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264 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. In a Postscript to his Memoirs, which were published two years subsequent to his decease, his son (the editor) thus describes the latter years of his life :- Indeed, from the result of private correspondence, and the casual information I have been able to obtain, it would but indifferently gratify the reader, were I to record the fortuitous events which clouded the last few remaining years of the author’s chequered life. His sensibility had been severely wounded by the contumelious and repulsive behaviour he had experienced from tyrannic managers, and a series of unpropitious circumstances which attended him through the progress of his professional career. His spirits were broken, and his powers evidently on the decline, by a melancholy concomitancy of mental inquietude and bojily suffering, being liable to a periodical attack of an anasarcical complaint, which advanced from his legs to his thighs, and eventually brought the vital parts under its influence. Having taken lodgings at the Middleton’s Head, Saddler’s Wells, for the benefit of his health, on the 22d July 1803, in the sixty-third year of his age, he supped with Yr. Townsend, of Covent Garden Theatre, and some friends, apparently in his usual state of health and spirits ; and on the following morning was found dead in his bed. He was buried at St. James’s Chapel, Pentonville, his funeral being attended by a few of his relatives and friends.” “ I have to regret the apparently abrupt conclusion of these dramatic memoirs. Lee Lewes appeared on the stage for the last time on the 24th of June previous to his demise ; when, as he stated to the public, “ in consideration of seven years’ ill health, and consequent embarrassment, the Proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre had kindly given him authority to announce a Play and Entertainments.” The house was filled to overflowing, and he was loudly and repeatedly applauded. On this occasion he performed Lissardo in the Wonder; and Violante was enacted by Mrs. Jordan. ‘ This appeal was responded to in a warm manner. No. CCLVIII. DR. THONAX HAY, CITY CHAMBERLAIN, AND SIR JAMES STIRLING, BART. DR. *THOMAS HAY, the figure to the left, was City Chamberlain at the period referred to in the Print (1796); and Sir James Stirling, whom he is saluting, had for the second time held the office of Lord Provost during the two years previous. Dr. Hay was the youngest son of Lord Huntington,’ one of the Senators of the College of Justice. After completing his medical studies, he commenced the practice of surgery in Edinburgh, which he prosecuted with much success throughout a long course of years. A member of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was elected Deacon of the Incorporation in 1784-5 ; Thomas Hay of Huntington was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1725. He was appointed Keeper of the Signet in 1742, and raised to the bench in 1754. On the 4th of February the following year he wag suddenly taken ill while occupying hia seat on the bench, and died in the course of a few minutes afterwards in the Parliament House. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. In a Postscript to his Memoirs, which were published two years subsequent to his ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 117 key, and then the coat will fit to a certainty.’’ The servant kept his promise. In a day or two the t.ailor returned-found O’Brien in excellent humour ; and the greatcoat-“ 0, nothing in the world could be more completer 1” While in Edinburgh, O’Brien exhibited himself in the premises known as the “ Salamander Land,”l opposite the Royal Exchange. The following piece of bombast was a standing paragraph in his advertisements :- ‘I How fortunate for Mr. O’Brien that he holds such a situation in existence that no one can rival him in the public estimation. Kings may be dethroned-ministers dismissed-actors supplanted-tradesmen ruined-and every other situation experience a similar reverse of fortune, except the above gentleman, whose transcendent superiority is universally acknowledged ; and who would not be injured in the least if kings, ministers, actors, and tradesmen were to unite their efforts to produce a rival, since they would find themselves unequal to such magnanimous undertaking. ” Our giant was, in money matters, a very prudent person. He managed his receipts so well, “that,” as observes his biographer,’ “ at the moment he is distinguished as the largest, he is also known to be not the least independent man in the kingdom, having in the neighbourhood of his residence at Enfield several houses his own property ; which render his further exhibition unnecessary.” O’Brien died at the Hot-Wells, Bristol, upon the 8th of September 1806, and was interred at the Catholic Chapel, in Trenchard Street. His coffin was nine feet five inches, and so broad that five ordinary men could lie in it with ease. The brass plate contained the following inscription :-“ Patrick Cotter O’Brien, of Kinsale, Ireland, whose stature was eight feet one inch, died Sth September 1806, aged forty-six” AIR. WILLIAM RANKEN, although diminutive in contrast with the enormous bulk of the Irish Hercules, was of the middle size, and a man of goodly proportions. He was a native of the south side of Edinburgh, and the son of a respectable tailor. Having been brought up to his father’s profession, he commenced business on his own account about the year 1778, in one of the old houses’ opposite the City Guard. He afterwards moved to a house in the Lawnmarket ; and latterly resided in the land forming the north-east corner of the Parliament Square-with piazzas and a stone stair in frontdestroyed by the great f i e in 1524. This property he purchased from the heirs of the late Mr. Dempster, jeweller. Mr. Ranken was one of the most extensive and respectable clothiers in Edinburgh. He took an interest in city politics, and was first chosen Deacon of the Incorporation in 1791, and Deacon Convener in 1799 and 1800. These offices he filled repeatedly afterwards, and was for many years an influential 1 So called from its having escaped two great fires ; the lsst of which, in 1824, destroyed the “Extraordinary Characters of the Nineteenth Century,” London, 1805, 8vo ; a very rare and Parliament Square, and a portion of the south side of the High Street. curious work, which was never finished. The text and plates are both engraved on copper. a Since rebuilt. ... SKETCHES. 117 key, and then the coat will fit to a certainty.’’ The servant kept his promise. In ...

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I3 I0 GR AP HI C AL SKETCHES. 35 1 should be sorry to see his learned friend prevented from following this healthful sport. Other property he understood was at the proprietor’s will, and exclusively his own ; and he could not see why land was not alike sacred. If a gentleman had no power to prevent another from following his sport on his grounds, it might be carried to every species of sport. With regard to the law allowing and encouraging hunting to preserve our nobility and gentry from becoming effeminate, he saw little danger of this ; but, if they had no game to pursue on their own grounds, let them ?runt upon th highway-perhaps this would brace their nerves! As for the common people, they might attend to their necessary avocations ; or, if that would not do, and if not allowed to hunt, they might roll cannon bulls,’ which he saw was a new diversion likely to be introduced, and which he believed they would find to be exercise enough to make them hardy, without trespassing on their neighbour’s property, by hunting where they had no right. Lord Eskgove was one of the judges before whom Marerot, Skirving, and Gerrald, the Reformers of 1793, were tried; and, making due allowance for the difference of sentiment held on the principles involved in these trials, it must be admitted that, in delivering his opinions on the various points brought under the review of the bench, his arguments were acutely logical, and in strict accordance with existing laws.’ On the death of Lord Eraxfield in 1799, Lord Eskgrove was promoted to be Lord Justice-clerk, which office he filled with ability and integrity of character. In 1804, the honour of a baronetage was conferred upon him as a mark of Royal approbation ; but, being then far advanced in years, he did not long enjoy his title. Sir David Rae married in 1762 Margaret, daughter of Dougald Stewart, Esq. of Blairhall, a near relative of the Earl of Bute and of Lady Ann Stewart, daughter of Francis, Ear1 of Moray, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. David, his successor, entered early into the army, and was at one time Lieutenant-Colonel of the Middlesex Militia On his death he was succeeded by his brother, Sir William Rae, who for many years was Sheriff of Edinburgh, the arduous duties of which office he discharged with universal approbation. He was appointed Lord Advocate upon the promotion of Lord Meadowbank in 1819, and held this high office down to the end of the year 1830. He was again appointed Lord Advocate during Sir Robert Peel’s administration in 1835, and afterwards was elected member of Parliament for the county of Bute, and a Privy Councillor. Lord Eskgrove lived for many years in a house at the head of the Old There used to be an old game, for which, in the Kirk-Session records, various transgressors of the Sabbath-day used to be punished, called “ playing at the bulletzl ”-perhaps his lordship alluded to this ; but it was not a new diversion, being very common during the seventeenth century. ’ It ought perhaps to be remembered, aa due to the characters of the judges who filled the bench in 1793, that similar opinions were held by their suwesso~s, and the legality of their proceedings confirmed twenty-seven years afterwards, in the case of Macleod, who was transported in 1821, for his connection with an unstamped periodical, published in Glasgow, called the “Spirit of the Unio~” He died on the 4th October of the same year. ... I0 GR AP HI C AL SKETCHES. 35 1 should be sorry to see his learned friend prevented from following this ...

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36 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Hill, Sir John had a lodger who incurred no small degree of notoriety in the city. He was a sportihg Cockney, of the name of Ludborough, who gave himself out to be the son of the then Lord Mayor of London. His fashionable eccentricities and excessive extravagance attracted general notice ; and, it is said although he expended little short of thirty thousand pounds during his limited residence in Edinburgh, he became so deeply involved that, latterly, he was compelled to take shelter from his creditors in the Abbey. The honours of knighthood were borne very meekly by the titular Sir John ; so much so, that he did not at times disdain to be the purveyor of water for the family, which he carried in “ stoups ’) as they were denominated by the progenitors of the Modern Athenians, from the Calton well. In those days there were no pipes to convey the water into the houses ; numerous individuals, principally women, consequently found employment in supplying the citizens, which they did in barrels slung across their soulders.’ Standing at his own door in Shakspeare Square of a summer evening, it was no uncommon thing to find Sir John unbending in conversation with these worthies, and occasionally patronising them so far as to join in a social glass of “purl” at a neighbouring alehouse. The dreadful earthquake at Lisbon was a favourite topic with Sir John. He used to mention that Lord Charles was in the act of writing a letter when the first shock occurred : that the houses were for a moment seen to undulate like the waves of the sea-then, falling in one vast ruin, the smoke and dust so darkened the atmosphere, that, although broad day, the city was almost wholly enveloped in midnight gloom. The miraculous preservation of Lord Charles, with his own hairbreadth escapes over heaps of ruins-through narrow lanes, and yawning apertures, where tlie mangled dead and dying were scattered in hundreds-furnished him with many appalling stories. When inclined to be facetious, the grotesque appearance of groups of flying citizens, many of whom had been surprised in bed, afforded ‘abundant scope for humorous delineation. Another point, on which Sir John used to dilate, was the fact of the dreadful event having occurred on All-Saints-Day-one of the principal Popish festivals- when all the churches were filled with worshippers, the altars lighted up, and the priests in the act of celebrating high mass ; and that, although hundreds of Papists were killed, scarcely a single Protestant foreigner perished.‘ Sit John lived to a good old age, and died at his house in Shakspeare Square about the beginning of this century. His daughter, who survived, was respectably married. The last instance of a “water-man ” plying his avocation, a8 in days of yore, was I‘ Water Willie.” 9 Portuguese priesthood attributed the dreadful visitation to Divine displeasure on account of 80 many heretics and foreignera being allowed to reside in the capital ; and did not fail to remonstrate with the King on the subject. The palace was totally destroyed; but the Royal family had fortunately gone to Belem a few days previous. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Hill, Sir John had a lodger who incurred no small degree of notoriety in the city. He ...

