mission, though in a foreign army. After suffering
a month's imprisonment, they were glad to profess
PLAN OF EDINBURGH, FROM sr. GILES'S TO HACKBRSTON'S WYND. (Aftpy Gordm ofbotkicnury..)
. Q The High Street; 11, The Tolbooth ; 12, The High Cross or Market Cross ; 13, The Tmn : 19, Meal Market : 10, The Parliament House :
23, The Fish Market ; 23. The Flesh Market ; 38, S. Monan's Wynd ; 39, FEh Market Wynd : 40, Borthwick's Wynd ; 41, Conn's Close;
42, Bell's Wynd : 43. Steven Law's Close ; 44, Peebles Wynd ; 45, Marlin's Wynd ; 46, Niddry's Wynd ; 47, Dickson's Close ; 48, The
Blackfriars Wynd ; 57, Hackenton's Wynd ; m, The Great Kxk, or St. Giles's Kirk ; n, The Tron Kirk.
dwelling-house, about eight in the evening, accompanied
by her orphan granddaughter, then fourteen
Privy Council (as its record attests), and thus to
During the preceding century the abduction of
women and girls was no uncommon thing in Edinburgh.
On the 8th December, 1608, Rfargaret
. Stewart, a widow, complained to the Privy Council
- obtain their liberty.
beset her, with six men armed like himself, with
swords, gauntlets, steel bonnets, and plate sleeves,
and violently took the child from her, despite her
tears and manifold supplications.
For this Geddes was outlawed; and soon after
the Privy Council was compelled to renew some
