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349 Hope Pukl ?THE DOUGLAS CAUSE.?
THE BURGH LOCH.. (Aftw a Plwtagrajh o f t h OnginaZ, bypermission of thc M e m k t Company of Edidu&.l
CHAPTER XLI.
HOPE PARK END.
?The Douglas Cause,? or Story of Lady Jane Douglas-Stewart-Hugh Lord Semplc-? The Chevalier?-The Archers? Hall-Royal Company
of Archers formed-Their Tacobitism-Their Colours-hrlv Parades-Constitution and Admission-Their Hall built-Mwrs. Nelsond
Establishment-Thomas Nelson.
HOPE PARK END is the name of a somewhat humble
cluster of unpretending houses which sprang up at
the east end of the Meadows ; but the actual villa
latterly called Hope Park was built on the south
bank of the former loch, ?immediately eastward of
the Meadow Cage,? as it is described in the prints
of 1822. In character Hope Park End has been
improved by the erection of Hope Park Crescent
and Terrace, with the U. P. church in their
vicinity; but when its only adjuncts were the
Burgh Loch Brewery, the dingy edifices known as
Gifford Park, and an old house of the sixteenth
century, pulled down by the Messrs. Nelson, it was a
somewhat sombre locality. Another old house near
the Archers? Hall showed on the lintel of its round
turnpike stair the date 1704, and the initials AB
-J.L. ; but in which old mansion in this quarter
the celebrated and unfortunate Lady Jane Douglas-
Stewart resided we have no means of ascertaining,
or whether before or after she occupied z garret
in the East Cross Causeway, and only know from
her letters that she lived here during a portion of
the time (1753) when her long vexed case was disputed
in Scotland and in England.
Having referred to this case so often, it is
necessary, even for Edinburgh readers, to say
something of what it was-one in which the famous
toady Boswell, though little inclined to exaggeration,
is reported by Sir Walter Scott to have been so
ardent a partisan that he headed a mob which
smashed the windows of the adverse judges of the
Court of Session, when, ?? For Douglas or Hamilton?
? was the question men asked each other in
the streets, at night, and swords instantly drawn
if opinions were hostile j for ? the Douglas cause,?
as Scott says, ?shook the security of birthright in
Scotland, and was a cause which, had it happened
before the Union, when there was no appeal to a ... Hope Pukl ?THE DOUGLAS CAUSE.? THE BURGH LOCH.. (Aftw a Plwtagrajh o f t h OnginaZ, bypermission of thc M e m ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 425
The figure on the right of Mr. Cauvin is meant to represent MR SCOTT,
farmer, Northfield, who survived, and was long an intimate friend of the
Founder of the Hospital. An intelligent and skilful agriculturist, he was greatly
esteemed in the neighbourhood, and by none more so than those who were his
dependants. One man is said to have been in his employment between thirty
and forty years; and another, who died at a very advanced age, had been
servant in the family for upwards of sixty years. Mr. Scott waa an elder of
the parish church of Duddingston. His wife, a Miss Graham, by whom he
had several children, died in 1834.’
No. CCCXV.
MRS. SMITH,
IN THE COSTUME OF 17 9 5.
THAT this Portraiture was sketched without a sitting may be conjectured
from a memorandum by the artist, which states that when the lady heard of
his intention to publish her likeness, “she sent for him to come and get a
proper look at her; but he did not choose to accept the invitation.” Those
who remember Mrs. Smith will have little difficulty in recognising a strong
likeness to her in the Etching.
MRS. or rather LUCKIES, MITH(fo r so in her later years she was uniformly
styled) is dressed in the somewhat ridiculous fashion prevailing towards the
close of last century. The Print bears the date 1795 ; and at that period she
resided in South Bridge Street. Some years afterwards she removed to a
house purchased for her in Blackfriars’ Wynd.
Mrs. Smith was a native of Aberdeen, and had in early life been married
to a trader of the name of Kinnear, by whom she had a son and two daughters.
After the death of her husband she resumed her maiden name of Smith.
Her favourite walk was the Meadows. She was a stout, comely-looking woman,
and usually dressed well. She lived to old age, in the enjoyment of two
annuities-one of which she derived from a gentleman of fortune, the husband
of one of her daughters. The other daughter was also well married, and
we believe settled in America. Mrs. Smith died in January 1836.
His eldest son, Andrew, was s Writer to the Signet ; and David, who formerly assisted him in
the management of Northfield, was a large sheep-farmer near Gala Water. Three of his five
daughtera were respectably msrried ; the eldest to John Parker, Esq., S.S.C., who was appointed to
the office of Principal Extractor in the Conrt of Session ; the second to I&. George Law, farmer,
Morton ; and the second youngeat to Adam Paterson, Esq., W.S.
VOL. 11. 31 ... SKETCHES. 425 The figure on the right of Mr. Cauvin is meant to represent MR SCOTT, farmer, ...

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Burghmuir.] ST. ROQUES CHAPEL. 47
Greenhill, whereon stood an old gable-ended and
gableted manor-house, on the site of which is now
the great square modem mansion which bears its
name. In a street here, called Greenhill Gardens,
there stands a remarkable parterre, or open burialplace,
wherein lie the remains of more than one proprietor
of the estate. A tomb bears the initials
J. L. and E. R., being those of ?John Livingstone
and Elizabeth Rig, his spouse,? who acquired
the lands of Greenhill in 1636 ; and the adjacent
thoroughbre, named Chamberlain Road, is so
called from an official of the city, named Fairholme,
who is also buried there.
A dispute-Temple and Halliday with Adam
Cairns of Greenhill -is reported before the
lords in 1706, concerning a tenement in the
Lawnmarket, which would seem to have been
?spoiled and deteriorated? in the fire of 1701.
(Fountainhall.)
In 1741 Mr. Thomas Fairholme, merchant in
Edinburgh, married Miss Warrender, daughter of
Sir George Warrender of Bruntsfield, and his death
at Greenhill is reported in the Scuts Magazine for
1771. There was a tenement called Fairholme
Land in the High Street, immediately adjoinicg
the Royal Exchange on the east, as appears from
the Scuts Magazine of 1754, probab!y erected by
Bailie Fairholme, a magistrate in the time of
Charles 11.
Kay gives us a portrait of George Fairholme of
Greenhill (and of Green-know, Berwickshire), who,
with his younger brother, William of Chapel, had
long resided in Holland, where they became
wealthy bankers, and where the former cultivated
a natural taste for the fine arts, and in after life
became celebrated as a judicious collector of
pictures, and of etchings by Rembrandt, all of
which became the property of his nephew, Adam
Fairholme of Chapel, Berwickshire. He died in
his seventieth year, in 1800, and was interred in
the family burying-place at Greenhill.
In a disposition of the lands of the latter estate
by George Fairholme, in favour of Thomas Wright,
dated 16th, and recorded 18th February, 1790, in
the sheriffs? books at Edinburgh, the preservation of
the old family tomb, which forms so singular a
feature in a modern street, is thus provided for :-
? Reserving nevertheless to me the liberty and
privilege of burying the dead of my own family,
and such of my relations to whom I, during my
own lifetime, shall communicate such privilege, in
the burial-place built upon the said lands, and
?Teserving likewise access to me and my heirs to
repair the said burial-place from time to time, as we
shall think proper.?
? Greenhill became lztterly the property of the
Stuart-Forbeses of Pitsligo, baronets.
After passing the old mansion named East
Morningside House, the White House Loan joins
at right angles the ancient thoroughfare named the
Grange Loan, which led of old from the Linton
Road to St. Giles?s Grange, and latterly the Causewayside.
On the south side of it a modern villa takes its
name of St. Roque from an ancient chapel which
stood there, and the ruins of which were extant
within the memory of many of the last generation.
The chapels of St. Roque and St. John, on the
Burghmuir, were both dependencies of St. Cuthbert?s
Church. The historian of the latter absurdly
conceives it to have been named from a French
ambassador, Lecroc, who was in Scotland in 1567.
The date of its foundation is involved in obscurity;
but entries occur in the Treasurer?s Accounts for
1507, when on St. Roque?s Day (15th August) James
IV. made an offering of thirteen shillings. ? That
this refers to the chapel on the Burghmuir is
proved,? says Wilson, ? by the evidence of two
charters signed by the king at Edinburgh on the
same day.?
Arnot gives a view of the chapel from the northeast,
showing the remains of a large pointed window,
that had once been filled in with Gothic tracery;
and states that it is owing ?to the superstitious
awe of the people that one stone of this chapel has
been left upon another-a superstition which, had
it been more constant in its operations, might have
checked the tearing zeal of reformation. About
thirty years ago the proprietor of the ground
employed masons to pull down the walls of the
chape! ; the scaffolding gave way ; the tradesmen
were killed. The accident was looked upon as a
judgment against those who were demolishing thk
house of God. No entreaties nor bribes by the
proprietor could prevail upon tradesmen to accomplish
its demolition.?
It was a belief of old that St. Roque?s intercession
could protect all from pestilence, as he was
distinguished for his piety and labours during a
plague in Italy in 1348. Thus Sir David Lindesay
says of-
1?- Superstitious pilgramages
To monie divers imagis ;
Sum to Sanct Roche with diligence,
To saif them from the pestilence.?
Thus it is, in accordance with the attributes ascribed
in Church legends to St. Roque, that we find
his chapel constantly resorted to by the victims of
the plague encamped on the Burghmuir, during the
prevalence of that scourge in the sixteenth century. ... ST. ROQUES CHAPEL. 47 Greenhill, whereon stood an old gable-ended and gableted manor-house, on the ...