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340 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, acquirements and his own-natural talents. Of this we need no better proof than is afforded by his text-book, (‘ Conspectus Medicinae Theoreticse ad usurn Academicum,” which he published a few years after obtaining the professorship, and which procured for its author a high professional character throughout Europe. In 1790, on the death of Dr. Cullen, Dr. Gregory was elected Professor of the Practice of Physic, and successfully maintained the reputation acquired by his predecessor. His success as a teacher was great ; and his class was, during the long period he filled the chair, numerously attended by students from all parts of the world. He also held the appointment of first Physician to his Majesty for Scotland. Dr. Gregory was distinguished for his classical attainments, and especially for proficiency in the Latin language, to which his thesis, (‘ De Morbis Coeli Mutatione Medendis,” in 1774, bore ample testimony. His talents for literature and general philosophy were of a high order ; and that he did not prosecute these to a greater extent was no doubt owing to the pressure of his professional duties, which scarcely left him an hour to himself.’ In 1792 he published two volumes Svo, entitled “ Philosophical and Literav Essays,” in which he combated the doctrine of fatalism maintained by Dr. Priestley in a work previously published by that author under the title of “ Philosophical Necessity.” He forwarded the manuscripts of his essays to Dr. Priestley for perusal prior to publication, but the Doctor declined the honour, on the ‘ground that his mind was made up, and that he had ceased to think of the subject. Dr. Gregory was likewise the author of a “ Dissertation on the Theory of the Moods of Verbs ”-a paper read to the Royal Society, of which he was a member ; and he published an edition of Cullen’s ‘( First Lines of the Practice of Physic,” two vols. 8vo. We have now to allude to a series of publications, commenced in 1793, which, but for the extraordinary degree of local excitement created by them at the time, we should willingly have passed over without comment. The fist of these was a pamphlet by Dr. Gregory, in which he endeavoured, by internal evichnce, to fix the authorship of a book, entitled “A Guide for Gentlemen studying Medicine at the University of Edinburgh,” upon the two Doctors Hamilton, father and son. The author of the (‘Guide” had been somewhat severe in his strictures in regard to some of the professorships of the University ; while, in the opinion of Dr, Gregory and his friends, an undue degree of praise had been bestowed upon the midwifery classes taught by Drs. Hamilton. To this Dr. James Hamilton junior replied in a well-written pamphlet, in which 1 Respecting Dr. Qregory’s extensive practice, and the numerous patienta who, attracted by his fame, came from great dmtances to consult him, several anecdotes have found their way into books of light readiig. The scene in his study with a guzzling, punch-drinking citizen of Glasgow, is amusing, and must be familiar to almost every reader. No man possessed more gentlemanly mannera than Dr. Gregory ; yet, in such case8 as that of the Glasgow merchant, or of the lady who came from London to csnsult him against the infirmities of age, he expressed himself with a brevity and blnntnesa the reverse of gratifying. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, acquirements and his own-natural talents. Of this we need no better proof than is ...

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176 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. and especially of U one bearing the manifest badge of Antichrist,” viz., his badge as a knight of the order of Saint Esprit? They accordingly intimated to their congregations a day of fasting and prayer on the occasion, which was duly observed, while the Frenchman was having his farewell repast. In the year 1588, the King sent Sir James Stewart, brother of the Earl of Arran, to besiege Lord Maxwell, in the Castle of Lochmaben, where he was believed to have collected a force in readiness to co-operate with an expected army from Spain, against the government. The Castle was rendered on the faith of safety promised to the garrison by Sir William Stewart; but the King, who had remained at a prudent distance from danger, now made his appearance, and with characteristic perfidy, hanged the most of them before the Castle gate. He returned to Edinburgh thereafter, bringing with him the Lord Maxwell, “who was warded in Robert Gourlaye’s hous, and committed to the custodie of Sir William Stewart.” Scarcely a week after this, Sir William quarrelled with the Earl of Bothwell, in the royal presence, where each gave the other the lie, in language sufficiently characteristic of the rudeness of manners then prevailing at the Court of Holyrood. They met a few days afterwards on the High Street, each surrounded by his retainers, when a battle immediately ensued. Sir William was driven down the street by the superior numbers of his opponents, and at length retreated into Blackfriars’ Wynd.’ There he _.stabbed one of his assailants who was pressing most closely on him, but being unable to recover his sword, he was thrust through the body by Bothwell, and so perished in the afTray,-an occurrence that excited little notice at that turbulent period, either from the citizens or the Court, and seems to have involved its perpetrator in no retributive consequences. The next occupant of note was Colonel Sempill, a cadet of the ancient family of that name, and an active agent of the Catholic party, who “came to this countrie, with the Spanish gold to the Popish Lords.’’ The Earl of Huntly, who had shown himself favourable to the Spanish emissary, was commanded, under pain of treason, to apprehend him ; and he also was accordingly warded in Robert Gourlay’s house, seemingly at the same time with Lord Maxwell. In this case, it proved an insecure prison, for he (( soone after brake waird and escaped, and that by Huntlie’s moyen and assistance; ’” and on the 20th of May of the following year, Huntly was himself a prisoner, “wairded in Robert Gourlay’s h ~ u s e , ” ~ from whence he was soon afterwards transferred to Borthwick Castle. But not only was this ancient civic mansion the abode or prison of a succession of eminent men, during the troubled years of James the Sixth’s residence in Scotland; we find that the King himself, in 1593, took refuge in the same substantial retreat, during one of those daring insurrections of the Earl of Bothwell, that so often put his Majesty’s courage to sore trial, and drove him to seek the protection of the burgher force of Edinburgh. LL The 3d of Apryle, the Birrel’s Diary, p. 24. . ’ Calderwood, vol. iv. pp. 678-681. * Ibid, vol. v. p. 65. YIQNETTE-carved Stone from Old Bank Close, in the collection of A. 0. Ellis, Esq. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. and especially of U one bearing the manifest badge of Antichrist,” viz., his badge ...

