Edinburgh Past and Present

All Books Kay's Originals Vol. 1 Kay's Originals Vol. 2 Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time Edinburgh Past and Present Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI

Go to: « Kay's Originals Vol. 1 « Kay's Originals Vol. 2 « Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time Edinburgh Past and Present Cover Title Pages Contents Ch I: General Description of Edinburgh Ch II: The Old Town Ch III: Edinburgh from Warriston Cemetery Ch IV: Historical and Descriptive Notes Ch V: Modern Dwellings of the People Ch VI: Queensferry to Mussleburgh, Along the Shore Ch VII: Roslin, Hawthornden, and The Vale of The Esk Ch VIII: Outline of the Geology of Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V » Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI

HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES. 71 ~ left the High School Wynd. In the Cowgate, at the foot of Rlackfriars’ Wynd, stood Cardinal Beaton’s house, in the neighbourhood of the Mint, also recently demolished. At the foot of Carrubber’s Close, on the north side of the High ST. PAUL’S. PLAYHOUSE CLOSE. Street, there is an interesting ecclesiastical relic, St. Paul’s, the oldest Episcopal chapel in the city; here also stood Whitefield Chapel, originally opened by WHII’R HSJRSE INN. PAIIXURE CI.OSE. illlan Ramsay as a theatre in 1736, but closed the following year. It was in Playhouse Close, Canongate, that the first regular theatre in Edinburgh was erected, where, on the evening of the 14th of December 1746,

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