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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. a7
Mr. Foote considered it necessary to reply to this attack ; and, accordingly,
in 1771, appeared an “Apology for the Minor, in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Baine.”
In this defence the dramatist rests his argument solely upon one point-that
he merely satirised the follies and the vices of those who were only pretenders
to the character of the religious. The general opinion was, that his comedy
could never have been so keenly relished, but for the too ready disposition
of a large class of mankind to take hold of everything connected with the
imperfections of the professors of religion. In common with all perforinances
of a like nature, the Mimr was liable to the blame imputed to it by Mr. Baine,
and justified his strictures, though considered by many too severe. Upon
the mind of the reverend gentleman himself, the effect tended only to increase
his indignant feeling against so daring an outrage on the cause of religion and
morals.
Mr. Baine departed this life, 17th January 1790, having reached his
eightieth year, and sixtieth of his ministry. Though he experienced in his latter
days what has happened to many worthy ministsrs-a decline of popularitywhen
the novelty of their first appearance had subsided, his name stands conspicuous
in the history of the Relief Church, as one of the most remarkable of
its early and venerable fathers.
No. CCI.
E B E N E Z E R WI 1, S 0 N,
BRASSFOUNDER.
THIS worthy of the old school-long known as the Tron Church bellmanserved
his apprenticeship as a brassfounder with Mr. Robert Brown, Lawnmarket,
and became a member of the Incorporation of Hammermen in 1774. He carried
on business in a small way on his own account in Libberton’s Wynd ; but he
was never remarkable for activity or enterprise. In 1788, he obtained the
appointment of ringer of the Tron Kirk bell,’ with a salary of ten pounds a-year.
This small sum, with a trifling pension from the Hainmermen, was latterly his
chief support. At one period, when far “ down in the wind,” Eben petitioned
the Incorporation for a little money, saying he had neither work nor metal. Some
of the waggish members observed, what was he going to do with metal if he
had no work !
Eben was well known to the “ Hie Schule laddies,” by whom he was much
annoyed. They used to call him “ Ninepence,” in allusion to his old-fashioned
three-cornered hat. Almost every night a band of them assembled at the door
He succeeded an old man of the name of Nimmo, a dyer.

... SKETCHES. a7 Mr. Foote considered it necessary to reply to this attack ; and, accordingly, in 1771, ...

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Leith Street.] MARGAROT. I77
Walk. N.B.--Strang:ers can tlever be at a loss for a guide
to any of the above places, as, at the Cross there are always
in waiting, running stationels, otherwise CUU?Z~, that will conduct
them to any place wanted. for a small charge.?
In style and accommodation the ?Elack Bull?
was one of those old-fashioned inns which were
the precursors of the modern hotel, and preserved
their style and features unchanged amid the encroachnients
of private speculation and the rage
for public improvement. Now the space on which
it stood is covered with shops and dwelling-houses.
In this street lived Margarot, one of the ? Friends
of the People,? who was arrested by Provost Elder,
Until recent years the old ?Black Bull? was
long established here, and an arch on the west side
gave access to the stables. In a species of advertisement
appended to Kincaid?s ? View of Edinburgh,?
in 1794~ is the following :-
?English Travellers, on business, are to be found commonly,
at Paterson?s, Foot of the Pleasance ; McFarlane?s,
Head of the Cowgate ; Kamsay?s Lodging?s, Milne Square ;
. McKay?s, Grassmarket; Lee?s, Black Bull, Head of Leith
good order and police. A great crowd assembled
at his lodgings in Leith Street about ten o?clock,
and he was conducted, with a wreath, or arch, held
over him, with inscriptions of Reason, Liberty, &c.
About the middle of the North Bridge, however,
the cavalcade was met by the Lord Provost, sheriff,
constable, peace-officers, Src., and immediately dispersed,
the arch was demolished, and its supporters
taken into custody. A press-gang attended to
assist the peace-officers. Mr. Margarot then walked
to the court, escorted by the Lord Provost, &c.:
and no disturbance ensued.?
Subsequently we read, that on the 10th of Feb
and tried for his, life on charges of treason, with
Hunter, Muir, and others. He conducted his own
case, and the court sentenced him to fourteen
years? transportation beyond the seas. ?In consequence
of the proceedings on the 9th instant,?
says the Annual Register for 1794, ?while Mr.
hfargarot went to the Justiciary Court, every precaution
was taken this day by the Lord Provost,
magistrates, and sheriff, to prevent any breach of
THE ALBEBT MEMORIAL, CHARLOTTE SQUARE.
statue

STATUES

... Street.] MARGAROT. I77 Walk. N.B.--Strang:ers can tlever be at a loss for a guide to any of the above ...

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The City Cross. -
acute, intelligent, and also faithful to any duty entrusted
to them. A stranger coming temporarily to
reside in Edinburgh got a caddie attached to his
service, to conduct him from one part of the town
to another, and to run errands for him; in short, to
be wholly at his bidding. A caddie did literally
know everything of Edinburgh, even to that kind
of knowledge which we now expect only in a street
directory; and it was equally true that he could
hardly be asked to go anywhere, or upon any
It is difficult now to understand the gross perversion
of taste and the barbarous absence of
all veneration that prevailed in the Scotland of the
eighteenth century, and how such a memorial as
the inoffensive cross of Edinburgh was doomed
to destruction; but doomed it was, and on the
night before its demolition began there came a bacchanalian
company, probably Jacobites, and with a
crown bowl of punch upon its battlements, solemnly
drank ?? the dredgie of the auld mercat cross.?
THE CITY CROSS.
mission, that he would not go. On the other hand,
the stranger would probably be astonished to find
that, in a few hours, his caddie was acquainted with
every particular concerning himseg where he was
from, what was his purpose in Edinburgh, his family
connections, tastes, and dispositions. Of course for
every particle of scandal floating about Edinburgh
the caddie was a ready book of reference. We sometimes
wonder how our ancestors did without newspapers.
We do not reflect on the living vehicle of
? news which then existed ; the privileged beggar for
country people ; for towns-folk the caddies.?
But now, the Iatter, like the City Guard, the
Tronmen, Bedesmen, town-piper and drummer, are
all numbered with the things that were.
On one side of the cross there stood, of old,
the Dyvours sfane, whereon might be seen seated
a row of those unfortunates, who, for misfortune
or roguery, were, by act of the Council, compelled
to appear each market day at noon in the bankrupt?s
garb-in a yellow bonnet and coat, oRe half
yellow and the other brown, under pain of three
months? imprisonment. The origin of this singular
mode of protecting public credit was an Act of
Sederunt of the Court of Session in 1604, wherein
the seat is described as ?ane pillery of hewn stone,
near to the mercat croce,? and from 10 AM. till
one hour after dinner, was the time for the Dyvours
sitting thereon.
The Luckenbooths, an extinct range of pic

... City Cross. - acute, intelligent, and also faithful to any duty entrusted to them. A stranger coming ...

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THE WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 347
completion of the latter street, she erected a monument to her husband at the north end,
consisting of a Corinthian column, measuring above twenty-five feet high. Upon the base
an inscription was cut in Latin and English, setting forth that Lady Nicolson had made
the adjacent ground, left to her by her husband, be planned out for building, under the
name of Nicolson Street, and had erected the monument there out of regard to his
memory. On the extension of the thoroughfare and the completion of the South Bridge,
this pious memorial was thrown aside into the yard of the public riding-school, then
occupying the site where the College of Surgeons now stands, and it has no doubt long
since been broken up for building materials. Though the monument of Lady Nicolson
might not possess any great value in general estimation, it would have been no unbecoming
act for the projectors of these extensive improvements to have found a site for it in the
neighbouring square. The building in Nicolson Street, at the corner of Hill Street, now
occupied as the Blind Asylum, acquires peculiar interest from having long formed the
residence of the celebrated chemist, Dr Black, whose reputation contributed so largely to
the fame of the University to which he belonged. Further south, on the same side of the
street, a small and mean-looking court, surrounded by humble tenements, and crowded .
with a dense population, bears the name of Simon Square, It has nothing in its appearance
to attract either the artist or the antiquary, yet its associations are intimately
connected with the Fine Arts ; for here, in a narrow lane, called Paul Street, which leads
thence into the Pleasance, David Wilkie took up his abode on his arrival in Edinburgh in
1799. Wilkie was then a raw country lad, only fourteen years of age, and so little was
thought of the productions of his pencil that it required the powerful interest of the Earl
of Leven to overcome the prejudices of the Secretary of the Academy established in Edinburgh
by the Board of Trustees, and obtain his admission as a student. The humble
lodging, where the enthusiastic young aspirant for fame first began his career as an artist,
cannot but be viewed with lively interest. It is a little back room, measuring barely ten
feet square, at the top of a common stair, on the south side of the street near the
Pleasance. From thence he removed to a better lodging in East Richmond Street, and
thereafter to a comfortable attic in Palmer’s Land, West Nicolson Street. This latter
abode of the great Scottish artist possesses peculiar associations with our national arts,
his eminent predecessor, Alexander Runciman, having occupied the same apartment till
1784, the year before his death,’ and having there probably entertained the Poet Ferguson,
while with ominous fitnest3 he sat as his model for the Prodigal Son.
Near to this is the aristocratic quarter that sprung up during the tedious delays which
preceded the commencement of the New Town, and threatened by its success to compel
the projectors of that long-cherished scheme of improvement to abandon their ‘design.
Here is George Square, once the abode of rank, and far more worthy of note, as the scene
where Scott spent his youth under the paternal roof; that bright period of his existence,
of which so many beautiful details are preserved, full of sweet glimpses of the happy
circle that gathered round his father’s hearth. The house which Scott’s father occupied
‘
The following entry ia extracted from the old family Bible which belonged to the artist’s father, and is now in the
Nov. 7, Kilwinning,
Died Oct. H a t , 1785
posseasion of a gentleman in Edinburgh :-“ Jam= Ruociman and Mary Smith, married 1735.
Alexander, born 15th Aug. 1736. Baptized by John Walker, minister, Canongata dinb burgh].
at 12 at night in Chapel Street”

... WEST BOW AND SUBURBS. 347 completion of the latter street, she erected a monument to her husband at the north ...

