4 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Canongate.
the kingdom to teach the making of cloths of
various kinds, a colony of them settled in the
Canongate, under John Sutherland, and a Fleming
named Jacob Van Headen, where they ?daily
exercised in their art of making, dressing, sand
litting of stuffs,? giving great ? light and knowledge
Among the inhabitants of the Canongate was
a George Heriot, who died in the following
year, 1610, aged seventy. He was the father
of the founder of that famous and magnificent
hospital, which is perhaps the greatest ornament of
either Old or New Edinburgh.
HADDINGTON?S ENTRY.
of their calling to the country people.? Notwithstanding
that these industrious and inoffensive men
hid royal letters investing them with special privileges,
they were-as too often happens in those
cases where the enterprise of foreigners appears to
clash with the interests of natives-much molested
and harassed by the magistrates of the Canongate,
with a view of forcing them to become burgesses
and free men in the regular way; but an appeal
to the Privy Council affirmed their exemption.
In 1639, we learn from Spalding that George,
second Marquis of Huntly, who in his youth had
commanded the Scottish Guard of Louis XIII.
was residing at his old family mansion in the
Canongate, wherein, about the month of November,
two of his daughters were married ?with great
solemnities ?-the Lady Anne, who was ? ane
precise Puritan,? to the Lord Drummond; and Lady
Henrietta, who was a Roman Catholic, to Lord
Seton, son of the Earl of Winton. These ladies
Chongrte.] A LEGEND BY SIR WALTER SCOT?I?. 5 -
when the Castle of Duiiglass was blown up by
gunpowder.
An old house at the head of the Canongate, on
the north side, somewhere in the vicinity of Coull?s
Close, but now removed, was always indicated as
being the scene of that wild story which Scott
relates in his notes to the fifth canto of ?? Rokeby,?
and in his language we prefer to give it here.
He tells us that ?( about the beginning of the
eighteenth century, when the large castles of the
Scottish nobles, and even the secluded hotels,
hke those of the French noblesse, which they
had each 40,000 merks Scots as a fortune, their
uncle, the Earl of Argyle, being cautioner for the
payment, ?for relief whereof he got the wadset of
Lochaber and Badenoch? Lady Jean, a third
daughter, was also married in the ensuing January,
with a fortune of 30,000 merks, to Thomas, Earl
of Haddington, who perished in the following year,
bearers insisted upon his being blindfolded. The
request was enforced by a cocked pistol, and
submitted to ; but in the course of the discussion
he conjectured, from the phrases employed by the
chairmen, and from some parts of their dress not
completely concealed by their cloaks, that they
were greatly above the menial station they had
assumed. After many turnings and windings the
chair was carried upstairs into a lodging, where his
eyes were uncovered, and he was introduced into
a bed-room, where he found a lady nen-ly delivered
of an infant, and he was commanded by his
possessed in Edinburgh, were sometimes the scenes.
of strange and mysterious transactions, a divine of
singular sanctity was called up at midnight to pray
with a person at the point of death. This was no
unusual summons ; but what followed was alarming-
He was put into a sedanchair, and after he had
been transported to a remote part of the town the
EAST END OF HIGH STREET, NETHER BOW, AND WEST END OF CANONGATE. (Frmn G d w ofRofhiemay?r Mu!.)
48, Blackfriars Wynd : 49, l?odrig?s Wynd ; 50, Gay?s Wynd ; 51, St. Mary?s Wynd : 58, Leith Wynd ; 8, Suburbs of the Canongate : g, High
Street : 14, The Nether How ; h, The Nether-bow Port; 18, The Flesh Stocks in the Goongate.
