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When all is considered, and we further know that
the building was strong enough to have lasted
many more ages, one cannot but regret that the
palace of Mary de Guise, reduced as it was to vilebess,
should not now be in existence. The site
having been purchased by individuals connected
with the Free Church, the buildings were removed
in 1846 to make rodm for the erection of an academical
institution, or college, for that body.?
The demolition of this mansion brought to light
a concealed chamber on the first floor, lighted by a
narrow loophole opening into Nairne?s Close. The
entrance had been by a movable panel, affording access
to a narrow flight of steps wound round in the
wall of the turnpike stair. The existence of this
mysterious chamber was totally-unknown to the various
inhabitants, and all tradition has been lost of
those to whom it may have afforded escape or refuge.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses an undoubted
portrait of Mary of Guise, It represents her with
a brilliantly fair complexion, with reddish, or
auburn hair. This is believed to be the only
authentic one in existence, That portrait alleged
to be of her in the Trinity House at Leith is a bad
copy, by Mytens, of that of her daughter at St.
James?s. Some curious items connected with her
Court are to be found in the accounts of the Lord
High Treasurer, among them are the following :-
At her coronation in 1540, ?Item, deliverit to
ye French telzour, to be ane cote to Serrat, the
Queen?s fule,? &c. Green and yellow seems to have
been the Court fool?s livery; but Mary of Guise,
seems to have had a female buffoon and male
and female dwarfs :-? 1562. Paid for ane cote,
hois, lyning and making, to Jonat Musche, fule,
A 4 5s. 6d.; 1565, for green plaiding to make
ane bed to Jardinar the fule, with white fustione
fedders,? &c.; in 1566, there is paid for a garment
of red and yellow, to be a gown ?( for Jane Colqu-,
houn, fule;? and in 1567, another entry, for broad
English yellow, U to be cote, breeks, also sarkis,
to James Geddie, fide.?
The next occupant of the Guise palace, or of
that portioli thereof which stood in Tod?s Close, was
Edward Hope, son of John de Hope, a Frenchman
who had come to Scotland in the retinue of
Magdalene, first queen of James V., in 1537.
It continued in possession of the Hopes till 1691,
when it was acquired by James, first Viscount Stair,
for 3,000 guilders, Dutch money, probably in connection
with some transaction in Holland, from
whence he accompanied William of Orange four
years before, In 1702 it was the abode and property
of John Wightman of Mauldsie, afterwards
Lord Provost of the city. From that period it was
the residence of a succession of wealthy burgesses
-the closes being then, and till a comparatively
recent period, exclusively occupied by peers and
dignitaries of rank and wealth. Since then it shared
the fate of all the patrician dwellings in old Edinburgh,
and became the squalid abode of a host of
families in the most humble ranks of life.
CHAPTER X
THE LAWNMARKET.
The Lawnmarket-RispE-The Weigh-house-Major Somerville and Captain Crawfod-Anderson?s Pills-Mylnc?s Court-James?s Court-
Su John Lauder-Sir Islay Campbell-David Hum-?? Corsica? Boswell-Dr. Johnson-Dr. Blair-?? Gladstone?s Land?-A Fue in 1771.
THE Lawnmarket is the general designation of that
part of the town which is a continuation of the
High Street, but lies between the head of the old
West Bow and St. Giles?s Church, and is about 510
feet in length. Some venerable citizens still living
can recall the time when this spacious and stately
thoroughfare used to be so covered by the stalls
and canvas baoths of the lawn-merchants,? with
their webs and rolls of cloth of every description,
that it gave the central locality an appearance of
something between a busy country fair and an
Indian camp. Like many other customs of the
olden time this has passed away, and the name
alone remains to indicate the former usages of the
place, although the importance of the street was
such that its occupants had a community of their
own called the Lawnmarket Club, which was
famous in its day for the earliest possession of
English and foreign intelligence.
Among other fashions and customs departed, it
may be allowable here to notice an adjunct of the
first-floor dwellings of old Edinburgh. The means
of bringing a servant to the door was neither a
knocker nor bell, but an apparatus peculiar to
Scotland alone, and still used in some parts of Fife,
called a risf, which consists of a slender bar of
serrated or twisted iron screwed to the door in an
upright position, about two inches from it, and
furnished with a large ring, by which the bar could
be rasped, or risped, in such a way as secured attention.
In many instances the doors were also
furnished with two eyelet-holes, through which the ... all is considered, and we further know that the building was strong enough to have lasted many more ages, ...

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464 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Frendracht, Viscount, 191
Froissart, 9, 12
Fullerton, Adam, 152, 272
Gabriel, the Archangel, Chapel of, 386
Qabriel’s Road, 371
Gallow Lee, 179, 275, 355
Galloway, Earl of, 324
Countess of, 324
House, 324
Gay, the Poet, 199, 300
Geddes, Jenny, 92,250,391
General‘s Entry, 345
George IL, 109
IV., 97, 133
Wilkie’s Portrait of, 410
Gill Bells, 211
Gillespie, Wdliam, Tobacconist, 350
Gillon, James, 69
Girth Cross, 306
Gladstone, Thomas, 162
Gladstone’s Land, 163
Olamis, Lady, 43,133
Glass, Ancient Painted, 387, 400
Glasgow, 49
Glencairn, Earl of, 69, 64, 67
Qlenlee, Lord, 332
Gloucester, Duke of, 19
Golden Charter, 19
Goldsmith, Oliver, 243, 323
Golf, 104, 301
Golfer’s Land, 135, 301
Gordon, George, 1st Duke of, 106, 123, 144, 169,179
Sir John, of Fasque, 357
Archbishop of, 27, 36
Duchess of, 138,192,308
Lady Ann, 296
Lady Catherine, 25
Lady Jane, 295
of Haddo, Sir John, 387
of Braid, 140
Hon. Alexander, 141
C. H., 141
Gosford‘s Close, 179
Gourlay, David, 177,178
John, 173
Norman, burnt at Greenside, 411
Robert, 172
Gowry, Earl of, 89
Grame, Tower of, 244
Graham, Robert, 15
Grange, Lady, 174, 441
Grassmarket, 26, 69, 101,109,195, 342, 343
Grant, Sir Francis, 171
Gray, Lord, 28, 164
Residence of the Daughters of, 144
Sir William, 164, 281
Andrew, 280
Egidia, 164, 281
John, 282
Gray’s Cloae, North, 254
Greenfield, Dr, 140 ’
South, See Hint Close
Greenside, 23, 285, 375, 411, 444
Uregory IX., Pope, 6
Greyfriars, 26, 269
Greyfriam’ Church, 96, 411
The Rood of, 111
Churchyard, 73, 83,169,206,411, 462
Monastery, 63, 342, 400, 443
Port, 117, 331, 454
Grieve, John, Provost, 139
Urymanus, Marcq Patriarch of Aquileig 48
Guard-Houae, 115,189, 247
Tom, 219,247, 431
Town, the Origin of, 36
Gueldere, Mary of, 17,18, 342, 381, 394
Guest, General, 111, 339
Guise, Duke of, 43
Mary of, 43,44, 48,62,65,67,146-167
Mary of, Portrait of, 202
Palace, 139, 146-157
Leith, 360
Guthrie, James, 216
Guy, Count of Namur, 7
Haddington, Sir Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 327,331
Thomas, Zd Earl of, 227
The Earl of, 341
Lord, the 7th Earl, 195
Haddow’s Hole Kirk, 387
Hailee, Lord, 284, 316, 370
Haliburton, Provost, of Dundee, 65
Provost George, 339
Master James, 261
Haliday, Sir John, 41
Halkerston’s Wynd, 117,118,242,250
Halton, Lord, 298, 454
Hammermen, Corporation of, 387, 400, 401
Hamilton, James, 4th Duke of, 106,108, 163, 183
Lord Claud, 370
Sir Patrick, 24,36,37,136
Sir Jamee, 314
Abbot, Gavin, 73
Gavin, his Model of the Old Town, 439
Port, 250
Hangman’s House, 243
Hanna, Jamea, Dean of St Qiea’s Church, 391
Hare Stane, 124
Harper, Sir John, 160
Hart, Andrew, the Printer, 235, 236
Hartfield, Lady, 208
Harviston, Lady, 208
Hastings, Marchioness of, 180
Haunted Close, West Bow. See Stinking CZosc
Hawkhill, 131, 177
Hawthornden, 7
Hay, Father, 3
Lord David, 283
Bishop, 265
Lady Ann, 180
Lady Catherine, 180
E. k Drummond, 154
Heathfield, Lord, 256
Heigh, Jock, 190
Henderson, of Fordel, 253 ... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. Frendracht, Viscount, 191 Froissart, 9, 12 Fullerton, Adam, 152, 272 Gabriel, the ...

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290 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
On the formation of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, Mr. Pringle was
appointed Lieutenant of the Left Grenadiers, and afterwards promoted to a
Captaincy. He lived at that time in “ the Society,” Brown Square.
The Clerk seated at the table, of whom only a back view is afforded, is Mr.
JOSEPH MACK, who for many years officiated as a Clerk in the Sheriff
Court. His father was one of the officials of
St. Cuthbert’s Church, under the late Rev. Sir Henry MoncreifT and Mr. Paul.
As an amanuensis, or copyist, Mr. Joseph was remarkably expeditious. He
died on the 1st of October 1801, the day on which the account of the peace
of Amiens arrived in Edinburgh,
He was a native of Edinburgh.
No. CCLXVII.
THE HON. SIR NASH GROSE,
ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF KING’S BENCH?
NASH GROSE, son of Edward Grose, Esq., of the city of London, was born in
1740. Admitted of Lincoln’s Inn in 1756, he was called to the bar in
1766 ; and, by the display of considerable professional abilities, speedily established
himself in extensive business.
After eight years’ practice as a barrister he obtained the degree of Sergeant,
and for many years took the lead in the Court of Common Pleas. He was
also allowed to be an excellent Nisi Prius advocate ; and, as a special pleader,
he had distinguished himself by blending with the formal nature of his duties
a degree of eloquence seldom associated with the office.
The elevation of Mr. Grose to a judicial seat, in 1780, was generally regarded
as a just appreciation of his talents and rectitude of conduct; and, while he
continued on the bench, he is universally allowed to have maintained an
uprightness, integrity, and freedom from political bias, which with one or two
exceptions, has been the proud characteristic of the English judges since the
Revolution. Shortly after his elevation the honour of knighthood was conferred
on him by his Majesty George the Third.
Sir Nash Grose retired from the bench in 1813, and died suddenly the
following year. He was at the time (the 6th of June) on his return to his seat in
the Isle of Wight, and had scarcely entered the room when he fell on a sofa,
and expired in a few minutes afterwards, His remains were interred in the Isle
of Wight.
The Portrait of Judge Grose was taken by the artist when in London in 1800. ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. On the formation of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, Mr. Pringle was appointed ...

