252 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Streer
Bart. ; Miss Lucy Johnston of East Lothian, who
married hlr. Oswald of Auchincruive ; Miss
Halket of Pitfirran, who became the wife of the
celebrated Count Lally-Tollendal ; and Jane,
Duchess of Gordon, celebrated for her wit and
spirit as well as her beauty. These, with Miss
wynd into a street, there was swept away Dalgleish?s
Close, which is referred to in the ?Diurnal of
Occurrents? in 1572, and which occupied the site
of the present east side of Niddry Street.
From whom this old thoroughfare took its
name we know not; but it is an old one in
ST. CECILIA?S HALL.
Burnet and Miss Home, and many others whose
names I do not distinctly recollect, were indisputably
worthy of all the honours conferred
upon them.?
These and other Edinburgh belles of the past
all shed the light of their beauty on the old hall in
Niddry?s Wynd, now devoted to scholastic uses.
We first hear of a ? Teacher of EzzgZish ? in I 750,
when a Mr. Philp opened an educational estajlishment
in the wynd in that year. In widening the
Lothian, and, with various adjuncts, designates
several places near the city. In the charters of
David 11. Henry Niddry is mentioned in connection
with Niddry-Marshal, and Walter, son
of Augustine, burgess of Edynbourgh, has the
lands of Niddry in that county, qunm yohantles
de Bennnchtyne de k Con-okys res&navit, 19th
Sept. an. reg. 33; and under Robert 111. John
Niddry held lands in Cramond and also Pentland
Muu.