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GENERAL INDEX. 371 118-121 ; tomb of, Corstorphine Church, 111. 121 Forrester?s Wynd, I. 121. 122, 148, 219, 11. 105 239 111. 118 124 Forster Geheh i11. I I &Z Forth And Bredtford. k r l of. I. 54 The, 111. 292-294 brother, ib. the, 11. 346, 363 111. 90, 124 11. 176, 111. go 111. 311 288 111. 318, 323 111. 106, 323 Forth Street, 11. I, 185 ?go Fortifications of fnchkeith Island, Fortune, Matthew, 111. go; hk ?I Fortunes of Nigel,? Allusions tc Fortune?s I?avern, I. 231, 234, 267> Fortune?s Tontine, Princes Street, Fothergll, Dr., physician, 11. 3oa, Foulis of Colinton, Sir James, 11. Fouli of Ravelston, Family of, Foulis of Ravelston, Sir James, Foulis of Woodhall, Sir Jurres, the Foulis &ily, ??he, 111. 323 Foulis?s Close 11. 159 Fountain bedre Holyrood Palace, Fountakbridge, 11. 132, 215, 218, Fountain Close, I. 276, 277, 11. 147 Fountain Well, The, I. 144, ZIO Fountainhall, Lord, I. 58, 60, 97, 146, 160, 169, 170, 202, 238, 251, 270, 11. 28, 34, 35. 44 59, 75, 81, 2x7, 223, 225, aa6, Sa1, 315, 111. 267 painter 111. 5 11. 79 *81 2x9, 221, 222 346, 367, 111. 13, 42, 46, 1201 150s ?55,330 Fawkes, Brigadier, I. 32% 111. Fowler, W i l l i , House of, I. 102 236 . Fowler?s Close, 1. 276 Fox?s Holes, The, 11. 313 Franc& Bell?s Close, 11. 241 Frank, Capture of Edinburgh Castle by William, I..z+ Franklin?s, Benjamin, visit to Edinburgh 11. 282 Fraser, hexander, Lord Strichen, Fraser, Alexander (see Gilles ie) Fraser, Luke, of the High &hool, Fraser Major Andrew 11. 139 ~t) Fraser? Tytler, Lard Woodhduse- F&r Simon 111. 351 Frase;of Beahrt, I. 66 Fraser of Strichen Mrs 11, 163 Fraser the music& I.?;~o Frederkk Street 11. 151, 162; famous reside&, 11. 162 Free Assembly Hall 11. 97 Free Church Colleg;?, I. 86, 11. 95 s6, 97, IF Phte 18 ; library oi the, 11. 97, 9; its donors, 11. 1.054 11. 2 9 4 7 295, 327 lee U. 110 98 Free Church of Scotland, Offices of FreeChurcR, Founding of the, I I. 144 Free Church of St. John 1. 310 Free Gardeners of bmughton Free General Assembly 11. I FIK St. Cuthbert?sChirch, 41. 215 Fw Tron Church, 11. 275 French ambassador?s chapel, Cowgate, 11. 258 *z60 French influe;= in the Scottish court, 1. 44 French prisoners, The Castle a receptacle for 1. 71,78; attempted escape oc II.?248 Friars? Wynd, I. 219 Friends of the People, Treasonable practices of the, 11. 236,237, 343, 111. 67, 278. Friends? meeting-house I. 381 Fullertan, Mansion oi Adam, I. Fynd Marison on the manners of Fynie, Agnes, the supped witch, Fyvie, Alexander Lord, I. 167; the, 11. 5 barony, 11. 183 277 278 I1.330,331 Provost, 11. a80 the Edinburgh people, I. 198 G Gabriel?r Road 11. 114, 115, 117, Gace,?M.de, and Edinburgh Castle, Gaelic church, The, 11. 184, 235 171 182, I I I . ? ~ ~ I. 67 25+ 274 Gaelic Free Church 11. 214 Gainsborough, the hinter, 11. 89 Gairdner Dr. 11. 335 Gairns o/Gre&hill Adam 111. 47 Galachlaw Hill, Liberton, h I , 33c Gallery of the kings, Holyrood Galloway, Alexander Oar1 of, 11. 257; his wife?s ostentatious dis. play, ib. Galloway House, 11. 257 Callowlee, The, 1-117,118, 11. 115, 111. 151, 154, 1551 15% 157 Gallows The 11. *z 3 Galt, tie ndvelist, 41. 142, 2o0, 111. 74 ?Garb of Old Caul,? the air, 11. Gardenstone, Lord, I. 171.172 11. rza, III. 75 ; his passion foriigs, Palace, 11. 74, 76, 77. 79 244, 111. 26 1. 172 Gardiner, Colonel I. 324 Gardiner?s CresceAt 11. 215 Gamock the CoLenanter and others? I. 160 161, 298, IIi. 156 Garrick?David?II. 23 III.z4o,z41 Gas, F k t ?use?of, in? Edinburgh, I. 203 GateTower I. g Gavin Do&, %ishopofDunkid, I. 39 263, 11. 251 255 285 Gavin kamilton, Aibot bf Kilwinning, I. 298 Gavinloch?s Land, I. 327 Gawin Dunbar I. 42 15 Gay, the wt?I I& J? , 38; house wRere?h; lived k $\7 Gayfie? House, II.136,161, 185, 111. 165 Gaytield Place 111. 161 162 Gaytield Squak 11. 284, 111. SI, Ged, ;he inventor of stereotyping, Geddes, Alexander, artist, I. 366, 11. ?87 Geddes, MurderofJames, I. xg4,1gs Geddes Jenny I. 51 744 111.184; riots ?on acciunt df, I.? 122 ; her stool I. *146 11. 87 Gedde;, Robe;, Laird of Scotstoun, I. 253 Geddes? Close I. 2 6 Geikie ,F?rof&r ?II. 27 General Assemhl;, The, I. go, asg, 2611 11. 39,& 797 133 135 144, 233, m%,zg8,335; meebngdf the, Plate 13 General Assembly of the Free Church 11. 146 General Asemblv Hall. I. 210, 11. 161 162 11. 335, 382 - , - - 230 Gyeral Post Ofice, Edinburgh, I. General?s Entry, The, 11.327, *332, Generals Watch Currie, 111. 331 Gentle, Bailie, I.? 107 Gentlemen Pensioners, I. 51 Geordie Boyd?s Mud Brig, 11. 82 Geordie More, the dwarf, 111. 23 George Inn The old 11. 326,379 George Maiter of d g u s , 11. 279 George 11. Statue of I1 298 George IYI., Sub&ion of the Jacobites to It. 247; proposed statue to, If. 194, 270; and the volunteers 11. 188 George IV. bridge, I. x m , 123, 217, 291,292, *293,294,378, Plate 11, 11. 238, 242, 258, asg, 262, 271, 274, 326 Georee IV.?s visit to Edinbnrrh. 357 * 333, ,345 11-108, 13, 124, 165, 287, $1; 354, 111. 74, 77. 86, 146; ~ P U - larity of, 1. 350, 11. 5 8 ; prqlamation of, 111. 107 ; his landing at Leith, III. d; Chantrey?s statue of, 11.151 George Square, I. n74,II. 95, 255, 269, 2831 333. 33-344, 345, 347, 358, 111. 142 ; view of, 11. * 341 George Street, 11. 86, 91~92, 118, ?3P-15?~ 153 164 165 172 173 175. III. 76; hew of, b d rg German Church, The, 111. 88 ?Giant?s Causeway,? The, 11. 144 Giants The Irish 11. IZI Gmnt?; Brae Leilh Links 111. a& Gibbet and h t e r y o n &ton Hill, Gibbet Toll The 111. 211 Gibbet 11.646 Gibbet Stree;. 11. 346 11. I01 Gibbet Toll, 11. 34%; 355 Gibbs? Close, Canongate, 11.23,227 Gibson, Sir Alexander, Abduction of, I. 168 Gibson of Pentland, Sir Aiexander, Gibson-Craig, Sir James, 11. ~23, 1% 111.322 Gibson-Craig, Sir W i l l i , I. 226, 111. 322 Gibson - Maitland, Sir Alexandei Charles 11. 125 Gibson oiDurie, Thomas, I. I&) Gibson the painter 11. go GifforbPark 11. 3;9 Gilbert Grah?am, painter, 11.88 Gilbertoun 111. 149, rgo Gilchrist, hr. John Borthwick, 11. ilderwy Execution of, I. 151 Gillespie: the Brothers, III. 3 Gikspie?s Hospital, 111. 31, H, 37,41,@ ; Black Tom?s ghost, Gillespie?s School, 111. 33 Gillies Lord 1. 135 CilIilAd, th; goldsmith, 111. 76 Gillis Bishop, 111.45 GilloLs Close, XI. 23 Gilmerton, I. 95,155 111.158~343, 344, 346, 351 ; i& local history 111. 343 ; the manor-house of thi Kinlochs ib Gilmerton&&e, III. 344,345351 Gilmore Park, 11. 219 Gilmore Place United Presbyterian Church 111. 30 GilmoursbCraigmillar,The I. 169, 111. 57, 58, 5% 338; t d i r successors. 111.61, 62 Girls? House of Refuge 11.218 Girnel Craig, The, 11. ;13 Girthcross The 11.~,41,72,111.~ Giuglini Signor: I.. 351 Gladiatdrial exhibition at Holy. Glcdstbne, Su John, 111.250, *qz, Gladstone, Sir Thomas, 111.~51 Gladstnne, Right Hon. W. E., 111. Gladstone family, The, 111. 25 Gladstone, Thomas, I. IM Gladstone Place, Leiih, 111. 251 Gladstone?s Land, I. 19 Glammis, John Lord, 1. 83, Q Glammis, Master of, I. zog, 210 Glasgow, Archbishops of, I. 38, ag, ?Glasgow Arms,? The, I. 178 Glasgow, Earls of I. 16 11. 339, 111.26 . Conntekof, I? 144, 239 Glasgowkcad 11.214 Glasgow Uniod Bank Company, 11. Glass House Company, The Leith, Glass Works, The Leith, 111. 1% Glencairn. Earl of I. qq. 106.11. 111. 319 G335 111. 34 r o d 11. 75 314 24, 250 15% 258, 265 263 ?5? 111.280 23% ?73 17 58, 73.101, 123, 1%174. 334 11 Gledcoe, Massacre of, I. 170 Glengay: the Highland chief, I. Glenble Terrace, 111. 30 Glenlee Lord 11. a70 Glenorihy, Vi&onnt, I. 238 111.317 Glenorchy, Lady, I. 238-1247, 359 -362: 11. 338: its ministers, I. 360, 361 ; Free Church, 111.158; the school I. 361 Glimpses of hdinbnrgh in 1783.11. 1x9 Gloucester Place. II.qg, zoo, 111.74 Glover Edmnnd, the actor I. 343 Ccdolihin, Earl of 11. 3 .I36 Godscroft thechronicler,!. 35 11.8 Gogar,II1.318;itslocalhrsfo;l,ib. Gogar Bmk, 111. 319 -361 111. 317: Chapel Of, I. 360 Gogm Green, 111. 37 Gogm Stone village, PII. 318 Gold mines on Cravford Muir,I.& v d e n Acre, 111.,?5 Golden Charter The, I,34,II.278 Goldie Principal? 11. 278 Goldsrhh Olivgr, 11. 2% ; an old tailor?s &I1 ab. Goldsmiths &all I 274 Goldsmiths, The kdinburgh, I. 174 Golf, Nativecountry of, 11. II :.the game of, 111. 30, 31; vanous golf clubs, 111. 30; golf balls, 111. I1 376 Golf HGuse, III. 262, 265 Golf Tavern 111.30 Golfers, Ednburgh Compaoy oC 111. 31 260-262 Golfers? Land 11. 10, II Golfing on thd Linka of h i $ 111. G d u Prof John 111.27 68 GoodsGed o<ScienAes, 111.?~ %dtrees, 111.340,3+2 ;its owners, G& Dub The I1 346 Gordon. DAkeof, L?b, 62, 75, 78, 8% 91, 11- 1% 1331 367, 111. 14% 258, 338,365 ; house of, 1.93 Gordon, Uuches of, I. 88, r q , 275, 367, 11. 16, SI, 27, 165, 339, 111. 1% 1549 163 Gordon, Lord Adam, 11. 311, 342, 111. 104 Gordon Lord 111. 182 C;ordoi Sir kdam 11. 76 Gordon: Sir John,?II. 159 Gordon of Cluny Colonel John, 11. 167 ; his ,Lie, 11. 218 ; the family of, 111. 41, 42. Gordon of Earlston, Su John, 111. I? ?Y Gordon of Ellon James, Murder of children of, Ii. 182 Gordon of Haddo, Sir John, I. 146, 11. 87. Sir George 111. 57 Cordon if Kindroch?I11. 182 Gordon of Lesmoir, &U Alexander, 111.161 ; his widow, 11.123~111. 16r GordondLetterfonrie, III.zo3,w Gordan of Newhalt I. 121 Gardon of Pitluri Si William, Gordon Patrick I. 55 I;ordodof Rotdemay, I. 95, 187, 364r I1. 2~ 39. 731 1 0 1 2 103, 131, 133, 225, 234, 246 a68 286 302 323, 367, 37 IIi. 7 ;?his dLds?I eye new ofhinburgh 11. 280, 281 Lis maps, sic Its# of illustmtimrr .) 111. 182 192, 21% 298, P, 316, 34% 362, Gordan, the goldsmith 111 42 Gordon, Hon. Alexander, i. 282 Gordon LadyJean I 282 Gordon? Lady Katl$ine 111. 135 Gordo; Mn., danghte; of Prof. Wikm 1I.1~0,156,1g5,1II.7+,75 h e , Th; river, 111. 318 ksford House, I. 1% >orford?s Clau, I. 118, 1x9, 11. 82, 111. 66 hurlay Robert, House of I. 116, * izo, ;z3 ; his son John, ?I. 116 hwrie, Fad of, I. 175, p5, 316, 111: 134. 135 kwrie conspiracy, 111. i34, 135 3raceMount Liberton Ill. 30 >raham, Dr. lames, th; quad, 11. 242, 310; hu lectures, 11. 342 ;rah.am, General, husband of Miss Femer 11. ?3 :darn, j a m s eilles ie architect, 11- I79 200, 370. 11% ;5, 327 >raham, patrick, Archbishopof%. ?rabam the painter 11. go JAG Portrait ofhrx.. II. ss ; A m of Halyards, I. 195 >raham of Netherby, Sir Jamhham. Miss Clementina Stirling, Andrews, 11. 55 11. 162 11. zq;herpwerofpersonatioG, 11. aoB >rammar or High School of Leith, 111. *265 >rammar School of Edinburgh, 11, 287,301 >raumont, Countess of, 11.58 ~ 144 ... INDEX. 371 118-121 ; tomb of, Corstorphine Church, 111. 121 Forrester?s Wynd, I. 121. 122, 148, 219, ...