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3 18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [cogs.
p. baronet of Nova Scotia by James VII., in
1687.
The close of the family is thus recorded in the
Scottish Register for 1795 :-?September I. At
Cramond House, died Adam, Inglis, Esq., last
surviving son af Sir John Inglis of Cramond, Bart.
He was instructed in grammar and learning at the
High School -and University of Edinburgh, and at
the Warrington Academy in Lancashire ; studied
law at Edinburgh, and was ca!led to thc bar in
1782. In May, 1794~ was appointed lieutenant of
one of the Midlothian troops of cavalry, in which
he paid the most assiduous attention to the raising
and discipline of the men. On the 23rd August
he was attacked with fever, and expired on the
1st September, in the thirty-fourth year of his age,
unmarried.? Cramond House is now the seat of
the Craigie-Halkett family.
Some three miles south of Cramond lies the district
of Gogar, an ancient and suppressed parish, a
great portion of which is now included in that of
Corstorphine Gogar signifies ?? light,? according
to some ?etymological notices,? by Sir Janies
Foulis of Colinton, probably from some signal
given to an army, as there are, he adds, marks of
a battle having taken p1ac.e to the westward?; but
his idea is much more probably deduced from the
place named traditionally ? the Flashes,? the scene
of Leslie?s repulse of Cromwell in 1650. The
name is more probably Celtic The ? Ottadeni
and Gadeni,? says a statistical writer, ?? the British
descendants of the first colonists, enjoyed their
original land during the second century, and have
left memorials of their existence in the names
of the Forth, the Almond, the Esk, the Leith,
the Gore, the Gogar, and of Cramond, Cockpen,
Dreghorn,? etc.
The church of Gogar was much older than that
of Corstorphine, but was meant for a scanty population.
A small part of it still exists, and after
the Reformation was set apart as a burial-place for
the lords of the manor.
Gogar was bestowed by Robert Bruce on his
trusty comrade in many a well-fought field, Sir
Alexander Seton, one of the patriots who signed
that famous letter to the Pope in 1330, asserting
the independence of the Scots ;? and vowing that
so long as one hundred of them remained alive,
they would never submit to the King of England.
He was killed in battle at Kinghorn in 1332.
Soon after this establishment the Parish of Gogar
was acquired by the monks of Holyrood; but
before the reign of James V. it had been constituted
an independent rectory. In 1429 Sir John Forrester
conferred its tithes on his collegiate church at
Corstorphine, and made it one of the prebends
there.
In June, 1409, Walter Haliburton, of Dirleton, in
a charter dated from that place, disposed of the
lands and milne of Goga to his brother George.
Among the witnesses were the Earls of March and
Orkney, Robert of Lawder, and others. In 1516
the lands belonged to the Logans of Restalrig and
others, and during the reign of James VI. were in
possession of Sir Alexander Erskine, Master of Mar,
appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle in I 5 78.
Though styled ?the Master,? he was in reality
the second son of John, twelfth Lord Erskine, and
is stated by Douglas to have been an ancestor of
the Earls of Kellie, and was Vice-ChamberIain of
Scotland. His son, Sir Thomas Erskine, also of
Gogar, was in 1606 created Viscount Fenton, and
thirteen years afterwards Earl of Kellie and Lord
Dirleton.
In 1599, after vain efforts had been made by its
few parishioners to raise sufficient funds for an idcumbent,
the parish of Gogar was stripped of its
independence ; and of the two villages of Nether
Gogar and Gogar Stone, which it formerly contained,
the latter has disappeared, and the popu-
Iation of the former numbered a few years ago only
twenty souls.
Grey Cooper, of Gogar, was made a baronet ot
Nova Scotia in 1638.
In 1646 the estate belonged to his son Sir John
Cooper, Bart., and in 1790 it was sold by Sir Grey
Cooper, M.P., to the Ramsays, afterwards of Barnton.
A Cooper of Gogar is said to have been one
Df the first persons who appeared in the High
Street of Edinburgh in a regular coach. They
were, as already stated, baronets of 1638, and after
them came the Myrtons of Gogar, baronets of 1701,
md now extinct.
On the muir of Gogar, in 1606, during the prevalence
of a plape, certain little ? lodges? were
built by James Lawriston, and two other persons
named respectively David and George Hamilton,
for the accommodation of the infected ; but these
edifices were violently destroyed by Thomas Marjoribanks,
a portioner of Ratho, on the plea that their
erection was an invasion of his lands, yet the Lords
of the Council ordered theni to be re-built?? where
they may have the best commodity of water,?? as
the said muir was common property.
The Edinburgh Cowant for April, 1723, records
that on the 30th of the preceding March, ?? Mrs.
Elizabeth Murray, lady toThomas Kincaid, younger,
of Gogar Mains,? was found dead on the road from
Edinburgh to that place, with all the appearance of
having been barbarously murdered. ... 18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [cogs. p. baronet of Nova Scotia by James VII., in 1687. The close of the family is ...

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hstorphine.1 THE FORRESTERS. I21
took the name of Ruthven, and occupied the castle,
the family honours and estates, which came by his
first wife, went by the patent quoted to another
branch of the family. Dreading that the young
Ruthvens might play foully with the late lord?s charter
chest, and prejudice their succession, Lilias
Forrester Lady Torwoodhead, her son Williani
Baillie, William Gourlay, and others, forced a
passage into the castle of Corstorphine, while the
dead lord?s bloody corpse lay yet unburied there,
and took possession of a tall house, from which they
annoyed the defenders, although they were unable
to carry the post.? 3
He afterwards became colonel of the Scottish
Horse Grenadier Guards. His son, the sixth lord,
was dismissed from the navy by sentence of a
court-martial in 1746 for misconduct, when captain
of the Dejance, and died two years after. His
brother (cousin, says Burke) William, seventh lord,
succeeded him, and 04 his death in 1763 the title
TOMB OF THE FORRESTERS, CORSTORPHINE CHURCH.
and furiously demanded the charter chest, of which
the Lords of Council took possession eventually,
and cast these intruders into prison.
Young Baillie become third Lord Forrester of
Corstorphine. The fourth lord was his son William,
who died in I 705, and left, by his wife, a daughter of
Sir Andrew Birnie of Saline, George, the fifth Lord
Forrester, who fought against the House of Stuart at
Preston in 17 15 ; and it is recorded, that when
Brigadier Macintosh was attacked by General Willis
at the head of five battalions he repulsed them all.
?The Cameronian Regiment, however, led by their
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Forrester, who displayed
singular bravery and coolness in the action, succeeded
in effecting a lodgment near the barricade,
lla
devolved in succession upon two Baronesses
Forrester, through one of whom it passed to
James, Earl of Verulam, grandson of the Hon.
Harriet Forrester; so the peers of that title now
represent the Forresters of Corstorphine, whose
name was so long connected with the civic annals
of Edinburgh.
It may be of interest to note that the armorial
bearings of the Forresters of Corstorphine,
as shown on their old tombs and elsewhere,
were-quarterly I st and 4th, three buffaloes?
horns stringed, for the name of Forrester; with,
afterwards, 2nd and grd, nine mullets for that
of Baillie; crest, a talbot?s head; two talbots for
supporters, and the motto S?ero. ... THE FORRESTERS. I21 took the name of Ruthven, and occupied the castle, the family honours and ...

