*I18 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Gasford?s Close.
BELOW the scene of this tragedy opened Gosford?s
Close (in. the direct line of the King?s Bridge),
wherein for ages stood a highly-decorated edifice,
belonging to the Augustinian abbey of Cambuswould
venture, after dark, alone into the back
kitchen, as a tradition existed that his bodywhich
his relations had unchained and carried 0%
sword in hand, under cloud of night-was buried
somewhere near that apartment. ? On repsiring
been of considerable size, and from the mass of
sculptured fragments, all beautiful Gothic carvings,
found in the later houses of the close, must have
been a considerable feature in the city. ?The
writes of a skeleton, found a century after, ? when
removing the hearth-stone of a cottage in Dalry
Park, with the remains of a pistor near the situation
of the neck No doubt was entertained that these
were the remains of Chiesly, huddled into this
SIR GEORGE LOCKHART OF CARNWATH.
(From ttk Portrait in t?u Scottish Antiquarian Alrrseum.)
the garden-wall at a later period,? says Dr. Wilson,
(? an old stone seat which stood in a recess of the
wall had to be removed, and underneath was
found a skeleton entire, except the bones of the
right hand-without doubt the remains of the
assassin, that had secretly been brought thither
from the Gallowlee.? But Dr. Chambers also
place of concealment, probably in the course of the
night in which they had been abstracted from the
gallows.? This pistol is still preserved.
In this close ?the great house pertaining to
the Earl of Eglintoun,? with its coach-house and
stables, is advertised for sale in the Evening Couranf
of April, 1735.