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Munayfield.] ROSEEURN HOUSE. 103 WHEN YOU WILL ENTER AT CHRIST HIS DOOR AYE MIND YOU THE ROOM TO THE POOR. frages of the Saints,? and is still used after vespers in all Roman Catholic churches, is a curious feature in a Scottish house of post-Reformation times. Westward of Coltbridge there is pointed out a spot where Cromwell?s forces occupied the rising ground in I 650, after his repulse before Edinburgh, and where he was again out-generalled by the gallant Sir David Leslie, whose army was posted by the Water of Leith and the marshy fields along its banks. Tradition assigns to R~seburn House the honour of having given quarters for that night to Oliver Cromwell, which is probable enough, as it is in the immediate vicinity of the position assumed by his army; and with this tradition the history, if it can be called so, of Roseburn ends. In levelling some mounds here, some few years since, ?some stone coffins were found,? says LINTEL AT ROSEBURN HOUSE. the portion of a legend, GOD KEIP OURE CROWNE, AND SEND GUDE SUCCESSION, and the date 1526. The other lintel is over an inner door, and has a shield with two coats of arms impaled : in the first canton are three rose-buds, between a chevron charged with mullets ; in the second canton are three fish, fess-wise ; in the panel are the initials M. R. and K. F. ; and underneath the legend and date, ? All my hoip is in ye Lord, I j62.? Why this house-the whole lower storey of which is strongly vaulted with massive stone-should be decorated with the royal arms, it is impossible to learn now, but to that circumstance, and perhaps to the date 1562, and the initials M. R., evidently those of the proprietor, may be assigned the unsupported local tradition, which associates it with the presence there of Mary and Bothwell j but the house was evidently in existence when the latter seized the former on the adjacent highway. According to Mr. James Thomson, the present occupant of Roseburn House, whose forefathers have resided in it for more than a century, tradition names one of the apartments ?Queen Mary?s room,? being, it is said, the room in which she slept when she lived there. The long legend, which is taken from the ? Suf. Daniel Wilson, ?and a large quantity of human bones, evidently of a very ancient date, as they crumbled to pieces on being exposed to the air ; but the tradition of the neighbouring hamlet is that they were the remains ot some of Cromwell?s troopers. Our informant,? he adds, ? the present intelligent occupant of Roseburn House, mentioned the curious fact that among the remains dug up were the bones of a human leg, with fragments of a wooden coffin, or case of the requisite dimensions, in which it had evidently been buried apart.? North-west of Coltbridge House and Hall lies Murrayfield, over which the town is spreading fast in the form ot stately villas. Early in the last century it was the property of Archibald Murray of Murrayfield, Advocate, whose son Alexander, a Senator of the College of Justice, was born, in 1736, at Edinburgh. Being early designed for the Bar, he became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1758, and three years after was appointed sheriff at Peebles. In 1765 he succeeded his father as one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, and a few years after saw him Solicitor-General for Scotland, in place of ... ROSEEURN HOUSE. 103 WHEN YOU WILL ENTER AT CHRIST HIS DOOR AYE MIND YOU THE ROOM TO THE ...

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BATTLE OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF YAMES l? 39 unconscious of the tumultuous scenes of the neighbouring capital, and seemingly but little thought of by its turbulent rivals, for his poor tutor wa8 compelled to defray, from his own purse, the necessary repairs of the royal apartments, then devoted to his use ; while such was the straitened means of the young King, that he was indebted at one time to the kindness of his natural sister, the Countess of Morton, for a new doublet and a pair of hose. Sir David Lindsay has furnished, in hie Complaynt, a lively description of their pastimes at this period- Eow as ane chapman beria his pack, I bure thy Grace upon my back : And sumtymea, stridlingia, on my nek, Danaand with mony bend and bek : The first sillabis that thow did mute, Was pa, da, lyn, upon the lute ; Than playit I twentie springia perqueir, Quhilk was greit pleaour for to heir : Fra play, thow leit me never reat, Bot gynkertoun thow luffit ay beat ; And ay, quhen thow come fra the scule, Then I behuffit to play the fule Thow hes maid lordia, schir, be Sauct Geill Of sum that; hes nocht servit ao weill.' Though placed within the Castle for safety, the King was not entirely confined to its straitened bounds ; when not prevented by the disturbed state Qf the town and neighbourhood, he was not only permitted to ride forth in the intervals of his studies, but occasionally took up his residence both at Craigmillar and Dalkeith. Shortly after the period referred to, the Duke of Albany quitted the kingdom for the last time, and the King, who had been removed to Stirling, to be out of reach of the Queen's party, was brought to Holyrood, attended by a numerous train of nobles, and at the mature age of twelve invested with the full powers of royalty, as the only means of terminating the frightful anarchy that prevailed; and on the 22d of August 1524, '' he maid his solempnit entree with the lordis in the tolbuytht of Edinbrughe, with sceptour, croune, and sword of honour." ' Sir DavidLindsay alludes to this in his Complaynt, aud pictures with lively satire the obsequious courtiers joining in the diversions of the juvenile King. Pitscottie tells with great naiveth, that " the King and the lordis remained in Edinburgh and Hallirudhouse the space of ane yeir, with great triumph and merrines, quhil Imprudently, lyke witles fulis, Thay tuke the young Prince fra the soulis, Quhare he, under obedience, Was leirnand vertew, and science, And haiately pat in his hand The governance of all Scotland. * * * Schir, sum wald eay, your Majeetie Sall now gae to your libertie; Ye call to na man be coarcit, Nor to the mule na mair subjectit ; We think thame varrey natural1 fulia, That lernis over meikle at the ~Uli:s Sir D. Lindsay's Poems, 1806, vol. i p. 257. * Diurnal of Owurrents, p. 9. ... OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF YAMES l? 39 unconscious of the tumultuous scenes of the neighbouring capital, and ...

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162 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Notwithstanding a certain bluntness and decision of manner, which was liable to be occasionally misunderstood, and which gave rise to some curious scenes and incidents in the course of his professional practice, Mr. Wood‘s philanthropy and kindness were proverbial; and his unremitting attention to the distresses of the indigent sick, whom he continued to visit in their wretched dwellings, after he had given up general practice, was a noble trait in his character. What has been said of the illustrious Boerhaave may be equally applied to him-that “he considered the poor as his best patients, and that he never neglected them.” To his other qualities he added an enthusiastic warmth and steadiness in his friendships, with a total freedom from selfishness-and in his social relations, that kind and playful manner, which softened asperities, and rendered available all the best sympathies and affections of which human nature is susceptible ; and being of a most convivial disposition, his company was courted by all ranks. In fact, few men have ever been 60 universally beloved as Mr. Wood, and proportionally numerous are the testimonies to his worth. During the long course of his useful career he enjoyed the unanimous good will and approbation of his brethren, who, without any jealous feelings, allowed him the palm of superiority he deservedly merited-a tribute due not only to the soundness of his practical knowledge, and the dexterity of his skill iu operating (which tended much to raise the reputation of the surgical department of the Royal Infirmary), but to his personal character, In a fragment of a fifth Canto of “Childe Harold,” which appeared in “ Blackwood‘s Magazine” for May 18 18, he is thus alluded to :- “ Oh ! for an hour of him who knew no feud- The octogenarian chief, the kind old Sandy Wood ; ’’ and, ina note on this stanza, he is spoken of as “Sandy Wood-one of the delightful reminiscences of Old Edinburgh-who was at least eighty years of age, when, in high repute as a medical man, he could yet divert himself in his walks with the ‘ Hie Schuil laddies,’ or bestow the relics of his universal benevolence in feeding a goat or a raven.” He is also alluded to in a spirit of tenderness and affection by Sir Walter Scott, in a prophecy put into the mouth of Meg Merrilees ; and the late celebrated John Bell, who had been a pupil of Mr. Wood, dedicates to him his first volume of Anatomy in a concise but elegant tribute to his skill, his disinterested conduct, and public and private virtues.a Mr. Wood’s character is further commemorated by the late Sir Alexander “ A gathering together of the powerful shall be made amidst the caves of the inhabitants of Dunedin. They shall beset his goat ; they shall profane his raven ; they shall blacken tha buildings of the Intirniary ; her secrets shall be examined ; a new goat shall bleat, until they have measured out and run over fifty-four feet nine inches and a half.” 8 “ To Alexander Wood, surgeon, whose abilities and skill, and disinterested conduct, have raised him by common consent to the first rank in a most useful profession, conducting him in honour to that period of life in which he niust feel, with pleasure, how completely he enjoys the confidence of the public and the esteem of all good men-this book of anatomy is presented by his pupil John Bell.” Sandy is at his rest. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Notwithstanding a certain bluntness and decision of manner, which was liable to be ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 349 No. CCLXXXVI. LIEUT.-GENERAL VYSE, IN CONMAND OF THE FORCES IN SCOTLAND. RICHARDV YsE-son of Archdeacon Vyse, by his marriage with a daughter of Dr. Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry-was born in 1747. He joined the army at an early period of life, and was for many years a Captain in the Royal Irish Dragoons. In 1784 he was promoted to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 1st Dragoon Guards, of which regiment he became Colonel in 1790, and rose to the rank of Major-General in 1794. Under the Duke of York, he served against the Republican forces of France during the campaigns in Flanders, and was present at the affair of Nimeguen in Holland. In 1799 Major-General Vyse, then Colonel of the 29th Light Dragoons, was appointed one of the Major-Generals of the Staff in Scotland, under Sir Ralph Abercromby; on whose departure, in the expedition to Egypt, General Vyse succeeded, as Lieut.-General, to the command of the Forces. In this capacity he acquitted himself with much spirit-highly esteemed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, as a thorough gentleman, not more in manners than in high-minded principles and rectitude of conduct. He had the reputation of being an excellent cavalry officer, and was considered a proficient in military matters generally. To the discipline of the troops under his command he paid unremitting attention and was enthusiastic in the exercise of field-manoeuvres and mock- When the Lochiel Highlanders lay in Falkirk, immediately after being raised, they were inspected by General Vyse. Sir Ralph Abercromby being present, Cameron, the Chief of Lochiel, waa no doubt proud to show such a really h e body of men to his father-in-law. Although ostensibly composed of Camerons, there were enrolled in the ranks of the corps not merely Lowlanders, but English and Irish ; and some laughable attempts at fraud, in endeavouring to pass inspection, are remembered ; but, unless disabled, few objections mere made, although Scotsmen in general found a preference. “ From FaUrirk yir honour, this morning.” His brogue betraying him, the General demanded to know how he came over ? “Sure I didn’t come in a wheelbarrow ! ” The rising choler of the iuspecting officer was speedily soothed by the milder tact of Sir Ralph, who, seeing the man a fit recruit, laughed heartily and he rn passed.-It deserves to be mentioned that on this occasion, during his stay in Falkirk, the future hero of Aboukir took up his residence with the son of hia late father’s gardener at Tillibody, Mr. James Walker, a merchant in the town, and long known for hi agricultural skill, aa “ The Stirlingshire Farmer.” Sir Ralph delighted, after dinner, to recall the incidents of their boyhood, when he and Mr. Walker, with their brothers, were at school together. He had previously shown the attachment of former days to a younger brother of Mr,. Walker, during the struggle for liberty between America and the mother countiy. These kindly and benevolent traib easily explain why Sir Ralph Abercromby was persoually so dear to all who knew him. “ Where are yozl from P” said Vyse to an equivocal-looking fellow. ... SKETCHES. 349 No. CCLXXXVI. LIEUT.-GENERAL VYSE, IN CONMAND OF THE FORCES IN SCOTLAND. RICHARDV ...