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264 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith.
teers and the Royal Midlothian Artillery, with two
field-pieces ; the Royal Highland Volunteers and
the Royal Leith Volunteers, all with their hair
powdered and greased, their cross-belts, old ? brownbesses,?
and quaint coats with deep cuffs and short
squarecut skirts, white breeches, and long black
gaiters. ?
Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, commanded the
whole, which he formed first in a hollow square
of battalions on the Links, and, by the hands
?of Mrs. Colonel Murray,? their colours were
presented to the Highland Volunteers, aiter they
had been (? consecrated? by the chaplain of the
corps-the Rev. Joseph Robertson Macgregor,
the eccentric minister of the Gaelic Chapel.
presentation of colours to the Royal Highland
Regiment of Edinburgh Volunteers, who wore
black feather bonnets, with grey breeches and
Hessian boots.
On that occasion there paraded in St Andrew
Square, at twelve o?clock noon, the Royal Edinburgh
Volunteer Light Dragoons (of whom, no
doubt, Scott would make one on his black charger) ;
the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, and the Volunteer
Artillery, with two field-pieces ; the first battalion
of the Second Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunevery
hovel displayed the verdant badges of loyalty
as the procession passed. The elegant dress and
appearance of the several corps formed a spectacle
truly delightful ; but the sentiment which neither
mere novelty nor military parade, which all the
pomp, pride, and circumstance, could never inspire,
seemed to warm the breast and animate the countenance
of every spectator.?
What this ?? sentiment? was the editor omits to
tell us; but, unfortunately for such spectacles in
those days, the great cocked hats then worn by
most of the troops were apt :to be knocked off
when the command ?( Shoulder arms ! ? was given,
and the general picking-up thereof only added to
the hilarity of the spectators.
The ground was kept by the Lankshire Light
Cavalry while the troops were put through the
then famous ?? Eighteen Manoeuvres,? published
in 1788 by Sir David Dundas, after he witnessed
the great review at Potsdam, and which was
long a standard work for the infantry of the British
army.
? The crowd of spectators,? says the Ed&durgh
flerald, ?attracted by the novelty and interest of
the scene, was great beyond example. The city
was almost literally unpeopled. Every house and

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Leith. teers and the Royal Midlothian Artillery, with two field-pieces ; the Royal ...

Book 6 p. 264
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376 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
nucleus of one of the very latest foundations of a monastic institution in Scotland prior to
the Reformation ; but we leave the history of the ancient religious and benevolent foundations
of this locality for the next chapter. During the present century, it was destined for
a very different purpose. When the Union Canal was first projected, its plans included the
continuation of it through the bed of the North Loch, where the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway now runs. From thence it was proposed to conduct it to Greenside, in the area
of which an immense harbour was to have been constructed ; and this again being connected
by a broad canaI with the sea, it was expected that by such means the New Town
would be converted into a seaport, and the unhappy traders of Leith compelled either to
abandon their traffic, or remove within the precincts of their jealous rivals; Chimerical as
.this project may now appear, designs were furnished by experienced engineers, a map of
the whole plan was engraved on a large scale, and no doubt our civic reformers rejoiced in
the anticipation of surmounting the disadvantages of an inland position, and seeing the
shipping of the chief ports of Europe crowding into the heart of their uew capital I
OE the memorials of the New Town, properly so called, very few fall legitimately within
the plan of this work; yet even its modern streets possess some interesting associations that
we would not willingly forego. We have already referred to the house which forms the
junction with St Andrew Square and St David Street, as the last residence of the celebrated
philosopher and historian, David Hume ; where that strange death-bed scene
occurred which has been the subject of such varied comments both by the eulogists and
detractors of the great sceptic. Directly opposite to Hume’s house, on the north side of
the square, is the house in which Henry Brougham was born. At that period St Andrew
Square contained the residences of several noblemen, and was deemed the most fashionable
quarter of the rising’ town. The house on the same side at the corner of St Andrew
Street was the mansion of David Steuart, Earl of Buchan, and possesses some claim to our
interest as the place where the Society of Scottish Antiquaries was instituted in 1780, and
where its earliest meetings were held.’ Within the fist eastern division of George Street,
the eye of the modern visitor is attracted by the lofty and magnificent portico of the
Commercial Bank, a building that seems destined to attest for ages the skill and taste, if
not the inventive genius, of our native architects; yet it occupies the site of the
Physicians’ Hall, a chaste Grecian edifice designed by Craig, the foundation-stone of which
was laid by the celebrated Dr Cullen, in 1774, doubtless with the belief that remote ages
might bring to light the memorials which were then buried in its foundations. Nor must
we omit to notice the favourite dwelhg of Sir Walter Scott in North Castle Street- ‘‘ TAe ckar tAirty-nine,” which he left under such mournful circumstances in 1826. The
New Town of Edinburgh has already many such associations with names eminent in
literature and science, some of which, at least, will command the interest of other generations.
Our Me~norials, however, are of the olden time, and ye leave future chroniclers to
record those of the modern city.
Paton’e Correspondence, pp. 170-172.

... MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH. nucleus of one of the very latest foundations of a monastic institution in Scotland ...

Book 10 p. 413
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64 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ,The Dean.
Among the old houses here may be mentioned
a mill, or granary, immediately at the southeast
end of the bridge, which has sculptured over its
door, within a panel, two baker?s peels, crossed
with the date 1645, and the almost inevitable
legend--? BZeisit be God for CZZ His g@s.?
Another quaint-old crowstepped double house, with
A mill or mills must have stood here before a
stone of Holyrood was laid, as David I., in his
charter of foundation to that abbey, grants to the
monks ?one of my mills of Dene, a tithe of the mill
of Libertun and of Dene, and of the new mill of
Edinburgh,? A.D. I 143-7.
In 1592, ?the landis of Dene, wt the mylnes
and mure thereof, and their pertinents, lyand
within the Sherifdom of Edinburgh,? were given by
James VI. to James Lord Lindesay, of the Byres.
On the panel are carved a wheatsheaf between
two cherubs? heads, the bakers? arms within a wreath
of oak-leaves, and the motto, God?s Providence is
ovr Inheritance-1677.?
In 1729 a number of Dutch bleachers from
Haarlem commenced a bleach-field somewhere
near the Water of Leith, and soon exhibited to the
village were wont to incarcerate culprits. It is six
storeys in height, including the dormer windows, has
six crowstepped gables, two of which surmount the
square projecting staircases, in the westmost of
which is a handsomely moulded doorway, sur
mounted by a frieze, entablature, and coat of arms
within a square panel. On the frieze is the legend,.
in large Roman letters-
GOD . BLESS. THE . BAXTERS , OF . EDIN .
BRUGH . WHO . BUILT , THIS . HOUSE. 1675.
flights of outside stairs, has a gablet, surmounted
by a well-carved mullet, and the date 1670. It
stands on the west side of the steep path that
winds upward to the Dean, and has evidently been
the abodeof some well-to-do millers inthedaysof old.
On the steep slope, where 2 flight of steps? ascends
to the old Ferry Road, stands the ancient Tolbooth,
wherein the bailies of this once sequestered
gaze and to the imitation of Scotland, the printing
and stamping of all colours on linen fabrics.
Some thirty years after, we find the Cournnt for
December, 1761, announcing to the public ?? that
Isabel Brodie, spouse to William Rankin, in the
Water of Leith, about a mile from Edinburgh, cures
the Emerads? (i.e., Hemorrhoids) and various other
illnesses; forquacksseem tohave existed theqasnow.

... OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. ,The Dean. Among the old houses here may be mentioned a mill, or granary, immediately ...

Book 5 p. 64
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Tron Church.
sum had been paid but once in ten years, yet, if it
had been properly managed, the accumulated sum
behoved to have exceeded ~16,000 sterling."
The old spire had been partially built'of wood
covered with lead, according to a design frequently
repeated on public buildings then in Scotland. It
was copied from the Dutch ; but the examples of it
are rapidly disappearing. A bell, which cost 1,490
merks Scots, was hung in it in 1673, and continued
weekly to summon the parishioners to prayer and
-
EXPLANATION.
A The principal Entry.
B The mea 01 thrSyuare.
C The Piazza,
I3 The Coffee-room inthe west Coffec-hare.
d Rwnis aod Closets in diLlp.
a The Coffee-mm in the middk Ccffec
e Rmpis and Closets in ditm.
F The Coffee-room in the la t Coffeehoux.
f Raoms io ditto.
G The Great Sair leadiog to the Custon
H The P a q e Ieadioi 10 ditt-.
I 'An open for 1etriI.g in li6ht to the Houses
in the Writer's Court under the level of
the Square.
E The Passage belwecn the Square and
Wriicr's Court.
1. Seven Shops withiu the Square
m Four Shops behi d the raqe tvthe srect.
N Ten Shop an a line with the street.
0 An open of four feet for dcoopirg eaws
P Part ot the M'riter-5 Court.
g Area of ditto.
house. -
H0"W.
of the neighbouring houses
B
pounds yearly. It is an edifice of uninteresting
appearance and nondescript style, being neither
Gothic nor Palladian, but a grotesque mixture of
both. It received its name from its vicinity to the
Tron, or public beam for the weighing of merchandise,
which stood near it.
A very elegant stone spire, which was built in
1828, replaces that which perished in the great
conflaggation of four years before.
The Tron beam appears to have been used as
GENERAL PLAN OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. (Frmn an Engraviw in fhe "Scofs Mafizzine" fm 1754.)
sermon till the great fire of 1824, when it was
partly melted by heat, and fell with a mighty crash
through the blazing ruins of the steeple. Portions
of it were made into drinking quaighs and similar
memorials.
In 1678 the tower was completed by placing
therein the old clock which had formerly been in
the Weigh House.
Towards the building of this church the pious
Lady Yester gave 1,000 merks. In 1703 the
magistrates appointed two persons to preach alternately
in the Tron Church, to each of whom they
gave a salary of forty guineas, as the Council Re-,
gister shows ; but about 1788 they contented themselves
with one preacher, to whom they gave fifty
a pillory for the punishment of crime. In Niccol's
'' Diary" for 1649, it is stated that " much falset
and cheitting was daillie deteckit at this time by
the Lords of Sessioune; for the whilk there was
daillie nailing of lugs and binding of people to the
Trone, and boring of tongues; so that it was a
fatal year for false notaries and witnesses, as daillie
experience did witness."
On the night of Monday, the 15th of November,
1824, about ten o'clock, the cry of "Fire ! " was
heard in the High Street, and it spread throughout
the city from mouth to mouth ; vast crowds came
from all ,quarters rushing to the spot, and columns
of smoke and flame were seen issuing from the
second *floor of e house at the head of the old

... Church. sum had been paid but once in ten years, yet, if it had been properly managed, the accumulated ...