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486 INDEX TO THE PORTKAITS. ETC .
No . Pagc
Campbell. Mr. John. precentor ...........c civ 95
Campbell. Donald. Esq . of Sonachan.
laughing at the Print of " Petticoat
Government ............................ ccxlix 234
Campbell. Archibald. city officer ....... ccxcv 375
Campbell. Archibald. city officer., ... cccxxix 469
Carlyle. Rev . Dr .............................. ccxi 119
Chairmen. Two ; or"The Social Pinch" ccxcii 367
29
Clerk. John (afterwards Lord Eldin) cccxx 438
Clinch. Mr., in the character of the
Clive. Edward Lord (now Earl of
Powis). Colonel of the Shropshire
Militin ............................... cccxxviii 468
Coach. Lawnmarket; or a Journey along
the Mound ............................ clxxiii 8
Coke. Mr . William. bookseller ........c lxxxii 30
Cole. Rev . Joseph ......................... ccxxvi 161
Colquhoun. Rev . Dr . John. of the
Chapel of Ease (now St . John's
Church). Leith ......................... ccxlv 223
Colquhoun. A., Esq . of Killcrmont.
Lord Advocate of Scotland ....... cccxvii 431
Combe. Harvey Christian. Esq ........ cclxviii 291
Connell. Sir John. Judge of the Court of
Admiralty .............................. cccxx 442
Constable. Arch., Esq., Publisher cccxxix' 473
Convention of Asses ...................... ccclxix 480
Cooper. Mr . James. jeweller ............. cclxv 285
Corbet. Robcrt. Esq . late Solicitor of
Teinda ................................ cccxxvi 464
Councillor. Training a ..................... ccxcv 371
Craft in Danger. The .................... cccxxii 448
Crenstoun. George (now Lord Corehouse)
................................... cccxx 438
Craig. Robert. Esq .of Riccarton. seated
at the door of his own house in
Princes Street ...................... cclxxviii 322
Craig. Willism. Lord Craig .................c cc 380
Culbertson. Rev . Robert. of the Associate
Congregation. Leith ............c. clii 244
Cullcn. Robert. Lord Cullen .........c clxxxii 336
Cullen. Robert. Lord Cullen ................ ccc 380
Cumming. Willism. Esq . banker .......c cxxv 157
Cunninghame. John (now Lord Cunninghame)
........................... cccxxvi 466
Cauvin. Mr . Louis. French teacher ... cccxiv 420
Charles II., Equestrian Statue. .........c. cclv 480
Clerk. Mr . Robert ......................... clxxxi
.. Duke of Braganza ................... ccxli 203
D
DALYESLi~r J . G.. Knight. advocate cccxxvi 465
Davidson. the fish-horn blower ...........c. civ 100
No . Page
Denholme. Mr . James. or " Laird
Denholme .............................. ccxcv 374
Dick. Beetty. town-crier of Dalkeith ... ccxci 365
Dickson. Rev . Dayid. of New North
Church ................................ cclxxiv 310
Dickson. Rev . David. D.D., one of the
ministers of ISt . Cuthbert. or West
Kirk .................................... cccxix 434
Donaldson. Andrew. teacher of Greek
and Hebrew .......................... ccxlvii 227
Dowie. Mr . John. vintner. Libberton's
Wynd .................................... clxxi 1
Duff. Bailie Jamie ........................ clxxiii 9
Duff; Jamie. alias Bailie ..................c lxxv 17
Duff. Jamie. alias Bailie .................... cciv 95
Duff. Sergeant William. of the forty.
second regiment. or Royal Highlanders
.................................... cclxi 269
Duncan. Dr . Andrew. Professor of the
Theory of Medicine ...................... cxc 52
Duncan. Dr . Andrew. in 1797 ............ cxci 54
Dundas. Henry. Lord &Mville ............ ccxi 120
Dundas. Henry. Lord Melville ...........c clvi 257
Dundas. General Francis ................c clxxx 326
Dundas.SirRobt..ofBeechwood.Rart .. cclxxx 328
Dunn. Mra., of the .. Hotel .............c lxxiii 15
Dunsinnan. Lord .............................. ccc 380
E
EGLINTONH. on . Earl of. when Major
of Lord Frederick Campbell's Regiment
of Fencibles ..................... ccxiv 125
Eglinton. Earl of ........................... cclxxx 330
Elder. Provost ................................ cccx 412
Ellis. Old Widow ......................... ccxxiii 154
Elphinstone. Captain Dalrymple Horn.
(Sir Robert). of Horn. Westhall.
and Logie ................................ ccciii 392
Elphinstone. Captain Dalrymple Horn ccciii 393
Erskine. Hon . Henry ..................c lxxxvii 46
Erskine. Hon . Henry ...................... cccxx 444
Crskine. Hon . Andrew .................... cxcii 57
Srskine. Colonel James Francis ......... cccvii 404
Sxamination. The Artist under ......... cclxvi 289
F
~IDDLER of Glenbirnie ....................... cccl 480
pinlayson. Mr . John. writcr iu Cupar-
Fife ................................... cclxxiii 309
"ish- Women. Edinburgh ............. cclxxxiii 338
letcher. Archibald. Esq., advocate ... cccxx 445
'orbes. William. Esq., of Callendar .... ccvii 105
'raser. Major Andrew ...................... cxcii 56 - I ... INDEX TO THE PORTKAITS. ETC . No . Pagc Campbell. Mr. John. precentor ...........c civ 95 Campbell. Donald. ...

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University. 1 A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. ?3
one with a dark lantern ; but notwithstanding that
a pardon and zoo merks (about 6110 sterling)
were offered by the Privy Council to any who
would discover the perpetrators of this outrage,
they were never detected.
The gates of the college were ordered to be shut,
and the students to retire at least fifteen miles
distant from the city; but in ten days they were
permitted to return, upon their friends becoming
caution for their peaceable behaviour, and the
gates were again thrown open ; but all students
? above the Semi-class ? were ordered by the Privy
Council to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy,
and go regularly to the parish churches ;
but, says Fountainhall, ?? there were few or none
who gave thu conditions.?
-the seat of Sir Jarnes Dick, Lord Provost, the
family being in town-was deliberately set in flames
by fire-balls, and burned to the ground, with all
its furniture.
A barrel ha.Y full of combustible materials, and
bearing, it was said, the Castle mark, was found in
the adjacent park, and several people deposed
that on the night of the conflagration they saw
many young men going towards the house of
Priestfield with unlighted links in their hands, and
?
repress faction and panish disorder ; to correspond
with the other Scottish Universities, so that a uniformity
of discipline might be adopted; and to
report fully on all these matters before the 1st of
November, 1683. ?What the visitors did in
consequence of this appointment,? says Amot,
? we are not able to ascertain.?
As this visitation was to be for the suppression
of fanaticism, upon the accomplishment of the
Revolution a Parliamentary one was ordered of all
the universities in Scotland by an Act of William
and Mary, ?? with the purpose to remove and
? oppress such as continued attached to the hierarchy
or the House of Stuart. From such specimens
of their conduct in a visitorial capacity as we have
been able to discover, we are entitled to say,? re-
To prevent a recurrence of such outbreaks,
Charles 11. appointed a visitation of the university,
naming the great officers of state, the bishop, Lord
Provost, and magistrates of the city, and certain
others, of whom five, with the bishop and Lord
Provost should be a quorum, to inquire into the
condition of the college, its revenues, privileges, and
buildings; to examine if the laws of the realm, the
Church government, and the old rules of discipline
were observed j to arrange the methods of study; to
PART OF THE BUILDINGS OF THE saum SIDE OF THE QUADRANGLE OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY.
(From am Engraving ay W. H. Lienn of a Drawing ay Payfair.) ... 1 A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. ?3 one with a dark lantern ; but notwithstanding that a pardon and zoo ...

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THE PRECEPTORY OF ST. ANTHONY. 215 Leith]
not making any deliberate assault ; but a pistol
shot was heard, and in a few minutes the Sieur de
la Roche lay dead, with a sword thrust in his body,
while Isaac had a finger nearly hewn OK
The guard now came on the scene, and Mowat
was found under an outer stair, with a bent sword
in his hand, bloody from point to hilt, his hand
wounded, and the sleeves of his coat stained with
blood. On seeing the dead body, he viewed it
without emotion, and merely remarked that he
wondered who had slain him.
The Master, Mowat, and James Sinclair the writer,
were all tried for the murder of Elias Poiret before
the Court of Justiciary, but the jury brought in a
verdict of not proven. The whole affair might
have been easily explained, but for heat of temper,
intemperance, and the ready resort to arms so usual
in those days. The three Frenchmen concerned in
it were Protestant refugees who were serving as
privates in the Scottish Life Guards. The Mastet
of Tarbet became Earl of Cromarty in 1714 and
survived the death of Poiret forty years. Two of
his sons, who were officers in the Scots-Dutch
Brigade, perished at sea, and his eldest, the third
and last Earl of Cromarty, was nearly brought to
Tower Hill in 1746 for his loyalty to the House of
Stuart.
No. 141 Kirkgate was long the place of business
of Mr. Alexander Watson, who is chiefly remarkable
as being the nephew and close correspondent
of a very remarkable man, who frequently resided
with him-Robert Watson, who was made Principal
of the Scots College at Paris by the Emperor
Napoleon I., an office which he held for six years.
It was to his nephew at Leith, after his escape to
Rome (having been tried at the Old Bailey as
President of a Corresponding Society), he confided
his discovery of a large mass of correspondence
known as ? The Stuart Papers,? which he
purchased (as stated in the Courunt for 1819.)
In one of his letters, dated London, 6th April,
1818, he states that they consist ofhalf a million of
pieces, and are valued at ~300,000. ?? The Pope,
however, took military possession of them, under
the protest that they were of too much importance
to belong to a private individual. I protested
against the arbitrary proceedings of his Holiness.
The Prince Regent sent two ships of war to Civita
Vecchia to bring them to London, and they are
now in Carlton House.?
To his nephew in the Kirkgate he subsequently
wrote that a Royal Commissiolr under the Great
Seal (including Sir James Mackintosh) was a p
pointed to examine these valuable papers ; and in
1824 he wrote that amongst other things of some
value which have fallen into my possession, are the
carriage and tent-bed of Bonaparte, taken at the
battle of Waterloo. Further events will decide
to what purposes I may apply it (the carriage),
though it is probable I shall keep it for my own
use.?
This singular person committed suicide in 1838,
by strangling himself in a London tavern, in the
ninety-second year of his age--?a case of suicide,?
it was said, ?unparalleled in the annals of sorrow.?
On the east side of the Kirkgate, to take the
edifices in succession there, there was founded by
Robert Logan of Restalrig, in 1435, a preceptory
for the canons of St. Anthony, the only establkhment
of the kind in Scotland.
Arnot, in his history, unthinkingly mentions ?? the
monastery of Knights Templars of St. Anthony?
at Leith. These canons, says Chalmers, ? seem to
have been an order of religious knights, not
Templars. The only document in which they are
called Templars is a charter of James VI. in 1614,
giving away their establishment and revenues; and
this mistake of an ignorant clerk is wildly repeated
by Arnot.?
Their church, burying-ground, and gardens were
in St. Anthony?s Wynd, an alley off the Kirkgate ;
and the first community was brought from St
Anthony of Vienne, the seat of the order in France
They were formed in honour of St. Anthony, the
patriarch of monks, who was born at Coma, a
village of Heraclea on the borders of Arcadia, in
A.D.?z~I, and whose sister was placed in the first
convent that is recorded in history. A hermit by
habit, he dwelt long in the ruins of an old castle
that overlooked the Nile; and after his death (said
to have been in 356) his body was deposited in the
church of La Motte St. Didier, at Vienne, when,
according to old traditions, those labouring under
the pest known as St. ,4nthony?s Fire-a species of
erysipelas-were miraculously cured by praying at
his shrine.
Gaston, a noble of Vienne, and his son Gironde,
filled with awe, we are told, by these wonderful
cures, devoted their lives and estates to found a
hospital for those who laboured under this disease,
and seven others joined them in their attendance
on the sick; and on these Hospitaller Brethren
Boniface VIII. bestowed the Benedictine Priory
of Vienne, giving them the rules of St. Austin, and
declaring the Abbot General of this new orderthe
Canons Regular of St, Anthony. The superiors
of the subordinate preceptones were called commanders,
says Alban Butler, ? and their houses are
called commandenes, as when they were Hospitallers?
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his ? Church History,? were licensed by the
king ! This interdict was annulled by proclamation
at the Market Cross. In 1601 an English
company, headed by Laurence Fletcher, ?comedian
to his Majestie,? was again in Scotland ; and Mr.
Charles Knight, in his? Life of Shakspere,? con-
THE PALACE GArE. (Affcran EtchinKby -7nmcs Skmr, of Rubiskw.)
niissioner, at his court at Holyrood, and soon after
the theatre in the Tennis Court was in the zenith
of its brief prosperity, in defiance of the city pulpits.
There, on the 15th November, 1681, ?? being the
Queen of Brittain?s birthday,? as Fountainhall
records, while bonfires blazed in the city and
James VI. to England, in 1603, till the arrival of
his grandson the Duke of Albany and York, in
1680, there are doubts if anything like a play was
performed in the Edinburgh of that gloomy period ;
though Sir George Mackenzie mentions that in
June, 1669, ? Thomas Sydserf, having pursued
Mungo Murray for invading him in his Playhouse,
&c., that invasion was not punished as hamesucken,
but with imprisonment ;? and a ?? Playhouse,? kept
at Edinburgh in the same month, when a thousand
prisoners, after Bothwell Bridge, were confined in
the Greyfriars Churchyard, is referred to in the
Acts of Council in 1679.
Some kind of a drama, called ? Marciano, or The
Discovery,? was produced on the festival of St
John by Sir Thonlas Sydserff (the same referred to),
before His Grace the Earl of Rothes, High Comthe
plan of his great Scottish tragedy. According
to the same testimony, the name of Shaklution
; and though a concert was given in 1705
in the Tennis Court, under the patronage of the
Duke of Argyle, and ?? The Spanish Friar ? is said
to have been performed there before the members
of the Union Parliament, no more is heard of it
till 1714, when ?? Macbeth ? was played at the
Tennis Court, in presence of a brilliant array of
Scottish nobles and noblesse, after an archery
meeting. On this occasion many present called
for the song, ?The king shall enjoy his own
again,? while others opposed the demand ; where-
-Jpon swords were resorted to, and-as an anticipation
of the battle of Dunblane-a regular m2Zk
ensued.
A little to the north-eastward of the Tennis
Court stands the singularly picturesque, but squat
little corbelled tower called Queen Mary?s Bath,
?( Mithridates, King of Pontus,? wherein the future
Queen Anne and the ladies of honour were the ... ? Church History,? were licensed by the king ! This interdict was annulled by proclamation at the Market ...

