260 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [High Sueet.
equally irritated and alarmed on hearing of this
flat refusal, and, starting from his chair exclaimed,
?Then, by the holy name of God, he shall eat
his dinner with me? and repairing instantly to the
house of Morton, brought about a reconciliation,
to Leith to beg his life as a boon at the hands of?
Lennox and her seducer. But the latter, inflamed
anew by her charms and tears, was inflexible ; the
Regent was his tool, and the prayers and tears of
the wretched wife were poured forth at their feet,
HOUSE OF THE EARLS OF MORTON, BLACKFRIARS STREET.
by making two very humbling concessions :-First,
by dismissing Drumquhasel, who was banished
from court, which he was not to approach within
teu miles under a heavy penalty ; second, the life
of Captain James Cullayne, that Morton inight
have more peaceable possession of his wife.
Mistress Cullayne, a woman of great beauty,
filled with pity by the danger impending over her
husband (then a prisoner), and touched with
Temorse for her former inconstancy, had come
in vain. The poor captain, who had seen many
a hot battle in the fields of the Dane and
Swede, and in the wars of his native country,
was ignominiously hanged on a gibbet, as a peaceoffering
to Morton?s wickedness.?
In the contemporary life of Queen Mary, printed
for the Bannatyne Club in 1834, we have the
following strange anecdote of Morton. We are
told that he ?had credite at the court, being leR
there by the traitoures to give intelligence of all
maters past there, and how to betray his mistres;
for they could not chuse a more fitte man than
him to do such an act, who, from his very youth
had been renouned for his treacherie, and of whom
his oune father had no good opinion in his very
infance; for, at a certain time, his coming foorth
with him in a garden where his father was, with
some one that had come to visit him, busy in
talk, the nurse setting down the childe on thegreen
grass, and not much mindinge him, th boy seeth a
foude, which he snatched up and had eaten it all till
a little of the legges, which when shee saw, shee
cried out, thinking he should have been poisoned,
and shee taking the legges of the toade that he
had left as yet oneaten, he cried out so loud and
shrill, that his father and the other gentleman
heard the outcries, who went to see what should
burgh,attainted and foundguiltie I?oNE* THE ARMoRTA?, account of the conflagration in
the Scots --Magazine for that
William Douglas of Whitting- . . families have lost their all. An
of heigh treason for the murder
of the king his maister.?
OF CARDINAL BEATOX, FROM HIS HOUSE,
BLACKFRIARS WYND.
(From the Scoffiflr Anfiquarinn Museum.) year, which ?adds, ? many poor
? opponent of Bishop William Abernethy Drummond
of the Scottish Episcopal Church, one of the few
clergymen who paid his respects to Charles
Edward when he kept his court at Holyrood.
By his energy Dr. Hay constructed a chapel in
ChalmeIIs Close, which was destroyed in 1779,
when an attempt to repeal the penal statutes
against Catholics roused a ?NO Popery? cry in
Edinburgh. On the and of February a mob,
including 500 sailors from Leith, burned this
chapel and plundered another, while the bishop
was living in the Blackfriars Wynd, and the house
of every Catholic in Edinburgh was sacked and
destroyed.
Principal Robertson, who was supposed to be
friendly :o Catholics, and defended themin the ensuing
General Assembly, had his house attacked, his
hame, grandson- of Archibald who made a disposition
of the house in Blackfriars Wynd, was a contemporary
of Morton?s, and was closely associated
with him in the murder of Darnley. His name
appears as one of the judges, in the act (? touching
the proceedings of the Gordons and Forbesses,?
and he resigned his seat as senator in 1590.
Lower down, on the east side of the wynd, was
a most picturesque building, part of which was
long used as a Catholic chapel. It was dated
1619, and had carved above its door the motto of
the city, together with the words, In te Domint
Speravi-f?ax intrantibus-SaZvus exeunti3us-
Blissit be God in aZZ his gzyfis.
On the fifth floor of this tenement was a large
room, which during the greater part of the
eighteenth century was used as a place of worship
by the Scottish Catholics, and, until its demolition
lately, there still remained painted on the door the
name of the old bishop-Mr. Nay-for, in those
days he dared designate himself nothing more.
He was ce1,brated in theological literature as the
old respectable citizen, above. 80, was carried out
during the fire.
Nearly opposite to it was another large tenement,?
the upper storey of which was also long
used as a Catholic chapel, rand as such was
dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle of Scotland,
until it was quitted, in 1813, for a more complete
and ornate church, St. Mary?s in Broughton Street.
After it was abandoned, ? the interior of the chapel
retained much of its original state till its demolition.
The framework of the simple altar-piece still
remained, though the rude painting of the patron
saint of Scotland which originally filled it had
disappeared. Humble as must have been the
appearance of this chapel-even when furnished
with every adjunct of Catholic ceremonial for
Christmas or Easter festivals, aided by the imposing
habits of the officiating priests that gathered
round its little altar-yet men of high rank and
ancient lineage were wont to assemble among the
worshippers.?
With oihers, here caine coiistantly tc mass a d
Happily. no lives were lost.?
