowgate Chapel 11. 194
Cowgate Churcd, 11. 188
Cowgate Head, 11. 168, 241, 267
Cowgate Port, 1.274, 278,298, *pi,
11. 17, 146 ~ 3 9 , 2 1 0 , ~ o 111 156
Cowper, Bishop, t h e g a l k 111: 260
Craftsmen, l?he early, 11. ;63
Craig, Lord, 11. 121, 143, 187, 270,
Craig, sir Lewk I. 226 111. 322
Craig of RiccrtrtAn, Sir khomas, I.
Craig, James, architect, 11. 105,
Craig John the Reformer I1 262
Craiiof Ridcarton, Rob& 11: 123,
Craig hnd, The, 11. 103, 111. 186,
=a7
Craig Houx, 111.42; its successive
owners, I I . 4 2 , 4 3 , * ~ ; itsdiningroom
and kitchen, 111. *#
Craigantinnie, JamesNisbetof. 111.
63 Cnugantinnie manor-house, 111.
Cmgantmnie marbles, The, 111.
138, * 144
Craigcrook,III. 78 107 ; itssuccessive
owners, I I ~ . 107 ; a fearful
tragedy and remarkable dream,
111.108, r q
Craigcrook Castle, 111. 106, * 107,
I d 1 9 110 *I12
Craiicrook, d d y , 111. log
Craigie-Wallace, Lady, 111. ya
Craigingalt, or Craigangilt, The
rock 11. 102, 111. 151
Craigkth. III. 94, 107
Craigleith quarry, 111. 82, 83, 111.
Craiglockhart 111. 42, 43
C+glc+hart?HiIl, 111. 42
Cmgmllar, 11. 336, 111. 57. 142,
327
226,111.321, 322
117, 118, 146
111.334
136, 138.7 141
23
1 3 7 2399 287, 338
Craigmillar, Henry de, 111. 58
Craigmillar Laird of, 111. 61, 94
Craigmil1ar)CnstIe. I. 1s. 42,77,111.
3, p, 58; views of, 111. *6a
Platc 27; its history, I l l . 58-
62; Queen Mary at, 111. 59
Craigmillar Hill 111. 61
Craigmilh pari, III. 51, 58
Craigmillar Road, 111. 58
Craig?s Close I. 179 203 za9. 230
Craig?s plan Af the dew ltreets and
Cramond village, 111. 311. 314-
318, Pkte 34; its history, 111.
314, 31s; the ?Twa Brigs,? 111.
31s. old Cramond Brig, 111.
squares, 11. XI,, XI8 ... INDEX. Christ?s Church at the Tron, I. 187 Christ?s Church. Castle Hill. I. 82 Chrystie family,?The, ...

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