296 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Uuhnsrone Terrace.
selection, without regard to the Government order of
merit. The programme of instruction is prescribed
by the Education Department ; but the Education
Committee of the Scottish Church are not limited
by it, and give religious instruction on the basis of
the Bible and Shorter Catechism, while promoting
the study of Latin and elementary science. The
All students pay annually A2 each, a contribution
to the book fund of the Training College, in
return for which all necessary books are given to
them by the committee ; and this payment must
be made by all, whether the books are taken or
not.
These colleges date from about the year 1840.
PLAN FOR OPENING A COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES OF THE CITY BY MEANS OF
A BRIDGE, ENTERING THE LAWNMARKET NEARLY OPPOSITE BANK STREET.
(Fmnr an Eirgrawing in the ?Scotr? Magnsinc,? 1817.)
students do not enter un?.il they are eighteen years
of age at least, and thF, principles and practice of
teaching have a prorhent place among the subjects
of instruction.
Bursaries of the average value of LZI per
annum, in addition to free education, are given to
all the male students ; while a considerable number
of the average value of LIZ is given to the female
students, from whom alone a fee for education is
expected.
That in Johnstone Terrace was built to succeed an
older (and less suitably equipped) edifice, which
stood in what used to be called Market Street,
near the Waverley Station, and near the Bank of
Scotland.
Westward of the Training College, on the Castlebank,
and facing the Grassmarket, a barrack for
married soldiers stands, and there any soldier
passing through Edinburgh, on obtaining permission,
may pass the night.
St. Mary?s Wynd.] sr. MARY?S CONVENT. 297
ST. MARY?S WYND, FROM ?THE PLEASANCE (From a Viwpwbliahe-d in 1829)
CHAPTER XXXVI.
ST. MARY?S WYND.
St. Mary?s Wynd and Street-Sir David Annand-St. Mary?s Cistercian Convent and Hospital-Bothwell?s Brawl in 1562-The Cowgate
Port-Rag Fair-The Ladies of Traquair-Ramsay?s ?White Ham? Inn-Pasquale de Pad-Ramsay Retues with a Fortune-Boyds
?White Hone ? Inn-Patronised by Dr. Johnson-Improvements in the Wynd-Catholic Institute-The oldest Doorhead in the City.
ST. MARY?S WYND and Leith Wynd lay in the
direct line of the old Roman road, that crossed
the rough and rugged slope on which, since then,
the old city has been gradually developed. The
former took its name from a chapel and convent
of Cistercian nuns, together with a hospital dedicated
to St. hfary, the two former being situated
on the west side of the street at the head thereof,
or near the boundary of the present Tweeddale
Court, or Close ; but when or by whom founded,
not a trace or record are given by history.
When the battle of the Burghmuir was fought in
1335, Abercrombiex tells us that the Nainurois,
when defeated by the Scots, ?made an orderly
retreat to Edinburgh ; they faced about several
times, as occasion offered or necessity required,
particularly as they entered St. Mary?s Wynd ; and
here a Scots knight, Sir David Annand, a man of
incredible strength and no less courage, having re-
* ?Martial Achievements of the Scott?kh Nation?
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ceived a wound from one of the enemy, was thereby
so much exasperated, that, at once exerting all the
vigour of his unwearied arms, he gave his adversary
such a blow with an axe, that the sharp and ponderous
weapon clave both man and horse, and
falling with irresistible force to the ground, made a
lasting impression upon the very stones of the street.
This story may seem a little too romantic, and I
would not have related it had I not cited a very
good voucher, John de Fordoun, who flourished in
1360, not long after it happened.?
John de Fordoun, called the father of Scottish
history, was a priest in the diocese of St. Andrews,
and if the street was known as St. Mary?s Wynd in
his days, the convent must have existed in the
fourteenth century. The revenues of the hospital
were very small; thus the Town Council passed an
Act in 1499, during the provostry of Walter Bertraham,
ordaining the most respectable citizens to
beg daily through the streets from all well-disposed
persons ; the money so obtained to be applied for
