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of Auchinleck ; but a passage in Father Hay’s MS. History of the Holpodhonse F d y , seem to confirm the
tradition beyond the possibility of doubt. Recording the children of Bishop Bothwell, who died 1593, he tells
us-‘ He had also a daughter named Anna, who fell with child to a sone of the Earle of Mar.’ Colonel
Alexander’s portrait, which belonged to his mother is exceedingly handsome, with much vivacity of corntenance,
dark blue eyes, a peaked beard, and moustaches :-
‘ Ay me ! I fell-and yet no queetion make
What I should do again for auch a sake.”’
Father Hay has thus recorded the seduction of Anna Bothwell, in hia Diplomatuna CoZZectiO (MS. Advoc.
Lib. vide Liber Cart. Sancte h c i s , p. xxxviii.) :-‘‘ Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, became Abbot of Holyrudehouse
after Robert Steward, base son to King Jam= the Fift by Euphem Elphinstone ; who was created
Earle of Orkney and Lord Shetland by King Jamea the Sixth, 1581. This Adam was a younger brother to Sir
Richard Bothwell, Provost of Edinburgh in Queen Maries time, and a second sone to Sir Francis Bothwell, lord
of the Session in King James the Fifta time, and was begotten upon Anna Livingstone, daughter to the Lord
Livingstone. He married Margaret Murray, and begote upon her John, Francis, WiUiam, and George Bothwells,
and a daughter Anna, who by her nurse’s deceit, fell with child to a sone of the Earle of Mar.”
Both the face and figure of Colonel Sir Alexander Erskine are very peculiar, as represented in his portrait.
He is dressed in armour, with a rich scarf across his right shoulder, and a broad vandyke collar round his
neck The head is unusually small for the body; and the features of the face, though handsome, are sharp, and
the face tapering nearly to a point at the chin. The effect of this is considerably heightened by ths length of
his moustaches, and hb peaked beard, or rather imperial, as the tuft below the under lip, which leaves the
contour of the chin exposed, is generally termed. The whole combines to convey a singularly sly and catclike
expression, which-unless we were deceived when examining it by our knowledge of the leading incidents of
his history-seem very characteristic of the “ dear deceiver.”
The orignal portrait, by Jamieson, beam the date and age of Colonel Erskine-1628, aged 29. Two stanzas
of the ballad, somewhat varied, occur in Brome’s Play of the Northern Lass, printed in 1632-not 1606 as
‘erroneously stated before. From this we may infer, not only that the ballad must have been written very
shortly after the event that gave rise to itpossibly by Anna Bothwell herself-but also that the seducer must
himself have been very young, so that the nurse is probably not unfairly blamed by Father Hay as an active
agent in poor Anna’s mongs.
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VIII. ARMORIAL BEARINGS.
BLYTH’BC LosE.-The armorial bearings in Blyth’s Close, with the +initialsA . A., and the date 1557 (page
148), may possibly mark the house of Alexander Achison, burgess of Edinburgh, the ancestor of the Viscounts *
Gosford of Ireland, and of Sir Archibald Achiaon, the host of Dean Swift at Market Hill, who, with hb particularly
lean lady, became the frequent butt of the witty Dean’s humour, both in prose and verse. The old burgeea
acquired the estate of Glosford in East Lothian by a charter of Queen Mary, dated 1561. Nisbet says, “The
name of Aitchison carries, argent, an eagle with two heads displayed, sable j on a chief, vert, two mullek,
or.”
QOSFORD’S CLose.-Since the printing of the text (page MO), we have discovered the ancient lintel
formerly in Qosford’s Close bearing a representation of the Crucihion, and have succeeded in getting it removed
to the Antiquarian Museum. It has three-shields on it, boldly cut, and in good preservation. On the centre
436 MEMORIALS OF EDINBURGH.
one is the Crucifixion, beautifully cut. On the shield to the right, two crescents in chief, on the field a boar’s
head erased. On the left shield, a saltier, a bar in pale, intersecting a small saltier in the middle chief point.