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HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TIOA? 103 visited at the Abbey. Balls, plays, and masquerades vere likewise attempted, but the last proved too great an innovation on the rigid manners of that period to be tolerated. The most profane and vicious purposes were believed, by the vulgar, to be couched under such ‘a system of disguise ; and this unpopular mode of entertainment had to be speedily abandoned. Plays, however, which were no less abhorrent to the people at that period, afforded a constant gratification to the courtiers, and were persisted in, notwithstanding the violent prejudices which they excited. The actors were regarded as part of the Duke of York’s household ; and, if we may give any credit to the satirical account which Dryden has furnished of them, they were not among the most eminent of their profession. Some members of the company, it would seem, had gone to Oxford, according to annual custom, to assist in performing the public acts there. Dryden, with great humour, makes them apologise to the University for the thinness of the Company, by intimating that many of its members have crossed the Tweed, and are now nightly appearing before Edinburgh audiences, for the ambiguous fee of (‘ two and sixpence Scots.” He slyly insinuates, however, that only the underlings of the company have gone north, leaving all its talent and character at the service of the University:- Our brethren have from Thames to Tweed departed, To Edinborough gone, or coached or carted : With bonny blue cap there they act all night, For Scotch half-crowns, in English threepence hight. One nymph, to whom fat Sir John Falstaffs lean, There with her single person fills the scene. Another, with long use and age decayed, Died here old woman, and rose there a maid. Our trusty door-keeper, of former time, There struts and awaggers in heroic rhime. Tack but a copper lace to drugget suit, And there’s a hero made without dispute ; And that which was a capon’s tale before, Becomes a plume for Indian Emperor. But .all his subjects to express the care Of imitation, go, like Indian, bare I The reader need hardly be reminded of the usual licence which the satiric poet claims as his privilege, and which his Grace’s servants at Edinburgh may have retorted in equal measure on his Majesty’s servants at Oxford, though no copy of their prologue has been preserved. It is not improbable, however, that the early Scottish theatre might merit Rome of the poet’s sarcasms. The courtly guests of the royal Duke were probably too much taken up with the novelty of such amusements, and the condescending urbanity of their entertainers, to be very critical on the equipments of the stage. These amusements were occasionally varied with the exhibition of masques at Court, in which the Lady Anne, and other noble young ladies, assumed the characters of gods and goddesses) and the like fanciful personages that usually figure in such entertainments. The gentlemen varied these pastimes with the games of tennis and golf. The Tennis Court, which also served as the fist theatre for the Court, stood immediately without the Water Gate. It may be seen in Gordon’s map, a large oblong building, occupying a considerable Dyden’a Niac., voL ii. - ... INCIDENTS AFTER THE RESTORA TIOA? 103 visited at the Abbey. Balls, plays, and masquerades vere likewise ...

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Infirmary Street.] DR. HAMILTON. ? 301 of the instruments for the use of the wards ; and to each of these four surgeons, after 1766, was assigned a salary in proportion to what the funds of the institution admitted. Distinct as these regulations were, they did not work well, and a committee was appointed to confer with the managers in 1769 to adjust certain matters that were in dispute, and new arrangements were made. Under these ?? one of the substitutes was to be changed annually, and his place supplied by a brother duly elected by the Incorporation of Surgeons according to seniority- at least in the order in which they could find any disposed to accept of the trust : all this was to be .done under the authority of the managers, and to continue in force until they saw cmse to alter it.? About 1769 .the ordinary patients, exclusive of soldiers and servants, averaged about sixty; but the funds having grown apace, eighty were accommoda t ed. ?If the phybe mentioned that?between 1770 and 1775 the numbers admitted yearly at an average amounted to 1,567Q, and the number of deaths 634, and, omitting fractional parts, the deaths were to the numbers admitted as I to 25. In 1778 the total number of patients with their attendants made up a family of 230, but so rapid has been the increase of the population, that betweenoctober 1846 and October 1847 no fewer than 7,576 patients sought refuge within its walls. Of these 1,059 died-? a large number no doubt,? THE OLD ROYAL INFIKMARY, 1820. (Affer Storm..) sicians, on -a due consideration of certain cases thought otherwise, no more were to be admitted, and those taken in, so long as they remained supernumeraries, were expected to pay sixpence per day.? Dr. John Stedman, on the 2nd of August, 1773, was elected in place of Dr. Drummond, who had emigrated to Bristol ; but his health was so infirm, that in 1775 Dr. Black was chosen in his place, and afterwards Dr. James Hamilton senior, long one of the ornaments of the city; and after obtaining also the office of physician to George Heriot?s, the Trades Maiden, and Merchant Maiden Hospitals, he superintended these benevolent insti- &u$ions for upwards of fifty years. As an estimate of the good accomplished it may says a report, ?still, but for such a house of refuge, how many more would have breathed out their last amidst the noxious abodes of our city, spreading wider and wider the pestilential calamity which has swept away its thousands of victims in all parts of the country.? In the year 1848 the chap lain was required by new regulations to read a portion of the Scrip tures, and engage in devotional exercises in every ward in the house-a duty which generally occupied about five hours ; he had to meet the convalescent patients in chapel for religious duty every evening ; to be ready to attend the dying, and he had to preach twice on Sunday to the nurses, servants, and all patients who could attend. In the old house over 5,000 patients were admitted annually, of whom about 2,300 were surgid cases. The average number of out-door patients yearly was about 12,000, obtaining the benefit of the highest professionai skill of the medical and surgical officers, and receiving all the necessary dressings, appliances, and comforts at the expense of the house, which has an admirable sta?f of nurses under a lady-superintendent. ... Street.] DR. HAMILTON. ? 301 of the instruments for the use of the wards ; and to each of these four ...

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BI 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCH E S. 43 Walter Hamilton, Esq., was elected Lord Provost. This office he filled, as usual, for two years. The copartnery with Mr. Allan’ having been dissolved, Provost Steuart commenced business on his own account in Leith, as a general merchant. At a later date he became a wine-merchant in Edinburgh, but was far from successful in his commercial speculations. In his early years, with the view of following a mercantile profession, he resided for some time on the Continent, where he acquired an intimate knowledge of modern languages. He was a man of excellent taste, and passionately fond of literature. He was a great book-collector, and his library, for its size, was one of the finest in Scotland. His residence abroad had given him great facilities for collecting rare and curious works. In May 1801, when he exposed a part of his library to sale by auction, it was described as “ a small, but select collection of books, in which is to be found some of the finest specimens of typography extant, from the first attempt on wooden blocks until the present time.” But the prices offered not coming up to Mr. Steuart’s expectations, the greater part were bought in, either by himself or his friends. Two of the finest specimens of early printing which now enrich the Library of the Faculty of Advocates were formerly in his possession, viz.-lst, The first edition of the Latin Bible, and one of the earliest books executed with movable types, in two large volumes folio, supposed to have been printed by Gutternbeg and Faust in the year 1450. The other is the Breviary of the .Roman Church, beautifully printed on the finest vellum at Venice by Nicholas Jenson in 1478, and finely illuminated. Provost Steuart married Miss Ann Fordyce, an Aberdeenshire lady, by whom he had sixteen children, five of whom, two sons and three daughters, are presently alive. In’ the latter part of life he suffered much as a martyr to the gout; and finally left Edinburgh about the year 1815. From that time he continued to reside with his son-in-law, Mr. Mair,” at Gretna Hall, near Annan, where he died on the 17th May 1824. MR. JOHN LOTHIAN was a cloth-merchant in that shop, No. 313 High Street., in the west wing of the front of the Royal Exchange. He was elected one of the Merchants’ Councillors, in 1762 ; and in 1768, upon the death of Bailie William Callender, was appointed third bailie in his stead ; in 1769, he was one of the old bailies; in 1774, second bailie; in 1775, old bailie. He died unmarried, at Edinburgh, suddenly, on the 12th August 1790. He was second son of Richard Lothian, writer in Edinburgh, the eldest son of George Lothian, Esq., of Belsis, near Ormiston, in East Lothian, and cousin- 1 Robert Allan was father of the late Thorn= Allan, Esq., who bought the estate of Lauriston, in the county of Edinburgh, which had for nearly a century and a half been the property of the representatives of the celebrated John Law of Lauriston, who was born there. a hLrs. Mair was remarkable for the beauty of her face and the graceful elegance of her figure, but the sweetness of her manner was stii more remarkable than either. ... 0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCH E S. 43 Walter Hamilton, Esq., was elected Lord Provost. This office he filled, ...