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316 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Doddingston.
hills around glistening in the sun, the ring of the
ice, the shouts of the careering youth, the rattle
of the curling-stones, and the shouts of the players,
once heard and seen, would never be forgotten.?
It was to Duddingston, in 1736, that the fugitive,
? Geordie Robertson,? the stabler at Bristo
Port, after effecting that escape from St. Giles?s
Church by the generous courage of Wilson, which
led to the catastrophe of the Porteous mob, and
after passing through the East Cross Causeway,
Not far from it, and nearly opposite the gate of
the Manor House, stood for ages a memorable
thorn, known as Queen Mary?s Tree. It was one
of the oldest in Scotland, and of great proportions,
being over nine feet in circumference. It formerly
stood within the park, but on widening the carriageway,
it remained outside, and many fissures being
found in its root, they were filled up with lime
and stone by order of the road trustees ; but too
late: a storm in 1840 tore it up by the roots. A
DUDDINGSTON LOCH.
took his breathless flight. When reaching the village,
he fainted from exhaustion, but after receiving
some refreshment-the first he had obtained for
three days-he procured a horse, rode away, and
was never heard of again.
Western Duddingston, at the north end of the
loch, was once a populous village, wherein some
forty looms were at work in the Loan, making
a coarse linen stuff, then known as Duddingston
hardings. It is surrounded by gardens and
plantations, and in it is still shown the house in
which Prince Charles slept, with his staff, on the
night before he marched to Prestonpans. It was
then thatched, but has now a tiled roof, and consists
of two storeys.
well-known and justly-reputed statist, who resided
in the neighbourhood, ascertained that the Duddingston
Thorn existed so far back as the reign
of Alexander I. (IIO~), when it was one of the
landmarks of the property on which it grew. It
is mentioned in the title-deeds of the Abercorn
estate, and hence the desire of the family to
preserve a precise knowledge of the spot where
it stood.
The barony of Duddingston, which comprehends
the greatest part of the whole parish, was long in
possession of a family named Thomson, created
baronets ot Nova Scotia, 1636, in the person of
Sir Thomas Thomson of Duddingston, by CharlesI.
Sir William Thomson-his son, probably-was a ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Doddingston. hills around glistening in the sun, the ring of the ice, the shouts of ...

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Stenhouse.1 KATHERINE OSWALD, WITCH. 339
The same Sir John seems to have possessed
property in East Lothian.
In 1413-4 Gulielmus de Edmonstone, scutger,
was a bailie of Edinburgh, together with William
Touris of Cramond, Andrew of Learmouth, and
William of the Wood. (? Burgh Charters,? No.
It was on Edmonstone Edge that the Scots
pitched their camp before the battle qf Pinkie, and
when the rout ensued, the tremendous and exulting
shout raised by the victors and their Spanish,
German, and Italian auxiliaries, when they mustered
on the Edge, then covered by the Scottish tents,
was distinctly heard in the streets of Edinburgh,
five miles distant.
In 1629 the ?Judicial Records? tell us of
certain cases of witchcraft and sorcery as occurring
in the little villages of Niddrie and Edmonstone.
Among them was that of Katherine Oswald, a
generally reputed witch, who acknowledged that,
with others at the Pans, she used devilish charms
to raise a great storm during the borrowing days of
1625, and owned to having, with other witches and
warlocks, had meetings with the devil between
Niddrie and Edmonstone for laying diseases both
on men and cattle.
She was also accused of ?bewitching John
Nisbett?s cow, so that she gave blood instead ol
milk. Also threatening those who disobliged her,
after which some lost their cows by running mad,
and others had their kilns burnt. Also her numerous
cures, particularly one of a lad whom she
cured of the trembling fever, by plucking up a
nettle by the root, throwing it on the hie gate, and
passing on the cross of it, and returning home, all
which must be done before sun-rising ; to repeat
this for three several mornings, which being done,
he recovered.
XXI.)
?? Convicted, worried at a stake, and burnt?
A companion of this Katherine Oswald, Alexander
Hamilton, who confessed to meeting the devil
in Saltoun Wood, being batooned by him for failing
to keep a certain appointment, and bewitching
to death Lady Ormiston and her daughter, was alsa
? worried at a stake, and burnt?: (? Spottiswoode
Miscellany.?)
Regarding the surname of Edmonstone, 1632,
Lord Durie reports a case, the Laird of Leyton
against the Laird of Edmonstone, concerning the
patronage of ? the Hospital of Ednemspittal, which
pertained to the House of Edmonstone?
The defender would seem to have been Andrew
Edrnonstone of that ilk, son of ?uniquhile Sir
John,? also of that ilk.
The family disappeared about the beginning oj
the seventeenth century, and their land passed into
the possession of the second son of Sir John
Wauchope of Niddrie, Marischal, who was raised to
the bench as Lord Edmonstone, but was afterwards
removed therefrom, ?in consequence of his opposition
to the royal inclinations in one of his votes as
a judge.? His daughter and heiress mamed Patrick,
son of Sir Alexander Don of Newton Don and
that ilk, when the family assumed the name of
Wauchope, and resumed that of Don on the death
of the late Sir William Don, Bart.
The estate of Woolmet adjoins that of .Ednionstone
on the eastward. According to the ?New
Statistical Account,? it was granted to the abbey of
Dunfermline by David I. It belonged in after
years to a branch of the Edmonstone family, who
also possessed house p,roperty in Leith, according
to a case in Durie?s ? Decisions ? under date 1623.
In 1655 the Laird of Woolmet was committed
to ward in the Castle of Edinburgh, charged With
? dangerous designes and correspondence with
Charles Stuart ; ? and in I 670 several cases in the
Court of Session refer to disputes between Jean
Douglas, Lady Woolmet, and others, as reported in
Stair?s ? Decisions.? \
Wymet, now corrupted to Woolmet, was the
ancient name of the parish now incorporated with
that of Newton, and after the Reformation the
lands thereof were included in Tames VI.?s grant
to Lord Thirlstane.
The little hamlet named the Stennis, or Stenhouse
(a corruption of Stonehouse, or the Place of
the Stones) lies in the wooded. hollow through
which Burdiehouse Bum flows eastward.
In the new church of St. Chad, at Shrewsbury,
in Shropshire, there lies interred a forgotten native
of this hamlet-atl architect-the epitaph on whose
massive and handsome tombstone is quite a little
memoir of him :-
? L J ~ ~ ~ SIMPSON,
?? Born at Stennis, in Midlothian, I 75 5 ; died in this
parish, June rgth, 1815. As a man, he was moral,
gentle, social, and friendly. In his professional
capacity, diligence, accuracy, and irreproachable
integrity ensured him esteem and confidence wherever
he was employed, and lasting monuments of
his skill and ability will be found in the building
of this church (St. Chad?s), which he superintended,
the bridges of Bewdley, Dunkeld, and
Bonar, the aqueducts of Pontoysclite and Chirk,
and the locks and basins of the Caledonian Canal.
The strength and maturity of his Christian faith
and hope were seen conspicuously in his last
illness. To his exemplary cbnduct as a husband ... KATHERINE OSWALD, WITCH. 339 The same Sir John seems to have possessed property in East Lothian. In ...

