... Castle Hill,? says Dr. Chambers, ? is partly ?
an esplanade, serving as a parade ground for the
garrison, and ...
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... STUARTS TO THE DEATH OF JAMES 111. 15
age was exercised to devise more novel and exquisite tortures to satisfy ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
Queen’ Mary had ever been present at the Assembly of the Estates, and its ...
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... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
continued with great spirit till near two in the morning, when the company sat down to a ...
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... MEMORIAL$ OF BDINBURGH.
we have now to describe, is understood to be still standing in the nether regions of ...
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... SKETCHES. i l
The foreign correspondence of Sir John was extensive. The fame of his
works, and the ...
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... VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. 85
when the siege commenced, and all further supplies were then completely ...
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... SKETCHES. 299
He was also connected with several literary and theological societies formed
among his ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
buildings often before used as a royal residence, and in one of the apartments of ...
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... HIGH STREET. 237
well-known landscape painter,’ and among his subjects may be mentioned the ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
marched under a white banner, on which was painted a female kneeling before a ...
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... l? TO ABDICATION OF QUEEN MARK 59
This year also is the period of John Knox's return to Scotland. On ...
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... VI. TO RESTORATION OF CHARLES II. 93
Memyss, his next door neighbonr, who sent a party of servants to his ...
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![BATTLE OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF JAMES V. 41
address and vigour, and with only two attendants, made his escape from t.he Douglas faction,
at Falkland, to Stirling Castle. Shortly after this, he repaired to Edinburgh, whither he
summoned his barons to advise with him, and, with a degree of decision far beyond his
years, proceeded to assert his own independence and authority. One of the acts of this
Parliament against them, “ quha cummis and burnis folkes in their howis,”’ exhibits in no
very pleasing light the rude violence prevailing at the period.
The year 1530 is assigned as the date of Lindsay’s famous satire, The Complaint of
the Papingo,’ which may be regarded as the first note of the reforming movement by him,
of whom Pinkerton has said, ‘‘ In fact, Sir David was more the reformer of Scotland than
John Knox ; for he had prepared the pound, and John only sowed the seed” The farewell
of the papingo to the capital is couched in terms the more flattering, as coming
from so keen 8 sathi&,-
“ Adew Edinburgh, thou heich triumphand toun,
Within quhose boundia, richt blgthful have I bene,
Of trew merchandin, the rute of thie regioun,
Most reddy to resaave Court, King, and Queue;
Thy policie, and justice, may be sene,
Were devotioun, wysedom, and honestie,
And credence, tint, they micht be found in thee.”
Various notices occurring ahout this period, exhibit the first symptoms of the reforming
doctrines showing themselves in the capital, e.g., in the Diurnal of Occurrents for 1532,
“ In this zeir was ane greit objuratioun of the favouraris of Mertene Lutar, in the Abbay
of Halymdhous.” About the same period, it records the destruction of nearly the whole
town by an accidental fire. This same year, the nobles assembled at Edinburgh, at the
King’s summons, with their followers, to the number of twelve thousand, for the famous
hunting match, in which Johnnie Armstrong, the Border reiver, renowned in song and
story, was hanged, ‘( to daunton the theives of Tividaill and Annandaill.”
Notice has already been taken of Dunbar’s allusions to the Court of Session, in the
former reign, but now, in 1537, the King instituted the College of Justice, and established
the Court on a pernianent footing, with the confirmation of Pope Clement VII.
This event is one of the most important in the history of Edinburgh, on which, from that
time, both its prosperity and its metropolitan claims have more depended than on any occurrence
in its history ; and which, from the aecurity and the ready means of redress it afforded
to the inhabitants against the turbulent nobles of the period, made the town a place of
greater resort than it had ever before been.
The King now, with that self-reliance and energy that marked his entire character, after
negotiating for the hand of various noble ladies in marriage, set sail from Leith, accompanied
by a large fleet and a numerous retinue; and, arriving at the French Court, he wooed
and won for himself the Princess Magdalene, eldest daughter of Francis I. On the 29th
of May the royal pair landed at Leith, amid every display of welcome; and after tarrying
for a few days at the Palace of Holyrood, till the preparations of the citizens were
completed, the Queen made. her entry in atatc into the capital, with processions of great
Scots Actg 1Zmq TO]. i. p. 201. ’ Parrot. ‘ Hawthornden, p. 99. Scots Ads, 12m0, vol i. p. 217,
Diurnal of Occurrents, p, 15. ’ Pitscottie, voL ii. p. 342.](images/thumbs/memorials/memorials_v1_Page_063.gif "Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time Page 45")
... OF FLODDEN TO DEATH OF JAMES V. 41
address and vigour, and with only two attendants, made his escape from ...
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... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
representing the Adoration of the Wise Men, was said to be the work of ...
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... CANONGATE AND ABBEY SANCTUARY. 291
were removed in 1779. It is not at all inconsistent with the character of ...
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... ANTIQUITIES. 405
evidence remains to show that the choir and transepts were in existence filly a ...
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... SKETCHES. 385
rank of Captain in the 44th, or Lee’s Regiment of Foot. With this corps he
was ...
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... MEMORIAL S OF EDINB URG H.
old oaken chair remained till recently an heirloom, bequeathed by its patrician ...
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... SKETCHES. 187
In the unfortunate “ Walcheren Expedition,” undertaken in 1809, under
the late ...
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... SKETCHES. 321
. Such is a brief account of the election; but when the scrutiny had been
entered ...
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... SKETCHES. 273
The same paragraph thus briefly relates the story of the standard, which had
caused so ...
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... CASTLE. 127
of Scotland is kept. The apartment is a massive bombproof vault, and contains, along
with these ...
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