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278 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street
Close was seized, and a battery erected on the
summit thereof to assail the King?s men. In the
?Histone of James Sext? we are told that the
Regent Earl of Mar brought nine pieces of ordnance
up the Canongate to assail the Netherbow Port,
but changed their position to a fauxbourg of the
town, callit Pleasands, ? from whence to batter the
Flodden wall and to oppose a platform of guns
erected on the house of Adam Fullerton.
When this sharp but brief civil disorder ended,
Adam returned to his strong mansion in the Fountain
Close once more, and on the 4th of December,
1572, he and Mr. John Paterson appear together
as Commissaries for the city of Edinburgh, and
the supposition is, that the date, 1573, referred
to repairs upon the house, after what it had
suffered from the cannon of Mar. Thus, says
Wilson, ?the nincit veritu of the brave old
burgher acquires a new force, when we consider
the circumstznces that dictated its inscription, and
the desperate struggle in which he had borne a
leading part, before he returned to carve these
pious aphorisms over the threshold that had so
recently been held by his enemies.?
With a view to enlarging the library of the
College of Physicians, in 1704, that body purchased
from Sir James Mackenzie his house and
ground at the foot of the Fountain Close. The
price paid was 3,500 rnerks (A194 8s. Iod.). To
this, in seven years afterwards, was added an
adjoining property, which connected it with the
Cowgate, ? then a genteel and busy thoroughfare,??
and for which 2,300 merks (A127 15s. 6d.) were
given. From Edgar?s map it appears that the
premises thus acquired by the College of Physicians
were more extensive than those occupied
by any individual or any other public body in
the city. The ground was laid out in gardens
and shrubbery, and was an object of great admiration
and envy to the nobility and gentry, ta
several of whom the privilege of using the pleasure
grounds was accorded as a favour. Considering
the locality now, how strangely does all this
read !
The?whole of the buildings must have been in
a dilapidated, if not ruinous state, for expensive
repairs were found to be necessary on first taking
possession, and the same head of expenditure
constantly recurs in accounts of the treasurer 01
the College; and so early as 1711 a design was
pioposed for the erection of a new hall at the foot
of the Fountain Close ; and after nine years? delay,
2,900 merks were borrowed, and a new building
erected, but it was sold in 1720 for E%oo, as a site
for the new Episcopal Chapel.
Till the erection of St. Paul?s in York Place, the
Fountain Close formed the only direct communication
to this the largest and most fashionable
Episcopal church in Edinburgh, that which was
built near the Cowgate Port in 1771.
Tweeddale?s Close, the next alley on the east,.
was the scene of a terrible crime, the memory of
which, though enacted so long ago as 1806, is still.
fresh in the city. The stately house which gave
its name to the Close, and was the town residence
of the Marquises of Tweeddale, still remains,
though the ? plantation of lime-trees behind it,?
mentioned by Defoe in his ? Tour,? and shown in
seven great rows on Edgais map, is a thing of
the past.
Even after the general desertion of Edinburgh
by the Scottish noblesse at the Union, this fine old
mansion (which, notwithstanding great changes,
still retains traces of magniticence) was for a time
the constant residence of the Tweeddale family.
It was first built and occupied by Dame Margaret
Kerr Lady Yester, daughter of Mark first Earl of
Lothian. She was born in 1572, and was wife of
James the seventh Lord Yester, in whose family
there occurred a singular event. His page, Hepburn,
accused his Master of the Horse of a design
to poison him; the latter denied it; the affair
was brought before the Council, who agreed that
it should be determined by single combat, in 1595,
and this is supposed to have been the last of such
judicial trials by battle in Scotland.
By Lady Yester, who founded the church that
still bears her name in the city, the mansion, with
all its furniture, was bestowed upon her grandson,
John second Earl of Tweeddale (and ninth Lord
Yester), who joined Charles I. when he unfurled
his standard at Nottingham in 1642. Six years
subsequently, when a Scottish army under the
Duke of Hamilton, was raised, to rescue Charles
from the English, the Earl, then Lord Yester, commanded
the East Lothian regiment of 1,200 men,
After the execution of Charles I. he continued
with the regal party in Scotland, assisted at the
coronation of Charles II., and against Crornwell
he defended his castle of Neidpath longer than any
place south of the Forth, except Borthwick. With
all this loyalty to his native princes, he came
early into the Revolution movement, and in 1692
was created, by William III., Marquis of Tweeddale,
with the office of Lord High Chancellor of
Scotland, and died five years afterwards.
The next occupant of the house, John, second
Marquis, received LI,OOO for his vote at the
Union, and was one of the first set of sixteen
representative peers. The last of the family who ... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street Close was seized, and a battery erected on the summit thereof to assail ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 177
Butler and Oliver Bond were summoned before the House of Lords, on account
of “a paper issued by the United Irishmen.” They at once avowed
the publication, but asserted that it contained nothing either illegal or unconstitutional.
They were ordered to withdraw, however, when the House voted
the paper a “ scandalous libel” on their privileges j and a motion by the Earl
of Westmeath was agreed to, that the parties should be fined each in 3500,
and imprisoned for six months. Mr. Butler and Mr. Bond were then called to
the bar-the Chancellor pronounced the sentence of the House, and they were
immediately conducted to Newgate.
On the expiry of his term of imprisonment, Mr. Butler accompanied his
friend Hamilton Rowan to Scotland, as already described; and for some time
continued to aid in directing the proceedings of the body with which he had
become associated. Compelled at length to consult his safety in fight, he fled
to Wales, where, according to Musgrave-whose statements must be taken with
caution-he ‘( died in great poverty.”
In the Annual Register for 1797 his death, which occurred on the 19th
May, is thus recorded :-“In his fortieth year, the Hon. Simon Butler, third
son of Edmund, the late Lord Viscount Mountgarret, of the. kingdom of
Ireland, brother of the late, and uncle of the present Earl of Kilkenny. In
1794 he married Eliza, second daugheer of Edward Lynch of Hampstead, near
Dublin, Esq., by whom he has left one only child, named Edward Lynch
Butler, an infant about nine months old. His remains were deposited in the
vaults belonging to St. James’s Church.”
No. CCXXXI.
CITIZEN M. C. BROWNE.
ALMOSnTot hing more is known of this individual than what is communicated
by the inscription on the Print. He was an enthusiastic admirer of the French
Republic; and it was at his suggestion that many of the most obnoxious
republican phrases were adopted by the Reformers of Scotland in 1793. In the
evidence of Filliam Canulge-on the trial of Thomas Hardy, of the London
Corresponding Society, in 1794-BROWNE is thus mentioned in allusion to the
Sheffield Association :-“ The Society chose Mathew Campbell Browne, as
delegate to the Scotch Convention at Edinburgh j upon which occasion he waa
sent to him with a supply of cash, ten pounds of which he received from Sheffield,
and ten pounds from Leeds. He knew not how the money was raised,
but had received it from Mr. Yateg who had since quitted Sheffield.”
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194 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
to have married again, and died at an advanced age surrounded by a numerous and
attached family,-a striking contrast in love and fortune to the too faithful wife of the
poor wig-maker of Leith.
The hero, however, of the Tolbooth, to modern readers, is Captain Porteous.’ The
mob that thundered at its ancient portal on the eventful night of the 7th September 1736,
and dashed through its blazing embers to drag forth the victim of their indignant revenge,
has cast into the shade all former acts of Lynch Law, for which the Edinburgh populace were
once so notorious. The skill with which the great novelist has interwoven the leading
acte of this striking act of popular vengeance, with the thrilling scenes of his beautiful
fiction, has done much to extend its fame, yet all the main features of the Porteous mob, as
related in the “Heart of Midlothian,” are strictly true, and owe their influence on the miud
of the reader less to the daring character of the act, than to the moderation and singleness
of purpose with which it was accomplished. This has tended to coufirm the belief that
the leaders of the mob were men of rank and influence, and although any evidence since
obtained seems rather to suggest a different opinion,’ most of the older citizens, who have
conversed in their youth with those who had witnessed that memorable tumult, adhere to
the idea then generally entertained, that the execution of Porteous was the act of men
moving in the higher ranks of society. We have been informed by a gentleman to whom
The following curious account of the attempt at escape by Robertson and Wilson, whose proceedings formed the
first act in the drama of the Porteous Mob, is given in the Caledonian Mwwry for April 12, 1736 :-“Friday
morning last, about two o’clock, the felons in the city jail made a grand attempt to escape ; for which purpose Ratcliff
and Stewart, horse-stealers, some time brought over from Aberbrothock, had dropt a pack-thread out of a window,
to the end of which their accomplices tied spring saws and some other accoutrements, wherewith Ratcliff and Stewart
cut through the great iron bars that secure a very thick window on the inside, and afterwards the cross grate in
the window ; .they then cut a large hole in the floor of their apartment, which is immediately over that wherein Robertson
and Wilson (condemned to suffer Wednesday next) lie; which last, in return for this friendly office, contributed
in the following manner to bring about their mutual escape, viz., Ratcliff and Stewart lay every night nailed to the
floor by a long iron bar fifteen inches round, the supporters whereof detain prisonera at the middle of the bar,
and are fastened with smaller iron bars passing through the floor to the apartnient below, fixed there with wedges
through eyes, which wedges being &ruck out by Robertson and Wilson, Ratcliff and Stewart had access to shift
themselves to the end of the bar and unlock it. Being thus disengaged, they hauled Robertson and Wilson up
through the hole, and then proceeded to break out at a window fronting the north ; and, lest the sentinel on duty
at the Purses ahould mar the design, their associates in woman-dress had knocked him down. Stewart accordingly
came down the three storeys by a rope, in his shirt, and escaped; Wilson essayed it next, but being a squat round
man, stuck in the grate, and before he could be disentangled, the guard waa alarmed. Nor was it possible for
the keepera to hear them at work; for whenever those in the upper apartment fell a sawing, they below sung
psalms. When they had done, Millar of Balmeroy, his wife, and daughter, tuned up another in their apartment, and so
forth.
‘6 Yesterday forenoon Robertson and Wilson were carried from prison to the Tolbooth Kirk, to hear their last sermon,
but were not well settled there when Wilson boldly attempted to break out, by wrenching himself out of the hands of
four armed soldiera Finding himself disappointed here, hia next care was to employ the soldiers till Robertson should
‘escape; this he effected by securing two of them in his arms ; and, after calling out, Geordie, do for thy E;fe 1 snatched
ho!d of a third with his teeth. Hereupon Robertson, after tripping up the fourth, jumped out of the seat, and run over
the tops of the pews with incredible agility, the audience opening a way for him sufficient to receive them both ; and in
hurrying out at the south gate of the church, he tumbled over the collection-money. Thence he reeled and staggered
through the Parliament Close, and got down to the New Stairs, and often tripped by the way, but had not time to fall,
some of the guard being close. after him. Passing down the Cowgate, he ran up the Horse Wynrl, and out at the Potterrow
Port, the crowd all the way covering his retreat, who, by this time were become so numeroug that it waa dangerous
for the guard to look after him. In the wynd he made up to a saddled horse, and would have mounted him, but
the gentleman to whom the horse belonged prevented him. Passing the Crosscauseway, he got into the King’s Park,
and took the Duddingston Road. Upon Robertson’s getting out of the church door, Wilson was immediately carried
out, without getting sermon, and put in close custody to prevent his escape, which the audience seemed much inclined
to favour. So that he must pay for all Wednesday next.”
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Restalrig.] LHL LA31 UP THE LOGANS. I35 -_7n T I?-
,
sible eyrie, Fast Castle, there to await the orders
of Elizabeth or the other conspirators as to the disposal
of his person.
Logan?s connection with this astounding treason
remained unknown till nine years after his death,
when the correspondence between him and the
Earl of Gowrie was discovered in possession of
Sprott, a notary at Eyemouth, who had stolen
them from a man named John Bain, to whom
they had been entrusted. Sprott was executed,
and Logan?s bones were brought into court to
havea sentence passed upon them, when it was
ordained ?that the memorie?and dignitie of the
said umqle Robert Logan be extiiict and abolisheit,?
his arms riven and deleted from all books
of arms and all his goods escheated.
The poor remains of the daring old conspirator,
were then retaken to the church of St. Mary at
Leith and re-interred j and during the alterations
in that edifice, in 1847, a coffin covered with the
richest purple velvet was found in a place where
no interment had taken place for years, and the
bones in it were supposed by antiquaries to be
those of the turbulent Logan, the last laird of
Restalrig.
His lands, in part, with the patronage of South
Leith, were afterwards bestowed upon James
Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino ; but the name still
lingered in Restalrig, as in 1613 we find that
John Logan a portioner there, was fined LI,OOO
for hearing mass at the Netherbow with James of
Jerusalem.
Logan was forfeited in 1609, but his lands had
been lost to him before his death, as Nether Gogar
was purchased from him in I 596, by Andrew Logan
of Coatfield, Restalrig in 1604 by Balmerino, who
was interred, in 1612, in thevaulted mausoleum beside
the church ; ?and the English army,? says
Scotstarvit, ? on their coming to Scotland, in 1650,
expecting to have found treasures in that place,
hearing that lead coffins were there, raised up his
body and threw it on the streets, because they
could get no advantage or money, when they expected
so much.?
In 1633 Charles I. passed through, or near,
Restalrig, on his way to the Lang Gate, prior to
entering the city by the West Port.
William Nisbet of Dirleton was entailed in the
lands of Restalrig in 1725, and after the attainder
and execution of her husband, Arthur Lord Balmerino,
in I 746, his widow-Elizzbeth, daughter
of a Captain Chalmers-constantly resided in the
village, and there she died on the 5th January, 1767.
Other persons of good position dwelt in the
village in those days; among them we may note
?
Sir James Campbell of Aberuehill, many years a
Commissioner of the Customs, who died there 13th
May, 1754, and was buried in the churchyard ; and
in 1764, Lady Katharine Gordon, eldest daughter
of the Earl of Aboyne, whose demise there is
recorded in the first volume of the Edinburgh
Adverhjer.
Lord Alemoor, whose town house was in Niddry?s
Wynd, was resident at Hawkhill, where he died in
1776 ; and five years before that period the village
was the scene of great festal rejoicings, when
Patrick Macdowal of Freugh, fifth Earl of Dumfries,
was married to Miss Peggy Crawford, daughter of
Ronald Crawford, Esq., of Restalng.?
From Peter Williamson?s Directory it appears
that Restalrig was the residence, in 1784, of Alexander
Lockhart, the famous Lord Covington. In
the same year a man named James Tytler, who had
ascended in a balloon from the adjacent Comely
Gardens, had a narrow escape in this quarter. He
was a poor man, who supported himself and his
family by the use of his pen, and he conceived the
idea of going up in a balloon on the Montgolfier
principle ; but finding that he could not carry a firestove
with him, in his desperation and disappointment
he sprang into his car with no other sustaining
power than a common crate used for packing
earthenware; thus his balloon came suddenly
down in the road near Restalrig. For a wonder
Tytler was uninjured; and though he did not
reach a greater altitude than three hundred feet,
nor traverse a greater distance than half a mile, yet
his name must ever be mentioned as that of the
first Briton who ascended with a balloon, and who
was the first man who so ascended in Britain.?
It is impossible to forget that the pretty village,
latterly famous chiefly as a place for tea-gardens
and strawbemy-parties, was, in the middle of the
last century, the scene of some of the privations
of the college life of the fine old Rector Adam of
the High School, author of ?Roman Antiquities,?
and other classical works. In 1758 he lodged
there in the house of a Mr. Watson, and afterwards
with a gardener. The latter, says Adam, in some
of his MS. memoranda (quoted by Dr. Steven),
was a Seceder, a very industrious man, who had
family worship punctually morning and evening,
in which I cordially joined, and alternately said
prayers. After breakfast I went to town to attend
my classes and my private pupils. For dinner I
had three small coarse loaves called baps, which I
got for a penny-farthing. As I was now always
dressed in my best clothes, I was ashamed to buy
these from a baker in the street. I therefore went
down to a baker?s in the middle of a close. I put ... LHL LA31 UP THE LOGANS. I35 -_7n T I?- , sible eyrie, Fast Castle, there to await the orders of ...

