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R. W. Jameson, afterwards the author of Nimt-04 one of the liveliest orators
Edinburgh ever produced. There was a grim determination in that multitude
which assorted well with the dark shadows of the closing November day, and
threatened unutterable things if their purpose had not been carried. An
allusion by Mr. Jameson to the Covenanting days, and the Grassmarket as it
was then, told with prodigious power.
XAGDALBNE CHAPEL
The Cowgate is chiefly remarkable for Magdalene Chapel, founded in the
reign of James V., where John Craig, Knox's colleague, preached in Latin
for nine years before the Reformation, and where. the General Assembly in
1578, presided over by Andrew Melville, abolished the name -of .' Bishop.'
This chapel is now the headquarters of the Edinburgh Medical Mission.
It is also remarkable as the place to which the remains of Argyll were carried,
and in our view of the interior, the light stealing in at the window falls
upon the table (still there) on which the body of the maityr lay. In Candlemaker
Row used to stand Walker's Inn, famous as the haunt of James Hogg,
and where, when a shepherd visiting Edinburgh, he used to hold nightly levees
of his-cronies. Lord Brougham, it is now ascertained beyond doubt, was
born in a house at the corner of the West Bow and the Cowgate, namely the