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Cunie.1 ROMAN AND OTUER ANTIQUITIES. 331
locality; But the ?? Old Statistical Account ? has
the following version of it :-
?L From its name-Koria or Coria-it seems to
have been one of those districts which still retain
their Roman appellation. This conjecture is supportedby
the following authors, who give an account
of the ancient and modem names of places in
Scotland : 1st. Johnston, in his ? Antiquitates
Celto-Normannicz,? for the Koria of Ptolemy places
Cumc; znd, Dr. Stukeley, in his account of
Richard of Cirencester?s map and itinerary, for the
Koria of Richard fixes Corstanlaw in the neighbourhood
of Currie ; 3rd, Sir Kobert Sibbald, in
his ? Roman Antiquities of Scotland,? conceives
it to have been the place near the manor of Ingliston,
from a pillar dug up there, which place is
likewise in the vicinity
_ _
of earthenware. South of the great cairn were five
large stones, set upright in the earth, to com-?
memorate some now-forgotten battle ; and at the
bottom of the same field were found many stone
coffins, which the late General Scott of Malleny
re-interred, and he set up a tombstone, which still
marks the place.
At Enterkins Yett,according to tradition, a bloody
battle was fought with the Danes, whose leader
was slain by the Scots and buried in the field giving
rise to its name.
But, apart from these prehistoric vestiges, Cume
has claims to considerable antiquity from an ecclesiastical
point of view.
Father Hay records that the Knights of the
Hospital had an establishment at Currie, then
called Kill-leith (i.e., the
1
of Currie. These circumstances
tend io prove
that it must have been
originally a Roman sta-,
tion-traces of which
have lately been found
in the neighbourhood ?
The locality is very
rich in ancient militar;
remains, as the extract
from the ? I Old Statistical
(Vol. V.).
KNIGHT TEMPLAR?S TOMB, CURRIE CHURCHYARD.
(Ajtrr a Sketch by th Author.)
Account ? would lead us
to- expect. Indications of Roman stations are
visible on Ravelrig Hill and Warlaw Hill.
The former crowns the summit of a high bank,
inaccessible on three sides, defended by two ditches
faced with stone, with openings for a gate. It is
named by the peasantry the Castle Yett.
Farther eastward, commanding a view of the
beautiful strath towards Edinburgh, is another
station, traditionally called the General?s Watch, or
Post. These works are much defaced, the hewn
stones having been carried off to make field dykes.
On Cocklaw Farm, there were, till within a few
years ago, the remains of a massive round tower,
eighteen feet in diameter. The ruins were filled
with fine sand. It had some connection with the
station on Ravelrig Hill, as subterranean passages
have been traced between them.
On the lands of Harelaw-a name which implies
the locality of an army-near the present farmhouse,
there stood an immense cairn, ofwhich three
thousand loads were carted away, some time shortly
before 1845. Within it was a stone cist, only two
feet square, but full of human bones. In the same
field was found a coffin of stone, the bones in
which had faded into dust; amid them lay a piece
Chapel by the ? Leith),
which was a chief commandery.
But there lies
in the village churchyard
a tombstone six feet
long by two broad, on
which there is carved a
sword of the thirteenth
century, with the guard
depressed, and above it
the eight-pointed cross
of the Temple, encircled
by a rosary of beads.
It was for a time built into the wall of the village
school-house.
In 1670 Scott of Bavelaw was retoured in the
Temple lands and Temple houses of Currie. The
fragment of the old church bore the impress of
great antiquity, and when it was removed to make
way for the present plain-looking place of worship,
there was found a silver ornament supposed to be
the stand of acrucifix, or stem of an altar candlestick,
as it had a screw at each end, and was se,ven
inches? long by one and one-eighth in diameter.
On a scroll, it bore in Saxon characters, the legend-
3esn . fiIi . Pof . flfserorc . mti.
It is now preserved in the Museum of Antiquities.
In the reign of David II., William of Disscyngtoun,
relation and heir of John Burnard, had?
a grant of land in the barony of Currie ; and under
Robert III., Thomas Eshingtoun (or Dishingtoun),
son probably of the same, had a charter of the
lands of Longherdmanstoun, Currie,. Redheughs,
and Kilbaberton-all in the shire of Edinburgh
Under the same monarch, William Brown of
Colstoun had a grant of Little Currie, in the
barony of Ratho ; and afterwards we find Robert

... ROMAN AND OTUER ANTIQUITIES. 331 locality; But the ?? Old Statistical Account ? has the following version ...

Book 6 p. 331
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56 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Dr. Duncan resided in Adam Square, and died on the 5th July 1828, in the
eighty-fourth year of his age. His funeral was a public one, In February
1771, he married Miss Elizabeth Knox, daughter of Mr. John Knox, surgeon
in the service of the East India Company, by whom he had a family of twelve
children. His son, Dr. Andrew Duncan junior, was long officially connected
with the University of Edinburgh as Principal Librarian and Secretary, and as
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. In 1819 he was conjoined with his father
in the chair of the Theory of Physic. In July 1821 he was elected Professor
of Materia Medica-an appointment which gave very general satisfaction, as Dr.
Duncan contributed in no small degree by his learning and scientific acquirements
to maintain the reputation of the University. He died in May 1832.
No. CXCII.
MAJOR ANDREW FRASER,
THE HONOURABLE ANDREW ERSKINE,
AND
SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, BART.
THE figure to the left, MAJOR FBASER-descended of a respectable
family in the north of Scotland-was an officer of some distinction in the
Royal Artillery, and well known for his talents as an engineer. Under his
superintendence the demolition of the harbour and fortifications of Dunkirk,
agreeably to the treaty of 1762, was carried satisfactorily into effect. In 1779
he was placed on the staff in Scotland, as Engineer-in-Chief. Here he superintended,
from his own plans, the building of Fort George ; erected several considerable
bridges in the north ; and, in Edinburgh, the church and spire of St.
Andrews,’ so much admired for its exquisite proportions, stands a monument of
his excellence in design. He interested himself greatly in the improvements
of the city, and frequently presided at public meetings convened for such objects.
He was much esteemed by Sir James Hunter Blair; and through the
influence of that spirited chief magistrate, many of his suggestions were cauied
into execution.
Major Fraser was afterwards appointed Chief Engineer of the West India
The foundation-stone of this church wm laid in 1781. The premium of ten guineaa to the
successful architect was unanimously adjudged by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council to
Major Fraser ; but he declined accepting the premium, desiring that it might be given to Mr. Robert
Kay, drawingmaster in Edinburgh, whose drawings and sections of a plan of a square building were
deemed highly meritorious.