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Parliament House.] THE COURT
It has been said-with what truth it is impossible
to tell-that, when Cromwell appointed.
eleven Commissioners (three of whom were Eng-
4ishmen) for the administration of justice at Edinburgh,
their decisions were most impartial ; and,
on hearing them lauded after the Restoration had
-replaced the old lords on the Bench, the Presi-
.dent, Gilmour of Craigmillar, said, angrily, ?? Deil
thank them-a wheen Kinless loons ! The grave
=of one of these Englishmen, George Smith, was
-
long pointed out in the abbey church, where
he was buried by torchlight in 1657. (Lamont?s
So far down as 1737 traces of bribery and in-
?fluence in the Court are to be found, and proof
,of this is given in the curious and rare book
named the ?? Court of Session Garland.?
In a lawsuit, pending 23rd November, 1735,
?Thomas Gibson of Dune, agent for Foulis of
?Woodhall, writes to his employer thus :-? I have
spoken to Strachan, and several of the lords, who
are all surprised Sir F. (Francis Kinloch, Bart., of
Gilmerton) should stand that plea. By Lord St.
Clair?s advice, Mrs. Kinloch is to wait on Lady
Caunie to-morrow, to cause her to ask the favour
Diary).
OF SESSION. 169
of Lady St. Clair to solicit Lady Betty Elphingston
(Elizabeth Primrose of Carrington) and Lady
Dun. My lord proniises to back his lady, and
to ply both their lords ; also Leven and his cousin
Murkle (a Lord of Session in 1733). He is your
good friend, and wishes success; he is jealous
Mrs. Mackie will side with her cousin Beattie. St.
Clair says Leven has only once gone wrong upon
his Rand since he was a Lord of Session. Mrs.
Kinloch has been with Miss Pringle, NewhalL
Young Dr. Pringle is a good agent there, and
discourses Lord Newhall strongCy an the law of
Lord Newhall was Sir Walter Pnngle, Knight,
son of the Laird of Stitchill, Lord of Session in
1718. But such would seem to have been the
influences that were used to obtain decisions in
the olden time; and, before quitting the subject of
the Parliament House we may recall a few of the
most notable senators, the memory of whose names
still lingers there.
The most distinguished lawyer of the seventeenth
century was undoubtedly Sir John Lauder,
Lord Fountainhall, son of a bailie of Edinburgh.
He was born there in 1646 ; and, after being at
nature.? b
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364 OLD .AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriot?s Hospital.
as being in the vicinity of St. Giles?s church. There
he acquired an extensive connection as a goldsmith
and money-lender, and soon recommended
himself to the notice of his sovereign, by whom
he was constituted, as Birrel records, on the 17th
of July, goldsmith to his consort the gay Queen
Anne, which ?was intimat at the crosse, be opin
proclamatione and sound of trumpet ; and ane Clic,
the Frenchman, dischargit, quha-was the Queen?s
Goldsmythe befor.?
Anne - was extravagant, fond of jewellery and
splendour, thus never had tradesman a better ~ustomer.
She ioved ornaments for the decoration of
her own person, and as presents to others, and when
desirous of procuring money, it was no uncommon
..
banker. On the 28th of May, 1588, he ,;as admitted
a member of the corporation of Goldsmiths.
The first material notice of George Heriot is
connected with his marriage, when his father furnished
him with the means of starting in business,
by ?ye setting up of ane buith to him.? In all he
received from his father, and the relations of his
wife-Christian, daughter of Sirnon Marjoribanks,
burgessof Edinburgh-asum ofabout Az 14 I IS. 8d.
sterling, and the buith we have noticed already
~50,000 sterling-an eaornous sxm for those
days.
Imitating the extravagance of the Court, the
nobles vied with each other in their adornment
with precious jewels, many of which found theh
way back again to ? Jingling Geordie;? and Anne?s
want of discretion and foresight is shown in one
of her letters found by Dr. Steven, when she
lacked money, on the occasion of having to pay
a humed visit to her son the Duke of Rothesay
and Crown Prince of Scotland, at Stirling :-
?GECJRDG HERIOTT, I ernestlie dissyr youe present tc
send me twa hundrethe pundis vithe ail expidition becaus.1
man hest me away presentlie.?
When James became king of England, Heriot
ANNA R.?
thing for her to pledge the most precious of her
jewels with Heriot, and James was often at his wits?
end to redeem the impledged articles, to enable the
queen to appear in public
On the 4th of April, 16or, Heriot was appointed
jeweller to the king, and it has been computed,
says Dr. Steven, that during the ten years which
immediately preceded the accession of James to the
Crown of Great Britain, Heriot?s bills for Queen
Anne?s jewels alone did not amount to less thao ... OLD .AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Heriot?s Hospital. as being in the vicinity of St. Giles?s church. There he acquired ...

