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