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ST LEONARD’S, ST MARY’S WYND, AND CO WGATE. 327 gentlemen, January 22, 1729 ; ” and Chambers has preserved, in his “ Minor Antiquities,” the bill of fare presented in the same place on the 20th of March 1747, “ By Desire of a Lady of Quality, for the Benefit of a Family in Distress ; ” probably one of the last performances there by a regular company. A handsome tenement stands immediately to the west of the Tailors’ Lands, surmounted with two ornamental gables, bearing on them the initials of the builders, and over the main doorway the following inscription :- R - H 0 MAGNIFIE THE LORD WITH ME AND LET US EXALT HIS NAME TOGETHER. I - H ANN0 DOMXNI 1643. Over another door of the same tenement, a sculptured tablet bears the device of two sledemen carrying a barrel between them, by means of a pole resting on the shoulder of each, technically styled a sting and lileg. It is cleverly executed, and appears from the character and workmanship to be coeval with the date of the building in which it is placed, although the purposes to which the neighbouring property is now applied might suggest a much more recent origin.’ Various antique tenements of considerable diversity of character remain to the westward of this, all exhibiting symptoms of ‘‘ having seen better days.” The last of these, before we arrive at the arches of George IV. Bridge, is another of the old ecclesiastical mansions of the Cowgate. It is described in an early title-deed as “ some time pertaining to lime Hew M‘Gill, prebender of Corstorphine,” and, not improbably, a relative of the ancestors of David Macgill of Cranstoun-Riddel, King’s Advocate to King James VI., who is said to have died of grief on Sir Thomas Hamilton, the royal favouriteafterwards created Earl of Melrose and Eaddington-being appointed his colleague. We find, at least, that the property immediately adjoining it, now demolished, belonged to that family, and came afterwards into the possession of his rival. The operations of the Improvements Commission were no less effectual in the demolition of the interesting relics of antiquity in the Cowgate than elsewhere. Indeed, if we except the old Mint, and the venerable Chapel of St Magdalene, no other site could have been chosen for the new bridge where their proceedings would have been so destructive. On the ground now occupied by its southern piers formerly stood Merchant’s Court, a large area enclosed on three sides by antique buildings in a plain but massive style of architecture, and containing internally finely stuccoed ceilings and handsome panneling, with other indications of former magnificence suitable to the mansion of the celebrated Thomas Hamilton, first Earl of Haddington, the favourite of James VI., and one of the most eminent men of his day. Some curious anecdotes of TAM 0’ THE COWGATEa,s the King facetiously styled his favourite, are preserved in the Traditions of Edinburgh, derived from the descendants of the sagacious old peer, and many others that are recorded of him suffice to confirm the character he enjoyed for shrewd wit and eminent ability. Directly opposite to this, a building, characterised by very remarkable architectural features, was peculiarly worthy of the attention of the local antiquary. Tradition, which represented the old Earl of Had- At Society, in the immediate neighbourhood, a company of brewers was eatabliahed -so early 1598.-Hist. of Kiiig Jamea the Serb, p. 347. ... LEONARD’S, ST MARY’S WYND, AND CO WGATE. 327 gentlemen, January 22, 1729 ; ” and Chambers has preserved, ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 295 Hunter Blair, and the authority of an act of Parliament procured ; but in consequence of other undertakings, and the want of funds, the act was allowed to expire, and the design fell to the ground. It remained for Sir John to effect an object, not less useful than ornamental ; and that the progress of the work might be facilitated, he is understood to have made a serious inroad on his own resources, calculating no doubt on a return which we believe he did not experience. The freedom of the city having been voted to Lord Lynedoch,‘ “ the gallant Graham,” who distinguished himself so much in the Peninsular War, Sir John gave a grand dinner on Saturday, the 12th of August 1815, in honour of the Prince Regent’s birthday, at which were present Lord Lynedoch, the Earl of Morton, Lord Audley, Sir David Dundas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Lord Chief Commissioner, Admiral Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, GeneralLWynyard, Sir James Douglas, Sir Howard Elphinstone, Right Hon. William Dundas, member for the city, Charles Forbes, Esq., M.P., Sir H. H. MDougal, Sir John Dalrymple, Mr. Earle, Mr. Sedgwick, and a party of nearly one hundred of the principal inhabitants of Edinburgh, After the cloth was removed, and the usual series of toasts had been given, the Lord Provost proposed the health of Lord Lynedoch ; and, presenting his lordship with the freedom of the city in a gold box, addressed him as follows :- “Lord Lynedoch-I have the honour, in the name of the Magistrates of Edinburgh, to congratulate your lordship on your safe return to this country, after a series of services rendered to it, which not only reflect the greatest credit on your lordship, but do high honour to your county. “My Lord-In the very commencement of the French Revolution, your lordship, with penetrating discernment, foresaw the imminent danger to which everything dear to man had become exposed, and leaving the distinguished situation to which your birth, talents, and the esteem you were so eminently entitled to hold in this country, you betook yourself to the profession of arms, in which you have rendered the country services which it is out of my power to enumerate. In the war of the Peninsula, which happily turned the fate of Europe, as a Commander- in-Chief, and afterwards as second to the immortal Wellington, one invariable line of victory attended your course ; and if Ireland can proudly claim Wellington as her own, Scotland has the gmtiEcation to feel that ‘ Prmimos illi tamen oecupvit Graham hmww.’ “ My Lord, the Magistrates of Edinburgh sincerely wish-a wish in which I am sure we are joined by the country at large-that your health may be long preserved to enjoy the high esteem and gratitude of your countrymen, and those honours which his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has, in the name of our revered King, so justly conferred upon your lordship.” Lord Lynedoch, with that feeling and diffidence so characteristic of merit, in returning thanks to the Lord Provost and Magistrates, for the honour they had conferred upon him, expressed himself as overpowered by the overrated estimation in which any services he had been able to render to his country had been held, That he had had the particular good fortune to serve under that greatest of all men, the Duke of Wellington; and to have served under his orders, and to have commanded British troops, almost insured success. He must, however, say, that nothing could be more gratifying to his feelings than 1 Sir Thornss Graham, G.C.B., who was elevated k, the peerage in 1814. ... SKETCHES, 295 Hunter Blair, and the authority of an act of Parliament procured ; but in ...

Book 9  p. 393
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 465 changes were effected in the forms of process j and the Jury Court, as a separate judicature, was abolished. Mi. Bell was appointed one of the Principal Clerks of Session in 1831, in the place of Sir Walter Scott. In 1833 he waa called upon to act as chairman of the Royal Commission to examine into the state of the Law in general. He died 33d September 1843. VI1.-WILLIAM ROSE ROBINSON, of Clermiston, in the county of Edinburgh, late Sheriff of Lanark, passed advocate in 1804. His father, George Robertson of Clermiston, was a Writer to the Signet. Prior to his being appointed to the office of Sheriff; which compelled his residence in the west country, Mr. Robinson had very good practice as an advocate. He married, 8th April 1811, Mary, second daughter of James Douglas, Esq., of Orchyarton, by whom he left several children. He died in 1834, and was succeeded as Sheriff of Lanark by Archibald Alison, Esq. VIIL-JOHN WRIGHT, lecturer on law-formerly noticed (vol. I. p, 268). 1X.-JOHN GRAHAM DALYELL, afterwards SIR J. G. DALYELKLn, ight and Baronet, the author of a valuable work on the Early Superstitions of Scotland, was born in 1778, and admitted advocate in 1797. He was the second son of the late Sir Robert Dalyell, fourth Bart. of Binns, Linlithgo-wshire, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nicol Graham, Esq., of Gartmore, and early in life distinguished himself by the publication of various works illustrative of the history and poetry of his native country ; amongst which may be enumerated Fragments of Scottish History, 4to ; Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols., 12mo ; an edition of Richard Bannatyne's valuable Memorials, 8vo ; and various tracts on the Chartularies of Ancient Religious Houses in Scotland. He was also deeply versed in natural history, and gave to the world Dissertations on the Propagation of Zoophytes ; the History of the Genus Planaria ; and an edition of Spallanzani's Tracts, in 2 vols. 8170. He was successively President of the Society for encouraging the Useful Arts in Scotland, Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, and one of the representatives of the Fourth District in the Town-Council of Edinburgh. In the year 1837 the honour of knighthood was conferred, by letters patent under the Great Sed, for his attainments in literature. He succeeded his brother as sixth Baronet in 1841, and died 7th June 1 85 1. X.-FRANCIS JEFFREY, afterwards LORD JEFFREY. a biographical sketch, of his lordship have already appeared A Portrait, with XI.-JOHN JARDINE passed advocate in 1799. He was the only son of the late George Jardine, who was for upwards of fifty years a distinguished Professor in the University of Glasgow, and who introduced that system of practical discipline in the Philosophy Classes, for which that seminary has been since so much distinguished, and which is fully explained by the Professor in VOL. II. 30 ... SKETCHES. 465 changes were effected in the forms of process j and the Jury Court, as a ...