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336 B I0 GR A P H I C A L S K ET C 13 E S.
In thus witnessing the accomplishment of an object so dear to his heart,
and the gratitude with which the boon was received, the joy experienced by
Mr. M'Donald may be more easily conceived than described. In his Journal
he thus closes his remarks :-'' I have only to say, in conclusion, that my mind
is now relieved from a burden regarding St. Kilda. The inhabitants are provided
with a pastor, who will dispense the word of life to them, and guide their
feet in the paths of peace. I
may never see them ; but I shall never cease to pray for them. And may He
who 'holds the seven stars in his right hand, and walks among the golden
candlesticks,' preserve pastor and people, walk among them, and render them
permanent blessings to each other."
After the translation of Mr. M'Donald to Ross-shire, he generally revisited
Edinburgh at least once a year, on the sacramental occasion, where he was
eagerly welcomed by those who sat under his ministrations while he officiated as
pastor of the Gaelic Chapel, thus affording an honourable testimony to his worth.
He was twice married-first to Miss Georgina Ross, of Gladfield, Ross-shire,
who died in 1814, and by whom he had two sons and a daughter ; secondly, to
Miss Janet M'Kenzie, daughter of Kenneth Al'Kenzie, Esq. of Millbank,
Ross-shire, by whom he had five children, two daughters and three sons.
His eldest son, by the first marriage, was some time pastor of Chadwell Scots
Church, London ; but, devoting himself to the conversion of the heathen,
he went to India, as a missionary, on the General Assembly's Scheme. .
And in this I have got my wish accomplished.
No. CCLXXXII.
LORD CULLEN,
ONE OF THE SENATOFE4 OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE.
ROBERT CULLEN, Esq., was the eldest son of the celebrated Dr. William
Cullen. He studied at the University of this city, and was admitted a member
of the Faculty of Advocates on the 15th of December 1764. On the death of
Lord Alva, in 1796, he was raised to the bench; and, in 1799, succeeded
Lord Swinton as a Lord of Justiciary.
In addition to his
legal knowledge, which was considerable, he was distinguished as an acute and
logical reasoner. His written pleadings were remarkable for neatness and
elegance of composition-a circumstance attributable to his literary acquirements
and highly cultivated mind. He was a contributor to the Mirror and Lounger ;
and the various essays from his pen have been much admired. His manners
were polished and courteous ; and he possessed a happy gaiety of spirit, which
rendered his company peculiarly attractive. He was one of the few individuals
The practice of Lord Cullen as a barrister was extensive, ... B I0 GR A P H I C A L S K ET C 13 E S. In thus witnessing the accomplishment of an object so dear to his ...

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Since on her dusky summit ranged,
Within its steepy limits pent
By bulwark, line, and battlement,
And flanking towem and laky flood,
Guarded and garrisoned, she stood,
Denying entrance or resort,
Save at each tall embattled port ;
Above whose arch suspended hung
Portcullis, spiked with iron prong,
That long is gone ; but not so long,
U
tains above 24,000 volumes of standard works in
every department of literature and science j and
there is bne of reference, kept in a separate department,
consisting of a valuable collection of encyclopzdias,
geographical, biographical, and scientific
dictionaries, atlases, statistical tables, &c., which
are at all times available to the numerous members
on application.
THE MUSIC HALL,
Since early closed, and opening late,
Jealous revolved the studded gate,
Whose task from eve to morning tide
A wicket churlishly supplied.
Stem then and steel-girt was thy brow,
Dun-Edin ! Oh, how altered now !
When safe amid thy mountain court
Thou sitt'st like empress at her sport,
And liberal, unconfined, and free,
Flinging #icy white m s #o the sm !
Near the east end of Queen Street is the Philosophical
Institution, the late president of which was
Thomas Carlyle. It was founded'in 1848. Here
lectures are delivered on all manner of. scientific
and literary subjects. The programme ef these
for a session averages about thirty subjects. There
are a library, reading-room, news-room, and ladies' I
GEORGE STREET
Classes for Latin, French, German, drawing of
all kinds, mathematics, shorthand, writing, arithmetic,
fencing, and gymnastics, are open on
very moderate terms; and the members of the
Edinburgh Chess Club, who must also be members
of the Philosophical Institution, meet in one of
the apartments, which is open for their use from
11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Adjoining this edifice were the offices of the
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
No. 8 Queen Street was built and occupied by
Chief Baron Orde of the Scottish Exchequer, and
in size considerably exceeds and excels the other
houses in its vicinity. Baron Orde, whose
daughter Elizabeth became the second wife of
Lord Braxfield, died in I 777, and was succeeded in ... on her dusky summit ranged, Within its steepy limits pent By bulwark, line, and battlement, And flanking ...

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Castle Terrace.] THE UNION CANAL 215
newest mechanical appliances, including hydraulic
machinery for shifting the larger scenes. The
proscenium was 32 feet wide by 32 feet in height,
with an availabie width behind of 74 feet, expanding
backwards to 114 feet.
The lighting was achieved ?by a central sunlight
and lamps hung on the partition walls. The ventilation
was admirable, and the temperature was
regulated by steam-pipes throughout the house.
But the career of this fine edifice as a theatre
was very brief, and proved how inadequate Edinburgh
is, from the peculiar tastes and wishes of
its people, to supply audiences for more than two
or three such places of entertainment. It speedily
proved a failure, and being in the inarket was
purchased by the members of the United Presbyterian
Church, who converted it into a theological
hall, suited for an audience of 2,ooo in all.
The total cost of the building to the denomination,
including the purchase of the theatre, amounted
to ~47,000. Two flats under the street $oor are
fitted up as fireproof stores, which will cover in all
an area of 3,500 square yards.
In connection with this defunct theatre it was
proposed to have a winter garden and aquarium.
Near it the eye is arrested by a vast pile of new
buildings, fantastic and unique in design and
detail, the architect of which has certainly been
fortunate, at least, in striking out something
original, if almost indescribable, in domestic architecture.
Free St. Cuthbert?s Church is in Spittal Street,
which is named from Provost Sir James Spittal,
and is terminated by the King?s Bridge at the base
of the Castle Rock.
All this area of ground and that lying a little
to the westward have the general name of the
Castle Barns, a designation still preserved in a
little street near Port Hopetoun. A map of the
suburbs, in 1798, shows Castle Barns to be an
isolated hamlet or double row of houses on Lhe
Falkirk Road, distant about 250 yards from the
little pavilion-roofed villa still standing at the Main
Point. Maitland alleges that somewhere thereabout
an ediiice was erected for the accommodation
of the royal retinue when the king resided
in the Castle; and perhaps such may have been
the case, but the name implies its having been
the grange or farm attached to the fortress, and
this idea is confirmed by early maps, when a considerable
portion of the ground now lying on both
sides of the Lothian Road is included under the
general term.
On the plateau at the head of the latter, bordered
on the south-east by the ancient way to Fountainbridge,
stands one of the most hideous features
of Edinburgh-the Canal Basinl with its surrounding
stores and offices. 8
In 1817 an Act of Parliament was procured,
giving power to a joint stock company to cut a
a canal from Edinburgh to the Forth and Clyde
Canal at a point about four miles before the communication
of the latter with the Forth. The canal
was begun in the following year and completed in
1822. The chief objects of it were the transmission
of heavy goods and the conveyance of passengers
between the capital and Glasgow-a system long
since abandoned ; the importation to the former
of large coal supplies from places to the *estward,
and the exportation of manure from the city into
agricultural districts. The eastern termination,
calledPort Hopetoun, occasioned the rapid erect;on
of a somewhat important suburb, where before there
stood only a few scattered houses surrounded by
fields and groves of pretty trees; but the canal,
though a considerable benefit to the city in prerailway
times, has drained a great deal of money
from its shareholders.
Though opened in 182, the canal was considerably
advanced in the year preceding. In the
Week0 Journd for November 7, 1821, we read
that ?from the present state of the works, the
shortening of the days, and the probability of being
retarded by the weather, it seems scarcely possible
that the trade of this navigation can be opened up
sooner than the second month of spring, which
will be exactly four years from its commencement.
Much has been done within the last few months
on the west end of the line, while at the east end
the forming of the basin, which is now ready to
receive the water, together with the numerous
bridges necessary in the first quarter of a mile, have
required great attention. , Of the passage boats
building at the west end of Lochrin distillery, two
of which we mentioned some time ago as being
in a forward state, one is now completed ; she is
in every respect an elegant and comfortable vessel,
and is called the FZoora Mac Ivor; the second is
considerably advanced, and a third boat after the
same model as the others is commenced building.?
In the same (now defunct) periodical, for 1st
January, 1822, we learn that the RZora, ?the first
of the Union Canal Company?s passage boats, was
yesterday launched from the company?s building
yard, at the back of Gilmore Place.?
One of the best features of street architecture
that sprung up in this quarter after the formation
of the canal was Gardiner?s Crescent., with its
chapel, which was purchased from the United
Secession Congregation by the Kirk Session of St. ... Terrace.] THE UNION CANAL 215 newest mechanical appliances, including hydraulic machinery for shifting the ...