On the fesse point, a circle forming with the saltier and bar a St Katherine’s wheel. On the flanks, the initials
M. T. Above the whole is the inscription cut in very neat old ornamental characters :-SOLI , DEO . HONOR . ET .
QLORIA. This, we have little doubt, indicated the mansion of Mungo Tennant, burgess of Edinburgh, who,
says Nisbet (vol. i. p. 146), ‘‘ had his seal appended to a reversion of half of the lands of Leny, the fourth of
October 1542, whereupon was a boar‘s head in chief, and two crescents in the flanks j and in base the letter M.;
the initial letter of his Christian name.” The bearings, it will be observed, are reversed. Similar liberties,
however, are not of such rare occurrence as heraldic authorities would lead ua to expect. Francis Tennant,
probably a relative of this burgess, according to Nisbet sometime Provost of Edinburgh (though his name does
not appear in Maitland’s list), an adherent of Queen Mary, was taken prisoner while fighting for her in 1571.
WARRIBTONC’rB,o sE.-The mansion of Bruce of Binning, with its hely sculptured lintel and armorial
bearings-Bruce impaling Preston-in Warriston’s Close (page 231), appears from the following notice
by Chalmelv (Caledonia, vol. ii p. 758, extracted fkom the Chartularies o! Newbottle Abbey), to be a building
of the very early part of the sixteenth cent.ury, if not earlier ; so that its substantial walls must have experienced
little damage from the burning of 1544. “ Andrew, the abbot [of Newbottle], in May 1499, granted his
lands of Kinard, in Stirlingshire, to Edward Brus, his well-deserving armiger, rendering for the same sixteen
marks yearly ; and in December 1500, he gave to Robt B w of Bining, and Mary Preston his spouse, the
Monastery‘s lands, called the Abbot’s Lands of West-Bining in Linlithgowahire ; rendering for the same four
shillings yearly.”
IX. THE RESTORATION. BURNING OB’ CROMWELL, THE POPE, &c.
DURINQth e rejoicings in Edinburgh, consequent on the “happy Restoration,” the meane taken to Rhow the
sincerity of the new-fashioned loyalty were characterised by the oddwt mixture of devotion and joviality conceivable.
In the following account of them recorded in Nicoll’s Diary, not the least noticeable feature is the
scene between that notable traytor Oliver and the Devil, with which the holiday’s heterogeneous proceedings
are wound up :-
“ The Kingdome of Scotland haitling takin to thair consideration the great thinges and wonderfull that the
Lord God had done for thame, in restoring unto thame thair native Soverane Lord and King, efter so long
banischement, and that in a wonderfull way, worthy of admiration, thai resolvit upone severall dayis of thankisgevhg
to be set apairt for his Majesteis Ratauratioun, and for his mercyes to this pure land, quho haid opned
a dure of hope to hia pepill, for satling thrie Kingdomes in religion and justice. And, fist, this day of thankisgeving
began at Edinburgh, and throw all the kirkis and pairtes of Lothiane, upone Tysday the nyntene day of
Junij 1660, @hair thair wer sermondie maid throw all the kirkis, and quhairat all the Magistrates of Edinburgh
and the Commoune Consell were present, all of them in thair best robis ; the great mace and sword of honor
careyed befoir thame to the sermond, and throw the haill streitis as they went, all that day. And eftir the
sermond endit, the Magistrates and Consell of Edinburgh, with a great number of the citizens, went to the
Mercat Croce of Edinburgh, quhair a great long boord of foote of lenth wes covered with all soirtes of
sweit meittis, and thair drank the Hinges helth, and his brether ; the spoiites of the Croce rynnand all that tyme
with abundance of clareyt &e. Ther wer thrie hundreth dosane of glassis all brokin and cassin throw the streitis,
with sweit meitis in abundance. Major-generall Morgan commander in cheiff of all the’forces in Scotland, and
the Governor of the Castell of Edinburgh, being both Englischemen, with sum of the speciall officeris of the