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270 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Stmt.
were also struck some very small copper coins
called pennies, worth one-twelfth of the sterling
penny, inscribed, Nemo me imjun.? lamsit; but in
those days the manufacture of coins was not confined
to the capital alone.
Balfour records that, in 1604, ? the Laird of
Merchiston, General of the Cunyie House, went to
London to treat with the English Commissioners
anent the (new) cunyie, who, to the great amaLement
of the English, carried his business with a
great deal of dexterity and skill.?
In the closing days of the Mint as an active
establishment, the coining-house was in the ground
floor of the building on the north side of the
court; in the adjoining house on the east the
coinage was polished and fitted for circulation.
The chief instruments used were a hammer and
steel dies, upon which the various devices were
engraved. The metal being previously prepared of
the proper fineness and thickness, was cut into
longitudinal slips, and a square piece being cut
from the slip, it was afterwards rounded and
adjusted to the weight of the coin to be made.
The blank pieces of metal were then placed
between two dies, and the upper one struck with
a hammer. After the Restoration another method
was introduced at Gray?s Close-that of the mill
and screw, which, modified with many improvements,
is still in use. At the Union, the ceremony
of destroying the dies of the Scottish coinage took
place in the Mint. After being heated red hot in
a furnace: they were defaced by three impressions
of a punch, ?which were of course visible on the
dies as long as they existed; but it must be recorded
that all these implements, which would now
have been great curiosities, are lost, and none of
the machinery remains but the press, which, weighing
about half a ton, was rather too large to be
readily appropriated, otherwise it would have
followed the rest.?
The Scottish currency was, when abolished in
1707, of only one-twelfth the value sterling, and
LIOO Scots equalled &3 6s. 8d. sterling; or LI
Scots equalled IS. 8d. sterling. The merk was
13s. 4d. Scots, and the plack, z bodles, equal to
4d. Scots.
The ancient key of the Mint is preserved, with
some other relics of it, in the Scottish Antiquarian
The goldsmiths connected with the Mint appear
to have had apartments either within the quadrangle
or in its immediate neighbourhood, and
there is no doubt that it was the professional avocations
of the great George Heriot that led to his
obtaining the large tenement that formed the north
d Museum.
side of the Mint court which, during his lifetime,
he conceived to be the most central and suitable
place for the erection of his future hospital, and
which he describes in his will (see the Appendix
to Stevens? biography) as ?theis my tenements of
landes, &c., lyacd on the south side of the King
his High Streit thairof, betwixt the Cloise. or
Venall, callit Gray?s Clois, or Coyne-hous Cloise,
at the east, the Wynd or Venall, callit Todrig?s
Wynd, at the west, and the said Cope-how Cloise
at the south.?
His tenements there were found to be ruinous,
and every way unsuitable for the purpose for which
they were designed by his executors, and the buildings
which afterwards formed the north side of the
quadrangle were those erected in the reign of
Charles 11. in 1674.
On the zznd of February, 1656, during the Protectorate
of Cromwell, a committee was appointed
by the Commissioners of the shire of Edinburgh,
for the equalisation of the assessment, ?and for
the more speedie effectuating thereof, the whole
heritors, liferenters, woodsetters, and other persons
whatsomever, liable in payment of cess,? were
ordered to appear before the said committee, at
the Judge Advocate?s lodging at foot of Gray?s
Close, on certain forenoons in March, according to
a paper in the SrotfisZ Liferary Magazine for
The door to the floors above the coining-house
in the Mint bore the letters ?C. R. II., God save
the King, 1674.? Here was the lodging of Archibald
ninth earl of -4rgyle, during his attendance on
the Parliament, after Charles 11. had most unexpectedly
restored him to his father?s title. Under
date November zznd, 1681, only a few days after
the escape of the Earl from the Castle, disguised as
his stepdaughter?s page, Lord Fountainhall records
that ?Joseph Brown and James Clark, having
poinded the Earl of Argyle?s cabinet forth of the
coin-house at Edinburgh, for a debt owing to them
by the Earl?s bond, the said cabinet having been
rescued from them by violence, they gave in a
complaint to the Privy Council of the riotous deforcement.?
In defeuce it was alleged that the Mint was a
sanctuary, and no poinding could be enforced
there. It was answered that it was unknown
whether it was by law or usurpation that the Mint
was an asylum, and that it could protect only those
in the service of the King j ?? but to extend this to
extraneous persons running in there to avoid captions,
much less to secure goods and plenishing, &c.,
is absurd. They fearing the want of this, alleged
that the wright who made it (the cabinet) retained
1819.

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St Andrew Square] ROYAL BANK
bank. The other existing banks have all been
constituted by contracts of co-partnery since the
year 1825, and, with the exception of the Caledonian
Banking Company, are all carrying on
business under the Companies Act of 1862. With
this office is incorporated No. 41, which, in 1830,
was the shop of Messrs. Robert Cadell and Co.,
the eminent booksellers and publishers.
The Royal Bank of Scotland occupies a pre
minent position on the west side of the square, in a
deep recess between the British Linen Company
and the Scottish Provident Institution.
It was originally the town house of Sir Lawrence
Dundas, Bart., and was one of the first houses
built in the square, on what we believe was intended
as the place for st. Andrew?s church. The
house was designed by Sir William Chambers, on
the model of a much-admired villa near Rome, and
executed by William Jamieson, mason. Though
of an ancient family, Sir Lawrence was the architect
of his own fortune, and amassed wealth as a conimissary-
general with the army in Flanders, 1748 to
1759. He was the second son of Thomas Dundas,
a bailie of Edinburgh, whose diffculties brought
him to bankruptcy, and for a time Sir Lawrence
served behind a counter, He was created a
baronet in 1762, with remainder, in default of
male issue, to his elder brother, Thomas Dundas,
who had succeeded to the estate of Fingask. His
son Thomas was raised to the peerage of Great
Britain as Baron Dundas of Aske, in Yorkshire, in
August, 1794 and became ancestor of the Earls of
Zetland.
About 1820 the Royal Bank, which had so long
conducted its business in the Old Bank Close in
the High Street, removed to the house of Sir
Lawrence Dundas.
We have thus shown that St. Andrew Square is
now as great a mart for business as it was once a
fashionable quarter, and some idea may be had of
the magnitude of the interests here at stake when
it is stated that the liabilities-that is, the total sums
insured-of the six leading insurance houses alone
exceed ~45,ooo,ooo, and that their annual income
is upwards of ~1,8oo,ooo-a revenue greater than
that of several States !
Melville?s monument, in the centre of the square,
was erected in 1821, in memory of Henry Dundas,
first Viscount Melville, who was Lord Advocate in
1775, and filled some high official situations in the
Government of Britain during the administration
of William Pitt He was raised to the peerage in
OF SCOTLAND. 171
1802, and underwent much persecution in 1805
for alleged malversation in his office as treasurer to
the navy; but after a trial by his peers was triumphantly
judged not guilty.
Designed by William Burn, this monument consists
of pedestal, pillar, and statue, rising to the
height of 150 feet, niodelled after the Trajan
column at Rome, but fluted and not ornamented
with sculpture; the statue is 14 feet in height.
The cost was _f;8,ooo, defrayed-8s the inverse
side of the plate in the foundation stone states
-?by the voluntary contribbtions of the officers,
petty-officers, seamen, and marines of these united
kingdoms.? It was laid by Admirals Sir D a d
Milne and Otway, naval commander-inchief in
Scotland, after prayer by Principal Baird, on the
anniversary of Lord Melville?s birthday. In the
stone was deposited a great plate of pure gold,
bearing the inscription. A plate of silver bearing
the names of the committee was laid in the stone
at the same time.
The Hopetoun monument, within the recess in
front of the Royal Bank, is in memory of Sir John
Hope, fourth Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.H., Colonel
of the gznd Gordon Highlanders, who died in
1823, a distinguished Peninsular officer, who assumed
the command of the army at Corunna, on
the fall of his countryman Sir John Moore. It was
erected in 1835, and comprises a bronze statue, in
Roman costume, leaning on a pawing charger.
West Register Street, which immediately adjoins
St. Andrew Square, is a compound of several
short thoroughfares, and contains the site of
?( Ambrose?s Tavern,? the scene of Professor NIson?s
famous ?Noctes Ambrosianze,? with a remnant
of the once narrow old country pathway
known as Gabriel?s Road. cG Ambrose?s Tavern,?
a tall, three-storeyed edifice, like a country farmhouse,
enjoyed much repute independent of the
?Noctes,? and was removed in 1864. Hogg, the
Ettrick .Shepherd, who was fond of all athletic
sports and manly exercises, was long made to
figure conspicuously in these Noctes ? in BZack3
wmZs Magazine, which gave his name a celebrity
beyond that acquired by his own writings.
At one of the corners of West Register Street is
the great palatial paper warehouse of the Messrs
Cowan, one of the most elaborately ornate busiqess
establishments in the city, which was erected in
1865, by the Messrs. Beattie, at a cost of about
A7,000, and has two ornamental fronts with chaste
and elegant details in the florid Italian styk

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an ingenious artist, but who, from a feeling of modesty, prevailed 04 the limner
to alter it.
The fourth, or extreme figure on the left, is MR. JOHN MITCHELL,
of the firm of Mitchell and White, hardware-merchants, at that time residing
in North Bridge Street. He was a respectable trader, and a great admirer of
balloons.
The fifth, in the background on the right, is a capital likeness of MR.
JAMES NEILSON, writer and clerk to the Rev. Sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood,
Bart., and his predecessors, Mr. Stewart and Dr. Webster, as collectors of the
Ministers’ Widows’ Fund. He lived in Turk’s Close, a little to the west of the
Luckenbooths, and died a bachelor, in March 1797. He was a particular friend
to Lunardi. He belonged, at a former period, to the first volunteer regiment
raised in Great Britain, viz. the Edinburgh Defensive Band,
The sixth is a striking likeness of JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, Esq., one of
the magistrates of Edinburgh, a most respectable gentleman. He was at one
time a dealer in Carron-wares in the Grassmarket, and afterwards in Adam
Square (South Bridge). Kay has in his MS. preserved the following anecdote
relative to him :-This Print had hardly appeared when the Bailie came up to
the limner, and challenged him for publishing such a scandalous print, saying he
ought to be horsewhipped, and adding that he ought rather to have paid a compliment
to Lnnardi, than to have classed him with Lord North the caddy. “ I
don’t know,” said Kay, “ but Lord North is as good a man as he ; but I should
like to see the man who would horsewhip me.”-“It is one of the horriblest things
on earth,” replied the Bailie, “to put me on a level with a caddy.”--“ Oh! Bailie,
are you there toot’’ exclaimed Kay, by way of interrogation. “Yes, sir,” returned
the magistrate, “you know I am there ; I have a daughter only five years old,
who points me out at first sight.”-“ She must be a smart girl,” said the limner;
“ but if you please, Bailie, I shall do another print of you by yburse1f.”-“I’d see
you hanged first,” answered our hero. “Oh! Bailie, Bailie!” said Kay, “I hope
you are not angry.”-“ Angry ! I’m shocking angry !” returned the provoked
magistrate, stamping the ground with his foot, to the no small amusement of
the spectators who happened to be looking at the prints in Kay’s window, in
the Parliament Square, at the time.
The Seventh, or extreme figiire on the right, is MYLES M‘PHAIL, better
known by the name of LORD NORTH, the Caddy. This sobriquet was
bestowed in consequence of his personal resemblance to Lord North, afterwards
Earl of Guildford. M‘Phail, besides his occupation as a caddy, kept a tavern in
the High Street, and was much esteemed for his activity ; he was also officer of
the Caledonian Hunt. On the occasion of Lunardi’s ascent from the .Green of
Heriot’s Hospital, Lord North collected the money.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 363
north-east corner, through Charles’ Street, and proceeded through the Square in slow time, passing
Lord Duncan’s house, before which his lordship stood uncovered, saluting them as they passed.
Here the procession was joined by a naval car, on which was placed the British and his lordship’s
flag, flying above that of Admiral de Winter, attended by a body of seamen; then followed, in
carriages, Lord Adam Gordon and his Staff-Lord Viscount Duncan-Captain Inglis of Redhall-the
Lord Provost. and the eldest Bailie. The troops marched round the Square, filing off by Windmill
Street, Chapel Street, Nicolson Street, across the South and North Bridges-the infantry leading,
and the cavalry closing the procession. At the end of the North Bridge the populace took the
homes from Lord Dimcan’s carriage, and drew it during the remainder of the procession, which
proceeded through the principal streets of the New Town. The arrangement of the niilitary procession,
which in beauty and grandeur ww far beyond any eFer seen in this country, did honour to
those who planned it. It was one of those happy, but rare instances, in which expectation is
exceeded by reality. An elegant entertainment was given to his lordship, in Fortune’s tavern, bg’
the Lord Provost and Magistrates, at which he was presented with the freedom of the city in a gold
box of elegant workmanship. ”
Lord Duncan retired from the command of the North Sea Squadron in 1800,
being desirous of spending the remainder of his days in private life; but he
did not long enjoy his retirement. He died of apoplexy at Cornhill, on his way
from London, in 1804.
In a brief sketch such as the present, it would be out of place to dilate on
the character of one so generally known as Admiral Duncan, or to advert to
the importance of those services which his superior genius enabled him to perform.
As a naval officer he is entitled to every credit, both for the soundness
of his tactics, and the novel daring and decisive nature of his movements ; while
in domestic life he was remarkable for those amiable qualities which ever accom;
pany true greatness. , ’
His Lordship married, in 1777, Henrietta, daughter of Lord President
Dundas, by whom he had four Sons and five daughters. Robert, the second son,
in consequence of the demise of his elder brother, Alexander, succeeded to the
titles and estates, and was created Earl of Camperdown in 1831. He married,
in January 1805, Janet, daughter of the late Sir Hugh Hamilton Dalrymple of
Bargeny and North Berwick, Bart., by whom he has issue. The third son)
Henry, afterwards Sir Henry, entered the navy, and rose to the rank of Post-
Captain. He was considered a
bright ornament to the navy, and one of the most promising officers. A magtg.
nificent monument to his memory has recently been erected in the neighbourhood
of London by those who served with him during the war.
The widow of Admiral Duncan survived him many years, and died in her
house in George Square: November 1832, lamented by all who knew her. She
was a lady of the most bland and attractive manners, and of eminent piety. ’
He died suddenly on 1st November 1835.
1 This house, which is now occupied as the Southern Academy, still remains the property of the
Earl. The celehrated painting of the Battle of Camperdown, by Copely-which cost L1000, and to
which the inhabitants of Edinhurgh had access annually for niany years on the anniversary of the
victory-hw, since the death of the Dowager, been removed to Camperdown House, Forfarshire.

