209 High StrcetJ THE LODGING OF THE EARLS OF CRAWFORD.
remaining in prison for a tyme, being in health att
night, upon the morn was found dead. It was
thought that she had wronged herselfe, either by
strangling or by poyson; but we leave that to the
judgment of the Great Day.? She had likely died
of grief and horror.
On the same side or the street, and nearly opposite
the head of Blackfriars Wynd, was the
lodging or town house of the Earls of Crawford.
unattractive modem block of biiildings occupies
its site. In ?Lamont?s Diary? we read, that
in 1649, Lady Pitarro, a sister of the Laird of
Fordel-Henderson, ? was delated by many to be a
witch; was apprehended and camed to Edinburghe,
where she was keiped fast; and after
Lord Spynie and was slain in 1607 by Lindesay of
Edzell), was promoted to the command of the
Royal Guards, over the head of the Master of
Glammis, who resented this bitterly. ?Some
bragging,? says Moyse, ?followed thereupon betwixt
him and the Earl of Bothwell, who took part
with the Earl of Crawford and his brother against
the Master of Glarnrnis, and both parties having
great companies attending them, some tumult was
It is mentioned in ?Moyse?s Memoirs,? when
occupied by David ninth Earl of Crawford, in
1588, about the time when Francis Stewart Earl
of Bothwell was alternately the pest and terror of
James VI. Sir Alexander Lindesay, brother of the
Earl of Crawford (a gentleman who was created
ALLAN RAMSAY?S SHOP, HIGH STKEET.