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310 E I 0 GR A P HI GAL S K ET C H ES.
No. CCLXXIV.
REV. DAVID DICHSON,
MINISTER OF NEW NORTH CHURCH, EDINBURGH.
MR. DICKSON, the third son of the Rev. David Dickson, minister of Newlands,
Peeblesshire, and afterwards proprietor of the estate of Kilbucho, in the same
county, was born in April 1754. After receiving his elementary education at
the parochial school of West Linton, the parish immediately adjoining to that
of Newlands, he was removed to the grammar-school at Peebles, then under
the skilful tuition of Mr. Oman, who is still remembered as a superior linguist
and a most successful teacher. Entering the Uuiversity of Glasgow in 1766,
he there prosecuted his literary, philosophical, and theological course of studies,
till the session of 1774-5, when he completed them at the Divinity Hall of
Edinburgh.
Being licensed by the Presbytery of Biggar in September 1775, Mr. Dickson
soon after became the almost stated assistant of his step-uncle, the Rev.
Mr. Noble, minister of Liberton, in the same Presbytery, then in the decline
of life, and such was his popularity during the entire period of Mr. Noble's
survivance, that on his death, in 1776, the parishioners unanimously applied to
the patron in his favour, who, at once acceding to their wishes, immediately
presented him to the vacant charge. After going through the prescribed presbyterial
trials with more than ordinary approbation, he was ordained minister
of that parish on the 1st of May 1777.
During his ministry at Liberton, Mr. Dickson began t,hat course of faithful
and zealous labour, among all classes of the people, not in the pulpit only, but
from house to house, by which he was so peculiarly distinguished throughout
the remainder of his life. But, while this produced a mutual and very strong
attachment betwixt him and his first flock, it led others who enjoyed, though
only occasionally, the benefit of his public, and heard of his not less valuable
private, ministrations, earnestly to seek for themselves so estimable a pastor.
Accordingly, on a vacancy taking place at Bothkennar, in the Presbytery of
Stirling, where he had been accustomed to assist, especially on sacramental
occasions, he was, on the unanimous application of the parishioners to the patron,
Mr. Graham of Airth, appointed to that charge, into which he was duly inducted
in July 1783.
Being by this time well known in Edinburgh, where he was in the habit of
regularly assisting, twice a year, the most eminent evangelical ministers at the
dispensation of the Lord's Supper ; and, being particularly intimate with Mr. ... E I 0 GR A P HI GAL S K ET C H ES. No. CCLXXIV. REV. DAVID DICHSON, MINISTER OF NEW NORTH CHURCH, ...

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Leith.) THE BOURSE. 231
U Throughout these troublesome days, a little episcopal
congregation was kept together in Leith,
their place of worship being the first floor of an
old dull-looking house in Queen?s Street (dated
1516), the lower floor of which was, in my recollection,
a police office.?
The congregation about the year 1744 is said to
have numbered only a hundred and seventy-two ;
and concerning what are called episcopal chapels
in Leith, confusion has arisen from the circumstance
that one used the Scottish communion
office, while another adopted the liturgy of the
Church of England. The one in Queen Street was
occupied in 1865 as a temperance hall.
According to Robertson?s U Antiquities,? the
earliest of these episcopal chapels was situated in
Chapel Lane (at the foot of Quality Street), and
was demolished several years ago, and an ancient
tablet which stood above the door-lintel was built
into a house near the spot where the chapel stood.
It bears the following inscription :-
T. F. THAY. AR. WELCOY. HEIR. THA?I?.
A. M. G6D. DOIS. LOVE. AND. FEIR. 1590.
In 1788 this building was converted into a
dancing-school, said to be the first that wa? opened
in Leith.
On Sunday, April 27, 1745, divine service was
performed in a fey of the then obscure episcopal
chapels in Edinburgh and Leith, but in the following
week they were closed by order of the
sheriff.
That at Leith, wherein the Rev. Robert Forbes
and Rev. Mr. Law officiated, shared the same fate,
and the nonjuring ministers of their communion
had to perform their duties by stealth, being liable
to fines, imprisonment, and banishment. It was
enacted that after the 1st of September, 1746,
every episcopal pastor in Scotland who failed to
register his letters of orders, to take all the oaths
required by law, and to pray for the House of
Hanover, should for the first offence suffer six
months? imprisonment ; for the second be transported
to the plantations ; and for the third suffer
penal servitude for life !
Hence, says Mr. Parker Lawson, in his ?I History
of the Scottish Episcopal Church,? since the Revolution
in 1688, ?the sacrament of baptism was
often administered in woods and sequestered places,
and the holy communion with the utmost privacy.
Confirmations were held with closed doors in
private houses, and divine service often performed
in the open air in the northern counties, amid the
maintains or in the recesses of forests. The
chapels were all shut up, and the doors made
fast with iron bars, under the authority of the
sheriffs.?
The Rev. Robert Forbes became Bishop of
Caithness and Orkney in 1762, but still continued
to reside in Leith, making occasional visits to the
north, for the purpose of confirming and baptising,
till the year of his death, 1776; and twelve years
subsequently, the death of Prince Charles Edward
put an end to much of the jealousy with which the
members of the episcopal communion in Scotland
were viewed by the House of Hanover.
?On Sunday, the 25th of May last,? says The
GentZeman?s Magazine for I 7 88, ? the king, queen,
and Prince of Wales were prayed for by name, and
the rest of the royal family, in the usual manner,
in all the nonjuring chapels in this city (Edinburgh)
and Leith. The same manner of testifying the
loyalty of the Scotch Episcopalians will also be
observed in every part of the country, in consequence
of the resolution come to by the bishops
and clergy of that persuasion. Thus, an effectual
end is put to the most distant idea of disaffection
in any part of His Majesty?s dominions to his royal
person and government.?
The old chapel in Queen Street adjoined a
building which, in the days when Maitland wrote,
had its lower storey in the form of an open piazza,
which modem alterations have completely concealed
or obliterated. This was the exchange, or
meeting-place of the Leith merchants and traders
for the transaction of business, and was known as
the Rourse till a very recent period, being adopted
at a time when the old alliance with France was
an institution in the land, and the intimate relations
between that country and Scotland introduced
many phrases, customs, and words which still
linger in the latter.
The name of the Bourse still remains in Leith
under the corrupted title of the Timber Bush,
occasionally called the How( at some distance
north of Queen Street. It occupied more than
the piazzas referred to-a large piece of ground
originally enclosed by a wooden fence, and devoted
to the sale of timber, but having been plobably
reclaimed from the sea, it was subject to inundations
during spring tides. Thus Calderwood records
that on the IGth of September, 1616, ?there arose
such a swelling in the sea at Leith, that the like
was not seen for a hundred years, for the water came
in with violence in a place called the Timber H~lc
where the timber lay, and carried away some of the
timber, and rnanie lasts of herrings lying there,
to the sea; brak into sundrie low houses and
cellars, and filled them with water. The people,?
he adds, of course, ?tooke this extraordinarie ... THE BOURSE. 231 U Throughout these troublesome days, a little episcopal congregation was kept together in ...

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74 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holyroob
chateau of Chantilly, from plans by the royal
architect, Sir William Bruce of Balcaskie and
Kinross, the palace as we find it now was built by
Charles 11. and James VII., with a zeal that has
been supposed to imply forethought of having a
fit retreat in their ancient capital if driven from
that of England. The inscription in large Roman
letters-
FVN . BE. RO . MYLNE . MM . IVL . 1671-
marks the site of the foundation of the modern
additions ; it is in a pier of the north-west piazza.
Before the Antiquarian Society in 1858 was
read a statement of the ? Accounts of Sir William
Bruce of Balcaskie, General Surveyor of H.M.
Works, 1674-9.?? The re?ckoning between these
years was it;160,000 Scots, of which sum four-fifths
were spent on Holyrood, the new works on which
had been begun, in 1671, and so vigorously carried
on, that by January, 1674, the mason-work had been
nekly completed. The Dutch artist, Jacob de
Urt, was employed to paint ? One piece of historia
in the king?s bed-chamber? for A120 Scots. The
coats-of-arms which are above the great entrance
and in the quadrangle were cut from his designs.
Holyrood Palace is an imposing quadrangular
edifice, enclosing a piazza-bounded Palladian
court, ninety-four feet square. Its front faces the
west, and consists of battlemented double towers
on each flank. In the centre is the grand entrance,
having double Doric columns, above which
are the royal arms of Scotland, and over them an
octagonal clock-tower, terminating in an imperial
crown.
The Gallery of the Kings, the largest apartment
in the palace, is 150 feet long by 27 feet broad,
and is decorated by a hundred fanciful portraits
of the Scottish kings, from Fergus 1. to James VII.,
by Jacob de Urt, and there is an interesting
portrait of Mary and of the latter monarch, and at
the end of the gallery are four remarkable paintings,
taken from Scotland by James VI., and sent
back from Hampton Court in 1857. They represent
James 111. and his queen Margaret of Denmark
(about 1484), at devotion; on the reverses
are Sir Edward Boncle, Provost of Trinity College
; the figure of St. Cecilia at the organ represents
Mary of Gueldres, and the whole, which are by
an artist of the delicate Van Eck school, are
supposed to have formed a portion of the altarpiece
of the old Trinity College Church. In this
gallery the elections of the Scottish peers take place.
Beyond it are Lord Darnley?s rooms ; among the
portraits there are those of Darnley and his
brother, and from thence a stair leads to Queen
Mary?s apartments above. The Tapestry Room
contains two large pieces of arras, and among
several valuable portraits one of James Duke of
Hamilton, beheaded in 1649.
The Audience Chamber-the scene of Mary?s
stormy interviews with Knox-is panelled and
embellished with various royal initials and coatsarmorial
; the furniture is richly embroidered, and
includes a venerable state-bed, used by Charles I.,
by Prince Charles Edward, and by Cumberland on
the night of the 30th January, 1746. Mary?s bedchamber
measures only 22 feet by 18 feet, and at
its south-west corner is her dressing-room, The
ancient furniture, the faded embroideries and
tapestries, and general aspect of this wing, which
is consigned peculiarly to memories of the past
are all in unison with the place ; but the royal
nursery, with its blue-starred dome, the Secretary
of State?s room, with the royal private apartments
generally now in use, are all in the south and
eastern sides of the palace, and are reached by a
grand staircase from the south-east angle of the court.
CHAPTER XI.
HOLYROOD PALACE (concZdaf).
The King?s Birthday in 1665-James Duke of Albany-The Duchess of York and G e n d Daltell-Funeral of the Duke of Rothes - A
Gladiatorial Exhibition-Departure of the Scottish Household Troops-The Hunters? Company?s Balls-Fmt and Second Viis
of the Royal Family of France-Recent Improvements-St. h e ? s Yard removed-The Ornamental Fountain built.
IN the IntelZ&zce for the 1st of June, 1665, we
have a description. of the exuberant loyalty that
followed the downfall of the Commonwealth.
?Edinburgh, May 29, being His Majesty?s birthday,
was most solemnly kept by all ranks in this
city. My Lord Commissioner, in his state, With
his life-guard on horseback, and Sir Andrew
Ramsay, Lord Provost, Bailies, and Council in their
robes, accompanied by all the Trained Bands in
arms, went to church and heard the Bishop of
Edinburgh upon a text well applied for the work
of the day. Thereafter thirty-five aged men in ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Holyroob chateau of Chantilly, from plans by the royal architect, Sir William Bruce of ...