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The Cowpate.] TAM 0? THE COWGATE. 259
derived from Dickson by the stars, according to
Nisbet in his ?Heraldry.? A John Dickison of
Winkston, who was provost of Peebles, was assassin260
I
OLD AND NEW EDtNEURGH. [The Cowgate.
Full of years and honours, Tam 0? the Cowgate
died in 1637. At Tynninghame, his family seat,
:here are two portraits of him preserved, and also
his state dress, in the crimson velvet breeches of
which there are no less than nine pockets. Among
many of his papers, which remain at Tynninghame
House, one contains a memorandum which throws
a curious light upon the way in which political
matters were then managed in Scotland. This
paper details the heads of a petition in his own
each way, and had a border of trees upon its east
and south sides. Latterly it bore the name of
Thomson?s Green, from the person to whom it
was leased by the Commissioners of Excise.
The Hammerman?s Close, Land, and Hall, adjoined
the site of this edifice on the westward.
The Land was in I 7 I I the abode of a man named
Anthony Parsons, among the last of those who
followed the ancient practice of vending quack
medicines on a public stage in the streets. In the
THE FRENCH AMBASSAUOR?S CHAPEL. (From a Drawing by W. Geikie.)
hand-writing to the Privy Council with a prayer to
?gar the Chancellor? do something else in his behalf
The Excise Office was removed about 1730 from
the Parliament Square to the houge so long occupied
by the Earl of Haddington, which afforded excellent
accommodation for so important a public
institution. The principal room on the second
floor, the windows of which opened to the Cowgate,
was one of great magnificence, having a stucco
ceiling divided into square compartments, each of
which contained an elegant device, and there was
also much fine paneling. At the back of the
house, extending to where the back of Brown
Square was built, and entered by a gate from the
Candlemaker Row, it measured nearly zoo feet
October of that year he advertised in the Scofs Postman-?
It being reported that Anthony Parsons
is gone from Edinburgh to mount public stages in
the country, this is to give notice that he hath left
off keeping stages, and still lives in the Hammerman?s
Land, near the head of the Cowgate, where
may be had the Orvicton, a famous antidote against
infectious distempers, and helps barrenness,? &c
Four years subsequently Parsons-an Englishman,
of course-announced his design of bidding adieu
to Edinburgh, and in that prospect offered his quack
medicines at reduced rates, and likewise, by auction,
?a fine cabinet organ.?
The last of these English quacks was Dr. Green,
gauger, of Doncaster, who made his appearance inated
in the High Street of that town, on the
1st of July, 1572, and James Tweedie, burgess of
Peebles, and four other persons, were tried for the
crime and acquitted. This is supposed to be the
John Dickison who built the house, and had placed
upon it these remarkable devices as a bold proof of
his adherence to the ancient faith ? The hand.
some antique form of this house, the strange
armorial device of the original proprietor, the tradition
of the Catholic chapel, the singular figures
over ?the double dormer window, and Dickison?s
own tragic fate, in the midst of a frightful civil war,
when neither party gave quarter to the other, all
combine to throw a wild and extraordinary interest
over it, and make us greatly regret its removal.?
(? Ancient Arch. of Edin.?)
The peculiar pediment, as well as the sculptured
lintel of the front door, were removed to Coates?
House, and are. now built into different parts of the
northern Wing of that quaint and venerable ch2teau
in the New Town.
In the middle of the last century, and prior to
1829, a court of old buildings existed in the Cowgate,
on the ground now occupied by the southern
piers of George IV. Bridge, which were used as
the Excise Office, but, even in this form, were
somewhat degraded from their original character,
for there resided Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield,
Earl of Melrose in 1619, and first Earl of Haddington
in 1627, Secretary of State in 16~2, King?s
Advocate, and Lord President of the Court of
Session in 15 92.
He rented the house in question from Macgill of
Rankeillor, and from the popularity of his character
and the circumstance of his residence, he
was endowed by his royal master, King James,
whose chief favourite he was, with? the sobriquet of
Tarn d the Cowgate, under which title he is better
remembered than by his talents as a statesman or
his Earldom of Haddington.
He was famous for his penetration as a judge,
his industry as a collector of decisionsAswing
up a set of these from 1592 to i6q-and his
talent for creating a vast fortune. It is related of
him, in one of many anecdotes concerning him,
communicated by Sir Walter Scott to the industrious
author of the ?? Traditions of Edinburgh,?,
that, after a long day?s hard labour in the public
service, he was one evening seated with a friend
over a bottle of wine near a window of his house
in the Cowgate, for his ease attired in a robc de
chrnbre and slippers, when a sudden disturbance
was heard in the street. This turned out to be a
bicker, one of those street disturbances peculiar to
the boys of Edinburgh, till the formation of the
present police, and referred to in the Burgh Records
so far back as 1529, anent ?gret bikkyrringis
betwix bairns;? and again in 1535, when they
wefe to be repressed, under pain-of scourging and
banishment.
On this occasion the strife with sticks and stones
was between the youths of the High School and
those of the College, who, notwithstanding a bitter
resistance, were driving their antagonists before
them.
The old Earl, who in his yduth had been a High
School boy, and from his after education in Paris,
had no sympathy for the young collegians, rushed
into the street, rallied the fugitives, and took such
an active share in the combat that, finally, the High
School boys-gaining fresh courage upon discovering
that their leader was Tam 0? the Cowgate, the
great judge and statesman-turned the scale of
victory upon the enemy, despite superior age and
strength. The Earl, still clad in his robe and slippers,
assumed the command, exciting the lads to the
charge by word and action. Nor did the hubbub
cease till the students, unable by a flank movement
to escape up the Candlemaker Row, were driven
headlong through the Grassmarket, and out at the
West Port, the gate of which he locked, compelling
the vanquished to spend the night in the fields
beyond the walls. He then returned to finish his
flask?of wine. And a rare jest the whole episode
must have been for King James, when he heard of
it at St. James?s or Windsor.
When, in 1617, the latter revisited Scotland,. he
found his old friend very rich, and was informed
that it was a current belief that he had discovered
the Philosopher?s Stone. James was amused with
the idea of so valuable a talisman having fallen
into the hands of a Judge of the Cburt of Session,
and was not long in letting the latter know of the
story. The Earl immediately invited the king,
and all who were present, to dine with him, adding
that he would reveal to them the mystery of the
Philosopher?s Stone.
The next day saw his mansion in the Cowgate
thronged by the king and his Scottish and English
courtiers After dinner, James reminded him of
the Philosopheis Stone, and then the wily Earl
addressed all present in a short speech, concluding
with the information that his whole secret of success
and wealth, lay in two simple and familiar
maxims :-cc Never put off till tomorrow what can
be done today; nor ever trust to the hand of
another that which your own can execute.?
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B I0 GRAPH I C AL SKETCH E S. 35 1
No. CCLXXXVII.
REV. DR. JUES PEDDIE,
OF THE ASSOCIATE CONGREGATION, BRISTO STREET.
THE REV. DR. PEDUIEw as born on the 10th of February 1759, at Perth,
where his father was a respectable brewer. After having attended the grammarschool
of that city for some time, he was transferred to the academy there, of
which Dr, Hamilton, afterwards Professor of Natural Philosophy in Aberdeen
College, and author of a well-known work on the National Debt, was the Rector.
From thence Dr. Peddie proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he
went through the usual courses of study, under Professors Dalzel, Ferguson,
Stewart, etc. From an early age he had felt a predilection for the ministerial
office ; and, when the time arrived for choosing a profession, he became a student
of divinity under the venerable John Brown of Haddington, Professor of
Divinity to the Associate Secession Synod, of which religious denomination his
father was a member. In February 1782 he obtained license as a probationer
from the Associate Presbytery of Perth and Dunfermline ; and the congregation
in Bristo Street, Edinburgh, having soon afterwards elected him, he was
ordained their pastor on the 3d of April 1783. The election had been keenly
contested j and, upon its being decided in his favour, a large body of the members
of the congregation withdrew, forming themselves into the Associate Congregation
of Rose Street, of which the late Rev. Dr. Hall subsequently became
pastor. The Bristo Street Congregation, however, rapidly recruited its numbers
under the pastoral superintendence of Dr. Peddie ; and it has from that time
forward been distinguished for its highly flourishing condition.
From the commencement of his ministry, the Rev. Doctor was an acceptable
and popular preacher, and continued to be so although far advanced in years.
The branch of pulpit duty in which he excelled was what in Scotland is termed
Zectu~ing. In this respect he was eminently skilled for clearness in expounding
the mcaning of Scripture-for a graphic delineation of the incidents and
manners in the sacred volume-and for the sagacity and force of his practical
application of its lessons.
In addition to a most assiduous and successful superintendence of one of the
largest congregations in Scotland, Dr. Peddie through life took an active share
in the benevolent and religious societies of Edinburgh, as well as in the general
government and business of his own religious community ; and in both departments
his prudent and skilful management always secured to him a corresponding
share of weight and influence. It may be particularly mentioned, that he
was one of the founders of the Bible, of the Missionary, and of the Magdalene