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424 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
No. CLXVII.
MR. JAMES RAE, DR. WILLIAM LAING,
AND
DR. JAMES .HAY.
MR JAMES RAE, the first figure to the left, was born in 1716, and
was descended of a family of long standing as landed proprietors in Stirlingshire.
Having been educated for the medical profession, he entered the Incorporation
of Surgeons in 1747, and was Deacon during the years 1764-5.
Mr. Rae was considered a talented and experienced surgeon, and as such
was in extensive and respectable practice. He obtained much reputation as
a dentist, and was among the first (if not the very first) in Edinburgh, to
rescue that department from the ignorant and unskilful hands in which it was
then placed. He occasionally gave private lectures on the diseases of the
teeth.
About the year 1766, Mr. Rae began delivering a course of general lectures
on surgery, and after having continued these for some time, in 1769 he was
requested by the students ta deliver Practical Lectures on the Surgical Cases
in the Royal Infirmary, which request being highly approved of, both by the
Incorporation of Surgeons and by the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, he
conducted two separate courses of lectures for a period of several years. He
had thus the merit of becoming the founder of that branch of surgical teaching-
Clinical Lectures-which has been found so useful in giving a practical
knowledge of the science, and for which an academical chair has been provided
in the University of Edinburgh, and in many other schools of medicine.
Mr. Rae married, about the year 1742, a daughter of Cant of Thurston, in
East-Lothian, a very old and respectable family,$ormerly Cant of Giles's Grange,
(now the property of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder). He died in 1791, leaving
one son, the late Mr. John Rae, and three daughters, all of whom were married.'
The house in which Mr. Rae lived at the Castle Hill, is the large land with an arched entry,
immediately opposite the water-house. It was built of stones from the North Loch, by Dr. Webster,
minister of the Old Tolbooth Church-after whose death the pl'emisea were occupied as Hogg's
banking-office-then by Mr. Rae-and, in 1794, purchased from that gentleman's executors by the
Society of Antiquaries. From this period till 1813, the house continued to be occupied by the
Society for their mueum, and as the residence of their Secretary, Mr. A. Smellie. Previous to his
removal to the Castle Hill, Mr. Rse resided in a house at the head of the Old Fleshmarket Close,
now occupied by a pawnbroker, ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. No. CLXVII. MR. JAMES RAE, DR. WILLIAM LAING, AND DR. JAMES .HAY. MR JAMES RAE, the ...

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Restalrig.] ST. MARGARET?S WELL. 129
By the south side of what was once an old forest
path when the oaks of Drumsheugh were in all their
glory, there stood St. Margaret?s Well, the entire
edifice of which was removed to the Royal Park,
near Holyrood ; but the pure spring, deemed so
holy as to be the object of pilgrimages in the days
of old, still oozes into the fetid marsh close by.
It was no doubt the source of supply to the
ancient ecclesiastics of the village, and the path
alluded to had become in after times a means of
The structure-for elsewhere it still remains intact
-is octagonal, and entered by a pointed Gothic
doorway, and rises to the height of 4 ft. 6 in. It
is of plain ashlar work, with a stone ledge or seat
running round seven of the sides. From the centre
of the water, which fills the entire floor of the
building, rises a decorated pillar to the same height
as the walls, with grotesque gargoyles, from which
the liquid flows. Above this springs a richly
groined roof, ? presenting, with the ribs that rise
RESTALRIG.
communication between the church there and the
Abbey of Holyrood.
No authentic traces can be found of the history
of this consecrated fountain ; ? but from its name,?
says Billings, ?? it appears to have been dedicated
to the Scottish queen and saint, Margaret, wife of
Malcolm 111.?
In the legend which we have already referred
to in our account of Holyrood, which represents
David I. as being miraculously preserved from the
infuriated white hart, Bellenden records that it
?fled away with gret violence, and evanist in the
same place quhere now springs the Rude Well.?
From its vicinity to the abbey, St. Margaret?s has
been conjectured to be the well referred to.
113
from the corresponding corbels at each of the eight
angles of the building, a singularly rich effect when
illuminated by the reflected light from the water
below.?
When this most picturesque fountain stood in an
unchanged condition by the side of the old winding
path to Restalrig, an ancient elder-tree, With furrowed
and gnarled branches, covered all its grassgrown
top, and a tiny but aged thatched cottage
stood in front of it. Then, too, a mossy bank, rising
out of pleasant meadow land, protected the little
pillared cell; but the inexorable march of modem improvement
came, the old tree and the rustic cottage
were swept away, and the well itselfwas buried under
(See Vol. II., page 311.)
. a hideous station of the North British Railway. ... ST. MARGARET?S WELL. 129 By the south side of what was once an old forest path when the oaks of ...

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West PGrt.1 THE LAWSONS. 22;
of Cromwell, expelled the General Assembly from
Edinburgh, literally drumming the members out at
that gate, under a guard of soldiers, after a severe
reprimand, and ordering that never more than three
of them should meet together.
Marion Purdy, a miserable old creature, ? once
a milkwife and now a beggar,? in the West Port,
was apprehended in 1684 on a charge of witchcraft,
for ?laying frenzies and diseases on her
neighbours,? says Fountainhall ; but the King?s
Advocate failed to bring her to the stake, and she
was permitted to perish of cold and starvation in
prison about the Christmas of the same year.
Five years subsequently saw the right hand of
Chieslie, the assassin of Lockhart, placed above the
gate, probably on a spike ; and in the street close
by, on the 5th September, 1695, Patrick Falconar,
a soldier of Lord Lindsay?s regiment, was murdered
by George Cumming, a writer in Edinburgh,
who deliberately ran him through the body with
his sword, for which he was sentenced to be
hanged and have his estates forfeited. From the
trial, it appears that Cumming was much to blame,
and had previously provoked the unoffending soldier
by abusive language.
The tolls collected at the West Port barrier in
1690 amounted to A105 11s. Iid. sterling.
(Council Register.)
In the year of the Union the Quakers would
seem to have had a meeting-house somewhere in
the West Port, as would appear from a dispute
recorded by Fountainhall-? Poor Barbara Hodge ?
against Bartholoniew Gibson, the king?s farrier,
and William Millar, the hereditary gardener of
Holyrood.
On the south side of this ancient burgh, in an
opening of somewhat recent formation, leading to
Lauriston, the Jesuits have now a very large
church, dedicated to ?The Sacred Heart,? and
Capable of holding more than 1,000 hearers. It is
in the form of a great lecture hall rather than a
church, and was erected in 1860, by permission
of the Catholic Bishop Gillis, in such a form,
that if ever the order was suppressed in Scotland
the edifice might be used for educational
purposes. Herein is preserved a famous image
that once belonged to Holyrood, but was lately
discovered by E. Waterton, F.S.A., in a shop at
Peterborough.
Almost opposite to it, and at the northern corner
of the street, stood for ages the then mansion house
of the Lawsons of the Highriggs, which was demolished
in 1877, and was undoubtedly one of the
oldest, if not the very oldest, houses in the city.
When built in the fifteenth century it must have
(Crim. Trials.)
been quite isolated. It had crowstepped gables,
dormers on the roofs, and remarkably small
windows.
. It was the residence of an old baronial family,
long and intimately connected with the city.
?? Mr. Richard Lawson,? says Scott of Scotstarvet,
?Justice Clerk, conquest a good estate about Edinburgh,
near the Burrow Loch, and the barony of
Boighall, which his grandson, Sir William Lawson
of Boighall, dilapidated, and went to Holland to
the wars.? He was Justice Clerk in the time oi
James IV., from 1491 to 1505.
In 1482 his name first appears in the burgh
records as common clerk or recorder, when Sir
John Murray of Tulchad was Provost, a post which
the former obtained on the 2nd May, 1492. He
was a bailie of the city in the year 1501, and Provost
again in 1504. Whether he was the Richard
Lawson who, according to Pitscottie, heard the
infernal summons of Pluto at the Market Cross
before the army marched to Flodden we know not,
but among those who perished on that fatal field
with King James was Richard Lawson of the
Highriggs ; and it was his daughter whose beauty
led to the rivalry and fierce combat in Leith Loan
between Squire Meldrum of the Binns and Sir
Lewis Stirling, in 1516,
In 1555 we find John Lawson of the Highriggs
complaining to the magistrates that the water ot
the burgh loch had overflowed and (? drownit ane
greit pairt of his land,? and that he could get no
remedy therefor.
Lady Lawson?s Wynd, now almost entirely
demolished, takes its name from this family. The
City Improvement Trustees determined to form it
into a wide thoroughfare, running into Spittal Street.
In one of the last remaining houses there died, in
his 95th year, in June, 1879, a naval veteran named
M?Hardy, supposed to be the last survivor of the
actual crew of the Victory at Trafalgar. He was
on the main-deck when Nelson received his fatal
wound.
One of the oldest houses here was the abode of
John Lowrie, a substantial citizen, above whose
door was the legend-SoLr DEO. H.G. 1565, and a
shield charged with a pot of lilies, the emblems of
the Virgin Mary. ?John. Lowrie?s initials,? says
Wilson, ? are repeated in ornamental characters on
the eastern crowstep, separated by what appears
to be designed for a baker?s peel, and probably
indicating that its owner belonged to the ancient
fraternity of Baxters.?
The West Port has long been degraded by the
character of its inhabitants, usually Irish of the
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James IV., while preparing for his fatal invasion
rn 1513, went daily to the Castle to inspect and
prove his artillery, and by the bursting of one of
them he narrowly escaped a terrible death, like
that by which his grandfather, James II., perished
at Roxburgh. ? The seven sisters of Borthwick,?
referred to by Scott in ?Marmion,? were captured,
with the rest of the Scottish train, at Flodden,
where the Earl of Surrey, when he saw them, said
there were no cannon so beautiful in the arsenals
of King Henry,
-.
After the accession of James V,, the Castle was ,
THE BLUE BLANKET, OR STAXDARD OF THE INCORPORATED TRADES OF EDINBURGH.
(From #he T Y ~ S ? Maiden?s HosjiiaZ, RiZZbank.)
named the Forge and Gun Houses, Lower Ammunition
House, the Register and Jewel Houses,
the Kitchen Tower, and Royal Lodging, containing
the great hall (now a hospital). Westward
were the Butts, still ?so-called, where archery was
practised. There were, and are still, several deep
wells ; and one at the base of the rock to the
northward, in a vault of the Well-house Tower,
between the west angle of which and the rock was
an iron gate defended by loopholes closing the
path that led to St. Cuthbert?s church, A massive
rampart and two circular bastions washed by the
improved by the skill of the royal architect, Sir
James Hamilton of Finnart, and greatly strengthened
; but its aspect was very different from that
which it bears now.
The entire summit of ~e stupendous rock was
crowned by a lofty wall, connecting a series of
round or square towers, defended by about thirty
pieces of cannon, called ? chambers,? which were
removed in 1540. Cut-throats, iron slangs, and
arquebuses, defended the parapets. Two tall edifices,
the Peel and Constable?s Towers connected
by a curtain, faced the city, overlooking the Spur,
a vast triangular ravelin, a species of lower castle
that covered all the summit of the hill. Its walls
were twenty feet high, turreted at the angles, and
armed with cannon. The Constable?s Tower was
fifty feet high. Wallace?s Tower, a little. below it,
defended the portcullis. St. Margaret?s Tower and
David?s we have already referred to. The others
that abutted 00 the rocks were respectively
Flodden on the 9th of September, 1513, caused
a consternation in Edinburgh unusual even in
those days of war and tumult. The wail that
went through the streets is still remembered in ... IV., while preparing for his fatal invasion rn 1513, went daily to the Castle to inspect and prove his ...