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any goods on hand in their shops, everything had to be ordered long before it was required ; and it was always usual for the goldsmith and his customer to adjourn together to the B ~ j e n Hole, an ancient baker?s shop, the name of which has proved a puzzle to local antiquarians, or to John?s Coffee House, to adjust the order and payment, through the medium of a dram or a stoup of mellow ale. But, as time passed on, and the goldsmiths of Edinburgh became more extensive in their views, capital, and ambition, the old booths in the Parliament Close were in quick succession abandoned for ever. The workshop of George Heriot existed in this neighbourhood till the demolition of Beth?s Wynd and the adjacent buildings. There were three contiguous small shops, with projecting wooden superstructures above them, that extended in a line, between the door of the old Tolbooth and that of the 1,aigh Councilhouse. They stood upon the site of the entrancehall of the present Signet Library, and the central of these three shops was the booth of the immortal George Heriot, the founder of the great hospital, the goldsmith to King James VI.-the good-humoured, honest, Humble though this booth, after the execution of ?the bonnie Earl of Gowrie,? when the extravagance of Anne of Denmark-a devoted patron of George Heriot -rendered the king?s private exchequer somewhat impaired, he was not above paying visits to some of the wealthier citizens in the Lawnmarket or Parliament Square, and, among. others, to the royal goldsmith. The latter being. bred to his father?s business, to which in that age was usually added the occupation of a banker, was GEORGE HERIOT?S DRINKING CUP. (De-d Sy himsew) and generous ?Jingling Geordie? of the ?? Fortunes of Nigel.? It measured only seven feet square ! The back windows looked into Beth?s Wynd ; and, to show the value of local tradition, it long appeared that this booth belonged 10 George Heriot, and it became a confirmed fact when, on the demolition of the latter place, his name was found carved above the door, on the stone lintel. His forge and bellows, as well as a stone crucible and lid, were also found on clearing away the ruins, and are now carefully preserved in the museum of the hospital, to which they were presented by the late Mr. Robertson, of the Commercial Bank, a grateful ?? Auld Herioter.? admitted a member of the Incorporation of Goldsniiths on the 28th May, 1588. In 1597 he was appointed goldsmith to Queen Anne, and soon after to the king. Several of the accounts for jewels furnished by him to the queen are inserted in Constable?s ? Life of Heriot,? published in 1822. It is related that one day he had been sent for by the king, whom he found seated in one of the rooms at Holyrood, before a fire composed of cedar, or some other perfumed wood, which cast a pleasant fragrance around, and the king mentioned incidentally that it was quite as costly as it was agreeable, ? If your majesty will visit me at my booth in the Parliament Close,? quoth Heriot, ?I will show you a fire more costly than that.? ?? Say you so ! ? said the king ; ?? then I will.? On doing so, he was surprised to find that Heriot had only a coal fire of the usual kind. ?Is this, then, your costly fire?? asked the king. ? Wait, your highness, till I get my fuel,? replied Heriot, who from an old cabinet or almrie took a bond for Az,ooo which he had lent to James, and, laying it on the fire, he asked, laughingly, ?Now, whether is your majesty?s fire in Holyrood or mine the most costly ?? ? Certainly yours, Master Heriot ! ? replied the king. ... goods on hand in their shops, everything had to be ordered long before it was required ; and it was always ...

Book 1  p. 175
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470 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the head, and was styled the Provost's Officer, it being his chief duty to wait upon that civic dignitary. This with hini was truly a labour of love ; and indeed towards all the Magistrates his civility and attention were unremitting. Whatever occurred of a public nature, during their absence, was sure to be made known to them by a note in the hand-writing of this devoted servant, at all hours of the day, and frequently before they had risen out of bed. He was a steady advocate for giving honour to whom honour was due ; and whoever happened to be in office for the time was with him a most especial object of respect. In his eyes the reigning Lord Provost was the greatest man upon earth. Nor did this enthusiastic feeling originate in any slavish or mercenary motive-it owed its existence solely to his innate desire to fulfil to the uttermost his humble, but highly useful and honourable duties. If he happened to meet two of his mastcrs together, his salutation of " Gentlemen-both," with a strong emphasis on the latter word, seemed to imply that he reckoned no one but a Magistrate fully entitled to that appellation. The dialect of his native-mountains never entirely lcft poor Archie, who was a sad murderer of the King's English ; and his ludicrous mistakes and mispronunciations of words mere a source of infinite amusement at the Council Board. At the fencing of the Magistrates' Court, after -an election, when he had to repeat 'after the clerk certain Latin words, his mode of doing so was extremely characteristic and amusing. For instance, when he came to the legal phrase " in. statu quo," he pronounced it with a sonorous emphasis thus :-$' In stutter quoh."' When the Lord Provost or any of his brethren were called on public business to London, Archie, and none but he, was their faithful satellite ; and if any Scotsman happened to inquire at their hotel for admission to speak with these functionaries, Archie's kindly feelings towards his countrymen, rendered more acute by his distance from home, broke out into most exuberant welcome, while he 'would address the applicant thus :-" Ou ay, sir, walk in; ta Lord Provost and Bailies, and a' the Council's here. They'll be unco glad to see Besides his situation of City Officer, Archie held numerous subordinate appointments. He was officer to-the Society of High Constables, to the Convention of Royal Burghs, to the Highland Club, and latterly to the Dean of Guild Court. He was King's Beadle at the meetings of the General Assembly, etc.; also a Justice of Peace Constable, and officer to the Stent-masters of Edinburgh ; and, in short, he monopolised almost every office of a like nature in the city. At one time, as Officer to the Bailie Court, he had nearly the whole business of summoning parties and witnesses, and executing other matters of form before that Court. His duties in this department were so very The following specimen of Archie's &$ish was found among the papers of the late Dr. M'Cleish ; the manuscript in the Doctor's handwriting :-"The Mag. of Edinrs. Proclamation for an iluination on account of au aledgel victory in Rusia over the French Grand Army, 6th Nov. 1813, by Archd. Campbell, their Chief Officer.-'This days gud news caus lumination, but no till mouday, because the Lord's Supper is to be dispeilued-the moma night frae 7 OG to 10 luminate weel."' you." ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. the head, and was styled the Provost's Officer, it being his chief duty to ...

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226 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. At the foot of this close, however, we again meet with valuable associations connected with more than one remarkable period in Scottish history. A door-way on the east side of the close affords access to a handsome, though now ruinous stone stair, guarded by a neatly carved balustrade and leading to a garden terrace, on which stands a very beautiful old mansion, that yields in interest to none of the ancient private buildings of the capital. It presents a semi-hexagonal front to the north, each of the sides of which is surmounted by a richly carved dormar window, bearing inscriptions boldly cut in large Roman letters, though now partly defaced. That over the north window is :- NIHIL - EST * EX OMNI - PARTE a BEATUM a The windows along the east side appear to have been originally similarly adorned ; two of their carved tops are built into an outhouse below, on one of which is the inscription, LAUS. UBIQUE . DEO , and on the other, FELICITER . INFELIX. In the title-deeds of this ancient building,’ it is described as ‘‘ that tenement of land, of old belonging to Adam, Bishop of Orkney, Commendator of Holyroodhouse, thereafter to John, Commendator of Holyroodhouse,” his son, who in 1603, accompanied James to England, receiving on the journey the keys of the town of Berwick, in his Majesty’s name. Only three years afterwards, ‘‘ the temporalities and spiritualitie ” of Holyrood were erected into a barony in his behalf, and himself created a Peer by the title of Lord Holyroodhouse. Here, then, is the mansion of the celebrated Adam Bothwell, who, on the 15th May 1567, officiated at the ominous marriage-service in the Chapel of Holyrood Palace,a that gave Bothwell legitimate possession of the unfortunate Queen Mary, whom he had already so completely secured within his toils. That same night the distich of Ovid was afExed to the Palace gate :- Yense mala8 Maio nubere vulgufj dt; and from the infamy that popularly attached to this fatal union, is traced the vulgar prejudice that still regards it as unlucky to wed in the month of May. The character of the old Bishop of Orkney is not one peculiarly meriting admiration. He married the poor Queen according to the new forms, in despite of the protest of their framers, and he proved equally pliable where his own interests were concerned. He was one of the first to desert .his royal mistress’s party; and only two months after celebrating her marriage with the Earl of Bothwell, he placed the crown on the head of her infant son. The following year he humbled himself to the Hirk, and engaged ‘‘ to make a sermoun in the kirk of Halierudehous, and in the end therof to confesse the offence in mazieng the Queine with the Erle of Bothwell.” The interior of this ancient building has been so entirely remodelled to adapt it to the very different uses of later times, that no relic of its early grandeur or of the manners of its original occupants remain; but one cannot help regarding its chambers with a Now the property of Messrs Clapperton and Co., by whom it ia occupied as a warehouse. ’ “Within the add chappel, not with the mess, both with preachings.”-Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 111. Keith and other historians, however, say, ‘(within the great hall, where the council usuallj met” Ovid’s Fasti, Book v. ‘ Booke of the Univeraall Kirk of Scotland, p. 131. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. At the foot of this close, however, we again meet with valuable associations ...