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Princes Street.] EDINBURGH IN 1783. 119
vincial towns were combined in the case of Edinburgh
She was the titular capital of Scotland, and
as such, was looked up to with pride and veneration
by the nation at large. She was then the
residence of many of the old Scottish nobility, and
the exclusion of the British from the Continent,
during a long, protracted war, made her, either for
business, society, or education, the favourite resort
of strangers. She was the headquarters of the
legal profession at a time when both the Scottish
bench and bar were rendered illustrious by a numbet
of men celebrated far their learning, eloquence, and
wit. She was the head-quarters of the Scottish
Church, whose pulpits and General Assembly were
adorned by divines of great eminence and piety.
Lastly, she was the chief seat of scholarship, and
the chosen home of literature and science north of
the Tweed.?
With the Edinburgh of those days ,and of the
present we have now deal
CHAPTER XVII.
PRINCES STREET.
A Glance at Society-Change of BIanners, &-The Irish Giants-Poole?s Coffee-house-Shop of Constable 8 Co.-Weir?s Muscum, 1794-
The Grand Duke Nichoh-North British Insurance Life Association4ld Tax Office and New Club-Craig of Ricarton-??he
White Rose of Scotland??-St. John?s Chapel-Its Tower and Vaults, &.-The Scott Monument and its MUseum-The Statues of Professor
Wilson, Allan Ramsay, Adam Black, Sir James Sirnpson, and Dr. Livingstone-The General Improvements in Princes Street.
IN 1774 a proposal to erect buildings on the south
side of Princes Street-a lamentable error in taste
it would have proved-led to an interdict by the
Court of Session, which ended in a reference to
the House of Lords, on which occasion Imd
Mansfield made a long and able speech, and the
result was, that the amenity of Princes Street was
maintained, and it became in time the magnificent
terrace we now find it.
Of the city in 1783 some glimpses are given us
in the ?? Letters of Theophrastus,? appended to the
second edition of ?Arnot.? In that year the
revenue of the Post Office was only ~ 4 0 , 0 0 0 .
There were four coaches to Leith, running every
half hour, and there were 1,268 four-wheeled carriages
and 338 two-wheeled paying duty. The
oystercellars had become numerous, and were
places of fashionable resort. A maid-servant?s
wages were about f;4 yearly. In 1763 they wore
plain cloaks or plaids; but in 1783 ?silk, caps,
ribbons, ruffles, false. hair, and flounced. petticoats.?
In 1783 a number of bathing-machines had been
adopted at Leith. People of the middle class and
above it dined about four o?clock, after which no
business was done, and gentlemen were at no pains
to conceal their impatience till the ladies retired.
Attendance at church . was, much neglected, and
people did not think it ?genteel? to take their
domestics with them. ?In 1783 the daughters
even of tradesmen consume the moriings at the
toilet (to which rouge is now an appendage) or in
strolling from the perfumer?s to the milliner?s.
They would blush to be seeri at market. The
cares of the family devolve upon a housekeeper,
?
and Miss employs those heavy hours when she
is disengaged from public or private amusements
in improving her mind from the precious stores of
a circulating library.? In that year a regular cockpit
was built for cock-fighting, where all distinctions
of rank and character were levelled. The weekly
concert of music began at seven o?clock, and
mistresses of boarding-schools, &c., would not allow
their pupils to go about unattended ; whereas,
twenty years before ?young ladies might have
walked the streets in perfect security at all hours.?
In I 783 six criminals lay under sentence of death
in Edinburgh in one week, whereas it1 1763 three
was an average for the whole kingdom in a year.
A great number of the servant-maids still continued
? their abhorrence of wearing shoes and stockings
in the morning.? The Register House was unfinished,
?? or occupied by pigeons only,? and the
Records ? were kept in a dur.geon called the high
Parliament House.?
The High Street alone was protected by the
guard. The New Town to the north, and all the
streets and new squares to the south, were totally
unwatched ; and the soldiers of the guard still preserved
?the purity of their native Gaelic, so that
few of the citizens understand, or are understood
by them ;? while the king?s birthday and the last
night of the year were ?? devoted to drunkenness,
outrage, and riot, instead of loyalty, peace, and
harmony,? as of old.
One of the earliest improvements in the extended
royalty was lighting it with oil lamps; but in
the Adnerh?ser for 1789 we are told that ?while all
strangers admire the beauty and regularity of the ... Street.] EDINBURGH IN 1783. 119 vincial towns were combined in the case of Edinburgh She was the titular ...

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296 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
the mark of approbation which he had this day received from the magistracy of
the metropolis of his native country ; and if anything could add to it, it would
be the very handsome terms in which that testimony had been conveyed to him
by the Lord Provost,
The healths of the Lord Chief Commissioner, and Charles Forbes, Esq.,
M.P. for Beverley, upon whom the freedom of the city was lately conferred,
were also drunk ; and each of these gentlemen made suitable speeches in return.
The Lord Provost then proposed the health of the city Member, to whose
unremitting exertions, his lordship stated, together with those of the Right
Hon. Lord Melville, the city of Edinburgh was entirely obliged for the late
grant towards finishing the College. His health was drunk with the greatest
enthusiasm.
Lord Lynedoch begged leave to give a toast ; and after stating that he had
not intended to have taken so much liberty with the company, he could not
resist proposing the repetition of a toast given by that venerable warrior Prince
Blucher, at a grand dinner given by the Duke of Wellington to all the high
official characters now assembled in Paris, and by them received with the
utmost applause-'' May the Ministers not lose by their pens, what the army
has gained by their swords."
During the latter period of his life, Sir John resided chiefly on his estate of
Lees, and was much respected in the neighbourhood for his beneficence and
many acts of kindness to the poor. He died on the 5th of February 1833,
in the seventy-first year of his age, having been born in 1762-the same year
with his Majesty George IT., whom he was said very much to resemble in
certain points of feature and person.
Sir John was succeeded by his second son,' William, on whose death the
following year, the title and estates devolved on his son, John, a minor, who
was born in 1830.
No. CCLXX.
REV. CHARLES SIMEON, M.A.
OF TRINITY CHURCH, CANBRIDGE.
THIS popular divine was born at Reading in 1759.' He was educated at
Eton, and entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1779. Up to this period
MR.S IMEOwNa s not in any way remarkable for piety. On the contrary, he has
been frequently heard to say that he " was greatly addicted to the gaieties of
Edward, the eldest son, died in India.
a He was a younger brother of the late S i John Simeon, Bart., one of the Masten in chancery. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the mark of approbation which he had this day received from the magistracy of the ...

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196 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
prisoners, who were praying intently, when Sir
Adolphus Oughton stepped forward, and, displaying
pardons, exclaimed, c( Recover arms.?
?? Soldiers,? he added, ?? in consequence of the
distinguished valour of the Royal Highlanders, to
which two of these unfortunates belong, his Majesty
has been graciously pleased to forgive them all.?
So solemn and affecting was the scene that the
prisoners were incapable of speech. Reverently
lifting their bonnets, they endeavoured to express
engaged in commercial speculations by which he
realised a considerable sum of money, and adopting
the cause of the revolted colonists in America, was
appointed first lieutenant of the Ayred, on board
of which, to use his own words, ?he had the
honour to hoist with his own hands the flag of
freedom, the first time it was displayed in the
Delaware.? After much fighting in many waters,
he obtained from the French Government command
of the Dztras, a 42-gun ship, which he named
ST. NINIAN?S CHURCH.
their gratitude, but their voices failed them, and,
overcome by weakness and the revulsion of feeling,
the soldier of the 7 1st sank prostrate on the ground.
More than forty of their comrades who were shot,
or had died of mortal wounds, were interred in the
old churchyard of St. Mary?s at Leith, and a huge
grassy mound long marked the place of their last
repose.
The next source of consternation in Leith was
the appearance of the noted Paul Jones, with his
squadron, in the Firth in the September of the
same year.
This adventurer, whose real name was John Paul,
son of a gardener in Kirkcudbright, became a seaman.
about 1760, and as master and supercargo
lk Ban Honime Rich~d, and leaving St. Croix
with a squadron of seven sail (four of which deserted
him on the way), he appeared off Leith with
three, including the Pallas and the Vengeance. It
was on the 16th of September that they were seen
working up the Firth by long tacks, against astormy
westerly breeze, but fully expecting, as he states,
?to raise a contribution of ~zoo,ooo sterling on
Leith, where there was no battery of cannon to
oppose our landing.?
Terror and confusion reigned supreme in Leith,
yet, true to their old instincts, the people made
some attempt to defend themselves. Three ancient
pieces of cannon, which had long been in
what was called the Naval Yard, drawn by sailors ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. prisoners, who were praying intently, when Sir Adolphus Oughton stepped ...