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High Street.] THE ROYAL MINT. 267
Fortune?s tavern, removed from Skinner?s Close to
a house at the north-west corner of Nicolson
Square, and latterly at No. 2, St. Andrew Square
(now the London Hotel), where he died, in his
eightieth year, in ISOZ.
In his lordship?s time the office of Commissioner
to the Church, which he held from 1783 to 1801, was
attended with more ?pomp and circumstance?
Treasurer, under date February, 1562-3 :-
? Item, allowit to the carpenter, be payment maid
to Johne Achesoun, Maister Congreave, to Maister
William M?Dowgale, Maister of Werk, for expensis
maide be him vpon the bigging of the Cwnge-house,
within the castell of Edinburgh, and beting of the
qvnge-hous within the Palice of Halierud-house,
fra the xi. day of Februar, 1559, zens, to the
Comniissioner proceeded on foot, escorted by his
guard of honour.
South Gray?s, or the Mint Close, was one of the
stateliest alleys in the old city, and herein stood the
Cunzie flous, as the Scottish Mint was named
(after its removal from near Holyrood in Queen
Mary?s time) till the Union in 1707, and until lately
its sombre and massive tower of finely polished
ashlar projecting into the narrow thoroughfare of
Cowgate, for three hundred and four years formed
one of the leading features of the latter, and to the
last the old edifice retained many traces of the important
operations that once went on within its
walls.
The first Mint House had been originally erected
in the outer court of the palace of Holyrood, somewhere
near the Horse Wynd, fromwhence, for greater
safety, it was removed to the castle, in which a new
Mint House had been built in 1559, as shown by
edifices of the period,? says Wilson, describing
the edifice prior to its removal. ?The whole
building was probably intended, when completed,
to form a quadrangle, surrounded on every side by
the same substantial walls, well suited for defence
against any ordinary assault, while its halls were
lighted from the enclosed court. The small windows
in this part of the building remain in their
original state, being divided by an oaken transom,
and the under part closed by a pair of folding
shutters. The massive ashlar walls are relieved
by ornamental stringcourses, and surmounted by
crowsteps of the earliest form and elegant proportions.
. . . . The internal marks of former
magnificence are more interesting than their external
ones, notwithstanding the humble uses to
which the buildings have latterly been applied ;
in particular some portions of a very fine oak
ceiling still remain, wrought in Gothic panelling,

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 3 6 i
undertake the translation of Buffon’s Natural History, he endeavoured to dissuade
him from the undertaking, solely on account of the “atheistical parts,” which
it contained. The following is his lordship’s letter :-
“New Hailes, 11th July 1779.
“ Sir-I received your proposals for publishing the Natural History of Rulfon. To make the
work useful, a confutation of the atheistical parts of it ought to be added in the notes. Without
that addition it would do great hurt to an ignorant nation, already too much vitiated by French
philosophy. It will be to make poison cheaper and more pleasant. . My reverend friend, Profeasor
Monro, held Buffon in sovereign contempt, and ranged him in the class of Indian philosophers, with
their bull and their tortoise.
“ Not many years ago, there was published a book of travels : it had a run merely for ita French
philosophy ; for it was ignorant beyond probability or even imagination. The authors of the Edinburgh
Recieza were the only persons who, to my knowledge, confuted it ; and yet they were represented
&s enemies of religion. This shows that it is dangerous to publish such books as those of
Buffon, when treatises of less merit are admired ; and when confutations of such treatises are overlooked,
because the confuters are ill thougbtof and traduced. But what can we say of aoage
which admires the blundering romanoes of Raynal ?-I am, etc.
Lord Hailes lived sometime in the Old Mint House, foot of Todrick’s
Wynd ; he next occupied a house in what is called ‘‘ the Society,” Brown’s
Square ; and latterly removed to New Street, on the north side of the Canongate.
His general residence, however, even before his promotion to the bench,
was New Hailes.’ The. house in New Street (No. 23) was afterwards possessed
by Mr. Ruthven, the ingenious inventor of the Ruthven printing-press.
D A VD~AL RYHPLE.”
The following is a pretty accurate catalogue of his works :-
Sacred Poems, or a Collection of Translations and
Paraphrases from the Holy Scriptures ; by various
authors. Edinburgh, 1751, 12mo. Dedicated
to Charles, Lord Hope; with a PrePace of ten
Proposals for carrying on a certain Public Work in the
City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1751, 12mo. A
jeu-#esprit.
The Wisdon of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of
Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus, 12mo.
Select Discourses (in number nine), by John Smith,
late Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, 12rno.
pp. 291. Edinburgh, 1756 : with a Preface of five
pages-“ many quotations from the learned langnages
translated-and notes added, containing
allwions to ancient mythology, and to the erroneous
philosophy which prevailed in the days of
the author-various inaccuracies of style have been
corrected, and harsh expressions softened.“
World, No. 140. September 4, 1755. A meditation
among books.
Ditto, No. 147. Thursday, October 23,1755. “Both
these papers are replete with wit and bumour:
and the last one is introduced with a high character
OP it and of the author, by Mr. Moore, the
editor and chief author of the World.“
Ditto, No. 204. Thursday, Xov. 25, 1756. “A piece
of admirable wit,” ‘‘(food Things,and the propriety
of taxing them.”
A Discourse of the unnatural and vile Conspiracy
pages.
Edin. 1755.
attempted by John, Earl of Gowry and his Brother
against his Majesty’s Person, at Saint Johnstouu.
upon the 6th ofi August 1600. No date
British Songs, Sacred to Love aud Virtue. Edin. 1756.
12mo.
A Sermon, which might have been preached in East
Lothian upon the 25th day of October 1761, on
Acts xwu 1, 2. “The barbarous people showed
us no ’little kindness.” Edinburgh, 1761, pp. 25,
12mo. ‘‘ Occasioned by the country people pillaging
the wreck of two vessels, &. the Betsy
Cunninghum, and the Leith packet, Pilouip, from
London to Leith, cast away on the shore between
. Dunbar and North Berwick. AU the passengers
on board the former, in number seventeen,
perished; five on board the latter, October 16,
1561. Reprinted at Edinburgh, 1794, 8vo. The
first edition is scarce.
Memorials and Letters relating to the History OF
Britain in the reign of James I., published from
the originals. Glasgow, 1762. Addressed to
Philip Yorke, Viscount Roystoun, pp. 151. I‘ From
a collection in the Advocates’ Library, by Balfow
of Denmyln.” An enlarged edition was printed at
Glasgow, 1766, 8vo.
The Works of the ever-memorable Mr. John Hdes of
Eton, now Brst collected together, in Y vols.
Glasgow, 1765 ; preface of three page& Dedicated
to William (Warbur&n), Biahop of G1ouceater.-
L1755.1
1 New Hailes is beautifully situated a little to the west of Mwelburgh, near the line of the
Rsilway to Edinburgh.