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 333
No. cxxxv.
REV. ROWLAND HILL, A.M.,
DELIVERING ONE OF HIS SERMONS ON THE CALTON HILL,
THIS popular preacher visited Scotland for the first time in 1'798. He
came at the solicitation of a few zealous individuals, who having engaged the
Circus for a place of worship, similar in principle to the Tabernacle of London,
were desirous that he should open it for them. Mr. Hill arrived in Edinburgh
on the 28th July, and was received with the utmost attention by Mr. James
Haldane, at his house in George Street. Next morning being Sabbath, he
delivered a discourse in the Circus to an audience of several hundred people ;
and at night the house was filled to overflowing. During the two weeks he
remained in Edinburgh, he preached every other day in some of the churches ;
but the crowds became so immense that he was at last induced to hold forth
from a platform erected on the Calton Hill, where his audience was reckoned
at not less than ten thousand. The interest excited by his presence is said
to have been beyond precedent-" Even the vera sodgers," observed an old
woman, on seeing a party of military among the crowd, " are gaun to hear the
preachin'."
On the 1 Sth of August, Mr. Hill proceeded to Glasgow, and arrived there
in the evening in time to deliver a sermon in the churchyard of the High
Church, to an assemblage of nearly five thousand. Next morning he again
preached in the same place-and from thence went to Paisley, where he was
highly gratified with his reception. In speaking of the people of Paisley, he
says in his journal, " there I believe Christians love each other."
Returning from the west, he again preached several times on the Calton Hill
to increased audiences. On the last of these occasions, when a collection was
made for the Charity Workhouse, it was supposed that more than twenty
thousand people were present. During his stay he was made a welcome guest
at Melville House.'
The great excitement occasioned by Mr. Hill's visit, and the subsequent
The facetious manner and great convenational powers possessed by the Rev. Rowland 3ill were
much relished by those who had the pleasure of meeting him in private circles during his stay in
Edinburgh. A geutleman, who had then formed a alight acquaintance with Mr. Hill, happened to
breakfast with him at Leicester a great many years afterwards. The subject of converaatiin naturally
tumed upon his visits to Scotland, and the multitudes to whom he had preached on the Calton
Hill. "Well do I remember the spot," said the Reverend gentleman, with his usual pleasantry, " but
I understand it has since been converted into a dei4 of thieved/" [The jail is built on the ground
where the Rev. Rowland Hill preached.] ... SKETCHES. 333 No. cxxxv. REV. ROWLAND HILL, A.M., DELIVERING ONE OF HIS SERMONS ON THE CALTON ...

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?-a --It OLD AND? NEW EDINBURGH. [High Street,
Baron of the Exchequer Court in 1748, and grandson
of James of Balumby, fourth Earl of Panmure,
who fought with much heroic valour at the battle
of Dunblane, and was attainted in 171s.
The spacious stone mansion which he occupied
at the foot of the close, and the north windows of
which overlooked the steep slope towards the
Trinity Church, and the then bare, bleak mass of
the Calton Hill beyond, was afterwards acquired
as an office and hall by the Society for the Propagation
of Christian Knowledge and the Plantation
of Schools in the Highlands ?for the rooting out
of the errors of popery and converting of foreign
nations,?? a mighty undertakiog, for which a charter
was given it by Queen Anne in 1709. Thus the
alley came to be called by its last name, Society
Close.
Such were the immediate surroundings of that
old manse, in which John Knox received the
messengers of his queen, the fierce nobles of her
turbulent Court, and the Lords of the Congregation.
It is to the credit of the Free Church of Scotland,
which has long since acquired it as a piece of
property, that the progress of decay has been
arrested, and some traces of its old magnificence
restored. A wonderfully picturesque building of
three storeys above the ground floor, it abuts on the
narrowed street, and is of substantial ashlar, terminating
in curious gables and masses of chimneys.
A long admonitory inscription, extending over
nearly the whole front, carved on a stone belt,
bears these words in bold Roman letters :-LUFE
GOD. ABOVE. AL. AND. YOVR. NICHTBOUR . A S . YI
SELF. Perched upon the corner above the
entrance door is a small and hideous effigy of the
Reformer preaching in a pulpit, and pointing with
his right hand above his head towards a rude
sculpture of the sun bursting out from amid clouds,
with the name of the Deity inscribed in three
languages on its disc, thus :-
8 E O Z
D L U S
G O D
On the decoration of the efligy the pious care of
successive generations of tenants has been expended
with a zeal not always appreciated by
people of taste. The house contains a hall, the
stuccoed ceiling of which pertains to the time of
Charles II., when perhaps the building was repaired.
M?Crie, in his Life of Knox, tells us, that the
latter, on commencing his duties in Edinburgh
in 1559, when the struggles of the Reformation
were well nigh over, was lodged in the house of
David Forrest, a citizen, after which he removed
permanently to the house previously occupied by
the exiled abbot of Dunfermline. The magisS
trates gave him a salary of Azoo Scots yearly, and
in 1561 ordered the Dean of Guild to make him B
warm study in the house built of ?? dailles ?-i.e., to
be wainscoted or panelled.
This is supposed to be the small projection,
lighted by one long window, looking westward up
the entire length of the High Street ; and adjoining
it on the first floor is a window in an angle of the
house, from which he is said to have held forth to
the people in the street below, and which is still
termed ? the preaching window.?
In this house he doubtless composed the ?? Confession
of Faith ? and the ? First Book of Discipline,?
in which, at least, he had a principal haad,
and which were duly ratified by Parliament j and
it was during the first year of his abode in this
house that he lost his first wife, Marjory Bowes
(daughter of an English border family), whom he
had married when an exile, a woman of amiable
disposition and pious deportment, but whose
portrait at Streatlam Castle, Northumberland, is
remarkable chiefly for its intense ugliness. She
was with him in all his wanderings at home and
abroad, and regarding her John Calvin thus expresses
himself in a letter to the widower:-
?? Uxu~em nactus uas cui non rgeriuntur passim
siivziZes?--?you had a wife the like of whom is not
anywhere to be found.? By her he had two sons.
Four years after her death, to this mansion,
when in his fifty-ninth year, he brought his second
Wife, Margaret Stewart, the youngest daughter of
Andrew, ?the good? Lord Ochiltree, who, after
his death, mamed Sir Andrew Kerr of Faudonside.
By his enemies it was now openly alleged that
he must have gained the young girl?s affections by
the black art and the aid of the devil, whom he
raised for that purpose in the yard behind his
house. In that curious work entitled ?? The Disputation
concerning the Controversit Headdis of
Religion,? Nicol Bume, the author, relates that
KIIOX, on the occasion of his marriage, went to the
Lord Ochiltree with many attendants, ?on a.ne
trim gelding, nocht lyk ane prophet or ane auld
decrepit priest as he was, bot lyk as had been ane
of the Elude Royal, with his bands of taffettie
feschnit With golden ringis and precious stones ;
and, as is plainlie reportit in the countrey, be
sorcerie and witchcraft did sua allure that puu
gentilwoman, that scho could not leve without
him? Another of Knox?s traducers asserts, that
not long after his marriage, ?she (his wife) lying
in bed and perceiving a blak, uglie ill-favoured man
(the devil, of course) busily talking with him in the+
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