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Colstorphine.] THE FORRESTERS. 119
of land, in any proper place;? and in 1383 there
followed another charter from the same king concerning
? the twenty merks yearly from the farmes
of Edinburgh.? (Burgh Charters.) In the preceding
year this influential citizen had been made
Sheriff of Edinburgh and of Lothian.
In 1390 he was made Lord Privy Seal, and
negotiated several treaties with England; but in
1402 he followed Douglas in his famous English
raid, which ended in the battle of Homildon Hill,
where he fell into the hands of Hotspur, but was
ransomed. He died in the Castle of Corstorphine
on the 13th of October, leaving, by his wife, Agnes
Dundas of Fingask, two sons, Sir John, his heir,
and Thomas, who got the adjacent lands of Drylaw
by a charter, under Robert Duke of Albany, dated
?? at Corstorfyne,? 1406, and witnessed among others
by Gilbert, Bishop of Aberdeen, then Lord Chancellor,
George of Preston, and others.
Sir John Forrester obtained a grant of the barony
of Ochtertyre, in favour of him and his first wife
in 1407, and from Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney,
he obtained an annuity of twelve merks yearly,
out of the coal-works at Dysart, till repaid thirty
nobles, ?which he lent the said earl in his great
necessity.??
In 1424 he was one of the hostages for the
ransom of James I., with whom he stood so high
in favour that he was made Master of the Household
and Lord High Chamberlain, according to
Douglas, and Lord Chancellor, according to Beatson?s
Lists. His second wife was Jean Sinclair, daughter
of Henry Earl of Orkney. He founded the collegiate
church of which we have given a description,
and in 1425 an altar to St Ninian in the
church of St. Giles?s, requiring the chaplain there
to say perpetual prayers for the souls of James I.
and Queen Jane, and of himself and Margaret his
deceased wife.
He died in 1440, and was succeeded by his son
Sir John, who lived in stormy times, and whose
lands of Corstorphine were subjected to fire and
sword, and ravaged in 1445 by the forces of the
Lord Chancellor, Sir William Crichton, whose lands
of Crichton he had previously spoiled.
By his wife, Marian Stewart of Dalswhton, he
had Archibald his heir, and Matthew, to whom
James III., in 1487, gave a grant of the lands of
Barnton. Then followed in succession, Sir Alexander
Forrester, and two Sir Jameses. On the
death of the last without heirs Corstorphine devolved
on his younger brother Henry, who married
Helen Preston of Craigmillar.
Their son GerJrge was a man of talent and probity.
He stooci high in favour with Charles I.,
who made him a baronet in 1625, and eight years
afterwards a peer, by the title of Lord Forrester
of Corstorphine. By his wife Christian he had
several daughters-Helen, who became Lady Ross
of Hawkhead ; Jean, married to. lames Baillie of
Torwoodhead, son of Lieutenant-General William
Baillie, famous in the annals of the covenanthg
wars ; and Lilias, married to William, another son
of the same officer, And now we approach the
dark tragedy which, for a time, even in those days,
gave Corstorphine Castle a temble notoriety.
George, first Lord Forrester, having no male
heir, made a resignation of his estates and honours
into the hands of the king, and obtained a new
patent from Charles II., to himself in life-rent,
and after his decease, ?to, or in favour of, his
daughter Jean and her husband the said James
Baillie and the heirs procreate betwixt them ;
whom failing, to the nearest lawful heir-male of the
said James whatever, they carrying the name and
arms of Forrester ; the said James being designed
Master of Forrester during George?s life.?
This patent is dated 13th August, 1650, a few
weeks before the battle of Worcester. He died
soon after, and was succeeded by his son-in-law,
whose wife is said to have sunk into an earlygrave,
in consequence of his having an intrigue with one
of her sisters.
James Lord Forrester married, secondly, a
daughter of the famous old Cavalier general, Patrick
Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, by whom,
says Burke, ?he had three sons and two daughters,
all of whom assumed the name of Ruthven,?
while Sir Robert Douglas states that he died
without any heir, and omits to record the mode of
his death.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, and for those of
that persuasion, in prelatic times, built a special
meeting-house in Corstorphine ; this did not prevent
him from forming a dangerous intrigue with
a handsome woman named Christian Nimmo,
wife of a merchant in Edinburgh, and the scandal
was increased in consequence of the lady being
the niece of his first wife and grand-daughter of
the first Lord Forrester. She was a woman of a
violent and impulsive character, and was said to
carry a weapon concealed about her person. - It
is further stated that she was mutually related to
Mrs. Bedford, a remarkably wicked woman, who
had murdered her husband a few years before, and
to that Lady Warriston who was beheaded for the
same crime in 1600 ; thus she was not a woman to
be treated lightly.
Lord Forrester, when intoxicated, had on one
occasion spoken of her opprobriously, and this ... THE FORRESTERS. 119 of land, in any proper place;? and in 1383 there followed another charter from ...

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176 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
to extinguish the flames. On the same daya grand
assault was to be made.
By this time the batteries against the town were
all in full play. Mount Pelham was distant 1,200 feet
from the eastern curtain ; Mount Somerset was distant
only 600 feet ; a third mound, Mount Falcon,
near the river, and southeast of St. Nicholas?s
called the Schole of Warre,? which is full of curious
details, and was published at London in 1565.
The detailed orders issued by Lord Grey for
the assault on the 4th of May are very curious;
they are preserved among the Talbot Papers, and.
contain the names of some of the earliest ofticers.
in the English army, and old Bands of Berwick,
PLAN OF LEITH, SHOWING THE EASTERN FORTIFICATIONS.
(XacsimiZe ufter GrrmwiZk CoZZid ? GrEat Britaids Coaating Pilot,? London, 1693.)
church, was 300 feet distant from the fifth bastion,
near where King Street is now.
After several days? cannonade from eight guns
on Mount Somerset (now familiar to the children
of Leith as the Giant?s Brae), the steeple of St.
Anthony, with its cannon and defenders, fell with a
mighty crash, to the great exultation of the English,
who contemplated the effects of their skill with
silent wonder ; and meanwhile Admiral Winter,
having crept close in-shore, bombarded the town,
by which many of the luckless inhabitants perished
with the defenders. Thomas Churchyard, who
accompanied the English in this expedition, wrote
a poem called ? The Siege of Leith, more often
?May 4th, 1560, vppone Saturday in themornyng,
at thri of the clock, God willinge, we shal be in
readyness to give the assalte, in order as followithe,
if other ympedyinent than we knowe not of hyndre
us not.?
For the first assault (i.e., column of stormers),
Captain Rede, with 300 men ; Captains Markham,
Taxley, Sutton, Fairfax, Mallorye, the Provost
Marshall, Captains Astone, Conway, Drury (afterwards
Sir Tlrilliam and Marshal of Berwick), Berkley,
and Fitzwilliams, each with zoo men, and 500
arquebusiers, to be furnished by the Scots.
Thus 3,000 men fornied the first column.
For the second were Captains Wade, Dackare, ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. to extinguish the flames. On the same daya grand assault was to be made. By ...