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.
sterling. The largest ship was only 150 tons, and
the highest valued was 8,000 pounds Scots, or
A666 13s. 4d. sterling. In the list of masters?
names appear Brown, Barr, and Bartain (the old
historic Barton), names, says Robertson, prominent
in the maritime records of Leith, doubtless descendants
of the respective families.
In 1692 the shore dues were only A466 13s. 4d.
Scots, equivalent to A38 17s. gid. of the money
of the present day.
LEITH ROADS, 1824. (Aftera DruwiBg by/. Gul&?tCtry.)
times,? says h o t , ?we mustreflect that the prices
paid formerly were simply the rates at which commodities
could be furnished, almost without any
duty to Government; whereas now, in many instances,
the taxes levied by Government exceed
the value of the articles upon which they are im
posed.?
Tea was imported about the end of the seventeenth
century, and there is still preserved a
receipt from the East India Company to an Edin-
Yet generally the connection of Scotland as regards
trade was far from inconsiderable at that period
with Denmark, the Baltic, Holland, and France.
Her ships frequently made voyages from Leith to
Tangiers and other ports on the Mediterranean ;
and from Leith were exported wool, woollen-cloth,
druggets, and stuffs of all kinds, and, to a large
extent, both linen and corn.
The imports to Leith were linen and fine woollen
manufactures, wood in the form of logs and staves,
wines of various kinds, and small quantities of
sugar and miscellaneous articles of every-day use,
from Rotterdam and Amsterdam. ?? In comparing
the prices of a gallon of wine or ale, a pound of
candles, or a pair of shoes in ancient and modem
burgh merchant for a chest of Bohea at 15s. per
pound, which came to the value of A225 15s.
In 1705 green tea was 16s. per pound, and
Bohea had risen to 30s.
In 1740 the shipping of Leith amounted to fortyseven
sail, with a total of 2,628 tonnage. The
names of these vessels were quaint-the Charming
Befty, Pair Susanna, and .Ha@y Janet, may be
given as samples.
In the following year, Walter Scott, Bailie of
Leith, issued a proclamation on the 8th August to
this effect :-
?Whereas the separate commanders of the five
East India ships, lying in the Roads of Leith,
have signified that the said ships are to sail early

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Leith.] FIGHT IN THE HARBOUR. ?33
of war, which had been at anchor for six weeks
in the Roads, and apparently with all her guns
shotted,
About noon on the 10th December, 1613, an
Englishman, who was in a ?mad humour,? says
Calderwood, when the captain and most of the
officers were on shore, laid trains of powder throughout
the vessel, notwithstanding that his own son
was on board, and blew her up. Balfour states
that she was a 48-gun ship, commanded by a
Captain Wood, that sixty men were lost in her,
and sixty-three who escaped were sent to London.
Calderwood reduces the number who perished to
twenty-four, and adds that the fire made all her
ordnance go off, so that none dared go near her to
render assistance.
In 1618 Leith was visited by Taylor, the Water
Poet, and was there welcomed by Master Bernard
Lindsay, one of the grooms of his Majesty?s bedchamber;
and his notice of the commerce of the
port presents a curious contrast to the Leith of the
present day :-cc I was credibly informed that within
the compass of one year there was shipped away
from that only port of Leith fourscore thousand
boles of wheat, oats, and barley, into Spain, France,
and other foreign parts, and every bole contains a
measure of four English bushels; so that from
Leith only hath been transported 320,000 bushels
of corn, besides some hath been shipped away
from St. Andrews, Dundee, Aberdeen, &c., and
other portable towns, which makes me wonder that
a kingdom so populous as it is, should nevertheless
sell so much bread corn beyond the seas, and yet
have more than sufficient for themselves.?
In parochial and other records of those days
many instances are noted of the capture of Scottish
mariners by the pirates of Algiers, and of collections
being made in the several parishes for their
redemption from slavery. In the Register of the
Privy Council, under date January, r636, we find
that a ship called the Jdn, of Leith, commanded
by John Brown, when sailing from London to
La Rochelle, on the coast of France, fell in with
three Turkish men-of-war, which, after giving him
chase from sunrise to sunset, captured the vessel,
took possession of the cargo and crew, and then
scuttled her.
Poor Brown and his mariners were all taken to
Salee, and there sold in the public market as
slaves. Each bore iron chains to the weight of
eighty pounds, and all were daily employed in
grinding at a mill, while receiving nothing to eat
but a little dusty bread. In the night they were
confined in holes twenty feet deep aniong rats and
mice, and because they were too poor-being only
mariners-to redeem themselves, they trusted to the
benevolence of his Majesty?s subjects. By order
of the Council, a contribution was levied in the
Lothians and elsewhere, but with what result we
are not told.
In 1622 the usual excitements of the times were
varied by a sea-fight in the heart of Leith harbour.
On the 6th of June, in that year, the constable of
Edinburgh Castle received orders from the Lords
of Council to have his cannon and cannoniers in
instant readiness, as certain foreign ships were engaged
in close battle within gunshot of Leith
A frigate belonging to Philip IV. of Spain, cbmmanded
by Don Pedro de Vanvornz, had been
lying for some time at anchor within the harbour
there, taking on board provisions and stores, her
soldiers and crew coming on shore freely whenever
they chose; but it happened that one night two
vessels of war, belonging to their bitter enemies,
the Dutch, commanded by Mynheer de Hautain,
the Admiral of Zealand, came into the same anchorage,
and-as the Earl of Melrose reported to
James VI.-cast anchor close by Don Pedro.
The moment daylight broke the startled Spaniards
ran up their ensign, cleared away for action, and a
desperate fight ensued, nearly muzzle to muzzle.
For two hours without intermission, the tiers of
brass cannon from the decks of the three ships
poured forth a destructive fire, and the Spaniards,
repulsed by sword and partisan, made more than
one attempt to carry their lofty bulwarks by
boarding. The smoke of their culverins, matchlocks,
and pistolettes enveloped their rigging and
all the harbour of Leith, through the streets and
along the pier of which bullets of all sorts and
sizes went skipping and whizzing, to the terror and
confusion of the inhabitants.
As this state of things was intolerable, the burgesses
of the city and seaport rushed to arms and
armour, at the disposal of the Lords of Council,
who despatched a herald with the water bailie to
command both parties to forbear hostilities in Scottish
waters ; but neither the herald?s tabard nor the
bailie?s authority prevailed, and the fight continued
with unabated fury till midday. The Spanish
captain finding himself sorely pressed by his two
antagonists, obtained permission to warp his ship
farther within the harbour ; but still the unrelenting
Dutchmen poured their broadsides upon his
shattered hull.
The Privy Council now ordered the Admiral
Depute to muster the mariners of Leith, and assail
the Admiral of Zealand in aid of the Dunkerpuer;
but the depute reported that they were altogether
vnable, and he saw no way to enforce obedience

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210 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ments and opinions from a narrow-minded feeling, nor obtruded them unnecessarily,
or at unseasonable times, from vanity or affectation. His manners were
uncommonly mild, gentle, and inoffensive, insomuch that none, even of his own
family, ever remember to have seen him out of temper. In his last and long
illness he was never in the smallest degree peevish, fretful, or melancholy. He
died on the 24th June 1795.
MR. ANDREW BELL, engraver, the other figure in the Print (of
whom we have already given some particulars), was an intimate acquaintance of
Mr. Smellie, and was frequently engaged, jointly with him, in various literary
speculations. He engraved all the plates to illustrate the translation of Euffon.
The
second edition of this work began to be published in 1776. At the death of
Mr. M'Farquhar, the other proprietor, in 1793, the whole became the property
of Mr. Bell. It is well known that he left a handsome fortune, mostly derived
from the profits of this book. By the sale of the third edition, consisting of
10,000 copies, the sum of 542,000 was realised. To this may be added Mr.
Bell's professional profits for executing the engravings, etc. Even the warehouseman,
James Hunter, and the corrector of the press, John Brown, are
reported to have made large sums of money by the sales of the copies for
which they had procured subscriptions. After Mr. Bell's death, the entire property
of the work was purchased from his executors by one of his sons-in-law,
Mr. Thomson Bonar, who carried on the printing of it at the Grove, Fountainbridge.
In 1812 the copyright was bought by Messrs. Constable and Co., who
published the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions, with the Supplement by Professor
Napier. The work still continues to maintain so high a reputation in British
literature, that the sixth edition has been followed up by a new (seventh) and
stereotype edition, with modern improvements, and additions to its previously
accumulated stores.
The animal he
rode was remarkably tall ; and Andrew, being of very diminutive stature, had
to use a small ladder to climb up in mounting it. The contrast between the
size of the horse and his own little person, togetherwith his peculiarly odd
appearance, rendered this exhibition the most grotesque that can well be
conceived; but such was his magnanimity of mind, that no one enjoyed more,
or made greater jest of the absurdity than himself.
One of them was married to Mr. hlabon,
ropemaker, Leith; and the other to Mr. Thornson Bonar, merchant in
Edinburgh.
Mr. Bell was the principal proprietor of the Encycloym'dia Britannica.
Mr. Bell was in the habit of taking exercise on horseback.
Mr. Bell left two daughters.