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BATTLE OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF YAMES V. 43 The greit maister of housholde, all thair last, With him, in ordour, all the kingis tryne, Quhais ordinance war langsum to defyne ; On this maner, scho passing throw the toun, Suld haif resavit mony benisoun. . Thou sulde haif hard the ornate oratouris, Makand her Hynes salutatioun, Baith of the clergy, toun, and counsalouris, With niony notabill narratioun, Thow sdde haif sene hir Coronatioun, In the fair abbay of the Haly Rode, In presence of ane myrthfull multitude. Sic bankettiog, sic awfiill tournaments, On how and fute, that tyme quhilk suld haif belie, Sic chapell royal& with sic instrumenta, And craftye musick, singing from the splene, In this cuntre w a ~ne ver hard, nor sene : Bot, all this greit solempnitie, and gam, Turnit thow hes in requiem eternam. James, though without doubt sincerely attached to his Queen, very speedily after his bereavement, for reasons of state policy, began to look about him for another to supply her place. And while his ambassadors were negotiating his alliance with Mary of Lorraine, daughter of t,he Duke of Guise, the Scottish capital became the scene of tragical events, little in harmony with the general character of this gallant Monarch. Groundless charges of treason were concocted, seemingly by the malice of private enmity, iu consequence of which, John, son of Lord Forbes, and chief of his name, was convicted of having conspired the King’s death. He was beheaded and quartered on the Castle Hill, and his quarters exposed on the principal gates of the city. This execution was followed in a few days by a‘still more barbarous deed of like nature. The Lady Glamis, sister of the Earl of Angus, convicted, as it would seem, by the perjury of a disappointed suitor, on the charge of a design to poison the King, and of the equally hateful crime of being of the blood of the Douglasses, was condemned to be burned alive. The .sentence waa immediately put in execution on the Castle Hill, and in sight of her husband, then a prisoner in the Castle, who, either in desperation at the cruel deed or in seeking to effect his escape, was killed in falling over the Castle rock. The horror of such barbarous events is somewhat relieved by an ordeal of a different nature, which immediately followed them, and which, aB it is related by Dnunmond, seems a grave satire on the knightlyprowess of the age. Upon the like suspicion,” says he, “ Drumlanrig and Hempsfield, ancient barons, having challenged others, had leave to try the verity by combat. The lists were designed by the King (who was a spectator and umpire of their valour) at the Court of the Palace of Holyrood House. They appeared upon the day, armed from head to foot, like ancient Paladines, and after many interchanged blows, to the disadvantage of their casks, corslets, and vantbraces, when the one was become breathless, by the weight of his arms and thunder of blows, and the other, who was short-sighted, had broken his ponderous sword, the King, by heraulds, caused separate them, with disadvantage to neither of these ... OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF YAMES V. 43 The greit maister of housholde, all thair last, With him, in ordour, ...

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I12 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The church was crowded with an unusually numerous auditory, among whom he recognised many Jacobites, as well as a number of the Highland soldiers, attracted by the report of his intentions, and the knowledge of his intrepid character. He prayed, as usual, for King George, by name, and then added,--“And as for this young man who has come among us seeking an earthly crown, we beseech thee that he may obtain what is far better, a heavenly one ! ” When this was reported to Prince Charles he is said to have laughed, and expressed himself highly pleased at the courage and charity of the worthy minister.’ For some days after the Battle of Prestonpans, the communication between the town and the Castle remained uninterrupted. But the Highlanders, who kept guard at the Weigh-house, having received orders to prevent all further intercourse with the fortress, the governor, retaliated by threatening to cannonade the town. Messengers were immediately despatched by the Lord Provost to the Palace, informing the Prince of the danger the city was exposed to ; but the governor having waited in vain for a favourable answer, a severe cannonading at last took place, killing and wounding several of the inhabitants, besides damaging many of the houses nearest the Castle, and spreading such consternation through the town, that a great portion of the citizens were prepared for immediate flight. The consequences that were apprehended from such proceedings were, however, happily averted by a proclamation of the Prince, declaring the infinite regret he felt at the many murders committed on the inhabitants by the commander of the garrison, and that he had ordered the blockade of the Castle to be taken off, and the threatened punishment of his enemies to be suspended, when he found that thereby innocent lives could be saved. Shortly after this the Prince left Edinburgh, on his route to England, at the head of an army of about five thousand men ; from thence he was followed, on his return northward, by the Duke of Cumberland, who, on his arrival in Edinburgh, occupied the same apartments in the Palace which had so recently been appropriated to the use of the Prince ; and during his stay there, the paintings of the Scottish monarchs, in the great gallery, were slashed and otherwise greatly defaced by the English soldiers. After the final overthrow of the Highland army at Culloden, a species of triumph was exhibited in Edinburgh, in full accordance with the magnanimity of the Duke, who claimed the entire credit of a victory, achieved rather by the policy of Duncan Forbes of Culloden. Fourteen of the standards that had been taken from the insurgents were burnt at the Market Cross with every mark of contempt. They were ignominiously carried thither by chimney sweepers,-the Prince’s own standard being particularly distinguished by being borne by the common hangman ; and as each wa8 thrown into the fire, the heralds proclaimed the names of the commanders to whom they had belonged! . The usual election of magistrates having been prevented by the presence of the Highland army in Edinburgh, they were chosen in the following year by virtue of a royal mandate, and the newly-elected Council testified their loyalty to the Hanoverian dynasty by voting the freedom of the city to the Duke of Cumberland, and presenting to him the charter of citizenship in a massive gold box, embossed with the city arms outside, and having the Duke’s own arms, with a suitable inscription, engraved within. The overthrow of the adherents of Prince Charles was followed up by fines, imprisonl Hist. of the West Kirk, p. 119. ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. The church was crowded with an unusually numerous auditory, among whom he ...

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YAMES V. TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARK 77 blood that had been left on its blade. This the discoverers, not unreasonably, believed to have remained there from the flight of the murderers of Rizzio. A flat stone, with some nearly obliterated carving upon it, is pointed out in the passage leading from the present quadrangle to the Chapel of Holyrood Palace, as covering the remains of Rizzio.’ It forms a portion of the flooring of the ancient Abbey Cloisters, included in the modern portion of the Palace, when it was rebuilt by Charles 11. As Sir James Melvil was passing out by the outer gate of the Palace on the following morning, the Queen observed him, and throwing open the window of her apartment, she implored him to warn the citizens, and rescue her from the traitors’ hands. On the news being spread, the common bell was rung, and the Provost, with some hnndred armed citizens, rushed into the outer court of the Palace and demanded the Queen’s release. Darnley appeared at the window in her stead, and desired them to return home, assuring them that he and the Queen were well and merry. The Provost sought to see the Queen herself, but Darnley commanded their immediate departure on his authority as King.’ She was deterred by the most violent threats from holding any communication with the chief magistrate and citizens ; and they finding all efforts vain, speedily retired.3 The Queen succeeded, soon after, in detaching her imbecile husband from the conspirators, and escaping from the Palace in his company at midnight. They fled together to Seaton, and thence to Dunbar. They returned again to the capital within five days, but the Queen feared again to trust herself within the bloody precincts of the Palace. She took up her residence in the house of a private citizen in the High Street, and from thence she removed, a few days afterwards, to one still nearer the Castle ; in all probability the house in Blyth’s Close, Castle Hill, traditionally pointed out as the Palace of her mother, Mary of Guise, the portion of which fronting the street still remaius, with the inscription upon it, in antique iron letters, LAVS DE0.4 Lord Ruthven had risen from his sick-bed to perpetrate the infamous deed of Rizzio’s murder ; he fled thereafter to Newcastle, and died there. Only two of the humbler actors in it suffered at this period for the crime, Thomas Scott, the sheriff-depute of Perth, for Ruthven, and Henry Yair, one of his retainers. The head of the former was set on the tower of the Palace, and that of the other on the Nether Bow Port. The period of the Queen’s accouchement now drew near, and she gladly adopted the advice of her Council to take up her residence within the Castle of Edinburgh. There, in a small apartment still pointed out to visitors,. James VI. first saw the light on the morning of the 19th of June 1566. The room in which the infant was born, in whom the rival crowns of Elizabeth and Marp were afterwards united, has undergone little alteration since that time ; it is of irregular shape, and very limited dimensions, though forming part of the more ancient 1 Chalmem’s Queen Mary, vol. ii. p. 163. 4 Letters of Randulph to Cecil, Wright’s “Queen Elizabeth and her Times,” vol. i p. 232. ’ Knox. p. 341. The Queen’s Letter, Keith, vol. 5. p. 418, VIoNmr~carvedS tone over the entrance b the royal apartments, Edinburgh Castle. ... V. TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARK 77 blood that had been left on its blade. This the discoverers, not ...

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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 395 hastily completed with crow-stepped gables and a slanting roof. specimen of the decorated English style of archi- The church is 8 beautiful tecture. The east end of the choir more especially has a very stately and imposing effect. It is an Apsis, with a lofty window in each of its three sides, originally iilled with fine tracery, and not improbably with painted glass, though the only evidence of either that now remains is the broken ends of mullions and transoms. The ornamental details with which the church abounds exhibit great variety of design, though many of those on the exterior are greatly injured by time. Various armorial bearings adorn different parts of the building, and particularly the east end of the choir. One of the latter has angels for supporters, but otherwise they are mostly too much decayed to be decipherable. One heraldic device, which, from its sheltered position on the aide of a buttress at the west angle of the south transept, has escaped the general decay, is described both by Maitland and Arnot as the arms of the foundress. It proves, however, to be the arms of her brother-in-law, Alexander Duke of Albany, who at the time of her decease was residing at the court of the Duke of Guelders. From the royal supporters still traceable, attached to a coat of arms sculptured on the north-east buttress of the vestry, the arms of the foundress would appear to have been placed on that part of the church where she lies buried. In the foundation charter it is specially appointed, that '' whenever any of the said Prebendaries shall read Mass, he shall, after the same, in his sacredotal habiliments, repair to the tomb of the foundress with a sprinkler, and there devoutly read over the De Profundis, together with the Fidelium, and an exhortation to excite the people to devotion." Many of the details of the church are singularly grotesque. The monkey is repeated in all variety of positions in the gurgoils, and is occasionally introduced in the interior among other figures that seem equally inappropriate as the decorations of an ecclesiastical edifice, though of common occurrence in the works of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The varied corbels exhibit here and there an angel, or other device of beautiful form; but more frequently they consist of such crouching monsters, labouring under the burden they have to bear up, as seem to realise Dante's Purgatory of Pride, where the unpurged souls dree their doom of penance underneath a crushing load of stone :- As, to support incumbent floor or roof, For corbel, ia 8 figure sometime0 seen, That crumple8 up ita knees unto its breast; With the feigned posture, stirring ruth unfeigned In the beholder's fancy.1 The centre aisle is lofty, and the groining exceedingly rich, abounding in the utmost variety of detail. -A very fine doorway, underneath a beautiful porch with groined roof, gives access to the south aisle of the choir, and a small but finely proportioned doorway may be traced underneath the great window of the north transept, though now built up. The admirable proportions and rich variety of details of thiq church, as well as its perfect state externally, untouched, Nave by the hand of time-if we except the tracery of ita windows-render it oqe of the most attractive objects of study to the C q ' s Dante. Purgatory. Canto x. ... ANTIQUITIES. 395 hastily completed with crow-stepped gables and a slanting roof. specimen of the ...

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