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224 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
sterling, for a yeir?s rent of a vault under the said
Trinitie House, imployed to lay in stores for the
m y , determining the 8th of March last. . . .
Given at Edinburgh the last day of Apryl, 1657.
Sic subm-ibifur, GEORGE MONK, F. SCROPE,
Quathetham? i.e. Wetham. ((( Trinity House Records.?)
In 1800 the master and assistants of the Trinity
House recommended, as the best means of rendering
safer the navigation on the east coast of Scotland,
of the old one, in a Grecian style of architecture,
in 1817, at the modest expense of Az,soo.
In the large hall for the meeting of the masters
are a portrait of Mary of Lorraine, by Mytens, and a
model of the ship in which she came to Scotland.
Among other portraits, there is one of Admiral
Lord Duncan; and among other pictures of interest,
the late David Scott?s huge painting of ?? Vasco de
Gama passing the Cape of Good Hope.?
A building mysteriously named the Kantore
THE TRINITY HOUSE.
the establishment of a lighthouse, or floating light,
on the Inchcape, or Bell Rock, off the mouth of
the Tay; and, adds the Edinburgh ChronicZe for
that year, ?they have also recommended all the
towns and burghs of the east coast to consider
what sort of light would be best, in what manner
it should be erected, and what duties should be
levied on the shipping, and what shipping) for its
erection and support ; ? and there, six years afterwards,
was begun that famous feat of engineering,
the Bell Rock Lighthouse, on the reef which
had proved so fatal to many a mariner in past
times, and which forms the subject of one of
Southey?s fine ballads.
- The present Trinity House was built on the site
(probabIy a corruption of the Flemish word kanfoor,
a place of business) stood of old in the Kirkgate,
in the immediate vicinity of St., Mary?s
Church, and was intimately associated with the
ecclesiastical history of Leith. It was latterly a
species of prison-house. When an appearance of
religion was necessary to all men in Scotland, the
Kantore was used as a place of temporary durance
for those who incurred in any way the censure of
the Kirk Session. ?Offences of the most trivial
nature were most severely punished,? says a writer,
(? and a system of espionage was maintained, from
which there was hardly any possibility of escape.
Either Leith must, in former times, have exceeded
in wickedness the other parts of Scotland, or the ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. sterling, for a yeir?s rent of a vault under the said Trinitie House, imployed ...

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206 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
talents, and standing high in the applause of the world, she was remarkable for
simplicity and the absence of everything like professional affectation.
The announcement of Mrs. Yates when i~Edin burgh, that the part of Lady
Randolph would be her “last appearance in Scotland,” proved to be more literally
true than she probably contemplated at the time. Her death, little
more than two years afterwards, was thus announced in the journals :-‘‘ At
her house (2d May 1787), in Pimblico Terrace, in the fifty-ninth year of
her age, Mrs. Yates, who had been justly deemed one of the brightest ornaments
of the English stage. The disorder which occasioned her death was dropsy.”
At her own request, she was buried near to the grave of her father, in the
chancel of Richmond Church.
No. CCXLII.
ALEXANDER M‘EELLAR ;
OR
“THE COCE 0’ THE GREEN.”
THE game of GOLF (or Scottice Gof)-of which the scene represented in the
Print affords some idea-is a pastime, although not entirely unknown in England,
more peculiar to Scotland, and has long been a favourite with the citizens of
Edinburgh. In the Teutonic, or German, kolhe signifies a club ; and, in Holland,
the same word, pronounced kolf, describes a game-of which the Dutch are
very fond-in some respects akin to the Scottish pastime of golf.‘
At what period this amusement came to be practised in Scotland is not precisely
known; but, from the circumstance of foot-ball being prohibited by a
statute in 1424, in which no mention is made of golf, while it is specially noticed
in a later enactment, 1457, the presumption is, that the game was unknown at
the former period; and consequently that its introduction must have been
about the middle of the fifteenth century.
The prohibitory laws against foot-ball and golf were enacted that these
pastimes might not interfere with the practice of archery ; the bow being then
an instrument of war, in the use of which the Scots sometimes fatally experienced
the superiority of their English neighbours. But a change having been effected
by the invention of gufipowder, archery was no longer of national importance
as a military exercise-the laws for its encouragement fell into desuetudeand
the people were permitted again to indulge, without restraint, in the
popular recreations.
An accurate description of kolf is given in the Statistical Account of Scotland-parish of
Inveresk-from the pen of the late Rev. Mr. Walker, Canongate, who had been for Borne time
resident in Holland. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. talents, and standing high in the applause of the world, she was remarkable ...

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354 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CCXC.
J A E S ACK C OULL,
ALIAS
CAPTAIN MOFFAT,
AT THE BAR OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.
THIS notorious individual was the son of a pocket-book maker, who for some
time had a small shop near the Church of St. Sepulchre, London, in which city
the subject of the Print was born in 1763. His father is said to have been an
industrious, well-meaning man, but his mother was a female of abandoned
habits, and long known as a shop-lifter and thief of the lowest grade. She had
three sons and three daughters, all of whom, under her maternal instruction,
became adepts in the art of pilfering. The career of Ben, the youngest son,
was short, as he was executed for robbery in 1786. John Mackcoull, the eldest,
was a well-known character at Bow Street. He was a person of good education
and the author of a volume entitled ii Abuses of Justice,” which he published
in 1819, on his acquittal from a charge of forgery.’
JAMEMS ACKCOULtLh,e hero of our narrative, who seems to have inherited
through life the propensities of his mother, although on a somewhat more
extended scale, made little progress in his education, farther than to acquire a
knowledge of reading and writing. He absented himself from school-displayed
great dexterity in pilfering from his playmates-and was a most accomplished
liar. Athletic, active, and swift of foot, he acquired much renown as a pugilist
in several encounters with his compeers. With these accomplishments his path
to distinction was easy. The first recorded instance of his public depredations
was robbing an unfortunate dealer in cats’ meat. Watching an opportunity,
the young hero threw a quantity of snuff in the poor man’s eyes, then cut the
bag of coppers from the barrow and decamped.
From this period his depredations were numerous, and generally successful,
His father had apprenticed him to a leather-stainer, with whom he remained
for some time ; but his irregularities were so great, that his master at last discharged
him. He now became a thief by profession, and in company with two
associates-Bill Drake and Sam Williams-did business on a large scale.
The most remarkable of his feats at this time was the robbery of a retired
This work, which, however, is rather scarce, is exceedingly amusing. If the author is to be
believed, he was a very ill-used man. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CCXC. J A E S ACK C OULL, ALIAS CAPTAIN MOFFAT, AT THE BAR OF THE HIGH COURT OF ...

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160 OLD -4ND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk.
on the verge of destitution ; and DIsraeli writes of
him thus in his ? Calamities of Authors ? :-
?? It was one evening I saw a tall, famished,
melancholy man enter a bookseller?s shop, his hat
flapped over his eyes, his whole frame evidently
feeble from exhaustion and utter misery. The
bookseller inquired how he proceeded with his
tragedy ? ? Do not talk to me about my tragedy I
Do not talk to me about my tragedy! I have,
indeed, more tragedy than I can bear at home,? was
Now all the ground eastward of the Walk to
the Easter Road is rapidly being covered by new
streets, and the last of the green fields there has
well-nigh disappeared, Between the North British
Goods Station and Lorne Street the ground fronting
the Walk belongs to the Governors of Heriot?s
Hospital, while the ground between the latter and
the Easter Road is the property of the Trinity
Hospital. The ground in these districts has been
feued at from A105 to Arzo per acre, for tene-
GREENSIDE CHURCH, FROM LEOPOLD PLACE.
his reply, and his voice faltered as he spoke. This
man was ? Mathew Bramble ?-Macdonald, the
author of ?Vimonda,? at that moment the writer of
comic poetry ! ?
D?Israeli then refers to his seven children, which,
however, is an error, as he had but one child, whom,
with his Wife, he left in utter indigence, whenafter
the privations to which he had been subjected
had a fatal effect on a naturally weak constitution-
he died, in 1788, in the thirty-third year of
his age. A volume of his sermons, published soon
after his death, met with a favourable reception ;
and in 1791 appeared his ?Miscellaneous Works,?in
one volume, containing all his dramas, with ? Probationary
Odes for the Laureateship,? and other pieces.
ments four storeys in height, at an average value
each of from A1,8oo to Az,ooo. Many of these
streets are devoid of architectural features, and
meant for the residence of artisans.
The Heriot feus have tenements valued at from
.&3,000 to A4,000, and contain houses of five and
nine apartments, with ranges of commodious shops
on the ground-floor. During the changes here the
old bum of Greenside has also been dealt with;
and instead of meandering, as heretofore, towards
where of old the Lawer Quarry Holes lay-latterly
in an offensive and muddy course-it is carried in
a culvert, which will be turned to account as a main
drain for the locality.
In the map of 1804 the upper part of Leith.
? ... OLD -4ND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith Walk. on the verge of destitution ; and DIsraeli writes of him thus in his ? ...

