son of Laurence, fourth Lord Oliphant, and father
of the sixth lord who bore that title. His elder
brother, the master, was one of the Ruthven conspirators
in 1582, and perished at sea when fleeing
from Scotland.
Beside it, a building of the same age was the
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM THE CANONGATE
only a portion of the walls of which were standing
in 1847. It is supposed to have been the abode
of Archibald, ninth Earl of Angus, who, as nephew
and ward of the Regent Morton, was involved in
his ruin, and fled the realm to England, where he
became, as Godscroft tells US, the favourite ?of
John, second Earl of Tweeddale (who was among
the first to join the royal standard at Nottingham
in 1642), and who granted that barony to the
former in 1687, at a time when he, the earl, was
oppressed by debts which compelled him to sell
his whole estate of Tweeddale to the Duke of
Queensberry.
Northward of this edifice, and partly on the site
now occupied by the Chapel of Ease in New Street,
was the ancient residence of the Earl of Angus,
his uncle, but no lesse for his own sake.? Moreover,
he adds that he became the friend of Dudley,
Walsingham, and Sir Philip Sidney, who was then
writing his Arcadia,? which ? hee delighted much
to impart to Angus, and Angus took as much
pleasure to be partaker thereot?
Returning to Scotland, he became involved in
many troubles, and died in I 588-the victim, it was .
alleged, of sorcery, by the spells, says Godscroft, of
Barbara Napier, in Edinburgh, ?? wife to Archibald
Douglas, of Carshogle, who was apprehended on
suspition,? but set at liberty. ?? Anna Simson, a
famous witch, is reported to have confessed at her
death that a picture of waxe was brought to her
having A. D. written on it, which, as they said to
THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY?S HOUSE, FROM BAKEHOUSE CLOSE.
On the same side of the street, opposite to the
archway leading into St. John Street, Jack?s Land,
a lofty stone tenement, formed, in her latter years,
the residence of the beautiful Susannah, Countess
of Eglinton, and there she was frequently visited
thinking of the Earl of Angus, whose name was
Archibald Douglas, and might have been Davidson,
because his father was David) did consecrate or
execrate it after her forms, which, she said, she
would not have done for all the world. . . . .
His body was buried at Abernethy and his heart
in Douglas, by his oune direction. He was the
last Earle of the race of George, Master of Angus,
who was slain at Flowden.? ,
progress of ?the Douglas cause;? and in another
flat thereof resided David Hum, who came thither
from Riddel?s Land in 1753, while engaged on his
? History of England.?
?The Shoemakers? Lands, which stand to the
east of Jack?s Land,? says Wilson, writing in 1847,
?? are equally lofty and more picturesque buildings.
One of them especially, opposite to Moray House,
is a very singular and striking object in the stately