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302 OLD ANI) NEW EDINBURGH. [Newhaven.
began in the Firth of Forth, and it is not very
creditable to the vigilance of the fishermen of Fife,
Newhaven, and elsewhere, that this great fund of
wealth was not developed earlier, as when the
herrings left the shore near the mouth of the Firth
it was supposed they had taken their departure
to other waters, and no attempts were made to
seek them farther up the estuary.
The discovery was made accidentally by Thomas
Brown, near Donnibristle, who had been for years
wont to fish with hook and line for haddocks and
podlies, near the shore, and who found the
herrings in such numbers that he took them up in
buckets. In 1793 the fishermen of the Queensfeny
began to set their nets with a result that astonished
them, though twenty years before it had been reported
to them in vain that when the mainsail of
a vessel fell overboard in Inverkeithing Bay, and
was hauled in, it was found to be full of herrings.
The success of the Queensferry boats excited attention
generally, and this fisheryhas been followedwith
perseverance and good fortune, not only by the
fishermen of Fife and Lothian, but of all the east
coast of Scotland.
During the old war with France the patriotism
of the Newhaven fishenhen was prominent on
more than one occasion, and they were among
the first to offer their services as a marine force
to guard their native coast against the enemy.
So much was this appreciated that the President
of the ? Newhaven Free Fishermen?s Society,?
instituted, it is said, by a charter of James VI.,
was presented with a handsome silver medal and
chain by the Duke of Buccleuch, in presence
of several county gentlemen. On one side this
medal, which is still preserved at Newhaven,
bears the inscription :-?: In testimony of the
brave and patriotic offer of the fishermen of Newhaven
to defend the coast against the enemy,
this mark of approbation was voted by the county
of Midlothian, November znd, 1796.?? On the
reverse is the thistle, with the national motto, and
the legend Agminc Remorum CeZeri.
The medal the box-master wears, in virtue of his
office, when the Society has its annual procession
through Leith, Edinburgh, Granton, and Trinity.
This body is very exclusive, no strangers or others
than lawful descendants of members inheriting
the privileges of membership-a distinguishing
feature that has endured for ages. The Society is
governed by a preses, a box-master, sec?retary, and
fifteen of a committee, who all change office
annually, except the secretary.
Their offer of service in 1796 shows that they
were ready to fight ? on board of any gunboat or
vessel of war that Government might appoint,?
between the Red Head of Angus and St Abb?s
Head, ?and to go farther if necessity urges?
This offer bears the names of fifty-nine fishermen
-names familiar to Newhaven in the present day.
In the January of the following year the Lord
Provost and magistrates proceeded to Newhaven
and presented the fishermen with a handsome
stand of colours in testimony of their loyalty, after
a suitable prayer by the venerable Dr, Johnston, of
North Leith.
Formed now into Sea Fencibles, besides keeping
watch and ward upon the coast, in 1806 two
hundred of them volunteered to man the TexeZ,
sixty-four guns, under Captain Donald Campbell,
and proceeding to sea from Leith Roads, gave
chase to some French frigates, by which the coast
of Scotland had been infested, and which inflicted
depredations on our shipping. For this service
these men were presented by the city of Edinburgh
with the rather paltry gratuity of Az50. An
autograph letter of George III., expressing his satisfaction
at their loyalty, was long preserved by the
Society, but is now lost.
With the TkxeZ, in 1807, they captured the
French frigate Neyda, and took her as a prize into
Yarmouth Roads, after which they came home to
Newhaven with great ZcZat; and for years afterwards
it was the pride of many of these old salts,
who are now sleeping near the ruined wall of Our
Lady?s and St. James?s Chapel, to recur to the
days ? when I was aboard the Ted.,?
It was an ancient practice of the magistrates of
Edinburgh, by way of denoting the jurisdiction of
the city, in virtue of the charter of James IV.,
to proceed yearly to Newhaven, and drink wine in
the open space called the square.
When a dreadful storm visited the shores of the
Firth, in October, 1797, the storm bulwark at
Newhaven, eastward of the Leith battery, was completely
torn away, and large boulders were ?rolled
towards the shore, many of them split,? says the
Herald, ?as if they had been blown up by gunpowder.?
The road between Newhaven and Trinity with
its sea-wall was totally destroyed. A brig laden with
hemp and iron for Deptford Yard, was flung
on shore, near Trinity Lodge. This must have
been rather an ill-fated craft, as the same journal
states that she had recently been re-captured by
H.M.S. Cobour- in the North Sea, after having
been taken by the French frigate, R@ubZicailu.
Another vessel was blown on shore near Caroline
Park, and the Lord Hood, letter of marque, was)
warped off, with assistance from Newhaven.

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NOTES TO VOL- I.
BY PROFESSOR DANIEL WILSON,
AUTEOR OF ‘MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH IN THE OLDEN TIME,E’T C. ETC.
Page 7, JAMIDEU FF.
Strictly speaking, Widow Duffs lodging was in the College Wynd ; though, as it
was at the foot of the wynd, its windows niay have looked into the Cowgate. Scott,
whose birthplace was in the same wynd, has introduced Jamie Duff in “ Guy Mannering,”
in attendance on the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Bertram of Singleside, to the family
burial-place in the Greyfriars’ Churchyard.
Page 18, ARNOT’RSE SIDENCE.
Mr. Arnot, according to information communicated to me, resided for a time on the
south side of the Canongate, immediately below St. Mary’sn Wynd. From thence he
removed to the New Town, where he occupied a floor in South St. Andrew Street-the
probable scene of the above occurrence.
Page 20, LORD MONBODDO.
An allusion will be found in Lord Cockburn’s dlemm‘als of his Time to the suppers
of Lord Moiiboddo as the most Attic of his day. Burns enjoyed them while in Edinbur,
qh, and was greatly charmed by the beauty of his daughter Eliza, of whom he makes
special note in his “ Address to Edinburgh,” “ Thy daughters bright thy walks adorn,”
etc. See the poem, and also Burns’s letter to Chalmers, in which he says-“ Fair Bis
the heavenly Miss Burnet, daughter to Lord Monboddo, at whose house I have had
the honour to be more than once,” etc. etc. See also the poet’s “ Elegy” on her premature
death from consumption,
Page 22, LORD GARDENSTONE.
In The Court of Session Garland, by James Baswell, notices of this and others of the
Judges will be found. It is reprinted by Robed Chambers in his Traditions, with
notes of his own.
Page 30, Dr. WEBSTER
Dr. Webster was one of the rare exceptions to Dr. Samuel Johnson’s antipathy
to a Scotsman. Brown’s Court, Castle Hill, where he entertained the lexicographer, bore
in his day the name of Webster’s Close.-Vide Dr. Johnson’s letters to him, relative
to his “Journey to the Western Islands.”
Page 37, MARIONVILLE.
Marionville is, or was, a handsome old-fashioned house near Restalrig, which originally
bore the popular name of “Lappet Ha’,” owing to its having been built by a
fashionable milliner of Auld Reekie with the proceeds of her professional services
among the grandees of the old closes and wynds.
Page 54, Dr. BLACJL
Dr. Black’s earlier residence was in the College Wynd, not far from the house in
which Sir Walter Scott was born, and in the immediate vicinity of the College.

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460 , MEMORIALS UP- EDINBURGH.
Balcarras, Lord, 208
Baldredus, Deacon of Lothian, 377
.Balfour, Sir James, 78
Baliol, 7
Ballantine, James, 253
Ballantyne, Abbot, 307, 313, 365, 406
Balmain, Miss, 123
Balmerinoch, Lord, 94,353
James, the Printer, 288
House of, Netherbow, 259
House of, Leith, 94, 161
Bane, Donald, 3
Bankton, Lord, 162
Bannatine, Thomai3, 256
Bannatyne, Sir William Macleod, 303 .
Sir Robert, 162
Barns, The, 136
Barrie, Thomas, 278
Barringer‘s Close, 254
Baseandyne, Thomas, the Printer, 258, 270
The House of, 270
Aleson, 258
Bassandyne’s Close, 271
Bath, Queen Mary’s, 76,308
Baxter’s Clmg, 165
Hall, 113
Beacon Fires, 51
Bearford‘s Parks, 191, 232
Beaton, Jamea, Archbishop, 37,40, 267,317
Cardinal, 45, 48, 49, 51, 56
Arms, 318
Portraits of Cardinal, 410
of Creich, 75 ‘
House of, 36, 317
House of, 266,317,452
Bedemen, 188, 394
Begbie’s Murder, 274
Belhaven, Lord, 316
Bell’s Millg Village of, 373
Bellenden, Lord, 303
Sir Lewia, 373
ESir William, 373
Bellevne, 274
House, 260
Bemard Street, Leith, 363, 367
Bernard’s Nook, 364, 368
Bertraham, William, Provost, 19
Berwick, 64
Beth’s or Bess Wynd, 84, 181, 182, 188, 233
Big Jack’s Close, Canongate, 290
Binnie’s Close, 363
Binning, Sir William, 208
Binny, Sir William, 352
Bishop’s Close, 253
Land, 253
Black, Dr, 323, 347
Turnpike, 79,246
Blackadder, Captain William, 81
Black Bull Inn, Old, 312
Blackfriars, Monastery of the, 31,37, 69,62, 63, 82,410
Wynd, 36, 40, 78, 101, 139,176, 191, 263-
Yards, 279
267, 317, 453
Blacklock, Dr, 165
Blair, Dr, 239
Hugh, 178
Street, 321
Blair’s Close, 138, 139
Blue Blanket, or Craftmen’e Banner, 1
402
Blue Gowns. 188
21, 79, 387,
Blyth’s Close, Castlehill, 77, 139, 146-167
Boisland, James, 136
Bombie, M‘Lellan of, 40, 130
Bore Stane, 124
Boreland, Thomas, 137
Borough Loch, 348
Borthwick, Lord, 266
Robert, 32
Castle, 176
Borthwick‘a Close, 243
Boswell, Dr, 140
Moor, 55, 86, 99,124, 165, 350
James, 241
his Residence, 160
is visited by Dr JohnBon, Id1
Mrs, 161
Boswell’s Court, 140
Bothwell, Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of, 26
Adam Hepbum, Earl of, 416
Patrick, 3d Earl of, 51
James, 4th Earl of, 73, 78,79, 226, 296, 341,
Francis Stewart, Earl of, 176, 222
Adam. See Orkney, Bishop of
Ann, daughter of the Bishop of Orkney, 227
Janet Kennedy, Lady, 321
375
433
Bowes, Marjorie, wife of John Knox, 257
Boyd’s Close, Canongate, 161, 312
Branding, the Punishment of, 454
Brechin, White Kirk of, 15
Breda, Town Clerk sent to Charles 11. at, 98
Brest, Queen Mary arrives safely at, 53
Bride’s Plenishing, Scottish, 213
Bristo Port, 331
British Linen Company, 274,296, 376
Broad Wynd, Leith, 363
Brodie, Deacon, 171, 237
Brodie’s Close, 169, 431
Broghall, Lord, 206
Brougham, Lord, the Birth-Place of, 329,’ 376
Broughton, Burgh of, 354, 372
Brown, A. of Greenbank, 140
Thomas, 144
Square, 145,331
Henry, 328
Brawn’s Close, Castlehill, 132, 138, 264
High Street, 225
Bruce, Robert the. See Rob& I.
Mr Fbbert, 87,203
of Binning, 231
Sir William, the Architect, 405, 408
Buccleuch, Laird of, 67,222, 230
Place, 348
Buchan, David Stuart, Earl of, 376

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