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The Old High School.] RECTORS AND TEACHERS, 291
, in use to teach in those mornings and forenoons.
And considering that the ordinary Latin rudiments
in use to be taught children at their beginning to
the Latin tongue is difficult and hard for beginners,
and that Wedderburn?s Rudiments are more plain
and easy, the Council ordain the said masters in
time coming, to teach and begin their scholars with
Wedderburn?s Rudiments in place of the Latin
Rudiments in use as taught formerly. Ro. CHIESLIE,
Provost.??
David Wedderburn, whose work is thus referred
to, was born about 1570, and was the accomplished
author of many learned works, and died, it is supposed,
about 1644, soon after the publication of
his ?? Centuria Tertia.?
In 1699 A40 Scots was voted by the magistrates
to procure books as a reward for the best scholars,
and when the century closed the institution was in
a most creditable condition, and they-as patrons
-declared that ?? not a few persons that are now
eminent for piety and learning, both in Church and
State, had been educated there.?
In the year I 7 I 6 there was an outbreak among
the scholars for some reason now unknown ; but
they seem to have conducted themselves in an outrageous
manner, demolishing every pane of glass
in the school, and also of Lady Yester?s church,
levelling to the earth even the solid stone wall
which enclosed the school-yard. About this time
the janitor of the institution was David Malloch, a
man distinguished in after life as author of the
beautiful ballad of ? William and Margaret,? a poet
and miscellaneous writer, and under-secretary to the
Prince of Wales in 1733; to please the English
ear, he changed his name to Mallet, and became
an avowed infidel, and a venal author of the worst
description. Dr. Steven refers to his receipt as
being extant, dated 2nd February, 1718, ?for
sixteen shillings and eight pence sterling, being his
full salary for the preceding half-year. That was
the exact period he held the office.?
In 1736 we again hear of the BZeis-siher, cca
profitable relic of popery, which it seemed difficult
to relinquish.? Heartburnings had arisen because
it had become doubtful in what way the Candlemas
offerings should be apportioned between the rector
and masters; thus, on the 28th January in that
year, the Council resolved that the rector himself,
and no other, shall collect, not only his own quarterly
fees, but also the fee of one shilling from
each scholar in the other classes. The Council
also transferred the right from the master of the
third, to the mzster of the first elementary class,
to demand a shilling quarterly from each pupil in
the rector?s class; and declared that the rector
and four masters should favourably receive from
the scholars themselves whatever benevolence or
Candlemas offerings might be presented.?
Thomas Ruddiman, the eminent grammarian and
scholar, who was born at Boyndie in 1674 and
who in 1724 began to vary his great literary
undertakings by printing the ancient Cdedonian
Mercqv, about I 737 established-together with
the rector, the masters, and thirty-one other persons-
a species of provident association for their
own benefit and that of their widows and children,
and adopting as the title of the society, ?The
Company of the Professors and Teachers of the
liberal arts and sciences, or any branch or part
thereof, in the City of Edinburgh and dependencies
thereof.?
The co-partners were all taxed equally; but
owing to inequalities in the yearly contributions, a
dissolution nearly took place after an existence of
fifty years; but the association rallied, and stcl
exists in a flourishing condition.
One of the most popular masters in the early
part of the eighteenth century was Mr. James
Barclay, who was appointed in June, 1742, and
whose experience as a teacher, attainments, and
character, caused him to be remembered by his
scholars long after his removal to Dalkeith, where
he died in 1765.
When Henry Mackenzie, author of the ?? Man of
Feeling,? was verging on his eightieth year, he
contributed to Dr. Steven?s CL History,? his reminiscences
of the school in his own early years,
between 1752 and 1757, which we are tempted to
quote at length :-
?Rector Lees, a very respectable, grave, and
gentlemanlike man, father or uncle, I am not sure
which, of Lees, the Secretary for Ireland. He
maintained great dignity, treating the other masters
somewhat de had a bar; severe, and rather too
intolerant of dulness, but kind to more promising
talents. It will not be thought vanity, I trust-for
I speak with the sincerity and correctness of a
third person-when I say that I was rather a
favourite with him, and used for several years after
he resigned his office to drink tea with him at his
house in a large land or building at the country
end of the suburb called Pleasance, built by one
Hunter, a tailor, whence it got the name of
? Hunter?s Folly,? or the Castle 0? Clouts.?
cc MAsrERs continued-Ersf, or youngest class,
when I was put to school, Farquhar, a native of
Banffshire, cousin-german of Farquhar, author of
admired-and indeed t h q may be called admirable-
sermons, and of Mr. Farquhar, the Vicar of
Hayes, a sort of Parson Adams,? a favourite ot ... Old High School.] RECTORS AND TEACHERS, 291 , in use to teach in those mornings and forenoons. And ...

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J48 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Street.
that sum has been called. It is expressly provided
by the charter of the bank, granted 5th August,
1831, ?that nothing contained in these presents
shall be construed as intended to limit the responsibility
and liability of the individual partners of
the said Corporation for the debts and engagements
lawfully contracted by the said Corporation, which
responsibility and liability is to remain as valid
and effectual as if these presents had not been
most elegant of any in Britain.? In addition to
the ball-room, ? there is to be a tea-room, fifty
feet by thirty-six, which will also serve as a ballroom
on ordinary occasions ; also a grand saloon,
thirty-eight feet by forty-four feet, besides other
and smaller rooms. The whole expense will be
6,000 guineas, and the building is to be begun
immediately. Another Assembly Room, on a
smaller scale, is to be built immediately by the
INTERIOR OF ST. ANDREW?S CHURCH, GEORGE STREET.
granted, any law or practice to the contrary
notwithstanding.?
The branch of the Clydesdale Bank, a little
farther westward on the other side, is a handsome
building ; but the next chief edifice-which, with
its arcade of three rustic arches and portico, was
long deemed by those obstinately wedded to use
and wont both an eyesore and encroachment on
the old monotonous amenity of George Street, when
first erected-is the Assembly Rooms.
The principal dancing-hall here is ninety-two feet
long by forty-two feet wide, and forty feet high,
adorned with magnificent crystal lustres. ?? The
New Assembly Rooms, for which the ground is
staked out in the new town,? says the Edinburgh
AdvPrtise7 for April, 1783, ?will be among the
inhabitants on the south side of the town; in
George Square,? Eventually this room was placed
in Buccleuch Place. ? Since the peace,? continues
the paper, ? a great deal of ground has been feued
for houses in the new town, and the buildings there
are going on with astonishing rapidity.?
To the assemblies of 1783, the letters of
Theophrastus inform us that gentlemen were in
the habit of reeling ?from the tavern, flustered
with wine, to an assembly of as elegant and
beautiful women as any in Europe;? also that
minuets had gone out of fashion, and country
dances were chiefly in vogue, and that in 1787 a
master of the ceremonies was appointed. The
weekly assemblies here in the Edinburgh seasvn
are now among the most brilliant and best con ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [George Street. that sum has been called. It is expressly provided by the charter of ...

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[-wade. THE MELVILLES..
/
LASSWADE CnuKCH, 1773. (Afdw an Etching by Yohn Clerk of E(din.1
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE ENVIRONS OF EDINBURGH-(ccmclz&d).
Melville Castle and the Melvilles-The Viscounts Melvil1::-Sheriffnall-Newton-Monkton-Stonyhill-" The Wicked Colonel Charteris "-
New Hailes-The Stair Obelisk-Lord Hailes-His Death.
MELVILLE CASTLE stands on the left bank of the
North Esk, about five furlongs eastward of Lasswade,
and was built by the first Viscount Melville,
replacing a fortress of almost unknown antiquity,
about the end of the last century. It is a splendid
mansion, with circular towers, exhibiting much
architectural elegance, and surrounded by a finelywooded
park, which excited the admiration of
George IV.
Unauthenticated tradition states that the ancient
castle of Melville was a residence of David Rizzio,
and as such, was, of course, visited occasionally by
Queen Mary; but it had an antiquity much more
remote.
It is alleged that the first Melville ever known
'in Scotland was a Hungarian of that name, who
accompanied Queen 'Margaret to Scotland, where
he obtained from Malcolm 111. a grant of land
in hiidlothian, and where he settled, gave his surname
to his castle, and became progenitor of all
the Melvilles in Scotland. Such is the story told
by Sir Robert Douglas, on the authority of Leslie,
143
Mackenzie, Martin, and Fordun ; but it is much
more probable that the family is of French origin.
Be all that as it may, the family began to be
prominent in Scotland soon after the reign of
Malcolm 111.
Galfrid de Melville of Meldle Castle, in
Lothian, witnessed many charters of Malcolm IV.,
bestowing pious donations on the abbeys of Holyrood,
Newbattle, and Dunfermline, before 1165, in
which year that monarch died.
He also appears (1153-1165) as Vicecomes de
CasieZZo Pzd'Eamm, in the register of St. Marie
of Newbattle. He witnessed two charters of
William the Lion to the abbey of Cambuskenneth,
and made a gift of the parish church of
Melville (which, probably, he built) to the monastery
of Dunfermline, in presence of Hugh, Bishop
of St. Andrews, previously chaplain to King
William, and who died in 1187.
Galfrid of Melville left four sons-Sir Gregory,
his successor, Philip, Walter, and Waren. Of the
last nothing is known, but the other three founded ... THE MELVILLES.. / LASSWADE CnuKCH, 1773. (Afdw an Etching by Yohn Clerk of E(din.1 CHAPTER XLIII. THE ...

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352 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
Societies of Edinburgh-of its Subscription Library, etc. He was for forty-one
years treasurer of the Synod of his church ; and, from its commencement, and
for more than forty years, had acted as treasurer of the Widows’ Fund of Dissenting
Ministers of Scotland.
They consist principally of
single sermons published at intervals ; the first of which was preached on the
occasion of the Centenary of the Revolution. Two or three were delivered
before missionary and philanthropic societies ; one before the United Associate
Synod; another upon the occasion of the Great Fires in Edinburgh, in 1824;
and the remainder on funeral and other occasions. He also contributed
various articles to religious periodicals ; in particular, to the Chvistian Illagaxine,
the Christian Monitov, and the Theological Magazine. More lately, a series of
lectures on the book of Jonah, from his pen, appeared in successive numbers of
the United Xecession Mugaxine. His most remarkable publication was a letter
addressed to the late Rev. Dr. Porteous of Glasgow, in 1800, in reply to a
charge of political disaflection which that Divine advanced against the Associate
Synod, in consequence of their having made an alteration in their doctrinal
standards, in reference to the subject of the magistrate’s power in matters of
religion. This letter was much admired at the time for its delicate yet keen
satire, and the clearness, strength, and elegancies of its reasoning. The late
Dugald Stewart recommended it to his students, as one of the most masterly
pieces of classical sarcasm in our language.
Dr. Peddie’s publications are few in number.
No. CCLXXXVIII.
REV. DR. PEDDIE,
IN 1810.
To the foregoing slight sketch of the reverend gentleman, it may be added,
that he received the degree of Doctor in Divinity, in 1818, from the University
of Aberdeen, and that he was twice married-first, to Margaret, daughter of
the late Rev. George Coventry of Stitchill, and sister to the late Dr. Andrew
Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, by whom
he had no children; and, secondly, to Earbara, daughter of the late Donald
Smith, Esq., banker in Edinburgh. By his second wife he had a family of
nine children, one of whom, his second son, the Rev. William Peddie, was
ordained his colleague and successor in the year 1828.
Dr. Peddie had the honour of being the oldest clergyman among the
various denominations within Edinburgh and Leith. His long ministry having
been wholly spent in Edinburgh, it is satisfactory to know that, in return for ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Societies of Edinburgh-of its Subscription Library, etc. He was for forty-one years ...

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216 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Dab.
~~ ~~
Cuthbert?s, in 1831, for .&2,500, and seated for
1,300.
The church was built in 1827, and is now named
St David?s, the parish being quo~d sawa, and disjoined
from St Cuthbert?s.
The United Secession Congregation, which formerly
sat here, have now their. place of worship,
seated for 1,284, on the west side of the Lothian
Road. In architecture, externally, it is assimilated
with the street.
charters granted by the Scottish kings between
1309 and 1413 the lands of Dalry, near Edinburgh,
are mentioned in several instances. Under Robert
I. the lands of Merchinstoun ahd Dalry ? were
granted to William Bisset. Under David II.,
Roger Hog, burgess of Edinburgh, had ?one
annual forth of Dalry ;,I and there was a charter
given by William More, of Abercorn, to William
Touris and Helenor Bruce, Countess of Carrick, of
the lands of Dalry, in the county of Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH CASTLE FROM PORT HOPETO[?N, 1825. (A/?#- EW6U.d)
Westward of this quarter lies the old historic
suburban district named Dalry. The quaint old
mancr house of that name, which stood so
long embosomed among its ancient copsewood,
on the east side of the Dalry Road, with its
projecting towers crowned by ogee roofs, is
now incorporated with one of the somewhat
humble class of streets, which hereabout have
covered the whole estate, even to Wester Dalry,
near the cemetery of that name.
Of Celtic origin, it takes its name from Dal, a
vale, and righ, ? a king,? like a place of the same
name in Cunningham, near which there is also a
spot named, like that at Holyrood, Croft an Righ,
?the croft of the king.? In the roll of missing
This Helenor was the only daughter of Alexander,
fifth Earl of Carrick (who fell at the battle of
Halidon Hill, in 1333)? and was the wife of Sir
William Cunningham, of Kilmaurs.
In the sixteenth century this fertile and valuable
barony became the property of the Chieslieq
wealthy burgesses of Edinburgh. .
In 1672 there was a ?ratification? by Parliament
in favour of the notorious John Chieslie
(son of Walter Chieslie of Dalry) of the lands of
Gorgie; and the inscription on the tomb of his
mother in the Greyfriars is thus given in Monteith?s
?Theatre of Mortality,? I 704-
Memonk charissimle SUE mnjugis, Cuthayin@
Tad, ~ U E decessit 27th Januav, 1679 Manumen ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Dab. ~~ ~~ Cuthbert?s, in 1831, for .&2,500, and seated for 1,300. The church ...

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364 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, [Newton.
gift ratified by Bishop Richard and Pope Gregory.
There are many places in Scotland of the name
of Newton.
In 1612 a Sir William Oliphant of Newton (but
which is not very apparent) was appointed King?s
Advocate, and held the office till 1626. ? He conquered
the lands of Newton, the barony of Strabroke,
and the Murrows, near Edinburgh,? says Scott of
Scotstarvit ; ?? but was unfortunate in his children
as any of the rest. For his eldest son, Sir James,
populous villages, consisting of long rows of red-tiled
cottages that border the wayside, which are chiefly
inhabited by colliers, and are known by the classical
names of Red Raw, Adam?s Raw, Cauld Cots, and
Cuckold?s Raw.
The present parish comprehends the ancient
parishes of Newton, on the south-east, and Wymet
-now corrupted, as we have said, into Woolmetwhich
also belonged to the abbey of Dunfermline,
and were incorporated with the lordship and
was expelled therefrom for having shot his own
gardener dead with 3 hackbut. His eldest sonnamely,
Sir James, by Inchbraikie?s daughter-in his
drunken humours stabbed his mother with a sword
in her own house, and for that fled to Ireland. He
disposed and sold the whole lands, and died in
@eat penury. The second brother, Mr. William,
lay many years in prison, and disposed that barony
of Strabroke and Kirkhill to Sir Lewis Stewart,
who at this day (about 1650) enjoys the same.?
Newton parish is finely cultivated, and forms
part of the beautiful and fertile district between
Edinburgh and the town of Dalkeith.
It abounds with coal, and there are numerous
wch James the Sith?s princely grant to Lord
Thirlstane.
Three-quarters of a mile north of Newton Church
is Monkton House, belonging to the Hopes of
Pinkie, a modem edifice near the Esk, but having
attached to it as farm offices an ancient structure,
stated to have been the erection and the favourite
residence of General Monk. Here is a spring
known as the Routing WeZZ, which is said, by the
peculiar sound it makes at times, to predict a
coming storm.
?The case is,? according to the ?Old Statistical
Account? (Vol. XVI.), ? that this well being dug
many fathoms deep through a rock in order to get ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH, [Newton. gift ratified by Bishop Richard and Pope Gregory. There are many places in ...

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BIOGRAPHICBL SKETCHES. 41 1
No. CLXII.
MR. WILLIAM SCOTT,
MR. JAMES SIBBALD, GEORGE FAIRHOLME, ESQ.,
AND
JAMES KERR, ESQ.
THE first figure in this group of amateurs is MR. WILLIAM SCOTT, plumber,
who is represented looking through his glass at a print of the “ Three Graces.”
Mr. Scott’s ancestors were considerable landed proprietors in the county of
Northumberland, in England. His father, who had been bred a plumber-a
business then little known in Scotland-settled in Edinburgh early in the eighteenth
century, where the subject of our sketch was born in 1739. He received
a regular academical education, and was intended for the army ; but, in consequence
of greatly extended business, and his father having fallen into a
delicate state of health, he was induced to abandon his views of a military life.
He retired
from business many years before his death. He was a man of domestic habits ;
and, having a taste for the arts, amused himself in collecting engravings, of
which he had an extensive and valuable collection, embracing many productions
of the ancient masters: Being a member
of hlary’s Chapel, he for some time held the office of Treasurer, and twice
represented that incorporation as Deacon in the Town Council of Edinburgh.
He was a member of the Kirk Session of Haddo’s Hole, now called the New
North Church, for nearly half a century. He was Commandant of the
Lieutenants of the Train Band, one of the Majors of the Edinburgh Defensive
Band, and a member of the First Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers.
He died in 1816.
Mr. Scott was twice married, and had a family by each marriage.
He had also a well-selected library.
The next figure in the group is MR. JAMES SIBBALD, bookseller, holding
in his hand the print of the “Three Graces,” which he is contemplating
apparently with much satisfaction.
It is said Mr. Scott’s propensity for collecting arose from his having learned that an immense
aum had been got at the sale of a nobleman’s paintings and engravings. It immediately occurred to
him that a large si1111 might be realised for his family in a similar manner. Some years prior to his
death, he disposed of his collection of engravings to Mr. Vernon, a well-known picture-dealer then
resident in Edinburgh, who, by extensive purchases, greatly increased it both as to extent and value,
until it surpassed anything of the kind that has been seen in this country. The collection, however,
NZIEsu bsequently taken to England, and disposed of by public suction. ... SKETCHES. 41 1 No. CLXII. MR. WILLIAM SCOTT, MR. JAMES SIBBALD, GEORGE FAIRHOLME, ESQ., AND JAMES ...

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